Architect and project manager
in Chambéry.

Chambéry has a distinctive urban fabric: a dense historic centre, a Site Patrimonial Remarquable (SPR, designated heritage area) where any work on façades or roofs requires the opinion of the Architecte des Bâtiments de France (ABF heritage architect), and a demanding local plan (PLU) on building size and architectural integration. Renovating a flat in the old quarters — around Saint-François cathedral, the Croix-d'Or or the Curial block — requires detailed knowledge of these rules.

The Chambéry market is above all a market for renovating houses and flats. The city has both a high proportion of older homes in co-owned buildings and a stock of town houses and suburban houses, often poorly insulated, whose owners want to modernise the interior while respecting the heritage constraints outside. Our services cover the entire project: design, planning applications, coordination of the trades, site supervision and handover.

Our office is in Aix-les-Bains, 20 minutes from Chambéry. Being close by means quick site visits, first-hand knowledge of the Chambéry Alpes Métropole planning departments, and fast response from our site teams. We work both in the inner-ring communes (La Ravoire, Cognin, Bassens) and across the whole Chambéry area, up to the foot of the Bauges massif and Mont Granier.

Looking for an architect in Chambéry usually means looking for someone able to hold a project within a tight framework: a dense historic centre, hillsides that climb quickly, and an agglomeration-wide planning code that settles the essentials before the first line is drawn.

The legal rule first. Above 150 m² of total floor area after the works, a private individual must appoint an architect registered with the Ordre for the building permit. Below that, the design can be carried by a project manager — which does not mean the architectural question disappears, only that the law no longer imposes it.

The historic centre. Narrow streets, terraced buildings, inner courtyards, protected façades: near listed monuments, the ABF heritage architect gives an opinion on materials, colours and joinery. In this fabric, renovating a flat turns on daylight, sound insulation between dwellings, and running services through old floors.

The hillsides. On the slopes of Chambéry-le-Haut, Bassens or Jacob-Bellecombette, the question becomes geotechnical: ground survey, suitable foundations, management of surface water, retaining structures. That is where projects go off the rails when they have been priced before being studied.

We design — our managing partner is a state-qualified architect (French DEA degree) — and we build with our own teams, in Chambéry as across the whole area. The first visit is there to read the plot and the planning code; the drawing comes after.