INTERIOR | HONOR 

Entry Name: L Residence
Firm: Min | Day
Project Location: Omaha, NE
Owner: Withheld
Photographer: Paul Crosby

This apartment for a filmmaker reinterprets the use of poché to support Baroque theatricality and proposes a cinematic architecture of sequences and points of view. The use of “virtual poché” in the Baroque to hide service spaces and to create mystery and surprise is updated through a cinematic emphasis on thinness and surface instead of solidity and mass. The apartment occupies the top floor of an 11-story Art Deco-era hotel converted to condominiums. We conceived the living space as a pseudo-exterior, pushing private and utilitarian spaces behind a large wall of Oak veneer – the inner façade of the unit. Above this is a private roof deck accessed from stairs in the compressed space of the poché.