BIOS Atelier is an international design practice based in Brussels.
We are engaged in projects of architecture, landscape, urbanism at the scale of the city and territory.
(1) BIOS refers to the Greek word βίος
The distinction between the Greek terms ζῷον, associated with bare life as a biological fact, and βίος, life shaped and qualified through a political lens, informs the meaning of our practice: not life at all costs, but the recreation of a cultural connection with the ecosystems that make up the urban environment and its territory.
(2) BIOS is also the Basic Input Output System
The firmware located on a computer’s motherboard that allows it to perform basic operations. We believe that a project can be a systemic response (output) to a problem (input), with its quality precisely lying in its immediacy. This approach frees us from viewing the architect as a creator, allowing for a different way of conceiving the project.
Maxime Beel, Jacopo Fochi, Alessandro Iannello, Clément Ringot, Ken Spangberg