CEDRIC RAMIERE AT GIS BUCHAREST 2016

Cédric Ramière, Associate Architect at CoCo architecture, the office which received the Leaf Award 2014, Refurbishment of the Year, will be Guest Speaker at GIS Bucharest 2016, on 22-23 March 2016.

CoCo architecture aims to be a catalyst for social change. Their projects are characterized by the respect towards nature and energy consumption, which reflects local thinking and traditional attitudes as well as modern approaches.

The office today has experience in a variety of areas: teaching, housing, logistics and commerce, cultural and medical institutes, and operates in France as well as other regions around the world. They also have several projects that have brought them international awards such as: the inter-communal library in Gourdon (46), the Logipole in Koutio in New Caledonia, the intensive care and psychiatric centre in Libourne and the hospital at La Rochefoucauld.

CoCo architecture was founded by Claudia Staubmann and Cedric Ramiere 10 years ago.

Their experience is mostly based on research into contemporary urban issues and the development of regional tourism. Cedric Ramiere’s research, completed in the Netherlands and Bangkok, Thailand, focuses on a larger scale projects. In Bangkok, he explored ways to reutilize skyscrapers that had been abandoned during their construction.

Their first joint project was the development of the International Centre of Prehistory in the Vezere Valley in Dordogne. Together they created YEAN (Young European Architects Network) in 2003, with partners from Rotterdam, the Netherlands and Vienna, Austria. YEAN is known particularly for the project and subsequent book entitled ‘TirolCITY, which brought them important prizes in both the Netherlands and Austria.