URBASTUDIO — office

about us

URBASTUDIO is an urban design and architecture office founded in 2023 by Marine Oudard.

URBASTUDIO distinguishes itself through a thoughtful and contextual approach to territorial issues, whether in major cities or smaller municipalities.

The office tackles diverse challenges such as the requalification of city gateways, brownfield transformations, revitalization of town centers, urban renewal operations, and the preservation and restoration of nature in urban settings.

Our approach is characterized by a particular attention to the site and its history. By deeply analyzing the characteristics and potentials of each location, we aim to reveal its qualities to guide its transformation. This process, constantly evolving, constitutes the project itself. Each intervention is seen as a step towards a more resilient, attractive, and biodiverse city.

Rather than reinventing it, we seek to re-activate the city by uncovering hidden potentials of sites and fostering diversity and future uses.

marine oudard

2023
Creation of the office URBASTUDIO

2022
Winner of Incubator Échelle: Un

2021
2nd prize in EUROPAN 16 Competition – “Vibrant Cities” – Bassens, Bordeaux (FR) with Lydia Blasco Yubero

2017-2022
Director of Urban Planning at Dominique Perrault Architecture (DPA)

2020
HMONP – ENSA Paris Malaquais

2016-2017
Project Associate at Skidmore, Owings and Merrill in San Francisco, USA

2016
Master’s Degree in Urban Planning from UC Berkeley in California, USA

2016
Recipient of the Palladio Foundation Scholarship

2013-2015
Project Associate at uapS, Paris

2012
Bachelor’s Degree in Architecture from ENSA Paris Belleville

goals

Restore meaning to the territory, create more human and sustainable environments.
Implement urban and architectural proposals that maximize potential and possibilities.
Establish iterative, dynamic, and evolving project processes rather than fixed solutions that quickly become obsolete.
Provide a tailored response to the site and the client.

skills

The office works on urban projects of various scales :

Urban prospective studies and territorial strategies
Urban design
Project management assistance
Feasibility studies
Public space project management

team

Salomé Vaz-Sautter
Elisa Binard
Paul Fratta

former collaborators
Gwenda Bataille
Andrea Fortunato
Lili Friedrich
Axelle Loza
Zoé Zaoui

method

Situate the project within its local context and geographical environment to achieve coherence across different scales, from the broader territory to the project site.
Utilize prospective weather data in each urban and architectural project to anticipate and mitigate the adverse effects of climate change in cities.
Implement a collaborative approach by engaging all stakeholders in the territory, starting from the existing context, and proposing project processes tailored to local temporalities and dynamics.
Establish multidisciplinary project teams with specific skills for each project.
Test various possible scenarios through physical models and create simple diagrams and documents to initiate dialogue with all partners.