ABSTRACT
A couple lived in a very old house in Bordeaux. Eight years ago, they wanted a new house, maybe, a very simple house. The couple began to think about the house again. Now the new house could liberate the husband from the prison that their old house and the medieval city had become. The architect proposed a house-or actually, three houses on top of each other. The lowest one was cave-like-a series of caverns carved out from the hill for the most intimate life of the family. The highest house was divided into a house for the couple and a house for their children. The man had his own “room” or, rather, “station”-a lift, 3 by 3.5 m., that moved freely between the three houses, changing plan and performance when it “locked” into one of the floors or floated. A single “wall” intersected each house, next to the elevator.
