Léo Berry - Architect DE

Between drawing and fitting joinery, between models and site meetings, my career has been built at the intersection of doing and thinking.

Today, I'm developing a practice rooted in rural and working-class areas, committed to collective intelligence, local resources and constructive simplicity.

Creating fair, sustainable and inhabited places is what guides me.

« Simplicity is not so much a matter of neglecting what is complex as of clarifying what is important».»

Glenn MURCUTT

Personal projects

Adobe barn

This project involves the patient transformation of an old adobe farmhouse nestling in the heart of a rural landscape.

Adobe barn

This project involves the patient transformation of an old adobe farmhouse nestling in the heart of a rural landscape.

Popular housing

This house explores a different way of doing things: slower, more collective, more rooted in its context.

experiments

The experiments, which were always very practical, gave me an understanding of building that went beyond mere design and enabled me to grasp the realities on the ground.

School projects

Housing in rural and working-class areas

This memoir looks at how pragmatic, sustainable, site-specific housing can emerge at the crossroads of rural practices, economic constraints and institutional logic.

Social housing Quebec

This project invited us to rethink housing through frugal architecture, capable of offering quality spaces that are sustainable, flexible and resilient in the face of future challenges.

Latin Quarter

Immersive observation of the Latin Quarter in Quebec City, combining graphic tools and a sociological approach to design architecture that is attentive to ordinary uses and lives.

Territorial analysis by industry

A personal exploration of the Alpine Piedmont, an area of transition between plain and mountain, through a multi-scalar mix of maps, models, surveys and texts.

montbrison city reading"

An urban reading of Montbrison, combining sensitive surveys and historical analysis to understand the dynamics of the town's transformation, its discontinuities, its uses and its relationship to the landscape.

Making the limit

Urban project in Montbrison, based on the idea of an inhabited belt to contain suburban sprawl.

working with place

This project explores the link between form, use and context. Through experimentation with scale, material and rhythm. A search for balance between sensitive accuracy and freedom of design.

reception pavilion

This project explores the notions of anchorage, threshold and transition through the design of a small reception space on the edge. The exercise questions the way of inhabiting an edge, of composing a place that is discreet but right.

ideal home

With no site and no concrete data, this project was an opportunity to rethink the programme on the basis of fundamental needs: eating, sleeping, working, getting together, etc. By exploring the links between uses and ambience.

urban walk

The aim of this survey was to understand the city as a living fabric, made up of links and ruptures. On a large scale and by hand, the aim was to reveal the sensitive relationships between residents and their territory.

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