Arkhenspaces
__________________________________ is an agile architecture, urbanism and design studio _______ focused on the research, design and construction of sensitive, efficient and sustainable environments. _______ It operates at every scale (from furniture to the city) through diverse projects attentive to uses, contexts and contemporary issues.__________
————————————— It works both as Lead Architect from conception to use (independently or in association with other practices) and as Client Representative Assistant from programming to operation.____________
———————– It develops an approach that is at once pragmatic (reason, economy), ecological (relationships with environments) and poetic (emotion), combining vernacular knowledge, technical innovation and digital cultures. Eric Cassar, founder of Arkhenspaces, personally takes part in and coordinates each project.
Providing more appropriate, efficient and sensitive responses to contemporary situations.
Founded in Paris in 2005, ARKHENSPACES develops a transversal practice combining architecture, urbanism, design and applied research.
The studio operates both as Lead Architect and as Client Representative Assistant on construction and rehabilitation projects, strategic studies, competitions and prospective research.
Its approach consists in developing inventive, sustainable, appropriate and efficient responses by integrating technical, economic and contextual constraints while re-questioning, whenever necessary, uses, programmes and spatial potentialities.
Each project can thus become an opportunity to explore new ways of living, working, moving, learning or sharing places.
ARKHENSPACES notably develops research on hybrid and interactive environments, new housing typologies and the relationships between architecture, uses and digital technologies.
From strategic reflection to operational implementation, ARKHENSPACES assembles multidisciplinary internal or external teams bringing together architects, engineers, designers, landscape architects, artists and technical specialists according to each project.
This approach combines research, constructive pragmatism, attention to real uses and the sustainable enhancement of the existing. It can lead both to the development of new architectural concepts and to the invention of technical solutions adapted to existing contexts.
For the past twenty years, the studio has developed projects and research for public authorities, large companies, investors, institutions and private clients.
It has notably worked on new service station concepts for Total (three projects built in the Netherlands), prospective research on infrastructures and mobility for Eiffage, new working environments for VINCI Facilities, environmental and resource-related devices for Veolia, as well as housing projects, rehabilitation of existing buildings, urban spaces and facilities at different scales.
This diversity of situations nourishes an approach combining prospective vision, real constraints, innovation in use and operational implementation within a reflection attentive to resources, uses and long-term transformations.
Films, lectures and project videos
Explore conferences, interviews, research and project videos on the ARKHENSPACES YouTube channel.