Six fields of intervention, one conviction: architecture begins by listening to the living. At OXO, we design buildings as organisms — situated, sensitive, durable — capable of welcoming life and amplifying it.
Housing is our raw material. It is where the city is lived, transmitted, reinvented. At OXO, every housing project is a question, how to live better, denser, brighter, greener, rather than a standard answer. From L'Arbre Blanc in Montpellier to Île-de-France residences, we work to make verticality desirable, to turn each balcony into a fragment of landscape, and to reconcile urban density with the joy of dwelling.
See projects ›Public facilities are the institutions of daily life. They host childhood, care, mobility, collective memory. Our approach combines the civic ambition of a strong building with the humility of a fair use, architecture fades in service of the visitor. Schools, hospitals, stations, places of worship, crematoria: we design buildings that endure because they serve, and that leave a mark because they accompany the important moments of a life.
See projects ›The office has changed in nature. We rethink it as a milieu, biophilic, luminous, modular, where performance is measured by air quality, access to landscape, the possibility of silence. Our tertiary projects integrate the tree, full ground, programmatic flexibility: they anticipate the next decade of work rather than the previous one. The building becomes a tool serving those who occupy it, not the reverse.
See projects ›The contemporary city is built by superimposing uses, not by separating functions. Our mixed-use projects, residential, offices, retail, facilities, embrace this programmatic density as an opportunity: to create complete city fragments, alive at every hour, at every scale. The project becomes a piece of urbanity, capable of repairing inherited fractures and inventing new continuities between neighbourhoods, landscapes and publics.
See projects ›A cultural place stages a narrative. Our work is to build the frame, sober, generous, precise, within which that narrative can flourish, whether a museum, a cinema, a crematorium or a gallery. Architecture steps back before the work, but leaves a memorable imprint on the visitor leaving. We believe in spaces that elevate without intimidating, that gather without uniformising.
See projects ›Sustainable architecture is not an add-on: 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 save, how to last. All our projects, from housing to public facilities, 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.
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