Pierre Paulin2019Paulin, Paulin, PaulinRem KoolhaasOMAOffice for Metropolitan Architecture1

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Book published after Paulin, Paulin, Paulins project in collaboration with OMA and Rem Koolhaas at the Villa Lemoine in 2019.

House in Bordeaux is built on a dilemma: can architecture address, at the same time, highly specific demands make life livable for a severely handicapped person AND offer a family the freedom to live their lives the way they wantsome have commented on this twin ambition as if it was slightly absurd to even try. If we consider furniture as the mediation between architecture and real life, then the tension between the openness of the house and its uniquely specific agenda, is most manifest on the middle level, a glass box, opening to all sides, where any furniture is harshly tested and exposed: too traditional, too designed, too fa