Avron

A magical project, supported by clients who placed their complete trust in us.
A couple with two children commissioned feasibility studies to rethink their house and the adjoining property they had just purchased.
Straightforward, you might think? Except that these houses, built in the 1990s and 2000s, had substantial reinforced-concrete structures independent of the car parks beneath them. We needed two engineering practices: one for steelwork and one for reinforced concrete.
Add a slightly adventurous team from Atelier FB and clients willing to trust them wholeheartedly, and a remarkable project emerged. The clients embraced our central proposal: removing part of the first-floor slab to create a double-height dining room.
Why sacrifice floor area when Paris property prices keep rising? To borrow the spirit of a 1990s advertisement: “What if luxury were space?”
The existing house had one significant flaw: ceilings too low for the size of the living rooms, limiting natural light despite large glazed openings. This is where the clients’ unwavering trust mattered most. Opening partitions and reorienting the kitchen would improve circulation but would not create the sense of space or the wow factor we sought.
Opening the dining room to double height brought light through the existing first-floor window and punctuated the living space extended into the adjoining house. Removing part of the floor was no small undertaking. Rather than introduce columns that would obstruct the ground floor, we suspended the weakened floor structure. An upper-level corridor runs along the double-height dining room towards the children’s bedrooms. Its bespoke steel glazing brings light into the circulation space and allows views of family life across the house.
Connecting the two houses was equally demanding. Alongside cutting through a reinforced-concrete wall, we installed two columns. One is concealed by a double-sided fireplace that separates the dining area from a cosier, more intimate sitting room. A wall-length bespoke bookcase reinforces this warmth.
Each house originally had its own staircase. We removed one to create an entrance wardrobe and a children’s bathroom above, and replaced the other with a light, flowing contemporary staircase in oak with steel suspension rods (Joa.be).
Upstairs are the sleeping spaces: a generous principal bedroom with a dressing area behind the headboard and a microcement bathroom, two children’s bedrooms each with its own bathroom or shower room, and a laundry.
The result is an inviting, cosy home: somewhere to settle on the sofa beside the fire, or gather in the dining room facing a kitchen that opens onto a landscaped garden.

A magical project, supported by clients who placed their complete trust in us.
A couple with two children commissioned feasibility studies to rethink their house and the adjoining property they had just purchased.
Straightforward, you might think? Except that these houses, built in the 1990s and 2000s, had substantial reinforced-concrete structures independent of the car parks beneath them. We needed two engineering practices: one for steelwork and one for reinforced concrete.
Add a slightly adventurous team from Atelier FB and clients willing to trust them wholeheartedly, and a remarkable project emerged. The clients embraced our central proposal: removing part of the first-floor slab to create a double-height dining room.
Why sacrifice floor area when Paris property prices keep rising? To borrow the spirit of a 1990s advertisement: “What if luxury were space?”
The existing house had one significant flaw: ceilings too low for the size of the living rooms, limiting natural light despite large glazed openings. This is where the clients’ unwavering trust mattered most. Opening partitions and reorienting the kitchen would improve circulation but would not create the sense of space or the wow factor we sought.
Opening the dining room to double height brought light through the existing first-floor window and punctuated the living space extended into the adjoining house. Removing part of the floor was no small undertaking. Rather than introduce columns that would obstruct the ground floor, we suspended the weakened floor structure. An upper-level corridor runs along the double-height dining room towards the children’s bedrooms. Its bespoke steel glazing brings light into the circulation space and allows views of family life across the house.
Connecting the two houses was equally demanding. Alongside cutting through a reinforced-concrete wall, we installed two columns. One is concealed by a double-sided fireplace that separates the dining area from a cosier, more intimate sitting room. A wall-length bespoke bookcase reinforces this warmth.
Each house originally had its own staircase. We removed one to create an entrance wardrobe and a children’s bathroom above, and replaced the other with a light, flowing contemporary staircase in oak with steel suspension rods (Joa.be).
Upstairs are the sleeping spaces: a generous principal bedroom with a dressing area behind the headboard and a microcement bathroom, two children’s bedrooms each with its own bathroom or shower room, and a laundry.
The result is an inviting, cosy home: somewhere to settle on the sofa beside the fire, or gather in the dining room facing a kitchen that opens onto a landscaped garden.