Architecture /01

In resonance with the Couvent de la Tourette, the school hugs the natural slope of the site and anchors itself partly into the ground. The interior is conceived as an acoustic instrument: glued laminated timber, local stone, and an auditorium designed as a sonorous jewel-case open onto the landscape.

The ruin is neither erased nor frozen: an airy metal structure follows its contours and redraws the original volumes without concealing the marks of time. Retreat cells in the nave, baths inspired by the thermae: a reinvention suspended between past and present.

Rehabilitating a building of the École Centrale in Saint-Étienne: a double skin of soft-green prefabricated modules, pivoting sashes, and the meadow climbing back to the foot of the façade. Design contribution within the agency, from concept to the competition images.

Rehabilitating a block of 178 dwellings and reinterpreting its corner building: external lifts and walkways make every floor accessible, drawn in red in the axonometric. Design contribution within the Taite Paillet agency.

Renovating the envelope of a Haussmann building in the 1st arrondissement without betraying its lines: external insulation, window replacement, working drawings, details and costing through to the tender documents.

At the heart of the vineyards, a building that changes use with the seasons: housing for grape-pickers during the harvest, craft workshop out of season. Local Douglas fir, impluvium roof, demountable screw foundations, and the ruined wash-house preserved as an anchor point.

An open block that fosters porosity and movement across the site. Dual-aspect through-apartments, planted galleries, roofs turned into shared gardens, brick and concrete worked in alternating textures to root the project in the heritage of the neighbourhood.

At 34 rue des Rosiers, the basement takes back loads the original foundations no longer carried: the graphic documents of the structural survey and of the tender file, drawn in support of the project architect, down to the shoring of the existing staircase.

At 37 rue des Trois Frères, the building is examined before being repaired: eleven foundation test pits located and dimensioned, interior surveys unit by unit, services redrawn. Three years later, the works: the old stairwell was holding up part of the building, a temporary structure, removal, loads taken up by steel sections, a new staircase in fibre-reinforced concrete. The old stone steps became the benches that now adorn the courtyard.

Toward a sustainable city: requalifying the centralities along the main axes, housing structured by shared terraces supported by timber bracing crosses. A hybrid timber-concrete structure, planted roofs and solar panels powering the shared spaces.

A single-storey house gains a floor on rue Pasteur. The file compares three façade treatments, light render, horizontal timber cladding, vertical cladding, and runs from the survey of the existing to the sections, roof plans and floor plans of the application.

A limestone longhouse and its outbuildings become a dwelling. New openings are cut into the eaves wall, roof windows are added, and the file runs through two issues, prior declaration then permit, from the survey of the existing to the insertion views.

Extending a house in Issy by twenty-five square metres on the ground and turning a garage into a place to live: site and planning analysis, plans of the existing and the project, sections, elevations and insertion views, thirteen sheets taken from the first reading of the rules to a file ready for the town hall.

A two-storey house on 725 m², built around a double-height patio open to the roof. The earth-rendered volumes cantilever over the pool, and the ridge is kept to nine metres.

After the emergency shoring, the second-floor ceiling structure is repaired on paper first: two complete options, replacing the joists, or strengthening the existing, drawn and detailed in support of the project architect. The co-owners made their choice, and the repair works were carried through to the rebuilt floor.

At 58 rue du Ruisseau, the foundations take on new loads: reinforced footings cast against rubble walls, ties chased up into the masonry. From surveying the existing to the drawings, then on site, at the foot of the rebar cages, in support of the project architect.