Architects may start their careers designing houses, but after they add heftier projects to their portfolios, many are quick to jettison the smaller stuff. This is hardly the case with Odile Decq, who bases her office in Paris and has garnered acclaim for the quietly assertive FRAC Bretagne art museum in Brittany and the daringly muscular GL Events Headquarters in Lyon.
While Decq’s work unequivocally proclaims a fascination for defiantly large steel-and-glass volumes and cantilevers, she recently completed a wood cottage for an artists-in-residence program in southeastern France. As she explains, “I am always interested in something I haven’t done before, such as an artist’s house, which requires providing a workplace along with temporary living quarters.” This is also her first wood structure: “I was thinking of an alpine forest,” she says. “The wood gives the building a quiet tone.”
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