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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. Village center of Ecouflant in France by Architecture studio bruno huetMarch 30th, 2018 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Architecture studio bruno huet This project was initiated in order to the rehabilitate Ecouflant’s village center, taking into account the place’s historical heritage. A dialogue was started between the contemporary project and a 15th-century building, the Lodge.  Image Courtesy © Patrick Miara
 Image Courtesy © Patrick Miara The work was launched after King Kong Atelier had worked out a way to redevelop the town center that would be respectful of the surrounding countryside and of the delightful architectural heritage. SABH made it a point a point by their vision.  Image Courtesy © Patrick Miara  Image Courtesy © Patrick Miara Thus, openings in the newly built sequence create the link with the remarkable old entities in the village center: the church, the presbytery and the City hall. The different units of the project (residential, library and retail) thread their way to the river Sarthe like a dynamic ribbon and frame a large green area in its heart.  Image Courtesy © Patrick Miara  Image Courtesy © Patrick Miara With its built-up spaces and empty ones, the project allows the village to cluster around its Lodge, encasing the historical building in its new design. Then, it threads its way down to the river, through the meadows along its banks. In a reversible movement, the countryside seems to creep up to the heart of the village, an impression wrought by the timber on the walls of the buildings rising up to the roof, creating a sort of vernacular monolith.  Image Courtesy © Patrick Miara  Image Courtesy © Patrick Miara On the 1st and 2nd floors, the residential blocks propose 41 energy efficient social housing units, overlooking either the gardens, the planted mall or the Sarthe. Prefabricated timber boards cover the concrete post/slab structure of the building isolated by a 140 mm layer of glass wool on the outside and 80 mm on the inside (an additional insulation has been laid on the outside)  Image Courtesy © Emilie Gravoueille  Image Courtesy © Philippe Ruault Façades are covered with oven-treated Douglas pine boards, with an open-work cladding, whilst window and door frames are made of larch. District heating, provided to the development, is fuelled by burning wood chips in winter and gas in summer.  Image Courtesy © Emilie Gravoueille Image Courtesy © Patrick Miara  Image Courtesy © Patrick Miara  Image Courtesy © Patrick Miara  Image Courtesy © Patrick Miara  Image Courtesy © Patrick Miara
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