PORTFOLIO Noémie Desplans
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C.V ARCHITECTURE PROJECTS
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- TOP OF THE RANGE HOTEL-RESTAURANT
Revitalizing rural territories
- REFUGE AND LOCAL CAFÉ
Rural territories projects
- SCHOOL AND MUSIC CONSERVATORY
Building public space
- MULTIPURPOSE ROOM
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Public facilities
- ARTIST STUDIO AND EXHIBITIONN ROOM Architecture as a device to sublimate landscapes - MOUNTAIN CABINS
Nordic Architecture
- COLLECTIVE HOUSING
Transforming and inhabiting urban territories
- GEOLOGY MUSEUM
A geotourism center in Iceland
URBAN DESIGN
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- MODULAR SEATS
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- CHILDREN’S PLAYGROUNDS
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- BARRIER FOR POP-UP SQUARE
ARTISTIC INTERVENTIONS 81
- DIALOGUE WITH THE LANDSCAPE
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- L’ECHAPPEE BELLE»-
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63 - THE PLACE TO «BIEFS»-
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- FUNFETTI-
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- SCULPTURE HABITÉE - T’ES DANS LE CHAMP-
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- «UHU» STUDIO-
- TRACES DE LUMIÈRES
NOÉMIE DESPLANS
STATE DIPLOMA ARCHITECT
Date of birth Mobile phone Email adress Adress Profile
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February 1st 1995 +33 637766205 noemiedesplans@gmail.com La Tuilerie 71430 Saint Vincent-Bragny (FR) Architect with State Diploma from Clermont-Ferrand School looking for professional work in an architecture pratice, motivated by town planning as well as architectural detail, devotinng a particular importance to architectural project communication.
EDUCATION 2017 - 2018 Architect Diploma Grade B ENSA. Clermont-Ferrand 2016 - 2017 Foreign exchange LAVAL University Quebec 2013 - 2016 Architecture degree ENSA. Clermont-Ferrand
RESEARCH WORK Master’s these
About Basel, a Swiss town situated where the Suisse, French and German borders meet
PARTICIPATIVE WORKSHOP Collaboration with St Flour City
Debates with municipales representatives and awareness raising action with inhabitants about their territories: drawing workshop with children, architectural documentary projections, architectural strolls the city
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES May/June 2017 Job internship in HATEM+D (Quebec)
Short-lived buildings and installations, individual housing design, public space competition Forecourt Biencourt in Montreal, drawing furniture
February 2016 Training in an architectural practice ATAUB+ARTO (Lyon) Reference compilations, drawings, computer modelling, structural calculations, site visits, social housing project contests, models
June 2014 Site follow-up workplacement GTM Bâtiment (Bordeaux)
Internal check, follow up work, price summaries, site meeting
VOLUNTEERS EXPERIENCES 2017 Marina St Roch contest (Québec) Winning project: urban street furniture «Funfetti»
2016 Metis Garden contest (Gaspesie)
Winning project: short-lived installations « In three times»
SKILLS Indesign Photoshop Illustrator Autocad Sketchup
LANGUAGES French Enghish Spanish
2014 Grand Atelier D’isle d’Abeau (Lyon)
Sunpath theme/ materials: brick, bamboos, wood, canvas
STUDY TRIPS CANADA > Montreal / Gaspesie ICELAND > Reykjavik/ Eyjafjallajökull USA > Phoenix/ Chicago/ New-York/ Boston SWITZERLAND > Bâle/ Lausanne/ Mulhouse
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LUXURY HOTEL
- L’échappée belle -
The Mallet Island are an iconic landscape of gorges of Truyère. They have got a tourism potential thanks to its particular topography and its various landscape patterns: water, rock and forest.
Mallet Islands, Faverolles
This top of range hotel restaurant project must be seen as a strategy to highlight this natural spot. In fact, the beauty of this landscape is a real asset for the region and could allow to create attractiveness. This top of the range facility aims at improving the quality of service by initiating a new form of hospitality. Such a property program tends towards the promotion of local tourism by putting forward the specificity and country wealth.
Teachers: Y. Olivares, J-L. Coutarel
Betting on the landscape attractiveness of its site and on its strategic situation (near motorway A75 and Garabit Viaduct or Alleuze Castle). This hotel is about to become a stopping place for tourists who want to recharge their batteries in a natural an isolated setting.
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This hotel project settles sidshead the islands to avoid distorting the wild nature of the spot. It is set on a wooded side to be hidden in the forest and be fully integrated into the landscape. Built like a belvedere, this architecture allows a panoramic view over the Truyère. Looking on the islands and the forest, this project amphasizes the relation between the near and the distant landscape. The simple and long volumetry of this orthogonal is dictated by the wish to break with the organic aspect of the place. The building plays with the horizon, it becomes a line in the landscape similar to a geological strata. The project gets itself organized into two parts: the hotel and the restaurant. The hotel is composed of 15 bedrooms (single, double or even family rooms) and seminars. There is a lounge bar, a work corner, a conference hall and baths apart from customers services. Baths are the hotel special service, they are designed as a wellness space, well out of sight. The restaurant is a place which is not only reserved for the hotel clients but it is open to everyone. It can accommodate up to 60 persons.
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The building is a combination of textures and colours but remains faithful to the material abstraction. This building is composed of two opposite materialities: the one expressing massiveness and the other expressing lightness. The groundfloor is a concrete base having a raw and monolithic aspect. The upper floor is made of wood and has got plate glass windows. The glass transparency reminds of the vegetal filters created by the denseness of the forest trees. The structural principles are linked with the dual expression of the building and the material intentions inside. In the groundfloor and in the upstairs, an alternation of shear walls made of wooden framework and posts bearing a rooftops terrace with a system of beams and joists made of gluelam. The facade of the building is a sort of combination of different scripts to observe the landscape with both the big plate glass windows, punctual openings and loggias. It deals with a simple and radical composition expressing the superposition of two volumes, the one being deeply rooted and the other being in levitation. The welf of the posts and the partitions of plate glass windows create a vertical rhythm which blend into the rhythm created by the tree thickness.
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The hotel ground floor is a shared space where common areas entangle between three light sources gathering movements. This space gets it self organized around patios which bring back nature inside the buiding and gives rhythm to the existing space. In these patios, vegetation invaides the space and glides along the glass walls ly thanks to a skylight windows. The restaurant room is designed as a platform which moves forward and casts on to the forest. It shows a big perception on the landscape being opened on three sides. It benefits
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from an important height and of a mezzanine offering another approach to vegetation. Underground baths allow a different experience of the rest of the building. It is a more private and spiritual atmosphere. They also allow another approach to the sky, the light and the concrete wall materials. They are planned as a path of the different conditions of water. The rooms upstairs either look on to the islands or on to the forest. Some of them have got loggias to enjoy the outside. The room atmosphere is warm thanks to the use of wood.
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REFUGE AND LOCAL CAFÉ
- The place to «Biefs»-
The Bief village weaves cultural relationship with the nearly boroughs. This project of refuge and local café as well as a refuge for hikers and pilgrims allows a dialogue with these cultural dynamics.
Les Biefs, Mountains of Madeleine
The situation is privileged spot looking into the meadows and the crests. The building is realised in a concrete monolith. The garden designed nearby will be used for different purposes (tents, barbecues, outdoor activities). If the hikers look for something convivial in the café, the rooms upstairs are rather a place to rest and to find calm.
Teachers: S.Lièvre, F Mule,
The enigmatic cabin eovkes the peculiar atmosphere of reaches, despite its dull appearance, what is inside the «shell» aims at making qualitative accommodation in this place.
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The refuge project puts the emphasis on the hikers habits (for example games of cards after a long hiking day, then hot baths to relax followed by evenings close to the fireplace). A large community lounge acts as a cafĂŠ and as a place for punctual performances in the groundfloor shared by the inhabitants and the hikers. Half-levels enable to indivualize the access to the different rooms which are laid out around the central staircase. This concrete nucleus is articulated in order to show new angle and another direction at each level. The cells are unique, both frugal and monumental. They tend to occupy the height with wooden furniture which sets in a kind of thickness. The ritual ends on the roof where the hikers can go to a terrace to meet up in spas looking on the crests. The building presents many facades with various overtures. The framings and lightings are fitted to every room. The apparent window disorder reinforces the abstract perception of the building.
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MUSIC CONSERVATORY
- Mise en scène autour d’un jardin -
Both music school and conservatory the project is composed of two entities which get thenselves organises around the garden.
Salins place, Clermont
The first rectilinear volume, more instutional than the other is devoted to classrooms and rehearsal spaces. In second volume, there are the restaurant, the meditation garden, the auditorium, places of exchange and share for the public. The various of the roof pitches dynamize the composition by creating an undulatory movement. Its copper materiality strenghers its monumental aspect.
Teachers: B Bouchet, S Bonzani, C Dallière
In the district, the music conservatory appears as a federating place where music fan and professionals can share their taste for music.
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The building comes forward inn two parts, a public on the which includes the auditorium, the restaurant, the garden and the outdoor stage, a private one which hosts the music school. These two programmatic entities can also be made out thanks to their volumetry and their materiality. The school, which is an academic place, fits into a simple parallelipipedic volume. Contrary to the auditorium which questions the passerby because of its atypical shape, the school building blends in the clermontois urban landscape. In this urban planning, the auditorium represents the flagship entity. Designed as a down cube, the auditorium seams to be moving. The roof slope variations of the auditorium enable to break the static and rigid aspect of the school. Its copper materiality renforces to peculiarity and endows on it a precious and original character. The building transforms itself and changes colour depending on the natural light. This copper cladding evolves over time and seems to get old naturally.
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The auditorium is an important space since it is the school work shop windows. Outstanding outdoor volume despide the impossibility to read the indoor layout of this building. The entance to the auditorium can be done thanks to a big lobby above which a mezzanine used as a lounge bar is hung. The access to the room is firsly done to the groundfloor thanks to a big high lobby whose vertical lights of come from loopholes drilled in the wall.
The auditorium empty space is sculpted by acoustic devices on the walls and on the ceiling, which allow to direct sounds and to offer a good quality of listening. Technical spaces of the auditorium devoted to the musicians are to be found behinnd the stage. The backstage and the artist’s dressing rooms, which are usually situated behind the decor, are, in this case, reveahed to the public. In fact, they look directly on to the garden and are, in a way, a sort of staging for the musicians.
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MULTIPURPOSE ROOM
- Monolithe fracturé -
This multifunctional facility hosting a theater, associative room, a cafeteria and gardening workshop aims at recreating a land mark for local residents. This is the idea of a mixed program to meet the inhabitants and create attractiveness in the district.
Trémonteix, Clermont
Established on Clermont-Ferrand heights, this building is strongly linked with the landscape. Trémonteix offers a breathtaking point of view on the forest and the chain of puys in the distance. Its monolithic aspect echoes with boulders present on the site.
Teacher: P Moinard
This structure is crossed by a loophole linking the important poles, the public square and the park. A staging of the common spaces is done around this completely glass passage.
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This building expresses itself like a monolith. The exterior faces of the buidling are in concrete giving it a massive appearance. The shape and the positioning of the openings evoke the thickness of the outer wall. On the contrary, the internal faces are glazed reflecting the transparency and fragility created by the passage of the fault. The buildong is create around the fault: the common areas like cafetaria, gardening workshop and exhibitions hall give on to this space. The passage become a space of exchanges and meetinngs. The associate rooms are oriented to the public square and benefit from the animation of the district. Gardens are designed on the terrace to reuse the natural slope of the land. These production areas are the link between the public building and the park next door.
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ARTIST’S STUDIO AND EXHIBITION ROOM
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The project site, situated in Saint Sauveur district in Quebec City, has a special strengh thanks to its outstanding topography, and its link with nature which is meaningful with the job of the artist Mathias Goeritz to whom the studio is devoted.
Cote de la pente douce, Quebec City
The project is composed of three concrete towers embeded in the slope and linked together thanks to a gateway. The public discovers the artist’s universe going through three spaces with differents architectural qualities. The artist performs a kind of daily rite: he uses the banister by winding around these scultpure. He goes on using the outdoor gateway which leads to his studio and reaches his lodgings.
Teacher: P. Thibault
Mathias Goeritz wanted through his spectacular artwork, to create a very intense art shock fell of huge intensity. His studio is just like him. It is an emotional architecture which has a monumental and enigmatic character.
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The first tower corresponds to the artist’s studio, the two other ones are an exhibition room and a workshop. The ground floor of every tower is open to the public. They are temporary or permanent exhibition spaces reception rooms or vernissage. The powerful idea of this studio is to live in the height and doing so to create a diversity of spaces with various directions. This tower is structured around a central module where the staircase on which the differents rooms are connected. The rooms are spred over half-levels: playing with the effects of threshold and crossings. The module is drilled, creating private spaces for individual spaces as well as made to measure furniture. They are nooks which interacts with living rooms. The space are varied in terms of dimensions, views, brightness to allow the artist to change his surroundings, his position, his attitude to be more inspired and creative. These rooms are lit at many levels light fault which stress the tower geometry by emphasizing their edges.
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The workshop has got a reverence atmosphere as well as a testing ground one. It is both a workplace, creation spot and contemplantion spot.That’s the reason why it has to be flexible and modular. The space on this first floor is on double height and is lit by long light. Through a large place glass window, the visitor can watch the artist while he is working. On the groundfloor, the space can also be occupied by the artist when there are not special events or exhibitions on. A glass lift connects the two places. It can also be used as a hoist for
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the materials the artist might use for its creations. The permanent exhibitions room has got a theatricaland monumental character which allows to be in cohesion with the artist’s work which is in excess with ideas as well as the scale of intervention.The space is all in height, it is lit in a zenithal way so as to enhance the artist’s sculpture positionned at the center of the building. A ramp which goes along the tower walls shows the visitors differents view angles on the artwork. It is an ascent from shadow to the light thanks to window on the roof.
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MOUNTAIN CABINS
- «Uhu» habitat -
Charlevoix is a region situated on the northen share of the Saint Laurent River. Its rich fauna and flora made the place a hangout for artists. It is also very attractive for tourism because of his walking paths, sea-resorts and its beaches.
«Repère Boréal» Les Eboulements , Charlevoix
A substantial range of accommodation is consequently offered to accomodate visitors. Repère Boréal is part of the dynamics lay mini dwellings, quality houses open on the nature, micro chalets, wheeled-house and ready to camp formular. Usually intented for couples it seems interesting to imagine community dwellings able to accommodate groups. The project is meant to be fragmented into several cabin unit, private cabin space, commun space cabin, water point cabin.
Teachers: E Bernier M Charbonneau
They are designed as minimal and peculiar architectures because of their shape. They are like object left-in the landscape. They dialogue with natural elements such soil, rocks, flora...
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So the idea is to make sensitive and punctual architectural interventions in nature and doing so to dialogue with the lines and landscape components. A route materialised with the few steps and a wooden terrace allows to access to the differents entities and to connect them together. The enhancement of outdoor space appears as a challenge that’s the reason why creating semi-half covered spaces such as terraces allow to enjoy nature inside as well as outside. These little building are made from a rectangular module with two slopes reminding the local house typologies. From this module, two other modules are built. They are distortions of the first one. A game of roof gaps is done. These height difference are done by following the natural slope of the ground. A terrace is associated with every module. The interest of these modules is to enable a freedom in the shape and to offer spaces with adaptable accommodation capacity. From a same basic module, spaces with various functions can be created.
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COLLECTIVE HOUSING
- Lanière-
This project be part of a territorial strategy whose aim is giving back an identity to the industrial site in Roubaix. Urban agriculture is the challenge of this transformation process.
Roubaix, North of France
This collective housing project is inserted in a vegetable garden and raises the following question: how to inhabit on agricultural landscape? The spatial organization of the site is a succession of strips of functions: a strip with production in greenhouses in former factories, a strip of fields, a strip with management and product sales and strip for housing.
Teachers: D Prieur, O. Dolfus, P. Ayad
The dwellings are designed with a strong connection between indoor and outdoor spaces to enjoy the decor recreated by urban agriculture.
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In what ways does the integration of farming activities over spaces allow to give bade an identity to an old industrial site? This chosen theme enables to bring out different challenges agriculture as a local and exploitable ressource and the town networking with agricultural estates. It is the idea of a new town thinking with a logic of local distribution, social links and mixed functions in order to create a landscape with urban and rural qualities.
The main idea of the planning is the redevelopment empty spaces to develop a farming, the production and the marketing of products, the promotion, the research and teaching around agriculture. These specific programs are interlinked with lodgins or offices to create diversity. This program imbrication is done either thanks to superposition or juxtaposition. It allows to create a hybrid landscape between the town and the agricultural culture and to offer better life style.
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The lodgings are directly connected with the gardening field and the existing brick wall. These buildings are organized in straps. The crossing flats are divided into three parts. From the east to the west, there is a technical strap composed of circulations and private spaces, the reception strap composed of livingrooms and loggias which allows an extension to the outdoor. Every flat has got a loggia, a privileged space allowing the inhabitants to enjoy the landscape. These wooden cells offer the users a freedom of appropriation style. The architectural composition of this building is based on duality: the westen facade expresses transparency and lightness with large plate glass window, as for the easten facade, it represents bulkness because of its brick materiality and its anchor into the ground.
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GEOLOGY MUSEUM
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Iceland has an important geological history. The Eurasian fault is an iconic element of Icelandic landscape. It was created by the separation of the tectonic plates of the west and the east. The fault represents both a break and a link in the territory. The accessibility and the development of this area seem to be a challenge.
Uxahryggjavgur, Iceland
The creation of geology museum in the very heart of this unique geological history is a project which can reach this goal. In Uxahryggjavgur, the museum is located where the fault is not developed yet.
Teachers: E Bernier M Charbonneau
This program is a scientific and artistic discovery which reveals the works of artists who chose the rock as a medium of their art. This building also represents an important scenographic experience with a peculiar treatment of light and material.
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It is a radical form which breaks with the fault landscape. The building is very high to offer a vertical experience. The MOG offers a dynamic experience of a static element like rock. The project is a gradual ascent from the shadow of the light which allows to gradually reveal the fault. The entrance to the museum is done by a tunnel dug in the rock. It leads to the underground in a room reminding the cave atmosphere and upstrairs to exhibitions halls and workshops. The visitors finish this geological crossing on the roof with a panoramic observatory on the Icelandic territory. This project is conceived with a concrete structure and a hot roll stell enclosure aged over time. The raw texture of the material echoes the simple appearance of the site. The interior of the building is made of concrete to remind the roughness of the rock. Like a rock, the building is divided into several facets. A triangular opening emphasizes the edges of volumetry. Natural lighting is progressive thanks to a system of random drilling in the steel creating lights effects. In the middle of the fault, geology museum is a scientific, artistic and architectural experience highlighting the geographical character of this unique place. 64
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MODULAR SEATS
- Assise 3 en 1-
Building furniture for the cafetaria of the architecture school is the challenge of this construction workshop. It is built in the large hall of the workshop of Isle d’Abeau near Lyon.
Ensacf, Clermont
The furniture is for students and must adapt to their needs. The project corresponds to three independent seats which once combined form a unique piece of furniture.
With the Grands Ateliers d’Isle d’Abeau
The used material is wood for its aesthetic qualities and its many assembly possibilities. The seats are trapezeoidal in order to used as backs and to multiply their positions. Their shape allows them to fit into each other and put them away very easily.
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Once assembled or separated, these three wooden modules create a lounge chair, stools, a shelf and seating. This project is flexible and can be used everyday. The seats are hollow in the center which allows to put for example a book, a backpack, a drawing bag... The modules are adapted to the different positions of the body: sitting or lying down. They are made with assembled wooden boards. Each module has four pieces of wood associated with each other thanks to a threated rod. The bracing is provided by a plexiglas board giving the illusion of a central vacuum. The seats seem light with the alternation of wooden pieces and vacuum. This furniture is ideal for a break, to work on computer, to read or talking with friends.
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CHILDREN’S GAME
- Funfetti-
The project deals with ephemeral installations of urban furniture designed with the architecture firm of Quebec City HATEM+D during an internship.
Marina Saint Roch, Quebec City
The concept of theses urban installations is created by Montreal collective La Pépinière which aims to revitalize underused urban sites by giving them a viable cultural and economic vocation while promoting the involvement of local communities.
Montreal collective La Pépinière
The site of the swimming pool Marina Saint-Roch comes from modernist architecture as shown by the strong presence of concrete and numerous geometric forms. Its abandoned appearance accentuates the enignatic atmosphere of this place.
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The goal of this seasonal landscaping is to give it a more colorful, more joyful vision by installating furniture. The furniture can be for example: sandboxes, shower stalls, deckchairs, gardens, refreshment area, picnic tables and children’s games as proposed by the Funfetti project. Funfetti is a relaxation space with a colored universe where different geometrical shapes come to overlap. This project is inspired by Memphis graphics and art-deco atmosphere with its pastel colors. It is an oasis in a concrete desert. The project includes 10 Spaghetti-benches, 3 lounge chairs and a pyramidal children’s game. The furniture is built from a wooden cleats structure. The benches are covered with flexible wood panels which can twist to form a curve. The structure of the deckchairs and the pyramid is covered with plywood planks. Each element is then painted according to the colorimetric range defined by the collective La Pépinière.
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BARRIERS FOR EPHEMERAL SQUARE
- T’es dans le champs -
This project of barrier for an ephemeral square has been realized in collaboration with HATEM+D agency. It is part of an overall project SPOT « Sympathetic square open to all» which is initieted by students of Laval University. Each year, students collaborate with various architectural firms to create an ephemeral public square in Quebec City during the summer.
Ilot des Palais, Quebec City
The 2017 edition of SPOT is located at Ilôt du Palais, an old archeological site. Its history and the richness of its soil requires a specific treatment of its development.
With the SPOT «Sympathetic square open to all»
The chosen theme is urban agriculture which questions urbanism and architecture projects. Multifonctional kiosks, a lounge area with tree trunks, a scene designed as a greenhouse or three dimensional gardens organized this meeting space in the city.
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The concept of HATEM+D team project is the repetiton of wooden pyramidal modules delimiting the SPOT site. This barrier is imagined as a porous limit. These wooden pyramidal structures shelter all kinds of plants, referring to urban agriculture. The pyramids are built from wooden battens of different sizes joined together by an elastic string. The density of the vertical elements allows to delimit the square without closing it completely. The repetition of many pieces of wood creates a rhythm that accompanies and invites passersby to come and discover the SPOT activities. The wood pieces are painted red to create a visual impact and accentuate the idea of barrier. The entrances on the site are highlighted by a work of weaving triangular faces.
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ARTISTIC INSTALLATIONS
- Traces de lumière-
These artistic installation projects were made during a study trip to Iceland. The goal of these projects is to reveal the Icelandic landscape through a multisensory experience. The fire of the volcanoes and the snow of the glaciers, the long summer days against endless winter nights are sources of inspiration for these outdoor projects. The easiest way to discover a landscape for a traveller is walking.
Skaftarhreppur, Vik’s beach, Iceland
The first installation consists in lighting with simple candles the traces of the walker traveling a landscape. The second installation corresponds to the movements of the bodies hidden under golden foil blankets running over a black sand beach.
Teachers: Etienne Bernier Marianne Charbonneau
These artistic interventions question the relationship to the landscape, space, light, material...
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This installation has a symbolic dimension. The fire is one of the four elements of the planet and a singular component of the Icelandic landscape especially with volcanoes. The flame of the candles allows the installation to vibrate and be almost alive. The glow of the candle is animated by the breath of the wind. More than its narrative aspect, the installation is aesthetic, the placement of candles is anticipated so as to reveal the natural elements: relief, vegetation and water. The succession of candles create a movement that plays with the lines of the existing landscape. Thanks to their halo of light, the candles allow to have an important impact on the landscape compared to its relative size. The power and beauty of this project reside in the simplicity of the materials used. It is possible to question and magnify natural sites only with a small object of everyday life. This project is ephemeral, it lasts the time that the candles are consumed and it make senses between day and night, during the sunset. At dusk, footprints disappear and only the halo of flames remain unveiling the Icelandic territory.
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An American plane carcass has been lying somewhere on Vik’s beach for decades. On this part of the island, reigns an atmosphere of end of world. Its isolation and its dark colors contribute to this appocalyptic universe. This installation project is directy inspired by the story of this plane crash. We can imagine that these people under their foil blankets are the survivors of this accident. Lost on this desert island, they may be disoriented and try find their way. This installation is interesting from an artistic point of view. Indeed, the golden color of the foil blankets intensifies the black color of Vik’s beach. Their glossy aspects reinforces this constrast by opposing the roughness of the grains of sand. The material of the foil blankets is curious. Very light, they wave with the force of the wind which is violent on the seaside. They create wonderful effect of matter and light. These golden spots strolling through space highlight the beauty and immensity of this place which seems endless.
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NOÉMIE DESPLANS +33 637766205 noemiedesplans@gmail.com