Frédéric-Charles AILLET

Founder of Sempervirens - Landscape architect and urban planner

Coming from a long family tradition bringing together of thepainter artists, engineers and architects, he develops original neo-romantic park and garden projects, his projects magnifying the power of nature and natural elements contrasted with humanity. His vocation for the art of gardens and his desire to create the SEMPERVIRENS design office, which means evergreen in Latin, were born to protect the environment.

In 2006, after leaving school, his talent was noticed while working for the architect Nicolas Michelin and he was invited to participate as a landscaper in the competition the French Embassy in Tokyo. Architect Tadao Ando, who chaired the competition jury, declared the team the winner thanks to the quality of the landscaping project, which launched his career. He recently won on a 13-hectare site. the Campus of the new French University of Egypt in Cairo with 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 course of the projects across the worldFrédéric-Charles AILLET has developed a knowledge of ecosystems adapted to extreme conditions. Studies of marine, mountain and desert ecosystems allow him to propose technical innovations applied to green architecture, water recycling and phyto-purification or the creation of xerophilic dry gardens. He is part of a biomimetic spirit by integrating ecosystem services into projects, for example to reduce air pollution.

Concept of a building planted with 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 the natural elements: the wind, the course of the sun, the water cycle staged according to the project sites. 

© SEMPERVIRENS Urban Planners MANDATE LINKCITY - Confidential site - City side and Field side

© SEMPERVIRENS Urban Planners MANDATE LINKCITY - Confidential site - Ecological Corridor City

Landscape designer for the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025

Garden of the French Embassy in Tokyo

Chateaulin Swimming Pool

Mayenne area with Hérault Arnod
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AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS:


Landscape designer for the French pavilion outside the walls of the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025 - Vivre Avec/ Living With Winner to represent France Jakob MacFarlane


FRENCH DESIGN 100 - Campus of the New French University of Egypt with Jakob Macfarlane - 2024


Eiffel Prize for Architecture - Espace Mayenne with Hérault Arnod - 2023


Architizer A Awards - Chateaulin Swimming Pool with Dubuisson Architecture - 2023


Fimbacte Living Environment Trophy - Espace Mayenne with Hérault Arnod - 2022


Special Prize at the Victoires du Paysage for the Prismatic Plant Columns of the French Embassy in Tokyo - 2014


American Institute of Architects Prize - AIA Prize - 2012


Japanese BCS (Building Contractors Society) Award - 2011

Since 2006, Frédéric-Charles AILLET has completed more than 500 garden, park and public space projects in France and internationally, including the following projects:

- Landscape designers for the French pavilion outside the walls of the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025 - Vivre Avec/ Living With Winner to represent France Jakob MacFarlane, Eric Daniel-Lacombe and Martin DUPLANTIER Co-curator architects, Chris Younes, Madeleine Houbart, TESS, Leo Grunstein;

- Design of the large landscape of the Santo Domingo airport in the Dominican Republic, with Ameller Dubois (Partner: Alexandre Guibourt), SETEC International and Vinci Airport - Mission in progress - LEED certification, 110 hectares;

- Campus of the French University of Egypt UFE in Cairo, JAKOB MACFARLANE SEMPERVIRENS ARTELIA Raafat Miller ConsultingAssociated architects and Engineering, Cairo Engineering solutions Engineering, Cairo,Complete mission 2021-2025 winner in progress, complete recycling of gray water by phyto-purification in greenhouses and creation of native Egyptian gardens - Surface area 13 hectares, 7000 students;

- Garden of the new French Embassy in Tokyo, Japan, Prismatic Plant Columns with Raphaël Favory and Pierre Sarrien, (0.8 Ha) ADPi, 2016-2018 Implementation of insemination in native plantations and expertise, delivered in 2009, AIA Prize 2012 (American Institute of Architects PRIZE), Victoires du paysage 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. 2022 winning competition, full mission in progress. National Interprofessional Cognac Bureau BNIC, CPI Redman;

- Associate Expert in Air Quality - International consultation on the future of the motorways, ring road and expressways of Greater Paris with FMGP - Devillers et Associés D&A - 6t - Setec - APRR;

- Marine Natural Park INTECHMER campus for the National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts - National Institute of Marine Sciences and Technology in Cherbourg - Cherbourg en Cotentin with TITAN Architectes and AltoStep (Subcontractor) - Winner 2021, €11,000,000 - Complete mission, delivery 2025, 35,000 m²;

- Chief urban planner mission for the Distillery agricultural district master plan. Mixed urban planning for housing, offices, hotels and businesses, SDP: 160,000m², plot: 65 hectares, Sempervirens agent RVB, STRATE MOA: Bouygues Group - Full mission in progress - Villeneuve-d'Ascq;

Project management of the half-moon sector in La Défense with Architecture Studio Mandataire;

- Guide Plan of the Domaine Saint-François d'Assise park in 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, Complete mission, Construction in progress;

- Hanging gardens filtering air pollution. Establishment of the Legrand Group in Bagnolet, Team: Agence DUBUISSON architects, BET SETEC, BMF, Surface area: 8,183 m², Estimate: 17,000,000 E, Mission: Complete, 2017 winning competition, APS, APD, DCE, Complete mission, Construction in progress;

- Chateaulin Swimming Pool (Finistère) Azalea Wave Garden - DUBUISSON Agency - 8,130,000 E Landscape 600,000 € Complete mission, 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 leisure and sports center in Laval, 10 ha, Landscape VRD: 3,100,000 E excluding tax with Hérault Arnod for the C. Dép. de la Mayenne Winner June 2015 Complete mission, site;

- Loop of Quarries River Park (105,000 m²), Winning Team of the 2009 definition study with the Nicolas Michelin & Associés Agency, Winning Team of the 2013 project management in co-design association with (ilex) - Complete mission, AVP, PRO-DCE Phase 1 in progress, delivery 2023;

- Submersible Garden, Floodplain park near the Cher in Tours whose topographical games play with the 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, (3000 m²), 218,000E excluding tax, delivered in 2012, VIP entrance to the Stadium, Susan Lenglen terrace 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, delivered;

- The Micro-Filter Shield - Development of a concept of a plant wall capturing fine particles with the CSTB Scientific and Technical Center for Building, Alexandre Jolibois, Health Comfort Department, in progress;

- Guide plan of the interface between the Paris ring road and Gentilly - Redevelopment of Boulevard Paul Vaillant Couturier, EXP agency in charge, Iris Conseil BET VRD, Delivered;

- Guide Map of the International University City of Paris CiuP, (38 Ha): Studies 1 year and a half, validation April 2013, with EXP architects, project management of open access sports grounds 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;

- Redevelopment 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 Pierre Sarrien Construction Site, delivered in 2011;

- Gardens, public square and green tower in Knokke-Le-Zoute with Jakob MacFarlane, 18,125 m² R 14, PRO in progress (complete mission);


2005 - 2008: Landscape and urban planning project manager at the Nicolas Michelin & Associés Agency (ANMA)



TEACHING EXPERIENCE, EXHIBITIONS, CONFERENCES:

Venice Architecture Biennale 2025 - Living With/ Vivre Avec Winner to represent France Jakob MacFarlane, Eric Daniel-Lacombe and Martin DUPLANTIER Co-curators, Chris Younes, Madeleine Houbart, TESS, Leo Grunstein.

2023-2024 2022-2023: Visiting Professor in Landscape and Urban Planning, PARIS MALAQUAIS NATIONAL SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTUREChanging World(s) Department.
TEACHING MODULE for a MASTER 1 / P8 ARCHITECTURE STUDIO - Studio 8 - "The hollow city", between port memory and the future of a district of Ciboure,ENCAN today a deferred development zone (Pyrénées-Atlantiques)or the exploration of “critical regionalism” in the light of the “post-carbon” city with Sandra Planchez and Valentin Lauvergne.

2019: Exhibition at the Pavillon de l'Arsenal and at the Versailles Architecture and Landscape Biennale - June - September 2019 - International consultation on the future of the motorways, ring road and expressways of Greater Paris with FMGP - Devillers et Associés D&A - 6t - Setec - APRR

2019 - Conference on "The plant city, the city of the future" for the 50th anniversary of the Gembloux ISI School of Gardens and Landscape (Belgium)

2017: Animation of the Master Space Design Workshop - Place d'Armes of the Château de Versailles - Studio Créa Paris

2014: “Visiting professor” ENSArchitecture de Versailles - Atelier Plaine SAINT-DENIS - with Emeric Lambert

2011-2014: Gembloux School of Landscape (ISI) - Belgium “Diploma jury member”

2014: ITIAPE Innovations and green walls - HEI ISA ISEN Lille Group round table

2013: Exhibition at the Avicenne Foundation by Claude Parent - Cité internationale Universitaire de Paris l'OBLIQUE Heritage Promotion Center - CiuP Guide Map - Interactive digital model - Permanent exhibition.

2013: ESCP Europe - Contributor WIND POWER IN THE ENERGY TRANSITION Pascal Morand


TRAINING:

2001 - 2005: Landscape architect and urban planner graduated from the Haute École Charlemagne, Higher Institute of Gembloux in Belgium. Final dissertation: "Green architecture and the rehabilitation of large complexes"

2001 - 1998: Bachelor's degree and Deug in urban and physical geography (Options Geomorphology, Pedology and Biogeography) at the University of Caen (14) France.