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The project consists in joining two apartments
located on the 8th and 8th floor of a 1950 building apartments.
The 2 apartments partially overlapped and the existing layout
is very irregular with a different metal structure on every floor.
The irregularities were erased by integrating storage and wardrobe
to clear the space. The metal structure is sometimes visible to
be lighter than heavy plaster wrapping.
The 8th floor is the common life floor. The 9th floor is more
private.
The project proposes many sequences: the entrance, the intimacy
of the living room with a bioethanol chimney built into a floating
furniture (detached from the ground), toilet shelves and storage
disappear behind a wooden façade. While entering more deeply
into the apartment the visitor has to look up and can sea the
access to the terrace and alternatively opaque elements dissimulating
the upstairs life and transparent bridges allowing a dialogue
between the 2 floors.
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The
staircase invites to an architectural promenade. The inhabitant
can see the central void of the apartment while seeing the sky;
he disappears behind the solid elements and reappears behind the
transparent ones.
On the 9th Floor, the floor plan is divided into two parts: the
parent’s wing and the children/friends wing. The parental
suite has a bedroom and a see throw bathroom with view to the terrace
and view to the Eiffel tower. On the other side, two rooms one bow
in balance in the central void and the other at the end of the apartment
share a bathroom which has a big window like every room of the duplex.
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