2024
Winner of the Regional “Grand Prix” of the Pyramides d'Argent Rhône-Alpes 2024
Grand Parilly apartment buildings - lot H, in Vénissieux.
Architecture has become the art of integrating an impressive amount of extremely heterogeneous information (social, historical, technical, material, symbolic, formal, emotional, political, economic...) into the organization and materialization of a given spatial situation, in a given place, at a given time. In this federative vision, all those involved interact to achieve the constructed object; all the players tune up - in the musical sense - to achieve the final composition. It's urgent to review the architect's posture, as well as the evolution of the professional practices. The architect's role must be that of a go-between, a manager of the house and of shared resources.
To develop unprecedented collaborative practices combining project management, R&D and experimentation, we are advancing along the path of shared design, integrating communication tools and digital information sharing (Building Integration Modeling). The delicate question of co-creation is approached in relation to cooperatives of residents within the framework of local experiments.
Methodical and friends of the Oulipians, our profiles as practitioners, teachers and researchers have led us since our formative years to classify, sort and select. We tirelessly seek solutions to complex situations, taking into account both memory and the future. The principles on which simplexity is based are familiar to us: flexibility, modularity, speed and movement, memory, reliability, anticipation and detour (prototype).
read +-We're comfortable with uncertainty, a freedom that must be preserved and used to the benefit of architectural quality. The agency is the place where knowledge that has been researched or experimented with in other production systems, at other times, is put in order, shaped and exploited. The agency is the receptacle of a global and transversal economic and cultural reflection on the other disciplines that contribute to the act of building. Our reflections are carried out upstream and/or in parallel, in collaboration with partner-friends, other designers, collaborators, companies, industrialists, developers - all those with whom the agency maintains privileged relationships. All the experience and knowledge acquired is pooled together, as the ferment of a way of living, thinking and working that is continuous and borderless.
Our holistic vision is born of professional and academic experiences that were created as laboratory projects.
read +-In the 1980s, on the small island of Mayotte, located in the Indian Ocean, Pascal Rollet helped launch a program to build social housing in situ and create a raw earth brick industry while Florence Lipsky produced the island's first village planning scheme and helped eradicate malaria by creating simple standpipes. Mayotte, followed by the Californian period, gave them a different awareness of ecology, bioclimatic architecture and the need to go for the essentials, in a conception of the territory that aspires to bring together and concentrate “living and working” activities. After America, Japan has changed the way they perceive and design. As “cliché” as it may sound, Japan introduced them to the notion of milieu(x), to an imaginary world where people rebuild themselves around the desire for coherence and harmony with the environment. Since then, in territories that need to be invented, recycled and transformed, plants have become central to urban projects and spatial thinking. In December 2015 [1] the COP 21 was a significant milestone in our commitment to advancing the great project of a better and more sustainable world.
We fight against the ecology of appearance and image. The agency designs and builds passive buildings, based on ancestral principles that are capable of integrating high-performance active systems at the cutting edge of today's technology.
read +-Adhering to a purely pragmatic approach, our architecture combines low-tech and high-tech without preconceptions! The philosophy is one of “the right material in the right place” to achieve the lightest possible construction. As a member of the Adivbois association, we campaign for and support the development of the French timber industry.
Our design and construction methods tend to use the construction tools of the farmer - close to self-sufficiency - or the industrialist. From the factory, we retain more the operating mode (flows and processes, the need for mobility and reversibility) than the image.
read +-Clear-sighted, pragmatic and economical, our approach is ethical, global and efficient. As in the natural processes involved in building structures, the stubborn search for the optimum balance between material, energy, space and use - what some call “frugality” - results in a particular tuning that can ultimately create emotions.
The design of tomorrow's cities depends on the supply of resources to build them, but just as much on the size we give to our future living spaces.
read +-Our vision of the world is akin to the thinking of those who campaigned in the 70s for a society tailored to human needs. As a real alternative to globalization, we conceive the territory - whether industrial, agricultural or fallow - in terms of its identity, its potential future, and in an equitable manner. At a time when thinking on flows and mobility is moving in the right direction to create an intense city10, the agency focuses on the territory on the scale of a hundred hectares, opposing the practices of urban sprawl. Our urban design focuses on direct exchanges, gathering, cohabitation and the notion of unity that goes hand in hand with living comfort.
Alisa Rinderspacher, Amandine Mornet, Ana Markovic, Anna Flak, Antoine Néto Berenguer, Attila Eris, Audrey Arlot, Audrey Maudet, Aurélien Le Roux, Benjamin Lenaour, Bertrand Robuchon, Bo Wu, Caroline Collin, Catherine Fleury, Charles Dufresne, Charlotte Kientz, Christophe Wilke, Doniphan Grotte, Dorothée Martin, Dias Simoes Rafael, Emilie Dessoye, Emmanuel Leroy, Emmanuelle Baranger, Etienne Santiago, Fabienne Lagarrigue, Fanny Besse, Fanny Tassel, Francis Terraz, François Guillaud, Frederic Bevilacqua, Gonzalo Tarongi Devai, Guillaume Chabenat, Guillaume Buton, Harrison Grospeiller, Hanyu Li, Hélène Dumas, Ilan Bitoun, Jae Young Choi, Jeanne Moulet, Jérémy Bru, Jerôme Charignon, Jérôme Damiens, Johann Grellaud, Josselin Guillo, Julien Chaudet, Katja Lafoscade, Katja Rapold, Kevin Robin, Laure Mouclier, Laure Mouly, Laurent Degremont, Laurent Thierry, Léopoldine Faivre, Louis Bauchet, Luc Fabreguettes, Luce Jalbert, Marine Divisia, Marine Rubio, Meng Ling Tsai, Marion Duval, Mathieu Cordelle, Mathieu Planquette, Maximilien Dumont, Michelle Patte, Nicolas Dubus, Nicolas Maes, Nicolas Savaux, Paul Longuet, Pénélope Barret, Régis Vicente, Quentin Chansavang, Raphaëlle Ruiz, Renaud Schwartz, Samuel Chapuis-Breyton, Sébastien Freitas, Simon Visconti, Sohini Maiti, Steve Gallay, Sylvain Ruffier, Thibault Chanut, Vincent Carbillet, Vincent Prioux, Vivien Jimenez, Xavier Porte, Yannis Frémont-Marinopoulos, Clément Pauthier, Clément Migeon, Kenza Chraibi, Victor Caballero, Marion Christiaens, Emmanuel Garcias, Philippe Paumelle…
Grand Parilly apartment buildings - lot H, in Vénissieux.
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Winner of the "Prix de la Premiere Œuvre" - (First Works Award)
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