Clement Blanchet Architecture

Informations générales

CLÉMENT BLANCHET ARCHITECTURE (cBA) is an innovative architecture and urban design practice that brings together multidisciplinary and multicultural actors on themes around the city, architecture and all media related to it. The firm approaches the design of architecture, infrastructure and the city as necessarily interrelated, and in negotiation with planning, development and public space. This complexity is not a constraint but a project tool to reveal solutions that possess potential simplicity, clarity and unity.
cBA was founded with a mandate to rethink architecture and urbanism as a way to better solve, read and represent the city; to find new meaning for the architecture of the city as a durable and enduring urban project. In many competition-winning designs, originality is found in the beauty of the ordinary.
Stable and experienced, cBA makes its diversity a strength. To generate highly specific responses, cBA activates its extensive knowledge network, working with and leading complex multidisciplinary teams. In this way, the practice becomes the mediator, the coordinator, guaranteeing the unity of the project and integrity of the concept. The practice is structured as a laboratory, informing and generating architecture and urbanism out of the conditions of the city and territory.

The synergy between theory and practice is the base of its methodological approach. The practice engages the consciousness of reality, of the real world, but also the analysis of phenomena – environmental, developmental, economic - that affect and feed architecture. This methodology not only deals with inventions but also with manipulations, making program legible, and ensuring resilience and durability over time. This structure operates at multiple scales; from designing interiors to public cultural facilities, while considering specific approaches in the areas of education, housing, infrastructure, landscape and urbanism. The firm has also developed tools for dialogue with different urban and project actors, aimed to place the user at the heart of the creative process. Through this way of working cBA delivers robust projects that challenge the status quo for its clients, cities , the
urban environments and the populations within them.