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  • A library becomes a way to test how far a space can travel while still feeling familiar. Between shipping crates, changing light, and shifting audiences, Studio Etienne Bastormagi applies its methodology of precise, minimal interventions: a careful alignment of volumes, books, and pauses that turns a temporary fair into a sequence of quiet rooms. The Nomadic Library is less a stand than a rehearsal in how architecture can fold, unfold, and reappear elsewhere—carrying memory, knowledge, and encounters from one city to the next.

  • Across all scales, the studio’s work develops over time, shaped by the forces of context, material, and use.

    It is both object and environment – each space is an intervention in the city, each object an architecture in its own right.

Modern living room with white curved sofa, beige armchair, marble coffee table, abstract artwork, black ceiling light fixtures, glass sliding door, and a partially visible second sitting area with a gray sofa and red art piece.
Display of three pastries under glass cloches in a modern, white ice cream shop with bright lighting.

  • A poetic installation, a nomadic pavilion, a kindergarten roof garden – each is approached with an attuned sense of place and an ambition to reframe spatial possibilities.

Modern interior with a textured glass sliding door, wooden furniture, and open shelving displaying books, a potted plant, and decorative items.

  • each project is a curation, a collection and a community.

    Whether architects, artists, designers or craftsmen, every community allows for a cross-collaboration that enriches the project.

3D rendering of a multi-level mechanical or architectural model with circular platforms connected by thin vertical supports, set against a white background.

  • exploring the sculptural potential of structure, the practice crafts pieces and places that are both subtle and imaginative.

  • whether urban projects, architecture, interiors, scenography, or objects, each brief begins from a state of unpredictability, offering new possibilities to reveal new typologies.

Person in a yellow dress standing on a large, round concrete platform in a school courtyard.

  • architecture as an evolving laboratory—a space where ideas, materials, and experiences converge to redefine the built environment.

Colorful outdoor basketball court with a basketball hoop and a tall fence in an urban area.

  • a practice comfortable in the liminal, drawing together fragments – of place, material, and memory – into new spatial and cultural constellations.