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OLIVIER PELLERIN ARCHITECT M. Arch | McGill University B. Sc. Architecture | Université de Montréal & EPFL

The City on the small island, vulnerable, facing the elements, vertical, powerful yet fragile.

The contrast of urbanity with the surrounding natural virginity.

Streets. Smoke. Light.

Percépolis.

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Previous Exercices 1.Moving Cliff | Solo 2.Case Study: Measuring the tides | Solo 3.Case Study: Artificial Elements | Group

ARCHITECTURE AND LAND ART Design with Nature. This Master Class explored the Percépolis. What if a Megalopolis had grown where French possibilities and the techniques used to magnify and Explorer Jacques-Cartier planted his cross in the name of the modify the landscape through human interventions.

King of France in 1534?

The will, the rise, and the collapse [tides] of a City.

PERCÉPOLIS Master Class Architecture and Land Art University Laval Summer School Professor Pierre Thibault Percé Qc Solo

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WEAVING | INTERLACING The study of the geometry behind a contemporary architectural language. Weaving and interlacing techniques allow the optimization of the material and create strong flexible structures.

1.Interlacing techniques with different material 2.Two different floor plans: Even|left and odd|right floors numbers Grey: Adjacent private offices

PARAMETRIC DESIGN The project uses computering and digital design technologies in order to reformulate high density housing in the City of London UK next to the Barbican Center.

LONDON PIED-Ă€-TERRE The two towers offer business residents apartment units with private office. Even floor numbers have an independnt access for visiting customers. All facilities, including meeting rooms, gym and private rooftop, are found in the central building.

EPFLausanne Studio 5 | Solo High Density Housing and Digital Brutalism Professor Stylianos Dritsas London Wall St, London City

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NEW PROGRAM ARENA: in situ concrete work and zenithal lighting.

Recalls the geological composition of the area.

THEATER: Public agora and performing arts center become the new local epicenter. It is the new beacon.

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SWIMMING POOL: Concrete coral patterns are thermal mass and urban functional signage.

OFFICE SPACE: for community organizations. Polycarbonate prefabricated modules.

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PLAZA: Gathering space and exterior skating rink (w).

Section Theater | Vertical infrastructure Crushed brick composite forms the new pavement Longitudinal section of the site Concrete work of the arena walls

COMMUNITY CENTER IN SOUTH-WEST MONTREAL Replacement of the Pointe-St-Charles community and sports center.

The former brutalist and monolithic building transforms into multiple architectural aggregates and creates internal circulations that follow the route created by the new pavement.

LOCUS POINTE-ST-CHARLES

MATERIAL MANIFESTO “No more bricks”.

Exploration of new materials and construction techniques that are uncommon in Montreal’s traditional architecture.

The materials express the functions of the building and follow a hierarchical composition related to the new locus, the new sense of space.

McGill University | Master Studio 1 | Solo Urban apparatus design Professor Michael Jemtrud Pointe-St-Charles, Montreal, Qc

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CONTEXT The site is at the crossroad of multiple transportation facilities; metro access, bus stop, bike lane, Bixi stand, bike parking, large sidewalks for boulevard St.Laurent pedestrians.

This version of the project is for a gym and a playground (rooftop).

CONCEIT The conceit is the conceptual artifact that illustrates the abstracts and the premises of the site and the future project.

Slow, as penguins on a ramp, or Fast, as drivers in the interchange, the project captures movements in time and space to generate hybrid architecture-structure.

The project becomes a platform for multiple crossroads and optimize the circulation patterns between the different functions of the site.

The shelter creates an open public space which can grow indefinitely according to the rules established in the conceit.

ARCHITECTURAL EXPLORATION Working with two other classes, hyperdrawing research and contemporary Japanese architecture, this studio project explores potential architecture based on contemporary architectural theories and the spatial experience offered by the built environment.

HYPERDRAWING «Along St.Laurent. Go down metro St.Laurent. Turn left Maisonneuve. Get on 55. Grab Bixi; a lot of bixis! So a bike lane. Pedestrians 1,2, 3, […] 10’000. Spectators too. Go up. Get changed. Dance, work out, do weights, run, bathing, sunbathing. Or playground, very top. Get lost on your way. --It feels like a system.»

ROUNDABOUT McGill University | Master studio 3 | solo Urban infrastructure Professors Torben Berns, Michael Jemtrud, Thierry Beaudoin Metro St-Laurent - Quartier des Spectacles | Montreal

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v FREE HAND DRAWING CLASS UofM

Architecture as the expression of human character: The project implies the study of human anatomy and proportions in order to recreate a facial expression.

The power of the eye in the facial expression of leaders and how the whole face provides subtil changes to the general expression.

ARCHITECTURE AND ANTHROPOMORPHISM EPFLausanne Teaching Unity | Solo Professor Arduino Cantafora

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LEFT -Corail building elevation -Penthouses facade planning and drawings -Plans and typologies

RIGHT -Bamboo building facade design and elevation -Descriptive documents for real estate agent

Internship Group8 ARCHITECTS+URBAN PLANNING Intern - Architectural assistant Geneva, Switzerland June 2010 - August 2011

FEASIBILITY STUDIES Architectural director plan for the busiest metro station Modern architecture Heritage infrastructure New Commercial spaces

Berri-UQAM Station Client: SOCIÉTÉ DE TRANSPORT DE MONTRÉAL Group IBI - Montreal Montreal, Canada 2012

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Ogilvy FEASIBILITY STUDIES IBI GROUP Montreal Montreal, Canada 2012

LUXURY COMMMERCIAL AND REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT RUE DE LA MONTAGNE, MONTREAL Commercial space study and planning proposal Urban density study, Architectural concept

RETAIL AND REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT GOLDEN SQUARE MILE, MONTREAL Feasibility studies, design studies

Holt Renfrew FEASIBILITY STUDIES IBI GROUP Montreal Montreal, Canada 2012

ARCHITECTURAL COMPETITION - WINNING TEAM MULTI-FUNCTIONAL SPORT AND CULTURAL COMPLEX Amphitheatre 13 000 SEATS Olympic training center 2500 seats Community ice center 500 seats Commercial spaces Urban design - Plaza

Place Bell DESIGN-BUILD / FAST-TRACK IBI GROUP / LEMAY & ASSOCIATES UNDER CONSTRUCTION, LAVAL, Qc CANADA 2014