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#SurelevationParis

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Project • By NIM ARCHITECTURE • Apartments

Building surelevation in Paris

The request of the client, a private developer, was to obtain the maximum possible surface in the volume allowed by the land use plan. Even with reduced heights it has been possible to design functional and harmonious spaces and obtain a splendid double-height volume for the living room. The street facade opens entirely onto a large terrace, another smaller one is accessible from the mezzanine room. Francesca De Marchi Francesca De Marchi Francesca De Marchi Francesca De Marchi Francesca De Marchi More

Project • By OVERCODE architecture urbanisme • Private Houses

ROOF-TOP Paris

A family of two adults and three children living in a house in Paris approached the firm to design a vertical extension with a roof terrace for their home.    The existing residential property is a combination of an existing house, owned completely by our clients, and a small housing building connected to the house by a room per floor. It is the result of the previous owners having a two floor apartment in the building and then buying the house next door to connect both properties to create a bigger home.    This resulted in a situation where the house was organized as a linear sequence of rooms forming a circulation loop passing through the house without any corridor whatsoever, with a condition of no intimacy in th... More