Article source: AL PEPE architects (Pascal Philbert & Aude Lecinski) + Thibaud Loegler

The large monolithic roof of raw concrete is supported by 8 peripheral columns and 2 central cores reinterpreting the Mies aesthetics and structural ingenuity, in a mineral, baroque and rural variation. The external structural dimensioning creates an almost archaic shelter, radical and tectonic; only tempered by the warm materiality of the larch wood wall encircling the habitable space as if it had slipped below this Alsatian dolmen. This elementary composition responds in a sober way to the large horizontality of the agricultural Ried plain. The house protects itself from its dominant wind and the bad weather to better open itself towards the sun, the light, the orchard and the castle of Haut-Koenigsbourg watching in the distance.

Image Courtesy © Pascal Philbert / Alexandre Besson

• Architects: AL PEPE architects (Pascal Philbert & Aude Lecinski) + Thibaud Loegler
• Project: House L
• Location: Ebersheim, Alsace, France
• Photography: Pascal Philbert / Alexandre Besson
• Construction companies: Bringolf Constructions (concrete) – Girold Constructions Bois (wood)
• Structural engineer: CAPEM
• Area: 135 sqm
• Cost: 250 000 €HT
• Completion: December 2020

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