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Le Prado Marseille
Le Prado Marseille
Boulevard de Tunis, Marseille, France
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Le Prado Marseille
Boulevard de Tunis, Marseille, France
Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2011
SIZE
10,000 sqft - 25,000 sqft
BUDGET
$100K - 500K
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Located by the beaches of the Prado in
Marseilles, this former smallholding flanked by a stable was renovated
in three steps. At the very end of the nineties, the young family
setting up on the first floor gladly agreed to the two children sharing
the same room for a time. The volume is then entirely freed from all its
partitions and false-ceilings thus revealing a rich and
space-structuring framework. Behind the complexity of the assemblings of
beams and joists, the parents' bedroom slips in; open to the living
room and accessible by a metal stairway. The main wall's top is entirely
open and the old staircase, formerly external, is integrated to the
house's volume thanks to the installation of galvanised steel bays
which oblique uprights give rhythm to the surface.A few years later, the couple acquires the house's semi basement as well
as an adjoining outbuilding. This time again, the main walls are wide
open in order to ease the passage of light and new steel bays, as an
echo to the first installation, substitute themselves to masonry. The
"cooking", "meal" and "living room" functions can there from move down
to the entire ground floor. And there again, to guarantee the freest
flow between the spaces, every partition is removed. The little
garden's terrace, layed out during the same building campaign is covered
with large ipé blades and the same wood, on the same level, is used
for the entire semi basement in order to insure a continuance in
reading and feelings. The big wall standing between the house and the
now linked outbuilding is covered with a gouged mdf wainscot because of
a recurring moisture that is impossible to resorb. The installation of
this panel slightly apart from the wall creates an air flow that
suppresses the effects of humidity. The panel surface's undulating
relief makes it vibrate under the light.The two
children became teenagers, the first floor wad recently and once more
completely restructured. The kitchen space, turned into a small
bedroom before is now dedicated to two new bathrooms, the chimney is
gone and a new room was created under the mezzanine allowing at last the
boy and the girl to be comfortably and fairly installed. The stairway
leading to the mezzanine, a bare folded steel sheet, icon of the
house, was moved onto the new room's partition and firmly fixed to a
structure hidden within the wall. As with the semi basement, a
wainscot, above the steel stairs, covers a wall that converts into a
lifeline behind the overhead framework. The OSB used for the wainscot,
whitened and sanded as for a modest "céruse" (a particular bleaching
technique), is used as well for the building of the living room's
bookcase, the wardrobes in the children's rooms and for all the
furniture in the parents' bedroom. The kitchen is composed of two fully
white-lacquered parallel blocks. Both are apart from the walls around
them as well in order to give them a status of independent pieces of
furniture and not the one of an integrated system. The block in the
back, taller and longer, is essentially devoted to the storing of
implements, dishes and supplies. The low islet serves as a functional
bar for the dish washing, the preparation and the cooking. The islet's
worktop is a simple zinc sheet framed in an aluminium angle bracket
which slight gap with the piece's body accentuates the suspension
effect. Two suspended Diesel's Rock lamps (Foscarini) light the top.
At the other end of the islet, the Elica Twin stainless hood
complements the device. To serve the extending oak table, the chairs
"la Leggera" by Ricardo Blummer (Alias). The table is enlightened by
the short version of Twiggy, the contemporary alternative to Achille
Castiglioni's classic Arco. The hearth is made of three grey cast-iron
sheets, moulded for the occasion. Around the antique freit pallets
reconverted into living room coffee tables, a Greg couch by Zanotta
and two RAR by Eames for Vitra come with another design icon of the
fifties in a prestigious leather-and-steel version : Airborne's AA.
This space in the continuity of the kitchen can be used as a space to
have a meal as well. To provide for this contingency, An Ingo Maurer
Zettel'z was set up to light the scene. Two meticulously restored and
perfectly moving workshop lamps complete the lighting device. On the
first floor, another Zettel'z lights the living room space for it was,
at the origins of the project, the meal-taking spot. The table
migrated, the chandelier and its paper keepsakes stayed.
maurice padovani
Marseilles, this former smallholding flanked by a stable was renovated
in three steps. At the very end of the nineties, the young family
setting up on the first floor gladly agreed to the two children sharing
the same room for a time. The volume is then entirely freed from all its
partitions and false-ceilings thus revealing a rich and
space-structuring framework. Behind the complexity of the assemblings of
beams and joists, the parents' bedroom slips in; open to the living
room and accessible by a metal stairway. The main wall's top is entirely
open and the old staircase, formerly external, is integrated to the
house's volume thanks to the installation of galvanised steel bays
which oblique uprights give rhythm to the surface.A few years later, the couple acquires the house's semi basement as well
as an adjoining outbuilding. This time again, the main walls are wide
open in order to ease the passage of light and new steel bays, as an
echo to the first installation, substitute themselves to masonry. The
"cooking", "meal" and "living room" functions can there from move down
to the entire ground floor. And there again, to guarantee the freest
flow between the spaces, every partition is removed. The little
garden's terrace, layed out during the same building campaign is covered
with large ipé blades and the same wood, on the same level, is used
for the entire semi basement in order to insure a continuance in
reading and feelings. The big wall standing between the house and the
now linked outbuilding is covered with a gouged mdf wainscot because of
a recurring moisture that is impossible to resorb. The installation of
this panel slightly apart from the wall creates an air flow that
suppresses the effects of humidity. The panel surface's undulating
relief makes it vibrate under the light.The two
children became teenagers, the first floor wad recently and once more
completely restructured. The kitchen space, turned into a small
bedroom before is now dedicated to two new bathrooms, the chimney is
gone and a new room was created under the mezzanine allowing at last the
boy and the girl to be comfortably and fairly installed. The stairway
leading to the mezzanine, a bare folded steel sheet, icon of the
house, was moved onto the new room's partition and firmly fixed to a
structure hidden within the wall. As with the semi basement, a
wainscot, above the steel stairs, covers a wall that converts into a
lifeline behind the overhead framework. The OSB used for the wainscot,
whitened and sanded as for a modest "céruse" (a particular bleaching
technique), is used as well for the building of the living room's
bookcase, the wardrobes in the children's rooms and for all the
furniture in the parents' bedroom. The kitchen is composed of two fully
white-lacquered parallel blocks. Both are apart from the walls around
them as well in order to give them a status of independent pieces of
furniture and not the one of an integrated system. The block in the
back, taller and longer, is essentially devoted to the storing of
implements, dishes and supplies. The low islet serves as a functional
bar for the dish washing, the preparation and the cooking. The islet's
worktop is a simple zinc sheet framed in an aluminium angle bracket
which slight gap with the piece's body accentuates the suspension
effect. Two suspended Diesel's Rock lamps (Foscarini) light the top.
At the other end of the islet, the Elica Twin stainless hood
complements the device. To serve the extending oak table, the chairs
"la Leggera" by Ricardo Blummer (Alias). The table is enlightened by
the short version of Twiggy, the contemporary alternative to Achille
Castiglioni's classic Arco. The hearth is made of three grey cast-iron
sheets, moulded for the occasion. Around the antique freit pallets
reconverted into living room coffee tables, a Greg couch by Zanotta
and two RAR by Eames for Vitra come with another design icon of the
fifties in a prestigious leather-and-steel version : Airborne's AA.
This space in the continuity of the kitchen can be used as a space to
have a meal as well. To provide for this contingency, An Ingo Maurer
Zettel'z was set up to light the scene. Two meticulously restored and
perfectly moving workshop lamps complete the lighting device. On the
first floor, another Zettel'z lights the living room space for it was,
at the origins of the project, the meal-taking spot. The table
migrated, the chandelier and its paper keepsakes stayed.
maurice padovani
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