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Disney Log Cabins

• Paris, France

  Gumuchdjian architects were invited by Disney to compete in a limited competition to design the replacement for 800 identical log cabins located in an ancient woodland next to Euro-Disney Paris.

• Their winning concept design proposed a prefabricated house type whose interior and exterior finishes could be easily modified to create a rich variety of textures and finishes.

• Operational throughout the year each cabin was designed with low energy heating systems that alternatively draw from and return energy to the ground water aquifer beneath the forest.

• Twenty hamlets containing forty cabins each were clustered into existing forest clearings. The cabins were entirely prefabricated and fitted out in the factory. Construction was conceived as a continuous production line that began in the factory and was completed 36 hours later on site.

• Each hamlet was carefully segregated to preserve a semblance of isolation but was also linked to the main facilities by a landscaped pathway along a ravine that snaked through the forest.

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