Jean Verville incorporates "golden ribbon" into Montreal apartment for music composer
Canadian architect Jean Verville has combined minimalism with theatrics in this dwelling for a musician, which features brass walls, raw concrete beams and an all-white bathroom sheathed in marble.
Called IN 3, the project entailed the conversion of a 160-square-metre apartment into a residence for a music composer. Verville, who runs an eponymous Montreal-based studio, sought to juggle "excesses and exuberance" with a minimalistic aesthetic, and to break the typical patterns of domesticity.
"In order to satisfy the needs of everyday life, but also to subtract them from time to time in order to create a working environment that strengthens the maestro's concentration, the bare space skillfully conceals functions in a succession of sculptural volumes," said the architect, who appears in the project's photography wearing a long black cloak.
Verville used a limited material palette to create a series of austere yet theatrical rooms that could be interpreted as art installations. Threaded through the apartment is floor-to-ceiling brass panelling, which serves as a dominant and unifying element.
"The gray tones of the raw materials unite into a volumetric entity pierced by an immense golden structure deploying to abolish the hierarchy of spaces," said Verville. "Offering images evolving towards abstraction, this golden ribbon, containing domestic functions as storage units, breaks up space into a single operation of powerful efficiency.&qu...
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