In 2011, Sophie Delage, Pierre Le Quer and Mathieu Grenier came together to found the architecture studio COMBAS Architectes, which was joined in 2016 by Éric Grenier. Each one contributes a specialty (urban planning and development, structure and interior architecture), which outlines a framework of thought.
The accumulation of intersecting perspectives forms a homogeneous whole, in particular thanks to a common ethic based on work in a triptych: relationship with the earth, relationship with the sky, work with matter. In each new project, they seek to reinterpret these issues by reading the vernacular typology, through modern implementation techniques. Architectural design is approached as a sedimentation of knowledge: each associate approaches the project through their specialty, and thus develops part of the architectural ensemble (location and morphology, urban and landscape integration, construction approach, response to the program, atmosphere and interior setting ), project economics, structure, furniture, lighting management...
The accumulation of intersecting perspectives forms a homogeneous whole, in particular thanks to a common ethic based on work in a triptych: relationship with the earth, relationship with the sky, work with matter. In each new project, they seek to reinterpret these issues by reading the vernacular typology, through modern implementation techniques. Architectural design is approached as a sedimentation of knowledge: each associate approaches the project through their specialty, and thus develops part of the architectural ensemble (location and morphology, urban and landscape integration, construction approach, response to the program, atmosphere and interior setting ), project economics, structure, furniture, lighting management...
