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ARBRE A BASKET - FRANCE
a_LTA architectes
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Biography
Above all our association is the meeting and the friendship of 2 people : maxime le trionnaire and gwénaël le chapelain (born in 1979). This encounter occurred in 1997 in the School of Architecture of Nantes. During our studies, we create a deep bond and polish our architect's visions. Graduated in 2004, we work in many architecture agencies with good reputation like Architecture Studio, Block, Duncan Lewis, Stéphane Maupin, X'tu, ...
In parallel, we carry through several design competitions and a cycle of installations about sport and architecture.
Bolstered up by this experience, we decide in 2006 to set up our own business and to constitute "mxg architectes".
Our first orders came from the west of France.
In 2010 we integrate existing group named a_LTA architectes as principal associates.
a_LTA architectes (le trionnaire x2 - tassot - le chapelain) is a partnership composed by four associate architects based in Rennes.
a_LTA's projects are particular, organized and realized with a pragmatic aim in view.
a_LTA's operations are reproductions of signs taken from some specific fields, the purpose of which is a search of feelings.
we are sensitive to the contexts in which we operate. That's why we are particularly interested in local, history and psychological fields
of projects.
As these contexts are rarely homogeneous, our writing tends to be hybrid. Those projects are realized or on-going projects on various scales. They prove our interest for elements that are transferred, imitated and put together, and that keep a definite link as sign/object to their referent.
of projects.
As these contexts are rarely homogeneous, our writing tends to be hybrid. Those projects are realized or on-going projects on various scales. They prove our interest for elements that are transferred, imitated and put together, and that keep a definite link as sign/object to their referent.
a_LTA gladly chose the local instead of the global and the specific instead of the generic.
a_LTA aims to execute a simple and understandable architecture, an architecture close to its surroundings.
ARBRE A BASKET
Out in front of the Maison des Hommes et des Techniques, this basketball tree offers a new type of sports equipment that can be used by just about anybody! Upon first glance, it’s clear how different people can play simultaneously. Basketball hoops branch out of different parts of a tree at varying heights allowing for multiple teams of different ages to play. Just because everybody knows the rules to basketball, it doesn’t mean you can’t invent ways to play, especially thanks to the lines on the ground defining different fields. With players of all ages able to participate, and situated right next to a children’s playground, the Arbre à baskets allows for improbable encounters and new ways to play.
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