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ROOM atelier d’architecture
was established in early 2020 by Emmanuelle Raoul-Duval (1984).
It is an architectural practice conceived of in Los Angeles and based in Paris.
With strong ties and experiences in both Los Angeles and Paris, ROOM aspires to continues building its transcontinental body of knowledge and practice. It looks to the vast array of territories and landscapes that these cities evoke, and searches for an equally plural response.
As an architectural practice, which at base is about producing space and making room, ROOM projects the built object in a variety of formats - be that a booklet or a building.
The primary material of ROOM’s practice is the project, and it begins with the territory. Each project has its own history, forms of representation, and ambitions, but the main motivation is to materialize links with its context and real environment.
Otherwise said, ROOM is less interested in taking position on “what Architecture is” but rather building a scenario that responds to an actual context – landscapes, people, situations. It means entering into a dialog that is different for each project, based on a close reading of history and pre-existing conditions.
ROOM takes an editorial approach to architecture.
It thinks with the “version” rather than the original – that is, vocabulary comes with the conversion and transformation of what already exists. It searches for a methodology that is both fed by the territory itself and ROOM’s material excess. These materials might not fit under the category of built objects but nonetheless contribute to ROOM as a project. They install larger pathways and research trajectories that can then feed back into the architectural practice itself.
Namely, ROOM is interested in questioning anthropocentric design, human body, and scale. It asks: What should be the scale of design that addresses today’s environmental challenges?
Playing itself between disciplines and by projects, ROOM aims to work in collaboration.
And after all, with that said, ROOM takes its name from Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own.
78, bd de Magenta, 75010 PARIS
info@room-architecture.com
T. +33 6 14 20 54 59
882 920 861 R.C.S Paris
N° Ordre S21520
WIP
VICQ
in collaboration with Le Lab Architecture
Renovation and extension of a 290m2 countryside house, its annex & exterior spaces, west of Paris
Yvelines (78) / Private client / All phases_currently: APD ( DD) / Budget: undisclosed / 2023 - today
in collaboration with Le Lab Architecture
Renovation and extension of a 290m2 countryside house, its annex & exterior spaces, west of Paris
Yvelines (78) / Private client / All phases_currently: APD ( DD) / Budget: undisclosed / 2023 - today
ROCHECHOUARD
in collaboration with Le Lab Architecture
Building extension (vertical addition) for apartments, offices and outdoor shared spaces, in the courtyard of a haussmann lot in Paris
Paris 9e (75) / Private client / contract for permit set / Budget: undisclosed / 2023 - today
in collaboration with Le Lab Architecture
Building extension (vertical addition) for apartments, offices and outdoor shared spaces, in the courtyard of a haussmann lot in Paris
Paris 9e (75) / Private client / contract for permit set / Budget: undisclosed / 2023 - today
CHOISY
in collaboration with Le Lab Architecture
Renovation and extension of a 3-floor house for a family in a parisian courtyard
Paris 13e (75) / private client / all phases _currently: APS (DD) / Budget: undisclosed / 2023 - today
in collaboration with Le Lab Architecture
Renovation and extension of a 3-floor house for a family in a parisian courtyard
Paris 13e (75) / private client / all phases _currently: APS (DD) / Budget: undisclosed / 2023 - today
EUGENE CARRIERE
in collaboration with Le Lab Architecture
2 floor addition to an existing building close to Montmartre in Paris, to be divided into two apartments
Paris 18e (75) / Private client / All Phases _currently: Permit / Budget: 750 000e / 2021 - today
PROJECTS
MAGENTA
in collaboration with Le Lab Achitecture
Renovation of a 40m2 apartment in the attic of a haussmann building in Paris
Design phases: Le Lab / Construction (CA): ROOM + Le Lab
Paris 10e (75) / Private client / Delivered / Cost: 95 000e / 2022 - 23
photos by Daniele Rocco
︎ daniele.rocco.photographe
in collaboration with Le Lab Achitecture
Renovation of a 40m2 apartment in the attic of a haussmann building in Paris
Design phases: Le Lab / Construction (CA): ROOM + Le Lab
Paris 10e (75) / Private client / Delivered / Cost: 95 000e / 2022 - 23
photos by Daniele Rocco
︎ daniele.rocco.photographe
TRUFFAUT
in collaboration with Le Lab Architecture and MEP engineer PMIngenierie
Energy audit and feasability study for 3 haussmann buildings with a total of 40 apartments and 4 businesses in Paris
Paris 17e (75) / Private client / Energy audit & feasibility / Cost: var. / 2023
in collaboration with Le Lab Architecture and MEP engineer PMIngenierie
Energy audit and feasability study for 3 haussmann buildings with a total of 40 apartments and 4 businesses in Paris
Paris 17e (75) / Private client / Energy audit & feasibility / Cost: var. / 2023
OCCIDENT
in collaboration with faire
Renovation of a 70m2 apartment on the 24th floor of Tour Occident in Place des Fêtes
Paris 19e (75) / Private client / Delivered / Cost: 85 000e / 2021
photos by Daniele Rocco
︎ daniele.rocco.photographe
in collaboration with faire
Renovation of a 70m2 apartment on the 24th floor of Tour Occident in Place des Fêtes
Paris 19e (75) / Private client / Delivered / Cost: 85 000e / 2021
photos by Daniele Rocco
︎ daniele.rocco.photographe
REGARD
in collaboration with Le Lab Architecture
Renovation and floor addition to a 150m2 duplex apartment in the attic of a building in the center of Paris
Design: Le Lab / Construction (CA): ROOM + Le Lab
Paris 6e (75) / Private client / Delivered / Cost: 308 000e / 2022
in collaboration with Le Lab Architecture
Renovation and floor addition to a 150m2 duplex apartment in the attic of a building in the center of Paris
Design: Le Lab / Construction (CA): ROOM + Le Lab
Paris 6e (75) / Private client / Delivered / Cost: 308 000e / 2022
ROOSEVELT
in collaboration with faire
Renovation and restructuration of an existing 280 m2 house along the Seine, renovation of the accessory dwelling unit & the exterior spaces
Samois-sur-Seine (77) / Private client / Schematic Design - unbuilt / Budget: 330 000e / 2021
in collaboration with faire
Renovation and restructuration of an existing 280 m2 house along the Seine, renovation of the accessory dwelling unit & the exterior spaces
Samois-sur-Seine (77) / Private client / Schematic Design - unbuilt / Budget: 330 000e / 2021
AMITER
Competition - selected to compete
Team: faire, Room, Graft landscape collective, Gianvitto Corazzo, Brieux Perruchet
‘No Man is an Island’ proposed a vision for the valley of La Touques (14) in 2100: a productive park to cohabit with the water and landscape that reveals the potential of the forthcoming territory
Community of municipalities Côte Fleurie (14) / Touques, ENGIE wasteland / PUCA, CEREMA, Ministère de la transition écologique / Competition - non winning project / 2021
︎ Full Catalogue Amiter
SEPTEMBRE
in collaboration with Chris Gassaway & Brad Isnard (USA)
House extension for an artist studio
Drawings by Chris & Brad
Saint-Denis (93) / Private client / Schematic Design - unbuilt / 2022
L’ILE-SAINT-DENIS
Competition - selected to compete
Team: faire, Room, Graft landscape collective, Gianvitto Corazzo, Brieux Perruchet
‘No Man is an Island’ proposed a vision for the valley of La Touques (14) in 2100: a productive park to cohabit with the water and landscape that reveals the potential of the forthcoming territory
Community of municipalities Côte Fleurie (14) / Touques, ENGIE wasteland / PUCA, CEREMA, Ministère de la transition écologique / Competition - non winning project / 2021
︎ Full Catalogue Amiter
SEPTEMBRE
in collaboration with Chris Gassaway & Brad Isnard (USA)
House extension for an artist studio
Drawings by Chris & Brad
Saint-Denis (93) / Private client / Schematic Design - unbuilt / 2022
L’ILE-SAINT-DENIS
House extension, green house
L’ile-Saint-Denis (93) / Private client / Permit - built / Cost: undisclosed / 2022
︎ PAN Café
L’ile-Saint-Denis (93) / Private client / Permit - built / Cost: undisclosed / 2022
︎ PAN Café
WE TBD
Design consultant for the exhibition ‘We TBD’, L.A based artist Olga Koumoundouros
Los Angeles (USA) / Human Resources (HRLA) non-profit exhibition and performance space / Design - built / 2018
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Olga Koumoundouros
HRLA
[SOUVENIR] OF BOMBAY BEACH
in collaboration with
mexican collective WASA
Installation ‘Room with a view’ for the Bombay Beach Biennale festival, invited by Marc Mack, founder of the event and UCLA architecture professor
Bombay Beach (USA) / Bombay Beach biennale commission / Design - built / 2022
︎ WASA
Installation ‘Room with a view’ for the Bombay Beach Biennale festival, invited by Marc Mack, founder of the event and UCLA architecture professor
Bombay Beach (USA) / Bombay Beach biennale commission / Design - built / 2022
︎ WASA
STUDIO 106
in collaboration with collective the 2vvo
Part of the curatorial team for exhibitions
Santa Monica (USA) / Studio One Oh Six L.A artist run space/ Curatorial work and set up / 2018
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the 2vvo
Studio 1-0-6
CODE DE NUIT
Code de nuit is a project by artist Cécile Paris
Assisting in the design of a leather dance floor
Lille (59) / Collector exhibition at Tripostal (05.10.2011 > 01.01.2012) / Design - built /2011-12
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Code de nuit
Cécile Paris
TEACHING
APRIL 11, 2024
GUEST LECTURER
USC SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, L.A, USA
2024 RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM
RESILIENT FUTURES: BRIDGING TRADITION & INNOVATION IN THE LIVING ENVIRONMENT
‘FROM PRIVATE MANSIONS TO COLLECTIVE HOUSING:
SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE PUT TO THE TEST OF DENSITY.
CASE STUDY IN PARIS, NOWADAYS.’
WITH CEDRIC CIRJAK
︎USC 2024 Research Symposium
2020 - TODAY
COORDINATOR
ECOLE D'ARCHITECTURE DE LA VILLE & DES TERRITOIRES PARIS-EST,
CHAMPS SUR MARNE (77)
DPEA ARCHITECTURE POST-CARBONE (POSTGRADUATE)
PROJECT PITCH AND WRITING WORKSHOP
-ATELIER D'ARGUMENTAIRE ET D'ECRITURE
WITH LAURELINE GUILPAIN, EMMA CARVALHO DE OLIVEIRA &
ALESSANDRA MARCON
GUEST LECTURER
USC SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, L.A, USA
2024 RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM
RESILIENT FUTURES: BRIDGING TRADITION & INNOVATION IN THE LIVING ENVIRONMENT
‘FROM PRIVATE MANSIONS TO COLLECTIVE HOUSING:
SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE PUT TO THE TEST OF DENSITY.
CASE STUDY IN PARIS, NOWADAYS.’
WITH CEDRIC CIRJAK
︎USC 2024 Research Symposium
2020 - TODAY
COORDINATOR
ECOLE D'ARCHITECTURE DE LA VILLE & DES TERRITOIRES PARIS-EST,
CHAMPS SUR MARNE (77)
DPEA ARCHITECTURE POST-CARBONE (POSTGRADUATE)
PROJECT PITCH AND WRITING WORKSHOP
-ATELIER D'ARGUMENTAIRE ET D'ECRITURE
WITH LAURELINE GUILPAIN, EMMA CARVALHO DE OLIVEIRA &
ALESSANDRA MARCON
2019 - TODAY
GUEST CRITIC FOR VARIOUS STUDIO REVIEWS AND WORKSHOP:
@UCLA ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN DESIGN, L.A, USA
@USC SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, L.A, USA
@ECOLE D'ARCHITECTURE ET DE PAYSAGE DE LILLE (ENSAPL)
@ECOLE D'ARCHITECTURE DE LA VILLE & DES TERRITOIRES PARIS-EST (EAV&T)
2019 - TODAY
EDITOR & CO-AUTHOR FOR VARIOUS PUBLICATIONS:
@CANAL ARCHITECTURE, PARIS, 2023
@UCLA ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN DESIGN, L.A, USA, 2022
@UCLA ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN DESIGN, L.A, USA, 2020
@SCI-ARC INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURE, L.A, USA, 2019
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Firecity Fireland: Towards a Regenerative Urbanism, xLab, UCLA AUD, L.A, 2022
Workshouse 3 Latent Futures, xLab, UCLA AUD, L.A, 2020
Offramp 16, academic journal, SCI-Arc, L.A, 2019
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
GUEST OFFICE
UCLA ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN DESIGN, L.A, USA
WINTER 2023 CAREER FAIR
2022 - 2023
TEACHER
AUTOGRAF DESIGN SCHOOL, PARIS
BACHELOR 1 - WEEKLY ARCHITECTURE STUDIO
SUPERVISED WITH NIKHIL CALAS
2020 - 2022
TEACHER
ECOLE D'ARCHITECTURE DE LA VILLE & DES TERRITOIRES PARIS-EST,
CHAMPS SUR MARNE (77)
MASTERS - WEEKLY THEORY CLASS
LA ‘ZONE’. ECONOMY, PRODUCTION, ARCHITECTURE AND TERRITORY
SUPERVISED WITH FEDERICO DIODATO
SPECIAL GUESTS :
MERIEM CHABANI
ALEXANDRE CHEMETOFF
ARIANE DOUBLET
PATRICIA LEJOUX
ALESSANDRA MARCON
COLLECTIF POINT VIRGULE
DANIELA POLI
OLIVIER TOURAINE
APRIL 25-29, 2022
TEACHER
ECOLE D'ARCHITECTURE DE LA VILLE & DES TERRITOIRES PARIS-EST,
CHAMPS SUR MARNE (77)
SPRING SCHOOL ‘ARCHITECTURE AS CHOREOGRAPHY’,
MASTERS - WORKSHOP ‘BODYBUILDING’
SUPERVISED WITH BRYANA FRITZ
TEACHER
ECOLE D'ARCHITECTURE DE LA VILLE & DES TERRITOIRES PARIS-EST,
CHAMPS SUR MARNE (77)
SPRING SCHOOL ‘ARCHITECTURE AS CHOREOGRAPHY’,
MASTERS - WORKSHOP ‘BODYBUILDING’
SUPERVISED WITH BRYANA FRITZ
All images and references used as a pedagogical tool
‘La Zone’:
Mall Walkers, USA
Espaces commerciaux (mission photographique de la DATAR), by Albert Giordann France, 1984
La Zone, filmed by Georges Lacombe, France, 25 min, 1928
First hypermarché Carrefour in France, Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois, 1963
Shopping center in Sens (89), Claude Parent, 1968-70
The Club of Rome, 1986
The Limits to Growth, first report of the Club of Rome, 1972
Parc d’activités « les tulipes » in Gonesse (95 - Val d’Oise) Copyright : DREIA / Gobry
Horton Plaza in San Diego (USA), Jon Jerde, 1985
Comment la France est devenue moche, Xavier de Jarcy & Vincent Remy, in Télerama 2010
Workshop ‘Bodyduilding’:
Lisa Lyon, by Robert Mapplethorpe, 1982
Portrait of Kathy Acker, San Francisco, by Kathy Brew , 1991
Muscle Beach Santa Monica, California, by Michael Ochs in the 1950’s
Portrait of Charmion (1875 - 1949) filmed by Edison , 1901
Arnold Schwarzenegger on display at the Whitney Museum (NY), exhibit: ‘Articulate Muscle, The Body As Art’, Feb 25th, 1976
Emma
nuelle Raoul
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Duval
About —
Emmanuelle Raoul-Duval is a french architect who is building and teaching. She graduated from ENSA Paris-Belleville (FR) and received her HMONP in 2010. For seven years she worked at the Bureau des Paysages, office of Alexandre Chemetoff, an interdisciplinary architectural practice rooted in the territory and its different scales. After following a large-scale project in Paris 10e as a project manager (91 apartments, nursery school and businesses), her continued interest in wood construction motivated her to spend three years at Standard Architecture in Los Angeles. Here, shifting her relation to scale by focusing on the structure and materiality of the individual home. While in L.A., Raoul-Duval also took part in exhibitions and installations at Studio 106 L.A. (Santa Monica) and Human Resources. She also participated in juries, publications, and workshops at UCLA Architecture and Urban Design, USC School of Architecture, and SCI-Arc Institute of Architecture.
Upon her return to Paris in 2020, Raoul-Duval founded ROOM atelier d’architecture focusing on domestic-scale projects and building upon a methodology of taking into account what is there, valorising rural/urban heritage, and learning from the history and transformation of the territories. She teaches at École d’architecture de la ville & des territoires Paris-Est. She also is Secretary-General of Syndicat de l’Architecture and participates national and international commissions at the Architects’ Council of Europe. She was appointed as a member for the 2023-2036 term of the International Competitions Commission at UIA / UNESCO.
In her work, that be built or unbuilt, architecture, culture and politics are entwined.
N° Ordre 087344
Emmanuelle Raoul-Duval is a french architect who is building and teaching. She graduated from ENSA Paris-Belleville (FR) and received her HMONP in 2010. For seven years she worked at the Bureau des Paysages, office of Alexandre Chemetoff, an interdisciplinary architectural practice rooted in the territory and its different scales. After following a large-scale project in Paris 10e as a project manager (91 apartments, nursery school and businesses), her continued interest in wood construction motivated her to spend three years at Standard Architecture in Los Angeles. Here, shifting her relation to scale by focusing on the structure and materiality of the individual home. While in L.A., Raoul-Duval also took part in exhibitions and installations at Studio 106 L.A. (Santa Monica) and Human Resources. She also participated in juries, publications, and workshops at UCLA Architecture and Urban Design, USC School of Architecture, and SCI-Arc Institute of Architecture.
Upon her return to Paris in 2020, Raoul-Duval founded ROOM atelier d’architecture focusing on domestic-scale projects and building upon a methodology of taking into account what is there, valorising rural/urban heritage, and learning from the history and transformation of the territories. She teaches at École d’architecture de la ville & des territoires Paris-Est. She also is Secretary-General of Syndicat de l’Architecture and participates national and international commissions at the Architects’ Council of Europe. She was appointed as a member for the 2023-2036 term of the International Competitions Commission at UIA / UNESCO.
In her work, that be built or unbuilt, architecture, culture and politics are entwined.
N° Ordre 087344
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Le Lab Architecture
Cécile Paris
Jugnet + Clairet
Pan Café
AHA
Syndicat de l’Architecture
UIA
ACE-CAE
Sofia Bolt
Lo-Flo Records
Julian Busta
Baptiste Penetticobra
Alexandre Chemetoff
Faire
Polina Miliou
Priscillia Jorge Decor
Wasa
Orchestre ENA-X
code de nuit
the 2vvo
Quentin Berton
Feeling Space
Zoe Walsh
Dyke Soccer LA
La Machine dans le jardin
This is my website
Design by julian busta
Le Lab Architecture
Cécile Paris
Jugnet + Clairet
Pan Café
AHA
Syndicat de l’Architecture
UIA
ACE-CAE
Sofia Bolt
Lo-Flo Records
Julian Busta
Baptiste Penetticobra
Alexandre Chemetoff
Faire
Polina Miliou
Priscillia Jorge Decor
Wasa
Orchestre ENA-X
code de nuit
the 2vvo
Quentin Berton
Feeling Space
Zoe Walsh
Dyke Soccer LA
La Machine dans le jardin
This is my website
Design by julian busta