Meeting with Natalia Collignon

At the crossroads of the most beautiful buildings in Esch-Sur-Alzette, aeco architecture workshop, a firm dedicated to green architecture. At its head, Natalia Collignon, advocating the contemporary and ecological style, the design of low-energy houses and renovation with respect for heritage, Consulting and Urban Planning Energy Concept (PAP). 

 

Our Luxembourgish architect and urban planner did his first two years of studies at the Institut Supérieur d´Architecture Saint-Luc in Brussels, then the next three at the Institut Supérieur d´Architecture Intercommunal Victor Horta to work on the creative side. At the end, she began her conquest of Luxembourg alongside Tretra Lanners Associés before joining Beng Architectes Associés from 2005 to 2011 and then opened her own office aeco architectural workshop in 2011. Her husband joined her in 2012, in order to develop the ubranism branch, an associate completed the team a year later. Together, they work on single-family homes, small and medium-sized residences and then municipal projects.

 

The art of loving complexity

If her style had to be defined, it would undoubtedly be a subtle blend of contemporary, understated purity to which a delicate touch of femininity would slip. However, even in sobriety, Natalia likes the artistic complexity of a project. In his accomplishments, nothing is left to chance. Everything is thought out, thorough and justified.

 

All in sobriety, elegance and modernity, the redhead with the look of a business woman believes in an offbeat vision of her art. "I think I have a sensitivity that allows me to feel places, spaces and that allows me to conceive things differently from others" she says, remembering a few projects. In reality, she owes this creativity to the world around her because everything around her is a source of inspiration, including and above all the customer. “I take a lot of time before I conceive. I discuss, I understand how people live, what their needs and desires are before even starting to draw,” she explains. And to continue, "I have found myself in some place and told myself that such and such a thing could be an idea for such and such a project." Ultimately, that's what it is to be an architect: to listen, to interpret, to transcribe through architecture and to dream of it at night.