Ellena Mehl Architectes

Herve Ellena, born in 1970, graduate engineer Centrale Lyon in 1994, and Stephanie Mehl, born in 1974 to meet the School of Architecture Paris-Malaquais in 1995. They won in 1998, during their studies, the support of the Fondation de France / BMW for multimodal parking Paris as a tribute to Claude Nicolas Ledoux in the Rotonde de la Villette. Architect diplomas in hand, they noticed the contest EuropanDOM in Reunion in 1999 for their proposal "landscape uses" sensitive micro-lives of the inhabitants. they founded their first agency "chameleon" in 2000. Their first project, a maintenance center and police, made ​​of wood for the Motorways of the South of France, on the A89, tulle, was appointed in 2002 at the cost of First Work Award from The Monitor, demonstrating as required by this type of program functionality can be coupled with architectural qualities. The first project would spread to other sites throughout the A89 motorway to be completed in 2006 in the Puy-de-Dome, in an exceptional landscape. After several projects - mainly in the field of equipment, service, and a first draft in the field of health - they create the agency Ellenamehl end of 2006 to assert their identity and beliefs architectural, highlighted in particular for their realization Institute of France or project finalist for Europan 8 in La Courneuve. Herve Ellena and Stephanie Mehl demonstrated by the diversity of projects, their ability to provide an ever-inventive thinking, open and listening. They think the architectural project by the metaphor of toybox, both container and promise of a multiplicity of stories.