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Driven by curiosity and enthusiasm, NODE architectes is a Vannes-based architecture firm that willingly works on various project scales:

Individual Housing | Commercial & Offices | Collective Housing | Interior Design | Scenography | Public Facilities | Urban Planning | Project Management Assistance.

A trio of values underpins the firm's approach:

Poetics

Volume, Landscape, Light are merely words, an abstraction. Yet they radically shape our living environment. The relationship between interior and exterior space is essential. Mastering this relationship allows us to imagine spaces that are sometimes intimate, sometimes very open to the landscape. It allows us to offer generous volumes and often abundant natural light.

Everyday Life

While architecture embodies a form of transcendence, it must also respond to the needs that call for it. Use, ergonomics, maintenance, and flow management all require concrete solutions. Well-designed spaces are so simple to experience that it's hard to explain the origins of this obviousness. Our sensitivity to everyday uses pushes us to consider the technical solutions that will be integrated very early on.

Ethics

Respect and Dialogue guide our relationship with our environment. This is characterized by frank dialogue with all project stakeholders, from the project owner to the craftspeople.

Respect for living things, in the broadest sense, nourishes our connection with the people around us, as well as with our entire natural environment, placing sustainable development at the heart of our relationship with the world.

And the environment in all this?

Considering ecological issues cannot be an overlay added to the rest, by calling for "green" technical solutions. It is a deep-rooted approach, a way of thinking and conceiving the world:

• Build less. Think more. Question real needs to find an appropriate solution.
• Rely on bioclimatic design. This is the foundation of our approach, and it's sometimes worth repeating. Because we must reduce needs before optimizing consumption.

Pauline, Pedro, and Willy,

NODE architects