VALENTIN ROBE
Recent Work
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CONTACT
VALENTIN ROBE Sept. 3rd 1991 – 24 years old Holder of a driving license Westland Square - Pearse Street Appt 64 Dublin 2 IRELAND +353 (83) 837 3272 valentin.robe@lyon.archi.fr http://cargocollective.com/valentinrobe
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C.V.
EDUCATION. 2014-2015
Master 2 Atelier SPAA with Honors / ENSA Lyon Nominated project for the ”Young Architecture Prize” in Lyon
2013-2014
Master 1 Architecture / Faculdade de Arquitectura de Lisboa
2011-2013
Bachelor Degree in Architecture / ENSA Lyon
2009-2011
Technologic Diploma in Civil Engineering / IUT Lyon 1
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES. Jan. 2016 - ...
McCullough Mulvin Architects / Dublin 3D models, Thapar University Campus in India. Competition for the extension of the Crawford Gallery in Cork GA and Tender drawings on various projects in Ireland. Model : Eyrecourt Stairs. winner of the Arthur Gibney Award 2016. Exposed at the Royal Hibernian Academy Gallery
Oct-Dec. 2015
Currator and designer of the exhibition “Question de situation“ displaying the Master thesis projects of the Atelier SPAA
Sep-Oct. 2015
y.architectes / Lyon Kindergarten competition (winning entry) in Marcy l’étoile (France). Design, 3D modeling. Housing competition in Lyon with Hamonic & Masson. Housing competition in Lyon with LAN.
Sep. 2015
Teaching assistant for ENSAL first year’s students.
Oct. 2015
Competition ”Revitalize the town center” With Rémi Olibo, Quentin Bourguignon, Jean-Yves Quay
2012-2013
Organizer of a regional workshop for students : Lacharette. Creation of the graphic identity of the event.
Ju-July. 2012
y.architectes / Lyon Design of a house from sketches to planning Tender drawings, construction drawings, 3D models
2011-2012
Organizer of the music festival at ENSAL : Archisound.
2011-2012
Winner of the competition for students’ experiments for «Fête des Lumières» (Light Festival) Project : Sergent Noctambule.
May-Ju. 2011
y.architectes / Lyon First experience in an architects’ practice. GA Drawings.
July. 2011 Ju-July. 2010
Schneider-Bois / Chasselay Building of timber frame houses
SKILLS. Softwares : AutoCad Vectorworks Sketchup Photoshop InDesign Illustrator Artlantis
RESUME
Languages : French (native) English (fluent) Portuguese (A2) Spanish (A2)
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ARCHITECTURE p.008
Feyzin, A priori
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Bartenheim, Ambiguity
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Ode to the promontory
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Hotel ****
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Theatre set fabric
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Cultural center
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y.architectes
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McCullough Mulvin Architects
DIVERS p.054
Sergent Noctambule
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Design
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Personal Projects
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Photography
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FEYZIN, A PRIORI
Why working in a industrial area? These territories arisen from big urban plannings are never connected to the city, although being physically linked. Architecture is missing there and there is no notion of “Housing“. The contemporary problem of the future of these territories interests us because it targets as the hostile imagination which dismiss these industrial areas, as their character of non-city with autistic buildings. The in-depth transformation of the zone thus passes by the immediate integration of architecture, a possibility of living immediately which would then make the area mutate. Aim : manage to make the demonstration that it is possible to live immediatly in a context which is A PRIORI not at all made for that and which will not mutate immediately.
Housing Feyzin (France) 2015 Team : RĂŠmi Olibo
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HOW CAN AN INDUSTRIAL AREA BE A PLACE OF COMFORTABLE HOUSING ?
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it might be more open on the landscape when you can see it, and thicker when you can see a factory building on the plot besides yours. This thickness, can evolve and is considered as room itself, depending on which room is next to it. It can be both a dressing
room, a laundry, a storage room or even a bathroom if next to a bedroom.
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This project is seen as a process. A process of etablishment on a plot of land. Every plot and his neighborhood can be different, thus the project can take some different forms, number of buildings, ways of openings. The idea is a wall work, considering
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Faรงades and materials
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BARTENHEIM, AMBIGUITY
We had the chance to visit the village with all the personalities of the city council and it was a great opportunity to understand all the territory stakes. Bartenheim is located between to the trinational metropolis of Basel (Switzerland) and the city of Mulhouse. The need to densify such a territory is a contemporary subject, the main question is where and how? We wanted to go beyond the question of densification, asking us how to live in a country like this one. We wanted to recreate a former ambiance in that village, creating a density, both social and physical. To create that density we used the proximity with some retails and school complex. The image of the medieval city, in its constitution, its wealth of shapes, passages, of proximity, was the starting point for reflection and has never left us.
Housing Bartenheim (France) 2015 Team : RĂŠmi Olibo
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HOW TO RESTORE THE ”HEART” OF A VILLAGE WICH LOOKS LIKE A CITY ?
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020 As a start of the project we noticed some abandonned plots and voids which were properties of the city council. We began with that plots of lands, deleting the useless warehouses and filling all the empty space. We considered all that perimeter as an extruded
volume. Then we stood back regarding the actual houses, windows, doors, accesses, which allows us to define a limit to not be crossed. The last point was to �drill� holes on the project, to create patios and interior courtyards in order
to provide natural light in all the appartments.
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Morphogenesis
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022 Creating patios and courtyards means nearness, means vicinity. To deal with such a subject we worked with a specific type of window and a specific material. Brick, as a material of facing, allows to create thick walls. Painted in white, it reflects the sun and brings light inside the appartments. As in the Nordic culture, a window
is seen not only as a way to provide light and fresh air inside, but a way to decorate and put objects on it as well. When you arrange objects on the firstground of your window, the background will disappear for those who are looking from the outside. That’s why we have created a shelf directly inside the window and put some thin pieces of metal to avoid diagonal look.
Vicinity is also a question of proportions with your neighbours. In order not have the feeling to be watched all the windows of the living rooms are equivalent.
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ODE TO THE PROMONTORY
This intervention attempts to bring together the near and the far, taking advantage of the location of Pieusse. What is close is the intimate, the housing, the private space. What is distant is the wealth of landscape, the view, an exceptional situation. Linking the two is considering the city from the threshold of a door to its distant horizon. Collective space in a village is essential, is an entertaining place of sharing. The expansion of the old fabric and streets in Pieusse results in extremely rich situations on which we rely to mesh the city and reveal its asleep potential. Thus we proposed three distinct ways of intervention : - Public intervention at ground level - Public/private intervention within the whole building - Private intervention about new forms of housing
Competition Pieusse (France) 2015 Team : RĂŠmi Olibo, Quentin Bourguignon, Jean-Yves Quay
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COMPETITION
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For both inhabitants and bystanders, we put forward the quality of the great landscape, giving access to it. The intervention can take the form of a gazebo extending into the slope, or a tower. The tower allows the reception of itinerant traders providing a solid shelter, and serves as an observation promontory above.
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Dilution of the intimate / collective limit. The private intervention has repercussions on public space below and offer new exploitable spatial qualities. The thickening of the housing allows its extension, the installation of balconies or outdoor terraces. The light structure allows the use of obvious and everyday needs of the locals (drying clothes etc ...).
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HOTEL & SURF CENTER
This hotel, located in Carcavelos, in Lisbon’s suburbs, is taking place in an urban context which is strengthened by a strong relation between a large beach and a forest. The paths are related to the former walkways inside the forest. Thereby the main access is surounded by trees, below a portico of a verticality referring to it. The complex is not only a hotel, but a fully furnished training center for professional surfers, taking advantage of the situation on the border of one of the biggest surf spot of Lisbon. It usually hosts surf competitions and big events. The difference between two programs suggests a break between two units articulated with the main walkways.
Equipment Lisbon (Portugal) 2014
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RECEPTION
HOTEL
HOUSING FOR SURFERS
TRAINING CENTER
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THEATRE SET FABRIC
Located on an urban project around Avenida da Libertade in Lisbon, espacially on Parc Mayer, this project is related to the neighbour theatre recently refurbished. This site characterized by the presence of many former theaters is convenient to the implementation of a theatre set fabric. The building consists on a large hall without walls where the structure is volontary involved. It allows to construct big sets on free space, using different materials, as metal, wood, paintings... and to bring it directly to the theatre. Half underground, the fabric has to receive natural light, provided by some windows on the walkable rooftop terrasse and translucent walls.
Equipment Lisbon (Portugal) 2014
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Storage (300 sqm)
Metal atelier (200 sqm)
Fabric (200 sqm)
Wood atelier (200 sqm)
Textile atelier (63 sqm)
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Paint atelier (85 sqm)
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CULTURAL CENTER
This project of a cultural center is etablished in the central square of the brand new urban project in Villeurbanne. According to the diversity of the context, this center is including a multi purpose hall, a music school, an exhibition room, a library and its archives. The building by itself looks like a concrete monolith pierced by some thin stripes of windows. It includes the pedestrian/cycles path, main axis of the project between two walls, framing and creating new relationships with the context. The complex gets in touch with the topography of the new steep-sided square hosting some activities like bars and restaurants. The exhibition room is directly in contact with the square and has the opportunity to be fully opened for some special events.
Cultural center Villeurbanne (Lyon) 2013
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Spaces and Materiality
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MODELS
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Creche Marcy l’Étoile (France) 2015 Team : y.architectes
With a strong lack of space within the existing facilities the municipality needed a new creche and medical center for the inhabitants. The location is part of a “green corridor“, thus the stake was to enhance the nature and include in our project a strong landscape dealing with an existing ditch. The project is a simple rectangle plan, where the living spaces have been thought as modular spaces bathed in light thanks to large windows facing the south. We proposed a temporary division of space with the use of curtains in order to be able to enclose the main living space as required. To provide natural light into the bedrooms the roof has been carved and folded and allows a constant amount of light from the north. Drawings, 3D model
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Museum extension Cork(France) 2016 Team : McCullough Mulvin Architectes
The Crawford Gallery in Cork (Ireland), major cultural center of the city recently made a call to architects to propose new ideas to extend and enhance the collections. Within Mc Cullough Mulvin Architects we answered this call proposing a new tower, which is not only a museum, but transform the existing gallery in a destination, a place where you want to spend the afternoon, enjoying old and modern collections, as well as a panoramic restaurant overlooking the city. Drawings, modeling and rendering of the entire scheme
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THAPAR UNIVERSITY Modeling of the whole learning podium project, including three buildings : a library, a lecture building and a computer science building.
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EYRECOURT STAIRS Model of a temporary pavillion, host of the Eyrcourt Stairs, a staircase dem Winner of the Arthur Gibney Award 2016. Exposed at the Royal Hibernian Academy Gallery.
PROFESSIONAL WORK
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SERGENT NOCTAMBULE
First prize of the student competition organized by «Grands Ateliers de l’Isle d’Abeau» in order to design an art set for the «Fête des Lumières 2011». The basic premise of this project was the huge absence of light in the middle of the Sathonay square, the complete lack of emphasis of the central statue. Our intervention, sensitive but strong, consists of its fine lighting. It asserts itself, visible from all the neighborhood.
Bright Installation Sathonay Square / Lyon 2011 Team : Valentin Rose
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COMPETITION , 2ND YEAR
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DESIGN WINE TASTING CHAIR “Furniture on which you can sit and located in a singular context“ That’s a high seat chair, designed for wine tasting, fine mix between cedar wood and stainless steel. The armrest reveals a double function of support and wine glass storage. The seat is a single piece of metal, folded, used eather as a seat or as a structural reinforcement
Furniture Lisbon (Portugal) 2014
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Breakfast tableware Lisbon (Portugal) 2014
CERAMIC As a reinterpretation of a teabag this ceramic tableware alows you to turn back to roots, in the simplest idea of how to make tea : put leaves in hot water. To follow that point the design is simple and fine, a single piece of wood is crossing the ceramic ÂŤteabagÂť.
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PERSONAL PROJECTS ARCHISOUND
# 2012 edition
Organization of the music festival of Ecole Nationale SupÊrieure d’Architecture de Lyon (ENSAL). Full management of a team composed by 25 people for an event with 700 spectators.
Archisound is a festival aimed to discover architecture through music within the building of our school. Student enterprise, it is the result of a desire to open the school to everybody through a passion about electronic music. Each edition is the opportunity to show what architecture is about and joins music, scenography and exhibitions.
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LACHARETTE
# 2013 edition
Organization of the regional workshop Lacharette, in collaboration with Grenoble and Saint-Etienne schools of architecture. Realization of the visual and graphic identity for the event and secretary of the association. Management of a team of 30 people during the event.
Lacharette is a workshop which is intended to architect students of the 3 schools of RhĂ´ne Alpes. Student enterprise, it is the result of a desire to merger all the students of these schools. Each edition proposes one different material which, associated to light, has to transform and magnify the site. Every project is a challenge and a great meeting.
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PHOTOGRAPHY
Photography as a way to see the city, the architecture and the landscape, sometimes bright, sometimes dark.
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Madrid/Belfast/Lisboa/Porto/Roma/Glasgow/Edinburgh/Algarve/Barcelona http://azulejosparacozinha.tumblr.com
VALENTIN ROBE +353 (83) 837 3272 valentin.robe@lyon.archi.fr