L Residence

This filmmaker’s apartment reinterprets the use of poche to support Baroque theatricality and proposes a cinematic architecture of sequence and frame. The use of “virtual poche” in the Baroque to hide service spaces is updated through an emphasis on thinness and surface instead of solidity and mass.

The apartment occupies the top floor of a converted Art Deco hotel. We conceived the living space as pseudo-exterior, pushing private and utilitarian spaces behind a wall of CNC cut oak veneer. A private roof deck above is accessed from stairs in the compressed space of the poche.