I am Yasmine Idrissi. I founded the practice in Fès in 2014, after years in Paris and Lisbon, to build closer to the ground I come from.
I trained at the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture Paris-Val de Seine and spent six years between Parisian and Lisbon studios before returning home. The work since has been small and deliberate — houses, a studio, a few pavilions — each one a study in how little a building needs to do to feel right.
Philosophy
A building should age well. I design with materials that gain from time — concrete that records its form, travertine that warms, wood that deepens — so that a house is more generous in its tenth year than in its first.
Light is the first material. Before plan or section, I study how the sun crosses a site across the year, and where the shade falls in summer. The openings that follow are not chosen for the view alone but for the hour of day they belong to.
Approach
01
Read the site
Every project begins on the ground. We walk it, draw it, and watch the light before a line is set.
02
Draw by hand
Plans begin on paper. Hand drawing keeps the work close to the body and the material it is made of.
03
Build with local craft
We work with Fès masons, plasterers, and carpenters — skills passed down, kept in use.
Recognition
- Aga Khan Award — shortlist, 2023
- Dezeen Magazine — Emerging Practice, 2022
- Architectural Review — New Into Old, 2021