About

Roll

Roll is an architecture and design practice based in Paris and Bayonne. Founders Lucie Rebeyrol and Ian Ollivier met in 2016 while working in New York. We create forms and spatial experiences which seek the fine balance between rigor and freedom, function and experience, immediate objectives and possible futures. We have a predilection for sensory architecture and a fondness for the ordinary.

Through working in prominent art institutions and architecture firms, we gained strong experience in projects of various scales dedicated to living, working and culture. At New York design firm SO – IL, we collaborated on projects at the crossroads of architecture, urban planning, and exhibition design: Site Verrier de Meisenthal, the transformation of a historic glassmaking factory into a cultural center ; a mixed-use housing project on the River Seine selected as a winner of the “Réinventer la Seine” competition ; Breathe, an experimental prototype for sustainable housing ; Passage, an installation for the Chicago Architecture Biennial ; and an exhibition for the Design Museum in London. We were also invited to collaborate with PILA on the winning proposal for the MBK site in Bobigny, and designed exhibition spaces for the Luma Foundation in Arles while working at Selldorf Architects. Finally, at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, we contributed to the design and installation of major exhibitions of sculpture, painting, photography and media by artists such as Hilma af Klint, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Alex Katz, and Gillian Wearing. We worked closely with the design team at OMA on the production of the exhibition Countryside: The Future and assisted artists Wu Tsang and Christian Nyampeta with the design of their large installations rethinking the iconic rotunda as a site of assembly, reflection, and amplification.

Team

Lucie Rebeyrol is a licensed architect and exhibition designer. She brings a multidisciplinary approach to design, integrating architecture, exhibition design and art. Prior to co-founding Roll, Lucie spent several years in New York where she held a position as exhibition designer at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and as an associate at the architecture firm SO–IL. Lucie was born in Biarritz, France and studied architecture at the ENSAP Bordeaux and the ENSA Paris La Villette where she graduated in 2013.

Ian Ollivier is a licensed architect and exhibition designer. He carries extensive experience in the fields of architecture, landscape and urbanism, having led the design and delivery of several cultural, commercial and residential projects in Europe and America. Ian worked at Sauerbruch Hutton in Berlin, Selldorf Architects and SO – IL in New York, where he was an associate. Ian was born in New York and raised in France. He received his architectural training from the TU Berlin in Germany and the ENSA Bretagne where he graduated in 2012.

Contact

19B Rue Jean Baptiste Semanaz
93310 Le Pré-Saint-Gervais

12 rue Capitaine Pellot
64100 Bayonne

+33 (0)7 67 30 01 66
info@roll-office.org
Instagram

Client list

Ateliers Médicis
Centre Chorégraphique National de La Rochelle
Centre national des arts plastiques (Cnap)
Centre Pompidou
Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine
Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris La Villette
Galerie Nationale du Design Saint Etienne
Gstaad Art
Magasins Généraux
Mucem
Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris
Musée d’Art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg
Musée d’arts de Nantes
Musée de l’Orangerie
Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac
Nouveau Printemps
Okindegia
Palais de la Porte-Dorée : Musée national de l’histoire de l’immigration
Rockbund Art Museum
Tate Modern

Design & code: Jauneau Vallance