DLW Architectes is an architecture studio founded in 1998 in the French city of Nantes by Francois Dussaux, Aurel Lepoutre, and Vincent Wattier. The studio was born with the idea of building better to have a better life, creating generous architecture for everyone, designed for those who inhabit or use it. Whether housing, technical equipment, tertiary or public buildings, their projects take into account their urban, human, cultural, or environmental contexts.
Its architecture is based on the appropriate balance in the use of visible materials: concrete, metal, and wood are always used for their aspects or qualities, highlighting their materiality and adjusting this to the realities of their implementation, and its physical and sensory properties. In addition, they seek to reconnect the buildings they design with bioclimatic principles of lighting, ventilation, or thermal regulation.
Its architecture is based on the appropriate balance in the use of visible materials: concrete, metal, and wood are always used for their aspects or qualities, highlighting their materiality and adjusting this to the realities of their implementation, and its physical and sensory properties. In addition, they seek to reconnect the buildings they design with bioclimatic principles of lighting, ventilation, or thermal regulation.
