Luc Schuiten. Original work in gouache and felt-tip... Lot 15

Luc Schuiten. Original work in gouache and felt-tip pen exclusively in aid of the "Une tente une vie" operation, on cardboard. Signed. Wood frame with Plexiglas glass included: 155 x 125 cm Luc Schuiten is a Belgian architect, born in Brussels in 1944. Like his father Robert Schuiten, he trained at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels, graduating in 1967. He is also a comic book scriptwriter, in collaboration with his brother, cartoonist François Schuiten. His father, Robert Schuiten, was a Belgian architect active in the 1950s and 1960s. Both architect and cartoonist, Luc Schuiten's approach aims to integrate "urban planning, ecology, science and science fiction. From 1980 to 1987, he was a lecturer at the Institut Victor Horta in Brussels. In 1987, he left architecture teaching to devote himself exclusively to his architectural firm Schuiten sprl. He is also president of the Vegetal City association and a founding member of Biomimicry Europa and the Archi Human association. He has set up various projects to house the homeless in Brussels. His first building was the small "Orejona" house 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 glass roof overhang. First-generation solar collectors on the roofs provided heating. A glass roof gave a view of the sky. In the 1980s, he continued to reflect on urban planning 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 machine-based urban model, and is passionate about archiborescence, a term that designates "architecture using primarily as building materials all forms of living organisms or organisms inspired by the living". In 2014, he founded the Archi Human association, whose aim is to promote social reintegration through housing. In and around Brussels, he aims to develop studio flats using ecological materials and energy efficiency to help the homeless. The ORIG-AMI is a cardboard shelter measuring 117 x 235 x 150 cm. It is insulating, structurally protective, foldable like an accordion, transportable like a backpack and recyclable. The homeless shelter was designed on the principle of origami, a Japanese paper-folding technique.