The agency positions itself on architecture as practice rather than an attitude. A practice which takes necessity as its guiding principle over and above concerns of form or discourses. Founded in 2011 by Cécile Chanvillard and Vincent Piroux, a practice. intends to pursue these constructive and conceptual processes in a tangible aim, by producing essentialist architecture with the support of its underlying exercise; a practical experiment that actualizes itself through the attention to details and a materiality characterizing evident spaces.