Biophile architecture adopts a design approach guided by relationships with the living, influencing both daily spaces and gathering places. Light, materials, and nature act as key elements that enhance well-being, health, and genuine connection to our surroundings. Grounded in attentive listening and understanding of human realities, the approach seeks to craft environments that are coherent, nurturing, and purposeful—homes that support personal life as well as collective spaces that invite, unite, and fortify the social fabric. Each project becomes a chance to reveal a place’s quiet beauty and to inspire trust, participation, and community.
Single-family homes
Biophile architecture designs homes that support everyday activities and deep human connections. Each project aims at offering bright, enveloping spaces that are rooted in a harmonious relationship with their immediate environment. The home becomes a living space, a place to recharge, create, and find its identity.
Multi-unit housing
Multi-unit housing projects are addressed as places of cohabitation, where privacy and community come together. This approach aims at creating fluid, warm, and human living environments, where each unit benefits from a quiet, bright space while participating in a caring, respectful community life. Architecture becomes a medium for conviviality, neighborliness, and sharing.
Support for organizations
and cooperatives
Biophile architecture offers tailored support to non-profit organizations and cooperatives seeking to clarify their needs, structure their ideas, or transform their spaces. Drawing on solid experience in the community sector, this approach aims at supporting organizations in creating environments that reflect their mission and identity. The goal is to design spaces that foster engagement, collaboration, and well-being.
Municipal projects
and local infrastructure
Biophile architecture supports the design and improvement of infrastructure for citizens’ daily lives. Projects are envisioned as useful, welcoming, and sustainable places that blend naturally into their surroundings. The goal is to offer simple, well-thought-out solutions that serve the community while respecting the territory’s resources and character.
Comprehensive planning
and territorial reflection
Biophile architecture supports communities, helping them explore their territory and develop visions that respect their core identity. Our approach involves observing, analyzing, and translating environmental characteristics into guidelines that foster harmonious development. Inspired by its experience with the master plan of the village center project of Ville de Sainte-Marguerite-du-Lac-Masson, Biophile architecture wishes to continue offering tailored support that addresses each place with sensitivity, consistency, and respect.
Participatory processes
Biophile architecture offers participatory approaches that invite citizens and partners to imagine the future of a place together. These processes foster dialogue, openness, and co-construction, so that every voice has a place in the discussion. Biophile architecture’s role is to transform these exchanges into meaningful directions, while ensuring that ideas emerge in a climate of listening and respect.