Architect Day: Hamonic + Masson

The French partnership between Gaëlle Hamonic and Jean-Christophe Masson, the Paris office offers a wide variety of residential and public buildings.

Gaëlle Hamonic born in 1968 and Jean-Christophe Masson born in 1967, founded the MASSON HAMONIC office in 1997. In a few years, the partnership has a lot of result, were already winners of the Grand prix Renov in 1999, The New Album of Young Architects in 2001/2002 and in 2003 nominated to Mies van der Rohe Prize.

Architect Day: Hamonic + Masson
DDM House, Sèvres, France. photo © Herve Abbadie

The firm first gained recognition with projects of smaller scales, usually situated in dense areas and difficult to work with. They began to work with larger scales, making a beautiful portfolio of residential buildings. Also went to work with great quality in public buildings, and today besides the completed works have interesting projects for the coming years.

65 student apartments, Paris, France

Architect Day: Hamonic + Masson
photo © Herve Abbadie

36 apartments and medical centre, Pantin, France

Architect Day: Hamonic + Masson
photo © Herve Abbadie

74 apartments, Chilly-Mazarin, France

Architect Day: Hamonic + Masson
photo © harmonic-masson.com

Centre of Contemporany Archives, Fontainebleau, France

Architect Day: Hamonic + Masson
photo © Xavier Testelin, Herve Abbadie

Early Childhood Centre, Rouen, France

Architect Day: Hamonic + Masson
photo © Herve Abbadie

Elementary School, Paris, France

Renovation and extension on the gymnasium La Source, Versailles, France

62 apartments, Paris, France

About the author

My name is Marcelo Seferin, I’m an architect from Porto Alegre, Brazil and I’m the chief architect at Seferin Arquitetura, an office that works with architecture, interior design and sustainability projects. You can check our work at http://www.seferin.com.br and you can follow me at twiiter http://www.twitter.com/mseferin.