Kitchen Be at home, cook your food, but get out of your room! Talk to the other ones, the familiar strangers, your roommates! Is this a home or a sheltered public domain? It is serene and white, but not entirely sheltered anymore. Debates are whispered, questions asked over the heavy wooden tables and on the greenish terrace. The city is present, the world’s ferocity too, but they are far below.
15 private rooms, 15 people. Each of them has a monastic cell, a home. They are white and simple, close to the sky, far from the world. 15 private rooms, protected from the wild world, hidden behind wild screens. 15 neutral compartments adaptable to any pain, any joy, neutral behind by a biased cover.
They are obviously hidden at the very top of the building behind the biggest billboards ever seen. Every one can see your home, but nobody knows this is a home. The wind and images scream loud around it, but it is protected in the heights of the media fortress. The walls are white and simple. This is an island of serenity in a wild ocean. A refuge.
Lobby, threshold, gate. Most people cannot cross this opaque door. Are you one of us? Are you invited? A banal door, on a banal street, leads to a sinuous path. It is a lie: you enter a duplex and are guided toward a white clean private zone.
15 private rooms (including 2 for handicapped people
Library / multi-media room
Computer room
Television room
Kitchen
Lobby
Some office space
Various
Total
15 sq.m. each 300 sq.m.
100 sq.m.
75 sq.m.
50 sq.m.
75 sq.m.
50 sq.m.
50 sq.m.
100 sq.m.
850 sq.m.