Chloé Haentjens Portfolio _ Urban Project 2017

ChloĂŠ Haentjens

Urban Project Portfolio

Octobre 2017

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Architectural practice

1.1 _ «Chrysalis» Student Housing Roubaix, France _ IAUL

1.2 _ House Lab Lille, France _ FrenchKiss Group

1.3 _ Participative Structure PARK(ing) Day Lille, France _ ENVAR / IAUL

2. Urban analysis

2.1 _ Urban biodiversity in Vauban Fortress Nord Pas-de-Calais, France _ IAUL

2.2 _ Accessibility in a vernacular city Lezennes, France _ IAUL

2.3 _ Rhyz’Home Industrial green frame Tourcoing, France _ IAUL

3. Urban experimentation

3.1_ Yangpu Waterfront Promenade Shanghai, China _ Tongji University

3.2 _ Liquid topographies Shanghai, China _ AAVS 2016

3.3 _ Lausanne Jardins 2019 Lausanne, Switzerland _ SoomeenHahm Design Ltd

Chloé HAENTJENS I am an urbanist, with a master degree of Urbanism and Sustainable Development from the University of Lille, France. Passionate of computational design, environmental and urban problematics, my goal is to tackle nowadays city issues through sustainable and digital processes.

As a student I focused on opening my understanding of cities to the growing international context. In order to do so, I studied my bachelor in Belgium in Architecture, and moved on to specialization in urbanism in France.

I moved to Asia, Shanghai, for my first year of master degree, where I took part in a studio focused on digital methods for urban design, and then participated to the AA Visiting School Shanghai 2016 «Specifi’Cities».

Coming back to Europe, France, for my graduation year, I got involved into the young urbanist university association. Later this year I went to London to work as an intern at SoomeenHahm Design LTD and pursue my interest in computational design.

Thanks to this thrilling cursus I reinforced my skills regarding computational design in urbanism, and studied new methodologies and approaches regarding spatial organization of contemporary international cities. I now wish to keep working on international urbanism projects using innovative processes.

1. Architectural practice Originally passionned by architecture as the science of creating art pieces in the urban tissue, I began my training as an architecture major bachelor student in Belgium.

I also co-funded ÂŤFrenchKiss GroupÂť (a student architectural practice), with my university friends.

I worked on several projects, from housing to public equipment.

Influenced by modernism architects my realizations were based on simple geometrical patterns. And then moved on to a focus on the fabrication processes, and especially participative dynamics.

I also got interested with the visual representation of architecture, exploring different tools. Such as hand-drawing, collages, computer rendering.

CHRYSALIS, STUDENT HOUSING 2014_ Roubaix, France IAUL

Chrysalis is a student housing project, located in Roubaix, a major industrial city of North of France, it aims to respect the local architectural typology.

The project offers a peaceful courĂŠe to its inhabitants, and a wide interior shared space.

The Chrysalis is an in-between building.

Located at a corner of a street, its roof shape creates a convenient link between the historical housing.

Inspired from vernacular shapes, this project geometry and angle provides a new vision for the future of the neighborhood.

Higly adaptable, it can be envisionned as a future housing with modular pannels. Now a student resident, it could, in the future, be transformed to accomodate a different population.

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Its private but open courĂŠe is an amazing chance for the neighboors community to gather, and to reinforce their bond within the area.

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1. Floor Plan 2. First and Second floor plan 3. Roof Plan 4. Interior view of the model 5. Chrysalis concept design

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HOUSE LAB

2015_ Lille, France FrenchKiss Group The ÂŤ hypercentric Âť area of Euralille was chosen for our project. It represents the junction between the historical and contemporary city of Lille and more specifically, the Tripostal building. This building was built during the second half of the 20th century and functioned as a post office. Its structure is designed to support the massive weight of mailing department.

It now remains solely as a museum.

The very essence of the project is that it composed of evolutive states. This means that it is never finished as it is constantly changing.

We aim for energy, air and water renewal, and it is through the FabLab that it can be accomplished. We also aim for a sense of community, in which people of all ages participate.

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1. Lille hyperdensity 2. Section 2. View on the roofs 4. Master Plan 5. First floor plan 6. Second floor plan

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PARTICIPATIVE STRUCTURE PARK(ING) DAY 2016_ Lille, France ENVAR, IAUL

PARK(ing) Day is an annual mondial event where citizen transform parking spots into public shared space.

I took responsability for the organization of this event in Lille in the name of our urbanist student association «ENVAR», with the collaboration of several associations, Inter’phaz, Co-Routine, etc. The occupation of one parking spot in the city center was embodied by the co-construction of a wooden structure.

In this shelter fabricated with the help of passing by inhabitants or tourists, we discussed the future of urbanism and cities.

It was a chance to discuss the problematics of cars within the city, and the pollution caused by overusing those. Many citizens shared their wish to be more powerful within their own city settlement and organization.

From a bottom-up dynamic, launching an idea and counting on my pairs to bring it alive, we managed to build the structure designed. This emerging construction was symbolic not for its shape but because of the process utilized to build it. It is the embodiement of collaboration and citizen participation.

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1. Pre-construction of the wooden planks 2. Street-art and paint-spray 3. Urban space appropriation 4. Co-construction of the structure 5. Citizen decorating 6. Drawing of childrens on the structure 7. Timeline of the project

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2. Urban analysis Consciousness of the widening problematics linked to urbanization, I specialized in urbanism starting from my third bachelor year. Moving my interests from the architectural field to an enlarged vision of our built environment, city itself was a true awakening to cities complexity.

Starting from this period of time, my work has been guided by a desire of creating a better and sustainable environment of life for inhabitants of cities, as well as reducing urban impact on natural environment.

Therefore, I did some territorial analysis and diagnostic, focusing on the links between nature and cities, as well as citizens and cities.

URBAN BIODIVERSITY WITHIN VAUBAN FORTRESS 2015_Nord Pas-de-Calais, France IAUL

Flandres is an historical territory now shared by Belgium and France. It used to be a disputed zone, and it can still be seen because of the severals fortress built all over the territory.

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Now abandonned, those Vauban Citadels are reconquered by flora and fauna. They host and protect both historical heritage and rare species.

We analysed the repartition of those citadels within the territory, and defined a method to improve heritage protection. It was primordial to identify priorities between historical and natural protection, in order to suggest an integrated design solution and methodology.

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1. Lille’s citadel 2. Arras’ citadel 3. Gravelines’ citadel 4. Montreuil sur Mer’s citadel 5. Condé sur l’Escaut citadel 6. Repartition within the territory 7. Biodiversity zoning within known citadels 8. Structure of a Vauban Citadel

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ACCESSIBILITY IN A VERNACULAR CITY 2016_Lezennes, France IAUL

Lezennes is a vernacular city of North of France. It has kept through history its ancient road network.

As a consequence, streets are blocked by immobiles cars parked. And the city once a centre of life and activity is now facing a loss of dynamism.

Using computation and algorithms thinking, this project aims to analyse accessibility in a small city.

First step in this project was to measure the width of every street, and question their actual use.

Second step was to analyse the accessibility of every housing to public transportation. Which appeared to be well organized.

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Third step was to suggest a new access scenario, restricting car access to the mi8m nimum, creating parking areas and give back the street to Lezennes’ inhabitants.

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Largeur des rues de Lezennes

This project aims to reinvent the street and to question its status of road network instead of public shared spaces.

Left page: 1 Width of every streets 2 Accessibility to public transports

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Right page: 1 - 8 Proximity & Vicinity analysis

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RHYZ’HOME INDUSTRIAL GREEN FRAME 2017_ Tourcoing, France IAUL

North of France was once a strongly industrialized area. Its core was made of the cities of Tourcoing, Roubaix, and Lille. While Roubaix and Lille have been through an important economic redevelopment since the 21st century, Tourcoing is struggling to redefine its identity and economy.

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A city of art, ecology and families, Tourcoing is host to several art-schools, and a wellknown music festival. Its mayor has begun in 2010 to orient the city toward eco-friendly neighborhood, in order to attract middle class families in newly redeveloped industrial heritage areas.

Our project, Rhyz’Home, is the key point of a green frame connecting popular parks to the city centre. This green network provides a safe walking path for childrens, teenagers, and older peoples within the city. Housing are planned to be energy independant, and their green roofs create new street levels within the city itself.

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Developped in a context of environmental urgency, this project embodies a political and social proposal, gathering humans as citizens in a green city.

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1 - 2 Green network analysis 3 - 4 Group participative methodology 5 Lasercut physical model 6 Rhyz’Home masterplan

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3. Urban experimentation I travelled to Shanghai as an exchange student in Tongji’s University College of Architecture and Urban Planning for my first year of master degree.

Shanghai, as a world megalopolis, attracted me to keep learning about cities and urbanism. I took a design studio to learn innovative methods at the urban scale, and discovered computation and algorithms thinking.

Based on the software Rhinoceros 3D and its plugin Grasshopper, I began to explore the possibilities over computational urbanism.

Because I was keen to learn more about parametric design, the research subject of my master thesis was ÂŤParametric UrbanismÂť.

I followed those researches by attending the 2016 AAVS Shanghai workshop.

Lately I worked as an intern at SoomeenHahm Design LTD to keep learning and researching about computational design.

YANGPU WATERFRONT PROMENADE 2015 _ Shanghai, China Tongji University

Yangpu waterfront area is part of Shanghai history. Host to industries in the 1930’s it has been a key point of the megalopolis huge development.

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As a consequence of economic growth, most of the factories are nowadays abandonned. Mostly located along the rivershore, they restrain access to the waterfront.

Yangshupu road, main path along the district, acts not as a link but as an edge between the inner part of the city and its waterside. Enhancing the desertion of the whole area.

Extended absence period of human activity allows natural ecosystems to get back into unused spaces. After a certain amount of time, biological climax can be reached, giving a new balance state to these area, scientificaly called homeostasy.

Based on this environmental climax theory, the Huangpu river will take a hold on wastelands, creating new organic shapes.

Water has always serve as a link between biological species, and been used as an exchange tool for human.

1 Design process diagram 2 Shortest walk analysis 3 Ambiance view 4 Axonometry section 5 Section 6 Masterplan

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LIQUID TOPOGRAPHIES 2016 _ Shanghai, China AAVS Shanghai _ MAPS

Within the Shanghai annual workshop of the AA visiting school, we explored the SpecifiCities of Shanghai. My group, supervised

by MAPS tutors (Mary Polites & Ignacio Lopez Buson), researched the impact of water on the topographical shapes of the city.

Using algorithms based methods, we analysed the current city situation, evaluated the relations between topography and water, then experimented and played on a new dynamic topography, emerging from the natural rainflows.

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Shanghai has been shaped by waterforces, as it is the first international harbor in the world. It is also the last city on the Yangtze river, and has a geographical location in a delta. Highly urbanized, the streets often are subjects of floods.

This current situation is usually solved by using strong engineering tools, however, we engaged into a landscape exploration of water gestion, and topographical impact.

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Not so long ago, Shanghai had a few canals, which are now filled. Liquid topographies is a project that designed an alternative Shanghai, from the idea that canals will shape the city’s topography.

1 Shanghai Flood analysis 2 Waterflow system shortest walk 3 Canal system using clusters 4-5 Distance logic to build the topography 6 - Morphing topography 7-8 Water network and rendering 9 Landscape urbanism liquid topographies

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LAUSANNE JARDIN (ON GOING CONFIDENTIAL) 2017 _ Lausanne, Switzerland SoomeenHahm Design LTD & Alicia Hidalgo Lopez

With this bridge project we propose to highlight the environmental memory of the underground buried river, and to remind its existence to visitors of the Lausanne Garden 2019 festival.

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The river takes back its place in the city of Lausanne, and develops like a natural parasite entity, in the bridge structure. This light construction, organic vertical garden, creates an optical illusion, prompting the walker to question himself about its presence.

It calls for reflection on the canalization and burial of rivers, and highlights the architectural quality of the Grand-Pont.

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1 Grand-Pont, ambiance view 2 Parc Guillemin, ambiance view

In park Guillemin the soil is a shared space between the visitors and the local flora and fauna. The land here is precious, and generates a living environment beneficial to the variety of species.

The project will be based on a light structure, a space generator for everyone animals, human and plants to inhabit. Like a cloud or foliage, this translucent geometry will be the new habitat for birds, humans and insects as well a local green species.

This shared habitat will highlight the magic of the cohabitation of human and animals species within a landscaped park that is highly appreciated by the local population.

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Thank you for your interest!

Feel free to contact me at: chloe.haentjens@gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/chloĂŠ-haentjens-59046ba9/

Chloé Haentjens Junior Urbanist

24 years old N19 3AS London UK +33787071175 chloe.haentjens@gmail.com

Professional Experience

2017 SD Platform, Lead Curator, London UK I initiated this computational design weekly course within SoomeenHahm Design LTD. Originally created to reinforce the internal group dynamic, it has widen to an open lecture, hosting lecturer from various field. Held every friday, this event consist of a tutorial and lecture.

2017 SoomeenHahm Design LTD intern, London, UK I worked on computational design in a multiscalar logic, developping competition projects such as Lausanne Jardin 2019 and Structure of Freedom. My role in the agency was to tackle multiple projects, to coordinate their development as well as to take part in the design and fabrication (3D printing) processes.

2016 AutoCAD and ArcGIS tutor, Lille University, France As a software tutor in AutoCAD and ArcGIS my mission was to help and guide other students in their use of the university computers and tools. Bachelor and first year master degree students were able to work on their project with the continuous help and advices I gave them.

2016 PARK(ing) Day, coordinator, ENVAR Lille, France I took responsability for the conception and construction of a small structure made in a participative dynamic. I was in charge of the scheduling, the material, human security, and communication around this project.

2014 Competition «ArchiZinc», FrenchKiss, France My role was to do urban analysis and diagnostic, to design the masterplan in accordance to it.

2013 Louvain Cooperation, intern, in West Africa.

My role was to participate within the NGO activities, such as communication campaign.

Academic Education

Language

July 2016 Student at the Shanghai AAVS, Unit 1 «Liquid Topographies», China

Technical Skill

2015_2017 Urbanism and Sustainable development Master Degree, Lille University, France

2015_2016 Graduate exchange student at Tongji CAUP, Urbanism, Shanghai, China 2014_2015 Urbanism and Land settlement Bachelor Degree, Lille University, France 2011_2014 Architecture student at Catholic University of Louvain La Neuve, Tournai, Belgium

French, English, Spanish, Mandarin Rhinoceros3D, Grasshopper, Autocad ArcGIS, QGIS, MapInfo Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign Word, Excel, PowerPoint 3D Printing, LaserCut

Research

References

2017 «Mapping as design, AAVS Seoul 2017», co-realized with AAVS Seoul Unit 2 Student, Soomeen Hahm and Aleksandar Bursac

Soomeen Hahm SoomeenHahm Design LTD director, AA & Bartlett Teacher soomeenhahm@soomeenhahm.com

2017 «Les vecteurs de développement d’une méthodologie paramétrique en urbanisme», master degree of urbanism second year, Lille University, SoomeenHahm Design LTD, tutor Franck Bodin & Soomeen Hahm, 98p. Received High Distinction from the jury

2016 «Urbanisme Paramétrique, Villes complexes», Urbanism first year master thesis. 100p.

University of Lille, tutor Franck Bodin. Received the Highest Honors from the jury 2016 «Liquid Topographies», co-written with Wenjing Wu, Yadian Wang, Ignacio Lopez Buson and Mary Polites

Ignacio Lopez Buson MAPS director ilopez@mapsmethods.com

Franck Bodin University of Lille 1 professor bodin.franck@gmail.com