Promotion 2025

💬 F rom clay to building, 2 microns helps you build with local earth.

2 microns, founded by Anna-Laura Bourguignon, Frédérique Jonnard and Flora Marchand, is a raw-earth consultancy dedicated to promoting the use of local soils in construction and renovation.
It assists owners and contractors from the earliest stages in choosing building techniques adapted to local soils. 2 microns identifies reusable local soils, develops prototypes of adapted materials, and offers customized training.

💬 Bringingthe future intothe existing

Atelier Apara was co-founded in 2020 by Charlotte Guillochon and Victor Mesguich. The studio is passionate about designing projects that are sensitive and adapted to economic, social, ecological and territorial issues.

💬 Design with care, build with meaning.

An architectural agency founded in 2024, Atelier Clément Berthou is committed to providing its customers with relevant and appropriate solutions to their projects, whatever their type or scale, public or private, through a rigorous approach to both technical and conceptual issues.
This inventive and sensitive approach is practiced in a hybrid studio, employing both traditional methods of project management and new approaches to the practice of architecture and design.

💬 Transforming, renovating and adapting existing buildings to improve living environments

EDA, founded by Elsa Dupont, is an architectural studio working mainly on renovation and extension projects for existing buildings. The studio’s approach is sensitive, based on the valorization of ordinary heritage, the singular context of each site and adaptation to use.
In its practice, the studio is interested in the restructuring of everyday architecture, experimenting transversally with reuse and bio-sourced materials relevant to renovation.

💬 Building tomorrow’s imagination together

Atelier Kraken is an architectural practice founded in 2024 by Florent Guiziou and Jeanne Le Pors, deeply rooted in contemporary issues. They see architecture as a local practice, but without borders: attentive to geographical, social, economic and technical contexts; open to transdisciplinary collaboration; and founded on dialogue and collective intelligence to build together, through a diversity of viewpoints.

💬 F rom sketch to design, Bureau KAU accompanies living territories

Bureau KAU, founded in 2024 by architect/urban planner Léa Kauffeisen, aims to offer a territorial engineering service in rural environments in a playful and creative way. From cultural mediation to urban project management, the office provides a multi-scalar and multi-faceted reading of territories to propose the most appropriate response for its inhabitants. Taking care of the environment through sustainable and virtuous projects, and making the project process a human adventure, such is the office’s philosophy.

💬 C onstruction time is long time

Cyclie, an engineering consultancy specializing in energy-efficient renovation, and ALMAS Atelier d’Architecture are working together to leverage their skills and expertise to support private project owners in their renovation projects, from design to completion. Drawing on a wide range of backgrounds and experience, the three partners pool their know-how to carry out refurbishment projects of any scale, with a comprehensive, tailor-made approach.They are committed to the energy transition by helping to refurbish France’s building stock, while reinforcing the resilience of existing buildings. Through detailed studies of densification and heightening, they optimize the use of urban spaces while limiting the artificialization of land, and exploit “non-ordinary” land with high potential.
At the heart of their approach: existing buildings. They adopt an approach based on the transformation and valorization of existing resources.

💬 More grey matter for less raw material.

Founded in 2025 by Yann Ninot, EXISTANTS advocates the preservation of architectural resources through care, reconfiguration and reuse by combining project management and the development of digital tools.

💬 Adapting the existing, building the new differently.

FannyJohn Architectes is the association of Clémentine Thénot and Pierre-Julien Lee, committed to an architecture of connection, care and resilience, driven by the conviction that ecology is built collectively. Two singular backgrounds – circus arts for one, life sciences and agronomy for the other – and a shared vision: to make architecture a collective, sensitive and committed project, in tune with territories and resources. From La Réunion to the Normandy bocage, via Montmartre, we are developing two poles anchored in a territorial logic.

💬 People at the heart of the foundations, space to match.

Fondasyo is an international architecture studio at the crossroads of design, graphics, anthropology and research. Our multi-faceted architecture is deeply rooted in local territories, and places people at the heart of our actions, questioning the interactions between places, materials and the stories that shape them. Each project is an act of revelation, experimentation and transmission. Our guiding principle is to start from the foundations and work out solutions, helping people to regain possession of their own space, history and time.

💬 Expertise in the service of built heritage so that History has a future.

IMARA Architecture et Patrimoine, an architectural practice founded in 2025 by Camille Kikudji-Abbas, architect and engineer, is a committed player in the energy and architectural rehabilitation of historic buildings. The agency offers comprehensive expertise combining technical rigor, environmental performance and respect for historical values.

💬 Reveal the existing, respect the living.

Founded in 2024, Materia Cruda is an architecture and consultancy studio specializing in renovation and construction in earth and natural fibers, based between France and Ecuador. The studio brings together professionals committed to bioclimatic, low-tech and regenerative architecture, at
listening to the territories, their resources and their local building cultures. Materia Cruda supports clients and contractors in their search for context-sensitive solutions, placing materials at the service of the living.

💬 The studio militates for a manifestive approach to architecture, i.e. questioning what’s already there to design singular, relevant and joyful forms of subsistence in order to restore a collective narrative without prejudice or preconceptions, in the everyday places that make up the city.

Super bueno studio is an architectural practice founded in 2025 by architect and engineer Sébastien Bonnerot.

💬 A global approach to the project process, anchored in the long term, by proposing immersion, mediation and concertation schemes, in order to land situated and sustainable projects.

temps libres is an architecture and urban planning firm founded in 2024 by four friends united by a shared vision of cities and territories. Their approach tends to value what is already there: they defend the care of existing situations and wish to transmit and share a sensitive view of their natural and inhabited environments, whether heritage or ordinary.

💬 Transforming the existing for sustainable and singular places.

Traverse Architecture, founded by Marine Vauchez in 2023, designs bespoke projects with a particular focus on the existing environment. By highlighting the specific features of each location and mobilizing local materials and know-how, Traverse develops sensitive, committed architecture rooted in its context.

💬 Umarell accompanies local residents and stakeholders in the inventive and creative appropriation of lived-in spaces around a common project and narrative.

Umarell is a transdisciplinary association of architects and designers created in 2022, working at the intersection of social design, urban studies, user assistance and collaborative programming.