Horoma.
Horoma visions of architecture by Simon Oudiette
year 2015
THE GUY BEHIND THE IMAGE
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WELCOME HOME ?
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NO BRAINER NO FUTURE
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WHEN EVERYTHING FAILS, AIM HIGHER
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THINK THE OPPOSITE
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HOROMA STUDIO
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“I’M THE MOST BORING 24-YEAR OLD YOU’LL EVER MEET”
Education
Professional Experience 2015 - Horoma Architectural visualization studio - Founder
2013 - 2014 Masters of Architecture Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Strasbourg, France Heritage Studio & Architecture vs. Urbanity Studio with George Heintz
2014 - 2015 Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Archi-
tecture de Strasbourg
Digital department - Casual worker
2012 – 2013 Masters of Architecture Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning, Sydney, Australia Sustainable Architecture Research Studio & Digital Architecture Studio
2013 Johnson Pilton Walker Architecture firm - Inter for 6 months
2009 – 2012 Licence, diplôme d’étude en architec-
2011 Michel Chevallier Patrick Garruchet
2011 Pays de Montbéliard Agglomération Urban Planning Department - Intern for 1 month
ture (eq. Bachelor of Architecture)
Architecture firm - Intern for 2 months
Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Strasbourg, France
2009 Baccalauréat, série scientifique (eq.
High school diploma, sciences stream)
Lycée Armand Peugeot, Valentigney, France
Competitions 2015 NYC by AWR
2014 Imaginer la toiture terrasse de demain
by Soprema
Mirrored landscape - An urban farm in New York City - collaborator : Billy Martini
Grand Prize & Students Prize - Les toits dimensions - Les toits comme potentiels métropolitains - collaborators : Joffrey About, Cloé Martelet, Billy Martini
2015 24h competition - 6th edition by
IdeasForward
2nd Prize - Entropy
2014 Venice Biennale Workshop by Univer-
2015 Unbuilt Visions by d3
sità IUAV de Venezia
Grand Prize - Radical Conservation - A hypercathedral in Strasbourg
Grand Prize - The Venetian bridge logic as a pattern for a superstructure over the central trainstation - collaborators : Andrea Ferri, Clara Gonzalez Fernandez, Sophie Ohmer
2014 24h competition - 3rd edition by
IdeasForward
2nd Prize - Smartwall Land Art - collaborator : Joffrey About
2013 Imaginer la mobilité en 2020 by EpE &
Metro
2014 [DUBAI] - 9th edition by AC-CA
Third Prize - Et si nous avions fait fausse route?
An architecture school tower in Dubai - collaborators : Joffrey About, Billy Martini
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“great adventures always start with a convenient delay�
H After a bachelor not doing much in France and not really understanding anything to architecture, I still got a ticket for a year to the renowned Faculty of Architectue, Design and Planning of Sydney. This once-in-a-lifetime experience was also a massive game changer in the way I approached architecture and its related topics. The University of Sydney being far more theory-oriented than any French school, studying there brought a brand new light on my perception of architecture and opened an array of possibilities that made it ever more fascinating. Working with some of the brightest students of the University, I drew on their creativity, open-mindedness and disruptive approach to architecture to build my own vision of what architecture studies should be all about. Images and architecture theory became my new cornerstones. 8
HOME?
UNIVERCITY collaborator : Justin C. Cawley The University of Sydney is a case study in bigness. It is built at such a scale that it operates within its own urban logic. While influencing the expression of its individual parts, the age old architectural ideals of composition, scale, proportion, detail no longer apply at the scale of the university-city. An intense diagrammatic study of the site and its environs were used to characterise the site around a series of key factors. The Electrical Engineering Building came to be symptomatic of the ‘space-occupier’ syndrome which plagues almost all of Darlington campus’ building stock. This part of the university is characterised by pockets of activity, but a lack of integrity. The lack of formal entrances and permeability makes the Darlington campus ‘all-arse-end’. It has no face, no manifesto. We understand the university as an ecology of information and material flows, which together create an environment for social interaction and the production of knowledge. Diagramming seeks to conceptualise these relationships and their products in order to produce a framework within which to develop architectural and programmatic responses. Through surgical programmatic augmentation, this proposal aims at producing a series of flow-on effects which draws the new residents, staff and student population into communication in order to generate new micro-communities around various interests. At a larger scale, the Darlington campus’ inability to produce an urban quality leads to an abrupt disjunction between the university and the surrounding suburbs. Through programmatic additions, including a bicycle workshop and food coop, and community engagement, through leasable garden plots and a presence at the Eveleigh markets, the redevelopment of the Darlington campus seeks to democratise the campus. While once a private domain, the university cedes control of its boundary in order to afford new relationships which will create a more complex experience for students, staff and local residents alike.
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RECLAIMING THE SKYLINE collaborator : Tina Chow 21st century is the century of ubiquitous and omnipotent governments and policies. Progressively giving up their liberty for more security and control, citizens are now facing their incumbents inability to answer their needs. In Capitalism and Freedom, Milton Friedman wrote “there is likely to be a lag between the need for action and government recognition of the need; a further lag between recognition of the need for action and the taking of action; and a still further lag between the action and its effcts.” Town planning systems are just another string to government’s bow to establish its authority. By following an anti-innovation policy, a pro-heritage aspiration and a pseudo-ecological mantra, governments succeeded in completely shifting the market logic, freezing the principle of supply and demand, of citizens’ needs and private offer. Our cities are doomed. Our project shall set them free. In The Parasite, Michel Serres wrote “The parasite has a relation with the relation and not with the station”. Drawing on the singularity and strong potential of the parasite’s position in the overall cycle of interactions, we aim at translating the notion of parasite as an intermediary between two states into an architectural logic. Therefore our parasite will rebuild the missing link between supply and demands, between cities and citizens. The parasite acts as a catalyst, a counterweight to government omnipotence. A social parasitic device that revitalizes the city and reconnects people. We identify our parasite as some sort of social anarchist, outside of the political existent pattern, outside of the relations. Through political opposition, our parasite aspires at reconnecting space with their users, reopening former privatized space in targeted building, and accelerating the process of revitalization of the urban fabric through methodological destruction. A physical, literal and lethal allegory of Schumpeter’s theory of creative destruction.
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“brainless architects are going to be useless in the times to come�
N Drawing on all the knowledge I gathered abroad, connecting all the dots, and expanding this new network, I pick up on new topics that quickly become roots for my work to come : political philosophy and more precisely the idea of liberty in architecture and urban planning. Writing becomes the new way of conceptualizing any project, even before drafting. During my graduation year back in France, my thesis appears as the perfect opportunity to test this new approach by focusing on the dichotomy between urban renewal and urban conservation. Quite an interesting topic when you compare the historical centers of Strasbourg and Sydney. As I broaden the scope of my interests and readings even more, I start to understand what it really means to be an architect, far beyond the superficial concerns we were used to in this school. 28
NO FUTURE
NON-PLAN “Hypothesis on non-planning in historical centers� is a theoretical dissertation with a practical aim. At the crossroads of economics, political philosophy, architecture and urban planning, it deals with the evolution and legitimacy of models that have shaped the management of the French cultural heritage since the 19th century. Now more than ever, it is interesting to compare the interventionist French approach and the more minimalistic English approach to architecture and urban planning. Through many references to theoretical works from the classical liberal and anarchist traditions, the dissertation proposes new tools to interpret the limitations of central planning as applied to cities and architectural heritage. Emphasizing the growth of the heritage industry because of the politically implemented widespread recognition of heritage, the dissertation opposes an immanent system where the individual becomes the ultimate decision-maker in matters of urban management : the non-plan.
“when you’re told your work sucks, it either does, or you’ve presented it to the wrong audience. I was sure it was the wrong audience”
The logical consequence of my thesis was to implement it in my graduation project. While a thesis can be highly theoretical, the graduation project, at least here, was supposed to be everything but theoretical. Therefore this whole project had a taste of make-or-break situation until the very end. And of course, it broke. Or at least for half of the jury. Meanwhile, meeting a lot of support from many students at school, and from my advisor, I couldn’t admit defeat, and submitted my dystopian utopia to an international competition : Unbuilt Visions. My project was granted first prize.
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AIM HIGHER
HYPERCATHEDRAL Strasbourg, a medieval town in the region Elsass, eastern France, with its former citadel has seen its heritage being protected and over regulated for the last 3 centuries. In the very center, the cathedral. Once the highest point in the western world until the end of the 18th century, a market place, a school, a hospital as well as the centerpoint for all civil and political gatherings, it is now, with the decrease of christianity in that part of France, relegated to the mere function of touristic attraction and punctual religious events. This cultural shift towards mass tourism plus the reshaping of faith practise put the building in an in between state. Under all these scaffoldings it awaits a new rebirth. The proposal consists of a counter tale about over cultural quantification in Strasbourg. Blurring the frontier between utopia and dystopia, it is a manifesto for a radical conservation through significant interventions. Scaffoldings are often seen as eyesores on existing fabric of heritage significance. A sort of temporary parasite imprisoning the beauty of monuments, only there to make them glitter again once removed. Although the intimate interactions that exist between the temporary scaffolding structure and the permanent existing building next to it have a certain appeal, the scaffolding itself has an intrisic beauty and architectonic quality. Most people are oblivious to their qualities only because they’re diminished by the even greater beauty of the building they are plugged to. Yet one could not stand without the other. The structure appears simple, rudimentary even. But once it breaks free from its comparisons, it can also be seen as minimalist, pure even. A structure with endless potentials. Multiplying and expanding this structure between different landmarks in the
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city allows to create a new level of reading in the city adding to the existing street level. This new layering embodies a new political vision for the city, a new way of conceiving and designing the city. Even though the structure seems neutral, the contrast brings it closer from the existing, creating new perceptions of the urban fabric. It is sometimes with a strong gesture that you can best conserve heritage. These and the intimate relationship that the scaffoldings create with the existing makes it act as a efficient place maker or place actualizer. In the proposal, the former cathedral becomes a place for synesthetic interactions, a new way of practising individual faith in a technological world. The scaffoldings become the manifestation of the will of the population to break free from space and reclaim new territories. The more the interactions within the structure via synesthetic phenomenons, the wider and further the structure expands, liberating new territories for new uses. The inherent flexibility of the scaffolding allows for a heuristic architecture where changes occur as they’re needed by the users and not simply post facto. The formalisation of this network is characterised from an emotional response to synesthetic phenomenons, spreading in the structure, transformed into architecture. This is when the scaffolding responds to the population expectations, unify people and starts to accomodate daily uses for the population and civil or political meetings, that it becomes something new. Only then is the scaffolding not anymore seen as a parasite to the cathedral, or a simple extension of the cathedral, but as the Cathedral itself. What I call the Hypercathedral.
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il commence bientôt ce concert?
Tu vois bien qu’il y a personne...
Le pouvoir politique s’effaçait, affaibli par les crises, et tentait égoïstement de justifier sa propre existence en agitant les peurs.
Pendant que les habitants s’engouffraient naturellement dans ce qu’ils voyaient comme un nouvel espace de liberté, un lieu où tous les possibles pouvaient naître et renaître.
Nous avons pu nous émanciper petit à petit des structures internes de la ville, des limites physiques et réglemetnaires. Le droit à la ville comme on l’appellait. 6
Il n’y a pas à dire, le paysage urbain a drastiquement changé, et continue de changer. C’est un sentiment étrange, de faire partie du processus de construction de la ville, de ne faire qu’un avec l’Arche. Tu crois que c’était comment avant?
L’Arche a totalement annihilé cette peur de l’inconnu et du changement entretenue par nos gouvernements, qui nous plongeait dans l’immobilisme.
DEMANDEZ LE JOURNAL!!!
on va finir par être en retard!
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Aujourd’hui l’Arche s’étend sur des kilomètres, au-delà même des frontières de la cité-état. De partout, les hommes vinrent et continuent à affluer pour habiter l’Arche..
L’Arche... Cela fait des années que je ne m’y suis pas connecté. Aujourd’hui, c’est plutôt le seul endroit où je peux aller pour que les gens ne me parlent pas.
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... si bien que sa croissance en est devenue incontrôlable, et le nombre d’habitants réel, inconnu.
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“You can’t know how good you are until you step out of your comfort zone”
Constantly challenging yourself time-wise, scale-wise or concept-wise is the best way to get the most out of yourself and your team. Ideas competitions opened for students or young architects are the best way to keep a foot in the theoretical world of architecture while crashtesting your ideas. During competitions, my friends and I always tackle the problem the same way, namely the most unexpected one. When trying something, we want to astonish, we always take our ideas the extra mile, we want to wow. After all, why should we hold back in a theoretical world?
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TISOPPO
pilot project, will serve as a base for future farm towers that will be built on all the underused spaces along the highline, The highline is then envisioned not only as a public space, but also as the backbone of the urban agriculture revolution to come. This emerging augmented public space will feature all the components of a balanced system. and provide a new level of reading in the city. RESTAURANT
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This mirrored landscape operates a paradigm shift in the logic of street and city legibility (the high line becomes the new reference level), as well as in terms of programmatic hierarchy (all the technical parts are exposed and staged. Following the top-down logic of the highline planning as an industrial backbone and then as a trendy public space, this pilot project and the ones to follow are based on a bottom-up logic, putting nature at the very center of the whole new ecosystem, on display, for a better grasp of how nature and technology can take advantage from one another and create disruptive architectural icons.
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MIRRORED LANDSCAPE Collaborator : Billy Martini
The New York HighLine and the historical context, mythology even, that surrounds this place is a peculiar site for an urban farm project. We have indeed reached a non precedent time where the ubiquity of technology and technics makes it impossible to hide anymore, and where this very technology enables us to farm locally without wasting as much space, resources and time as our ancestors.
rainwater collecting tank
PETE cladding (Polyethylene terephthalate)
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Our project for the highline is pictured as an agricultural machine that draws its force from the image that the highline has built throughout the years : once the logistical backbone of New York, now a popular raised public space. Plugged to the highline, our machine refers to the industrial past and revives it in multiple ways. It creates its own social ecosystem to then alter the existing one, by giving back to the highline its former use.
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Instead of envisioning the project as a simple object lost in space, it has to be considered as a manifesto, a catalyst, that will be the first actor to bring back agriculture in the city, in an industrial, automated, and social manner. This
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ENTROPY “The memory hatch is almost finished. How proud am I. We began years ago collecting memories from every willing human. The last people are depositing their favourite belongings for future generations to find. All these little capsules, it’s beautiful, I could cry. What we just achieved is marvellous, everything that makes us what we are, every proof of our victory as a species, finally condensed in capsules buried in several hatches scattered on Earth. Our joy, our hopes, our fears, all our technological achievements, our legacy as proud humans. Let it enlighten the path for future generations.” Scientist Memo - The Memory Hatch - 13:04:45 - 05|17|2015
“Ok. I think everything’s ready! The hatch is fully sealed with highly resistant metal, and buried in poured thick concrete. The pressure of the lake above shouldn’t be too much trouble. How beautiful is this! We shall not let the past repeat itself, we shall not endanger our legacy ever again. Off to the next millennium!” Scientist Memo - The Memory Hatch - 21:39:19 - 05|17|2015
“We found another hatch today, in the middle of the rainforest. It must be the third or fourth this month. Another token of mankind’s hubris. Then again we found nothing in it but these stupid melted capsules filled with goo. The hatch must have been flooded centuries ago I guess. And what the acid rains didn’t destroy at the time, the biovirus managed to destroy. I wonder what was inside these capsules, and who buried them here. How inconsiderate to think this hatch would resist against anything. They gave us everything, but Earth took it all away. At the end of the day, all we’re left with, is the certainty of our frailty as a species.” Unknown Radio Transmission - Somewhere on Earth - 07:18:59 06|19|3120
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hosts the class of a given year. Each of them is given a symbolic program articulated around a backbone that runs through the whole tower, and which includes libraries for books, materials and other media as well as relaxing spaces. Elevators and freight elevators are intentionally glazed and cover the whole tower: as they go up and down, their users can briefly see all of the activities going on inside. Like the city, our tower is structured around a lattice to maximize potential connections, and programs can be placed arbitrarily in one block or another. For example, the painting studio, which can be used by all students, is located between the blocks for first-year and second-year students. It is easy to imagine how students of all years will go through all the different parts of the building, creating richer and more productive interactions between students, and making the tower a hotspot for creation.
collaborators : Joffrey About, Billy Martini
An architecture school is a peculiar place. The environment where a student will grow into an architect and acquire knowledge through experience is fundamental. Experiencing that place must feel unique and yet effortless. For our school, we emphasized spaces that foster creativity. We wanted it to highlight interactions and relationships. To make the architect conscious he has to be open to his environment, both local and global. How we can use an architecture school as a pedagogical tool, rather than just attend it, is at the heart of our vision. The tower is meant as a signal that indicates the gate of the city on its sea front, facing port Rashid. A city as emblematic of architecture deserves a strong symbol, such as this architecture school. The urban project circumvents infrastructures and facilitates the interplay between the city and the sea through the use of a system of programmatic strips. The strips unfold their own topography for different functions, and ensure a coherent development of public spaces on the sea front, thus answering one of Dubai’s great challenges. The school will create an impetus and position itself as a pivot for the ongoing urban expansion of the sea front, reinforcing the city’s metropolitan image.
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The tower takes after the city’s urban design: much like public space in the city consists of a series of places linked by streets and passages, the tower creates a series of spaces that allow for new relations, sequences, paths and atmospheres. We started with a solid mass from which we subtracted matter by carving out empty spaces that appear on the façade. Some empty spaces open up on the outside and naturally ensure ventilation for the whole building. Students and working architects can use the spaces to meet, relax and exchange views. The tower can be broken into blocks where each
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LES TOITS DIMENSIONS collaborators : Joffrey About, CloĂŠ Martelet, Billy Martini
Strasbourg, like many other French cities of today, is experiencing a metropolization of its territory. Issues of mobility, inhabiting, territory mental construction are key factors in the setting up of the metropolitan story. Strasbourg 2050, it’s 15 000 new inhabitants. How will we accomodate them? With this in mind, we propose the roof as a space of metropolitan potential. A place of many potential in the making of the metropolitan stroy, where everything is left to do. In the historical hypercenter of Strasbourg, we retain a specific lot between the Place du Temple-Neuf and Place Gutenberg for our experimentation site. Injecting our project in such an area enables us to deal with multiple factors including the heritage recognition while creating a new layer on the city. This approach is based on the idea that a strong action is necessary to keep our existing heritage safe while fostering new system development. The temporality of the project is conveyed through the expanding structure, its increasing density and evermore specialized appearing programs. Architectural plugs are fixed onto the facades and, while reproducing, create additional spaces for inhabitants as well as new circulation space. The roof becomes a new reference level. The three-dimensional structure is highly flexible. A perfect candidate for the constantly changing metropolis in the making. Its flexibility induces a specific the temporality for this new generated higher ground. The roof now become a new spatial dimension as well as a stand for a new urbanity where new technologies are part of the materialization of new hybrid territories.
“Horoma is latin for vision. Vision of architecture as an object itself, as an object of study�
Images have become evermore important in the work of architects. Nowadays, only a well-communicated project is a good project. Only a project with the appropriate graphic style is a good project. Based on this premise, I founded my own architectural visualization studio to assist architects in finding a suitable graphic style for each of their projects. Working as a freelancer also gives me time to work on personal projects to keep a foot in the architecture ground, improve my graphic skills as well as teach visualization to other archviz artists via my blog.
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From Daguerreotype to Digital project by : Pauline Personeni model and images by : Horoma
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Artsy Snow project by : Pauline Personeni model and images by : Horoma
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Landscape Cuts project by : Pauline Personeni model and images by : Horoma
Meadow House project, model and images by : Horoma
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Mies meets Gregory project by : Mies van der Rohe model by : Simon Edwards images by : Horoma
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