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juliette villemer

CONTENT

curriculum vitae

thesis

selected academic works senescents bodies and cities

resurfacing

to gather

nieuw petroleum

the library

confluence

other works images +++

biennial of Orléans

laboratory studio

editorial

CV Details

Education

french-canadian, 30/04/1998 32 bd Babin-Chevaye, #78, 44200 Nantes, France juliette@villemer.org +33 6 95 91 25 75 LinkedIn / instagram @thoughtsofjuliette sept 2019 - en cours state diploma in architecture - master / National Superior School of Architecture (ensa) of Nantes 2016 - 2019 bachelor of Sciences of Architecture / Faculty of Planning, University of Montreal 3rd year at ENSA Nantes as part of an international exchange 2004 - 2016 bachelor’s degree / Collège Stanislas (Montreal) Economic and Social Sciences section, mathematic’s option, with honors

Languages

Computer skills 4

french : mothertongue english : fluent spanish : intermediate

office tools Autocad / Sketchup Adobe : Indesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro

Interests

Prices

dance (16 years of experience) theater (8 years of experience) film photography reading and writing travelling 2016 /AURA - Ambition Unification Radiance Accomplishment, by the Association of Private Colleges of Quebec. 2018 /LOJIQ scholarship and Quebec government scholarship for international mobility

Work experiences

architect intern / Laboratory Studio (Paris) freelance collaborator, 4 months cumulated between july 2019 and february 2021 - setting up schedules, managing estimates, construction site follow-ups, making contacts - collaboration in the design of a private home project in Saint-Germain-des-Près, in Paris : creation of images, graphic documents, presentations for clients - extension proposals for a parisian apartment in the district named Gambetta design community editor / 7000 Magazine (Paris) freelance collaborator, 3 months cumulated between july 2019 and february 2020 - research and contact of artists, interviews, writing of articles, mediation of art galleries

Other experiences

2019 / project exhibited at the Biennial of Architecture of Orléans, as part of the Ubergrenzung course at the ENSA Nantes, in parternship with the FRAC Centre Val de Loire. 2018-2019 / international ambassador of the University of Montreal, representation of the university’s open house in Paris 2018 / volunteed for the conference Oussqu’on s’en va?, Faculty of Planning, Montreal. 2016 and 2018 / presenter of the College Stanislas’s Gala (over 1000 spectators), Claude Champagne Hall, Montreal. 2015-2016 / president of the Fashion & Talent Show of the College Stanislas : fashion show, dance, singing, 4000$ budget, +50 participants, +500 spectators, Théâtre Rialto, Montreal. 5

THESIS 2020-2021, ENSA Nantes master’s thesis under the direction of Petra Marguc, Toufik Hammoudi document available here : issuu.com/juliettevillemer/gestes

GESTE(s) - Figures, practices and body postures in architecture and dance is a master’s thesis. It links the disciplines of architecture and dance that evolve around the body, space and movement. How can the practice of dance influence an architectural posture? Choreographic approaches, read through spatial themes such as those of public or domestic space, can feed the relationship of the body to architecture. The dance gesture is a tool to perceive and travel through space. To experience space through the body is to question and inform the body about the ways of living and of making society. The practice of dance reveals an architectural posture, both as a user and as an architect. A posture that remains to be sketched, questioned and adopted.

geste(s)

accrocher aimer attendre bâtir bondir bouger compresser courir courber crier danser dormir embrasser empiler écrire fléchir grimper habiter jouer lâcher manger marcher parler plier porter pousser ramper regarder répéter rouler sauter sentir suspendre tirer toucher voir

figur es, pratiques et postur es de cor ps dans l’ar chitectur e et la danse

Juliette Villemer

first and fourth cover of the printed brief

SENESCENT BODIES AND CITIES spring 2020, ENSA Nantes studio Borderline under the direction of Sabine Guth, Petra Marguc individual

or the counter-ehpad neighborhood This project was developed at the time of the covid crisis. In this collective awareness of the vitality of the social link, of the importance of mental and physical well-being as well as the quality of one’s home, it seemed fundamental to question the way elderly people live. Often too excluded from several spheres of society, well before the crisis, they are also spatially and physically isolated. This project aims to propose, on the scale of a neighborhood, several rehabilitations integrating senescence within the neighborhood community while respecting the desired intimacies. Thus, based on a typical house in a Montreal neighborhood, 3 scenarios involving 3 different rehabilitations are proposed. The seniors’ roommates allows the sharing of common spaces while

maintaining independence. The neighbor’s kitchen envisages a space in the house open to the neighborhood, involved in a time of sharing meals and discussions. And finally, the elderly house is that of the community, where physical, cerebral, sensory and motor activities are proposed, making the elderly aware of their relationship to the body, to memory and to transmission. The articulation and transformation of private spaces into shared places allows the notion of the retirement home to spread, between the private scale and the scale of the neighborhood, in order to age at home and in the city harmoniously.

intentional images

plan of the scenario of the neighbors’ kitchen / the house is divided in 2: a private part where an elderly couple lives, the other one welcoming at given temporalities, the neighborhood to meet and share meals

the neighbor’s kitchen

plan of the scenario the senior’s roomates / the house is transformed in order to offer 3 bedrooms and private bathrooms inhabited by single people, as well as shared common spaces

the senior’s roomates, a room

RESURFACING fall 2019, ENSA Nantes studio Perception Architecture Paysage under the direction of Maëlle Tessier, Marie-Paule Rolland in collaboration with Mathilde Charteau

In the Bas-Chantenay district, west of Nantes, the project takes root around the sheds, docks and wharves. Taking part in the breath of insertion of activities proposed by the city on this territory, it proposes to the know-how of the maritime construction to resurface. The metal structure of the sheds, exposed by a polycarbonate skin, invites the light but also the curious residents to enter. The spatial organization suggests spaces used for the drawing to the launching of the boats. The sheds thus offer spaces for the renovation and construction of boats, but also for the transmission of knowledge so that the inhabitants, young and old, can make with their own hands; gestures of the heritage of the maritime substrate.

first floor plan of the project and its location on the edges of the Loire

first floor plan, from the drawing stage to the launching of the boat

a workshop for children about knots and ropes

the painting stage of a boat

section of the construction spaces on the ground floor and the drawing space on the first floor

TO GATHER spring 2019, ENSA Nantes studio Ailleurs Commence Ici under the direction of Maëlle Tessier, Marie Rolland in collaboration with Benjamin Joyau, Vincent Sachet

To the wandering youth, forgotten in the urbanity. A way to feel free, to feel existing. A moment where torments can be forgotten. Supports to the expression. White pages inviting to the creation. Scenes with different characteristics are created by playing with the floor. An appropriation of space, an architectural shift, a comic lightness, an antique reference, exciting a theater of life and a theater in the city. The staging of social, human, artistic, architectural perspectives awakens the creation of urban scenes. As if the singular personality of each person expressed the character of the place and the potential of each being shone. The wandering existences finally gather and breathe.

axonometry from the street towards the rehearsal and performance stages

elevation from the street to the sectioned project spaces

detailed section of one of the project’s scenes

section of the site, the large complexes

atmospheric images

NIEUW PETROLEUM fall 2018, ENSA Nantes studio La Ville des Possibles under the direction of Sabine Guth, Cherif Hanna individual

A work on the city of Antwerp around the thematic entries: built forms and remains, waste, recycling. Petroleum Zuid is a wasteland, an important space because of the singularity and monumentality of the abandoned infrastructures, the sheds, the pipelines and the silos. What if the revelation of the industrial heritage allowed the beginning of a new centrality? The transformation of this territory between red bricks and gray plates, near the river, is committed to anchor different experiments and temporalities in the course of the inhabitants. An invitation to sit down, walk around and enter into the heritage’s materiality.

axonometry of the site

axonometry of the renovation and transparency of the sheds

image from the sheds to the restaurant under the pipelines

THE LIBR ARY spring 2018, University of Montreal atelier architecture 4 : public library under the direction of Sébastien St-Laurent in collaboration with Marc-Antoine Langelier

This library proposal for the Village du Plateau in Gatineau, Ontario, is situated between large natural spaces and the heart of the neighbourhood. It opens a dialogue between the two and advocates a sensitive approach to the architecture of civic institutions. The architectural path is at the heart of the project. Made of wood, it invites the walker to explore the library by walking around it and then entering it. The library becomes a spatial event through its complex geometry: an inviting triangulation, both outward facing and expanding the interior space. The materiality, combining transparency and opacity, gives the envelope a dematerialized look, which nevertheless is the result of complex structural assemblies, allowing to play with the size of the interior spaces. The triangulated envelope functions as a shell in its own right, an extension; the roof is here the 5th façade of the building.

plan of the implantation of the project, between the park and the city of Gatineau

exterior view from the park

section lenghtwise

the library entrance

detailed section of a wall

model, plexiglass shell resulting from thermofusion on a plaster mold

CONFLUENCE spring 2018, University of Montreal atelier architecture 4 : solar grid, model sample 1-1 under the direction of Sébastien St-Laurent in collaboration with Marc-Antoine Langelier, Safaa Lasfra, Maxime Piché, Roxanne Sauvé

The design and fabrication of a solar grid for the south façade of a building, through a poetization of the implementation of materials. The threedimensional solar grid represents in its entirety, the crystallization of a map of the Ottawa River where the building is located. The earth and the water drawn from this cartography are represented by the marriage of wood and frosted glass. The natural materials chosen will change with the weather conditions, revealing the power of the elements. This cutting and constructive assembly of materials, creates a poetic play of shadows and light, revealed through a realization of the mesh at a scale of 1:200. This one allowing in laboratory to filter the harmful solar rays, to modulate the intensity and the entry of natural light. The realization of a fragment to the scale 1:1 allows to put in practice the approach of the materials and the constructive reality.

sample made to scale 1-1

cross section of the mesh

tests of interior atmospheres with a model 1-200 summer solstice / equinox / winter solstice

IM AGES +++ fall 2020, ENSA Nantes short videography project under the direction of Marie Rolland in collaboration with Vincent Sachet video available here : vimeo.com/poésie-de-présence

Poetry of Presence This audiovisual project is a superposition of different graphic and visual references, classical representations of architects (plan, section, axonometry), personal videos, paintings, popular images ... The pictorial imaginary defined in this video tends to represent the extent of the richness of interpretations and the poetic nature of the domestic space, within the experiences of sensitive lives. «In fact, poetry, when it favors the fulgurance of the home, is never static. The space of the home lives finely, that by what one could call, the poetry of presence.

freeze frame of the video; collages between videos and classical tools of architectural representation

BIENNIAL OF ORLÉANS spring and fall 2019 ENSA Nantes et FRAC Centre-Val-de-Loire Biennial of Architecture, Orléans #2 under the direction of Jean-Marie Beslou, Rémy Jacquier in collaboration with Cédric Michel

Biface Unique fragments of the T17 to assemble, build, deconstruct, decompose, take away, keep, preserve. To remember. The T17 stands, like a symbol of the slab of The Source, imposing to all. Its destruction, like a mourning, abysses. Its history, like a memory, remains. Rich of passages, anecdotes, life, it cannot disappear without leaving traces.

The T17 can be cut into 54 modules, representing the 54 residential towers on the slab of La Source. 54 fragments which, like archaeological monoliths, have frozen time to reveal a presence. Traces and imprints are anchored forever on two faces of these steles, evocative of materials and fossils of life. Together, they erect the T17 as it is today. Unique, they carry a collective memory.

Matricule, in the moulds, showing the singularity of each fragment, indicating its place in a whole

LABOR ATORY STUDIO summer 2019 private mansion in St-Germain-des-Près, Paris for Laboratory Studio

The project takes place in a private mansion in St-Germain-des-Près, where the first floor of the adjacent building is to be renovated. My collaboration in this project lies in the design phase in proposals of spatial organization in plan as well as in the production of rendering images for the clients. ground floor plan

axonometry of the room and its bathroom and a view of the room

EDITORIAL fall 2019, ENSA Nantes layout of an anthology under the direction of Maëlle Tessier et Marie Rolland

ATELIER PERCEPTION ARCHITECTURE PAYSAGE

Anthology Production of an anthology compiling the master’s and PFE’s projects of the APAP studio - Atelier Perception Architecture et Paysage, supervised by Maëlle Tessier and Marie Rolland, in the fall semester 2019. 300 pages retracing the workshops of drawings, writing works as well as the final renderings, printed in 50 copies for the students and the school. Cover of the edition : photo of the group studio on a trip to Lisbon

EDITORIAL 2019-2020 contributing architecture and design editor Laboratory Studio et 7000 Magazine

7000 Mag A work of rrsearch of artists and curators who can participate to the content of the editorial, as well as the articulation between the artists, the communication and the writing of articles and interviews for the magazine, for the editions of September 2019 and March 2020. september 2019’s issue cover and written articles

juliette@villemer.org +33 6 95 91 25 75 32 bd Babin-Chevaye, #78, 44200 Nantes, France LinkedIn /instagram @thoughtsofjuliette