Benjamin Pra - Portfolio 2018

BENJAMIN PRA 2018 portfolio

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MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE 2015 - Strasbourg National Architecture School

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BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURE 2012 - Strasbourg National Architecture School

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MASTER IN GENERAL ENGINEERING 2011 - Ecole Centrale Lille

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SEGOND - GUYON ARCHITECTES 2016 / 2018 - architectural assistant P. II - 21 months Renovation & extension of the Brazzaville French school Competition + Developed design + Tender

Certificate of Advanced English 2009 - Cambridge - level C1

AWARDS & WORKSHOPS WINNER OF THE MNPG ARCH COMPETITION 2016 Lighthouse on the Sapphire Coast, Australia

Extension of the Lagos French school + Staff housing - Competition

PIN ARCHITECTURE JUNE 2016 Graphic design « The Invisible Skyline »

Auditorium & sports complex of the Niamey French school - Competition

EXHIBITION “VEGETABLE CITIES IN 2115” Ephemeral nests with Luc Schuiten & Erik Barray

Canopy of the Abu Dhabi French School Developed design + Tender M. House Concept & Developed design - Building permit Technical design - Construction supervision - Handover

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CAUE STRASBOURG 2014 - intern urban planner - 6 months

Quantity surveys for asbestos removal & renovation of social housing

NORPAC 2010 - construction supervisor assistant- 4 months

Renovation of Chauny High school, coordination of all building trades

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Preliminary studies for urban renewal in rural communities in Alsace

ARCADUS 2011 - intern architectural assistant - 4 months

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G. STUDIO 2014 - architectural assistant P.I - 4 months

Solar parametric studies for an urban development zone in Lagord Feasibility study for the renovation of an enamel factory - Beauménil

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Chorister & Secretary - Omega Choir - Lyon - 2017 / 2018 Graphic design for the concert posters Secretary - Strasbourg comunity garden - 2012 / 2015

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Fraction Lighthouse p. 4

M. House p. 6

Content

Botanical Garden p. 12

Writing house p. 18

French school + Staff housing in Lagos p. 22

French school in Brazzaville p. 20

Parametric Experimentation p. 28

Urban Studio p. 26

PINarchitecture p. 30

Auditorium + Sports complex in Niamey p. 24

Drawing & Sculpture p. 31

Fraction Lighthouse Competition laureate MNPG Arch Competition Summer 2016 with Amandine Graczyk

Natural expression. The

lighthouse comprises of three plates of reinforced Corten steel, dashing towards the sky at angles as if a greater force below forced them out of the sedimentary rocks. Its rusted and rough surface expresses the salty, eroding nature of the sea as well as it links to the naturally reddish colour of the rocky ground.

Tectonic crack. Between

the plates, a wooden stairway made of locally produced timber finds a way to crawl from the ground to the sky, slithering in the crack to culminate in a panoramic platform. Parametric tools (Grasshopper) allowed for it to organically hang on to nearby surfaces like ivy. It expresses life’s resilience, as it still find ways to thrive in the cracks, under the pebbles, inhabiting the quietest places in the surrounding chaos.

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Permeability. The

lighthouse spaces are open on the outside, enabling one to smell the ocean spray, feel the wind, hear the rolling of the waves, and watch the whales from the panoramic platform on top. Only a small steel grotto offers a protected space dedicated to creators, enclosed by glass to temperate the interior atmosphere while preserving a great outdoor quality of lighting.

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M. House Segond-Guyon Architectes

175 sqm 600 sqm exteriors 430.000 â‚Ź (ex-tax)

Tranquility. M.House is a

private house located in Lyon, southern France. The irregular shape of the plot lead to an L-shape building enclosing the garden in perfect privacy, like a hand cradling a candle flame.

Interior & Exterior. The

house opens itself to the garden through generous bays. The parental suite is bathed in the morning lights on the eastern side, and the full volume of the house extends to the terrace, which is a complete outdoor room.

On the first floor, all rooms overlook the garden by a long slit that directs view toward the ground. The deep wooden window frames give weight to the light crossing from the outside.

Intimacy. The children and

guest rooms are upstairs, allowing the parental suite to function independantly. The guest room also doubles as a second living room through which light can flow into the stairwell and corridor.

Photos by Erick Saillet.

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Strasbourg Botanical garden ENSAS - Final year project

Futures. Cities in the

21st century must reconcile man and nature. This is the new challenge for botanical gardens, which bring together dreamy exoticism with practical education. Now they can move citizens into taking actual action and act as catalysts.

Collections. The gardens

hosts alpine vegetation, dune species, a bamboo grove, agricultural plants, vegetables, medical herbs, orchard trees, and local forest species. In the south, a “citizen experimentation zone� expands on the principle of community gardens. It allows the locals to participate in the development of biodiversity within the city with professional support.

Greenhouse. The

glasshouse conception and its structure make use of parametric design to mimic natural processes. Points drawn on the plane serve as seeds from which sprout pillars, their shape resulting of interactions with their neighbours and outside conditions. All share the same code and yet each is unique.

The borrowed natural process makes complex forms from simple systemic rules.

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RhĂŠna clinic

Strasbourg

A35 Highway

Kehl

Temporary exhibition hall Tropical greenhouse

Projection room

Aquatic greenhouse

Front desk

Dry greenhouse

Permanent exhibition Conference hall Storage

Alpinum Meadow Bamboo grove

Rhine Riverbank garden

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Seeding Context bubble

Structure. The glass skin

is designed on the principle of growing plants. A point is drawn on the ground (seeding) and serves as seed for the pillars. Each seed grows a zone around it (sprouting) until it meets its neighbours’. Territory division lines become a network of load-bearing cells (division).

Meeting points of cells give directions for the loadbearing plates (structuring).

Finally, growth is limited by outside elements, here represented by a hand-drawn bubble (context)

Poetry. The glass canopy

is carried by a forest of metal trees. Inside the greenhouse, the exposed plants coexist with the architectural elements. In the halls and exhibition rooms, these load-bearing trees inhabit the space from soil to sky.

Architecture is then both a context and an object, both around and inside of the exhibition.

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Division

Glass panels

Structuring

Side walls

Context

Modeling. Parametric

tools (Grasshopper) allows the automation of drawing each individual element from geometric rules. The designer’s work can then focus on the “genetic code” of the architecture.

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Writing house ENSAS - Master 2

Serenity. The isolated

mountain ridge under the shadowy Fleckstein castle ruins is the ideal place for a writing and meditation retreat.

Genius of the place. The

imposing castle, the rocky mountain emerging from the surrounding forest and the orchard on the southern slope. The project does not aim the views frontally to these elements that give the place it’s distinctive charm.

It frames them instead in indirect ways, letting them be glimpsed rather than stared at. The rammed earth walls are reminiscent of the red sandstone showing its sedimentary layers all around.

Slopes. Housing are half-

buried in the slope, providing intimacy for the resident writers in the busy months.

The writing rooms emerge from the terraced roofs overlooking the orchard, inciting interaction between the public and the writers’ creative process.

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Conference hall

Restaurant

Exhibition hall Library

Writing rooms Writers’ housing

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French School in Brazzaville Extension & Rehabilitation Segond-Guyon Architectes 6300 sqm 5600 sqm exteriors 4.090.000 € (ex-tax)

Shared space. The French School in Brazzaville hosts students from kindergarten to the end of high school.

Different yards make space fluid while still identifying dedicated poles for each age group so that they share the space peacefully.

Passive buildings. While

the hard-lived habits of the local population does not allow us to rely solely on passive atmospheric control, all has been done to minimise the use of air conditioning.

Ventilated double roofs cover all new buildings, with large overhangs projecting deep shadows on the façades.

Compressed earth bricks regulate humidity and all spaces benefit from doubleorientations for natural ventilation.

Centrality. The central yard is defined by the two libraries and the covered playground.

The complicated shape of the plot is made into an asset for the school, as the kindergarten also benefits from this central place while being more separate than the other age groups to preserve the necessary quiet times of the younger children.

Grille anti-volatile en imposte Ventilation naturelle du plenum

Etanchéité auto-protégée sur plancher hourdis Porte bois

Façade BTC

Bandeau BA Nez de dalle BA

Etanchéité auto-protégée, + Isolation haute densité sur plancher hourdis

Châssis vitré Menuiserie bois

Luminaire type ligne continue suspendue

Faux-plafond BA13 + Isolation 10cm

Couverture existante restaurée

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Chemin de câbles

Plancher hourdis finition enduit+peinture

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Unité de clim Caisson en médium pour passage des réseaux

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Plancher hourdis finition enduit+peinture

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Claustra BTC C1.2

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C1.2 Châssis vitré ouvrant menuiserie bois

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Garde-corps maçonné

Plancher hourdis : 20 cm Finition : Carrelage

Dalle pleine : 20cm Chape : 10 cm Finition : béton lavé

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Plancher hourdis : 20 cm Finition : Carrelage

Dalle pleine : 20cm Finition : carrelage +3.56

Mur BTC Brique de terre compressée

Plinthe carrelage ht : 5 cm

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Mur BTC

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SALLE DE SCIENCES

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STOCKAGE

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COURSIVE EXTERIEURE

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SALLE DE TP

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LABO

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C1.2 Châssis vitré ouvrant menuiserie bois

E2.2 Ensemble vitré menuiserie bois

CLASSE ELEMENTAIRE

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Remplacement du garde-corps Parpaing + enduit 15 cm +3.55

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Nez de dalle BA

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Panneaux suspendus type fibralith

Panneaux suspendus type Fibralith PREAU MATERNELLES

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Portes de placard bois

Portes de placard bois

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Asc. BCD

P1.2

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E5.1 Ensemble vitré Menuiserie bois

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Passage évacuation EU

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Structure bois moisée et triangulée

Pente 5 %

Portes de placard bois

Perspective view by LOTO, based on a 3D model

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Tôle ondulée

Etanchéité auto-protégée sur plancher hourdis

Caniveaux existants révisés Longrines à décaisser

PREAU Cour de récréation sol enrobé existant

Béton lavé Béton lavé -0.10

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French School in Lagos Extension & Rehabilitation Segond-Guyon Architectes 6400 sqm 1300 sqm housing 2300 sqm exteriors 15.000.000 US$ ex-tax

Duality. The French School in Lagos hosts students from kindergarten to the end of high school as well as housing for the staff. The school itself develops deep horizontal lines, making a unitary building for teaching, divided by inner patios to appropriately separate age groups. Housing is grouped into a single tower, with view oriented to the nearby lagoon.

Keeping it cool. Keeping

the existing building was an economical imperative, but the aging structure was poorly adapted to the Nigerian climate. By stripping it to the bare structure and rebuilding completely new faรงades, we integrated shade barriers as well as centralised cooling networks in the horizontal stripes.

A new face. Public image

is very important for such a highly competitive school.

The rehabilitation is not a simple clean-up with the addition of a new building, but a complete redefinition of the existing one into a new single opus.

Perspective view by LOTO, based on a 3D model by B. Pra.

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Cuisine 8m²

Séjour 30m²

Terrasse 11m²

Box 8m²

cellier

Box 8m²

Men. 2m²

San. 13m²

Prof. 66m² +Terrasse 18m² (70m²)

Box 8m²

Box 8m²

Salle GS 60m² (60m²)

Salle GS 60m² (60m²)

San. 13m²

Compta 28 m² (30m²)

Salle GS 60m² (60m²)

Box 8m²

Arts plastiques 90m² Repro 12m² (10m²)

Stockage 10m²

Archives 9m² (20m²)

Terrasse

Box 8m² Salle info 70m² San. 25m²

Stockage 10m²

T2 T2

1/2 groupe 30m²

Terrasse Arts plastiques 75m²

Chambre 14m²

SDB 6m² San. 2m² Circulat ion 6m²

San. prof.

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Secrétariat 18m² Activités 41m² (40m²)

Cour lycée 240m² Centrale entretient 8m²

Chambre 14m²

San. 2m²

1/2 groupe 30m²

Mus. dépot 12m²

Secondaire-musique 50m²

Circulat ion 6m²

SDB 6m²

Art dépot 20m²

Terrasse Technique 80m²

Proviseur 30m²

San. prof.

12m²

Salle de réunion 54m² (50m²)

Séjour 39m²

cellier

TP Info 110m²

Cuisine 8m²

Dépot 9m²

Formateurs 39m² (35m²)

Dépot 9m²

TP humide 70m²

Terrasse 35m²

Men. 4m²

EXAO 70m²

Stock Info 20m² (15m²)

TP sec 70m² Prépa humide 20m²

Info 20m² (15m²)

DAF 15m² Salle banalisée 51m² (50m²)

Prépa sec 20m²

Salle banalisée 51m² (50m²)

Salle banalisée 51m² (50m²)

Salle banalisée 51m² (50m²)

Directeur 15m² Repro 15m²

Etage courant type 1 R+1

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14m² Documentaliste Renc.

8m²

Porche de livraison couvert

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Déchets Carton 8m²

Réception 10m²

Sas

Vestiaires personnel 14m²

Documentaires

AF - Surg.

4m²

15 Gardien 10m²

Vestiaires 20m²

Dgt sport

Vestiaires 20m²

Local pobelles 10m²

CDI 152m² (150m²)

CIO

Ustensiles + consommables 8m²

Vestiaires 20m²

San. 2m² San. 2m²

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Plonge 8m²

Réserve tubercules 3 m²

San. 11m²

San. 11m²

San. 11m²

San. 11m²

Musculation 50m²

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Vestiaires 20m²

Repas élémentaires 162m²

Déconditionnement Légumerie 13 m²

8 Bur prof 10m² Sandw.

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Vestiaires 20m²

Local surpresseur 6m² Accès bâche à eau

Loge 15m²

Loge 15m²

Générateur 2

Atelier (22m²)

Dépôt y/c placards 20m²

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Caisse 15m²

Admin.

Préau maternelles 391m²

Cour maternelle 460m²

Salle de psychomotricité 105m²

Salle polyvalente 268m² (250m² + 18m² rangement gradin) 82 p. (chaises assemblées) + 168 p. (gradins mobiles) Total 250 p.

Salle Polyvalente

Patio salle polyvalente

Prépa fr.

7m² (8m²)

CPE 12m²

Inf. 12m²

Permanence 50m² Repas secondaires 50m²

Foyer 40m²

Mén.

4m²

Repos 5m² (9m²)

Surveillants 15m²

Maternelle Salle MS 60m²

Salle MS 60m²

Salle MS 60m²

Repos 5m² (9m²)

Men. 3m² San. 13m²

Préau secondaire 250m²

Gardien 2 13m² (20m²)

San. 13m² Dortoir 38m² (40m²)

Consult.

12m²

Pôle sportif

ATSEM 20m² (20m²)

Entrée piétons

Guichet

Stock Mobilier 20m²

Stock eau & divers 20m²

Secondaire & Élémentaire

Élémentaire

Entrée véhicules

Vestiaires 20m²

Acces piétons

Préau élémentaire 475m²

Mur d'escalade

Halle sportive 585m²

Cour collège 724m²

Espace d'attente ext.

"Paillotte"

Gardien 1 (existant)

San. public 16m² Cour élémentaire 870m² San. 16m²

LÉGENDE LÉGENDE

Younis Bashorun Street

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Dépôt 20m²

CF Légume 8m² Cuisson 20m²

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Maintenance

Distrib ution 40m²

Rangement 15m² 3

Patio secondaire 140m²

Réserve sèche 10m² Vest prof 12m²

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San. 13m²

Salle MS 60m²

Marmothèque

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Salle MS 60m²

Générateur 1 Cour technique

Laverie 20m²

Dgt cuis.

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Salle MS 60m²

TGBT 9m²

Renc.

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AF - BOF 2 m² AF - viande 3m²

Accès logements

BCD 126m² (122m²)

Périodiques Romans

Réserve produit Local ménage 6m² + 1 m²

AF - + Stock Boi. 4m²

Dojo 120m² 14

San. 13m²

Salle bibliothéconomie

Accueil

Déchets 5m²

Repos 14m²

Vest.

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Accueil 10m²

Heure du conte

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Livraisons

Cuve Fuel enterrée

Bur. Chef 12m²

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Maternelles

Maternelles

Sortie véhicules

Élémentaires Élémentaires Secondaires Secondaires Maintenance / Sanitaires Maintenance / Sanitaires

Gardiens municipaux (existant)

Pôle de gravité

Pôle de gravité

Administration

Administration

Activités sportives / salle polyvalente

Activités sportives / salle polyvalente Logements Point de contrôle

Logement

Salle Banalisée

Arts plastiques

Dojo / Salle de danse

Logement

Pôle Sportif Pôle Sportif

Vestiaires

Réserve

Laverie

Repas élémentaire

Restauration

Centre de Gravité

Logement

Salle Informatique

Reprographie

Sanitaires

Salle d'Activités

Sanitaires

Sanitaires

Préau maternelle

Salle de réunion

Cour de récréation maternelle

Primaire

Secrétariat

Salle polyvalente

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Salle de psychomotricité

Distribution

Evénementiel

Auditorium & Sports complex for French School in Niamey Segond-Guyon Architectes 1.500 sqm 600.000.000 CFA ex-tax

Internal façade. The

addition of a multi-purpose room to the sports complex should not render the site more complex. Although the building is located inside the perimeter of the school, it is the first view that parents get when they come inside and as such, it serves as an external façade for the whole school. The upper part of the auditorium is covered with a solar filter made of stack earth bricks, signifying the importance of the space to the approaching visitor.

Functional space. The

width required by the sports room and the auditorium weigh heavily on this smallbudget operation, hence the rational partition of spaces dissociated block for the circulation. The outdoor circulation acts as a link between all the functional elements as well as a transition between outer and inner spaces.

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Shade and wind. The

Brise-soleil fixe en BTC

Ouvrants à jalousies

Grille métallique

Banc béton

BTC

large overhangs of the double roofs cast shadows of the façades to prevent overheating, while transverse openings and roof shafts allow natural air flow to cool the inner spaces.

Perspective view by LOTO, based on a 3D model by B. Pra.

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Salle polyvalente

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Mur d'escalade

Salle de danse

Vestiaires

Salle de gymnastique

Salle de musculation

Pas de tir

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Emprise programme

Ecran de projection

Ecran de projection

A.7 Loge 10 m²

A.7 Loge 10 m²

A.11 Stock. tech.

18 m²

+0.60 Circulation - 5 m²

A.5 Scène démontable - 73 m²

A.4 Salle polyvalente R+1 - 72 m² Configuration spectacle - 200p.

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A.9 San. 5 m²

PÔLE CULTUREL

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A.4 Salle polyvalente RdC - 180 m² - hsp: 6.5m Dont espace scène démontable - 73 m² Configuration examen

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A.10 Stock. tables / chaises 24 m²

Stock. gradins - 13 m²

C.22 Stock. mur escalade 10 m²

B.8 entr.

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A.8 Régie 6 m²

Fossé drainant

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Unité condensation

Vide en toiture

A.1 Accueil / foyer extérieur 60 m²

Local CTA 22 m²

ACCES SECONDAIRE PÔLE SPORTIF

C.21 Mur escalade 50 m²

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Vide en toiture

banc

Miroirs toute hauteur - barre fixe double hauteur

SAS 3 m²

Split

B.6 San./ douches 20 m²

Coursive extérieure couverte - 113 m²

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Fossé drainant

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B.5 Vest. - 20 m² B.7 Stock. - 20 m²

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B.5 Vest. - 20 m² B.6 San./ douches 20 m²

Fossé drainant

banc

B.3 Salle de danse - 142 m² hsp: 4.7m

B.7 Stock. - 20 m²

SAS 3 m²

s. secours

Miroirs

Porte type sectionnelle

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Espaliers

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Espaliers

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Vestiaires 02 - 43 m²

0.00 Rgmt. cibles surpresseur 3 m²

B.2 Salle musculation - 82 m² hsp: 4.7m

Miroirs 1m du sol

B.1 Hall 20 m²

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A.2 San. 9m²

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A.2 San. 9m²

Split

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Miroirs 1m du sol

Vestiaires 01 - 43 m² Douches 01 27 m²

Douches 02 27 m² San. 02 13 m²

Vestiaires prof.

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Bureau - 10 m²

Stock. - 10 m²

San. 01 13 m²

C.11 Pas de tir 110 m²

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Urban studio ENSAS - Master 1

Scenario. Strasbourg, year

2050, +6°C. The oceans rise.

After the peak-oil, the price of energy sky-rockets and mobility stalls.

Energy transition.

The Oil Port of Strasbourg closes down for a long phytodepuration and naval transports regains public interest. The European Parliament, moved to Brussels, becomes a formation center dedicated to the multiple aspects of our mutating society.

Synergies. The overflows

of the Rhine and its tributaries are oriented to adjacent lands to create controlled flood zones. They provide an experimentation ground for urban agro-ecology.

Strasbourg, which has long tried to channel its rivers, rediscovers the nutritious properties that were a prerequisite for the birth of cities. Watercourses repair a missing link between urbanity and the natural environment.

Global village. The

Rhine becomes once again an entrance door into the city. The ancient Oil Port, symbol of the dependency to fossil fuels, becomes an area of intellectual and scientific development, an anchor point for new modes of mobility, and connection between the outside world and the inner heart of the city.

New buildings Rhine University Cultural Pole Agriculture / Permaculture Planted areas Hyacinth lagoon

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Radiating Rayonner

The new district makes use of the regional and international Utiliserof le the statut et international deitslaenergetic ville de and status cityrégional of Strasbourg to boost Strasbourg afin de favoriser sa transition énergétique et ecological transition. écologique.

Nous nous appuyons sur la présence de friches et de jardins ouvriers, The newly founded Rhineimportante River University draws a new public la proximité de voies maritimes majeures, ainsi que sur plusieurs projets de and attention topour theimaginer locally available resources : fertile lands, développement culturel l’implantation d’un Centre européen de rechercheand sur l’agriculture, la dépollution et l’eau baptisée l’Université du Rhin ou UDR. water naval routes

Coupe dans le canal de la Marne au Rhin

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parc de dépollution Ann experimental plant-based decontamination the ier first e péri entale co parke is pre breath thenouveau new district sou e of d’un uartier one inondable par remontée de nappe one inondable par submersion

Accueillir Welcoming

The Robertsau is built on exposé swamps, highlyd’inondation prone to flooding.

La Robertsau : un district quartier marécageux à unand fort risque

Unifying rehabilitating theRhin Rhine Port makesune a new entrance Unifier etand requalifier le Port du afin de créer entrée fluviale for à the city and accompanies the transportation shift toward more la conurbation Strasbourg-Kehl, accompagnant ainsi la mutation naval des transport. modes de transports.

A ne new management flooding nouvelle estionofde l’inonda ilité turns into ana eur trans aormajor e unnatural ris uerisk naturel en un atoutasset. pour l’a riculture agricultural

L’emplacement de Strasbourg à la confluence du Rhin et des canaux de la Marne au Rhin et du Rhône

au Rhin en fait and un lieuthe stratégique coeur réseau international.

Les espaces portuaires The Rhine canalauto thed’un Rhone River makes the place a et les darses, une fois réaménagés comme une porte d’entrée pour la ville, favoriseraient la connection entre strategic one on a European scale. différents réseaux de transports fluviaux et terrestres.

Secteur pollué

Les activités pétrolières dans le Port du Rhin en font site au sol Oil-related activitiesimplantées in the port make it impossible toundevelop the polluéwithout rendant toute construction impossible sansit une de dépollution area decontaminating first, but canphase become an asset.

Loisirs en plein air : . L’ le aux sports . Parc de l’ rangerie . or t de la Robertsau Parc de la dépollution

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ech.1:10 000 Emprise de la nouvelle one inondable Berges submergées lors des crues Digue existante

Connecting

Connecter The barrier formed by the canal is bridged and it becomes a connecting element

Briser la barrière formée districts. par le canal réaménager les friches existantes afin de between neighbouring Theetgreat landscape qualities of the place and the connecter entre euxalong les différents quartiers. green continuities and across it give this crossroad a major symbolic role in Le canal de la Marne au Rhin est à la croisée de plusieurs quartiers au nord de Strasbourg : il joint les institutions the mental map of Strasbourg.

Nouvelle digue Canal des ran ais remis en eau

création d’un parcours le parc de dépollution expérimentale ALalandscaped circuitpaysager throughtraversant the decontamination park connects the entre eux les trois pôles de loisirs en plein air existants 3connecte existing leisure centres of the neighbourhood.

Several factors allow the creation of a controlled are, favorable favouringà Plusieurstopological facteurs topographiques permet la délimitation d’une one flood inondable agriculture ofberges the riverbanks. l’agriculture etand à la restoration renaturation de du canal

européennes au Port du Rhin et sépare le centre de Strasbourg de la Robertsau. En optimisant sa position centrale ainsi que les espaces en friches qui le bordent, le canal et ses abords deviennent un carrefour inscrit au sein d’une continuité végétale aux nombreuses qualités paysagères.

Prolongation tramway nord

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Parametric Experimentation Tongji University CAUP - Master 1

Discovery. Parametric

processes enable exploring families of forms sharing an algorithmic code. Slight variation of parameters might generate extremely different outputs.

Naturalism. Shapes

emerge spontaneously from the conditions gathered be the designer. Letting go is essential to let chance and randomness surprise us and show us the unexpected as nature usually does.

Research then resembles an exploration during which shapes and forms are discovered rather than designed.

1. Root / Branch propagation principle guided by only 3 parameters leads to diverse patterns emerging.

2. Boid systems are usually used to model flocks or crowd behaviour. Certain parameters lead to static equilibrium positions, stalemates of crystallised tensions.

3-7. Cohesion and repulsion forces drawn at different stages of pattern formation.

8. Volumes obtained by

modelling chemical reaction in a plane and plotting them vertically through time. Forms resulting from a process inspired by chemistry may bear a strong resemblance with other natural forms, corals and minerals, united through underlying mathematics.

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Branching

Separation

Deviation

+ Alignment

Cohesion

Repulsion

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PINarchitecture Micro-competition May 2016 “The invisible skyline�

Interpretations. The

skyline is the skyward face of the city. An invisible skyline can be a failure as the city looks away from its inhabitants. It can also be a promise, a potential that only imagination reveals.

The invisible skyline has just as much to show as it has to hide.

Competition.

PINarchitecture was a monthly graphic design competition with themes touching space or cities, aiming at thought-provoking graphic and poetic designs.

Collaboration. These

propositions were imagined with Amadine Graczyk.

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Drawing & Sculpture

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1. Sketches for the Shadok’s

Nests, ephemeral installation in Strasbourg with Luc Schuiten and Erik Barray.

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2. Ideogrammatic

representation of the genius loci of Fleckenstein castle.

3. Animal spirits made

during a Shanghai ceramics workshop, exploring links between ideas, shapes and textures.

4. Topographic modeling

from partial data. The reconstruction of a distant site (Australia) from a drone video through “Structurefrom-Motion” open software originally designed for archaeology provided a first impression of the terrain.

Manual modelling using a 3D sculpting software was necessary for the missing parts.

5. Self-portrait made with 5

3DsMax as a study of meshes and topology.

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