Chloe Marie | Architectural Graduate Portfolio

CHLOE MARIE

+353 8 99 78 88 45 chloe.vm.marie@gmail.com

ARCHITECTURAL GRADUATE BA.(Hons) 2017

PORTFOLIO

CHLOE MARIE

11 Leo Street,

ARCHITECTURAL GRADUATE

chloe.vm.marie@gmail.com

Phibsborough, Dublin 7 +353 8 99 78 88 45 issuu.com/chloe647

CONTENT

CURRICULUM VITAE

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PROFESSIONAL WORK Ailtireacht Architects

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Dominique Hébert Architecte

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FINAL YEAR PROJECT Creamery Complex

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FOURTH YEAR PROJECT Housing and Gym

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SKILLS OVERVIEW

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Mountjoy square, Dublin

Annoville, France

Isle of Arran, Scotland

Ferrybank, Co. Waterford

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CHLOE MARIE

11 Leo Street,

ARCHITECTURAL GRADUATE

chloe.vm.marie@gmail.com

Phibsborough, Dublin 7 +353 8 99 78 88 45 issuu.com/chloe647

PROFILE I am 25 years old and love reading. I felt a co-operative and encouraging atmosphere in DIT which is why I completed my studies there. Now graduated, I am looking forward to pursuing a career in an architecture office that can teach me the knowledge needed for the RIAI part 3 to become a registered architect. Growing up with a twin I have always been part of a team and wish to be part of one again in my profession. I am always eager to learn and discover new things.

EDUCATION

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

BA. (HONS) ARCHITECTURE Dublin Insitute of Technology, Dublin | 17

AILTIREACHT ARCHITECTS Architect intern | September 16 - May 17

After my erasmus, I chose to transfer here to finish my studies.

The staff’s mindset and the time allocated for studio projects determined my decision.

Models, Planning Applications start to finish, Tender documents.

Door and window schedule, bathroom and kitchen schedules, Ironmongery, Construction details. Cover letters, snag lists.

BA. ARCHITECTURE Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Montpellier | 14

DOMINIQUE HÉBERT ARCHITECTE Intern | June 14

DOUBLE LICENCE, HISTORY OF ARTS AND ENGLISH One year, Institut Catholique de Paris | 10

AGENCE DIESNIS Intern | April 12

Study of art objects, temple construction, churches.

English litterature and history, grammar and phonetics.

Contractor’s office discovery. Pricing of elements from Architect’s plans for invoices. Study of pricing books references.

A-LEVELS IN ECONOMY, APPLIED MATHS Lycée Sivard de Beaulieu, Carentan | 09

DIVERSE COMPANIES Unskilled Employee | Summers 08-16

Extra-curricular activities included theatre, latin, piano, drawing lessons, kayaking and archery.

Oyster harvester, secretary, waitress in McDonald’s and restaurant, saleswoman in jewellery, cashier, cleaning lady.

VOLUNTARY EXPERIENCE

SKILLS

Oklahoma Competition | February - March 15

PROFICIENT

GOOD

Autocad

Vectorworks

Indesign

Illustrator

Photoshop

V-Ray

A normal timetable would have different subjects and lectures from 8am to 6pm four days a week and one day allocated to studio.

Co-operative design between architects and architectural technologists from Oklahoma University of a high school.

Test of English as a foreign Language Preparation | July 12

Kaplan program in Chicago preparation for the TOEFL. Test necessary to apply for University in English speaking countries. Result 94|120.

Minium needed for any university, 80. For elite universities, 110.

Test Of English for International Communication | Feb. 12

Exam self studied. Taken to assert my english level. Test used for engineers to validate their college degree in France, (score needed 750-800). Score obtained, 905|990

Workshop Modernité de la Pierre | April 11

Study of Arches and traditional church maconnery. 1.1 scale model made of one type of arch without mortar.

LANGUAGE SKILLS

To keep my language skills up to date, I continuously read and watch movies in the original language, as well as engaging in conversations.

FRENCH NATIVE

ENGLISH FLUENT

SPANISH SCHOLAR

Refining Autocad skills, planning permission drawings skills.

General discovery of an architecture’s office.

Sketchup Office suite

PROFESSIONAL WORK

WORK EXPERIENCE ABSTRACT

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fter my 3rd year, I work for a month in an architect’s office of my choice as part of a mandatory discovery of a work place related to architecture. I discovered the basics of the job as an architect.

I took a year out after my fourth year in DIT. I felt I needed to understand what was expected of an architect. I wanted to grasp the implications and duties of my soon-to-be profession.

I found a 9-month internship in Ailtireacht, a small office on Mountjoy Square. It was run by Allister Coyne under whom worked 1 employee and 2 to 3 interns.

The composition of the office varied through the year but that was the point it was at when I started. Being in a small group allowed me to experience a little of everything, from the most basic task, answering the phone, to more elaborate ones like planning applications.

Working in this office enlightened me on the complexity of being an architect. A capacity to design is just as important as being a good business person. I learnt a lot over those 9 months and enjoyed the overall experience.

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Survey Section Top Planning Application plan Bottom Tender plan extract Right Page | 5

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Design development plans | Facades Top Left Design development Sections Bottom Left Tender plan Right

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FINAL YEAR PROJECT

THESIS WRITING EXTRATCS

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uman experience is rooted in nature.

Man uses the ground to provide for his needs, he contemplates the landscape to exalt his spirit but he also has a necessity to protect himself from the natural elements.

Such need has pushed man to build shelters, thus displacing him from a direct connection with nature. Since this schism, man observes a primal need to reconnect with nature, whether it expresses itself by means of pleasure and contemplation (the romantics) or by necessity (global warming). Here lies the connection and regain of interest of an architecture related to nature. From within a building, man looks out the window, into nature. He sees the landscape beyond, the ground, sky, hills. These elements are united by “the apparent line that divides the earth and sky� (Veseley,2002), the horizon.

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RECLAIMING THE HORIZON

SEMESTER 1 PROJECTS Pavilion, Howth Top Parish center, Christchurch Above

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eaching for the Horizon “[…]. Turning left into an intimate courtyard, […], there are four pairs of wooden doors that withhold the view beyond. When the doors are open the searching eyes align the body squarely to the magnet of the horizon line.” (Andresen, 2003, p.34) Andresen helps us understand that it is through movement that the horizon expresses its power in the process of the promenade. The motion from the entrance to a space has the potential to unveil its power.

Andresen’s example of the promenade in Can Lis house conveys an idea of constant control of the horizon within rooms, where its strength is given back in the last room, here, the living room. Control of the horizon is yet always present. The promenade is a tool to accumulate moments creating a climax of relief when the horizon is given back at the end of the motion within the room. In Can Lis, Jorn Utzon develops a horizontal promenade, horizon is given in glimpses until it is displayed in the living room.

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perture on the beyond “the primary sense in our experience of the world […] is sight. It is primarily by sight that we know where we are and can assess where we want to be; it is by sight that we appreciate beauty.” (Unwin, 2014, p.303) Siza’s Boa Nova tea house focuses on the restraint of horizon through the openings. As one enters the restaurant, he is only given a view of the sky straight ahead or the rocks down below through horizontal windows. The roof acts as an object blocking the horizon, directing the eye one way through the apertures created by its disjunctions. It is only as one reaches the bottom of the restaurant, the dining room that he is reunited with the horizon.

Siza explores the idea that a building can focus on the horizon even if it doesn’t exist, the aim of the building moves to the necessity to fixate on the elements of the horizon such as sky and ground or those that break the horizon, trees and rocks.

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onstructed Line “Shifts of movement are articulated within constructed horizons that are fractured by stairs, the main ramp and other elements in order to make interior and exterior rooms for new occupation.”

(Ewing, 2012, p.67) Sverre Fehn disturbs one’s expectation of the horizon in his Hamar Museum. He develops a constructed horizon through different aspects.

The ramp servicing the museum fabricates a constant line moving with the user until a new horizon (the natural horizon) is revealed. It is only from the ramp’s highest external point that the wider landscape in which the museum is sited is revealed. (Ewing, 2003, p.307) He also works with the imaginary line, looking to make one perceive the experience of being above or below. The horizon is always set at eye level as such, one is never above or below it. Sverre Fehn blurs this line throughout the building looking into a less formal understanding and expression of the horizon and horizon line. He does such using materials, concrete and stone are treated as part of the ground, glass and timber as part of the sky, always opposed thus, constructing an imaginary line from which one searches for his place. “materials are used to orient the human experience in relation to both ground and sky. Throughout the building the fundamental relationship of being ‘above’ accentuates the experience of being ‘below’.“(Ewing, 2003, p.306)

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FINAL YEAR PROJECT, Creamery complex

The gardens create an outside world where one’s horizon disappears behind the walls. It is only as one gets into the buildings that it might be given back.

The creamery and shop focus on the elements that compose the horizon, (ground, sky). The garden shed and accommodation reflect on the external and internal horizon. Finally, the cookery school and restaurant study the ceilingscape and how its extension helps directing the eye in the fully revealed panorama.

Horizon is experienced by a promenade from a disappearance of the sea horizon to its big reveal.

SHIPPING AND DELIVERIES VISITORS

Concept idea Top Site plan with routes Above Sky path section Right Page | 13

SECTION BB 1.100

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External renders Top Site section Centre Creamery section Above Page | 15

Milk delivery Centre left Detail axonometric Centre right Internal renders Bottom

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FOURTH YEAR PROJECT

PROJECT ABSTRACT

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t the start of the year, a masterplan was developed to study the idea of urban stitching in Waterford. Different transport networks would help transition between Waterford and Ferrybank, opening up the Viking triangle, heart of the city. A proposed tramway line linking both sides of the river would accommodate faster circulation through the city and help reduce reliance on the car.

The site, situated on the docklands of Ferrybank, houses deserted silos and warehouses, constantly overlooking an inspiring view of the south quays of Waterford.

We were to design a mixed use development comprising housing and gym but before doing so, I chose to shape a refined masterplan including a bigger spread of the site and its evolution over time, thus anchoring my project in a long term evolution that would integrate with the general masterplan of the beginning of the year. Silos and warehouses were to be reused for commercial activities, reconnecting with the heart of Ferrybank. Housing was to be developed along the river, intersected by community buildings and parks.

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FOURTH YEAR PROJECT, Housing and gym

The housing takes advantage of the view over the river. Each apartment type has a small terrace providing light and extra space in the living area as well as allowing a connection with the surrounding community.

The gym disappears under a roof garden contributing to the emphasis put on the green spaces and disapperance of cars. Bicycle spaces are provided at floor level and cars disappear underground. Pedestrians are invited to walk around the river and can freely do so.

Apartment plan Above Ground floor plan Right Page | 19

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Reading space Below Living space Centre

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North elevation Top Gym section Centre Gym entrance Above Page | 22

SKILLS OVERVIEW

Sketches study | 3rd year semester 1 Centre

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Models study | 5th year semester 1 Top Models study | 5th year semester 2 Bottom

THANK YOU

+353 8 99 78 88 45 chloe.vm.marie@gmail.com