Trajectories by Sarah Poot

TRAJECTORIES

PORTFOLIO 2014 - SARAH POOT

CONTENTS

T01

ABOUT | INTRODUCTION CONTACT & FOREWORDS RESUME LIST OF PROJECTS TIMEMAP

05 06 08 10

TRAJECTORY 1 | DAY DREAMING

P 01 P 02 P 03 P 04

T02

SCENOGRAPHY OF MEMORY TIME’S MONEY LIVING THE EDGE EUROMETROPOLIS

TRAJECTORY 2 | TIME MACHINE P 05 P 06 P 07 P 08

T03

ARCHITECTURE DATA MAPPING ARCHITECTURE LANDSCAPE

URBANISM ARCHITECTURE LANDSCAPE WORKSHOP

BRUSSELS PUBLIC SPACES BUILD IT UP FOLK PARK MADE IN GOWANUS

TRAJECTORY 3 | PLACE MAKING P 09 P 10 P 11 P 12

ARCHITECTURE LANDSCAPE INTERVENTIONS WORKSHOP

STREETS IN THE AIR PARCKDESIGN 2014 PUBLIC ROOM DEFINING BOUNDARIES

15 23 29 35

39 41 45 55 63

71 73 83 87 85

CONTACT |

SARAH POOT ARCHITECT, Brussels 0489/861.799 contact@sarahpoot.com www.sarahpoot.com

FOREWORDS |

THREE TRAJECTORIES Trajectories is an attempt to introduce myself through my own personal journey, that is spread over a wide range of international experiences and very diverse design interests. I recently graduated as an architect from the Luca School of Arts, Faculty of the KU Leuven. I have been involved within fields as varied as architecture, landscape, urban planning and social urbanism and I am currently looking for a traineeship in architecture. In the past, I have been successfully combining my studies with work and other personal commitments showing myself to be organized, self-motivated and capable of working under pressure. I have a clear, logical but sensitive mind with a practical approach to problem solving and a drive to see things through to completion. Among the challenges, interests and design methods that draw my attention during my academic and professional carreer, there are paths that can be described and statements that can be made. As I reflect on my work, those trajectories allow me to organize past projects, envision future work and gain a clearer understanding of my own process and patterns. Thus, this portfolio is organised in three trajectories. Day Dreaming assumes that there is no architecture without fiction. Time Machine focusses on processes of implementation within time. Place Making refers to designing relationships over artifacts. All documents featured in this portfolio including professional work are my own production except if clearly mentionned otherwise.

RESUME |

EDUCATION

LUCA - KU LEUVEN Master Degree in Science of Architecture Sept 2012 - July 2014 | Brussels, BE Obtained Magna Cum Laude LUND TEKNISKA HOGSKOLA Erasmus Exchance Program Aug 2008 - July 2009 | Lund, SE ECOLE NATIONALE SUPÉRIEURE D’ARCHITECTURE DE MONTPELLIER Bachelor Degree in Science of Architecture Oct 2006 - Sept 2009 | Montpellier, FR LYCEE LOUIS PASTEUR Literary Baccalauréat 2005 | Neuilly-sur-Seine (Paris), FR

EXPERIENCE

CURIOSITA | CO-FOUNDER April 2013 - present | www.curiosita.be Curiosita aims to be an experiential journey - a platform for the questioning, exploration and exchange of ideas, ideals, experience(s) and knowledge on urban practices. TAKTYK LANDSCAPE AND URBANISM | URBAN DESIGNER April 2011 - May 2014 | www.taktyk.net Taktyk is a transnational multidisciplinary practice that engages in city making through practice, research, design studio, editing and art installation. Led by Thierry Kandjee and Sebastien Penfornis, this research-based practice acts as a conductor, curator and mediator of complex transformation processes. ALIVE ARCHITECTURE | COLLABORATIVE DESIGNER Dec 2011 - present | www.alivearchitecture.eu Alive Architecture is a spatial agency that challenges the role of the architect in urban developments. The practice aims to generate social processes rather than designing physical objects. Through self-initiated and commissionned projects, writings, educational activities and conferences, it tackles social challenges in the urban realm. ARJM ARCHITECTURE & URBANISM | STUDENT COLLABORATOR 2009 & 2010 | www.arjm.be ARJM is an architectural firm involved in multi-scalar projects in Belgium. The scope of their architectural production covers a wide range of projects, from housing to public spaces.

RECOGNITIONS

LAUREATE OF THE MASTER OF SCIENCE IN ARCHITECTURE 2014 June 2014 | LUCA - KU Leuven, Campus Brussels BEST STUDENTS 2012 - ADU PILOT PROJECT January 2013 | ADU 2020 - Alfa Network

LANGUAGES

FRENCH | Working proficiency Native speaker - born in Belgium, lived in France.

ENGLISH | Working proficiency Studied in international environments. Frequent traveler. SPANISH | Limited proficiency Attended school in Mexico. Frequent travels in Latin America. WORKSHOPS

ARCHITECTURE AT RISK UABB Bi-city Biennale January 2014 | Shenzhen, China DEFINING BOUNDARIES ADU 2020 September 2013 | Bogotà, Colombia GOWANUS, BROOKLYN Streetscape Territories Research Project July 2013 | New York, USA MASTERCLASS BRABANT Pyblik ‘What is the role of a designer’ March 2013 | Brussels, Belgium

OTHERS

SAILING Frequent crew member on a sailing vessel (Pacific coast of Central America, West Indies and the Meditteranean sea). COCKTAIL MAKING April 2010 - June 2011 | Barmaid at Gecko Coktail bar & Live Music Café in Brussels. Prior to 2010 : waitressing in restaurants. SOFTWARES Adobe Suite +++++ Artlantis +++++ Autocad +++++ Laser cutting +++++ Rhino +++++ Sketchup +++++

PROJECTS | NAME Type Date & Location Company/Tutors Client/Organisation

ARCHITECTURE

LANDSCAPE & URBANISM

COMPETITIONS

POLE MARHEXE GARE Public space, train station. 2009|Herstal ARJM, Arcadis, Sum project Herstal City

PARCKDESIGN 2014 Festival 2013-2014|Brussels - Belgium Taktyk + Alive Architecture IBGE

HYPER MOUSCRON Masterplan 2012|Mouscron - Belgium Taktyk, Alphaville Short listed

NURSERY NOS BAMBINS Low energy building 2009|Ganshoren ARJM, JZH, SECA Renovas

EUROMETROPOLIS 2012|Vision Taktyk, Interland, La Petite Usine, Bien à vous, Interland Eurometropole

GARDENS TO LIVE IN Collective garden 2011|Brussels - Belgium Alive Architecture, B. Roosen Short listed

ECO ISLAND 25 dwellings - Low energy 2009|Grez-Doiceau ARJM, CGT, JZH IPB, Grez-Doiceau city

BXL PUBLIC SPACES Study 2011|Brussels - Belgium Taktyk Brussels Region

FRANCE GALOP Hyppodrome Longchamps 2011|Paris - France Taktyk, Dominique Perrault Winning project

BARBAPAPAS Nursery - Low energy 2008|Hélecine ARJM, JZH, SECA Hélecine city

SACLAY Masterplan 2009-2017|Saclay - France Taktyk, Menu-Saison, Artelia EPPS

LA PRAILLE Public spaces 2011|Geneva - Switzerland Taktyk, Dominique Perrault Short listed

LESSINES Nursery - Low energy 2009 - 2013 | Lessines ARJM, JZH, SECA Lessines city

CHAUSSEE DE LOUVAIN Urban preconizations 2012|Brussels - Belgium Taktyk IBGE

DORMOY Swimming pool park 2011|Lille - France Taktyk, JDS Short listed

FOLKLORE Museum park 2010-2015|Mouscron - BE V+, Taktyk, Projectiles Musée du Folklore, Mouscron

PREHISTOSITE Paleo-museum 2011|Seraing - Belgium Taktyk, Pierre Hebbelinck Short listed

BLANKENBERGE Collective housing park 2011|Blankenberge - BE Taktyk, UAPS City of Blankenberge

POST IT - PLACE DE LA DIGUE Public space 2009|Charleroi, Belgium ARJM, Sum Project Short listed

...

ACADEMIC

WORKSHOPS

EVENTS

OTHERS

SCENOGRAPHY OF MEMORY Architecture at risk 2014|Shenzhen - China Martine de Maeseneer Luca School of Arts

ARCHITECTURE AT RISK Value Factory 2014|Shenzhen, China Martine de Maeseneer UABB Bi-City Bienale

I AM / AM I? Performance & exhibition 2015|Brussels - Belgium L. Manimohan, S.Poot, W. Riche Curiosita

LAE - Publication Landscape Architecture Europe Thierry Kandjee Taktyk

BUILD IT UP Reconversion of infrastructure 2013|Karachi - Pakistan M. de Maeseneer, A. Sadiq Luca School of Arts

DEFINING BOUNDARIES Border of the university 2013|Bogota, Colombia Saddeck Real, Gideon Boie ADU 2020

PUBLIC ROOM Interventions in Brabant 2014|Brussels - Belgium L. Manimohan, S.Poot, W. Riche Curiosita

TOPOS 80 - Publication Topos award : Taktyk laureate Germany T. Kandjee, S.Penfornis Taktyk

STREETS IN THE AIR Reconversion 2013|Brussels - Belgium L. de Béthune, C. Ag-Ugrikul Luca School of Arts

GOWANUS Brooklyn’s future 2013|New-York City - USA K. Scheerlinck, K. Meersman Streetscape Territories

24H CHRONO Performance 2013|CDG Airport - Paris, FR T. Kandjee, Andrea Urlberger Grand Paris

SCENOGRAPHY OF MEMORY Lecture 22.09.2014 - Capitole Gent Academic opening LUCA - KU Leuven

TIME’S MONEY Study on suburbia 2013|Wenduine - Belgium A. Sollazo, W. Van de Vurst Luca School of Arts

MASTERCLASS BRABANT Architect in fragile context? 2013|Schaerbeek - Brussels Portc, Van Bruystegem, Mercier Pyblik, Alive Architecture

EXPECTATIONS Debate : role of the architect 2013|Brussels - Belgium Reinders, Coppens, Pferdmenges Curiosita

LIVING THE EDGE Solutions for suburbia 2012|Wenduine - Belgium Kris Scheerlinck, Bruno Peeters Luca School of Arts

CENTRAL Proposal for a train station 2012|Brussels - Belgium K. Scheerlinck, L. Reinders Streetscape Territories

LET IT BREATHE Transport hub 2009|Montpellier - France Abelardo Gonzales Lunds Tekniska Hogsköla

RESEARCH BY DESIGN 3D digital tools for design 2009|Lund - Sweden John Ross Lunds Tekniska Hogsköla

PRESERVATION Louis Khan’s Salk Insitute 2009|California - USA Abelardo Gonzales Lunds Tekniska Hogsköla

MESH Installation & performance 2007|Couv. des Ursulines - FR Elodie Nourrigat, J. Brion ENSA Montpellier

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TIMEMAP |

7 C

1 9 5

E 8 A

MEANINGFUL TRAVELS 6 Lubumbashi|RDC 1999 7 Lund|Sweden 2008 - 2009 8 Grenada|West Indies 2010 9 Beijing|China 2012

A San Diego To Venezuela 1995 - 2010 (Sailing) B Johannesburg|South Africa 1998 (Treck) C New York|USA 2013 (Workshop) D BogotĂ |Colombia 2013 (Workshop) E Hong Kong & Shenzhen 2014 (Workshop)

TRAJECTORY 1

T01 - DAY DREAMING THERE IS NO ARCHITECTURE WITHOUT FICTION. The projects presented in DAY DREAMING take real unexpected situations as a pretext to explore and test new typologies. They question our way to look at our contemporary society.

SELECTED PROJECTS

P 01 - SCENOGRAPHY OF MEMORY Architecture - Residential (Master Thesis) Academic work P 02 - TIME’S MONEY Data Mapping - Installation Academic work P 03 - LIVING THE EDGE Architecture - Residential Academic work P 04 - EUROMETROPOLIS Landscape & Urbanism - Vision Professional work with Taktyk, La Petite Usine, Bien à Vous, Interland

U -L

SHENZHEN, CHINA

ARCHITECTURE

SCENOGRAPHY OF MEMORY

Prof. Martine De Maeseneer LUCA School of Arts

Shenzhen’s reality is embeded into tremendous amounts of migrant workers moving to the city in order to achieve their ‘american dream’. Thus, one of its main challenges is to outbalance the economic logic of real estate, by proposing a high density without sacrificing an innovative response their very specific housing needs.

In collaboration with An-Sofie De Backer Ysaline Ophoff William Riche (for preliminary research only) Spring 2014

L MASTER O NA F O

TECTU CHI RE AR

INTERNA TI

T01 - P01

LAUR EATE 2014

N / K U LEUVE

Taking place in Shekou port (the craddle of the industrial development of Shenzhen) the design proposal is a prototypical attempt to temporarilly respond to migrancy patterns. It does not pretend to be suitable for a lifetime accomodation, but rather proposes an alternative solution for migrant workers landing in Shenzhen for a short timelapse. This temporary dwelling is a trial to combine highly generic infrastructure with opportunities of appropriation and a spatial configuration that allows complew and unforessen patterns of life to develop democratically.

T01

P01

ARCHITECTURE Academic project

T01

P01

DIAGRAMS

VISUALISATIONS

Lasercutting, Photoshop

Photoshop

T01

P01

MASTERPLAN Autocad, Illustrator, Photoshop

GRID Isotropic spaces

T01

P01

MAZE Shortcuts & detours

CONCEPTUAL PLANS Illustrator

OPEN OR CLOSED Individual/collective

INHABITED Served/servant

TRI-DIMENSIONAL Isovistas

MODEL Lasercutting

T01

P01

SECTIONAL PERSPECTIVE Sketchup, Artlantis, Photoshop

MODEL Laser cutting

T01 - P02

WENDUINE, BELGIUM

DATA MAPPING

TIME’S MONEY

Teach. Andrea Sollazo, Wim Van de Wust. LUCA School of Arts

‘Mapping the urban’

Spring 2013

The installation questions the notions of void and saturation, usually measured it terms of density when it comes to urban fabrics. It is drawn from an extensive mapping of Wenduine, translated into a personnal interpretation. The project proposes a new reading of the belgian coastline through economy and time as given parameters. A regular clockwork stages the perpetual monotony of residential activity while the consumerist patterns of tourism need an external pulse that reflects their chronicity. The attempt of offering a poetic vision of both realities results in a complex layering of intensities and interrelations in which the spectator is an active actor.

T01

P02

INSTALLATION Academic project

KNOKKE ZEEBRUGGE

BLANKENBERGE

WENDUINE

DE HAAN

BREDENE

OOSTENDE

MIDDLEKERKE

WESTENDE

NIEUWPOORT

KOKSIJDE

24 T01

P02

PLAN Illustrator

JANUARY

BER CEM DE

NO VE MB ER

FE BR UA RY

OCTOBER

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BER TEM SEP

APRIL

MA Y

AU GU ST

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JULY

INFOGRAPHY Illustrator

26 T01

P02

INSTALLATION Lasercutting

MECHANISM The first layer of wheels is activated by a clockwork mechanism. It represents the monotonous and slow rythm of the economy generated by the regular residential activity. The spectator is invited to activate the second layer of wheels himself. This one represent the punctual economic activity generated by touristic patterns and its intensity varies regarding the impulse given by the activator.

T01

P02

PHOTOGRAPHY By Rasa ChmielauskaitĂŠ

12 SELEC 20 TE

LIVING THE EDGE - EMPOWERING SUBURBIA

Prof. Kris Scheerlinck Leeke Reinders Bruno Peeters Pascal DeDecker LUCA School of Arts

The project explores territorial sequences in suburbia, in order to find architectural solutions towards horizontal urban sprawl without compromising the need for privacy expressed by suburbanites.

Fall 2012

BEST PROJ ECT AD

ARCHITECTURE

In collaboration with Antonis Amspach Lokesh Manimohan Randi Ravndal (for preliminary research only)

R A WORK FO S

U 2020 -

WENDUINE, BELGIUM

IN COLOM BI OP H

T01 - P03

Wenduine is a small coastal town on the Belgian shoreline, whose inhabitants are mostly elderlies. The design takes into account the fact that they tend to turn their outdoor space into sequential gaps, to use extra-space as a buffer between their individual sphere and the outsiders. The strategy proposes to assert this behaviour and consider sequential gaps as possible benefit. It will reconfigure the sequences of spaces in order to provoke overlapping situations Over provoking social interaction and a solution toward sustainable development in those times of growing population, the main effect of the project would be to expand in space one’s sence of belonging thanks to shorcuts and detours opening up his ‘comfort zone’, while reinforcing his ‘privacy zone’.

T01

P03

ARCHITECTURE Academic project

30 T01

P03

ORGANISATIONAL DIAGRAMS Sketchup, Illustrator

PLAN Autocad, Illustrator

MATERIALITY The wooden light-frame building is based on a tri-dimensional grid of 65 centimeters, which integrates all technical and structural elements. The modularity of the grid considers the eventuality of future additions and guarantees both low cost and rapidity of construction trough prefabricated elements. The unusual thickness of these walls also integrate a system of storage, visible or invisible, and can be accessed from one side or the other, sometimes from both.

32 T01

P03

SECTIONAL PERSPECTIVE Illustrator, Photoshop

BIEN A V OU U -E

LILLE - KORTRIJK - TOURNAI

LANDSCAPE & URBANISM

EUROMETROPOLIS

with Taktyk in collaboration with La petite usine, Bien à Vous, Interland

The Lille-Kortrijk-Tournai Eurometropolis is a European group of Territorial Cooperation established in 2008. But what strategies can be implemented to build tomorrows Eurometropolis? How to reveal this cross-border territory to its users? What portrait can be drawn?

Client : Eurometroplis www.visualiseeurometropolis.eu

Visualise Eurometropolis aims to provide some answers to these questions. Based on unusual and surprising images, the project showcases yesterday’s and today’s Eurometropolis and invite to dream the one of tomorrow.

2012

PETITE LA US S,

WITH TAKT YK

INTERLAN E, D IN

T01 - P04

T R O P OLI

The output of the project is an online atlas that allows to explore Eurometropolis trough maps, libraries or stories, showing off eurometropolitan landscapes, cultures and potentials.

T01

P04

VISION Professional project

36 T01

P04

CARTOGRAPHY Illustrator

TRAJECTORY 2

T02 - TIME MACHINE DESIGN CAN NOT BE REDUCED TO SOMETHING STATIC. By definition, any project is embeded in time. Because process is as important as result, TIME MACHINE focusses on processes of implementation.

SELECTED PROJECTS

P 05 - STUDIO BRUSSELS Landscape & Urbanism - Vision Professional work (with Taktyk Landscape & Urbanism) P 06 - BUILD IT UP! Architecture - Residential and reconversion Academic work P 07 - FOLK PARK Landscape - Garden for a museum Professional work (with Taktyk Landscape & Urbanism) P 08 - MADE IN GOWANUS Urban study - Vision Workshop in NYC (with Streetscape Territories @ Pratt Institute)

T -S

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM

URBANISM

STUDIO BRUSSELS

with Taktyk

The study explores the capacity to structure existing and future public space in Brussels, by the use of three main metropolitan agents (geography - mobility - urban nodes). The strategy is linked to a toolbox currently under discussion to inform the future development plan for the region.

Clients: various Since 2011

The study is embeded in a broader reflection that integrates former and future projects (studies and built works) linked to Brussels on different scales. Studio Brussels not only proposes strategic plan, but reflects on how they can be implemented within a process. More info : www.taktyk.net

T02

P05

URBANISM

MODEL

Professional project

Ph.D exhibition - Thierry Kandjee ÂŠ

- ORI ENT GI N UM

WITH TAKT YK IO

B R U SSEL

TOPOS IN 80 AL

EDITED D O C

T02 - P05

OBSERVE OBSERVE

ANTICIPATE ANTICIPATE

CHALLENGES CHALLENGES VALUES VALUES MANIFESTO MANIFESTO 1919 CITIES CITIES

A CAPITAL A CAPITAL

New New mobility mobility

ONE ONE REGION REGION

+ 200 + 200 000 000 inhabitants inhabitants

PUBLIC PUBLICSPACES SPACES case studie case studies s

INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK

Transculturalism Transculturalism

ACADEMICS / EXPERTS ACADEMICS / EXPERTS

Water plan Water plan

WHAT WHATROLE ROLE FOR FORTHE THEREGION REGION? ? AAWORKSHOP/DEBATE WORKSHOP/DEBATE CURATED CURATEDBY BYTAKTYK TAKTYK

CIVIL SOCIETY CIVIL SOCIETY

BXL BXL 2040 2040

FIELDWORKS FIELDWORKS

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42 T02

P05

INFOGRAPHY Illustrator

Learning from Learning from Barcelona Barcelona

PYBLIK PYBLIK

ORCHESTRATE ORCHESTRATE

ENABLE ENABLE

SPATIAL SPATIALFRAMEWORKS FRAMEWORKS PROTOTYPE PROTOTYPE

Quality teams Quality teams

NEW NEW PARTNERSHIPS PARTNERSHIPS

Local scale Local scale

PILOT PILOTPROJECT PROJECT

INTENSIFY INTENSIFY METROPOLITAN METROPOLITAN NODES NODES

Competition brief Competition brief

New actors New actors

TEST TEST

MASTERCLASS MASTERCLASS

URBAN URBAN MOBILITY MOBILITY SPINES SPINES

public public sectors sectors

academics academics inhabitants inhabitants ministery ministery urban urban renovation renovation

practitionners practitionners DISSEMINATE DISSEMINATE LANDSCAPE LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE STRUCTURE PLAN PLAN

DEBATES DEBATES: : What Whatculture cultureininpublic publicspaces spaces? ? jonction jonction

LAYERED LAYEREDSTRATEGIES STRATEGIES

artart historian historian artart curator curator

Published in TOPOS 80

T02 - P06

KARACHI, PAKISTAN

ARCHITECTURE

BUILD IT UP!

Prof. Martine de Maeseneer, Asiya Sadiq LUCA School of Arts

As build up density is one way to host inhabitants at lower cost, the projects invest the existing and unused Lyari Expressway in order to raise the density in the lower income neighborhoods. The very morphology of the existing infrastructure and its location near by a potential transportation channel allows the design to combine living space with working and leisure spaces. Using the existing Lyari expressway as a skeleton, the cityscape is designed and built by the users of the space.

With An Sofie de Backer, Ysaline Ophoff Fall 2013

The project reintroduces the notion of an extended family (versus a nuclear family), which is more suitable to eastern ways of living. So on, the residential part will host all relatives of a multigenerational family in one unit, growing in time with the family expansion. Moreover, the project proposes a gradient of spaces dedicated to specific circles : the nuclear family, the extended family, the masculine and feminine circles. By regrouping some functions, and sharing them with other circles, the project proposes and increased superficy of accessible space per person.

T02

P06

DATA MAPPING

PHOTOGRAPH

Academic project

By Ali Hazar

EXISTING SITUATION OF THE EXPRESS WAY

05 06

PROJECTED TRANSFORMATION OF THE EXPRESS WAY

LEGEND 10

01 Asphalt layer 02 Bridge deck modules 03 Earth volume to remove 04 Pillars + beam = portique 05 Water & electricity supply 06 Sewage system 07 Windcatcher every 20m 08 Reinforcing covering 09 Perforated deck 10 Perforated walls

46 T02

P06

AXONOMETRY Sketchup, Illustrator

RESIDENCE (Producer)

RETAIL (Product)

WORKSHOP (Production)

AXONOMETRY Sketchup, Illustrator

48 T02

P06

CATALOGUE Autocad, illustrator

LOWER FLOORS 07

UPPER FLOORS

LEGEND 01 Cleaning rooms 02 Masculine space 03 Retail expansion 04 Feminine space 05 Entrance 06 Private courtyard

PLANS Autocad, Illustrator

07 Galleries 08 Shared spaces 09 Cantilevers 10 Loggias 11 Terraces 12 Extra livingrooms

2015

2018

2025

2035

50 T02

P06

SECTIONAL PERSPECTIVES Autocad, Photoshop

SECTIONAL PERSPECTIVE Autocad, Photoshop

52 T02

P06

SECTIONAL PERSPECTIVE Autocad, Photoshop

PLAYGROUND

RECYCLING CENTER

SECTIONAL AXONOMETRY Sketchup, Photoshop

AMPHITHEATRE

SILENT TOWER

U - M

MOUSCRON, BELGIUM

P07

LANDSCAPE

FOLK PARK

with Taktyk in collaboration with V+ Architectes Projectiles Greish

The new museum of Folklore of the City of Mouscron will be located at the intercross of three existing but undervalued landscape pieces : the garden, the square and the entrance. Together, they will propose an unified reading of this inner-urban block.

Client : City of Mouscon Museum of Folklore

The garden becomes a didactic support of the museum collections with three outdoors rooms constantly evolving in time. The new square offers the music academy a new polyvalent space, acting as a palimpsest. The new entrance of the museum transforms the existing parking lot into a new faรงade for the building.

Fall 2014

T02

WITH TAKT YK

AND

CHITECTS, P AR

LANDSCAPE

RENDER

Professional project

By V+ Architects

ILES ECT OJ R

V+

T02 - P07

FOLKLO

56 T02

P07

PLAN Autocad, Photoshop

THE SQUARE A very specific work on the pavement of the square will allow the climatic conditions to re-write the history of the site, and acts as an urban paslimpsest.

Terre travaillée pour semi gazon ép. 20cm Pavé récupérés 15x15x15 cm Béton coulé sur place Gros béton ép. minimum 30cm Sable Mortier Grave concassée

Fond de forme

Fosse arbre existant

15.65

pente 2%

15.15

58 T02

P07

SECTION 1:100 Autocad (phase AVP)

15.85

THE UNDERWOODS The changing scenography of the underwoods embodies the past contraband of this cross border area, by appearance and disappearance of pathways regarding the seasonal changes.

SECTION 1:200 Autocad (phase AVP)

THE OPEN FIELDS The central open piece stages the contemporary interpretation of a food garden, reintroducing forgotten vegetables and cereal production within an urban environment.

60 T02

P07

SECTIONS 1:200

SKETCH

Autocad (phase AVP)

Hand drawing

THE PAVILLION’S ESTAMINET The Pavillion’s zone proposes a work on the outline, a different positioning regarding the selvage leaving space for the former atmosphere of an ‘estaminet’ to take place.

T02 - P08

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK

URBAN VISION

MADE IN GOWANUS

with Streetscape Territories Research Project At Pratt Institute

Streetscape Territories is the name given to an international research and design project that deals with the way buildings and properties are related to streets and how their inhabitants can give meaning to them. In other words, this project focuses on the territorial organization of streetscapes, explored in different contexts, studied as part of different cultures and defined by different social networks.

In collaboration with Joshua Dandois, Laura Beltran, Niels De Coster Summer 2013

Streetscape Territories deals with models of proximity within a street, neighborhood or region and starts from the assumption that urban space, from the domestic scale till the scale of the city, can be understood as a discontinuous collective space, containing different levels of collective use that are defined by multiple physical, cultural or territorial boundaries. ‘Made in Gowanus’ applies those notions to the industrial area of Brooklyn, using existing ‘non-lieux’ as agents of social change. The underused plots in the neighborhood are re-thought in order to generate new territorial configurations.

T02

P08

URBAN VISION

MENTAL MAPS

Workshop

By local inhabitants

ÂŤIN NEW YORK, ONLY 10% OF THE SPACE IS BUILTÂť However, there are only few accessible open spaces for the community in Gowanus. The current vacant lots could represent approximatively 780 000 sq feets of collective spaces improving quality of living, feeling of community and rain water management.

T02 P08

COLLAGE Photoshop

«300 000 HOUSEHOLDS ARE WAITING FOR HOUSING IN NEW YORK» In Gowanus, 1 000 000 sq feets of current parking lots could be turned in 1 250 000 sq feets of affordable housing (30% footprint), which represents 2 500 new appartments!!

COLLAGE Photoshop

«GOWANUS IDENTITY IS MAINLY INDUSTRIAL» Lets turn the valuable landmarks, not fitting with the current standarts of manufacturing in landmarks federating the community.

T02 P08

COLLAGE Photoshop

«LOCAL SHOPS AND SERVICES GENERATES MICRO ECONOMIES» Locally manufactured products can be sold in the area. Specific and quality products have the ability to attract buyers from far away and inject money in the local econmy.

COLLAGE Photoshop

MANUFACTURING GROUNDFLOORS Light manufacturing activities share the existing warehouses facilities. Different businesses can combine their workforce in order to come from primary ressources to final product locally

HOUSING ON THE UPPER FLOORS Combination of working and living place can increase quality of living by reducing costs and commuting time.

MULTI PURPOSE The design of the collective spaces offers non programmed open spaces, easily appropriable by the different users of the area.

RESILIENCY The proposal takes into account the possible risk of flooding and accepts it. Instead of pushing it back, it gives space for the water to flow.

RAIN WATER Soft surfaces improve the porosity of the ground, allowing rain water buffering and infiltration, as much as vegetation to grow.

ACCESSIBILITY The dephts configurations change regarding the mode of transportation one is using. Pedestrians and bikers can enjoy a multiplicity of detours and shortcurts in the open space bluring the notion of frontyards and backyards.

COLLECTIVE GROUNDFLOORS The groundfloors are ketp accessible for the community. Informal gathering takes place under and aside the new housing facilities.

AFFORDABLE HOUSING Private cars parkings are removed from the groundloors, and placed on an extra layer above manufacturing parkings. Former parkings lots can host new

T02 P08

AXONOMETRY Autocad, Photoshop

ACCESSIBLE ROOFTOP The rooftops can be turned into a learning vegetable garden where children and adults can witness productive activities within the city

OPEN GROUNDFLOORS The grondfloors are kept accessible for the community. They can host a multiplicity of uses such as markets, concerts, weekly events.

DOUBLE ORIENTATION Commercial groundfloors with double orientations modify the depht configuration in the area. The interiors of the urban blocs are turned into new shortcuts and detours for soft mobilities.

LEARNING FACILITIES The upper floors are invested by a learning center for specific manufacturing.

TRAJECTORY 3

T03 - PLACE MAKING ARTIFACTS DO HAVE POLITICS. But every project do not have to be an artifact. PLACE MAKING features some projects aiming to build relationships over objects.

SELECTED PROJECTS

P 09 - STREETS IN THE AIR Architecture - Reconversion of the CitĂŠ Administrative Academic work P 10 - PARCKDESIGN 2014 Landscape - Public space and Festival Professional work (with Taktyk & Alive Architecture) P 11 - PUBLIC ROOM Interventions - Brabant/Aerschot Neighborhood Professional work (with Curiosita) P 12 - DEFINING BOUNDARIES Urban study - Vision Workshop (ADU 2020 @ Universidad Nacional de Colombia)

T03 - P09

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM

RECONVERSION

STREETS IN THE AIR

Prof. Livia de Béthune Chotima Ag-Ugrikul LUCA School of Arts

The Cité Administrative, jewel of the post war functionalist architecture of Brussels is one of the biggest failure of the 20th century urban planning in Belgium. The mono-functionality of the area implies the need for new meaningful places able to empower the inhabitants and engrave a positive image of the city in its citizen’s minds.

Fall 2014

The project proposes multi story housing coupled with collective spaces. A special care is paid to the circulations and buffers that encourage self appropriation of the collective spaces. “Streets in the air” (A. and P. Smithson, 1952) provide access to two-stories modules composed of 5 housing units. Prominent entrances create sequential gaps that save space for overlapping situations. Wide programmed collective spaces are spread over the building. Their dedicated functions encourage people to mingle in opposing parts of the building that the one they are linving in. So on, the projects tries to enhance encounter, collectivity and improves its users’ sense of ownership.

T03

P09

ARCHITECTURE

PHOTOGRAPH

Academic project

Maurycy Gomulicki

T03

P09

BIRDEYE Sketchup, Artlantis, Photoshop

T03

P09

THE LOVERS GARDEN

THE FRIENDS KITCHEN

THE TEENS PLAYGROUND

THE EVERYDAY SUPERETTE

PLANS

CONCEPT COLLAGE

Autocad, Photoshop

Photoshop

DIAGRAMS Sketchup, Illustrator

T03

P09

DIAGRAMS Sketchup, Illustrator

UPPER FLOOR

LOWER FLOOR

PLANS

CONCEPT COLLAGE

Autocad, Photoshop

Photoshop

T03

P09

SECTIONAL PERSPECTIVE Sketchup, Artlantis, Photoshop

T03

P10

LANDSCAPE

PARCK DESIGN 2014

With Taktyk & Alive Architecture Eric Dill Jacques Abelman Hidde Van Schie

The aim of this event initiated by the Brussels Environment is to reflect on ways to invent new public spaces in the city. The first three editions of Parckdesign in 2006, 2007 and 2008 questioned the approach of design through urban furniture in the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s parks and gardens.

Client : IBGE

Parckdesign 2014 privileges design as process of engagement with local and regional actors to co-produce and maintain the PARCKFARM, first chapter of the park Tour & Taxi that is considered as a test. Given the success of the event, the project has been developping its own dynamic beyond the temporary or the site and will remain in place for an other year.

2013 - 2014

WITH ARCH ALIVE ITEC & TAK TURE TYK

LANDSCAPE Professional project

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BRUSSELS, BELGIUM

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ELMAN AB J.

H. V AN

T03 - P10

TAX

BG IS - I

T03

P10

PHOTOGRAPHY By ParckFarm

T03 - P11

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM

INTERVENTIONS

PUBLIC ROOM

With Curiosita, Alive Architecture, Common Grounds, Eru Urbanisme, ParckDesign (IBGE), Pyblik, RĂŠnovas, Rirbaucout, Samenlevingsopbouw.

Public Room reflects on the street as a living space. Taking place in the fragile neighborood of Brabant/Aerschot, the project works on participativeness, recycling and public cleanliness. It successively moves the focus from the street (infrastructural space), to the garden (productive space), to the living room (space of interaction), to the dining room (space of sharing).

Summer 2014

T03

P11

During the summer, three events invite the neighbours of three streets to claim the ownership of this disregarded space over its punctual users. The Garden Party introduces a mint garden on one of the facade of the Liedtstraat. The Tea Time gathers inhabitants to share tips on the use of plants in daily life. The Public Dinner engages with cooking and sharing a meal over the mint theme.

INTERVENTIONS

PHOTOGRAPH

Personal project

By GĂŠraldine Bruyneel

T03

P11

PHOTOGRAPHS By William Riche

T03

P11

PHOTOGRAPHS By William Riche

T03

P11

PHOTOGRAPHS By William Riche

T03 - P12

BOGOTA, COLOMBIA

WORKSHOP

DEFINING BOUNDARIES

With ADU 2020 at Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota.

The ambition of the project is to reinforce the existing academic heart of the University of Bogota, to provide an urban framework in which encounter and interactions are the key of a better education.

September 2013 In order to activate the border, and improving both social control and porosity, the strategy proposes to recreate a green belt on the periphery of the campus. To characterize the inner space of the university as a special place in the city, the strategy tries to generate different experiences on the borders. By programing the border, the strategy tries to enhance micro local cooperation and economies: space can empower people by giving them responsibilities. The notion of Â¨bridgesÂ¨ is reconfigured from crossing elements to social interactive artifacts that include different programs and activities that serve the nearby neighborhoods and the metropolitan area.

T03

P12

ARCHITECTURE Workshop in Bogota

Fieldwork : interviews

T03

P12

INTERVIEWS Photgraphs by Lina Buitrago

PLAN Autocad, Photoshop

CONTACT |

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