Our Manifesto
LIBER.ARCHI
Living Architecture
What we believe
Architecture has long believed it could ignore its surroundings. Master the material, freeze the space, deliver a perfect and immutable object. This model has produced buildings that age poorly, lifeless neighborhoods, impermeable cities hostile to the living world.
We believe the opposite. A building is not finished the day it is delivered. It begins to truly exist when its inhabitants make it their own, when the light shifts with the seasons, when vegetation colonizes its facades, when the soil breathes beneath its foundations.
Living architecture is not a style. It is a stance.
Freeing architecture
What this means in practice
The living world as a full-fledged material.
Not as decoration added as an afterthought — a few shrubs in front of the facade, a planter on the balcony. But as a core design element from the earliest sketch: ecological corridors, water management, integrated biodiversity, vegetation in dialogue with the built environment.
Architecture designed to evolve.
A building must be able to change without suffering: change its use, welcome new inhabitants, adapt to a shifting climate. We favor flexible structures, materials that age beautifully, and spaces that welcome transformation.
Rooted in place.
Each project is born from a specific site with its topography, its history, its microclimate, its uses. Tabula rasa is, for us, an admission of failure. Understanding a place before intervening is the foundation of everything.
Frugality as intelligence.
Build less but build better. Reuse, economize, choose local materials. Sobriety is not a constraint — it is a form of elegance.
"Living architecture means designing a building the way you would design a garden: with humility before the site, patience before time, and the conviction that the living world is the project's greatest ally."
Our singularity
LIBER.ARCHI was founded by Guillaume Ciletti, licensed architect (HMONP), also founder of POESAGES, a landscape design practice active since 2016.
This dual expertise — ten years designing gardens, public spaces, and landscape projects, grounded in studies in biology and landscape architecture — gives us a perspective that few architecture practices can claim: a project conceived from inside out, from ground to roof, with no divide between the built and the living.
We do not outsource the landscape. We think it through at the same time as the architecture.