The Biennale d'architecture et de paysage d'Île de France, is the most important exhibition of architecture in France. For its third edition, Sana Frini, from the Mexican firm LOCUS, and Philippe Rahm, from the French firm PHILIPPE RAHM ARCHITECTES.

The project was commissioned by a couple with three children, with the premise that the social spaces should be the protagonists, allowing a fluid social life. It is located on a flat 1,500m² plot with a South-facing front and a North-facing rear.

The first request, from this young couple of professionals without children, was a conventional 2-bedroom house, without major pretensions. However, that possibility did not at all represent the couple's free and progressive, if slightly antisocial, spirit.

Elena Santoveña Arquitectos: On this occasion, the concept we brought to life involved creating a high-profile project that at the same time was attractive to all kinds of tastes.

I wanted to create a space that was inspired to gather community with a new perspective from my years of fashion design. That is possible to serve as a venue or spacious residence.

Amsterdam-based Studio Modijefsky, founded by Esther Stam in 2009, marks its 15th anniversary as a pioneering all-female interior architecture studio.

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