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Constance Desenfant
Curriculum Vitae

CONTACT :
77 Bd des Amricains, 44300
Nantes, FRANCE // +33 6 77 30 81 74
constance.desenfant@wanadoo.fr
Architect - State degree
Born on 11/08/1990 - Paris
Nationality : French

EDUCATION
02-2014
2012/2013
2011/2012
2008/2011
06-2008

State degree of architecture

Masters degree of architecture, YEAR 2
Masters degree of architecture, YEAR 1
Bachelors degree of architecture
Baccalaureate of science with distinction
& european mention

ENSA Nantes - School of architecture

ENSA Nantes - School of architecture
ETSA Valencia - Polytecnic univsersity
ENSA Nantes - School of architecture
Saint Joseph du Loquidy - High school

French
> native language

Spanish
> fluent | C1 BULATS

English
> fluent | 890 pts TOEIC

Italian
> spoken & read

LANGUAGES

COMPUTER SKILLS
2D & 3D design

Graphism & Text

Autocad
Autocad 3D
Sketchup
3ds Max
Rhinoceros
Revit - Archicad

Indesign
Photoshop
Illustrator
Word - Excel
Power Point

EXTRA

PERSONALITY :
Serious, open-minded, independant,
curious, creative, and observant.

PERSONAL INTERESTS :
Photography, exhibition and art galleries,
music, tennis. Travelling, drawing, and reading.

High capacity of adaptation and team

work ability

TRIPS : England, Ireland, Switzerland, Holand,

Belgium, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Lithuania,
and Spain.

WORKSHOP & COMPETITIONS

Sept > Nov 2014

Participant in the international competition of architecture

of Architecture Workshop in Rome for a New Modern Library
in Copenhagen (awrcompetitions.com) - Barcelona

April 2014

Participatant in the french competition Steel 2014 with my Master

thesis project (construiracier.fr/concours-acier/2014)

March > June 2011

Participant in the Audiar Competition about the periurban areas

of french cities (http://www.audiar.org/node/189) - Rennes

Feb > Sept 2010

Participant in the workshop Nouveau(x) (photography, edition and

communications) with the publishing house Dilecta - Nantes & Paris

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Oct > Dec 2014

Designer of a building permit for a house extension - Paris

October 2014

Collaborator of the artist Maec (Mariscal Gaitn) on an urban

sculpture project - Barcelona

May > July 2014

Participant into the project of Art Nouveau Tour (Barcelona-Brussels - La Chaux-de-Fonds) in collaboration with the Art Nouveau
Network of Brussels and Barcelona City Hall

March > May 2014

Designer for a house renovation - Port Navalo (Brittany)

March > July 2013

Intern in the office FHY Architecture & Urbanism - Paris

July 2011

Designer for a house extension - Chantenay (Nantes)

March > June 2011

Construction supervisor assistant : part-time intern during weekly

meetings about a house design - IP Architectes, Nantes

March > Dec 2010

Part-time designer for the office Espace Identit (interior design) Nantes

July 2009

Intern on a construction site : assitant on the rennovation work

of a high school - Mollat & Verdant, Nantes

January 2008

Assistant in the office of architecture SCP Assus-Boyer-Percheron Montpelllier

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Timeline 2008-2015
Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

INTERNSHIP

HOME
TOWN

BACCALAUREAT OF SCIENCES
Saint Joseph du Loquidy High School

ARCHITECTURE OFFICE
SCP Assus-Boyer-Percheron
Montpelllier

2008

COMPETITION
& WORKSHOP

FREE LANCE

BUILDING WORK FIRM

Mollat & Verdant
Nantes

2009

ARCHITECTURE OFFICE
IP Architectes
Nantes

NANTES

2010

NOUVEAU(X)
Arnaud Thval & Dilecta Workshop
Nantes

PART-TIME DESIGNER
Espace Identit
Saint-Herblain

2011

Focus on
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BUILDING PERMIT
Private individual
Chantenay

BACHELORS DEGREE OF ARCHITECTURE

Architecture school of Nantes

STATE DEGREE OF ARCHITECTURE

Architecture school of Nantes

ARCHITECTURE & URBANISM OFFICE

FHY (Follacci-Hervieu-Yoon)
Paris

VALENCIA

2012

on peri-urban areas
Audiar Competition
Rennes

NANTES

PARIS

2013

NANTES

BARCELONA PARIS/NANTES

2014

STEEL CONTEST 2014

ConstruirAcier
Paris

2015

New Modern Library

Architecture Workshop Rome
Copenhagen

PAPER & ARCHITECTURE

Calendar Grup Raima
Barcelona

HOUSE RENOVATION
Private individual
Port Navalo (Brittany)
ART-NOUVEAU TOUR
with Barcelona city hall &
Art-Nouveau network (Brussels)
Barcelona

BUILDING PERMIT
Private individual
Paris
COLLABORATOR ON AN
URBAN SCULPTURE PROJECT
with Maec (artist)
Barcelona
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ACADEMIC PROJECTS
Draw, make mistakes, learn from your mistakes, draw again...

ENSA NANTES &

ETSA VALENCIA

Thesis project

Global networks supporting local interests

Changing Cities 2013-2014 - Belfast

Thesis Research
Urban utopias mutations

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Master project year 2

From Misery to Chevir

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Master project year 1

Amsterdam Oostenjilk

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Master project year 1

Bachelor project year 3

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From the town center to the riverbank

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A bodega in Requena

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Bachelor project year 2

Sarabe, extrem design in the Badia desert

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Belfast

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Global Networks supporting local interests
Reconnecting Belfast - The lightning walkway

Master Thesis Project

Changing cities studio
Sept 2013 > Feb 2014
Teaching team :
Susan Dunne, Graciela Torre,
Sbastien Argant,
Marie-Paule Halgand

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What is a changing city ? What is Belfast ? And why is

Belfast a changing city ?
The capital of Northern Ireland was the nucleus of the
studio in which I took part for my Master Thesis project. By groups of 4 students we began to explore the
city through different topics. In my group we focused
our work on the topic of Transports. From this analysis we had to go ahead with challenges we would
have found on regard to the transport approach and
choose a site which would represent an opportunity
area to resolve the problems pointed out. Then we
had to develop both social, urban and architectural
strategies in order to transform the site responding to
a chosen problematic.
Belfast is situated on the North-East Coast of the Island
of Ireland and was built around the estuary of the river
Lagan, in between hills. Its a city mainly based on its
maritime activity and linen industry which expansions
occurred during the 18th and 19th centuries. Place of
birth of the Titanic and used as a home base by the
Royal Navy during World War II, it is today an injured
city divided by a serious civil war and which is now
hardly facing the economic crisis. Despite this complicated context, it is still a major maritime hub, the
administrative capital and the largest city of Northern
Ireland.

Analysis & In Situ Experience :

TRANSPORT ANALYSIS OF BELFAST

Transports current situation in Belfast : The insular city centre

Radial bus system

Insular city centre

High traffic nodes

MASTER THESIS PROJECT /// Global Networks supporting local interests

Fragmented soft mobility

network

Focus on East Belfast

From the north to the south : 2 different urban fabrics

Insular city centre

No bikes land

The grass way

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The labyrinth

Global networks generating projects to resolve local issues

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Local interventions : Temporal process

1930

2014

2016

2020
The kartn
ride project

The lightning
walkway

2025

2025 at night

The funky
crane

The dry dock

promenade

The ArtGora

2025

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Development of the Lightning walkway project

Plan of the walkway and connections to its surroundings

Section of the train station

MASTER THESIS PROJECT /// Global Networks supporting local interests

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Views of the walkway & axonometry of the structure

MASTER THESIS PROJECT /// Global Networks supporting local interests

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Urban Utopias mutations
How to put the history in perspective

Research Thesis
Architecture contemporaine
Cultures / pratiques / critiques
Jan 2012 > Sept 2014
Tutor :
Marie-Paule Halgand

The comparison between some paper achitectures

of the 60s & 70s and some more contemporary projects permits to point out a certain similarity, whiteness
of the past ideas and productions influence upon
contemporary architecture.
What did those utopias become ? Is it possible that
there are no utopias any more ? Can Architecture only
exist without utopias ?
If we consider that utopias represent the main motor
of the cities evolution and if we observe how quickly
the cities are transforming themselves nowadays, it
seems obvious that utopias have not disappeared.
They just seem to evolve under different forms. If the
utopian dimension of the urban project is not as obvious as it was before, how do those new utopias
appear today ?

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The utopia is mainly urban

because the city expresses
the reign of men. The control
of urbanism is throught and
since centuries, the key to the
utopian project, a main tool for
the organization and conception of the city and living environment of men.
But as arts or sciences, the
science of urbanism evolves
step by step, following ideological flows influenced by historic contexts in constant evolution. It emerges from criticism,
reassessment of established
principles, and leads to new
experiences, criticized again...
This repetitive and empirical
process never ends to one
single conclusion and goes on
with constant re evaluations,
main characteristic of a discipline inseparable from its historical context.
The process of this thesis
consisted in analysing in a
chronological and ideological way, the famous urban
utopias of the 20th century
pointing out their origins, their
foundations and their limits in
order to understand better the
relations between each other.
This approach does not permit to answer explicitly to the
questions what will be the city
of tomorrow like but it should
permit to find leads of reflexion
and answers around this subject.

The three main ideologies of

the 20th century studied are
Progressism, Culturalism and
Naturalism.
- The first one is aimed to free
the human race from its imperfections and servitudes linked
to the industrial city.
Hygienists, rationalists or humanists are derived models
following the same principles.
In other words, this ideology
aims to improve human life
and his well-being through
science.
- Culturalism was born from
the disappearance of the former organic city-state under
the destroying pressure of
industrialisation. It was mainly
characterized by modest city
projects, contrasting with the
nature kept wild and following
an organic order (irregularity,
asymmetry...). Collective life
based on democracy was developed in a very specific architecture composed of community buildings re-introducing
art in their compositions.
Culture and tradition are very
important values in this antiindustrial ideology. In comparison with Progressism, Culturalism tries globally to respond
to spiritual needs more than
material ones.

RESEARCH THESIS /// Urban Utopias mutations

ICONS OF PROGRESSISM

Historic review of the main urban ideologies

of the 20th century

Too utopian to make urban

projects possible, this ideology
gives way to Naturalism which
tends to defend specific
ideological principles :
It goes against alienation of
men by the industrial city, it
advocates contact with nature
to permit an harmonious
development of people and
consider democracy as an
ideal state of the society.
In a word, it encourages an
individualistic and depoliticized
society.

ICONS OF NATURALISM

ICONS OF CULTURALISM

- Finally, Naturalism was born

from the american anti-urban
ideology which was willing to
come back to a rural state
of the society, defending the
image of a wild and virgin
nature as well as considering
that it would be the only
way to guarantee freedom,
blossoming and real sociability
between men.

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Overview of the main urban ideologies

METROPOLITAN UTOPIAS
Grand-Paris, Green New York

HORIZON
2030-2050

2000-2020

TECHNOLOGIC UTOPIAS
Duba

TECHNOLOGICAL
ENVIRONMENTALISM
La Grande-Motte

UTOPIAN
WAVE OF
THE 60s

TECHNOPOLIS
Friedmann/Archigram

ANTHROPOPOLIS
Geddes/Mumford

URBANISM

PROGRESSISM
Le Corbusier/CIAM

CULTURALISM
Howard/Unwin

PRE-URBANISM

PROGRESSISM
Fourier

CULTURALISM
Riskin/Morris

INDUSTRIAL
REVOLUTION
RESEARCH THESIS /// Urban Utopias mutations

Between continuity and durability :

Sustainibility of the city-network concept

ECOLOGICAL
UTOPIAS
Schuiten

ECONOMIC
CRISIS

ARCOLOGY
Soleri

ESSAYS & PUBLICATIONS

Koolhaas

COLD WAR

NATURALISM
Wright

PHILOSOPHY OF
URBANISM

WORLD WAR II

AMERICAN
ANTI-URBANISM
Sullivan

PRE-URBANISM
WITHOUT MODEL
Engels/Marx

WORLD WAR I

INDUSTRIAL
REVOLUTION
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RESEARCH THESIS /// Urban Utopias mutations

METROPOLITAN UTOPIAS

NEW ISSUES & PROCESS

NEW PATTERNS & THEORIES

Prospective review
The main issue of this work
remains in the definition of
urban utopias and in their
inscription in a global scheme
of evolution.
Those contemporary utopias
seem to have evolved
through new patterns and
process more complex and
less obvious than the icons
of the urban utopias of the
20th
century
presented
above, and thats where is all
the interest of the subject.
Two main branches can
be distinguished nowadays :
The ecological utopias and
the technologic ones. Even
if Culturalism is still existing
through communities or
groups of people, this
ideology is now more
considered as a fringe of the
society.
All in all, it seems like
the big challenge of the
contemporary metropolitans
stands in the association
of the two main utopias
mentioned before : a
metropolis cant pretend
to exist only through its
ecological or technological
form today.

With the evolution of

the society, those utopias
come
under
challenges
more complex because
responding to larger scales :
from the huge challenge
(global issue of sustainability)
to the very small one (microintervention on daily life,
technology of the internet...).
Nevertheless,
if
the
contemporary
utopian
projects try to respect and
integrate all the principles
of the actual issues of our
cities, the architects of
utopias have never really
got down with the problem
of inequality between men,
whereas most of those
inequalities are concerning
their life conditions.
So many projects are
developed to transform Paris
in a connected metropolis,
to turn New York into a
Green city or to create an
energy efficient and low
polluting city in the middle of
the desert but what is done
or drawn for ghettos and the
third world ?

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The Torre David in Caracas

is a beautiful example of
what is possible to do in the
south hemisphere adapting
ourselves
to
different
situations and populations,
but it is still an exception in
front of all the mediatic flows
focusing on utopian projects
developed in the northern
hemisphere...
Are the utopias reserved
to an elite ? Will the third
world have access one day,
to the dream of a better
city, better life ? (slogan of
the universal exhibition of
Shanghai in 2010.

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Chantenay

From Misery to Chevir

Urban recovery of the industrial areas of the city

Master project - Year 2

City shapes
Sept 2012 > Jan 2013
Tutor : Y-G Dessy
& Maelle Tessier
Individual project

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We are here working on an individual urban project

dealing with a vast territory stretching over the western limit of Nantes (Quarry of Misry) to the huge Chevir bridge, last river-crossing before the estuary of the
Loire, in Saint-Nazaire.
It is a territory mainly industrial and even if some firms
remain active in this area, the first feeling is an impression of deserted ground, almost abandoned. This feeling is mainly due to the difficulty for pedestrians and
bikes, to access the site and walk around it. The little
town centre of Chantenay or the train station seem
like the only places where a pedestrian could be welcomed, and this is the starting point of this urban recovery.
The idea is to set up a new harbour in the place of the
former Crucys docks, almost forgotten, and to create
a new core connecting the existing town centre, to
the train station and to the future harbour. This harbour will attract a new population and will permit to
extend the town centre to the river : the idea is now
to develop new connections over the river and close
to it... so that in the end, Chantenays inhabitants will be
able to reach the docks again and enjoy a promenade
all along the river. New ground connections (public
transports, public places) will also be set up so that the
territory becomes more reachable and pleasant.

Challenges & opportunities of an industrial territory

FOCUS ON THE WESTERN PART OF NANTES

Challenges

Program

Relancer
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portuaire de la cale
Crucy pour attirer une
nouvelle population

Relancer
lactivit
portuaire de la cale
Crucy pour attirer une
nouvelle population

Dplacer le bourg de
Chantenay en crant
un nouveau centre
reli la gare et au
port

Dplacer le bourg de
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TOWN
Chantenay
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MASTER PROJECT Year 2 /// From Misry to Chevir

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berges de Loire en
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Urban strategy
PUBLIC SPACE

PRIVATE SPACE

PUBLIC SPACE

Green/free
space OUTSIDE

PRIVATE SPACE

Green/free
space INSIDE

Green/free

Chronological evolution of space

theOUTSIDE
urban Green/free
project
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space
INSIDE
2017

2024

2021

Relancer
lactivit
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Crucy pour attirer une
nouvelle population

Relancer
lactivit
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portuaire de la cale
ATTRACTED
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Crucy pour attirer une
HARBOUR
ACTIVITY
nouvelle
population

Dplacer le bourg de
Chantenay en crant
un nouveau centre
reli la gare et au

Dplacer le bourg de
Chantenay en crant
un nouveau centre
reli la gare et au

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Redonner accs aux

berges de Loire en
NEW PROMENADE
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Urban project
The urban strategy is based on 4 ideas born from the analysis :
-The existing plot is almost mono-oriented (East-West) so the project tries to draw
new links and axis to transform the territory into a bi-directional mesh/network
-The scale of the existing blocks and building is huge so the idea is to create a
smaller plot thanks to back alleys and pedestrian street dividing the blocks.

Masterplan of the urban project

Urban section

MASTER PROJECT Year 2 /// From Misry to Chevir

- The current territory is characterised by its violence and speed, so the

idea is to bring back a human scale, separating flows and users.
- This area is fragmented and badly connected : the project will provide
new hubs and public places between the different spaces and transport
areas.

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Amsterdam

Amsterdam Wittenburg

A green way acting as a link through the urban territory

Master project - Year 1

Urbanistica II Valencia
Sept 2011 > June 2012
Tutor :
Javier Perez Igualada
Team : Charlotte Vaxelaire
& Lauranne Maurestin

Amsterdam is a city where the water is omnipresent, especially in the northern part of the city where it reaches the
sea through the Noordzeekanaal. We are working on this
part of the city, in the borough of Wittenburg, quite wealthy,
organised around its canals and composed of some important cultural buildings such as the Nemo Science centre.
The project developed in this area appears like an urban
recovery. Composed of various peninsula and canals, the
current area isnt really easily crossed nor connected in
terms of public transport. It drives it as a quite isolated territory even if it is close to the city centre in terms of distance.
Therefore, the idea of the project is to think a new urban
logic in this area, a way to understand the territory not as
a set of peninsula and canals but as a unique urban composition resolving the issues of connection and attractivity. Thus, a green way is developed across the borough
welcoming a new tramway line (connected to the existing
one) in order to fill the lack of public transport and public
green spaces inside the area.

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Along this green line, the urban fabric is transformed or

adapted : the ground floors are reserved for shops now
open on public places and parks. In the northeast of the
area, the existing buildings are quite low and not making
really advantage of their situation. They are replaced by a
new urban fabric acting as a transition between the public
space of the green line and the private space of the semi-collective houses. A kind of peripheric road allows the
access of those private areas, keeping the centre car-free.

Analysis & development of the urban project

FOCUS ON WITTENBURG BOROUGH
ESPACIOS
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Amsterdam es una ciudad donde el agua es

omnipresente : podemos ver lo en la mapa al
lado con la predominancia del agua en toda
parte de la ciudad y sobre todo en la parte del
norte donde esta conectada al mar del norte
gracias al gran canal.
Amsterdam presenta una infraestructura developada y compleja, con muchos espacios
verdes. Ademas, tiene un gran diversidad de
manzana.
El centrro historico de esta ciudad esta organizado de manera radiante con un sistema de
edificaciones mas denso en el centro y con un
sistema de manzana mas ancho enl a periferia.
Por lo que se refiere a nuestro area de
proyecto, se situa cerca del centro historico y
se limita por el canal y el ferrocarrile en el Norte
y Este.

MANZANA TYPO Y ALZADOS

SISTRMA DE TRANSPORTE
SISTRMA DE TRANSPORTE

ALTURAS
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rio (viviendas,
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zona, es decir las
se situan en mayoria al sur este
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secciones vuelven a mostrar
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como las alturas y la densidad de
ver las diferentes alturas del area
los edificios juegan con los vacios
de trabajo. Los edificios mas altos
de los canales. Dan una idea de
se situan en mayoria al sur este
la silueta de Amsterdam en este
lano, se puede ver
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el ultimo planodel
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la fin,
ciudad.
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2.Existing public transport system

actual de los edifiarea de trabajo, las

vidades del territoindustrias, comerrentes espacios puzona, es decir las
rques y otros espa-

como el area esta cubierta

oestepor
donde la densidad de edifiel servicio del transportes publicios es menos importantes. Las
cos, y por las carreteras de autosecciones
vuelven a mostrar
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moviles comunicandolo con
el
como inlas alturas y la densidad de
resto de la ciudad. Se puede
juegan con los vacios
dentificar rapidamentelos
la edificios
orien
de los
canales. Dan una idea de
tacion principal de estas
vias:
del norte al sur, lo quelanos
hizo de Amsterdam en este
silueta
pensar en un proyecto barrio
en el que
de la ciudad.
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4.Existing building height

Amsterdam
Amsterdam

Por fin, el ultimo plano muestra

como el area esta cubierta por
el servicio del transportes publicos, y por las carreteras de automoviles comunicandolo con el
resto de la ciudad. Se puede indentificar rapidamente la orien
tacion principal de estas vias:
del norte al sur, lo que nos hizo
pensar en un proyecto en el que
el trazado de las calzadas
podria reunir las diferentes casi-islas introduciendo vias perpendiculares a las que ya exis
ten...

MASTER PROJECT Year 1 (ETSA Valencia) /// Amsterdam Wittenburg

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Urban recovery

LEYENDA

EQUIPAMIENTOS

Religioso
Cultural
Educacion

Parques

Ante todo, la avenida verde es iregular y crea algunas veces plazas minerales y otras, zonas
verdes. Asi, la avenida alterna entre zonas de
paso y zonas de descanso a los cuales se
aaden otros espacio publico libres para llevar
air y vegetacion en el tejido urbano.

LEYENDA

EQUIPAMIENTOS

Las zo
La
plante
encerr
de su
tambie
sobre l
muelle

Luego, algunos equipamientos de tipo cultural se

plantean a la extremidad de cada islote para
darles un caracter atractivo.
Por fin, la escuela remodelada (el edificio era antiguamente una industria) esta directamente conectada al tranvia, dado cuenta de su capacidad de atraccion.

ESQUEMA DE INFLUENCIA

LEYEN

LEYENDA
Religioso
Cultural

EQUIPAMIENTOS

EQUIPMENTS
& PUBLIC SPACES
SUELO PUBLICO / EQUIPAMIENTOS Y ZONA VERDE
Religioso

Amsterdam ESCALA 1/5000

Cultural
Educacion

Parques

Educacion

Parques

USES
OF GROUND FLOOR
SUELO PRIVADO / PLANTA BAJA Y USOS
Amsterdam ESCALA 1/5000

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Zonas verdes privadas

Se puede ver diferentes equipamientos colocados de manera equilibrada en el area favoreciendo la mezcla de usos.

El suelo privado se divide entre

la edificacion y los espacio libres
privados.
Este
edificacion
se
compone en planta baja de
viviendas o de locales comerciales
para que se mezclen los usos.
Las plantas bajas comerciales se
La
situan en general en el lado abierto
de la manzana asi que su relacion
LEYENDA
con el viario es
favorecida.

Ante todo, la avenida verde es iregular y crea algunas veces plazas minerales y otras, zonas
verdes. Asi, la avenida alterna entre zonas de
paso y zonas colocade descanso a los cuales se
Se puede ver diferentes equipamientos
aaden
dos de manera equilibrada en elotros
areaespacio
favore- publico libres para llevar
ciendo la mezcla de usos.air y vegetacion en el tejido urbano.

Avenida verde

PLANTA GENERAL DEL

PROYECTO URBANO

Luego,
algunos
equipamientos
de tipo cultural se
Ante todo, la avenida verde
es iregular
y crea
alplantean
la extremidad
de cada islote para
gunas veces plazas minerales
y aotras,
zonas
darles
un
caracter
atractivo.
verdes. Asi, la avenida alterna entre zonas de
Por fin,ala los
escuela
remodelada
(el edificio era anpaso y zonas de descanso
cuales
se
tiguamente
una industria)
aaden otros espacio publico
libres para
llevar esta directamente conectada
al
tranvia,
dado
cuenta
de su capaciair y vegetacion en el tejido urbano.
dad de atraccion.

Las zonas verdes, al contrario, se

La
plantean a dentro de las manzanas
encerradas por barreras dado cuenta
de sus usos privados. Esto permite
tambien tener un espacio libre abierto
Edificio, planta tipo viviendas
sobre los canales lo que transforma los
muelles
en paseo permeables.
Edificios, planta
baja

Luego, algunos equipamientos de tipo cultural se

ESQUEMA
DEislote
INFLUENCIA
plantean a la extremidad
de cada
para
darles un caracter atractivo.
Por fin, la escuela remodelada (el edificio era antiguamente una industria) esta directamente conectada al tranvia, dado cuenta de su capacidad de atraccion.

Zonas verdes privadas

Parques

ESQUEMA DE INFLUENCIA

Tran

PROPUESTA

Bus

Este esquema compositivo general quiere

expresar nuestros conceptos de :

Tren

- Una avenida verde con una nueva linea

de tranvia que permite la comunicacion
este-oeste.

Asi, el proyecto se presenta como

una reabilitacion de lo existente en la
mayoria del teritorio, y en una nueva
composicion urbana en la parte al
norte-oeste del area. La unidad del
proyecto consiste en el paseo peatonal
cruzando todos los islotes desde el este
hasta
hast el oeste y sobre cual se conecta
el resto del viario seguiendo un jerarquia
funcional.

- Una nueva organizacion de los edificios

que se inspira del Plan Pampus : la avenida
verde como una espina central y ramificaciones hasta los bordes. Cada ramificacion
coresponde a una entidad con su propia
area de influencia.
- Una trama ortogonal sacada del trazado
de los edificios existentes que organiza el
nuevo viario.

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La otra idea principal del proyecto

desarollada aqui es las composicion
de la parcelacion del area : la relacion
entre el espacio publico y el espacio
libre privado, y la relacion entre las
plantas bajas y el suelo publico.

AREA DE DE INTERACTION Y DE CIRCULACION

Estas plantas bajas son principalmente

Esta
destinadas a un uso publico. Asi, la
avenida verde no es el unico punto
de atraccion con sus plazas y jardines,
sino que en las puntas de los islotes se
colocan tambien equipamientos o
lugares publicos para atraer la gente
hast
hasta alqui.

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E SINTESIS

CONCEPTO GENERAL

SISTEMA DE RAMIFICACION DEL VIARIO PEATONAL

Amsterdam ESCALA 1/5000

Planta baja viviendas

Planta Baja comercial

Avenida verde

LANTAURBAN
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Y USOS

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La
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Avenida verde
Se puede ver diferentes equipamientos colocados de manera equilibrada en el area favoreciendo la mezcla de usos.

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PLANTA GENERAL DEL PASEO

Amsterdam ESCALA 1/1500

MASTER PROJECT Year 1 (ETSA Valencia) /// Amsterdam Wittenburg

LEYENDA

Trafico rodado principal

Trafico rodado secundario
Aceras
Aparcamiento

Parque Diagonal Mar

BARCELONA_EMBT
ARQUITECTES ASSOCIATS

Banco Rev olutionBENCH

MANUEL FILIPPI-FARMAR

Paseo central
Para el viario del secundo tipo de manzana
hibrida en el islote siguiente, se trata de
trabajar con el existente. La idea era de
re-organizar el espacio publico de la calle
para que el eje sea mas visible y para que
se sienta mas la perspectiva desde la iglesia
hasta el canal en la extremidad del islote.
La seccion de la calle esta compuesta de
grandes aceras, de carretera a sentido
unico dando la vuelta, de aparcamientos
en bateria y del paseo central arbolado.

Main roads

Las aceras tienen una relacion fuerte con

La
la planta baja de la edificacion privado
compuesta principalmente de locales
comerciales aqui.

Secondary roads

Paradas de la linea D
de tranv ia_HANOVRE
DESPANG ARCHITEKTEN
Mobiliario urbano
del puerto de
CARTAGENA

DETALLE VIARIO PRINCIPAL 02

DETALLE VIARIO PRINCIPAL NORTE

Amsterdam ESCALA 1/200

Amsterdam ESCALA 1/200

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Urban section

EQUIPAMIENTOS URBANOS DEL PASEO

Amsterdam ESCALA 1/1200

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Requena

Crossroads winery
A steel skin over the dry ground

Master project - Year 1

Taller II Valencia
Sept 2011 > June 2012
Tutor :
Juan Grau
Individual project

This studio of the Polytechnic University of Valencia was

offering us to study the little town of Requena, 50 km away
from Valencia towards Madrid. After working on a wine cellar restoration in the town centre, which permitted us to
discover the village, its history and its atmosphere, we were
brought to a more specific area, in the country side at just a
few kilometers from the town centre on a country lane. In
the middle of a vineyard in a quite beautiful landscape, a ruin
and an hermitage were standing, separated by a pathway.
Motionless as if they were guardians of this territory, and
looking down on the river, those two elements brought
inspiration and respect to the place.
The program consisted in a bodega (winery), including all
the stages of wine production, from the grape-harvest to
the wine tasting and selling.
The first act was to decide where to set up the project in
this territory. I decided to implant it on the crossroads
drawn by the pathway coming from Requena (and following toward other lands and vineyards) and the little
path going down to the river, more or less perpendicular
to the first one. Three buildings emerged like that, enabling
the separation of the three stages of wine production : the
harvest treatment, grinding of the grape and fermentation
- the filtration and ageing of the wine - the bottling, tasting
and selling of the wine. All those stages were then divided
again in blocks of buildings, inspired by the drawing created
on the ground by the drought particularly rough in this area.

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Original concept & development of the winery

A crossroads in the countryside

Hills skyline for roof shape

Underground communication

Views over the landscape

Wine process through the buildings

Challenges of the project

Ground plan of the winery and its surroundings

MASTER PROJECT Year 1 (ETSA Valencia) /// Crossroads Winery

Wine cellar space magnified

Exploded view of the project

Ground floor

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Connection with the ground and the landscape :

SECTIONS

MASTER PROJECT Year 1 (ETSA Valencia) /// Crossroads Winery

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Nantes

From the town centre to the river bank

Art recovery over left aside territories

Bachelor project - Year 3

Building and living
Feb 2011 > June 2011
Tutor :
Jean Robein
Individual project

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The hillock of Saint Anne is a very particular area : its situation

in the city of Nantes (along the river, in front of the island), its
museum of Jules Verne, its planetarium and its relief and deep
materiality make it one of the very special natural sight seen
spot of the city.
The cliff rises proudly in front of the river, even if it is constrained between two roads and its scars are like marks of its
glorious past :
The historical background of the area, mainly industrial, is
deeply linked to the shipyard before their closure : this link
was physical (transborder bridge) and mental (the inhabitants
of this neighborough were mainly working class families living
thanks to the shipbuilding industry). The area seem to feel
some kind of regrets in regard to those times : the stairs of
sainte Anne were the theatre of some many events which
seem to be gone with the shipyard.
The physical heritage of the area, marked by a former geological activity, has turned the site in a very uneven ground
where both mineral and vegetable try to express themselves
taking advantage of the views.
The program of the project taking place in this area was standing in an exhibition hall, houses for artists and a restaurant in
order to re-activate the dynamism and the cultural activity of
this former town centre.
The project developed is using the concept of stairs and
promenade in order to resolve the topography issue and to
make advantage of the views and panoramas over the city.
The imposing urban stairs become the core of the project
acting like an amphitheatre and connecting the different parts
of the program.

Location & development of the Art Gallery

LA LOIRE

Section BB

BACHELOR PROJECT Year 3 /// From the town centre to the river bank

Third floor

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Section AA & details

urban stairs

restaurant

houses
for artists

upper galleries

parking lot

Urban section
BACHELOR PROJECT Year 3 /// From the town centre to the river bank

exhibition hall

terrace

entrance

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Jordania

OBadia - ( sarabe)
Utopian oasis in the desert of Jordania

Bachelor project - Year 2

Extreme situation
Sept 2009 > Jan 2010
Tutor :
Michel Bertreux
Team : Estelle Durand
& Enora Cordier

In a team of 3 students and during 4 months, the main

goal of this exercise was to find an extreme situation (in terms of climate, geography, or geopolitics...)
in a country or a region of the world and to design an
architectural utopian answer to the issues raised.
Stuck between the geopolitics tensions related to the
water issue in the Middle East, and suffering temperatures that can rise till 102 Fahrenheit, Jordania emerges
as one of the most vulnerable countries in to drought.
Located above an untapped source of
dia as an old caravanserai, emerges in
a welcoming place for travellers as well
place and investigation centre directly
water issues in Middle-East.

water, OBathe desert as

as a meeting
linked to the

It appears as a mirage under the oppressive heat of

the desert and hide an underground oasis providing
fresh air and water deep down. In surface, it only suggests its presence through an horizontal layer carefully drilled in order to simulate a snake skin.

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Under that skin, the project is like the Aladdins cave, full
of the Arabian nights spirit where the walls stretched
between the ground and the roof (desert ground)
are organising the space composed of platforms and
voids.

Location & development of the Oasis

Original concept inspired from

a glue experience :
Tension between 2 horizontal
slabs under the surface of the
desert create spaces to live in.

Conceptual section of the project underground

BACHELOR PROJECT Year 2 /// OBadia -

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Views of the inside of the oasis project

BACHELOR PROJECT Year 2 /// OBadia -

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PERSONAL &
PROFESSIONAL WORKS
A taste of reality.

Masters degree internship

FHY Architecture & Urbanism, Paris

March 2013 > July 2013

Building permit
House expansion in Colombes,
September > December 2014

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&
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Nantes

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Paris

Barcelona

PE

Valencia

TI
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&
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Focus on periurban areas

Audiar Rennes competition
February > June 2012

Nouveau(x)
Photography & editing Workshop
Feb > Sept 2010

AWR architecture competition

July > November 2014

A Library 2.0 in Copenhagen

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Paris

FHY Architecture & Urbanism

One foot into architectures reality

Masters degree internship

FHY, Architecture
& Urbanism, Paris
March 2013 > July 2013
Tutor :
Astrid Hervieu &
Pierre-Emile Follacci

The masters degree internship is a very important step in the university education : it allows the students, used to fictional projects,
to experiment the reality and the daily life of an architect. I did my
internship in Paris, looking carefully for an agency developing both
architectural and urban projects in its practice.
I also decided to extend the duration (2 months full-time or 4
months part-time mandatory) to 5 months full-time to really make
advantage of this experience. During those 5 months, I had the
opportunity to work on various projects :
- First, on a DCE (consultation file for supply contracts) during 4
months. I worked on details of entrance halls and shared spaces
of the collective housing project of Reims Wilson. It enabled me to
learn a lot about norms and technical drawing as well as working
with other members of the team (engineer, materials companies,
real estate company...).
-Then, I worked on an Urban Development Zone during 3 months.
I participated to every meeting with the councillor, engineers, experts and inhabitants in Bruz (municipality in the south of Rennes).
I drew plans, sections, diagrams and looked for references. It was
a very enriching experience and I felt really enthusiastic about this
inter-disciplinarity that builds the project.

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-Finally, I had the opportunity to work on two urban projects for

a few weeks : Arc Nord Est of Reims, an urban development zone
for which I mainly worked on the model and the urban plan. And
Lausanne-Malley, a redevelopment of a strategic borough of the
swiss city. For this project, I worked on diagrams for circulations
and public spaces as well as feasibility studies of a block in terms
of height and volumetry, in regards to an urban rule, created by
the agency.

Collective housing in Reims, France

Entrance
Hall C

Location of the blocks of apartments

Detail Hall C - Ground floor

INTERNSHIP /// FHY Architecture & Urbanism

Detail Hall C - First floor

Main facade of the Beethoven project (N-E)

Sections AA & BB on the Hall C

Sections CC & DD on the Hall C

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Urban development zone - Bruz (Rennes)

Croix-Madame area

Rosiers area

Train station area

INTERNSHIP /// FHY Architecture & Urbanism

Train station area :

Guide plan

Rosiers & Croix-Madame area

Height of new buildings

Overwiew

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Urban development zone on 2 scales

Reims 2020
(City scale)
mobility diagram

green areas diagram

general diagram 2020

Reims
2009

Reims
2020

Arc North East

(local scale project)

INTERNSHIP /// FHY Architecture & Urbanism

Feasibility study on the urban redevelopment

of Lausanne-Malley

Tower configuration

25 m high rule configuration

Masterplan

28 m high rule configuration

Axonometric diagram of the project

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Colombes

From the first plans to the first stone

Building Permit
Private family
Colombes (Paris)
Nov 2014 > Jan 2015
Team : Manuel Filippi Farmar

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This project was my first own project as an architect. We

met this french family looking for an architect in Barcelona
and we proposed our services for their house extension.
We went to see the house and we measured up all the
existing walls and floors so that we would be able to
draw the existing plans of the house (they didnt have any
reliable documents).
Then we began to sketch a project, trying to follow their
will and our conscience of architects : They asked us a
roof terrace (without any access on the roof but flat)
but designing such a parallelepiped volume on an existing
one, we realized it was more similar to a container than to
a nice bedroom. At the same time, they asked us a huge
bay window to get as much light as possible but it seemed quite strange for us to put a bay window with great
dimensions in front of a matrimonial bed and bathroom
(they wanted the bathroom open on the bedroom).
So we worked on a compromise : we developed the
extension in regard to the villa facade more than the
parallelepiped block down, the roof was now following
the same double slope as the main facade roof and this
new volume permits to set up huge windows in the angle
so that they are high enough to guarantee a minimum of
intimacy for the couple. They loved it and we are currently drawing technical plans & section and choosing with
them all the interior and exterior materials

Concept and development of the extension

Volume study

Existing first floor

Transformed first floor

JOB /// Building permit for a house extension in Paris

Sections DD & EE

Sections CC & facade

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Views of the interior & exterior of the project

Structural approach

JOB /// Building permit for a house extension in Paris

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Copenhagen

A Library 2.0 in Copenhagen

International competition
AWR (Architecture Workshop
in Rome) : CPH Modern Library
Sept 2014 > Nov 2014
Team : Monica Palosz &
Manuel Filippi Farmar

What is a Library 2.0 ?

The first definition was thus : a Library 2.0 should be defined as a
digital repository of information and at the same time as a place for
people to meet and share. We chose to work with this concept of
digital repository but without forgetting its physical aspect (books)
acting like a base for any library and defending the idea that we
cant build the future without foundations. Following this idea, the
library becomes a double face element combining a traditional
book library and a digital, interactive and virtual library.
About the area, as the project is located just on the edge between
the historic part of the city (royal residence, Nyvahn old port, little
mermaid) and the new modern architectural waterfront icons
(theatre, opera), we easily came to a double face situation too :
the project should use both traditional and modern assets of its
location.
We started to design a cubic element allowing a good integration
in the regular and orthogonal urban fabric of the area. Its back
facade quite traditional and closed helps to support this idea. The
two lateral facades are more dynamic with huge stairs attracting
people to the main platform. Then the main facade more open and
transparent puts the inside floating cube on a performance stage
and create a dialog with the other waterfront buildings.

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Various ways of using the building are permitted thanks to the

concept of a nucleus kept in a floating box concentrating all the
knowledge on both sides of its walls, available to everyone. This
idea of taking a traditional library with bookcase, workspaces and
computer areas and turning it into a central gravity point with free
spaces all around available for library users and citizens passing by,
transforms the building into a real attractive element of the cityscape on both urban and cultural levels.

Location of the area and plans of the project

Ground floor

CuBog Project

1st floor

2nd floor

Visual dialog with two of the main cultural buildings of the city
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COMPETITION /// CuBog - a library 2.0 in Copenhagen

Concept of the library & volumetric study

Traditional library

Reversed library

Point of energy

Axonometric section of the project

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Concentration of knowledge

Views of the different spaces of the library

CuBog - a cube for books
(Bog = book in danish)

55 41 05 N
12 35 46 E
A new landmark in Copenhagen skyline

COMPETITION /// CuBog - a library 2.0 in Copenhagen

Axonometric section of the project & sustainibility

S

Summer

Winter

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Nantes / Rennes

The urban mobilities metamorphosis

How to turn a road infrastructure into a wonderful place ?
Student competition
Audiar (Rennes) :
Ca bouge dans le priurbain
(Lets move the peri-urban areas)
Pascal Amphoux studio
(first design of the project)
Sept 2010 > Jan 2011
Competition project
March 2011 > June 2011
Team : Enora Cordier
& Thomas Bourdaud

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Located on a highway interchange in the north of Nantes

Metropolis, this project is based on a prospective vision of
what could become a road infrastructure transforming our
ways of moving in the city. It also raises questions about
the use of those infrastructures : they generate a huge
consumption of urban space most of the time transformed
in neglected territories, abandoned and landlocked.
Here, the creation of a new crossing from one side to the
other tends to offer a safe area for pedestrian and bikes. At
the same time, a car-park aims to reduce the flows entering
the city turning it into positive soft mobilities or public transport movings. Then a drive-in cinema and an observatory
attempt to turn those kinetic flows into attractive activities.
And finally, a concert hall emerges to gain attractivity through
cultural activity.
The promenade linking all those programs together permits
an easy access to this area of the city re-discovered : we
can now get there thanks to a Periway Station taking place
on the crossing above the ring road now welcoming a new
tram line taking the path around the city..
All those projects put together, organised around the promenade structuring the flows, rhythms and users, are supposed
to bring back a human scale in this aggressive, car-dominated territory : the promenade becomes the focal point
of different temporalities and also a place for intermodality.
A utopian scenario for a dynamic project. A human kinetic
movement connected to a renewed urban territory.

How to take advantage of a fragmented but dynamic territory ?

Fonctional, sensible & social
analysis of the site

Location of the project

on the Northern entrance
of Nantes (peripheric ring)
TE
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RENN

Temporal transect of the urban project

COMPETITION /// The Harmful Wonder - Urbans mobilities metamorphosis

Challenges & development of the urban project

THE JUKEBOX

A new pedestrian place

& interactive concert hall

THE PERIWAY STATION

Requilibrer la cohabitation des usages

An Urban promenade &

mobilities observatory

THE OPEN LOOP

A parking lot generator

of new kind of mobilities

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Developments of the Periway station project

Masterplan of the station

Diagram, model
& exploded view

Section AA

Section BB

COMPETITION /// The Harmful Wonder - Urbans mobilities metamorphosis

Pedagogic development of the project and urban posting

Extracts of the board game created to promot the project

Advertisement of the Periway

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Human bodies discovering architectural spaces

Workshop built by
Arnaud Theval
Ensa Nantes &
Dilecta publishing
house (Paris)
Jan 2010 > Sept 2010

As the very first generation of students in the new architecture school of Lacaton-Vassal, we were brought by this visual art studio to discover the building and its various architectural spaces through a camera catching human bodies.
The first anecdotal shots turned, little by little, into thematic pictures where the bodies were discovering and playing
with the big empty spaces of the school. Light and shadow,
materiality and abstraction, inside and outside, upside down,
we figured out by ourselves how many possibilities could
offer such a building.
The photographic exercise evolved and was transformed
into a workshop, so that the richness of the pictures taken,
did not end locked in a hard-disk. A group was created
and we began to collect pictures, to select and organise
it in order to create a book that would make sense, that
would translate an experience : it was a path across the
school through its students eyes, each one trying to show
something different, some ways to play with the building or
to use it in its own way.
The publishing house Dilecta joined us and helped us to
make this project possible. The book Nouveau(x) came
out in Libraries on the 30rd of September of 2010. We organised a conference, and even a launch ceremony. An exciting adventure which has shown how, the students look
on a building they almost live in is worth considering and
can be as rich as any article in an architectural magazine.

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Extracts from the book and moments of the workshop

Extracts from the serie Vertigo in weightlessness

WORKSHOP /// Human bodies discovering architectural spaces

Final book published & workshop group working

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