Tim Van De Velde
Domesticated square
Firm LocationParis, France
CompanyL’atelier, nomadic architecture studio
Lead ArchitectPierre Escobar
The existing apartment of 70m2 consisted of two bedrooms, a closed kitchen and a small living room, as well as about 15m2 for circulation. The main challenge of this project was programmatic: how to transform a 2-bedroom apartment in a 3 bedrooms + 1 office apartment. The core process of the project consisted of transforming the mono-functionality of the apartment into a project where there is a central and open catalyst space shaped by a series of additional programs. The result is a domesticated square, surrounded by a series of small mono-functional rooms.