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Jordan Aucant Architect | Urban Planner
Jordan Aucant
Architect | Urban Planner | aucantj@gmail.com
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«The human condition has never stopped to get improve thanks to a sequence of successes and of fails, developing a continuum of knowledge and technique. Despite, it seems that we reach a gridlock. As architects, we start our careers in a crisis point for economy and ecology. It’s a bit frustrating to know that we have some alternatives that can be set up. Maybe it’s not the time to do less, but to do better.»
Jordan Aucant is a young european architect. From his experiences in Paris, Rotterdam and Berlin, he tries to reach an european practical experience for Architecture and Urban Planning. On every travels, he updates a database of references and experiences of beautiful sites all across the continent from Helsinki to Porto. Europe seems to be a network of cities with singular identities rather than countries with borders. Since 2008, he’s often teamed up with Lola Marlhoux for research and competitions in a collective named «Continuum». It operates on every subject, first, by revealing the existing potential of sites. Beyond the expectations, the new project needs to enhanced the current framework: Buildings, Population, Landscape, Programme and Data. This method also aims to work crosswisely on any scales, from a metropole analysis to the details of a building. He lives currently in Berlin.
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Jordan Aucant Architecte | Urbanist - Diplomé d’état Born the 3rd of October 1986 in Limoges (fr) Master degree in 2009 4 Years of experiences in FR | DE | NL offices Single, no children
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Personal works :
ENSACF/ Continuum
Clermont Ferrand/Paris/Berlin - Since November 2008 ENSACF In the middle of Massif central’s old volcanoes, in a exceptional natural framework, The National Gratuate School of Clermont Ferrand (ENSACF) holds 80 teachers and 600 students. The school is a place for cross-questions opened to the gobal practice. Besides learning some tools from practicing project, the student must be aware of what make society. It can’t give a reason to his works beyond the simple question of form and function. For the master diploma, the school propose to focus on one field of application. One of them called, EVAN (Entre Ville Architecture et Nature - Between City, Architecture and Landscape) prepare the student to work crosswisely on any scales, from european metropole analysis like Berlin, to the details of a building. Continuum Since 2008, I’m often associate with Lola Marlhoux for competitions and research in a collective named «Continuum». This practice is concerned by operating on every subject by revealing the existing potential of sites first. Beyond the expectations, the new project need to deeply include the framework which is already there: Buildings, Population, Landscape, Programmes and Datas.
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In between typologies Berlin is, by far, a city where it’s comfortable to live. There is void between blocks, the public spaces are large and the living conditions are surrounded with green and nature. The most representative typology we can find here is the inner courtyard city block. It’s a historical way to build in Berlin. The chosen area of Zoologischer garten is very typical for a Berliner challenge. It’s a huge void that stayed inbuilt for decades. This type of leftover land that is difficult to apprehend. By contradiction, the area is very busy. The close Kurfürstendamm is a well-known deluxe shopping street. It’s a crowded area for tourist and local. It’s difficult to believe that our site stayed very quiet all this years, behind all the density and the busyness. Another major fact to consider is this immediate proximity with Tiergarten.
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2014
Phylogenesis
Berlin (DE)
Behind the concept of the architectural promenade there is this idea of discovery by exploration. More you walk, more you discover the resources of the museum. This sensitive exploration is increased by the change of status of the space of different rooms and in between. The three dimensional measures of rooms are different, from simple to triple height, from narrow corridors to large exhibition storeys. The exploration continues through the walk the museum. It makes the Visitors traveling from space to space, from theme to theme. As he goes all over the museum, he climbs over the building at the same time. The path ends with a dramatic large window. This opens toward a beautiful view over Tiergarten and the skyline of Berlin.
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Idea competition
Architecture, Museum of Natural History,‌ 2,5 Ha 23000 m2 programme Partnership Continuum with Lola Marlhoux And Christophe Desvignes
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AWR Competition
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Rediscover of the river environment As a mechanism with gears of various sizes, the strategy articulates various project scales from geography to detail. As a clock, localized actions in the context will set a mechanism in motion, progressively transforming neighbourhoods. Those city pieces complementarily linked together. The aim is to make a city that leans on each of its pieces to work properly. If one piece doesn’t fit in the gearing the city would work nonetheless –as it always has– but less efficiently. The adaptability of a particular gear will rely on its quality and its function. The Axe-Seine great aspiration is to make the territories and the economies of the valley collaborate. Rouen is confirmed in its metropolitan ambition with a new high-speed train station coming with a large program of offices and activities. The city must take advantage of such a move. Which local projects or needs could
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2013
Rouages
Rouen (FR)
be set in motion with the arrival of such an urban development? Considering the existing building stock, the project identifies decrepit places and repairs them gently rather than wiping them out. Reshaping them could lead to original dwellings. Intervening on the existing buildings will prepare for the transplant of new programs in those areas. Those programs would thus appear more like a complement to an imperfect situation than a colonizer willing to take its place. The environment comes with efficient public spaces, large and airy. People that chose a collective and urban living would find there some real gardens, animated by the lively ground floor activities of housing or office buildings.
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Open competition Masterplan , Public space, Landscape, TGV,… 35 Ha Partnership Continuum with Lola Marlhoux And Maëna André
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Ville de Rouen Europan France
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Balance between ressources and needs Wittenberge developed during the industrialization a varied urban potential in the middle of the field scenery and along the river Elbe. The urban structure remained even after the industrie left after the German reunification.
Kindergarten
Kindergarten
Steintor
Alte Burg
The village on the river Elbe laid exactly between two very important cities and became a connection point because of the first railroad bridge over the Elbe. The evolution of the railway as an important mean of transportation linked with the riverine traffic made Wittenberge the ideal location for a port, a railwaystation and industrial development respectively. The city is already educationally and culturally strong established: cinema, cultural center, cultural events, museums, festivals ‌
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2013
Room on demand
Wittenberge (DE)
It also has several large industrial zones that could be converted. As an example we already have the training center, the old oil mill. Singer industrial area is ideal for a more industrial use, which will re-develop together with the port expansion.
Type: Open competition - Preselected
We are aware that it has architectural potential which is not only valid for facility buildings‌The empty houses in the city must have an important role in the conversion movement due to renovation, new construction, ...
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Themes: Masterplan , Rehab Warehouses,...
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6 Ha
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Partnership Continuum with Lola Marlhoux And Anna Kusniereck Wittenberge municipality Europan 12 Deutschland
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Do you see the potential of the suburbs? City centres tend to display a consistent, identifiable and consequently homogenous style, as architects envision a similarly homogenous population. But such artistic signatures and great gestures seldom acknowledge the pre-existing structures the public is already familiar with. This project therefore aims to identify exactly those structures which promise the most potential to be transformed into public spaces – places of interaction with and in the urban landscape. We perceive architecture as a generative power to create such communicative channels. While the project approaches each situation individually, as in a clockwork each step influences the next, giving the overall structure shape and consistency as time progresses. In the 1960s suburbs all over Europe were developed as clusters of individual houses or as larger estates – and Islev as well as Rodøvre are
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2011
Connecting Borders
Europan 11 - Islev, Rødovre (DK) no exception in this respect. Today the uncontrolled spreading of the suburban communities has become a central concern and urban planning has consequently placed a special focus on the establishment of natural preserves and parks to counterbalance the urban sprawl. A similar aim is pursued by renaturation programmes which open up the sealed ground. We suggest a compromise between individual housing and larger estates by drawing continuations between these two habitations. By acknowledging the interests of the local population we aim to transform the community cautiously and with respect for these interests.
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Open competition - Shortlisted
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Masterplan , Public pace, Lanscape, Suburbs,... 17 Ha
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Partnership Continuum with Lola Marlhoux Rødovre municipality Europan Denmark
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Develop places which have been forgotten Treptow-Köpenick area is marked by three elements of its history and geography. The territory is situated where the river Spree enter the city, it’s a unique landscape. Then, the area was part of East-Germany. When the Berlin Wall fell a lot of industries became wasteland, production decrease and people get unemployed. But more recentely, one of the university of Berlin, the renowned Humboldt Universität, decided to move close to Schöneweide on the Adlershof Campus. His presence will bring a lot a person, compagny and dynamism. We find a site between the S-Bahn Schöneweide station, a inner-city highway and the river Spree. A very representative 18 Ha void which seems to be forgotten by the urban environment.
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2009
Knotenpunkt/Knotpoint/Nœud
Schöneweide,Treptow, Berlin (DE)
Our team elaborate a strategy by combining some sociological datas (unemployment, people transportation, …) with some characteristics of the site (industrial heritage, living close of the riverside,...). It creates 5 different projects on 5 very specific locations, solving the problems one by one. We notice that each project needs the others to work together. This strategy in this area operates like a clockwork.
Type: Urban project for Master Diploma
One of this 5 projects aims to give a second chance to unemployed people by creating a vocational training campus into a beautiful old brewery complex. The challenge became a real chance to change this maroon site on an optimistic place to all people around. An also it was an opportunity to work on a project which will mix contemporary architecture and heritage.
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Themes: Masterplan , Industry fallow, Territory, Infrastructure, ,... Size:
23 Ha
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With Lola Marlhoux, Camille Barbier and Nicolas Fraysse
Professors: Frédéric Bonnet, Christophe Boyadjian, Yvan Okotnikoff, ...
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Make a public path through a building The vocational training campus is a huge complex, its buildings can be seen from far and on the contrary, it offer views on all the surroundings. To avoid creating a mono-programmatic district, our strategy proposed to install a public equipment on the river bank: Culture combined with Education. The Media & Kulturforum become integrate in this campus of massive objects, even if its style is different. Yesterday, the facade of the brewery was made of some ornamental bricks. Nowadays, the building is covered by a continuous patterned skin which give to it a monolitic aspect. This building metaphorically shows different entities stacked together, with an fluent organisation of big programs between them. For example, the auditorium works as an entity, such as the restaurant, the exibition room or the media storage: Inside these, you’re focus on the program. The voids in between are
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2009
KulturMediaForum
Arts center and Library - Schöneweide, Berlin (DE)
opened, there are a reception, a Café and a workplace: These places catch the daylight and they allow views onto the urban landscape outside.
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From outside, a cantilever over the promenade invites you to come in. When you go through the building, you don’t feel like locked inside. Actually, thanks to the ramps between the levels you’ve crossed a succession of different sequences. And before you notice it, you’ve been from the public space to the top of the roof and back to the public space. It’s like if the interior of the forum were on your way on a walk along the riverside.
Themes: Forum, Arts center, Industry fallow, Campus, Learning center,...
Architectural project for Master Diploma - A Level with highest honours
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5 Ha campus area 8 000 m2 program
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Individual Professors: Xavier Bonnaud, Phillippe Thuillier, Yvan Okotnikoff, ...
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Testify a great cultural event inside an outstanding landscape. Lonna Island belongs to Suommenlina’s archipelago in the Helsinki’s bay. This place, in the middle of the bay, isn’t in the center of the concerns. Suommenlinna’s governance wants to do something with the small island Lonna to preserved his abandoned russian military heritage. So they took part of the ACCR competition. Our main idea is simple: Each year, we invite a famous archi-star, and offer him to construct an experimental pavillon, in the same time, we use his celebrity to make the event famous. The project works on different levels of curiosity. In fall, The pavillion is under construction, in winter, the pavillion is complete but the island is prisoner of the frozen sea. And in spring time, willing visitors can land on Lonna for visiting the island.
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2008
Continuum
Museum for temporary Architecture
-Suommenlina, Helsinki (FI)
Meanwhile, Lonna Island needs a witness of past pavilions made through the years. An impressive wooden structure, plugged on two old military buildings, becomes a timeline museum and also a 360° path to discover the landscape around. As the visitor goes along the structure, windows make him focused on such-and-such elements of the bay, the hight under the ceiling increasing or decreasing gives him new sensations on each step he makes.
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On Year one, the museum is empty except the large window opened onto the actual pavilion. After twenty years, the visitor can look over a complete exhibition in this barn about temporary architecture.
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School project Museum , Heritage, Pavilon, Tourism, Island,...
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1 Ha island 5 000 m2 programmes
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With Lola Marlhoux Frédéric Bonnet, Yvan Okotnikoff
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Reveal the great potential of a territory with a single object On the first sightseeing of the site, your eye can be enticed by a barn settled on the ridge line. As you go along the way to this barn, the time increase your curiosity. But when you stand close to this massive object, you realized that is nothing else than a ordinary barn, which disappoints you. A more interesting program can fit perfectly with this specific location. A noble object will enhance the unique view and will justify the walk till there. The project intents to built a gourmet restaurant instead of the barn and besides to rebuilt a decent cowshed on a right place. A dual contrast emerge from this rural warehouse with the high quality french restaurant. One is precious and needs a lot of material and effort. On the contrary, the second is plain and needs less energy.
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2008
For another countryside
Restaurant - Malvières, Clermont-Ferrand (FR) Situated on the ridge line, the restaurant had to go further with the concept of visual signal. The idea of a massive and attractive object is still here like with the barn in the past, but now, the mass seems to be floating above the ground. The view on the vernacular territory is framed by the wood of the ceiling and the concrete of the floor. The restaurant and the bar are settled on the first floor, in this inbetween. Upstairs, the wood block is occupied by the kitchen and privates lounges which give more intimity. The same view as downstairs in now filtered by wood, exept for the lounges on both ends of the block opened onto a second spectacular view.
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School project Restaurant , Cowshed, Rural territory, Material,...
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700 m2 + 400 m2
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Individual Frédéric Bonnet, Boris Bouchet,
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www.paysages.net List of awards, prizewinners and nominations: «Grand Prix de l’Urbanisme» nominees (2010), Grand Prix Auguste Perret -Le Havre’s dockyard (2009), médaille de l’Académie d’Architecture Française - urbanisme (2008), «Palmarès des jeunes urbanistes» winners (2005), Prix grand public de l’architecture (2000), Europan 3 winners (1994)
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BU R+1
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BU R+1
4000 m² enseignement - vie étu accueil R+1
Works with OBRAS Architectes 15 Employees - Paris - November 2009 to May 2012
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Marc Bigarnet and Frédéric Bonnet work together since 1993. The Europan 3 competition, which later has been completed with el parque de la Ereta, is their first practice in common. After 10 years of partnership, they created «Obras» located in Paris (FR) and Lyon (FR). Small scale projects and land development plans coexist among the office’s newest references. Whatever the project’s scale, material meets territory, site refers to geography. A park for Le Havre dockyard, major public spaces in Bordeaux, Saint-Etienne and Montreux, a university campus in Toulouse and some important urban development plans around Paris are part of the projects, in which Obras worked on. The office aims to merge the nowadays practices - mobility, network, leisure, shopping - with the support of the geography, concerned with optimal uses inherited from the past. The practices allow a progressive ownership around a shared project from the early phase by a thematic approach of choices to do.The contemporary mutations of sites beautifully shaped by years, where now the nature is the center of concerns, are the conditions for Obras to define what could be a sustainable development.
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Transforming derelict infrastructure into a real potential Do we have the possibility to invest here, on a major regional infrastructure, to enhance at the same time the local communities’ living conditions, the links from the Seine river’s loop to an other, the riversides’ qualities and to host a worldcity ambition? It is an elementary issue and yet simple. Simple but original, past experiments show us how investments at a global scale denied neighborhood’s realities and their inhabitants and they could never count on each other. This is the first matter of «le faisceau», a French word to describe here a heavy network of infrastructures, with the ideas of linking, sharing, converging: All in all, It hosts all scales of the project together.
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2010
Le Faisceau
Paris-La Défense, Nanterre, ... (FR)
Within nowadays-metropolitan changes, there is here a «test», which is urban, but mainly led by the politics domain. Which partnerships, which decisions, step by step, can reshape this area, delete its scars and host an ambitious development, respecting the site? Why the economic expansion cannot guarantee a quality of life, also a city more equitable, where everybody can blend in and can find an «Urban delight». The bet here is an urban invention, which can bring closer economy and city’s enjoyment. Make of the acquired wealth a chance, beyond numbers and assessments.
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Invited Competition
Themes:
Masterplan , Buisiness district, Landscape, Infrastructure, Transport, ...
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160 Ha
XL
Team: Obras Architectes Yvan Okotnikoff, Project leader + 3 emp. Client:
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Etablissement Public d’Aménagement de la Défense et Seine Arche
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Compose urban space through an object, central to city flows and uses The gallery plays an important part in the overall reorganization of Place de l’Hôtel de Ville (the city hall square) and Place Dorian. It is the major component of the development planning Coeur de Ville (heart of the city) in Saint-Etienne. The project is about composing the public space in the classical meaning of the word. It is set up in the major perspective. Aligned with rue Gérentet, it shapes an equivalent to the gorgeous lime trees row along the rue du Président Wilson. The gallery emphasizes the guidelines on which the whole urban project takes shape. It is not a single object, laid on the ground but is strategically placed on the grid plan that organises each element of the public space. First of all, this construction will be the witness for changes in SaintEtienne city centre. The square that was, so far, rather silent and restricted to its institutional representation status is to become a lively place. The activity cannot
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2010-2012
Coeur de Ville
Glass Gallery - Saint-Etienne (FR)
be still confined to the sides of the urban square but must colonise the whole public space. The building scale and the activities it will shelter will allow for a better appropriation of the whole area. The gallery is designed as a coloured glass sculpture, kaleidoscopic in daylight and glowing suspension at night. The gallery aims to multiply situations and appropriations. The materiality of the project is not only chosen for its esthetic qualities but it stands as a demonstration of the local know-how as it has been design directly with the glass craftsmen of the historical Verrerie de Saint Just, just out of Saint Etienne.
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Commission
Themes:
Urban development, Public Space , Architecture, ...
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750 m2
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Team: Obras Architectes Yvan Okotnikoff, Project leader Jordan Aucant, Project officer
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Ville de Saint-Etienne
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Include a territorial project deeply in the plot regulation Anglet enjoys a favorable image: The ocean, the pine-trees, the countryside, the garden heritage, etc. But there is also the private gardens and housing quality based on the vegetation omnipresence that generates the image of a «city delight». The city of Anglet is aware of its life’s quality. The urban vision for this beginning of the 21th century is to find an obvious connection between the green frame, the need for moving city - where there is a large variety of services and animations- and today’s transportation (to propose an alternative to the car). This quality does not exist by itself; the newest evolutions, about green corridors, efficient buildings and transportation networks, spoil the primary qualities: parks get smaller, fields are turned into suburbs, traffic increases, etc.
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2009-2012
Local development plan Anglet (FR)
The city planning code (PLU) is developed at the city scale. But the residents, like those who work there, do their shopping or relax have different backgrounds: what happens in the municipality also concern the population of the entire conurbation. This must be a city, which integrates itself in every governance dimension. It helps to anticipate the urban area’s development. This interesting matter interferes with everyday life: it’s important to link the city’s project with all the regional scales.
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In the end, the geography’s legibility appears mainly lost. Natural environments are affected by urbanization, including the unorganized urban sprawl in the valley, which leads to the effects on flood risks we know about. The territorial project must get along with the topography, land’s nuances. Finding again a «green frame» is a major issue.
Team: Obras Architectes Yvan Okotnikoff, Project leader Jordan Aucant, Project officer + 1 emp.
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Commission
Territory vision , City vision, PLU, PADD, Urban regulation, ...
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Client:
27 km2
XXL
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Ville d’Anglet , ACBAA
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Turn environmental requirements and rules into a benefit for the landscape From a village to a neighborhood, a great urban district, the riverside, the Île de Nantes, Nantes, surrounding communes, Bas-Chantenay, to the metropolis, … one of the site’s specificity is to be multi-scalar. It is an opportunity to merge different economies, contrasted lifestyles and a diversity of transportation. The «mixed-use program», that we sometimes need in urban studies, is potentially already here. All we have to do is to reinforce the activity and improve housing areas. We already knew that the existing conditions (already built programs, environmental requirements and planning rules) are deeply anchored. Moreover, some restricted parcels, like those from the slaughterhouse, impose a waiting time. This time can be turned into a benefit, as it was for the area of the Île de Nantes : to avoid a basic urban development disconnected from the river landscape and ignoring this strong geographic structure.
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2012
From Pirmil to the Islands Rezé, Nantes (FR)
To live in the town but also in the nature, to work in a pleasant setting is part of the nowadays strongest urban aspirations. And this idea is utterly matching the site. We can find back the river bank on both sides and the historical green corridors of Rezé: the layout of past geological streams and islands is revealed.
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It seems essential to bring back this green continuities. Studying them, we can use all the parameters given by the site (subsoil, urban structure,..) to extend the river landscape across the border made by the Route de Pornic. Thus, this will settle a strong natural structure. This structure can include some quiet dwellings and community facilities. That seems a good lead.
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Definition study
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Riverscape, masterplan, feasibility study, phasing, ... 80 ha
Team: Obras Architectes Yvan Okotnikoff, Project leader + 3 emp. Client: Nantes Métropole, Nantes Aménagements
XL
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Reshaping an loosened urban tissue by the void and landscape Every built form is different, but all oriented towards the site’s great central void. In other words, every living space should have a close relationship with the landscape: sensible and generous openings (for the North side windows), loggias or balconies (when facing West and South). Housing could be new to the site, but we do not consider it as a handicap. Why should we consider housing necessarily located outside the campus? Housing once was close to workplaces. Why this distance today? Why can’t we simply get to work walking?
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3500 m²
BU R+1
3500 m²
BU R+1
4000 m² enseignement - vie étu accueil R+1
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Nowadays, the mobility creates a number of behaviors. A matter like «Is it possible to combine the time to get to work and our everyday life needs?» is the question that everyone is asking. This interface is now well integrated in cities knowledge for public transportations: everyone understands that a railway station or a metro station can be an important place, which deserve a particular care, and require specific facilities and services (newsdealer, coffees, bicycle sheds, etc.).
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Eurasanté Lille (FR)
Building use around Eurasanté is mainly focused in the relationship between offices and health firms. But, visitors, employees have needs as well, not only for transportation and canteens. This approach has two benefits: It brings diversity program and use wise. Indeed, some activities are cost-efficient only if they are stretched during daytime, but with a different target at noon and in the evening. This is normally the case of restaurants, sport centers, etc. But, it could also be the case of swimming pools, which could benefit schools and employees during the week, and locals on evenings and weekends. This «abundance» which takes into account all the cycles during a day, and enhances public and private investments, is a condition of sustainability too : more effects for a specific effort.
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Definition study
Themes:
Masterplan, Architecture adviser, Hospital, ...
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120 ha
Team: Obras Architectes With «Alfred Peter»representative Jordan Aucant, Project leader Client:
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LIlle Métropole
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Sustainability as a method beyond tricks and tools This project is open: it can be adaptable, because sustainability is mainly a matter of methods and interoperating. It needs at the same time: to predict (for example: keeping free land in the long term), to measure out a critical mass and to give a certain «freedom» to the project, for a progressive settlement. We don’t think that a «Sustainable quarter» have authority, like the modern planning in the 20’s-30’s, to impose a new urban figure which, by contrast, make less qualitative the existing resources. This is the principal problem of today’s prototypes (like Vauban (DE)). The project is pragmatically led, taking advantages from the existing conditions, to let the project open. This masterplan leans on a very contextual interpretation, related to Saint-Amandles-Eaux own location. Developing this area (from resources, «savoir-faire», transport, industrial locations, etc.) is part of development process. Building here is a benefit, it’s all about methods, and it creates architecture, landscape and public space.
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2010
Sustainable quarter
Saint-Amand-les-Eaux, (FR) Besides, the district confirms a breathing and dynamic city, which balances nature and density, animated public realm and relationship with the great landscapes around. The quality of life it brings, is more diverse and interesting: It’s the city + the countryside + the landscape. This unbuilt area brings a better continuity between natural environments, enhancing biodiversity. The nature here is also found in pounds and canals, which justify the city’s name. Water, a guideline for the conception, is the starting point for landscape.
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In the project, the train station is no longer an intermodal hub, it becomes a real centrality. Now, convenience shops and services have appeared. It is an important central point, but also a place to live, well connected with the surroundings.
Team: Obras Architectes Yvan Okotnikoff, Project leader + 2 emp. Client: Communauté d’Agglomération Porte du Hainaut
Invited competition - 1rst Prize
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Masterplan , Sustainability, Lanscape, Train Station,... 46 Ha
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What should be the link between “La Seine” and the park? What will be visual perception of the river «Seine» from the park? How to open dwellings and offices on this green breath, situated 7m above the ground? How to get a continuity for footpaths between the riverside and the city center of Clichy? To answer this issue, the new district is organized around a few great principles. It takes advantage of some potentials and requirements of the landscape, the proximity of the river, the new park, … It uses the different ground levels, where are situated the gasometers. This topography induces some situations of belvedere towards both the river and to the skyline. The district aims to link the neighborhoods by diversifying the housing supply and intensifying the inner-city network of infrastructures and green mobility, displaying usual urban shapes, all orientated towards the large landscape. Three skyscrapers distance
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2007-2012
ZAC du bac d’Asnières et de Valiton Petit Clichy-la-Garenne (FR)
each other : one is situated on the south side of the park, the two others frame the Asnières’s bridge on the riverside. Eventually, it completes the supply of facilities for the city: schools, community center, play fields, a park, and convenience shops. The matter of graphic representation is essential. As the urban planner of the urban development zone (ZAC), we try to look seriously the urban project as far as its architectural details. We brung every actors to confirm all principles for building the project. It was a condition to make a coherent whole.
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Commission
Themes: Masterplan, Urban Advising, Architecture Advising, Towers ... Size:
160 000 m2 programmmes
Team: Obras Architectes Jordan Aucant, Project leader Client:
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SEM 92
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Works with DeZwarteHond. 70 Employees - Rotterdam - May 2008 to October 2008
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De Zwarte Hond is a design consultancy under the direction of Jeroen de Willigen, Willem Hein Schenk, Eric van Keulen and Jurjen van der Meer. The company was established in 1985 in Groningen (NL) and has offices in Rotterdam (NL) and Cologne (DE) and a staff of seventy people with differing backgrounds, competencies and skills. The integral design and realisation of architecture, urban assignments and landscape issues is carried out in multi-disciplinary teams. De Zwarte Hond’s challenges spans the entire spectrum of residential, working and recreational environments in rural and urban contexts: from villa to serially-constructed housing, from office design to business park, from cultural facilities to recreational landscape. The world of urban design and architecture must adapt to a changing society. De Zwarte Hond focuses not only on buildings and the built environment but also, specifically on people. Actively involving users and clients in a brief breaks through conventional thinking, it saves energy, it discovers creative opportunities jointly and everyone remains inspired during the design process. This, in combination with unceasing passion to realise ideas, leads to achieving the ultimate objective: creating a better residential, living and working environment. The office define itself as a Dutch Realist.
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Incorporate new houses and enterprises in the region Copenhagen is an attractive and dynamic city which is rapidly expanding and changing. By 2025 the numbers of inhabitants will have grown by 45.000. The city faces several challenges how to realize these new developments. In recent years increased commuting in the region has put the infrastructure under great pressure. By 2025 car traffic will be up for 30-40% if nothing will be done to prevent it. Nordhavnen is intented to counter the trend to increased commuting in the region and facilitate new housing and enterprises. Because of the close proximity of the inner city, Nordhavnen can set new standards on sustainable urban development and put Copenhagen on the global map of leading environmental metropolis. In order to meet these ambitions, two conceptual elements which together form the heart of the proposal: a waterfront for a metropoltan scale and a Water network as a core structure for urban planning The eastern waterfront of Nordhavnen is linked with the inner city of Copenhagen by a series of iconographic bridges which together form a powerful connection between new and old Copenhagen. A scenic route through various public spaces along the
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2008
Blue Veins
Nordhavnen, København (DK) waterside will stimulate people to either walk, cycle or use the public transport. The waterfront promenade will be one continuous carpet of vivid mixed programs such as city beaches, museum, hotels, offices and housing, sports and events. Stretching from the cruisers terminal to Island Brygge and even further to Sydhavnen, the promenade will be a true landmark in Copenhagen. It will become a significant part of more sustainable lifestyle of the people of Nordhavnen. To make Nordhavnen sustainable the constant temperature of the surounding water is used to generate energy. The existing docks are perforated in order to let water reach deep into the urban fabric. New and exciting network of canals, docks and marina’s will form a firm casco on which the new city is built. Furthermore the water will be of an additional value for all the new neighbourhoods and the public space. Water not only improves the image of Nordhavnen and makes it sustainable, it also enriches the flora and fauna on the site.
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Open Competition Masterplan, Sustainability,
300 ha
Team: DeZwarteHond Orri Steinarson, Project leader + 4 emp. Client: CPH City & Port Development By & Havn
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Redevelop a social structure by leaning on the landscape The Bethel neighbourhood in Bielefeld (D) has an exceptional location on the green crest of a range of hills in the Teutoburger Wald and yet close to the centre. Disabled and able people have lived and worked side by side in Bethel for the past 140 years. Owing to several interventions in the past 40 years the clear urban structure and unity of topography, landscape and development have been lost. The project envisages three scale levels. First and foremost at the area level: how the connections with the hinterland and the rest of the town are made. The new Bohnenbachpark adds a third branch to the two existing green arteries of the Teutoburger Wald. Together with five distinct and exceptional street profiles, they are the core components of Bethel, superimposed with the interweaving of various tree species to underline this structure and to mark the cross connections.
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2008
Renewal
Bielefeld (DE) One scale-level lower is deployed to create a park as the new centre of Bethel. An open space is created round the uncovered brook. A place to spend time and socialise. The smallest scale, which concludes the plan, is the introduction of an object in the form of a bench. This light, mobile bench (like a wheelbarrow) gives everyone in Bethel the opportunity of creating a temporary “spot�. At the same time, the introduction of the first bench marks the beginning of the transformation of Bethel. By focusing on the three levels simultaneously, it creates a crystalclear structure for the future of Bethel. A neighbourhood for present residents and perspectives for accommodating new functions. The green basis for a lively atmosphere.
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Invited Competition Masterplan, Feasibility, Landscape, ... 20 ha
Team: DeZwarteHond Matthias Rottmann, Project leader + 4 emp. Client: Bielefeld stadt
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Bodelschwingesche Anstalten Bethel
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4000 m² enseignement - vie étu accueil R+1
Works with Böem Benfer Zahiri Landshaft & Stätebau 10 Freelances - Berlin - May 2013 to March 2014
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Developments in urban planning are often difficult to determine accurately; they are constantly influenced by temporal discontinuity and fluctuating demands for usable space. Landscape architectural frameworks with clear urban planning objectives allow for a step-by-step approach to the transformation from open space to built space. The development of open space, which already takes urban planning perspectives into account, complements the future realization of zones subject to urban planning design. Spatial qualities may also be cultivated independently from the final realization of an urban planning concept. Services The focus of our work is on the design and planning of public open spaces in all sizes and scales. Parks, plazas, horticultural exhibitions and urban greenways belong to our repertoire of expertise. The company is explicitly responsible for all phases of landscape architectural design, open space and urban planning. We regularly take part in design competitions.
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An open way to densify step by step The proposed idea emphasis on the establishment of a structure of public spaces. Opposed to this, the construction of the development sites will be realised with as much flexibility as possible. The development sites allow for varying land parcels and urban grains. A possibility is the development of larger units with a diverse offer of residential typologies and commonly used courtyards. However, another possible option is the small-scale development by private owners and groups. For instance, the design proposes the joint development which involves the project developer, private owners and groups. A different distribution of the parcels allows to react to changing market condition and demands. The northern development sites will be designed as closed perimeter developments. Opposed to this the design proposes for the narrow land parcels alongside the river ‚Kleine Blau’ an open architecture towards the stream. Thereby,
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2013
Dichterviertel Nord Ulm (DE)
the buildings benefit from their unique location by the river. The ground floor units should be largely used for services, gastronomy, retail, studios or offices. With the exception of the units alongside the Glacispark and the river ‚Kleine Blau’. The urban framework takes account of the existing plot boundaries. Accordingly, the gradual transition of the district is possible. A further involvement of existing buildings, in addition to the prescribed parcels and buildings in the brief, is possible. The design proposes the development of shared spaces in the centre of the district. By reducing the dominant traffic functions the open spaces are made available for public and informal uses.
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Competition - 1rst prize
Themes: Masterplan , Renovated district, Landscape, Housings, public spaces, ... Size: Team: Client:
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Reinvent the public space in a ÂŤPlattenbauÂť Area The Marzahnner promenade connects over a distance of approximately one kilometer, the Eastgate shopping center with the Marzahn Recreational forum. As a result, they linked a long space corridor sections to perpendicullar dilatations. The intervention is linked to the historical concept of the promenade. Goal is the restoration of a spatial relationship and the accentuation of the transitions to the environment. The interventions focus on the relationship between stone and green promenade page and enhanced the link between the Promenade and the surrounding area. Along the Franz- Stenzer Str., the Promenade is divided along its length into a mineral and a green side . The particular nature of the two sides and their relationship to each other is to be formed more concise .
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2013
Berlin Marzhanner Promenade Marzahn - Berlin (DE)
As a continuous path it facilitates the orientation and location within the promenade. At the same time, it relates strongly the two sides of the promenade. The setting changed in its course, thus responding to the adjacent spatial and functional situations. It becam a stairs, seating, transitions and pathways entrance .
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The Victor Klemperer place will receive a compact center of gravity in the southern area . The intended uses are summarized this in a common carpet ‘ from different fields. Each field is characterized by a main material and simultaneously assumes a particular use . About the , carpet ‘ is a possible crossing of the place in several places. The concentration of the internals and the Aufastung of trees allow an examination of the total area.
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Competition - 1rst prize LpH 2-8
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Housing estate, Public space, ... 3 Ha bbzl 3 emp.
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Bezirksamt Marzahn-Hellersdorf
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Revive the valley Bad Herrenalbs landscape and urban developments are closely interrelated. The town lies in an elongated valley area. The monastery district, the mill and the stockyard can be considered as some of the oldest basic components of the settlement. Remnants of the walls are nowadays still visible and remain as memories of the former uses. All of these settlement elements are connected along the course of the river Alb. During the urbanization process, within the small-scale agricultural grid, two settlement bands developed. In contrast, the undivided spaces in between were transformed into inner-city recreational areas. In the second half of the 20th century these areas were further profiled with the creation of the Kurhaus and the Falkenstein Therme.
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2013
Landesgartenschau Bad Herrenalb 2017 Badherrenalb (DE)
The design focuses on emphasizing the relationship between city, park and surrounding countryside. Considering the morphological aspects of the landscape and urban structure, the design is based on three spatial principles: Emphasis on the main topographic lines in order to enhance the experience of the valley as a continuous, elongated corridor, Establishment of cross-references, as paths and visual connections, between city, park and surrounding landscape and The use of characteristic landscape elements like vegetation structures and path systems to organize and order the Kurpark and the Schweizer Wiese.
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Competition - 1rst prize Landesgartenschau, Public space, park1 ... 15 Ha bbzl 3 emp.
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Stadt Bad Herrenalb
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Publications
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Deny the history of a city in order to rebuild it from its origin, isn’t the normal way of extend or improve the masterplan of a city. Normaly, you have to renovate districts building by building and sometimes destroy some of them which are to old and insalubrious. Most of the time, you have to work with the existing frame, in order to adapt the futur to the past . Before 1940 in Rotterdam, the habourcity was crowed, popular, alive and increased very fast. In 1940, almost 95% of the city was destroyed in order to force the Netherlands capituled against Hitler. Instead of rebuild the buildings as it was before, the citycouncil decided to take the catastrophic destruction as an opportunity to rethink a whole city center. They choose an urban planer, who develop in 1946 a radical masterplan in agreement with the ideas of the CIAM. They prefered destroying another few buildings, which were seen more as an handicap for the designer as an heritage of the past. By this way they adapt the city to the modern and economic way of life, wite streets for light and circulation, easy connections between the several part of the city and the harbour, higher housing with larger courtyard as it was in the past and bigger public spaces... My researches are based first on the different masterplans the city followed. Then on buildings or public spaces I saw and I liked when I was used to live in Rotterdam, like the central station, several projects on the riverside or the Lijnbaan...
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2008
Built and ReBuilt Rotterdam: a Portrait
Final Master Thesis | ENSA de Clermont Ferrand (fr)
Back from my 5 months internship in Rotterdam, I carried with me a set of pictures showing the same point of view of the Rotterdam city center through the years. This pictures fascinated me. I wanted to know more about it. With the final master thesis, the school lets us the choice to link or not our topic with the final diploma project, so I choose to start some researches about Rotterdam: How could they start to built a modern city center from almost nothing after they’ve been bombed out during the war? I wrote down the book I wanted to read when I was in Rotterdam. I’m still very interested in this city. I consider it as an incredible playground for experiences in urban planning and architecture, which always wanted to tempt new ideas and reinvented itself by learning from previous mistakes.
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Master Thesis
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Rotterdam , Public spaces, modern architecture, destruction...
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64 pages individual Xavier Bonnaud, Christophe Boyadjian
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This publication shows two architectural projects did by the students of the Master EVAN during the 8th semester. The first ist situated in a very small village in the countryside near Clermont Ferrand. The subject was «a gastronomical restaurant». The second ist situated in Finnland on the tiny Island of Lonna (archipelago of Suomelinna in the Helsinski ‘s bay). The subject was «a place to meet architecture». How to build a precious restaurant near a farm? How to be attractive in the place where just few people are living? How to build an architecture on a tiny island where the geometrie of the arsenals is already so strict, where the landscape is omnipresent, where you cannot access during the whole winter because of the frozen see? Even if the subjects seems to be very different, the work on this projects was quite similar. It was about the link between the distant and the near landscape, between material and environnement, between buildings and humans. The bay of Helsinki and the wild landscape of Malvière are linked by the people, who decided to be the witness of there beauty. The farm and the arsenal are linked by the material inwhich they are made because fitted to the local situation. Landscapes and buildings have an history, an utility, a materiality. With a sensitive proceeding of every scale, you can create the link.
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2009
[Territory - Material]
Publication | ENSA de Clermont Ferrand (fr)
We start this publication just after the semester on the initiative of Frédéric Bonnet, the professor in charge of the EVAN Master. He asked volunteer students to help him to keep a witness of «the exceptional works of this exceptional class». We, a team of 4 students, propose ourselves to gather all the datas, then to do the layout and to write a subjective critic about the projects. In the team, I was responsible of the general graphic design and of the harmonization in the layout throught the pages. We came to this idea to translate the attitude of each project by a pictogram.
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Year Book
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Architecture, restaurant Rural, Cultural heritage,... 84 pages
with Lola Marlhoux, A. Dubure F. Fayard, J Vigot Frédéric Bonnet Yvan Okotnikoff
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