SOA studio visit

SOA architectes’ studio in paris, france image © designboom

while the designboom team was in france on a recent trip, we visited paris-based SOA architectes at their studio near the busy street of boulevard beaumarchais. hosted in a three-storey building, the office is organized around a simple layout that opens up to a series of windows on both sides of the space.

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founded by architects pierre saroux and augustin rosenstiehl in 2001, the young practice calls on and pulls from a variety of disciplines including architecture, design, ethnology and conceptual art. by nature, the firm is heavily driven by research, regularly producing analysis projects that grow as offshoot pieces from designs in progress. topics range from the issues and potentials of urban agricultural density to a study of french prisons and the exploration of a new penitentiary model.

partners pierre sartoux and augustin rosenstiehl portrait © designboom

‘plateau d’avron’ by SOA in rosny-sous-bois, france (2009) image courtesy SOA photo by clément guillaume

image courtesy SOA photo by clément guillaume

image courtesy SOA photo by clément guillaume

image courtesy SOA photo by clément guillaume

augustin rosenstiehl at the pin-up board image © designboom

‘mar mikhael’ by SOA in beirut, lebanon (2008) image courtesy SOA

rendering of the tower image courtesy SOA

study board image © designboom

renderings for ‘vertical farm’, a research project that the firm started in 2005 image © designboom

image courtesy SOA

image courtesy SOA

image courtesy SOA

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image © designboom

‘100 000 € house’ by SOA in saint-denis, france (2005) image courtesy SOA

elevation image courtesy SOA