Bas Smets, architect of microclimates, from Arles to the parvis of Notre Dame
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Bas Smets, “The Climates of the Landscape”, 2025, The Electric Store, Block A, LUMA Arles
Workshop Park. Victor&Simon – Grégoire d'Ablon
The LUMA Arles "creative campus" presents "The Climates of Landscape , " a proposal by landscape architect Bas Smets. Through three emblematic projects, he questions our connection to nature, climate, and the city in a scientific and poetic approach that combines ecology and engineering with a view to a possible future of urban life.
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I subscribeThis is an exhibition rich in reflections and lessons. In Arles, Belgian landscape architect Bas Smets is presenting an artistic project that begins in the park he himself designed on the former railway wasteland of the LUMA Foundation. This very first major project, conceived in 2009, took shape at the foot of Frank Gehry's impressive tower, between 2019 and 2021, with the help of agricultural engineers, hydrologists, botanists, and more. A collective intelligence combined with nature for the benefit of humanity.
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