Jean-François Schmit likes to engage in all scales of building and the most diverse projects, for both public and private sector clients: from workplaces, such as an aircraft maintenance hangar on an airport site, to artists’ workshop-apartments on a small Parisian plot or a school complex on the urban periphery and an entirely rehabilitated school. These buildings cross-fertilise each other until they form a continuum. The brightness of the volumes, their spaciousness and attractiveness, the concern for integration into the urban framework with deep-rooted respect for the host environment are among the constants of this architecture, contemporary without being elitist or affectedly aesthetic, an architecture that primarily relates to the user.

“In architecture, there is the same enjoyment as in cooking”