Floating House, Chatou, France by Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec (scroll down to read more)
This experimental floating house (a studio for resident artists and authors invited by French art centre Cneai) proves the genre-swapping Bouroullecs are up for larger-scale architectural work. A collaboration with architects Jean-Marie Finot and Denis Daversin, the playful aluminium and wood structure, moored off an island in the Seine, can be reproduced to different scales.

 

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architecture   04 Jan 2008