Flore Schaerrer
Architectural Portfolio Selected Work 2016-2019
Content Selected Work, 2016-2019 EPFL, ETSAB
Curriculum Vitae ____________ Maison pour un plombier narcissique ____________ Cristal ____________ Ciutadella ____________ Delta do Ebro ____________ Element ____________ House II ____________ Myyrmäen Kirkko ____________ Chalet Suisse ____________ Couvent Sainte- Marie de la Tourette ____________ Torre Gaz Natural
Curriculum Vitae
Name
Flore Schaerrer
Adress
17 av. Devin-du-Village 1203 Geneva Switzerland
flore.schaerrer@epfl.ch
Mobile
+41 76 259 90 42
Experience ______________________________________________ Zürich, Switzerland, 2017
House 3
Zermatt, Switzerland, April 2018
ENAC Week
Barcelona, Spain, 2019
Taller Arquitectura i Cine
Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland, August 2019
EASA 2019
Professor Dieter Dietz / ALICE Contruction of a public architectural installation
Renovation of the first floor of a mountain hut (Schönbielhütte)
Professor Maria Mauti / Antonio Pizza Making a movie on a Enric Miralles’ building
European Architecture Student Assembly Workshop: Invisible Tales
Education ______________________________________________ EPFL,
Lausanne Switzerland
Bachelor I
Atelier Alice, Prof. Dieter Dietz Studio Raffael Baur
Bachelor II
Studio Eric Lapierre
ETSAB,
Barcelona Spain
Bachelor III (Exchange year)
Studio Carles Enrich Studio Eduard Gascon and Mara Partida
Competence ______________________________________________ Languages
French English German Spanish Italien
Softwares
Autocad Rhino Topsolid Illustrator Indesign Photoshop
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Maison pour un plombier narcissique Academic project, EPFL 2nd year Professor: Eric Lapierre, Tanguy Auffret-Postel, Mariabruna Fabrizi with Carolina Contreras Alvarez
The exercise of this project was to create a house for a specific client. Ours was a narcissistic plumber. Parallelly, we were working on the artwork of Le Corbusier and we had to inspire ourselves from his principles. One of the points of Le Corbusier’s architecture we tried to interpret was to design the house inside a square which is for him, one of the ways to draw a building. We chose concrete as material. The notion of primary forms was also important for us. As Le Corbusier suggests, the plan was the starting point to generate our building. As we had to design a house for a narcissistic plumber, we imagined placing the boiler in the center. It was linked to each room with pipes. The bathroom was the biggest room of the house. We imagine three pools on the roof related to the rooms on the first floor. Water would flow down the pipe and as such would delimit each room.
Cristal Academic project, EPFL 2nd year Professor: Eric Lapierre, Tanguy Auffret-Postel, Mariabruna Fabrizi with Johan Gurba
For this project we had to invent a building which was a metaphor of a crystal. It was meant to be imagined in the city of Vevey in Switzerland. Also, we decided to design a watch factory on an old parking lot. We used the hexagon shape for the metal structure which reminds the molecular shape of the crystal. We rethought the typical shed factory system to fit it with the hexagonal structure. The sheds are standing as a continuity of the factory next to our building. Thus, the building grows from factory to crystal. The first part of the building hosts the factory itself. Then we can find the reception and offices. The last part, the crystal one, is hosting a watch exhibition. As the light is also an important part of a crystal, we decided to use polycarbonate walls. The sheds are made with transparent glass. It creates different ways for the light to enter the building, related to the different ways the light goes through a crystal. We had to express our project like a comic inspired from the famous cartoonist Chris Ware.
Bosque y Plaza Academic project, ETSAB 3rd year Professor: Carles Enrich
The exercise was to design a student residence building in the district of Ensanche in Barcelona next to the Ciutadella park and the Pompeu Fabra university. The building should host shared rooms for students, classrooms, a cafÊ and spaces for the students to relax and spend time together. The first step to designing the building was an urbanistic approach. On the opposite side of the busy road, next to the University and at the intersection of different pedestrian roads would be created a square. On the other side, a forest protects the whole composition from the noise and pollution of the road, creating a quiet and pleasant living place. The first floor, transparent and porous, is dedicated to communal spaces. The junction’s points between the buildings are also communal spaces; kitchen, terrace and communication nuclei. The habitations stand on the first and second floor. Each room has access to a veranda, a terrace and a bathroom that are shared with another room. The community spaces in the center of each island are illuminated by a large roof window. The building is made of wood and glass.
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Delta do Ebro Academic project, ETSAB 3rd year Professor: Eduard Gascon, Mara Partida 1st part of the project with Ricardo Lopez
The task for this project was to design a touristic center in the nature reserve of the delta of the Ebro in Catalonia. The specific landscape is made of rice field and swamp which house pink flamingos. The Delta is also crossed by irrigation canals. For the project we imagined an agglomeration of buildings crossing a canal and standing on two types of soils; dry earth on one side and swamp on the other. The the whole thing would be connected by a wood platform and a porch. These two structures would set a horizontal line. The constructions would go above or below this limit depending on which side of the canal they stand. The canal separates the habitations that stand on pilotis and the communal building with exposition room, kitchen, reception, restaurant, etc. These communal buildings, white and low, inspire themselves from the vernacular architecture. The habitation parts try to blend in with the landscape. The exterior spaces, places of meeting and relaxation, are an important part of the project. The views from both the interior and exterior spaces are carefully studied. The habitations are, for example, standing directly in the water and have a beautiful panorama of the water and swamp which shelter flamingos.
Element Academic project, EPFL 1st year Professor: Raffael Baur, Dieter Dietz with Victor MĂźller, Katerina Botsis
This project consisted in building a double-element which would integrate into the site of the Tour Bel-Air in Lausanne, Switzerland. The project was running from an analysis of the site of conception and final realization. As a double element we decided to create a frame-bed. It is framing the view of the court to the outside through the passage. The bed can rotate creating a shutter and filtrate the light. From the bed, the view could be reinterpreted.
House II Academic project, EPFL 1st year Professor: Raffael Baur, Dieter Dietz studio project
House II was designed as a public architectural installation. It was the result of the efforts of all first-year students where each studio designed and built a room. These rooms were inserted into sixty meters long protostructure that was running down a railway bridge. We had to think about all the process from resolving the transition between each space, draw the details and think about the prefabrication in Lausanne and the transport to ZĂźrich. Our room was an enclosed space without roof made by wooden panel. It is a calm and intimate place in the movement of the city. By walking barefoot, the sensation of the wood panels calls for meditation and relaxation. The entrance is a two-centimeter-thick concrete slab with reinforced carbon fibers. A thin slab signs the entrance of the enclosed light full space.
On the facades, the shadows are walking. They are roaming the space, two rectangles crossing each other. The rise of the emptiness at the moment occurs, the collapse of the plane in control accentues it. Slabs and walls become one, the abstraction is triumphed by a raging negative. The framed sky opens the enclosed room; the space is public, the place remains private. The peacefulness takes place, the body get lost. The sensation intermingle - light, touch, and sound - leaving room for the mystic: the proportions are human, the fealings have to do with the divine. This is the affirmation of the architecture of the ignored space.
Myyrmäen Kirkko Analysis Work, ETSAB 3rd year Professor: Jaime Jose with Alice Ballesté
This exercise was part of a class on the Nordic masters of the twentieth century. We had to redraw a project of one of these Masters. We choose the church of Myyrmaki. By redrawing the project, it was fascinating to understand the construction of the church that seemed so complicated at the beginning. This church, from Juha Leiviska, was built between 1980 and 1984 in Vantaa, Finland. The site was carefully studied by Leiviska. One side of the church is built as a big wall to protect the site from a railway train. On the other side, a nice park is let unconstructed and welcomes the front side of the church. The façade is built with typical Nordic materials; wood and bricks. Leiviska inspires himself of both with Finnish traditional architecture and from big masters like Alvar Aalto. The church grows from north to south, reaching its climax at the bell tower. It is designed as a music partition with layers and themes. As Leiviska says, his building is an «instruments of light». It brings the building to life and welcomes the sacred inside. Delicate white panels are playing among each other’s, reminding the The Stijl movement.
Chalet Suisse Analysis Work, EPFL 2nd year Professor: Nicola Braghieri group survey
For this exercise we had to do a survey on a 19th century chalet in the Swiss Alps. We all went to the mountains to realize a full-scale survey, measuring and sketching the chalet. We later had to draw plans, elevations and sections of the chalet. We built a model at scale 1:50. We learnt a lot on the traditional wood structures and building methods. These traditional chalets contain rooms and a kitchen for a family to leave, but also a stable and a barn. A large chimney stands in the middle of the building.
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Couvent Sainte-Marie de La Tourette Analysis Work, EPFL 2nd year Professor: Eric Lapierre, Tanguy Auffret-Postel, Mariabruna Fabrizi with Carolina Contreras
During the second year of study at EPFL, we studied with our studio the artwork of le Corbusier. We read some of his texts, discussed about his principles and followed lectures. We went on a trip around France to visit his buildings. At the beginning of the year each group received a project of Le Corbusier and had to realize a model of it. We searched for documentations to realize our model. The Couvent Sainte-Marie de La Tourette is built on a beautiful landscape. Le Corbusier decided not to build it on the top of the hill to preserve it, but rather a bit below. The convent is laid in the landscape. The architect started with a horizontal line of the rooftop and then the building adapts itself to the ground with pilotis. Le Corbusier explore with this building several themes that are important for him. Different textures of concrete are experienced here. The brise-soleil are also carefully drawn. Some of them recreate the layers of a music partition; the pan de verre ondulatoire. The Modulor is used, for example, to design the rooms of the monks. The width of the rooms is equal to a human body with the arms discarded, creating a bed, a wardrobe, a desk and a sink in a minimalist environment. The church itself is nude excepted from some primary colors painted walls and specific light entrances that bring the sacral into the church.
Torre de Gaz Natural Short film making, ETSAB 3rd year Professor: Maria Mauti, Antonio Pizza with Théo Braghini, Tura Bou, Ana Sîrbu
This workshop was part of a class about architecture and cinema. We were watching specific movies and discussing about how the architecture was presented and perceived in it. For this workshop we had to make a short film about the Torre de gaz Natural designed by Enrich Miralles. We first documented ourselves on the architect and the building. Then we went to shoot the film footage. The last step was about editing and sound. Mirailles building’s desire is to create a synthesis of the eclectically surrounding by the reflexions on his glass façades. At the urbanistic level, he has the ambition to add a tower to the Barcelona’s skyline. The building stands in the prolongation of the Arc-the-Triomphe looking from the Passeig San Joan. He aims to create a quality urban space opening in the specific neighborhood of la Barceloneta. Creating this short movie allowed us to understand the building better, his intention and history and take a critical look towards the building. Con este corto aprendí a observar de verdad un edificio... como cuando tienes que quedarte mucho tiempo delante de un cuadro y aprendes a descubrirlo y amarlo