E15 Winning Teams Portraits/Interviews

9 places to the sea

Saint-Omer (FR) – Runner-Up

Team representative: Mathieu Labeille (FR) – landscaper
Associate: Ségolène Merlin Reynaud (FR) – architect

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^{Ségolène Merlin Raynaud, Mathieu Labeille}

"In Saint-Omer, we were guided by an extremely simple intuition. It seemed to us that it was necessary to refocus the question around an essential principle: above all, water produces art. This is an idea that we've grasped in a broad way, to evoke both the art of life specific to the territory as well as the particular landscape art that we meet there, in marsh or in the city. From this starting point, using landscape art as the support of a discussion with the territory, we sought to compose the strongest and freest possible project. We therefore did not so much question the place of productive activities within the city as the place of man, and therefore of the city, in a territory very strongly marked by water."