Architecture Portfolio K e v i n
B i g a i g n o n
College: Otis College of Art and Design: Advanced Drawing & Environmental Design / july 2001 Sci-Arc (Southern California Institute of Architecture) / spring 2002 EAVT (ecole d’architecture de la ville et des territoires) / Paris Region/ oct 2002-june 2009 WIT (Waterford Institute of Technology / Ireland) / ERASMUS / oct 2007 CCA (California College of the Arts / San Francisco) 4th year exchange student / spring 2008 Graduated: Ecole d’architecture de la ville et des territoires / Paris Region / june 2009 Diploma: Thesis:
Rehabilitaion of Ricardo Bofill’s Abraxas Housing Units + Urban Design of Noisy-Le-Grand
Work experience: Fondation Wilmotte: International Competition Venice / Italy / 2012 Urban Future Organisation International Competition Messina Waterfront / 2011 / 2nd Phase / won Copper Institute : Internation Competition / Milan / 2010 Shigeru Ban Architects Europe / summer workshop with international team / summer 2004 Jean De Gastines, architects / environmental project Center Parcs / october 2004 - may 2005 SEURA Architects/David Mangin (architecture + urban design): Les Halles competition / 2nd phase design and model making. Masterplan of Sihanoukville, Cambodia / june 2006- april 2007 Boulevard Leclerc rehabilitation / Paris-Clichy / august 2006
Impact of the California High Speed Rail on the california suburbia / june 2009
Published work: ‘‘Les Halles, Villes Interieurs’’, (‘‘Interior Cities’’), SEURA Architects, 2003 - 2007 ‘‘La Ville Passante’’, author-architect David Mangin / 2008 (France’s grand prize of urbanism 2008)
Notable mentions: solar chimney competition / 2nd / Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees seminar / spring 2006 security supervisor at Shigeru Ban building workshop / Pompidou Center / Paris / july - oct 2004
CAD Tools: Auto-Cad / Adobe CS / 3DStudio Max / Maxwell / Sketch-Up / Grasshopper Revit basic / Architecture interests: multi-unit housing / urban planning / environmental issues / rehabilitation
languages: bilingual /english fluent / french fluent / german basic / italian basic / dutch basic other interests: music / art / drawing / travelling / history/ environment
Revealing Abraxas / previously conceiled east facade faces projected parc / diploma 2009
Abraxas’s Rehab / diploma 2009
A compartmentalised
Context Noisy-Le-Grand
hexagon centered around commerce with no parcs, dead end roads. Relativly higher crime & insecurity.
A parisian suburb
1970s Hexagon plan
An Eastern suburb...
Charles-De-Gaule Airport
Before areas of interest highlighted
RER A station and A4 highway
After urban proposal
Current 15 minute walking distance areas of influence shown in metro line’s colours
...connected to Paris
Rehab Strategies step by step
Continuous streets with no dead-ends
Concentric focus
Progressive density
superimposed levels
Interconnected Hub + Cultural Nexus
areas of interest
Urban Design Result
interconnected underground with subway & tram Progressive
Phased
Interventions
Rehabilitation of Ricardo Bofill’s Abraxas housing units + urban renewal plan / schematics with M.Brean / student
interconnected parcs and planted streetways
City block Fluidity/ Opening up abolishment of dead-ends/fluidity/parc/redrawing of 1970s plan model 1/1000 scale of current city (top left) and projected rehabilitation (top right), final 3d model (bottom right)
Abraxas’s Rehab / diploma 2009 MultiProgrammatic
Plan
Legend
New buildings in red
Housing Hotels Office Commerce Transportation hub Leisure / cinemaplex
Context Contour preservation «Paris
365.428m²
total surface intervention Residential / Office / Hotel / Leisure
Metro Connection
Disney»
Revelation of a
New urban Parctransfer of parking under ground Underground interconnectedness Abraxas Parc East
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New Parc West
Section
diploma, rehabilitation of Ricardo Bofill’s Abraxas housing units + urban renewal plan and section work with M.Brean, student
Cultural Nexus / Metro connection / Parking New Plaza
Multiplex
To DisneyLand Resorts 15 min by Metro »
schematics & Intentions
A landmark in the hexagon of Noisy-Le-Grand ...
The Palazio is in the shape of an interlocking helix
preservation of concrete structure ...
... revealed to the urban parc
Taming the Beast From housing units to 5 star hotel
According to pagan mythology ‘Abraxas’ is a half angel half demon entity whose name is
featured in architect Ricardo Bofill’s landmark housing units built from late 1970s to early 1980s.
... & vertical circulation
- Leveling for atrium continuity with parc - Underground amenities - Covering of glass ceiling
Palazio room type: double height
The building is featured in Terry Gilliam’s dystopic and orwelian movie ‘Brazil’(1985)
widened entrance at reception for added space and visual continuity to leveled atrium
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reservation of the original building incorporating a leveled open-spaced atrium under a glassed ceiling that maintains visual continuity with the parc. The hotel includes all amenities such as restaurants, spas, swimming pools, conference center, & leisurly oriented activities.
Parc
Glass enveloppe: a bulging junction of two forms
North - South Section
widened perspective towards the atrium from the reception
diploma / rehabilitation / Ricardo Bofill’s Abraxas housing units + urban renewal
East - West Section
Atrium
Lobby Level atrium with circular access to ...
Atrium
New Parc & Hotel Entrance
...underground conference center /amenities / parking / spa
Hotel lobby level
Composing the old with the new
Hotel room levels
The hotel faces a broader parc bridging other communities
Entrance oriented towards the parc reveals the atrium Glass ceiling sheilds open spaced atrium
Circular branch has horizon and vertical circulation oriented towards atrium and glass ceiling Square branch has original circulation preserved
Spatial organisation is composed of a space revealing a building The parc facing Bofill’s renovated building reveals the original agriculture layout The plaza links the cultural nexus with the multiplex
A Composition of interlocking neighboring diploma projects Enhanced accessibility of segregated suburbs by the A4 highway
Circulation schematic
diploma / rehabilitation / Ricardo Bofill’s Abraxas housing units + urban renewal
models / 1/500 (top) and 1/2500 scale (bottom)
San Francisco / California
Electric Vehicle Research Institute San Francisco Bay California College of Arts
Location : Pier 32 / Embarcadero
continuity of greenery
Detail The 25.000 m² of Photo-vol-
taic solar panels enables the self sufficiency of the Research Institute and excess electricity is transfered to the city of San Francisco’s smart grid. program
visual continuity
South facade with PV panels maintained by light steel structure
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patial arranging of interlaping naturally lit introverted prototype-oriented studios facing glassed open spaced atrium with auditorium.
The atrium that faces thes San Francisco Bay, enabling visual contact with this feature, is under a suspended test track below a solar roof top accessible by ramp or studio elevator. The north facade for the offices has a light structure which sustains vegetation.
Sihanoukville New Masterplan / Cambodia S.E.U.R.A Architects Paris
Published in France’s national Grand Prize of Urbanism 2008
projected city of Sihanoukville / SEURA architects / plan and section work with A. Dambrine + E. Roncen, architect. published in La Ville Passante, 2008 ( France’s Grand Prix de l’Urbanisme)
Sihanoukville Masterplan Cambodia Les Halles Competition Paris S.E.U.R.A Architects Paris
S.E.U.R.A Architects Paris
sections of strip of projected city of Sihanoukville / SEURA architects
model 1/100 and 1/200 scale of the Les Halles project / SEURA architects / work with N.Celeste + 10
Temporary Paper Tube Structure Shigeru Ban Architects Europe
Center Parcs Normandie Jean de Gastines Architect
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Interior
Shigeru Ban Workshop / Construction of temporary office on the roof of the Centre George Pompidou
Center Parcs cottages / Jean DeGastines architect + V. Assens architect
Housing Units rue Caillié Paris 18th
housing units / 3rd year project / professor: Phillipe Barthélémy / eavt