BOLD IS BEAUTIFUL

WHY

BOLD

Cie O prefers outspoken designs. Therefore, we avoid grey answers and like to take coloured risks. Our proposals aim to spark discussion and enthusiasm. As a result, they are “full of breath”.

BIOTOPE BUILDERS

We design architecture as a broad living matter. Our architecture wants to give every life – not just humans – a well-thought-out place. Our projects anticipate a spatial, social, political, cultural, economic and ecological context that defines a biotope. We, therefore, acknowledge daily complexity and refuse to reduce it into simple aesthetic answers.

We are biotope builders.

CIVIL

As a team working intensively together, we believe that it is all about empowering one another relentlessly, in all possible ways, regardless of the situation or context. This attitude we pose on ourselves but also our clients.

We are at the same time firmly optimistic, non-self-referential and outspoken civil: Architecture is not an autonomous discipline but a public task.

MAXIMALIST

We are going voluntarily. We create generous designs. We swaddle them with colours and materials, and light. Our designs are resilient in time because they are strategically plentiful and tactile.

HUMOUR

Humour and imagination generate happiness and progress. Innovation is the smile in the process. We want to shake, surprise, amaze and sometimes tease with our proposals.

HOW

VERSATILITY

We refuse to develop a “signature language”. Initially unbiased, we make decisions through targeted insights. Modus operandi is an uncurbed versatility, imagination and intuition.

We navigate as omnivores, seeking information, collecting and ordering data, a bit like editors would do.

We approach an assignment from different scales and points of view.

We like working with end-users, thinkers, other biotope-builders, practical experts, artists.. We are system thinkers: broad-minded, undogmatic and pragmatic in one.

CONTACT

Our office is located on Sint-Baafsplein 10a in Ghent, hidden on top of the creative coworking space BOLDHOUSE.

A Sint-Baafsplein 10A, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium

E contact@compagnie-o.be

T +32 (0)9 225 07 49

V BE 0896.990.177

JOBS

We are always looking for new enthusiasts! Please send your portfolio and CV (8Mb max) in pdf to jobs@compagnie-o.be.

If you want to stop by the office with a printed portfolio, please notify us by calling in beforehand.

DISCLAIMER

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Compagnie-O is registered at Orde van Architecten, Provinciale Raad Oost-Vlaanderen.

Registration number: B100068

Authorized regulations by Orde van Architecten, Nationale Raad: Reglement van beroepsplichten

ABOUT

TEAM

Joke Vermeulen, ceo-architect

Francis Catteeuw, ceo-architect

Nina Dalla, ir. architect-urbanist

Sandrine Janssens, architect

Hanieh Mahpeykar, architect

Lauren Delporte, architect

Tim Van de Weghe, architect

Karla Radovic, ir. architect

Anouck van Zetten, architect

Justine Holm, architect

Axel Åström, architect

Marissa van Leeuwen, assistent architect 

Veerle Speleers, financieel managment

FORMER COLLABORATORS

Geert Pauwels, Sigert Defrancq, Kim Pecheur, Kate Davies, Lies Trybou, Rebecca Devriese, Jessica Langerock, Reneé Steyaert, Nel Vereeken, Nikolaas Martens, Linde Van Reeth, Arnout Stevens, Bregt Vanderper, Bram Van Cauter, Soetkin Goddaert, Ruben Rottiers, Thomas Cantraine, Ioannis Gio, Miguel Nicque, Stefan Hooijmans, Tom Goddeeris, Jolein Bergers, Erjen Gregoire, Eftychia Papathanasiou, Pieter Van den Poel, Sien Cornillie, Robert Barbir, Olga Salata, Pieterjan De Bock, Ilse Verhaeghe, Boyan Stoyanov, Martina Genovesi, Lovro Bradac, Francesco Mazzi, Lente Vandriessche, Vito Sorino, Ophelie Nemayer, Catalin-Lucian Pop, Elisa Guarneri, Sausan Haj Abdova, Ana Mendica, Ada Rosito, Antonin Broquedis, Elias Verdegem, Robin Herman, Saar Bruneel, Eva De Bels, Setareh Roozbahani ea