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.

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.                        

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.

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.

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.