PORTFOLIO Christopher El Hayek
ROUTE LOUIS-FAVRE 4 BAT E/ E613 • 1024 ECUBLENS • LAUSANNE • SWITZERLAND MOBILE +41786701768 • EMAIL CHRIS.HAYEK@HOTMAIL.COM
CURRICULUM VITAE
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Christopher EL Hayek Route Louis Favre 4 Bat E / E 613 1024 Ecublens Mobile : +41 78 670 17 68
27.09.1994 Lebanese (with a Swiss residency permit) Single chris.hayek@hotmail.com
OBJECTIVE
Once I complete my bachelor in architecture by the end of this academic year, my goal is to keep on pushing my abilities to the utmost in a world class firm. As a confident communicator and a good team player, I’m looking forward to contribute my skills in the development of a successful architectural project, which will add to my academic knowledge an added value from the real-world job experience. EDUCATION
• 2012 - 2015 : Bachelor in architecture École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland • 1998 - 2012 : French baccalaureat, scientific section College Protestant Francais, Lebanon WORK EXPERIENCE
• July - August 2014: RAW Studio (Beirut, Lebanon) Working as an assistant photographer I contributed for the setting of the shooting equipment, and of a proper light condition. Indoor and outdoor, the work varied from photo shootings to video clips. ACADEMIC CONTRIBUTIONS
• 2014-2015: Assistant teacher at the solar energy and building physics laboratory • 2014-2015: Director of the exhibitions department at the ASAR student association • 2013-2014: Private tutor for construction courses SUMMARY OF SKILLS
Proficient in:
• Autocad • Rhinoceros • Adobe photoshop • Adobe indesign
• Technical drawing • Model making • Laser and zund cutting • 3D Printing
• Buildings energy parameters • Construction techniques • Structural design
LANGUAGES
French English Arabic
: Fluent (speaking, reading, writing) : Fluent (speaking, reading, writing) : Native language
EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
• Martial arts apprentice instructor • Music and guitar playing • Cooking
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FALL SEMESTER 2013 Professor Jeanette Kuo
PROGRAM: The canton of Vaud requires a storage location for its visual documents. Like any archive, the place must be strong and durable, and the climate must be controlled. The particularity of this project is the parallel development of an exhibition space that can be used to reveal a part of the collection. SITE: The theoretical site is an old underground square tank. 40 meters wide and 20 deep, there is a buttress per side and the concrete walls are 1.5 meters wide. PROJECT: Taking into consideration that an archive is an essential database for any museum, it has been embedded into its main structural component. From this starting point and given the site, the project took its course through a geometrical grid defined by the four pillars on each side. The base unit is a square. The volumes have been out-lined on each floor; equally expanded in order to overlap and ensure a vertical continuity. Finally light wells have been carved out. The resulting concept is a play between mass and void: the mass volumes define the archives, and the museum flows around.
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Conceptual model evolution
Light catcher design
Tests of different circulation strategies
Main floor
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Floor: -2
Model casted in plaster
Perspective cut
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Interior model shot: Upper balcony
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Interior model shot: Museum space
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SPRING SEMESTER 2013 Professor Dieter Dietz
PROGRAM: The light flows and touches softly a reflective surface. The rest is pitch dark black. Beneath this scenery relies a mystical world to be discovered. PROJECT: From this starting point, I tried to push forward the image of this given light and of its surrounding space. Therefore I analyzed the spatiality of the light before it touches the surface. I was inspired by Jean Cocteau’s movie Orphee. Same as in the movie, I tried to imagine what could happen once the light touches this reflecting surface, and what is about to happen on its other side. The resulting space is the materialization of this dual game of space and light.
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Drawing 1: Concept elaboration
Study model (cf. Drawing 1)
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Construction process
Final model (cf.drawing 2)
Drawing 2: Resulting space
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SPRING SEMESTER 2014 Professor Jeanette Kuo
Program: An urban factory in the city of Zurich. The city and the canton of Zurich are asking for a production space where experts, designers and workers would work all together and share their experiences. The facilities will therefore include production hall, offices for the experts, workspaces and meeting rooms for the designers. Site: The site is located in a dynamic area in transformation, in the northern part of Zurich. The former industrial district is gaining value and is being converted into offices and leisure areas. The site is situated next to an old viaduct on one side and an old industrial building on the other side. Project: Our vision of this new typology relies on the interaction of the three programs (production spaces, workshops and offices) on a horizontal level. Its position in the city had led us to put the offices and workshops on the sides leaving the big central space for production. Due to this deliberate choice the offices and workshops enjoy more of an intimate space. This said, bridges would link one side to the other offering a bigger space for production, on which dust and noise are welcome. Finally we differentiated the two sides due to its position regarding the viaduct: The one in the back is more of an open space nesting the workshops; with enclosed spaces on the other for offices.
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Conceptual models AA’
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Main Floor
Floor 1
Model cut
Cut AA’ with light diagram
Facade elevation
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DESIGN & DRAWING
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Abstracted pattern
Digital pattern repetition
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