Bureau Balthazar

Bureau Balthazar is a Franco-Swiss architecture office established in Paris and Marseille. Its approach is closely related to the building act: to build and to protect. It is based on the idea that architecture is a strong and obvious social act. That it is a concrete fact whose practice and use build an emotion. Consciously sober and concrete, the office projects suggest a practice where making and wandering are interlocked. Where roaming, critic strolling and use trigger an emotion. Anchored in its era, the office develops pragmatic and rigorous projects in order to address the environmental and social issues of our time with sobriety and respect for our territories. Restoration of buildings, a true societal challenge, is therefore an integral part of our work. As well as the construction of environmentally friendly individual houses, of collective housings socially responsible, or of future bound public equipment like schools.