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2017-2020 AMELIE DANIEL-THOMSEN
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MIES’ MUSEUM EXTENSION Museum extension BE-TWIN Media library 2° DE + Theoretical school INTERACT Sustainable housings complex KOHAKU Infrastructure rehabilitation DRAWINGS Drawing pencil
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MUSEUM EXTENSION Type : Museum Site : Houston (Texas) Goal: Design the new extension of the museum of Fine Arts of Houston, based on the official specification of the contest. September 2017 - January 2018
This project is based on a module which has been duplicated. A radical facade is facing the church on Main Street and a lenght variation face to the sculpture garden. Floors, courtyard and height has been designed in order to be integrated with the diverses surroundings. Each module has a circulation space and exhibition space, they are all linked by walkways and offer rythme and vegetation between bars.
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BE-TWIN
Type : Media library Site : Paris, Bagnolet Goal: Rehabilitation of a mall in a group of seven persons. Each of us has a patch to propose a new program for the city. Ecology notions included. September 2019 - January 2019
This project propose to insert a new media library while keeping the existing structure for sustainable concern. To give a second life to this close and dark space, the parcel has been divided by a pedestrian access. It allows a new urban connexion with the north, offers two publics spaces, flows and light. The project is then in two different buidlings. To disconnect with the mall spirit, an architectural ÂŤgraftÂť has been made to permit transitions, transparency, and offer new sustainable qualities.
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Type : Theoric Site : Alcamo Marina (Sicily) Goal: Design the waterfront for Alcamo Marina in 2030. Topics shared with Milan, Rome, Venice, Athens and Naples studios. STUDIO PRIZE for its «prospective work on the futur of the city» January 2018 - June 2018
In 2050, Alcamo Marina will face the global warming. The coast will be silt up and houses will be destroyed. To be prepared, this project host a school to teach the young architects how to build for this futur. This school has been thought in two periods of time: 2018 and 2050. First, in 2018 the project respond to the urban context and sensibilize the public to the global warming. The sensibilization is given by its architecture playing with gravity and the spatial organization. Indeed, the school is treated as an opened museum, where classrooms are showcases, for the public to be spectactor of their new futur. In 2050, thanks to the spatial planning, the sand movement is guided into specifics places. New rooms are then discovered or filled. The project lasts under the sand.
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INTERACT
Type : Urbanism and housings Site : Paris Goal: hosting 150 students in North Paris with a view to the «Grand Paris» project. Land chosen after analysis. Ecology notions included. February - June 2017
By offering new dwellings in the North, the project recreate a soft mobility from north to south around the river, and requalify the river which is nowadays not used by the surroundings inhabitants. The project has been thought using a small frame of 3x3 meters to guarantee a flexible design and ecologic architecture by prefabrication. This small grid allows a full integration with the «village» buildings near by.
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Type : Urbanism and publics buildings Site : Nihonbashi-gawa (Tokyo) Goal: Offer an efficient urban system by the rehabilitation of the road infrastructure to allow a new relationship with the river, density and reconnection with the divided territory. GRADUATION PROJECT With highest honour of the jury. September 2019 - September 2020
Tokyo, a phoenix city, has reinvented itself several times throughout its history. However, the urge to promote itself to the rank of world metropolises during the twentieth century went against what made it the capital of Japan: the canals. Today, the revalorization of this symbolic heritage has become the priority of the oriental Venice. Nihonbashi-gawa, Edo’s most traveled canal, is on top of the list to regain his floating face. Currently covered with a road infrastructure on stilts, the city wishes to move part of this highway underground in order to regain its sky. However, since the industrial era, the canal has become a territorial rupture because of banks similar to walls and the independence growth of each district. Views are rare on Nihonbashi-gawa, public spaces absent, the demolition of the infrastructure will not be sufficient to ensure the upgrading of this mythical watercourse. So how it would be possible to upgrade the Nihonbashi-gawa canal?
As a Westerner, the first track would be to redevelop the banks by creating public spaces to allow the upgrading of the canal just like the Sumida river. However, Tokyo has been facing for 20 years a centripetal migration which is due to rural desertification. from Japan. In view of these migrations, the transformation of the shores is a luxury that Tokyo cannot afford. However, the highway will soon be deactivated, has several advantages: - This represents a real estate in gold, it can allow a densification in the center of Tokyo. - As graft architecture is part of the Tokyo landscape, the use of the motorway deck as a construction space is a possible solution. - In addition to the layered urban planning present in the landscape in Japan, the infrastructure can become an interface for neighborhoods. - Implanted in the river, the deck has the capacity to offer a new relationship to the water. In this project, my bias is to play with these Tokyo architectural and urban rules by proposing a new urban system on the existing object: the road infrastructure. My role here is to provide an efficient urban system that meets territorial needs. It will offer density, connection between districts and an upgrade of the historic Nihonbashi-gawa canal. This system will be treated both as a property and as an interface. Then, on each plot drawn, a call for tenders will be established by the city and financed by the major players and the government.
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DRAWINGS
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