‘ To create harmony between Nature, People and Cities’
X stands for the unknown mathematical variable and TU for the suffix in situ - references to the geography and the landscape of work done by Anouk Legendre and Nicolas Desmazières, the architects who founded XTU in 2000.
Among its many projects, XTU designed the Jeongok Prehistory Museum in South Korea and has worked on the “Maison des Civilisations” in La Reunion (MCUR), the first positive energy museum in the In dian Ocean.
XTU is currently building the spectacular Wine Museum in Bordeaux an d delivered the French pavilion at the Exp o Milano 2015, which was awarded the ‘Architecture and Landscape Gold medal’ from the Bureau International des Expositions.
Standing up for the beliefs that architecture should predict the future and that the biotechnological transition will be the third industrial revolution, the XTU architects are truly invested in urban agriculture and experimental research, which lies between the
life sciences, ecology , architec ture and urban development. Moreover, the office XTU is delivering the world first integrated biofaçade on a building by the end of this year .
Invented by XTU Architects, SymBIO2 biofacades consist of a microalgae culture system (photobioreactors) built in a high-performance facade. They are subject to an industrial development within the SymBIO2 consortium.
Winner for ‘Reinventer.Paris competition’ , the In Vivo project will disp lay a biofacade of nearly 1.000 m² in district 13 of Paris. Set in the heart of a unique concentration of life and city sciences expertise, this laboratory building will produce highly specialised batches of algae biomass for medical research, in order to identify bio-based active ingrediens for tomorrow’s medicines.
XTU’s architectural position is focused on the expression of an architecture carved in the
shape of volumetries echoing the urban context and landscape. The form originates from
the context, knowningly pictured in a minimalist, refined and futuristic way, inspired by
abstract sculptors.