Saison Menu & Associates is a study organized around Luc Saison, architect and Isabelle Menu, urban architect, which currently includes 20 people.
Any project addressed by the study initiates a pragmatic study on the context taken in its broad sense, be it the work to be done in an existing building -the rehabilitation of a building- or in a new construction. All the elements that qualify and organize the specificity of a site, its history, its social uses, its topography will be analyzed and assimilated to a field of intensity that will be interpreted as a whole to optimize, for each project, the operation and economy for turn it into a space field.
These limitations are an opportunity to invent and improvise, but also a healthy requirement for the development of the project that somehow downloads the architecture of its self-representation. This design approach evacuates a priori formal or stylistic in the development of the project for the benefit of an investigation on the conditions of space production.
Any project addressed by the study initiates a pragmatic study on the context taken in its broad sense, be it the work to be done in an existing building -the rehabilitation of a building- or in a new construction. All the elements that qualify and organize the specificity of a site, its history, its social uses, its topography will be analyzed and assimilated to a field of intensity that will be interpreted as a whole to optimize, for each project, the operation and economy for turn it into a space field.
These limitations are an opportunity to invent and improvise, but also a healthy requirement for the development of the project that somehow downloads the architecture of its self-representation. This design approach evacuates a priori formal or stylistic in the development of the project for the benefit of an investigation on the conditions of space production.
