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Challenging Rural Diversity in Architecture, South of France.

To appreciate the context of the diverse, organic beauty of the various regional traditions of vernacular architecture which have been evolved over the ages in response to the respective climatic conditions and available materials of each area. Even today it remains an unspoiled rural and agricultural landscape supporting sheep and cattle farming, vineyards and many apple orchards. The urbanization is composed of traditional architectural forms and limited to the hamlets, villages, and occasional towns thinly scattered over the land, leaving the majority of the rolling countryside in carefully kept fields and forests.

Most Projects involved with 'a change in the use of land' from derelict properties/abandon building into the residential, commercial, agricultural, hospitality, healthcare or other purposes use. Clients: French, English, Irish, Dutch, Russian, Swiss, Australian, Swedish, German, Brazilian...

Residential Projects may vary significantly between, and through, residential areas. These include single-family housing, multi-family and residential developments. Zoning for residential use may permit some services or work opportunities or may totally exclude business and industry. It may permit only low density uses. In certain residential areas, largely rural, large tracts of land may have no services whatever, thus residents seeking services must use a motor vehicle or other transport. Development patterns may be regulated by restrictive covenants contained in the deeds to the properties in the development, and may also result from or be reinforced by zoning.

However the benefits of mixed developments are undoubtable: