Portfolio 2023

Curriculum Vitae

Maxime Berets

maximeberets@gmail.com

www.linkedin.com/in/maxime-berets +31614129268

Education

2019-2021 Architecture (MSc.), KU Leuven Faculty of Architecture, Brussels

Magna Cum Laude

2018-2019 Transitioning year to Architecture (BSc.), KU Leuven Faculty of Architecture, Brussels

2017-2018 Interior Architecture (MSc.), UHasselt Faculty of Architecture and Arts, Hasselt

Cum Laude

2017 Design for Exhibitions and Museums, University of Lincoln Erasmus Exchange, United Kingdom

2014-2017 Interior Architecture (BSc.), UHasselt Faculty of Architecture and Arts, Hasselt

Cum Laude

Experience

2021-X DDS+, Av. Louise 251/7, Brussels Belgium

Architect and interior architect

LOOM: tender phase, interior architecture, detail drawings entrance halls

Trèfles 4: execution phase, construction site

Neerveld: urban permit

2020 European Architecture Students Assembly(EASA), Belgium

2-week construction workshop for Saint-Klet Brussels

Collaboratively worked on seating and shading constructions, wood and textile

2019 European Architecture Students Assembly(EASA), Switzerland

2-week workshop Techtopia, basics of Arduino programming

Collaboratively worked on concept design for installation

Installing an inflatable with motion sensor and computer fan

2016-2018 Talco Interieur en Advies, paid internship

The Dutch Hotel, Maastricht: follow projectmanagement, attend meetings with party members(contractor/concierge)

3D drawings sketchup, general visual for interior design

Football cantine project: attend meetings with different party members(architect/owner…etc.), detail drawings for bar design

Private customers: detail drawings for bathrooms

Competitions

2021 Non Architecture, Re-Draw #3 Fallingwater Experimental Architecture Representation Finalists (collaboration with Hena Wang)

90 Degrees

What if a big hurricane shows up and your house tumbles over? Walls become floors, floors become walls. How will we adapt our interior to the alternated outer structure? With a rotation of 90 degrees, my family home formed a new structure that also needed a new interior program. Without touching the existing outer walls, the focus relied completely on re-imagening the living spaces for the family of five. The adapted program splits the structure in two, one side serves the staircase leading up to all four stories. The other side serves the living spaces.

Floorplans and Section ‘AA

Ghost in a Shell: the Dissection of my Memory Palace

Spatial memories, whilst being a rich repository for imagination, are often unreliable in terms of the sequence and shape of things. This project seeks to activate and celebrate these space-events, specifically in relation to my childhood home. These spatial memories, when revived, bring forth qualities and atmospheres that blur the boundary between the tangible and the imaginative.

Through drawing, I explore the different atmospheres and conditions that are connected to objects from my home, in specific the wooden cupboard. These drawings can be seen in the broadest sense and follow different steps to come closer to my surroundings. The process starts with wrapping the objects, and using frottage technique to draw out its surface. Finally removing the skins and setting them free in the wind, releasing them from their original conventions. These artefacts have formed a base for further exploration through tracings and drawings based on photographs or memories.

These recollected fragments as a whole form an infrastructure of spatial conditions and atmospheres. As the drawings slowly become subject to speculation, they try to grasp the unstable order of space-events. They portray the space that lives between the physical and the imagination.

The work as a whole can be seen on the following links:

https://vimeo.com/561316608

https://issuu.com/maximeberets/docs/final_max

Master Architecture dissertation

Conversion in Urban Contexts

group project

Adaptive reuse project of the Entrepot in Leuven(OPEK). The program served one big and small auditorium, office spaces and exhibition space. The project specifically focused on fire safety, HVAC, structural issues and aucoustics.

Individual contribution: design phase plan drawings, fire safety, water supply, detail drawings, helped with HVAC

Mrs. Abstract vs. Mr. Specific

Brussels is a city of diversities, a city of contrasts, of extremes. Brussels is also a city with good living and working standards, with an always present cultural identity. A city with obvious questions on functions, work, living, leisure...

Mr Specific is a house for a family with 3 children, working as a duo with Mrs Abstract; a library and public meeting space. Together they are inseparable structures and in dialogue with each other.

For this assignment I chose the Grey-Kroonbrug as the site. Attached to the existing viaduct, the library offers two entry points that guide the visitor through the different functions, in either a climb or descent. The house is attached to the public roof garden and also functions as an entry point for library visitors.

Fase I – Concept – 1:200

OPO65 Bachelorproef – Maxime Berets

ABSTRACT vs SPECIFIC in an everchanging Brussels landscape

Concept axonometry: program, route, envelope Floorplan +1

1. Main Library South +1

2. Auditorium +1

3. Children’s cavern +1,5

4. Study Library North +1

5. Reception Library North 0

EDUCATIONAL VERSION

Quarantine Fever

Quarantine Fever was an adapted assignment for studio #Reshuffle, when COVID-19 struck. Following the impact that the outbreak had on our lives, the project expanded on discomforts, qualities, improvements, anything we strike across as architects, concerning our quarantine situation. Quarantine meant that my home became a blur of function versus program. My bedroom became my workspace, meditation space, yoga space. My living room once became a funeral space. The drawing expresses these feelings. There is no clear outside or inside, rooms intertwine, virtual spaces attach to existing spaces. Some parts still hint to my actual home, some parts became made up structure following the blur of function and space.

The Inevitability of Time

Non Architecture Drawing Competition, Finalists

Collaborative drawing with Hena Wang. Experimental drawing to ‘represent’ an iconic architecture piece, in a creative, critical and innovative manner.