Portfolio Architecture 2021

PO R TFO LIO ARCHITECTURE

BALOGUN OLA-DAVIES

BALOGUN OLA-DAVIES

25 years old, young graduate from ENSA Paris Malaquais. I situate my work at the intersection of design, research and engagement.

I am passionate about building just, inclusive and empowering architecture.

EXPERIENCE

LOCAL STUDIO

(SouFujimotoaffiliates)Intern-ArchitectAssistant

Assisting in various projects through different stages of realisation + model-making + construction site supervision

MINNAERT STUDIOS

Intern

CONTACT COMPETENCES

Communication Teamwork

Analysis

Creativity

Productivity

Sketch

Model making

Autonomy

Young Architects Competition proposal and finalist

COMPUTER MONITOR

ENSAPMIT-section

Student support on software; maintenance of printers and plotters

English Private Teacher

Home schooling for high schoolers and professionals

Vice-Président

BDEENSAPM

SKILLS

Student Council member

- Organisation of orientation weekends, European trips, ski trips ;

- Creation of various partnerships with start-ups and companies ;

EDUCATION

Architecture Diploma

ENSA Paris Malaquais

Obtained with First Class Honours

Master’s thesis on Empowering & Inclusive Design published in «PFE»

Kyoto Seika University (Japan)

Master 1 exchange semester

Leibniz Universitat Hannover (Germany)

Bachelor 3 exchange semester

Bachelor Architecture Cycle

ENSA Paris Malaquais

BAchelor obtention, congratulations of jury

Evariste Galois Highschool, Noisy-le-Grand Obtaining the General Scientific Baccalaureate, British International Option, Mention

AWARDS

Concours International art urbain

Competitionfinalist,«Lavilleressource»project

CompetitionwinnerinHanover,Germany

HOBBIES

allée Paul Favier CHAMPS-SUR-MARNE 77420

PORTFOLIO

Contains a selection of works produced during my time at the Architecture School of Paris Malaquais. (2016-2021)

In order to have a synthetic and unified understanding of the selected work produced, I chose to tackle each project in three steps:

ASSESSMENT

consists of stating the main problematic of the project

APPROACH

consists of finding the objectives on which the project can be build on

ACTION

consists of displaying the architectural intervention following the intentions that were decided previously

JUNIOR ARCHITECT 2021

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[RE]VOLTE FACE THESIS 最終プロジェクト

Rehabilitation project: from social dynamics to a co-constructed space in Montreuil (Feb.’21-Jun.’21)

LOCAL STUDIO INTERNSHIP

建築プロジェクト

Set of various projects carried out during my internship (Mar.’20-Sept.’20)

MEMORIAL FLOW SEMESTER

8 第8学期プロジェクト

Urban acupuncture project for the revitalization and memorial celebration of the postdisaster city of Kamaishi (Apr.’19-Aug.’19)

SCHOOL FOR GAEE SEMESTER 9

第9学期プロジェクト

Conception, development and future realisation of a school project in Ahmara, Ethiopia (Oct.’19-Feb’20)

ALLES IM RAHMEN SEMESTER

6 第6学期プロジェクト

Conception, development (and possible realisation) of a living space on an alternative site: the PLATZPROJEKT (1st Prize of PLATZPROJEKT Competition) (Apr.’18-July’18)

DIASTOPIA

SEMESTER

5 第5学期プロジェクト

Urbanism project based upon the arrival of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games/ Strengthen the feeling of belonging to a city through urban acupuncture (Oct.’17-Jan.’18)

SPACESCAPE

INTERNSHIP

インターンシップ競争

Team of three working on a proposition for an observatory houses competition held in Roccascalegna, Italy for an Internship at MINNAERT Studio (July 2017)

LM&TS SKATEPARK SEMESTER 3

第3学期プロジェクト

Structural project of a skatepark involving site insertion and urban fabric questionning/ Improve the area by adding sport facility accesible to most (Oct.’16 - Jan.’17)

PERSONNAL DRAWINGS 個人的な図面

Selection of personal drawings

[RÉ]VOLTE FACE

From a squat to the Agora of Montreuil’s Murs-à-Pêches

COURSE 教育 TUTORS 教師

Sarah BITTER Soline NIVET

SUBJECT 話題

The place of an architect in a rebuilding community

ISSUES 問題 問題

Advocate for the development of popular collective creativity and spatial appropriation for the people: build together, here and now

ASSESSMENT 評価

Territory issues revolving around sustainable development form part of the main architectural debates of the moment. Current architectural projects tend to focus on this approach merging ecological, economic and social issues. This architecture is about exploring the possibilities a place has to offer in terms of spatial qualities and exploit or improve upon them. Finding ways to activate these spaces is to consider people’s impact and their ability to offer participative creations.

Nowadays, the revitalization of industrial wastelands has become a major urban development issue. These spaces represent much more than a land opportunity: they are part of an eco-responsible, mixed-use and socially inclusive approach that is essential to building a sustainable city.

Projet de Fin d’Etudes Master Thesis

APPROACH 意図

My diploma aims to question the way we practice our profession of architect today, I want to show that an architect is not necessarily the one who responds to a competition where the program is already established, but who can also position himself against calls such as «Inventons la Métropole. I chose to work in Montreuil, on a block in the Murs-à-Pêches district because for me it is emblematic, it is like a sample that allows me to experiment with another way of being an architect.

I chose it because this territory is representative of the question of resistance, of certain social struggles linked to the territory that interest me and that it carries within it all the others.

ACTION 働き

The «murs à pêches» are not only an exceptional island of resistance (to urbanization, real estate speculation, public or private monopolization of spaces and resources), but they also and above all constitute a formidable island of resilience in the face of climatic, sanitary, social and economic crises. This is why the factory has a strong potential in the future of this territory, a gateway to the site energized by the upcoming arrival of the tramway. The militant action of the members of GLP only confirms that the future of this built site must be thought of in connection with the emblematic district in which it is inserted.

Jardins (familiaux, associatifs...) Travaux T1 Terrains en friche Structures ESS Associations culturelles Entreprises

Habitats pavillonaires Gens du voyage, Tsiganes et Roms Enseignement

1 Project Location Maps

2 Isonometric site map drawing

3 Axonometric building drawing

4 Ground analysis drawing

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ACTION 働き

The role of this project at the neighborhood and city level will be to bring residents closer to their ability to shape their environment. Spaces open to all, as well as the holding of public workshops, will provide time and space for exchange and sharing around the issue of city making.

More than a rehabilitation project, the reconversion of the EIF factory is a social project, a laboratory for another way of making the city. In this respect, the project will deal with the « déjà là «, for a maximum conservation of its heritage, with a reconstruction in phases which will adapt to each evolution of the depollution of the place.

2 Extract of «Carnet d’enquête»

3 Longitudinal section (original size: 1682 x 350 cm )

4 Ressources handbook

5 Construction notice drawing

6 Extract of «Carnet d’enquête»

7 Longitudinal section (original size: 1682 x 350 cm )

1520m 0 1

+ Fondée en 2011 par des associations du quartier des Murs à Pêches de Montreuil. espace de rencontre dialogue entre les personnes morales et physiques impliquées par le devenir des Murs à Pêches, de leurs sites, de leurs quartiers. Promouvoir, développer, préserver leur intégralité + Réunir ses membres autour de projets et événements

Hélène OUSSMAN LA Fédération des murs-à-pêches

GUS

02 LOCAL-eu STUDIO

Set of various projects carried out during my internship in the Sou Fujimoto affilited firm

COURSE 教育

Six-month long Master Internship

TUTORS 教師

ASSESSMENT 評価

While working at LOCAL, I noticed that the agency works on projects with programs of various types and sizes, often through competitions: public facilities such as public baths in Bratislava, the Samu Social offices in Ivry-sur -Seine, a hotel complex in the Luberon, a museum extension 30km from Oslo, or private commissions:

a detached house in Saint-Jean-de-Royans, an apartment in the heart of Paris, or even urban projects in within the framework of Europan 13-14-15.

I think it is interesting to touch everything, even necessary in a practice, but it can also damage the image of the agency, which depends mainly on the achievements of which it is the author.

It is a risk-taking for the evolution of their structure, which nevertheless remains assumed, because it allows them to nourish their reflections, their ideas.

Matthieu BOUSTANY Benoist DESFOND

APPROACH 意図

My role as an architect-assistant allowed me to work on a variety of projects at different stages on my own.

This year has been a turning point for issues of social justice and community.

To grasp the issues and the stakes , I want to continue learning, researching, take a moral stand on my architectural practice and its destination. I also want to acquire all the tools I can on the responsibility and management of an agency.

SUBJECT 話題

«Le Intoccabili - The Untouchables» is an exhibition conceived and curated by the Rome-based architectural firm TA.R.I-Architects. The agency invited 12 agencies, six Italian and six international (including LOCAL) to produce a photorealistic rendering through which each would represent a critical re-imagining of a well-known Roman square that would be assigned to them. LOCAL was entrusted with the reinterpretation of the Piazza del Campidoglio (Capitoline Square).

ISSUES 問題

This exhibition is intended to be an analysis and critique of a Rome completely stuck in its past. The architect places himself as a critic in a world where ecological considerations are becoming more and more important in the architectural design of tomorrow.

1 Final proposal retained by the team, available on the site:

« https://www.changefestival.it/piazzadel-campidoglio/ »

2 Capitol place and Roman history chronology

3 Piazza axonometry

4 An iterative variation of the proposal

« As the Piazza is continuously occupied by a flow of tourists, the need for a place to gather, share, and confront opinions, need to coexist with the city situation. It is a symbolic destruction of the central axis imagined by Michelangelo, which echoes the drives of demonstrations: make a shift in the society. The underside of the gallery, covered in screens, broadcasts worlwide expressions and reactions through all type of media and social media».

The Protest Gallery

SUBJECT 話題

The Grössling City Bath is a unique complex reflecting the ‘genetic code’ of the city of Bratislava. Its walls and buildings can tell the story of all the historical changes, cultural transformations, different political regimes, and architecture styles that took place in Slovakia for the past 100 years. The goal of our proposal with respect for the heritage of the building and its spatial qualities - is to move forward, bringing values of contemporary design and lifestyle in to the new chapter of the Grössling Bath story.

ACTION 働き

Our proposal has 4 main key points to implement: Modernization of the bath. Open air pool is offered in a newly created central courtyard. Merging the bath and library program with a new cafe volume

Creation of the city sport and health MEDENÁ PLAZA

Adaptation of the tower on towards the river for the vertical library

OO 建築

Urban acupuncture project for the revitalization of a post-disaster hit city

COURSE 教育

Project

TUTORS 教師

Takamatsu-sensei (+ Kawakami-sensei & Ikouma-sensei)

SUBJECT 話題

OO 建築

ISSUES 問題

Starting from keywords related to architecture to design forms, which will evolve into programmed and located architecture

ASSESSMENT 評価

Kamaishi, a port city in the northeast of Japan, was strongly affected by the 2011 tsunami. The event is still felt today in this city which sees its population decrease year after year. The municipality is trying to regain hope through its capacity for resilience through the holding of the rugby World Cup 2019 matches, but this is a short-term project which certainly does not affect the rate of population at its lowest to date.

How to encourage the return of the population into a territory strongly affected by a natural disaster?

APPROACH 意図

Memory work is one of the most important concepts in areas affected by disasters. The importance of memory and remembering implies the presence of many signs that allow us to understand the past. Linking it to the present is my primary goal, reconnecting the city to its inhabitants by creating several architectural signs and interventions. The concept of urban acupuncture allows us to focus on the small scale, the subtle, interventions that use and direct energy positively in order to cure urban ruin and improve the urban landscape.

Water

MEMORIAL FLOW

ACTION 働き

These interventions should be seen as an alternative to urban mega-interventions which require heavy municipal investment and lengthy administrative procedures. These will all be connected by the waters crossing the city, which branch out from the arm of the river to the sea. I wish to create interventions which would constitute modern sanctuaries, transforming this place into a destination of pilgrimage for visitors, artists but also for the locals.

CHAPTER 01

THE ARTISTS CHAPTER 02

THE FALL

CHAPTER 04

THE GATE

CHAPTER 03

THE SPLIT

CHAPTER 05

THE MUSEUM

CHAPTER 07

THE OBSERVATORY TSUNAMI HEIGHT

CHAPTER 06

THE PARK

that connects the past and the present 過去と現在をつなぐ水

ACTION

The concept is to physically create a backbone connecting each commemorative intervention in the city. It will be an embodiment of water, the main catalyst for the project. I want the calm of the river to contrast with the calamity of the past.

It will follow the various urban interventions by shaping the landscape and will modify its appearance according to the shape of the terrain.

Line in a sitting position, sitting on the wall, wall to door, door to structure, structure to architecture. It is space as a relationship created from an intangible substance.

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Workshops (A): Mountain refuge for the artists to completely immerse themselves in their work and dwell in the surrounding nature.

The pavilions are going to be a unique experience in close contact with nature.

The mix between interior and exterior creating a blurring limit between inner and outer space

Exhibition Hall (B): This place will welcome exhibitions of the artists as well as workshops with residents and students. It could also welcome theater show, dance, opera, where musical and artistic events would be held encouraging people to imagine the future through art.

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9 Overall view of the project proposal

10 Exhibition/ Construction Hall facade

11 Longitudinal section BB’

12 Plan DIAGRAMMS

13 Least impactful frame-type concrete

14 Hole connecting sky and sea

15 Arts facility underground

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Retaining wall for landscape insertion and starting point of the flow

Intervention logo

Roof Plan

Cross section AA’

Floor Plan DIAGRAMMS

Existing topography

Excavation of volume from terrain

Insertion of concrete prism - open on each side to expose natural rock

Construction of workshop within the concrete shell with light provided by oculus

CHAPTER

CHAPTER

CHAP 1:

System of ateliers and architectural workshop hall CHAP 2:

A tiered at the foot of the hill, creating a junction between the mountain and the river arm CHAP 3:

Monolithic form, dramatically separated, with the body of water as a consequence of this division CHAP 4:

Outdoor exhibition space welcoming artworks produced by artists and the citizens CHAP 5:

Existing commemorative park, with museum of the disaster and exchange center CHAP 6:

Children’s park that would serve as a reminder of the importance of evacuation CHAP 7:

Observatory structure enabling the viewer to appreciate the sea blocked by sea walls

02 THE FALL

CHAPTER 03 THE SPLIT

CHAPTER 04 THE GATE

CHAPTER 05 THE MUSEUM

06 THE PARK

SCHOOL FOR GAEEMONASTRY ORPHANS IN ETHIOPIA

COURSE

Building Project - Art, Architecture, Politics

Prof. Pierre DAVID Partner: Constance BLAZY

Place of education in rural areas of Ehiopia

ISSUES 問題

Conception of a new school plan mixing local materials and modern technics of architecture to improve territory resilience

ASSESSMENT 評価

Even with one of the fastest growing economies in Africa, Ethiopia remains one of the poorest countries in the world. The education system in Ethiopia is less than satisfactory and while it is free and compulsory, only 60 percent of children are enrolled in full-time education. Education in Ethiopia is compulsory for children between the ages of 5 to 16, but with poor facilities and underprivileged backgrounds, many children do not get a high quality, full-time education.

Although education in Ethiopia has improved over past years, there are still many difficulties that exist within the system. Currently, core subjects such as science and maths are being taught in English. As this is neither the teachers’ first language or the students, the concept of the subject gets lost in translation into Amharic.

Another downfall to education in Ethiopia is the lack of good governance. This occurs throughout the schools and universities across the country and puts the level of quality education at risk. And while the number of school dropouts has reduced, many students still finish school before reaching higher education, which limits their opportunity in the future.

APPROACH 意図

The president of the Amhara region asked Gojam Avenir d’Enfants in Ethiopia to build a school in the area of East Gojjam. This association wishes to allow the most disadvantaged young children in this region to access literacy by integrating a school which will give them training and give them a better future.

The president of the Amhara region asked Gojam Avenir d’Enfants in Ethiopia (GAEE) to build a school in the area of East Gojjam. This association wishes to allow the most disadvantaged young children in this region to access literacy by integrating a school which will give ease their access to education. In addition, it undertakes to bring children whose families cannot afford the cost of schooling. (Acquisition of uniform, shoes and school supplies.)

The meeting between the president of GAEE and the head of an orphanage helped define the conditions of construction of the first school in Machakel. Since September 2019 orphans and children from the surrounding area who do not have access to education were accommodated in a temporary building. The association will finance construction, furniture, supplies, uniforms and basic food. The Ethiopian State will recruit the teachers and provide the compulsory books for teaching.

Monastry

Farms

Site

ACTION 働き

BUFFER ZONE

An interface which allows the villages around the school to interact, will enable to create meeting opportunities for children and villagers. The use of traditional mixed with modern technics on local materials was really encouraged by the NGO in order to facilitate obtention of materials and community intervention.

These interface spaces will includ the administration nd warden spaces, marking the entrance. Inserted in the hill to reduce the impact of ground work, three polyvalent structures will welcome a first aid space, a crafts workshop and a processing/storage hall.

1 My team’s part of the project

2 BUffer zone floor plan

3 Perspective view 2

4 to 10 Pictures taken nearby site - BOD

11 Axonometry and programm

12 Cross section AA’

13 Exploded structural axonometry

14 Structural zoom

15 Bamboo assembling detail drawings

ALLES IM RAHMENPLATZPROJEKT on TOUR

Project - Département Structure

1st Prize of PLATZPROJEKT 2018 competition

COURSE 教育 TUTORS 教師

Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Alexander Furche, Dr.-Ing. Renko Steffen

SUBJECT 話題

Question the possible uses of public

ISSUES 問題

spaces

ASSESSMENT 評価

Territory issues revolving around sustainable development form part of the main architectural debates of the moment. Current architectural projects tend to focus on this approach merging ecological, economic and social issues. This architecture is about exploring the possibilities a place has to offer in terms of spatial qualities and exploit or improve upon them. Finding ways to activate these spaces is to consider people’s impact and their ability to offer participative creations.

Punctually invest various contexts by developing collective conviviality situations where one would physically experiment its surroundings differently

Nowadays, various architectural projects question conformist architecture – described as fixed and permanent – by designing intangible, inflatable, and light architecture. The latter is all about investing various contexts in a punctual way by developing situations of collective conviviality, where one can physically experience one’s surroundings differently. These events will give a whole new perception of previously known places and allow us to rethink our ways of living.

APPROACH 意図 ACTION 働き

The territories of action are usually neglected spaces, in-between spaces and public spaces.

The PLATZ project in Hannover-Limmer is an experimental place for people who want to actively shape a city and space.

The project was built in 2014 on a former brownfield site as a modular village using shipping containers with federal funding, and has since become the basis for creative people and company founders.

The processes of appropriation and activation of space by the PLATZ project are exemplary in nature. Here, we have the opportunity to develop and realise a 1:1 mobile room module.

Public spaces, more specifically this particular space, offer a multitude of exchange opportunities. These opportunities are enhanced by architectural and artistic interventions, providing integrated meeting points in the urban tissue.

These features represent the main purpose of my design: it is an evolutionary, light and mobile architecture, which favours an individual’s participation, becoming a central element for the object’s activation.

The main quality lay in what it allows as a dispositive, not from what it generates beyond itself as an autonomous object but through various combinations of single elements that would offer a wide range of possibilities.

ACTION 働き

Inspired by the measurements of a standard container (1), my design can be configured in various ways: The first disposition being the closed shell (2) where modular frames of two different depths – 1m20 and 1m80 – are connected to create an insulated locked system.

The second configuration is a semi-open disposition (3) that generates in-between spaces allowing one to circulate freely in and out of them. The last arrangement (4) shows a completely open system that disperses the frames around the site. In each of these frames, various types of furniture will be included to amplify people’s interaction, creating a large range of possibilities and functions enlarging the space’s qualification.

LONGITUDINAL SECTION AA’

CROSS SECTION BB’

DIASTOPIA

Strenghten the feeling of belonging to a city through urban acupuncture

COURSE

教育

P5 - Visions périphériques / Architectures métropolitaines

Partner: KOUTROUVELIS Spyrangelos

TUTORS 教師

DEPUYDT Anne-Mie & MANDOUL Thierry with NEMETA Maya

SUBJECT 話題

Question the territory upon the arrival of the Olympic Games and the athletes’ village

ISSUES 問題

Creating interaction among people belonging to various communities using the OG as pretext

ASSESSMENT 評価

The Seine-Saint-Denis (93) department, north of Paris, will host, during the 2024 Olympic Games, in addition to its many competition venues and the Stade de France, major equipments such as the athletes’ village. The territory in which the village is located has the particularity of having witnessed geographical and urban transformations that have had a major impact on the current urban fabric, conditioned by the river Seine and the historic core of Saint-Denis. This fragmented territory can also be told through its small history, that of its inhabitants, who we had the opportunity to meet through several strolls in the city. This is the territory with the highest rate of foreigners in France of which one fifth of its population is of foreign nationality.

The presence of these diverse diaspora communitiesforeigners from outside Europe are largely overrepresented - raises the question of integration and how the city questions the notion of «community living».

APPROACH 意図 ACTION 働き

The Olympic Village will gather 17k athletes from various nationalities, similar to the population present on the territory of Seine-Saint-Denis. This closed place will allow easy interactions among people from different backgrounds, all gathered together for a common reason: sport. The latter is an area that greatly promotes the integration of foreign communities and creates a bridge between these diverse cultures. We wish to extend this interactive phenomenon through the territory by selecting various areas that show enough potential to welcome different amenities. This series of spaces that we wish to subvert would create an armature that would link the island of Île-Saint-Denis to the two surrounding cities on mainland (Saint-Denis (93) and Villeneuve-la-Garenne (94)).

We decided to put our focus on the largest intervention which is the reconversion of an warehouse as large as the island. It permits the creation of an entity that transcends communities, a place of inter-generational, intercommunity mixing, a place of possibilities. The reconversion of this atypical heritage will also connect the north and south of the island, dispersed urban fabric and the east and west of the island through a crossing bridge system. This building will welcome sports facilities, cultural rooms and a residential floor.

DIAGRAMMS

Sports equipment Circulation

Residential area

Kid’s area

Informatic area

Rentable rooms

Librairy and working/ reading area

Parking

Stock Association workshop

Exhibition area

Restaurant

Corporal expression area

Performance area Weekly Marketplace

10 PROGRAMMS SUPERPOSITION

- linking by interweaving and diversing

11 Exploded view of project’s programmatic plan

12 Axonometric view of reconversion project

13 Reconversion of the warehouse into a place of possibilities

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1 Intervention Site 2 à 6 Photographs of the former Galerie La Fayette warehouses

7 ROOF - generating spaces by zenithal lights shiftings

8 TRANSVERSALITY - linking the two banks of the river Seine and inserting the building into the urban fabric

CIRCULATION - allows the servicing of the whole complex by seperating public and private

RESIDENCES

TRACK-ANDRUN

SPACESCAPE

Creating a new architecture to shape the scenery and the collective imagery of the place

COURSE 教育

First Practice Internship - summer 2017

PARTNERS 仕事のパートナー

MINNAERT Frank (firm owner) & GERI Eliott

SUBJECT 話題

How to create the most refined national reference for the astronomical observation tourism through architecture?

ISSUES 問題

Find a new use for Roccascalegna, Italy by creating the first observatory houses in picturesque medieval fortress.

ASSESSMENT 評価

Surrounded by forests and crags, Roccascalegna is one of the unique and far places that is both beautifuk and clearly fragile.. In fact, the fortress deeply depends on the constant care of the human being to preserve its characteristics and appearance. The aim is to create sustainable and exclusive house model to ensure the protection and improvement of its heritage.

APPROACH 意図

Adding new architectures in a landscape where history and local traditions are so strongly-rooted, where apparently nothing must be done is a challenge that brings up some questions: What is the most suiutable way to act in such a balanced context?

How can a new contemporary need be translated into an architectural gesture which both respects and adds value to the historical background? When should architecture step aside and when should it show it value?

These questions led to a project focused on conservation, observation and meditation:

ACTION 働き

We therefore chose to create habitats that are excavated into the ground in order not to disturb any of this incredibly beautiful and fragile place. Our proposition is built within the hill using it as a way to deal with the topography. We also chose to consider the existing path to the castle as the backbone of our houses’ distribution across the site. The cluster of observatory houses creates Roccascalegna’s own constellation, inspired by the Greek’s interpretation of stellar observation and sky. A SKYLOUNGE is thought of a series of rings slightly offset from one another - following the logic of orbital movement - and tangent with the existing path of the fortress. It is partly sunken into the terrain.

7 Insertion of concrete prism - open on each side to expose natural rock

8 Construction of house itself within the concrete shell with light provided by oculus

9 Proposition cross section

10 Proposition master plan

LM&TS

Building an attractiv structural skatepark to improve the areas’ revenue

COURSE 教育

P3 - «Constructure» : Conception / Construction / Architecture - studio

先生

HUSSEIN Ahmed

SUBJECT 話題

Skatepark Design

ISSUES 問題

and urban insertion

ASSESSMENT 評価

M&TS

The site was chosen strategically after analysing main existing skatepark spots and finding where there was a lack of activity. These reaserches led me to chose an unused football field at te Bois de Vincennes, east of Paris. This area will not only gain attractivity but will also discourage prostitution and dealings that caracterize this sector.

APPROACH 意図

The project consisted in the conception of a urban skatepark which should be moslty covered. Its total coverage area should be between 650m² and 1050m². It would include slide modules in a 400 to 800m² area, covered on at least 2/3 of the main surface. Added to that, a communautary workshop and a storage area should be included, with lavatories. Finally, a restaurant with a kitchen area and lavatory should be included as well as accesible independantly from the main equipped area.

ACTION 働き

I decided to conceive a three-parted area in which the main skatepark, the workshop and the restaurant would be seperated into quarter-spherical areas. The skatepark would only be covered by a gridshelltype bamboo cover whereas the two other areas would be completely isolated (glass curtain walls and cover isolation).

The areas are designed following the main structure beams orintation in order to have a roof-wall-floor continuation and break the stuffy feeling of a closed space.

The main feature of my conception is that it is almost fully bamboo- made, a material that can be considred as the «green-steel of the 21st century». Advantage of this building technics is its lightness of construction. Bamboo rods are stiff in terms of tension, bending and buckling. They have similar load bearing capacities than other type of woods for longer spans.

BRACINGS

SECONDARY STRUCTURE

TENSILE PVC OUTER MEMBRANE

PATTERNED INSULATION

BAMBOO ARCH TRUSS STRUCTURE

INNER LINER

CURTAIN WALL GLASS FACADES FLOOR ENCHORAGE

PRIMARY BENT BAMBOO STRUCTURE

1 Project floor plan

2 Exploded axonometry of the structure

3 AA’ Section Cut

4 Roof composition

5 Details of long span joinery technics of bamboo rodes

6 Structure detail - Section of bamboo assemblage

7 Structure detail - Bamboo rodes reinforced with iron connections

8 Bamboo-window connexion

9 Bamboo-steel cable anchor rod with reinforcement for foundation

EPOXY RESIN ADHESIVE COAT

BAMBOO POLE: Ø 90 mm

THREADED ROD: 7Ø5 mm

COMPOSITE FILLER: (FLY ASH, EPOXY RESIN, ASBETOS, ALCOHOL & CURING AGENT)

STEEL PLATE ANCHORAGE GRIP

BAMBOO POLES: Ø 85-120 mm

POLYETHYLENE ROPE STRAPPING

REINFORCED CONCRETE BALLAST FOR FOUNDATION CASTING (50 CM ABOVE GROUND)

PERSONAL DRAWINGS Selection

In reference to design activism, what is important is not branding something as activism but what someone stands for, who they stand with, and what this means in practice. "

" To effect any societal change, design needs to be politics. A politicized designer is a collective designer, because designing is not an activity accomplished by one person.

- Danah ABDULLA, Against Performativ Positivity (2021)