A total of 290 planters have been installed in front of the windows of this apartment building as part of the ‘Reinventing Paris’ programme. The passionflower climbers create a living façade that locally cleans the air, lowers the temperature, and filters the light toward the living spaces behind.

Year: 2017 – 2020
Client: NFU + Loftissime
Landscape Architect: Bureau Bas Smets
Architect: Manuelle Gautrand
Photographs: Michiel de Cleene

A temporary installation shields the Bozar entrance from the adjacent construction site. The existing slope of the street is transformed into five horizontal terraces that converge in a curved amphitheatre at the entrance of the Centre for Fine Arts.

Year: 2017– 2019
Client: BOZAR – Centre for Fine Arts
Landscape Architect: Bureau Bas Smets
Photographs: Michiel De Cleene, Yannick Sas

Design of the integration of a 12 km new motorway in the polder landscape. The project for the motorway becomes the opportunity to reinforce this man-made landscape, using its vocabulary of dikes, canals and alignments.

Year: 2011 – 2017
Client: Via Brugge on behalf of Via-Invest
Landscape Architect: Bureau Bas Smets
Architect: Zwarts & Jansma
Photographs: Michiel De Cleene, Via Brugge

A series of monuments offer a place for consolation to remember the victims of the Covid crisis. Each of these monuments consists of a perfectly horizontal circle, broken by a natural force. In Kortrijk the monument is positioned in between a cemetery and a natural reserve, separated by a gully.

Year: 2020 – 2021
Client: Moving Closer & Kunstwerkt
Landscape Architect: Bureau Bas Smets
Photographs: Michiel De Cleene

A sequence of terraced platforms connects the site with the Mediterranean Sea. Their curve follows the breaking of the waves, as if they had been eroded over time. During the day the platforms are ideal for sunbathing while at night they become an amphitheatre framing the setting sun.

Year: 2015 – 2017
Client: Private
Landscape Architect: Bureau Bas Smets
Architect: YTAA

The grounds of a former abbey have been transformed into a private park. The landscape project reveals the main three landscape figures:  the central lawn, the dense forest, and the fruit orchard. Specially designed lamp posts and bridges are painted in an abstract white colour and rhythm the walk through the park.

Year: 2011 – 2015
Client: Wivina bvba
Landscape Architect: Bureau Bas Smets
Architect: De Vylder Vinck Taillieu
Photographs: Michiel De Cleene

The former railroad tracks on the right back are transformed into a public walkway. Lying on an old dike of the river, the elevated path has splendid views over the river and its two banks.

Year: 2016 – 2022
Client: Bordeaux Metropole
Design Team: Bureau Bas Smets
In collaboration with: Ingerop, Simethis

A series of distinct gardens sequences the discovery of the landscape on this private island, from the dense jungle to a floating deck with a splendid view over the Caribbean. The deck has been made of white marble of Carrara and creates an outdoor living space surrounded by vegetation.

Period: 2011 – 2012
Client: Private
Design Team: Bureau Bas Smets
In collaboration with: Eliane Le Roux
Photographs (2, 3, 8): François Halard

The lower story of an existing house has been refurbished as the main living floor. The difference in elevation with the rear garden is mitigated by an incline planted with wildflowers. A natural stone wall and a washed concrete wall frame this sloped garden.

Year: 2009 – 2012
Client: Private
Landscape Architect: Bureau Bas Smets
Architect: Office KGDVS
Photographs: Michiel De Cleene

The organisation of the parking spaces at the periphery of the site liberates space for a park in between two new office buildings. The parking spaces are organised as a series of planted plateaus, while the sloped park reveals the natural valley.

Year: 2008 – 2012
Client: Voka & Intercommunale Leiedal
Landscape Architect: Bureau Bas Smets
Architect: Office KGDVS, Bureau Goddeeris
Photographs: Michiel De Cleene