a n to i n e K e r s s e
Antoine Kersse
Born in 1988 in France, I graduated from Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Lyon in 2011 and worked for several offices in europe. Education 2011, Architecture Degree, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecte de Lyon 2010, Erasmus exchange at Budapest University of Technology and Economics 2006, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Lyon Experiences 2013, Brunet Saunier Architecture, Paris, architect, 15 month 2012, MVRDV, Rotterdam, intern, 6 month 2011, Monadnock, Rotterdam, intern, 6 month 2010, Christophe Widerski Architecte, Paris, intern, 3 month 2008, Max Faramond, Albi, intern, 1 month 2007, Sabarthès&Fils (wooden constructions), worker, 1 month Skills Revit, Autocad, VectorWorks, Archicad, SketchUp Adobe Creative Suite : Illustrator, Photoshop, Indesign, Premiere French (mother tong), English (f luent), Spanish (intermediate level) Mottos “Be vague on precise things but be extremly precise on vague things.” “Be appropriate but f*cking unexpected.” “No invention, only new combination.” Contact antoine.kersse@hotmail.fr 00 33 6 83 70 24 28
Projects 2013 Pediatric hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland / Project leader, competition Brunet Saunier Architecture Pluralis Singulis, Basel, Switzerland / Idea competition in collaboration with Maxime Pauzon Institut Mines-Télécom, Paris-Saclay, France / Architect, competition Brunet Saunier Architecture Arthur wasn’t there, South Cadbury, England / Idea competition in collaboration with Maxime Pauzon and Alexandre Carpentier 2012 HUS Masterplan, Helsinki, Finland / Project leader, competition Brunet Saunier Architecture Bastide Niel, Bordeaux, France / Intern, 35ha Masterplan development MVRDV 2011 Vålersirkelen, Våler, Norway / Intern, competition Monadnock Reykjavik Centrum, Iceland / Intern, competition Monadnock Hofwoningen, Amersfoort, Netherlands / Intern, Housing development Monadnock Maison M, Viviers-lès-Montagnes, France / Village Barn conversion in collaboration with Maxime Pauzon Walking the City, Lyon, France / Graduation project Habiter Lyon Eurométropole?, Lyon, France / Exhibition, Master study
Pluralis Singulis, Basel Pavilion Of Culture Idea competition, Basel, Switzerland, 2013 In collaboration with Maxime Pauzon
A pavilion as a public space, symbolic and recognisable in all Basel. A base to structure the surroundings carved and extruded with ramps and stairs to connect all accesses. A wall to protect from noises, traffic and weather so you enjoy properly the existing square qualities, as a peaceful shaded place under the trees.
Our answer is dual, ambivalent and schizophrenic. It brings questions and answers, as a blind monolith and a landmark in the same time. It is open and closed, permeable and isolated, open air and covered, a place you pass by or stay in. It reveals a place that turns to be yours.
One porous plinth
One ring wall
One drop spot
One art stage to rule them all
Insitut Mines-TĂŠlĂŠcom Invited competition, Paris-Saclay, France, 2013 Under the direction of Brunet Saunier Architecture
Part of the emerging masterplan designed by Xavieer De Geyter, Floris Alkemade and Michel Desvigne, Institut Mines Télécom will take place in between several engineering school and performing research laboratories and factories. It is a 42 000 m² building including several functions from public to very secure. The main issue was to gather 3 institutions, with different size and needs, within the same building, each one of them willing to be clearly identified as a distinct entity.
The formalized answer uses a constant building width, like a tape deployed onto the plot, that would host various typologies, allowing diversity, flexibility and evolutivity. A rational network for the vertical circulation where branches cross each other is also used as a structural skeleton. This allowed pilar-less outdoors spaces for collective activities and extra connections between services. This building enhance the vision of a solid institution with various faces, multiple users and a great capability of adaptation, the keywords for tomorrow’s university.
Arthur wasn’t there, Camelot Research and Visitors Center Idea competition, South Cadbury, United Kingdom, 2013 In collaboration with Maxime Pauzon and Alexandre Carpentier
From the very unclear clues that Camelot once stood on top of South Cadbury hill, the main goal of setting CRVC here was to generate a reason worth coming. What to expect? Monumental, abstract and neutral, the CRVC has to be more than a building, it will be an experience. It is a stand that will host King Arthur’s legend, but also reveal the unicity of its context.
A neutral grid is a tool to apprehend the huge size of the hill, inspired by archaeological excavation methods which use a reference scale module. It is created by a multiplicated familiar room size. Various activities will be spread-out within the area. As a systematic structure, it slowly disappears leaving the hill as an organize free space. By bringing an oversized rational space system to this legendary site, the project creates an endless universe of experiences.
CONFRONT TO ATTRACT CURIOSITY
SIZE MATTERS SIZE MATTERS
A LA CARTE TOUR
A LA CARTE TOUR
EMPHASIZE THE ASCENT, GET STRONGER AWARENESS
EMPHASIZE THE ASCENT, GET STRONGER AWARENESS
Pocket Parks, Bastide-Niel Masterplan development, Bordeaux, France, 2012 Intern at MVRDV
Bastide Niel is a 35Ha zero energy masterplan in Bordeaux. Its design is a volumetric approach consisting in providing direct sunlight to every single building of the 145 plots. Its is settled on former military base and railway wasteland which have been re-used as extruded footprint. Instead of creating one single big public space, you will see here 27 smaller parks called Pocket Parks. They provide great diversity of spaces and uses all over the neighborhood.
Bastide Niel will be known for its incredible Pocket Parks. It is an innovative neighborhood with those gardens extending building’s volume as they complete the urban concept. Pocket Parks are considered as volumetric elements constituting a unique 3D experience for citizens. Each one of them is different by its material and plant species enhancing a specific and adapted use. Winy Maas
V책lersirkelen Protestant church competition, V책ler, Norway, 2011 intern at Monadnock
Former Vüler’s church was surrounded by beautiful landscape with great variety. The new church will be characterised by its compact, clear and readable shape. A rational, comprehensible form, which is recognisable by everyone. A strong motive is to provide a compact footprint to avoid disturbance of the landscape, combined with the creation of a landmark visible from far away. The clearness of the overall form
will be joined with a more layered development in detail. The lantern added to the wooden ceiling covering the balconies, causes a geometrical collision of a square with a circle. This motive will be used for the expression of the elevation, a curved asymmetrical line will appears expressing the transition from the translucent part to the blind part of the ceiling. Below, also the functional ground level ring will be expressed in the elevations.
Maison M Conversion of a former village barn into dwelling, Viviers-lès-Montagnes, France, 2012 In collaboration with Maxime Pauzon
Located in the small village of Vivierslès-Montagnes in South of France, this 9x4m house was completely empty, the former floor having been removed. Possibilities to settle a new design where wide but we had to keep existing openings and no option to add any extra one. The exterior appearance had to be maintained to keep because of protected surroundings. The house being on a slope, we used this height difference as the starting point of the project.
The traditional construction system provided rather small openings, and pretty dark rooms. Light was then the main issu of the intervention. In order to shed more light into living spaces we a central void an open spaces. The void also hosts stairs connecting rooms on both sides, created a playful vertical space with visual connections. From a poor lighted dweling, the house became brighter without creating new openings.
Walking the city Graduation project, Lyon, France, 2011 Ecole Nationale SupÊrieure d’Architecture de Lyon
Based on Lyon’s city development department work, this project focuses on the river inside the urban fabric. As a linear element crossing the heart of Lyon’s metropole, the question of its transversal dimension came as the main problematic. How does this line interact with the city it crosses and how wide can be the impact of a 25 km long project? In Lyon’s city center, where physical connections are the closest, activities and density the highest, 2 huge parking sites from the 70’s are settle on the river banks. Their location between the peninsula (city-center) and the Old Lyon is ideal and owns a large development potential. The infrastructure is 2 floors deep and more than 500m long, pushing pedestrians away from the riverside.
The main idea is to give back this place to pedestrians. The space used by the parking represents a deep breath in the urban fabric, like other public places do in Lyon (Place Bellecour, Terreaux). The connection of both river sides can be considered as a pedestrian square, ensuring the link between the peninsula and the Old Lyon. Like many squares, it also plays the role of an entrance in the city. The car-park provides the HUB where users driving from the surburb can switch to a pedestrian mode to enjoy the immediate city center. This project combines various geoeconomical situations and scales : the connections between city-center and surburbs as well as local scale. By inserting specific programs which fulfill the local needs, the project also interacts with its immediate surroundings in the everyday life.
antoine.kersse@hotmail.fr