#attic-conversion

#attic-conversion

“The man that lived here was born here and then died here as well,” Amalia says. “He had kept it in a very rudimentary state where there was no central heating, the windows were completely rotten, and the cooking and bathing facilities were very basic. But what was amazing was that all the original features-like cornicing and picture rails and fireplaces and layouts and door handles-hadn't been tinkered with at all.”

The project concerns the first house in a row of four terraced dwellings, built along a narrow plot. Originally conceived as modest workshops made with ordinary materials, typical of the fabric of Bagnolet, these structures have gradually been converted into family homes. They belong to that fragile typology of small workers' houses-descendants of a precarious form of housing, sometimes close to the shack-whose transformation demands the utmost care.