FARAYA 4615
The site came with its bones already decided: three concrete blocks, extruded to the limit of the regulations, on a slope above the ski road. The commission was not to design a building. It was to give one a face.
The answer is a crown. A gabled frame lifts off each block and projects past the facade line, so the complex reads as a row of houses against the ridge rather than a single mass. Below it, the elevation follows the mountain's own order: a heavy limestone base anchoring the building to the slope, laminated timber sunbreakers screening the middle floors, and the pale frames above.
Facade and envelope concept, materiality, plan refinement and all visualisation by Pierre Zebouni. Structural massing and permit design by the architect of record. Images show design intent. On site in Faraya, 2026.
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