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Luc Schuiten. Original work realized with felt pen and gouache, exclusively in favor of the operation "One tent one life". Signed. 235 x 77 cm Luc Schuiten is a Belgian architect, born in 1944 in Brussels. He was trained, like his father Robert Schuiten, at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels, from which he graduated in 1967. He is also a comic book writer, in collaboration with his brother, the cartoonist François Schuiten. His father, Robert Schuiten, was a Belgian architect active in the 1950s and 1960s. Both architect and cartoonist, Luc Schuiten's thinking aims to integrate "urbanism, ecology, science and science fiction." From 1980 to 1987, he was a lecturer at the Victor Horta Institute in Brussels. In 1987, he left the teaching of architecture to devote himself solely to his architectural firm Schuiten sprl. He is also the president of the association Vegetal City and a founding member of Biomimicry Europa and the association Archi Human. He has set up various projects to house homeless people in Brussels. His first construction is the small house "Orejona" that he built himself in the woods in 1977, in Overijse, near Brussels. The frame of the house is an A-frame structure, with a small overhang in the form of a glass roof. On the roofs, first generation solar collectors provided the heating. A canopy allowed a view of the sky. During the 1980s, he continued his reflection on urbanism and architecture in Les Terres creuses, a series of comic strips produced with his brother François Schuiten. Interested in an organic city and bio-inspiration, he is convinced of the obsolescence of the urban model modeled on the machine and is passionate about archiborescence, a term that designates "an architecture using mainly for building materials all forms of living organisms or organisms inspired by the living." In 2014, he created the association Archi Human whose goal is to promote social reintegration through housing. In Brussels and its suburbs, he wants to develop studios by integrating ecological materials and energy sobriety for the benefit of the homeless. The ORIG-AMI is a cardboard shelter measuring 117 x 235 x 150 cm. It is insulating, protective, foldable like an accordion, transportable like a backpack and recyclable. The homeless shelter was designed on the principle of origami, a Japanese technique of paper folding.
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Luc Schuiten. Original work realized with felt pen and gouache, exclusively in favor of the operation "One tent one life". Signed. 235 x 77 cm Luc Schuiten is a Belgian architect, born in 1944 in Brussels. He was trained, like his father Robert Schuiten, at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels, from which he graduated in 1967. He is also a comic book writer, in collaboration with his brother, the cartoonist François Schuiten. His father, Robert Schuiten, was a Belgian architect active in the 1950s and 1960s. Both architect and cartoonist, Luc Schuiten's thinking aims to integrate "urbanism, ecology, science and science fiction." From 1980 to 1987, he was a lecturer at the Victor Horta Institute in Brussels. In 1987, he left the teaching of architecture to devote himself solely to his architectural firm Schuiten sprl. He is also the president of the association Vegetal City and a founding member of Biomimicry Europa and the association Archi Human. He has set up various projects to house homeless people in Brussels. His first construction is the small house "Orejona" that he built himself in the woods in 1977, in Overijse, near Brussels. The frame of the house is an A-frame structure, with a small overhang in the form of a glass roof. On the roofs, first generation solar collectors provided the heating. A canopy allowed a view of the sky. During the 1980s, he continued his reflection on urbanism and architecture in Les Terres creuses, a series of comic strips produced with his brother François Schuiten. Interested in an organic city and bio-inspiration, he is convinced of the obsolescence of the urban model modeled on the machine and is passionate about archiborescence, a term that designates "an architecture using mainly for building materials all forms of living organisms or organisms inspired by the living." In 2014, he created the association Archi Human whose goal is to promote social reintegration through housing. In Brussels and its suburbs, he wants to develop studios by integrating ecological materials and energy sobriety for the benefit of the homeless. The ORIG-AMI is a cardboard shelter measuring 117 x 235 x 150 cm. It is insulating, protective, foldable like an accordion, transportable like a backpack and recyclable. The homeless shelter was designed on the principle of origami, a Japanese technique of paper folding.
