Our Manifesto
LIBER.ARCHI
Living Architecture
What we believe
A seed takes its time to become a tree, and the tree takes longer still to become a forest. Architecture, for a long while, tried to outrun the living world: master the material, freeze the space, deliver a perfect and unchanging object, as if nothing should ever move again. That model produced buildings that age badly, lifeless neighbourhoods, cities sealed off from water and from life.
We believe the opposite. A building is no more finished the day it's handed over than a garden is finished the day it's planted. 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's a way of being in the world.
Unsealing architecture
What this means, in practice
The living world as a material in its own right.
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 carry time without suffering from it: change use, welcome new inhabitants, adapt to a shifting climate. We favour flexible structures, materials that age well, and spaces that can become something else tomorrow.
Rooted in place.
Each project is born from a specific site: its slope, its history, its microclimate, what already grows there. Tabula rasa is, to us, an admission of failure. Understanding a place before touching it is the foundation of everything.
Frugality as intelligence.
Build less, but build better. Reuse a stone rather than cut a new one, choose a material from the area rather than import one. Sobriety is not a constraint: it's a form of elegance.
"We design buildings the way a gardener tends a garden: with the humility of someone who controls nothing, the patience of someone who waits out the seasons, and the conviction that the living world is our best ally in design."
Our singularity
LIBER.ARCHI was founded by Guillaume Ciletti, licensed architect (HMONP) and gardener at heart, founder of POESAGES, a landscape design practice active since 2016.
This dual background, ten years designing gardens, public spaces and landscape projects, grounded in studies in biology and landscape architecture, gives us a perspective few practices can claim: a project thought through from ground to roof, with no divide between the built and the living.
We don't outsource the landscape: we think it through alongside the architecture, from the very first pencil stroke.