Carbone by Coache Lacaille
Paysagistes, Nantes, France
Photo credit: Louise Tanguay
memories of long days in
short seasons, time spent
alone and among neighbours,
embracing the feeling
of shared disconnection,
together.
Sean Radford and Chris
Wiebe (SRCW) are designers
active in the Winnipeg
architecture community.
SRCW regards the built form
as an instigator of ideas, a
generator for reinterpretation
of the phenomena of
everyday experience. SRCW
is interested in challenging
conventional engagement
of form and space, with
the goal of inducing
pause, inspiring reaction,
and inciting response.
SRCW’s unconventional
use of everyday objects as
sculptural materials seeks to
create accessibility through
familiarity, drawing upon
shared experience in the
user to evoke delight and
excitement. SRCW regards
the art of the garden as the
creation of an interactive
sensory environment, to be
fully inhabited in moments of
discovery and re velation.
CARBONE by Coache Lacaille
Paysagistes (Maxime Coache,
landscape architect, Victor
Lacaille, landscape architect
and Luc Dallanora, landscape
architect), Nantes, France.
The garden is an artifice and
leaves many traces. The Earth
is a garden. Farming, industry,
the internet all leave their
mark. Since the dawn of
time, nature is altered. The
gardener is the one with the
restorative power. A gesture
of kindness.
This installation evokes the
cycle of production as a
parallel to the carbon cycle.
The garden landscaped or
the landscape gardened.
Regenerating the forest
and sowing where we have
harvested brings nature back
to life. Transmit the love of
landscape to those who will
outlive us.
A noble and familiar material,
wood is our crib, our bed,
our coffin. Cut a tree, remove
it from the forest, in itself a
vast garden, is the fruit of
our labour. It is the result of
the work of those who came
before us, who planted a
seed and provide us today
with the wood that gives us
rest. A sculpted tree trunk,
partially cut into pieces helps
to illustrate the primary
material used to build
furniture.
A stump and its roots, a tree
trunk cut into parts and
modules made of timber,
some lightly burned on the
surface. A young tree grows
where the tree might have
grown tall had the tree not
fallen.
Coache Lacaille Paysagistes
was created in 2013 by
Maxime Coache and Victor
Lacaille. Luc Dallanora joined
this duo in 2015. They are
all graduates of the École
nationale supérieure de la
nature et du paysage de
Blois in France. The primary
interest of this trio of
landscape architects is the
landscape. If their knowledge
requires creativity, they
are also artists. Their role
is somewhere between the
gardener, the designer, the
architect and the urban
planner.
Landscape & Urban Design Issue 21
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