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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.

March 2014 - May 2015 MIlan, IT

SLA/China Pavilion EXPO Milan 2015 A Roof for the people DESIGN DEVELOPMENT AND CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTATION Chief Architect: Yichen Lu Project Manager: Kenneth Namkung, Qinwen Cai Project Team: Alban Denic, Shuning Fan, Mario Bastianelli, Yoko Fujita, Chen Hu, Ching-Tsung Huang, Hyunjoo Lee, Dongyul Kim, Ivi Diamantopoulou, Wei Huang, Zachary Grzybowski, Elvira Hoxha, Aymar Mariño-Maza, Zoe Yuan

Rejecting the typical notion of a cultural pavilion as an object in a plaza, the China Pavilion is instead conceived as a field of spaces. Envisioned as a cloud hovering over a “land of hope”, the Pavilion is experienced as a series of public programs located beneath a floating roof, the unique design of which creates an iconic image for the project and a unique presence within the Expo grounds. The theme for the China Pavilion is “The Land of Hope”. The project embodies this through its undulating roof form, derived by merging the profile of a city skyline on the building’s North side with the profile of a landscape on the South side, expressing the idea that “hope” can be realized when city and nature exist in harmony.

PARAMETRIC DESIGN

ENTRANCE VIEW

PANEL PRODUCTION CHAIN

MOCK UP

ROOF STRUCTURAL LAYERING

The roof is a complex assemblage of interdependent elements. The freeform geometry, original proposal from the competition has been rationalized with a new set of rules driving the design to a buildable state.

As part of a whole, bamboo panels, supporters, waterproof membrane, rafters and purlins are all having a precisely defined and explored relationship and hierarchy.

In order to proceed to rationalization, anchor point was necessary. The whole roof design can be summarized as a single base surface.

TECHNICAL DRAWINGS

SHOP-DRAWINGS FOR FABRICATION

TIMBER CUSTOM STRUCTURAL NODE

Supporters are the structural link for these panels. Intrinsically they drive the geometry.

Panels, staggering and supporters all go together. Each aects the others in very subtle way and imposes its own limits.

Paneling system is based on grid with u and v coordinate. Geometry curvature can be looked on these two directions.

Supporters are designed to embrace maximum flexibility with a minimized customization.

DETAIL SECTION

PANEL SUPPORTER FIXTURE DETAIL

Feb 2014

Shenzhen North Bay, CN

SLA/Garden Club house SCHEMATIC DESIGN AND DESIGN DEVELOPMENT Design Architect: Yichen Lu Associate In Charge: Qinwen Cai, Ching-Tsung Huang Project Architect: Dongyul Kim Project Team: Alban Denic, Jose Silva, Zifan Liu, Chen Hu

Shenzhen North Bay neighborhood is under a spur a development and along the new residential towers happening on site, a Clubhouse is needed to prepare the future residents. Aside from North bay intense road network, the Garden Clubhouse oers an intimate experience of composed volumes and variety of space. The city is booming, the Clubhouse provides peace and stability. Gallery space, patio, terrace are planned along an harmonious spatial sequence with magnified moments.

FRONT FACADE

PARK FACADE

June 2012 Bordeaux, FR

XTU/Cité des Civilisations du Vin A celebration of culture in the City BIDDING Phase Project Leaders: Dominique Zentelin, Mathias Lukacs Research Team: Joan Tarragon, Gaëlle Le Borgne, Stefania Maccagan, Alban Denic, Cristina Sanchez, Sylvain Raillard, Maÿlis Fabre, Heiner Babon, Kathryn Frost

As wine is becoming more popular and spread out in the world, it creates momentum of celebration in Bordeaux, considered internationally as wine culture epicenter.

The Cité des Civilisations du Vin, its design evocative of wine subtle qualities, sit on the shore of the Gironde offering an event in the city as multiple large point of view are available.

From a core of concrete bear walls, a facade system of curved timber member create the desired silhouette. A paneling of triangulated perforated metal is covering the structure and gives the Museum a light champagne color.

TIMBER STRUCTURE

BELVEDERE

CCV DISTANT HORIZON

AUDITORIUM

Sept 2012 Bordeaux, FR

OMA/Jean Jacque Bosc bridge Neutral plateforme for civic expression COMPETITION AND STUDY PHASE Partner-in-charge: Rem Koolhaas Team 2011-2012: Alban Denic, Ana Reis, Clément Blanchet, Deborah Mateo, Emily Crabb, Henry Bardsley, Ida Stople, Irgen Salianji, Kristin Schaefer, LawrenceOlivier Mahadoo, Lukasz Skalec, Marc-Achille Filhol, Maria Aller Rey, Min Hong Khor, Paul Feeney, Pierre-Jean Le Maitre, Romina Grillo, Sai Shu, Sang Woo Kim, Saul Smeding, Xavier Travert

CROSS SECTION SOUTH SHORE

OMA’s stripped-down design for the Pont Jean-Jacques Bosc attempts to rethink the civic function and symbolism of a 21st century bridge. A platform 44 metres wide and 549 metres long is stretched beyond the water on either side, creating a seamless connection with the land.

The design is kept to the simplest expression - the least technical, least lyrical, an almost primitive structural solution. The bridge itself is not the ‘event’ in the city, but a platform that can accommodate all the events of the city.

FLEXIBILITÉ DE L'OUVRAGE DEMONSTRATION

FLEXIBILITÉ DE L'OUVRAGE DEMONSTRATION

BRIDGE OVER THE GIRONDE

1/50 MODEL

FLEXIBILITÉ DE L'OUVRAGE DEMONSTRATION

PLATFORM MUTATIONS 64/100

LA CUB - PONT J.J. BOSC

Oct 2012-Jan 2013 Paris Saclay, FR

OMA/LAB CITY Ecole Centrale Turn a «Black Out» into a Field of knowledge SCHEMATIC DESIGN Project leaders: Clément Blanchet, Edouard Pervès Project team: Maria Aller Rey, Gabriella Bandeira, Eugenio Cardoso, Alban Denic, Cristina Martin de Juan, Pedro Pitarch Alonso, Ana Rubin, Saul Smeding

In an era of privatization, cities are facing a major challenge: investment in the public domain depends increasingly on the private sector. As a result of this reframing of the collective agreement, the role of architecture often reduced the visual impact of its shape and surface rather than its potential contribution to a new educational, social and civic dimension. The competition launched by the Ecole Centrale Paris for the design of a new engineering school has become the perfect opportunity to explore ways to answer this demanding challenge.

AIR CONTAMINE

AIR FRAIS

AIR FRAIS

AIR CONTAMINE

ENTRANCE OF THE DIAGONALE

STRUCTURE

EMPILER

LOCAUX TECHNIQUES R-1

1

CONFIGURATION INITIALE

RE

CO

RE

CO

RESIN MODEL

EMPILER

EMPILER

ESPACE LIBRE HAUTEUR LIBRE = 12m

STRUCTURE PRINCIPLE

NF

IGU

NF

IGU

RE

R

RE

R

2 TRANSFORMATION INDEPENDANTE DE LA STRUCTURE

THE DIAGONALE 3

SQUELETTE FIXE

FLEXIBILITE PROGRAMMATIQUE

FLEXIBILITE / DENSIFICATION / MODULARITE

May 2015 Vienna, AT

SLA/WIEN MUSEUM Extension Intervention in Historic Karlplatz COMPETITION Project leaders: Ian Watchorn Project team: Alban Denic, Chen Hu, Hyunjoo Lee

EXISTING AND NEW

At the edge of a World Heritage Site, the Public Museum of the City of Vienna takes place in the continuous unsolved chaos of Karplatz, sided with the incredible Saint Charles Church. The challenge is triple. Respect the Church, address the plaza and design an outstanding museum to add to the city jewels. This structure, both overground and underground, comes as an extension to the existing Museum. The rhythm of columns discretely follows the baroque order of surrounding faรงades. The heritage is untouched; the new museum rises over the city as a temple to Humanity, celebrating openness and sense of time.

SITE MODEL 1/500

COLLAGE FIELD OF COLUMNS OVER REFLECTIVE PONDS, PERSPECTIVE OVER KARLPLATZ

Mar 2015 Chicago, IL

SLA/LAKEFRONT KIOSK Face the City / Filter the Nature COMPETITION Project leaders: Alban Denic Project team: Hyunjoo Lee, Dongyul Kim

The kiosk, according to modern times, is very much restricted to minimal square footage and maximum function since it aims to respond to a special need. This design addresses the question of how to reintroduce the notion of social space as expressed in the ancient idea of a kiosk onto a contemporary context.

The design has been centered on the use of very simple wood modules in order to build the expendable space of the kiosk. The exclusive inside is intimately separated from the extensive outside by a filtering faรงade built upon light staggering of wood profiles.

1800s

1850s

1910s

1950s

1990s

2000s

SOCIAL SPACE FUNCTION IMAGE COMMERCIAL

KIOSK ARCHETYPE EVOLUTION IN TIME

STRUCTURE PRINCIPLE

STRUCTURE PROFILE

KIOSK INTERIOR

June 2013

Boulogne-sur-Mer, FR

Port City

(thesis project) Regenerate waterfront of struggling industrial city THESIS PROJECT Team members : Alban Denic, Camille Labelle, Anais Pointillart

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.

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.

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 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.

GARE ROUTIÈRE

QUAI GAMBETTA

OFFICE DE TOURISME

550 M

NAUSICAA

115 M QUARTIER RÉPUBLIQUE

IUT CHANTIER NAVAL

PROMENADE NAPOLÉON

CAB

SITE MODEL

PORT-CITY OLD MODEL

BOULOGNE-SUR-MER MODERNIZATION PLAN 1970

PORT-CITY MODERN SEPARATION

AMBITION TO REUNIFY PEOPLE AND INDUSTRY

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 MARITIME STATION PATRIMONIAL HERITAGE

PLATFORM FOR MARITIME TRANSPORTATION SERVICE ALLEY

XIXth S. - early XXth c. < XIXth C. primitive Port/City Expanding Port/City, Spatial schism

mid XXth C. Modern Port and city, Time schism

1960 - 1980 Retreat form the waterfront

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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