Being an architect is about giving everyone the opportunity to be at greater ease with their environment, with other people and with themselves. It’s about thinking and designing places in which all types of human activity can flourish. No matter how intense our immersion into a space may be, architecture always invites us on an existential journey to belong to the world, to be present, and to feel alive. What ensures this immediate and tangible architectural experience is the considered use of the unique resources at architecture’s disposal during each project’s development phase: How will the body relate with its environment? What of the space’s purpose, the materials, dimensions, and the room itself? How will one take into consideration the relationship between interior and exterior, architectonics and space? The relationship between these elements, which finds its balance in a well-situated project, is at the heart of my architectural practice. When I design, I allow myself to be guided by the project itself, to be sensitive to what is required for it to fully reveal itself. I find and establish the project’s rules; I try to identify the internal order that defines its character. A formalized process generates a specific form sometimes a rudimentary geometry, which then offers a recognizable pattern. Each project is thus the result of thorough research. The office is conceived of as a place to explore a project as defined by the project on its own terms; it is a workshop for experimentation and research. Our workshop is a place where each undertaking is realized by hand on a human scale through drawings and models.
Jean-Christophe Quinton
Architect Paris / France
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Being an architect is about giving everyone the opportunity to be at greater ease with their environment, with other people and with themselves. It’s about thinking and designing places in which all types of human activity can flourish. No matter how intense our immersion into a space may be, architecture always invites us on an existential journey to belong to the world, to be present, and to feel alive. What ensures this immediate and tangible architectural experience is the considered use of the unique resources at architecture’s disposal during each project’s development phase: How will the body relate with its environment? What of the space’s purpose, the materials, dimensions, and the room itself? How will one take into consideration the relationship between interior and exterior, architectonics and space? The relationship between these elements, which finds its balance in a well-situated project, is at the heart of my architectural practice.
When I design, I allow myself to be guided by the project itself, to be sensitive to what is required for it to fully reveal itself. I find and establish the project’s rules; I try to identify the internal order that defines its character. A formalized process generates a specific form sometimes a rudimentary geometry, which then offers a recognizable pattern. Each project is thus the result of thorough research. The office is conceived of as a place to explore a project as defined by the project on its own terms; it is a workshop for experimentation and research. Our workshop is a place where each undertaking is realized by hand on a human scale through drawings and models.
When I design, I allow myself to be guided by the project itself, to be sensitive to what is required for it to fully reveal itself. I find and establish the project’s rules; I try to identify the internal order that defines its character. A formalized process generates a specific form sometimes a rudimentary geometry, which then offers a recognizable pattern. Each project is thus the result of thorough research. The office is conceived of as a place to explore a project as defined by the project on its own terms; it is a workshop for experimentation and research. Our workshop is a place where each undertaking is realized by hand on a human scale through drawings and models.
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