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Montpellier Metropolitan Cemetery / Agence Traverses - Paysage, Urbanisme, Architecture

Valeria Silva — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000

The particularity of our project lies in the versatility of its responses to the program and its adaptation to the site. We treated the cemetery like a public landscaped park, we have developed a symbolic work on the relationship between death and the cosmos, nature, earth, sky, and light.

Cities of the Dead: 10 Projects Exploring Burial Architecture

Diogo Borges Ferreira — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Death is a certainty, but its architecture has never been stable. Every period and culture has invented a different way of placing the dead in the world (close or far, visible or screened, monumental or almost anonymous), and those choices have always carried social and political weight. Cemeteries are where that weight becomes legible in space, turning belief and regulation into boundaries, paths, and names.

Jacques Chirac School & Gymnasium / BPA ARCHITECTURE

Hadir Al Koshta — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 12:00:00 +0000

Our ambition is to create an educational building rooted in its environment, comfortable, and pleasant, and that fully integrates the environmental preoccupations set in the brief. Accessible to all, it will provide a generous space to teach and a powerful tool for attentive and inventive pedagogy.

House Plans Under 100 Square Meters: 30 Useful Examples

José Tomás Franco — Sun, 09 Jul 2023 07:30:00 +0000

The challenge of designing a house with a tight budget and space constraints, together with the essential duty of responding correctly to the requirements of the user, is sometimes one of the most challenging and motivating tasks an architect can face. How can you take advantage of space most effectively? How can you avoid wasted material? How do you anticipate the possible future expansion of the house? And how do you develop a simple design that also delivers value to its inhabitants?

To help you in this process, we scoured our projects archives to select 30 houses that provide interesting architectural solutions despite measuring less than 100 square meters.

Rosa Parks College / BPA ARCHITECTURE

Thuto Vilakazi — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 12:00:00 +0000

Informed by the Mediterranean climate and the surrounding landscape, Rosa Parks' middle school's architecture draws inspiration from the palaces in Southern Europe by reuniting its program around a majestic courtyard that provides shadow and freshness. Forming a spatial continuum and taking advantage of the comfortable microclimate in every season, the volume resembles almost a cloister, the central courtyard becoming here a peaceful outdoor space for students to meet.

Vil Genis School / BPA ARCHITECTURE

Thuto Vilakazi — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 12:00:00 +0000

The school is situated at the periphery of the new neighborhood, at the edge between nature and the city, which consequently implies special attention given to the landscape. The project aims therefore to offer to the neighborhood children a school of particular architectural and environmental quality, comfortable and responds to the challenges and constraints of the site.

Jacques Chaban Delmas Sports Hall / BPA ARCHITECTURE

Thuto Vilakazi — Sun, 02 Apr 2023 02:00:00 +0000

Aware of the challenges linked to the construction of the new Omnisport hall (predominantly basketball) and the renovation and extension of the existing gym, our project aims to respond to the programmatic expectations and proposes quality spaces for sportsmen, be they amateur, professionals, scholars, or spectators.

CIRM Extension / AWA Architectes

Luciana Pejić — Sat, 27 Aug 2022 13:00:00 +0000

The project had to meet several constraints: to renovate and partially elevate the existing accommodation of the "l'annexe" in order to increase the capacity of the hotel, to create a building to link this " l'annexe " to the Bastide, to design a training center with a conference room, a work room, and three offices and to carry out these works in the occupied site and more precisely by continuing the use of the sleeping premises. The construction site had to be governed and organized around this problem.

University of Montpellier Village des Sciences / BPA ARCHITECTURE

Luciana Pejić — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 12:00:00 +0000

Result of the Campus Plan - an exceptional financing scheme created in 2008 for redeveloping and upgrading the built facilities of French Universities- the project consists of two buildings accommodating most of the teaching facilities of the University of Montpellier 2.

ESMA Student Housing in Montpellier / Mateo Arquitectura

Pilar Caballero — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 02:00:00 +0000

The ESMA (Ecole Supérieure des Métiers Artistiques) is located on the grounds of a former army barracks, specifically on the parade courtayard.

Conservatory of Montpellier / MDR Architectes + Architecturestudio

Hana Abdel — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 12:00:00 +0000

Conceived as a musical village where people can dance and sing on the rooftops, the Music Conservatory of Montpellier opens up to the city as a new cultural center rooted in a haven of greenery.

Paul Heraud High School in Gap / Romain Jamot Architecture

Valeria Silva — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 21:00:00 +0000

The main object of this project is the energetic renovation of the Paul Heraud High School in Gap , France , in order to reduce by 50% the energetic consumptions and to get the gold level for the BDM label . Last November, we obtained this BDM label gold level for the realization phase . In addition to the initial program , The project dealt with the compliance upgrade for disabled persons and safety of the site , especially with the reorganization of the fore court and the entrance .The compliance upgrade for safety was established by the Region during the study of the project ( APD phase ) further to the Nice attacks .

Carnon Nautic Base / Stephane COULAUD Architect

Daniel Tapia — Sun, 07 Jul 2019 04:00:00 +0000

Some projects seem badly started from their genesis. This is the case of the new Nautical Base of Carnon City. On one hand, you have a sailing club with a building similar to old dilapidated colanders and on the other, local inhabitants hostile to all construction, and in the middle, as an arbitrator, the town hall torn between the two parties. It must be said that the issue is important. Located on the beach, at the exit of the marina, the sailing school enjoys an exceptional panorama on the Mediterranean Sea. In order not to aggravate things, the project must take into account all the wishes of all parties, in addition to respecting the drastic rules of the program and its budget.

CTN House / Brengues Le Pavec architectes

Daniel Tapia — Thu, 08 Nov 2018 01:00:00 +0000

The compact and opaque typology of the buildings of the original house did not take advantage of the landscaping quality offered by the immediate proximity of a public park. To meet the need for expansion, the agency recommended that the house is renovated by occupying the night area, giving it more intimate spaces, and designing a contrasting extension, by means of a very open volume for the day spaces.

Extension of a Primary School / Thomas Landemaine Architectes

Rayen Sagredo — Mon, 25 Dec 2017 10:00:00 +0000

“Learning Corner” is the story of an obsolete municipal parking lot on which some inspired architects dropped a little school building.

Groupe A+ Headquarters / Ateliers A+

Rayen Sagredo — Sat, 07 Oct 2017 05:00:00 +0000

A+Architecture Group designed and constructed its own headquarters in a historical preservation site, the Domaine de Lafeuillade. This project site also includes a large ornamental garden, a historical mas (traditional southern farm house) converted into a gourmet restaurant and quaint guest house, as well as a housing complex comprised of 75 apartments, dispatched into several small-sized 3-story buildings.

Maison 0.82 / PASCUAL Architecte

Cristobal Rojas — Thu, 23 Mar 2017 03:00:00 +0000

The family house « Maison 0.82 » is situated in the South of France, in the Scrubland near the roman town of Nîmes. The main architecture consists in horizontality. The constant connection between the inside and outside is created by the tall swinging windows in the living room.

Villa Tempérée / ARTELABO

Cristobal Rojas — Tue, 06 Dec 2016 13:00:00 +0000

The project is a second home located in the countryside, in a small village near Lodève, at the north of Montpellier.