Jean Nouvel’s First Home Is on the Market for $764K

The famed architect was just 25 years old when he collaborated with Roland Baltera and François Seigneur to design this angular concrete residence in southwest France.

Sep 16, 2024 - 19:51
Jean Nouvel’s First Home Is on the Market for $764K

The famed architect was just 25 years old when he collaborated with Roland Baltera and François Seigneur to design this angular concrete residence in southwest France.

At first glance, the house appears as a semi-buried structure, with sloping steel roofs rising out of the ground. Once inside, it becomes clear that the slope helps creates an interplay of the various levels and open spaces.

Location: Lot-et-Garonne, France

Price: €690,000 (approximately $764,420 USD)

Architects: Jean Nouvel, Roland Baltera, and François Seigneur

Year Built: 1973

Footprint: 1,829 square feet (two bedrooms, two baths)

Lot Size: 0.51 acres

From the Agent: "Built in 1973, this house is the result of a collaboration between the architects Jean Nouvel, Roland Baltera, and François Seigneur, who were then working in Claude Parent’s office. It takes up the principles dear to the father of the ‘oblique function,’ by proposing a dynamic spatiality, made of slanted planes and diagonal lines. Over 50 years, the house has had three owners and has undergone various modifications to adapt its unique spaces to their respective lifestyles. Now combining contemporary family comfort with a unique heritage value, it is one of the few examples of the ‘oblique function’ being applied to housing in France. An extension has been created in continuity with the old garage. The austerity of the original rough-cast concrete has been softened by the light-colored surfaces of the floor and walls, painted white to reflect natural light, and by the touches of warm color that pay homage to Andrée Bellaguet’s original polychromy."

At first glance, the house appears as a semi-buried structure, with sloping steel roofs rising out of the ground. Once inside, it becomes clear that the slope helps creates an interplay of the various levels and open spaces.

At first glance, the house appears as a semi-buried structure, with sloping steel roofs rising out of the ground. Once inside, it becomes clear that the slope helps creates an interplay of the various levels and open spaces. 

Photo courtesy of © Architecture de Collection

Photo courtesy of © Architecture de Collection

A slanted glass wall serves as a partition for the two living lounges sited on the first floor.

A slanted glass wall serves as a partition for the two living lounges sited on the first floor.

Photo courtesy of © Architecture de Collection

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