CHABI
A small project—for and with friends, built with friends. A townhouse from 1967: implicit heritage, quietly emblematic of its time, yet radically reimagined from within. Its domestic order is unsettled, its living spaces redrawn.
A precise incision in the rear façade releases the kitchen toward the garden. The original steps to the ground are replaced by a self-supporting terrace; an autonomous plane, standing like a table, separated from its neighbors by a sharp shadow gap.
A prefabricated stair, inserted with surgical care, draws the vegetation upward, turning ascent into a gesture of connection between house and landscape.
To the street, fidelity remains performative: the measured rhythm of the 1960s façade is preserved, yet subtly rewritten. A minimal dormer—aligned, restrained, but unmistakably new—introduces generous sliding windows.
This small intervention unlocks the attic, transforming it into a continuous space of light, and allowing a contemporary bath to inhabit what was once residual.
Images by Ludmilla Cerveny
