Who?
YokYok is an artistic design studio founded in 2015 by Samson Lacoste and Luc Pinsard architects. It is today composed by four minds, including Laure Qarémy professor and Pauline Lazareff architect-engineer.
What?
YokYok tries to adopt different project scales, from urban projects to micro-architecture. Different time scales lead to think of the living dimension of architecture. Ephemeral installations, rehabilitation, transformation, mobile, light or long-term evolutionary projects are many tools that can give life to object-architecture and that are settled throughout our work.
Why?
YokYok has the ambition to enlarge architecture fields. Time scales as well as size scales, specific to each project, lead architecture to merge with other disciplines (landscape design, urban design, contemporary art, scenography, photography, video…). This profusion makes the richness of our cooking, searching for the why of our job.
Where?
YokYok is born in Paris. Its projects grow where the mobility of people or ideas allows it. Local materials, as well as skills, are preferred, contributing to the project logic, firmly anchored in a context.
How?
YokYok puts a pragmatic priority on the feasibility of a project. If a solution adapted to a context and its users is always unique and original, it can also be economical, respectful and can bear in it a certain moral sense. As "realizable utopias", solutions must be built in order to exist and it is their realization that teaches us our job of constructor. YokYok, as a handyman, elaborates a set of experiences, learning new methods and techniques, and fills its toolbox little by little. Thus, as projects go by, it increases its creative capacity.
YokYok the fearless, flexible and tireless character,
explores a lively and reacting world…
In this luxuriant universe its mind and body confront architectural curiosities.
After a shy approach and first skeptical experimentation
YokYok adopts with enthusiasm the game and the object while unfolding all its smoothness.
