Labo (Living Architecture Bacin Olivier)

LABO (Living Architecture, Bacin Olivier) is an architectural and design company since 2014 focus on ecology, poetry and uses in architecture and design for hospitality, offices, coliving, coworking, university as well as art industries. Labo redefine the usual uses and typologies through architectural research and design in order to improve every day life facing contemporary issues such as uses, economy and sustainability. Through re-interpreting uses and spaces, we create the unexpected, a better functionality with a strong glimpse of emotion and poetry while keeping up with sustainable and financial goals. Labo's work is relatively wide and starts from designing the furniture details, art installation or architecture driven by art, innovation and anthropology. Labo's work exists thanks to a collaboration of multidisciplinary persons, artists and architects, space planners. Labo strongly believes in innovating design and collaborations strongly involving the client's input. Labo is driven by Olivier BACIN, a french Architect founder of Labo. He has an international experience in New York, Paris and Shanghaï as project Architect and Designer on innovative architectural projects at multiple scales. He was awarded for a master planning concept at Shanghaï Universal Expo 2010. He has been collaborating with many architectural offices such as 212 design inc (Hakkasan, Quiksilver), studio Gaia (Hotel W Bogota, RITZ Carlton Herzliya), Odile Decq and Benoit Cornette in Paris where he was in charge of several big scales projects (EDF HQ and research center, Theoule Maison Bulle). While working at ASYMPTOTE architecture in New York he was working on numerous project including the award wining YAS island hotel. Labo also regularly worked with the designer Ora Ito, consulting and managing several architectural projects for Ora Ito studio (MaMo art center, Lancaster retail ID, Air² tower and construction site 10 Grenelle, Hotel Yooma Paris 15, etc).