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‘‘To be an architect’’

What it means for me :

To reveal the world its real beauty; hope and light where it seems not to be any.

To turn the reality into surprise; variety and challenge as prime rules.

To act with generosity; optimism and honesty as inherent qualities.

To fulfill the expectations of tomorrow cities; generic and emotions will stand together.

For architects understand the exceptionality of being and work to give it the importance it requires.

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PROJECTS

X-X-X Innovation Hub in Spain ~ Europan 14 50 : 50 Housing and light manufacture in Netherlands ~ Europan 14 Agora Art Platform in South Korea Technutopia 2073 in Pacific Ocean ~ Fairy Tale 2016 Fog Harvester in Namibia ~ eVolo 2014 Port City in Boulogne-sur-Mer, FR Active Barges on East River NYC Higher Space, Hotel and Spa in Chicago Two sided, 30,000m2 offices and commercial in Paris High Stratum, 100 units condo in Berlin French Pavilion for Milan EXPO 2015 Urbanities, Public Facilities in Paris Place des Manèges, Urban Design Gandamaison, Art Installation Student Housing in Versailles, FR

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ENTRANCE TO COMMUNITY HALL, VIEW OF TERRACING ON HISPANITAT 2

COMPETITION :

Jul 2016

Team members : Alban Denic, Ian Watchorn, Alexander Buckeridge, Matthew Davis, Iroha Ito, Varvara Domnenko

Alcoy, ES

X-X-X EUROPAN 14

Centrality and Relationship At the junction of neighborhoods already heavily residential, X-X-X introduces a centrality for people to come work, network, showcase, educate and mentor.

In close relationship with local job seekers and developing light industries, the project intends to provide flexibility and scale to facilitate growth of a variety of fields inside the same envelope. Spaces for co-working and robotic are laid out alongside showroom and workshops for local industries -such as fashion and paper- to promote productive adjacencies.

Meeting rooms, gallery, theater and ground cafeteria further a civic living room for locals engagements. Yet the terracing programmatic members addressing the landscape and using the local stone also gives the hub a singular identity looking forward as a pivotal moment in the history of Alcoy.

AL AZRAQ FACADE

SITE PLAN

HISPANITAT TERRACING

STRATEGY 3

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N L4 - Education

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N L5 - Innovation

Education Levels

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L6 - Innovation

Innovation Levels

Fourth Floor 4.a Mixing Core 4.b W.C. 4.c School Library (Digital) 4.d School Library (Analogue) 4.e Special Needs 4.f Casual Study 4.g Open Study 4.h Freight 4.i School Lockers

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Classroom Headmaster Office

Fifth Floor 5.a Mixing Core 5.b W.C. 5.c Reception 5.d Private Desk Space 5.e Group Desk Space 5.f 3D Printing (Large) 5.g 3D Printing (Extra Large) 5.h Wet Lab 5.i Dry Lab

Sixth Floor 6.a Mixing Core 6.b W.C. 6.c Bleacher Seating 6.d Presentation Room 6.e Private Office 6.f Collective Office 6.g Freight 6.h Storage 6.i Start-Up Incubator Offices

Presentation Room Robotics Lab (Large) Robotics Lab (Medium) Freight Storage Light Fabrication Medium Fabrication Cafe Cafe Outdoor

SOUTH WEST ELEVATION Elevation

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Innovation Levels

5.j 5.k 5.l 5.m 5.n 5.o 5.p 5.q 5.r

6.j 6.k 6.l 6.m 6.n 6.o

Collaborative Work Space Hot Desks Computer Desks Meeting Room Roof Access Collaborative Play

MIXING CHAMBER

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INNOVATION HUB FROM AL AZRAQ

CO-WORKING SPACES 4

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L2

ENGAGE AND SHARE

L3

L4

LEARN AND MENTOR

L6 WORK, MAKE AND INNOVATE

INNOVATION FLOOR (L5) : COWORKING / LIGHT MANUFACTURING / ROBOTICS / FASHION 5

ROOF

APPROACH FROM CANAL WALK

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COMPETITION :

Jul 2016

Team members : Alban Denic, Ian Watchorn, Alexander Buckeridge, Matthew Davis, Iroha Ito, Varvara Domnenko

Amsterdam, NL

50 : 50 EUROPAN 14

Productive City To address the urgent goals of today, one is to regard at the Productive city as an answer.

What makes a city “productive”? Inspired by the principles of circular economy and short supply chain, we recognized that city planning is radically moving away from a mono-functional zoning. Papaverdriehoek, epicenter of Buiksloterham manifesto, is anticipated to attract a responsible and inclusive community engaging in sustainable living, reuse and resource minded creation.

Work floors are the foundation of the project and result from rigorous study of light industry uses typologies. Therefore, continuous open plan 10m wide with heavy duty gantry crane gives optimal flexibility.

The workshops will harvest electricity from their photovoltaic fritz glass façade to feed the living units.

The ground floor indeed serves as the showcase and education on this unique prototype in Papaverdriehoek.

DISTRICT PROSPECTIVE PLAN

Here, we propose to mix together equally living and working functions to create the 24h building of the 21st century. The alternation of uses offers the potential for productive adjacencies. On top of facilitating creative relationships, this strategy prevents noise nuisances on top of offering garden, privacy and views to all living units therefore small villages are created in the sky.

GROUND FLOOR PLAN

DIFFERENT USES STACKING 7

CANAL ELEVATION

LIVE PLAN WORK PLAN

FLEXIBLE CONFIGURATON WORKSHOPS

OFFICE

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TYPICAL SECTION

PRODUCTIVE COURTYARD 9

MATERIALITY

ART PLATFORM APPROACH 10

COMPETITION :

Mar 2016

Team members : Alban Denic, Marc Bouvelle, Guillaume Delfesc

Suncheon, South Korea

Agora

SUNCHEON ART PLATFORM

Agora for the 21st Century From all times, the manifestation of commerce is a reflection of the livelihood of its civilization. The evolution of the structure to contain the market has received much emphasis throughout the ages. Suncheon economy being strong in fashion industry, the Art Platform is conceived as an agora for the 21st century facilitating encounter with art as well as giving a singular roof to promote local economies. The busy urban life of the Joonang Ro corner slows down throughout the large open space. The art galleries are contained in the attic to open the ground for civic uses. Using innovation in material technology, the concrete vessels offer dramatic covered space for year round outdoor activities.

The Art Platform takes inspiration from the landscape assets surrounding the site. The fluid geometry of the agora, along with its hills and gentle drop towards the Ok-Cheon stream participate to fabricating a mindful and contemplative environment.

ATTIC GALLERIES

ART STREET

SITE PLAN SITE SECTION NORTH SOUTH

FASHION STREET 11

THE COVERED ART STREET AND FASHION STREET

GALLERY SPACE

ROMAN FORUM BRICKS

GEUKLAKJEON HALL WOOD

AGORA CONCRETE ART PLATFORM APPROACH OVER THE BRIDGE

HYBRID IDENTITY: CIVIC / REMINISCENT / CONTEMPORARY 12

SOUTH ELEVATION

ATTIC PLAN

DETAIL SECTION 13

TECHNUTOPIA 2073

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COMPETITION

Jan 2016

Team members : Alban Denic

New York, NY

Technutopia 2073 BLANK SPACE ~ FAIRY TALE 2016 When technology is the new nature

22nd of April, 2073

My helicopter landed on the small landing pad of the station. The children ran up to greet me.

“What was that strange bird?” They screeched, unaccustomed to the sight and sounds of a helicopter.

“It’s a helicopter!” I shouted over the the noise of the helicopter. I stepped onto the station ground and stumbled. as the ground swayed beneath me. The children giggled.

Walking on this platform was like walking while drunk; the ground swayed beneath me.

One boy in particular caught my eye. He skipped and ran even as the station platform dipped and swayed. I stumbled over to him.

He started speaking to me immediately.

“Hello, what brings you here?

“I’m here to find Edna, she takes care of your supply from the continent….”

The boy smiled at me mysteriously.

“I’m Catherine. What’s your name?”

“I’m Nemo.”

“You walk like a natural. Like you own this

station” “They say one day I will be the leader of this place! And I also swim! But I wish I could fly like you. My world is not so big... I can walk it all in one day! How is it beyond the horizon?

How many days is your world?”

“Well, my world takes more than a lifetime to traverse” “I’ve learned in school that your world yearns to explore the sky. My world yearns to explore the ocean.”

This was my first encounter with Nemo, aged 12. He was born on Pacific-1.

His parents arrived to the station as environmental refugees with hopes for a second chance. Over subsequent visits, Nemo and I became friends.

For the 50th year anniversary of Technutopia, I am creating a documentary on Pacific-1. I expected to find a disaster. Instead I found hope.

2025 marked the year that global temperatures rose by 2°C. Agreements were not enough to hold off earth’s disintegration.

Catastrophes escalated. Immigration

tensions mushroomed to unforeseen heights. 2025 marked the year of many firsts.

People were born as refugees and died as refugees. Some never touched dry land.

Babies were born with no country.

Scientists huddled together and offered the world a clear ultimatum. Either we once again pledge to limit our impact or we increase our control. Thus environmental technological husbandry was born. It was coined Technutopia.

Climate Watch was inaugurated to create Technutopia. Technology would keep the world stitched together. Grids of satellites would monitor the magnitude of storms.

They would water parched land and restore the planet to its natural state.

Ocean Chapter was designated the aquatic arm of Climate Watch. Ocean Chapter deployed numerous stations around the earth, one per ocean. Its stated goal was to support humanity, to reduce ocean pollution and to develop deep-sea medical research. Pacific-1 was one of the offshore stations.The station was a paradigm for 15

cities. It was the future.

For a time it worked. The Ocean Chapter was bringing jobs, food and habitat remediation.

But two decades later, all stations collapsed.

Back on land, immigration tensions climaxed and local wars broke out. Focus shifted from planetary survival to national security. The meager international funds that sustained the Ocean Chapter disintegrated. The program crumbled into obscurity.

All stations were abandoned. But not for long. Slowly these metallic islands started attracting intellectuals, refugees, artists and wild birds. Pacific-1 quickly became the biggest commune of 21st Century.

News of repopulation of the offshore stations did not reach dry land for many years. Decades later, journalists were dispatched to all corners of the earth to document these newly thriving ocean platforms. That’s how I ended up here, on the Pacific-1, to document this thriving bastion of the Pacific. ***

21st of February, 2074

FISH FARMING AND RECYCLED AIRCRAFT

I arrived at Pacific-1 yesterday. The ocean waves were rough and rocked the station violently. As usual the station dwellers walked normally while I struggled to stand.

Nemo was playing soccer on the helicopter landing pad and invited me to show me the station’s pisciculture. Nemo skipped along the station as I walked behind him, stumbling on the swaying ground.

Fish farming was a way of life at this station.

Nemo was a natural. He spent every waking moment at his family’s fish farm pods. These pods were circular holes that incubated fish to send back to the mainland. Nemo led me over to them, holding me by the hand. He must have sensed my nervousness.

“Come and see,” he gestured.

I followed him and looked into a pod. It was simple and ingenious. A net held the fish from escaping out into the sea. The pods were pristine as ocean water cycled rapidly through the nets. Plants surrounded each pod as miniature mangroves to filter the

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water. Unlike the dirty fish farms that we once had back on land.

“I like to play and hunt sea-gulls among the mangroves,” Nemo told me. “Look! Migratory birds started taking refuge here.” He pointed at birds resting at some pods further on.

Nemo ran towards them and jumped into a pod. He pulled grains from his pocket and threw some in the water. Sea-bass flocked to his side.

I walked over to him in shock.

“How did you learn to swim?” I asked.

“I was 4. My dad pushed me in the water because I broke a net. I saw the fishes and I moved like them. I envy them for moving so fast. Now I can swim with them, see!”

Nemo moved his body from side to side like one of the fish to demonstrate. ***

22nd of February, 2074

RECYCLING ECONOMY

Nemo’s dad is cooking for us tonight. Nemo picks me up from my lodgings and takes me to his home. On his way he went to the community locker and dropped off a massive container that he had tied to himself.

Nemo spoke to me as he walked to his home.

“I had to empty my mom’s dinghy this morning. She spent the night by the plastic continent chipping away at it. Do you know where this comes from?”

“From us...” Sighed Catherine.

“Someone threw that in the water… Are they planning to buy it back?”

“I guess…”

“That’s absurd!” Nemo exclaimed.

I felt embarrassed. Nemo was so happy in this world and everyone seemed so unhappy in my world. Even though we had everything and he had nothing. My world seemed wasteful and absurd. ***

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3rd of June, 2074

UNDERWATER OBSERVATION

This is my first trip back in several months.

Nemo has agreed to show me the station laboratory. Pacific-1 has fully equipped labs on the station’s sublevel. These labs were linked to observation spheres at the bottom of the ocean.

In the lab the light is dim and red. Creatures swim around in tall cylindrical aquariums.

Temperature and pressure are carefully acclimated to the creature’s needs. Thomas, the head of the station lab introduces himself and tells us proteins are being extracted and tested here.

“Our team will find a way to strengthen human bones to prevent osteoporosis.”

Nemo’s eyes widen as he listens.

“I want to do this in the future.” Nemo says, still wide eyed. “But my dad tells me he

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needs someone in the farm.”

Nemo pulled out a book of sea creatures and flipped a page.

“These are called benthos and only appear very deep. Thomas once showed me a sample under his microscope lenses. He knows about all the species in the ocean and told me that he finds a new one everyday.” ***

3rd of June, 2074

Later that day in the lab an announcement sounded.

“It-is-now-three-pee-mm-wind-blows-atten-mm-pee-hh-sky-is-clear-wind-willlower-in-the-evening” said an automated voice.

This announcement announced the time of day. It was time to meet Thomas and descend to the bottom of the ocean. He took Nemo and I down in small pods. The long descent was worth the wait.

Deep sea was absolute darkness. The hydrothermal vents were incredible and gave birth to a plethora of life. Life down here came in extraordinary shapes and colors. The vents were comprised of deposits of gold, silver and copper.

I was glad these vents were still intact in contrast to our decaying world back on land and the water above. Many had already been destroyed for the metal deposits that surrounded them. Locations have been omitted from this documentary to protect these rare life forms.

During the entire trip Nemo kept his nose pressed against the wind shield. We saw mountains, canyons and vents. Colorful creatures floated around us. These creatures pressed up against our the wind shield curious at our bright lights in the canyon of darkness. The water was peppered with grains of plastic.

“Do you see this beauty? Nemo shouted, I can’t let it be destroyed. I hope your land is not as dirty as this ocean.”

After this undersea journey I was left with the feeling of profound failure. We had not invested enough in our heralded Technutopia. It was supposed to be our savior. And here I was looking at the plastic residues from the plastic continents that had filtered down to the bottom of the ocean.

Pacific-1 and its sister stations were our last beacons of hope. Pacific-1 was a paradigm for cities. It remains the future.

BED OF THE OCEAN

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FOG HARVESTER IN THE NAMIBIAN DESERT 20

COMPETITION :

Jan 2014

Team members : Alban Denic, Olivier Dauce

Namibia

Fog Harvester

PUBLISHED in EVOLO SKYCRAPERS 3

Harvest water from Nature On 28th July 2010, through Resolution 64/292, the United Nations General Assembly explicitly recognized the human right to water and sanitation. It has been acknowledged that “clean drinking water and sanitation are essential to the realization of all human rights”.

Aside from these declarations, approximately still 884 million people lack access to safe drinking water and 1.5 million children under 5 years of age die each year as a result of water related diseases.

Considering the overall picture of access to drinking water, 40% of this population is currently located in Sub-Saharan countries.

The study of the World Bank (Fig.1) explains the water consumption challenge faced by African Sub-Saharan cities and compares their capacities to respond to it. Cities located under the red line are showed as providing a very poor water supply service facing heavy demand; therefore many of these are located in the Gulf of Guinea.

THE NAMIBIAN DESERT MORNING FOG

THE BEETLE ONYMACRIS UNGUICULARIS

ELECTRIFIED NET TECHNOLOGY

MASTER PLAN FOR THE FOG HARVESTER NAMIB FOG

FOG HARVESTER

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BOTTLING PLANT

RECYCLING PLANT

OPERATING BY SHIPS

100m

80m

60m

40m

20m

FOG HARVESTER SECTION THROUGH THE CENTRAL TANK AND MAINTENANCE DECK

Furthermore, by crossing the data to the future population expected in 2050 (Fig.2), one can see a preview of how bad will be the situation in the future.

THE WORLD BANK, JULY 2012.

Indeed, the density of these cities– mainly due to a high nativity rate and an uncontrolled urbanization - is already one of the most important in the world. A very high density brings local issues in term of public sanitation, security and overcrowding.

For instance, recently Lagos oversteps 10 million living souls, but about two third of them are still living in slums without access to drinking water (one of the most important slum area in Lagos, Ajegunle shelters 500.000 inhabitants).

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FUTURE POPULATION IN SUB-SAHARIAN CITIES

CONTROL ROOM LABORATORIES SOLAR PANEL NET MODULE

If it’s a utopia to send water to the entire world, it’s possible to help the local scale.

The Gulf of Guinea is the main place for the peak demand concerning access to drinking water.

By combining these four parameters: the need for water, the expected population in 2050, the ability of the city to respond to the demand, and their access to maritime routes, this process highlights 9 cities matching these criteria as primary targets: Abidjan, Accra, Cotonou, Lagos, Ibadan, Yaoundé, Brazzaville, Kinshasa and Luanda, totalizing more than 40.000.000 inhabitants.

3000 kilometers from there, faraway to the South is located the hyper-arid Namib Desert. This place is famous for being one of the most hostile environments for life in the world, but one would be surprise to know that almost every day a heavy fog is covering this extreme territory over a 60km wide corridor along the coast.

Created thanks to a moist air flow coming from the ocean via the Benguala cold

NET REPLACEMENT

stream, this fog begins thicker and thicker until noon, when temperatures rise from the inland with the sunshine and then dry air pushes it back to the seashore. Every day, these are millions of liters of drinkable water which are going directly into the ocean.

Along with this fact, the Namib Desert is the house of a little creature, the beetle Onymacris unguicularis which is able to survive to the highest temperature by drinking… the fog water condensed during the night on his carapace.

COLLECTOR FIELD MAINTENANCE DECK

HOUSING

Inspired by this ability to transform vapor into drinkable water, and guided by prototypes experiment in 2013 by the MIT in the Atacama Desert, Chile, our concept is to collect water from the fog by scaling up this developing technology, thus providing people with drinkable water in a sustainable way. This “fog harvester” is part of a larger vision including maritime routes from the Namibian industrial harbor Walvis Bay to help the Gulf of Guinea water supply.

FILTERING DEVICE MICRO-CLIMATE

FOG HARVESTER SECTION DETAIL OF THE CENTRAL TOWER 23

ENTRANCE TO PORT-CITY 24

THESIS PROJECT

June 2013

Team members : Alban Denic, Camille Labelle, Anais Pointillart

Boulogne-sur-Mer, FR

Port-City

D3 UNBUILT VISION 2013 HONORABLE MENTION

Turn Local Industry Into A City Revival PORT-CITIES around the world are places to share and exchange, trade and communicate. Port cities are places you feel connected to the World. Living in a port city is a daily journey with the unique status of being a PORT-CITIZEN. PORTS AND CITIES in Europe have lost their common ground and split from early XXth century, due to progress during the Industrial PORTS AND CITIES in Europe split from early XXth century, due to progress during the Industrial Revolution. Ports are now a total different reality than cities, taking place in a global world with efficiency and availability. Cities also have evolved significantly toward a more inquisitive way of life with a layered reality and fast pace of life. Today, these two entities seem to share opposite interests. Point has been proven that a healthy economy can emerge from such a partnership. At the root of this

partnership, people are the inseparable link upon which cities and ports rely on, and they are the first to be addressed to debate the success of any of these two entities.

BOULOGNE-SUR-MER (FR) has always been a city with big ambition. After reconstruction period following World War II ravage, decision has been made to separate port and city for a more organized economy.

This has brought Boulogne as the first European place for seafood market while it disconnected the people from their waterfront. Today, as a consequence of the crisis, this economy has turned out to be fragile. The situation asks for creative solutions.

BOULOGNE-SUR-MER PORT-CITIES

NANTES

DUNKERQUE

LONDRES

MARSEILLES

Our intent is to address a contemporary PORT-CITY to reinforced Boulogne-surMer jeopardized economy and reconnect people to the waterfront.

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2016 ?

CITY + INDUSTRY + TOURISM + EDUCATION 2000 STRUGGLING WORK FORCE 1980 REBUILT AND MODERN: GROWTH 1939-45 BOMBED AFTER PERIOD OF PROSPERITY

CITY PLAN

This point [the misunderstanding in between city and port policy makers] is well-illustrated by the latest ‘code of conduct’ issued in 2010 by the European Sea Ports Organization, which calls upon all responsible authorities to change ‘the waterfront development paradigm’ in order to come up with win-win solutions that reinforce rather than weaken port-city relations. *Isabelle VRIES, Area Developer, Port of Rotterdam, ND, Thesis ON Interface PORT/ CITY TU Delft

BOULOGNE-SUR-MER

GARE ROUTIÈRE

QUAI GAMBETTA

OFFICE DE TOURISME 550 M

Olivier Lemaire, Director AIVP

115 M

NAUSICAA

QUARTIER RÉPUBLIQUE

CHANTIER NAVAL SITE INTEGRATION 1TO500 SITE MODEL

BASSIN NAPOLÉON

MODERN PORT

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Improving cities attractiveness, not only more compact but also more fluid, is a strategical cornerstone; and considering this approach, ports may become a mighty advantage.

IUT CAB

Used to reinvent itself, to react and seemingly able to respond to contradictory interests, Port-Cities have become the places “par excellence” for multiple innovations ranging from technology advancement to environmental science, urban planning and social science, including interdisciplinary approaches. Thus Port-Cities are the laboratories for the city of tomorrow; interconnected, innovation-driven and reactive.

“Innovation Ville Port”_Sept2011_Fédération Nationale des Agences d’Urbanisme (FNAU)

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Fish stock is dropping.. why not farm them sustainably ?

The question of food is a priority to address in our contemporary society. Fish stocks are running low and this precariousness is creating tension globally on Earth.

Different policies along with healthier and less polluting fish farming are part of the solution. In Boulogne-sur-Mer, an important project is taking place in this field, engaging a further development in fish farming in order to maintain an economy of almost ten thousand people, and hundred millions euro every year and placing Boulogne as an “avant-garde� innovation place in Europe.

FISH FARMS WITH EDUCATIONAL PATH

PORT-CITY aims to reactivate the discussion in between professionals and citizens, engaging fish farming vision with the public.

Our proposal does so while implementing a prototypal fish farm within the Port-City.

Even though the farm is clearly under scaled compared to the food requirement, it serves as a mean of communication and entertainment for the public space. It also brings back fishing as a sociable behavior in urban space.

1 MATURING POOLS

2 LABORATORIES

3 FIRST YEAR POOLS

THE PROTOTYPAL FISH FARM is implement vertically in order to allow the pathway to circulate around and reach the top on a gentle ramp. Four columns of water are built into a greenhouse with the only piece

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of vegetation to protect and better control the climate. Each column correspond to one specie of fish. The column is further divided for the different ages of the fish allowing five up to six generations of fish to live in the same water-column. The intent of such a design is to create an educational path around the theme of the fish farming which is becoming everyday a necessity closer to us. Addressing this question on a public space is a big step toward more understanding and support.

TERRITORY INSERTION

THE PUBLIC PLATFORM OF PORT-CITY

City within the City, the Open Fortress This horizontal Port-City takes place on a previous ferry gate to United Kingdom North Europe and New York, now outdated and no longer in use. This previous activity left an empty and vast platform in between the city on the right bank, and the modern port on the left, making it the right opportunity to realize the transitional link. The intent is to treat the Port-City, not as an enclosure that lock the place inside but rather as frames cut out from it and open toward the space around. Along with creating an exciting and pluralist inside world, the public space is framed with strong axes that keep people connected to the larger site, meaning port and city altogether.

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ORGANIZATIONAL DIAGRAM OF PORT-CITY FISH FARM EDUCATIONAL AQUARIUM

ELEVATED PARKING

DOUBLE SKINNED FACADE

THE «KNOWLEDGE WALK» PERIPHERICAL PEDWAY INTEGRATED SHIPYARD

BUSINESS INCUBATOR

HOUSING UNITS

RESEARCH LABORATORIES

URBAN FRAME

FISH FARMING PONDS PUBLIC PLATFORM

PLATFORM FOR MARITIME TRANSPORTATION

MARITIME STATION PATRIMONIAL HERITAGE SERVICE ALLEY

< XIXth C. XIXth S. - early XXth c. primitive Port/City, Expanding Port/City, Close spatial.

Spatial schism.

mid XXth C. Modern Port and city, Time schism.

1960 - 1980 Retreat form the waterfront.

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1970 - 1990 urban renewal of waterfronts.

1980 - Today A new link for Ports and cities.

GROUND FLOOR PLAN +1M

«KNOWLEDGE WALK» +12M

PORT ELEVATION

CITY ELEVATION

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PERSPECTIVE ON THE EAST RIVER 32

COMPETITION

May 2011

Team members : Alban Denic

New York, NY

Active Barges SEMIFINALIST ONE PRIZE 2011

Active commuting ?

What is researched here is an answer for how to make transit time valuable, and how this value can influence these prime factors such as time and price, but then integrating others like health and entertainement. These barges are to respond to the crucial need of transportation over the East River, but also to offer new way to express the desire to live together as a collective enterprise. A piece of land you can rent for an exceptional event, a transformable public place, the ship which will lead one on the other bank, the fishing farm one is going to spend the afternoon, the beach one will be enjoying the sun all along the East River while he is commuting, or the daily bath on swimming pool for one another.

More than only an architectural move, it is a total reshaping of the society toward a democracy more active and participative.

BARGES MODULES

POSSIBILITIES MATRICE

BRIDGE SATURATION

BARGE MODEL 33

BARGE PROTOTYPE

BARGE MODEL

FROM THE INSIDE OF A BARGE

ISLAND OF BARGES 34

BARGE OPEN STRUCTURE

BARGES IMPLEMENTATION MASTER PLAN 35

THE HIGHER PLACE FROM THE CHICAGO RIVER 36

DESIGN :

Dec. 2010 Chicago, IL

Higher Place,

Team members : Alban Denic, Jason Smith

GRADUATE DESIGN AWARD

Raising from urban noise.

Wolf Point in Chicago is unique for its feature. Even though it is surrounded by urban activities, it has a very silent space.

Using silence as a base for the design, we strive to develop transcendental spaces, both in intense and intimate relationships between water, space and sky. This silence was discovered high in the air. When one can ascends to the top of a building, he must welcome the silence that enable him to appreciate the space and the view.

This idea was applied to the architecture of the project and a portion of the programs were elevated above the urban noise. By leaving an open area on the ground where the programs would have been located, a void was also created. Playing with this negative footprint, we allow the urban layered-floor, so dense in Chicago, to catch his breath.

THE HIGHER PLACE 37

B2 FLOOR - WATER LEVEL

B1 FLOOR - MID-GROUND

6TH FLOOR - STREET LEVEL

SPA AND WELLNESS CENTER 38

13TH FLOOR

15TH FLOOR

MODEL ELEVATION

MAIN TOWER SECTION 39

PLATFORM VIEW ABOVE THE RAILS 40

DESIGN :

Feb. 2012

Team members : Alban Denic, Aurélie Kapéja

Paris, FR

Two sided How to bridge an active train line ?

The challenge in this site is the fact that we were facing a rupture between two districts which would need to be connected in a close future. This rupture was due to the old rail track still in use today. Our intent is to overlap this crack to turn obstacle into symbol of union. This is 30 000m² (323,000 sqf) of office space along with a number of facilities which find their good location up in this new floor.

Stratification des réseaux

THE SITE IS A BUSY CROSSROAD

A progressive fragmentation in the design follows the scale of districts from a boulevard façade with a strong identity to more little volumes closer to the human scale of the future residential zone nearby.

AERIAL VIEW OF THE PROJECT 41

LARGE OFFICE FACADE

TRANSVERSAL SECTION

LONGITUDINAL SECTION 42

SMALL OFFICE FACADE

HIGHWAY NODE CONTEXT

LEVEL 6 FLOOR PLAN

PLATFORM LEVEL FLOOR PLAN

OFFICE DETAIL SECTION

PARKING LEVEL FLOOR PLAN 43

HOUSING IN BERLIN 1TO200 MODEL

HOUSING IN BERLIN 1TO500 MODEL 44

DESIGN :

Jun. 2010

Team members : Alban Denic, Olivier Dauce

Berlin, DE

High Stratum How to catalyst community life ?

This housing project takes place in Berlin.

The 100 units have been united in five greater unities of twenty each to respond to the urban scale surrounding. We opened the site to the pedestrian to optimize activities, shopping, public amenities and create a sense of place. To ensure a good relationship between these two worlds, public and private, a complete wall free level has been designed nine meters high (30 feet) with a particular attention to vertical connections.

HIGH STRATUM 1TO200 MODEL

The idea here is to make it a true center for communities living upstairs, attemping to gather collective practices in one fun and attractive place. Thus exchanges within communities would be easy, more intense and friendly.

HOUSING TYPOLOGIES 45

CONCEPTUAL MODEL

VIEW OF THE STRATUM

TRANSVERSAL SECTION OF MASSING 46

STREET APPEAL

PEDESTRIAN CIRCULATION INNER-BLOCK

HOUSING TYPICAL FLOOR PLAN 47

OBSERVATORY PAVILION 48

COMPETITION

Apr. 2010 Milan, IT

French pavilion

Team members : Alban Denic, Olivier Dauce, Marc Bouvelle, Benjamin Martin

EXPO Milan 2015 Sensitive path to exhibition Far away, two straight bright lines in the city.

When one is approaching, a vertiginous experience catches him observing all these people moving so easily in the height. The reinterpreted two seeds tanks apperas as towers of glass and steel frame settled in the middle of the Universal Exposition of Milan. Leant on the glass railing, one may be amazed by the stir below, just enought to understand that the exhibition is hidden under his feet! Sensations, the first material of this project, provide the meaning for this sculptural architecture.

APPROACHING THE MONUMENTS 49

ELEVATORS VOID

MASTER PLAN

TANKS SECTION 50

RAMP ENTRANCE

BELOW GROUND EXHIBITION 51

AERIAL VIEW URBAN INTEGRATION MODEL 52

DESIGN :

Feb. 2010

Team members : Alban Denic, Olivier Dauce

Paris, FR

Urbanities Can a street climb a building ?

The city of Pantin, in the Northern suburb of Paris is one of the very growing areas in the region Ile de France. In order to design this site, we must worry about the future of this site and build an idea of what could be an anticipation. This small programmatic city is to respond to nulerous of condominium projects in close surrounding. The decision has been to raise the street to the top. A web of ramps leads the pedestrian to his goal, but giving an appreciation of the walk itself.

The goal is in the journey. These walkways are made of surprises created by the ÂŤoverdensityÂť.

UNROLLED WALK-WAY

COMPACITY AND EFFICIENCY

CANAL PERSPECTIVE SKETCH 53

LONGITUDINAL SECTION AA’

TRANSVERSAL SECTION BB’

TRANSVERSAL SECTION CC’ 54

GYMNASIUM LEVEL 3 FLOOR PLAN

LIBRARY AND COMMERCES GROUND FLOOR PLAN 55

PLACE DES MANÃ&#x2C6;GES, MAIN PLAZA 56

COMPETITION

May 2009 Versailles, FR

Place des Manèges

Team members : Alban Denic, Olivier Dauce

K 09 Competition How to lead the citizen ?

The XVIIè century town planning in Versailles has left us this icone of these three huge and magnifiscent avenues. Nevertheless, they separate Versailles in two distinct ditricts lacking connections. The «Traversée» this artistic walkway lead the visitors going through this liminal bloc thanks to arcades remodeled following the japanese Torii.

In the meantime these arcades enhance this place as a real nod for more pedestrian connections, more porosity.

buildings pedestrian carways ARCADES SEQUENCE

MEGABLOCK AND PEDESTRIAN STREET

ACCESS FROM AVENUE DE SCEAUX 57

TORII REFERENCE

SECTION THROUGH PLAZA

OVERALL PLAN OF THE “TRAVERSEE”

DETAILED PLAN OF THE PLAZA

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ART CORRIDOR

ACCESS FROM AVENUE DE PARIS 59

WOOD SPATIALITY 60

WORKSHOP :

Jul. 2008 Public Art Installation Versailles, FR

‘‘Gandamaison’’

Artist : Tadashi KAWAMATA Team members : Alban Denic, Olivier Dauce, Jean Valère Gaultier, Michael Brunel, Théo, Aude, Nathalie Buclin, Timothée Eck

with guest Tadashi KAWAMATA feat. in «NUIT BLANCHES PARISIENNES»

The workshop “Gandamaison”, in the Spring Summer 2008, consisted in an in depth design research around the theme of accumulation as a mean of creation to conclude as an ephemeral scheme for the biannual exhibition at the Maréchalerie.

The work of Tadashi KAWAMATA carries an interpretation on the social environment and the relationships among people. In every work, the artist surrounds himself with students, locals and groups who get involved in the design and the fabrication process.

The workshop was centered on the single rule to create space via the numerous accumulation of a simple unique module, the wooden crate. After an intensive workshop of experimentation, a shortlisted team of student in which I was involved has been invited to built with the artist the final piece at the Centre for the Contemporary Art in Maréchalerie, Versailles.

“Gandamaison” is the combination of the two words “Gandam” and “Maison”.

“Gandam” is to echo the Japanese origins of Mr Tadashi KAWAMATA as the name is given to the popular robots built by accumulation of custom pieces. “Maison” is the French word for Home, the main exercise for architects which is to define home for humanity. “Gandamaison” therefore sets up the bases for a workshop intersecting art and architecture.

WOOD SPATIALITY 61

PRIME STRUCTURE

SETTING THE NETS

BEHIND THE SCENE 62

WOOD SPATIALITY

TEMPORARY CRANE

OUTDOOR INSTALLATION

WOODEN CRATE MONUMENT 63

ENTRANCE

SPATIALITY MODEL

GROUND FLOOR PLAN 64

DESIGN :

Feb. 2009 Versailles, FR

Student housing

Alban Denic

How to enter the city?

What a surprise to find on this district of Versailles an extraodinary cohabitation of all ages. This diversity has been the reason to design a introverty building able to house all these differences. The central squared place with its cafeteria is the element which highlight this exchange between generations. Students who travel here far from their home can walk a place they appropriate for themselves before approching the city. A way to bring confidence.

SECTION THROUGH COMMUNITY CENTER

NORTH ELEVATION

SOUTH ELEVATION 65