Paris-based architectural firm Pascal Grasso Architectures have completed a duplex apartment in Paris, France.
+ Project description by Pascal Grasso
The project data are promising and simple: a private client, an apartment in the center of Paris, duplex, an area about 280 m², a large terrace.
The challenge is to connect the apartment with the terrace. A large volume, opened directly on the terrace, is created. It will become the main space of the floor, the reception room. The bedrooms are rearranged on the first level.
Image courtesy Pascal Grasso Architectures | Photo by Nicolas Dorval-Bory
Image courtesy Pascal Grasso Architectures | Photo by Nicolas Dorval-Bory
Device, consisting in visual accumulation of volumes, creates rhythm in the new space. They invade the floor, walls and ceiling. The ceiling is the strong element structuring the room.
Image courtesy Pascal Grasso Architectures | Photo by Nicolas Dorval-Bory
Image courtesy Pascal Grasso Architectures | Photo by Nicolas Dorval-Bory
Composed of suspended plaster boxes, it makes the space more dynamic. It integrates and hides functional and technical components such as air conditioning, lightning, sound, ventilation. These elements gradually invest the place turning into storages, kitchen appliances, balustrade for stairs, bar, coffee table, etc…
The lightning system, hidden behind the volumes, provides diffused, indirect and scalable light.
Image courtesy Pascal Grasso Architectures | Photo by Nicolas Dorval-Bory
Render courtesy Pascal Grasso Architectures
The bedrooms are designed with the same process: clarity of the space and functional “furniture-objects”. A large furniture includes common functions such as bathroom, bed, desk, closet, etc… The set is made of grey painted MDF. Colours and shapes customize the rooms.
+ Project credits / data
Program: Designing an apartment
Location: Paris, France
Architect: Pascal Grasso Architectures | http://www.pascalgrasso.com/
Completion: 2011
Photographer: Nicolas Dorval-Bory
Assistants: Damien Descamps – Juliano Bottari
General Contractor: Bane-Déco
Carpenter: Art et confort