This project is about the renovation of an old House in the Paris suburbs. Our brief for the previously dark, run-down home was to make it brighter, add an enclosed office on the mezzanine and create a separate kitchen filled with natural light. We made the stacked bookshelf element a feature of the home, that we called Bookshelf House. The bookshelf it's a metaphor, the single wood element moves into the volumes metamorphosing its main function during its journey .

Andrea Mosca is an Italian architect born in Rome March 22, 1978. He began his training in 1997 in the first Faculty of Architecture Ludovico Quaroni where he obtained his first degree in Architecture and Construction Techniques. He then moved to Paris where he live since 2007 and where he created his architectural firm. Once in France, he obtained the French state degree in Architecture at the National School of Architecture Paris La Villette and the DESA Degree in Architecture (HMONP) at the Ecole Speciale d’Architecture. He also attended various courses in architecture at the Technical University of Berlin, the Delft University of Technology and the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. His professional career began in Rome, where he worked in various architectural firms and design offices. He also works as a photographer's assistant in a renowned studio of Rome where he learned professional photography techniques. Between 2007 and 2011 he acquired his professional experience in several international architectural firms working on medium and large scale projects such as the Dambovita Center in Bucharest with a construction surface of ​​600 000m2 or new Hermes city, winning project of “2014 Equerre d’Argent”. Since the creation of his practice, he worked in several interior design projects. He sees architecture as a collective trade, he rejects any "signature" in the architectural form in favor of a continuous research process where each project is a single operation. Its openness, its formation between engineering and architecture, its global vision of the construction field where the interior and exterior are managed with the same attention and respect, his firm, ANDREA MOSCA CREATIVE STUDIO is constantly in search of new collaborations with professionals and customers in different countries.