Savin Couëlle was born in Aix-en-Provence, France in 1929. He studied architecture at the National School of Fine Arts in Paris. After school he spent seven years in Madrid designing film sets. In 1962 he helped his architect father, Jacque renovate the Hotel Cala di Volpe in Costa Smeralda, Sardinia, Italy. Savin has maintained a home and work base in Porto Cervo, Sardinia since 1962, although he travels and works worldwide, he has yet to be commissioned to build a home in the U.S.www.couelle.com
The Architecture Of Savin Couëlle
Savin Couelle。
Juniper beams reinforce the ceiling.
卡里姆维拉,撒丁岛。www.couelle.com
Savin Couelle。卡里姆维拉,撒丁岛。
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Villa due Mari, Costa Smeralda, Sardinia.
Villa dei Due Mari beautifully integrates with the natural landscape, and appears as though it has always belonged. The home is made primarily from native stone, juniper trunks and clay.
Savin Couelle。
Staircase with organic ballisters.
Savin Couelle。
Down House, New Zealand.
Circular stair by Savin Couëlle.
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Circular stair by Savin Couëlle.
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Geometric stone stairs, blue painted ceiling with log beams. Savin Couëlle.
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Savin Couelle。
Integrated banquet.
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Savin Couëlle often integrates boulders into interior benches.
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Savin Couelle。
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Savin Couëlle, Sardinia.
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Savin Couëlle, Villa in Porto Cervo, Sardinia.
Natural reeds cover the plaster ceiling.
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Villa due Mari, Costa Smeralda, Sardinia.
Another reed and log ceiling.
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Outdoor stone banquets.
Sardinia.
Savin Couelle. House constructed of and among the rocky shoreline of Cavallo Island, France. Photo by Kodiak Greenwood.richardolsen.org
Savin Couelle。李东旭岛,法国。
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Savin Couelle。李东旭岛,法国。
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城镇Arzachena。
Slate roof and stone walls.
Olbia-Tempio, Porto Cervo, Sardinia.
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Savin Couelle designed two villas on Great Mercury Island in New Zealand, the Up House and the Down House. This is the Down House. A fine example of Savin’s mastery of the interrelationship between exterior and interior. “I have craftspeople whom I have trained over the years, who follow me around the world to help me realize the shapes I draw.” Savin’s crafts people also train local artisan/builders.globalblackbook.com
Villa in Costa Smeralda, Sardinia.
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Love those lintels!
意大利撒丁岛佩韦罗高尔夫球场的别墅。
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撒丁岛的科斯塔Smeralda。这座房子是建筑师Savin在20世纪60年代建造的Couëlle。“房子的心脏,”Couëlle说,是20英尺高的客厅,有偏离中心的拱形天花板和三扇大的拱形窗户。新主人把房子漆成了粉红色。architecturaldigest.com
This is the home of Savin’s father, self-taught architect Jacques Couëlle near Porto Cervo, Costa Smeralda.torredellestelle.com
Carved stone staircase by Savin Couëlle.
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Savin Couëlle On His Work
“尊重这个地方,我所在区域的文化是我工作的基础……创新总是来自于传统:相反,我相信传统是创造力的灵魂,从本质上来说,它总是具有强大的创新成分。”因此,在每一个我接触项目的地方,我都试图把自己完全融入到环境中,特别是考虑到两个方面:材料的本质和工作人员的专业精神。周游世界,观察,我认为对我的训练和我的表达能力最重要的活动,比任何学院或学派都重要。”
“与其他表达形式相比,建筑有一种语言,本质上是材料,甚至在形式之前就抓住了物质。后者与石头、木材、混凝土和任何其他表面建立了持续的对话。建筑师的调色板是由物质构成的,这也是最自然的表现形式。今天,我们往往会因为害怕犯错,害怕被批评,害怕不能满足客户的需求而将幻想封闭起来。但更多时候,情况恰恰相反:人们欣赏的是他们的创造力、敢于冒险的勇气和表达个性的能力。对我来说,创造力本质上就是个性。愿意和有能力表达自己,不躲在保护性的屏障或笼子后面:我喜欢玩耍。每一个项目都是一个新的挑战。然而,请记住,建筑不仅可以是美学的,而且可以创造居住的地方。建筑是人文哲学最完整的实现。”
There are those who will judge my work as very imaginative and highly intellectual, the result of some kind of processing. The truth is exactly the opposite: I work with great spontaneity. The development of a project, once interpreted, the context and selected materials, is born in a natural way. Creating a completely new building means above all to deal with the ground, assimilate the demands, needs and limitations. Restructure and reassess instead resembles the game of chess: move the pieces according to a logic where each choice will affect all the others. Yet even in this case you can not be completely dominated by the story or events: we can and we must follow their instincts, to express themselves. Often a historic building needs to recover its true soul more than a form.”tracce.morettispa.it
Savin featured in Architectural Digest:architecturaldigest.com
New York Times, 1965, Ada Louise Huxtable wrote an article on Couëlle. Must pay for access to article.
Film featuring some of his father’s homes:britishpathe.com
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