«This small apartment was in a quite ruined state and, as the demolition advanced, we had to carry out important works: soil repair, structural reinforcement with IPN, duplication of the walls to make a healthy structure …», says Interior architect Marie Tardieu, founder of the homonymous agency. You don't even have to mention how much it was reflected on space: how to enhance it? How to make the circulation flow given the impressive volumes? «We decided Play with verticality to better highlight this high roofs. Therefore, a cantilever member was created, also with important structural works, so that it was not too high, so that it did not have any support to the staircase wall and seem to float.
A modern bed with canopy on a platform
Studio Pion
From a small house with a single plant with a roof terrace in front of the beach, the architects of Alliot + Maudet created a paradise on Earth, blurring the boundaries between the day and night spaces of this beautiful department.
Inside, the volumes They intermingle in this beautiful life space that includes kitchen, dining room and room. The bedroom is treated as a modern canopy, lifted from the ground for reasons of height in relation to the old vessel room, which has a roof higher than the caretaker's accommodation. The architects used this limitation as a force to raise the night space without having to close it, creating a distance that transforms it into a cocoon thanks to the curtains.
A white curtain in the bedroom
BCDF Studio
It is a small and atypical space in Paris. Two lots separated with very low roofs, which the owner bought without having an idea of what she would find above, just below the roof. By knocking up the partitions and the false roof, A space of a meter and a half high was exposed: «A inclined, beautiful and completely usable roof, on the fourth and last floor of this 1900 building,» says Pierre and François Voirin, the architects in charge of renewal.
«The distribution was clear to us and the hole on the wall It was perfect to house bath areas, which allowed to create the symmetry of the two doors of the staircase. The library emerged from the idea of the separation of these two spaces, ”commented the architects, for whom to offer a true room behind a small door, with a dressing room and a bathroom that closes with a curtain, like a suiteIt is a transition work, eminently architectural.
Article originally published in Ad France.
Translated and adapted by Fernanda Toral.