Valentine Guichardaz-Versini founded Atelier RITA in 2016 after graduating from ENSA-Marseille in 2008 and gaining valuable experience in agencies in Paris and Marseille. Winner of the First Work Prize awarded by the Silver T-square in 2017, Atelier RITA adopts a conscious and sensitive approach to architecture that engages directly with society as it exists in the real world. The practice is drawing on its expertise in emergency architecture for the refurbishment project of the ‘La Boulangerie’ University Hospital, following the 2017 construction of a centre providing 400 emergency accommodation places for migrants in Ivry-sur-Seine, aligning its practice with a compassionate vision of architecture.