Accueillir le Vivant

The plurality of the agency’s thinking and the diversity of the responses provided by its projects constitute a whole that reflects the evolution of contemporary living conditions. For ChartierDalix, architecture is envisaged as a constructed system combining the welcoming of life, poetry, and the common good.

ChartierDalix’s holistic approach to architecture and landscape is based on multidisciplinary skills. Developing the city by involving different disciplines and considering animal and plant species in an ecological process is a way of ensuring the sustainability of our spaces.

For ChartierDalix, it is possible to conceive of living beings and urban life in a genuine relationship of otherness, based on greater reciprocity. This involves reversing values so that the design of the unbuilt occupies as important a place as that of the built. This thinking forms the basis of their philosophy.Since its inception, ChartierDalix has been conducting research on the integration of living organisms and the relationship between architecture and landscape, publishing its initial findings in the book ‘Accueillir le vivant : l’architecture comme écosystème’ (Welcoming Life: Architecture as an Ecosystem), released in 2019 by Livres du parc. Continuing this line of thinking, the agency created ‘serp – studio d’expérimentation, renaturation et paysage’ (studio for experimentation, renaturation and landscape) – in November 2024. A direct offshoot of ChartierDalix’s landscape division, serp develops its own landscape projects, whether or not they are linked to an architectural project.

Language: FR

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Organised as part of the exhibition ‘Living Thresholds: Towards Cohabitation in Architectural Design’.