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: it becomes a living, biophilic milieu, where performance is measured by air quality, access to landscape, the possibility of silence. With Mille Arbres, a project-city straddling the Paris ring road at Porte Maillot, we reinvented the tertiary's relationship with nature by laying an inhabited forest above Paris. The Cité de l'Innovation, in the heart of the capital, extends this ambition: turning the office into a place of urban making, open and tree-planted. With Ecotone Sophia, currently under construction, the tertiary building becomes an ecosystem — a revolution in our relationship with nature, light and climate. And with Sisley, we support a cosmetics giant towards a new way of working: a sensitive campus, where the elegance of the industrial gesture meets the demand for care and attention.
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. With the Cugnaux cultural centre, we gave a town a totemic facility where the media library, cinema and performance hall dialogue within a single architectural gesture. At the Pavillon de l'Arsenal in Paris, we staged the debate on the city and its future, turning the exhibition space into a living pedagogical tool. With Studio Tage, we design a contemporary place of creation, tailored to today's uses — production, dissemination, encounter — where material and light restore the artist's place. Architecture steps back before the work, but leaves a memorable imprint on the visitor leaving.
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. With Ecotone Sophia, under construction at the heart of the Sophia-Antipolis technology park, and Ecotone Arcueil, already delivered at the gates of Paris, we experiment with the building-as-ecosystem at full scale: double green skin, bioclimatic patios, reintroduced biodiversity. With L'Arbre Blanc in Montpellier, verticality becomes hospitable — every balcony is a leaf, the tower breathes. And with L'Arbre de Vie in Créteil, the future tallest green tower of eastern Paris, we extend the same lineage: thinking the building as a living organism, high-performing and low-footprint. Manal Rachdi has made this bio-inspired approach the signature of OXO.
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