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New Town Hall of Scharrachbergheim / AL PEPE architects

Hadir Al Koshta — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 04:00:00 +0000

The new town hall of Scharrachbergheim, a small Alsatian village, seeks horizontality and transparency to integrate into this magnificent wooded site. The external regular framework of the wooden structure affirms the public dimension of the building, while ensuring a timeless aesthetic. The dark and velvety tint of the protective pine tar and the refined and elegant sizing of the wooden columns echo both the village's colombages and the site's trees. The corten steel expanded mesh cladding gives an almost woven appearance to the facade while reminding the tones of local stone (Vosges sandstone), very present in the historic village. The ensemble is contemporary but rooted, rigorous but gentle. As if it had always been there.

L House / AL PEPE architects

Andreas Luco — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 03:00:00 +0000

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.

HD House / AL PEPE architects

Andreas Luco — Sun, 20 Sep 2020 09:00:00 +0000

The archetypal form of the double pitch roof, imposed by the building code requirements, is augmented by a peripheral terrace, alternately covered by wood (shelter) or painted steel grating (sunbreak). The scenographic composition of the overhang apparent wood structure forms a strong internal/external continuity and gives an exotic and warm side to this « alsatian pagoda ». The construction is embedded in the relatively steep slope (9%) to limit its impact on the large landscape, on the neighborhood, and on the relatively small plot (400sqm). The basement opens at grass height with large glass wooden frames making this floor completely habitable.