Before / after: unconventional, an optimized 32 m2 © Cyril Rheims
The owner of a former two-room apartment, poorly arranged, and with an unusual shape, called on an architect to optimize the surface, without losing square meters.
Faced with the aging and decaying state of a former 32 m2 two-room apartment, its owner wanted to make a clean sweep of the existing to best meet his daily needs. The apartment being structurally poorly arranged, she therefore asked the architect DPLG Cyril Rheims, in order to carry out her project. Familiar with small surfaces, he was thus able to cleverly respond to all spatial constraints. Take into account the habits and lifestyle of the client, imagine a colorful and dynamic accommodation, optimize a difficult configuration, integrating the old chimney flues into the space, or even taking advantage of an incredible luminosity, are all objectives that the architect had set himself, downstream of the site, to satisfy the owner, while respecting the structure. “The more constraints there are, the more funny solutions we can find”, he enthuses. Removal of the partitions then reorganization of the space, creation of a transom window, elevation of a glass roof with very graphic lines, construction of a platform and made-to-measure storage … Almost four months were needed to complete this complex and arduous project, brilliantly executed.
Zoom in pictures on this surprising and colorful little surface.
