Studio BLU Architecture is a practice based in Paris, with projects experience in different countries.

Founded at the end of 2021 by Elies Garnaoui, former associate of Renzo Piano, is now a growing talented team of architects, with a shared passion for well-crafted and sustainable architecture, declined in different scales, typologies and budgets, always craving for beauty.

Studio BLU offers services in Architecture and Interior design (Building), Landscape and Urban planning, to public and private clients.  

Our firm is open minded, inclusive, respectful, and always careful of promoting talents.

PROCESS

Studio BLU Architecture approach is based on curiosity and creativity, always looking at the best possible solution, in a constant research for a beautiful design.

In order to achieve a full analysis and understanding, we believe on the importance of listening, to all contributions and points of view, as well on sharing ideas without preconceptions.

To get as much as possible inputs, from the very beginning till the construction phase, we’re constantly looking for a dialog and an exchange with all the parties involved in the project: client and authorities, engineers and consultants, suppliers and contractors, users.

Even if the final built project is necessarily the result of a collective work, we are aware of the great responsibility that we have, as designers, on making the overall synthesis and on finding the right solutions.

Constantly checking  the assumptions made, our typical working method is a back-and-forth between hand sketches, models, 2D and 3D drawings, renderings, physical samples and mock-ups; always jumping from different scales since the beginning.

Among other digital tools, we’re also experts on Building Information Modeling (BIM).

Elies Garnaoui - architect, founder and director

since 2022 ...

Filippo Bosco, Nicolas Tafzi, Naomi Lacpatia Voluer, Alexandre Nam Tran, Luise Stadler, Amyel Loy, Charles Guezet, Federico Palli, Iuliana Grigoriu, Niccolo Ciccotti

Elies Garnaoui

Born and bred in Rome, he studied architecture at the University “la Sapienza” where he graduated with honors.

Before moving to Paris in 2002, where he has been living ever since, he spent 16 months in Berlin, at Finn Geipel - LIN office.

After working for F. Soler and M. Fuksas, he joined the Renzo Piano Building Workshop in 2006, becoming soon associate. As project leader during 15 years, he worked at several international and prestigious projects, among them: a mixed-use high-rise in Brooklyn-NY, two buildings for the Columbia University new campus in NYC, the new HQ of the SGBL bank in Beirut and the “Pathé Palace” in Paris. 

At the end of 2021 he left RPBW  to establish the new practice Studio BLU Architecture, which he currently leads.

USUAL PARTNERS

Atelier Miething - Landscape architect

Ailleurs.studio - graphic designers (renderings)

Bollinger+Grohmann - engineers (structure, facades)

Dionysios Tsagkaropoulos - graphic designer (renderings)

Pierre Guerin - accounting

SHA - architects (project bid and construction follow-up)

Thibault Sanchez - legal advisors

Yann Chaplain - model maker

Creativity can help in solving problems . . .