quentin fruchaud architectures
Architecture Firm Paris / France
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Qfa - sober aesthetic, rigorous technique
Graduated in 2006, Quentin Fruchaud retained from the ENSA Versailles a sense of place - from the urban context through to the landscape - which is now the basis of a coherent and well thought portfolio of work.
After a year at the Ecole Polytechnique in Barcelona, he completed his training by eight years practical experience in several practices; with Paul Chemetov, he mastered standards and regulations then subsequently gained his independence with Fèvre Gaucher architects and planners before spending four years with the Philéas practice where he developed his architectural culture, both the design and graphic expression of projects as well as construction constraints.
Founder of qfa (Quentin Fruchaud Architectures) in 2014, this experience enables him in newbuild and rehabilitation projects to develop an architecture where a sober aesthetic is expressed through the rigour of drawing. The simplicity of volumes is based on a structural understanding that responds to the client’s objectives, the legibility and mix of uses and efficient construction.
‘The technical and construction constraints make it possible to introduce sensitivity into the project’. The aspect, tactility and sonority of the materials, the matter, the technical details, each element of design contributes to a renewed architecture on each occasion.
The diversity of qfa projects testifies to their capacity to adapt to different briefs whether it be rehabilitation such as an 18th century house in the Lot Region or an apartment building in the 12th arrondissement, Paris or new-build constructions such as the façade designed for a public building in the Congo, the construction of an Haras in Dourdan (Essonne) or the conversion and redevelopment of an office building in the 5th arrondissement, Paris.
The Qfa brand is an architecture adapted to the contextual, economic and regulatory constraints of its time that remains sensitive and functional, generous, luminous and respectful of the spirit of the place.
Graduated in 2006, Quentin Fruchaud retained from the ENSA Versailles a sense of place - from the urban context through to the landscape - which is now the basis of a coherent and well thought portfolio of work.
After a year at the Ecole Polytechnique in Barcelona, he completed his training by eight years practical experience in several practices; with Paul Chemetov, he mastered standards and regulations then subsequently gained his independence with Fèvre Gaucher architects and planners before spending four years with the Philéas practice where he developed his architectural culture, both the design and graphic expression of projects as well as construction constraints.
Founder of qfa (Quentin Fruchaud Architectures) in 2014, this experience enables him in newbuild and rehabilitation projects to develop an architecture where a sober aesthetic is expressed through the rigour of drawing. The simplicity of volumes is based on a structural understanding that responds to the client’s objectives, the legibility and mix of uses and efficient construction.
‘The technical and construction constraints make it possible to introduce sensitivity into the project’. The aspect, tactility and sonority of the materials, the matter, the technical details, each element of design contributes to a renewed architecture on each occasion.
The diversity of qfa projects testifies to their capacity to adapt to different briefs whether it be rehabilitation such as an 18th century house in the Lot Region or an apartment building in the 12th arrondissement, Paris or new-build constructions such as the façade designed for a public building in the Congo, the construction of an Haras in Dourdan (Essonne) or the conversion and redevelopment of an office building in the 5th arrondissement, Paris.
The Qfa brand is an architecture adapted to the contextual, economic and regulatory constraints of its time that remains sensitive and functional, generous, luminous and respectful of the spirit of the place.
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Qfa - sober aesthetic, rigorous technique Graduated in 2006, Quentin Fruchaud retained from the ENSA Versailles a sense of place - from the urban context through to the landscape - which is now the basis of a coherent and well thought portfolio of work. After a year at the Ecole Polytechnique in Barcelona, he completed his training by eight years practical experience in several practices; with Paul Chemetov, he mastered standards and regulations then subsequently gained his independence...
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