If there would be a place where opposites -old/new, in/out, open/close, private/public, owner/guest, definite/indefinite, fine/rough- cease to be such, what would it look like?
A ”fermette” (a country home built à-l-ancienne) underwent a drastic renovation. A 12mm steel wall is installed around the house. It stands three meters away from the building and is three meters high, with only few, specific openings that interrupt it: a narrow entrance-slit, three openings that frame close and far views. A buffer zone is created around the house, filtering the surrounding landscape.
In turn, the old house is gutted open; a sequence of rooms are joint into a s-shaped living room that cuts through it, bare, its ends made of glass only (literally, the custom-made windows are not supported by frames). Illusions arise: the end of the room seems to transpose to the steel wall, the forest seems to cross the living. This is a house where limits blur.