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Portfolio

Margaux Humbert

trained architect

Rigorous, curious and committed, my different experiences taught me adapta bility and gave me a taste for challenge and sense of teamwork.

SKILLS

ArchiCAD Revit AutoCAD VectorWorks Sketchup

Adobe Indesign Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator

LANGUAGES

French : mother tongue

English : fluent / C1 / TOEIC 980 German : notions / A2 Modern greek : notions / A2

Contact

319 rue Jean Jacob, La Charne 39130 Charcier, France +33 6 48 69 41 00

margaux.humbert123@gmail.com

COSMA, BIOCLIMATIC ARCHITECTURE

Internship, Toulouse, 2022, 2 months - creation of a booklet for clients, presenting the agency and its various projects - production of graphic documents for several files in progress - follow-up of the construction site of a bioclimatic house

ATELIER LE2BIS Internship, Toulouse, 2021-2022, 6 months - graphic pieces for various files and various phases of project: architectural and ur ban scale competition, measurements of buildings, feasibility, preliminary design for the construction of a house of 250m2, pieces for building permit, technical details... - follow-up of the renovation and extension of a house in Toulouse - analysis of calls for tender

ATELIER GRENIER ARCHITECTURE

Internship, Nîmes, 2019, 5 months - update of plans and model for the extension and elevation of a secondary school and its restaurant - compilation and production of graphic documents for different files and different phases of project: building permit, execution plans, details, grant applicaiton... - renovation project of three apartments - study of the functioning and feasibility of a Court of First Instance

ATELIER_ZOU, ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM

Internship, Lons-le-Saunier, 2017, 1 month - potentiality study for the landscaping of a building complex and the requalification of a workshop - graphic documents for various files: 3D insertions, building permit files, feasibility study for the extension of the agency’s offices...

Diverse professionnal experiences

Table and bar service in a hotel restaurant, library instructor, reception agent and deputy manager on a tourist site, educational facilitator with middle schoolers coming from priority education areas, sales employee in a supermarket, homework help, cleaning and reception agent in a camping site, promoter doing street marketing missions in France and in Croatia...

Education

DIPLÔME D’ÉTAT D’ARCHITECTE (MASTER DEGREE) 2019-2022 École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Toulouse

DIPLÔME D’ÉTUDES EN ARCHITECTURE (BACHELOR DEGREE) 2015-2019 École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Marseille + Erasmus mobility during my third year, National Technical University, Athènes

ART HISTORY AND ARCHEOLOGY (BACHELOR 1st year) 2014-2015 Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon

SCIENTIFIC BACCALAUREAT 2011-2014 Lycée Jean Michel, Lons-le-Saunier + plastic arts option

Online training MOOCs Sustainable Building : « Efficient renovation. The keys to energetic rehabilitation », ASDER-Arcane « Building with raw earth todayi », Amàco « Re-use: materials to build » MOOC « Nature with City Life », Région Sud et Aix-Marseille Université

Workshops and volunteering Workshop Toca Tierra, ENSA Toulouse Workshop « With Open Arms: Designing a City for All », associations : Quatorze (Paris) and Zukunst (Berlin)

Participative constructions with Quatorze (Paris), with Arch’crowd (Toulouse) Music festivals : Marsatac (Marseille), 39 Août (Jura)

P. 6 FEEDING : to give food to, supply with nourishment ; to provide as food ; (esp. of animals) to take food, eat ; to be nourished, live by eating ; to yield or serve as food for.

The current ecological, social and economic challenges of our so ciety require us to adapt our territories. In order to move towards food sovereignty, a mutation of food production, distribution and consumption practices is necessary. Agriculture and architecture, historically linked but disconnected, must be reinvented together, to rethink the link between the city and the countryside, between settlement and productive territory, between the producer and the consumer... The multi-scale project that we have called «the garden of movement», presented below, fits into this approach.

P. 12 SHARING : to divide and distribute (something) in shares ; to use, partici pate in, receive, etc., jointly ; share in, to have a share or part in.

Participatory housing questions the notion of sharing, the collective dimension of projects and more broadly the public interest of architecture. Thanks to the mutualization of the construction, the pooling of certain spaces, the inhabitants can have more than in a more conventional housing. In a logic of economy of means, it is a ques tion of proposing a project as generous as possible, by offering not only livable housing, but also pleasant to live in, but also to compensate for the loss of anchoring and of link between the buildings and their inhabitants. In this architecture of relationship, the question of the role of the architect arises; more than a designer of space, he/she also becomes a matchmaker. This is what we have explored through our project entitled «les passerelles de Lapujade».

P. 18 DEFENDING : ward off attack from, protect ; to support or maintain by argument, evidence, etc., uphold ; to serve as attorney for (a defendant) in a trial ; to attempt to retain (a championship title) in competition against a challenger.

Originally, architecture is the shelter that allows humans to live decent ly. Housing offers protection, a means of survival, of existence. However, today in France, more than 300,000 people are without a home, and in total, no less than four million people suffer from poor housing. We the refore tried to understand how this situation was possible in a country such as France. By engaging with the association Droit au logement, we conducted a survey and then produced a project of architecture through experimental and collaborative action.

Feeding

The garden of movement

Towards a more sustainable agriculture for the Canal des Deux Mers territories

Studio : « Les jardins métropolitains du XXIe siècle » / ENSA Toulouse / 2021

Professors : Jérôme CLASSE, Marc RAYMOND, Uli SEHER

Teammates : Youssef EL-KHOLFI, Choukri MEHDI, Anass NATIQ, Marine RIVRON

Within the framework of the project studio «Les jardins mé tropolitains du XXI siècle» (Metropolitan gardens of the 21st century), I was able to work on the articulation of the archi tectural project with the urban scale, in the perspective of the contemporary evolution of lifestyles and forms of ur banization or renaturation of the territory. My team of four fourth and fifth year students and myself were interested in the Canal des Deux Mers, and developed trans-scale pro jects, resulting from a collective and individual work mixing analysis and project, theory and practice, research and creation.

THE CANAL AS A HERITAGE ELEMENT LINKING THE TERRITORY

Initially designed for the transport of goods, the Canal des Deux Mers is an exceptional work of art that links the Medi terranean to the Atlantic Ocean. It crosses the landscapes of southwestern France, a territory with a varied agricul ture. The Canal du Midi, which has greatly contributed to the development and influence of Toulouse, is listed on the UNESCO World Heritage List since 1996. The richness of the landscapes it crosses, its innovative technological charac ter for its time, and the aesthetic concern of its architectu ral and urban design, have earned it this title.

CHALLENGES: REVEAL, REACTIVATE, PROTECT AND CONNECT

There are many challenges facing the Canal des Deux Mers, its surroundings and its great landscape. It seems necessa ry to preserve them but also to reveal their links between them and with the city, in order to formulate visual and physical connections to this major historical work. Paradoxically, the canal, which is a connecting transportation route, is also a boundary that divides the territory. Many developments turn their backs to the canal and the two banks, which are not very well connected, sometimes evolve independently. Creating developed polarities, en hancing green travel along and through the canals in order to reinforce the existing mobility dynamism, would make it possible to create a link between the various urban and ru ral territories. Today, with the support of the communities, river tourism and transport for agricultural activities is developing again. The advantages of this transport route are numerous, particularly for the ecology and economy of the regions. It would reduce road traffic, promote the renatura tion of urban areas, develop local agriculture, and on a lar ger scale, rethink our lifestyles and consumption patterns, but also strengthen the fragile balance between rural areas, urban areas and nature areas in the city.

THE CANAL, FROM THE MEDITERRANEAN TO THE ATLANTIC

ACTING ON A METROPOLITAN SCALE

A PROJECT SITE ON THE AGRI-URBAN EDGE OF TOULOUSE METROPOLITAN AREA

ACTIONS : THE CANAL AS A LEVER OF BALANCE

Our project is entitled «The garden of movement», and aims at the balance between the movement of men on and around the canals, and the perpetual movement of nature. It also refers to Gilles Clé ment’s concept of «Garden in Motion». To establish, reinforce and maintain the balance, we propose to act on different scales and along six axes:

- Revealing and enhancing the heritage: maintaining the structures and requalifying the locks and ports will protect the heritage and ensure its transmission to future generations. These places can form platforms for social and cultural exchanges, inviting the pre sentation of the history of Toulouse and its canals.

- Reactivate river transportation: The stops along the Canal can serve as gateways between the city and its greater territory, as well as a connection point between the city and the Canal. Locks will be associated with storage and sales spaces, such as existing or new markets.

Education AgricultureCommerceIndustry

- Improving metropolitan mobility: In order to unite the territory divided by the infrastructures, it appears necessary to requalify the transport routes, by favoring soft modes of travel but also public transport. The project foresees the creation of a streetcar train, replacing part of the ring road, as well as the development of «green» urban boulevards. The urban strategy responds to the need for connections by creating new crossings, particularly from east to west, an axis successively fractured by roads, the freeway and the Canal. The architectural work, which follows this global strategy, determines polarities, which aim to link the neighborhoods, not

Housing

only through better means of transportation, but also through their respective activities, inviting a new look at the Canal.

- Protecting the immediate environment and reinforcing ecological corridors: In order to preserve natural spaces and green continui ties, it is a matter of determining a protection perimeter around the canals, in addition to the existing protected natural areas, with spaces that are more or less maintained and managed by man. Pro tecting these spaces also implies their enhancement through the education of users.

- Supporting agro-ecological education and diversifying the agri cultural territory: Developing new ways of consuming necessarily involves other ways of producing. The project aims to develop an agricultural production that is more respectful of the environment, diversified and local, in particular with a reorganization of certain plots and a choice of adapted and varied species. Permaculture and urban agriculture initiatives will be encouraged. In order to achieve a consistent and global change, education seems to be essential, so schools, universities of agronomy or museums appear to be levers on which to rely.

- Proposing a flexible housing offer: The presence of houseboats along the Canal makes it possible to question the developments necessary for this type of housing while protecting the canals from potential associated pollution. The major changes in the landscape and the soil, induced by urbanization and the sealing of the land, also invite us to imagine another way of living.

PEDESTRIAN-CYCLING PATH AND AGRICULTURAL PARK

The architectural project is located in the south of the Toulouse metropolis, within the SICOVAL perimeter. The Canal du Midi crosses this landscape, creating a natural limit. Like the major roads, the transportation and connection routes are, paradoxical ly, fractures and barriers that are difficult for pedestrians or ani mals to cross. The aim here is to create a new connection between the east and west sides of the canal. The pedestrian-bicycle path will connect Auzeville-Tolosane to Labège, as well as the different urban and landscape entities that make them up. Thanks to foot bridges, this path will make it possible to cross the Canal du Midi, the freeway and the Hers.

This peri-urban fringe is also characterized by a strong agricultural identity, with its lands cultivated for centuries along the canal. This identity is reinforced by the presence of the agrobiopole and the numerous teaching and research institutions related to agriculture in this area. The project will aim to preserve the crops, but also to diversify them, as well as to strive for a sustainable and reasoned agriculture in a process of metropolitan food self-sufficiency.

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THE CANAL FARM

The canal farm is located at the interface between the canal and the Auzeville-Labège pedestrian path. It is a center of experimen tation around sustainable agriculture and permaculture. It integrates places of produc tion, transformation, sale and pedagogy. It will therefore be a link between different publics: inhabitants, visitors, agricultural professionals, people in rehabilitation... The courtyard at the front of the building, as well as its large cour tyard open to the public, will allow the organi zation of various activities. The restaurant and its terrace-pontoon at the level of the bank, offers a new relationship with the canal. The building is intended to be as ecological as possible. It is organized around a central wall, a «sensor» wall thanks to the inertia of the adobe, which will regulate the temperature between the greenhouse side in the South, for production, and the North side, reserved for other uses. This part of the building will be insulated with straw bales. The building and its surroundings are intended to evolve with the seasons and the years, and are fully in line with the balance of this «Garden of Movement».

THE FARM AT THE CORE OF A LOCAL ECOSYSTEM

BIOCLIMATIC PRINCIPLES / SCHEMATIC SECTIONS

NORTHWEST VIEW ON THE CYCLE PATH AND THE FARM INTERIOR VIEW - THE GREENHOUSE

Wood NATURAL MATERIALS

FARM ORGANISATION

Straw Earth

Les passerelles de Lapujade

49 participatory social housing units

Studio « Penser l’habitat partagé » / ENSA Toulouse / 2021

Professors : Stéphane GRUET, Pierre-Étienne FAURE, Bruno MARCATO

Teammates : Noé CHARLES, Mathieu REYNES

Through our project, «Les passerelles de Lapujade» (The footbridges of Lapujade area), we wanted to create housing that fully responds to the needs of the inhabitants, and a space that is a true place of life and sharing. Although we could not have a dialogue with the future inhabitants because it was a fictitious project, we were still able to experiment with the bottom-up approach. Indeed, on the basis of the files made by real inhabitants on another pro ject, we had as a priority to answer the re quests formulated, by respecting as well as possible the desired proximities, as well as the particularities of each housing. For example, in order to respond to the de sire of many households to be on the top floor or on the first floor with a garden, we created duplexes when possible. The heart of our project lies in its walkways, designed as a meeting place, more conducive to ex change than a building corridor. During our study of the Îlot Bois Soleil in Borderouge, with its footbridge surrounded by trees, we noticed that people had created a par ticular link. The footbridge becomes an inhabited threshold, which participates in a gradation of spaces from the most public to the most private. The common spaces are located at the ends of the North building. On the street side, there is, among other things, the workshop and the sports room, and on the other, the multipurpose room opening onto both the semi-public square and the common garden. In order to preserve the intimacy of each person, we have chosen to place the circulation at a dis tance from the facades of the apartments. The walkways, which develop in the center of a large shared garden, with a minimum of permeabilized and mineralized grounds, offer a relationship with nature and natural elements, induced by the outdoor circula tion, as well as a very present vegetation. As for the latter, we have chosen adapted

INTENTIONS PROJECT

local species. It serves as a support to divide the spaces at different scales, and protect from the opposite. The system of horizontal cables is also the identity of the project; they have a triple function: they are part of the supporting structure of the walkways and loggias, but also guardrails, and finally, they play a role of visual filter.

The participation of the inhabitants in the processes of conception of their place of life is a subject which interests me particularly and that I wanted to develop in the project. The teaching on the origins and history of «cooperative», «social», and then «participative» housing, highlighted the interest of bottom-up in the making of the city and housing. Indeed, the involvement of all actors can be an asset for the success of urban projects. The classic, top-down, hierarchical approach is based on a rigid operation and has little capacity to take into account the specificities and realities of the inhabitants. The challenge of (co)participatory housing is to find the balance between these two modalities, and could thus contribute to making a more inclusive city. This leads us to rethink the role of the architect, who finds himself facing new challenges, new missions. The architect must think for and with people, and play around with laws and standards, which I find stimulating. Moreover, adaptability has its limits, and the architect must know where to place these limits, in order not to serve the project. Participatory housing, by combining social, ecological and economic issues, enters into a logic of sustainable social and urban development. Participatory housing also questions the public interest of architecture, but also the notion of habi tability, comfort, and what makes a home livable and pleasant to live in. We realize that people’s needs are very different. Indeed, it is not enough that a dwelling meets minimum stan dards of comfort for it to meet their expectations. Even if their primary, physiological needs are satisfied (according to the hierarchy of needs of Maslow’s pyramid, which can be ques tioned), a dignified housing should and could correspond to all the needs of its inhabitants, even the most precarious. Par ticipatory housing with social access appears to be a possible solution to meet these needs. However, this type of housing may not be suitable for everyone, as it is a way of living that implies compromises and a certain commitment on the part of the inhabitants.

But thanks to the mutualization of the construction, the sha ring of certain spaces, the inhabitants can have more than if it were a «classic» housing.

Metal grating

Gutter

Bottom plate

Ditribution rail

Wooden cladding

Reinforcement

Chaining rail Top plate Upper crosspiece

Upper crosspiece

Reinforcement

Counterbatten (22x40mm)

Batten (22x40mm) Rain screen Vapor barrier

Wood wool insulation

OSB panel bracing

Acoustic resilient Levelling screed (5cm)

Slab (14cm) DETAILED SECTION, SOUTH FACADE OF THE NORTH BUILDING

Pre-slab (6cm)

Frame of the bay

Beam

Paving support

Wooden board Leveling screed (5cm) Acoustic resilient

Wood joinery Window Waterproofing Slab (15cm)

Waterproofing

Sand (2cm) Foundation Ground Tout venant Drain

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Inhabiting the requisition

Furniture as a vector of livability

End of studies project / Studio « Extrême contemporain » / ENSA Toulouse / 2022

With : Alexandra DANILOVA Under the direction of : Daniel ESTEVEZ, Francine ZARCOS Online here

Today in France, more than 300,000 people are home less, and in total, no less than four million people suffer from poor housing. Faced with the increase in current and future migrations, whether due to conflict or climate change, it seems necessary to rethink emergency hou sing, but also, more broadly, the ways in which cities are produced. As the built environment has the capacity, in terms of volume, to accommodate these people, what technical and legal solutions could enable dignified housing for all? Housing being a key element to get out of precariousness and lead a dignified life, what role can the architect have in this context?

Faced with these issues, we sought to get involved and in tervene in the Toulouse area. Within the studio «Extrêmes contemporains», the project, considered as an expression of a social and political content (M. Foucault), results from a critical and committed reflection on a chosen theme which answers a certain urgency, i.e. a current question of the world which surrounds us. The objective was to pro duce a personal architectural project through experimen tal action, taking the context of intervention as a starting point and not as an a priori program.

Before any experimentation, we first conducted a sur vey to better understand this situation, by engaging with the association Droit Au Logement. This association, born in Paris in 1990, has developed over thirty branches in France, and aims to defend the right to decent housing for all, through various actions such as demonstrations, encampments, occupations or even self requisition of empty buildings... They also organize legal consultations to help and guide people in their administrative proce

dures. In Toulouse, several families supported by the DAL have been occupying an unused former tax office at 36 rue Roquelaine since 2020. These families have a favo rable DAHO (right to housing), but should be housed by the State according to the law. We had a very short deadline, but participating in the ac tions of the DAL allowed us to meet the members, to un derstand the functioning of the association but also the legal procedures, the needs of the people and the related stakes. In order to propose courses of action, we tried to take the context of intervention as a starting point, and not as an a priori program. Thus, we decided to work mainly with the families occupying 36 rue Roquelaine, and asked ourselves how they lived in this place that was not intended to be housing. We considered the building 36 as a capable space in which we had nothing to impose, and the project had to be born from the inhabitants. The sur veys of the inhabited space allowed us to highlight an appropriation by the furniture. Based on the hypothesis that living in a place properly requires appropriation and the addition of furniture, we organized carpentry workshops on site with the residents. In partnership with the associa tion Arch’Crowd, the furniture was made of pallet wood, in a sustainable approach of reuse and economy of means. The objective, more than improving the living conditions of the people, was above all to create a meeting, an ex change around an activity, while transmitting know-how. In spite of the imminent eviction of the inhabitants and the little time we had, we gave birth to something, and we hope that the partnership between the DAL, Arch’Crowd and ENSA Toulouse will be able to last.

Room 4 Bathroom Room 5

Toilets Room 2 Room 3

Entrance Room 1 Bathroom Cellar Technical room Garage

Common room

Inner courtyard

Kitchen & laundry room

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A COLLABORATIVE PROJECT

Although architecture and urban devices alone are not enough to solve exclusion in ur ban society, they are a necessary condition for inclusion. Our approach of building furni ture out of recycled pallet wood, with the ob jective of investing a building requisitioned to house people without housing solutions, is not only part of a dynamic of inclusion, but also of a dynamic of sustainable development, since it is a question of doing the best with the least, using existing resources, and whose transfor mation requires little energy.

Aware of the social purpose of architecture and urbanism, it is our responsibility to com mit ourselves and to defend strong values. Indeed, the mission of the architect is not only to build, but to be part of the urban, cultural, technical, social and economic evolutions of his time.

INHABITED PLAN OF THE FIRST FLOOR DURING THE WORKSHOP

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AXONOMETRY OF THE BUILDING DURING THE WORKSHOP

Palette européenne EPAL Palette américaine x4 Planche 120x10cm Ep. 2,2cm

Palette européenne EPAL Palette américaine

EPAL pallet American pallet

x4 Planche 120x14,5cm Ep. 2,2cm

x3 Planche 80x14,5cm Ep. 2,2cm

x3 Pavé 10x 14,5x14,5cm

x6 Pavé 10x 10x14,5cm

x3 Planche 100x9,5cm Ep. 2,2cm

x13 Planche 120x7,5cm Ep. 2,2cm

x4 Planche 120x10cm Ep. 2,2cm

Palette européenne EPAL Palette américaine 120x10cm x4 Planche 120x14,5cm Ep. 2,2cm

Palette européenne EPAL Palette américaine x4 Planche 120x10cm Ep. 2,2cm

x3 Planche 80x14,5cm Ep. 2,2cm

x4 Planche 120x14,5cm Ep. 2,2cm

x4 Planche 120x14,5cm Ep. 2,2cm

x3 Pavé 10x 14,5x14,5cm

x3 Planche 80x14,5cm Ep. 2,2cm

x6 Pavé 10x 10x14,5cm

x3 Planche 80x14,5cm Ep. 2,2cm

x3 Pavé 10x 14,5x14,5cm

x3 Pavé 10x 14,5x14,5cm

x6 Pavé 10x 10x14,5cm

x6 Pavé 10x 10x14,5cm

x3 Planche 100x9,5cm Ep. 2,2cm

x13 Planche 120x7,5cm Ep. 2,2cm

x3 Planche 100x9,5cm Ep. 2,2cm

x3 Planche 100x9,5cm Ep. 2,2cm

x13 Planche 120x7,5cm Ep. 2,2cm

x13 Planche 120x7,5cm Ep. 2,2cm

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