“The building is hard and repetitive, closed on the street side and more open onto its inner courtyard. Made of mass concrete, it is softened by the different textures and colours it offers us: rougher and darker in contact with the ground, and smoother and lighter as it rises towards the sky.“

“The place, the history, the remains, the scale, the classic typology of houses closed to the outside and open onto courtyards… all of this obviously forms the base for the project.
They are phantoms or realities that accompany us, though we have to control them.
However, we did not forget that our mission here was to build a contemporary museographic centre of reference as a suitable setting for exceptional works. “

“At a time of transformation for bank branch offices, here, as an experimental proposal, we created a space as a place to work and to meet. Open but active. Private when necessary.”

“Located adjacent to the airport and the sea, crossed by the railway line with its planned TGV station, Nice Grand Arenas is a multimodal hub (airport, train, tram, bus station). In the 900,000 m2 of planned building, we must arrange buildings and public spaces to accommodate contemporary production and residential uses.”

“The market, since its origins, has been a large covered place. We conserve and repair the beautiful structure that supports that roof.
Beneath, we dig into the site to introduce new services that complement sales activity: logistics, parking, installations.”

“The square is a surface, a topography, drawn out in relation to the movement of the water and built by pedreiros, following patterns that are abstract but not random.
Floating on this surface is an object. At its base, water, frozen here to form a skating rink.”

“The ruins mark the structure of the buildings. The Roman forum formalizes the plane of foundations and drains.In the old town, my building sets out to express itself as pure structure—no cladding, no finishes. The bare concrete beams-cum-walls that form the façades are very varied, proving themselves members of the family of the dilapidated neighbouring walls, where plaster crumbles to reveal their original central mass.”

“A housing development that seeks to optimize the living conditions of each of its cells. The whole is broken down to prioritize the meeting with the domestic rather than insisting on the abstraction of the idea.
The buildings were constructed with emphasis on the expressive capacity of artisan work as a sensible framework for human relations. The garden is a recreation, using characteristic materials (gravels, sands …) and vegetation (poplars…), of the meander of the nearby river Garonne.”

“Ideas are fast, construction is slow.
The planimetric layout was very clear from the start: to the continuous form of the old building a new figure was counterposed, made up of lines that interrelated without bending.”

“The project consists in the construction of the new regional Deutsche Bundesbank head office in Chemnitz, formerly Karl Marx Stadt, in a place with a dense and traumatic history. The proposal addresses the issue of permanence and solidity (felt as being necessary for the first time, almost), and also of nature understood in a paleontological way as the petrification and crystalline solidification of organic matter.”

“The structure is a musical score of reference. The climate, the light (and opposite, shade) and sound (and its opposite, silence) have shaped the plot. The flows (of people and of fluids that are all similar), the masses and the architecture that appears (and frequently) disappears amid them.”

“The complex should be understood not from the sequence of its elements, but from their interrelationship. In such a beautiful and unique place, surrounded by water on three sides, the project strives to create an impression of openness, distance and lightness. The complex should not appear hard, compact and massive, in the manner of a permanent protective dyke, but seeks, rather to open itself up and- relatively speaking- to melt away.”

“The house moves between these Natural forces: she protects from the wind, generates natural inside ventilation to regulate summer temperature, builds a small court with controlled microclimate and, at the same time that she protects herself, opens to the outside making a performance with nature and its energies.”

“The project for the redesign of Paris Zoo proposed a layout on three levels of the facility’s activities: The site as a continuous surface on which the animals and plants present artificial, preserved nature.
A system of tunnels and underground passages that lead to the service areas and technical installations (shelters for the animals, air conditioning, under-floor heating, research, etc.).
The flow of visitors, which moves over this plane at different levels and touches the ground at certain points.”

“The building of the factory was a strange French style construction, built with catalan vault and steel structure. The roof was an extraordinary wooden structure that climbs above the solid block. We worked there to value the space characteristics of the old building with a light construction, ironically not tectonic, and with the use of colours to personalize each floor and emphasize the provisional festive aspect.”

“The project has, first and foremost, sought to explore the possibility of the coexistence of an approach that was systematic, ordering and abstract with a sensitive attention to each one of the concrete forms and places that constitute reality.”