Portfolio Adam Masset

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Architecture

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Adam Masset

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Master of Architecture

Competition

Master 2 Faculty of Architecture la Cambre-Horta Brussels, Belgium

Top 50 : hyde park library archasm 2017

2016 _ 2017

Scholarship

Master 1

International Exchange T O K Y O Keio university, Science and Technology C0+LABO radovic: Architecture + Urban design

JASSO Japan merit scholarship (one student per country per university)

2015_2016

2015 _ 2016

Studio

Bachelor of Architecture

with Distinction (average greater than 70%) Faculty of Architecture la Cambre-Horta Brussels, Belgium

Social Housing (first out of 45 students) final school exhibition (3 months) 2015

2012 _ 2015

Workshop

(second out of 45 teams)

2014

E XP ERI ENC E Student Assistant

SKI LL

First year, architecture project Faculty of Architecture la Cambre-Horta

Software

sept 2016_ jun 2017 (10 months)

autoCad rhino photoshop, indesign, illustrator word, power point, excel

Internship

SANAA Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa feb_may 2016 (3 months)

vector works sketchup archicad

Exhibition

‘LIXL gallery’ barn house, (memu meadows_hokkaido)

Language

Feb_March 2016

native, French fluent, English basic, Japanese

Workshop

Gehl_architects survey otomachi area_Tokyo

Drawing sketch, watercolor, acrylic

2015 (2 weeks)

Site Supervision

Archi 2000 passive construction

Volunteering Toekomst atelier d’avenir Speaker

2014 (6 months_Part Time)

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Hyde Park Library * 2nd Semester MA2

In the middle of Hyde Park in London, Archasm proposed a competition for a public library.

Here in one of the most famous English garden, we choose to re interpret the tradition of greenhouse and associate it with the program of a library. The project is looking to give another way to enjoy reading in the garden and in the same time propose interior workplace as a support around it.

So the project works with two entities.

The greenhouse whish propose a succession of atmosphere. It is a place of consultation.

Around it, the supports, which hosts the programs specific to the library, archive, multimedia library, auditorium ...

Each support has a different organisation. For example, the archives follow a concentric logic, the workshop organise itself around a passageway or the media by different half-level.

The greenhouse is protected on its southern facade by the template of buildings, by dense vegetation and potentially covered with hydrated lime on its upper part.

The buildings are massive. In brick, it is punctuated with opening on 4 facades.

Professor Francis Meztger, Sylvie Burgeon Perdiod January - June 2017 Location Hyde Park, London, UK Program Library_4000sqm Research_Project with Ali Alami Talbi

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Situation plan

Ground plan

Site structure

Parti

Auditorium

Implantation

Media

Research Workshop

CafĂŠ

Greenhouse

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Bookshop

Archive

Jardin de lecture

Ground floor

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Bookshop

Research Workshop

Archive

Greenhouse

Research Workshop

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Media

Auditorium

CafĂŠ

Media

Auditorium

Jardin de Lecture

Media

CafĂŠ

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Jardin de Lecture

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Research Workshop

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Enceinte Sportive *

1st Semester MA2

This project is about an architectural components of sportive activity.

We have chosen the ‘Fence’.

After assembling references, ‘the Atlas’, we had to look for a problematic, a site and then explore its design and effect in the city.

We identified the voids in Brussels, and we focused on the ring through the prism of sport. Initially, there was an exploration of sites that could potentially host a sports program, and then we were able to produce a map of our sports park that includes: existing situations, exacerbated situations, and added situations on the ring.

We developed two segments of the ring, Porte de Hal and Porte d’Anderlecht, where the ring is dilated and hosts a sports activity which we have chosen to emphases.

Porte de Hal suggest a succession of landscape atmosphere. Between each of them we design a sport’s fence and try to activate the space enclosed while the other sides where closed by city’s facades In Porte Anderlecht, the problematic was about the flexibility of the fence. The segment has a parking lot, a fairground during the summer, and we wanted to add sports activities.

Studio Unité de Production Professor Sophie Dars, Sarah Cremer Jean-Didier Bergilez, Paul Mouchet Perdiod September - January 2016 Location Petite ceinture, Bruxelles Research_Project with Loîc Pons

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ATLAS Sport fence

Basketball Court, Station Glacière, Paris

Interchange Court, Nishikahei Adachi-ki, Japan

Joaquin Rucoba, Fronton Jai Alai, Madrid 1894

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1. Plaine de jeux 2. Terrain de football 3. Parc de la Porte de Hal 4. Club de fitness Aspria 5. Parc d’Egmont 6. Jims 7. Esplanade Marnix 8. HealthCity 9. Parc Royal 10. Basic-Fit 11. Plaine de jeux Frick 12. Parc du Botanique 13. HealthCity / Piscine du Palace Sheraton 14. Basic-Fit 15. Bruxelles les Bains 16. Royal Sport Nautique de Bruxelles 17. Plaine de jeux Quai du Hainaut-Pierron 18. Complexe sportif 19. Stade Charles Vander Putten 20. Terrain Multisport 21. Parc de la Rosée 22. Centre Sportif de Saint-Gilles 23. Marathon de Bruxelles

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Porte d’Anderlecht -

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Porte de Hal -

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Bruxelles Parc sportif existant

Brussels’s voids

Existing sports park

Bruxelles Parc sportif existant

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Bruxelles Parc sportif existant

Speculative sports park

Site 1 - Porte de Hal

Site 2 - Porte d’Anderlecht

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Existing condition, Mannix street Esplanade

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Existing condition, Porte de Hal Playground

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Speculative sports fence

Vestibule

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Terrace - Grid

Speculative sports fence

Tribune

Historic

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Speculative condition Porte de Hal

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Speculative condition Porte d’Anderlecht

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École d’Architecture * 2nd Semester MA1

How far should we design an architecture school ?

Should it be a maximum volume with a maximum flexibility ? or the architect should design it from the begining to the end, and give to the student examples of proportions, materiality, spatiality ..

The project propose to develop the architecture school like a crossing of activities. Situated between the traditional japanese neightborhood and the grid of the university, the project is looking to insert itself in the urban tissue, enjoy the natural element and preserve the natural landscape.

On the site, the project re_use the actual facilities, the warehouse, next to the site, develop a strong relationship with the studio building. The composition of the plan propose three main kind of space : Programatic space, like toolboxes give what is needed to study and work.

Flexible : space, where the program could be in motion over the time. In-between : a space of appropriation, to gather like a forum.

With some lookback to the tradition, the structure work on two Ken. The roof is inspired by the Nagare Sukuri, a traditional Shinto shrine a roof on a single side and as its entrance by the side.

To conclude, the purpose is to design a flexible school in a rigid frame, where the program could be in motion following the necessities of today and tomorrow.

Professor Kazuo Sejima, Testuo Kondo , Takashi Suo Perdiod January - June 2016 Location Yagami Campus, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan Program Architecture school_2000sqm Research_Project Indivdual

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+ Model & Drawings selected for the final exhibition and edition of the studio CO+LABO

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OBSERVATION

INTENTION

Situation plan

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STRATEGIE

Ground floor

First floor 27

Longitudinal section

Transversal section

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Exploded perspective

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Logement Baïonette * 2nd Semester BA3

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s part of the « Europan » competition in Gilly, Belgium, the urban_design that we developed as a team, uses the local system, and brings a communal centrality layer, a new public heart.

The part of the project I personally developed is located on the square ‘Jules Destrée’ in front of the town hall, along the pavement ‘Lodelinsart.’

The issue of the project is to insert housing between two Public spaces.

The implantation meets three challenges.

Respect the continuity of the urban traffic.

Preserve the public space « Jules Destrée », with a permeable building on the Ground floor.

Develop an intimate relationship between the Town hall and new public housing, notably through a smooth slope.

The housing project focuses on two main points ; - Density, which seeks to create conviviality between people. - Circulation, which suggest walking the length of the building, through shared spaces which frame views of the city.

The project consists in several typologies, the three story houses are located at the ends, taking advantage of the most interesting views and reducing the need for extra passageway. The single story apartments are the first accessed; and the share appartements are on the top floors.

Housing seeks to find interiority, through the form of the plan, ‘bayonet’, which allows the «in between ».

This geometry creates the largest perception of the space in the appartment through the diagonal.

(10m50 with walls, to 11m40).

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On the First floor, the «i n between» will manifest as a slight difference in level between the dining room and the living room through the kitchen.

The Second floor is characterized by its diversity. All the appartments are different, and the expanded corridor becomes a large shared balcony.

The Third floor uses the roof, as a compression/ dilatation, and the oversized landing, which provides an extra room.

Circulation travels between the different housings from one flank to the other, made possible by the East/ West orientation.

Mouvement passes through shared spaces, with different sizes, orientation, and tries to create many scenarios between people and the city.

All those efforts focus to bring a spatial protection from both public spaces, and at the same time uses them as a tool for social interaction.

Professor Pierre Blondel_Jean-Marc Simon_Irene Lund Pierre.Blondel@ulb.ac.be Perdiod January - June 2015 Location Square Jules Destré, Gilly, Wallonie, Belgium Program 20 Social housing Research_Project Indivdual

+ Model & Drawings selected for the final exhibition in the Museum of LaCambre-Horta, Brussels. (Jun-Sept 2015) + Earning the merit scolarchip of the studio ÂŤInnovating Social HousingÂť directed by Pierre BLONDEL.

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Urbanism

Mouvement

Density

Implantation

Project image - Oignon

Housing image - Bayonet

+3 60,5m2 22m2 T3 T2

72m2 T3

90m2 T4 120m2

115m2 T7

T7

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120m2 T4 160m2

+1

T6

1650m2 4950m3

Program

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Exterior shared space

Ground plan

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Typologies

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+2

+1

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TOWN HALL SQUARE JULES DESTREE

METRO STAT

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TION

BUS

SHOPS 1st FLOOR LODELINSART STREET

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Shared kitchen 3rd floor

Meeting space 3rd floor ping pong

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Meeting space 1er floor open air cinema

facade

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Halle Nouvelle *

2nd Semester BA2

The project is located on the Square ‘Jacques Brel’, in St Catherine in Brussels, at the crossroads of a housing, commercial, and industrial areas.

The street allows the buildind to have a double orientation, and creates a dialogue with the context in a smaller scale.

The main goal of the project is to rebuild a proximity between users through appropriable public space.

The building contains a restaurant, a nursery, a wood/ steel studios and a co-working space.

Brussels holds a special relationship with the Hall since the 19th century for market and different festivals. After a study of the repartition of this public system in the city, I chose to develop this shape through the lense of the contemporary situation.

The Hall and building seek to meet in order to create a new identity in the square, a place where Brussels’s people can meet and remember those old scenes and imagine new ..

The public space is divided into three entities: the Hall, the Canopy and the Street.

The Hall designed in steel structure, with an opaque glass roof, tries to confuse the limits between the interior and exterior space and offers an apropriate space; concert, market, terrace, extension for the studio ..

The Canapy, a landscaped roof, proposes three kinds of spaces with different furnitures; a relaxation part, with chairs; the working place, next to the nursery’s playground and the access to the co-working, and the solarium with sunbath, where the hall ends.

This exterior space tries to find an in-between with the city, the street and the hall.

Professor Jean-Luc Brizy Jean-Luc.Brisy@ulb.ac.be Perdiod February - June 2014 Location Brussels, Belgium Restaurant_Kinder Garden_ Wood&Steel Studio_ Co-Working Research_Project Indivdual

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+ Model & Drawings selected for the final exhibition in the «Gare Bruxelles-Congrès» + Published in the school year revue «Polaroid» directed by Marc Mawet

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OBSERVATION

INTENTION

STRATEGIE

city_program

organization

the_market_place

axes_streets_perspective

SCALE

conviviality

the_canopy

proximity

intimacy

solarium entry

void

the_street

appropriation

PROJECT RESEARCH

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in between

Ground plan

Transversal section

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Drawings

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Adam Masset * Adammasset@gmail.com +32 485 70 24 72