The loft du Caire involved a renovation and conversion of a former clothes atelier in Paris' garment district, into an urban loft. The locale was in poor condition; substantial replacement and reinforcement were required in order to remediate deficiencies and further open up the spaces. To establish a sense of spatial hierarchy, a gradated matrix was used...
public - private +
visual - technical
New modalities of interpretation were proposed so each "utility" retained its emotional "purity".