Live / Work Apartment in Paris
Type: Full Interior Renovation
Status: Complete
Year: 2023-24
Live/Work Apartment is lcoated on on a prominent boulevard in the North-East of Paris and situated directly opposite a large ‘English Landscape’ park - an usual setting for this European city. Originally built in the 1960's, the public foyer boasts a generous palette of newly restored materials - marble, wood veneer, chrome - yet the apartment itself had not been renovated since it was first occupied. The brief was to transform the interior into a residence that could also serve as a photography studio for the client.
The main interior wall was demolished to remove the existing corridor and repurpose this area for living space. The kitchen was moved into the central main room to create a more flexible living space. The existing kitchen room, access via a long corridor sealed by a structural wall felt markedly seperate from the rest of the apartment. As such it was converted into a small guest suite with its own entrance, so friends and family can enjoy a sense of privacy during their stay. The photography studio overlooks the park and can either spill into the main room if more space is required, or shut away behind a sliding door to conceal the inevitable mess of creative life. A new concrete screed unifies all the rooms save for the bedroom, which has softer qualities to invoke a sense of serenity.
The domestic and productive spheres of life collapse into one within the walls of this new Parisian interior, whilst providing privacy and the opportunity to be together in a single, modest sized apartment in a large European metropolis.