"Chez Joe" apartment

This template is for designers, architects, and students working on apartment renovations, especially projects that turn dark, divided interiors into brighter, more open layouts. Based on Benoit Palas Architecture’s Marseille apartment transformation, it suits housing studies exploring curved openings, smart furniture solutions, and bold material choices, with dimensioned plans, a concept evolution diagram, and an annotated section.

Open the template in Rayon, a browser-based CAD tool, and adapt the existing and proposed floor plans, calculated areas, concept diagram, and detailed section to your project. Reuse the provided blocks and styles, including layers, line weights, hatches, and print settings, to keep documentation consistent. Then present the sheets or export or print them.

The template documents a Marseille apartment renovation by Benoit Palas Architecture, transforming a dark, divided interior into a brighter, more flowing space. Its drawings connect the existing conditions with the proposed design, highlighting curved openings, smart furniture solutions, and bold material choices as central parts of the transformation.

The fully dimensioned floor plans document both the apartment’s existing conditions and its proposed renovation, with calculated areas included. These plans provide a basis for comparing the divided original layout with the more open proposal, while the concept evolution diagram explains the broader design direction behind that change.

The concept evolution diagram illustrates the shift from an existing closed layout to a proposed open-plan design. Read alongside the floor plans, it connects the overall spatial idea with the documented renovation, helping explain how the project moves toward a brighter interior with greater flow between spaces.

The detailed section highlights key furniture, lighting fixtures, and custom built-in solutions through annotations. It complements the floor plans by showing these elements in section rather than only in plan, providing another way to understand how the apartment’s furniture and lighting fit into the proposed interior.

Curved openings are identified as a central design choice in the apartment’s transformation from dark and divided to bright and flowing. The existing and proposed plans, together with the concept evolution diagram, provide the layout context for understanding this approach, although the included list does not specify separate opening details.

The floor plans establish the existing and proposed layouts with dimensions and calculated areas, while the concept diagram explains the transition between them. The annotated section adds information about furniture, lighting, and custom built-ins. Together, these deliverables connect the renovation’s overall spatial strategy with selected elements of the interior design.

The template includes block and style libraries, along with layer lists, line weights, hatches, and print settings. These resources support consistent documentation across the drawings. They complement the project-specific plans, diagram, and section by providing drafting and presentation conventions that can be carried through an adapted drawing set.

Adaptation should begin with replacing the documented existing conditions, dimensions, and calculated areas with those of the new apartment. The proposed layout, concept diagram, and annotated section should then reflect that project’s own spatial changes, furniture, lighting, and built-ins. The provided documentation libraries offer a basis for maintaining consistent drawing presentation.