Based in Nantes since 2002, the Guinée*Potin team has consisted of about a dozen people since 2021, working both in the field of housing at all scales (whether social, affordable, ownership or participatory), and in that of public equipment (mainly in the fields of childhood, education, culture, and leisure).The agency's approach is rooted in the development of an architecture of materials, capable of connecting architecture to its context. This approach is closely linked to the issue of landscapes, as the architectural skin is the point of connection between architecture and its surrounding environment.

“Indeed, it is not only as living beings that we need a certain environmental quality (water, air), but also as social beings, because the social bond breaks down when the environment no longer has meaning.” Augustin Berque, in Problematics of the Ambient World , 1993.