Réparer la Villa Kutter

Description

Villa Kutter, a house commissioned by the artist Joseph Kutter in 1929 from the young architect Hubert Schumacher, was the first modernist house in Luxembourg. It has undergone several architectural alterations. The most destructive took place in 1942, when its flat roof was replaced with a pitched roof and the vertical slits in the stairwell façade were replaced with arched windows. This intervention completely disfigured the modern architecture and rendered the villa unrecognisable. The brief given to us was to transform this single-family home with an artist’s studio into a contemporary house with at least two artist’s studios and the capacity to accommodate children and grandchildren.