ABSTRACT
The exercise of renovating or repairing allows for the same actions to take place. Both teaching and renovating are practices that are, in that sense, very much related. The answer may be that there is already so much to learn, that it should be intuitive to listen: to others, the materials, the context, the structure, no matter what the relationship we may or may have with these existing elements. One might assume that repairing should be left to those who know how the spaces we inhabit were constructed. Artisans, like doctors in the Western world, come to “fix” what is damaged, broken, or endangered. The French Alpine farm’s space organization, like most vernacular architecture, is very pragmatic. The farm used in this chapter was built in 1786. The site may have been chosen after finding the presence of a big stone on the hill, as well as its proximity to the nearby “hameau” where a school, oven were in operation.
