Mars Architectes creates wooden apartment block enclosed by 1970s housing

French studio Mars Architectes has built a Japanese-informed wooden apartment building within the courtyard of a 1970s housing complex in Paris.
The studio designed the stepped building to reference Japanese temples, with slender wooden pillars holding up each floor.
Above: the building sits within a block of flats. Top image: it is made entirely from wood
Located off the Avenue de Saint-Mandé in Paris' twelfth district, the building was created for the French real estate company Gec