Architectural intervention

Paris-based Atelier Delalande Tabourin (ADT) has completed the rehabilitation of a 300-square-meter (3,229-square-feet) house located in a 1950s residential area of the town of Versailles. ADT introduced four architectural interventions to the home’s dark interior: four “wells” — for lighting and circulation — that pierce the existing floors and act as distinctive features around which spaces are articulated. These new additions are made with concrete chamotte (grog), a material obtained from the crushed shards of defective bricks. Externally, the home’s heavy cubic appearance is lightened by a series of brick stelae on its sober facade. ADT’s work on materiality achieves a sensitive dialogue b... もっと見る