This is the story of a meulière stone house built in Suresnes in 1955. The new owners, a family with two children, wish to add an additional floor to the house.

Meulière stone houses are protected. For this project, the architects of historic buildings requested that the meulière stone be preserved on the facade and used to raise the building. As a result, a contemporary meulière stone house emerges, blending traces of the past with the needs of the present.

The new program is organized as follows: 1 living room, 1 dining room, 1 kitchen, 1 laundry room, 1 garage, 4 bedrooms (3 with mezzanines), 3 bathrooms, and 2 separate toilets. The five levels to be distributed have different ceiling heights and revolve around the main staircase. Some spaces are very open, others more enclosed, creating subtle sightlines throughout the journey.

The living room on the ground floor, with double height, communicates with the dining room on the first floor, creating a south/north cross-space. A large window generously opens the north-facing facade onto the garden. The discreet kitchen, located on the first floor, connects with the living room through a large window positioned in the double-height space.

On the second floor, the three bedrooms benefit from large mezzanines, providing a more intimate sleeping area.

To emphasize the rehabilitation of the house and offer a contemporary interpretation of the meulière stone facades, certain details were carefully studied. A new zinc roof replaces the old red mechanical tile roof, and the gutters have been replaced with embedded troughs. Some concrete lintels from the old facade were preserved as relics in the new facade. To highlight the creation of new openings on the raised floor, their lintels were covered with meulière stone for clearer visual reading. The frames of the new openings have been plastered to conceal the meulière from the interior spaces of the house. The exterior joinery is made of natural anodized aluminum.

The house complies with RT 2012 regulations. All materials were sourced from the Île-de-France region, with the exception of the glued laminated wood beams, which were transported from a factory in southern Germany, near the Alsace border.