Portfolio Simon GuĂŠry
simon guéry Gammel Strand 42, 4th floor 1202 København K Denmark +45 81 92 76 34 simonguery@live.fr Born November, 26th 1991
education
languages
2012 – 2013 Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (KADK) – Copenhagen Bachelor of Architecture : 3rd year
French – Mother language
working exp
Heartland Festival – Vevey 2011 voluntary – cashier, accreditation (1 week) English – Very good knowledge European Council Level : B2+ Balelec Festival – Lausanne 2010 2010 – 2012 voluntary – backstage (1 week) École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) – Lausanne Spanish – Very good knowledge Bachelor of Architecture : 2nd year Italian – Basic level 2009 – 2010 École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) – Lausanne Artistic Expression – Flute, guitar Preparatory Course CMS Drawing, painting, photography Concerts, cinema, exhibitions 2006 – 2009
interests
knowledge
Lycée Pierre de Fermat (High School) – Toulouse Sciences baccalaureate, graduate with honours
Computer Skills – Word, Excel, Powerpoint Photoshop, Illustrator, In Design Vectorworks, Rhino 3D
Sport – Climbing, rugby, swimming Travels – Bolivia, Canada, Chile, India Malaisia, Norway, Perou, Sweden United States, UK, Tunisia
architecture
urban scale
art of drawing
a-typical plan
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rehabilitation
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hybrid natures
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new welfare
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re(construction)
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textures
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urban archipelago
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atlas of copenhagen
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inhabit my horizon
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framings
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relief
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material
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drapery
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architecture
a-typical plan In collaboration with Samuel Dautheville Professor Jeannette Kuo. Assistant Dries Rodet École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, year 2
office building
Office Building Today’s work’s definition requires a new conception of office space. The goal of this project is to develop a concept combining a creative and contemporary work environment with architectural value. The building is in a former industrial zone of Zurich being reconverted to host creation startup companies.
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a-typical plan
zig-zag
Zig-Zag The project is organized around a cross shaped system, which hosts the infrastructures and leaves corners for various offices. The infrastructures are moving from level to level: sometimes in the center, with fluid peripheral areas, sometimes on the exterior sides, creating a central meeting zone.
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a-typical plan
open floor
Open Floor Open floors host common work spaces promoting cohesion and exchanges between startups.
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a-typical plan
cellular floor
Cellular Floor Celullar floors are more divided. A secondary structural system made of Vierendeel trusses creates intimacy for individual offices.
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a-typical plan
basement
Basement The structure is minimal and makes a large space available to host the building’s public programs.
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a-typical plan
photomontage
Photomontage The photomontage has been realised outside. The 1/50 model and furnitures give a realistic picture of the working environment inside the office building. Sun offers natural light conditions over the model. Printed site photo is used as a context background.
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a-typical plan
structure & space
Structure and Space Rethinking the office space is closely linked to the typology. Several structural systems supporting one conceptual and spatial idea have been explored with these 1:200 models.
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aa-typical plan
model Model The model emphasises the load bearing structure of the building. The changing position of infrastructures on each floor, generates different rythms and functions of working spaces. Model. Scale 1/50. 70cm x 70cm x 65cm. Medium density fibreboard covered with white acrylic paint.
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hybrid natures Professor Jeannette Kuo. Assistant Petra Jossen École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, year 2
artists’ retreat Artists’ Retreat The project is an artists’ retreat located into the Rhine Gorge in Ruinaulta. This landscape can dramatically change under influence of natural phenomenon at daily, seasonal or geological time scales. The strong cliffs’ geometry requires direct engagement. The shape of the building fits with the variations of relief. Placed in a specificzone of the site, the artists’ retreat evolves between two extremes. The regular part is dedicated to shared spaces and responds to a calm and well situated zone whereas the specific program’s part comes within a privileged and inner zone.
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re(construction) Professor Jeannette Kuo. Assistant Petra Jossen École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, year 2
atmosphere
Atmosphere The starting point was a disembodied image of a site seen from within an as-yet unbuilt space. The interior landscape image was achieved with 1:20 models. The space was thought as an instrument that regulates our experience of the world depicted on the original view. Inspired by Okurayama Apartments. Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa.
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urban archipelago Professor Dieter Dietz. Assistant Arabella Masson École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, year 1
canopy Canopy In very high density conditions, this project aims to create strong identity environments. The top of trees evokes a sheltered, lightly, dense and changeable atmosphere along an aerial walk. Its architectural transcription is developed as a puzzle of inhabitable suspended boxes. Urban canopy suggests a harmony of lights, positions, framings and materials.
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urban archipelago
matrice
Matrice Each of the 16 students in the studio was in charge of a slot in this matrix. It is a modular system in a structural grid where vertical-horizontal relationships and public programs are developed. The canopy boxes hang on the upper structure, transforming the public slab into pools and offering technical rooms for the theatre below.
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urban archipelago
patchwork
Patchwork The three-dimensional disposition of boxes creates everchanging superposition views. Porosity strengthens these depth effects.
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urban archipelago
density
Density Wax and metal create the atmoshpere for the developed box spaces. Sliding metal panels allow various degrees of opening, intimacy and perception. Combination of transparent and translucent glass suggested by wax reinforce these density plays.
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inhabit my horizon In collaboration with Samuel Dautheville Professor Dieter Dietz. Assistant Charlotte Erckrath École Polytechnique FÊdÊrale de Lausanne, year 1
vision mask
Vision Mask A way to play with human perception is to create a viewing device that changes our personal horizon. This proposed mask is made of a double-mirror inside that reflects decreasing openings all around. The idea is to distort the global view point and orientate the vision towards a smaller, minimalist and precise zone like a focus.
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framings In collaboration with Samuel Dautheville Professor Dieter Dietz. Assistant Charlotte Erckrath École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, year 1
chiaroscuro
Chiaroscuro The drilling of Dürer screen creates modulations of light and reveals the thickness of the material with the relashionship full/empty. Repetition and assembling of the same model can produce various volumes.
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urban scale
rehabilitation In Collaboration with Maja Kozak Dehlin Professor Deane Simpson. Assistant Kathrin Gimmel Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, year 3
utopian block Utopian Block The goal is to develop a model for Papirøen Island, which was occupied until late 2012 by large warehouses for the Danish newspapers. Papirøen covers 25.000 m2 and is located in the Port of Copenhagen across from the new Royal Theater. How can we plan and design the seemingly unplanned, on-orderly and spontaneous? How can the island surface be organized so it leaves room both for what is there and what may come? The proposal is to place all the housings and commercial programs around the warehouses and transform them into public spaces. Inverting the relation full/ empty celebrates the potential of the existing materials. What used to be inside and unseen becomes outside and public. It can be engaged to create utopian courtyards
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rehabilitation
courtyard
Courtyards Each courtyard has its own atmosphere. The main courtyard offers common activites; outdoor cafes, exhibition spaces, and a market under the wooden structure. A gym is built on the top of four pillars. This flying box creates a covered place. Another courtyard is flooded with water from the canal for an indoor swimming pool. Trees and reading boxes are mixed with existing pillars to create an intimate forest.
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rehabilitation
promenade
Promenade A fluid circulation for pedestrians is created on the edge of the island. From this promenade one can follow the transition from the large area of the inner harbor to the medieval city’s narrow harborways.
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rehabilitation
facade Facade From far away, Papirøen seems relatively anonymous. The facade creates a mystery. What happens behind it can only be experienced if one gets closer. The abstract atmosphere released by the new housings’ facade also highlights the materiality of the rusty metal panels on the water. One can imagine the shining base of Papirøen seen from a boat or the waterfront at any time of the day.
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rehabilitation
collage Collage The swimming pool collage insists on some chosen elements. A diving man represents bodyculture in a harbour bath. Water is associated with the canal outside and reveals others materials inside. Structure offers protection and daylight while red doors signal the connection with other courtyards. The collage technique is also used in section to emphasize the specificity of each courtyard.
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rehabilitation
model
Model Wooden pieces represent existing materials, walls and structures of the old hangars. On the opposite, plaster expresses the monolithic and massive aspect of new buildings. Scale 1/200. 80cm x 80cm x 10cm. Wood and Plaster.
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new welfare In Collaboration with Fabian Bisig Professor Deane Simpson. Assistant Anders Lonka Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, year 3
elderly housing Elderly Housing The general theme this project addresses is the role of architecture and urbanism in the production of ‘‘welfare’’. The assignment was to design an elderly housing complex mixed with a kindergarten and a primary school. The site is on the edge of Sortedam Lake in Copenhagen, at the border of the inner city and the bridge neighbourhoods. The elderly housings are spread out along the edge of the site to respond to the urban context and offer street access facilities. The schools programs are gathered in a multi-arm system dividing the site in semi-private courtyards both for schools and housings. Each courtyard has its own theme and creates interactions between elderly people and kids. A public promenade on the roof of the school connects the main crossroad to a park facing the lake.
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textures Professor Deane Simpson Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, year 3
västra hamnen Vastra Hamnen Vastra Hamnen used to be a heavy-duty industrial area. The docks became direlict during an economic recession in the 1980s. Since 2001 and the participation of MalmÜ at the European housing expo Bo01, the defunct shipyards are being transformed into a sustainable city. Attractive open spaces, innovative architecture, high-quality equipments symbolize the revitalization of the area. The 190-metre high building by Calatrava as the predominant feature is increasing the regional influence of MalmÜ. The urban fabric is divided into several plots entrusted to different architects. Each plot is autonomous, has its own design, orientation and private courtyard. Most of the streets were designed for mixed uses. Pedestrians, bikes and cars share the same tracks. Vastra Hamnen was developed as a coherent whole, still very open to innovative and diversified infrastrucres.
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atlas of copenhagen In Collaboration with Marie Attrup Scheel and Johan Lund Pedersen Professor Deane Simpson. Assistants Kathrin Gimmel and Anders Lonka Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, year 3
urban history chapter Urban History Chapter This chapter tells the story of the development of Copenhagen from 700 until today in a very compressed form. It is a contribution to the book «What is the Copenhagens?» made by the students of department 10 - from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Architecture. What was before sustainability? And what was Copenhagen? The framework of the history of Copenhagen is subdivided into subchapters. Each of them is dedicated to an important moment of Copenhagen’s transformation. A timeline will provide a visible framework of the subchapters titles in a historical overview.
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atlas of copenhagen
ideal
Ideal Through the text and illustrations the history of a human and social utopia has been drawn. The pictures are emblematic of their period. Each chaptername tells in a few words the history of a period. In the way Rem Koolhaas handles history of New York, Delirious New York, it is attempt to a describe Copenhagen.
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atlas of copenhagen
maps
Maps The story of city development and the physical boundaries of Copenhagen is told through redrawn maps. A locked scale map on the left side shows an overview of the regional development. Different zoomed in maps on the right side illustrate each stage of this development.
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art of drawing
relief Professor Paule Soubeyran École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, year 1
mountain Mountain The graphic interpretation and representation of the alpine area around the Lake of Salanfe was made from topographic accounts and 3D obervations of the site. The section into the 3 summits express both inner structure of relief and alpine panoramic as seen by an observer. The plan defines the cone of vision of the observer by fades drawing and shows the balanced relationship between summits and the lake. Section. 40cm x 19,5cm. Pencil on dispersion paint. Plan. 40cm x 28cm. Pen and pencil on dispersion paint.
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material Professor Marie-Paule Zufferey École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, year 2
ceramic Ceramic This vinyl painting results from the observation of a mural sculpture. The interaction colour-light-plastic emphasizes the constrast between 2 ceramic surfaces. The red sculpture is a warm colored, undulating and bright surface whereas the blue blackground is cold, flat and matt. Ceramic. 20cm x 20cm. Vinyl paint on dispersion paint.
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drapery Professor Marie-Paule Zufferey École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, year 2
gradation
Gradation Inspired by Vermeer’s work. Upper Right. Drapes. 42cm x 49,4cm. Watercolours. Lower Right. Gradations. 8.6cm x 15cm. Indian ink.
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drapery
motion Motion Only the dancing clothes have been coloured. It is within the ball-gown and the ballet shoes that the richest glints of light are concentrated. These materials encapsulate the lightness and ease of movement given by the body. This style of representation is implicitly associated with the theme of dance. In many performances, such as those of Pina Bausch, the colorful costumes seperate themselves from the black background. The red here symbolises the action of the body in space. Upper Right. Drapé de Grâce. Photography by Quentin Bacchus. Upper Left. Drapé de Grâce 2. Photography by Quentin Bacchus. Motion. 29,7cm x 42cm. Watercolours and indian ink.
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