Working with, around and within the existing — from the scale of the building to the city and the territory. A Franco-German agency with an interdisciplinary way of working. Recipient of the Palmarès des Jeunes Urbanistes, 2007/08.

The city of Charleville Mézières wishes to build a new nursery in Passivhaus standard.. According to the bio climatic design of the envelope, we proposed a south orientation of the main facade with the games rooms. And a simple and compact volume to limit energy loss. The building is in timber fr

The La Hêtraie housing estate with five buildings from 10 to 15 floors and 209 housing units is located on the edge of the town of Limeil-Brévannes. The entire site required overall rehabilitation and requalification.

A new urban city block The city block of the Fusains is situated in the center of Aubervilliers, a sector undergoing an urban transformation. The block is characterized by the construction of a large housing complex in the 1970s on a former industrial site. The entire block is now cloisonne and its

A heritage renovation in Montmartre This early 20th-century Haussmann-style building comprises 18 residential units and two retail spaces. Given the heritage value of the facades and the surrounding context, the building envelope requires special attention for its restoration and the replacement of

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

The Avre residence, built in 1973, is characteristic of the urban planning of the ‘70s modern urbanism. It has 416 dwellings in 11 buildings from four to ten floors high. Our mission is part of a larger urban project including the dismantling of two buildings, the sale of land to private developer

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

Real estate valuation Located less than an hour from Paris by train, the manor of Liancourt stretches on steep woodland of thirty acres, includes a castle built in 1865 overlooking a park and a forest. Transformed into a sanatorium prison in 1947, the area is now largely abandoned. In fact, among

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

The La Hêtraie complex, consisting of 5 buildings of 10 to 15 floors, is located on the outskirts of Est in the municipality of Limeil-Brévannes in the Val-de-Marne. The entire site, which is accessible to the neighborhood, is crossed by several users. The project of requalifying the open spaces o

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

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 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

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

A diversity of housing units in one building The renovation of this early 19th-century suburban-style building, carried out while it remained occupied, addresses three main areas: the building envelope, common areas, and individual units.The building’s heritage value and surroundings make reno

The Guillou site of the association le Soft is an urban wasteland rehabilitated for cultural production under agreement with Sadev 94 and the town hall of Ivry-sur-Seine. Together with the Coulomb site, it groups more than 50% of the artistic workshops (painting, sculpture, music, carpentry ...). Th

Central to the « Grand Paris » and the Val-de-Marne, Limeil-Brévannes is a city of 25.000 inhabitants in a process of development. Largelycomposed of natural wooded areas (110ha on the commune’s 693) the forest descending towards city heart is hence in keeping with these territorial orientat

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 redesign of the esplanade and the square is part of a long term development. The city centre was built according to the principles of urbanism slab. The urban renewal process, initiated ten years ago, is based on city blocks structured by the road network. The Town Hall is the central point of t

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

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 spaces to be converted are situated on the ground floor in the town hall of the 10th district of Paris, at the angle of the streets Hittorf and Pierre Bullet. The program included the design of a childcare centre for 30 children on a surface of 410 m². To benefit from the natural light which pe

The aim of the project is the comprehensive refurbishment, in an occupied environment, of the communal areas of a block of flats built at the end of the 19th / beginning of the 20th century. The general condition of the commun areas is average to dilapidated. The only service room proposed is the 3.

The project is about the thermal rehabilitation of a housing building located in the 15th arrondissement. of Paris. It is surrounded by a dense Parisian urban fabric with buildings from different eras. We want to give it a "Parisian workshop" spirit, inspired by existing bow windows and co-visibil

The site of the housing estate, Cité Louis Bertrand, is situated in a network of green corridors between the Porte d'Ivry and the Fort d'Ivry. The rehabilitation of the housing estate is the opportunity to reinforce and integrate itself in the local urban fabric and to redefine its external spaces

The Christmas period is a time for stopping, sharing and renewal. We imagined the Christmas tree an installation luminous, unifying, open to the world and participatory. A symbol for the coming year. The installation that we propose on the forecourt creates a space of wandering and exchange made of

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 16-unit building is located in the Bois l 'Abbé district, which undergoing an urban renewal by ANRU. The project includes the modification of the entrance, which currently opens onto a low-value covered passage, to an access by footbridge via the garden of the residence. The common areas benefi

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

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