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La Forêt Urbaine Apartment in Paris
Affluent Parisian residential redevelopment project – design by Matteo Cainer Architects Ltd
3 Oct 2017
La Forêt Urbaine Apartment
Design: Matteo Cainer Architects Ltd
Location: near Jardin du Ranelagh, Paris, France
La Forêt Urbaine Apartments

This renovation and transformation of a Parisian top-floor apartment is surrounded by the magnificent Bois de Boulogne and the Jardin du Ranelagh, with 360-degree views of the city?s historic monuments, from the Tour Eiffel to La Défense, Les Invalides, and Longchamp.
Originally split between two floors and fragmented by countless rooms, bathrooms, walk-in closets, kitchens and service rooms, the apartment, abandoned for over thirty years, is now undergoing a total makeover to become a light-flooded penthouse surrounded by vegetation and reinterpreted as an ?eye on the city?.
The driving ideas for the renovation were to bring in the surrounding parks through pockets of vegetation within and around the living spaces, to create a sequence of free-flowing spaces, to offer uninterrupted views across Paris and the sky, and to wash the interior with bright and dappled light.

Initially, the apartment had to undergo an in-depth gutting. Subsequently, an important structural phase consolidated the existing structure and created a new structural frame for the new architectural project.

Both interiors and exte...