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GAËTAN FAVRIE . M.A in Architecture

GAËTAN FAVRIE EDUCATION 2018 2017 2015-16 2012-15

Master ‘s degree project « Living in Caulnes : for a socia Master’s thesis « Being mobile : narratives of inhabitant Estonian Academy of Arts [EAA] - Erasmus first-year m Nantes school of Architecture [ENSA Nantes] - Bachelo

WORKSHOPS & COMPETITION 2018 2016 2016 2015

Workshop in the grove/region of Bressuire organised by « Revelation of public spaces for inhabited and attractiv 2nd prize for the idea competition : ‘Eco-village project organized by the arboricultural company Les Côteaux N Estonian Academy of Arts : Extension of the masterplan of the military area of Tapa Nantes school of Architecture / Annecy Fine Arts schoo « Creation and intervention in the public space »

INTERNSHIPS 2017 2015 2013 2012

Coido Architekten, Hamburg - Compulsory internship Detroit architects, Nantes - Construction site supervisio Sarl Chevallier [structural work of masonry] - Labourer Sarl Barbot-Bouleau [wooden-frame structure] - Labou

JOBS 2018 2016 2014 - 15

Coido Architekten, Hamburg - Execution planning and DPD & Breger haulage firm - Temporary assignments a Terrena [cereal harvest] - Self-employed to handle a grai

al density in the center village » - Congratulations of the jury t tactics for a periurban life » master or degree

y the association Didattica : ve center villages in the grove » ‘La Caffinière’, Nantais - 44140 Remouillé, France

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SKILLS AutoCad Sketchup Vectorworks Archicad Rhinoceros Adobe : Photoshop, Indesign, Illustrator Model making Freehand sketching French [mother tongue] English [fluent] German [fluent] Estonian [basic] Driving licence B

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support for competition as a handler in elevator gaetan-favrie@orange.fr La Pontaie, 49520 Le Tremblay, France +33 6 82 14 62 82

SUMMARY 00 . ARCHITECTURE DESIGN

01 . to live in a center village (diploma)

02 . toward a foster village (workshop)

03 . in Hamburg : Alsenplatz (internship)

04 . from the existing wall (erasmus)

05 . on the way home (master)

10 . WRITTEN PAPER

11 . from the project site (diploma)

12 . about mobile everyday lives (master’s thesis)

13 . on housing models (erasmus)

01 . TO LIVE IN A CENTER VILLAGE . DIPLOMA Jury’s congratulations in june 2018.

Exhibition at the Gallerie Loire in september 2018 -ENSA Nantes.

Framework Final project of the master’s degree, from march to june 2018 - ENSA Nantes

Scale Redevelopment of a block in the center village Design tools A lot of experimentations by hand : models and prototypes, collages and freehand sketches ; Visits and interviews on site ; AutoCad, Sketchup, Photoshop.

Context A village of 2.500 inhabitants in Bretagne (Caulnes) is bypassed by 10.000 vehicules everyday.

Problem A detour road is being built to avoid the traffic in

the village but it could also make the center empty of people and shops. The village has already spread its population to the periphery by building individual housing lots.

Main street of the village

Lane in the old village center

Street in a new quarter on the periphery of the village

Method The definition of the program is based on observations

and testimonies of some people and local associations. A block between the town hall and the commercial zone has the potential to be developped. In the village center, this block is almost only built along the main street and a big lot is for sale [1]. An other one belongs to the city and is going to be a parking lot [2]. Two other end of lots are parking lots for an association [3] and a notary’s office [4].

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Place of the town hall

Commercial zone

Commercial zone

Rue Mathieu Ory 1 3 Density of 16 dwellings per hectare

Rue Neuve Density of 46 dwellings per hectare Rue Saint Paul Place of the town hall

Rue Valaise

Density of 80 dwellings per hectare

Rue de l’hôpital

Project direction The aim is to react to the village sprawl

by creating the environment of an active social life. The research on prototypes and models has been done to combine the need of individual houses with the purpose of producing a social density.

The block is reorganized to create the space of the experimentation of a new inner living street. The notary’s office [1] moves to the edge of the block and gives space for a community café [2].

On the free end of plots are built 15 houses [3] (12 individual houses + 6 flats).

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Aim : different accesses to the individual houses

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Reorganization and construction

Program New public passages are created in the block, they

are accessible by car. 12 individual houses are built, from 2 to 3 levels to welcome big families. 6 flats are available, 3 on the ground floor for the elderly people and 3 other ones for artists (community café) or students (agricultural high school). [1]Every house has a private terrasse and one private parking space. The community café has a terrasse [2]. The association keeps a parking lot [3].

The notary’s office has new infrastructures [4] and three vacant existing houses get an extension [5].

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This project experiments a typology of a village block from stories and uses observed on the place. Therefore, a particuliar attention has been given to the representation of the usages of the inhabitants on the plans and sections. It communicates an imaginery of everyday lives situation and builds a scenario of a living street in the village center. The design focused on the quality of the

entrance space of every single house.

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In the inner village, the project plays with its relation to the existing houses, from the form to the material.

Collage concept

02 . TOWARD A FOSTER VILLAGE . WORKSHOP Framework Workshop in a group with Léna Faury, Astrée

Jollet, Suzelle Hecht, Clémence Lebert ; From the 25th of August to the 1st of September 2018 - Association Didattica + Conurbation of Bressuire.

Scale Revelation of a village in the grove/region of Bressuire.

Design tools Participatory process with the inhabitants and many local actors (drawings, itineraries, interviews, ...).

Context  In a landscape of grove (hedgerows), a small village (600 inhabitants) is bypassed by 4 000 vehicules everyday.

Problem  The municipality wants to slow the traffic of the

main street. From a participatory process, the workshop team has to work on the identity of the village and offer an answer of the road circulation.

In this village, an important heritage consists in old big trees and gardens in its center . Moreover, the inhabitants are still called ÂŤ woodpeckersÂť from an old small legend. Therefore, we initiate a serie of situations where the inhabitants are more and more connected and responsible of there biodiversity. On a big scale, we want the landscape of hedgerows and gardens to enter the village.

Defintion of a unique parking space for any vehicules.

Unbuilt space to preserve and connect to the green corridor Possible place for living

Possible connection

To enter the village, the big road gets a bit smaller and lined with bushes. The street is not only used by cars but pedestrians and bikers are safe.

Toward the center, the line of bushes is sometimes marked by trees. The road gets smaller and the vehicles slower. The inhabitants have more space to appropriate their facade and their entrance space with plants and furnitures.

On the main square, one material unifies both sides of the main street. The vehicles have to adapt to the pedestrians. The landscape of the grove is represented by a garden in front of the town hall.

03 . IN HAMBURG : ALSENPLATZ . INTERNSHIP Framework Concept of a project drawn with Sven Ove and Katharina Cordsen ; From April to September 2017 - Internship in Coido Architekten.

Scale Construction of a student residence next to a crossraod in Hamburg - Altona.

Design tools Volume models ; Sketches ; Collages ; Vectorworks, Photoshop.

Context  Coido Architects is called by a builder/owner of

student residences to build on a crossroad in the district of Altona, in Hamburg.

Problem  Today, the plot is used as a parking space and

planted with big trees. First of all, severeal meetings between the district office, the client and the architect are necessary to define the urban framework of the project (volume, vegetation, traffic plan, ...)

From three first proposals, one solution consists in one compact volume built along the street. It gives the space of a place and reproduces the scheme of the head of the adjacent urban blocks.

The hight is similar to the buildings on the east surrounding.

The ground floor of the building is used by shops oriented to the place. Along the street, a kiosk faces the bus stop. Then, five floors are occupied by students, 25 beds per floor.

04 . FROM THE EXISTING WALL . ERASMUS Framework Master project in Estonia, from january to may 2016 - EKA Tallinn

Scale Renovation of an industrial building in Tallinn.

Design tools Observation, consultation of the archives; Sketches and 3d model ; AutoCad, Rhinoceros, Photoshop, Illustrator.

Context An old industrial quarter ‘Volta’ built at the end of

the 19th centurytime is being transformed to a housing neighbourhood. A master plan is shared between the students of the studio.

Problem The reinterpretation of the existing building develops different housing typologies related to the structure and the history of the walls.

Project direction Built in limestone, the existing structure is 90m long and 13m high. Keeping only the stone structure, the project plays with the the definition of what is a wall : enclose, carry, separate : . To lift up the north part of the building facing the plaza [1]. . To create transversal typologies on the top of the existing wall seen as a pole [2]. . To make vertical typologies of studios generated by the duplication of the existing wall in the southern part of the plot [3].

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Therefore, the project consists in three different shapes for three different typologies, linked together by the same existing walls and materials.

[1] Net surface area = 1833m² (+ 414m² terraces) Individual studio, 2, 3 or 6 bedrooms sharedflat [2] Net surface area = 1770m² (+ 395m² terraces) 20 duplex with 3 bedrooms each [3] Net surface area = 505 m² (+ 205m² terraces) 10 studios.

A restaurant takes place on the ground floor and the attic, facing the public square.

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Ground floor

Mezzanine

Living space (1) Student individual unit

Third floor

Attic

Second floor

Mezzanine

First floor (2) Duplex typology

Ground floor (3) Studios typology

05 . ON THE WAY HOME . MASTER Framework Master project in group with Dieuwke Cappaert and Fausto Gallizi, from september 2016 to january 2017 - ENSA Nantes

Scale Reconstruction of a plot in Nantes.

Design tools Visits, observations and representation of

the existing living situation ; Working model ; AutoCad, Sketchup, Photoshop.

> a family accomodation on the second floor

> a family accomodation on the ground floor

> a student room on the first floor

Context  In the city of Nantes, we become curious about

the urban environment created by the private dead-end streets, located in between the Allonville street and the wall of the Bouteillerie cemetery.

Problem  From a public street (Allonville), the inhabitants

go through their private street, then courtyards or smaller paths before theiy enter their own private entrance. From the observation of these qualitative ways for the inhabitants to enter their homes, the project will work on the sequence of the passage and the semi-private spaces to design a housing project.

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The history of the neighbourhoud created many different situations and spatial relations inbetween neighbourhs. In this urban structure of faubourg and dead-end streets, one big plot is going from the Allonville street to the Bouteillerie cemetery. It is currently occupied by a warehouse (contaminated with asbestos) and gives the opportunity to try out a collective housing typology in relation to the adjacent dead-end street and the wall of the Bouteillerie cemetery.

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An outer corridor serving a shared courtyard [1]

An inner corridor serving a shared courtyard [2]

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A courtyard serving a collective housing [3]

The project is composed of three parts. Right next to the Allonville street, we design student rooms, it allows a very open ground floor next to the main entrance [1]. Close to the cemetery, the ground floor is used as a nursery, the idea is to have a public function next to the new public entrance of the cemetry [3]. The central part is composed of family dwellings, accessible by common terraces and/or shared outdoor staircases [2]. The degrees of intimacy defined according to the accessibility and the paths through the project.

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The ambition is to keep in mind what we analysed around as references for our design and to offer different scenarios of passage for the new inhabitants and the adjacent streets. The design is careful to the urban shape of the faubourg.

11 . REPORT FROM THE PROJECT SITE (DIPLOMA) Framework This small book introduces the oral presenta-

tion of the project for the jury. It describes the method to approach the territory and the themes developped into the project.

Summary «This document investigates the territory and de-

picts a village atmosphere already there but not really stimulated. It questions the way to densify the city in a rural space.

How dense may we build to activate the common public spaces, the sharing and the emulation in a center village ?

We should be careful not to refer to an urban imaginery in order to keep the independancy, the calm, and the stability of the inhabitants of the village.»

12 . ABOUT MOBILE EVERYDAY LIVES (MASTER’S THESIS) Framework The thesis was supervised by Eric Chauvier,

an anthropologist. After a first interview in the family’s home, the method of this research consists in being in the car with the inhabitants when they commute.

Summary «By the observation of the everyday life tactics

of the inhabitants during their mobiliy, this work analyses the way of living of three families in a periurban territory. At home, the organisation is precisely scheduled and follows the mobility constraints. Therefore, the work focuses on the «tricks» of the people to be able to live in such territory.

How do the practices of the people will allow them to live a periurban area in daily life ?

These «tricks» show how the people knwow their area and are actors of their living situations.»

13 . ON HOUSING MODELS (ERASMUS) Framework In group with Nina Riewe. The exercice

consists in alaysing through drawing and writing the architecture of a housing neighbourhood built in the 1920’s in Tallinn. The typology of the houses is considered with its social, economic and political context.

Summary « In the period of the Estonian first Republic,

more and more workers were pouring into the city from the countryside to work in the many factories next to the railway, connecting Tallinn to Russia and the Baltic Sea. The project was set up by a social democratic workers cooperative and financed with the help of state building loans.

As the name Oma Kolle – one’s (own) hearth – already suggests, the project was about creating homes for one’s own, generating property for the members of the cooperative.

The centralized fireplace, as an archaic element of gathering, dominates the structure of the floorplans and refers to the name of the project – Oma Kolle. »

PORTFOLIO . 2018