A place to call home
– Nine weeks long process journey –
Un lieu à soi
– Accompagnement en 9 semaines –
[French page]
To live, build or renovate
an integrative living architecture
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Un lieu à soi
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[9 weeks . 3 stages . 6 themas . 11 sessions]
A guided reflection – a creative process
& a initial question
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What is home to you ?
1 process & 2 possible path
Through an architectural project
To initiate and support your research, spatial organizing, construction or renovation project for your (future) living space.
Starting with a space for listening, clarification and understanding of your own needs and sensibilities.
In a mindfulness meditation cycle
To explore mindfulness meditation on the specific theme of home and living through the places and spaces that surround us.
To support your search for a housing project.
Discover the process in detail [Description, content, price]
A place to call home offers a creative and reflective support process based on mindfulness to accompany the act of inhabiting. It structures a framework of proposals, listening and sensitive engagement to initiate and guide your projects, from intention to material.
To co-write and co-construct an architecture that integrates all the living.
Process intentions [Description]
- Explore mindfulness meditation in a specific field of application (living spaces)
- Integrate mindfulness practices into daily life to reduce stress and regulate emotions
- Clarify and support our specific needs in order to design our projects
- Create a space for dialogue with ourselves and our co-construction partner to establish the project
- Become aware of our life connections and our relationship with our environment in order to forge links with our projects
- (Re)engage in a creative life process
- Channel our energy, resources, needs & intentions
- Nurture our inner life & bring forth a personal, aligned & coherent project
- Think & co-construct the housing project to support our needs, our anchoring and our direction
Work process [Themes]
The ‘home’ as the main theme of work (regardless of the project) addressed in six related topics
- The body / the existing living space / the project
- Being / Living / Building
Process thread [Steps]
– 9 weeks divided into 3 stages, spread over 11 call sessions –
- An introductory threshold to initiate the process
- TIME 1: The body & inhabiting it;
- Weeks 1-3 to inhabit the body
- TIME 2: The existing home;
- Weeks 4-6 to reclaim an existing living space
- TIME 3: The planned home;
- Weeks 7-9 to plan a future space – project
- A closing threshold to complete the process
In practice [Content]
A general structure & personalised proposals tailored to monitoring individuals, locations and projects
- 9 weekly sessions (75 minutes) to set the theme, practice and follow up.
- Mindfulness meditation audio recordings (once a week) for daily practice.
- Weekly exercise/reflection suggestions.
- Movement suggestions (spatial reorganisation of your current living space).
- Creative suggestions (making a collage)
- Sharing resources and inspiration to fuel the process (once a week)
- A closing meditation & a personalised ritual suggestion
- A look at your living spaces and simple & accessible spatial reorganisation suggestions
- A process book (PDF) of the journey
- A project outline + a budget estimate for architectural projects
- A shared platform for storing and exchanging documents
- A private interactive web page summarising the process & its content
In practice [Prices]
- Architectural project preface process:
– Tailor-made offer –
depending on the type of project
– Base of €3,600 excl. VAT (Complete process with project sketch & initial budget estimate)
- Mindfulness cycle on architecture and living spaces
– €1,800 excl. VAT – online
– Group/collective
in person / online
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For work processes without the need for a design project outline & personalised estimated budget
For spatial organisation, renovation,
(self-build) construction and location search projects
To live in this world a little more consciously and sensitively
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Preface.archi
/ Research and practice workshop on architectural processes
in living environments
Preface.archi is a research and practice space focusing on the architectural processes of living beings. Within this space, various services and tools are offered to facilitate the reconnection and reconstruction of our sensitive relationship with ourselves, others and our environment. As a workshop, great importance is attached to construction and learning through being, doing and exploring. Through art, meditation, architecture and/or their intersection, the support offered allows us to immerse ourselves in our own spaces of reference and sensitivity, while ensuring care, respect, listening, guidance and the construction that emerges from it. Particular attention is paid to supporting women and contributing to stories of female emancipation, the revaluation of care and sensitivity in our ways of living our lives consciously, poetically and humanely.
Fanny Wattier
/ Artist. Architect. Mindfulness meditation instructor.
As an artist, architect and mindfulness meditation instructor, my career path has been woven together by a quest for perception and sensitive understanding of the world, of humanity, and of the construction of the self, both in its earthly geography and in its inner territories. After graduating in 2016 from the La Cambre-Horta Faculty of Architecture (ULB), I followed a path guided by an organic and intuitive process that allowed me to encounter a variety of experiences. From India to Portugal and now Belgium, I have been able to work on rich and varied projects for different organisations and structures in the architectural, associative, social, cultural and artistic fields. At the same time, my curiosity and my own personal journey have allowed me to
immerse myself in different spiritual, energetic, somatic and artistic practice.
Having obtained the ULB’s mindfulness instruction certificate in 2024, I am gradually integrating its teachings and lessons into all my practices. Today, I am continuing along this path and drawing on my experiences to nurture the care necessary for the (re)construction of our sensitive spaces and to guide the architectural processes of life through places and living space projects.
Architecture
/ Living spaces
The architectural project, crystallised in the form of a personal space, a home, a refuge or any other living space, offers the opportunity to engage in a collaborative and dynamic process that is attentive to the needs of the people and the place that are co-authors of the project. Particular attention is paid to the project as a process with its own phases and timelines, in a dynamic of exchange that listens to the intelligence, questions and answers of each individual.
Collaborations
/ Weaving links
Any comprehensive architectural project incorporating a work process proposed by preface.archi can be carried out in collaboration with independent firms and architects.
Current collaboration:
Odile Vandermeeren [Archisanat / Be] – Architectural engineer specialising in bio-sourced architecture, bioclimatic design and earth architecture
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*Note on the specific mindfulness based process [A place to call home]::
The meditation practices offered in this programme are based on the curriculum of the
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) programme. The process is primarily based on a mindfulness approach, providing a framework and tools that encourage mindfulness (of oneself and one’s surroundings) and attentive, non-judgmental and compassionate listening.
Autonomy and responsibility go hand in hand with this commitment.
This process is not recommended for individuals who are dependent on substances, experiencing distress or psychological difficulties, or who do not have a secure living environment.
It requires a daily commitment of approximately 45 minutes at home and one hour per week through guided sessions.
To begin this process, please make an appointment so that we can meet and discuss your project beforehand. We look forward to hearing from you!