VIGUIER is an international architecture, urban planning and landscape design practice based in Paris.
Reputed for producing highly original, creative work, the agency has been awarded many times, the latest being the gold BIM prize for the Hyperion Tower in Bordeaux.
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Made-to-measure answers
With an eye to maximizing synergies and providing a full range of solutions, the practice incorporates a variety of specialists in different disciplines who intervene during the various stages of a project’s lifecycle. In addition to this broad spectrum of expertise, the firm seeks to explore the frontiers of an architecture that is both innovative and sustainable. Always looking to extend boundaries and explore new concepts, VIGUIER is resolutely experimental in its approach, arriving at bespoke solutions that are in keeping with both architecture’s universal values and the firm’s corporate responsibility to society.
Bold and precise
Conscious of the challenges that modern lifestyles impose, the stakes for the environment and the impact of technological change, VIGUIER’s projects in both France and around the world, whether for public or private clients, form part of an architectural approach that places the individual and society as a whole at its center. Its projects are developed in keeping with an ecosystems approach that allows the practice to be simultaneously bold and precise in how it answers the wide range of questions that arise in every project, ranging from issues of urban planning to the details of interior architecture.
An ecosystems vision
VIGUIER takes an integrated, global approach to all its work, allowing it to operate at different levels of scale, from the macro to the micro. Four disciplines – architecture, interior architecture, urban planning and landscape design – are integrated into the overall practice and work hand-in-hand. In addition, a number of in-house, state-of-the-art support ‘services’ – a physical model workshop, BIM digital modelling, 3D imaging and computer graphics – can be called on to contribute to projects where necessary. In parallel, the practice supports research in experimental architecture and urban planning. Working with some of the finest researchers across universities and research facilities around the world, it can support clients with highly innovative projects through access to the most up-to-date resources and data.
Models are an essential component to aid understanding of any project. Almost instantly understandable, they highlight the various components of a project and demonstrate its relationship to space and light. Revealing the salient features of the architectural concept, they act as the basis of a constructive dialogue with the project’s commissioners and play a major role in ensuring ongoing engagement.
A BIM approach
By creating a form of virtual reality, digital 3D images allow a project, and how it fits into the local environment, to be viewed in its early stages of development.
And with the increasing complexity of urban impact studies, artificial intelligence can be employed to optimize the different parameters in order to develop the most appropriate solutions.
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