STEPHANE GAULIN-BROWN 2014 PORTFOLIO
INTRO Hello, Thank you for taking the time to look through my portfolio. I’m glad to be sharing some of the ideas I’ve been working on recently. Below you’ll find a few kind words from people I’ve worked with. Then, there’s a CV with probably more info about me than you would care to know, but might find interesting. And finally, at the heart of it all - projects. It’s a varied catalogue of my recent ideas and experiments, which sometimes stretch beyond the boundaries of architecture. Enjoy.
- Stephane Gaulin-Brown
KYRA CLARKSON ARCHITECT
51 FULTON AVENUE TORONTO ON CANADA M4K 1X7 TEL/FAX 416 466 4709 MOBILE 416 884 4709
Date: October 6, 2014 From: Kyra Clarkson, Principal Re:
Stephane Gauin-Brown
Stephane Gauin-Brown worked in our office for two months in the spring of 2014. He was the first architectural intern to join our small office, and he integrated himself seamlessly. He accomplished a lot in this short amount of time, building three models for modern houses and assisting with the production of a package of detailed construction drawings for a renovation project. He visited the construction sites on more than one occasion, prepared presentation material for a zoning hearing and attended the zoning meeting at City Hall. Stephane is very focused and showed dedication to the work. He took on tasks that he had not undertaken before with a positive spirit, and he gained knowledge and experience with these challenges. He works independently but knows when to ask questions. His personality is warm and open, and he was able to fluidly move between tasks as needed in a small office such as ours. Working with Stephane was a pleasure and he quickly became integrated in our daily office life. We could not offer him longer employment, but we would highly recommend him to any office looking for a diligent and sincere team member. Please let me know if you have any questions or need further information. With many thanks,
Kyra Clarkson Principal, Kyra Clarkson Architect
Stephane Gaulin Brown reference KCAReferenceLetter_SGB.docx
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CV 2455 Empress ave Cobble Hill, BC, Canada V0R 1L5 Nationality: Canadian + British Website: http://stephanegaulinbrown.com Email: stephane.gaulin-brown@gmail.com
EDUCATION 2013
École Polytechnique FÊderale de Lausanne, Switzerland Exchange semester
2010-present
University of Waterloo Candidate for Bachelor of Architectural Studies, Honours
2009-2010
University of Victoria General Studies: Physics, Art, German and Art History
2014
Student Intern Architect: Philip Beesley Architect inc. Construction documents for 10,000m2 bread factory retrofit to film studios Project development and documentation of residential renovation
2014
Student Intern Architect: Kyra Clarkson Architect, Toronto Built physical presentation models of modern houses. Produced presentation graphics for city committee meetings. Prepared construction package for residential homes.
2013
Student Intern Architect: Perkins & Will, Toronto Designed custom furniture concepts for the Bank of Canada Produced construction plans & details for Markham Community Centre and pool.
2012
Student Intern Architect: Manasc Isaac Architects, Edmonton Helped with space planning and representation of the Canadian High Arctic Research Station Competition Designed potential youth housing and created phasing graphics for Yellowhead Youth Centre feasibility study Corrected red lined construction drawings
2011
Assembly line worker: Audi AG, Ingolstadt, Germany Assembled audi A4 chassis members in a fast paced environment Communicated entirely in German
2010
English Tutor: Nachilfschule, Schwaebish Gmuend, Germany Ran grammatical lessons for primary students and oral lessons for secondary students Created assignments and organized homework
EXPERIENCE
2009
VOLUNTEER + SELF-DRIVEN INITIATIVES
Cook: Le Faubourg, Munich, Germany Prepared entrées and deserts in a stress driven environment Quickly learnt weekly recipes
2008
Trail Construction Laborer: Valhalla Trails Ltd, Cowichan Bay, BC Compiled and organized survey data. Surveyed new and existing trails to ensure sustainability Worked individually building and maintaining trails
2008
Yard Worker: Clive Lawrence, Arbutus Ridge, BC Designed and built outdoor koi pond Worked alone building terraced steps and maintaining the property
2005-2006
Camp Councillor: Centre Jean Noël Trudel, Trois-Rivières, Québec Prepared and led activities for young children
2014
To be destroyed: Museum of Canadian Contemporary Art Design for the future of art exhibition selected to be exhibited
2011
Granwiches: Sandwich Business, Cambridge ON Initiated a small business within school that sells cheap and healthy sandwiches to students Developed new recipes, marketed sandwich days, and budgeted expenses
2011
Home Construction: Susan Brown, Cobble Hill BC Wall framing, window installation, exterior sheathing, ridge beam construction, shingling Researched cathedral ceiling and roof construction details
2005-2008
Student Council President: Cowichan Secondary School, Duncan, BC Initiated and ran charitable fund raisers and school wide events Organized the creation of a school ice hockey team
2005-2008
Volunteer Trail Construction: Quarry Nature Park, Cobble Hill, BC Built and refurbished sustainable hiking trails
2006-2008
Junior City Councilor Mayor: City Hall, Duncan BC Discussed and created theoretical bills to improve the city of Duncan
SOFTWARE
AutoCAD, Archicad, Sketchup, Revit, Rhinoceros(3D modeling), VRay, Microsoft Office, Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator
LANGUAGES
French (written and oral) German (oral)
SKILLS
PROJECTS
TO BE DESTROYED
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MIXITÉ
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CURIOSITY SHIP
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AURELIAN WALL HOUSE
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VAPOR BEBE
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PBAI
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KCA
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MOCCA - TO BE DESTROYED
TYPE: Competition NOTES: Chosen to be exhibited at the Museum of Canadian Contemporary Art What is the future of art exhibition?
As our cities become increasingly dense and efficient, the suburbs’ wanton waste of asphalt becomes fetishized. The sublime depravity of its emptiness and the strict reasoning of economy attracts powerful institutions of art seeking to build new mega galleries. The antithetical nature of their new architecture is a glorification of expanding emptiness and of acute objectification: something identifiable at 100km/hr. Similar to the factories and spaces of mechanical
production loved by the early Modernists, this architecture responds to spaces of distribution (e.g. Amazon.ca fulfillment centres); places where objects rest momentarily before moving on. These spaces find new meaning within an art culture where images are digitally and physically in constant movement.
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LAKE GENEVA MIXITÉ
TYPE: Studio Project SUPERVISOR: Andreas Bassi NOTES: Done while on exchange at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. As the region around lake Geneva densifies, strategies must be found to accommodate growth while maintaining the natural qualities of the lake and region. How can architecture, in this context, make a meaningful connection with the site while still respecting the larger ecological systems? My solution is a building set back from the lake, maintaining as much of the natural waterfront as possible. Furthermore, it is sunken into the ground - visually removing it from the continuity of the forest. The
roof, flush with the ground, is now a transitionary public space between forest and lake. Bellow, the canal allows every occupant to have a waterfront property, and boat slip, connected to the lake. It is a building at once experientially connected with the land, and, also consciously offset from the larger systems of the lake and forest.
logements 61% 11’500 m2 3’700 m2 maisons-appartements 3’800 m2 appartements 2’200 m2 logements associatifs 1’800 m2 studios Bureaux 19% 1’000 m2 bureaux Fondation ripaille 3’000 m2 bureaux Ville de Thonon Equipements touristiques 20 % 990 m2 restaurant, cuisine 450 m2 débarcadère, foyer 2’175 m2 musée, salles de conférences 1’000 m2 surfaces d’activités Parking 260 places de stationnement ToTAl 20’115 m2
PROGRAMMATIC — Critique Finale [C4B] DISTRIBUTION
EPFL / LAURE — Semestre d’automne 2013 [13SA]
APARTMENTS
OFFICES
répartition programmatique
Stephane Gaulin-Brown CULTURAL
PHYSICAL MODEL EPFL / LAURE — Semestre d’automne 2013 [13SA] — Critique Finale [C4B]
photo maquette
Stephane Gaulin-Brown
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Commercial and Cultural
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CURIOSITY SHIP
TYPE: Competition How can the perversion of form augment experience? This exaggeration of the surround of the tub provides a space to heighten the beauty of the bathing experience. It becomes a place for books, magazines, notebooks, music, plants, flowers, works of art, etc.
Through form, bathing becomes an experience of new beauty and thought. A time to read, contemplate and rest. It is the antithesis of the shower - fast and efficient. Curiosity Ship seeks clarity and new possibilities through form.
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AURELIAN WALL HOUSE
TYPE: Studio Project SUPERVISOR: Lorenzo Pignatti NOTES: Completed during Waterloo Rome program The wall house aligns itself with two unique contexts: the geometry of nearby objects also embedded in the Aurelian wall of Rome, and the non-christian graveyard where Keats and Shelley are buried. The circular terrace, which sits on top of the wall, visually connects and anchors the building towards the pyramid of Cestius and the rectangular guard towers of the wall. It proclaims its own space along the relentless wall.
Inside, most of the house is shielded from views of the graveyard, except the bath. Here the floor steps down and the window sits flush with the tile. It is an embodied space of bathing and contemplation, where one’s own nakedness -in contrast with the graveyard- reveals the fragility of the human body.
GEOMETRY + CONTEXT
EMBODIMENT + MORTALITY
RELIAN WALL HOUSE
Stephane Gaulin-Brow
Floor plan
site plan
transverse sections
North and south elevations
longitudinal section
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VAPOR BEBE
TYPE: Art installation NOTES: Done in Collaboration with Soo Han and Alfonso Bonilla Vapor Bebe is site specific installation executed in the rain forest of Vancouver Island. The modifications of the sheet in response to the topography, geology, hydrology and foliage of the landscape created responsive forms, which reflected the natural systems, reshaped them, negated them - a three dimensional collage of natural and synthetic .
« Reflects 97 percent of radiant energy. « Nontoxic/ noncarcinogenic. « Does not require protective gear to install.
REFLECTIX
<< Non-toxic / noncarcinogenic << Does not require protective gear to install
Country of Origin - United States of Prologue America We spent three days in December 2012 at Susan Brown’s house on Vancouver Island. It was drizzly and dark outside, as is usual at that time of year. Inside the amber fire cast shadows between the exposed floor joists above; the whole place was only about three quarters finished, which is the way all cabins should stay.
A big challenge was practicality when mustering material; local resources were required not only in the knowledge of the site. The local hardware store hid the Vapor bebe in a wooden shed at the very back of the lot.
<< Reflects 97 % of radiant energy.
Immediately hiking up the mountain to explore possible sites for the next two days helped the project and the site merge conceptually. In the evening, we drank tea around the fire, talked, sucked on honey sticks, and drew ideas and plans. We weren’t extremely prepared, so we experimented with the shapes of the landscape and the extremely foreign almost alien character of our vapor bebe. Experimentation led to discover that with this material could play with different light levels in the forest and, in the stream, the flow of the water. It was a three dimensional collage of synthetic and natural. Vapor bebe stuck out as an object trying to fit into the systems of the mountain.
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Sometimes awkward and others playful; between water, light and geological systems reflecting and reshaping them.
COBBLE HILL MOUNTAIN
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Assembled Depth (In Inches) 7 In. Assembled Height (In Inches) 24 Assembled Weight (In LBS) 2 Lbs. Assembled Width (In Inches) 6 Country of Origin United States Item Depth 20 In. Item Height 48 In. Item Weight 26 Lbs. Item Width 20 In.
REFLECTIX
« Reflects 97 percent of radiant energy. « Nontoxic/ noncarcinogenic. « Does not require protective gear to install.
conceptual sketches
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PHILIP BEESLEY ARCHITECT
TYPE: Internship My work at Philip Beesley Architect inc. was divided between the two areas of interest of the office: near living sculptural environments, and architectural design. On the sculptures I worked developing construction methods for thermoformed Plexiglas components which were produced in collaboration with fashion designer Iris van Herpen. Also I was involved with 3D modeling components for presentation graphics.
On the architectural end, I worked producing building permit, and construction drawings for several retrofit and renovation projects. I was responsible for product and building code research and the shepherding of the projects pass the building department.
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Tentacle Cluster A Protocell flask with high power LED reflex B Thermoformed diagrid acrylic spar shape-memory alloy actuator D Infrared proximity sensor with LED reflex
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Tentacle Assembly 1 Aluminum sled mount 2 Shape-memory alloy actuated lever assembly 3 Copolyester tongue stiffener 4 Copolyester tongue 5 Isoprene polymer lash 6 Shape-memory alloy mount 7 Acrylic lever 8 Lever base plate 9 Securing clip 10 Type I tongue depression plate 11 Type II tongue depression plate 12 - 13 Tongue securing clips 14 - 18 Monofilament guide mount and lash clips 19 Tongue securing clip 20 Type I tongue depression plate 21 -22 Assorted shoulder bolts 23 - 24 Assorted nylon lock nuts 25 Wire crimp 20 Monofilament guides 27 Sleeve washer 28 Shoulder bolt
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KYRA CLARKSON ARCHITECT
TYPE: Internship At KCA I was heavily involved with producing presentation models for several modern houses. Also, I assisted with site visits, the production of detailed construction drawings and presentation material for a zoning hearing at City Hall.
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