The atelier MaDe is a collaborative space born from the search for independence and innovation within the practice of architects and landscape architects.

Territories, people and the complexity of their relations are in the center of our concerns. The wealth of the material landscape and our attraction to very different contexts incite us to work within all scales, locally as well as beyond our borders.

We believe in an unformatted and open approach of the landscape and architecture project because MaDe bears the idea of Making: to make with, handMaDe…

Halfway between landscape design, architecture, agriculture and scenography, a significant part of our work is about transforming the living. Especially within the areas of wetland, where transformations are exponentially fast.We work on natural dynamics, we short-circuit networks, we draw from underestimated resources such as rainwater in the cities or vegetal in decay.

Our collaboration shapes a laboratory of the living.As designers, we make it a point of honor to stage our research work and to communicate it to the public.

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32 boulevard Jacques Cartier 35000 Rennesateliermade.frcontact@ateliermade.fr02 90 56 07 72

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Lausanne Jardins 2014Place : Lausanne, SwitzerlandType : CompetitionParticipants :  L’Atelier Volant & L’atelier MaDeDate : 2013

BUILT ENVIRONEMENT

STRUCTURE KITS

COLLECTION OF WATER

COLONIZATION BY THE PLANTS

For a long time the vegetal was kept outside cities or tolerated in a very dominated way. Now that the attention on the living environment is becoming

a driving engine of the urban fabrik, the vegetal world is very courted. This seek for nature leads us to change our look on places and ways to reintroduce it in the city as well as our conception of the city itself.

For too long the city ignores its great potential of tank. It wasted the water to maintain an artificial nature under a drip. The coproduction of urban spaces has to anticipate from now the introduction of new natural forms by integrating it to the optimization of the resources and the management of the new spaces so created.

The vegetal Kingdom, mainly requires, for its development and blooming, an anchorage to the ground and a supply of water. The landscape itself emerge since we take into account these two essential geographical elements : topography and hydrography. The settlement of cities and their organization follows the same logic, or followed... Today, in some cities, the ground has been changed into a simple support. It left the horizontal reference to turn to a vertical development. The public place does not stand anymore on a groundplan but deploys itself in successive layouts. They are based on “built solid plots” which take care of the development of an environment on and throught the city.

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1. Kit Plug

4.Kit GrappeKit Guirlande

5.Kits assemblées

A mobile garden has to free itself from the substrate to establish a new environment. It is thus advisable to think of an intelligent garden which seize

the city by its solid plots to developitself. Its mobile vocation requires flexibility, and an effort of understanding and adaptation to the site to guarantee the optimization of the water ressources. An intelligent garden thus, which aims at economy, autonomy and autoregulation.

We propose a garden made of «kits», a «plumber’s garden”. The flexible aspect of an assembly of materials allows the adaptation to the potential of the solid plots and to the geographical accidents. This garden suggests «to anchore», «to connect», or even «to short-circuit» the urban rain water management to insure its supply as a supplement to the direct exposure to the rain. It reveals the course of the water and add it different stages to value it : collection, drainage, filtration, storage, distribution according to the needs of each plant (constant flow, water drop...), as well as the evacuation of the overflow. This intelligent garden inflates when it rains and conve it in case of lack. Thus it favors the emergence of a real «environment» which self-supplies itself and the creation of a pluviometric measurement tool.

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AquaponicPARCK Place : Bruxelles, BelgiumType : Competition (winners)Participants : Vert d’Iris International // MaDe // Alexis DeconinckDate : 2014

« From the landscape to the plate »

The festival Parckdesign2014 invite interdisciplinary teams to redefine the urban farm through architectural, landscaping, artistic and agricultural installations.

Aquaponic consists in coupling the breeding of fishes with the production of vegetables. The water in circulation in the system is enriched in nutriments by the fishes. Then it is filtered by the vegetables’ roots which draw it the usefull nutriments for their growth. The purpose of the installation is to produce vegetables and fiches in a biologic way over a polluated ground, in the city of Brussels.

Then, we’ll test the depolluting capacity of the large-scale aquaponic system (not for eating) by inserting it into the rainwater cycle.

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« Toward the Settlement of a landscape observatory » Place : Battir, PalestineType : WorkshopParticipants : L’Atelier Volant in association with UnescoDate : 2012

In Palestine there’s no organization working on landscapes preservation. Unesco’s project is to create an ‘eco-museum’ in Battir: an awareness place for

environmental issues and way of life preservation, an interactive and participative place. The idea shaped by Unesco will grow with the setting of a landscape observatory. It’s the hearth of our collaboration.

The ObservatoryAn observatory would allow access to studies, analytical elements, historical tracks, landscape evolution surveys… Working in the process of landscapes evolution is a way for a better holding in the future, and give tools (mixing maps, drawings, models…) to local authorities and data about planning orientations. It’s also a way to claim that threatened landscapes are patrimony.Battir is a 4000 inhabitant’s Palestinian village situated in the West of Bethlehem. The future separation wall projected by the Israelis is threatening the village already facing a high pressure due to the colonies. Olive trees and vineyards terraces maintained by dry stones walls, roman hydraulic networks, are the components of a landscape, awarded in 2011 by the international Meline Mercouri prize for the preservation and the maintenance of cultural landscape.For this first step of this observatory, three themes have been chosen :

public space / agriculture / water issue

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Block diagram representing the watersheld and the two main sources of the village : Ein Emdan and Ein Balad

Block diagram representing the main threats on water issues : separation wall project, abandonment of agricultural land, israeli colonies planned, village internal pollution…

Water survey

In Battir, the bottom of valley, overhung by the village is also the physical limit with Israel. The dry river is also the shortest way to Jerusalem, the inaccessible capital.Thanks to geographical concepts we can understand landscape continuities in a context where land spliting is always wanted. At its watersheld level, a geographical unit can’t be split. This is the good scale to show the threats on the water and its natural stream.

From natural to cultural landscape

In Battir, the abundance of the water explains the human presence. By creating a complex hydraulic system (from the Romans times) and irrigated terraces (500km long), they have modified their landscape in return. This thousand of year-old inheritage on water management is still relevant and the main sources are the most popular places of the inhabitants (places of meetings, transmiting know-hows…).

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Map of water circulation from spring to cultivated parcels, done with local children : measures, typologies and functioning of hydraulic survey, vernacular names…

Mi parque es tu parqueSituation : Lima, PeruType : WorkshopParticipants :  L’Atelier VolantDate : 20133rd place at the national award « Culture-ActionS 2013 » given by the cnous

Sensibilization to architecture and construction of a park for kids.

The project took place in Lima nortern suburbs, the “Cono Norte” in La Ensenada, a community of twenty thousands inhabitants.

Our partner, the association Mano a Mano is acting against violence since 1992 in Los Jazmines, a neighborhood of La Ensenada. Since 2007, Mano a Mano is working to level up healthiness by building retaining wall and public gardens. Thought the realisation of this third playground, L’Atelier Volant has been working on site during two month and organised workshop for the initiation to architecc-ture, urbanism and ecology for the children of La Ensenada.The initiation to environment preservation and Tha learning of the architect’s tools has been done through workshops like : painting about ecology, making the model of the district, reading a map, setting up a viewpoint indicator, building a playground for and with the children and making block with recycled materials.

Construction site

During the two month, we organised a special to built the playground games on a the park plot. We have been working with the collective El Cartòn, a group 15 voluntiers, professionals and architecture students, used to work with communi-ties. They brought us their knowledge and arms during the project.

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Ladriplast

Thanks to this encounter, we made block of ladriplast with the inhabitants and the children. It’s a material, similar to concrete, in witch grave l and sand are replace by chopped PET and papier-maché. This material are issued from an informal recycling network. Small private organisations are buying solved household waste to resell if after conditioning.

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Bend the line

Place : St Denis, FranceType : Workshop second hand materialsParticipants :  L’Atelier VolantDate : 2013

The association of architects Bellastock has organised a masterclass to let designers to conceive and built urban furniture with second hand materials.

Designers had to invent new ways of using those materials collected on the construction site of an ecodistrict.

The subject is to open a limit between, on one side, the construction site, a becoming space, on the other, the public space, a living space edged by the endless linear uniformity of construction site fence.The objective is to split the monotonous stream, break of the rythme and open attention. Imperceptibly we are introduced, the space of a second, in the set of the machine.

As if it was kicked, the steel sheet opens, we get in the fence. The border get thicker, a folded body. Inspired by the origami tradition to create a possible fold in the geometry oof a steel sheet, folding a wave.

Photo Alexis Leclercq

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Zone de rencontrePlace : Lille, FranceType : Consulting for contracting autoritySurface : 1,7 haParticipants :  Antoine Derrien for EmpreiinteDate : 2011

The project consisted in the requalification of the main place of Lille (Fr) into a pedestrian priority area. A detail of this urban planning is this unconventional

crosswalk. Constrained by a pattern layout which cannot be changed, the entry in the pedestrian priority area is clearly reported by this painting on the ground, which indicates to the drivers “Slow down guys! You don’t have the priority anymore…”

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MarlySituation : Marly, FranceType : Landscape designSurface : 30 haBudget : 10 M€Participants :  Antoine Derrien pour EmpreinteDate : 2005 - 2013

On a 30 hectares private site, the Empreinte office of landscape architecture proposed to create a 600 housing neighborhood around generous public

spaces.

The Rhônelle, a small river that runs through the Valenciennes agglomeration, structures the park that runs through the site. The housings, mixing collectives and individuals houses, settle around those widely sized natural spaces. The topography, naturally sloped towards the river, leads the stormwater to the watercourse in various forms (swales, ditches, floodable meadows). Pontoons, walkways and retaining walls organize the park and the boundaries between housing and public spaces.

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The garden of the electric workshopSituation : Roubaix, FranceType : Landscape installationParticipants :  L’Espace Furieux, COR, Alexis DeconinckDate : 2013

Is a wasteland a garden ? It is a laboratory about the living, an outlaw space where the vegetal colonize the fallowed.

Here the foot has no place on the ground, the visitor walks on an aerial path from wich he can observe the wasteland changing, the ecosystem is filling out itself and assert he identity as a landscape.The path winds, exchange with the ground, give a sight on the houses, the brick walls and the railway.

The large urban projects like “l’Union” are taking time. The wide spaces already in transformation are troubling the neighborhood. The dreamt gardens festival able to imagine the futur nodes of the project by a festive and shared occupation. It offer daily and all along the construction new spaces of conviviality.

This dreamt garden is also a bubble with view on the construction of l’Union, on the town in progress. Independant and in dialog.

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12:30 P.M. BELVEDERE Place : Nikola Lenivets, RussiaParticipants : K. Bichkova, D. Onatzky et B. MarquetType : Landscape installation Date : 2012

12:30 P.M. BELVEDERE develops a low angle view vision on a landscape that differs from the rest of the parc of Nikola

Lenivets. Aside from its large bright breakthroughs, it take places on a micro-relief created by the bank of a dry river. It provides a view on the farside that shows majestic dead trees.

12:30 P.M. BELVEDERE is above all a gardening project willing to enhance the contrast between the two banks of the dry river and to magnify these majestic dead trees. This work allows a play of light that reveals a particular moment.At 12 P.M., end of july, the sun at its zenith floods this artificial skylight. It’s no more a passive contemplation, it’s a temporal relationship, a rendez-vous.

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