FAQs about Ecology & architecture
5 FAQs
Les Échasses is an eco-lodge because its untreated timber-frame accommodations are built on stilts, in a minimal and reversible way, within the wetland ecosystem and Landes forest, with a small…
Les Échasses was designed by Basque architect Patrick Arotcharen, with landscape architect Marti Franch and designer Jean-Louis Iratzoki. In 2016 the project won second prize in the Prix national de…
Yes. The estate has a permaculture vegetable garden, an orchard and beehives, and part of their production ends up at breakfast and in the restaurant Le Comptoir, depending on the…
The accommodations at Les Échasses have an untreated timber frame, set on stilts to limit the impact on the wetland soil. The raw wood gives the Modges a simple, contemporary…
An eco-lodge like Les Échasses replaces corridors and large capacity with independent timber accommodations, blended into the landscape and set in privacy around a pond. It adds a concrete environmental…
