Shelter House by Franklin Azzi

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This is a beautiful old small home in Normandy, France that has been completely renewed. I like that the architect, Franklin Azzi, chose to keep the original small footprint relatively intact. There seem to be so many renovations that take an old small home and make it big. It’s nice to one that stayed relatively small. Continue to see some before and after photos.

Shelter House by Franklin Azzi complete

Shelter House by Franklin Azzi

Shelter House by Franklin Azzi rear

Shelter House by Franklin Azzi loft

Shelter House by Franklin Azzi construction

Shelter House by Franklin Azzi before

I first saw this on Moco Loco. You can also visit the Architect’s website.

Posted July 4th, 2009 by Michael Janzen and filed in Projects

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7 Responses to “Shelter House by Franklin Azzi”

  1. Mark Harrison says:

    The Gallic flair really shows in this renovation project, lot’s of lessons for everyone, especially remembering to keep design, materials and purpose in context.

  2. Ernie Pease says:

    I really think this house is great!!! I am always happy to see restoration and renovation work coupled with expantion. Keep up the good work!!

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  4. Doug says:

    He increased the original “foot print” by 600% and increased the living space by 200%…that isn’t keeping it anywhere near the “same”.

  5. Good point Doug. But it seems like usually these kinds of renovations completely destroy the homes original spirit. In this case I think they did a good job of keeping that relatively intact.

  6. kjterz says:

    great adaptive reuse…..the fact he expanded the livable area greatly while the conditioned livable space was contained to a manageable degree is comendable…….keep up the great work….

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