A project is defined as much by its built finality as by the process of exchanges and design leading to it.

Known for offering high quality service, the architects Corriveau, Girard and Associates bring a sensitive and experienced look to Quebec architecture. Their projects, of various scales, are proof of their interest in working at all levels, from the general planning of large complexes to the design of sophisticated details.

’s involvement in all the sectors of architectural practice displays unfailing professionalism. Since the office opened, in 1995, its fields of competence have progressively widened by always applying the same demands in terms of excellence: coherent Real Property Master Plans, functional planning and anticipatory and documented technique, convincing and rigorous pre-project studies, innovative and pertinent design, complete and accessible plans and quotes and finally, proactive and detailed work supervision.

The architects’ office is organised around four associates, Pierre Corriveau, Sylvie Girard, Jacques Bellemare and Edith Morin, whose complementary experience and aptitudes enrich the approach to design. The team, energetic and efficient, gathers the skills of experienced and qualified personnel, in solidarity with the firm’s choices. Around 30 specialists participate in the development of mandates by being available at all times. They share a common work philosophy based on being attentive to the client and the context.

Concerned with integrating all the possibilities offered by technology, balances the use of traditional and contemporary methods, melding drawings and scale models to the most sophisticated software. The team’s knowledge is kept up to date, the personnel is continuously trained and the software updated, insuring synergy and relevance throughout the design process.

The office’s operations stand out for their innovative designs stamped with meaningful precision and restraint. They always respond to the associates’ fundamental concerns: spatial quality, at times symbolic, always aesthetic and functional, technical performance, cost control and a strict follow-up of deadlines.

Mission

The firm’s mission is to participate, through its architectural design and production, in the development of a stimulating built environment, which respects the needs of the clients and the society that supports them.

Architecture is a sensitive and considered answer to a plan.

Institutional and corporate space: architecture as a collective asset

Environments for living, working, for exchanges and creation, as well as institutional and corporate spaces are in part responsible for the quality of public spaces. They are as important for their users as for the members of a community.

Responding to often very particular planning requirements, their design might have to follow strict regulations and complex procedures. The built environment must, in the end and above all, answer to the demands of standard management: functionality, efficiency, durability, energy savings and easy maintenance.

Conscious of the needs of the environment and concerned about integrating them naturally in its procedures, draws from those very constraints in order to arrive at the ideas necessary for designing stimulating environments.

’s contribution adds real and perceptible value to a project by contributing in defining life and work environments that go beyond expectations.

Hospital space: architecture as a therapeutic tool

Places of birth, life, illness, healing – also a place of departure. Hospital space presents the challenge of generating human environments in spite of the imperatives of efficiency and functionality associated with medical practice. It protects the body weakened by illness.

The health sector represents one of our firm’s privileged fields of professional activity. We have the organisational structure and specific expertise to undertake substantial and highly complex projects. We also maintain a strong interest in small interventions, which we always handle with the same degree of care.

’s accomplishments in the hospital field stand out for their exceptional integration of organisational and human aspects and their adaptation into spaces for medical treatment that inspire calm and serenity. is well known for its knowledge of procedures, regulations and principles structuring health care organisation.

Research space: architecture as a dynamic instrument

Systematisation of spatial organisation, neutrality of atmospheres and asepsis imposed by results to be achieved are not at all a deterrent to our designing exceptional work spaces: projects serve as examples of this. They highlight positive synergies among researchers by designing spaces where functionality and dynamism are combined to create inspiring and stimulating living spaces.

Commercial space: architecture as a sign

“Location, location, location”. Of course location cannot be ignored when insuring the success of a commercial space. But no matter where it is set, its spatial qualities will decide whether it is profitable in the very short term.

The space housing a business is by far the sign that distinguishes the firm best. More than a simple image, it is a display space that shows the uniqueness of the product offered and enhances it. Textures, colourings and lights attract target customers and qualify their perception and experience. The architecture of the point of sale offers added value and participates directly in the firm’s success. knows how to express the firm’s character through specific staging of the commercial object.

Industrial space: architecture as a machine

Industrial space must imperatively respond to operational needs, and the solution put forward directly affects efficiency. A machine as much as an environmental work space, it conforms as much as to criteria of efficiency in line with the processes as to criteria of well-being and comfort, guaranteeing productivity. ’s achievements respond competently and dynamically to functional demands and are inspired by them when designing performing and pleasant spaces.

Residential space: architecture as nest

A house is much more than a simple covering. This second skin acts as a safeguard against nature’s vexations. It is a rational space whose functions imply comfort and safety. A true fortress that one leaves and returns to daily, it is the material symbol of a permanent presence. It is a meaningful envelope and a privileged means of expression for those who live there, a place of stability, coloured by the personality of its occupants.

Before its shape, there is the dwelling’s organisation, which is not very visible but which sustains the quality of relationships. Through the variations of expected and conceivable scenarios, a residence is defined by the questions asked and designed according to an interpretation based on given answers.

Collective housing is approached differently from residential space. Here the appropriation refers to a life style, a reflection of the times. The flexibility of the planning, its versatility and functionality are of the highest importance. Architecture suggests more than it expresses a life style.

The preliminary design: architecture as a guarantee of success

Concerned about the quality and coherence of built environments, has developed an expertise concerning the entirety of the process of designing a building, from its planning to its execution. The office has the capacity, expertise and experience for achieving preliminary projects: Master Development Plans, Real Property Master Plans, Functional and Technical Plans, feasibility studies and pre-concept designs.

Each space is a unique opportunity to reflect on lifestyles and habits and to imagine new scenarios of appropriation. From the outset ’s implication in a project makes it possible to insure all the subsequent planning activities are coherent. The firm actively participates in defining implementation parameters (budget, phasing and deadlines). It is also involved in personalising the project and identifying structuring elements that will propel it and give it the necessary impetus to cover all the stages to its finalisation. One of ’s assets is its capacity to carry out stimulating and clear presentations that facilitate the understanding of the issues and act as a catalyst of energies around common goals and objectives.