Frederic-Charles AILLET
Founder of Sempervirens - Landscape architect-urban planner
Coming from a long family tradition bringing together of thepainters, engineers and architects, he develops original neo-romantic park and garden projects, his projects magnifying the force of nature and contrasting natural elements with humanity. His vocation for the art of gardens and his desire to create the SEMPERVIRENS design office, which means always green in Latin, arose to protect the environment.
In 2006, on leaving school, his talent was noticed when he worked for the architect Nicolas Michelin and was thus invited to participate as a landscaper in the competition for French Embassy in Tokyo. The architect Tadao Ando, who chairs the competition jury, declares the winning team thanks to the quality of the landscaping project, which will launch his career. He recently won on a 13 hectare site the Campus of the new French University of Egypt in Cairo with the architects Jakob Macfarlane and the park of the 4 elements of Cognac with Jean-Michel Wilmotte.
The Prismatic columns of the French Embassy in Tokyo © SEMPERVIRENS LANDSCAPERS (Direction Frédéric-Charles AILLET, R Favory and P Sarrien Co-authors)
Over the projects worldwide, Frédéric-Charles AILLET has developed knowledge of ecosystems adapted to extreme conditions. Studies of marine, mountain or desert ecosystems enable it to offer technical innovations applied to plant architecture, water recycling and phyto-purification or the creation of dry xerophilic gardens. It is part of a biomimetic spirit by integrating ecosystem services into projects, for example to reduce air pollution.
Concept of a green building using an aquaponic system in Bagneux currently under construction © SEMPERVIRENS LANDSCAPERS (Illustration Z. Chauvet)
Its gardens evoke the beauty of the struggle for life and the poetry of natural elements: the wind, the course of the sun, the water cycle staged according to the project sites.
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Since 2006, Frédéric-Charles AILLET has carried out more than 400 garden, park and public space projects in France and abroad, in particular the following projects:
- Campuses of
French University of Egypt UFE
in Cairo, JAKOB MACFARLANE SEMPERVIRENS ARTELIA Raafat Miller ConsultingAssociated architects and Engineering, Cairo Engineering solutions Engineering, Cairo,Mission complete Winner 2021-2025 in progress, full recycling of gray water by phyto-purification in greenhouses and creation of indigenous Egyptian gardens - Area 13 hectares, 7,000 students;
- Garden of the new French Embassy in Tokyo, Japan, Les Colonnes Prismatiques Végétales with Raphaël Favory and Pierre Sarrien, (0.8 Ha) ADPi, 2016-2018 Insemination in native plantations and expertise, delivered in 2009, AIA Prize 2012 (American Institute of Architects PRIZE), Victoires landscape 2014, Japanese BCS (Building Contractors Society) Award 2011;
- River park of the Four Elements of Cognac, with Jean-Michel Wilmotte, Earth, Rock, Water and Fire. Competition winner 2022, Mission complete in progress. Bureau National Interprofessionel du Cognac BNIC, CPI Redman;
- Associate Air Quality Expert
- International consultation on the future of motorways, the ring road and expressways in Greater Paris with FMGP - Devillers et Associés D&A - 6t - Setec - APRR;
- INTECHMER campus marine natural park
for the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers - National Institute of Sciences and Techniques of the Sea in Cherbourg - Cherbourg en Cotentin with TITAN Architectes and AltoStep (Subcontractor) - Winner 2021, €11,000,000 - Mission complete, delivery 2025, 35 000 m²;
- Mission of chief urban planner for the guide plan of the agricultural district of the Distillery. Mixed urban planning for housing, offices, hotel and activities, SDP: 160,000m², plot: 65 hectares, Sempervirens agent RGB, MOA STRATE: Bouygues Group - Complete mission in progress - Villeneuve-d'Ascq;
- Plan Guide of the Domaine Saint-François d'Assise park in La Celle-Saint-Cloud 38 hectares with Architecture Studio, 2022-2040 Complete mission in progress;
- Creation of a landscaped park and extension of the R&D and logistics site of the Sisley group in Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône 10 hectares with Manal Rachdi - OXO Architectes, Mission complete, Construction in progress;
- Hanging gardens filtering air pollution. Establishment of the Legrand Group in Bagnolet, Team: Agence DUBUISSON architects agent, BET SETEC, BMF, Surface: 8,183 m², Estimate: 17,000,000 E, Mission: Complete, Competition winners 2017, APS, APD, DCE, Mission complete, Construction site in progress ;
- Chateaulin swimming pool
(Finistère) Azalea Wave Garden - DUBUISSON Agency - E8,130,000 Landscaping €600,000 Mission complete, Delivered in 2021 - 25,000m²;
- Belgrade Airport, Vinci Airport, 1pax Architects, SDP 100,000m², 80 hectares, Concept, construction in progress;
- Mayenne area, Development - Espace Mayenne sports and leisure center in Laval, 10 ha, Landscaping VRD: E3,100,000 excluding tax with Hérault Arnod for the C. Dép. de la Mayenne Winner June 2015 Mission complete, construction site;
- Boucle de Carrières river park
(105,000 m²), Winning team for the 2009 definition study with Agence Nicolas Michelin & Associés, Winning team for the 2013 project management in association with co-design with (ilex) - Complete mission, AVP, PRO - DCE Phase 1 in progress, delivery 2023;
- Submersible Garden, Flood park near the Cher in Tours whose topographic games play with water levels, from the strict garden to the natural park, with Nicolas Michelin ANMA, delivered;
- Roland Garros: Garden of the terraces of the Club des Loges restaurant
for the FFT, (3,000 m²), €218,000 excl. VAT, delivered in 2012, VIP entrance to the Stadium, Terrace of the Susan Lenglen delivered;
- Garden and courtyard of the French Embassy in Thailand in Bangkok, with ADPi Architectes (Dominique Chavanne), (Mabel Miranda competition), (Nicolas Moulin); competition with Raphaël Favory, development, delivery;
- The micro-filtering shield
- Development of a plant wall concept capturing fine particles with the CSTB Center Scientifique et Technique du Bâtiment, Alexandre Jolibois, Health and Comfort Department, in progress;
- Guide map of the interface between the Paris ring road and Gentilly - Redevelopment of Boulevard Paul Vaillant Couturier, agent EXP agency, Iris Conseil BET VRD, Delivered;
- Plan Guide of the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris CiuP, (38 Ha): Studies 1 year and a half, validation April 2013, with EXP architects, MOE of the sports grounds in free access Sempervirens agent;
- Embassy of the European Union in Tokyo, Japan with Raphaël Favory and Pierre Sarrien (0.4 Ha) with ADPi, hanging gardens, delivered in 2011;
- Reorganization of Outdoor areas of Terminal 1 T1 (Paul Andreu)
with Raphaël Favory and Pierre Sarrien, Roissy Charles de Gaulle (0.5 Ha): Competition. Development and Site Pierre Sarrien, delivered in 2011;
- Gardens, public square and green tower in Knokke-Le-Zoute
with Jakob MacFarlane, 18,125 m² R 14, PRO in progress (mission complete);
2005 - 2008: Urban landscaper project manager at the Nicolas Michelin & Associés Agency (ANMA)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE, EXHIBITIONS, CONFERENCES:
2023: Visiting Professor NATIONAL SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE OF PARIS MALAQUAISWorld(s) in Change Department.
TEACHING MODULE for a MASTER 1 / P8 ARCHITECTURE STUDIO 2022-23 ENSA Paris Malaquais - Studio 8 - "The hollow city", between port memory and the future of a Ciboure district,The ENCAN today deferred development zone (Pyrénées-Atlantiques)or the exploration of “critical regionalism” in the light of the “post Carbonne” city.
2019: Exhibition at the Pavillon de l'Arsenal and at the Biennale of Architecture and Landscape in Versailles - June - September 2019 - International consultation on the future of motorways, the ring road and expressways in Greater Paris with FMGP - Devillers and Associates D&A - 6t - Setec - APRR
2019 - Conference on "The green city, the city of the future" for the 50th anniversary of the School of Gardens and Landscape of Gembloux ISI (Belgium)
2017: Animation of the Workshop Master Design of Space - Place d'Armes of the Palace of Versailles - Studio Créa Paris
2014: “Visiting professor” ENSArchitecture de Versailles - Atelier Plaine SAINT-DENIS - with Emeric Lambert
2011- 2014: Landscape School of Gembloux (ISI) - Belgium "Member of the diploma jury"
2014: ITIAPE Innovations and green walls - Round table Groupe HEI ISA ISEN Lille
2013: Exhibition at the Fondation Avicenne de Claude Parent - Cité internationale Universitaire de Paris l'OBLIQUE Center for the Valorization of Heritage - Map Guide of the CiuP - Interactive digital model - Permanent exhibition.
2013: ESCP Europe - Contributor WIND POWER IN THE ENERGY TRANSITION Pascal Morand
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION :
Special Prize at the Victoires du Paysage 2014 for the Plant Prismatic Columns of the French Embassy in Tokyo - 2014
American Institute of Architects Prize - AIA Prize - 2012
Japanese BCS (Building Contractors Society) Award - 2011
TRAINING:
2001 - 2005: Landscaper-urban planner graduated from the Haute École Charlemagne, Higher Institute of Gembloux in Belgium. End-of-study dissertation: "Vegetable architecture and the rehabilitation of large complexes"
2001 - 1998: License and Deug in urban and physical geography (Options Geomorphology, Pedology and Biogeography) at the University of Caen (14) France.