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APAP’s DIAGONAL Gives a 1970s Home a Glass Room With No Fixed Purpose

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APAP’s DIAGONAL Gives a 1970s Home a Glass Room With No Fixed Purpose
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Two horizontal concrete planes reach toward a courtyard in Nicosia, Cyprus, extending a 1970s house into its wooded surroundings. Between them, glass encloses a room with no assigned domestic role. Designed by architectural practice APAP, DIAGONAL is a 133-square-meter residential extension that leaves its occupants to decide exactly how to use the space.
The existing home’s structure is defined by two parallel load-bearing walls. APAP’s addition changes the emphasis, organizing the pavilion aro

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