Landscape Architecture portfolio - Léo GONTIER

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Léo GONTIER

Student landscape designer

Léo GONTIER

Currently a student at the École National Supérieur de Paysage de Marseille in the second year of training for the Diplôme d’Etat de Paysagiste.

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Léolg.gontier@gmail.com

Marseille, France

COMPeTENCiES

Software

• InDesign, good knowledge

• Illustrator, good command

• Photoshop, good command

• Autocad, currently being acquired

passions

• Film photography

• Drawing

• Hiking, trekking

• Travel

ACADEMIC TRAINING

École National Supérieure de Paysage

Versailles/Marseille 2021-2024

• 2nd year of the State Diploma in Landscape Design, Marseille

• 1st year of the State Diploma in Landscape Design, Versailles

Campus Vert Azur, Antibes 2020-2021

• ATS preparatory class

• Bachelor’s degree in Human and Social Sciences with a major in Geography and Planning with distinction 2020-2021

Lycée horticole, Saint-Ismier 2015-2020

• BTS A, Landscaping 2018-2020

• Professional Baccalaureate, Landscaping, Honours 2015-2018

TRAINING

2022

March

April

Nursery, Cholat Pépinière, Savoie

.Field missions

.Understanding the plant production system

2021

April May Design office Geneviève CABIAUX, Antibes

.Design of a balcony garden in Nice

.Site visits

2020

September

November

International course, National Trust-Mount Stewart, Northern Ireland

.Garden maintenance work

.Plantations

.Reintroduction of Araucaria araucana

2019

March

April

Landscaping, Sports et Paysages, Sassenage

.Renovation of the Château de Sassenage park

.Team Leader ...

Participation in the French Riviera Garden Festival - Juan-les-Pins 2023

.Design of a garden in the Exflora Park realized in March 2023

Hills of Allauch, Marseille, 2023

Sümmårÿ

This project on the approach of the relief passes by the model and the contour lines. The objective is to create a landscape on a fctitious relief.

My raster model refects for me the emblematic rocky peaks of Meteora in Greece, which is why I was inspired by this landscape to draw the project. Through this exercise I was able to explore the way in which man anthropizes space.

In this way I deepened my knowledge of the relationship between contour lines, slopes and leveling.

02 The shyness of the Pine

Within the framework of the 2023 French Riviera Garden Festival, my team and I have been designated by a jury of professionals as the winners of this project.

We are supervising the construction site until its delivery and the inauguration of the festival scheduled for March 2023. The garden is created by the Campus Vert d’Azur, one of the festival’s partners.

Our plot is located in a pine forest. The theme of the festival being «Surprising perceptives» we rely on the graphic canopy of the pine and the future of this species in the region.

A symbol of the city, the umbrella pine is an element of identity in the landscape of Antibes, and more globally in the region. In the society of tomorrow, we will all be gardeners.

In tomorrow’s society, we will all be gardeners. The city will be our garden, and everyone will contribute to this bold perspective of a life in harmony with plants.

By punctuating this garden with several situations reminiscent of the furniture of a house, we invite the inhabitants to make it a place of life, in cohesion with the pines.

This garden is an invitation to discover, to live the sensitive experience of the Timidity of the Pine. A «black box» whose only openings are the entrance and the roof, aims to intrigue and invite to observe the organic curves that the canopy ofers us. On the border between the pine forest and the coast, this garden becomes a real bubble of relaxation and contemplation, inviting us to question our relationship with time.

Revive the Bourg

Two weeks in the Champsaur- Valgaudemard valley. One week of analysis of the whole valley and another to design a project. My group, composed of Maïlys JOUY, Valentine LECRENAY and I have the site of the «Bourg» to rethink.

The Bourg is a hamlet of La Chapelle-enValgaudemar located on the ubac of the valley. At the foot of an alluvial cone between the Séveraisse river and the Bourg torrent, it is therefore subject to to the risks of avalanches, falling rocks and fooding. In addition, it is plunged into darkness during the winter.

Our strategy is to relate these three levels of risk by recreating a link between the adret and the ubac.

Hameau du Bourg 1175m alt.

Le Torrent du Bourg

Cône de déjection Draye de l Islette la Gorge

mélézin

La Séveraisse 1160m alt.

LeGioberney

ripisylve

bétulaie-frênaie

Promontoire

route D480

LaChapelleenValgaudemar

chemin La Gravière

UBAC

alluvions modernes éboulis actuels gneiss migmatisé granite

limite cône de déjection chute de blocs degré de liberté cours d eau

50 m

bétulaie

Camping les Bouleaux

Terrasse

Place du Jas

Aménagement du talus Muret ancien jasse

Verger partagé

100 m

Passerelle

Place de la Gravière, la digue

04 Walk of the Cinq-Avenues

This project workshop is about public space in the city. I am doing it during my 2nd year of the DEP. The 4th arrondissement of Marseille is the study area.

An analysis through diferent themes of our is made by the whole class. From this study we draw up a guide plan for the whole of the district.

I’m lucky enough to be working on a site that is a key issue for the 4th arrondissement of the city of Marseille. Here, the all-car and disorganised pedestrian fow make this anarchic intersection.

So how can we revive one of the main entry points to downtown Marseilles?

To meet the challenges of the site and to accompany the dynamics of the guide plan, I put the place of the pedestrian at the forefront. In addition, a promenade punctuated by its square lined with plant strips accompanies the stroller and connects the site to the nearby Longchamp Park.

Av. Des Chartreux

Bd. De la Blancarde

Coupe AA

Ginko biloba

Terre amendée Grave 10/400

Grave 10/400

Sable

Terre naturel

Opus Romain

Av. du Maréchal Foch

Terre amendée Grave 10/400 Réseau eau potable Réseau eau potable

At the same time, the work on a permeable pavement homogenises and marks a pedestrian space, slow, with priority over cars.

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The singing bamboo forest

Project carried out in an agricultural plot. My group and I designed and implemented a layout in a grove. The idea is to propose an intimate space that connects to the other spaces in the project.

In the bamboo grove that marks the entrance to our grove we create an opening. This small clearing is connected to an old hunter’s hut by a path that we design. Winding and narrow, the path runs alongside an old irrigation stream. The song of the birds transports us.

This relaxation area was created in three days, with a week’s planning beforehand. It is located in the north of Marseille.

This project allowed me to learn about the agricultural and water history of Marseille. It is also the frst time I realized a project that I designed, I am very proud of this experience.

06 Let It Flow

In this workshop with Barcelona landscape architects we work on rivers and their tributaries.

In Barcelona my group and I are strategizing on the Llobregat river and one of its tributaries the Palau river.

This strategy directs us to our project site which is a sequence of the Huveaune river in Saint Marcel, near Marseille.

The Palau Stream and the Huveaune river show similar symptoms. Both sites seem to be in an identity crisis. As streams, they can’t follow their natural behaviour of fooding areas and shaping the landscape. Human activities have caused isolation, fragmentation and confnement of areas alongside the rivers. The consequences are a high risk of environmental, economic and social damage. Also pollution of the water, the destruction of housing and industry, as well as the endangering of civilians – all consequences caused by foodings.

For that reason our proposal is to make both sites adaptive to foodings, in a way that we can create a new way of living with water. By repeating this strategy alongside the river a rhythm can be created. We have to give the water space – and let it fow.

For the site at the Hueveaune, we identifyed a wasteland next to the river. Through playing with topography we enable water to shape the site and a fooding expansion area. By letting the water create habitats, the biodiversity will increase and is purposefully left open to diferent uses.

river. and

create biodiversity

Psychologists, X MBLandArch Winterschool

07 Drawings

For some years now I like to take the time to draw. Drawing the landscape mainly.

I approach drawing in a therapeutic way. It is for me like a meditative pose. A moment where I observe with patience what surrounds me, I put my glance on new things. This patience allows me to understand how the surrounding space is articulated.

FERROVIAIRE

d’autres espaces à exploiter

Having a father who is a sculptor, I always had the need to let my creativity run free. As a child I used to play a lot in his workshop with metal scraps.

This desire to manipulate matter and create is found in my photographic approach. For more than a year now I have been doing silver photography, especially in black and white because it is this type of flm that I know how to develop.

I like the physical side of photography and I like to have control over all the steps leading to the rendering. Sometimes this need for control ofers great surprises.

Taking pictures of the actions of daily life allows me to share them through my eyes. I like to show the life around me.

Place Notre Dame, Grenoble, 2023

Passeig de Lluís Companys promenade, Barcelone, 2023

Promenade du Canal des Arrosants, Ollioules, 2023

Saint-Anne d’Evenos, 2023

Manifestation, Marseille, 2023