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Curriculum Vitae Baptiste Chauvin
Transitions, Transformations Diploma project
Porcheville C Master 1 project
Scène Industrielle Master thesis
Landscape in movement and pauses Master 1 project
Minimum Cost Master 2 project
Industrial Friendliness Third year’s project
Learning Palace
Third year’s project
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February 2023 State Architect Diploma Mention Très Bien / ENSA de Versailles
2016-2017
Professional experiences
2023 - 2 weeks
2022 - 6 months
2021 - 2 months
2019 - 2 months
2018 - 2 weeks
Abilities
Scientific Baccalaureate Mention Bien / Lycée Victor Hugo, Caen
Piovenefabi
Short freelance contract, Brussels
51n4e
«Practical training» internship, Brussels
Guillaume Dumay architecture
Additional part-time internship, Versailles
Gelin Lafon architectes
First practice internship, Paris 20
Bati Bois Normandie
Construction internship, Colombelles
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Society project based on the built heritage in crisis with regard to climate change in a mid-mountain context in Haute-Savoie.
Climate change has never been so visible as in the mountains. The pre-alpine massifs are at the forefront and their resources are being disrupteduncertain snow cover, drought in the alpine pastures and an epidemic of bark beetle on the common spruce - and are generating a cascade of problems that will soon leave a vacant built heritage.
It is precisely this transformation and the future of the alpine chalets, ski resorts and technical infrastructures that are at stake in the Aulps and Arve valleys. The use of the mountains that we have inherited for 60 years is obsolete. The economic models are in crisis and this context seems to be conducive to imagining new possibilities.
To try to respond to such a vast and marked territory, the project is structured around four interventions of decreasing scale defined by their footprint. Other territorial essences are injected, such as crafts and culture, to initiate a change, but the constant interest in the valorisation of spruce wood weaves the link between the material and its territory.
Raising the height of the building to accommodate a residents’ cooperative and researchers on the Avoriaz residents.
64m², les Prodains, Morzine.
Revitalisation of the previous foundations of a ski lift into a lookout point and hiker’s stop.
A post-industrial scenario of a ruin of the Trente Glorieuses, Yvelines.
The Porcheville industrial site has been producing electricity since 1954 from several successive power stations, first coal-fired and then heavy fuel oilfired. The latter, with a total capacity of 2400 MW, is used as a back-up for peak consumption in the Ilede-France and Normandy regions. In the next 10 years, this industrial site, which has become a landmark in the Seine Valley landscape, will disappear. Wouldn’t it be interesting to reinvest this site to give meaning to the territory by offering the agricultural communities and the population of the Mantois a productive, learning and cultural place. In this sense, it seems relevant to preserve the metal structure, the accesses but above all the spatial qualities that this machine building offers.
The 135-hectare site opens up to the south, towards the Seine, a major axis for mobility, but it is surrounded by the city to the east and by the port of Limay to the west. This site thus becomes a strategic point where mobility converges, it is a new agricultural HUB creating employment, which relieves the international market of Rungis, by offering products and goods from the Seine Valley.
On the ground floor, the former 11m reinforced concrete base offers a dark and cool space for storage, supplying goods by river, road and rail. This is where mobility meets.
The large hall above the base is the space for meetings and mixed uses. Bright and continuous, this area could very well host the next agricultural show or major regional events. The atriums and the old lifting bridges make it very easy to move equipment and make the building very flexible, like the Fun Palace in Price. The space has a continuous curtain wall that offers a view of the Seine, the limestone cliffs and the A13. This translucent facade allows for the transparency of the uses and activities of this new centre.
Finally, the floors of the four units contain more intimate spaces such as the agricultural campus rooms and greenhouses for start-up experiments. Temporary accommodation is also available for workers or boatmen who decide to moor for a while in this agricultural centre.
Towards a productive transformation of the industrial sites on the banks of the Seine.
This study focuses on the reconversion of the industrial heritage of the Seine valley in the Yvelines. This territory, by its marked morphology, has attracted numerous industries along the banks confiscating large areas of land. However, today, the process of deindustrialisation projects a strong loss of dynamism on the valley floor.
So how can yesterday’s factories on the banks of the Seine, no longer in use, be productive in a different way tomorrow?
These sites are sometimes disused, in a state of fallow land, in the process of being disused or still in activity, yet they are all familiar to us through their monumental position in the landscape. To observe and understand them, certain tools borrowed from other disciplines are essential.
In search of a sensitive architectural language that reveals the identity of the landscape structure of Larzac, France.
The landscape as we see it is not immutable in time. It is in constant evolution over different time frames. In the long term, the erosion of the rocks accentuates the cuts in the landscape - gorges, faults, cracks. In the short term - one yearthe landscape catches the seasons, with sometimes violent Cévennes rainfall and very dry summers, and is shaped and reshaped, capturing moments of life in this environment - fauna, ores - and by intersecting human activities.
Two predominant lines emerge in these steep gorges. The watercourse, which is mainly responsible for its limestone relief, can be very violent during Cevennes episodes. The second line is intimately linked to the notion of «lines of desire». This is the route of the paths that will be known as the Grandes Randonnées.
Man is at the base of its creation, and this path will be crossed by landmarks and viewpoints during its course. These two routes are not similar, but they operate in a strong temporal sense.
They are in perpetual movement in the gorge. These two routes with different speeds are punctuated by man-made objects - hydraulic structures, landmarkswhich anchor them in a «frozen» time.
The notion of infrastructure does not necessarily rhyme with hardness and monumentality. It can be thought of and built in a subtle way, it can be evolving, built with certain materials from the landscape itself, it can even be durable. It is sometimes invisible, impalpable, but here it frames, gives a scale, and interrupts the sinuous and continuous landscape of the karst canyons. The scale of man is revealed from these gates by pointing to the fundamental elements of the gorges - the flow of the streams, the underground rivers, the limestone walls.
Les gorges sont l’archétype du paysage karstique. Les rivières, au fil du temps, creusent leur lit dans des strates de calcaires et de marnes. Le cours d’eau principal n’est pas le seul acteur de ce décaissement ; il est accompagné par de nombreux ruisseaux souterrains. Ces derniers sont explorés par les spéléologues et amateurs de grottes mais sont invisibles dans le paysage comme celui de Moulhoc. Les gorges du Tarn comptent plus de 141 rivières souterraines affluentes.
Sa révélation est induite par une dérivation de son chemin par l’insertion d’une structure pliée en acier galvanisé. Ce bec métallique se suffit à lui-même ; il se place parfaitement dans l’entaille de la falaise pour s’y fixer. Le pliage métallique se perche en haut de la corniche pour supporter le ruisseau et l’abandonner dans le vide. Cette chute d’une cinquantaine de mètres suffit pour altérer son dessous en révélant sa nature et son débit.
Minimal transformation of the Super Chapelle tower, Paris.
Today, designing architecture with a minimum of cost is the essence of contemporary architectural awareness. The cost of a thing is the amount of money needed to obtain or to make. The price, on the other hand, designates the value of the transaction of which this thing is the object, it is an estimate. The cost is therefore opaque to the value of the object, and the value of a thing depends on how much we value it. A house built by the hands of its owner has a much higher subjective value. Another way of understanding value is the perception one may have of an object. The perception of the object may vary depending on its context or the place where it is located. How to design with a minimum of cost for a maximum of effect in a high-rise building with a high density in the cheapest district of Paris, Porte de la Chapelle?
To be interested in the transformation of the Super Chapelle Tower with a minimum of cost does not allow for the treatment of all the stacked dwellings, but rather to be interested in the ground floor, which is frequented on a daily basis by continuous flows of inhabitants from their dwellings to the district. However, the ground floor, whether covered or in the form of a private garden, has no value for its inhabitants. The first step of the project is to expose the reinforced concrete structure of the ground floor to reveal the spaces, the views and the potential sunlight. Subsequently, the project offers new «threshold» spaces between inside and outside for collective spaces where affect comes into play. The notion of generosity is added to the qualities of the ground floor with the insertion of objects supporting new uses such as a sewing workshop, a resource centre or a space for teleworking. The augmented ground floor becomes the generous support for sharing, learning and relaxing for the tower’s inhabitants.
Densify the pavilion in Stains.
On the shared plot, only the house and the major trees referring directly to the gardens representative of the pavilion are preserved. The aim is to densify in order to respond to the strong increase in population in the Parisian periphery with the Grand Paris project. In fact, the locations of the vegetation guide the forms of the buildings.
If the housing is collective, it is so even in its kitchens. The kitchen for two dwellings is the central element of this project. This makes it possible to lighten the individual dwellings and to create convivial opportunities within the inhabitants.
Moreover, the habitat of tomorrow must be flexible, mixed and evolving. This is why the 100% wooden structure of CLT panels and solid wood posts allows the design of free-standing floors that evolve with the typologies of households. Designing a flexible building means ensuring its durability over time. The metal takes over the façade with the corrugated sheet metal that protects the wood and by the light gangways that ensure the horizontal circulation and the individual habitable extensions. The use of «sincere» materials allows for dry construction and thus an important economic gain.
Design of a public facility, Ivry-sur-Seine.
Through its architecture, the People’s Palace can change people’s consciousness and define itself as a social platform. This is why it has been renamed the Learning Palace. There are three ways to learn:
By concentrating on a book or by meditating. To do this, it is necessary to be in a quiet space, to withdraw into oneself.
By sharing, exchange is fundamental to access knowledge. It requires a porous space and a link with the city of Ivry-sur-Seine.
Finally, by experimenting and producing, in an airy, bright and free space.
These three modes of learning will take place on three formally and programmatically independent levels. The basement is occupied by the library and the auditorium. The ground floor is made up of spaces open to sharing; the covered market, the solidarity bookshop, a modular space for exhibitions, a restaurant. Then the sports field, rehearsal rooms and workshops will occupy the first floor. Each atmosphere provides its own interdependent structure.
In order to increase the amount of light on each floor, the creation of vertical openings and patios is necessary. The vertical circulations are placed in this void to cross each level. It is therefore the view, the light, the air and the circulation that link these three interdependent environments.
Design a high-rise project in an urban environment with wood.
This building is located in the 14th arrondissement of Paris, on land occupied by the railway network of the Petite Ceinture. Now abandoned, the building stands above this void to highlight it when it is reopened.
The building offers residential use with 64 flats. 90% of the wood is used for the structure, visible on the façade thanks to the use of biosourced polycarbonate. The building also has a participatory garden and public spaces on the ground floor.
The project is characterised as a modular building with repeated units progressively set back from the street forming two irregular emergences. This formal optimization is induced by the sunlight and the views on the Montsouris park.
Publication in Forestopic, 31 May 2019 - The Archi’bois prize for «an electroshock in schools of architecture»
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