URBASTUDIO — office

about us

Urbastudio supports the transformation of already urbanised territories — priority neighbourhoods, industrial brownfields, historic faubourgs, river landscapes and large infrastructure complexes.
The agency grounds its work in the geographical structures that shape these places: soils, water systems, landscape frameworks, mobility networks, built heritage and existing uses.

Its practice is based on a multi-scalar reading — from the territorial landscape down to everyday situations — to clarify continuities, reveal existing resources and build sober, realistic transformation pathways.

Urbastudio combines territorial diagnosis, urban strategies and evolutionary scenarios to guide complex transitions over time.
From masterplans to public space design, each project relies on an operational narrative that supports decision-making and makes transformation legible.

The agency focuses on sites in transition, where land sobriety, climate adaptation, reuse and the reactivation of ordinary landscapes call for new models of urban development.

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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

Reveal the potential of ordinary territories and turn constraints into drivers of transformation.
Build sober and realistic trajectories, tailored to the long timespan of urban change.
Develop grounded projects that draw on what already exists — continuities, place-based resources and territorial structures.
Foster more just, lively and inclusive environments, working from everyday situations to the scale of the wider territory.

skills

The agency mobilises a broad range of skills:

Territorial diagnostics and multi-scalar analysis
Masterplans, urban strategies and adaptive scenarios
Urban design and project frameworks
Client support throughout the project process
Public space design and delivery

team

Bettina Bodin
Carl Cantin
Maxime Geny
Inés Quemada Thibaud
Salomé Vaz-Sautter

former collaborators
Gwenda Bataille
Elisa Binard
Paul Fratta
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.