STAR strategies + architecture is a practice engaged with architecture in all its forms. Research and writing are integral to the work, operating alongside design as equal tools. The office works on projects of all scales, taking responsibility for every phase of the process—from concept to delivery.
The work of the office has received prizes in international competitions for collective housing, public buildings, and urban planning, with awarded projects in France, the Netherlands, China, Iceland, Lebanon, Norway, and Spain, alongside awards and distinctions from platforms such as Architizer, Dezeen, FRAME, iF Design, or the German Design Council. In 2025, STAR was named Public Vote Winner for Small Firm of the Year at the Archello Awards.
The office’s portfolio spans a wide range of projects, from a hybrid complex combining a Ferris wheel and a railway station, to a vertical multifunctional cinema adapted to city centres, a 50-hectare urban plan for a flood-prone site, and an eighty-metre-long panorama representing the European Union. Across this diversity, the work confronts dysfunctional models, extracting the maximum potential from each project while establishing long-term spatial strategies.
Within this broader scope, collective housing is positioned as a central field of research. The office develops affordable, adaptable, and evolutionary housing through competitions, commissions, texts, and self-initiated research—ranging from theoretical work and 1:1 experiments to large-scale built projects.
This work addresses the rigidity of standardised housing by developing spatial organisations that accommodate changing patterns of living. It includes research projects such as The Interior of the Metropolis, which establishes the theoretical framework, and the Inverse Method, a procurement approach that shifts decision-making from developer-led processes towards architect-led frameworks, materialised in built work such as START-Ivry in Greater Paris, comprising 300 dwellings.
In parallel, the office develops alternative domestic models and spatial experiments at different scales, including Co-Residence, developed within the framework of the Atelier International du Grand Paris (AIGP) for the French government, or The Cabanon in Rotterdam, an experimental micro-apartment.
The work of STAR has been widely published in more than 50 countries and featured in over 500 publications, including media such as The New York Times, El País, and Libération, as well as architecture magazines including AA Files, Arch+, Domus, Abitare, and The Architectural Review. It has been exhibited internationally at institutions such as Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York, NAi – Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam, the Pavillon de l’Arsenal in Paris, and the Ludwig Forum in Aachen.
Rather than defining a fixed methodology or style, STAR maintains an open and critical approach, continuously re-evaluating the conditions under which architecture is produced.