SAINT-ANGE RESIDENCE

Photo credits © Roland Halbe   Perched on the crest of a hill, the residence is a monolithic sculpture —one that turns its back on the rest of the compound, looking out to to the historic city of Grenoble in the valley and the jagged French Alps beyond. Up the slight slope lies a bosque-like [...]

Taichung Cultural Center « LOOP LOOP »

Photo credits © Odile Decq   The Taichung City Cultural Center includes a museum and a library, like two inter-wined ribbons of knowledge in the middle of the Gateway Park. The library opens out to the landscape while the museum is a more intimate space for personal discovery.


SENSUOUS SHADOW SKIN

Photo credits © Odile Decq   Renovation of Renwick Gallery Grand Salon. A contemporary interior design in a historic place, Sensuous Shadow Skin is a curved drape formed in a plaster-like continuous surface, without distinction between walls and ceiling.


FRAC BRETAGNE

Photo credits © Roland Halbe   The new building for the FRAC is the first of new contemporary art museums to be built in France. It combines the main functions of conservation, exhibition as well as diffusion of knowledge about art throughout a library, a conference room and educational services. The main façade offers a [...]

University Luigi Bocconi Campus

Photo credits © Odile Decq   The roman origin of the word Campus is a field. In Universities around the world the Campus is designating the territory on which all the buildings of a Campus are organized. The development of the Bocconi University is more and more an inter-relational diversified organization, which suggests us the […]


Riyad

Photo credits © Odile Decq   Leyoon International School


UNIVERSITY LAVAL

Architecture School Laval Photo credits © Odile Decq


PHANTOM RESTAURANT OPÉRA GARNIER

Photo credits © Roland Halbe-Odile Decq   Like a « fantôme », silent and insidious, the soft protean curves of the mezzanine level float above the dinner guests, covering the space with a surface that bends and undulates. The facade of the restaurant is a veil of sinuous glass, sliding around each pillar. The red carpet flows […]


Laval Tourist Information Center

Photo credits © Odile Decq   Building on water always takes on a different meaning than building on land. Departure, arrival and travel are inevitably associated with floating objects even when they are docked and never travel. The relationship to water, to its movement, to its fluidity and to some extent to its immateriality for [...]

ARAGO TOWER

Photo credits © Odile Decq   Arago interprets the dual and apparently contradictory idea of functional efficiency and the immaterial escape of symbolic representation that the very idea of a tower expresses. Within the framework of an overall architectural vision, the extremely fine scale and the sculptural aspect of the proposed project are an affirmed […]