SWD Architecture designs tailor‑made spaces by starting from what already exists: a site, a story, uses, and materials. Every project begins as an encounter—with a place and with the people who will inhabit it. The ambition is both simple and demanding: to build together for a better life, making architecture a tool for well‑being, social connection, and ecological transition.

The firm advocates a co‑design approach in which the client is fully involved, from the first sketches to the finishing details. The goal is not to impose a shape, but to transform wishes, living habits, and constraints into volumes, light, and matter. Whether it’s a Parisian apartment, a family home, an extension, or a public facility, each project is treated as a unique case.

Deeply committed to gentle densification and the transformation of existing buildings, the firm focuses on vertical extensions, additions, rehabilitations, and interior reconfigurations. Rather than demolish, the aim is to extend and repair—adding with precision to reveal a building’s potential without erasing what gives it value. This frugal, contextual approach results in creations that are elegant, restrained, and economically sustainable.

SWD Architecture upholds a profoundly human vision of architecture. Spaces are designed to support everyday gestures, encourage encounters, and nurture both body and imagination—courtyards as social hearts, luminous circulation areas, welcoming thresholds, peaceful workspaces, and cross‑ventilated homes that breathe. To build together for a better life is to make technique and sensitivity, heritage and innovation, speak to one another so that each project becomes a shared story between the site, the materials, and those who inhabit them.

Finally, our credo is clear: at the beginning, there is the site. SWD Architecture draws upon climate, topography, vegetation, views, and local resources to root the project in its environment rather than impose it upon it. This attention extends to material choices: prioritizing local resources, dry construction methods, and bio‑based materials, with a special focus on raw earth wherever the context allows—particularly in Africa. Earth is regarded as a material of the 21st century: low‑carbon, comfortable, and rich with memory and identity.