Faragou

While movement remains limited, the garden and outdoor spaces are emerging more than ever as a bubble of escape… We therefore take care to take care of, develop and sometimes even completely rethink these places of life that have become essential.

A trend confirmed by the architect César Faragou, director of the eponymous agency : « The garden owners seek in priority to be able to have an outdoor space which is the extension of the dwelling : a convivial, festive and alive, consistent with the local identity ».

As part of his many achievements, this professional of Nice landscape, architecture and town planning focuses both on the organized side but also on the free side of plant matter. For example, the “Un Jardin dans l’Estérel” project, a property benefiting from a natural plant setting and opening onto the sea. A site now inhabited by imposing cork oaks and pines, associated with Mediterranean vegetation of the maquis type such as arbutus, heather, juniper, cistus, rosemary and myrtle, well adapted to the climate and siliceous soil. Finally, for Alain Faragou, « the big changes mainly concern the increasingly sharp level of knowledge on the part of customers in terms of the art of gardens and landscape. They also want a signature and that these places correspond to them ».

Six months after obtaining the framework agreement with the city of Beausoleil, the Faragou agency has just completed the diagnostic and feasibility phase, where it is implementing proposals for exterior and landscaping for public spaces. from the city.

It is in charge of studies and project management relating to infrastructure work, landscaping, as well as play areas. Currently, the program responds to the development of the city center, as well as the creation of several squares and gardens throughout the city.

« Ground floor, ground floor and sky level ! ». This is the new vocabulary used to define the spaces of a neighborhood that develops vertically. The “city floor” corresponds to the active common base of the district, in direct connection with the ground and the public spaces of the city ; it accommodates shops and provides access to upper levels. The “ground floor” is an intermediate level located between 15 and 20 m high ; it is a semi-public space with controlled access, which occupies the roofs of the lowest buildings bordering the future Place Méridia. These accessible roof terraces are connected by a system of overhead walkways. Finally, at the level of the highest roofs, the “ground floor” allows residents to enjoy convivial spaces and views.

The Joia Méridia project is the result of teamwork initiated during the “Destination Méridia” call for projects, launched by the EPA Eco-Vallée Plaine du Var in 2016. The project management team, coordinated by Lambert Lénack, includes six architects, a landscape designer, an artist, seven specialist consultants, two promoters and two social landlords. The choice to entrust to a single landscaper, Alain Faragou, the design of the outdoor spaces of the different lots (gardens, patios and roofs) as well as to commission an artist, Carsten Höller, to create aerial walkways connecting the accessible roofs, reinforces the coherence of the project and the architectural, urban and landscape bias.

In Eze-sur-mer, a project combines the requirement of Landscape and Architecture. The project provides for the construction of 7 exceptional individual villas opening onto the Mediterranean.

The design of the exterior and landscaped arrangements relates to the creation and requalification of landscaped spaces throughout the plot, as well as the creation of several landscaped plant plans : full-ground gardens, slab gardens and green roofs crossed by paths which serve the 7 villas. The architectural design, which concerns high-end private villas, is carried out by DP Architecture.

In total, 85 trees and shrubs will be planted with respect for the architectural and landscape requirements of the municipality of Eze.

In Cannes, the works are finalized on the Port Canto. The month of March marks the first tests for lighting with the installation of the 250 light points that make up the project, as well as tests in the fountain with the water jets of the new recreational pool. The will of the Faragou Agency is to create a real public space with new attractors, such as shops and offices, opening onto a place of port life. The overall project will be delivered in 2021.

Learn more about the Port Canto project.