H(a)er House

Description

In Ehnen’s centre, a former notary’s office and a wine barn are brought into coexistence without fusion or hierarchy. A compact timber core concentrates services and circulation, organising space while preserving the existing fabric. The office becomes a kitchen and dining area; upstairs, reused doors lead to bedrooms shaped by transformation rather than preservation. A green-tinted passage cuts through the load-bearing wall, opening into the high barn volume with its exposed structure. Openings are retained, except for a square bay framing the vineyards. The house negotiates the existing as an active resource: repaired and updated, urban and architectural, private as well as public.