From soil to system
Our proposition
Transforming a place into a living, productive and resilient ecosystem — that is the heart of what we do.
Permaculture design is a holistic design methodology inspired by the principles of living systems, creating stable, diverse and sustainable agricultural systems. Where nature is often seen as a constraint, we make it your greatest ally.
We work with restaurateurs, farmers, local authorities and private clients to create and transform food gardens, micro-farms, edible landscape spaces and hybrid projects — from concept to realisation.
Every project aims to design a system that produces food and generates resources, strengthens biodiversity and soil health, and creates beautiful spaces that are pleasant to live in and share.
Every design is entirely bespoke: we start from your land, its constraints and its potential, to create an ecosystem in your image — effective, lasting and inspiring.
Who Am I
I trained as an engineer-architect (2010–2016), specialising in the analysis and design of complex spatial and social situations — reading a place in all its depth is what has guided my work from the very beginning.
My journey starts in Jordan, where I co-found Greening the Camps in 2017: an NGO dedicated to designing productive rooftop micro-farms in refugee camps. Four years of demanding fieldwork — cultural, logistical, financial — that forged in me a rare capacity for adaptation and a concrete expertise in design under constraint. In 2019, I manage the production of the Future Food // Future City exhibition at the Amman Design Week. In 2020, I spend three months immersed at Taybeh Organic Farms — 80 hectares in the mountains of northern Jordan — alongside an ecologist, experienced farmers and a researcher in regenerative agriculture.
I then leave Jordan, obtain my Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) at Terra Alta in Portugal, and return to Belgium where I join Atelier Horizon. There, as part of a team, we win a competition for the rehabilitation of one of Brussels’ last farms on protected natural land. In 2021, I return to Terra Alta as a teaching assistant, co-facilitating six intensive PDC sessions. It is also there that the Baladi Collective is born — an international, multidisciplinary team with which we design a masterplan for migrant reception centres in Malta, in partnership with the Maltese government.
Since 2024, all of these experiences converge in Les Jardins de la Briquette, which I co-found in Alsace with Cecilia — a living regenerative project, my daily terrain of experimentation and design, and the synthesis of everything I have learned.
My work
Co-founder — Living project, ongoing
La Briquette is the project where everything comes together.
Co-founded with Cecilia on land in Alsace adjoining a former brickworks and clay quarry, this project combines permaculture market gardening, a seasonal outdoor restaurant and public events. Here, what we grow feeds the kitchen, the kitchen gives meaning to the farm, and the farm welcomes those who want to reconnect with the living world.
The first phase established the food gardens around the house: permanent beds, an orchard, outdoor living spaces — alongside the opening of a seasonal guinguette open Thursday to Sunday from May to September, offering informal, seasonal cuisine. The second phase, currently in design, focuses on transforming the two hectares of protected wetland meadow surrounding the farm: the creation of aquatic zones and the gradual structuring of the space into a semi-open savannah landscape through agroforestry — rows of high-stem fruit and nut trees with enough space between them for intercropping, grazing animals or hay production.
Three years of hard work, season after season. And the feeling, every morning, of being exactly where we are meant to be.
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Photo by Gabriel Ferneini
Baladi Collective — Client: Maltese Government
Ħal Far is one of Malta’s main reception centres for migrants, refugees and asylum seekers. A functional, austere place, designed to manage flows — not to welcome human beings.
Our intervention was born from a conviction, not a commission. After a phase of research and interviews with residents, we designed a masterplan to transform the outdoor spaces into places of life, culture and connection. On the ground: participatory workshops, building planting boxes with the children, installing bamboo trellises, planting herbs, and painting a large collective mural. Designing with people, not for them.
The project ended prematurely for institutional reasons. But what remains is proof that design rooted in listening can transform, even briefly, a place of constraint into a space of dignity and hope.
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Baladi Collective - Reuse Italy Architecture Competition
Bramante’s Nymphaeum in Genazzano is one of the least known — and most forgotten — Renaissance monuments in Italy. Our competition entry went beyond the building to embrace the entire valley.
Genazzano is a village perched on the ridgeline, scorching in summer. We designed a linear park structured around water management — ponds, wetlands, streams — transforming the valley into a cool, living space accessible to all in summer. The Nymphaeum itself became a water theatre, designed to be flooded and inhabited differently with each season. Soft pathways connect the key poles of the territory: the historic centre, school, hospital, nature parks.
The project was not selected — our approach, more landscape than architecture, did not meet the jury’s expectations. But the territorial analysis remains, in our view, a solid contribution to the question of how to regenerate an entire landscape from a single catalyst.
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Amoreiras Gare
Private client — Permaculture analysis
A plot in the Algarve, century-old olive trees, a renovated cob house and a dream: to live there and set up a naturopathy clinic.
I carried out the Survey and Analysis phases of the SADIM methodology: detailed mapping, reading of water flows, prevailing winds and sun exposure, botanical analysis and planting recommendations. These elements allowed the first design orientations to take shape — zoning, positioning of desired elements in the locations most coherent with the life of the land. A solid analytical foundation, ready to receive the next steps of detailed design and architectural planning.
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Permaculture training centre — Teaching assistant
Terra Alta is one of the most recognised permaculture training centres in Europe. I arrived as an intern. I left transformed.
Over several months, I co-facilitated six intensive PDC sessions — teaching agroforestry, systems design, and guiding gamified design exercises where participants learn to think in ecosystems. Working alongside Pedro Valdjiu, the founder, was a permanent masterclass — in permaculture, yes, but also in the art of hosting and creating a space of trust.
Teaching taught me as much as years in the field.
Taybeh Organic Farms & ARD
Agronomic immersion & first PDC course
Spring 2020. The world stops. I spend lockdown in the mountains of northern Jordan, on an 80-hectare organic farm producing dates, citrus and olives — alongside a renowned ecologist-designer, experienced farmers, a researcher in regenerative agriculture, and the farm’s owning family.
Three months of intense practice: restoring the mandala garden, building dry stone walls, planting trees, working the soil, mulching, observing cycles. Concrete learnings that years of coursework could never have provided.
In 2022, on this same territory, I lead as principal teacher my first full Permaculture Design Certificate course for the organisation ARD — putting to the test, for the first time, everything I had learned and taught at Terra Alta.
Co-founder & project director
It all starts with a simple conviction: even in the most constrained spaces, nature can reclaim its place — and with it, a little dignity, autonomy and life.
Co-founded in 2017, Greening the Camps is an NGO specialising in the design and construction of productive rooftop micro-farms, primarily in refugee camps and working-class neighbourhoods of Amman. Four years of intense fieldwork, radical creativity and constant adaptation.
Among the landmark projects: rooftop gardens for several families in the Gaza refugee camp in Jerash; a pilot garden at Jadal for Knowledge and Culture, an iconic cultural space in old Amman, maintained for nearly ten years now; a rooftop at the Belgian ambassador’s residence to convince influential donors at a reception; installations for the German NGO Help!; and a garden assembled in a single day at the Omwas neighbourhood centre, co-built live with a film crew and local residents.
Every roof, a new constraint. Every family, a story. These years made me an entrepreneur, taught me Arabic, Jordanian culture, and the beauty of working hard for a cause that is truly worth it.
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Let's talk about your project
You have a piece of land, an idea, an intuition — or simply the desire for things to change. That is often enough to begin.
Every permaculture design project starts with a conversation. Listening to the place, to your constraints, to your dreams. That is where the most honest and lasting systems are born.
If what you have read here resonates with what you are looking to create — a food garden, a micro-farm, an edible landscape or a more ambitious project — I would be happy to talk it through with you.
No commitment — just an honest conversation to see if we can build something together.