Founders
In 1994, Pierre Duffau founded his first agency and created his network of collaborators. The style of his projects, even if it must be adapted to the constraints of the context and the client, is characterised by great purity, by a tension between various components, without being minimalist. The work on the typology of the flats is a central point of the project.
The articulation of the interior and exterior takes shape from the context of the site on which the building takes shape. The impact of the materials and architectural elements that make up the projects is thought out through a biosourced material library and in connection with the development of local know-how.
Pierre Duffau was president of the Maison de l'architecture Occitanie, Midi-Pyrénées from 2008 to 2012.
After her training at the Domus Academy in 1994, Nathalie Bruyère created POOL products with Lorenz Wiegand between Berlin and Toulouse in 1998. POOL products develops simple objects, usable by all in daily life, ethically responsible, rational, while fully exploiting a singular production system. The research develops the principle of "plug-in", implemented for example in the Italic hooks and the hanging lamps, whose shapes clearly express the manufacturing process.
The result of an industrial process designed to achieve maximum flexibility, these objects, like the parts of a Meccano toy, can be put in place and used according to the specific needs of a person at a given moment, offering the user flexibility and freedom to direct the use of the object.
Nathalie Bruyère is a professor at the Institut supérieur des arts et du design de Toulouse, in space and object design, ecosystem. She sets up the research project (fait [think] fait) and Global Tools, today. Founded the project studio: Les Communs.
D&A, Duffau&Associés is an agency that operates within the traditional limits of architecture & design.
The agency is working on the possibility of creating a City within a 15-minute walk through the following concepts:
Building the A-genre:
• Reversibility & Evolution for office & housing to evolve.
De-project :
• Local & Made using natural and local materials identified in a specific bio-sourced material library.
Common space and framing :
• Maintenance & Duration through quality, upkeep & work ethics.
Landscape, garden and temperate facades:
• Densify & Temper by imagining projects linked to Landscape & Temperate Facade.
UO, Ultra-Ordinaire
is a polymorphic and multidisciplinary design research group that gathers, weaves, experiments and transmits convergences around the open standard.
The research works towards the possibility :
To test new ways of making and manufacturing in a non-extractivist way in planetary resources, in data, in work.
Organization
The Duffau&Associés agency is made up of permanent staff who guarantee the proper monitoring of business and projects.
Organisation of project teamwork through the agile method:
• Decompartmentalise your projects, this is the role of the Ultra Ordinaire network,
• Welcome changes positively, this is the role of research,
• Surround your projects with motivated people - this is an organisation of work around the project,
• Maintain a bearable work rhythm - this is the role of experimentation,
• Simplicity is essential around project teams that self-organise together.
