The terrace of the Bistro de l'Arche is located at the bottom of the Grande Arche, overlooking the esplanade of la Défense, the international business district in the west of Paris. The esplanade is a large public space framed by exceptional buildings and limited to the west by la Grande Arche, whi

Borders and grids The study area of the PACA Geneva - Arve - Salève is located between two urban development axis and two major entrances into the franco-valdo-genevoise agglomeration area. Our project consists of three guidelines which aim to create a balanced territorial development: Rep

  This design concerns the construction of the headquarters of the company DIII - contemporary spaces in Obernai in Alsace. The green site is accessible from the north and marked by a strong slope to the south-west. A series of houses and villas forms the neighbourhood. To integrate the building i

The Lugo district, where the Hollander Factory is located, is entering a phase of urban transformation. The occupants of the creative factory invite visitors from the open doors to build a piece of city. The urban manufacture revolves around a scale model of 4x5m at the scale of 1 / 100th.

This project of the renovation of two buildings for the Federal Republic of Germany is located in the 16 district of Paris. The operation includes the cleaning of the facade facing the street 24/26 rue Marbeau as well as the facade facing the court yard 24 rue Marbeau and the renovating the zinc roo

The project concern the thermal rehabilitation of two social housing buildings located in the 15th arrondissement. of Paris. They are surrounded by a dense Parisian urban fabric with twentieth century buildings, modern apartment buildings and some contemporary buildings. The 23 rue d'Alleray was bu

The association The Soft is in charge of the exploitation and rehabilitation of an urban wasteland for cultural production purposes under agreement with Sadev 94 and the town hall of Ivry-sur-Seine. The Soft is spread over two sites in Ivry-sur-Seine Coulomb and Guillou, it brings together in the tw

Three connections, three parks The project builds on and links to various polarities, which make Bad Kötzting long term. Landscaping forms the superposition of three spaces: the river along the white rain, the park south of the town centre and the city of gardens as transitions between park a

The regional area of the Joncs Marins stretches on 175 ha in the valley of the Orge and is rich in diverse natural and built forms. Different forms of housing, educational and sports facilities are situated alongside production sites, warehouses and craft workshops. Agricultural fields lay alongside

The city of Vitoria (318000 hab.) is located in a harbour and logistic conglomeration which is the entrance and exit for goods from the state of Espirito Santo. The metropolitan region (1625000 hab.) consists of 7 municipalities with economic, social and urban inequalities. Vitória, the capital of

Agglomeration project Grand Geneva The study area of the PACA Geneva - Eaux Vives - Annemasse consists of fourteen municipalities in the border region between France and Switzerland. The aim of the study is to verify, through different scenarios, if the planning and redevelopment of this part of

The train station of Juvisy-sur-Orge is a transportation hub with over 1100 trains, 1500 buses and nearly 60 000 commuters daily. The largest train station of Ile de France outside Paris. The extension of the tramline T7 between Athis-Mons and Juvisy-sur-Orge under construction and in the future the

The city of Courbevoie has grown rapidly in recent decades both in terms of population as activities and employment (21% increase from 1999 to 2006 for both). With this demographic development the urban form has also changed. In the 70s, the construction of the Centre Charras partially erased the tr

In the early 21th century, the Mekong Delta stands between two major dynamics: The population growth and the urbanization, while the global warming threatens to reduce the surfaces for farming and living. This territory will be among the first to suffer the environmental consequences. It could there

The project was about a major renovation of the Southern Europe headquarters of the ZDF (Second German Television Channel) in the sixteenth arrondissement of Paris, consisting of two buildings around a central courtyard. The operation demanded for the partial rehabilitation of the facades, the repl

63 apartments Rue de Carmes - Paris This complex of adjacent buildings is singular thanks to its architectural composite aspect linked to its different building periods presenting various facade typologies. The necessary intervention on the envelope dictated by the current environmental imperatives

The Golf de la Picardière offers recreation on a green of sixty hectares. The project of a tourist residence envisages the construction of 35 housing units, a seminar and festival room for approximately 200 people and a swimming pool with additional buildings on the adjacent plot. The parking slots

In the near future, the agglomeration of Nokoué, composed of the cities of Porto Novo, Cotonou, Seme Kpodji, Abomey-Calavi and Ouidah, representing between 2 and 3 million inhabitants, will play a vital role across the Gulf of Guinea. The repartition of the roles between the cities of the agglomera

The project is part of the national Orly-Rungis-Seine-Amont development programme (OIN ORSA). The site of study is located north of the centre of Choisy-le-Roi and 12 km south from the centre of Paris. It is one of the few municipalities in IdF which extend on both sides of the Seine. The site of 12

East of Paris, in the department of Val-de-Marne, several hectares of land was reserved for the construction of a highway connecting the A4 and the A86: called “Voie de Desserte Orientale“. In 2007, the French State abandons the highway project in favor of a mixed used urban planning project. Th

The project concern the thermal rehabilitation of two social housing buildings located in the 15th arrondissement. of Paris. They are surrounded by a dense Parisian urban fabric with twentieth century buildings, modern apartment buildings and some contemporary buildings. The 17 rue d'Alleray was bu

The site is located south of the train station of Villennes sur Seine and develops itself in an east-west direction between the rue des Iselles and the railroad which follows the river Seine. The clients wanted to increase the surface of the house while preserving its form and the facade towards the

The leading principle for the conception of the new area is the combination of a built-up density, a high habitability quality and a high variety of housing for different populations and generations. The landscaping is adapted to the topography. The offset arrangement of the buildings create a set

Urban and economic development The city of Goma is the main city of the North-Kivu district and situated on the eastern side of the Democratic Republic of Congo, next to the border of Rwanda. Because of its geographical situation and the political context, the town had no peaceful and gradual devel

Forest descending towards city heart The population growth of Limeil-Brévannes brings into question the commune's quality of life. Hoping not to lose this quality of life composed of one-third of natural wooded areas, the municipality wish to link the city heart to the forest. Through interconnexi

The building complex of La Hêtraie, composed of 5 buildings from 10 to 15 floors, is located on the Est communal edge of Limeil-Brévannes in Val-de-Marne. The whole site, open to the neighbourhood is crossed by multiple users. The project of the complex’s open spaces requalification raises the q

The forest is both, the operational point of departure and the central argument of the proposed development of the plain in its dimensions of program and use. The plain is a disregard and abandoned space. 2017 will be the year of the end of the irrigated crops and the removal of agricultural activit

The industrial harbour of Le Havre is situated on both sides of a large artificial channel. The planning of a wind farm along this channel conducts the transformation of nowadays agricultural areas into future industrial areas of the harbour. The position of the wind mills will determine an initial

The city block of the Fusains is situated in the centre of Aubervilliers, a sector undergoing an urban transformation. The block is characterized by the construction of a large housing complex in the 1970s. The entire block is now enclosure, but with multiple breaches, and its outdoor spaces are mai

The agglomeration project of Annemasse is based on a population growth hypothesis. The existing city inherited from the second half of the 20th century is unfinished. Potentials are present for the internal growth (building the city on the city). And it also demand corrections to reduce disparities