Portfolio TimothĂŠe Laurans
EPFL
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Timothée Laurans Contact : timothee.laurans@epfl.ch +41788390684
Education 2012-2016 2012
Bachelor degree of Architecture at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Scientific Baccalauréat
Experience 2016 2016 2015 2014-2015 2013 & 2014
Internship of architecture at MPH Architectes Volonteer experience in Morocco Volonteer experience in Indonesia Student assitent in geometry at EPFL Seasonal in altitude restauration
Language French English Italian
mother tongue level B2 (good level) level A2 (novice)
Skills Vectorworks Rhinocéros Autocad Illustrator Photoshop Indesign
extra-professionnal interest Travels Sports (ski, running, sailling) Cinema
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table of contents Fourth year of architecture
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Internship of architecture, MPH Architectes
third year of architecture
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LAB-U, Paola Vigano Competition : Sustainable is beautiful
second year of architecture
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LAURE, Andrea Bassi Representation, Nicolas Braghieri
First year of architecture
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ALICE, Dieter Dietz
Travels
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Indonesia, summer 2015 Morocco, winter 2016 3
4th year of Architecture 2016
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Internship, MPH Architectes Les Oliviers, Stratos Industrial Building for Rehabilitation
Services At. Sociaux Ateliers
Crèche
Parking
Cuisine
The project is about creating layers which cover specifically, harmonically and in a coherent way the variety of volumes, populations and the specific site layout. During my internship, I participated to the developpement of pre-fabricated concrete façade elements and prepared the tender for these. These elements give the architectural expression, in layers, of the building highlithing the strong horizontality. 3D vertical stripes decorate these pieces of concrete and hide joints giving the impression of a perfect continuous line. In the other hand, these grooves have a technical function, they allow to ensure the flow of rainwater out of the facade and guarantee a homogeneous aging of the concrete.
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Hall d'entrée
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jardin aromatique
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3rd year of Architecture 2015-2016 EPFL LAB-U / Paola Vigano Study on the Morphology and the Materials of the Alpine City-Territory
Morphologic study of the Alpine city-territory. This research has been conducted on the Alps and more specifically in the Valais region in Swithzerland. The analysis reveals three morphological layers in which we recognize three different establishment strategies. The first layer, the lowland, is characterized by a flat land and the risks of flooding. The first villages set up on the alluvial fan then with the re-routing of the RhĂ´ne the housing expand in the flooding zone, for example, the camping. The second layer is located at moderate altitude where the surrounding terrain is crucial in choosing where to set-up. The villages are systematically looking for plateau and sunny areas because they are better suited for agriculture. This is where the ski stations then develop, for example Vercorin which we will study is the following sections. The third layer is characterized by an extreme terrain and tough weather condition where only Alpine Chalets used during summer pasture were built. Expanding City
This shows how strongly the geological characteristic impact the settlements on the alpine city-territory.
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Alpine Chalet
Ski Station (Village)
Alluvial fan
Camping
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3rd year of Architecture 2015-2016 EPFL LAB-U / Paola Vigano Chalais-Vercorin an Autonomous System
The global warming may endanger the ski economy in Vercorin between now to 2050, as a consequence it is necessary to find new ways to galvanize the village.
The water of bisses (local piping) is used to power the sawmill who supply the village in fire wood. In addition Vercorin benefits from a lot of sunshine hours due to its flat morphology.
In this project we aim to use as much as possible local resources. The project was develop in the village of Chalais which is the starting station of a cable car linking Vercorin to lowland. The idea is to develop a system with industries and agriculture in the lowland and wood activities on the plateau of Vercorin.
The village rediscover an artisanal economy and the housing expand making Vercorin a lively city on a privileged location at only 7 minutes of the lowland.
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“There is a high perched-village that the noises of the plain cannot reach and even less the locomotive horns. And when it rains that being said without mischief. We reach the clouds. Any which way the pleasant village firmly packed on its continental shelf the feet rested on the roc the forehead in the sun. Along with so much air, so much light, so much space that everything can breath if I can use the phrase a kind of peaceful royalty.“ Troilliet 1979, p 197-198
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3rd year of architecture semester 5 LAST / Sustainable is beautiful Competition/ Nyctinastie Shed to repair bicycle Nyctinasty : Circadian rhythmic nastic movement in response to the onset of darkness. The result is the closing of the petals of a flower at dusk. Breaking dawn is still asleep A hand turns on the crank, the machine comes to life. The panels awaken throw themselves toward the daylight. They disclose to the world the wealthy life they harbor all kinds of machinery, clanking mechanism and lighted ropes. The volunteers kick into gear, they know the area, those beams. Their imposing presence already protective in the past when their working place was less appropriated. Above their head, a pale day appears through frames and spokes. A bracket shifts, a crank swirls and a bicycle gently floats toward the ground. And when the day passes away, the structure folds up. The panels get back to their gate house and the box seems to flutter, barely touching the ground. When the first snowflakes will fall the panels will stay still. The machine will hibernate, the brightness of life remaining in its core.
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2nd year of Architecture 2012-2013 EPFL LAURE / Andrea Bassi Housing in Rolle
Bugnaux, a single-street village on the higher slopes of La Côte, looks like a fortified hamlet. It is marked by two publics places and their respective fountains. It is at the west end of Bugnaux’s main street that the project materializes. At the street crossing the road is enlarged to creat a new public space : the wine cellar. The terraced crossing houses get direct acces to the main street on one side and to the surrounding field on the other side due to the sloppy terrain. Buildings are organized around “split levels” centered by the acces stairways linking all the living spaces. Located in the agricultural strip, between vineyard and forest, the orchards and vegetable gardens make Bugnaux a typical country-side village. Inside and outside the rammed earth materiality evoke the rural identity of the hamlet.
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SA] — Critique 2 [C2B]
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Second floor plan
First floor plan
Ground floor plan
Basement plan 21
Third floor
First and second floor
Ground floor and garden level
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niveaux 2 et 3
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Third floor
First and second floor
Ground floor and garden level
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2nd year of architecture semester 4 Figuration / Nicolas Braghieri Villa for Irwin Auerbach / Frank Lloyd Wright Representation of a Project Representation and interpretation of Frank Lloyd Wright’s unrealized project. The villa plan is based on a triangular weft which allows for multiple layout possibilities. The triangle is the geometric form with the fewest sides. It constitutes the first shelter, a primitive one.
photographie de la maison,Tanzanie, 1994
coupe perspective, 1:100
plan, 1:200
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3rd year of architecture semester 5 Figuration / Nicolas Braghieri Villa for Irwin Auerbach / Frank Lloyd Wright Armchair for Irwin Auerbach Production of a plausible inside image in Frank Lloyd Wright’s unrealized project. The German expressionist cinema in the early 20th century uses highly contrasted settings where the broken line is omnipresent. In this artistic movement shadows are crucial, they suggest, suppose or highlight off-camera elements and stress complex geometries. Light against darkness ! The image produced , in a deep bright dark, conserves the aspects of Wright’s architecture while the broken lines leave the spectator uncertain towards Wright’s wish to create an expressionist set.
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1st year of Architecture 2012-2013 EPFL Alice / Dieter Dietz Cadrage, Design a Pavilion
The project is about scale and distance when moving vertically and horizontally. The visitor finds its way through the interlaced levels. Each terrain movement invites you to relax in a various light-shade atmosphere.
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travel in indonesia summer 2015
Vegetable
Volunteer experience in Ubud
During this volunteer experience, our host allowed us to participate on a variety of project in which he was involved : - building of a rammed earth wall - setting of an eco-vegetable garden for locals to diversified their products - creation of an auto-sufficient vegan restaurant Compost : sawdust : carbon green waste : green water : water aerate ; mix ; moisten after 21 days ready
canalized water banana tree
Vegetable
compost feeds the soil polluted water
clear water
pond
gravels
rammer
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vegetable garden
gravels
clay
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travel in morocco winter 2016
Volunteer experience in Tagounite Another volunteer experience where our host wished to restore the family’s Riad located in the Draa valley, far away from the last villages. The work consisted in preparing bricks to re-built the Riad’s wall, repair the mud coating and clean what would later be the garden. I was lucky to experience again how to work with mud, this time the raw mud. This journey was also the opportunity to discover the ordinary and care-free way of life of Moroccan living in the desert.
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Timothée Laurans
école polytechnique fédérale de lausanne