Architectural Portfolio. Nicolas Prossi

NICOLAS PROSSI

Architecture Portfolio 2014 - 2021 Ensa Paris-Belleville

ABOUT ME My name is Nicolas Prossi, I am a state-qualified architect, and I did a master at the National School of Paris-Belleville.

Concerned about the impact of construction on our planet, the wood resource has been the common thread of my studies. I was interested in the characteristics of this material, the many products from this sector, and the possibilities of implementation in a rational, clear, legible architecture and devoid of superfluous artifices.

This is the material I most often use in my studio projects. I have also tried to integrate workshops (see portfolio) for a more practical approach. It was a question of handling the material itself, of understanding its behavior, its resistance, and the many assemblies which allow its implementation.

The design of public space and its appropriation by the users is a fascinating subject, which is the theme of my master’s thesis. It is the link that allows the city to integrate the project and the project to integrate the city in its heart.

My passion for architecture initiated from my inherent love for art and demand for logic. Through my educational and professional experiences, I strive to further decode the ways that architecture may evoke emotion, spark curiosity and improve our everyday lives.

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CONTENT 5.

CURRICULUM VITAE ARCHITECTURE

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BANGKOK : THE STREET FOOD IN TALAD NOI

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BATHING IN RESTANQUES

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UNDERSTANDING DHARAVI’S IDENTITY

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A PLACE OF LEARNING IN THE CITY

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MARSEILLE, AUTHORIZED SWIMMING

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A TERRITORY TO DAM UP THE CITY

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A BUILDING FOR ALL

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PLANTED WALK-WAY

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LIVING : ELEMENTS

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USES OF A PLACE MATERIAL

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STONE WORKING

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WOOD WORKING

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RENDERING

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FILM PHOTOGRAPHS

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NICOLAS PROSSI

16/11/1996 48 rue des Pyrénées, Paris prossi.nicolas@yahoo.fr 06 50 27 85 93

FORMATIONS

2021 Obtained the State Diploma of Architecture at ENSA Paris-Belleville 2020 Master thesis «Bangkok: Street food in Talad Noi» written and drawn, under the direction of Cristiana Mazzoni, congratulations of the jury.

2018 to 2019 Master of Architecture M1 CEPT University, Ahmedabad, India 2015 to 2018 Bachelor of Architecture ENSA Paris-Belleville 2012 to 2015 Baccalauréat Applied Arts Auguste Renoir High School, Paris

FRENCH ENGLISH ROMANIAN SPANISH

LANGUAGES C2.

B2.

B2.

B1.

Native Toiec : 865/990 Fluent Intermediate

SOFTWARE

Models +++++ Autocad +++++ Sketchup +++++ InDesign +++++ Photoshop +++++ Illustrator +++++ Archicad +++++ Revit +++++ Corona plug-in +++++ 3DS Max +++++ Rhinoceros +++++

SKILLS

Production of models, including digital cutting. Mastery of 2D, 3D and post-production software.

Critical thinking and problem solving skills. Ability to work under pressure and take initiative. Team player, optimistic and motivated.

Has a driver’s license.

INTERNSHIPS 2020 WY-TO Architects, internship of 4 months Design assistance and project designer of “Le faubourg citoyen” for the international competition “Devenir Tours” in finalist phase.

Elaboration of the master plan for a surface of 26,108 m2, production of a 3D of the project and of the documents for the competition.

2016 Dietmar Feichtinger Architects, internship of 2 months Production of drawings and models of studies for the competition of a college in Mantes-la-jolie. I also had the opportunity to go to the Veolia headquarter’s construction site, with the project manager for meetings, OPR, and to follow the construction site.

2016 Drawing of a private house, 4 months Design of a house, production of geometrics, 3D views, and technical details with a DPLG architect for a second home in Essaouira, Morocco. Construction in progress.

2015 A & C Negoescu Architects, internship of 4 weeks Surveys and modeling of an existing building in 3D. 2015 Noé Duchauffour-Lawrence, internship of 1 month Réalisation de planches tendances, recherches de références.

2013 Chaix & Morel Associates, internship of 3 weeks.

Creation of models, discovery of the architect’s profession.

WORKSHOPS 2019 Workshop in Cambodia, 1 month Understanding the needs of a town facing mass tourism, design of an urban project in Siem Reap town.

Organized by Cyril Ros, Mirabelle Croizier and Pijika Pumketkao .

2018 Exhibition «Lina Bo Bardi, Enseignements partagés», 5 months Construction in wood of furniture designed by Lina Bo Bardi, guided

by Martin Mochincourt, for the retrospective exhibition organized by Elisabeth Essaïan.

2017 Rural Workshop in Mayenne, 5 weeks Seek answers to the problems of the lack of a town center, suburban housing extension on agricultural land, etc. The various projects were exhibited at the town hall of Nuillé-sur-Vicoin. Organized by Bita Azimi and Marc Botineau.

2016 Workshop «Sky hill» 3 weeks Learning of traditional stone cutting, and construction of a metal frame. Organized by the architect/teacher Marius Miclaus, in the Banat region of Romania.

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ARCHITECTURE

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BANGKOK : THE STREET FOOD IN TALAD NOI, 2019 Master’s thesis written, drawn and published on-line teachers : Cristiana Mazzoni, Mete Kutlu

BANGKOK : THE STREET FOOD IN TALAD NOI ‘‘Urban space are emerging as sites of transformation out of the monopoly of the food industry. The city is a space where the powerless can make history.’’

Saskia Sassen, The Global Street, 2011.

Bangkok is a city that has been built on commerce since its foundation, initially in Chinatown. Today it is a mecca of consumerism, which is reflected in the lifestyle of the Thai people. The celebrations are done through big banquets. Eating becomes an entertainment, we understand it by noticing that food stalls are omnipresent in the city. The presence of mobile kitchens on every street corner encourages people to eat. A tempting smell can lead to take a snack without having planned it, without even being hungry.

This frenzy of consumption, at all hours, is widely observed in the district of disproportionate proportions, almost chaotic that is Chinatown.

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Talad Noi, a sub-district of Bangkok’s Chinatown, is home to scrap metal dealers and mechanics, a part of the population considered marginal. This old district was built on itself since the foundation of Bangkok, which gives it a labyrinthine side, making spontaneity and surprise possible. It is in opposition with the ordered structure of the avenues, the streets, of the rest of the city.

Belonging for the most part to the Chinese community of Hokkiens, the inhabitants of Talad Noi manage this district which is theirs. It looks like a village in the heart of a city out of scale.

The street is a support of life for its inhabitants, it is defined by its uses and users. The graphic study of the unusual elements constituting this public space highlights the central place of the street kitchen. It is the pillar of this district, and of Thai culture.

We find today traditional Thai lifestyles, transposed in shopping malls of the capital; food courts with the appearance of street kitchens ordered, with air extractors, artificial canals with vendors walking on boats as before.

Far from sanitized, odorless spaces and imitations, these micro urbanism that constitute street kitchens succeed in forming a bulwark against globalization and the “Western lifestyles” that are transposed onto this hypervillage.

Eating in the street becomes an act of resistance.

What space is left for these indispensable nomadic kitchens, which are both victims and actors caught in the middle of a galloping urbanization? And how, even, do they resist strong real estate speculations, which are weighing on the capital?

HERBARIUM OF THE ALLEY CHAROEN KRUNG 22 IN THE DISTRICT OF TALAD NOI IN BANGKOK

1. Cover hung on the facade, protecting the street kitchen from sun and rain

2. Chinese soup seller

3. Gas canister deliveryman

4. Pallet truck for lifting heavy mechanical parts

12 5. Plants delimiting the property

9. Men’s hairdresser working in front of the premises

10. Youth hostel and noodle stalls

11. Lottery ticket seller

12. Motorcycle cabs waiting for customers

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13. Street vendor of fresh fruit

VANICH ALLEY 2 AND ITS MARKET

14. Shophouses; buildings with activity on the ground floor.

15. Houses of the spirits, very important in the Thai culture.

They protect the residences, one deposits there offerings and incenses each day.

16. Greengrocer using both sides of the passage for his stall

17. APPROPRIATION OF PUBLIC SPACE. THE FENCE PREVENTS SCOOTERS FROM PARKING THERE.

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SOI WANIT 2 STREET

22. Chinese soup stand, the other with fried brochettes

23. Two specialized stores repair and sell car parts, one for car rims and the other for truck axles.

24. Talad Noi is known as the mechanics’ district, the piled up car parts constitute this atypical decor.

25. Cook offering a wide range of tasty meals prepared with her own kitchen

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26. The sidewalk space is used in a variety of ways; on the left, an extension of a building serves as a restaurant, on the right, the business has appropriated a car space.

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BATHING IN RESTANQUES IN THE NORTHERN DISTRICTS OF MARSEILLE, 2021 Rehabilitation of the Piscine Nord Final semester, teachers : Nicolas André, Patrick de Jean, Quentin Le Norment

BATHING IN RESTANQUES IN THE NORTHERN DISTRICTS OF MARSEILLE Marseille, a city built around the sea has a coastline stretching over 57km, from Estaque to the Calanques National Park. Its coastline is mostly made up of ports and riprap. The 11km long autonomous port from the city center to the north obstructs the access to the sea for half of its population. One could walk on the 7km long dike that protects the port from the swell, but it is now closed to the public since 2013, because of the Vigipirate law.

This paradox of seeing the sea without being able to go there was the starting point of my work.However, Marseille is the second French city with the least number of swimming pools, offering only 1m2 of pools per 1000 inhabitants, while in the rest of France it is 20m2.

In the whole city, one child out of two fails the swimming test at the end of secondary school.

In the disadvantaged neighborhoods, three out of four children do not know how to swim, and this average sadly reaches 90% in some housing estates.

In the northern districts, which include five districts already deprived of a coastline, four swimming pools have closed and now look like squats. There are only three swimming pools left for 285,000 inhabitants. Only one opens on Saturdays, none on Sundays.

There is reason to be dismayed when we know that in 2010 the constitution makes it compulsory to learn to swim in the same way as to know how to read and write.

In view of this deplorable political indifference, and the fact that in 10 years, 11 swimming pools have closed in Marseille, I have chosen to reopen, rehabilitate and enlarge a swimming pool, as well as to develop its site.

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Digue du large Territorial section drawn at 1:000

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Shipyard

Freight yard

A55 highway

College A

Located at the top of a valley in the heart of a very mixed urban fabric, recessed from the street level, the North Pool overlooks the sea. It is surrounded by large buildings, as well as vegetation and individual houses.

This pool has been closed since 2010 for work and has never been reopened.

Its case is not isolated.

It is composed of a 25 m long pool, a changing room level below and overlooks a tennis court and a rugby field.

Located in the Calade district, 8 schools are nearby, the furthest of which is only 16 minutes away by foot, with a total of 4250 students.

My choice to reopen this pool is relevant because it will be opened in priority to the pupils of these schools

A. Rimbaud

The piscine Nord and its surroundings

Park Séon

High School Sports Complex

High School St Exupéry

Rugby field

Tennis courts

PISCINE NORD

Axonometry of the project

Plantes grimpantes

Contreventements câbles

Pergola bois

Plantes filtrantes Bassins béton Substrat avec pouzzolane Pavage perméable Chapeau de protection béton

Sable

Revêtement étanche

Gravillons

Pleine terre

Graviers Film étanche

Drain Semelle béton

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The different elements of the program are linked by two walks, this garden is open to all, even those who do not necessarily wish to bathe. The visitor is accompanied by water throughout this route. These basins that accompany him are composed of plants that filter the water, This site is in successive steps, like a staircase going down to the sea, gravity is used to make the water pass from basin to basin.

Two accesses are possible to get to the indoor pool, one from the parking lot, and one from the garden.

A large reception hall allows the reception of school groups, two accesses from the counter, a staircase serving the school changing room at -1 and one serving the public level at -2. These two levels are connected by footbridges to the two levels of pools, spanning a vegetated strip that acts as a buffer zone between the pool building and the changing rooms. Its role is to regulate the temperature and dehumidify the ambient air.

To link to the existing, and to duplicate it, the initial frame was preserved, To meet the needs of the enlarged pool, the existing pool has been retained and another pool has been added. The structural frame is retained and a third row of posts is added. This large roof is overhanging, it protects the south facade from the summer sun, while this large facade captures the winter sun. It is composed of sheds that provide natural lighting throughout the day.

The natural cross ventilation is favored thanks to the two open facades of the building. In winter, the water is heated thanks to solar tubes on the roof.

With its 9 swimming lanes and its 562m2 of pools, this double pool can accommodate up to 562 visitors simultaneously.

Exploded isometry of the indoor pool

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UNDERSTANDING DHARAVI’S IDENTITY, 2018

Emergency housing in Mumbai, India Semester 8, teacher: Leo Pereira

UNDERSTANDING DHARAVI’S IDENTITY How can we combine the activities present in this place and improve the quality of life?

How can design contribute to sustainability?

Dharavi is the densest region in Mumbai, where people live and work in a congested area.

The project site is located on a 22,000 m2 vacant lot between Mahim and Dharavi metro stations.

The project proposes mixed uses (residential/commercial/artisanal) based on existing occupations with more efficient space management.

33.5 km of soil will be extracted with the Mumbai Metro Line 3 project.

Each unit can be invested differently according to the needs of the occupants: the programmatic division between private and commercial space can vary.

On the site, the buildings face the garden and are organized linearly on the north/south axis. They are connected by walkways on the upper levels.

The ground floor and the roof are public spaces where the uses are at the level of the inhabitants. It can be an attractive public space with direct access to the station.

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The aim of the project is to build with existing material.

The soil extracted from the tunnels is transformed into adobe brick for the walls. The structure is made of reinforced concrete.

Low cost project with a low carbon footprint; a need to recycle rather than produce more.

A metal roof protects the building from rain and sun.

There is a moderate temperature due to the through ventilation. The loggia protects the room from the heat of the sun.

The ground floor is 64 cm higher, so the buildings are not flooded during heavy monsoons.

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Ground floor plan, each cell is characterised by different activities.

Roof plan, communal space, vegetable gardens bordered by solar panels

Plan of level 4, public space under the roof-vegetable garden

Top floor plan of a duplex, private space.

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A PLACE OF LEARNING IN THE CITY, 2017 School and a public bridge Ahmedabad, India Semester 7, teacher : Shubrah Raje

A PLACE OF LEARNING IN THE CITY The intention of this two-phase project is to unify in a first phase two neighborhoods in the east of Ahmedabad (India) fractured by a railway line. The only existing link is an expressway, pedestrians are obliged to walk along this track, or to cross the rails without a level crossing.

that take over the public space, a place like this is necessary.

The space under this bridge and this footbridge, which is sheltered is given to the city, the appropriation of this space will give life back to this neighborhood known as malfamé.

The first intervention is the creation of a pedestrian bridge to support the existing bridge.

The steel structure of this footbridge is independent, it is attached to the existing bridge without modifying the expressway.

A bus station is created on both sides of the tracks.

The shape of this bridge allows pedestrians to cross the railway, or to reach the bus station.

A large wooden terrace allows to stop and contemplate the view.

In a city like Ahmedabad, where the condition of the pedestrian is very difficult because of the omnipresent cars, parked on the sidewalks, or activities of any kind

The second phase of the project is the rehabilitation of a reinforced concrete «domino» structure from the construction site of an unfinished building into a school.

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The insertion of the different classrooms within these free planes does not occupy the whole surface, on each level open and sheltered spaces are given to the pupils. The classrooms open to the outside thanks to the sliding walls. Circulation through the different levels is crucial, suspended stairs arranged according to the rooms serve each space giving rise to a choreography of outside stairs visible from the courtyard.

Reinterpretation of the site

The school

The bridge

Public space

Re-appropriated public spaces

Buildings

Principal axes

Vegetetion

Plots

Illustrated map of scenarios present on the site

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MARSEILLE, AUTHORIZED SWIMMING, 2020 Development of an inaccessible coastline Semester 10, teachers : Paul Gresham, Noël Dominguez, Luis Burriel

MARSEILLE, AUTHORIZED SWIMMING Marseille’s seafront extends over 57 km. Today, port activity is developed over an area of 11 km from the city center to the north.

The inhabitants of the northern districts do not have access to the sea. These neighborhoods are landlocked and are also poorly served by public transportation.

The port and its dyke are considered by Marseilles residents as an inaccessible border between the city and the sea.

activities from a piece of rock.

The gap between the city and the sea is this block of accumulated stones. It is the place of an amazing social mix.

To the south, the coastline has been shaped in large strokes for collective leisure use. But the beaches are rare, only the rocks remain. They are the only natural spaces in a city devoid of parks and green spaces.

I was inspired by this colonization of the rocks, with a strong social mix, in order to extend it under the Kennedy corniche, where there is a rock garden. These interstices of the city, that I wish to highlight.

Between the two, access to the sea is negotiated with urbanization. As a result, the inhabitants use the gap to come and fish or swim from a piece of rock. There are very few beaches in Marseilles, a lot of riprap, which doesn’t prevent the marseillais from going there, and from investing these informal territories.

I sought through an intervention less in its production to reconsider the practice of the coastline by privileging human practices, through the restoration of a seaside practice, by creating secure, and comfortable places, without denaturing the uncomfortable path of the site, we earned the slab when we are on it, the goal is to keep the informal character of the course, so rewarding, when the goal is reached, in order to keep these islands of tranquility and privacy, where personal development is paramount.

I was interested in the colonization of these natural spaces and the activities that develop in these urban creeks. The rocky character of this coastline is everywhere very hostile. Access to the water is difficult. And yet, many marseillais choose to venture onto these informal beaches in order to fish, swim, and other beach

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The structures that I propose adapt to the uses, they fit into the cracks and adapt to the hostile relief.

This project aims at the ten kilometers of rough riprap present on the Marseilles coastline.

But this project fights for this stone garden to remain marginal and free, cut off from the norms and regulations of the city. I want it to remain a benevolent territory, where we take care of our own and the landscape.

While some working-class neighborhoods, real powder kegs, are getting inflamed and becoming places of violence and chaos, it is important to me to find out how the people of Marseilles can re-appropriate their largely privatized coastline and allow this social mix to continue.

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A TERRITORY TO DAM UP THE CITY, 2019 Landscape, environmental and territorial approaches SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA Semester 9, teachers : Cyril Ros, Pijika Pumketkao

AUTONOMY

EVOLUTIVITY

WHERE DO WE WANT TO GO ? ...

HOW CAN WE GET THERE ? ...

THE TERRITORY, ITS POTENTIAL, ITS ACTORS & THEIR NEEDS. OUR POSITIONING. A territory can be defined in many ways. When we work in a given territory we are at the service of its actors: those who make the territory and those who live there, the two categories often being superimposed. So it is important to understand their specific needs and the potential of this territory to meet them.

The vision of the architect and urban planner working in the territory is superimposed on this. For us, the role of the architect is to set a course towards a fairer, more supportive society that is more respectful of nature.

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RESILIENCE

For a project to be sustainable, it must be able to evolve over time. We are going to use modular networks, encourage expansion with elements that can accommodate future buildings.

Autonomy is stability, Independence and freedom.

It is achieved by many means:

TEMPORARILY A project has to be thought about in its longest time.

To take care of a territory, a district or other is not done quickly. Let people be free to take possession of their place to avoid an abandoned project.

FOOD SELF-SUFFICIENCY

PROTECTIVE ARCHITECTURE

In order to give the inhabitants independence from the agro-industry, the collective housing project is associated with urban agricultural areas. They are responsible for maintaining it. There is a relationship with the land, a relationship with nature.

Built architecture must take into account its environment and be linked to its climate.

Knowing how to protect oneself from bad weather, cold, sun, etc... allows a better longevity of the building.

WATER Depending on the climate, the widest possible range of water strategies is adopted: harvesting rainwater, connecting to waterways, creating retention ponds... The water collected is then filtered: phyto-purification, sedimentation, filters ....

ECONOMIC After analyzing the territory and its actors, local know-how is valued for financial independence, allowing them to access freedom. Housing must be flexible enough to be adapted to a professional activity.

ENERGETIC Use of energy potentials depending on the site and its climate, use of photovoltaics in sunny regions, wind power in windy areas, etc.

PROPERTY AND OWNERSHIP Giving everyone their own private space, but also common spaces, gives them the possibility to build their own living environment common to all.

It is by understanding each person’s way of life, by grasping the way they live in community that they will be able to appropriate their space. The project must adapt to lifestyles and not the other way around.

RE-EXAMINE THE URBAN NEGLECTED City voids are appropriated most of the time, informally and by several different actors Animals, children, walkers etc...

Some of these interstices have existing qualities and do not or can not require intervention.

We can bring back to life urban neglected areas by observing what is happening in them in their current state. Taking into account its own characteristics is the only way to give life back to a neighbourhood.

SELF-CONSTRUCTION The setting up of a structure, a skeleton allows users to come and build their space according to their needs.

SOLIDARITY

ECOLOGY

PARALYZING EXPANSION

MATERIALS Use of local and perennial materials.

SELFORGANIZATION To encourage self-organization through the pooling of spaces to be shared. Difficult to set up, it requires group cohesion and leads to solidarity. In case the different parties cannot agree, these parts can be redistributed.

RE-USE As far as possible, the project should be dismountable. During future transformations, it will be possible to reuse, resell or recycle the elements that make it up so as not to lose anything.

PROTECTING HERITAGE FROM URBAN EXPANSION

SHORT CIRCUITS

Find a way to prefigure densification rather than urban expansion.

To do this, we must set limits.

Short circuits, local area networks are favored.

SHORT CIRCUITS

FLORA AND FAUNA

DRAW THE LIMIT

Favour short circuits, profitable to all actors included, rather than long circuits gangrenous by profit.

The project is in line with respect for nature, through the study of its fauna and flora. How not to disturb the ecosystem? How can it be included in the project?

By using :

COMMUNITY LIFE Create program elements that bring together individuals, families, generations, different social groups, e.g. in the form of a public community centre with a mixed program: square, community kitchen, classroom ...

RESOURCE SHARING Through cooperatives for example.

NETWORKING AT ALL SCALES Between individuals, families, neighborhoods, cities, regions ...

MANAGING WATER The water is protected from pollution (waste, infiltration pollution) and natural processes are used to purify it (phyto-purification, sedimentation, etc.). Water is a resource, but it can also be a constraint or even a danger. For this reason, soil sealing is minimised.

CLIMATE Use climate-friendly architectural features rather than technologies such as air conditioning or heating.

Water, Vegetation, The frame, The viary.

A TERRITORY TO DAM UP THE CITY How to preserve an area threatened by the accelerated expansion of a city that has become a victim of its tourist success ?

The town of Siem Reap, on the fringes of the temples of Angkor, developed first of all around its river before being taken over by the French colonies who built a colonial district there. It is abandoned under the yoke of Pol Pot. After the liberation, the attraction of foreign tourists to Angkor will metamorphose the city. It is now populated by about 140,000 inhabitants and visited by about 5 million people each year.

Most of the activity is related to tourism. It has helped improve conditions for the locals, but it is disfiguring the landscape and destroying the heritage.

This uncontrolled expansion has a strong ecological impact and the city is growing dangerously inside the UNESCO-listed Angkor site.

Cambodia has recently opened up to this economy, and the tradition of self-reliance persists. In less well-off households, it is common to see a vegetable garden, a chicken coop, cows ...

These «forgotten» people of the city live mostly in peri-urban areas and combine small, poorly paid jobs (tuk-tuk, construction, cleaning ...) with their own means of survival and growth (agriculture, handicrafts, trade ...). Within the framework of our positioning, it is these actors that interest us. In addition, there is a major issue related to the expansion of the city that is threatening the Angkor site in spite of the laws. That is why we choose to work on the fringes of Siem Reap, to help these communities and contain the expansion of Siem Reap.

In order to do this, we will work with the networks, the skyline, the vegetation and the program elements : A community center and self-contained social housing.

It is a rehousing project for the population which is poor.

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Angkor Temples

The territory to stop the expansion of the city

Siem Reap

THE FLUIDS NETWORK A SUPPORT OF DAILY USES

1. Foundations with the fluids network

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2. Steel structure

3. Separative walls

4. Stairs, floors, balconies

5. Roof structure

6. Overlapping roof

THE APPROPRIATION Siem Reap is now populated by 300,000 people and welcomes 12 million visitors every year.

The town center is a concrete jungle. The interruption of the grid has preserved the project site from this proliferation.

Housing has undergone various transformations: extensions, re-divisions, etc... Populations that cannot (or do not want to) settle in the city have populated the project by relying on the previously installed networks.

It is possible to join the project by making a donation (money or work) to the community center to finance common needs.

There are different types of inhabitants: families, communities, etc. Cultures have emerged without a framework, and everything is done by negotiation.

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A BUILDING FOR ALL, 2017 Sports and socio-cultural center Designed with Mathias Coville. IVRY-SUR-SEINE Semester 5, teachers : Janine Galiano, Jérôme Habersetzer, Raphaël Fabbri

A SMALL EQUIPMENT FOR IVRY Ivry is a city marked by a variety of scales, typologies and urbanities. This urban and architectural richness allows original encounters, unexpected confrontations and dialogues between entities that are a priori very different.

In this city of convergences and mixing, the sports and associative facilities open up to the city and encourage new meeting points while maintaining a certain interiority.

In order to connect to the public space, the building has two flaws: an interior street serving the reception and association center and a covered passage housing a café terrace and also serving the reception area.

To open onto the city and its park, it offers a very large terrace left free for any use. This can be a place of convergence between sportsmen and users of the house of associations, a place of citizen gathering or simply a public esplanade offering a view of the Ivry landscape, its park and its city Maurice-Thorez. Other terraces allow to stage the different strata and uses of the equip-

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Wood at the center of the project The whole project follows one guideline, that of wood as a structural element, but also as a covering.

The relationship structure/architecture as a starting point for the creative process.

The sports center has the ambition to become an epicenter of the neighborhood. It should not be cold, which is why wood and its warm aesthetics were chosen, but for its technical resistance, for its quality as a sustainable material.

Wood is adapted to the different scales of the project : - In partition walls, and the envelope in KLH type load-bearing panels to support the floors, - In glulam column/beam system for large spans in gymnasiums.

Through analysis of details but also of material resistance, the woods prove to be perfectly suited for the entire project.

Local Matériel

Réserve Café

Coupe détail 1 1:25

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Coupe détail 2 1:25

Coup

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PLANTED WALK-WAY AS A SOCIAL CONNECTOR, 2016 Rehabilitation / Landscaped park. Paris Semester 4, teachers : Béatrice Jullien and David Chambolle

PLANTED WALK-WAY ON THE SMALL BREAKDOWN The project is part of the «petite ceinture», the old railway network that surrounds Paris, which is now abandoned.

The inner ring road has immense potential, it must not remain abandoned, but find a new vocation, in keeping with the times.

Situated between the Cours de Vincennes and the St-Blaise district, this fragment of the small belt is a special place.

Distant buildings from the 1980s around the bus ramp, and its proximity in places to the neighboring building, gives privacy, but also allows many interesting views.

The aim is to boost the biodiversity present by creating a planted walkway, and to encourage the proliferation of native plants through the installation of beehives, a pond and its aquatic plants, and a shared vegetable garden.

This program includes uses for all ages (playground, pétanque, skate-park, etc.).

The aim is above all to create a place of exchange, in the heart of this neighborhood, which is very densely populated but sorely lacking in parks. Managing the flow of pedestrians and cyclists, by creating access for all is therefore necessary on a raised site.

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This project aims to create a downtown/suburban junction.

Another intervention in the service of the life of the district after the covered market, the rehabilitation of the former Avron station into a café.

The emerging part of the station is transformed into a café, consisting of a bar, a storeroom, a room, and toilets.

The platform is used as a sheltered outdoor terrace.

Direct access from the street is possible, or from the planted promenade.

It is a place marking a break in the middle of this long extended park.

Concerned about the preservation of the architecture of the Avron station, the intervention is punctual, adapting as much as possible to the existing without destroying it.

This place has the vocation to bring together people from different backgrounds, coming from the same really mixed neighborhood, without gentrifying and dividing, in the opposite of the «recycling plant», in the former station of the Porte de Clignancourt, which does not integrate with the entire population of the neighborhood.

Programmatic schematics between two neighborhoods The Cours de Vincennes at the top of the map, and the St Blaise district on the opposite side. Very varied sequences, but forming a unity thanks to a path that links all the programs.

The planted walk is faithful to the character of the small belt, because of its stretched identity.

The linear park is 32m wide and 600m long: - Conservation of the rails - Scattered access, accessibility - Respect for the environment - Difference between soils - Participation of the inhabitants via shared vegetable gardens - Bicycle path - Dilated views, large space given to the sky - Linear - Integration into the urban fabric - Strong connection with the park of Charonne - At the network center Line 1, 9, tram, bus etc...

- Creation of a café - Hall with a stretched membrane covering the sports field - PMR Ramp at Saint-Simon Hospital Level

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Sheltered basketball court

Nature of the different soils, ballast silting, use or drilling of existing asphalt, creating vegetated areas.

Example of access for local residents

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LIVING : ELEMENTS, 2015 Rehabilitation of vacant housing units GOUSSAINVILLE Semester 3, teacher : Armand Nouvet

FIVE-UNIT HOUSING PROJECT FOR 15 INHABITANTS The question of the dwelling is at the centre of the studio, proposed by Armand Nouvet, linking the question of living to the notion of situation, rehabilitation, and constructive detail.

The exercise of the semester is to design a set of dwellings by 2050 around a singular part of the village of Goussainville, the Vieux Pays. Marked by its history, the landscape is composed of buildings and ruins, alternating between buildings and wasteland, revealing the upheavals linked to the construction of Roissy airport, which forced many residents to flee, while some 300 inhabitants chose to stay.

In a forward-looking approach, we imagine that the depletion of oil resources in 2050 has caused the closure of the airport, thus putting an end to the nuisances and the arrival of 300 new inhabitants.

The project’s three-step approach aims to address three different scales while thinking about them simultaneously.

Recycling centre at the bottom of the plot

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Garden

After a stage of discovery and survey of the premises, the insertion of the housing project will raise the question of community life, at the scale of the whole, then that of ergonomics at the housing scale, and finally the question of the structure. This «cooperative housing» project, inspired by Building Groups KRAFTWERKS, consists of five housing units (T1, T2, T3, T4, T5) that would house 15 inhabitants.

The inhabitants would choose to join forces and share services in order to enjoy common spaces.

The program would include a vegetable garden, a reading room, a library, a sauna, a laundry, a roof terrace, a dining room and two kitchens with large work surfaces.

The choice of intervention is to unify five neighboring abandoned houses, connected by two common levels, a common interior walkway and a roof terrace.

Intervention, wooden panel structure

Preserved masonry

Waste Recycling Centre.

Goussainville, 2050.

The building includes : - A paper recycling center - A bottle reconditioning center

Collection, cleaning, sterilization of glass bottles.

Bottling of wine, milk produced by small local producers, purchased in large quantities.

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Redistribution within the community, at low prices.

Collection and recycling of paper and cardboard

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Relation of the T1 dwelling in the rdc with the common areas in R+1, reading and discussion room, facing the street and garden.

This level includes the most important common areas; kitchens, dining room, living room.

All the dwellings have access to this common level.

Zoom model at 1:25

The existing masonry walls on the ground floor (shown in white on the structural model) support the rest of the wooden structure, with relatively little effort and allowing future residents to build their own homes.

Model structure that can be dismantled at 1:50 scale

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Detail cross-section perspective in the reading room

This project is a first approach in understanding the insertion of a project in a dense Parisian faubourien fabric, between two high adjoining buildings, as well as the assembly of different programs: Two dwellings, an exhibition gallery and an artist’s studio, which have an access through the inner courtyard, they are oriented on street and courtyard. They are T2, organized as duplexes, with the common areas on the first floor and the private areas on the second floor.

There has been a design work on the facade, especially on the street, with sets of solid panels / glass panels, for the sake of views and privacy.

The exhibition gallery can be accessed from the street, it also opens onto the courtyard, and is linked to the workshop.

The artist’s studio is located at the bottom of the plot, occupying the whole width. The roof is essentially composed of sheds. The facade overlooking the green inner courtyard is entirely glazed to take advantage of this visually soothing space. Large vehicles can enter the courtyard, and the workshop, and unload heavy objects.

This project allowed me to ask myself logical questions, of assembly, having in mind a number of constraints (views, ducts, structure, orientations, public/private relationship...).

Access to the dwellings from the courtyard, 1:50 scale model

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USES OF A PLACE, 2014 Housing / exhibition gallery / workshop PARIS Semester 2, teachers : Nicolas André, Gaëlle Breton, Solenn Guevel, Jean-François Renaud

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MATERIAL

Workshop in the Romanian Carpathians organized by the architect and teacher Marius Miclaus.

Erection of a structure composed of steel portals.

Intervention of a master stone-cutter, expert in monument restoration and sculptor, who taught us the ancient techniques of stone-cutting.

Realization of a limestone basin.

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REALIZATION OF A TABLE DESIGNED BY LINA BO BARDI FOR A RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION, 2018

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DRAWING OF A PRIVATE HOUSE, 2016 Design of a house, production of geometrics, 3D views, and technical details with a DPLG architect for a second home in Essaouira, Morocco.

Construction in progress.

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RENDERING USING 3DS MAX WITH THE PLUG-IN CORONA Modelization of the project : Zumthor house, by Peter Zumthor with 3DS Max Rendering with the plug-in Corona

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INSIDE / OUT Silver photography Made with Minolta X-500, 58mm