At its core, ROOM is about producing space and making room. The practice approaches architecture through a variety of formats — from booklets to buildings — always beginning with the territory itself. Rather than taking a fixed position on what architecture is, ROOM constructs scenarios rooted in actual conditions — landscapes, people, and situations — entering into a distinct dialogue with every project through a close reading of history and pre-existing structures.
The practice seeks methodologies nourished by the accumulation of research materials that extend beyond the category of built objects yet continue to inform architectural production. Through both built and speculative work, ROOM investigates how architecture, culture, and structural transformation intertwine to produce new ways of inhabiting.
Alongside her practice, Emmanuelle Raoul-Duval has taught since 2020 at ENSA Paris-Est, where in 2025 she co-organized, with Jacques-Marie Ligot, the lecture series ‘Monstrum’, a critical reflection on architectural norms that sought to leave room for the strange and to challenge the idea of architecture as something entirely controlled. At the École Spéciale d’Architecture in Paris, she leads a Master’s-level design studio and serves as co-coordinator of the research field “Réutiliser.”
She also works as an independent contractor for Frida Escobedo Studio (NY, USA) on the renovation project for the Centre Pompidou.
house renovation & extension
@ENSA Paris-Est pic ©Jean Souviron
lecture series @ENSA Paris-Est
seminar series @ESA
independant contractor for Frida Escobedo Studio (NY, USA)
design studio @ESA
design studios @ESA
087344 / S21520
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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
- ROOM atelier d’architecture, Paris
- Principal
- Standard Architecture, L.A (CA, USA)
- Project designer
- Alexandre Chemetoff & associés, Gentilly
- Project manager
SELECTED TEACHING EXPERIENCE
- Postgraduate program Architecture des
- Limites Planétaires (ALP)
Lecture series ‘Monstrum’
Co-curator & editor with
Jacques-Marie Ligot
- Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture, Paris
- Design studio director Co-coordinator of Master Program “Réutiliser” with Khristian Ceballos Ugarte
- Postgraduate program Post-Carbone (POCA)
- Theory course “La Zone”
- Worshop ‘Architecture as Choreography’
- Teacher with Bryana Fritz
- Various guest critics and lectures
- ENSA Versailles
- Guest lecturer with Jacques-Marie Ligot at symposium “Le Parlement des Monstres” 2026 curated by Lea Mosconi and Henri Bony
- USC School of Architecture, L.A (CA, USA)
- Guest lecturer at 2024 USC symposium, joined by Le Lab Architecture (Cédric Cirjak)
- Guest critic, M.Arch studios led by Anna Herman and Olivier Touraine
- UCLA AUD (L.A, USA)
- Guest critic, M.Arch studios led by Valeria Ospital and
Mohamed Sharif
Guest tutor, Winter 2023 Career Fair & 2020-25 Portfolio Workshop
SELECTED EDITION & PUBLICATION
(2026)
- ENSA Paris-Est
- Monstrum publication, co-authored with Jacques-Marie Ligot, and graphic designer Juliette Lepineau
- CANAL Architecture, Paris
- Co-author, with Federico Diodato, of the essay “Sols à Défendre” in ZONES, en déshérence / en devenir, published by Canal
Guest editor for “Fire Island:
Toward a Regenerative Urbanism”
and “Workhouse 3”
Co-editor for Offramp # 16
academic journal
CURRENT RESEARCH
My current research revolves around two major areas.
First, a critical questioning of architectural norms, aimed at making room for the strange and deconstructing the idea of a fully controlled architecture. The ‘Monstrum’ lecture series, which I co-organized with Jacques-Marie Ligot by inviting speakers from various disciplines (architects, researchers, carpenters, perfomers etc.), was specifically intended to support students in challenging established norms and to rethink architectural intervention as a ‘prosthesis on a body in transformation.’ This work resonates with an approach that values hybrid, altered, and repaired forms as aesthetic and narrative resources, and contributes to a culture of care and maintenance. It also connects with feminist readings of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, in which the figure of the creature challenges ideals of purity, mastery, and autonomous creation. Through this lens, architecture can be understood not as a fixed object, but as a vulnerable and evolving body shaped by assemblage, dependency, repair, and care.
Second, as a lecturer at ESA and at ENSA Paris-Est within the Postgraduat Architecture des limites planétaire (ALP) program, I engage my students in an in-depth reflection on the transformation of existing buildings in response to climate challenges. The projects I supervise, such as the study of the Mercuriales towers or the rehabilitation of an abandoned neoclassical hospital in central Paris, encourage them to develop a critical perspective and to define a vocabulary for an architecture of reuse grounded in “local” materials.
Clara Pacotte <3
Jugnet + Clairet
Ecole Spéciale (ESA)
ENSA Paris-Est
Frida Escobedo Studio
AHA
Gauli Zitter
Lo-Flo Records
Sofia Bolt
after 8 books
Gretchen Siss
the 2vvo
Marthe Drucbert
Common Treasures
Simon de Dreuille
Stories Book & Café
Cécile Paris
Pan café
Jacques-Marie Ligot
Baptist Penetticobra
Milena Charbit
Polina Miliou
Theo Triantafyllidis
Assemble
Priscillia Jorge
Syndicat de l’Architecture
grand huit
Khrisian Ceballos Ugarte
Alexandre Chemetoff
Julian Busta
faire
Quentin Berton
Alice Bucknell
Feeling space
Zoe Walsh
La machine dans le jardin
Dyke Soccer L.A