Studio ACTE

Studio ACTE is an architecture practice founded by Estelle Barriol and based in Rotterdam since 2020, in a warehouse in the former port of Delfshaven, with a second address in Toulouse. It works across the Netherlands, France and Belgium around a regenerative idea of building: geo-sourced and reused materials, vernacular references, and the construction site treated as the place where the design is decided.

The method is design and build. Models, material experiments and prototypes lead to pavilions built by the studio itself, so details and reuse processes are tested at full scale before they reach a building. Projects run from Material Wharf and the Blagnac School of Reuse to community centres, elderly social housing and the Circular Pavilion, alongside scenography, furniture and applied research; local craft and participatory sites are part of the brief rather than an addition.