atelier-nsb sàrl (Mossel)

“Our ancestors, who imbued everything with poetry, had paradoxically succeeded in transforming into a place of the utmost good taste the very spot in the entire house that, by its very nature, should have been the most squalid—and, through a close connection with nature, to blur it into a network of delicate associations of images.” (Junichirô Tanizaki, In Praise of Shadows).

No living space should be neglected or ignored, but through our architecture, we must be able to honor its function and meet its needs, while respecting the coherence of the whole.

atelier-nsb sàrl ensures that the balance of the elements that make up architecture is maintained; notably the most important ones, which are life itself and the individual. By way of analogy, we can compare architecture to a box—not in form, but in function. In this sense, a house is a box that shelters a life; a school is a box that nurtures and educates a child; and a public square, too, becomes a box that accommodates various social relationships. atelier-nsb sàrl is dedicated to learning about and understanding the contents of these boxes: only then can they be successful.