{"id":6518,"date":"2026-04-04T10:00:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T10:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angesfinanciers.org\/?p=6518"},"modified":"2026-04-10T15:31:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T15:31:50","slug":"replus-bureau-avoids-nostalgic-reconstruction-in-ukrainian-villa-renovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angesfinanciers.org\/index.php\/2026\/04\/04\/replus-bureau-avoids-nostalgic-reconstruction-in-ukrainian-villa-renovation\/","title":{"rendered":"Replus Bureau avoids “nostalgic reconstruction” in Ukrainian villa renovation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ukrainian architecture studio Replus Bureau has renovated a 20th-century villa<\/a> in Lviv, contrasting the exposed surfaces of its historic shell with contemporary extensions<\/a> and finishes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Named Villa Quince after a neighbouring grove of fruit trees, the dwelling near Znesinnia Park was originally designed in 1906 in a neoclassical style and altered by the architect J\u00f3zef Hornung in 1922.<\/p>\n

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Replus Bureau has renovated a 20th-century villa in Ukraine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By the time Replus Bureau<\/a> were tasked with renovating the home, it had stood abandoned for many years and was falling into disrepair.<\/p>\n

Alongside the repair and restoration of the villa’s shell, the studio added cubic volumes to expand its ground floor and create an additional storey, offering deliberate contrasts to the original structure that continue through the interiors.<\/p>\n

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Its contemporary extensions avoid “nostalgic reconstruction”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“We were not interested in imitation,” the studio told Dezeen. “The new volumes remain calm and restrained, allowing the historic architecture to stay legible.”<\/p>\n

“The project’s idea became clear: avoid nostalgic reconstruction. In a way, we wanted the building to tell a simple story in the future: that it lived through different periods and was reconstructed in 2025,” it added.<\/p>\n

“The same dialogue between old and new continues in the interior, where restored historic elements coexist with carefully placed contemporary interventions.”<\/p>\n

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The original enfilade-style layout was retained<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The original enfilade-style layout of Villa Quince was maintained, with a study, bedroom and bathroom wrapping a kitchen at the centre of the ground floor.<\/p>\n

This kitchen now flows into a ground-floor extension, where a living and dining area overlooks the surrounding gardens through two corners of full-height glazing.<\/p>\n

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A living and dining area sits in the ground-floor extension<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Above, the first-floor extension contains three ensuite bedrooms, housed within a pale rendered, rectilinear volume that projects above the roofline of the existing villa.<\/p>\n

Throughout Villa Quince, fragments of historic wall finishes have been exposed, which informed the pale tones of the newly-plastered surfaces that surround them.<\/p>\n