Village square and inn, Remerschen, L
description

The repair of a situation that had been ruined in the 1960s and 70s. Although it had stood empty for a long time the inn was not demolished. Only the misshapen music pavilion was removed and all the planting was cut down apart from three trees. Now this central village square – around 600 people live in Remerschen – has been given hard paving using a specially cast stone that matches the plaster façade of the renovated inn. The design of the square uses a very classical vocabulary. There is a pool of water (with a large stone in it for safety reasons), a pergola with plastered columns, laurel hedges and geometrically pruned wisteria. The inn extends into the village square through its garden. A projecting display case window has made it transparent. People waiting for a bus can see what is cooking inside in the kitchen. The new owner has long since captivated the village. And, not unimportantly, in a certain sense this inn has become a kind of branch or canteen of the Luxembourg office of HVP.
DATA

Client: Administration communale de Schengen
Start of planning: 2005
Start of construction: 2005
Completion: 2007
Usable floor area: 142 m2 (Wirtshaus | Inn)
Enclosed volume: Outdoor area: 1.550 m2