LILA – Landezine International Landscape Award 2016

Felixx is a young office for proactive landscape architecture, founded by Michiel Van Driessche, Deborah Lambert and Marnix Vink. The office designs public spaces, works on urban development plans, engineers landscape transformation strategies, and is involved in spatial research projects.

We believe landscape architecture can be instrumental in dealing with the environmental and societal challenges we are facing. A better world requires a better spatial organization of our living environment. Therefore Felixx explores landscape architecture as a pragmatic utopian practice. Engineering landscapes as smart spatial systems, while envisioning them as the paradisiacal environments to live in. By hitting this promising overlap between pragmatism and idealism, we want to improve the world we are living in and realize happy environments.

Felixx works on integrated projects, and operates in collaborations with related disciplines and relevant experts. Realized projects are Jaanila Sportpark in St-Petersburg (RU) in collaboration with KCAP Architects & Planners, the asylum seekers center in Ter Apel (NL) with DeZwarteHond, and the metropolitan river park in Amsterdam (NL) with DRO.

Felixx has an international working field, allowing for the interpretation of local conditions, while applying the expertise gained with comparable tasks at a different spot of the world. Current projects include a park design in Amsterdam, the transformation of a former harbor area in Iceland, different redevelopment projects in India, Indonesia China and Myanmar, and a few large scale residential developments in Russia and Germany.

The work of Felixx is published around the world, and received multiple awards. The founding partners of the office are lecturing on a regular base, and are connected to different universities as visiting lecturer. The office is named after the illustrative bearded guy Felixx, who travels around the globe to hunt for opportunities to create a better world.