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The right project meets a need, fulfils a function, serves users. We do not practice architecture for architecture's sake. Our proposals are never gratuitous gestures or conceptual demonstrations. Our architecture is designed to provide a functional response.
Knowledge and common sense. Analysis and intuition. We think, we feel. Our architecture is technical and sensitive. It is thought as much as it is lived, nourished by our experience and our feelings as users, walkers, aesthetes and citizens.
Architecture is the sum of the past and a commitment to the future. Our architecture is the result of attention to the world, to living beings and to resources. Understanding the context of a project and thinking about its impact beyond the building itself means inventing perspectives for its future transformations. The quality of a building is measured by its ability to evolve over time.
We freely mix disciplines, inspirations and media. We are committed to an architecture with a plural imagination. We draw on all the arts and sciences, without hierarchy or boundaries. These influences nourish a vision and a resolutely iconoclastic sensibility, far removed from familiar paths and current trends.
We are constantly looking for the essential, effective, timeless form, the one that lasts beyond fashion. We take stock. We dissect historical, sociological and cultural contexts to understand the evolution of forms. Obsessive and insatiable, we build up an iconographic archive for each subject, from which we extract the essence of the forms.
Space is our know-how. Knowledge is nothing without the reality of doing. Our signature is intimately linked to material reality, to touch, to feel. Our knowledge of manual, mechanical and industrial techniques anchors our architecture in the senses. To feel the material is to embody the project.
We think in reverse. First the detail. Then the spaces. Finally, the building. Our conception of architecture is endogenous. We start from the human scale, and from there extrapolate to the structural. This method of working from the detailed to the global enables us to understand the project through a living, concrete mental image.