Landscape & Urban Design Issue 18 2016 | Page 37

Coache Lacaille Paysagistes was created new way but also truly feel the focus of the You enter by walking on stepping stones in 2013 by Maxime Coache and Victor suspended weight as the physical latent that traverse a ground-cover made of Lacaille. Luc Dallanora joined this duo in force in the trees themselves. The viewer small. Once inside, you wander between 2015. They are all graduates of the École finds himself playing the central role of the the rows of beans of tightly winding nationale supérieure de la nature et du work in rediscovering their relationship to their way up a light wooden structure. paysage de Blois in France. The primary the energy in their environment. The walls divide the space into a series interest of this trio of landscape architects of small hidden gardens, singular in their is the landscape. If their knowledge Formally trained as an architect at Yale proportions. These cocoons are ideal requires creativity, they are also artists. University but with a deep commitment hiding places for a game of hide-and-seek. Their role is somewhere between the to creating art, Craig Chapple has pursued One remains a secret, inaccessible... gardener, the designer, the architect and both architecture and the visual arts the urban planner. Each new project is simultaneously throughout his career. La maison de Jacques is magical. It will inspired by the context and by those for Craig’s work is born from the synergy of be built over several weeks, starting with whom the project is intended to be used; these two disciplines, producing work that the seedlings in May that will grow to be it is also the pretext for new experiments. focuses on the overlap of line, pattern, more than 3 metres in height in a short www.coachelacaille.com texture, and process. He works in analog time. Their clumps of red flowers will be and digital practices in drawing, painting, in bloom by the end of July and then and sculpture. the beans will form to bring a taste of Cyclops by Craig Chapple, architect, Phoenix, Arizona, United States: goodness to everyone. La maison de Jacques by Romy Brosseau, Cyclops is a singular object on the Rosemarie Faille-Faubert, Émilie Gagné- Graduates in the master’s program in landscape as well as a singular frame of the Loranger, intern architects, Quebec City architecture at the Université Laval in landscape. Made up of 258 8-meter long (Québec) Canada: Quebec City, the designers are working timber and 1 x 6 boards, they are held in a together for the first time on this project to concentric ring by 2 steel rings suspended La maison de Jacques (or Jack’s House bring their personal interests to life. Émilie from the surrounding trees by stainless from the children’s fable Jack and the Gagné-Loranger seeks to reveal some steel cables. Beanstalk) is different from the one we new poetry from her research on interior know. You might think you have just spaces. Her projects explore the limits, Cyclops is held in a tenuous balance with stepped out of a children’s story. The feelings and aspects of intimate spaces. the envir ۛY[