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MARTIRES HOUSING COMPLEX
2024
Location
Leiria, Portugal
Client
Private
Area
1369 m2
Material
Precast concrete, aluminum, wood
Status
Built
Leiria, Portugal
Client
Private
Area
1369 m2
Material
Precast concrete, aluminum, wood
Status
Built
Housing complex
The project, which consists of seven apartments, is set within a renovated house and a new, semi-circular extension and seeks to disrupt domestic rituals to question everyday behaviours. The building makes manifest and negotiates some of the major tensions of urban housing, such as the interplay between protection or introspection and openness. It aims to reframe how bodies inhabit the city through our domestic structures. To a certain extent, its large windows and bold façade put the act of living on a stage – one performance alongside all the dramas of the city unfolding at once.
Photo © Francisco Nogueira
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
2022
Location
Perche, France
Client
Jean-Luc Moulène
Area
367 m2
Material
EPDM, Danpalon, prefabricated wood structure
Status
Built
Artist's studio
Perche, France
Client
Jean-Luc Moulène
Area
367 m2
Material
EPDM, Danpalon, prefabricated wood structure
Status
Built
Artist's studio
An architectural tool for the artist, materialized by the assembly of a series of identical volumes distributed in constant shifts, which offers a territory with multiple dimensions and functions. Each volume corresponds to the artist's working range. The translucent, north-facing sloping façade provides neutral and homogeneous light to the spaces.
Photo © David Boureau
Photo © David Boureau
Panic room
2019
Location
Paris, France
Client
Enfants Riches Déprimés
Area
45 m2
Material
Stainless steel, grey Saint Laurent marble, fabric
Status
Built
Flagship store
Paris, France
Client
Enfants Riches Déprimés
Area
45 m2
Material
Stainless steel, grey Saint Laurent marble, fabric
Status
Built
Flagship store
The ERD boutique is an enclosed grey zone, a geometrical boudoir and a surgical limbo. Its space has been shaped as a stage built of metal and stone to enclose the experience of desire. The store was designed with three principles in mind: an homage to the brand itself, depravity and deconstructed opulence. As Henry Levy, the creator of the brand, mentioned : “It feels like a mixture of a bank vault, brutalist torture chamber and Clockwork Orange. I want people to feel as uncomfortable as possible.”
Photo © David Boureau
XYZ LOUNGE
2017
Location
Ghent, Belgium
Client
Zebrastraat
Area
365 m2
Material
Steel, Breccia Gold marble, stucco, fabric
Status
Built
Ghent, Belgium
Client
Zebrastraat
Area
365 m2
Material
Steel, Breccia Gold marble, stucco, fabric
Status
Built
Bar / Lounge and event space for the conference and cultural center Zebrastraat with bespoke furniture
XYZ Lounge is an interstice-space offering a new form of physicality and identity, a space of convergence and interaction where temporality is suspended. The marble, the stucco, and fabric, all clean materials, stage the encounters made within this in-between space, creating an envelope where the different tonalities call out to our carnal sensuality.
Photo © David Boureau
Photo © Felipe Ribon
broken high rise
2012
Location
Amazonia
Dimensions
830m
Material
Steel, concrete, glass
Status
Unbuilt
Amazonia
Dimensions
830m
Material
Steel, concrete, glass
Status
Unbuilt
Broken High Rise is an architectural fiction inspired by the novel High-Rise by G. J. Ballard (1975) and by the form of
Barnett Newman's sculpture Broken Obelisk (1963–1969).
The series of towers overlooks a primary forest and is really a single unit composed of twelve identical volumes, placed side by side. Inside, only the communication interfaces permit us to contemplate the effects of the Anthropocene, to become aware of
the geophysical collapse of Earth caused by humans.
As its title indicates, the towers are destined to self-destruct.
The series of towers overlooks a primary forest and is really a single unit composed of twelve identical volumes, placed side by side. Inside, only the communication interfaces permit us to contemplate the effects of the Anthropocene, to become aware of
the geophysical collapse of Earth caused by humans.
As its title indicates, the towers are destined to self-destruct.
Images © Bureau des Mésarchitectures
SKY IS THE LIMIT
2008
Location
YangYang, South Korea
Client
Eulji Foundation
Dimensions
2.6 x 11 x 15.6 m | 25 m²
Material
Steel structure, metal grid, clear glass, wood panels, epoxy white paint.
Status
Built
YangYang, South Korea
Client
Eulji Foundation
Dimensions
2.6 x 11 x 15.6 m | 25 m²
Material
Steel structure, metal grid, clear glass, wood panels, epoxy white paint.
Status
Built
Tea House
The project is a domestic space sample, propelled 20 meters above the ground, a tea room projected in a state of weightlessness, over the troubled horizon. The building’s body is nothing more than a fragile skeleton. Its thin arachnoid structure sets under tension a vertical void. A bicephalous head over this fleshless body is composed of two entities. Two captive voids of strictly similar dimensions provide two opposing experiences.
The project is a domestic space sample, propelled 20 meters above the ground, a tea room projected in a state of weightlessness, over the troubled horizon. The building’s body is nothing more than a fragile skeleton. Its thin arachnoid structure sets under tension a vertical void. A bicephalous head over this fleshless body is composed of two entities. Two captive voids of strictly similar dimensions provide two opposing experiences.
Photo © Hong Lee
ONE SQUARE METER HOUSE
2001-2006Location
Paris, France
Dimensions
2.7 x 2.7 x 17 m | 1m² each level
Material
Galvanised steel structure, composite shells: cellular and epoxy resin
Paris, France
Dimensions
2.7 x 2.7 x 17 m | 1m² each level
Material
Galvanised steel structure, composite shells: cellular and epoxy resin
Housing prototype
By reducing living space to its smallest unit, the square metre, the “One Square Meter House” prototype promotes a critical view of land speculation. Beyond this, it subverts the notions of habitability, adaptability and evolutivity. A body-trap that takes contemporary narcissism to its most absurd, “One Square Meter House” makes public space the only possible terrain for social interaction.
Photo © David Boureau
By reducing living space to its smallest unit, the square metre, the “One Square Meter House” prototype promotes a critical view of land speculation. Beyond this, it subverts the notions of habitability, adaptability and evolutivity. A body-trap that takes contemporary narcissism to its most absurd, “One Square Meter House” makes public space the only possible terrain for social interaction.
Photo © David Boureau
Photo © Florian Kleinefenn
