The little house on the prairie is nearing completion in the Jura region, France. This modest private commission is Julien De Smedt’s first realised design for a family house.
The project was nearly cancelled for planning permit reasons when a an article came out in the local press calling the house the ‘skijump residence’. The journalist was referring to the fact that we had also designed the skijump in Oslo where Jason Lamy Chappuis, a skier from the village, had won the Gold Medal at the World Championship in 2011. Soon after we were called up to re-explain our design to the authorities which eventually granted it planning permit.
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