Disneyland in Zutzendorf, France by GENS association libérale

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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination.

Disneyland in Zutzendorf, France by GENS association libérale d’architecture

April 19th, 2016 by Sumit Singhal

Article source: GENS association libérale d’architecture

In this Alsatian village, urban policies are sparse but straightforward: do as your neighbor; and all neighbors agree.

Image Courtesy © Ludmilla CERVENY

Architects: GENS association libérale d’architecture
Project: Disneyland
Location: Zutzendorf, Bas-Rhin, France
Photography: Ludmilla CERVENY
Client: Childless Couple
Associates: TERRANERGIE thermal engineering; BARTHES structural engineering
Surface: 114m2
Cost: 155 600 €ht
Ending: 2015

Image Courtesy © Ludmilla CERVENY

The house only shows a tile covered gable roof, hiding the contemporary loft underneath. Ground floor is a free space, totally opened to the south facing garden; simply structured by a sauna and a shelf. On the top of this first house hovers another one, a retreat hidden in the bush of the industrial carpentry, looking down over the first one or escaping to the remote landscape.

Image Courtesy © Ludmilla CERVENY

Image Courtesy © GENS association libérale d’architecture

Office:

GENS association libérale d’architecture, dedicates its collective energy to the invention of pragmatic solutions meeting the complexity of architectural commissions.

In most variegated fields, public or private commission, cultural institution or do-it-yourself house, agricultural hangar or collective dwelling, GENS explores the economy of project within no less variegated forms: conceptual, esthetic, budgetary or calorific.

Definitely oriented towards an operational practice of building, GENS allows itself to wander into other realms, being art, teaching, stage setting, as they participate from the one and only material: reality.

GENS is a group of independent architects gathered in 2009 for the REHA-PUCA concourse, from which it was laureate. It is laureate from the AJAP 2012 award (Album des Jeunes Architectes et Pasyasgistes) which acknowledges promising french practices. It has been recently awarded second of the international competition Réinventer. Paris.

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Tags: France, Zutzendorf

Category: House

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