A green-steel construction and partitions of uncovered blockwork and plywood characteristic inside this home and artist’s studio in Paris by native follow Jean Benoît Vétillard Structure.

Named Maison Nana, the house is positioned on a dense city plot in Bagnolet and offers a sequence of versatile areas organised round a central skylit atrium.

Maison Nana is accessed by a paved backyard, which Jean Benoît Vétillard Structure has positioned throughout half of the location.

It’s fronted by a glazed backyard room, sheltered by a gently undulating awning and animated by outsized pink steps that present seating and house for crops.

“Following the volumes of the adjoining dwellings the land is split into two components,” mentioned Jean Benoît Vétillard Structure.

“The constructed quantity is positioned within the southern half, the place the volumes of the buildings adjoining are increased, [and] the northern half is transformed right into a full backyard,” it continued.

From the backyard room, glass doorways lead into the open-plan floor ground. Right here, a dwelling, eating and kitchen house is wrapped by uncovered blockwork partitions and framed by slender metal columns in a pale shade of inexperienced.

Overlooking this house is a skylit, wood-lined atrium that extends vertically via the complete residence, punctured by openings within the dwelling areas above and glass brick home windows on the outside wall.

Bedrooms, bogs and a studio house are organised in a U-shape round this atrium, with a end of plywood panelling and intentionally easy fittings to permit them to be simply tailored to totally different makes use of by the inhabitants.

“The bottom ground is left uncooked, and the extra intimate [upper] flooring are handled in wooden, a extra noble materials,” mentioned the studio’s founder Jean Benoît Vétillard.

“The concept was to take away any type of hierarchy and scale within the rooms on the higher flooring, via a whole remedy in wooden and a minimal of particulars,” he informed Dezeen.

The rear facade of Maison Nana is essentially enclosed as a result of peak of the adjoining buildings however the entrance elevation overlooks the backyard with a symmetrical association of sq. home windows and a cladding of blackened timber planks.

Different houses lately accomplished in Paris embrace an condominium in a transformed textile warehouse by Isabelle Heilmann and a revamped Haussmann-era residence for an artwork collector by Hauvette & Madani.

The images is by Giaime Meloni.