PHILIPPE SAMYN AND PARTNERS

Philippe SAMYN and PARTNERS, founded in 1980, is a private company owned by its partners and led by its Design Partner Dr Ir Philippe SAMYN. With its affiliated companies FTI (founded in 1985), DAE (founded in 1994) and AirSR (founded in 2003), it is active in all fields of architecture and building engineering.

Philippe Samyn’s architectural and engineering design approach is based on questioning, which can be summarised as a “why” methodology inspired by the client aspiration and the genius loci. The firm approaches projects openly to all sorts of possibilities whilst listening closely to its client demands.

Its projects are often published in the international specialised press and filmed (1292 publications and 158 footages as of 2017-06-16). Philippe SAMYN and PARTNERS sprl is an administrator of SECO scrl, Technical Control Bureau for Construction, as well as PLAIN-PIED asbl, a consulting office in the field of accessibility for the disabled.

On 2016-12-31, the company has a 44,01 equivalent of full time architects and engineers, (of which 11 directing partners on 2017-06-01), and the group is composed of 64,74 full time equivalents.

Project: Philippe SAMYN and PARTNERS architects & engineers, LEAD and DESIGN PARTNER. Philippe Samyn and Partners architects & engineers, Studio Valle Progettazioni architects, Buro Happold Limited engineers. Photo: Quentin Olbrechts

Project: Philippe SAMYN and PARTNERS, architects & engineers Photo: Simon Schmitt – www.globalview.be

Redakce AW 2018