Located in a forested dead-end, in the heart of ultra-secure office enclaves within the Sophia Antipolis technology park, the project aims to create a unifying public space for students, despite a limited budget. We repurpose the regulations related to bicycle parking: instead of creating a dedicated and isolated ground-floor area, we place the bicycles directly on the walkways. This choice allows us to design generous outdoor circulation spaces which, when not occupied, provide students with usable areas — balconies, terraces, and informal gathering spots. Taking advantage of this configuration, and inspired by Mediterranean courtyard urban typologies, each unit benefits from dual orientation and effective natural ventilation.

LOCAL transforms a historic building in Bergen into a vibrant cultural house with mini-golf, food, and performing arts.

From clubhouse to community hub

Sport facilities and youth centers serve as inclusive hubs activating the city. Our community-based projects promote social engagement while advocating for the physical and mental well-being of the younger generation.

We revitalize spaces by implementing new programs and follow a careful reuse of materials and resources. Our approach integrates communities into built structures and neighborhoods.

We reimagine the health ecosystem by relocating it where we live—transforming facilities and launching innovative projects. We design inclusive, multigenerational neighborhoods and compassionate communities for future generations.

The building’s original character and structure have guided our renovation approach, emphasizing the exposed concrete framework and preserving its generous volumes.

From Stone to Sustainable: A Bold Vision for Grandfjæra Vest in Molde Grandfjæra Vest in Molde transforms 700,000m³ of leftover stone into a vibrant, sustainable waterfront district. Designed by LOCAL, in collaboration with Curve Studio and INSAM, it integrates cultural venues, green/blue spaces, and community engagement, redefining urban living through sustainability and local identity.

The project transforms and extends the 1960´ existing building to become a regional destination, co-locating diverse cultural programs for the local community and seasonal tourism.

Being part of the Generation festival 2024 in Bergen, our project aims to create innovative urban narratives through a design and construction course, emphasizing social inclusion and sustainability in Bergen, and is part of the Generation Festival and FIB Festspillene Bergen 2024.

"Ta Vare! - Taking Care!" is our innovative proposal for transforming the old Veterinary School at Adamstuen into a vibrant, inclusive neighborhood. Our vision is to create a space that welcomes a diverse range of users and offers various facilities.

The project in Rana Municipality, Norway, addresses a rapid aging population and escalating healthcare costs by planning a new nursing home and repositioning facilities for more efficient health services, focusing on developing an age-friendly neighborhood in Ytteren.

Nursing the Care is an innovative initiative that aims to integrate healthcare services, staff, and comprehensive care into Danish Social Housing. The project is a first prize winner of international competition Neighbourhood for Generation and was presented at the 28th UIA World Congress 2023 in Copenhagen.

Taking inspiration from the city's rooftop panorama and the existing structuralist architecture, the proposal aims to preserve the breathtaking view while offering protection from the elements and introducing innovative features for a multifunctional rooftop experience.

In the midst of a health crisis, the Caisse des Français de l'Étranger (CFE), whose mission is to cover the health of expatriates, wanted to set up a reception and work space in the heart of Paris. We produced a flexible space that embraces the architectural codes of the international style, with a rigorous, airy design that echoes the CFE's mission to take over social security worldwide. In order to transform the workspace to accommodate 3 to 5 offices, we developed a hybrid form between the open-space and the enclosed office. Large sheets of glass divide the volume permanently, while additional separations are possible thanks to large acoustic curtains. Within a limited area, we wanted to offer a wide range of possible uses to bring collaborators together around their professional service.

Almost in the middle of the spaghetti junction, on the shore of Store Lungegårdsvannet, and clearly visible from the city's mountains, is the new helicopter base for Helse Bergen.

The building in Fantoftvegen is being transformed into a place that reflects its identity, green energy production!

Lundavang and Stuevollen in Molde are to be transformed from an area with a hospital and associated functions into a sought-after future neighborhood that is linked more closely with the rest of the district. Molde municipality wants to set a new standard for the development of neighborhoods in Molde. This includes the use of existing and new knowledge about participation methods and sustainability as tools to fulfill the municipality's four goals for the future development of the area. The feasibility study is part of a larger process that lays the foundation for an area regulation of the planning area at Lundavang. In addition, a physical and socio-cultural site analysis and planning program for the upcoming area regulation has been prepared.

LOCAL with landscape firm Curve Studio, commissioned by Vestland County Council, have drawn up a project for an innovative activity hall in connection with the building of a new school at Trudvang in the center of Sogndal. The ideas behind our proposal are to create a truly innovative activity venue that exists in its own right. The proposal recognizes the need for a new type of activity venue that mixes sport, art, culture and is an open invitation for everyone to enter. It is open to users who are part of a club or school, but also to others who may not fall into this framework, and may not necessarily find their space to hang out and gather.

The proposal for the Football Club Bokelj builds a unique identity for the stadium that is integrated in the territory and the heritage of the city. Instead of creating an enclosed and monumental stadium, the future sport facility is thought of as an open plaza : a place where spectators can simultaneously support their favorite team and appreciate the magnificent landscape.

BKOLON V8 is a new concept of co-working for lovers of David Bowie that enjoy sipping a glass at the end of day with like-minded people. We propose a transformation project with reuse and generous shared spaces in mind. A soft dark wooden centerpiece with curved walls articulates the entire office space. Furnitures are a mix of Scandinavian design from Kinapps and vintage pieces from BH Møbler in Oslo.

Reinventing the school-yard - How can public school plays a greater civic role in rural Norway? Good meeting places with varied and attractive low-threshold offers for physical activity are important for public health and lively local environment.

Overlooking the Nancy city, the "Coeur de Coteaux" plot meet heterogeneous realities and temporalities: a protected park with tall trees used as backward gardens, some hidden individual housings and offices, one large active historic building, and a modernist concrete ruin.

Auby renewal of the center starts with two key plots along the water at the entrance of the city. On the south bank, a triangular plot is developed into a mixed social housing with shared gardens, civic and formation center stimulating new professional vocation in a high unemployement area of France. On the North bank, the former headquarter of the local factory is to be transformed into a Youth-center by the municipality, designed with an attractive city park by the water. It holds a skatepark, sports facilities for all and extend the walk along the Deule canal, to be completed for the 2024 Olympic games in Paris.

Located in the center of Auby, the "Aldi" wasteland offers the opportunity to apply the principles established by our GreyMatter research : Set the seniors as productive players of the cities. The project offers an inclusive living concept within a lush and intimate environment that has a strong capacity to evolve. Using a simple and repetitive structural principle, we allow residents to change the size of their apartments depending on their needs and lifestyles.

Safety and medical accessories are function-oriented and often soulless.

The documentary Greymatter Bergen is a project about the current state of how we grow old and live in the center of cities, using Bergen as a case study. By documenting and mapping the lives of our el-derly today, we want to inspire, question, and imagine an inclusive and resilient future for the city.

Greenstation is a company working on developing the energy station with functionality and usability in mind. Greenstation vision is to create a new mobility experience that inspires new sustainable habits. This will be the precondition for accelerating the transition to an emissions free society and complying with the transport policy goals by 2025.

La Tapadera is inspired by hispanic streetlife and the beloved taberna. The space is distributed in four main open spaces: el bar, la cocina, la piscina and la tienda. All of them with a special character and use of color palette.

With the premise of adding more social and meeting areas we proposed a large living room in the center of the office space.

We proposed a flexible space that can be used as a recording studio and an informal meeting room open to the city on the ground floor of a very central location.

We have been invited by Galleri ROM to participate in a conversation about the importance of language for diverse architecture and place development. Together with other five Norwegian-based actors from different nationalities, with different life backgrounds and knowledge of art, architecture and urban planning, we have created six new words. The dictionary takes the form of a postcard (one per word) which is sent to important actors the group believes play a role in the development of both professional language and strengthened representation. The dictionary is the framework for a public discussion event.

Our vision for PlastCon is based on wrapping office space, learning centre and public areas around the factory at the heart, shortcutting the usual linear shape of a production facility into a circular loop. The circular shape cut in half creates a dynamic façade that anchor the building toward the main access and entrance while the curved roof on the other side blends the building to its surrounding.

Arquia Foundation unanimously awarded the grant for Greymatter: an ecology of integrated health in the city, presented by local partner Elida Mosquera.

LOCAL proposes a new meeting place for all generations in the city of Ames in Galicia. We design a familiar shape with a traditional gable roof as a new domestic space. A simple way that can generate a positive social value of inclusion and belonging while feeling less institutional.

These two industrial buildings are transformed into production premises for performing arts.

With a resilient neo-rural movement driving a return to the affordable, green, and fiber-optic connected countryside, can the city provide a qualified alternative? This scheme addresses the question of how successful family living can be sustained on a complex, urban location. The courtyard buildings with varying heights balance the need for acoustic near the road, visual privacy in an optimal sun condition. This creates a variety of visual engagement with the protected communal areas inside and exterior views. At the ground level, the placement of buildings shapes pedestrian movement and allows visual permeability. As the cost of housing and construction prices soar, affordability, waste management, regional production and adaptability must drive the strategy. We envisage a prefabricated system and the typologies are designed to be adaptable so that the family can spend a lifetime in them, converting balcony to bedroom back to winter garden.

Which qualities are to be found in Laksevågneset that further planning should take into account?

At the meeting point between the heterogeneous urban intertwining - shopping center, high-rise blocks and detached houses - this new urban area will solve several challenges: to create an ambitious urban and landscape density without hindering the development of an attractive living environment for Bergen.

This intergenerational housing building offers housing typologies for the whole life cycle including assisted living apartments. A strong feeling of community is created by shared communal spaces and a productive garden in the heart of the development.

It is common to focus on children and youth as the driving force behind the development of society. Our claim is that older people can also play such roles, and we will therefore give health services a central place socially and geographically, as opposed to isolation, passivity and powerlessness. Such a mindset is necessary given the expected age distribution in the future. By merging as many social functions and age groups as possible, a socially sustainable society can be created, where the eye looking forward has a brain full of memories behind it. It is now possible to create new street images and encounters across generations and health conditions. We believe that this will promote activities and ideas, more independence and new business channels. A new master plan that strengthens and increases the offer in a city that makes sense.

Presented in a revisited Stabbur, a Norwegian building to traditionally store food, we are collecting the stories of active seniors in the Fjord city of Bergen and question how we can design the resilient and inclusive city of the future.

Our goal is to develop an innovative and unique concept that brings together new public activities with a new F&B concept around an interior courtyard intended as the heart of the project.

What if the transformation of Turku ́s industrial waterfront became a new act of re-wilding that can also transform how the city will use and reuse its local resources ? We envision a new district reconnecting the city, with pristine beaches along a new archipelago shoreline, to its history, its inhabitants and the sea. Our future vision focuses on integrating the urbanism of reuse & recycling to create an exciting all year round destination for all, rather than pushing away the mechanism and spaces of this sector in mutation today.

Located in the historical center of Voiron, an old degraded collective building is the object of a future heavy energy renovation. On this occasion, the complete transformation of the housing typologies is planned. Currently composed of a T3 per level, the objective of the owner is to divide these floors. From this observation, we have sought to design T1bis and T2bis that can find the quality of volumes and surfaces initially present. We designed apartments with large sliding doors, which allow the living rooms and bedrooms to open generously towards each other. The spatial optimization of the kitchens and bathrooms increases the impression of space available for the living room and the bedrooms.

Improving the socio-economic ecology of BoTu focuses on three types of intervention: maintaining, connecting and activating, with physical and social actions. Rather than a central fragmented condition, with an aging park and a square in doubt, we consolidate them into one significant public space. We propose unifying for diversifying, opening rooms for potential, at different scales and connected to each other in this framework. Maintaining Pier 1 with a new stepped terraced housing above, a generous light roof redefining scale and purpose of the square, a new entity, namely Pier 2 on the south. Programed and unprogrammed urban rooms for activities prioritizing sport and health supported by different actors and set across the enhanced landscaped park, more porous, green and attractive.

The “Unpredictable City” positions itself as an urban tool to stimulate local culture with economical strategy and an ecological solution. Our ambition is to make a shift from the fast-pace Russian building industry to developments that are flexible in configuration of both public spaces and personal amenities. By introducing timber construction as a standard for collective housing, Russia is prompted to become new world leader in sustainable building in the near future.

Oscar Niemeyer’s masterplan distinctively marked Tripoli with grand modernist gesture. The project delineates the human scale within this masterplan by proposing series of interconnected buildings placed onto the fabric of the site. Pockets of exterior spaces between these buildings resemble Mediterranean streets and courtyards; the diversity and flexibility in spatial settings allow the users to creatively collaborate and find serendipity.

Our concept establishes a spatial language that is distinct and integrated to the museum. It is distinct at the image of the exhibition itself that brings for the first time poetry and journalism together.

The hotel transforms the typical corridors of a Dutch townhouse into action bands for moving, staying and sleeping inside.

Our proposal for the new downtown fire station focuses on a simple and efficient second floor layout, a mezzanine on the second floor, with a comfortable and well oriented living space on the third floor.

Renowned for their exhibition space in an underground gallery, the Ground Effect team has now found a home on the street. Located in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris, the new gallery connects 220m2 of converted cellar space to a 70m2 presentation and retail space on the first floor. Visible from the street, the transition to the basement projects the sleek atmosphere of the contemporary gallery within the vaulted stone cellars. Using Ground Effect’s [black and white] graphic code, we express the gallery’s identity through a simple inversion of colors on the floors, walls and ceilings. This process confronts two display aesthetics: the luminous work on a black background or the work in contrast with the white of the wall.

The vision of the Paralympic Sports Center provides a new attractive center in the neighbourhood for both athletes and residents of the city. The Sports Centre is designed as a park for leisure and sports, specially adapted for people with reduced mobility. The concept of this offer is based on the linear public strip open space extending along the existing Bisumuiza ditch, which provides direct connections to all sports facilities and sports fields. Sports facilities and fields are compact, creating abbreviated distances between them. This public outdoor space is designed for various sports activities and events.

Located in an existing building, an old cafe is transformed in a cold and barren space for a hairdresser, formed in Berlin. A steel totem placed in the center serves as a hair dressing station, while articulating the different spaces. Mirrors placed on each side of the metal grid perpetuate a game of reflections between the urban environment and the choreography of the hairdresser.

The project seats on two occupied sites; one by a paper mill, the other by a large postal warehouse. Like many peripheral areas, the sites presents a challenging task for re-qualification. Large scale road, unused rail infrastructure and privatized fenced warehouses renders the land fragmented and sparse. Recent attempts to upgrade the surrounding closer to Bordeaux have focused on providing of housing and leisure spaces along the waterfront and toward the new train station. Our proposal, however, asserts that: 1. A workspace-based strategy for intensification is needed in order for the area to accommodate the evolution of the current actors and create new synergies - workspace urbanism. Although housing constitute most of the built area, we also recognize that it will play a smaller role in transforming the site for a new productive district. 2. A project of holistic scale and built-in flexibility is crucial to approach these kinds of sites -integrated project. 3. A project where outdoor spaces must work harder to support the primary mission of our area, to deliver an exciting and successful workspace and living environment. Currently, the landscape in similar districts does very little to define places for interaction. It buffers buildings and roads, but fails to create the gardens, plazas, and promenades that would create a much needed identity.

The Grössling City Baths are a unique complex reflecting the “genetic code” of the city of Bratislava. Its walls and buildings can tell the story of all the historical changes, cultural transformations, different political regimes and architectural styles that have taken place in Slovakia over the past 100 years. By enhancing the built heritage and its spatial qualities - we offer a contemporary lifestyle that will make the baths one of the major new attractions of the capital. This building, once a symbol of “bourgeois comfort” in its origin, now opens its doors as a public space, wellness and cultural center.

This project implements a narrative rooted in a territory with Mediterranean and Alpine influences: pastel ochres, terracotta buildings, villages with narrow streets that settle on rocky peaks, and a thousand-faceted vegetation. Sitting on the slope of an existing golf course, a group of suites and services dedicated to the hotel industry unfolds a new topography, supporting a landscape rich in contrast and which offers singular views of the distant and nearby landscape: the Luberon Massifs and the Villars quarries. Like a link between the earth and the sky, the roofs will protect the suites, the external circulations and the terraces from the sun. Favoring a bioclimatic and “low-tech” design, this project aims to blur the perception between architecture and nature, between exterior and interior.

Located in a Haussmannian building in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, the complete renovation of this apartment consists in opening up the space and bringing in a maximum of light by removing superfluous elements of the finishing work and enhancing the existing metal structure. Defending the use of natural materials, with a raw aspect, we proposed to combine oak coverings for the floor and the furniture with the use of terracotta tiles to partition the different spaces. Their intrinsic characteristics - solidity, insensitivity to humidity, natural regulator improving air quality - allow for a sustainable and healthy transformation of the individual metropolitan housing with a strong mineral character.

The Helsinki National Museum seeks to create an extension to accommodate large-scale contemporary art collections, cultural events and meeting spaces. Located next to the historic work of the architects Gesellius, Lindgren and Saarinen, our proposal strive toward the balance between conservation and operation, quietly echoing the ethos of the heritage building and site. One the ground level, a one-story building encloses a large open courtyard which accommodates flexible programing. The museum exhibition space and its supporting programs are hidden underground surrounded by light-casted rammed earth wall construction

The multiple connections between the programs create the unpredictability that inspires creativity. The visitors are visually in contact with everything: the art pieces, the archives, and the different zones of activities. We propose an art complex that ultimately became the laboratory that the museum cannot be. Each program sets a central point from where it can grow in any direction. The Open-Archive connects the ground floor to the rooftop with succession of unique spaces: a double height reading lounge, a sketching courtyard, small meeting rooms, exhibition galleries and archival steps. The visitor can be surrounded by exhibited materials while reading a book, sketching or building a new creation.

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How can a public building create a sense of urbanity with resilient and attractive streetscape in a peripheral context under transformation?

Set in the centrale square of the city of Valenciennes, the new store contribute to an already strongly heteroclite context. We have imagined a pure and transparent facade to reveal all decorative elements of the brand identity as part of the new facade.

Located on the first floor of a recently completed collective housing building, El Ghorba mon amour offers a general bookstore in a neighborhood undergoing complete requalification (heart of the district - Nanterre). The weakened market of the sale of books imposes inevitable economic constraints for a young entity. The balance of the cost of the project is found in a skillful balance between the furniture coming from the trade and certain elements made to measure. The project consists of thickening the available wall space to support the large amount of shelving, and then creating display units in the window with a low height, in order to allow a significant transparency towards the interior. The visual identity is based on a pastel polychrome game inspired by a painting published by the client.

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If not the city but our life in the city were to be more ‘productive’ had more to do with the idea of being ‘meaningful’? What if the notion of productivity was not focused on youth but overcoming a fortuitous age segregation to focus on senior? The Urban Loop in Auby brings this together in a framework harnessing effort made and other needed around the idea of Age-integration and Health. With new streetscapes, an intergenerational habitat partly self-managed facilitates access to learning, voluntary work, crafts, continue or start businesses, support research in synergy with regional actors and the youth. A forward-looking public/private institute sharing functions and creating mutual value. The masterplan comes to support and grow the offer of living in a meaningful city

The project questions the flexibility and the usage of wood; it aims to modify the traditional codes of the individual housing. The building is a prototype dwelling, which feeds on research, experiments and discoveries made over time. In a perpetual evolution, the house is part of an educative promenade organized in the park of the Bourdaisière Castle (France).