Our approach is physical, we live in the neighborhood of cities where our projects are located, we question urban elements, we give shape to structures which are demanded by the relashionship between the surrounding elements and contemporary materials and uses. Our name Metek is the literal translation of this idea. Metek comes from the greek meta, in between, and oikos, houses and the french « métèque » a foreigner who lives in a city. We are interested by this seeiming contradiction: being curious and having the critical distance of a foreigner and yet having intimate knowledge through complete immersion in the millieu. Our will is to produce unusual and different objects which are, in fact, inevitable in the light of their context.

Our goal is to create spaces where all five sense are engaged. For us architecture reveals emotions. Each part of the program is linked to a sound, an impression, a desire or a feeling. The different spaces of a building are not interchangeable because each of them is clearly identified.
Each function is interpreted and then connected to particular perception. For example, one of our clients connected the function of « taking a shower », to privacy, mist and sound of a waterfall, nature immersion, above ground experience. The ideal program would already define the identity of every space : dilated space, luminous space, stuffy space, reassuring space, sacred space, vulgar space…

For us construction tangibility serves space. We qualify space with structure, volume, light. Our architectural work reflects our affinity with the expressionists : black and white contrasts are accentuated, spaces are composed with different depth of field, the walls have a thickness, the beauty of the structure is shown

The complexity of the spaces we create is revealed by moving through the building: the visitor can not have an immediate perception of thoses spaces. Working on the representation of these spaces is a challenge: how can we translate in images the dynamic of the movement, the change of light, the multiplicity of points of view?