The Cubist House / Moussafir Architectes

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Paris, France
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  250
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2015
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  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Bette, Acor, Admonter, Bisazza, Boffi, Bonnardel, Brandoni, Ceramica Globo, Codimat, Durcisseurs Français, Fantini, Liquid Elements, Liquid elements, MZ Productions, VALVO
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The Cubist House  / Moussafir Architectes - Windows, Facade
© Herve Abbadie

Text description provided by the architects. Designed for a Paris-based family with two children, the Cubist House is located in a courtyard that encloses an urban oasis, totally disconnected from the busy, greenless street outside. 

The Cubist House  / Moussafir Architectes - Door, Windows, Facade, Glass
© Herve Abbadie

Jacques Moussafir’s context-based design enhances the positive qualities of the site and resolves its problematic aspects. 

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The project responds to its highly textured surroundings, in which various typologies, materials and historic elements coexist with lush vegetation. On a footprint of 108 m2, a cluster of three volumes with Corten cladding and large glazed openings forms a dynamic three-dimensional frontage whose different parts align with the adjacent facades on two sides.  

The Cubist House  / Moussafir Architectes - Handrail
© Jerome Ricolleau

The 'cubist’ combination of solids and voids offers an intelligent solution that brings ample natural light into an 8-meter deep interior of a house surrounded by seven and eight-storey-high buildings. At the same time, the fragmented facade relates to the history of the site defined by successive additions and transformations. 'Here, more than anywhere else, we felt it necessary to opt for dense materials that would dialogue with the cobblestone paving, old masonry, and lime plaster, all of which tend to patinate and thus testify the passage of time,' says Jacques Moussafir. 

The Cubist House  / Moussafir Architectes - Chair, Beam
© Herve Abbadie

Both the interior and the exterior of the Cubist House evoke a collage of volumes and materials that form spatial compositions oscillating between 2D and 3D. The concrete floor in the ground-level kitchen/dining/living room incorporates 'islands' of parquet flooring that correspond to the distinct suspended volumes of the upper-floor rooms.  

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© Herve Abbadie

A gap left between the rear side of the house and the neighbour’s masonry wall has a double function: it contains a staircase and serves as a light well that lets natural light penetrate through the openings in the rear wall with integrated 'architectural furniture' items.

The Cubist House  / Moussafir Architectes - Windows
© Herve Abbadie

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Cite: "The Cubist House / Moussafir Architectes" 29 Apr 2016. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/786412/the-cubist-house-moussafir-architectes> ISSN 0719-8884

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