PORTFOLIO MAROUSSIA TASIAUX
ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE S E L E C T E D W O R K S 16-18 PART 1 ARB/RIBA 2018
MAROUSSIA TASIAUX
PERSONAL DETAILS Female Belgian and Swiss 21/08/1996 +33622940205 maroussia.tasiaux@gmail.com
EDUCATION AA SCHOOL - ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION, LONDON 2015-Current: Undergraduate School of Architecture: 1rst-3rd Year 2014-2015: Foundation Course in Arts and Architecture LYCEE ALBERT 1ER, MONACO OIB - International Option (English Bilingual) for the ES French Baccalaureate (English Bilingual), with emphasis on Economics and Maths
42 bis, Boulevard du Jardin Exotique MC 98000 Monaco
EXPERIENCE LANGUAGES French English Italian Spanish
Mother Tongue Fluent (Toefl 113/120) Good Level Basic Conversational (currently learning)
INTERESTS architecture, art, history, anthropology, photography, music leisure: tennis, dance, ski, golf, volleyball, drawing, painting, travel.
REFERENCES Ana Araujo Inter 2 Unit Master AA School ana.araujo@aaschool.ac.uk +4478 76426894 Francisco Gonzales de Canales Inter 8 Unit Master AA School +34627817106 interunit8@googlemail.com Nuria Alvarez Lombardero Inter 8 Unit Master AA School +34616224990 Marina Wenger Former Employer +41794061730 marina.wenger@me.com
ATELIERS JEAN NOUVEL - PARIS, FRANCE Oct 2018- March 2019: 6 Months Internship working mainly on the Concept Design of a largescale project in a city near Shanghai in China, creating an entirely new district of a growing city on the grounds of an old Fishing Island that is today a tabula-rasa. Other projects include the intial phase of an urban development project and a housing project in China, as well as a feasability proposition for a housing tower in Montpellier in the South of France. POLITICS OF THE HYPERWALL- INTERMEDIATE 8 STUDIO Sep 2017- Present: Year Long studio project focusing on lines of densification in Mexico City, through the typology of the hyperwall, with Francisco Gonzales de Canales avnd Nuria Alvarez Lombardero (AA School) VERSION M ARCHITECTURE AND INTERIOR DESIGN STUDIO- NYON, SWITZERLAND Sep 2017: Internship: In charge of the initial stages of 3 residential projects: site survey, conception, technical drawings. I met with the client for all three of the projects, and met with an engineer for one of them. THE INSIDE AND THE OUTSIDE- INTERMEDIATE 2 STUDIO Sep 2016- June 2017: Brief for an intervention in a Psychiatric Hospital in Genoa, Italy with a real client (The City of Genoa), and a local architect. with Ana Araujo (AA School) AGENCE TERRONES AGT ARCHITECTES INGENIEURS ASSOCIES- PARIS, FRANCE Sep 2013: Internship: First approach to an architecture firm where I discovered many aspects of the profession, such as conception, modelling, digital visualisations, meeting with clients, and going on construction sites.
SKILLS
AutoCAD
Rhinoceros
Photoshop
InDesign
Revit
VRay
Modelling Skills: metal, foam, CNC
Lasercut,
casting,
Illustrator
Modelling
paper,
wood,
2 N D Y E A R P R O J E CT
M O M E NT S I NT E R R U PT E D The project is on the site of an old, abandoned psychiatric hospital in Genoa in Italy, where a real client, The City of Genoa, demanded an intervention on a part of the hospital that is to be demolished, with specific programs. Some patients still occupy a small part of the hospital, and because psychiatric hospitals are banned in Italy since the 1980’s, the patients are free to come and go, as well as wander on the site as they please. My response to the project is to look at one condition in particular, Dementia, and base my project on the mind of a patient. The aim is to create a space that could be an architectural experience of the mind of a patient, through a journey from darkness to light, through disorientation, overwhelm, and the reaching for relief, punctuated by archictural moments that are milestones, moments of remembrance. In addition the space produced is a neutral haven that does not remind one of any point in time nor space, creating a place of relief in a hospital so charged with its own history. This drawing is my interpretation of the condition in space, where the row of columns is the inside of the mind. Paradoxically, the moments of forgetting and void are the moments that allow orientation.
O S P E D A L E D I Q U A R T O, G E N O A
The site itself, the hospital, is made up of nine squares, where the intersecting grid are the buildings, and the inside of the squares are gardens. All of the long buildings are bordered with arches on the ground floor, and while its may seem at first like a peaceful place, the overuse of the same exact architectural elements everywhere on the site can be overwhelming and makes it very easy to get lost in. The only two buildings that are not like the rest are the entrance building and the church, making them moments of understanding and orientation that allow one to navigate through the site. Much like this condition, my architecture is made up of a series of moments in space that allow orientation, moments of remembrance which allow one to reach understanding of the space. It is not so much about the overall form of the structure, but more about the experience created inside through the architectural journey.
MOMENTS
A ROW OF COLUMNS BEING NONE OTHER THAN A WALL OPEN AND SICONTINUED IN SEVERAL PLACES” -LEON BATTISTA ALBERTI
ANALOGY BETWEEN THE DISINTEGRATION OF THE WALL AND THE DEMATERIALISATION OF MEMORIES
USING A METAL WALL ON THE SAME PLANAR POSITION ON ALL FLOORS
COLUMN DISAPPEARING INTO THE WALL
SUNKEN: THE ILLUSION OF BEING SUNKEN UNDERGROUDN WHILE BEING ON THE GROUND FLOOR
CENTRAL STAIRCASES AS THE BREAKAGE POINT
FIRST FLOOR FIRST FLOOR
ROOF
LIBRARY
AUDITORIUM/ SOCIAL TEMPORARY EXHIBITIO LIBRARY
CUT AT 6.8 M
CUT AT 5.1 M
L CENTER ON SPACE
GROUND FLOOR
GROUND FLOOR
INTERIOR GARDEN MEETING ROOMS AUDITORIUM/ SOCIAL CENTER
CAFE + RESTAURANT MULTI-PURPOSE SPACE INTERIOR GARDEN
CUT AT 3.4 M
CUT AT 1.7 M
BASEMENT PERMANENT EXHIBITION FOR PATIENTS’ ARTWORKS
UNFOLDED CONTINUOUS SECTION ACCORDING TO THE PLANS
The journey from the street to the heart of the structure is one from overwhelm to relief, through a process of dematerialisation of the the spaces, volumes, materials, colors. It is a voyage where one becomes oblivious of time and space through the neutral visual palette.
X-RAY MODEL AT SCALE 1:200
3 R D Y E A R P R O J E CT
G E O M E T R Y V S. G E O G R A P H Y A LINE OF DENSIFICATION IN MEXICO CITY This project looks at the impact from the earthquake of 19th September 2017 in Mexico City. Because of the capital being built on the grounds of drained Lake Texcoco, the soil under the city behaves like jelly during an earthquake, itensifying and increasing the damage in the city. The proposal is to insert a line of densification through a network of safehouses on the plots of the collapsed buildings from the earthquake, looking at the hyperwall as an indexical project revealing the discrepancy between geography, the soil onto which the city is built, and geometry, the urban fabric and the city grid, revealing tension between the landscape and the proposal.
ITERATION MODELS AT SCALE 1:1000
FORMAL RESEARCH The form of the hyperwall, in contradiction to its size, seeks to be an architecture of the interaction, one that is inviting and that promotes community life by shaping public plazas and courtyards to be the real spaces of living. Circulation on roofs and iteractions between the volumes at all levels enable a blurring of the spatial boundaries.
MODEL AT SCALE 1:250
I noticed that the destruction from the earthquake of September 19, 2017 happened mostly in areas affected by this monofunctionality. I am proposing to take the plots of land onto which there was destruction, and insert the layer of programs onto those plots, providing the highly residential areas with programs, and rehousing the people who lost their home in the earthquake.
H I G H LY R E S I D E NT I A L A R E A S
MIXED-USE AREAS
E A RT H Q U A K E D E ST R U CT I O N O R D A M A G E
ACAPOTZALCO
THE EXPANSION OF MEXICO CITY
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GUSTAVO MA
MIGUEL HIDALGO
VENUSTIANO CARRA
CUAUHTEMOC
IZTACALCO BENITO JUAREZ
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COYOACAN
The indexical project manifests itself at the city scale by taking over the collapsed plots from the earthquake, materialising this invisible line of destruction, as well as the line from the edge of the drained Lake Texcoco; but also at the building scale by creating a tension between the geometry, the building which echoes the city in its grid-like, straight form, and the geography, the soil, which is an excavated topographic landscape which contraints the way the spaces are used. In iaddition, diagonal cuts in the buildings facilitate circulaton on the ground floor, and are continued on the upper floors with windows, which provide shock views to the city, echoeing the shock from the earthquake.
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
MODEL AT SCALE 1:100