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摘要

On an undulating site of a former chateau, close to Versaille is a restored orangery whose origins can be traced to the late 18th century. Home to a couple with four children, the architect Christian Pottgiesser was called upon to extend it. The brief required an extension that affected the views from the orangery, and the mature landscape in which it is set, as little as possible. The result is a little bit of San Gimignano in this corner of the lie de France.The local building code sets an eight metre height limit. Since the orangery itself is seven, the architect has buried two metres of the linking building under the sloping site. The code also calls for a gabled, or hipped, roof but it does allow, in exceptional cases, flat roofs as long as they do not exceed 25 square metres.