{"id":37482,"date":"2020-09-25T22:18:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T20:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peregrinusmundi.com\/pour-une-architecture-vivante\/"},"modified":"2021-01-07T15:57:52","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T14:57:52","slug":"for-a-living-architecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peregrinusmundi.com\/en\/for-a-living-architecture\/","title":{"rendered":"For a living architecture"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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At the end of Brittany, in the department of Finist\u00e8re, C\u00e9lia wakes up. The sun rises against a cloudless sky heralding warm temperatures for the season. Brittany, like the rest of the world, has been warming up for years. In the middle of September, the sun still floods the landscape with degrees of heat too hot for the season. A house of straw, earth and wood has grown from the ground. She has been pushing up for two years. Slowly but surely.<\/p>

Chance led me to the Crozon peninsula, where C\u00e9lia lives. A peninsula that I thought was shaved, peeled, wild. But which turns out to be the favorite destination for Brest residents on weekends, the large city of the region a long hour away. The first part of the island is very hedged and covered with agricultural fields still cultivated mainly with chemical fertilizers. By the sea, the vegetation becomes wilder. Pines and ferns replace the meadows, then rocks and heather cover the top of the cliffs which delimit the peninsula. The environment becomes harsher, rougher, more subject to the power of the wind and the waves that shape the landscape. The peninsula is beautiful. Beautiful in its wildest corners. In its multitude of caps that dot its rugged coast. A network of small villages and farms are scatter in the area. A mixture of old and recent buildings for an assemblage of villages with more or less charm. Some like Morgat, Camaret or Land\u00e9vennec are magnificent. By the sea, one has pretty colorful houses, the other a small port with shipwrecks and the last houses the ruins of an abbey in a village with preserved architecture.<\/p>

By bicycle, the tour of the peninsula takes about two days along the coast. On foot, four days of walking follow the GR trail, which crosses the quiet charm of this very particular corner of Brittany. Surrounded from above by the bay of Brest, from the front by the Iroise sea and from below by the bay of Douarnenez, the Crozon peninsula enjoys a microclimate. Temperatures vary little throughout the year. But global warming and agricultural pollution have not spared the place and the beaches have been invaded by green algae for several years. Green algae are part of the Breton landscape, but for the last thirty years algae have developed excessively in spring and summer and have washed up on the beaches. The too rapid increase in the growth of algae is due to pollution in the waterways flowing into the sea. Fertilizers and phosphorus affect the growth of algae. Green algae pose a major health problem along the Breton coastline since the algae while drying out, form a crust below where a toxic gas, hydrogen sulphide, develops.<\/p>

But this is where Celine chose to settle. And I understand her. Despite agricultural pollution and the problem of green algae, the Crozon peninsula seems to me to be a place conducive to the establishment of a life more in connection with earth. Places are quiet and people seem to have developed a certain culture of the community. C\u00e9lia is a lady in her fifties, Breton by origin, who left Paris and her job two years ago to come and settle in the small village of Telgruc-sur-mer, at the entrance of the peninsula. Her project consists of the construction of a house in natural materials which will serve as a training place on permaculture, ecology, nature and food when it is finished. C\u00e9lia spent two years participating in various workcamps and training courses on eco-construction before embarking on the construction of her house. Several more months of work and the place will start to be operational. Once the construction is finished, will come the implementation of energy autonomy and the treatment of gray water. Then it will be the turn of the vegetable garden. It is a place that C\u00e9lia wants frugal in its consumption but rich in its exchanges.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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