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 its usage.

Offices

  • Av. de la Gare 41
    1003 Lausanne 

  • Av. 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 ETH

Past collaborators

  • Flavio Ribeiro

  • Elias Taillebois

  • Esther Chatelain

  • Marion Gisiger

  • Zoé Aymon

  • Claudia Sicilia Venegas

Publication

  • texte par Héloïse Gailing

  • ROT – Immunity - The Brick of the Future

    In collaboration with Jennifer Russo

  • habitation - Septembre 2022 - Les nouvelles manières d’habiter

    By Sébastien Tripod and Philippe Veluzat
    (texte Salomé Houillier Binder)

  • Pfeil Magazine 16 – Friends - Breathing Fragments

    By Licia Soldavini, Sébastien Tripod with Juliette Mancini

  • Construction & Bâtiment - Reportage - Juin / Juillet 2022 - L’intélligence collective

    By Sébastien Tripod and Philippe Veluzat

  • Collective Process - Counterpractices in European Architecture

    Natalie Donat-Cattin / Birkhäuser - Interview for Constructlab

  • Current - Art and Urban Space - Magazine 2 - Bestiarium14

    By Licia Soldavini, Sébastien Tripod with Juliette Mancini

  • Current - Art and Urban Space - Magazine 1 - Bestiarium14

    Towards a new mythology of the Bundesstrasse
    By Licia Soldavini, Sébastien Tripod with Juliette Mancini

  • Caillasses - Explorations d’un territoire en transition

    La Villa Bernasconi / Ville de Lancy et la Maison Baron / Embassy of Foreign Artists
    Publication by Licia Soldavini, Sébastien Tripod and Vincent Yersin

  • How Together – Constructlab

    The community factory unless it is the factory of the community?
    Story by Linus Lutz, based on a conversation with Sébastien Tripod

  • Livre Invisible

    Constructlab ZK/U press, Berlin

  • Protocol - Magazin für Architektur im Kontext - Nr.8, Boden

    Universität der Künste Berlin, Imaginary of an Uncertain Future

Expositions

  • Towards a ruined theater.

    Co-curation and installations in collaboration with Sara Manente, Pilar, Brussels, (B)

  • RUINED at «our house is a very very very fine house”

    Installation and performances in collaboration with Sara Manente and Deborah Robbiano, Kunstmuseum Bochum, (D)

  • RUINED (growing exhibition)

    In collaboration with Sara Manente and Deborah Robbiano, N0dine, Brussels, (B)

  • RUINED at Rot Garden

    In collaboration with Sara Manente and Deborah Robbiano, far° festival des arts vivants, Nyon (CH)

  • Critical Care – Architektur für einen Planeten in der Krise

    Project: Caillasses (2020), Zentrum für Architektur Zürich (CH)

  • Strato-Logique (Towards an Ecology of the Shelter)

    In collaboration with Diego Sologuren, LABOR – Bivouac, Lausanne (CH)

  • Le Hammam

    In collaboration with Romain Legros and Matthieu Monnard, Festival Hik and Nunk, Monthey (CH)

  • Broad Window (Towards an Ecology of the Shelter)

    In collaboration with Diego Sologuren, Prototipoak, Azkuna Zentroa, Alhondiga, Bilbao (ES)

  • Nourriture passe Nature

    In collaboration with Carla Rangel and Vincent Yersin, Espace 365, Zone Sensible / Parti Poétique, Saint Denis (FR)

  • Zerodecibels, Hallo: Festspiele

    In collaboration with Daniel Dominguez Teruel, Jean-Michaël Taillebois and Jonas Brand, Hamburg (D)

  • Miracle Mountain

    In collaboration with Collective Disaster, Festival: Art, villes & paysage, Hortillonnages, Maison de la culture d’Amiens, Amiens (FR)

  • Hopla

    In collaboration with Collectif ETC, commissioned by Ecomusée d’Alsace, Ungersheim (FR)

Teaching

  • «Le Jardin Culturel»

    In collaboration with Florent Joerin, Romain Legros, Mathilde Gintz, Justine Gintz, Adeline Vieira
    Workshop at School of Buisness and Engineering, Vaud, Monthey (CH)

  • «Architecture & Psychiatry»

    In collaboration with Gabriel Bender, Romain Legros and Pieter Verstegh
    Studio at Hes-so Valais, Social work, Bachelor degree program, Sierre (CH)

  • «Mushrooms under construction - the brick of the future»

    For a class of 8 year old pupils in collaboration with the Jennifer Russo (teacher)
    Culture-École program at primary school of Chailly, Lausanne (CH)

  • «Sébeillon en transition»

    In collaboration with Florent Joerin et Romain Legros
    Workshop at School of Buisness and Engineering, Vaud, Lausanne (CH)

  • External expert at ALICE laboratory, EPFL

    For the work of Romain Legros and Mattia Pretolani, EPFL (CH)

  • «The dance of agency, flying structures – architecture of resilience»

    School of Engineering and Architecture, University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Western Switzerland, Fribourg (CH)

  • «Troubled Garden, ecologies of artistic research»

    Workshop in collaboration with Constructlab at Unlearning Center
    Workshop at A.pass, advanced performance and scenography studies, Bruxelles (BE)

  • «Banc public» workshop and seminar

    In collaboration with Hani Buri and François Esquivié
    To discover and explore the multiple facets of the public bench
    Workshop at Joint Master of Architecture, Western Switzerland and Bern universities of applied sciences network, Fribourg (CH)

  • Workshop “Follies”

    Part of the project/activity/research “Follies”, Centre neuchâtelois de psychatrie, Préfargier (CH)

  • Studio «Le moi chez soi»

    Master program – external expert of Dr. Pieter Versteegh at École spéciale d’architecture de Paris (FR)

Lectures

  • Sébastien Tripod represent Constructlab - delirious lausanne, comment faire ? en collectif!

    Moderator: Bastian Marzoli et Fabien Oulevay, with Collectif la-clique and Collectif Offset

Distinctions

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