Tolila+Gilliland, architects: Taking care

Gaston Tolila and Nicholas Gilliland met in 2001, winning a humanitarian architecture competition. This nomadic dispensary project was exhibited at the Centre Pompidou in 2005.

In 2011, they set up the Tolila+Gilliland architectural studio around a shared desire to design projects and see them through to completion, exploring the relationship between uses and materials. Their work was awarded the Prix d’Architecture du Moniteur for First Work in 2012, then among the UNDER 40 in 2014 and two years in a row by the Prix de l’Équerre d’Argent in the Lieux d’Activité category in 2023 and in the Habitat category in 2024.

The studio’s architectural practice is characterized by the versatility of its programs: urban planning, housing, facilities, offices, healthcare and retail. Aware of the cultural, social and urban context of each site, the studio’s projects are based on a sensitive analysis of what is already there. The studio examines construction methods as the first lever in reducing the environmental impact of buildings, giving priority to natural, bio- and geosourced materials.

At this conference, they will be presenting the îlot poreux housing project in Bagneux, which aims to develop the pleasure of living together, through shared spaces from the street to the bedroom.

  

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