Architect Saba Ghorbanlinejad is especially good at undoing a flooring plan. Within the initiatives of hers we’ve featured beforehand, essentially the most consequential adjustments have typically been reconfiguration: rooms are rearranged round central hubs, passages develop into locations in their very own proper, and compact interiors start to really feel remarkably beneficiant. Her newest undertaking is nearer to residence. In actual fact, it’s residence.
In 2025, Saba acquired a 47-square-meter condominium in an Artwork Deco constructing overlooking the Parc des Buttes-Chaumont. Its standard mobile structure largely ignored the view, so she consolidated the dwelling areas alongside the park-facing facet and moved the bed room to the quieter courtyard. The lavatory was handled much less as a room than a collection of capabilities woven into the plan, with full-height pocket doorways permitting the condominium to shift between openness and privateness.
The condominium additionally gave Saba the chance to discover the supplies she had lengthy imagined for herself: heat okoumé, chrome steel, black lacquer, and deep-blue mosaic. The ensuing look is rigorous however not austere, its extra emphatic parts balanced by pale partitions, tactile surfaces, and the bushes past.
That is the primary residence Saba has designed for herself, and its success lies in how naturally it accommodates the day. “I significantly love the morning ritual of utilizing the bespoke self-importance and loo, preparing for the day, and naturally searching in direction of the park,” she says. “These on a regular basis moments are what make the condominium really feel most profitable to me.”
Pictures by Mary Gaudin for Saba Ghorbanalinejad.
