© Laurent Clément
Paris’ 13th arrondissement in the southeast of the city is a place of contrasts: relics of the industrial age rub shoulders with modern office facades. IT agency AgoraTIC’s latest training facility is located on the ground floor of an unspectacular 1990s seven-storey building and the interiors have been designed by Stéphane Malka.
Malka used to be a graffiti artist and is now an architect who has made a name for himself with controversial designs for urban utopias. He creates densification projects and temporary installations out of frame constructions and shipping containers for vacant lots in big cities.
The practice’s conversion of the AgoraTIC’s 112 m2 space is also visually provocative: walls, floors and ceilings, built-in furniture and even the projection screen casings are decorated in abstract black and white patterns.
Malka used to be a graffiti artist and is now an architect who has made a name for himself with controversial designs for urban utopias. He creates densification projects and temporary installations out of frame constructions and shipping containers for vacant lots in big cities.
The practice’s conversion of the AgoraTIC’s 112 m2 space is also visually provocative: walls, floors and ceilings, built-in furniture and even the projection screen casings are decorated in abstract black and white patterns.