WHAT

LLA (Landscapes as leverage) is a landscape-architecture and research practice based in Rotterdam, NL. It operate at the intersection of urban strategy and ecological unruliness with a particular focus on Wilderness.

In the era of the Anthropocene, facing profound climate and biodiversity challenges, it is time to embrace the call of the wild. LLA explores and cultivates wilderness by design, fostering new relationships between human and non-human worlds, towards resilient, vibrant, and symbiotic futures.

Through landscape architecture and garden design, LLA engages with 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 inherent uniqueness.

LLA was founded in 2024 by Philippe Allignet. The studio works on a wild range of international projects from masterplans to public spaces and garden designs, in between the Netherlands, Belgium and France.

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WHO

Philippe Allignet is a landscape-architect graduated from the Amsterdam Academie van Bouwkunst in 2020. He worked various offices across the Netherlands (H+N+S+, BOOM, OKRA) before founding LLA.

His personal practice started before the creation of LLA. He tested and refined his design approach at different scales on the side through manifesto gardens (2020, 2024 in Chaumont sur Loire) and landscape-based vision competitions (2017 - the LeNotre institute student competition | 2022 - Amiter idea competition).

Besides these activity, he also engaged in education in various academies accross the Netherlands to this day.

Ultimately, LLA operates as a porous studio, treating every project as an open platform for collective intelligence. By bridging the gap between theoretical research and technical reality, we merge the expertise of ecologists, engineers, and local stakeholders. This multidisciplinary approach ensures that our 'Wilderness by Design' is not just a poetic concept, but a resilient, functioning system rooted in the social and ecological fabric of its place.

HOW

DE BORGHT PARK

THE ARBOREAL SOUL

SHIFTING BLUEPRINT

THE SACRED GROVE

ST-ETIENNE
PRODUCTIVE ECOSYSTEM

BALZAC
SCHOOL REWILDING

ONE REAPS
WHAT ONE SOWS

THE AUGMENTED VALLEY