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UN ALTO EN EL CAMINO | Portfolio | Nicolas Uebersax / 2010-14 |
www.uebersax-archi.ch
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BACHELOR OF SCIENCES FROM ETH-LAUSANNE / EPFL Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne / EPFL
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Project1: Atelier Alice, professor Dieter Dietz, Alexandre Noël P r o j e c t 2 : A t e l i e r A l i c e , p r o f e s s o r D i e t e r D i e t z , Te r e s a C h e u n g P r o j e c t 3 - 4 : A t e l i e r L A S T, p r o f e s s o r E m a n u e l R e y ( B a u a r t a r c h i t e c t s ) O t h e r s : I n t e r a c t i v e c i t y r e s e a r c h s t u d i o , p r o f e s s o r J e ff r e y H u a n g E C A L + E P F L l a b ( i n d u s t r i a l d e s i g n ) , p r o f e s s o r To m a s K r a l Théorie de l’architecture, professor Jaques Lucan History of Architecture professor Roberto Gargiani U n i v e r s i d a d P o l i t e c n i c a d e Va l e n c i a / U P V
VARIOUS WORKS:
(2014-15)
P r o j e c t 5 - 6 : Ta l l e r 4 , p r o f e s s o r J o s é M a r i a U r c e l a y
S w i m m i n g t e a c h e r, R e d f i s h N e u c h â t e l , C H Rider for team Gin Kiteboarding international team S n o w b o a r d t e a c h e r, H a u t e N e n d a z , C H Rider for team Liquid Force Kiteboarding Switzerland Material responsible for Club Photo EPFL S a l e s m a n f o r t h e L e v i ’s S t o r e i n L a u s a n n e d u r i n g t h e w e e k e n d s Intern (partial time) for Index Architects, Lausanne Intern (partial time) for Ateliers Beau Regard, Geneva K i t e s u r f t e a c h e r ( I K O s c h o o l ) i n S a n C a r l e s , C a t a l o n i a , S p a i n
(2007-10) (2009) (2010) (2010-12) ( 2 0 11 ) ( 2 0 11 - 1 2 ) ( 2 0 11 - 1 2 ) (2013) (2014)
COMPETITONS:
First prize of Fecule photography competition, Lausanne, Switzerland First prize of the IVE workshop for a start-up project, Switzerland Aw a r d a t S h a n g h a i I n t e r n a t i o n a l S c i e n c e & A r t F e s t i v a l w i t h U r b a n B o d y F i r s t P r i z e o f A r c h i z o o m a r c h i t e c t u r e s t u d e n t s c o m p e t i t i o n S e c o n d p r i z e o f d e s i g n s t u d e n t s c o m e p e t i t i o n f o r B E S A R ’s n e w b a r P a r t i c i p a t i o n o f S u s t a i n a b l e i s b e a u t i f u l s t u d e n t c o m p e t i t i o n Participation of 120hour architecture competition, Sweden
Urban Body: Workshop in Chi n a i n c o l l a b o r a t i o n w i t h Ts i n g u a U n i v e r s i t y ( B e i j i n g ) I V E ( I n s t i t u t e f o r Va l u e - b a s e d E n t e r p r ise): creating a start-up worshop (CH) Monade: Self-initiated project for personal researchs F l a t r e n o v a t i o n i n Va l e n c i a ( S p a i n ) Flat renovation in Sion (CH)
( 2 0 11 ) (2012) (2012) (2013) (2013) (2013) (2014)
EXTRA SCHOLAR PROJECTS: ( 2 0 11 ) (2012) (2014) (2014-15) (2014-15)
COMPUTER SKILLS:
A d o b e P h o t o s h o p ; A d o b e I l l u s t r a t o r ; A d o b e I n D e s i g n ; A d o b e A f t e r E ff e c t ; A d o b e E d g e Animated; Adobe Dreamweaver; Rhinoceros3D; Grashopper (parametric design); Artlantis Cinema 4d; HTML5 (basic) Autocad (intermediate); Archicad(basics); Adobe Premier (basics)
LANGUAGES:
French (native); English (advanced); Spanish (advanced); German (basics)
INTERESTS:
S u r f ; K i t e s u r f ; Tr a v e l ; Wa t e r P o l o ; I n d u s t r i a l D e s i g n ; P h o t o g r a p h y
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INDEX
PROJECTS P1_UN ALTO EN EL CAMINO
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P2_CREU LESTEL
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P3_THE WEEKENDS IN CONFRIEDES
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P4_LA NAVE DEL PUERTO
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P5_THE URBAN-FRAME PROJECT
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P6_HOME2.0
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REAL SCALE INSTALATIONS RS1_HABITER MON HORIZON
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RS2_MONADE
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RS3_THE URBAN BODY PROJECT
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RS4_DE LA HUERTA A LA CIUDAD
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COMPETITIONS C1_120 HOURS COMPETITION
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C2_A VITRINE FOR ARCHIZOOM
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OTHERS D1_INDUSTRIAL- DESIGN
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UN ALTO EN EL CAMINO
un refugio a un caminente
English: .......A stop along the way Student: ...........Nicolas Uebersax Prof: ............Maria JosĂŠ Urcelay Course: ..................P3/taller4 School: .......UPV (Valencia, Spain) Date: ....................20/09/2013 Semestre: .........................4
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UN ALTO EN EL CAMINO «...el recorrido discurre suave y lento desde las ruinas de San Esteban de Muriano. Tras dejar atrás los muros aún blancos de la última ermita, con su pequeño porche al sur, tras horas a pleno sol en este largo trecho, casi llano y sin descanso, el camino se acerca a las laderas suaves de unos cerros arbolados que van dibujando de manera clara la frontera entre trigales y encinas. Pesan ausentes las casas de labranza, sólo encontramos restos de muros de ribazo o tapias divisorias que parecen formadas por la retirada de estos materiales de los campos de labranza. Sol y trigos, y lomas dulces con la vista lejana de la sierra al fondo. El caminante necesita despedirse de este lugar, reposar y dedicarle una dilatada mirada para aprenderlo en su memoria, la noche llegará para diluir lentamente las aristas de lo que hemos aprendido...»
Augusto Monterroso
* Translating sentence into landscape, words into architecture, the project is a subjective interpretation of Augusto Monzerro’s text in which a refuge is imagined and conceptualized.
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CREU LESTEL
el juego de los volĂşmenes bajo la luz
English: ...volumes above the light Author: ...........Nicolas Uebersax Prof: ...........JosĂŠ Maria Urcelay Course: ..............P3 / taller 4 School: .............UPV (Valencia) Date: ...................12/10/2013 Semestre: ........................4
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CREU-LESTEL Like a sailing boat, lost in the immensity of the horizon, in the middle of rice fields, the three volumes of which relate the renovation project seem like floating. From the entrance, facing a long dirt path, the hamlet looks like a harmonious composition of white shapes. Standing on a clay tray, they tear themselves off the clear blue sky and the tranquility of the background landscape. the visitor walks through the path and reaches an old door made of solid wood slightly open. His look stops for a moment on the details that make its beauty. Like the middle door leafs, richly decorated that were used to cool down the cabin during the hot summer days. The visitor comes in. His eyes need to get used to the darkness that prevails in the high room, illuminated only by a second door on the back wall. The view though this smaller door that stands in a perfect symmetry with the first one captivates the visitor’s eyes and lost him in a series of pleasant thoughts. Based on the first impressions described in the previous text, the renovation tries to save, restore and enhance the elements and moments present in this typical vernacular architecture. Relation to horizontality and verticality, to landscape and to the human being’s perception are the keys that help its conception.
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FIN DE SEMANAS EN CONFRIEDES
English: ...weekends in Confriedes Author: ..........Nicolas Uebersax Prof: .......Pascual SellĂŠs Cantos Course: .Arquitectura Tematica III School: .....UPV (Valencia, Spain) Sate: ..................20/11/2013 Semestre: .......................4
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FINDE SEMANAS EN CONFRIEDES The project draws a sustainable weekend house in a mountain village on the east coast of Spain. Its conception privileges a large outside garden and a smaller warm and human scaled house. The inside space revolves around the fireplace and open a large window on the garden, immersed in a Mediterranean atmosphere. Existing elements of the landscape: boulder, rock walls, terraces and Pine forest are part of this closed microcosm dialoging with its surrounding.
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LA NAVE DEL PUERTO un techo para Peniscola
English: ....The nave of the harbor Author: ...........Nicolas Uebersax Prof: ...........JosĂŠ Maria Urcelay Course: ..............P3 / taller 4 School: .............UPV (Valencia) Date: ...................10/06/2014 Semestre: ........................5
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LA NAVE DEL PUERTO Torn between the diversity of systems that compose the city and their relations, Peniscola is a small town where the delimitations have to be clarified. The proposal takes the opportunity of creating a new oceanic research center to propose something bigger. A project that could redefine the limits at the key point where harbor, beach, old town and new town meet. Structuring element for urban-scale, the project is a series of pieces creating a large roof that cover a consequent harbor‘s part. Under this coverage, everything is mixed and everything goes without apparent rules in a chaos organized. Interaction between worker, tourists and fisherman are hidden and enhanced at the same time, giving this space a unique atmosphere. As forest of concrete, the project stands in front of the sea, rocked by the sea breeze, the sound of waves crashing on the pier, the coming and going of frenetic passers and the movement of large shadows dancing in the steady rhythm of passing time. *This project has been selected for a publication by the Talller4 of university Politecnica de Valencia.
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THE URBAN-FRAME PROJECT lorsque l’ossature prend vie
English: ...when skeleton comes to life Author: .............Nicolas Uebersax Prof: ...........Emanuel Rey (Bauart) Course: .......................Year 2 School: ...........EPFL (Lausanne, CH) Date: .....................28/05/2014 Semestre: ........................3-4
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URBAN-FRAME With an architecture projected into the future and dealing with its uncertainity, the Urban-Frame project wishes to respond to the development of cities in a sustainable way. It takes all servants, logistic and circulation elements of classical housing and places them in the building’s skeleton. The action aims to free a generous served spaces that may then be filled with different types of typologies responding to a momentary and local needs. Today, Switzerland has to slow the urban sprawl for ecological reasons. The typology that has been developed to illustrate the project tries to reinterpret the basic privacy threshold scheme of a suburb’s house to convince people that urban density can be a good thing for everyone. The inhabitant access to his property by a community passageway (the street). The entrance takes place through a luminous hanging garden, spatially connected to a large inside day-area. This area leaves freedom of arrangement to its user, and gives access to other more private spaces on the upper level.
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HOME2.0
revisiting architecture’s premises
Status: ..................WORKSHOP Prof: ...............Jeffrey Huang Name: .....................Home2.0 Theme: ..........Parametric design Schools: ......EPFL (Lausanne, CH) Date: ..................10/05/2011 Grade: ....................... 6/6
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HOME 2.0 The project is a one-week workshop about parametric architecture using grasshopper. The time of the workshop the student is asked to design Home2. 0. the project chose to take inspiration in the birth of architecture, when everything was still free of preconceived ideas. Based on the writing of Viollet-Le-Duc about the ‹ hutte primitive › (primitive hut), it initially identifies the constructive elements of the hut (structure/fence) to translate it into an architectural scripted language that can be adapted up to date. In a hypothetical future, the version 2.0 allows us to parameterize the genetic code of plants. We are able to change vegetal elements in highly adaptive living structure. The architecture becomes able to interact with its inhabitants and environment, it can grow as we need, transform to protect us from the outside menace or to improve inside comfort. The very famous “living machine” of Le Corbusier become a habitable organism.
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HABITER MON HORIZON “LIVING MY HORIZON”
Student: ........Axel Chevroulet ................Nicolas Uebersax Prof: ..............Dieter Dietz Assistant: .......Alexendre Noël Course: ..................Year 1 School: .....EPFL (Lausanne, CH) Date: ................20/09/2011 Semestre: .....................1
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HABITER MON HORIZON The first semester of architecture studies at the EPFL is made of a series of weekly exercises which aims to challenge our perception of space and familiarize us the architecture’s tools. In this exercise, reducing the spatial intervention to its smallest scale we have been asked to develop a wearable device which alters our perception of space. We have built a device in which our vision is parasitized by someone else. By losing control of his vision, the human loses its independence. Very quickly, a “master-slave” relationship is created. *The project has been selected for a show in the Rolex Learning Center and won the first prize of a a regional photography competition.
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MONADE
i t’s a n i c e d a y fo r so m e t h i n g !
Author: ........Paul Brechignac ...............Nicolas Uebersax Status: .....PERSONAL REASEARCH Name: ...................Monade Date: ...............20/04/2013 Country: ...........Switzerland
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MONADE Inspired from the 70’s movement of Ant Corps and its “inflated cookbook”, Monade is an ephemeral self-initiated installation. It is generated from an accurate two-dimensional low-cost crafting process. The physical space it creates is introverted and redundant. The sensory space it creates is nourished by lights, colors, sound or physical objects from the environment. One does not look at it, one looks at the effect of the context of it.
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THE URBAN BODY PROJECT
Status: .................WORKSHOP Name: .................Urban Body Schools: ...........EPFL Lausanne ..............Tsinghua University Date: .................01/05/2011 Site: ...........751 art district Country: ...................China
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URBAN BODY The Urban Body project is an outgoing collaborative project between the Art and Design Academy of Tsinghua University (Beijing) and Architecture’s school of the Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne (Switzerland). Supported by swissnex China and others, The project took place during a whole summer in the 751 art district in Beijing. It proposes the fabrications of architectonic modules and ecologically sustainable design prototypes specific to sino-swiss relations and cultures. An ancient Chinese notion determines the natural environment to be atmosphere-born through the impact of the elements on the land. Based on this idea the project, between industrial and natural, gives rise to a multitude of built small-scale interventions locally generated. *This project has been exposed to the Beijing design week and won the Science & Art Award issued by Shanghai International Science & Art Festival in 2012.
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UN VIAJE EN LA HUERTA
Author: ....Yara Brep / Philipp Kentgens ........Julia Martinez / Thomas Martinec ......... Andrea Pons / Nicolas Uebersax Prof: .....Manuel Lillo / Alberto Burgos Course: ....Materializacion del proyecto School: ..................UPV (Valencia) Date: ........................10/06/2014
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UN VIJAE EN LA HUERTA the project has been developed during one semester at the University Politecnica de Valencia (UPV). The students have been asked to crated a self-made pavilion with a minimum budget of 100 Euros. We decided to work with the canvas (local’s bamboo) because of its importance in the Spanish and Valencian construction’s history. Dealing with this material we tried to reinterpret the way to implement it, in order to create innovative geometries and spatial qualities. In the long term, this project will be proposed as a concept of the ivy vegetalised pavilion for the development of new economic green spaces in abandoned urban spaces.
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120 HOURS COMPETITION
Status: ............COMPETITION Name: .......Social scafoalding Author: ........Paul Brechignac .................Emilie Apperce ...............Nicolas Uebersax Date: ..............14/02/2014
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120 HOURS Sustainability As human beings we live, modify and transform our surroundings. We aim to establish a dialogue with the public. The man belongs to a wider cycle. Situation Three strategic points. Three interventions that find their expression in the dialogue between scaffolding and existing trees. Three promenades in the landscape of the festival of Oslo, where the pavilions become landmark used by visitory to meet and spend time. Materiality The interventions are built as simple scaffolding, from standardised metallic modules, thus reusable after the festival. Repetition as a vision for sustainable architecture. This project has participated to the “120hours” competition and has been published on “afasia”.
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A VITRINE FOR ARCHIZOOM
Grade: ................First prize Status: ...............COMPET TION Name: .....................VITRINE Author: ............Quentin Rosset ..................Nicolas Uebersax Date: ..................10/03/2013 Country: ..............Switzerland
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VITRINE With the new attraction’s point created about the Swiss Tech Convention Center and the Rolex Learning Center, we would like to strengthen the identity of the architecture’s building of the EPFL. We decided to work on a transformation significant due to its impact but light on its needs. The project takes to task to work from the inside to the outside of the building, by extending programs that need to be valued on the façade. The terraces generated become vitrines that enhance the strength, the dynamism and the symbol of the school. At the same time, we are creating two new entrances that allow to facilitate the inside circulation, reactivate the four corners of the “Place Nord” and develop new socialization spaces . *This proposal won the first prize of the competition launched by Archizoom and the Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne (EPFL). Today, the project is under study by Backer et Blanc architecte Studio in Lausanne.
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INDUSTRIAL DESIGN / ECAL
Name: ....“A chaque pot son couvercle!” Author: ...................Arthur Blanc .......................Nicolas Uebersax Prof: .......................Tomas Kral Course: ..............Design Industriel School: ............ECAL (Lausanne, CH) Date: .......................28/06/2013 Semestre: ............................4
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A CHAQUE POT SON COUVERCLE! Extensive overconsumption and wastage are now established facts in our society till years. Confronted with this challenge, designers have a key role to play. Indeed they have several approaches at their disposal to conceive responsible products. Choosing carefully and sparing materials, recycling or shape optimisation. many areas remain to be explored. Choosing the original “Ovomaltine� pot as a research field, the project tries to imagine a series of simple pieces that could screw on basic Ovomaltin jar to turn it into an elegent breakfast service. Different pieces could then be won by the consumer through a contests on the Ovaltine packaging.
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Nicolas Uebersax From Switzerland, Neuchâtel Pl. Cruz del Caùamelar 4 46011, Valencia, Spain www.uebersax-archi.ch web: n.uebersax@me.com e-maila: +34 635 167 155 Phone (ES): Phone (CH): +41 79 233 69 69