Cours d'eau et de fleurs

<h2>The project</h2> <p>Water Flower courtyard is a <strong>winner of the Festival des Architectures Vives 2019</strong>. Thanks to our generous donators, it will be realised for the <strong>20 000 visitors of the Festival</strong>, from 11 to 16th of June 2019, and published in the book the Festival edits each year. Water flower courtyard has been selected among <strong>more than 150 submissions.</strong>&nbsp;<a href="http://festivaldesarchitecturesvives.com">http://festivaldesarchitecturesvives.com</a></p> <p><img alt="" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/582341/Logos-FAV_header__copia-1553962363.png" width="100%" /></p> <p>Water Flower Courtyard sets up a <strong>spatial relationship to nature, in a courtyard&nbsp;</strong>:</p> <h3><em><strong>a garden usually blooms from the ground, but we suggest raising the flowers</strong></em></h3> <p><img alt="" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/581604/FAV_Kuma_Elsa_visuel_r_duit-1553710604.jpg" width="100%" /></p> <p><img alt="" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/586280/FAV_CRO_Sch_ma_1-1555094410.jpg" width="100%" /></p> <p>As a result, two gardens, a water garden at our feet and a flower garden just above eye-level.</p> <p>Arriving at the courtyard, on the water at your feet, sky reflects and flower petals float; from first floor, through the windows and from walkways, views of flowers floating in the air.</p> <p><img alt="" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/581606/FAV_Kuma_Elsa_vue_de_haut_r_duit-1553710632.jpg" width="100%" /></p> <p>Modules are laid out on a regular grid, creating a light space and suggesting places to play, walk and sit under the flowers at water level.</p> <hr /> <h2>Who are we ?&nbsp;</h2> <p>KUMA &amp; ELSA is an international architecture and urbanism practice established in 2018, led by Shohei Kuma, a Japanese architect, and Elsa Escobedo, a French Spanish urban designer. They collaborate on international projects from their bases in France and Japan. Their first project has recently been published on Muuuz, architecture and design magazine&nbsp;https://www.muuuz.com/magazine/rubriques/architecture/49739-kuma-elsa%20-hut-of-silver.html</p> <p><img alt="" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/582357/hutofsilver_screen-2-1553967529.jpg" width="100%" /></p> <p>Kuma graduated in architecture from the Politecnico di Milano (Italy) and Kyushu University (Japan), and has worked for several years as a chief architect in the Tokyo based architecture office Mount Fuji Architects Studio.</p> <p>Elsa graduated in urbanism and design from Universit&eacute; Panth&eacute;on-Sorbonne (France) and &Eacute;cole Boulle (France).&nbsp;She has worked as an urban designer at the London based office What if : projects, and as a consultant at La Condition Urbaine and at the Agence Ter in Paris.</p> <p>In 2018, KUMA &amp; ELSA was selected to create a pavilion in the Chartreuse Natural Regional Park. Their current projects include an art facility, a research centre and a private residence (Japan), a weekend house (France) and an artist atelier (Spain).</p> <p><img alt="" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/582360/TOITS_DE_PARIS_1-1553967761.jpg" width="100%" /></p> <p><em>Illustration Les toits de Paris by Elsa</em></p>