NATHALIE JOLIVERT PORTFOLIO 2008 PROVIDENCE RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN 2012 PORT-AU-PRINCE HAÏTI 2015
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TABLE OF CONTENTS ACADEMIC PROJECTS AA Visiting School in Haïti 2014: Pixelating Bamboo P. 6 Le Manoir Alexandra P. 12 Principles of Ecological Design: Weaving Dreams of Wale’Keru P. 20 Davis Park Pavilion: Weaving with Wood P. 26 PROFESSIONAL PROJECTS S.O.S. Centre-Ville | Comité Interministériel de l’Aménagement du Territoire P. 32 Saint Margaret Convent | Studio Drum Collaborative P. 34 École Élie Dubois | Architecture For Humanity P. 36 ABOUT Biography and Curriculum Vitae P. 38
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ACADEMIC PROJECTS Selected projects accomplished for the Bachelors degree of Architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design from 2009 to 2012 , and at the Architectural Association Visiting School in Haïti in January 2014 AA Visiting School in Haïti 2014: Pixelating Bamboo P. 6 Le Manoir Alexandra P. 12 Principles of Ecological Design: Weaving Dreams of Wale’Keru P. 20 Davis Park Pavilion: Weaving with Wood P. 26
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Pixelating Bamboo | AA Visiting School in Haïti 2014 The Architectural Association (AA) Visiting School took place for the first time in Haiti on January 2014. John Naylor, AA graduate whose Foster + Partners Award winning thesis project explored the use of bamboo in construction in Haïti, led this intensive workshop for 10 days in the mountains of Kenscoff. The studio introduced various computational software to design a guest-house or pavilion, with the use of bamboo, for the Wynne Farm Ecological Reserve. While bamboo is often treated as a low-tech material, we were encouraged to learn about and propose the use of cutting-edge building technologies in our projects. For this workshop, I collaborated with Jean-Eddy Samedi an architecture student from the Haitian college Université de Quisqueya. Our design proposal was driven by three main factors: First, we were captivated by an old adobe block compressor, which had remained on our proposed site. The machine belonged to Victor Wynne, an American civil engineer whose passion for Haiti and protection of its fragile ecology inspired him to establish the Wynne Farm Ecological Reserve. Secondly, our site provided interesting screened views of the city of Port-au-Prince beyond the trunks and foliage of tall pine trees. Those views triggered our interest for the play of density and porosity of materials. And finally, beyond the tall pine trees, we could also see the terracing that Victor Wynne implemented to protect the hillsides of Kenscoff from erosion. Terracing is an agricultural method similar to a retaining wall which over time seems to merge with the natural ground.
From Victor Wynne’s adobe block compressor we found our construction method: mesmerized by the adobe block compressor which stood like a monument on our site, we wanted to use bamboo in the oldest construction method of brick-laying. As precedent, we found an Italian architecture office “Studio Cardenas” and their recent production of bamboo blocks for the design of planters. A bamboo block is made by cutting a piece of bamboo stem, slicing it into four pieces and gluing those pieces together, inside-out, into a cubic shape. In our proposal, we would alternate adobe blocks and bamboo blocks: adobe blocks for the heavier base and bamboo blocks as the building grows taller.
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Pixelating the Views:
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Pixelating Bamboo | AA Visiting School in Ha誰ti 2014
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Le Manoir Alexandra et ses jardins This architectural thesis seeks to foster a beneficial cultural exchange within the city of Jacmel and with the global community by transforming the Manoir Alexandra into a house museum that challenges cultural assimilation and provides exhibition and performance spaces. The house museum itself is dedicated to the exhibition of Oath of the Ancestors (1822), a historic painting that reveals a narrative of European dominance in conflict with Afro-Caribbean heritage. Visitors’ movement through the house museum into its gardens follows a spiral pattern reminiscent of an iron spiral staircase, a common architectural characteristic in Jacmel that is in fact imported from Europe.
La Place d’Armes Rue d’Orléans
Le Manoir Alexandra House-Museum
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The spiraling pathway ends in the Manoir’s garden, where Jacmel’s dance academy studios are nestled in dense vegetation in an atmosphere recalling forest dance rituals during colonial times. Throughout this architectural thesis and this accompanying text, complex narratives from past and present are stitched together, acknowledging a history that deals precisely with the cultural clash that may occur when those two worlds collide.
WHITE CUBE EXHIBITION SPACE FOR “LE SERMENT DES ANCÊTRES”
RENÉ DÉPESTRE READING ROOM COFFEE & WINE BAR CELLAR NEW DANCE SPACES
New Dance Spaces
Rue Seymour Pradel
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Le Manoir Alexandra
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Le Manoir Alexandra et ses jardins
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The thesis consisted in the story of a young Haitian student from Port-au-Prince, who tells the story of her school-trip to see Le Manoir Alexandra, in the context of her art-history class. This thesis text can be found online on issuu.com
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Principles of Ecological Design: Weaving Dreams of Wale’ Keru
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Principles of Ecological Design: Weaving Dreams of Wale’ Keru The RISD studio, Principles of Ecological Design, was a collaboration with the architecture students of the Autonomous University of the Caribbean in Colombia. This Colombian school had been engaged by the Wayuu, an indigenous tribe, to help expand their village with the addition of a school, a clinic and commercial center. My proposal focuses on a tourist-accessible commercial center and is reminiscent of a traditional Wayuu structure, the enramada. There are no walls in the enramada. In this open space, the Wayuu welcome guests, weave and take naps in chinchorros (hammocks). This commercial center is also designed to allow interaction, between the local and global communities. Women would sell their woven goods in small enramadas situated around a central communal eating space, where tourists could enjoy Wayuu cuisine. An interweaving of different cultures would be fostered through mutual benefits.
Through the strength of being alive, the fruits of the cactus still nourish the peace of the birds Dreams still reconcile us with our dead...
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... Our women still weave our life. Vito Aphsama, Wayuu Poet.
Wale’ Keru, the spinning spider: The Wayuu people believe to have inherited their ability to weave from Wale’Keru, the spinning spider. Wale’Keru lost her mother when she was very young. Her father worked all day and left her home under the surveillance of his sisters. Wale’Keru’s aunts mistreated her and exploited her for domestic tasks. One day, Wale’Keru’s father woke up and found a beautifully woven cloth by his chinchorro. When he asked who had woven that cloth, his sisters told him they had. This went on for several days. One night, Wale’Keru’s father found Wale’Keru weaving in her dwelling and realized she was the skillful weaver who had been leaving the beautiful clothes by his chinchorro. Ashamed that he had never paid attention to her, he hid from her the next day. A little before dawn, he decided to talk to Wale’Keru and ask her for forgiveness. Perhaps he was too late, for Wale’Keru had turned into a spider and ran away from home, forever. The legend does not explain how Wale’Keru was able to pass her weaving skills down to other women but the art of weaving has always been seen as practiced by women. Some describe the Wayuu as a society where the women do all the work and the men, nothing. The economics of this culture focus on the art of weaving.
Mochilas, chinchorros, susus and mantas, the most renown woven artifacts of La Guajira, provide largely to the economics of the Wayuu people and women are in charge of that commerce, within and outside of La Guajira. Collaborative exploration map of La Guajira and its pathways
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Principles of Ecological Design: Weaving Dreams of Wale’ Keru
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Davis Park Pavilion : Weaving with Wood
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Davis Park Pavilion: Weaving with Wood The Architectural Design Principles Studio at RISD starts with a collaborative design-build exercise. For this project we were assigned to design a structure which could provide seating or shading in Davis Park, a public park located in Providence. The only construction materials allowed were wood members and rope. In our group, our goal was to be economical, and our design approach was to merge the art of weaving with space structure methods, for the design of a dynamic piece. In our final proposal, the interweaving of wood and rope allowed for the assembly of a sculptural pavilion through which people could walk safely. Although our project did not provide as much shading as we hoped, it challenged us to learn about innovative design solutions, strength of materials, structure and the power of connection details.
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PROFESSIONAL PROJECTS Work produced for various architecture and urban design offices in Port-au-Prince, Haïti: Architecture For Humanity (2013), Studio Drum Collaborative (2014) and the Comité Interministériel de l’Aménagement du Territoire (2014) S.O.S. Centre-Ville | Comité Interministériel de l’Aménagement du Territoire P. 32 Saint Margaret Convent | Studio Drum Collaborative P. 34 École Élie Dubois | Architecture For Humanity P. 36
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S.O.S. Centre-Ville
I was contracted by the Comité Interministériel de l’Aménagement du Territoire (CIAT) to participate in a series of workshops with the property-owners of buildings that were affected during the earthquake of January 12, 2010. Those property owners organized themselves into a neighborhood committee called “S.O.S. Centre-Ville”. For this project, I worked on a visual document for the guidelines of reconstruction for Downtown Port-au-Prince. This project focuses on 6 pilot urban-blocks surrounding a public park called “La Place Geffrard”. The images I produced for this project were featured in Haiti’s exhibition booth during the World Urban Forum 7 in Medellín, Colombia (April 2014).
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Saint-Margaret Convent
Established in 1927, Saint-Margaret’s Convent provides a safe environment for the nuns of the Episcopal Diocese of Haiti to carry out their services. Located in the heart of downtown Port-au-Prince, the convent’s facilities were destroyed during the 2010 earthquake. As the lead architect for this project at Studio Drum Collaborative, I was tasked to design a new ten-bedroom building in which the nuns could seamlessly carry out their daily rites. Nestled in dense vegetation, the convent’s new designs will preserve the sanctuarial atmosphere of the nuns’ religious immersion. In addition to residential units for the nuns, the amenities in Saint-Margaret’s Convent will include a private chapel, office rooms and common spaces for visitors.
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École Élie Dubois
Ecole Elie Dubois is an all girls secondary school located in central Port-au-Prince, a few blocks from the National Palace. Established in 1913 by the Community of the Daughters of Mary, Ecole Elie Dubois began as a vocational boarding school. The school currently offers the standard Baccalaureate curriculum as well as professional skills and vocational training courses for embroidery, fashion, and decorative arts. The original historic classroom building, which faces the main entrance on Rue de Centre, will undergo a complete renovation. The restoration work on this historic campus is supported by the Barefoot Foundation , Fondation CINA , Students Rebuild with the Bezos family Foundation and Interamerican Development Bank. In this project, I coordinated the architectural and structural team at Architecture For Humanity to produce the Consttruction Documents for the rehabilitation of Ecole Elie Dubois
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Nathalie Jolivert 25 Rue Hereaux, Morne Sylvio-Cator, Delmas 24, HaĂŻti | tel. (509) 3774 6884 | jolivertnathalie@gmail.com | www.jolivert.com
BIOGRAPHY Nathalie Jolivert is an architect and artist based in Port-au-Prince, Haïti. In her practice, Nathalie is interested in design solutions that value tradition, material history, culture and community involvement. Growing up in Haiti, a developing country with a rich yet complex culture, Nathalie realizes the importance to innovate and provide efficient answers to problems. Her academic years at the Rhode Island School of Design have equipped her with the skills to embrace challenges as sources of Opportunities. Nathalie’s design process is often inspired by local stories which she incorporates throughout her architectural proposals. During her years at RISD she won the Gensler National Diversity Award in 2011 which featured her eco-touristic project for the indigenous Wayuu tribe of La Guajira in Colombia. Her final thesis project on the architectural preservation of an early 20th century mansion in Jacmel, Haiti also received the RISD academic affairs research grant in 2012. Nathalie remains passionate about spatial narratives and the impact of architecture on society.
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PROFESSIONAL EXPRERIENCE
EDUCATION
Nathalie Jolivert 2007- 2012
Rhode Island School of Design Providence, RI Bachelors of Architecture & Bachelors of Fine Arts Notable projects: -Le Manoir Alexandra, Architectural Thesis project, 2012 RISD Academics Affairs Research Grant $ 2,000.00 -Principles of ecological design, Advanced Studio project, 2011 Gensler National Diversity Award $ 10,000.00
2008
Bard College Urban Studies in New Orleans Urban studies, Anthropology and Geography courses on the city of New-Orleans | Full Scholarship
2006-2007
Miss Porter’s School Farmington, CT High School Diploma | 2007 Hugues Art Award and 2007 Gold Portfolio National Scholastic Award
2005-2006
Fashion Institute of Technology Pre-college classes on Fashion Design and Merchandising | Full Scholarship
Jan 2015-Present
Architectural Association Visiting School in Haiti Tutor -Created the lecture programme for the bamboo architectural workshop on January 2015 -Planning the AA Visiting School workshop with team of tutors to take place Summer 2016
Sept-Dec 2014
Swiss Embassy in Haiti (Coopération Suisse en Haiti) Artist Residency -National winning proposal for a 6’x 12’ painting on cultural exchange between Switzerland and Haiti
July-Aug 2014
United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and RISD Artist Residency and Architectural designer -Led workshops in Malawi and Bangladesh with organizations funded by the USAID and local fine-arts students towards an art exhibition in Washington DC during the Frontiers in Development Forum -Produced a 9’ x 16’ tapestry that was shown at the Forum; designed the gallery space for the exhibition of the work with two other RISD alumni/mixed-media artists.
March 2014
Comité Interministériel de l’Aménagement du Territoire (CIAT) Architectural Designer -Designed guidelines of reconstruction for Downtown Port-au-Prince with a team of local urban designers and architects
Nov 2013-Jun 2014
Studio Drum Collaborative Port-au-Prince, Haiti Chief Operations Officer and Project Architect -Lead architect for the reconstruction of Saint-Margaret Convent for the Episcopal Diocese of Haiti -Led the office re-branding and online presence.
Jan-Nov 2013
Architecture For Humanity Port-au-Prince, Haiti Project Architect -Coordinated architectural and structural team in the production of construction documents for the rehabilitation of École Élie Dubois, historic school building located Downtown Port-au-Prince. This project was funded by the Interamerican Development Bank (IDB) and leading cement company “Cimenterie Nationale d’Haïti” (CINA).
Jun-Aug 2012 Jun-Aug 2011
AWARDS & MEDIA
Port-au-Prince, Haïti | tel. (509) 3774 6884 | jolivertnathalie@gmail.com | www.jolivert.com
Gensler San-Francisco, CA Participated in various projects with the Urban Design department, and contributed to a firm-wide research project on “Redefining the Town Square” Worked with Urban Design department on the 5M Project, a four acre multi-phase, mixed-use development Downtown San-Francisco.
December 2009
Haitian Education Leadership Program | Gingerbread House Preservation Volunteer research assistant for a prototype renovation project (World Monument Watch List 2010)
Jun- Aug 2008
Center for Sustainable Engagement and Development New-Orleans, LA Worked with Planning Committee and conducted research on post-Katrina development in the Lower Ninth Ward
2015 2015 2014 2012 2011 2007-2012 2008
Published essay “Bringing Down the Walls” in Haiti NOW book by UCLA and Morphosis Architects Interviewed on Sustainable Design for Princeton Architectural Press book “Designed for the Future” First Prize for National Mural Competition led by the Swiss Embassy in Haiti RISD Academic Affairs Research Grant $ 2,000.00 Gensler National Diversity Award $ 10,000.00 RISD Scholarship Program $ 200,000.00 New York Times Mention for “funeral scene” in Pupeteer play by Hanne Tierney “My Life in a Nutshell”
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