BenoĂŽt Jacques
six projects
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology portfolio - 2015
six projects 01 foreplay, a reinvestigation on the Très Grande Bibliothèque’s case 02
a common ground, an underground expansion for the Sihlfeld cemetery
03 slices, 180 apartements in Barcelona 04 05 06
life in the woods, house for friends, family, jazz music and me in Begur low rise - high density, six adjacent houses in Geneva
and the chocolate factory, headquarters Roshen confectionery corporation
A reinvestigation
on the Très Grande Bibliothèque’s case Master thesis Pr. Kersten Geers
Pr. Andrea Zanderigo Pr. Nicola Braghieri Pr. Michael Jakob In 1989, the project of a new building to house the National Library of France was taking shape. The Très Grande Bibliothèque had to be a monumental and symbolic object to allow the development of Tolbiac district, still nonexistent at the time. Today, the role of the National Library of France has been transformed, firstly, in its role as a physical library at the digital era and secondly, in its relationship with the urban environment, now developed. This is why I chose to reinvestigate the
subject of the National Library of France in order to imagine a contemporary project, and this, through the collage as a design tool. One of the main interests of the project of the National Library of France is to design both the monument and the city that surrounds it, one inducing the another, and vice versa. The project is not simply an architectural project, but also an infrastructural and urbanistic project. It seeks to embody the quintessence of the public building and rediscover the idea of a building as a social condenser. Following on from my theoretical research, foreplay - A short account of three millennia of entrances, the project proposes a thorough
study of thresholds and sequences required by such a library, which can only be a plural institution. An Atrium Paradisus partakes of the Parisian’s void archipelago; this space mediates between the profane exterior and the sacred interior. This habitat for the flâneur is a third place for Paris that, via a set of thresholds, brings together ostentatiousness and serenity, communication and preservation, the public and the intimate, and the fugitive and the immutable.
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foreplay
With the primitive hut (whatever form it may have taken), human beings invented the two notions t
began to think about the importance of entering; and what had been a surface became a space, neit
thresholds or imperceptible transitions, from the outside towards the inside. The control of this sp
emotional deeds that has the ability to enhance the experience of the inner space. The entrance act building and the institution or person behind.
Intrigued by this theme, I chose to investigate the different forms of entrances in the history of arch
Manifesto (introduction) - A short a
that are interior and exterior. Then suddenly, a tension between the two appeared. Architects
ther inside nor outside, a third space. Architecture has always been the play of passages, strong
pace ends up as an architectural strategy in its own right. The entrance is thinking as a set of
ts as foreplay. While entrances took specific forms, architects used them in order to represent the
hitecture. The aim of this account is to relate their evolution through an anthology.
account of three millennia of entrances
Manifesto - A short account o
of three millennia of entrances
collage of entrance sequences
View from the Passerelle Simone de Beauvoir
A closer look
Seventh art and eighteen rooms The cinema MK2 is a series of rooms that share form but not content.
Six-Feet Under A connection to the Metropolitain and RER.
Beyond the book area The mediathèque is a wide open space and a room. Reading the building as a spontaneous, popular and insurrectionary response to closed and controlled versions of what libraries used to be.
Neo-cluster The Research library is a refuge for reflection, meditation and contemplation in shared solitude.
Creative factory A series of studios and a fab lab reinvent the library as a creation space
Biblion-thékê literally, the bookcase, a gigantic and pragmatic socle as a database that contains the DarkArchives, a Cold storage, the museum storage, the forum’s stage, a public and a professional parking.
Bookless Social Club The Maker Space provides tools and space, where people gather to share resources and knowledge, work on projects, network, and build.
Forum The enclosed yet permeable public building offers a space for lectures, events, discussions, film screenings, performances, workshops, research, experiments, presentations, café, gatherings, restrooms, offices and so on.
Decomanus Maximus The Atrium Paradisus partakes of the Parisian’s void archipelago, the space mediates between the profane exterior and the sacred interior. This habitat
Cour d’honneur Following the Parisian typology of big voids anchored to the Seine River, the open space contributes to the city’s social fabric, stirring together the pseudointellectual bobo from the public library, the gadget nerd coming from the Fab Lab, and the hedonist bodybuilder back from the Paris Plage.
for the flâneur is a third place for Paris that, via a set of thresholds, brings together ostentatiousness and serenity, communication and preservation, the public and the intimate, and the fugitive and the immutable.
Museiôn
Axonometry
Musaeum A simple box receives the two globes of Coronelli and the Kirchner Museum receives the temporary exhibitions
Procrastination area The restaurant, widely open to the River Seine, provides a place to rest the soul and open the mind, as well as good food and beverage.
Both And The administration building expresses the traditional tension of libraries between communication and conservation
Civil basilica The public library is a very big room that offers opportunities to gather large crowds and can handle any evolution of the program. This space radiating volume is the very expression of a collective idea.
South view from the Avenue de France
Sections
North view from the Quai de la Gare
Ground floor - plan
A look inside the Room-Daytime
Lower floor - plan
A look inside the Room- Night-time
Toward an underground architecture - expansion for the Sihlfeld cemetery Master, 1st year Pr. Harry Gugger Descending into the underworld means submitting our minds into an unexpected atmosphere. As we know, this world is marked by darkness; but it is also marked by stillness. Here, we are disconnected from the above life. This experience helps us immerse in deep thought and meditation. Following this feeling, the idea of an underground cemetery came by itself. The Sihlfeld cemetery is the biggest green area inside a city in Switzerland, but you never notice it when you are there because of this huge wall all around it. If the cemetery was almost full in the eighties, due to the evolution of the trends, it is half empty today. The Sihlfeld is composed by four different parts added during the last century. Three of them are these days in use, and are protected by
the “Heimatschutz”. The central part, the Sihlfeld C, is totally empty and used as a public park, but is still part of the cemetery. This means you cannot have any team sport activity or go jogging inside in respect to the mourning in the cemetery. My proposal is to turn this part in a public park, out of the cemetery. And joining the two remaining parts with an underground cemetery. The aim is to deliver programs which respond to the new trends and needs; and highlight the virtue of the underground. Joining the two parts of the cemetery would represent quite a long way underground. The best way is to transform this problem into a quality. This means making the most of a 140-meters-long room as something spectacular, as a greatness beyond all possibility of calculation or measurement. This moment must trigger en astonishment, inspired by respect or trepidation. This room works as a clus-
ter, leading to the different parts of the program, which have their own proper atmosphere. After all, through the relation between the underground cemetery and the above park, my aim is to allow people in an urban area to reflect on the meaning of death, eternity and transient. Simple monoliths are coming out of the ground, bringing daylight inside; and reminding steles which honour the dead, in the city. This project has been published in the Zürichian papers Tages Anzeiger, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Surprise Strassemagazin and in the Archizoom Best Of 2014
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a common ground
Manifesto - Toward an u
underground architecture
Cross section
Situation plan
Cross section
Longitudinal section and plan
180 apartements in Barcelona Bachelor, 3rd year Pr. Carlos Ferrater
The purpose of this project is the development of different typologies of apartment in a new district of Barcelona. Theses typologies must use cleverly the structure in order to emphasize the researched quality. One typology is presented here: The internal street, thanks to the terraces, is lighted on both sides. The apartments are divided into two articulate parts: The structure discharge a first common area of ​​any holder, upstairs loadbearing wall slices contain bedrooms and services. In order to enjoy even more summer, it is possible to put the windows away in a cabinet to live outside.
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slices
Plan of a standard duplex apartment
View from the Parque Lineal de la Sagrera
Detail section
Elevation view
House for friends, family, jazz music and me in Begur Bachelor, 3rd year Pr. Carlos Ferrater
A project in a book. Tribute to Henry David Thoreau, died 150 years ago. Thoreau describes the architecture, not as form but as a relationship, for him the artifact is not opposed to nature, it extends and enriches it. Frank Lloyd Wright said, “with Walden, I began to design a house not as a cave, but as a shelter in the open air”. Indeed, Thoreau makes us forget the notion of interior and exterior, “my best piece, my living room, the pine woods behind the house.” It is not enough to live in the woods, you must live the woods. The virtue of a good house in nature is to give the nature to house.
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life in the woods
Plan and elevation
Study model
Axonometry
Detail cross section
Six adjacent houses in Geneva
I was in charge of the development of the project during my internship in the office Atelier March (from the firsts sketches to the execution plan). Status: Built
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low rise - high density
Plan of the whole plot
View from the steet side
Two cross sections
View from the garden side
Headquarters Roshen
confectionery corporation I was part of the team who developed this project during my internship in the office EM2N Architekten. Status: Ongoing
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and the chocolate factory
Plan of the first floor
View from the main entrance
Longitudinal section
Photography of the model on the cross section
BenoĂŽt JACQUES
88 av. des Ducs de Savoie 74200, Thonon-les-Bains, France Phone: +33 695 59 55 63 benoit.jacques@hotmail.fr Born on January the 8th, 1988
Formations: 2009-2012 Bachelor and Master of Science inArchitecture, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL). 3rd year exchange abroad at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain. 2007-2009
DUT (a two-year diploma from a University Institute of Technology) in industrial computing, Claude Bernard University, Lyon I, France.
2006 Baccalaureat with a specialisation in Science, which I passed with honours, high school La Versoie, Thonon-les-Bains, France.
Professional experiences:
2005-2015 Graphic designer, Galerie Pome Turbil, Lyon, France. 2014 Tutor in parametric architecture for the Pr. Bernard Cache, EPFL, 6 months. 2013 Internship at EM2N architkten, Zürich, Switzerland, 6 months. 2012 Internship at Atelier March, Geneva, Switzerland, 6 months. 2008 Internship in a laboratory of industrial computing, Lévis-Lauzon, Canada, 3 months.
Skills: Software : Office, Adobe suite, Vector Works, Autocad, Rhino 3d, Archicad, Artlantis. Languages: French: Mother tongue English, Spanish: Fluent German: Basic Hobbies : Adventure and visual arts.