This study involves typological research into the single-family villa as the predominant housing model in Switzerland. This predominance raises the generic nature of the type, allowing residents to associate their own domestic specificity with it. The study then contextualises its research in the canton of Fribourg, specifically in the Glâne district. This analysis helps us to understand the influence of the single-family villa in an area that add poor control of its territory because of the socio-political structure of these municipalities, which are considered tiny on a national scale. In addition to the previous indication the proximity to Lac Leman region and lower land's price has only increased the extension of this territory into a medusant space. The single-family villa is thus the driving force behind the urban sprawl that is transforming the former rural territory into urbanised countryside, in other words, the mask of the rural.
The master's project itself follows this contextual focus by restructuring a low-density area in the village of Ursy. The project carries out a study of the historical layers of the plot and also includes the current environmental risks caused by the mineralisation of the soil. In response to this condition, the project proposes to put the plots forming the new neighborhood into usufruct and to enclose an area considered to be private for each pre-existing single-family villa. This change of status will increase the porosity and pedestrian mobility of the site, while at the same time communalising the open underused areas of the plot interstices. Two additional layers have been created, with a new housing group and rainwater harvesting infrastructure.