FOREST HOUSE

Renovation & Extension

Abreschviller | Moselle | FR

1620 m²

2024

The forester’s house forms the inhabited heart of the project. Once housing linked to forestry operations, it is reinterpreted as a contemporary living and working space, rooted in the long temporal rhythm of the forest.

The project combines a careful renovation of the existing building with a timber extension, conceived as a continuation of local know-how. The exposed structure reveals the material logic of the project: architecture designed around the available resources, their dimensions, rhythms, and limitations.

More than a mere building, the forester’s house becomes a space for experimentation, where living and production coexist, and where architecture participates in a local, circular, and temporal economy, inherited from the Vosges mountains.