Atelier Gemaile Rechak

Residing in the Belleville district of Paris since 2006, Gemaile Rechak, a qualified architect, delivered his first project in 2010: the preschool Le Chat Perché in Breteuil. He was consequently nominated for the Prix de la Première Œuvre (First Work Prize) 2010 and won the Major Jury Prize of the Trophées Batiactu (Batiactu Trophies) in 2011. The project is an example of how to make the qualities of a site emerge; it is based on the notion of meeting and perception: meeting with a place, its history, its topology, its hydrometry, its uses; sensitive perception, an approach which allows us to perceive what is not obvious at first glance. Gemaile Rechak strives for the construction of an urban existence which, through the act of building on and transforming sites and landscapes, demonstrates an awareness of its territory.