Architecture Portfolio

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EDUCATION 2012 : Baccalauréat OIB English, (Option Internationale du Baccalauréat), Scientific section, History of Art option, with mention, Lycée International Georges Duby, Luynes, (13) CAE Cambridge (Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English) IGCSE Spanish (International General Certificate of Secondary

Claire Afarian April 21st, 1994 in Aix en Provence

Education) 2012-2015 : Bachelor’s degree, ENSA Marseille 2015-2017 : Master’s degree, ENSA Paris-Val-de-Seine

SKILLS spoken and writen (fluent) french, english, spanish

On Mac OSX and Windows XP Autocad, InDesign, Photoshop

Carrer de Valencia, 261 Barcelona, Spain

Vectorworks, Illustrator

Sketch Up, Rhinoceros

Hand modeling

INTERESTS / ACTIVITIES claire-af@hotmail.fr Travels (Europe, Egypt, USA, Japan, Australia, Mexico, Brazil) ,

cla_rian

reading (literature/specialised magazines), practice of the piano and tennis since the age of six.

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE / OTHERS

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November - January : participation in the organisation of the architectural exhibition at the Villa Noailles in Hyères « Architectures pour l’avenir », work on Ian+ and Vincent Parreira, curated by Florence Sarano, curator at the Villa Noailles and teacher at the ENSA Marseille January : internship, Tetra Construction - Aix en Provence July - September : internship, Amelia Tavella Architectes - Aix en Provence February : internship, Studio KO - Paris June : International workshop of urban project « Mediterranean style, architectural tradition

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and geographical translation », 2nd prize, Piacenza, Italy July : XXIInd International seminary of urbanism, Monte Carasso, supervised by Luiggi Snozzi and Stefano Moor, Ticino, Switzerland

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September : participation in the exhibition «Roma 20-25», Maxxi museum, Rome

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December : «JOP» (les jeunes ont la parole / the youth has the floor) at the Louvre Museum, mediation work with the public concerning the piece of work Under the biggest circus tent of the world by Claude Lévêque

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January 2016 : internship, Atelier m3a, Marseille

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June 2017: final project in Santiago de Compostela

July 2016 : internship, Outeda y Taboas - Pontevedra, Spain

September - February 2018 : internship, Barozzi & Veiga, Barcelona, Spain - work on the executive part of the MCBA in Lausanne ; international competition

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This portfolio gathers a selection of works realised during my scolarity at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Marseille from 2012 to 2015, and during my master’s degree at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris Val de Seine from 2015 to 2017.

It aims at showing a brief overview at the different skills learnt at school as well as the the sensibilities developped along those years of studies.

To finish with, some photographs and personnal productions will end your reading.

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BACHELOR’S DEGREE 1st to 3rd year SELECTION OF PROJECTS Studio Ivry SERRES / 1st semester Studio Jean Baptiste HEMERY / 4th semester Studio Hervé DUBOIS & Frédéric EINAUDI / 5th semester Studio Stéphane FERNANDEZ & Guillaume CALAS / 6th semester

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1st YEAR PROJECTS

A platform in the Callelongue inlet

work supervised by I. Serres 2012

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Like a terrace on the sea

> Design of a platform in a rocky inlet.

INFINITE

BRISK

BRIGHTNESS

The aim of that platform is to offer a view of the site without altering it.

As the environment is powerfull with the presence of the stone and the water, the hitting sun, the idea was to create a « tool to see » the islands nearby and the impressive cliffs, but not to be seen.

A sort of scenario helped me to imagine the path and the vision of the visitor. « He goes dowstairs, sit dow for an instant : his view is divided. In front of him, the sky is always constantly changing, at his feet, the sea seems to carry him away, as if he found himself on the deck of a boat.

As he raises his head, he perceives a sailing boat, slidding peacefully. » The project was also inspired by a poem.

Come to the window, sweet is the night-air!

Only, from the long line of spray Where the sea meets the moon-blanch’d land, Listen! you hear the grating roar Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling, At their return, up the high strand, Begin, and cease, and then again begin, With tremulous cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in.

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situation plan

E. Chillida L’éloge de l’horizon

photograph, collage Callelongue

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Model’s photograph

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A hollowed room

work supervised by I. Serres 2012

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An enlightened cave

> Creation of a hollowed room in the rocky inlet of Callelongue, that would shelter exhibitions working with a special treatment of the light.

LIGHT

MATERIAL

SOUND

The project works with different kind of lights. It penetrates the cave thanks to two rectangular shaped holes. The first one, located in the junction of the wall and the ceiling, is soft and grazing, or strong and dazzling according to the hours of the day. The second one, also grazing, feeble, will reveal the ebb and flow of the sea that will dive into the room, below the stairs.

The visitor would feel surrounded by the elements, he could touch the massive rocky volume above his head, while feeling blinded by the sun, his feet touching the cold salted water.

That water would bring sparkling reflections in the cave.

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Chapel of light, T. Ando A. Rodchenko, Steps photograph, CitĂŠ textures tests, Radieuse collage

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Model’s photograph

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2ND YEAR PROJECT

An urban equipment at the Réformés-Canebière

work supervised by J-B Hemery 2013

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An urban microscom

> In front of the Church of the Réformés, along the Canebière, the project must be an urban equipment. Therefore, it must redefine the square that is no longer one, and give life and function to this area of the city.

DETACHMENT

CROSSROADS

CRESCENDO

The Léon Blum square is a very turbulent area with all his pedestrian and automobile circulations. It turns out that it does’nt have the status of a real square, as we clearly see that it is a crossing point.

The objective of the project was then to give some new functions to this area thanks to the project, and obvisously to create a desire to mark a stop and take time to watch the city.

The project to qualify this square works with different heights, giving a human scale in the middle of the bigness of the city.

The detachment of the ground was the generating idea of the project which became materialized by a decomposed roof lifted up, sheltering numerous activities and public spaces. For example, spaces for exhibitions, stands for shopkeepers, amphitheater...etc.

The final point in the parcours is the rooftop, from which visitors can enjoy the panoramic view on the city, the Old Port and the church of the Réformés.

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Reference, Martial Raysse Model’s photograph, rooftop model’s photograph, northern entrance

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3RD YEAR PROJECTS

Housing, impasse Jolie Manon

work supervised by H. Dubois and F. Einaudi 2014

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A the heart of the block

> DensifIcation of a plot by creating housing and other functions related to the city.

DILATATION

CONTINUITY

BREATHING

The project is articulated around a courtyard that is the meeting point generated by the three building sourrounding it.

The idea was to create a continuity with the neighbourhood, thanks to the pilotis that raises the housing to offer a public area and trigger a permeability with the city life. Their orientation permit to play with the vision of the stroller, either blocked or free.

Three major entrances are located at the junction of the different blocks to get into the courtyard.

The first one is based on a regular weft of 9x4 meters, and comprises different types of housing superimposed and repeted : a triplex plus a studio.

They are served by a long walkway joined on to the party wall. At street level, we can find several small shops.

The other building, on the North of the plot, possesses a reading room and an exhibition area. The rooftop is open to the visitors and the inhabitants that wish to enjoy the peacefull atmosphere of the courtyard.

The final building comprises through appartements, and shops at his groundfloor.

The whole block can be entirely closed thanks to large gates that can spin and give intimacy while allowing a certain permeability.

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A multimedia library at St Victor

work supervised by S. Fernandez and G. Calas 2015

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A new cloister

> Creation of an abbey on

a multimedia library nearby a high point of Marseille.

SILENCE

REPETITION

MODESTY

The context in which this project will take place is a very interesting one. On the West side, the Abbey of St Victor was first built during the fifth century, was partly demolished and then rebuilt several times. A particularly rich sedimentation.

On the South-East side, the Fort St Nicolas and its outer wall overlook the whole Vieux Port.

On the other side of the Port, the Fort St Jean and the neighbourhood of the Panier, and finally the church of La Major.

The idea was to constitute an entity in retreat next to the abbey, which would create a peacefull atmosphere, the major characteristic of a cloister.

Its typology seamed to be a right choice to answer those criterias. Moreover, the entity would come and touch down the existing gentle slope so as to keep its qualities.

As an eternal stroll around the central yard that would orientate the parcours and the different functions, the project develops itself thanks to its L shaped porticos, while winding around the yard and facing modestly the abbey.

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Coupe de dĂŠtail, espace de lecture individuelle _ 1/50e

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model’s photograph collage luminombre

cross section

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BACHELOR’S DEGREE 1st to 3rd year

SELECTION OF WORKS, ART AND ANALYSIS

Art / Bernard BOYER / 3rd and 4th semester Analysis of a housing building / Atelier H. DUBOIS & F. EINAUDI / 5th semester

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The burning whisper of the salty wind

work supervised by B. Boyer 2013

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An openwork crossing

> Reflection on a conceptual project that would cross a lake with a dimension of 20x60 meters, with all the sensory aspects that it comprises. The final project, still blurry, remains symbolic and poetical, and most of all, the result of graphical experimentations, collalges, abstracts models and even a short film.

The position adopted in this project was the one of fragmentation of light and sight.

The initial video realised at the beginning of the semester guided the whole process.

From a photograph of a plant’s leaf, the escalator of the Centre Pompidou, to the memorial of Walter Benjamin realised by D. Karavan, all sorts of images and references nourished the project.

The way we presented our final work was very special as we sticked every little piece of work that we had done during the whole semester , uppon an unfold roll of kraft paper (drawings, collages, paintings...etc), and as a final composition, one panel was also posted as a synthesis of the project.

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«Capricious gravity»

work supervised by B. Boyer 2014

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DÖDÖ

> During this second semester, we had to think about and realise a real object allowing people to sit or rest on it.

The idea was to think of it as modular system like the IKEA furnitures.

The approach of conception and research were similar to the previous semester, except the «concrete» character it had to embrace.

The built object was then a seat made out of timber battens, linked by threaded rods to maintain the seat as one piece. The intention was to keep a certain freedom of use, as we can unfold it a little bit to regulate the inclination of the back, or even turn it over to use it as a storage unit. It is today used as such.

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The Guaimbe Residential Building

work supervised by H.Dubois and F.Einaudi 2014

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The GuaimbĂŞ Residential building was completed in1962 in Sao Paulo by the Brazilian architects Paulo Mendes Da Rocha and Joao de Gennaro.

It fits discreetly in the forest of high rise buildings, designing the skyline of the city.

Its concrete facade and its delicate integration, its thin pedestal provides it with a remarquable elegance.

The appartements are situated in retreat from the adjoining buildings so as to benefit from the lateral light. The major use of concrete signifies its belongingto the Modern movement, but more precisely to the brazilian brutalism embodied by Vilanova Artiguas.

The building possesses 14 floors, in which a unique appartement occupies the 190 square meters of one floor. There are very area dedicated to common spaces and circulations, a detail that communicates the idea of individualism and a certain wealth.

In terms of spatiality, the wall are non bearing ones. The architect didn’t have the intention to create fragmented rooms but a flowing one. This approach certainly recalls Mies Van Der Rohe’s and his Farnsworth house for the continuity of space or the use of free shape with the Tugendhat house.

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Model’s photograph, view of the lateral gills

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MASTER’S DEGREE 4th and 5th years SELECTION OF PROJECTS Studio A. SOMPAIRAC, M. KLAPISCH / 7th semester Atelier A. DURRMEYER & J. BROUSSART / 8th semester Studio L. BEAUDOUIN & C. FAIVRE-AUBLIN / 9th & 10thsemester

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PROJET 4ÈME ANNÉE

Restructuration of the Museum of Saint-Denis

work supervised by A. Sompairac and M. Klapisch 2015

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A screen on the city

> Restructuration of the museum of Saint Denis, while considering the built heritage.

UNDERLINE

GATHER

RECENTRE

The museum of Saint-Denis is located on the Northern outskirt of Paris, and possesses a rich history. Indeed, it comprises a cloister that used to be frequented by the daughter au Louis XV who partly financed it and permitted as well to benefit from the presence of a chapel. Those two major aspects confers therefore a particular atmosphere and a spatial quality, that are yet not really highlighted.

Our position was then to give back the original status and a better reading of the different buildings that composed the museum (that is designated a Unesco World Heritage site).

To reach this objective, we chose to renovate an old garage nearby the museum in order to create a new entrance, which could find itself located on the street and not distant from it anymore.

This area would also host spaces of temporary exhibitions related to the city’s activities.

The underlining of the old buildings seemed essential ; as a result, we decided to create a low building that would host some new exhibition rooms and a cafeteria (the current museum cruelly lack of room to show their collection). The line of its flat roof would come and emphasize the qualities and particularities of the existing elements.

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Perspective, view from la place de la rĂŠsistance

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Working spaces in Clichy-Montfermeil

work supervised by Adrien Durrmeyer and Julien Broussart, 2016

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A double proposal

> Creation of working areas and spaces in the outskirts of Paris.

INTERSECTION

AMBIVALENCE MODULARITY

The project is localised amidst a residential neighboorhood, made of numerous individual house units. Very close to a 30 meter high water tower, the idea was to take into account this duality in the process of the project. It is this double scale, urban and domestic, that was conveyed by the interlocking of two diferent buildings, shapes and materialities. Those diferences were not only formal but also functional.

The first building indeed fits closely the very shape of the plot, and by this action defines an urban surrounding. Its skin wrap its structure by still allowing large openings. Inside, the working space is a common one, shared at odd times by light separations, creating a generous open space.

Its 5 meters width give a transparency and let the workers the freedom to enjoy at the same time the lively urban atmosphere and the peaceful one of the patios.

The second building is a much more sculptural one. It houses other programs such as a conference room, some co-working areas, a cafeteria...The intersections of these buildings hold the technical areas and the circulations.

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Collage, view from the peripheric building, 2nd floor

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5TH YEAR PROJECT

Final project (diploma)

work supervised by Marco Tabet, then Laurent Beaudouin and Cyrille Faivre-Aublin 2016-2017

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An architectural archipelago

> How to dynamise the Belvis Park ?

Both programs and location were personally chosen.

TRADITION

STROLL

PALIMPSEST

The project is localised near the ancient city center of Santiago de Compostela, in Galicia, the most Western region of Spain, above Portugal.

North to the Park, the COAG (Contemporary art center of Galicia) and the San Domingos de Bonaval park were designed by Alvaro Siza.

The project is a continuation of the architect’s idea of the revelation of the ancient imprints erased by time.

The goal was to reveal or underline the existing or partly disappeared features of the parks. In that sense, the palimpsest of this park was to be highlightened.

The first and main gesture was to restaure the flow of the old river crossing the park in its length.

Therefore, the river would trigger a new promenade in the park, guiding people through the new diferent architectural interventions.

In total, 9 interventions were designed, from pragmatic ones to more poetic ones : toilets, engine storages, a market place, locker rooms... and 3 main pavilions (exhibition, meditation and open air theater). Each of them were thought according to existing elements, either reusing them or reinterpretating them.

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ceramic tuiles de tiles céramique 3cm 3cm

ON & LIEU D’EXPERIMENTATION +260.00

bac acier + béton steel deck + concrete

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H profile

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COUPE DÉTAIL 1.20 CHEMIN DU PARC

round profile profilédiameter section ronde 15cm

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diamètre 15cm

PLAN SOUS SOL _1.100e

PLAN RDC _1.100e

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PLAN RDC _1.100e

sable sand

Paths detail

pavés de granit massive granite 25x25x8cm 12x12x8cm granite channel rigole en granit 40cm width largeur 40cm

gouttière béton

dalle de granit sur plot

béton brut, banches en bois Roofing detail - Secondary pavilions

VESTIAIRES _ 1.100E

COUPE DETAIL DE TOITURE_ 1.20e gouttière béton

pierre de taille, granit de Caverneira dalle de granit sur plot

Concrete gutter cast concrete, woodden béton brut, banches en bois form panels

granite paving slabs

pierre de taille, cut de stone granit Caverneira

COUPE TRANSVERSALE _ 1.100e

COUPE TRANSVERSALE _ 1.100e

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COUPE DÉTAIL 1.20 CHEMIN DU PARC

COUPE LONGITUDINALE SUR PUIT DE LUMIERE _ 1.100e

ROJET DE FIN D’ETUDES DE1 ALTO, HABITERSUR LE PAYSAGE ENSEIGNANTS : CYRILLE FAIVRE-AUBLIN & LAURENT BEAUDOUIN _ ENSAPVS 2016/2017 COUPE_LONGITUDINALE PUIT DE_LUMIERE _ 1.100e

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LOGE DE GARDIEN _ 1.100E

Double wall detail - Open air theater

COUPE LONGITUDINALE _ 1.100e

Drainage ditch detail - Meditation pavilion

COUPE DETAIL _ 1.20e

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CLAIRE AFARIAN _ LE PARC DE BELVIS A SAINT JACQUES DE COMPOSTELLE : UN ARCHIPEL ARCHITECTURAL _ PROJET DE FIN D’ETUDES _ DE1 ALTO, HABITER LE PAYSAGE _ ENSEIGNANTS : CYRILLE FAIVRE-AUBLIN & LAURENT BEAUDOUIN _ ENSAPVS 2016/2017

COUPE LONGITUDINALE _ 1.100e

COUPE DETAIL _ 1.20e

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UN ARCHIPEL ARCHITECTURAL

Nolli’s plan of the city and the Belvis Park

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COUPE TRANSVERSALE 1.100E _ DEUX ESPACES EN VIS A VIS

+230.00 NGF

PLAN SOUS SOL _1.100e

PLAN RDC _1.100e

PLAN 1.100E

+254.85

gouttière béton

dalle de grani

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béton brut, banches en bois +251.00

pierre de taille, granit de Caverneira

COUPE LONGITUDINALE 1.100E _ LE PROJET DANS LA PENTE Longitudinal section - Exhibition pavilion

COUPE TRANSVERSALE _ 1.100e

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CLAIRE _ LE PARC DE BELVIS A SAINT JACQUES DE COMPOSTELLE : UN ARCHIPEL ARCHITECTURAL _ PROJET DE FIN D’ETUDES _ DE1 ALTO, HABITER LE PAYSAGE _ ENSEIGNANTS : CYRILLE FAIVRE-AUBLIN & LAURENT BEAUDOUIN _ ENSAPVS 2016/2017 COUPEAFARIAN TRANSVERSALE 1.100E

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+267.00 NGF +236.10 +234.70

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COUPE LONGITUDINALE 1.100e

COUPE LONGITUDINALE SUR-PUIT DE LUMIERE pavilion _ 1.100e Longitudinal section Meditation

COUPE DETAIL 1.20e

COUPE DETAIL _ 1.20e

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CLAIRE AFARIAN _ LE PARC DE BELVIS A SAINT JACQUES DE COMPOSTELLE : UN ARCHIPEL ARCHITECTURAL _ PROJET DE FIN D’ETUDES _ DE1 ALTO, HABITER LE PAYSAGE _ ENSEIGNANTS : CYRILLE FAIVRE-AUBLIN & LAURENT BEAUDOUIN _ ENSAPVS 20

COUPE PAYSAGERE Cross section -1.500e Open air theater

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CLAIRE AFARIAN _ LE PARC DE BELVIS A SAINT JACQUES DE COMPOSTELLE : UN ARCHIPEL ARCHITECTURAL _ PROJET DE FIN D’ETUDES _ DE1 ALTO, HABITER LE PAYSAGE _ ENSEIGNANTS : CYRILLE FAIVRE-AUBLIN & LAURENT BEAUDOUIN _ ENSAPVS 2016/2017

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Outside

Inside / Outside

Exhibition pavilion

Meditation pavilion

Open air theater

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« La clé, c’est regarder : regarder, observer, voir, imaginer, inventer, créer »

Le Corbusier, 1963

personal photographs and references, randomly selected

Igor Mitoraj, VallĂŠe des Temples, Agrigente, 2011

L’étoile, Edgar Degas, 1876-1877

Camino Real, Cy Twombly, 2015

Federal Center, Mies Van Der Rohe, Chicago, 2014

Espace de l’Art Concret, Mouans-Sartoux, Gigon&Guyer, 2017

Portugal’s Pavilion, Alvaro Siza, Lisbon, 2016

Palestra a Losone, Livio Vacchini, 2015

House in Kyoto, 2007

Quote, Can Framis Foundation, Jordi Badia, 2014

Dome of Milan, 2015

Explosion of painting personal project 2014

Painting on an existing wall personal project 2015

Collage, La seine 2015

Casa Asencio, A. Campo Baeza, plaster model 2016

Casa Kalman, L. Snozzi plaster model 2016

Torre Guaceto, Puglia, Italy 2017

Silvacane Abbey, Aix en Provence, 2017

thank you ! i am currently looking for a position as a junior architect, feel free to contact me claire-af@hotmail.fr

cover photograph : MoMa PS1’s courtyard, 2015

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