Christophe Lab, architecte
Film House
Pans, France .... Photographs:Anna Khan
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Christophe Lab architecte / Film House / Pans, France |
This very long and narrow plot of land (approximately 35x4.5). crossing the block from street to street and walled in on both sides. constituted a serious challenge to the architect in designing a home with sufficient light and space in which to We comfortably. The client's occupation —closely tied to the film industry— provided the inspiration behind the design scheme, with framed views and sequential spaces.
The concrete facade of this home —whose floor plan takes on the form of a strip of film— has been conceived as a camera obscure. with a giant lens drawing light into the secOnd BOO( and, below that, sliding glass deers prole& ing access Mt, this 'Camera house" is also a 'screen house* — a projection insde the camera itself.
As side mews along the length of the construction were impossible, an alter. naffire tor bringing fight into the home was desperately needed. A cylindrical covered well draws natural light down into the center of the home, where light from the two end facades hardly penetrates.
The walls of this central patio have been painted a bright. cheerful yellow to provide the necessary contrast to the sober gray of the carpet and ceiling of the interior and in order to channel and reflect a warm, diffused light through-out the two floors that it passes through. Space was reserved on both ends of the site for a garage, which has been conceived as a large toolbox, and a garden, which can be viewed as an extension of the leAng room in the summer months. Stairs on the second floor lead to the roof terrace above.
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The brightly-painted, cylindrical covered patio has been strategically placed in the center of the home in order to draw the maximum amount of light into the home. The second-story stairway leads to a roof terrace.
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