The seventies aren’t a popular year for suburb houses construction in France. A lot of them have been built according to the same pattern:beige textured stucco, brown tiles on a double slopes roof decorated with dormer windows on each side. We were approached to build an extension in front of a similar «ugly and ordinary» house. We decided to follow Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown guidelines, and use a conventional element to evoke associations from past experiences. Glass bricks were well known in the seventies, and allowed us to bring light in entrance that should be without window. “This approach is symbolically and functionally conventional, but it promotes an architecture of meaning…” Learning from Las Vegas
