Architecture, theatricality, and playfulness. Sensory perceptions transcend the limits of the three-dimensional.

PLAY/PAUSE, a set design that unfolds at full height in a house located in a residential neighborhood of Montreal.

Architecture and Art

The clients of the project are the artists and actors Sophie Cadieux and Mani Soleymanlou, who work closely with the studio Jean Verville architectes, creating extravagant setups and incorporating allegorical presences. In front of the photographer's lens, architects and clients engage enthusiastically and humorously, giving life to images that transcend the limits of three-dimensional form, as in a modern example of architectural projects that challenge the traditional conception of space.

A space that is home and scenic space

The interior of a narrow house in a residential neighborhood of Montreal serves as the backdrop for the creative world of its occupants, with their personalities, in a scenography that unfolds at full height in the building. Having to alternate between living needs and work needs, the spatial reorganization involves a series of volumes that follow one another.

Minimalism and play of light

The void of the central space extends over three floors and all the spaces are unified thanks to the use of monochrome gray. The use of furniture is minimized and thanks to the light, which filters through the metallic surfaces and walls, the projections of shadows multiply, offering a continuous dance of geometries that play on the monochromatic canvas, capable of enveloping the place in a mysterious aura that confers theatricality.

Gallery

Game of lights and shadows in a dwelling

PEOPLE

Jean Verville Architecte

5363 Rue Garnier Montréal, QC H2J 3T3 Canada