“True landscape design begins not with lines on paper, but with listening deeply to the territory – its soils, waters, histories, and living dynamics.
Our role shifts from imposing control to cultivating relationships: fostering the inherent resilience and 'wildness' of place through co-creation with natural processes.
We seek not just sustainable function, but vibrant, meaningful landscapes born from this partnership, nurturing futures where both human and non-human life can thrive together.”
Projects
Chaumont-sur-Loire, FR
Saint-Étienne, FR
Chaumont-sur-Loire, FR
The studio
Embracing wilderness
In the era of the Anthropocene, facing profound climate and biodiversity challenges, we believe it's time to embrace the wild. Using landscapes as leverage, LLA actively explores and cultivates new relationships between human and non-human worlds, starting with a deep understanding of each territory. We see these places not as static settings, but as dynamic living systems full of opportunities to shape resilient, vibrant, and symbiotic futures.
Through landscape architecture and garden design, LLA delves into the intricate web of connections constituting place. It guides a fundamental shift away from human-centric control towards co-existence and co-creation, from fragmentation towards nurturing ecological continuity, from an imposed uniformity towards celebrating inherent uniqueness.
Transforming the physical environment goes hand-in-hand with inspiring new ways of seeing and interacting with Nature, aiming to shift perceptions, foster ecological understanding, research, and build the social and aesthetic acceptance vital for these living landscapes to thrive.
Working with natural dynamics is central to our practice, often expressed through a rewilding mindset across all scales. By fostering ecological processes and strengthening our cultural connection to the land, LLA shapes environments that are not only meaningful, resilient and alive, but that also actively engage with people, cultivating care. We aim to design landscapes that support better and wilder futures, deeply understood and embraced by the communities they sustain.
Contact
LLA
De Savornin Lohmanlaan 86 B013038 NN Rotterdam
The Netherlands
philippe@l-la.nl
+33 (0) 6 28 28 59 60
+31 (0) 6 13 71 63 73
KvK : 78297656
VAT : NL698566452B01
Projects
Design projects
Issoudun, FR - 2024-ongoing
Chaumont-sur-Loire, FR - 2024
Saint-Étienne, FR - 2022
Chaumont-sur-Loire, FR - 2020
Vierzon, FR - 2020
Amsterdam, NL - 2018
Amsterdam, NL - 2018
Academical projects
Thinking projects from the local soil, water and natural conditions.
Regional research & design studio (U & L)
2025 - Academie van Bouwkunst Amsterdam
Location : Metropolitan region of Amsterdam (NL)
Tutors : Philippe Allignet & Léa Soret
Partners : MRA, Gemeente Amsterdam
B(S)XL
Looking at the city as a ressource as a way to foster post-growth, local urban and landscape dynamics.
Urban design studio (U)
2024 - Academie van Bouwkunst Rotterdam
Location : Schaarbeek-Vorming (BE)
Tutors : Philippe Allignet & Giacomo Gallo (design), Tslil Straus (Research), Jacopo Grilli (communication)
Partners : Brussel Perspective, BMA, Shipit
Questionning the meaning of what “Nature” is, its significance, use and many forms within our western society.
Research module (A, U & L)
2024 - Academie van Bouwkunst Amsterdam
The nitrogen crisis
Reimagining our relationship and impacts on environments using local conditions & sustainable processes.
Regional research & design studio (U & L)
2023 - Academie van Bouwkunst Amsterdam
Location : Province Noord-Brabant (NL)
Tutors : Philippe Allignet, Léa Soret, Robert Younger & Kinke Nijland
Investigating the many forms a city can take through ressearch methods, on-site investigations, research by design
Research module (A, U & L)Location : Amsterdam (NL)
2023 - Academie van Bouwkunst Amsterdam
Shrinking by design
Creating new ideals from fallen urban myths
Regional research & design studio (U & L)
2023 - Academie van Bouwkunst Amsterdam
Location : St-Étienne (FR)
Tutors : Léa Soret, Robert Younger & Philippe Allignet
Partner : City of St-Étienne
Balzac d’Alembert
high school rewilding
Issoudun - FR
Client
Team
Area
4,6 ha
Provisional budget
150.000€ exc.
We based our approach on the rewilding of the outdoor spaces, where the introduction of natural habitats is the main project driver - creating transitions with the surrounding areas, enhancing ecological habitats, maximasing the reuse of paving materials to build structures and furnitures (for both humans and non-humans), and designing a variety of outdoor spaces that accommodate students’ activities and allow for meeting, resting, playing, and teaching.
The Sacred Grove
International Garden Festival
Chaumont-sur-Loire - FR
Client
Domaine régional de Chaumont-sur-Loire
Sponsors
Building team
Emma Morillon, Chloé Savalle, Étienne Maliet,
Louise Bégou, Christophe Allignet, Sylvie Very
AJ Rénovation
Lycée Agricole Le Fresne
Axel Guillou, Enzo Touyou, Gabriel Piotrowski, Louison Paillard, Nathan Dubois, Noah Fleury, Owen Coquemont
Budget
12.000€
Links
Sacred groves are recurring elements through history, amongst westerns and non-western cultures. They are protected spaces where mankind converses with deities, primordial and elemental places where nature and humans connect.
This garden is an interpretation of this concept. It stages a fallen tree in the middle of a meadow, surrounded by a dense forest edge. It is a space of intense life where bacteria, insects and fungi are busy decomposing the wood, feeding ground and birds, where perennials, shrubs and saplings are stretching for the light, a space where the death of a tree starts the rebirth of many others. Cloistered by wooden poles, the central meadow become a sanctuary, a place where visitors are guests, invited to have a seat under the trees, contemplate and reconnect with nature.