The project was to transform an old concierge apartment into a meeting room for Resa executives. The client is the principal operator of the electricity and gas distribution in the province of Liège. The program is composed of a meeting room, a rest room, a semi-professional kitchen, sanitary and a resreve. The apartment is located at the 6th and end floor of a building in the center of Liège and have a panoramic view on the city. The client wanted a Sweden architecture for his interior with colorfull furnitures and light wood. The spaces are very long and narrow so the idea was to darken the walls at the ends to create an optical illusion and shorten the rooms. An acoustic false seiling is set to reduce the parasit sounds. The lower part of the ceiling increase the acoustic insulation and hide all the technics and ventilation.
Furnitures are from Vitra except the table and lights are mainly from Flos. A huge mirror is set in the entrance, continue in the changing room and ends up in the meeting room. This mirror enlarge the small rooms and give the way to follow to enter in the main space by an indirect light all around his frame. Some walls perfectly chosen are painted into Resa colors. The huge wavy white curtain filters the sunlight to have a soothing light in the meeting room and help for the acoustic insulation. Windows open on a full length balcony that permits a deep breath of fresh air during long meetings.
Nouvelle cloison
Knauf Cleaneo Rotondo
Gorge LED
Tube Ventilation Diam 300mm A déterminer
Legamaster e-Screen XTX touch monitor 210 22 x 113 76
Support e-Screen fixation murale 113 4 kg
Knauf Silentboard 13 HRAK
Knauf Cleaneo Rotondo
Knauf Cleaneo Rotondo
Knauf Silentboard 13 HRAK
Gorge LED
SPACE FOR ART
The project sets in a very natural landscape. The location has been chosen in order to allow a walkway between the stressful life of the city and the peaceful sensation of art. People can focus easily on what is exposed inside thanks to the minimalism of the museum. It is fenced by a thick and impermeable concrete wall which makes the boarder between two different worlds. On the one hand the world of objects , and on the other hand the world of imagination. The museum is playing by contrast with differents thematics: closings / openings, heaviness / lightness, and darkness / brightness. Two atmospheres are homed by the museum. A special one for the hallways and an other one for the exhibition rooms. These last ones are bathed in the light that passes through the skylights located over each one of them. The rooms are defined by three walls and are open on one side. The walls are hanged to the beams and allow the light to pass under them in order to enlight the corridors. This game of light drives the visitors in the museum. Each room is surrounded by hallways to permiss a break for the mind between them and to let everyone create their own experience of space.
BUILDING REALITY
Located in Benga riverside in the province of Tete in Mozambique, the house prototype has the purpose to home a teacher and his family. It takes place next to the new school which has just been constructed. The house has been built with the collaboration of the local population. The objective was to teach them how to do and to leave them reproduce the model in the future. This is a two residences plan in which we can add an extension on the side for a new room. The houses are shifted in plan along the shared wall to keep the privacy.
The building’s design is thinking in terms of efficiency and economy of materials. The dimensions of the locally producted brick are the regulating elements of the plan dimensions. All the materials come from the region of Tete and the constructions techniques are adapted to allow the lowest price. The openings are positioned and designed to keep a high percentage of shadow and to benefit from the cross ventilation.
PIAZZA D’ACQUA
Water. This is the fundamental element of reference when thinking of the Balear Islands. Zooming in, the island of Minorca has always lived from its relationship with the Mediterranean Sea, using it as means of connection, as well as a comercial, ec nomical and cultural infra-structure.
Connection. This is the keyword when thinking of Maó. This city homes one of the greatest natural ports of the World, and hence establishes the transitional relationship in between Land and Water. Located in front of Claret’s Costa de Ses Voltes, this project is set in the point of connection between the higher city and the lower city. The proposal simply presents an extension of this gesture from the higher city, to the lower city, into the water. If when connecting the higher and lower city, Architect Claret proposes a bucolic promenade that swerves through different pause moments in its middle, when connecting the lower city with Water, the same logic should continue. Hence after the magnitude of this higher urbanity has crumbled down into a lower platform, this element will then crumble itself into the water. To bring dynamic and lifem to this pause moment, both a cultural center and an aquatic sports center were included. The premise is to connect the city with its water, and this is the reason for the inclusion of public baths. Located in a central point of the territory, and emblematic cultural center inspired by the geometrical logic of the cruise ships which used to dock in this platform is thought out to work as community gathering point and a venue for small events.
STUDENT’S HOUSE
The project sets in a two ambiances landscape. The plot makes the boarder between the city in the north and the nature in the south. These two atmospheres dialogue with the opposite architectural typologies in the surroundings. On one side rise a huge housing program and the other sides are made of terraced houses. The site is also at the corner of a city block.
This time, the ambition was to react against these very high buildings and preserving the quality of the peripherique city. The housing program in L shape comes to close the city block and conserves the different ambiances between city and nature and between private and public. The main purpose was the community by sharing spaces within housing. The collective spaces are located along the main street and open perspectives into the earth of the block. It softly creates a hierarchy of space and invites people to share. A special attention has been given to the students’ rooms. The design offers a very quiet space without distractions, they are the place to work, to sleep, to rest, to read... They’ve been thought to be in opposition of the loudy collective spaces and to ensure a moment of resurgence,w of calm and concentration.
