Laboratoire is the result of a meeting between four students studying specialisations at the University of Liège: Florence Jacques, Morgan Delvaux, Maxime Faniel and Arnaud De Francesco.
Founded in 2021, this architectural firm offers a collective and collaborative approach, with people from varied, multidisciplinary and complementary backgrounds.
Combining art, technology and humanism, Laboratoire uses architecture as a medium to address environmental, urban and social issues. This is why its members place the principles of reversibility and flexibility at the centre of their research and designs: reversibility of materials and flexibility of buildings.
Laboratoire is also a promise: to give pride of place to ongoing experimentation, at the heart of a laboratory of ideas, putting the field experience of team members into practice, both in Belgium and abroad. This synergy has given rise to low-tech, intelligent projects that are adapted to their environment.
In 2023, Laboratoire won the Wallonia Architecture Grand Prize in the innovative architecture category for their shelters: the guest rooms on the estate of chef Marie Trignon (La Roseraie, in Modave).
In 2025, the collective contributed to the Time Space Existence exhibition, organised by the European Cultural Centre at the Venice Biennale, which explored the themes of ‘Repair, Regenerate and Reuse’.
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