"Before Lagoa Architecture's Florence Vita and Christophe Gourdier stepped in to renovate this 484-square-foot home in Paris, it was not achieving its full potential. Although the apartment featured lots of natural light, it wasn't well suited to its owner's lifestyle: the 30-something cook found himself living in a fragmented interior that wasn't designed for entertaining. The challenge was to make the kitchen, which was separated from the rest of the apartment, the center of the home, while giving the bedroom a more secondary role."
"To maximize and retain the amount of light in the apartment, Lagoa played with different translucent materials. "This offered a possible way to give depth to the home, from the balcony to the bedroom," the architects say. "This was particularly important to us, because having light fill every corner of the home creates an even stronger sense of space." Internal doors were designed using Plexiglass, a dense and resistant plastic."
Lagoa Architecture transformed a 484-square-foot Paris apartment to prioritize social living by making the kitchen the focal point. The layout was completely rearranged: a large kitchen now opens onto a dining room, the living room gained a terrace, and a smaller bedroom was placed where the living room previously was, overlooking the courtyard. The project sits on the fifth floor of a 1900 building in the 10th arrondissement near Canal Saint-Martin. The design maximizes natural light and depth through translucent materials and Plexiglass internal doors to let daylight travel from the balcony through to inner spaces.
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