Cairos Architecture has converted the attic of an previous Parisian apartment into children’s bedrooms, making the residence more appropriate for use as a family house (+ slideshow).
Located shut to Porte de Vincennes in Paris’ 12th arrondissement, the fifth-floor residence initially featured a extended and narrow program with couple of windows. Paris-based Cairos Architecture had been tasked with generating more space for the clients and their two young young children.
“The renovation was far more about using the existing attributes of the space,” architect Hélène Reinhard advised Dezeen. “We experimented with to turn the default dimensions, including the shape of the roof, into an interesting level.”
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“But it was also inspired by spaces designed by architects that the consumers very much liked, which includes Luis Barragan and Alvar Aalto,” she additional.
Component of the unique attic floor was demolished and rebuilt to create side-by-side bedrooms for the young children. Both of these rooms open out onto a new mezzanine that is available from the residing area by means of a white staircase.
The master bedroom is located on the ground floor, and features a brightly tiled en-suite bathroom.
A wall as soon as separating the kitchen from rest of the ground floor was eliminated to create a more open-plan residing room. The floor in the kitchen spot was then raised, to develop a visual boundary between distinct places.
Although raw and simple resources were utilized throughout the majority of the apartment, the kitchen floor was covered with patterned concrete tiles.
“I desired a various floor in the kitchen than the rest of the apartment,” said Reinhard. “I believed it would be wonderful to have some thing coloured and the customers chose the certain layout.”
Other current examples of mezzanines extra inside residential properties include Sadie Snelson Architects’ cantilevering addition to a former London warehouse and SABO Project’s raised platform within a style designer’s Paris residence.
Photography is by Clément Guillaume.
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