Clémence Yon ENSA-Paris Belleville - Fifth year - September 2013 25 years old +33 6 78 89 16 12 yon.clemence@gmail.com
Clémence Yon Portfolio - January 2014
Resume EDUCATION Since Sept. 2011:
MArch at Ecole Nationale d’architecture de Paris-Belleville (ENSA-PB)
2010-2011:
Msc in Environmental Design & Engineering, Dpt of Civil & Environmental Eng., UCL (University College of London).
2008-2011: 2006-2008 : June 2006 :
Graduate at Ecole CENTRALE-SUPELEC, 3rd best French engineering school. Scientific undergraduate programme for the French “Grandes Ecoles” Lycée Jean-Baptiste Say , Paris. High School diploma with major in maths, awarded with Distinctions.
LANGUAGES SPOKEN: Fluent: french (native speaker), english (Toefl 98/120 in 2010), German Beginner: arab
COMPUTING SKILLS: Autocad, Adobe (Photoshop, Indesign, Illustrator). Microsoft Office 3DSMax, Sketchup, Rhino, Revit, Grasshopper (beginner) ArcGIS (Geographic information system). Matlab, Java (beginner)
INTERESTS AND ACTIVITIES: Sports : Captain of the SUPELEC girls volleyball team, member of the UCL team 1. Actually playing at a regional level in Paris. Societies : set up a student association for ‘Plastic Arts’.
WORK EXPERIENCES
June-Aug 2013
Nouvelle Fabrique, Design atelier and workshop. - Experiencing parametric conception - Learning to work with wood
Sept 2013
1-Month Workshop hosted by Hanyang University, Séoul, with Belleville and the University of Tokyo around the theme of student housing.
Sept- june 2013
Research instructorship at ENSA-PB in partnership with elioth , within the framework of the research program Ignis Mutat Res, «Thinking architecture, cities and territories from an energetic angle» Atelier Christian de Portzamparc First practicing internship
Jul-Sept 2012
2011
- Project follow-up of the Arena 92 Stadium in Nanterre - Building permit submission: Security (evacuation and fire) and visibility standards, plans and perspectives Thesis on the densification of London’s Suburbs within the framework of the research project ‘Adaptable Suburbs’ (at UCL) – Distinctions.
Jun-Sept 2010
Construction firm EIFFAGE Construction, 6th European Construction firm Site Manager - Site: Headquarter of the National Police of France - In charge of an entire building, an hotel in Wood an steel, 2300 m2 Design Center BETOM Engineering Assistant of the Health sector Construction Director
Jun-Jul 2009
- Coordination of all stakeholders and sectors in construction projects - Construction follow-up of the Reims Hospital - Construction follow-up of the Meulan-les-Mureaux Hospital Complex
2008 :
1-year Individual project on anti-seismic systems in construction, grade A
2006 :
1-year Group project on black holes with help of Mr Damour, research director at CNRS
Air Movements Modelling Chanelling Water Changing parameters & Objects Cartography and Transportation Flows Drawing the Movement From Flows of data to Geometric Places
Plan 1 Flows & Movement
4 Utopia 3 Space Masterplanning University Campus Suburban Nodes Distopia: ‘Military Urbanism’
2 Nodes & Settlement
Spatial Sequence of a Reader The Line and the Repetition The «Free Section» and the Equivalence of Spaces Drawing Space, Hidden Space, Non Space
The Itinerant Harbour
Flows & Movements
Air modelling project: shaping movements of the non-visible MODELLING
TARGETS AND PARAMETERS
Using Gaussian equations: I modeled a concentration of a fictive product in the air et and I tracked its journey. It is about studying air flows forms and topography, and trying to map its movements.
This model is created to study air and atmospheric flows with an eye to apply to built environment and planning projects in order to optimize natural ventilation, channel wind currents. There is also a plastic target in formalising and mapping flows that are not seen in reality. The algorithms that have been used could be used on any kind of flow in the future, even to create furnitures for example.
PLASTIC MODEL
RESULTS With AERMOD software, that uses modified Gaussian equations to verify the mathematical model
Chanelling Water: Designing a domestic water management system South West of England lacks water. To answer this problem, this project tries to make a water management system that incorporates a green roof and a collecting and recycling system in order to be able to reuse rain or grey water for domestic uses. this project was done in collaboration with , a German green roof provider. In this work, the angle is a bit different and new as it does not consider green roofs as simple decorative features any more, but as true architectural elements that are part of the whole building, in its structure, its use and its environment.
The project ambitions to: - Conceive a whole system, sizing and modelling - Evaluate the advantages and drawbacks of such a system in terms of water savings, payback, efficiency, compared to ore basics systems already on the market. - Provide an guidance for architects and designers - Evaluate demand for such systems in London
Rainfall
Intensive Green Roof
Extensive Green Roof
Water Collected From Baths, Basins and Showers
Treatment
Treatment
Underground Storage tank
Underground Storage
Mains backup Water EfEicient Toilets
Sewer System
Graph that shows the link betwenn roof size, number of occupants and percentage of water saved per day
Excess water drained
Water Ef:icient Toilets
Mains Backup Supply
Sewer
Two systems that have been designe and that corespond to the two different types of green roof available on the market
Parametric experiences: from mathematical shapes to a family of objects I wanted to experiment if it was possible to design different objets, useful in the interior or in everyday life, from a unique computed modelisation. I had at my disposal a 3D Printer and a CNC milling machine that cut wood. Thus, I got results from my two different works with each machine, and I underline how from one shape ruled by changeable parameters, you can get families of objects that all come from the same algorithm. In one case (3D Printer), objects of one family differs from the function and consequently from their shape, but one the other case study (CNC milling machine) he same function - skating board - is declined to design a line and custom the same object. Besides, it is very strong to experiment how objects apparently very different in function, such as a stool or a wall lamp can actually be generated with the same model as a basis.
Plastic pensil cup, 3D Printer.
Line of Skateboard for the French Design Biennale Saint-Etienne, 2013.
I designed with grasshopper a serie of objects coming from the same Voronoi algorithm. I printed one of them by fixing all parameters and rolling my Voronoi shape around a cylinder. It made a pencil cup. I also used other shapes, such as a sphere for example, to design a wall lamp.
From a 3D of one skateboard, I made a collection composed by 8 of them, coming from the same type of shapes and pattern. They are made out of beech, cut with a CNC milling cutter and then eventually lacquered by hands.
Transportation flows in the city via cartography: Insertion of a bus route Evry, South of Paris
This project aim is to insert a bus line in a French «Ville Nouvelle» from the 70s - Evry - in order to understand how infrastructure planning can have an impact on urban planning, in working at different scales going form territory to project.
Territorial analysis: Paris region and departement
Cergy-Pontoise RER D
Marne-la-Vallée RER A
There is an important urban splitting up mostly coming from the important network of infrastructures, recurrent problem in «New towns».
RER C Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
RER B
Villes nouvelles Lignes de RER Ligne du T ZEN RER D
Grigny
Barriers Functional zoning
Evry
T ZEN
Gare
Corbeil-Essonnes
Meulun-Sénart
Territory parcelling through an infrastructure angle
Parc Hopital
City/ Entire bus line scale analysis
Ecole Ecole
At this scale, I underline urban parcelling again, as well as physical and functional barriers, potential continuities and spaces that could be planned. These maps show that there is a clear urban division at this scale too, and four different «urban islands» can be highlighted. Instead of trying to merge these islands in the name of urban continuity, I consider this zoning as a quality, that confers a particular identity to the territory. I use in that sense the bus line to make the link between the separated zones. Each stop matches with a new centrality inside each zone, that will become the starting point to densify and intensify each zone according to a «star» model, from a centre towards equipements, green spaces, water infrastructures, etc.
Zone Industrielle Gare Logements Parcs Commerces Zones de stationnement Equipements publics Activités Industrielles Pôles Ligne de bus Infrastructures (routes, voie férrée)
Footpaths, motorised roads, levels
Synthesis of the «star» model
Equipements
Project scale: one part of the bus route
tracé du bus Espace vert Espace public Parkings
Bati projeté
sens de circulation
At the project scale, through bus route planning and its stops, I tried to connect green spaces, waste land, improve streets and public spaces, in order to connect a hign school in the south, a park and a school in the East, and a network of small squares, underlined in the map on the right.
Complexe adm
Centre commercial
Limite de la pièce urbaine Limite de la pièce urbaine voisine
station bus/ marché
Sensitive expansion of the route Green spaces and waste land
Bus route and adjacent spaces modified repérage de la végétation tracé du bus en site propre délaissés à proximité du parcours eau
Drawing the dynamic and the movement
Dancing/ metamorphosis
The equilibrium Morning Afternoon
The dynamic of a structure
The path of the sun
From a flows of data to a static figure: Using Algorithmic to draw a geometric place The aim of this project developped with JAVA is to create an program that is able to find and draw geometric ÂŤlieuxÂť. The program had to: - Have a main class that describe the problem - Draw the figure in a Metapost file To get a geometric place, I first initialised all possible figures in a main class. Then, I created a list where all figures are going to be stocked up. I needed also to initialize all the elements of the figure. I created classes with a special metod called Metapost, that orders data in a list. I did so for: - all possible geometric figures: point, line, circle - Equations for the user to enter it and find the geometric place needed - discretized or free parameters Method that deal with the writing of a point with (x,y) coordinates in the metapost database
I realised that algorithmic makes possible to obtain one or a finite number of static places from dynamic and changing data such as an mathematic equation - to make it simple - through a process that is also in movement. Indeed, algorithm transform a database that is dynamic, changing and infinite, in a geometric place, physically and temporally static and fixed. This geometric place is in a way the visual result of a complex realignment of parameters in movement - that could be such as abstract variables, points, but also curves, surfaces, or even products or people’s movings for example.
Obtention of one geometric place
Nodes & Settlements
A University Campus like an urban Piece L. Salomon
This project is part of the re-development of Saint-Denis in the North of Paris, within the framework of ‘Campus Condorcet’ project. The main work was done through models at the neighbourood scale (two meters long for the final one, 1:500 scale).
Concept My project creates a central-axed path that channels all flows coming from outside the campus and spread them towards university infrastructures. This path takes as a pretext a strong visual axis (yellow) to actually make flows go on either side of this axis. My reference was Islamic gardens such as some Indian gardens.
Program: 850 housing for students and researchers 50 regular spaces (classrooms) singular spaces (amphitheatres, labs, library, conference centers, restaurants).
Mass plan
N
Organisation of public spaces and flows of people in relation to
Model: serving and served spaces
the program and the serving space system
Consequently, public space is organised around three main courtyards - linearily articulated - created by two main lines: one continued line constituted by regular program (Blue line), and one discontinued line made by housing (green line). The central visual axis is underlined by two important porgrams: a Library at the north end, and a conference center at the south end (red squares). Serving space system create homogenous repartition of singular spaces (labs and amphi) along classrooms in the whole campus.Three types of program are accessible as well via the main axis - the only floor on the same level than the city floor - that distribute all flows coming from outside toward diverse equipements and housing of the project.
Figure
Sections, play on ground levels from the main axis to private or common spaces
Arena Stadium, Nanterre. Insternship Atelier Christian de Porzamparc As an intern I was in charge of helping the team for the building permit of the stadium in July 2012. This stadium is now under construction in the suburb of Paris, and can host 60000 people. It is also coupled with offices and can be adapted in an entertaining space, thanks to the movable roof and the flexible bleachers and floor.
Sud facade: stadium
West facade
North facade: offices
East facade
I was also in charge of rendering several VIP spaces in offices and reception sapces of the stadium
Suburban nodes: Thesis
Does densification lead to a sustainable built form for London’s suburbs? Whether suburbs are considered as special and valuable types of urban landscape or as a feature characterizing urban sprawl, there is now a consciousness that in any cases, they are the battlefront to respond to coming challenges. After a wide survey of the existing literature, and taking into consideration the policy debate concerning suburban regeneration and densification, this paper reviews the importance of considering suburbs at their true value, as historical centres that are successful and that carry the aspirations of many British people who wish to live there at some point and build a family. The report examines to what extent densification is a sustainable – understood as adaptable and flexible - solution to ensure London’s suburbs a successful future. It is suggested that their future success will rely on planning authorities achieving adequate and intermediate densities, not as a goal by itself to respond to demographic pressures, but through policies that recognise and value the intrinsic characteristic of suburbs to face and adapt to changing socio-economic and demographic conditions over time. However, the resulting densification policies invocated as the miracle panacea by authorities to respond to these changes raises the question of whether it is a trend or a sustainable solution, and whether it is adequate for suburbs or completely paradoxical. Indeed, the paper made central the conflicting relationship between suburbs and density – the desire to reconcile space and quiet while increasing the urban density - and between density and suburbanite’s expectations for their quality of life. It is finally argued that some intrinsic time-based architecture features, as well as the role of the street, make a place persist over time, which is a sign of great urban form.
A case study analysed with mapping tools (Arc GIS) showed that organic patterns of growth and development were also fundamental to make a place work, adapt and to preserve its vitality over time.
Main street and train station that have been modified a lot since 1848
PLAN A
The military nodes: Living in an over-protected society Dystopie: La ville de murs
Le nouveau modèle
Coupe 1:1000 Vue Nord
The idea of this project is to take as a basis a distopic city where walls are everywhere to protect private goods and person from people that society judged as ‘ennemies’. Public spaces are reduced to their minimum and fragmented in order to be better controlled, and space on, between and in the walls represent the new and only type of public spaces. My project is an initiative that is settled in this context but tries to develop a different model of what is now commoly called ‘military urbanism’. As a matter of fact, this project is an entire city that responds to a concentric organization going from the most private (housing) to the most public (walls as vertical streets), in designing a new type of space, the horizontal layer, which stands as an inbetween where all the social and political life happens. «Gated CommuniProspective: ville Ville traditionnelle ties» Ville = danger
ceinturée par un mur Ville = sécurité
saturée d’espaces privés sécurisés Ville de murs
1.
2.
Emergence d’un réseau cohérent vertical de murs en accord avec la trame existante
Montée ver privé
Murs = réseau de programmes publics et rues verticales
Développe
Circulation in the whole city through the horizontal layer
Wall becomes the new type of public space
Sections of the network of vertical streets and university program
Vue Ouest
Le nouveau modèle Les murs de l’espace privé ont colonisé l’espace public
L’espace public existe entre les murs de l’esapce privé
Three parts of the project 1.
2.
L’espace public devient le mur
3.
COUPE C
200 m
Emergence d’un réseau cohérent Walls a consistent verticalcreate de murs en accord avec la trame existante network of public programs Murs = réseau de programmes publics et rues verticales and vertical streets in the city
Montée verticale de poches de Private enclaves of privé housing allow to live in Développement du logement heights
Dilution de la limite privé - public, Horizontal layer soften relation horizontale entre les murs et thele logement frontier between La nappe private and public
La ville c
La ville hypersécuritaire
B
Privé Logement 100 m
Public Mur
A
La ville hypersécuritaire
La ville concentrique : dilution de la limite entre privé et public
Definition de la nappe: la lymphe de la ville
Education - Ecole
Privé Logement
Public Mur
Privé Logement Nappe
Logement Public Mur
Nappe
Le projet
PLAN B
PLAN B
Enroulement autour de la nappe Intériorité
Endroit -> Envers
Croissance verticale par étirement Dilatation des tranches
Plan 1:200
Axonométrie 1:200
Details of the vertical housings Théatre
upe 1:500
e Ouest
5 appartements
9 appartements
15 appartements
C
19 appartements
Circulation verticale
Plan 1000ème
Clémence Yon - ENSA Paris Belleville - Studio De Buissière - Habiter la Grande Hauteur
Clémence Yo Y Yon n - ENSA Paris Belleville - Studio De Buissière - Habiter la Grande Hauteur
Space
Four Houses make one common Space: the
«free section», and the equivalence of spaces
Work on the equivalence of spaces
Work on furnitures’ adaptability
On the site, we had to put together the four houses in order to create a common space in the middle for this small community. The four houses, constituted from the same model, are not equal because of their position. tWe had to make them equivalent in terms of light, orientations, views, and relation with the ground and the outside.
This first house is a volume of 3,66m x 11m x 11m, with the north facade blind and the south facade half blind hald translucent. The house has to realise a «free section», which means that all the functions have to take place on horizontal plans that create all together one continued ascendant path, form the entrance of the house until the top, going through all the plans. To go from one plan to another, furnitures become the solution. So you have no stairs in this house, as furnitures create the continuity between two plans. There is a singular thinking on the potential furniture’s multifunctionality, mutability and flexibility.
Storages units give access to a winter garden above and to two children beds on the left
Reading space where the bookcase is a stair
Plan and section of the four houses Adult room dressing is a stair
‘Free section’
«l’Espace 30x30», Spatial sequences of a reader in a library
Entrance space Perspective with 1 post et 1 wall only
Principle of the exercise: The first step of the project is a work of perspective through a project wordhypothesis. We had to draw the three first spaces a customer would see when entering the Library that realise the chosen hypothesis, with only posts, walls and light. Then we draw the different spaces - lecture room, children space and finally the focal point of the project from where you understand the whole project.
Hall, 9 posts
Information desk 3 posts and 3 walls
Focal point of the Library: View of the Free plan and of the Three first perspectives
My hypothesis: Wavering Personnal definition: Slow movement, regular, at the eyes’ height. The second phase is to model the project and determine space in a programmatic way. The model allows to adjust and film the light, adapt it according to the program, and experiment the space of the perspectives.
Adult lecture room
Children lecture room
The Line and repetition as a vector of space The aim of this project is to develop deeper one section of the Campus Condorcet project developped above in this Portfolio, and to make one line that could be repeated indefinitely. In order to understand that repetition - if carefully designed and managed - can produced very rich and complex spaces.
1. Work on inside spaces Drawing perspectives of what is an ideal housing and classroom for us. For the housing, I wanted the working place to be as if it is at the same time the living room and outside, as it it for researcher. For the classroom, I wanted the relationship between the teacher and students to be parallel and not frontal as it usually the case. The result was obtained mainly by a work on light and the shape of the classroom.
Ideal classroom
Ideal housing
C
B
2. Work on outside spaces, facades: When designing the line the main objective is to understand how repetition and linear buildings can be an asset instead of a drawbacks like neo-modernists consider. Shaping the plastic of the line and working on the elevations to manage the repetition lead to determine precisely on one hand the relationship between the building and the street, and on the other the relationship with the inside public spaces of the campus, and to deal with flows of people coming from outside and inside.
Facade on the campus
Model 1:500
Facade on the street
A
Section
Model 1:200
Prospective view of the line
For that, a particular attention has been given in this poject to different ground levels that underline different type of public spaces, from the main principal axis to small gardens like a waiting area close to the amphitheatres.
Drawing spaces, hidden spaces, non-spaces
Sky as plain, Genova
Axis of place Dauphine, Paris
Reflected gallerie, Paris
The City from inside, Paris Buildings above a tree-sea, Genova
Utopia
Rise of the sea: Concours Fondation Jacques Rougerie, The Itinerant Harbour Mobility imposed by the rise of the oceans becomes an asset with the Itinerant Harbour: climatic changes that come out at different scales imply a new, softer and more fluent organisation between the coast and maritim flows. Thus, the Itinerant Harbour constitutes a system that can embrace the very global and the very local.
Element 2: The programmatic helix On the mesh are located all programs necessary to maintenance, administration and staff life. Besides, the two plans of the helix represent the functional surface for the harbour itself. These two plans can be moved around the helix’ axis and be placed at differents levels above, on or under the sea level. Mobility 2: Region The helix modules the functional surfaces of the harbour according to the sea level: thus, the mobility of the harbour is also programmatic: it is adaptable to local needs, to different ressources and economies.
Element 3: Bridge-boats The off-shore location of the harbour does not affect its relationship with the land: it exists a new intermediary between the sea and the coast, boats-bridge. Light and fast, it allows marchandises and people transportation. Combining the advantages of a skiff and a catamaran, it lands easily the coast. It has a crane and rails necessary to load and unload. Mobility 1: The Element 1: The
mesh
The world now has become a place where traditional big harbours are liable to flooding and coasts are scourged by tempest, littoral zone is deeply unstable. This new harbour is conceived as a moving lagoon. The mesh plays a role of wind-breaker above the sea and wave-breaker under the see, that re-creates a haven at a certain distance form the coast.
globe
Taking its roots in the ocean, the harbour lost his immediate contact with the earth and is able to travel all around the globe. Oceans rise is going to design a new coastal line and thus a new economy and human organisations. Multiplicity and mobility of the Itinerant Harbour at the globe scale answers to more adapted economic systems: big migrations in favour of new frontiers of territory, a balance between regions, countries, continents by the harbour’s movings.
Mobility 3: Local
coast
These boats make one more intermediary between marchandises and their reception on the land, but in compensation it allows a good flexibility for unloading along the coast. Indeed, it soves the problem of unstability of the coast due to the rise of the sea, and it also increase the number of exchange points along the coast, in order to split more precisely and freely all