PORTFOLIO STEPHANE DESCAT
stephane descat 1, RUE MASSILIAN 34000 Montpellier France 06 18 68 42 18 stephane.descat1@gmail.com BORN ON DECEMBER 26TH 1995 - 22 YEARS FrENCH
TRAINING 2014/2018 2013/2014 2013 LANGUAGES SKILLS
ENSAM - Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Montpellier - Master 1 - MONTPELLIER Prép’art - Preparatory School at the high school of public art - PARIS Scientific Baccalauréat - Lycée de Provence - MARSEILLE English high school level and specific to architecture Spanish high school level Model, Perspective, Drawing, Graphics, Presentation
PROFESSIONAL SKILLS 01-02/2017
Agency Internship at 331 Corniche Architectes - MARSEILLE
07/2016
International Workshop City & Agriculture BioHighTech - Cité des Sciences, PARIS
04/2016 SINCE 10/2015
Worker Internship at Forbat SARL - Mas de Caylus, CASTELNAU-LE-LEZ
07/2015 + 01/2016
Management Agent at Fongécif PACA - MARSEILLE
07/2014
Auxiliary at the General Council of Bouches-du-Rhône - MARSEILLE
07/2012
Internship at Joël TANGUY architect DPLG - VERS-PONT-DU-GARD
2011
Internship in Radiology at Ambroise Paré Hospital - MARSEILLE Internship at SOLAFIN’ (Solar photovoltaic, Solar thermal, Biomass) - MARSEILLE
2009
Internship at UPE 13 (Accounting, Marketing, Journalism) - MARSEILLE
LOGICIELS Office Pack AutoCAD Photoshop Artlantis SketchUp Pro ArchiCAD InDesign Illustrator iMovie
Welcome host at ETIC - MONTPELLIER
CENTer of interest Associative projects
Noël Pour Tous - 12/2011: We created a show and a Christmas meal for single and / or el- VOYAGES derly people; I participated in the scenery of the show and in the reception room. ARPAL - since 05/2015: Association pour la Recherche et la Promotion de l’Archi- SPORTS tecture en Languedoc, student association within ENSAM which organizes confe- & HOBBIES rences, exhibitions, trips, integration weekend, GALA - President of 05 / 2016 to 05/2017 K’fet - since 09/2017: Student association that prepares to eat lunch for stu dents of ENSAM. She also performs buffet and parties in different events. Member of the CFVE of ENSAM: Commission des Formations et de la Vie Etudiante, elected for 2 years.
SOUTH AFRICA
Dear Madam, Sir, I am currently looking for an internship from June 4 to August 3 and am highly interested in joining your team. Currently in the first year of Master’s at the National School of Architecture of Montpellier, I would like to do an internship in an architecture agency, to discover more fully this job, and discover the real requests and demands that come with this, to awaken my career as a student of architecture. In 2012, I participated in the creation of a decor for the show with my association Noël Pour Tous (Christmas for all), on Christmas Eve, it was a great moment of sharing that pushed me even more to get into these studies which have been exciting and very rewarding. In 2015, I joined the ARPAL student association, within my school, an association for which I was President from May 2016 to May 2017. I thus had the chance to participate in the organization of exhibitions , conferences, trips and student nights. I also did a work internship in April 2016 which taught me a lot about the constructive systems and the mechanisms of setting up the foundations, walls and slabs in a housing building. Various experiences, especially in a large architecture agency in Marseille in January 2017, workshops and student competitions, including that of the Bénéteau Foundation where we had to create a floating neighborhood, have taught me to work alone and in a group, reflecting on the energetic, material and environmental themes of today and tomorrow, and performing the learning of different tools. So you can count on my great motivation during this internship which represents for me a real opportunity to gain experience and maturity. Very curious, sociable and attentive to others, I am interested in everything. Culture and openness to the outside world are two essential assets. Having done several internships in companies, this experience will be an opportunity to develop new skills and enrich my professional experience. I am at your disposal for any additional information that you deem useful. Hoping very much that you will be able to respond favourably to my request. Yours faithfully Stephane DESCAT
P R OJ ECTS
MONTPELLIER
TODAY & TOMORROW - M I C R O A R C H I T E C T U R E 1st YEAR WORK - directed by Jerome L A F O N D & NICOLAS C R E G U T
In the heart of historic Montpellier, the project was to imagine a microarchitecture composed of a topography, a limit and a cover to identify a first meaning to the definition of architect. To release functions, to live, to sit, to protect oneself ... FACADES Place of history and epicenter of a city center in continuous movement, the objective was to create a real place of life and exchange not to be just a passage from one place to another. Thus I imagined a topography composed of three different triangles that would cross but at the same time would allow to sit, lie down, or have fun with its slopes. The red color, a symbol of passion for the people of Montpellier, would bring people together through its vivacity. The limit and the cover, whose modules are twice as large, are playful mirrors that reflect both the viewer and the buildings and life that surround the installation.
FLASHED - PRINCIPLE OF MOUNTING
MONTPELLIER
STALL LOOKS - R E C E P T I O N S T A L L O F F A V 1st YEAR WORK - directed by JEROME L A F O N D & NICOLAS C R E G U T
SECTION 1/20 Every year, Montpellier hosts the FAV, Festival des Architectures Vives. On this occasion, the mansions of the city exceptionally open their doors to the visitors to discover facilities realized by young national and international architects. A reception stall can guide visitors. We were allowed to design this stall.
This stall, almost entirely composed of wood, would capture the looks and the light of this narrow inner courtyard by two large skylights meeting together above a threshold of interior intimacy. The walls, finely shifted, would guide the visitor’s journey to interactive and fun kiosks on the festival.
CARNON
SHELL - indi v idual house 2ND YEAR WORK - directed by YANNICK H O F F E R T
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In the pavilion area of Carnon, a seaside town near Montpellier, we had to build a house for a family whose profile was previously established in pairs. We had the freedom to ask ourselves in the place of one of the houses present on the strip built at the edge of the beach. Je ne sais pas ce que tu cherche à dire ici pour la dernière phrase. Mais elle n’est pas bonne. Thus this detached beach house is built in protection of the spray like a carapace. A corten steel shell that articulates the different rooms, presenting the house on 2 levels. A large passage on the ground floor creates a breakthrough from the road to the sand and thus creates a separation between the family space with the day rooms and the parking on one side and a professional space, a space of aquatic activity and a separate room for the grandmother living in the house.
CARNON
fishermanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s housing - U R B A N I S M N eighborhood 2ND YEAR WORK - directed by YANNICK H O F F E R T
The project was to replace part of the existing neighborhood between the beach and the pond in the background, reorganizing part of the main axis from the center of Carnon to the wilder beaches, which frames rows of single houses and collective housing of three floors maximum, as well as common areas and campsites.
The choice was made not to disrupt an axis that stretches for several kilometers but to create islands of housing that would generate places, paths and small green spaces reminiscent of the enclosures present in another part of the city and often used by summer visitors to play petanque or to have a barbecue for example. This would recreate a link and a dialogue between vacationers. The choice to open the campsite and also create different enclosures and allow to create a tour around the neighborhood and remove the split between fixed houses and campsites. The houses, all in wood with large glass openings and a typological roof of the house recall the beach huts. MASter PLAN OF THE DISTRICT
SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA
BLACK MEDIUM HOTEL - e H O T E L 2ND YEAR WORK - directed by ELODIE N O U R R I G A T
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Santiago de Compostela is a city known for being a place of pilgrimage but it is also the land of many leading companies, a research center and the stronghold of a large university. We were given the choice between two fairly narrow plots of land between two parks and near the great science faculty on one side and the CitĂŠ of the Music and the Museum of Natural History on the other. The land is angled taking the curve of the small road and leads to the entrance of one of the two parks. The project must be a connected hotel - eHotel - welcoming business people. The project takes up the triangle of the square with its curved side. It is divided into two parts: a glass base forming the reception and restaurant, then 4 levels with 12 rooms, a multipurpose room, an art gallery, a connected bookstore cafe and a bar on the top floor with the suites. The upper levels are black concrete with porosity contrasting with the interior of the building and truncated corners that are white. The openings always recall the triangle, the key word of this place
FOS-SUR-MER
EMBRUN - P O R T C E N T E R 3RD YEAR WORK - directed by PIERRE S O T O & AXELLe B O U R D E A U
The Port Center is intended to showcase the large Seaport to which it is connected. It is a place for exhibitions and exchanges but also a meeting place for future investors as well as for the general public. It can also be a training center for port workers. From the existing Port-Center of Marseille-Fos, it was necessary to carry out a renovation and an extension. Keeping the original shape of the building, I redrew more straight lines on the building and taking the hexagonal shape of the amphitheater, I drew different poles. In the first building are thus defined the reception, a temporary and permanent exhibition space, a restaurant and the existing amphitheater. Then, by creating a shift of the lines, a second building for training is built for classroom and meeting rooms as well as offices. The building made of glass and an aluminum structure is covered with corten steel sunshade covering the entire length of the facade, alternating with corten steel plates covering the more intimate parts of the building. The garden is requalified to create a botanical garden highlighting the Mediterranean flora.
MONTPELLIER
ARENA SQUARE - C O L L E C T I V E H O U S I N G 3RD YEAR WORK - directed by ANNABELLE I S Z A T T
On the former site of a car wash in the district of Près d’Arènes in Montpellier, a developing neighborhood, we had to realize a project of 76 homes ranging from 1-bedroom to 4-bedroom, as well as shops and a nursery. So I cut the plot into three blocks and created a central square as a square taking the principle of garden and Mediterranean species. The shops are located with the nursery on the ground floor of the main building on the street. The housing is broken down into two boxes superimposed on each other. A first concrete slab includes simplex, the second zinc is the duplex part and is offset with the first. The terraces have a glass concrete railing that adapts to the intimacy with the street, steel cladding filters the light.
FRONTIGNAN
Railroad Crossing - U R B A N P R O J E C T T O M E E T W A T E R R I S E in 2 1 5 0 4TH YEAR WORK - directed by Patrick B U F F A R D & MATTHIAS R O L L O T M A STE R A RT & A RC H I TECT U R E
Montpellier
PRET-A-PORTER
Frontignan
Dans un contexte où les voies de chemin de fer françaises sont appelées à être privatisées, et où de nouvelles voies à grande vitesse sont créées, l’avenir des voies historiques reste en suspens. A l’échelle du littoral méditerranéen, la ligne de chemin de fer traversant Frontignan et reliant Nîmes à Perpignan est elle aussi doublée par un tracé qui se place à distance de la côte. Cette nouvelle voie accueillera exclusivement des trains à grande vitesse, et par conséquent ne desservira pas la multitude de commune présente sur l’ancien tracé. Ces anciennes voies n’étant pas supprimées, on peut supposer qu’elle va être délaissée. Elle représente pourtant un réel enjeux si on la met en rapport avec une montée des eaux imminente et généralisée; elle crée de manière naturelle une barrière le long des côtes.
PLAN MASSE 1/5000°
Si l’on imagine que sa gérance est reportée à l’échelle régionale, elle peut venir recréer un service de desserte de proximité entre les communes, et également venir se coupler avec d’autre types de transport (tramway, piste cyclable). Les rails représentent à ce titre un réel outils de protection dès lors qu’ils se trouvent surélevés. A la fois protection, mais aussi générateurs d’espaces particuliers, les chemins de fer offrent des qualités d’adaptation en fonction du contexte. A l’échelle de Frontignan, elle se pose tantôt comme limite poreuse, briseuse de houle, tantôt comme barrière opaque, support de projet…
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Haut de Frontignan
Agde La Peyrade
Vers Toulouse Narbonne
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LA LIGNE FERROVIAIRE NIMES - PERPIGNAN
Ligne de chemin de fer actuelle Nouvelle ligne TGV en construction Gares futures Gares actuelles Arrêts futurs Arrêts actuels
Rivesaltes Perpignan
RELIER
le centre historique à la nouvelles médiathèque QUARTIER DE HIJBURG, AMSTERDAM
T3 93.6m2 DUPLEX
REAMENAGEMENT DU PORT DE AUCKLAND, NZ EPICERIE BIO
BOULANGERIE PHARMACIE
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T4 91.7m2
DUPLEX BAS
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T3 82.0m2
LIBRAIRIE
T5 133.8m2 DUPLEX
FRANCHIR
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T4 103.2m2
COMMERCE PRET-A-PORTER
CRECHE
la digue pour accéder à la plage.
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ACCUEIL/BUREAUX
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COUPE AA 1/200°
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PARKING A VELO
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PLAN RDC 1/500°
The objective was to work on the rising waters of the city of HABITER Frontignan by 2100 to 2150 by starting to work on the scale of the city to 25000th by finding a strong idea to limit the rise of water and rehouse the inhabitants and finish at the 500 and 200th scale of a project on part of a neighborhood.
MAISON RDC 1/200°
GALERIE RDC 1/200° EPICERIE BIO
APPARTEMENTS RDC 1/200°
APPARTEMENTS R+1 1/200°
APPARTEMENTS R+3 1/200°
BOULANGERIE PHARMACIE
T3 93.6m2 DUPLEX
la digue, son dessus, son dessous.
PATIO
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MAISON R+1 1/200°
DUPLEX
T4
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T4 91.7m2 T3 82.0m2
DUPLEX
T5 133.8m2 DUPLEX
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DUPLEX
T4 103.2m2
DUPLEX LIBRAIRIE
PLAN MASSE 1/1000°
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PLEIN PIED
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According to some studies, the water will rise in 100 to 150 years from 2 to 6m high. So we left the railway line, which is currently 4m above sea level at the station and then down. C’est un peu bizarre cette dernière phrase. We decided to leave this marker and raise the train to 4m high along the new coast and create a habitable and welcoming project. Housing, shops, equipment, park and arts are the key words that will come to give thickness and a size to the project. The goal was to slow down transport by limiting the car’s position and replacing this obsolete train since the construction of the LGV by a milder tram to serve the towns of the coast while mixing it with the bikes and pedestrians which reoccupy space. The project would recreate a link between the city and the sea while playing on the minerality to create a link between residents and summer tourists.
PLEIN PIED
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DUPLEX
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RESTAURANT GLACIER COMMERCE
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PLAN R+1 1/500°
COUPE AA 1/200°
COUPE BB 1/200°
contest
MARSEILLE
ARCHIPEL - F L O A T I N G A R E A CONtest B E N E T E A U FONDATION 2 0 1 6
The objective of this contest was to create a floating neighborhood composed of 200 luxury dwellings, shops and a public space. By taking again the natural architecture of the Provencal creeks and rocks which throw themselves into the water, the project is established in continuity with the hill of Talabot. The cornice overlooks the project that does not exceed 12m high. The housing is cleared on an archipelago of islands of raw concrete placed on the sea and contrasting with a large wooden pontoon articulating the various buildings. The openings of the building dig into the cornures of the rock to come to mix vegetation and minerality.
PLAN DE MASSE
PLAN TYPE T3
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A R C H I T ECT U R E
PHOTOGRAPHY & TRAVEL PHOTOGRAPHY ROTTERDAM - Amsterdam - Milan & World Exhibition - London - LISBON - Corsica - Cote dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Azur ...
SCULPTURES
HUMAN MOVEMENT WIRE - fabrics
HANDLE PLASTER
root WIRE - mache paper - ACRYLIC RESIN
CUBE CONCRETE - miror
THE WALL different bricks: WOOD - bamboo - earth - metal - zinc - concrete - stone glass - pvc - plexiglass - paster - plastic - plywood - cardboard - brick
distortion i & ii WOOD
ecorces EARTH - latex
dRAWINGS pen - pencil - felt - ink from China - watercolor