Jacques Moussafir, who is now an experienced builder, is well aware that what has given rise to most of the alternative solutions to stereotyped conventional housing planning is criteria of mobility, precariousness and urgency, flexibility and sociability. As such, he is most enthusiastic about housing which he defines, over and above the mere fact of having a roof over one's head, as a way of being. With a degree in history, and an abiding interest in cultural and metaphysical factors relating back to the human condition, time and the cosmos, Jacques Moussafir tries above all else in his projects to make space for a void--a kind of metaphysical argument--which, in his book, is conditional on the formation of interiorities, which he often means in a paradoxical way. Located in the middle of a block in the "peach-wall" market garden at Montreuil, the project is called the "Adam in paradise house", an absence of a house that only exists when it is experienced from within; it has neither façade nor social status, and is a "domus conclusus" which merges and blends with the original "hortus conclusus". The construction comes down to a large cor-ten steel roof which collects rain water in its folds, while at the same time letting in light and offering glimpses of bits of branches.	(F)
	Moussafir architectes associés Moussafir (Jacques) (1957)
	• Maison d'"Adam au Paradis" Montreuil, France, en cours d'élaboration