2 Rue L’admiral Cloue, Paris, Fr.
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Concept Design
2016
The apartment is for a decision sciences professor and specialist in AI and his wife, a self-trained chef and food stylist. The father’s teen age daughter from a previous marriage was soon be leaving home for school yet the couple were planning to have another child and so they needed a nursery or small third bedroom.
The original two-bedroom Hausmannian apartment was classically appointed but, as is typical for the typology, it had too little storage. As well, it was conventionally organized as a series of rooms linked by in interior corridor. Its great virtue was its orientation to the south with spectacular views over the river Seine.
To take advantage of the river view, the main gesture was to combine the living and dining rooms and to configure the master bedroom to be ‘en suite” with this enlarged space. This created a continuous south facing wall offering multiple vantage points to the view the river from within the principal living spaces. Clerestories were introduced to allow the southern light to penetrate the interior corridor and windowless bathrooms to the north.
The kitchen also opens out into this living space to accommodate the couple passion for hosting dinner parties. Two large siding glazed panels allow the kitchen area to be closed during the times food was prepared for photo shoots. When not deployed for this purpose, the glass doors create a transparent front to the library.
A walk-in closet was converted into the nursery. A glazed opening in the shared wall the daughter’s bedroom gives this room a view to the river.
