MICKAËL LOOF – Portfolio architecture + design

MICKAËL LOOF

Portfolio architecture + design selected works 2010 | 2019

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CURRICULUM VITAE p.4 Contacts, Backgrounds, Experiences

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POST CALAMITY p.6 Arte Sella Park, Italy, Contest

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LIVING TOGETHER p.12 Stockholm, Sweden, 1st Master

WORKSHOP TOWER p.18 Tournai, Belgium, 3rd Bachelor

THE CITY IN TRANSITION : 13 p.24 Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, 2nd Master

PREVENTION HOUSING p.32 Manila, Philippines, 1st Master

REVEAL THE LANDSCAPE p.38 Lemps, France, 2nd Master

LIVING TOGETHER² p.50 Bruxelles, France, ASSAR Summer Job

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MICKAËL LOOF Architect 27 yrs, French nationality.

CONTACTS rue de Monnel, 6/11 7500 TOURNAI (BE) +33 (0)6 32 23 29 83 (FR) mickael.loof5@gmail.com mickaelloof.com

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUNDS 2018 Master Architecture Diploma with the Distinctions _ Université Catholique de Louvain, LOCI Tournai - Tournai, Belgium.

2018 Graduation Work : Reveal The Landscape _ Université Catholique de Louvain, LOCI Tournai - Tournai, Belgium.

2016 Degree in Architecture _ Université Catholique de Louvain, LOCI Tournai - Tournai, Belgium.

2010 Leveling - Applied Art, Space Design option _ EMPC La Ruche - Paris, France.

2009 Science Baccalaureate Diploma _ Lycée Cassini - Clermont de l’Oise, France.

SOFTWARE SKILLS Revit Architecture AutoCAD, MicroStation Adobe Suite Twinmotion, Artlantis Microsoft Office ArchiCAD SketchUp Pro BIM360 3Ds Max, Rhino

INTERESTS

LANGUAGES

Arts : cooking

amateur photography, wood sculpture, model making,

Sports :

athletism, football, hiking, kung-fu

Travels :

Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, England, Sweden, Switzerland...

French English Spanish Dutch

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES 2018 september - 2019 may | Junior Architect _SYMETRY Architects – Brussels, Belgium.

Organisation of the office’s IT methodology on Revit, Sketches and models on different projects, Planning Permit Application File, Tender File, Execution Drawings, quantitative measurement, meetings with technical engineers...

2018 août | Student internship in an architectural office – Summer Job 2018 _ ASSAR Architects – Brussels, Belgium.

Organisation around an alternative proposal for a project in Brussels, reflection and group production work...

2017 May - 2018 June | Job service & kitchen, cafeteria Ekitable 2014 September - 2018 June | Job librarian, BAIU _ Université Catholique de Louvain, LOCI Tournai – Tournai, Belgium.

2017 August | Student internship in an architectural office _ GRIB Architect, F. Chaudat & H. Beck – Tournai, Belgium.

Various works carried out: monitoring of building sites, taking surveys, computer drawings for planning permit applications, management courses, structural calculations, etc.

2016 January - 2018 January | Multi-purpose team member, Counter & Kitchen _ Mc Donald’s Restaurant – Lys Lez Lannoy, France.

2015 July - August | Architectural office employee (+ 2014 student internship) _ L.Brochard Architect – Beauvais, France.

Creation of individual Houses projects: reflection, models, learning of the ArchiCAD software for the realization, meeting with the customer; follow-up of building sites, report-writing, calls for tenders, building permits...

2013 July - August | Holiday employee in the Financial Affairs Department _ Ministry of Defense – Paris, France.

2013 April | Student internship in wood & straw Construction _ Kauffeisen Co.– Hem, France.

Construction and understanding of a timber frame house and straw filling according to the GREB technique...

2012 July | Stock keeper in the Supply Logistics Department _ Interdepartmental hospital – Fitz James, France.

[+August 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012; January 2013, 2014] 2011 July | Student internship in masonry and grading _ Labbe Co. - La Neuville Roy, France.

Discover of the different trades surrounding the building: masonry, earthwork, roofing...

COMPETITIONS 2019 CALAMITY ATELIER : Arte Sella, Italy. _ @Young Architects Competition.

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POST CALAMITY

A catalyst architecture towards the landscape.

Arte Sella Park, Trente, Italy.

Conpetition ÂŤYoung Architects CompetitionsÂť.

Calamity

The recent storm has expanded the perimeter of the intervention in Arte Sella. In any case, for a long time the complex of Malga Costa has been the object of reflections aiming at implementing the cultural offer and the architectural facilities of the park. The architectural interventions that the competition aims to enhance will foster visit and accommodation opportunities in the park. Moreover, they will have to compensate for the cultural and natural offer, which was severely affected by the recent disaster. In this sense, architecture will have to support art and nature. It will do so, by promoting a series of interventions that can be attractive elements to make the park start a new phase of its cultural offer.

Axiality

The implantation of several espaces is based on the implementation of virtual guidelines in the landscape, based on elements of the

park such as artworks or the Villa Strobele, in order to implant different buildings, giving the implantation an orthogonality, in opposition to the curves of nature and art. Thus, thanks to its location, the architecture makes the creation of a dialogue between the different components of the park possible, which are nature, artworks, and the architecture already there.

Architecture takes here a back seat to reveal the park and its components, becoming a catalyst towards art and nature.

Uniformity

According to this will to create an architecture which would reveal nature and its artworks, the decision was made to set up a structure that could accommodate the various desired programmes. Thus, whether it is the workshops or the museum, they all are based on the same structural framework, creating an homogeneity in the different interventions so as to not to create a monumental architecture that would take

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Memory path

Artist’s house atelier

Artist’s house atelier

Artist’s house atelier

Axiality

Masterplan

Uniformity

Villa Strobele territory view

Museum of the disappeared works

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over the landscape and the artworks. This structural framework is more or less extensive, depending on the programmes desired today, but it is easily extensible. This structure thus makes possible not to freeze the use of the various buildings. Indeed, since the contemporary needs are constantly changing, architecture must constantly adapt itself. The structure, which is identical whatever its use, illustrates the fact that it can accommodate different programmes, and that it will be able to do so even in a ten years’ time if necessary.

Decomposability

Decomposability

The proportions of the structural framework are based on the ones of the Strobele Villa, flagship element of the Arte Sella park. The structure is similar to a three-dimensional portal, braced by steel cables placed on the roof and by the horizontal grid of the portal.

This untreated steel structure is covered with a filter composed of wood salvaged on site after the disaster. Within this structure, wooden volumes are hung to accommodate the various desired uses. These volumes can be

Exploded axonometry of the structural concept

easily removed, while leaving the structure intact, in order to set up other volumes if the program evolves. In summary, the different buildings are composed of a main structure, a filtering skin and volumes in order to accommodate the uses, creating a hierarchy in its components. So we have a lasting element (the steel structure) which is resistant to time, and short-lived and replaceable elements which enable the architecture to evolve within the landscape.

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DISCOVERY SPACE

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TERRACE

MUSEUM SPACE

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TERRACE

Level 2

PERFORMANCE ROOM

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Spatiality

Longitudinale Section

Antigravity

DISCOVERY SPACE

CAFETERIA

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Opportunity

Slope integration

Opportunity

The museum is located on the slope of the ridge in order to see and to be seen. In addition, it is heading towards the Strobele Villa and the damaged artworks, always in order to link the several components of the site through architecture. The entrance of the museum is lateral, thanks to the addition of a meditation path upfront, to allow the expansion. Thereby, the building is a line in the landscape, which can be extended or reduced. Because of its location in the heart of a broken nature, time and his-

tory are an integral part of the museum act.

Temporality

The museum is composed of different volumes housing different uses, allowing a walk throughout the space. We therefore have a performance room, where visitors could lend themselves to experiences, a museum space where shortlived exhibitions would take place, along with an outdoor playground for artists, a discovery space, recounting the different periods (of time) of the park, and a cafeteria. In

addition to the several spaces, lookouts are set up to offer panoramic views of the park and nature. The ground under the structure is also highlighted, for instance by extending some spaces, in order to create another relationship between man and the soil, and therefore between man and the history of this site. The various spaces of the museum, inside as outside, are either connected by footbridges or paths, or by vertical flows which make viewpoints to the sky possible thanks to their roof opening.

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Temporality

Inside views of the Museum

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LIVING TOGETHER Reconfiguration of an office tower complex Sveavägen street, Stockholm, Sweden.

1st Master, Architecture workshop.

A «living together» strategy

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Hötorget buildings, situated in the district of Norrmalm, are a symbolic complex of the modernism.

This architectural movement appeared during the restructuring of the city of Stockholm. However, in spite of its attractiveness, this site have some deficiencies.

The connections, between the ground floor and the towers and terraces are almost missing. Terraces are not being use and have some accesse and identity problems. The five towers have no address in the site and furthermore, the second and the third towers have no relationship with the city.

The monotony of the grid create a stack of functions and some repetitive facades.

The shopping gallery of the ground floor create a marquable limit between both streets and seems to be only a pedestal to support the towers. Between the both adjacent streets there is only a little connection.

Finally, the place of the fith tower seems not to belong to it but belong to the pedestrian street.

To try to solve these deficiencies, a project based on the «living together» subject seems appropriate. Firstable, for that, it was necessary to deal with the problem of the address of the towers, so that each one can find a human scale.

From this action was born the breakthrough of the base.

In a second step, a work on the porosity of the base was realized, by creating an inner lane, allowing to connect the two adjacent places and the two adjacent streets to the site.

To this, was added a work on the forecourt of tower number 5, inducing a call, an invitation to walk and live the project.

Then, the program was redesigned and rethought, in order to allow it the living together and to thwart the mono functionality of the towers and the base, also programmatic and structural.

This has resulted in the creation of shared spaces, housing and workshops within the towers, as well as the addition of new spaces at the top of some towers.

Those spaces have their own structure in wooden portico, allowing to distinguish this addition and connect them as well as possible to the existing.

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Relations with the city Wood model _ 1:2000

A faraway opening Stretching towards the city

Links with the bridge road Crossing groundfloor

Connexion with the street Opening on the neighborhood

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Spreading of the public space Groundfloor plan

A permeable public space Global section

A ÂŤrecess and additionÂť strategy Global section

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OFFICES

OFFICES NURSERY

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SHOPS S ALU H ALL P U B L I C S PA C E S

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Live in perpetual motion Timepiece of old and new program

Live in perpetual motion

Timepiece of olf and new program

A spatial and temporal diversity Global section

SPORTS HALL OPS ENHO USES & WORKSH BAR & R T N A R E STAU G TEMPO RARY HOUSIN SHARED HOUSING

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Atmosphere

Drawings and model photography

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WOOKSHOP TOWER Project for an annex of the Saint Luc School of Architecture.

Tournai road, Ramegnies- Chin / Tournai, Belgium.

3rd Bachelor, Structure workshop.

How does matter form the project?

The first part of the project consisted in analysing the Hanz Poelzig water tower in order to understand the structural behaviour of the building.

Thereafter, for the second part, a building has to accommodate a multifunctional annex to the University of Architecture.

It’s implanted in the plain, next to the far west building. It will be located at a distance of places practiced by students (the school, the bar and the train station). The goal is to return a similar image according to different point of view, using protruding vertical frames.

We also wanted to have an open ground floor, under the weight of the audience.

At the opposite, above the audience, we find a space facing the building height. By consequences, we have two opposites special directions in that building: horizontal and vertical.

Posen water tower

Model photographies, 1:20, 1:200.

The space intention led to the distribution of the program, the ground floor is totally free, we enter into the lobby by

sliding under the slope of the audience. The latter, located at the first floor, is pierced by the eight oblique posts. The floors offices are organized around the atrium, with corridor of circulation. With that spatial organization, we had to solve the problem of the audience free plan.

Indeed, the audience at the first floor has to be a free plan.

We already avoid of possible descent of loads on the audience by having the atrium above the show room. There is nevertheless the audience ceiling slab to support.

The solution is to set up a system of cables would then come to get back this load to the roof where oblique columns would lead it to the ground. So the system of cables would be in traction, the posts in compression as well as the skylight frame, which would come to block the oblique columns and which would thus work too in compression.

Except the ceiling of the audience, the loads of the various floors are taken back by the posts and the oblique columns. This slab works like a slab on five supports, cables acting like as a post back to front.

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Facade rhythms

Wood model, 1:100.

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Resonance in the Saint Luc park Global plan and section

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Offices plan

Transversal section

Auditorium plan Longitudinale section

Groundfloor plan

Spatialities and operations

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Construction dĂŠtails

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Statics diagrams

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THE CITY IN TRANSITION : 13 Dialogue between human, architecture and place.

Franquenies street, Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.

2nd Master, Architecture workshop.

Bringing a new vision: The city in transition For us, our vision of the city in transition is very specific. It is part of a long-term process that allows urban structure, population and activities to shift to a new way of living and thinking. With the help of the territorial actors and in particular the architects, the city is transformed and becomes according to the following three criteria : – A «compact city», faced with the expansion and fragmentation of urban areas (thus the consumption of space) – A «mixed city», to respond to socio-spatial segregation – A «participatory city», around local democracy mechanisms designed to mobilize, but also «educate» the citizen.

Strategy The site, since the closure of the Lemaires concrete plant, has become a hermetic enclave in the heart of the city of Ottignies. The railways are the most striking elements that clearly delimit the border of the wasteland. The city thus finds itself confronted with various problems, aggravated in particular by

the presence of the shopping centre «Le Douaire», and the strong concentration of cars in its centre. The proposed site is a real opportunity for the city, with the aim of relieving congestion and enabling it to find a perfectly readjusted context. So it’s high definition work. The measures implemented are as follows: Ensure links with strategic areas in the heart of the city (parks, large squares, pedestrian areas, etc.)

Set up a federating vacuum and catalyst for the city Encourage the use of cycles Giving priority to pedestrians Limit the place of the car Social, intergenerational and cultural diversity Cohabitation of functions

Master plan The project aims to connect the elements of the territory and accentuate the spatial composition of the city through a unifying void.

He will then highlight the diversity of atmospheres and atmospheres generated in the city.

It is a real landscaped sequenced route that is proposed to us to rediscover fully the way of life of the city and the territory.

3.4 Plan pilote - Échelle 1/1000

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Reconnexion of the city Mass plan, layer handmade

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Photographic inventory : at the top, fault identification ; below, work on the material

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Architectural intervention The implanted architecture is hinge and pivot to the federating vacuum movement.

It fits perfectly in the axis and makes it possible to overcome the railway track thanks to a system of footbridge. Three volumes channel the footbridge by an effect of friction and friction.

On the one hand, the two volumes at the ends occupy a strong relationship with their adjacent urban spaces, which could be described as meeting and walking spaces. In particular, they allow direct access to the quay, and are in continuity with the federating vacuum.

On the other hand, a central volume levitates and expands in space by a suspension effect on a support. The poetic message releases a degree of dynamics in a resolutely past landscape.

Usage The functions of the three entities are generally public, with common and shared functions. The whole is intended to be in line with our philosophy of the ÂŤparticipatory cityÂť.

The new digital challenges The building in front of the Monument Street occupies mainly a function of digital pole and shared work space.

Thanks to free and open spaces, the occupants will

find a mobility and a singular modularity of the space, which will adapt to their needs and to the contemporary expectations in perpetual evolution.

Emerging environmental issues The building on the other side of the railway is to be connected to the UCL through its research area. A faculty unit that deals with new environmental and ecological issues. Issues of biodiversity, vertical cultures, protected areas, equitable sharing of resources are an integral part of the concerns of the students of this pole. Relaxing areas such as a cafetaria and a reception area can be found at the base. On the upper levels, research, laboratory and work areas will be available.

An influence in territorial level The central building is intended to be fully open and available to the public and visitors. An auditorium will allow the organization of events, conferences, debates, public screenings. The library will be available both to the students of the research centre and to outside persons.

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Interconnected spatiality

Plans of the differents floors | Longitudinal section

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Interconnected spatiality Perspective cross-section

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Atmosphere in the central building Drawing, carbon mine.

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PREVENTION HOUSING Collective housing project responding to increased structural resistance.

Bay Breeze Village, Manila, Philippines.

1st Master, Structural seminar.

Risk areas in the city

Geology and environment

Bamboo benefits

The Philippine archipelago is at the intersection of two tectonic plates, which causes earthquakes, typhoons, and tsunamis. The climate is equatorial, hot and humid all year round.

With 1,660,714 inhabitants and an area of just 38.55 km2, Manila is the second densest city in the world. There is an extreme concentration of slums and substandard housing, particularly in floodprone areas.

Bamboo has several advantages over other plantbased materials such as wood:

Build in Manila Population density and slums

The site is located in the village of Bay Breeze, on the outskirts of Greater Manila. It is a booming neighbourhood, where recent homes are not responding to the dangers they face: the risks of earthquakes and floods.

The project attempts to respond to these problems by creating a capable structure, bringing together private and public living space.

– Light (A bamboo stubble consists of hollow cylindrical sections) – Good mechanical strength ( by the presence of inter-nodal nodes) – Nylon cord or thread, bamboo dowels...

Low transport costs (bamboo groves near Manila).

– Easy to implement (requires few resources).

– Rapid growth (4 to 5 years at maturity).

– Easily available.

– Damaged parts are easily replaceable.

– Very easy to adapt to the different soils and climates to which it is subjected.

– Production energy equal to 30 MJ/m3 (wood = 80 MJ/m3).

– Tools: machete, strings.

– Prevents soil erosion.

– Increased seismic resistance.

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The objective is to think of an alternative city to slums, offering an appropriate and easy to implement structure.

In order to obtain a better quality of life, it is important for us to follow these conditions:

Seismic resistance

Flood resistance

Wind resistance

Natural ventilation

Propose a structural principle that allows the device to expand

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Live in community

Housing plan | Longitudinal section

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Space Appropriation Wood model, 1:50

Connected spaces Transversal sections

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Load lowering

Deformed appearance

Shear forces

Bending moments

Static diagrams

Results from the Pybar software

Joining details

Bamboo model, 1:5

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After calculations, the approximate price of a section of building including a dwelling, a lateral part of corridor and a public space at ground level would be 30 000 php, which is equivalent to approximately 550€.

During this project, we were able to address new questions for us: – Resistance to earthquakes and floods, – Natural ventilation, – The use of bamboo as a structure, – The traditional Filipino assembly of bamboo elements.

And revisit some of them: – Modularity, – The relationship between private space and public space, – The relationship between structure and space.

The realization of the structure on a large scale, allowed us to immerse ourselves all the more in the constructive system, to realize the difficulties and ease of implementation inherent in the design.

It should be noted that the choice of the bamboo species is very important and must be made according to the structural stresses, the size of the drums and sections, according to local provisions.

The biggest, but most interesting, difficulty was to make the structure constructible and appropriate by all.

Materials

Diameter

Dimensions

Quantity

Bamboo Steel rods

Ø6cm Ø0,8cm

40x30x100cm 1m 0,2m

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Structure

Bamboo

Ø10cm Ø10cm Ø10cm Ø10cm Ø10cm Ø10cm Ø10cm Ø10cm Ø8cm Ø8cm Ø4cm Ø4cm

6,30m 6,15m 2,30m 4,80m 4,40m 3,80m 3,40m 3,60m 8,10m 6,70m 0,75m 0,10m

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Roof

Bamboo

Ø5cm Ø4cm

8,10m 4m

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Braided Nipa

1x1m

100

Cogon balm

0,60x1m

250

6,7m 6,7m

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Bamboo tiles

1x1m

69

Bamboo braid

1x1m

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50m

60 70

Foundations

Floor

Walls Connections

TOTAL

Reinforced concrete

Bamboo

Rope Bamboo dowels

Bamboo

Ø10cm

Ø10cm Ø8cm Ø5cm Ø4cm

647ml 111ml 78ml 204ml

Braided Nipa

100m²

Cogon Balm

150m²

Bamboo Tiles

71m²

Bamboo braid

60m²

Rope COST

Ø10cm Ø10cm

3000m 30 000 php (550€)

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REVEAL THE LANDSCAPE Dialogue between human, architecture and place.

The Lemps valley, Drôme Provençale, France.

2nd Master, Graduation Work.

After having lived several nomadic experiences during study trips, I decided to deepen the relationship between landscape and architecture in the Drôme Provençale region, in the south of France, with its mountain landscape and its immutable stone villages.

Sensitize and accompany local communities in a differentiated and adapted way to local challenges, in order to base a development and planning model on the necessary preservation and enhancement of landscapes, cultural and natural heritage.

Territorial strategy

These objectives materialize the great natural and human dynamics that make it a crossroads of landscape issues. We will thus consider giving birth to an extension between nature and architecture by going beyond the simple superposition of artificial works in a precious and delicate environment.

The Baronnies Provençales are located on the borders of two large departments, two thirds in the department of Drôme, and one third in Hautes-Alpes.

This off-centre mountain territory remains away from major roads and towns.

The first intention was thus to reveal the richness of the biodiversity and landscape of the region by continuing the dynamism set up by the Regional Natural Park Plan of the Baronnies Provençales by relying on its main actions.

To base the evolution of the Baronnies Provençales on the preservation and enhancement of the various natural and human assets.

Relocate an economy based on the identity and development of territorial resources.

To design a coherent, united and sustainable development of the Baronnies Provençales.

Dialogue with the landscape The encounter between this part of the territory and the human being dates back to the Neolithic, leaving behind us a past rich in architectural experiences. Architecture gives a «relief» to time, digs temporal perspectives. It expresses time itself as perspective. In the rhythm of the landscape, time can contract or expand, as movement can slow down or accelerate. To experience this development of perspective in perception, modulating different rhythms and

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Climbing site COMBES OBSCURES

Experimental garden FERME DU COLLET University Study Centre LEMPS Transhumance sheepfold

Migratory birds observatory Meteorological laboratory

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COMBES DES RUINES

COL DU ROCHER PERÇÉ

Range over the territory Lemps territory plan

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the presence of a reference point to an anchoring function in the present.

This dialogue can be achieved through the installation of elements capable of evolving over time and with time through the interventions of users and visitors. The apprehension of these elements gives depth to the present, as a moment of spatial experience that resonates with different temporalities. The perception of forms in the landscape initiates a game about frozen time and moving time, a «sense of time».

By pursuing the National Park Plan project which materializes the great natural and human dynamics, the challenge is to propose the development of a development in the territory following the long-distance trails to interact with the different places that make up the territory.

building or should it become landscape itself? Should we work from the materiality of the landscape or by supporting contrasts?

Building is undoubtedly one of the most radical interventions in nature and yet, in the best of cases, the natural and the built succeed in complementing each other harmoniously, even requiring each other - without the sea no coast, without horizon no sky.

The spatial meaning is to be defined in a multiplicity of reference points, at different distances. This sensitivity to this territory would result in an element that is both strong and fragile, thus bringing out the full intensity of the present landscape.

Inhabit the premises

The aim of this project is to bring Man into a state of reflection on his surroundings by creating a dialogue between architecture, landscape and biodiversity in order to raise awareness of the Drôme region.

Although we build in a landscape context, we systematically question the transitions between natural and built. Is the landscape supposed to penetrate the

Interaction with the landscape

Research on modularity

landscape model, 1:100 (below)

3D tests (on right page)

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History of the village Along a route composed of elements interacting with the landscape, the program proposes a central building in relation with the village of Lemps in a more sustainable way, with the aim of revitalizing the village in loss of interest and activities.

Previously, the village housed a castle, adjacent to the current chapel, multiple shops as well as houses located west of the village. For two centuries, the

population has been shrinking, leaving many buildings in peril.

The composition of the village is such that the buildings still inhabited develop near the only conveyed way in spite of the pedestrian lanes leading to the chapel located upstream of the village.

The project will then follow in the footsteps of the old buildings along the pedestrian alleys in order to revitalize access to the buildings at the top.

The aim of setting up in the very heart of the village is thus to offer a structure open to the public and to attract local people and hikers to the project so that they can appreciate the place differently by enhancing the ruins by the structure.

The voids are defined by the solid, and this ÂŤrecomposed universeÂť will offer users regenerating breathing and the opportunity to reweave a link with the living.

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The village of Lemps and its ruins mass plan

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Architectural intentions TThe objective is to bring out the qualities of the ruins of the village, working with the existing topography.

This made it possible to put forward hypotheses on possible complementarity with a repeated and uniform structure, offering a contrast with the layout of the ruins.

Playing with the relief of the existing traces, the supports of the structure are found on the ground, on the walls, on the paths, participating in the spatial organization of the place.

The goal is to be able to practice the ruins throughout the year and to occupy the structure a certain part of the time.

The first sketch of the project consisted in proposing a building that would highlight both the nearby environment Evolution of the project

Work on volumetry | Model 1:200

the place, and the openings in the distance - the horizon. The volume is in response to the built elements of the village offering openings changing our perception of the place.

After several attempts, resulting in a significant modification of the spatial configuration of the village, the structure will be composed of three elements. A central element, quite low, will serve as a transition between the space of the ruins and the other two volumes. Two other elements on either side will be erected to communicate more directly with the buildings and the landscape.

In order to increase the phenomenological experience of the place, ÂŤisolatedÂť volumes will be integrated into the mesh, as well as open or covered terraces: there is here a work on the multiplicity of frames open on the close forms and the horizon.

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Looks assembly photomontage

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The temple of looks TIn the continuity of the strategy developed on the territory, the building will come to life in several different ways, by adding functions according to the utility and the desired period. More permanent on the site, functions come to occupy the ruins such as a space of restoration and a collective kitchen embedded in the ground, a place of exposure centered on the history of the village and on the understanding of the territory, as well as a workshop of construction and storage located upstream of the ruins.

The purpose of this workshop is to host the construction of temporary elements that will be established at certain times of the year. The structure will thus come to life by the installation of footbridges, stairs, terraces, connecting the work rooms and offering a multitude of perceptions on the near and distant environment.

In the project presented, the isolated rooms would house an experimental laboratory on biodiversity and biology that could subsequently feed the exhibition space located below. Then come individual design offices that allow doctoral students or professors to come and work in isolation in a setting different from what they usually work in.

The sequence of entry into the ruins is multiple. The idea is to allow visitors to cross the site in various ways

by perforating several walls.

The walk on the ground is totally free, reconnecting the various spaces of the village between them. Unlike the entrance sequence of the structure, which is done only by a single staircase. This allows a hierarchy of spaces and a better understanding of places.

This spatial experience leads us to define several perceptions, and the bridge game defines a preponderant movement of the body in space and the passage from one opening to another. These are spatial depths that deepen our understanding of architecture.

Even if the architectural geometry is complex and creates multiple escapes on the landscape, certain elements maintain a function of limiting places and framing towards spaces to explore.

The scenography of the architectural space is no longer oriented in a single direction; it is moving. The structure allows to open in a three-dimensional way: towards the landscape, the sky and the ground. The landmarks we construct for ourselves in the perception of architecture are not fixed, defined, but in movement.

The route offered through the structure offers views of the landscape that are somewhat reminiscent of Le Corbusier’s «architectural walk», playing on continuity and visual discontinuities. Here in the building, the «architectural promenade» crosses the structure in its height and

width, giving us to live spaces that develop and articulate around this promenade. The stairs are integrated in vertical chambers, whose axis points towards the sky, setting up a different symbolism, and the opening on the landscape is more constant and continuous, ensured by the framing guiding this experience.

The presence in the architectural space is not established on a central fixed point. The subject is not at the centre of the device; it is moving in the architectural landscape. The poetry of the openings and coexistences of architecture, through its complex framing, develops a poetry that modifies our view of the landscape.

All these installations make it possible to make a unique experience in the village of Lemps bringing a breath aiming to continue the adventure towards the other points of intervention in the territory in order to discover the wealth which it contains...

A disgression can also be made about closed architecture; in addition to the «here» scale of architecture, there is the symbolic or imaginary scale of the «there» defined by the landscape. Architecture can be perceived as both finite and infinite, like the open spaces in the structure communicating with the movements of the landscape, as well as the rather closed volumes, turned on themselves, offering a single fixed frame, open to a universe, an imagination.

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The temple of looks

Dialogue on several scales, model 1:100

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Longitudinal section

Plan of the observation tower

Plan of the common terrace

Plan at ruins level

Spatial composition

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Construction and assembly

Simple

elements for a simple, fast and accessible construction. The construction technique used consists in assembling elements by interlocking at mid-wood with as little fixing as possible. The three-dimensional structure forms a cube of 2.80m on each side. This embedding

technique also allows better static results but to avoid deformation, it is necessary to partially brace these cubes with crosses of Saint Andrew wired.

When installing ancillary elements such as rooms and walkways, the idea is to use as few different sections as possible, allowing materials to be reused in future constructions.

Thus, the floor elements can

be used for cladding, or the beams can be converted into railings, whatever the tributary building.

This system has been designed to meet the current challenges of reducing raw material consumption by proposing a sustainable development strategy that is constantly changing and in total interaction with the landscape.

Assembly details Axonometry

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Maintenance

Main Structure Douglas glulam Douglas Brut Wood «T» metal plate Steel ropes

Lined beams Columns Column fixings Bracing

60x240 mm 120x120 mm 100x100 mm Ø 5 mm

Heat Oiled Protection Heat Oiled Protection

Wall structure Thermal insulation Insulating panel Interior finishes Siding

60x120 mm ply. 120 mm ply. 60 mm 20x600 mm 20x120 mm

Burnt «Shou-Sugi-Ban»

60x240 mm 20x120 mm

Burnt «Shou-Sugi-Ban»

Insulated rooms Douglas Brut Wood Hemp Wool Wood fibre OSB Recycled Oak Gateways Douglas glulam Oak Canvas Biodegradable polyester Steel cable Wood Raw Pine Rainscreen

Beams + Railings Floor

Waterproof veil Attaching the sails «U»-shaped crenel Waterproof membrane

width. 2500 mm Ø 5 mm 120x120 mm

Heat Oiled Protection

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LIVING TOGETHER² Reflection on an alternative project on the Ninove Gate.

Brussels, Belgium.

ASSAR Summer Job 2018.

Live differently From the theoretical site of the Ninove Gate in Brussels, we set out to redefine an alternative history that suited us better.

Current Situation

Old canal layout

The site is particularly emblematic because of the rupture of the urban fabric by the presence of the redesigned canal but also by the absence of a link between a historic «intramuros» district and the Commune of Molenbeek «extramuros». This masterplan served as a support for 3 theoretical projects proposing original forms to accommodate combined mixed assignments.

1. Hall project with covered market, co-working and housing.

An urban rift

Full / Empty

A covered market is associated with a programme of coworking, exhibition venues and housing. Housing offering several types of housing such as multi-generational housing, shared housing and more traditional family apartments.

2. Housing and urban sports.

Population density / km²

In the form of an assembly of parallel buildings, the housing is distributed and animated from an irregular

«greenhouse» space, a place of meetings and shared activities for the inhabitants. In the heart of the block, a building gathers all forms of indoor urban sports. The superposition of the rooms in a signal building gives the island a dynamic singularity.

3. Vertical mixing within an iconic building.

In terms of composition, a 60 meter high building with a wooden framework would be composed of a commercial base in dialogue with the urban space. Then, 3 levels of co-working and 3 levels of more traditional corporate offices would constitute the lower part of the tower.

In the form of a clear break due to a shift in the alignment of the facades, a 3-storey glass box houses a multifunctional space, a winter garden, a belvedere and a restaurant for the community. Then, 7 levels of modular housing form the crowning glory of the building. The modularity is designed to accommodate co-housing floors and others for traditional apartments.

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Requalify the premises by mixity Master Plan

A district as a link between two cities Aerial view

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Living Together

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Offices Floor - Level 2 to 7

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A fresh impetus

Innovating through wood

In the heart of a district in need of a landmark, this tower would be a considerable asset in the development of the diversity of uses.

This tower project is also intended to be innovative.

Its hybrid structure of concrete and wood thus opens us to optimistic prowess for the future.

Responding very clearly to the vegetal strip linking Brussels and Molenbeek, the tower thus reveals itself as a strong signal of the district. This culminating point resonates on the scale of the greater Brussels, thus connecting with the various wall elements around the small belt.

Articulated around a concrete structural core, the 20 floors opt for a hybrid column-slab structure in CLT and glulam.

In the heart of the tower, a three-level belvedere stands out to open onto the vegetal strip. To reinforce this gesture, the structure differs to give

way to a BLM lattice system, leaving open the spaces that welcome the public for all types of events (exhibitions, meetings, catering).

Finally, to avoid moments of overheating and over-sunning for offices and homes, a system of rotating wooden panels controls the spaces and articulates the facade, in perpetual movement.

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ARTISTIC EXPRESSION Drawings: charcoal, paints, tar, bic.

Sculpture: stone, cardboard, aluminium.

Works from different school years.

Various representations

Oil painting, acrylic, gouache.

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Rembrandt’s self-portrait Bic.

Still-life

Charcoal.

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War & Peace

The pendulum

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Electric Ladyland x House 18.36.54 | Jimi Hendrix + Daniel Libeskind

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Thank you for watching my works.

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“Il faut voir au delà du moment présent, au delà de soi.”

- P. Thibault