Zat

2025, Marseilles, France

ENSEMBLE.s is a participatory installation conceived by UV LAB for ZAT 2025 in Montpellier, nestled within the layered social and architectural fabric of La Mosson. Inspired by the ancestral art of Moroccan zellige, this contemporary structure emerges from a shared act of creation, uniting over 200 inhabitants in the design and fabrication of more than 8000 ceramic pieces—each singular, each imbued with the gesture of a hand.

At the confluence of craftsmanship and computational design, ENSEMBLE.s takes the form of a hyperboloid—a fluid, tensile geometry suspended in metal. This living architecture reclaims a previously marginal space and transforms it into a locus of resonance, contemplation, and presence. Rooted in situated knowledge and collective memory, the project offers a poetic yet tangible expression of how we might inhabit the public realm differently—together, across difference, through form.​

In collaboration with UV Labs.

Large star-shaped metal sculpture with colorful geometric patterns, situated outdoors among trees, with wooden benches in the foreground.
Looking up through the opening of a steel fire lookout tower, with trees visible against the sky.
A colorful, geometric metal sculpture or installation in a park, surrounded by trees and dirt ground.
Close-up view of a colorful geometric sculpture made of triangular tiles with a metal framework, based outdoors with trees in the background. The sculpture is partially resting on a metallic surface with the word 'Ensembles' and some additional text.
Sculpture resembling a large, star-shaped, spiked structure made of metal and stained glass panels, located outdoors in a wooded area with a person standing underneath.
A colorful, modern sculpture resembling a flower or lily, made of metal with geometric patterns, set in a wooded park with trees and a person sitting on a wooden bench