Portfolio Architecture
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne 2010-2014
Sarah SAUTHIER
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Curriculum vitae
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Studio LCC (3rd year) / Pr. Luca Ortelli [BCV Prize 2014]
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Studio Last (2nd year) / Pr. Emmanuel Rey
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Studio Alice (1st year) / Pr. Dieter Dietz
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Home 2.0 (ENAC) (2nd year) / Pr. Jeffrey Huang Imagining the house of the future and realising it in Grasshopper
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Art of Drawing (1st year)
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Art of Colour (2nd year)
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Sculpted Stone (2nd year)
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Principles of Architectural Gestaltung (3rd year)
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Intership at Dar architects, 2013
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Housing | urban and architectural rehabilitation
Urban housing in the center of Yverdon-les-bains Understanding space, Vertical city
Learning the diverse techniques of reprensentations Competition for housing, Crassier
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Sarah SAUTHIER Ch. de la Lôche-Dessus 16 1070 Puidoux Switzerland sarah.sauthier@epfl.ch +41 (0)79 329 32 09 (CH) +45 31 67 61 81 (DK)
19.08.1991 (23 years) Swiss
Curriculum vitae Diploma and Awards
Work experience
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2014 - now Work experience at Phoam Studio, Copenhagen, Denmark (6 months) 2013 -14 “student” assistant at the graphic peripherals room, EPFL 2012 / 13 Work experience at Dar architectes, Lausanne, Switzerland (3weeks/1months) 2012 -14 “student” assistant for the course of “Structure I&II” Dr. Olivier Burdet, EPFL 2012 -14 Steering committee of the annual ball of the section of architecture (BeSAR, EPFL) 2012 Tutoring at Home, Mathematics, High School level 2011-13 Coaching, EPFL 2007- 9 Warehousewoman in Margotabac, Switzerland (3 weeks per year) 2008 Help in day nursery, Brisbane, Australia (2 weeks)
Bachelor of Science BSc in Architecture, EPFL “Banque Cantonale Vaudoise” prize 2014 Maturité Fédérale
Trainings 2010 - now EPFL (Swiss federal institute of technology) in architecture Sept. 2011 Formation pour coachs à l’EPFL August 2011 Public speaking training in HETSR, Lausanne 2007-10 High School, Gymnase Auguste Piccard, Lausanne Specific option “Economics and Law” Complementary option “Mathematics”
Languages French English German Danish
Native language Fluent School level basic competency
2008 School Exchange in Brisbane, Australia (3 months)
Hobbies and interests Sport: golf, snowboard, swimming Other: music (piano since 1999), travelling, photography, Scuba diving (Level Advanced open water Divers PADI)
Computing Literacy AutoCAD ArchiCAD Vectorworks Rhinoceros Grasshopper + Paneling Tools (Rhino&Grasshopper) Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Adobe InDesign Powerpoint / Word / Excel 5
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Studio LCC (Laboratoire de la conservation et la prĂŠservation) Pr. Luca Ortelli 3rd year / Project
Housing | urban and architectural rehabilitation in Lausanne
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Housing Lausanne, Sébeillon (“Banque cantonale Vaudoise” prize 2014) Studio LCC / Pr. Luca Ortelli / Adjunct professor: M. Guinand / Bachelor V-VI
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Master Plan The objective of this project is to develop a new scale in the site of SĂŠbeillon, currently a railroad in the city center of Lausanne, by favoring the collective aspect of the neighborhood. In order to respond to the large dimension of the land, the project suggests splitting up the site in different units. Those units are organized thanks to the presence of two right-angled buildings, which welcome houses in their center. The theme of Mischbebauung is approached through three different types: houses (low rise), a building with a central street (mid-rise) and a built front (high rise). Each type proposes collective spaces particular to their internal organization.
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Entrance An urban-scale stairway, much like the ones found in the city of Lausanne, forms the entrance of the project, offering different viewpoints onto the new neighborhood. It results in a path, punctuated by the station plaza, allowing the joining of SĂŠvelin to Malley, generating collective spaces of each units and the built front. On the other side of the former station is a green space facing the mountains.
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Neighborhood Unit
The theme of unity is approached through the various paths which aim to connect spaces between them and guarantee a general cohesion as well as by the material: brick, common to all the buildings. The walks are organized into a hierarchy of three categories going from the most individual to the most public. A tree-covered pathway, connecting the gardens of each unit, is more collective and crosses under the street NapolĂŠon. A main path connects SĂŠvelin to Malley and passes between the buildings. A green walk goes along the railroads. Rez-de-chaussĂŠe
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The six-storey high rise offers a front, which acts as a protection between the city and the new district. The types of housing proposed extend from one side to the other of the building (North-south), in connection with the setting-up of the building. The low rise is represented by houses, which are offset from one another to welcome a collective garden. These houses work in pairs and propose a widened threshold; a common entrance is carved out in the volumes.
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The Middle Rise
Collective space floor (2nd-3rd)
Ground floor
The building, transversal to the site, offers a transition between the various units. The apartments are mono-directed and accessible by an internal street. This street works as a big collective space, which is similar to the internal street of the “cité Napoléon” in Paris. The skylights and the light wells allow for natural light the street. Its length of 100m is punctuated by extensions, which binds it, at least visually, with the outside of the building. The project would like to propose several extensions, which represent collectives “internal” spaces.
Cité Napoléon, Paris
We can also reach the street from the outside main path via a staircase which is just like the urban staircases connecting the various levels of a city (not unlike Cyrillus Johansson’s project for the Centrum in Stockholm).
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A series of individually owned thresholds allow access to the apartments.
The types: - Studio: 40 m2 - 2.5p. : 61 m2 - 3.5p. : 94.6 m2 - 5.5p. : 171.8 m2
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Constructive Detail
Brick, not very common to Lausanne, participates in the identity of the new district. All the buildings have a brick-faced façade, except for the north facade of the built front which proposes plaster-covered façade to respond to the existing buildings along the street of Geneva. The buildings also integrate into their facades a continuous ornamental element made: a prefabricated concrete horizontal band. The concrete element also has a constructive function: caskets for blinds, girders and a support for the bricks. D
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Atmosphere Perspective of the collective space
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Studio LAST (Laboratory of Architecture and Sustainable Technologies) Pr. Emmanuel Rey 2nd year / Project
Urban housing development in the city center of Yverdon-les-bains
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Urban Lakeside / “Cour(s) d’eau”
Studio Last / Pr. Emmanuel Rey / Adjuncts professors: J. Camuzet and N. Strambini / Bachelor III-IV
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Concept The site is a railway brownfield located in Yverdon, between the train station and the lake. Three buildings are to be preserved: the CFF mechanical workshops, the HES and the psychiatric hospital. A density coefficient of 1.7, comprised of 255 000 m2 of gross floor surface, is to be respected. Mixed -use buildings are to be built, providing for 3000 people and 1500 new jobs. Throughout this project, all scales were taken into consideration: from the urban scale to construction details. At the scale of the neighborhood, the relationships between the questions of density, mobility, mixed-use and quality of life were studied. Three canals of varying sizes and conditions are found on the site. It was therefore decided to construct 3 distinct poles that shared a common concept: a courtyard opening onto the canal and closed courtyards, the main idea being courtyards.
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Master Plan
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The Neighborhood process
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Due to a dilation of the canal, the shoreline is deformed to integrate a port as well as a new neighborhood. The project is comprised of private spaces and public spaces. To integrate the project in its environment, long narrow buildings are located on the south side to echo the mechanical workshops. On the north side, a curved narrow building brings the park towards the city. space.
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The Building
The chosen building is oriented north-south on the side facing the port, and east-west on the side located at the end of the port. Courtyards located on the first floor give a sense of permeability to the building. The design around the port is made to direct the marine circulation as well as pedestrian circulation. On the north side is located a public plaza and the south side is dedicated to the waterfront.
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The Apartment
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The distribution of apartments
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The housing unit typologies are comprised of two parts. One crossing apartment with a living room and a solid core with circulation, services and the bedroom. 26
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Constructive Detail
-terre végétale 6cm -lés de protection drainant 3.5cm -lés bicouches en bitumes polymères -isolation thermique extérieur 20cm -barrière vapeur 0.2cm -chape de pente 1.5% 3-6cm -dalle en béton armé 30cm -lambourdes (vide de ventilation) -revêtement bois 2cm
-terre végétale 6cm -lés de protection drainant 3.5cm -lés bicouches en bitumes polymères -isolation thermique extérieur 20cm -barrière vapeur 0.2cm -chape de pente 1.5% 3-6cm -dalle en béton armé 30cm -revêtement intérieur 1.5cm
-revêtement bois extérieur 2cm -lambourdes -lés bicouches en bitume polymère -dalle en béton préfabriqué avec pente 30cm -lambourdes¨ -revêtement bois 2cm
-revêtement de sol intérieur 2cm -chape 8cm -isolation phonique et thermique 4cm -dalle en béton armé 30cm -crépis intérieur 1.5cm
-revêtement bois extérieur 2cm -lambourdes -lés bicouches en bitume polymère -isolation thermique 15cm -dalle en béton préfabriqué avec pente 30cm -faux plafond -revêtement 1.5cm
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-revêtement bois extérieur 2cm -lambourdes (vide de ventilation) 4cm -isolation thermique 20cm -mur en béton armé 25cm -revêtement intérieur 1.5cm -revêtement de sol intérieur 2cm -chape 8cm -isolation phonique et thermique 4cm -dalle en béton armé 30cm -isolation thermique 20cm -vide de ventilation -panneaux en béton préfabriqué 7cm
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Entrance hall
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Studio ALICE (Atelier de la Conception de l’espace) Pr. Dieter Dietz 1st year / Project
1st semester Understanding the space: materializing it in diverse techniques and mode of production 2nd semester A program fitting in a matrice, the vertical city
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Hollowed Lights
Studio Alice / Pr. Dieter Dietz / Adjunct professor: Patricia Guaita / Bachelor I The goal of the exercise was to experiment with the properties of light and its capacity to reveal materiality: to observe and study the spatial properties of “the solid” and “the void” that can transform opaque materials into perforated ones. In order to do this, projections of cones were traced on a thick screen and the resulting solid and void spaces were interpreted to produce elements modulating light. Final element in plaster
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Research drawings
“Cadrages”
Studio Alice / Pr. Dieter Dietz / Adjunct professor: Patricia Guaita / Bachelor I Using the previous work, “Hollowed Lights”, interior spaces were produced.
Research drawings
A contrast between 2 types of geometry is made: one regular and massive, the other irregular and light. The exterior is defined by massive perpendicular walls. The inside, however, produces a continuous movement that represents vertical circulation. The circulation is atypical and dynamic in shape; it is defined by the angle of the slopes. The horizontal roof goes beyond its basic function as it offers a new circulation space. Final element in plaster
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“Le poseur de Livres”
Studio Alice / Pr. Dieter Dietz / Adjunct professor: Sibylle Kössler / Bachelor II Based on the principal of “Crossbooking”, a place of passage at the heart of a neighborhood - in which one can stop and read - is created. In the library there is a central space that is not defined by walls, but by shelves. A play on the solid-void contrast is made, as well as the ambiguity between interior and exterior. The niches in the library each have their own specific and unique character. Their locations have been chosen based on lighting and view-points. A subtle play on light is made by the well lit niches and the shelves protected from direct illumination.
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Projet ENAC (Faculty of the Natural, architectural and constructed Environment) Pr. Jeffrey Huang 2nd year / Work made with an engineering student and two architecture students
Imagining the house of the future and realising it in Grasshopper
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Home 2.0 / Anchored Home (ENAC week / Grasshopper)
Pr. Jeffrey Huang / Adjuncts Professors: M. Waldvogel, C. Banon, S. Wang, F. Ortner, T. Patt / Bachelor IV What is the next generation of houses? What are the new parameters to take into consideration? The design of the house was made from a different standpoint for this project. In concordance with the new environmental conditions, establishing a new hierarchy between ourselves and natures becomes crucial. In response to this, our house – much like a living organism – reacts to its different contextual parameters. Urban Problems: If the structure is mobile, how do we establish private property? We wanted to maintain this aspect of current cities by fastening the base of our structure. It is therefore an “anchored house”.
References: Sea Anemone
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Environmental Problems: How to be as efficient as possible in regards to environmental conditions and the energy requirements of the house? All the structural frames will react to the context. The movement will depend of the resources that the construction wants to acquire from its environment, like solar energy, rain water… Protection: We wanted to maintain the protective aspect of a house. This way, our structure will expand when danger approaches to become offensive. When the danger has distance itself, the house will regain its original form. This transformation optimizes the protection of its inhabitants. In consideration of all these parameters, we have modeled a structure that could eventually see the light of day. It is coherent in regards to most important subjects in architecture, civil engineering and environmental engineering. 38
The base is fix.
Only the top can move.
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Unique attraction: the structure is deformed and attracted by the position of a point which can move. x
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Double attractions: follows the same logic as the previous parameter but with two points. Allows interactions and more interesting forms.
Parameter of aversion: the point in movement acts as a repulsive entity which transforms the body due to its position.
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Parameter of thickness: The thickness increases proportionally at the height.
“Némo” or parameter of porosity: According to the position of Némo, the Home is going to welcome him by opening slowly at the top of the structure. 39
Matrix of possibilities: “Némo” or porosity of parameter
“Némo” or porosity of parameter
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Unique attraction parameter
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Drawing Project 1st ,2nd and 3rd year
Learning the diverse techniques of representation
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Art of Drawing
Pr. Arduino CantĂ fora / Bachelor I
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Art of Drawing
Paule Soubeyrand / Bachelor II
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Art of Colour
Marie-Pierre Zufferey / Bachelor III Lavis
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Vinylique
Sculpted Stone
Marie-Pierre Zufferey / Bachelor IV
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Principles of Architectural Gestaltung Pr. Nicola Braghieri / Bachelor V
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Internship - DAR architectes
Competition, August 2013 | Personal inputs: plans, sections and rendering
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Sarah Sauthier sarah.sauthier@epfl.ch (CH) +41 (0)79 329 32 09 (DK) +45 31 67 61 81