Designed for a Paris-based family with two children, the Cubist House is located in a courtyard that encloses an urban oasis, totally disconnected from the busy, greenless street outside. 

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Architects: Moussafir Architectes (Jacques Moussafir with Virginie Prié, Alexis Duquennoy, Victoria Miny and Lieselotte Huygue)

Location: Paris, France

Area: 250.0 sqm

Project Year: 2015

Photographs: Herve Abbadie, Jerome Ricolleau

Landscape Design: Cao Perrot Studio

Partner Engineers: Malishev Wilson Engineers (structural engineers) LBE (mechanical engineers)

© Herve Abbadie

Designed for a Paris-based family with two children, the Cubist House is located in a courtyard that encloses an urban oasis, totally disconnected from the busy, greenless street outside. 
© Herve Abbadie

Jacques Moussafir?s context-based design enhances the positive qualities of the site and resolves its problematic aspects. 

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The project responds to its highly textured surroundings, in which various typologies, materials and historic elements coexist with lush vegetation. On a footprint of 108 m2, a cluster of three volumes with Corten cladding and large glazed openings forms a dynamic three-dimensional frontage whose different parts align with the...