PURPOSES:
- To preserve the panoramic view of the city’s roof plan
- To sort out the lack of volume, low ceiling height and small number of windows of an attic apartment
- To create a conversation between the original zinc rooftop and its possible evolution.

PROJECT:
Thrusting, and almost erupting, the metal sheets rise one by one. They unfold, expand and individually crease in uneven ways as an echo to the neighbouring rooftops. The resulting gaps allow sunlight to come into the apartment, significantly modifying its volume as it swells and bursts open.

We explode the building’s roof zinc stripes. The terrace emerges from decrescendo back to the original roof lines which form the new terrace. Perfectly horizontal strips turn into the terrace’s floor.

In this urban landscape, our plan offers a diversion, an original eye pleasing disruption that highlights the typicall 19th century stylistic features so Parisian. Each urban object referees all the others resulting in well-balanced urban landscape.