There are few briefs more demanding, for an architect, than this one: designing the house where his own parents would grow old. At the turn of the 1990s, an architect from Biarritz took it on, without reaching for effect or demonstration. What emerged was a house of around 160 m², set apart, just steps from the quiet shores of Lake Mouriscot — a place designed from the inside, for the people who would live there rather than for those who would look at it.A plot that absorbsThe land runs to over 700 m² and absorbs the noise of the town without ever cutting the house off from its surroundings. The greenery isn't a selling point, it's a tool: it frames the view, filters the low late-afternoon light, and means that from the living spaces, all you see is canopy and sky. Nothing to correct, nothing to hide.A confident 1990s handNo conventional neo-Basque, no contemporary cube either. The house wears its era openly: generous yet legible volumes, circulation that never forces you through one room to reach another, a layout that gives everyone their own share of quiet. It's a house built for ordinary family life — a lunch that runs long, a fire lit in winter — not for the photographed moment.Its 160 m² of living space unfold without ever running into an awkward circulation. The grounds, wooded and free of overlooking neighbours, remain rare this close to the lake — a few minutes' walk is enough to get there, in an area most visitors to Biarritz never pass through.Some houses sell from a floor plan this one is understood by walking through it — it was designed by someone who already knew who would live there. It's a house waiting for a family, not a buyer.

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House with garden and terraceBiarritz (64)
Price :
$1,663,400
($10,292 / m²)
Surface162 m²bedrooms3 bathroom1 land735 m²

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