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Louise Lescure

ARCHITECT DE HMONP - ACOUSTICIAN

30 years old

French - Native English - Fluid

Spanish - Common

If I pay particular attention to acoustics it is because this science meets my two main interests, musical composition and architectural design. It allows me to consider architectural details and quality from new perspectives, up to the simulation of 3D sounds within virtual environments.

ARCHITECTURE

Architectural design, Performative Architecture, Project management, Building site supervision

ACOUSTICS

Room and General Acoustics, Signal Processing, Electro-acoustics, Waves and Vibrations, Data Analysis, Psychoacoustics, Auralization

MUSIC

Composition, Production https://louisequatorze.bandcamp.com

lescure.louise@gmail.com + 33 6 40 38 94 45 3D

Rhinoceros, Blender, ArchiCAD, Revit

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE Python, Matlab

Ableton, MAX MSP, SPAT GRAPHIC DESIGN

SKILLS

2020 - 2022 | MASTERS IN PHYSICAL ACOUSTICS

Mecanic engineering masters

Sorbonne University, Paris, France

2019 | ARCHITECT HMONP

Architecture project management ENSA Toulouse, France

2014 - 2017 | ARCHITECT DE

Master Degree in Architecture ENSAP Bordeaux, France

2011 - 2014 | DEA ARCHITECTURE

Bachelor in Architecture ENSA Montpellier, France

EDUCATION

2022 - NOW | HESSAMFAR & VERONS ARCHITECTES

Project manager 2 years, Paris, France

2022 | D’ALEMBERT INSTITUTE LABORATORY

Intern - VR for concert hall acoustics 5 months, Sorbonne University, Paris, France

2018 - 2020 | POM’ZED ARCHITECTS

Junior Architect 20 months, Auch, France

2016 - 2017 | UMSCHICHTEN STUDIO

Intern - Architectural performances 10 months, Stuttgart, Germany

2014 | NADAU LAVERGNE ARCHITECTURE

Intern - 3D modelling 3 months, Bordeaux, France

EXPERIENCES

2019 | 72 URBAN HOUR ACTION

Performative urbanism contest Lobeda suburbs, Jena, Germany

2017 | STOP CITY

Urban design focused on war traces Academy of Fine Arts of Warsaw, Poland

2015 | MOOSARAMBAGH RAYMOND’S TUMB Urban design

Sri Venkateshwara College of Arch., Hyderabad, India

WORKSHOPS

ARCHITECTURE

06 | Perpetuate the ephemeral

14 | Living in Pasaia

ACOUSTICS

18 | Fontevraud Royal Abbey and medieval chants

19 | Virtual reality for concert hall acoustics

HESSAMFAR

& VERONS ARCHITECTES ASSOCIES

22 | Suzanne Lenglen Middle School

24| Restructuration of a training center

UMSCHICHTEN STUDIO

26 | A Constant motion office

28 | Performeum, Wiener Festochen

MUSIC

38 | Music composition 2024

38 | Music composition 2023

GRAPHICS

36 | Illustrations

36 | Animations

ACADEMIC PROFESSIONAL PERSONNAL

#01

PERPETUATE THE EPHEMERAL

LIVING IN PASAIA

#03

MEDIEVAL CHANTS IN FONTEVRAUD ABBEY

VIRTUAL REALITY FOR CONCERT HALL ACOUTICS

ACADEMIC WORKS

#02

#04

PERPETUATE THE EPHEMERAL Diploma project

Stuttgart | 2018

Teacher | Dominique Quintanilla

Project|How to preserve the creative essence of an experimental settlement facing its rehabilitation ? Considering the cultural history of the site and its current political issues, the project’s aim is to protect the alternative settlement of the Wagenhallen. The site has to evolve, and this must be done along with a search for balance between experimentation and rationality. It is designed as an open and mobile urbanism evolving around a fixed structure which is able to manage the main infrastructures to handle sustainability, economy and functionality. The project’s aesthetics of contrast, in between a light metallic architecture of assemblage (mobility) and a massive concrete architecture that evokes stability, accentuates the complementarity of these two structures (static and mobile).

LIVING IN PASAIA

6th semester project

Pasaia, Spain | 2015

Teachers | Nathalie Franck, Yves Ballot

Project|The master plan reveals a major pedestrian axis that links the main road with the harbor walks dividing the plot in two parts. The built area concentrates on the north part creating an urban facade on the avenue, while south a park keeps the noisy sheds away from the project. I worked specifically on collective housings offering an individual planted patio for each flat. The dwellings are wide open on this intimate and protected space while the outside connection is filtered by a wooden trellis, following an east/west orientation. This conception brings an important thickness to the building, offering an enjoyable depth.

PLANS

Ground floor

3rd floor

MEDIEVAL CHANTS IN FONTEVRAUD ABBEY

Fontevraud, France | 2021 Masters project

Research director | Jean-Dominique Polack

Project |Room impulse responses measurements were made in the abbey to catch its acoustical print. Analysis were made through many objective metrics such as RT (Reverberation Time), G (strength), LF (lateral fraction), C (Clarity), EDT (Early Decay Time), ... allowing music compositors to rely to the acoustical properties of such an edifice for their further medieval music performances.

VIRTUAL REALITY FOR CONCERT HALL ACOUSTICS

LAM, Sorbonne Universités , France| 2022 Masters research project

Research director | Brian Katz

Publication |https://issuu.com/lescure-louise/ docs/stage_blooming-2

Project |Through augmented virtual reality, we studied the acoustics of two different concert halls in order to investigate how the spatial components could influence the dynamics of the music played on stage. We designed a perceptual experiment with MAX MSP auralizing sounds excerpts with high quality ambisonics (4th order) from two different room sound prints. Once auralized, the sounds were played with an audio rendering system of 32 speakers into an anechoic room to reproduce the sound field of the studied concert halls artificially in a controlled envrionnement. In that way, only the room effect can be changed while the musical content stays exactly the same to allow room effect comparison.

RESTRUCTURATION OF A TRAINING CENTER

SUZANNE LENGLEN MIDDLE SCHOOL #02

SUZANNE LENGLEN MIDDLE SCHOOL

Persan Beaumont, France | 2024

Building site supervision

Program | Construction of a middle school in Persan (95)

Owner | Val d’Oise

Departmental Council

Project supervision | Marjan Hessamfar & Joe Verons Architectes Associés mandataires et économiste

Process | Sustainable development of the Departmental Council – RE2020

Cost | 13 451 832 € HT

Surface | 5 833 m² sdp

Pictures | Naska

RESTRUCTURATION OF A TRAINING CENTER

Versailles, France | 2023 Contest - Award winner

Program | Restructuration of the Yvelines CFA and CMA, Versailles (78)

Owner | Chambre des Métiers et de l’Artisanat d’Île de France

Project supervision | Marjan Hessamfar & Joe Vérons architectes associés mandataire et économiste

Process | BDF silver level - 40% reduction in existing energy consumption

Cost | 12 300 000 € HT

Surface | 5 335 m² sdp

Pictures | Kaupunki

HESSAMFAR

A CONSTANT MOTION OFFICE

Kunstverein Wagenhallen, Germany | 2016 Temporary settlement

Studio | Umschichten Studio

Project | The studio settled in an old hangar at the heart of urban planning projects. The city had just bought the land so all the resident artists had to leave. However, public authorities allow them to settle temporarily on the vacant lot in front of the hangar. They experimented the construction of an ephemeral city, a space in constant motion fruit of a participative urban renewal, in which I had the opportunity to participate throughout my stay. I particularly participated in the ongoing process of deconstruction and reconstruction of the studio from inside to outside the hangar keeping the same materials. The name of the studio «Umschichten», that could be translated by «reconfiguration», evokes a constantly moving architecture. They consider architecture as a fluid process in constant motion and use flexible and reversible designs as tools to experiment in the laboratory that the city represents. The endless transformation of their office served as a case study, combining pragmatism and theory.

PERFORMEUM

Wiener Festwochen, Vienna, Austria | 2017 Scenogaphy

Studio | Umschichten Studio

Project |During the Wiener Festwochen, the Vienna’s annual theatre festival, the studio arranged an old beer factory to host several artistic performances (installations, theatre, concerts, queer parades, ...). After a minimal design process, we spent 15 days on site building the scenography with « pre-cycled » aluminium C-profiles (we used them before giving them back so they can be used for further constructions) but also with the materials we found directly there. We precised the design by building, allowing us to adapt to the context (the site and the spaces available, but also the people working there setteling the space for the event such as electricians, sound ingeneers, artists, the plasticity of the material itself)