House extension for a cello player - France 
CUT Architectures

Our practice as a 4 hands design studio started in 2005 and we founded our company CUT architectures in 2008.

CUT, 3 letters standing for our aim to contrast deeply with the conformist Parisian Architectural practice and the expected positions and trends.

Breaking the boundaries between architecture, urbanism, interior design & art we are taking the inherent qualities of every of these fields in order to initiate inspiring hybrid projects. 

We don’t make hierarchical distinctions between an art installation, a piece of furniture, a shop, a flat, a set design, a house or a building and put the same effort with the same process: we first search for the optimal plan layout and the most effective section and we then implement the material which is the key to a project for us. Through material we create, reinterpret, divert, innovate. 

Stainless steel, expanded metal or wood take part of the esthetic aspect of a building as much as they are important for their inherent properties.

This close relation to the material, the building elements and building processes are the guaranty of our knowledge of construction costs and the keeping of a budget. 

We have a strong knowledge in project management from our former professional careers which we used and developed for our own practice. We are working on projects for municipalities and public housing developers. 

Earlier this year we designed and followed the construction of the Café Coutume Aoyama in Tokyo (we are working on two new concepts for Osaka and Tokyo) and we are currently developing offices for the Galeries Lafayette Group in Paris.

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House extension for a cello player 

The project is the extension and refurbishment of a detached house from the 1920’s in Chaville (Paris Western suburb). The extension is a concrete volume inserted between the eastern facade of the existing house and the adjoining  wall of the next house, in continuity with the front facade of the existing house.  The suspended dual aspect room receives southern and northern light and is used by the owner -a cello player- as a rehearsal room.  The inner surfaces of the concrete canopy resulting of the southern facade shape are covered with a layer of  anodized aluminum.  The space under the extension is a parking place, the front and rear doors are made out of expanded aluminum  and can be both opened to become a sheltered outside space opening on the garden and the mineral patio in the  back.  Inside the existing house the ceiling has been demolished and two colorful mezzanines are hanging in between the  revealed timber frame. 

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