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Constance Desenfant Curriculum Vitae
CONTACT : 77 Bd des Américains, 44300 Nantes, FRANCE // +33 6 77 30 81 74 constance.desenfant@wanadoo.fr Architect - State degree Born on 11/08/1990 - Paris Nationality : French
EDUCATION 02-2014 2012/2013 2011/2012 2008/2011 06-2008
State degree of architecture Master’s degree of architecture, YEAR 2 Master’s degree of architecture, YEAR 1 Bachelor’s degree of architecture Baccalaureate of science with distinction & european mention
ENSA Nantes - School of architecture ENSA Nantes - School of architecture ETSA Valencia - Polytecnic univsersity ENSA Nantes - School of architecture Saint Joseph du Loquidy - High school
French > native language
Spanish > fluent | C1 BULATS
English > fluent | 890 pts TOEIC
Italian > spoken & read
LANGUAGES
COMPUTER SKILLS 2D & 3D design
Graphism & Text Autocad Autocad 3D Sketchup 3ds Max Rhinoceros Revit - Archicad
Indesign Photoshop Illustrator Word - Excel Power Point
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PERSONALITY : Serious, open-minded, independant, curious, creative, and observant.
PERSONAL INTERESTS : Photography, exhibition and art galleries, music, tennis. Travelling, drawing, and reading.
High capacity of adaptation and team work ability
TRIPS : England, Ireland, Switzerland, Holand, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Lithuania, and Spain.
WORKSHOP & COMPETITIONS Sept > Nov 2014
Participant in the international competition of architecture of «Architecture Workshop in Rome» for a New Modern Library in Copenhagen (awrcompetitions.com) - Barcelona
April 2014
Participatant in the french competition Steel 2014 with my Master thesis project (construiracier.fr/concours-acier/2014)
March > June 2011
Participant in the Audiar Competition about the periurban areas of french cities (http://www.audiar.org/node/189) - Rennes
Feb > Sept 2010
Participant in the workshop «Nouveau(x)» (photography, edition and communications) with the publishing house Dilecta - Nantes & Paris
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Oct > Dec 2014
Designer of a building permit for a house extension - Paris
October 2014
Collaborator of the artist Maec (Mariscal Gaitán) on an urban sculpture project - Barcelona
May > July 2014
Participant into the project of «Art Nouveau Tour» (Barcelona-Brussels - La Chaux-de-Fonds) in collaboration with the Art Nouveau Network of Brussels and Barcelona City Hall
March > May 2014
Designer for a house renovation - Port Navalo (Brittany)
March > July 2013
Intern in the office FHY Architecture & Urbanism - Paris
July 2011
Designer for a house extension - Chantenay (Nantes)
March > June 2011
Construction supervisor assistant : part-time intern during weekly meetings about a house design - IP Architectes, Nantes
March > Dec 2010
Part-time designer for the office Espace Identité (interior design) Nantes
July 2009
Intern on a construction site : assitant on the rennovation work of a high school - Mollat & Verdant, Nantes
January 2008
Assistant in the office of architecture SCP Assus-Boyer-Percheron Montpelllier 7
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Timeline 2008-2015 Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
INTERNSHIP
HOME TOWN
BACCALAUREAT OF SCIENCES Saint Joseph du Loquidy High School
ARCHITECTURE OFFICE SCP Assus-Boyer-Percheron Montpelllier
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COMPETITION & WORKSHOP
FREE LANCE
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BUILDING WORK FIRM Mollat & Verdant Nantes
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ARCHITECTURE OFFICE IP Architectes Nantes
NANTES
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«NOUVEAU(X)» Arnaud Théval & Dilecta Workshop Nantes
PART-TIME DESIGNER Espace Identité Saint-Herblain
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BUILDING PERMIT Private individual Chantenay
BACHELOR’S DEGREE OF ARCHITECTURE Architecture school of Nantes
STATE DEGREE OF ARCHITECTURE Architecture school of Nantes
ARCHITECTURE & URBANISM OFFICE FHY (Follacci-Hervieu-Yoon) Paris
VALENCIA
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on peri-urban areas» Audiar Competition Rennes
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PARIS
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BARCELONA PARIS/NANTES
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STEEL CONTEST 2014 ConstruirAcier Paris
2015
New Modern Library Architecture Workshop Rome Copenhagen
PAPER & ARCHITECTURE Calendar Grup Raima Barcelona
HOUSE RENOVATION Private individual Port Navalo (Brittany) ART-NOUVEAU TOUR with Barcelona city hall & Art-Nouveau network (Brussels) Barcelona
BUILDING PERMIT Private individual Paris COLLABORATOR ON AN URBAN SCULPTURE PROJECT with Maec (artist) Barcelona 9
ACADEMIC PROJECTS «Draw, make mistakes, learn from your mistakes, draw again...»
ENSA NANTES & ETSA VALENCIA
Thesis project
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Global networks supporting local interests Changing Cities 2013-2014 - Belfast
Thesis Research Urban utopia’s mutations
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1 Global Networks supporting local interests Reconnecting Belfast - The lightning walkway
Master Thesis Project Changing cities studio Sept 2013 > Feb 2014 Teaching team : Susan Dunne, Graciela Torre, SĂŠbastien Argant, Marie-Paule Halgand
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What is a changing city ? What is Belfast ? And why is Belfast a changing city ? The capital of Northern Ireland was the nucleus of the studio in which I took part for my Master Thesis project. By groups of 4 students we began to explore the city through different topics. In my group we focused our work on the topic of Transports. From this analysis we had to go ahead with challenges we would have found on regard to the transport approach and choose a site which would represent an opportunity area to resolve the problems pointed out. Then we had to develop both social, urban and architectural strategies in order to transform the site responding to a chosen problematic. Belfast is situated on the North-East Coast of the Island of Ireland and was built around the estuary of the river Lagan, in between hills. It’s a city mainly based on its maritime activity and linen industry which expansions occurred during the 18th and 19th centuries. Place of birth of the Titanic and used as a home base by the Royal Navy during World War II, it is today an injured city divided by a serious civil war and which is now hardly facing the economic crisis. Despite this complicated context, it is still a major maritime hub, the administrative capital and the largest city of Northern Ireland.
Analysis & In Situ Experience : TRANSPORT ANALYSIS OF BELFAST
Transport’s current situation in Belfast : The insular city centre
Radial bus system
Insular city centre
High traffic nodes
MASTER THESIS PROJECT /// Global Networks supporting local interests
Fragmented soft mobility network
Focus on East Belfast
From the north to the south : 2 different urban fabrics
Insular city centre
No bike’s land
The grass way
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The labyrinth
Global networks generating projects to resolve local issues
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Local interventions : Temporal process
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2020 The kart’n ride project
The lightning walkway
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2025 at night
The funky crane
The dry dock promenade
The ArtGora
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Development of the Lightning walkway project
Plan of the walkway and connections to its surroundings
Section of the train station
MASTER THESIS PROJECT /// Global Networks supporting local interests
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Views of the walkway & axonometry of the structure
MASTER THESIS PROJECT /// Global Networks supporting local interests
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UR N BA IS M Urban Utopias’ mutations How to put the history in perspective
Research Thesis Architecture contemporaine Cultures / pratiques / critiques Jan 2012 > Sept 2014 Tutor : Marie-Paule Halgand
The comparison between some «paper achitectures» of the 60’s & 70’s and some more contemporary projects permits to point out a certain similarity, whiteness of the past ideas’ and production’s influence upon contemporary architecture. What did those utopias become ? Is it possible that there are no utopias any more ? Can Architecture only exist without utopias ? If we consider that utopias represent the main motor of the cities’ evolution and if we observe how quickly the cities are transforming themselves nowadays, it seems obvious that utopias have not disappeared. They just seem to evolve under different forms. If the utopian dimension of the urban project is not as obvious as it was before, how do those new utopias appear today ?
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«The utopia is mainly urban because the city expresses the reign of men». The control of urbanism is throught and since centuries, the key to the utopian project, a main tool for the organization and conception of the city and living environment of men. But as arts or sciences, the science of urbanism evolves step by step, following ideological flows influenced by historic contexts in constant evolution. It emerges from criticism, reassessment of established principles, and leads to new experiences, criticized again... This repetitive and empirical process never ends to one single conclusion and goes on with constant re evaluations, main characteristic of a discipline inseparable from its historical context. The process of this thesis consisted in analysing in a chronological and ideological way, the famous urban utopias of the 20th century pointing out their origins, their foundations and their limits in order to understand better the relations between each other. This approach does not permit to answer explicitly to the questions «what will be the city of tomorrow like» but it should permit to find leads of reflexion and answers around this subject.
The three main ideologies of the 20th century studied are Progressism, Culturalism and Naturalism. - The first one is aimed to free the human race from its imperfections and servitudes linked to the «industrial city». Hygienists, rationalists or humanists are derived models following the same principles. In other words, this ideology aims to improve human life and his well-being through science. - Culturalism was born from the disappearance of the former organic city-state under the destroying pressure of industrialisation. It was mainly characterized by modest city projects, contrasting with the nature kept wild and following an organic order (irregularity, asymmetry...). Collective life based on democracy was developed in a very specific architecture composed of community buildings re-introducing art in their compositions. Culture and tradition are very important values in this antiindustrial ideology. In comparison with Progressism, Culturalism tries globally to respond to spiritual needs more than material ones.
RESEARCH THESIS /// Urban Utopias’ mutations
ICONS OF PROGRESSISM
Historic review of the main urban ideologies of the 20th century
Too utopian to make urban projects possible, this ideology gives way to Naturalism which tends to defend specific ideological principles : It goes against alienation of men by the industrial city, it advocates contact with nature to permit an harmonious development of people and consider democracy as an ideal state of the society. In a word, it encourages an individualistic and depoliticized society.
ICONS OF NATURALISM
ICONS OF CULTURALISM
- Finally, Naturalism was born from the american anti-urban ideology which was willing to come back to a rural state of the society, defending the image of a wild and virgin nature as well as considering that it would be the only way to guarantee freedom, blossoming and real sociability between men.
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Overview of the main urban ideologies
METROPOLITAN UTOPIAS Grand-Paris, Green New York
HORIZON 2030-2050
2000-2020
TECHNOLOGIC UTOPIAS Dubaï
TECHNOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENTALISM La Grande-Motte
UTOPIAN WAVE OF THE 60’s
TECHNOPOLIS Friedmann/Archigram
ANTHROPOPOLIS Geddes/Mumford
URBANISM
PROGRESSISM Le Corbusier/CIAM
CULTURALISM Howard/Unwin
PRE-URBANISM
PROGRESSISM Fourier
CULTURALISM Riskin/Morris
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION RESEARCH THESIS /// Urban Utopias’ mutations
Between continuity and durability : Sustainibility of the city-network concept
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ECOLOGICAL UTOPIAS Schuiten
ECONOMIC CRISIS
ARCOLOGY Soleri
ESSAYS & PUBLICATIONS Koolhaas
COLD WAR
NATURALISM Wright
PHILOSOPHY OF URBANISM
WORLD WAR II
AMERICAN ANTI-URBANISM Sullivan
PRE-URBANISM WITHOUT MODEL Engels/Marx
WORLD WAR I
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RESEARCH THESIS /// Urban Utopias’ mutations
METROPOLITAN UTOPIAS
NEW ISSUES & PROCESS
NEW PATTERNS & THEORIES
Prospective review The main issue of this work remains in the definition of urban utopias and in their inscription in a global scheme of evolution. Those contemporary utopias seem to have evolved through new patterns and process more complex and less obvious than the icons of the urban utopias of the 20th century presented above, and that’s where is all the interest of the subject. Two main branches can be distinguished nowadays : The ecological utopias and the technologic ones. Even if Culturalism is still existing through communities or groups of people, this ideology is now more considered as a fringe of the society. All in all, it seems like the big challenge of the contemporary metropolitans stands in the association of the two main utopias mentioned before : a metropolis can’t pretend to exist only through its ecological or technological form today.
With the evolution of the society, those utopias come under challenges more complex because responding to larger scales : from the huge challenge (global issue of sustainability) to the very small one (microintervention on daily life, technology of the internet...). Nevertheless, if the contemporary utopian projects try to respect and integrate all the principles of the actual issues of our cities, the architects of utopias have never really got down with the problem of inequality between men, whereas most of those inequalities are concerning their life conditions. So many projects are developed to transform Paris in a connected metropolis, to turn New York into a Green city or to create an energy efficient and low polluting city in the middle of the desert but what is done or drawn for ghettos and the third world ?
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The «Torre David» in Caracas is a beautiful example of what is possible to do in the south hemisphere adapting ourselves to different situations and populations, but it is still an exception in front of all the mediatic flows focusing on utopian projects developed in the northern hemisphere... Are the utopias reserved to an elite ? Will the third world have access one day, to the dream of a «better city, better life» ? (slogan of the universal exhibition of Shanghai in 2010.
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Chantenay
From Misery to Cheviré Urban recovery of the industrial areas of the city
Master project - Year 2 City shapes Sept 2012 > Jan 2013 Tutor : Y-G Dessy & Maelle Tessier Individual project
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We are here working on an individual urban project dealing with a vast territory stretching over the western limit of Nantes (Quarry of Miséry) to the huge Cheviré bridge, last river-crossing before the estuary of the Loire, in Saint-Nazaire. It is a territory mainly industrial and even if some firms remain active in this area, the first feeling is an impression of deserted ground, almost abandoned. This feeling is mainly due to the difficulty for pedestrians and bikes, to access the site and walk around it. The little town centre of Chantenay or the train station seem like the only places where a pedestrian could be welcomed, and this is the starting point of this urban recovery. The idea is to set up a new harbour in the place of the former Crucy’s docks, almost forgotten, and to create a new core connecting the existing town centre, to the train station and to the future harbour. This harbour will attract a new population and will permit to extend the town centre to the river : the idea is now to develop new connections over the river and close to it... so that in the end, Chantenay’s inhabitants will be able to reach the docks again and enjoy a promenade all along the river. New ground connections (public transports, public places) will also be set up so that the territory becomes more reachable and pleasant.
Challenges & opportunities of an industrial territory FOCUS ON THE WESTERN PART OF NANTES
Challenges
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Relancer l’activité portuaire de la cale Crucy pour attirer une nouvelle population
Relancer l’activité portuaire de la cale Crucy pour attirer une nouvelle population
Déplacer le bourg de Chantenay en créant un nouveau centre relié à la gare et au port
Déplacer le bourg de NEW COREen= créant TOWN Chantenay un nouveau centre CENTRE + HARBOUR relié à la gare et au TRAIN STATION port
Challenges of the urban project
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MASTER PROJECT Year 2 /// From Miséry to Cheviré
Redonner accès aux berges de Loire en créant une promenade continue le long des quais
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Areas of opportunities and dynamics of the territory
Urban strategy PUBLIC SPACE
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Green/free space OUTSIDE
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Green/free space INSIDE
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Chronological evolution of space theOUTSIDE urban Green/free project over 10 years space INSIDE 2017
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Relancer l’activité portuaire de la cale Crucy pour attirer une nouvelle population
Relancer l’activité NEW POPULATION portuaire de la cale ATTRACTED BY THE Crucy pour attirer une HARBOUR ACTIVITY nouvelle population
Déplacer le bourg de Chantenay en créant un nouveau centre relié à la gare et au
Déplacer le bourg de Chantenay en créant un nouveau centre relié à la gare et au
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Redonner accès aux berges de Loire en NEW PROMENADE créant une promeALONG THE DOCKS nade continue le long des quais
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Etendre le tissu pavillonaire jusqu’à la Loire et créer des connexions entre rives
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Urban project The urban strategy is based on 4 ideas born from the analysis : -The existing plot is almost mono-oriented (East-West) so the project tries to draw new links and axis to transform the territory into a bi-directional mesh/network -The scale of the existing blocks and building is huge so the idea is to create a smaller plot thanks to back alleys and pedestrian street dividing the blocks.
Masterplan of the urban project
Urban section
MASTER PROJECT Year 2 /// From MisĂŠry to ChevirĂŠ
- The current territory is characterised by its violence and speed, so the idea is to bring back a human scale, separating flows and users. - This area is fragmented and badly connected : the project will provide new hubs and public places between the different spaces and transport areas.
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Amsterdam
Amsterdam Wittenburg
A green way acting as a link through the urban territory
Master project - Year 1 Urbanistica II Valencia Sept 2011 > June 2012 Tutor : Javier Perez Igualada Team : Charlotte Vaxelaire & Lauranne Maurestin
Amsterdam is a city where the water is omnipresent, especially in the northern part of the city where it reaches the sea through the Noordzeekanaal. We are working on this part of the city, in the borough of Wittenburg, quite wealthy, organised around its canals and composed of some important cultural buildings such as the Nemo Science centre. The project developed in this area appears like an urban recovery. Composed of various peninsula and canals, the current area isn’t really easily crossed nor connected in terms of public transport. It drives it as a quite isolated territory even if it is close to the city centre in terms of distance. Therefore, the idea of the project is to think a new urban logic in this area, a way to understand the territory not as a set of peninsula and canals but as a unique urban composition resolving the issues of connection and attractivity. Thus, a green way is developed across the borough welcoming a new tramway line (connected to the existing one) in order to fill the lack of public transport and public green spaces inside the area.
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Along this green line, the urban fabric is transformed or adapted : the ground floors are reserved for shops now open on public places and parks. In the northeast of the area, the existing buildings are quite low and not making really advantage of their situation. They are replaced by a new urban fabric acting as a transition between the public space of the green line and the private space of the semi-collective houses. A kind of peripheric road allows the access of those private areas, keeping the centre car-free.
Analysis & development of the urban project FOCUS ON WITTENBURG BOROUGH ESPACIOS ESPACIOSPUBLICOS PUBLICOS
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Amsterdam es una ciudad donde el agua es omnipresente : podemos ver lo en la mapa al lado con la predominancia del agua en toda parte de la ciudad y sobre todo en la parte del norte donde esta conectada al mar del norte gracias al gran canal. Amsterdam presenta una infraestructura developada y compleja, con muchos espacios verdes. Ademas, tiene un gran diversidad de manzana. El centrro historico de esta ciudad esta organizado de manera radiante con un sistema de edificaciones mas denso en el centro y con un sistema de manzana mas ancho enl a periferia. Por lo que se refiere a nuestro area de proyecto, se situa cerca del centro historico y se limita por el canal y el ferrocarrile en el Norte y Este.
MANZANA TYPO Y ALZADOS
SISTRMA DE TRANSPORTE SISTRMA DE TRANSPORTE
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INSERCION Amsterdam ESCALA 1/20 000
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MASTER PROJECT Year 1 (ETSA Valencia) /// Amsterdam Wittenburg 3/22
Urban recovery
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Parques
Ante todo, la avenida verde es iregular y crea algunas veces plazas minerales y otras, zonas verdes. Asi, la avenida alterna entre zonas de paso y zonas de descanso a los cuales se a単aden otros espacio publico libres para llevar air y vegetacion en el tejido urbano.
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Zonas verdes privadas
Se puede ver diferentes equipamientos colocados de manera equilibrada en el area favoreciendo la mezcla de usos.
El suelo privado se divide entre la edificacion y los espacio libres privados. Este edificacion se compone en planta baja de viviendas o de locales comerciales para que se mezclen los usos. Las plantas bajas comerciales se La situan en general en el lado abierto de la manzana asi que su relacion LEYENDA con el viario es favorecida.
Ante todo, la avenida verde es iregular y crea algunas veces plazas minerales y otras, zonas verdes. Asi, la avenida alterna entre zonas de paso y zonas colocade descanso a los cuales se Se puede ver diferentes equipamientos a単aden dos de manera equilibrada en elotros areaespacio favore- publico libres para llevar ciendo la mezcla de usos.air y vegetacion en el tejido urbano.
Avenida verde
PLANTA GENERAL DEL PROYECTO URBANO
Luego, algunos equipamientos de tipo cultural se Ante todo, la avenida verde es iregular y crea alplantean la extremidad de cada islote para gunas veces plazas minerales y aotras, zonas darles un caracter atractivo. verdes. Asi, la avenida alterna entre zonas de Por fin,ala los escuela remodelada (el edificio era anpaso y zonas de descanso cuales se tiguamente una industria) a単aden otros espacio publico libres para llevar esta directamente conectada al tranvia, dado cuenta de su capaciair y vegetacion en el tejido urbano. dad de atraccion.
Las zonas verdes, al contrario, se La plantean a dentro de las manzanas encerradas por barreras dado cuenta de sus usos privados. Esto permite tambien tener un espacio libre abierto Edificio, planta tipo viviendas sobre los canales lo que transforma los muelles en paseo permeables. Edificios, planta baja
Luego, algunos equipamientos de tipo cultural se ESQUEMA DEislote INFLUENCIA plantean a la extremidad de cada para darles un caracter atractivo. Por fin, la escuela remodelada (el edificio era antiguamente una industria) esta directamente conectada al tranvia, dado cuenta de su capacidad de atraccion.
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Este esquema compositivo general quiere expresar nuestros conceptos de :
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- Una avenida verde con una nueva linea de tranvia que permite la comunicacion este-oeste.
Asi, el proyecto se presenta como una reabilitacion de lo existente en la mayoria del teritorio, y en una nueva composicion urbana en la parte al norte-oeste del area. La unidad del proyecto consiste en el paseo peatonal cruzando todos los islotes desde el este hasta hast el oeste y sobre cual se conecta el resto del viario seguiendo un jerarquia funcional.
- Una nueva organizacion de los edificios que se inspira del Plan Pampus : la avenida verde como una espina central y ramificaciones hasta los bordes. Cada ramificacion coresponde a una entidad con su propia area de influencia. - Una trama ortogonal sacada del trazado de los edificios existentes que organiza el nuevo viario.
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La otra idea principal del proyecto desarollada aqui es las composicion de la parcelacion del area : la relacion entre el espacio publico y el espacio libre privado, y la relacion entre las plantas bajas y el suelo publico.
AREA DE DE INTERACTION Y DE CIRCULACION
Estas plantas bajas son principalmente Esta destinadas a un uso publico. Asi, la avenida verde no es el unico punto de atraccion con sus plazas y jardines, sino que en las puntas de los islotes se colocan tambien equipamientos o lugares publicos para atraer la gente hast hasta alqui.
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SISTEMA DE RAMIFICACION DEL VIARIO PEATONAL
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Avenida verde Se puede ver diferentes equipamientos colocados de manera equilibrada en el area favoreciendo la mezcla de usos.
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PLANTA GENERAL DEL PASEO Amsterdam ESCALA 1/1500
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Parque Diagonal Mar BARCELONA_EMBT ARQUITECTES ASSOCIATS
Banco Rev olutionBENCH MANUEL FILIPPI-FARMAR
Paseo central Para el viario del secundo tipo de manzana hibrida en el islote siguiente, se trata de trabajar con el existente. La idea era de re-organizar el espacio publico de la calle para que el eje sea mas visible y para que se sienta mas la perspectiva desde la iglesia hasta el canal en la extremidad del islote. La seccion de la calle esta compuesta de grandes aceras, de carretera a sentido unico dando la vuelta, de aparcamientos en bateria y del paseo central arbolado.
Main roads
Las aceras tienen una relacion fuerte con La la planta baja de la edificacion privado compuesta principalmente de locales comerciales aqui.
Secondary roads
Paradas de la linea D de tranv ia_HANOVRE DESPANG ARCHITEKTEN Mobiliario urbano del puerto de CARTAGENA
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EQUIPAMIENTOS URBANOS DEL PASEO Amsterdam ESCALA 1/1200
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Requena
Crossroads winery A steel skin over the dry ground
Master project - Year 1 Taller II Valencia Sept 2011 > June 2012 Tutor : Juan Grau Individual project
This studio of the Polytechnic University of Valencia was offering us to study the little town of Requena, 50 km away from Valencia towards Madrid. After working on a wine cellar restoration in the town centre, which permitted us to discover the village, its history and its atmosphere, we were brought to a more specific area, in the country side at just a few kilometers from the town centre on a country lane. In the middle of a vineyard in a quite beautiful landscape, a ruin and an hermitage were standing, separated by a pathway. Motionless as if they were guardians of this territory, and looking down on the river, those two elements brought inspiration and respect to the place. The program consisted in a bodega (winery), including all the stages of wine production, from the grape-harvest to the wine tasting and selling. The first act was to decide where to set up the project in this territory. I decided to implant it on the ÂŤcrossroadsÂť drawn by the pathway coming from Requena (and following toward other lands and vineyards) and the little path going down to the river, more or less perpendicular to the first one. Three buildings emerged like that, enabling the separation of the three stages of wine production : the harvest treatment, grinding of the grape and fermentation - the filtration and ageing of the wine - the bottling, tasting and selling of the wine. All those stages were then divided again in blocks of buildings, inspired by the drawing created on the ground by the drought particularly rough in this area.
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Original concept & development of the winery
A crossroads in the countryside
Hills skyline for roof shape
Underground communication
Views over the landscape
Wine process through the buildings
Challenges of the project
Ground plan of the winery and its surroundings
MASTER PROJECT Year 1 (ETSA Valencia) /// Crossroads Winery
Wine cellar space magnified
Exploded view of the project
Ground floor
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Connection with the ground and the landscape : SECTIONS
MASTER PROJECT Year 1 (ETSA Valencia) /// Crossroads Winery
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Nantes
From the town centre to the river bank Art recovery over left aside territories
Bachelor project - Year 3 Building and living Feb 2011 > June 2011 Tutor : Jean Robein Individual project
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The hillock of Saint Anne is a very particular area : its situation in the city of Nantes (along the river, in front of the island), its museum of Jules Verne, its planetarium and its relief and deep materiality make it one of the very special natural sight seen spot of the city. The cliff rises proudly in front of the river, even if it is constrained between two roads and its scars are like marks of its glorious past : The historical background of the area, mainly industrial, is deeply linked to the shipyard before their closure : this link was physical (transborder bridge) and mental (the inhabitants of this neighborough were mainly working class families living thanks to the shipbuilding industry). The area seem to feel some kind of regrets in regard to those times : the ÂŤstairs of sainte AnneÂť were the theatre of some many events which seem to be gone with the shipyard. The physical heritage of the area, marked by a former geological activity, has turned the site in a very uneven ground where both mineral and vegetable try to express themselves taking advantage of the views. The program of the project taking place in this area was standing in an exhibition hall, houses for artists and a restaurant in order to re-activate the dynamism and the cultural activity of this former town centre. The project developed is using the concept of stairs and promenade in order to resolve the topography issue and to make advantage of the views and panoramas over the city. The imposing urban stairs become the core of the project acting like an amphitheatre and connecting the different parts of the program.
Location & development of the Art Gallery
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BACHELOR PROJECT Year 3 /// From the town centre to the river bank
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Section AA & details
urban stairs
restaurant
houses for artists
upper galleries
parking lot
Urban section BACHELOR PROJECT Year 3 /// From the town centre to the river bank
exhibition hall
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Jordania
O’Badia - ( ةعجنلاهيلإ أجلي ام لك ةعجنلاsarabe) Utopian oasis in the desert of Jordania
Bachelor project - Year 2 Extreme situation Sept 2009 > Jan 2010 Tutor : Michel Bertreux Team : Estelle Durand & Enora Cordier
In a team of 3 students and during 4 months, the main goal of this exercise was to find an «extreme situation» (in terms of climate, geography, or geopolitics...) in a country or a region of the world and to design an architectural utopian answer to the issues raised. Stuck between the geopolitics tensions related to the water issue in the Middle East, and suffering temperatures that can rise till 102 Fahrenheit, Jordania emerges as one of the most vulnerable countries in to drought. Located above an untapped source of dia» as an old caravanserai, emerges in a welcoming place for travellers as well place and investigation centre directly water issues in Middle-East.
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It appears as a mirage under the oppressive heat of the desert and hide an underground oasis providing fresh air and water deep down. In surface, it only suggests its presence through an horizontal layer carefully drilled in order to simulate a snake skin.
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Under that skin, the project is like the Aladdin’s cave, full of the Arabian nights spirit where the walls stretched between the ground and the roof (desert ground) are organising the space composed of platforms and voids.
Location & development of the Oasis
Original concept inspired from a glue experience : Tension between 2 horizontal slabs under the surface of the desert create spaces to live in.
Conceptual section of the project underground
BACHELOR PROJECT Year 2 /// O’Badia - ةعجنلاهيلإ أجلي ام لك ةعجنلا
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Views of the inside of the oasis project
BACHELOR PROJECT Year 2 /// O’Badia - ةعجنلاهيلإ أجلي ام لك ةعجنلا
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PERSONAL & PROFESSIONAL WORKS « A taste of reality.»
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Building permit House expansion in Colombes, September > December 2014
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FHY Architecture & Urbanism One foot into architecture’s reality
Master’s degree internship FHY, Architecture & Urbanism, Paris March 2013 > July 2013 Tutor : Astrid Hervieu & Pierre-Emile Follacci
The master’s degree internship is a very important step in the university education : it allows the students, used to fictional projects, to experiment the reality and the daily life of an architect. I did my internship in Paris, looking carefully for an agency developing both architectural and urban projects in its practice. I also decided to extend the duration (2 months full-time or 4 months part-time mandatory) to 5 months full-time to really make advantage of this experience. During those 5 months, I had the opportunity to work on various projects : - First, on a DCE (consultation file for supply contracts) during 4 months. I worked on details of entrance halls and shared spaces of the collective housing project of Reims Wilson. It enabled me to learn a lot about norms and technical drawing as well as working with other members of the team (engineer, materials companies, real estate company...). -Then, I worked on an Urban Development Zone during 3 months. I participated to every meeting with the councillor, engineers, experts and inhabitants in Bruz (municipality in the south of Rennes). I drew plans, sections, diagrams and looked for references. It was a very enriching experience and I felt really enthusiastic about this inter-disciplinarity that builds the project.
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-Finally, I had the opportunity to work on two urban projects for a few weeks : Arc Nord Est of Reims, an urban development zone for which I mainly worked on the model and the urban plan. And Lausanne-Malley, a redevelopment of a strategic borough of the swiss city. For this project, I worked on diagrams for circulations and public spaces as well as feasibility studies of a block in terms of height and volumetry, in regards to an urban rule, created by the agency.
Collective housing in Reims, France
Entrance Hall C
Location of the blocks of apartments
Detail Hall C - Ground floor
INTERNSHIP /// FHY Architecture & Urbanism
Detail Hall C - First floor
Main facade of the Beethoven project (N-E)
Sections AA & BB on the Hall C
Sections CC & DD on the Hall C
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Urban development zone - Bruz (Rennes)
Croix-Madame area
Rosiers area
Train station area
INTERNSHIP /// FHY Architecture & Urbanism
Train station area : Guide plan
Rosiers & Croix-Madame area
Height of new buildings
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Urban development zone on 2 scales
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Reims 2020 (City scale) mobility diagram
green areas diagram
general diagram 2020
Reims 2009
Reims 2020
Arc North East (local scale project)
INTERNSHIP /// FHY Architecture & Urbanism
Feasibility study on the urban redevelopment of Lausanne-Malley
Tower configuration
‘25 m high rule’ configuration
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‘28 m high rule’ configuration
Axonometric diagram of the project
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From the first plans to the first stone
Building Permit Private family Colombes (Paris) Nov 2014 > Jan 2015 Team : Manuel Filippi Farmar
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This project was my first own project as an architect. We met this french family looking for an architect in Barcelona and we proposed our services for their house extension. We went to see the house and we measured up all the existing walls and floors so that we would be able to draw the existing plans of the house (they didn’t have any reliable documents). Then we began to sketch a project, trying to follow their will and our conscience of architects : They asked us a roof terrace (without any access on the roof but flat) but designing such a parallelepiped volume on an existing one, we realized it was more similar to a container than to a nice bedroom. At the same time, they asked us a huge bay window to get as much light as possible but it seemed quite strange for us to put a bay window with great dimensions in front of a matrimonial bed and bathroom (they wanted the bathroom open on the bedroom). So we worked on a compromise : we developed the extension in regard to the villa facade more than the parallelepiped block down, the roof was now following the same double slope as the main facade roof and this new volume permits to set up huge windows in the angle so that they are high enough to guarantee a minimum of intimacy for the couple. They loved it and we are currently drawing technical plans & section and choosing with them all the interior and exterior materials
Concept and development of the extension Volume study
Existing first floor
Transformed first floor
JOB /// Building permit for a house extension in Paris
Sections DD & EE
Sections CC & facade
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Views of the interior & exterior of the project Structural approach
JOB /// Building permit for a house extension in Paris
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A Library 2.0 in Copenhagen
International competition AWR (Architecture Workshop in Rome) : CPH Modern Library Sept 2014 > Nov 2014 Team : Monica Palosz & Manuel Filippi Farmar
What is a Library 2.0 ? The first definition was thus : a Library 2.0 should be defined as a digital repository of information and at the same time as a place for people to meet and share. We chose to work with this concept of digital repository but without forgetting its physical aspect (books) acting like a base for any library and defending the idea that we can’t build the future without foundations. Following this idea, the library becomes a double face element combining a traditional book library and a digital, interactive and virtual library. About the area, as the project is located just on the edge between the historic part of the city (royal residence, Nyvahn old port, little mermaid) and the new modern architectural waterfront’ icons (theatre, opera), we easily came to a double face situation too : the project should use both traditional and modern assets of its location. We started to design a cubic element allowing a good integration in the regular and orthogonal urban fabric of the area. Its back facade quite traditional and closed helps to support this idea. The two lateral facades are more dynamic with huge stairs attracting people to the main platform. Then the main facade more open and transparent puts the inside floating cube on a performance stage and create a dialog with the other waterfront buildings.
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Various ways of using the building are permitted thanks to the concept of a nucleus kept in a floating box concentrating all the knowledge on both sides of its walls, available to everyone. This idea of taking a traditional library with bookcase, workspaces and computer areas and turning it into a central gravity point with free spaces all around available for library users and citizens passing by, transforms the building into a real attractive element of the cityscape on both urban and cultural levels.
Location of the area and plans of the project
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Concept of the library & volumetric study
Traditional library
Reversed library
Point of energy
Axonometric section of the project
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Concentration of knowledge
Views of the different spaces of the library CuBog - a cube for books (Bog = book in danish)
55° 41’ 05’’ N 12° 35’ 46’’ E A new landmark in Copenhagen’ skyline
COMPETITION /// CuBog - a library 2.0 in Copenhagen
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Nantes / Rennes
The urban mobilities metamorphosis How to turn a road infrastructure into a wonderful place ? Student competition Audiar (Rennes) : «Ca bouge dans le périurbain» (Let’s move the peri-urban areas) Pascal Amphoux studio (first design of the project) Sept 2010 > Jan 2011 Competition project March 2011 > June 2011 Team : Enora Cordier & Thomas Bourdaud
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Located on a highway interchange in the north of Nantes’ Metropolis, this project is based on a prospective vision of what could become a road infrastructure transforming our ways of moving in the city. It also raises questions about the use of those infrastructures : they generate a huge consumption of urban space most of the time transformed in neglected territories, abandoned and landlocked. Here, the creation of a new crossing from one side to the other tends to offer a safe area for pedestrian and bikes. At the same time, a car-park aims to reduce the flows entering the city turning it into positive soft mobilities or public transport movings. Then a drive-in cinema and an observatory attempt to turn those kinetic flows into attractive activities. And finally, a concert hall emerges to gain attractivity through cultural activity. The promenade linking all those programs together permits an easy access to this area of the city re-discovered : we can now get there thanks to a Periway Station taking place on the crossing above the ring road now welcoming a new tram line taking the path around the city.. All those projects put together, organised around the promenade structuring the flows, rhythms and users, are supposed to bring back a human scale in this aggressive, car-dominated territory : the promenade becomes the focal point of different temporalities and also a place for intermodality. A utopian scenario for a dynamic project. A human kinetic movement connected to a renewed urban territory.
How to take advantage of a fragmented but dynamic territory ? Fonctional, sensible & social analysis of the site
Location of the project on the Northern entrance of Nantes (peripheric ring) TE ES GA
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Temporal transect of the urban project
COMPETITION /// The Harmful Wonder - Urban’s mobilities metamorphosis
Challenges & development of the urban project
THE JUKEBOX
A new pedestrian place & interactive concert hall
THE PERIWAY STATION RĂŠequilibrer la cohabitation des usages
An Urban promenade & mobilities’ observatory
THE OPEN LOOP
A parking lot generator of new kind of mobilities
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Developments of the Periway station project Masterplan of the station
Diagram, model & exploded view
Section AA
Section BB
COMPETITION /// The Harmful Wonder - Urban’s mobilities metamorphosis
Pedagogic development of the project and urban posting
Extracts of the board game created to promot the project
Advertisement of the Periway
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Human bodies discovering architectural spaces
Workshop built by Arnaud Theval Ensa Nantes & Dilecta publishing house (Paris) Jan 2010 > Sept 2010
As the very first generation of students in the new architecture school of Lacaton-Vassal, we were brought by this visual art studio to discover the building and its various architectural spaces through a camera catching human bodies. The first anecdotal shots turned, little by little, into thematic pictures where the bodies were discovering and playing with the big empty spaces of the school. Light and shadow, materiality and abstraction, inside and outside, upside down, we figured out by ourselves how many possibilities could offer such a building. The photographic exercise evolved and was transformed into a workshop, so that the richness of the pictures taken, did not end locked in a hard-disk. A group was created and we began to collect pictures, to select and organise it in order to create a book that would make sense, that would translate an experience : it was a path across the school through its students’ eyes, each one trying to show something different, some ways to play with the building or to use it in its own way. The publishing house Dilecta joined us and helped us to make this project possible. The book «Nouveau(x)» came out in Libraries on the 30rd of September of 2010. We organised a conference, and even a launch ceremony. An exciting adventure which has shown how, the students’ look on a building they almost live in is worth considering and can be as rich as any article in an architectural magazine.
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Extracts from the book and moments of the workshop
Extracts from the serie ÂŤVertigo in weightlessnessÂť
WORKSHOP /// Human bodies discovering architectural spaces
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