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Born in Santa Barbara California, grew up in Maynooth, Ireland and did part of my school years in France. I now study in Saint-Etienne, France but currently doing an erasmus in Rome. This journey allowed me to gain an open mind and find my way in this versatile field that is architecture. So, my multi-nationality drives me to gain knowledge through the power of composing.
Experiences
2021 - 2022
President Archimatos Association
Manage the sale of architectural materials for the school
Ensase,France
2022 Internship
Kube Architecture
Saint Etienne
2022-2023
English master’s teacher of «architectural culture» with Cédric Libert
Ensase, France
2023
Architecture seminar with Bernard Quirot, Stéphano Moor and Emilien Robin.
Pesmes, France
October 2024 - Present Internship
Meier + Partners
New York, USA
Formations
2019-2023
Licence - Valedictorian
National Higher School of Architecture of SaintEtienne, France
2023 - 2024 master 1
Universita della Sapienza Roma, Italia
Software
Autocad: Advanced Archicad: Advanced Adobe Suite : Advanced Rhinoceros: Intermediate Enscape : Advanced Revit: Intermediate Competitions
2022
Winner of the “Prima Competition” Project built, then inaugurated September 2022
2023
3rd prize “Building in structural stone competition” Awards ceremony May 2023
Languages
English: Mother tongue
French: Mother tongue
Italian : Advanced
Published
The Architectural Review website «Prima Competition», by Merlin Fueltcher,
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Competitions
Winner: Prima Competition 2021-2022:
Construction: September 2022
3rd place winner : “Building with structural stone” competition 2023
University Projects
Sports center a Roma (currently in production), Italy
Collective housing in Montbrison, France
Comunnity house in Saint-Etienne, France
Articles
Architectural review website, «Competition Prima International», 18 Novembre 2023, Merlin fulcher
Salon Rocalia «An Architecture contest for imagining the possibilities of Adaptable stone», 31st May 2023
Prima Competition 2022
Project built in France
The superposition of concrete blocks, which can be dismantled, slows down the fall of a rough stone, brought from the carriere of Ferques. The visitor experiences the earlier phase of its fall to the ground,
a stage that only professionals on the construction site observe. Its suspension leaves a passage for Man, under its weight and the fear of imbalance: a gravity.
Gravity :
Force
that attracts a body towards the center of the earth.
Module :
An arbitrary unit adopted to regulate the dimensions, proportions, or construction of the parts of a building
Materiality :
A particular implementation of materials, after the material has undergone various cycles of production, transformation and distribution in a cycle of progressive mutations.
Sports Center in Rome
In the symbolic district of Monte Testaccio stands between two key points: a climbing club and a football field providing neutrality to ideologies. A spine form draws itself thanks to the existing by its geometry. A series of full and void spaces logically distributes servant space and served space.
In this sense, the project seeks harmony through the contrast of architectural language. Venustas, Firmitas and utilitas link together to create a nodle point.
In the symbolic district of Monte Testaccio stands between two key points: a climbing club and a football field providing neutrality to ideologies.
Perspective : according to Sebastiano Serlio 16th Century
« A hidden geometry without which the architect would be unable to produce anything ».
The study determining the respective position of objects between eachother seen from the observer’s eye.
Core :
Generally central form from which a complexity of phenomenas unfolds
«Building in structurel stone»
Laureate : 3rd place
Of the sunken village of Châtelet, all that remains is a chapel, its farm and biodiversity.
On a classified site, with environmental and memorial issues, is grafted a place of contemplation, shelters of the living and witness of the past. In a sacred
place, the stones of the site are reborn and act as a conductor reviving the forgotten soul of submerged heritage. Aligned with the “already there”, a series of spaces with variable uses and altimeters reveal the landscape. The project is frugal due to the know-how
Transformation :
An architectural concept can be altered through a series of discrete manipulations in response to a set of conditions without a loss of identity.
Re-use :
In the field of waste prevention, all the systems and sectors allowing objects to be recovered.
According to their existing physical properties this
Adaptability: Variation to better match an situation, or support an environment.:
Adaptability: an existing environment a environment.: Genus Loci
« Compose and inhabit the urban void
»
The series of housing unities forms the junction between the urban and the suburban. Fullness responding to opposing voids: “Pieno in asse”
Three buildings line the main avenue and provide an architectural response to the transition in scale from public to intimate.
Two active strips serve the living spaces and vertical distribution. This strip plays the role of a buffer space that is both sound and light.
The horizontal elements are made of wood and the walls are made of concrete, a rule which governs the entire project and sets up the facade.
As part of a housing project in Montbrison, the operation consists of connecting the town of Savigneux to Montbrison, through a series of voids which follow the natural logic of the communes. The major challenge is creating public squares: empty spaces bordered by public buildings as well as housing..
«Pieno in asse» :
Breaking symmetry by bringing full and void into confrontation
Rythm :
Strategy of repetition of an architectural concept attained by structure.
Pattern :
Sequence of identical schemes with numerous repetitions forming a fabric
Harmony :
Qualities of a whole that result from the agreement of its parts or elements and their adaptation to a purpose, a balance.
Competition: PRIMA International 2023
An international student contest is being held for a series of three landmark new architectural installations at the Carrières du Boulonnais quarry in northern France (Deadline: 15 March)
The PRIMA competition, organised by Paris-based Atelier 37.2 on behalf of French minerals company Groupe CB, invites individuals or pairs of students to propose a permanent ‘micro-architectural work’ for the enormous industrial site which is located around 15km south of Calais Concepts must harness raw materials such as stone, concrete, steel, and recycled concrete
The call for proposals is free and open to all architecture schools in France, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Each school may submit a maximum of five paired student projects. A total of 15 concepts will be shortlisted and three overall winners will be constructed in 2023.
display at the site of the Carrières du Boulonnais quarry.’
Located on the fringes of Ferques, the 500-hectare Carrières du Boulonnais quarry was created in the late nineteenth century and is now the largest single open-pit quarry in the country – producing around six million tonnes of limestone aggregates every year.
The PRIMA project aims to forge new links between emerging design talents and the aggregates industry through an ‘unprecedented art model built on the merging of clear artistic goals with an entrepreneurial strategy’. It is organised by Atelier 37.2, an emerging Paris-based practice which has constructed a variety of unique architectural installations in culturally-significant landscapes across Europe and two pavilions on the PRIMA site
Participants must harness raw materials in their proposal and consider how their structure can be occupied as a form of ‘micro-architecture’ while also responding to important environmental issues raised by the ‘Anthropocene’ in which human activity has fundamentally changed life on earth.
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According to the brief: ‘This competition is an invitation to explore micro architecture as a bridge between design, art and architecture. It offers an opportunity for students to experience all the phases of the architectural process from conception to construction and to work with professionals: with architects in the development phase and with construction firms in the building phase
28 APRIL 2022 BY PIERRE BIDAUD
The first edition of the competition, launched in late 2019, received 114 entries from 202 students representing 41 schools of architecture and design from 6 countries – France, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, and the United Kingdom.
Channel crossings: militarised coastlines of Folkestone, Dover and Calais
5 JULY 2022 BY ELLEN PEIRSON
‘It will enable students to create a work with their name on it, one that will become a permanent feature of the PRIMA architectural park. The goal is to offer the opportunity for up to three winning candidates to produce micro-architectural works for permanent display at the site of the Carrières du Boulonnais quarry.’
Competition results: PRIMA International 2022
24 OCTOBER 2022 BY MERLIN FULCHER
Located on the fringes of Ferques, the 500-hectare Carrières du Boulonnais quarry was created in the late nineteenth century and is now the largest single open-pit quarry in the country – producing around six million tonnes of limestone aggregates every year.
Competition results: WilkinsonEyre wins
Toronto bridge contest
10 JUNE 2024 BY MERLIN FULCHER
The PRIMA project aims to forge new links between emerging design talents and the aggregates industry through an ‘unprecedented art model built on the merging of clear artistic goals with an entrepreneurial strategy’. It is organised by Atelier 37.2, an emerging Paris-based practice which has constructed a variety of unique architectural installations in culturally-significant landscapes across Europe and two pavilions on the PRIMA site
Participants must harness raw materials in their proposal and consider how their structure can be occupied as a form of ‘micro-architecture’ while also responding to important environmental issues raised by the ‘Anthropocene’ in which human activity has fundamentally changed life on earth.
2022 winner: Fusion by Coline Miossec and Timothé Orloff, HEAR Mulhouse, France
The first edition of the competition, launched in late 2019, received 114 entries from 202 students representing 41 schools of architecture and design from 6 countries – France, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, and the United Kingdom.
The winners of the 2022 call for concepts were Pesanteur by Colleen Doherty of the École d’architecture de Saint-in Etienne, Fusion by Coline Miossec and Timothé Orloff, from HEAR Mulhouse in France and Vision by Marine Bouvard and Léon Félix of ECAL in Lausanne, Switzerland.
The competition is planned to be held every year for several years resulting in around 20to-25 permanent installations being created on the site. Winning students, to be announced in March or April, will receive technical assistance from Atelier 37.2 and be invited to attend a residency on site to deliver their schemes
Credit: Image by Nicolas Guiraud
2022 winner: Pesanteur by Colleen Doherty of the École d’architecture de Saint-in Etienne
Credit: Image by Nicolas Guiraud
2022 winner: Pesanteur by Colleen Doherty of the École d’architecture de Saint-in Etienne
Credit: Image by Nicolas Guiraud
colleen.doherty@st-etienne.archi.fr +1 3478649166
