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PORTFOLIO 10-17
name: Nicolas Ivan Uebersax nationality: Swiss , Neuchâtel adress: Pl. Cruz del Cañamelar 4 46011, Valencia, Spain web: www.uebersax-archi.ch e-mail: n.uebersax@me.com phone (ES): +34 635 167 155 phone (CH): +41 79 233 69 69 3
INTRODUCTION What a young architect has to say ins’t really important because any personal relation to architecture will be conducted to evolve over the years. But the following lines are an attempt to summarize and enhance the main characters of this relation I have today. Because an architecture cannot be without a place, I am concerned by architecture in adecuation with its cultural and physical surrounding. I care about reading spaces that tell us stories and where poetry finds its place. About materials, I am interested in the contact between elements. Sometimes, for the harmony of the whole they shouldn’t touch then and shadow has to be created. My frustration is not to have enough time for the thousand projects I have in my mind. I love to learn, imagine, build and be surprised. Creating always was for me an endless source of motivation. Finally, I think to discover every day a more personal architecture where intuition is part of the tools that serve the project investigation. Innovation must be a leitmotif in architecture. But I am persuaded that basic elements used in a smart way will always prevail on technology as an artefact icon and consumerism as ideology. I would rather say that the innovation is to understand the existing as something that can be improved by small interventions and I believe inspiration can be found in recovering and reinterpreting knowledge we lost. “Architecture is old as the sea, modern like its waves.” Alejandro Beautell
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PROJECTS P1_CREU LESTEL P_08 P2_THE WEEKENDS IN CONFRIEDES P_14 P3_LA NAVE DEL PUERTO P_22 P4_LA NAVE DEL PUERTO
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P5_THE URBAN-FRAME PROJECT P_44
REAL SCALE INSTALATIONS RS1_HABITER MON HORIZON P_54 RS2_MONADE P_60 RS3_THE URBAN BODY PROJECT P_68 RS4_DE LA HUERTA A LA CIUDAD P_72
COMPETITION C1_A VITRINE FOR ARCHIZOOM P_93
OTHERS D1_PLAZA CRUZ DEL CAÑAMELAR P_87
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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 thetranquillityy 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 horizontally 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 “A weekend in Confriedes”
English: ...weekends in Confriedes Author: ..........Nicolas Uebersax Prof: .......Pascual Sellés 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 dialoguing with its surrounding.
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LA NAVE DEL PUERTO a roof for 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, leisure area, touristic old town, fishermen harbord, Peniscola is a small town where the delimitations have to be clarified. The proposal takes the opportunity of creating a new oceanic research centre 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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Agua Primiera capa de cristal (60cm L) Papel de oscurecimiento Segunda Capa de cristal (60cmL) Material de equipo Capa sellado
Tabla de Cobre (60cmL) Torneado para apretรณn Torneado vertical Estructura metalica Torneado vertical Apretรณn Placo-yeso Pintura blanc difusiรณn
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AÑANA SALT VALEE a project in Zambrana’s palacio
English: ..........Añana Slat valee Author: ...........Nicolas Uebersax Prof: ............José Maria Gacria Course: ..............Guest teacher School: .............ETHZ (Zürich) Date: ...................20/09/2016 Semestre: ........................9
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AÑANA SALT VALEE The project takes place in the mountain village of the Añana Spanish in Basque country. Known for its salt that comes out of underground sources, the village Añana became famous for its salt production since Roman ages. Nevertheless, the village is facing today an important social issue. As lots of other Spanish villages it lost almost the 90% of its inhabitants during the last century because of the concurrence with new industrialized production centres. As the salt and the worldly famous Basque culinary culture are connected, the project chose to give Añana a new chance to reconstruct itself through the implantation of a Culinary School in the centre of the village. The school will use the abandoned salt production’s palace as the core of its development. The Palace will house all the public programs of the school (cafeteria on the lower level and five stars restaurant on the top level). The other programs that need the school are articulated around the Palace and a central courtyard below a wooden structure that reminds the evaporation plots used to produce the salt in the valley.
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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 uncertainty, 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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HABITER MON HORIZON “live 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, colours, 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 Beijing design week instalation
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 un proyecto economico
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 create a self-made pavilion of at least 36m2 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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A VITRINE FOR ARCHIZOOM architecture competition at EPFL
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 around 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 works from the inside to the outside of the building, by extending programs on the façade with the idea of a showcase. 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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CRITIQUE FINALE
AFFICHAGE FINALE
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PLAZA CRUZ DEL CAÑAMELAR f r o m p l a n i n g to D I Y c o n st r u c t i o n
Type: .......Architectural project Status: .................COMPLETED Name: ........................... Author: ..........Nicolas Uebersax Date: ..................15/08/2017 Country: ....................Spain
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name: Nicolas Ivan Uebersax nationality: Swiss , Neuchâtel adress: Pl. Cruz del Cañamelar 4 46011, Valencia, Spain web: www.uebersax-archi.ch e-mail: n.uebersax@me.com phone (ES): +34 635 167 155 phone (CH): +41 79 233 69 69