Atelier En Vie

At the Intersection of Cultures and Worlds

Atelier En Vie is an architecture studio created at the intersection of different cultures and worlds.

It takes its roots in France, in poetry, in the poetry of details, in the way a project integrates into its territory, with a deep respect for nature and for resources.

Then, it expanded in Mexico, where architecture reveals another dimension, deeply connected to cosmology. An ancestral architecture, but also something very technological, very empirical, very raw. Between the past and the future. An architecture that is in direct dialogue with the elements.

At the same time, the founder grew up with a strong connection to Japanese culture, as her father was deeply rooted in Japan. From a very early age, she learned the delicacy of Japanese life, a delicate art of living, a sensitivity to lines, to gestures, to silence.

The practice of kata, these choreographed movements in karate, became for her a form of architecture. A way to understand space through movement, through precision, through invisible lines.

From this, a language emerges that she likes to call neo-brutalism, taking raw forms and refining them, combining elements to create a new vocabulary. A vocabulary in deep coordination with nature and the elements, the sun, the wind, the earth, the cycles.

An architecture that does not try to impose itself, but rather to align, to resonate, to belong.

Vision

An Architecture That Asks Questions

Do we really need to deploy so much force to impose ourselves on nature?
Or can we choose to integrate ourselves, subtly, and co-build with Mother Nature, as all species on this planet do, except us?

We are living in a context of identity crisis, of humanitarian crisis, where we are losing the sense of what truly matters, beyond money, beyond beliefs.

For her, as an architect, and as a human being first, architecture is a tool.
A tool to design a world where we can live with awareness.

Vie Leclair, Founder

A Young French Architect

Vie Leclair is a young French architect.

She has traveled for more than ten years across many countries and cultures Egypt, Portugal, Cambodia, Jamaica, Cuba, Morocco, South Africa, Spain, Serbia, Mexico, Colombia, Costa Rica, Italy living in many different places and immersing herself in different environments. She realized there are so many different ways to apprehend this life. To be. To exist.

Through these experiences, she became deeply connected to natural cycles, more than anything else. Because when you live in so many different places, the only constant is nature.

Very early on, she realized she had difficulty understanding how we inhabit this world today, because we are so disconnected from nature, and therefore disconnected from our own nature.

In a world facing deep crises identity, humanity where we no longer have a clear sense of what truly matters beyond systems, money, or beliefs, the question becomes essential.

How do we choose to live?

Her architecture comes from this questioning.

For her, architecture is not only about building.