is an architecture studio based between Fribourg and Lausanne, co-founded by Jean-Michaël Taillebois and Sébastien Tripod. Their practice, based on contextual, collaborative and experimental approaches, explores environmental and social ecology. Tied to traditional craftsmanship and construction techniques, they design projects rooted in the existing and within the available. Between ongoing projects and temporary installations, bureaumilieux develops a practice that is both grounded and evolving, attentive to context and use.
Offices
Av. de la Gare 41
1003 LausanneAv. Général-Guisan 1
1700 Fribourg
Team
Jean-Michaël Taillebois Arch. MA BFH/HES-SO REG A SIA
Sébastien Tripod Arch. MA BFH/HES-SO SIA
Lalie Bays Arch. BSc ETHZ
Romy Cartier Arch. MSc DEA ENSA Marseille
Past collaborators
Flavio Ribeiro Arch. BSc FAUP Porto
Elias Taillebois Arch. BSc TU Braunschweig
Esther Chatelain Arch. BSc EPFL
Marion Gisiger Arch. BSc EPFL
Zoé Aymon Arch. BSc EPFL
Claudia Sicilia Venegas Arch. MSc ETSAM Madrid
Publications
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Toward a Mycelial Imagination by Emmanuel Leriche
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Une immersion créative by Marielle Savoyat
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Transformation d’un garage en école de musique
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Swiss Arc Mag – 2024 – 6
Swiss Architecture 2024 – Swiss Arc Award – Education & Health – Albertine
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Composer avec, et pendant by Héloïse Gailing
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New Generations
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Dezeen
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The brick of the future in collaboration with Jennifer Russo
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Architecture verte by Céline Duruz
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Un îlot de fraicheur dans l’espace public, text in collaboration with Raphaël Compagnon
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Les nouvelles manières d’habiter by Salomé Houillier Binder
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Breathing Fragments in collaboration with Licia Soldavini and Juliette Mancini
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L’intelligence collective Par Héloïse Gailing
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Natalie Donat-Cattin / Birkhäuser - Interview for Constructlab
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Bestiarium14 in collaboration with Licia Soldavini and Juliette Mancini
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Towards a new mythology of the Bundesstrasse with Licia Soldavini and Juliette Mancini
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in collaboration with Licia Soldavini and Vincent Yersin
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Experimental Design and Building of a Cable Reinforced Plastic Brick Arch en collaboration avec Maxie Schneider, Lieven Tone Houdmont et Jan Belis
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Constructlab – The community factory, or the community as a factory? – Story by Linus Lutz, based on a conversation with Sébastien Tripod
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Domus
The Arch by ConstructLab activated a former mining area in Genk by Giulia Ricci
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Constructlab ZK/U press, Berlin
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The imagination of an uncertain future by Sébastien Tripod
Exhibitions – Residencies
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House of Dust – in collaboration with Mélissa Rouvinet
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in collaboration with Sara Manente and Deborah Robbiano
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RUINED – in collaboration with Sara Manente and Deborah Robbiano
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In collaboration with Sara Manente and Deborah Robbiano
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far° festival des arts vivants, Nyon – RUINED / Rot Garden
In collaboration with Sara Manente and Deborah Robbiano
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LABOR – Bivouac, Rasude, Lausanne
Strato-Logique (Towards an ecology of shelter) in collaboration with Diego Sologuren
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Le Hammam – In collaboration with Romain Legros and Matthieu Monnard
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Broad Window (Towards an ecology of shelter) in collaboration with Diego Sologuren
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Caillasses – in collaboration with Licia Soldavini and Vincent Yersin
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Nourriture passe Nature – in collaboration with Carla Rangel and Vincent Yersin
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in collaboration with Daniel Dominguez Teruel and Jonas Brand
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Hallo: Plataforma Trafaria + EDA (Ensaios e Diálogos Associação) and Lisbon Architecture Triennale
Residency in Trafaria
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Free Home University + Ammirato Culture House à Lecce
Giardino Ammirato avec Constructlab
Teaching – Jury
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Final jury – 2nd year Bachelor’s degree in architecture studio with Barbara Tirone, Didier Challand, Yves Macherel, Guy Nicollier, Raphaël Niogret, Istabrak Bellara and Dominik Riser
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External expert for – Building with the unusual, from landfill to construction – Master’s thesis by Yerly Chloé, Prof. Hani Buri
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Final jury – 2nd year Bachelor’s degree in architecture studio with Barbara Tirone, Didier Challand, Yves Macherel, Guy Nicollier, Raphaël Niogret, Istabrak Bellara and Dominik Riser
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Final jury – Second-year Bachelor’s degree in architecture studio with Didier Challand, Cyril Lecoultre, Yves Macherel, GUY Nicollier, Deborah Piccolo, Raphaël Niogret, Dominik Riser, Eliane Rodel
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Collège du Sud, Bulle
Meeting spaces – workshop in collaboration with Agnès Collaud and bachelor’s degree students in architecture at HEIA-FR
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Master’s Studio Semester – assistant to Prof. Hani Buri
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The Cultural Garden – workshop in collaboration with Florent Joerin, Romain Legros, Mathilde Gintz, Justine Gintz, Adeline Vieira
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Mushrooms under construction – the brick of the future – workshop with a class of 8-year-olds, in collaboration with Jennifer Russo (teacher) at Chailly Primary School, Lausanne
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Framing – seminar workshop with Prof. Hani Buri and François Esquivié
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Haute école d'ingénierie et de gestion (HEIG-VD), Lausanne
Sébeillon in transition – workshop in collaboration with Florent Joerin and Romain Legros
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The right to emptiness – Eve workshop with Prof. Hani Buri, Prof. Götz Menzel and François Esquivié
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HES-SO Valais, Travail social, bachelor, Sierre
Architecture & Psychiatry – studio in collaboration with Gabriel Bender, Romain Legros and Pieter Verstegh
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ALICE, EPFL, Lausanne
Expert externe pour Romain Legros et Mattia Pretolani
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Arpentages – seminar workshop with Prof. Hani Buri and François Esquivié
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A.pass, Brussels
Troubled Garden – workshop in collaboration with Constructlab – Unlearning Center
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Haute école d'ingénierie et d'architecture, HES-SO, Fribourg
The dance of the agency, flying structures – architecture of resilience – workshop
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Public bench – workshop and seminar in collaboration with Hani Buri and François Esquivié
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Follies – workshop as part of the Follies project/activity/research
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Le moi chez soi – expert externe du studio de Dr Pieter Versteegh
Conferences – Interviews
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Lausanne Arc Afterwork
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Design Days, Lausanne
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RTS – 19h30
Interview with Sophie Iselin
How mycelium could replace concrete in our homes – What if the future of architecture lay in fungi? -
Musée de la main, Lausanne
Living well with microbes – Series of lectures
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Biotope, Lausanne
Large shared flats: how to live in them? How to design them?
Round table organised by Tribu architecture with Jonction-Codha, Attalens-Les Coloriés, Kalkbreite, Le Bled, ArgeCO, Dreier Frenzel, Veluzat architects and TRIBU architecture.
Awards
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SAY25/26 nominee
Swiss Architecture Yearbook SAY 2025/26
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Nominee Swiss Arc Award
Albertine – culture and community category
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