Portal Thomas Teissier Architecture have designed Maison Spirale, a house located in Catelnau Le Lez, France. Project description The ground surface represents 750m², with a triangular shape located on a hill which only had the potential to offer a nice panoramic view from the first floor and the proximity to a rocky natural wall (Lapiaz). While keeping its natural environment where the house has been built, the construction stacks the following functions: -A basement hosting a garage; -A ground floor having a living function; -A first floor hosting the bed-rooms; -A roof-top terrace from which one can sun-bath while enjoying a panoramic view reaching out to the sea. In manner to create a sleek spacial continuity with the construction showing an obvious and easy access to the roof-top, the house visually elevates itself in a spiral-like shape. This wooden ribbon seems to come out of the ground where it will at first outbound the demarcation of the garden by fencing i