Our Studio
Since taking on its very first projects, in 2004, the studio has gradually grown from being just Franck Boutté to a team of 35 composed of hybrid profiles, including engineers, architects, and urban planners, split between Paris, Bordeaux, Nantes, and Rennes. The studio embraces a broad spectrum of disciplines and skills—including but not limited to bioclimatic architecture and passive strategies, comfort, environments, health and well-being, resource optimization, energy, water, envelope design, natural ventilation, modeling and simulation, renewable energies, carbon approach and LCA, and environmental certifications (French and other)—and gets involved at every level, every scale, from the smallest material to the region at large.
Now a leader and standard bearer in the fields of environmental design and engineering and sustainable development, our studio also provides consulting services (project management, public policy guidance, network facilitation).
Thanks to its holistic philosophy, involving a mix of intellectual tools, a wide range of digital applications (3D and digital modeling, BIM, advanced simulations in energy and climate, comfort, light, and ventilation), and experimental practices (method development), the team is equipped to respond to all kinds of environmental challenge, from the building to the urban organization level, granting an important place to research.
Son regard transversal, ainsi qu’une très forte implication dans les projets, permettent d’assurer une cohérence forte et globale, entre les choix conceptuels et les choix techniques.
Elle est également présente dans de nombreuses équipes pour des appels à projets innovants tels que Réinventer Paris, Réinventer la Seine et Inventons la Métropole du Grand Paris.
L’agence partage ses convictions et méthodologies par le biais de l’enseignement dans les écoles d’architecture et d’ingénieurs, et de nombreuses interventions auprès de publics divers. Elle se voit régulièrement distinguée et primée pour des projets emblématiques par leur excellence environnementale et énergétique.
Franck Boutté, founder and chairman of Atelier Franck Boutté—an engineering studio geared towards the sustainable city—earned his civil engineering qualification from the Ponts et Chaussées engineering school (1988–1992) before spending four years training at the UNO studio of the Paris-Belleville national architecture school, which he left before graduating to start his professional career.
It was this background that inspired him to fuse these two worlds, which he considers complementary and inseparable, and tackle the transdisciplinary exploration of environmental and sustainability challenges.
Composed of often hybrid profiles (engineers, architects, urban planners, researchers), the studio intervenes on all environmental subjects, at the building, urban, and regional level, granting an important place to research and development as well as innovation.
In 2022, Franck Boutté received the Grand Prix de l’Urbanisme, an urban planning prize awarded by France’s Ministry of Ecology, Energy, Sustainable Development, and Planning and the Ministry of Energy Transition for his pioneering approach to the environmental engineering of architectural, urban, and regional projects.
Education and Qualifications
1988–1992: École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (ENPC) – Civil engineering graduate
1992–1996: École Nationale Supérieure d’architecture de Paris-Belleville (ENSAPB) – Left before graduating
Career Milestones
1992: Graduated with a civil engineering degree from the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (ENPC), a top engineering school
1992–1996: Architectural training – École Nationale Supérieure d’architecture de Paris-Belleville (ENSAPB), left before obtaining the final qualification
Since 1996: Consultant, focused on the areas of the technical performance of new builds, improvement of existing buildings, energy efficiency, design and implementation of intervention programs as an energy and environment expert. Ongoing collaboration with various ministries (infrastructure, culture, etc.) and organizations (ANAH, Gaz de France, etc.).
Since 2002: Consulting, project management assistance, programming studies in the areas of high environmental quality (HQE) and sustainable development. Involvement with numerous projects in diverse programs such as education, health, tertiary, housing, etc.
2009: Management of a team of 30 in Paris.
Since 2013, Atelier Franck Boutté has been recognized for its extraordinary vision and flair for innovation and research, and worked on major large-scale architecture and urban planning projects.
In 2022, the studio took on more than 130 ambitious, complex, innovative projects at multiple levels (building, block, district, city, and national).
In 2023, with 35 employees in Paris, Nantes, Rennes, and Bordeaux, the studio continued its growth strategy and became Atelier Franck Boutté.
Enseignement
2018 : Séminaires master 2 Urbanisme durable, École urbaine de Sciences Po, Paris
2016 : Intervention dans le cadre de l’Université d’été, École des Ingénieurs de la Ville de Paris
2015 : Maître assistant Sciences et Techniques pour l’architecture, École nationale d’architecture Paris-Val de Seine
2014 : Interventions à École nationale supérieure d’architecture Paris-Malaquais, à l’École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Nancy ainsi qu’à l’Université de Technologie de Compiègne
2013 : Colloque sur la Métropole Parisienne à l’Université Paris-Est Marne et intervention dans le cadre de la formation HMONP à l’École nationale supérieure d’architecture Paris-Malaquais
2012 : Interventions dans le cadre de la formation HMONP à l’ENA Paris-Malaquais et l’École urbaine de Sciences Po
2010 : Intervention à l’École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Montpellier
2009 : Intervention à l’École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Versailles
Entre 2003 et 2007 : Enseignement et séminaire à l’École Spéciale d’Architecture
Entre 2003 et 2005 : Enseignement régulier à l’École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Normandie
