Marine Gigandet Architecture Portfolio 2019
My name is Marine Gigandet. I’m a Swiss architecture student born in the canton of Jura. I started my studies at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland. My first year as a student focused on the understanding of space as a general concept through the teaching of Professor Dieter Dietz and Alexa Den Hartog. Then I joined the Laboratory of Underground Architecture (SUB) under the supervision of Professor Dominique Perrault. The laboratory work aimed at studying the impact of the underground architecture through the reconversion of an underground gallery in the center of Seoul. We travelled to Seoul to work in collaboration with students of the EWHA Womans University.
This entire project of reconversion of the 2.7km long gallery, was then exhibited at the 2017 Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism. In parallel, I studied the vernacular heritage of the Swiss Alps with Professor Nicola Braghieri and Patrick Giromini. Then I travelled to Spain to spend one semester at the Politecnical University of Valencia (UPV), where I learned Spanish. Following this, I did a four months internship at Nomos Groupement d’architectes, in Geneva.
During this first working experience, I had the opportunity to work on a small scale project (the reconversion of a local in a wine bar and restaurant) and to familiarised with materials choices and uses, details and construction process. I then went back to EPFL to spend my last year of bachelor in the Construction and Conservation Laboratory (LCC) under the supervision of Professor Luca Ortelli. The Laboratory focus is oriented toward housing and architecture conservation. Therefore we worked on a project of social housing in the suburbs of Florence, on the site of an old casern.
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Double element Connecting table Bachelor semester 1 | EPFL, Lausanne, 2015 In collaboration with Louis Conforti, Piero Fumagalli and Louise Plassard Design of a table that allows two persons located in different spaces to share a piece of furniture. This connecting table is conceived to adapt to different configurations. To do so, it is made of seven articulated plates, of which three can expand.
Site : Lausanne Professor : Dieter Dietz Assistant : Alexa Den Hartog
construction drawing views of diffferent configurations of the table
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Room The forest Bachelor semester 2 | EPFL, Lausanne, 2016 In collaboration with Louise Plassard This project is inscribed in a 11mx11mx11m timber structure, inspired by the balloon frame structural system. The main idea is the dissimulation of the project into the existing structure, that is achieved by using vertical elements that copy the assembly of the frame. At the same time, it allows to redefine the rhythm of the system and changes the perception by blurring the boundaries. This project was selected and built in the House one project (see next project).
Site : Lausanne Professor : Dieter Dietz Assistant : Alexa Den Hartog
plan of the project diffferent view of the 1:10 model
photography of House one (by Dylan Perrenoud)
House one The forest Bachelor semester 2 | EPFL, Lausanne, 2016 In collaboration with all the first year students. House one was an architectural installation based on an experimental format for collaborative design and construction. It was the final project of the bachelor first year, designed and hand-built as a collaboration of all the students from the 12 design studios of the ALICE laboratory. House one is a 11mx11mx11m balloon-frame timber protostructure designed to support the 12 independant but interconnected rooms and transitionnal spaces, each designed by a team.
Site : Lausanne Professor : Dieter Dietz Assistant : Alexa Den Hartog
This project has recieved the Design Prize Switzerland 2017, in the research category.
perspective drawing of the project plan and section of House one
photographies of the project photography of House one’s interior (by Dylan Perrenoud)
photographies of the project
photography of House one (by Aloys Mutzenberg)
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Reconversion of an underground gallery in Seoul Bachelor semester 3 and 4 | EPFL, Lausanne, 2016-2017 In collaboration with Michael Goehring and Pedro Maiurano The purpose of this project was to rehabilitate the 2.7 km long gallery in collaboration with students from the EWHA Womens University of Seoul. Each group worked in a 100m portion of the tunnel. Located at a business crossing, the project features a foodcourt wich also allows people to access the gallery. The design is based on three main ideas. The first one is the introduction of a twisted grid to challenge the continuity of the gallery, while the second one is the use
Site : Seoul Professor : Dominique Perrault Assistant : Juan Fernandez Andrino and Richard Nguyen
of an oblique plan that connects the floor of the tunnel with the surface and at the same time allows the flow of people in the gallery to transit peacefully. The last idea is the use of positive and negative shapes that define two different types of space : the private and the public. This project was then displayed at the 2017 Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism.
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Housing in Florence Bachelor semester 5 and 6 | EPFL, Lausanne, 2018-2019 Individual project
Reconversion of a former barracks site into a social housing neighbourhood. The implantation of the six “U“ shaped buildings, located around a central park, imitates the implantation of the military buildings, while the system is connected to the northern axe by two new constructions. The typology of the six “U“ is inspired by the military sytem, with small units (40m2), repeated on the three levels. But the construction system, in which the shared walls aren’t load-bearing, allows the combination of units and offers more freedom and variety. Site : Florence Professor : Luca Ortelli Assistants : Valentin Bourdon, Mathias Dépierraz, Marion Guinand and Alessandro Porotto
On the other side, the northern buildings offer bigger typologies. The staircase is detached from the building and rythms the street, and creates aswell more shared spaces. The northern wing of those buildings is composed of commercial galleries, protecting the yards from the road, and the other wings are housing, their groundfloor being dedicated to shared spaces. There is also a small theater integrated in the West gallery, wich can open itself to the yard to offer exterior representation as well.
All the buildings are constructed with massive brick walls (1 layer of 24x12x6cm bricks, 2 layers of insulation bricks and stuc in the interior). Each 3 lines, the brick lines rotate to overlap itself in the insulation brick and therefore creates a more united wall. The floors are composed by a serie of HEB 140 metallic beams each 0,72m that bear terracotta curved vault (the one we can see on the interior view in the left). This project was selected among third year bachelor and first year master projects and won the BCV (Banque National Vaudoise) Price.
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section and plan of the northern buildings, the galleries and the theater
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Study of the vernacular architecture of the Alps Bachelor semester 4 | EPFL, Lausanne, 2017 In collaboration with Florence Gilbert, Delphine Klumpp and Fanny Ladisa Study and reproduction of a typical raccard in Grimentz. The purpose is to learn and understand the vernacular architecture of the Alps, in Switzerland. It started by observing the raccard to understand its structural function, before starting the reproduction in 2D drawings, 3D and model. The aim of this class was to give us the tools to carry out a building survey, a very important exercise when it comes to renovating or transforming an existing construction. Site : Grimentz Professor : Nicola Braghieri and Patrick Giromini Assistant : Sibylle Kรถssler and Olivier Meystre
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A new structure for the Davos ice skating rink Bachelor semester 5 | EPFL, Lausanne, 2018 In collaboration with StĂŠphanie Deliyski, Selen Karakoc, Romane Terrien, Maxime Theuvenat and AurĂŠlie Thill As part of the structural design class, we were appointed to imagine a new design for the Davos ice skating rink, focusing on the structural aspect. The project is composed of 25 wooden frames, gradually tilting toward the ground (from the center), which give the impression that the structure is slowly falling, although the system is balanced by the symnetry.
Site : Davos Professor : Yves Weinand Assistant : Julien Gamerro
Each frame is composed by three layers that makes its particular form possible and eanables laterals accesses. This leaning structure offer then a spectacular entrance, with its glass facade, and also serves as a shelter.
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view of the interior
diagram of the seismic risks (eleveted in red and moderated in blue)
diagram of the flooding risks (in pink) and the overexploitation of the groundwater risks (in grey)
diagram of the high agricultural potential (in green) and the urban potential (in yellow)
Urban planification in the South Alger Bachelor semester 6 | EPFL, Lausanne, 2019 In collaboration with Marc Gerber, Eliane Gigon and Romane Terrien For an interdisciplinary class, focusing on the territory, we were brought to study the city of Alger.
Then, the second step was to elaborate a master plan for the city of 2035 and to summarize it in a second map.
The first step of the project was to understand the problematics of the city and to represent them in a diagnostic map. Among them are the chaotic expansion, the creation of “dormitory cities”, the lack of public transport and a more and more congested center.
The first idea was to enhance the network of public transport to make it connect all the areas of the city without making it rely too much on the city center.
Site : Alger Professor : Jérôme Chenal Assistant : Meriem Chabani, Armel Kemajou Mbianda, Andrea Salmi and Marc Soutter
The second idea was to equip the already built “dormitory cities”, so that they can become more autonomous, decongesting the city center.
The last step was to establish new areas of construction for the further developpment of the city. For that purpose, we analysed various factors such as the seismic and flooding sensitive areas and also the potential of the green areas that need to be protected (as we can see on the 3 diagrams here).
Alger Diagnostic map Evaluation ot the current state of the city
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Alger 2035 Master plan Reevaluate the suburban
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Marine Gigandet +41 78 710 62 64 marine.gigandet@epfl.ch