Atelier Woa was formalized in 2012 when architects Samuel Poutoux and Rémi Crozat met carpenter Marc-Henri Maxit, who had set up a family wood construction business in Haute-Savoie. We met on a building site near Bastille in Paris," recalls Maxit. When we created Woa, for Wood Oriented Architecture, we wanted to set ourselves apart by highlighting wood, the French industry and our technical and economic approach to this material."