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Pop-Out House by Mut Architecture and Benjamin Mahon
A shelving unit displaying children's clothes doubles up as a plywood playhouse with a sliding staircase, swinging doors and removable furniture.
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The playhouse occupies a children's clothes shop in Paris, designed by French studio Mut Architecture and architect Benjamin Mahon.
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The set of steps slide out to allow shop-workers to reach the highest shelves, while a hollow box on wheels rolls away to provide an island table.
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Other interiors that integrate children's play areas include a perforated bedroom wall that can be used as a ladder and a bed with a play den below.
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Photography is by Mut Architecture.
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The following short description is from the architects:
In collaboration with Benjamin Mahon, Mut architecture has completed a children's store in the 16th arrondissement of Paris.
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The main concept for the store was to construct a large doll house within the store, a house you can pull drawers out of, swing doors from, a doll house that lends itself to the imagination of children.
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Ladders on wheels are embedded in the structure of the house, and a box is set within the house and can be removed to be used as a central island within the shop, to expose products.
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From the street the giant house seems to be overwhelming the volume of the 16 meter square shop.
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We used poplar plywood for the interior of the store with white stratification and mirrors to accent the fresh feel of the wood surfaces.