The design of House T was defined through a series of discussions with its clients. It takes the form of an accumulation of cells that develop vertically, creating undulating façades that play with light and shadow.

The volumes of the house are expressed through curved walls and numerous nooks and crannies, inviting a variety of uses and personalization. Natural light interacts with the orientation, size, and shape of the openings, oculi, portholes, or fissures, and animates the different rooms. Each opening is treated like a painting, framed to capture nature. The architect designed many interior elements directly integrated into the architecture, down to the door handles shaped like pebbles.

The floor plan and exterior silhouette of Georges Adilon’s houses are entirely derived from their interior layout. The architect considers all the constraints of a project, the desired program, the clients’ lifestyle, the nature of the land, and its orientation, as pieces of a human-scale puzzle that are gradually assembled.

His architectural practice stems from his artistic work and serves as a medium for plastic expression, much like painting or engraving. His architectural designs feature the ovoid forms that punctuate his graphic work. He creates architecture that responds to light, like a painting whose volumes cast shifting shadows throughout the day.

« We completely forget that architecture is an art and that its function is to create beauty. »
Georges Adilon

A French painter and visual artist, Georges Adilon (1928-2009) produced a prolific and diverse body of work, marked by a unique architectural practice within the French cultural landscape : inspired and guided by art, yet always respectful of the diverse uses it enables and the environment in which it is situated.

In 1964, Adilon met Father Perrot, who entrusted him with the design of the Sainte-Marie Lyon establishment on the hill of Fourvière, at the gates of Old Lyon and in La Verpillière. Each building was conceived as a living body, endowed with specific movements and characteristics. The three sites are also distinguished by a deep respect for pre-existing structures.

Between 1965 and 1990, the architect dotted the Lyon region with around thirty individual houses. Georges Adilon’s architectural principle was to create functional homes where space adapts to the various activities of daily life and the changing seasons. Light and circulation were paramount, resulting in openings, slits in the walls, alcoves, and varying levels that create winding paths through the space.