BUILD Architecture Awards 2024 Best Architecture & Urbanism Practice 2024 - Occitania Founded in 1993, Taillandier Architectes Associés (TAA) is an architecture and urbanism agency that works alongside private and public partners alike to bring new, inventive ideas to the people of Toulouse, France. Aimed at enhancing the general experience of a project as it unfolds, the practise transcends the common expectations of the architectural sphere, offering something that’s specifically centered around improving the quality of life of any end user. Below, we explore how TAA approaches architecture, and how its vision and prowess distinguishes it as its own exemplary entity. Driven by a constant demand for developing architectural solutions that, at their core, elevate the experiences of those immersed in them, TAA is an awardwinning agency who has fully dedicated itself to taking every necessary step to ensure the optimal outcome for every client. Regardless of the size or complexity of a project, the collective applies its wealth of skill and industry understanding to carry out a methodology that seamlessly blends rationality and efficiency. As a result, it’s able to consistently provide solutions that aren’t only professionally structured, but are designed to stand out among the crowded architectural landscape. However, achieving these solutions is no straightforward feat. In fact, it’s TAA’s meticulous process that has attracted clients – by separating a project into five dimensions, TAA is able to clearly lay out everything a client could need to know before embarking on this joined journey. These five dimensions are contextual, intellectual, technical, financial, and sensitive, each bringing their own unique edge to the various parts of the project planning process. For instance, an in-depth contextual study is the first step TAA carries out when onboarding a new project – one that sees it identifying the historic, economic, geographic, climatic, and social nature of the surrounding area. From there, it enriches itself with relevant architectural references as it works toward uniting various ideas. Throughout, TAA remains true to its commitment to creativity, with a multitude of sensory aspects mingling into the overarching process as it goes. Put simply, TAA is always eager to bring new insights to the architectural and urbanism world, and even invites an array of artists to partake in the creative process in order to broaden its scope. Once a project has been agreed upon, TAA finally moves on to the design process. This segment sees the agency bringing in architects and town planners, each equipped with the talent and skills needed to put together the project piece by piece. Partnered with a close collaboration between construction economists, the agency’s heads of construction, and even model makers, TAA invites clients to fully immerse themselves in the intricate details of the project, without once making them feel unwelcome. Whether it’s on an academic, architectural, or human level, TAA is constantly going the extra mile to learn all it can about the market it operates within – whether it comes from their Toulouse agency, or the three others ones based in Paris, Montpellier and Toulouse. As a result of such sense of dedication, the company has flourished on behalf of those around it, allowing it to keep presenting clients with inspired projects such as La Cité, Le Meett (Toulouse Exhibition and Convention Center) in Toulouse or The Païcherou Aquatic Center in Carcassonne. It’s for this very reason that BUILD is delighted to feature TAA in 2024’s Architecture Awards. Each year, we seek out the most creative and collaborative of collectives, and TAA proudly displays these traits. We look forward to seeing what fascinating new works TAA brings to the architecture sphere as it takes confident strides toward the future of its agency. Contact: Pierre-Louis Taillandier Company: Taillandier Architectes Associés Web Address: https://taa.archi/en/
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