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T KH AYY ARE

My name is Iness Tkhayyare. French and Moroccan, I began my studies at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Toulouse following a Scientific Baccalaureate in the Toulouse region.

Following my Bachelor’s degree in Architecture, I chose to do a one-year internship at the architectural agency acau architecture sa, based in Geneva, Switzerland, where I had the opportunity to work for a year.

Now, as a Master’s student, I am seeking new forms of practice in the world, as well as new opportunities to develop my skills and knowledge.

WORK PROJECTS

acau architecture sa

CO. SÈCHERON: Cycle d’Orientation de Sècheron, Geneva : elevation and extension

Rendering and modeling work

Liliana Franco-Texeira (architect), Ludovica Brizio (architect), Iness Tkhayyare.

TROINEX: Plan Localisé de Quartier (PLQ), Troinex, Genève

Urban planning and architecture project

Liliana Franco-Texeira (architecte), Iness Tkhayyare

SCHOOL PROJECTS

ARBORER: Revegetation, water recuperation and time to facilitate meetings. Peyriac-de-mer, France

Individual work S7 studio, Referring teachers : Véronique Joffre, Luc Gwiazdzinski

LE LABBO : The Brick and Wood Learning Laboratory in Carbonne, France

Individual work S6 studio, Referring teacher : Pierre Courtade

BRIQUE ET BOIS: Forms and uses: individual housing in Carbonne, France

Individual work S5 studio, Referring teacher : Pierre Courtade

PERSONAL PROJECTS

ARCHI.101: Gamifying architectural culture: A proposed guide to a serious game raising awareness on architecture

Personal - academic project

Supervised in «Architectures Numériques» seminar

Master 1 ENSA Toulouse (in progress)

CO. SÈCHERON

Cycle d’Orientation de Sècheron, Genève : elevation and extension acau architecture sa

Rendering and modeling work Liliana Franco-Texeira (architect), Ludovica Brizio (architect), Iness Tkhayyare.

Located in the Pâquis Sécheron district, near Lake Geneva, the Sécheron orientation cycle brings together students in the last three years of compulsory education in Geneva: 9th, 10th and 11th. Noticing a lack of working spaces, the City of Geneva commissioned ACAU to carry out an extension of the school.

In collaboration with the architects, I was able to think and plan, and then model the extension, which will be made in timber and steel. It is composed of a set of 10 new classrooms, along with activity rooms. The roof, vegetated, was designed to manage rainwater in accordance with the landscaping needs of the project.

On this project, I had the role of carrying out the Revit digital model of the context and the project. Then, for communication purposes for the office and the client, I was in charge of the visualization of the model, starting with images in Enscape to videos on Twinmotion.

I also realized, along the project, the physical model now completed.

presentation video, made in Twinmotion

Classroom views

TROINEX

Plan Localisé de Quartier (PLQ), Troinex, Genève acau architecture sa

Urban planning and architecture project Liliana Franco-Texeira (architect), Iness Tkhayyare.

In collaboration with the canton, the municipality of Troinex and the real estate promoter Opalys, it’s since 2005 that the proposed PLQ on the parcels 10175 and 10176 is delegated to acau. Many times postponed and rethought following local challenges or various cantonal services, it is in 2022 that the project is released and that a new explanatory report must be made.

I was thus in charge of two missions. First of all, I had to rethink the plan of the buildings and the underground parking on the parcel 10176, by gathering different criteria: those of density, required by the municipality and the promoter, those of distance to the street and to the zones of affectation of the parcel, but especially that of the Nant-du-sac, brook crossing the municipality, and the forest bordering it, in the south of the parcel.

I thus carried out the plans for three different buildings: a Building with Management for Old People, then a complex containing residences in property by stages, in housing cooperative, as well as student residences.

ARBORER

Revegetation, water recuperation and time to facilitate meetings.

Peyriac-de-mer, France

Individual work S7 studio, Referring teachers : Véronique Joffre, Luc Gwiazdzinski

The Place Aubin Fabre, located around the Foyer des Campagnes, in direct proximity to the ponds, has been highly criticized by its residents since its renovation. It is historically recognized as a center of town life, hosting the weekly market and other seasonal events throughout the year. However, it has become ill-suited to the lifestyles of the inhabitants. Here, the challenge is to give back to this square a strong identity around different themes, entertainment, socialization, work and consumerism. How to adapt these uses while encouraging cohabitation?

It is a matter of encouraging users to stop on the square and to feel good. One of the challenges of this development is to provide shade and coolness, reducing the heat islands in the heart of the old village. At the same time, in this place where the topography is conducive to rising waters, it is necessary to regulate rainwater. These facilities, which encourage stops, meetings and appointments on this square, should therefore encourage green mobility.

The landscape project is articulated around an accessible central garden, forming an island of coolness within the square. The forecourt of the foyer is laid out in stabilized soil and planted with beech trees. Its slight slope allows for a rainwater recuperation system, which serves as a tank for the surrounding planted spaces. The rest of the square is laid out in grass and paving, allowing to keep a vegetal ground, while absorbing rainwater.

The square is enriched with a new element: a structure made of oak wood and polycarbonate. This structure is completely redesigned to be as light as possible, and can be easily and cheaply built in a short time. Its doors can be easily opened or closed, and their rotation allows to create variable spaces according to the uses. To these structures are added a system of removable sails, allowing to complete the shading, and to create different luminous atmospheres. The project, light and flexible, almost ephemeral, does not impose itself on the square. It simply increases the qualities of the space, and the life within the village.

LE LABBO

The Brick and Wood Learning Laboratory in Carbonne, France

Individual work S6 studio, Referring teacher : Pierre Courtade

In this small typical town in the south of France, which we worked on throughout the third year of our degree, terracotta brick is the main material. The idea was to design a set of houses that would encourage new ways of living while keeping and celebrating the character of this region.

The program of this project of public equipment was to set up a space of education and experimentation around the constructive methods of brick and wood, by inserting in the village center, near the church.

The spatial design is based on the idea of encounter and a very clear distinction between the served and the serving spaces.

In addition, specific attention was paid to the materials, their raw and structural perception, in order to create warm and functional spaces.

The insertion on the site slips through an existing road, whose municipal will was to pedestrianize it. Leaving its place to the church, arranging a square, we create another building with a monumental aspect, creating a play of heights with the church. The proximity of the building to the Garonne river, gives it a strong relationship with nature despite its dense aspect.

The plan of the building, built around a double service distribution, distinguishes the corners as useful and distribution spaces. The lateral wings accompany the teaching function of the central hall through different parts of the program: classrooms, experimental workshops and conference rooms.

Exposition Workshops

Administration Classrooms Utilities

Gravillons

Bardage et couvertine

Isolant incompressible Linteau brique

Gaine + plaque OSB

Poutre + étresillons

Coffet de volet lamisol

Vitrage

Bardage et couvertine

Poutre + étresillons Gaine + plaque OSB Isolant incompressible Linteau brique

Coffet de volet lamisol

Bardage et couvertine

Poutre + étresillons Gaine + plaque OSB Isolant incompressible Linteau brique maxi

Coffet de volet lamisol

BRIQUE ET BOIS

Forms and uses: individual housing in Carbonne, France

Individual work S5 studio, Referring teacher : Pierre

Courtade

In this small typical town in the south of France, which we worked on throughout the third year of our degree, terracotta brick is the main material. The idea was to design a set of houses that would encourage new ways of living while keeping and celebrating the character of this region.

The spatial conception of the two houses I designed, adjoining each other, is organized around two themes: the superposition of modules, like boxes, which would come to rest on a base, hosting the living spaces. This intention is coupled and associated with a strong division into serving and served spaces, along the three levels, which, within the two houses, is expressed and distinguished by the use of materials.

Stacking of modules Served and servant areas

Manufacturing methods and brick assembly

A B

8 bricks at a time 2 types of bricks: Assembly - cladding wall and claustra

Half brick module = perception of continuity and thickness

The plan, composed in an almost symmetrical way on the two dwellings, is based on a principle of used and served spaces which are distinguished by their position in the plan, but also by their materiality. Wood, allowing more flexibility, is the main material used for the partitioning of served spaces. Respecting local traditions, the terracotta brick remains visible both inside and outside through a double skin principle.

Personal - academic project

Supervised in «Architectures Numériques» seminar Master 1 ENSA Toulouse (in progress)

Architectural culture and its aesthetics seem to be only accessible to the initiated, despite its prevalence in our living spaces. A gap between the architect and the novice exists, as well in terms of understanding of the concepts as in terms of appraisal. It seems necessary to create a bridge between the various contributors, to encourage comprehension, whilst not imposing a prerequisite level of education or a stylistic doctrine. The project goal is the development of a methodology based on microworlds, as synthesized by Papert, to create a hybridization between serious game and self-constructed world. This methodology allows an undogmatic learning, and the opportunity to build a debate around architecture.

This serious game, ARCHI.101, is based on these principles. My aim, through the exploration of Corbusier’s Villa Savoye and other examples of modern architecture, is to engage the player’s vision of architectural theories found in our daily lives. Through experimentation and interaction of spaces, the player builds an opinion on the architectural doctrines of the 20th century and beyond.

Gamifying architectural culture: A proposed guide to a serious game raising awareness on architecture

This ongoing work is mainly focusing on the development of a methodology of serious game design based on constructivist learning methods and open worlds, as synthesized by Papert in microworlds, to build a hybridization between serious game and self-built world. This methodology should allow an open, undogmatic learning, revealing the relativity of the opinions around architecture, and consequently, the possibility of debate development built around the questions of architecture, space and urbanities.