With a transversal approach stimulated by the merging of different disciplines and views, Franklin Azzi founded his practice in 2006.
A constant designer and builder, he develops a design and building approach that is applicable to any scale or typology of space. Through his interventions, he strives to achieve sustainability to meet the needs of all users, whether they are urban microarchitecture such as the Eiffel Kiosque and its prefabricated structure, or towers in Dubai and Paris or conversions of existing buildings such as Nantes’ Alstom market buildings.
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In contrast to traditional architectural styles, Franklin Azzi creates architecture that is maximalist and minimalist in its aesthetics, taking a stand for returning to ‘common sense’ in architecture.
Montparnasse Tower, slated for 2024, embodies the vertical city vision of reusing materials, repurposing them to create the new Montparnasse Tower, a symbol of how to innovate and create through re-use. With Nouvelle AOM collaborating with Chartier Dalix Architectes and Hardel Le Bihan Architectes, Franklin Azzi has been working on this major project since 2017.
Franklin Azzi’s desire to invent new paths is fueled by the skills of more than 80 members of his team and a laboratory of research and innovation. He explores and interrogates contexts, fabrication methods, and materials close to human needs and surroundings before making these spaces a reality. To respond to the current challenges of the evolving city, the practice integrates the mutability of use and transformation into the design process from the outset.
From large-scale to smallest detail of fabrication, Franklin Azzi places his commitment to design-build at all levels, whether for public or private commissions. In doing so, he breathes new life into built heritage, creating living and working spaces for the future (The Bureau, Be In for LVMH), rethinking urban development while respecting the existing landscape (Beaupassage for Emerige) and creating portable and demountable structures (the rooftop pavilion on Galeries Lafayette). Buildings that outline a new horizon of possibilities using a sustainable and contemporary approach for the end users’ benefit.
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