SOA studio visit
designboom visits the young paris-based practice to get an exclusive look at how the research-driven studio operates.
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
image © designboom
image © designboom
‘100 000 € house’ by SOA in saint-denis, france (2005) image courtesy SOA
elevation image courtesy SOA
