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Architects: IOWE Architectures, Weber + Keiling
- Year: 2014
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Photographs:Florian TJEDJE
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Text description provided by the architects. The « Kayserguet » was originally a villa located in Strasbourg (France), in the Robertsau district. Built in the late XVIIIth century, it was supplemented with a wing in 1941 and a winter garden in the 60’s.
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Aquired in 2009 by the city of Strasbourg, the intention was to transform and extend the old villa into a « space of Europeanness ».
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Weber + Keiling, Architects in Strasbourg, approached the project with the idea to extend it with glass volumes, thus respecting the existing structure while conveying the new identity of the buliding.
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The glazed extensions are nested in the body of the original villa, making it whole and bringing balance to the very dense existing façade.
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