Sustainability & Biomimicry

Sustainable architecture is not an added option: it is our starting point. Biomimicry teaches us that nature has been solving for 3.8 billion years problems we are only beginning to discover — how to ventilate, how to structure, how to economise, how to endure. All our projects, from housing to public facilities — Arbre Blanc, Mille Arbres, Ecotone, Flying Garden — integrate the principles of the living: low-carbon materials, reversibility, passive energy, biophilia. Manal Rachdi has made this bio-inspired approach the signature of OXO, from the founding of the practice to its most recent projects.