Agency

L'agence

archi5 was created in 2003 on the basis of a common experience and a triple requirement: attention to the context, the truth of the materials and the precision of the execution.
The agency is based in Montreuil, near Paris. Today, it has 40 collaborators from different cultural and professional backgrounds: architecture, urban planning and landscape design. archi5 works on public facilities projects, private commissions and urban planning projects in France and around the world.

I hope you will understand that architecture has nothing to do with the invention of forms, it is not a playground for children, young or old.
Architecture wrote the history of the epochs and gave them their names

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Approach

Starting from a rigorous analysis of the context and a sensitive listening to expectations, our objective is to respond with simple forms to needs that are always complex. These forms are welcoming and legible: they anchor the building in its landscape, allowing for and developing life around it. This does not make us formalists: from the outset, our agency has cultivated a diversity of architectural styles. Each project, with its own materials and scale, is an autonomous system, engaged in a dialogue with its environment, its users and its inhabitants. Going beyond the sum of the responses to the programme, it produces a singular emotion.

Collaboration

Because building is always a societal project, our work is based on a culture of openness, listening and exchange with all stakeholders. We also believe that a collaborative practice of architecture and urban planning is a guarantee of sustainable success for a project. This approach allows us to bring together different partners in an efficient and economical project dynamic. It is also a way for us to open up to new collaborations, to tackle complex issues with agility, thanks to our solid network.

Environnement

Our systemic approach has led us to consider the environmental impact of our projects from the outset and to think about a sustainable construction economy.
This is why archi5 designs passive buildings, beyond the current standards. We have therefore developed sober and reliable solutions, based on fundamental elements such as orientation, ventilation and the quality of the envelope.