As the brains behind both the recent conversion of the Georges restaurant on the fifth floor of the Georges Pompidou Centre, in Paris, and the restructuring of the Maxime Gorky Theatre at Le Petit-Quevilly, Dominique Jakob and Brendan MacFarlane readily admit to the steadfast interest they have in the sites where they conceive their projects. Wrapping, exfoliation, the wall and its many variants (floor-wall-ceiling surfaces) are still the major features in their work. This time around, they have reverted to a programme and a setting which they are quite familiar with, seeing as how, between 1994 and 1998, they produced their first significant project of this type--the T House, devised as an absorption box at La Garenne-Colombes. For the Air House, a modest home for a young couple with a couple of children in the southern suburbs of Paris, Dominique Jakob and Brendan MacFarlane singled out two challenging areas: on the one hand, a critical consideration of the especially restrictive city regulations in a residential area close to Orly airport, and, on the other, an exploration of what privacy means, with the intention of blurring the boundaries and shared interpretations.	(F)
	Jakob & MacFarlane Jakob (Dominique) (1966), MacFarlane (Brendan) (1961)
	• Maison Air Athis-Mons, France, en cours d'élaboration