The environmental, social and governance commitment that guides every project we sign.
The responsibility of an architecture practice does not end at the drawing. It begins with the decisions taken at preliminary design — what is kept, what is built, with which materials — and carries on into how we run the studio.
We take that commitment on two fronts we consider inseparable: the performance of what we design and the way we operate as a team. It is not a document running alongside the project, it is the criterion by which we judge every decision — from the first sketch to site supervision — and the basis of the relationship we build with clients, partners and community.
PILLARS
A commitment to the environmental performance of what is built, from preliminary design through to construction.
Architecture has a direct impact on the people who live in and pass through the spaces we design.
Procedural rigour and transparency throughout the relationship with clients and partners.
Commitments
Give priority to intervening in the existing stock whenever the brief and the state of repair allow it.
Energy efficiency decisions are taken at concept stage, not corrected at the end.
Every project is designed to be crossed by anyone, whatever their mobility.
Steadily reducing the use of paper, energy and unnecessary travel.
The responsibility of a project begins before the first line.