MARTIRES HOUSING COMPLEX




2024
ARCHITECTURE
Location 
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
ARCHITECTURE
Location 
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


Panic room



2019
ARCHITECTURE
Location
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.

Photo: David Boureau


XYZ Lounge


2018
ARCHITECTURE
Location
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