Looking Out Week 7: Yasmeen Almuhanna

Chatou by h2o Architectes

Now here is a project done for one overly privileged teenager. Starting as nothing more than an empty building in the owner's backyard, Paris-based h2o Architects were hired to rethink the empty shed in order to provide a private space for the owner's teenage son looking for independence from his parents.

The rethought wooden furniture forms the entire interior of the house. Made from modest plywood, the furniture allows for sleeping, living, studying, and washing spaces. The lack of kitchen in the program is due to the agreement between the teenager and his parents that meals would still be shared in the family home.