serp is a multidisciplinary studio. This allows projects to be developed from a holistic, unified and dynamic approach.

Experimentation opens up the field of innovation by confronting concepts and practices in order to find fruitful solutions to contemporary issues.

Renaturation is seen as the desire to repair degraded or abandoned spaces in order to reduce the degree of anthropisation of a place.

Landscape is considered through the question of the care that drawing enables, with the idea of improving the quality of the environment at different scales: the garden, the park, the neighbourhood, the department, the region, the larger territory.

Adapting to each context

requires us to understand the mechanisms and configurations of all living systems. The desire to engage with pre-existing ecological dynamics by bringing together diverse perspectives enables us to identify appropriate and restrained responses with precision.

Capturing the spirit of each place

Adopting a caring and attentive attitude toward our surroundings—a way of observing and fully understanding the context—in order to establish a respectful connection with the site. Contributing to the landscape by imagining a space that results from the encounter between an environment, human action, and history.

Approaching risk

as a driver of invention, considering the reversibility of human-altered environments and the resilience of landscapes in the face of climate change. De-artificializing soils, constraining technical flows rather than living systems, in order to restore continuity and cooperation within ecosystems.

Amplifying synergies

and social initiatives by involving local stakeholders from the earliest design stages. Encouraging collaborative project processes to create desirable and inclusive spaces.

Experimenting and prototyping

are opportunities for us to innovate in how we welcome life and biodiversity; viewing landscape as a mental territory of hope, with no borders or limits to the invention of new practices, uses, and methods.

Caring for and shaping territories

through the lens of diversity and natural evolution. Building with what is already there, drawing on available resources, local materials, and traditional skills. Creating playful spaces that spark discovery and a spirit of adventure—spaces that are curious, mixed-use, and accessible.

Interpreting and supporting

the long-term appropriation of the project. Raising awareness of the aesthetics of unpredictability through education and teaching.

Christopher Morin, landscape architect

Aurélien Huguet (AHE), ecologist and biologist

Independent consultant affiliated with serp, and a biodiversity preservation expert for over twenty years.