Contemporary town house extension

The main idea behind this architecture project was to carry out a graft of a slice of house. This addition made it possible to requalify a home that had qualities but also many flaws: an oversized garage and living spaces that were too small.

The concept of extending this townhouse was to adopt a resolutely contemporary design that would contrast with the sober and traditional architecture of the existing house — discreet on the street side, but allowing a clear redefinition of the garden façade.

The original layout of the house was perfectly suited to using this free bay on the first floor above the garage, as the existing vertical circulation was already adjoining the garage bay. Transforming the original small bedroom 1, which was too small to be a bedroom anyway, into a TV area/landing made it possible to create a true circulation axis on the upper floor between the two preserved bedrooms and the extension/raising.

The main technical constraint in distributing the space was the creation of openings in load-bearing walls on the ground floor to allow the transition between the old living areas and the new ones, which were laid out on the garden side: the kitchen and the dining room.