Manon Darde

"What I have learnt from SLA ?"

What SLA taught me is first and foremost a way of seeing a world in which we live differently, constantly evolving, actively seeking positive solutions to the climate hazards of tomorrow. Having a fresh look on the city and our future, do not be afraid to show your values and defend them.

This internship is a double experience, which gave me the chance to discover, through a new culture, a set of practices of which I didn’t have as enough knowledge. Drawing the landscape that surrounds us, whether urban or more wild, uses a multiplicity of scales that I could experience. It is our duty today in our practice to restore a status quo between architecture and landscape that must be thought together and thus not using one in the detriment of the other and vice versa. Building is not the solution to all current socio-urban problems, we must also review its functioning and more balance inside/outside because that is what makes the dynamics of our cities, their sustainability and the feeling of good -to be. So more than the architecture of our landscape, understand the territory that surrounds us on a larger scale and think further.

Lykta

"Nature as a healing and sustainable tool in the city"

This internship was an eye-opening experience, based on the way our environment influences our behaviour, in-between buildings and nature. Surrounded by people who are passionate about nature, and willing to explore a site both geologically and socially to make it speak for itself. In each project, they show a total investment to give nature back its place in society.

Learning to understand and reintroduce the living into the project is the key for these actors to face the urban, social and environmental challenges of our time. This internship was therefore the starting point of my master's thesis where through the study of the different actors I have tried to understand the tools to reintegrate the notion of nature and the living in a broad sense into the project process.

SEE MORE