Our action is situated
at the crossroad between
architectural and urban creation,
restoration of historic monuments
and building conversions.

The founding architects
of the h2o agency all believe
in the value of transversality
and in a generous
thinking process
marked by exchange
and hypotheses
in the elaboration of a project
with the client.

Our action is situated
at the crossroad between
architectural and urban creation,
restoration of historic monuments
and building conversions.

The founding architects
of the h2o agency all believe
in the value of transversality
and in a generous
thinking process
marked by exchange
and hypotheses
in the elaboration of a project
with the client.

A number of the contemporary architectural projects developed over the years by the agency concern work on existing buildings (additions, extensions, spatial transformations, etc.).

The projects benefitted from
the exportation of the working method experienced with historic buildings which considerably enriched the creative process
of the agency.

When working on relatively large scale urban planning,
from district to square
to street to urban furniture,
or thinking about issues of landscape within the town,
the agency tries not to isolate
the architecture from the town,
nor to separate thinking on private space from thinking
on public space.

It is by working on both scales
at once that passages and permeability can be more precisely defined in our town-planning projects.

“If the attitude of the restorer must always be respectful, respect must not however be paralyzing so as to annihilate
all action without which no restoration is possible”
Pierre Prunet

Information circulates between architectural studies and furniture studies…the great scale derives from the small scale.

Quicker to produce than architecture because less subject to contingent parameters, furniture design requires a close observation of the way we live: study of the evolution
of consumerism, testing the habits of our society etc.