Sarah Kimmich and Romain Odin Lepoutre met while studying in Segovia, Spain. Their empirical approach through 1/1 prototyping informs a practice working closely with fabricators, craftspeople and laborers to accentuate the ordinaries of the built environment. Extensive documentation through photography, film, drawing and sculpture plays an instrumental role in their practice, summarizing each Scenario with an experimentally fabricated report.
Sarah Kimmich holds a Bachelor of Architecture from
IE School of Architecture and Design in (Madrid, Spain), with a semester abroad in
Seoul National University (Seoul, South Korea). Her working experience includes an internship with
Sigurd Larsen Architects (Berlin, Germany) in 2020 and the curatorial practice
Loop Raum in 2019 (Berlin, Germany).
Romain Odin Lepoutre completed a
Design + Make Postgraduate M.arch (Beaminster, U.K) from the Architectural Association in 2023. He is currently a team member of
Ciguë (Paris, France). Since 2023, he is part of Hooke Park Collective, collaborating with
Horst Arts and Music (Vilvoorde, Belgium), designing and building functional sculptures with stock material.
He holds a Bachelor of Architecture from
IE School of Architecture and Design (Segovia, Spain).Throughout his studies, he had the opportunity to intern at
ANCB (Berlin, Germany),
Liene Bosque Studio (New York, U.S.A.) along with a semester abroad at
Tongji College of Architecture & Urban Planning (Shanghai, China). After graduating in 2019, he worked as a fabrication assistant at
Studio Kimchi and Chips (Seoul, South Korea) and as junior architect at
Barkow Leibinger (Berlin, Germany).
His approach to architecture stems from process driven design and experimenting with readily available resources to appreciate the expression, details, traces and mistakes within craft.
