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The Zilveli House by Jean-Paul Goude: revival of a modern icon
On the site of the famous Villa Zilveli, built in 1933 by the Austrian architect Jean Welz, this reconstructionproject by Lankry Architectes perfectly restores the volume of the original building, respecting its proportionsand volume. Designed by Jean-Paul Goude in collaboration with Lankry Architectes, this is a project for a qualified and enthusiastic buyer.
Like the original villa, the construction consists of a vertical volume on the street side with a minimalist façade , flanked by an elongated volume on stilts above the garden, pierced to the south by a long bay window. Below street level, a new underground volume supports the building, thanks to its deep foundations. The atmospheric avant-gardism of the building on the garden side, set on stilts, dominates an exceptional panorama.
The living spaces are arranged in the volume on stilts to take advantage of the sunshine and the view of the Parisian landscape to the south and west; the bedrooms are stacked in the vertical part, on the street side. The main building is set on a structure housing the reception areas and vertical circulation (staircases + lift), creating a connection with the street. The new garden level volume houses the technical and vast storage areas.
A parking space for a small electric car is planned on the street level.
Delivered finished and functional, this house project benefits from high-quality fixtures and fittings (large lift, oak wooden floors, top-of-the-range joinery and blinds, gates and fencing, remote surveillance system, telephony, fibre optics, streamlined kitchen, gas-fired boiler, thermodynamic water heater, reversible air conditioning, underfloor heating).
Furnishings are not included in the project budget.
Nested in the heights of Paris, just a stone’s throw from the Parc des Buttes-Chaumont, the Butte Bergeyre is a privileged neighborhood of the capital, with a village feel and charming winding, shady streets. Houses with colourful, charming facades give it a picturesque atmosphere. The top of the hill provides an uninterrupted view of Paris.
The Butte Bergeyre is close to the lively Quai de Loire and Quai de Seine districts, with their cinemas, and the Canal Saint-Martin, with its restaurants, shops and galleries. It is served by metro line 7bis at Bolivar station, line 2 at Colonel Fabien station and buses 75 and 26.
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An exceptional revival project
Architect Thomas Billard, co-founder of Lankry Architectes, was commissioned by Jean-Paul Goude to design an ambitious reconstruction project. This project renews the iconic avant-gardism of the Villa Zilveli through a contemporary and high-performance technology approach, rebuilding this spectacular “landmark” architecture, as it was when it was first delivered in 1934.
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Villa Zilveli: a modern masterpiece
The Zilveli House stands out for the spectacular nature of its architecture and its location : a large Bauhaus-style Villa, which seemingly floats at the top of the Butte Bergeyre, overlooking the Parisian rooftops and monumental landscape. This 1930s modernist achievement, an icon of the International Style, synthesises the theoretical contributions of Le Corbusier and Adolf Loos.
Built with extreme economy in mind, the building applies the Five Points of New Architecture (pilotis; flat roof; free plan; entablature windows; free facade) and uses a Corbusier-style module for the composition of spaces; it is stripped of all ornamentation and implements the raumplan concept (varying the composition and height of rooms according to their use) based on the theories of Adolf Loos. The side balcony, left in rough concrete, bears the imprint of its wooden formwork, fifteen years before the construction of the Unité d’habitation de Marseille by Le Corbusier, which marked the consecration of this type of finish in the history of modern architecture.
From 2004, the villa was unoccupied and abandoned. With no maintenance or repairs, it deteriorated rapidly. A danger state decree was issued in 2006. The villa was subsequently shored up by the Charpentiers de Paris to stabilise it. After years of uncertainty, the property was bought at an auction by Jean-Paul Goude in 2019, who carried out preliminary studies to document the property and initiate its restoration. The advanced state of deterioration of the building and its structural defects made it impossible to envisage its conservation. In accordance with official orders, the foundations must be consolidated and the building dismantled in order to be rebuilt.
This contemporary reconstruction project, designed by Jean-Paul Goude in close collaboration with Thomas Billard of Lankry Architectes, was approved by the Architecte des Bâtiments de France in 2020, and received the building permit and the relevant demolition permit in 2021. The villa was dismantled in 2022.
In 2023, Jean-Paul Goude decided to hand over this exceptional project and its realisation.
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Client and Architect: a fruitful dialogue
Jean-Paul Goude : an icon-maker
Jean-Paul Goude (1938) is a renowned designer, photographer, director, choreographer and film-maker, and a leading figure on the contemporary cultural scene, which he has helped to shape through his creations. Based since 1991 on the Butte Bergeyre, where he lives and works, he has closely followed the status of the Zilveli House for several years, before deciding to buy it in 2019.
Lankry Architectes : a renowned Parisian agency
Thomas Billard, co-founder and partner of Lankry Architects, is the project’s main architect. He graduated from the Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture under Paul Virilio in 1992, won the Delano Aldrich/Emerson AIA scholarship in 1994, and was awarded the hors les murs prize of the Villa Médicis in 1997. Thomas Billard is also co-author of the book on American heritage, Promenade contemporaine dans les Case Study Houses, published by Éditions de l’Imprimeur (2004), and a member of the editorial committee of the Dromologie collection of Paul Virilio journals.
Technical info
Asking price: €2,500,000
Seller to pay fees
Acquisition of LAND + BUILDING PERMISSION
Freehold.
