Portfolio Steve Amez-Droz Architect EPFL
Curriculum Vitae Master Projects
«Hôtel industriel de Montbrillant» Swiss Urban Factory Undeground metal recycling facility
Internship Projects
Swiss embassy in Séoul Pedestrian footbridges UN Headquarters
Bachelor Projects Urban planning «La Praille» Olympic swimming pool at Dorigny
Curriculum Vitae Steve Amez-Droz Architecte EPFL Avenue de Valmont 16 1010 Lausanne
Date of birth: 17.06.1989 steve.amezdroz@gmail.com tel :
+41 79 666 19 02
Education 2013 - 2015
Master of Science in Architecture Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) // Lausanne Diploma project // Harry Gugger, Dieter Dietz, Nina Rappaport «Hôtel industriel de Montbrillant» - Winner of the SIA Prize 2015 Master thesis // Harry Gugger, Dieter Dietz, Nina Rappaport Swiss Urban Factory LABA studio // Harry Gugger // Basel
2008 - 2011
Bachelor of Science in Architecture Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) // Lausanne Isa Sturm studio // Andrea Bassi studio // Patrick Mestelan studio // Ortelli studio
2005 - 2008
Swiss Academic Baccalaureate Lycée cantonal de Porrentruy, Jura
Physical and mathematical section // Baccalaureate project in visual art
Work experience now
Renovation of an heritage-listed house in Cossonay, Vaud
2015
Archizoom EPFL, Lausanne
2013
Renovation of an old farm in a cultural house and housing
2012 - 2013 (6 month)
2011 - 2012
Personal work // Authorisation to build
Scenography of the Vertical Urban Factory exhibition by Nina Rappaport
Personal work // Design concept // Authorisation to build
Group8asia // Hanoi, Vietnam
Internship // Relation between Hanoi and Geneva // International competitions
Group8 // Geneva
(8 month)
Internship // International organisation project (UN) // Competitions
2006 - now
Coop Switzerland // Jura Centre Bassecourt
(Week-end/Holiday)
2004
Student job
Logo for the secondary school of Haute-Sorne, Bassecourt
Illuminated sign
Computer literacy
Languages
2D/3D Softwares: Autocad, Rhino, Revit, Sketchup, Lesosai Adobe: Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Lightroom Render: Vray, Artlantis Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, Powerpoint French: Mother tongue // English: Fluent // German: School level
Hobbies and Interests Travel: South Asia (Burma, Cambodgia), China, Marocco, New York, Eastern UE Music: Cello // EJCM Conservatoire de musique de Delémont (10 years) Visual art: Drawing, Painting, Design, Photography Sport: Snowboard, climbing, bike
Master Projects Diploma Enoncé Théorique Laba Studio
Hôtel Industriel de Montbrillant
«A Belveder over the rails» Geneva, Switzerland
This project won the SIA prize 2015 Type Diploma Project Year Master II Professors Harry Gugger and Dieter Dietz Assistant Aurélie Blanchard Expert Nina Rappaport The project tries to reintroduce industry inside the city while answering the short and long term needs of the owner of the parcel: the Swiss Federal Railways. Those needs are first to provide an up to date train maintenance shelter that would replace the obsolete and underused existing buildings. The second is the need to preserve a large outdoor train storage area. The whole infrastructure is set to leave for a much bigger, state-of-the-art railway complex outside the city (probably Colovrex) around 2030, which would enable for a parc in relation with the projected public programs to later develop. This evolutivity from an industrial site and building to a still industrial -yet public- building is a key element of the design. Located in a place of choice within the city, in the dynamic and service-dominated area of Sécheron-Cornavin. just between the national organizations district and the main train station, the parcel has the potential to provide excellent visibility and easy access for both projected programs. The position of the industrial building creates a rear facade that enables access by truck and train and concentrate noise disturbances on the railway side. The building is designed to host several different smaller companies in divisible spaces. Facilities such as lifts and loading areas are shared. In close visual relation to those production spaces, the project proposes a public, translucent layer that would host industryrelated exhibitions, meetings and conferences, which also includes design, jewelery and art exhibitions. This way both production, administration exhibition and public amenities could meet in the same urban complex. The difference between road and rail levels is used to facilitate access to the roof of the train shelter, and thus transforming it into a very special public space: a belvedere over the rails, that would offer access to the public and industrial programs. The repetitive concrete grid and the large span structures and skylights would add a strong industrial theme to the parc and the exhibition spaces that would perfectly fit with the original nature of the site. By its size, location and mixed programs, the building could become an icon of the industrial renouveau of the city of Geneva.
Mass plan - Existing Replacement of obsolete Infrastructures
Mass plan - Short term intervention (2015-2030) Outdoor train storage area is preserved.
Mass plan - Long term Intervention (2030 and later) The parc takes place instead of railways.
People and goods distribution: Access: Trucks Distributions: Goods
Trains People
Existing Accesses
Parking
Replacement of obsolete Infrastructures
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Creation of a train shelter that also includes loading decks and storage areas. Connect the building with the natural ground by covering the parking space underneath and adding stairs.
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Elevate longitudinal volumes of different heigth. A tower is formed on the railway side.
Put a public layer on top that will host industry-related exhibitions and meetings.
After the removal of the train infrastructure, a parc can develop underneath, and the train shelter can become an additionnal room for the exhibition.
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Programs: 1) Industry 2) Train shelter 3) Entrance / public spaces 4) Industrial Exhibition 5) Administration, Offices The Exhibition spaces are in direct visual relation with the production spaces as well as the public parc and belvedere.
Plan level +0 Loading decks and train maintenance
Plan level +1 Belvedere, Exhibition main entrance and public facilities
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Plan levels +2-3 Industrial Exhibition, Divisible production and office spaces.
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Swiss Urban Factory Switzerland Type Master Thesis ( Enoncé théorique ) Year Master II Professors Harry Gugger and Dieter Dietz Assistant Aurélie Blanchard Expert Nina Rappaport As architects, we believe in the fact that cities have the power to absorb the diversity of the human societies that built them. Since its apparition, industry has been the driving force of a lot of crucial changes in mankind’s history. From the social ills and the ecological disasters it induced, to the huge quantity of progress it has made possible, this human invention has profoundly shaped our lives. From territorial conflicts and wars to techno music and other cultural inventions, its reverberations are endless, but are generally related to what industry was in the past. Dispite its undeniable importance, it has been pushed into the background both physically and symbolically, but we believe that nowadays, human technological know-how is sufficiently developped to succeed in the betterment of industry, hence its return at the forefront of our societies. The valor of the act of consumption and production should be balanced, which is by far not a reality yet. When visible, factories don’t only produce things, they also produce people’s consciousness of the things being made. More than that, they would have the power to bring life and benefit to the cities if they where to be re-introduced there. Behind thoses ideological thoughts, there is a pysical reality without which such a social shift cannot happen. How can industries absorb the different changes that occurred in the last decades? We believe architecture and urbanism are two fields that have the power to make it feasible. Our work, divided in three main parts, tries to prove the interest of our assessments by studying the swiss case. After a general socio-economical introduction and an analytical decomposition of relevant factory buildings , we’ll finish with a confrontation between a conceptual model and the reality of the site of Geneva, where our Diploma project will also be.
Industrial built fabric
Industrial fragments (Conceptual Image)
Underground Metal Recycling Facility Lausanne, Switzerland This project received the highest grade Type Academic Project Year Master I Studio LABA Professor Harry Gugger Assistants Salomé Gutscher, Lukas Lenherr The project tries to address the problem of an existing metal recycling facility in the middle of the city of Lausanne. For the time being, it is as much consuming as it is destructive and polluting for its neighborhood. That situation can only become even worse given the financial potential of the area and the need for bigger density within the city. The rest of the parcel, left as a big wasteland, could become a park, which would be a great asset for the whole site. An excavation here wouldn’t be too destructive thanks to the poor quality of the soil and could even be used as a way to remediate the first polluted layer. At first sight, cities aren’t the most suitable places for industries, but there are still advantages to put at least some of them there. For example, the plant could be used as a way to educate people about what is the second life of the products they use and how recycling is done. By burying nearly all the plant underground and profiting from the existing slope between rail and road levels, it enables the park to cover almost the whole parcel, the rest being used to create a public space. In order to activate that space, one floor of the plant is kept above ground to create a link between what’s on the surface and what’s under. The building is at the same time a plant, an educational facility, and an underground club.
Process analysis Metal recovery is a process that is at the same time linear and vertical. Machines involves are set one after another and vertical conveyors are used to feed them from the top. Light structures enable the output streams to fall vertically in containers which are evacuated on the same ground level as the people working in the plant. During the sorting phase, trucks are used in order to contain the piles of materials. The project aknowledges both the linearity and the verticality of the process. The machines are set along a big stair which goes further underground. That configuration enables a better proximity between programmes as well as more compacity. The output flows also fall vertically, but are then packaged and evacuated on a separate floor. The two big pits where all infeed materials are pre-sorted and pre-stored enable to get rid of the use of additionnal trucks, while generating an interesting space
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Structural concept 1. The first layer of soil which is mostly polluted is removed to form the future unloading area. STRUCTURAL CONCEPT Steel sheet piles are used as retaining elements. Trenches are thenform dug and reinforments are set. the future unloading area. Steel sheet piles are used as retaining elements. Trenches are then dug and reinforcments
are set. 2. Concrete is poored in the trenches. 2. Concrete is poored in the trenches.
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3. Excavation between the the two molded 3. Excavation between two molded walls starts.walls starts. 4. As the excavation continues, compressive metal beams are put in order to retainw the pressure from the surrounding ground.
4. As the excavation continues, compressive me5. The precast concrete slab elements are put on top of the when the excavation is done.the pressure tal beams are outbeams in order to retain 6. Steel ground. sheet piles are then used as bearing structure for the from the surrounding above ground beams and slabs, thus the building acts as a continuation of the retaining wall and express its underground
nature by using aslab material elements typical of that type are of construction 5. The pre.cast concrete put in another way. It also create a nice public space aswell as an accessible rooftop. on top of the beams when the excavation is done.
6. Steel sheet piles are then used as bearing structure for the above ground beams and slabs, thus the building acts as a continuation of the retaining wall.
Perspective section
South elevation
ROOF PLAN 1/200
North elevation East elevation
Ground floor plan
Floor plan -2
Floor plan -3
SITE PLAN 1/1000
PROCESS ANALYSIS Metal recovery is a process that is at the same time linear and vertical. Machines involves are set one after another and vertical conveyors are used to feed them from the top. Light structures enable the output streams to fall vertically in containers which are evacuated on the same ground level as the people working in the plant. During the sorting phase, trucks are used in order to contain the piles of materials.
The project aknowledges both the linearity and the verticality of the process. The machines are set along a big enables a better proximity between programmes as well two big pits where all infeed materials are pre-sorted and pre-stored enable to get rid of the use of additionnal trucks, while generating an interesting space underneath.
Site plan
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Internship Projects
Group8asia, Hanoi Group8, Geneva
Swiss Embassy SĂŠoul, South Korea
Type Competition Year 2012 Architects Group8asia, Vietnam Participation in the competition for a swiss embassy in SĂŠoul. Realisation of the drawings and models.
Pedestrian Footbridges Lausanne, Switzerland
Type Competition Year 2013 Architects Group8asia, Vietnam Participation in the competition of 2 pedestrian footbridges crossing the Lausanne high way. This competition takes place in the urban planning development of «en Cèdres» and «en Dorigny».
ETAT ACTUEL à relevé sur place
UN Headquarters Geneva, Switzerland
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Participation of the renovation of «Palais des Nations», the UN Headquarters in Geneva. Realisation of surveys, drawings, details, authorisation to build.
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Bachelor Projects Bassi Studio Mestelan Studio
Urban Planning «La Praille» « Urban Form, Mixity, Prefabrication » Geneva, Switzerland Type Academic Project Year Bachelor III Studio LAURE Professor Andrea Bassi ST SBPH DENSITY OFFICES HOUSING ACTIVITIES
28’180 m² 73’748 m² 2.9 30’126 m² 27’650 m² 15’872 m²
OFFICES
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HOUSING ACTIVITIES
40.8 % 37.6 % 21.6 %
worplaces persons housings persons shops car dealership persons
Mass plan
Programmatic section Offices
Longitudinal section
Housing
Activities
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Ground floor - Activities
Typical floor plan
Olympic Swimming pool at Dorigny ÂŤ When the river meets the lake, a pool appears Âť Lausanne, Switzerland Type Academic Project Year Bachelor II Studio Mestelan Professor Patrick Mestelan The purpose of this studio was to plan an olympic swimming pool near the Leman Lake. This swimming pool will have 3 different pools; a little one for training, an olympic-size pool and a diving pool. With this location the purpose was to redifine the lake shore from the harbor with a building closing this space. The building develops in lenght with an inclined roof to have a better integration within the landscape. The building is composed of a concret base and natural dark stone wall for the rest of the construction. The swimming pool is located along a river which one flowing into the lake. The project tries to increase the relation between the different aquatic environments on the site: The lake, the river and the swimming pool. The river runs along the wall of the building, banded windows are on the ground level along the entire length of the swimming pool to feel the river inside. An intervention on site make the water coming all around the wall of the building. The different levels gives to each pools their own characteristics according to need of the ceiling heights and offers some bleachers toward the lake. Big sliding windows permit the bathers to go out to benefit of the sun, fresh air in harmony with the lake water throw against the swimming pool wall.
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Structural model
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Thank you for your consideration Steve Amez-Droz