NATHALIE JOLIVERT PORTFOLIO
NATHALIE JOLIVERT PORTFOLIO TABLE OF CONTENTS ARCHITECTURE 1- Pixelating Bamboo- Architectural Association Visiting School.......................... page 3 2- Viviane Gauthier’s Studio......................................................................................... page 10 3- Saint Margaret Convent in Haïti- Studio Drum Collaborative............................ page 24 4- Ecole Elie Dubois- Architecture for Humanity ...................................................... page 30 5- Building Local in Colombia- Bamboo design-build workshop........................ page 35 6- Davis Park Pavilion- RISD project............................................................................ page 38 7- Bamboo Eco-Touristic Center in la Guajira, Colombia- RISD project .............. page 41 MIXED-MEDIA 1- Curiosités Urbaines, Solo Exhibition in Haiti.......................................................... page 46 2- Carnet de Voyages.................................................................................................... page48 3- Brand Design Projects............................................................................................... page 49 4- Roof-Top Flyers in New York City............................................................................ page 50 5- Swiss Embassy Mural in Haiti....................................................................................page 51 6- Roots of Development Tapestry for the USAID.................................................... page 53
Pixelating Bamboo Location: Kenscoff, Haïti Type: Experimental . Pavilion Design Year: 2014 Inspired by late Victor A. Wynne’s adobe block compressor which has remained intact on the site we were given, me and my team-mate, Jean-Eddy Samedi, student at Universite de Quisqueya, explored ways to work with earth-blocks and bamboo blocks to design a simple pavilion. About the AA Haiti Visiting School: An intensive workshop in experimental architectural design contextualized for the climate, culture and materiality of Haiti. Through speculative proposals which integrate bamboo, the aim is to create a vision for a lightweight contemporary Haitian built environment.
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Student Presentations during the workshop
PLAN VIEW
CONTEXT
INTERIOR VIEW
The Interior
Viviane Gauthier’s Studio Location: Port-au-Prince, Haïti Type: Residential Year: 2015 Viviane Gauthier is an elderly dancer who lives and conduct dance classes in one of the most renown Gingerbread Houses in Port-au-Prince. This house is subject to a restoration by the British firm Mac Aslan. My colleagues and I, at the Architectural Association Visiting School in Haiti were tasked by Mac Aslan Architects to provide Viviane Gauthier with a temporary shelter in the back-yard of her residence, in which she could reside during the restoration work. This proposal is designed with bamboo as primary structural material.
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Why bamboo for Haiti? Viviane Gauthier’s Gingerbread House The issue of deforestation has, in recent years, been tackled with investment in bamboo. The story of bamboo in Haiti started in the 1950s when Victor Wynne began a process of conserving an area of forested land in the midst of widespread deforestation. He looked at ways of improving and repairing the Bamboo is a truly remarkable plant and Haiti’s mountainous territory makes it an ideal location for rapid growth and industrial development. SPEED OF GROWTH Considered as a grass, bamboo can grow up to one meter per day. The construction grade bamboo Guadua This can be a quick source of material for charcoal production to relieve the burden from the slow growing trees currently deforested at an unsustainable rate for that very fuel source. After this initial growth spurt over the next 4-5 years guadua can grow up to 30 metres tall. HAITI’S TOPOGRAPHY 65% of this island nation is over a 7% gradient and bamboo grown on an incline drains faster and becomes some of the best construction grade bamboo in the world. WATER ABSORPTION One hectare of Guadua Bamboo can absorb up to 30,000 litres of water during the hurricane season and deposit this slowly back into the soil. With landslides being the deadly result of deforestation during these seasons this can be an instant life saver to rural communities in Haiti. CARBON ABSORPTION Bamboo can sequester up to twice as much carbon as trees. Given the worldwide drive to curb carbon
Imported Colombian bamboo is already being used on projects in Port au Prince. This house in the suburb of Croix des Bouquets was built by local bamboo architect Gary Pierre Charles.
of Madame Gauthier’s Gingerbread House bamboo could earn money for the grower. This would not onlyThe payfacade for the bamboo cultivation, but also (Photo Jenna M. McKnight) provide livelihoods to those growing bamboo as well.
Viviane Gauthier’s Gingerbread House is one of the most renown A NEW ECONOMY houses of this typology, still standing in Port-au-Prince after the Bamboo is used worldwide as a hard wearing, carbon friendly material for buildings and products, from devetating earthquake of January 10, 2010. It is a cultural landmark such asstructural this one can easily transfer and develop into other sectors, developing new bamboo economy. which integrity has been well-studied by apreservationists who are now working towards the restoration of the house.
Why Bamboo: Haiti suffers from a high rate of deforastation. The cultivation and use of bamboo, a fast growing crop with tremendous structural properties that compete with steel, could be highly benefitial to the nation in its efforts of reforestation. Currently, there is a large bamboo plantation located in Marmelade- in the Northern Department of Haiti- which this brief proposes to use as resource for the construction of Madame Gauthier’s temporary studio. Proposal for Mdme Viviane Gauthier’s Gingerbread House PAGE 4
Students on the last AA Haiti Visiting School Course, in Croix des Bouquets, Haiti (Photo Bahare Khodabande)
Bamboo is already growing in large quantities in Marmelade, in the North of Haiti.
Site Plan
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Colombian guadua bamboo Haitian vulgaris bamboo Concrete footings
Proposed Structure North Elevation
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Truss Structure ROOF BEAM 50mm poles
CROSS BRACING 100 mm poles
ROOF STRUCTURE 50mm poles
PRIMARY STRUCTURE 100mm poles
ROOF CROSS BRACING 75 mm poles
CROSS BRACING 75 mm poles
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Structural Details Structure Inspired by the ‘Gingerbread’ Style
CONSTRUCTION POINTS
ROOF TILTED TO ALLOW VENTILATION
CONSTRUCTION POINTS
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ROOF TILTED TO ALLOW VENTILATION
EAST ELEVATION CONSTRUCTION POINTS
CONCRETE FOOTING
BAMBOO COLUMN DETAILING
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MADAME GAUTHIER’S GINGERBREAD HOUSE DETAILING
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MADAME GAUTHIER’S GINGERBREAD HOUSE DETAILING
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Truss Construction
Given the importance of using this project as a means of training current carpenters to use bamboo, the structural system is designed to be built in a similar way to a timber structure.
The Panels Bamboo panels to seal the residence from the elements
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The curvature of the metallic shingles on the roof can reduce the wind resistance on the roof in a hurricane, reducing the pressure build up.
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Metal roof tiles can be manufactured at Croix des Bouquets. Skilled Artisans skill can create these tiles whilst supporting the local economy.
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The Roof
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EXISTING TREE secondary cover can be added to weatherproof the interior.
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The Team
The Team Title
This project was a team effort between five tutors at the Title Architectural Association Visiting School of Haiti. John Osmond Naylor (Programme Director) Architectural Association
John, originally from South Shields in the North of England, graduated from the Architectural Association, London in 2013. His interest lays in architecture as a tool for social development. The material of bamboo with its lightweight, seismic and
John Naylor.......................AA Haiti Visiting School Director Perez Espitia.........Perez Reiter Architects, and Haiti.Diego In 2013 this work won him both the AA Holloway Prize and the Fosters Prize for Sustainable Development. Bogota Colombia Aditya Aachi.....................Cullinan Studio, London, Architecture, and rare architects. He has taught at the Architectural Association (London); Tsinghua University (Beijing); UK Singapore Polytechnic (Singapore); the Leeds School of Architecture (UK); and continues to direct the AA Visiting Rose Programme in Haiti. Disarno....................Gensler Los Angeles, USA Diego Perez Espitia and Myself. PerezReiter Architects, Bogota, Colombia
Diego Perez-Espitia is a registered Colombian architect. He graduated with honours from University of Los Andes (2000) and obtained his Masters degree in Architecture and Urbanism with a thesis on Parametric Urbanism at the Architectural Association’s Design Research Lab (2008). For the last seven years his work has focused on the application of algorithmic design techniques at a wide range of urban and architecture design projects. Diego has worked for Zaha Hadid Architects and MAD Architects, where he founded and lead the Parametric Design Team. He is now founding partner at PerezReiter Architects, based in Colombia and Austria, where he currently explores the potentials and constraints of generative design and digital fabrication through architecture and interior design commissions. Diego has taught at University of Los Andes (Bogota), Tsinghua University (Beijing) and the Architectural Association (London), and has lectured at universities and design institutes in Colombia, Wales, England, Turkey and China. He is Director of the AA Bogota Visiting School.
For more information about the AA Visiting School Haiti, Visit: haiti.aaschool.ac.uk
Rose Di Sarno Gensler, Los Angels, USA
Rose graduated from the University of Southern California in 2008 with a Bachelor of Architecture degree. During her time at USC, Rose travelled extensively through Southeast Asia, observing and studying the adaptive modernization of densely populated countries in which the extremes of the economic spectrum are visible. Paired with a team of students from the under-funded schools in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Professionally, Rose has worked in Beijing, China, where her projects ranged in scale from single family residential projects, to urban art installations, cultural centres and large scale commercial developments. She currently lives and works in Los Angles, California.
Aditya Aachi Cullinan Studio, London, UK
Aditya is currently a Part II Architect at Cullinan Studio in London. He gained his undergraduate degree at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL and his Diploma at the Architectural Association School of Architecture. While at the Architectural Association he was awarded the Foster+Partners and AA prize for Infrastructure. Aditya is interested in exploring the role of the architect in humanitarian and socio-politically complex situations. He has worked with various NGO’s and charities as well as the UN to deliver and develop both architectural projects and consultation tools. While working internationally for architecture practices such as Grimshaw Architects and Foster+ Partners, Aditya pursued his interests in infrastructure and political lobbying. He was part of the design team for the Lubetkin Prize winning Casa Kike at Gianni Botsford Architects.
Nathalie Jolivert Architectural Designer, Port au Prince
Nathalie graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2012 with a Bachelor of Architecture and a Bachelor of Fine Arts. 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. Professionally, Nathalie worked on various projects with Architecture For Humanity and Studio Drum Collaborative in Haiti. As a painter, she also won a travel art residency to Bangladesh and Malawi with the USAID towards an exhibition at the Frontiers in Development Forum in Washington, DC (2014). In 2014 Nathalie attended the AA Haiti Visiting School and in 2015 joined us as an assistant tutor coordinating the school’s cultural programme. Nathalie currently lives and works in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Architectural Association Haiti Visiting Programme PAGE 21
Saint-Margaret Convent Location: Port-au-Prince, Haïti Type: Residential - Post-Earthquake 2010 Reconstruction Year: 2014 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.
URBAN CONTEXT
EXPLORATORY SKETCHES AND MODELS
SAINT-MARGARET SITE WITHIN THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH CAMPUS-BLOCK
Holy-Trinity Cathedral Site
MAIN FAÇADE
Rue Montalais
FIRST FLOOR PLAN with Central Chapel and common rooms
SECOND FLOOR PLAN with dormitories and central terrace
ROOF PLAN with canvas roof structure over balconies and open-air walkway
École Élie Dubois Location: Port-au-Prince, Haïti Type: Architectural Renovation- Post-Earthquake 2010 Year: 2014 École Élie Dubois is an all girls secondary school located in the historic district of Port-au-Prince, a few blocks fromt the National Palace. Established in 1913 by the Community of the Daughters of Mary, École Élie 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 du 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 (IDB). As an architectrual consultant for Architecture for Humanity, I cordinated the architectural and structural team to produce the Construction Documents for the rehabilitation of Ecole Elie Dubois.
Interior view of top floor prior renovation process
Mansard Roof under reconstruction
This project consisted in a close documentation of existing conditions, including that of a century old mansard roof that had to be entirely rebuilt
A concrete balcony added to the East Faรงade of the building in the 1970s had to be demolished as well because it caused damage to the original building during the earthquake of 2010
This balcony was to be replaced with a light-weight metal balcony with exterior staircases as second means of egress in case of another earthquake.
Building Local in Colombia Location: Valley of Cocora, Colombia Type: Design-Build with Guadua Bamboo Year: 2015 Building Local was a workshop that consisted in building a kiosk with the use of Guadua Bamboo in the Valley of Cocora, coffee region of Colombia. This workshop was organized by a Colombian architect and urbanist who previously led the housing projects of Morne Hercule and Morne Lazarre with UNOPS in Haiti, in which she has convinced the Haitian government to start using bamboo in the design of its housing projects post-earthquake. I attended the Building Local workshop along with two other Haitian colleagues whom I encouraged to sign-up in the longer goals of a stronger South-South cooperation between Haiti and Colombia in the bamboo industry. For more information on the workshop: www.buildinglocal.wordpress.com
A few team members standing on the kiosk’s rooftop
Preparing door panels with flattened out bamboo strips
The finished door panels
Field-trip to the ZERI Pavilion designed by Simon Velez
During the Building Local workshop, we experienced with various Bamboo applications under the guidance of local architects and builders. We also benefitted from guest lecturers, and visited important bamboo constructions, such as the ZERI pavillion designed by the well-renown Colombian architect Simon Velez.
The Kiosk, final product of the 15 day long Building Local Workshop 2015
Davis Park Pavilion Location: Providence, Rhode Island Type: Design-Build , Community Project Year: 2008 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.
Sketch models and construction process
Final product and the team
Bamboo Eco-Touristic Center Location: La Guajira, Colombia Type: Commercial Year: 2010 This project received the First Prize in the Gensler National Diversity Award in 2011 The RISD studio, Principles of Ecological Design, was a collaboration with the architecture students at 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 chichorros (hammocks). This commercial center is also designed to allow interaction, between the local and global communitites. Women would sell their woven goods in small enramadas situated around a central communal eating space, where tourists enjoy Wayuu cuisine. An interweaving of different cultures would be fostered through mutual benefits.
RAIN-WATER CATCHMENT SYSTEM
Detail Drawing of Bamboo Connections inspired by Indigeous Colombian knotting practices
Elevation of the Communal Restaurant
Work produced for CuriositĂŠs Urbaines
MIXED MEDIA This section contains various projects I worked on as a Freelance Designer and Painter. MIXED-MEDIA 1- CuriositĂŠs Urbaines, Solo Exhibition in Haiti......................................................... page 46 2- Carnet de Voyages................................................................................................... page48 3- Brand Design Projects.............................................................................................. page 49 4- Roof-Top Flyers in New York City............................................................................ page 50 5- Swiss Embassy Mural in Haiti................................................................................... page 51 6- Roots of Development Tapestry for the USAID................................................... page 53
CURIOSITÉS URBAINES Solo Exhibition in Port-au-Prince, Haïti | 2016
I organized a Solo Exhibition which theme “Curiosités Urbaines” explored the urban landscape of Haiti. The black and white paintings depicted everyday scenes of the chaotic urban life of Port-au-Prince, and played with expressions commonly painted on the “tap-taps”, colorful privately-owned public automobiles. The exhibition took place in Port-au-Prince and was well received by visitors and the local press. 20% of profits went to the largest pediatrician hospital in Haiti: Hospital Saint-Damien, Nos Petits Frères et Soeurs.
CARNET DE VOYAGES Self-published art-book | 2015
Self-published book of illustrations depicting the immigrant’s experience and the contrast of journey between those who have the power to travel comfortably versus those who travel in the desperate need to escape hardships in their country of origin. The dark figures throughout the zine are inspired by the cut metal artwork of Haiti. Preface by historian Winter Schneider. Carnet de Voyages was exhibited at Yale University during the Odds and Ends Art Book Fair in December 2015.
BRAND DESIGN Select Logo Designs for Various Clients
Logo Design for “Fondasyon Banbou” an upcoming organization bringing together various actors in the bamboo industry of Haïti www.fondasyonbanbou.wordpress.org
Logo Design for “BAWOSYA Cooperative” a hand-made paper company based in Haiti - new initiative of the organization “Haiti Partners” www.haitipartners.org
Logo Design for “AYITATTOO” temporary tattoo design company inspired by the Haitian culture: www.ayitattoo.ht
BRAND DESIGN Ayitattoo illustrations for temporary tattoos inspired by Haitian Culture
First set of illustrations and logo design for AYITATTOO a temporary tattoo business inspired by Haitian culture. The tattoos depict images of: * Haïti, written in the style of the lettering found on Tap-Taps * Erzulie, the Goddess of Love in Haitian Vaudou * The Palm Tree, symbol of freedom in Haiti * Tèt Chaje, common Kreyòl expression of an “explosive mind” * The Tap-Tap, colorful privately owned public automobile
THE ROOFTOP FLYERS Proposal submitted to the 14 x 48 organization which goal is to exhibit artwork on vacant Billboards in New York City | 2016
This illustration draws inspiration from the subculture of rooftop pigeon herders in New York. Two summers ago, I was working with a few artists and we were hanging out on their rooftop in Brooklyn, when around 5pm, we witnessed a swarm of pigeons fly out from a rooftop in what looked like a well-studied choreography. The oldest artist, who has lived in NY all his life, explained to us that this was a game that the residents in the area played. They inherited this tradition from European immigrants and appropriated it in Brooklyn. “Pigeons are social animals”, the artist explained. The owners who lose their pigeons to their neighbors’ flocks will later have to pay a sum to get them back. It was a nice evening in Brooklyn and it was quite calming for us to see the pigeons fly out from each rooftop and eventually group with each other. With summer, the season of rooftop gatherings is upon us. And with it the tradition of pigeon-herding. However, with the city expanding and the number of high-rise buildings soaring, I wonder what impact this may have on this age-old cherished tradition above ground, and what it ultimately means in the context of human-scale interactions, the animals and nature that have to co-habit.
MORNES ET MONTAGNES Acrylic Painting - 6’x12’ - Winning artwork in a National Competition organized by the Swiss Embassy in Haiti | 2014
MORNES ET MONTAGNES Sketches and Research Process
In this painting, the goal was to celebrate different aspects of the Haitian and Swiss culture. “Mornes et Montagnes” written in the similar fonts found on the tap-taps [public buses of Haiti]refers to the mountains of both Haiti and Switzerland. In Haiti, mountains are often referred to as “Mòn” which in creole is derived from the french word “Mornes”. Switzerland mostly gets involved in agricultural projects in Haiti and thus, on the left, a mango tree seems to bear fruit as the sun shines light on Haiti behind the Swiss Alps. The Eidelweiss flower also grows on the Haitian side and on the Swiss Alps the symbols of the Vaudou god of crossroads “Papa Legba” are drawn on the ground. The sunrays circle is continued with the long horns of the Swiss Alps folkloric musical tradition. Finally, the Hispaniolan Trogon, endangered national bird of Haiti is also illustrated in the mango tree.
ROOTS OF DEVELOPMENT Hand-Sown Tapestry and Acrylic Painting - 9’x16’ - RISD x USAID Artist in Residency Program | 2014
ROOTS OF DEVELOPMENT Art Research and Workshops in Bangladesh and Malawi - RISD x USAID Artist in Residency Program | 2014
Upon my art research on the overlap between the sectors of development and human virtues, conducted over a series of collaborative sessions at the Chancellor’s College of Malawi and Dhaka University, I developed an allegory of development and virtue. The tapestry here uses a metaphorical visual language to illustrate the interconnectedness of the development pillars of Climate Change, Water and Sanitation, Infrastructure, along with the related virtues: Respect, Dignity, Compassion, Justice, Love, Patience, and Courage. The relationships between the “sectors” and the virtues are motivated by conversations with members of poor communities in Malawi, Bangladesh, and Haïti; as well as exchanges with the students in Malawi and Bangladesh, and mission officers of USAID in those countires, who helped illuminate the challenges of international development, and reflected personally on the virtues inherent in that work. Haiti is evoked by the presence of the endangered red-breasted Hispaniolan Trogon, a national symbol of hope and resilience, but also of fragility and challenge.
THANK YOU! Nathalie Jolivert Contact Information: jolivertnathalie@gmail.com www.jolivert.com 114-0 224 Street, Cambria Heigths New York, NY 11411