Portfolio Hélène Kircher

CURRICULUM VITAE 16, boulevard Victor 75 015 Paris FRANCE

E ducation : 2012-2013

Post Master - HMONP at National School of Architecture of Malaquais

2011-2012

MA 2 of architecture at National School of Architecture of Versailles ¬ final project : control the ecosystem of the laguna by moving the touristic port of Venice

VERSAILLES

¬ final thesis: How to promote collective approaches for future architecture ?

( «Comment valoriser les approches communautaires pour l’architecture de demain ?» thesis written in French )

2010-2011

MA 1 of architecture at the Istituto Universitario d’Architettura di Venezia IUAV

2006-2010

BA of architecture at LOCI Faculty of Architecture, Architecture Engineery and Urbanism

PARIS

2001-2006

L’Ermitage international high school Baccalauréat International bac. American section and Italian option

1999-2001

Castle Park School, Dalkey

VENICE

BRUSSELS

MAISONS-LAFFITTE

DUBLIN

S kills : SOFTWARE

INTERESTS

Autocad Archicad Draftsight Photoshop Indesign Sketchup Live Buildings

Hand-sketching Model building Sustainability

Photography

Teamwork Design Sports

Revit Architecture Digital Project Office Suite Camtasia Artlantis

CATIA i-work

LANGUAGES French : first language English : fluent (IELTS: 7.5/9) Italian : fluent Spanish : understanding

Hélène KIRCHER

Born on the 19th of september 1988, in Paris E-mail: helene.kircher@gmail.com Tel: +33 (0)6 22 29 80 16

Professional E xperience : Oct. 2012 - Oct. 2013

Architect at Collectif 07 ¬ finishing the 20 000 m2 hospital of Capesterre-Belle-Eau, in Guadeloupe ¬ competition for two airports, in Burma ¬ creation of new bathrooms in Orly Airport, Paris ¬ restructuring Starbucks coffee shop’s layout, Saint-Germain-en-Laye ¬ extension of a house in Les Lilas, France

PARIS

July 2011 - Oct. 2011

Intern at Dassault Systèmes, CATIA Live-Buildings and Digital Project realization of marketing videos at Gehry Technologies

PARIS

June 2011

Scenography at Peggy Guggenheim Museum for BMW Guggenheim Lab event and Palazzo Polignac with European Event Organisation, Venice art Biennale

2010 - 2011

Writing articles for architecture review MINIMO

Sept. 2010

12th Architecture Biennale with swedish architect Tor Lindstrand and team At Work With

Sept. 2009 - June 2010

Weekly following a renovation site and creation of a library and school

by Cipolat Architecture

BRUSSELS

Feb. 2010

Etterbeek mayor’s project: renovation of three belgian houses into a multigenerational dwelling

BRUSSELS

Jan. 2010

Internship on the building site of Louis Vuitton’s Art’s Foundation

by Frank Gehry

Sept. 2009

Internship with Brisac-Gonzalez architects

July 2009

Construction internship with Compagnons Bâtisseurs

Sept. 2008

Construction internship on Middle Age castle in Guédelon

VENICE

VERSAILLES VENICE

PARIS

LONDON GREECE BURGUNDY

All pictures and drawings in this book by HÊlène Kircher.

Venice Biennale, 2010 Madagascar, 2007

Housing

Multi-generation dwelling in Schaerbeek and Etterbeek, Belgium...............4 Città d’acqua in Porto Marghera, Italy.............................................................6

OFFICES

Office tower, Porte de la Chapelle, Paris, France.........................................10

RENOVATION

Theatre in Brussels, Belgium...........................................................................16 Museographic scenograpgy in Aquileia, Italy...............................................18

URBANISM

L’Acqua quay, a new touristic port for Venice, Italy.....................................22 Development of a new city in Porto Marghera, Italy...................................26

LANDSCAPE

Park in Brussels, Belgium.................................................................................32 A new park-island near Chioggia..................................................................34

TRAVELS & INTERNSHIPS

Volunteer work : Madagascar........................................................................38 Travels: New York, Bern...................................................................................39 Construction sites: Guédelon; Frank Gehry, Paris; Cipolat Architecture, Bxl Internships: Dassault Systèmes and Gehry Partners, Paris...........................43 Experiences: Architecture Biennale, Art Biennale, Venice............................46

ARCHITECT AT COLLECTIF 07

Hospital complex at Capesterre Belle-Eau, Guadeloupe...........................50 Orly Airport’s extention’s bathroom, Paris.....................................................52 Starbucks Coffee shop, Saint Germain en Laye...........................................54 House extension, Les Lilas, Paris.....................................................................56

RECOMMENDATION

Matteo Emmer, director of Collectif 07, Paris..............................................58

Jean-François Roger-France, teacher in St Luc - LOCI, Brussels...............59 1

Burano, Venice

LET’S FIND NEW WAYS OF LIVING IN OUR HOMES !

The following projects have been thought as new ways of living: The multi-generational projects in Nivelles and Etterbeek tend to mix three generations inside a home. The idea is to fight against the isolation of the elderly and create a new family core as well as permitting personal independance. The social housing project enables numerous possibilities of occupancy as they propose different size apartments.

The «città d’acqua» in Porto Marghera, close to Venice, considers water as part of the dwelling. Indeed, the water is reflected in the staircases and each apartment can have a boat parking.

Housing density block in Schaerbeek, Belgium Città d’acqua in Portomarghera

HOUSING 3

housing density block in project realised in Saint Luc, Brussels, 2010

Schaerbeek, Belgium

The initial project development stages involved team work.

The program for the housing area was the result of a roundtable discussion where we decided to focuse on achieving the right blend of activities in each neighbourhood of the region.

One of the difficulties was deciding what attitude to adopt in respect to the train. Our site, the «îlot Van Oost», in consideration to the local scale, is very big. I therefore decided to creating a pedestrian way and quality public divide it with a pedestrian way across it that makes the walkspace across ilôt Van Oost to let it breathe

ing circulation easier, as the access to trams and bus facilities as well as major services in the Cage aux Ours is fasten. The new flow of people walking by the new street brings life to the centre of the ilôt and a public place naturally welcomes public infrastructure at the centre: school and sport devices are located along the train lines. After-school activities can be organised in front.

My approach to the dwellings considered orientation and the propoposed programme possibility of increasing density. I payed particular attention to

private outside space for the dwellings and provided a well orientated terrace to each apartment.

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città d’acqua in

Porto Marghera, Italy

project realised at IUAVenice, 2010 This This project project was was part part of of a a global global urbanistic urbanistic work work designed designed in in Porto Porto Marghera, Marghera, where where the the whole whole industrial industrial territory was imagined free to start a new city.

In the east-northern part of it, I planned a residential area. territory was imagined free to start a new city. In the east-northern part of it, I planned a residential area. The The main main objective objective was was to to offer offer each each building building a a direct direct link link to to the the water. water. that crossed the area and permitted everyone a private boat access that crossed the area and permitted everyone a private boat access

II therefore therefore created created venitian venitian like like canals, canals, underneath their homes.

Moreover, underneath their homes. Moreover, the the

generous generous staircases staircases were were designed designed so so the the light light could could reflect reflect right right down down the the eight eight floors floors in in order order to to naturally naturally lighten the circulation until the sea level, in a welcoming zone. lighten the circulation until the sea level, in a welcoming zone.

The The apartments apartments are are of of mixed mixed sizes sizes but but all all own own a a private private terrace terrace to to enjoy enjoy the the nice nice venitian venitian laguna laguna view. view.

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HIT THE DECK !

Offices is the place where people spend the most amout of their time.

It is important to re-think both its interior design and its affiliation to the city. In terms of accessibility, in terms of firm image as well as in terms of flexibility, offices can be imagined to be placed in mixed programs buildings. This diversity of functions can make a building never sleep.

For example if some levels welcome offices, others apartments and more welcome schools, sporting devices and shops, we can imagine that the rentability of the building is improved. More over, it enables energy savings and can create a vertical inner city.

Office tower at Porte de la Chapelle, Paris, France

OFFICES

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office tower at

Porte de la Chapelle, France

project realised with Richie Marudai, in EnsaVersailles, 2011

30 000 m2 of offices 15 000 m2 of parking The project’s ambition is twofold and can be read at two different scales: first of all, at an urbanistic level, the tower is a symbolic presence in an area which misses one. Second of all, at a much more local scale, it is inserted in the site as to welcome the pedestrians and propose them a new access to the petite ceinture which is an old train line that traveled around the city and that is now let wilde.

At the northern door of Paris, we can well imagine that a strong identity is important for the people arriving in the city. Located at the crossing point between a very busy street and international train lines, the offices are easily accessible from all over Europ. The access to the green and wilde petite ceinture and the recognition of the ground is important to welcome the structure of the project and enable its stability in such a chaotic site.

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office tower at

Porte de la Chapelle, France

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Palais de justice, Brussels

LET’S RE-USE BUILDINGS !

In a world where so many buildings are empty, and so much material waist is created for the creation of new ones, I believe it is very important to learn to re-use existing places. Indeed, history has left us a nice heritage and it is a good challenge to try to renovate it to make it livable today and for the future.

In the project of the theatre in Brussels, the goal was to rehabilitate an industrial building that could re-open to the public.

The project in Aquileia was about creating a walkway through old romanian ruins.

Theatre in Brussels, Belgium Museography in Aquileia, Italy

RENOVATION

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theatre in

Brussels, Belgium

first intentions of project thought with S. Guillaume and L. Bertolaso, in Saint Luc, Brussels, 2009

The project is situated in a popular area of Brussels: Schaerbeek. The building is an old brasserie where they are now organising a small theatre and a workshop to build the backgrounds and create the costumes of the plays presented.

I decided to give more importance to the theatre: have a bigger and more comfortable room (with specific accoustic and thermic studies), an entry hall that can welcome one hundred people in the new room and lead the public to a bar where people can restore themselves before or after the show.

The goal was also to reinforce the comfort of the actors so I created a background scene and some individual logias.

The entry’s roof was replaced with glass, as to have natural light during the day and become a lightning symbol during the night.

The existing façade was not touched, though the entrance was enhanced by this lighting effect.

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museography in

Aquileia, Italy

project realised with Martin LĂŠonard and Pierre SĂŠguineau, in IUAVenice, 2011

Aquileia is an ancient roman city in Italy, at the head of the Adriatic at the edge of the lagoon, about ten kilometers from the sea, on the river Natiso. Today the city is small (about 3 500 inhabitants) but is used to be large and prominent in Antiquity, and is one of the main archeological sites of Northern Italy. However, the ancient buildings of Aquileia served as stone quarries for centuries, and no edifices of the Roman period remain above ground. Excavations have revealed one street and the north-west angle of the town walls. In fact, the site of Aquileia is believed to be the largest Roman city yet to be excavated and is inscribed on the Unesco world heritage list. The project there was about revealing the ruins by creating a raised pathway over the ancient ruins and let the view on the ancient ceramics.

In addition, explanations about was can be seen are placed along the promenade. The light structure carries a roof to protect both the pedestrians and the ruins.

Place Janson, Brussels

MIX OF ACTIVITIES FOR BETTER LIVING « Cities are the greatest creations of humanity. » Daniel Libeskind

The richness of cities is the possibility to find, in a condensed area, all the activities that create life for its inhabitants. The actual reflexions on density and the combination of different functions are the key to the generation of a consolidated city in an ecological way. I am particularly interested in these matters and tried in my end of studies’ project, to offer a new touristic port to the city of Venice in order to protect the laguna. In Porto Marghera, however, the exercice was to start from new, considering that all the existing industries that are not working any more were torned down and a whole new town needed to be designed.

L’acqua quay, a new touristic port for Venice, Italy Development of a new city in Portomarghera, Italy

URBANISM

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L’A cqua-quay, a new touristic port for Venice final project realised in EnsaVersailles, 2012

The project answers Unesco’s will to move Venice’s touristic port. Indeed, the damage due to cruise ships’ passage within the fragile ecosystem of Venice’s laguna are worisome. Moreover, the economic justification of their presence is not enough: measures must be taken to save the artistic and architectural cultural heritage and treasure of the city. However, we cannot imagine to exclude completely tourists from coming by boat as they represent the most important number of daily tourists. In this sense, I imagined to locate this new port beteween the Lido and the mainland.

Following the Mose project which is now being built at the three «doors» of the laguna to prevent the high waters from flooding Venice. This new device takes the form of a long quay, and welcomes on the sea side the very large cruise ships and ferries. On the inside, the laguna comes in and the vaporetti, which are the much smaller boats, venitian public transport, bring the passengers to Venice or other islands of the laguna.

The ferries can also let cars reach the main land.

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L’Acqua-quay, a new touristic port for Venice

LE CENTRE DE RECHERCHE & CENTRE DE REPRÉSENTATION DE VENISE

Le Venezoscopia est composé d’une part d’un centre de recherche scientifique pour les chercheurs venus étudier la lagune vénitienne. Doté d’une bibliothèque, d’un échantillothèque, de laboratoires d’observation et d’expérimentation, de bureaux et d’un auditorium, les chercheurs de l’Unesco et du monde entier peuvent venir y travailler.

D’autre part, une partie accueil des visiteurs curieux de découvrir Venise d’une nouvelle façon sont invités dans un musée.

At the end of the quay, on the laguna side, a research centre proposes to welcome the environmental searchers. They have laboritories and can do their experiences directly in site. Some wooden floating passways invite the public and the workers to visit the precious ecosystem in an ecological way, to the rythms of the water tides. This building rises naturally to a beautiful view of Venice and the laguna. It is divided in two parts. One

PROGRAMMATION

private part for the searchers and one public part which exposes the results of the research and focuses on Venice and the ecosystem of its laguna.

CIRCULATION PIETONNE

TRAVERSEE PIETONNE ET ACCES BATEAU

STRUCTURE

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ne artistique et architectural se détériorer ainsi. Par contre, nul ne peut envisager d’exclure tout à fait les touristes de bateaux de croisière de visiter Venise. Le tourisme est en effet devenu la source principale d’activité de la ville. Ce travail est donc une proposition de déplacer le port à la porte de la lagune, Porte du Lido. De cette nouvelle infrastructure composée principalement d’un grand quai, les touristes sont invités à prendre le vaporetto pour rejoindre Venise et les îles de la lagune.

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new city in

Porto Marghera, Italy

project realised at the IUAVenice, 2010

We were given a whole new territory close to Venice where a new city needs to be designed in the area created around fifty years ago for the industries.

The sites characteristics are similar to those of Venice in relation to the water. I decided to enhance this strenght and played with the water to have it come into the city. having building-bridges and links.

The masterplan is linked to the existing cities of Marghera and Padova by a major street and a tramway line that goes from Mestre train station to the end of the island. A secondary line desserves the residential areas.

The central business district, which is an island of its own, is only a pedestrian area, like Venice. The cars are left aside in integrated carparks and hopefully, I do hope that in the future there will be less and less automobiles. The tramway is a good alternative to the cars and permits a close access to the centre.

Giving green public park zones was also an attempt to make this artificial island created by man a more natural aspect and a nice environment to live in.

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new city in

Porto Marghera, Italy

project realised at the IUAVenice, 2010

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WE WANT GREEN ! ÂŤ An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.Âť John Ruskin

From Brussels to the Southern Venitian laguna near Chioggia, I had the opportunity to deal with landscape works. Creating a park organised with a new train station in the first case, this project was about having a greenier healthier city centre. In the very dense fisherman city of Chioggia, the inhabitants do not have natural public areas to relax and enjoy the view on the laguna: the creation of a new green island composed of vegetable gardens that can be used by the people living around it gives them the opportunity to meet in a new beautiful environment and produce their own food.

Park between railways in Brussels, Belgium A new island near Chioggia, Italy

LANDSCAPE

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park between railways in

Brussels, Belgium

project realised with Lucile Bertolaso and Laura Schmitt in Saint Luc, Brussels, 2009

This landscape work located in ÂŤ La cage aux ours Âť in Brussels was about positioning a train station and some vegetable gardens in a park. Considering the atmosphere of the local site, special for its mix of cultures, the goal was to create a gathering place in a nicer environment. The curves and organic shapes came naturally to connect the different places of the site.

a new island near

Chioggia, Italy

project realised with Anna Favartto and Roberto Fulciniti, at IUAVenice, in 2011

In the southern venitian laguna, the fishermen city of Chioggia looks like Venice in respect to its high density and some pedestrians sones. Like Venice itself, it has very poor green public space. The idea here was to create a new island that would welcome both a public park and private vegetable gardens for the inhabitants og Chioggia so they can come during the week-ends relax in their gardens. This new island is mostly made from the material extracted from the canal that needs to be deepened in order to let the major marchandise ships navigate in the new port created on the mainland further South. The cost of Chioggia is being redesigned, and visual connections with the new island emhasised. Moreover, public transportation like vaportto lines are proposed to ensure the connection between the islands. Private boats are also welcome on the East cost. On the countrary, the Western coast is let wild.

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TRAVELS &

TEST, TRY, BUILD, GO !

In Alain de Botton The architecture of happiness, the author deals with the question of how we look at our environment and stresses the importance of maintaining a curiosity about what surrounds us.

Extremely curious, every day I enjoy questioning myself about what makes a place enjoyable and lovable. Through my different internships I have had technical answers, through my different travels I have had emotional answers.

Madagascar, volunteer work ¬ New York, travel ¬ Guédelon, middle age castle construction ¬ Bern, school travel study ¬ Following construction sites: Brussels, Paris ¬ Venice architecture Biennale ¬ Venice art Biennale ¬ Internships at Dassault Systèmes and Gehry Technologies ¬

EXPERIENCE

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M adagascar: volunteer work July 2007 The project was about spending ont month with children from Ambositra, in Madagascar. The goal was to practice their French, which is the official language of the country but which they speak very poorly. In this sense, with four friends we prepared lessons and activities and brought all the material needed to the school. The experience was at least as enriching for them as it was for us. I organized the trip and sought for sponsors (10 500 â‚Ź was collected ).

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New York: travel

August 2008

Ten days to visit the City ! The diversity of China Town, Little Italy, Brooklyn Bridge, Chelsea, Broadway, Times Square, The Guggenheim, The Metropolitan Museum, the Moma, Soho, Central Park, The Chrysler Building, Harlem, The United Nations, Staten Island... The amazing architecture and great dynamic of the city made it clearly a world-city. New York appeared open and cosmopolitan.

When I visited the city I knew one day I would live there.

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G uédelon: Middle Age castle construction September 2008 I took part in the construction of a new Middle Age Castle which is built using the XIIIth century methods!

I helped the masons to build the gable-end wall, stone-cutters etc. This original adventure is a long one, it started fifteen years ago and they still have around ten more to go. My first experience on site was very teachfull.

Pictures taken by an other student.

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“ Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together.

There it begins.”

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

B ern: school travel study May 2009 Museum Paul Klee, by Renzo Piano; Notre-Dame du Haut, by Le Corbusier; Station by Libeskind... The visits with project’s teachers invite us to see our environement in a new way ! On this school trip I won the De Coster sketch drawing price.

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following a construction site project realised by Cipolat Architecture in Brussels, followed from October 2009 to February 2010

The project was realised by Cipolat Architecture, who accepted to invite me every week to follow the evolution of their renovation of the «maison de la culture» of Molenbeek, in Brussels. They also introduced a new library, artist’s studios and gallery. I was informed that the building was not listed, nevertheless, the urban district insisted on keeping the original brick walls. They were covered by coating. The first time I arrived on the site, the workmen were preparing the sie for new foundations. Indeed, by stripping the coating, they realised that the original walls were in very bad state. Besides, after ground tests, stakes seemed to be needed to assure the stability of both new and old buildings.

I visited the building site once a week during three months. As the construction was at it start, I followed the evolution of these three subjects: foundations (stakes), waterproofing of walls against the ground, and concrete works (reinforcement, beams...).

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following a construction site

project by Frank Gehry, Fondation pour l’art contemporain de Louis Vuitton followed in January 2010

I spent time on this very impressive project which started in 2006 in the Bois de Boulgne, Paris.

The 46 metres high project involves numerous companies (up to 500 people on site at once).

I had the chance to follow the work of Studio architecture (the French team of achitects who collaborate with Gehry Partners here), Vinci (which is the French building company) and all #$%&%&'()*

of the participants in the project: electricians, plumbers, ingeneers, and experts in glass and projected concrete. It is amazing to see the ability to realize such a complex project ! The art galeries will be from 6 to 17 metres high and measure up to 675 m2 The sill was filled with 11 000 m3 of concrete + 1 600 tons of steel and measures 2,60 metres of height. Four cranes have been on site since the past four years. And we are now hoping to see the finished buikding by the end of the year...

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V enice architecture biennale with Tor Lindstrand from At Work With September 2010

Nordic Pavilion, Venice Biennale Arriving in Venice in September 2010, I was immediatly attracted by the Biennale of architecture directed by Sejima. Luckily enough, I met the architect’s team from the Nordic pavilion and was invited to join them for a week, before school started for me. Sweedish architect Tor Lindstrand and his Australian choregraph wife welcomed me to their team and we had an on-going film project, mixing architectural model work, imaginary landscapes and associative fim production. A project where the set moved and the camera was fixed.

It was the first time I did such an abstract project where I could experiment shapes and colours not for their function but only for themselves and the way they assemble with others.

The team work was enriching : the cross-border exchange between Australia, Sweden and France, in Italy was ideed very interesting. The interaction was also tri-disciplinary between architecture, scenography and movie-making.

Furthermore, the communication with the curious public was the main goal of the workshop and lead to strong exchanges. In this sense, we operated in the pavilion, at the same time as people came by visiting the exhibition. The interaction, linked to the 2010 theme of «People Meet in Architecture», was evidently very efficient.

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D assault Systèmes & Gehry Technology from July 2011 to September 2011

Conceptual buildings tests with Live Building As building construction requires more global collaboration, pressure to deliver on time and on budget have never been greater. Moreover, regulatory standards become more stringent. The Dassault Systèmes Building Design & Lifecycle Management solutions help construction companies and their suppliers accelerate the delivery of innovative buildings with sustainable design.

Their solutions integrate business process management with cutting edge tools for design, engineering, analysis, and construction planning so that all stakeholders in the construction process can effectively collaborate.

I decided to do an internship in this French company for different reasons: first of all, to learn their sofisticated software: Draftsight for 2D design, Live Buildings for 3D conception imaginaion, and Catia and Digital Project for detailed complex design. The second reason was to understand their collaboration tools to have an illustration of my end of study thesis based on how to promote collaboration approaches thanks to new technology for future architecture. In this sense, I was really intersested in giving my advices to the research and development team working on the elaboration of the new software for architects Live Buildings.

Dassault Systèmes and Gehry Technologies have been working together and I was then invited to create spoted-videos for their solutions of Digital Project.

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scenography for with European Event Organisation June 2011

Venice art biennale

Peggy Guggenheim Museum on Grand Canal, Venice Created in 2011 to last six years, the BMW Guggenheim Lab is a mobile laboritary that will travel worldwide to nine different cities. Led by international, interdisciplinary teams of emerging talents in the areas of urbanism, architecture, art, science, design, technology, education, and sustainibility, the BMW Guggenheim Lab will address issues of contemporary urban life through programs and public discourse. Its goal is the exploration of new ideas, experimentation, and ultimately the creation of forwardthinking solutions for urban life.

The 54th Venice art biennale was a perfect way of getting the public to learn about the project. In this sense a major luncheon event on the roof terrace of the Peggy Guggenheim Museum invited all major contemporary artists and architects like Jeff Koons or Zaha Hadid. My experience about this event was the whole organisation of it. From the scenographic presentation of the terrace to the welcoming of the guests.

Palazzo Polignac on Grand Canal, Venice The Gagosian Gallery at the Palazzo Polignac welcomed a party on the first night of the Venice art biennale.

The scenography for such an event greeting stars mostly from the art world needed to be subtle and sublime.

The palazzo faรงade was subtly up-lit and also given candlelight vi external nightlights and lanterns. As one enters the androne from the pontoon (most guests arrived in water taxi from Grand Canal), there is water on both sides, thus elegant brass stands. The floor had an elegant old Persian carpet. There are Murano glass standard lamps scattered around the perimeter of the androne. The existing wooden benches were decorated with fabric and cushions. Low tables were placed in front of them. A bar and a double ended log buffet ran for ten meters along the right hand wall. The court yard perimeter was beautifully decorated with numerous night lights and lanterns and elegantly up-lit with electrical lighting to enhance all four sides to the architecture and flowering plants. The main large room on the piano nobile had elegant dark old looking damask cloths cascading from the tables. Candle sticks, glass candelabra, night lights, chalices and ornaments were used to enhance the buffet and side tables.

ARCHITECT AT

« Me ? ... I build !» * * so says Alvar Aalto.

How excited am I to start my life as an architect ! My first experience is in a parisian studio, Collectif 07. Four young and dynamic architects became partners in 2007 and, thank to their hard work, their company has been expanding since then. Composed of different European nationalities, I was welcome in a great team. There, I worked on different projects, all of different scales. Firstly I participated to a very interesting yet very complex hospital project in Guadeloupe. Then, I designed the extension of a house in the parisian region, where the direct contact with the clients was very dear to me. Simultaneously, I took part in the design competition of two airports in Burma (images cannot yet be reveiled). The associates of Collectif 07 have worked for Aéroport de Paris and have had projects there since the creation of their studio. The insight of this large structure was a great opportunity for me to understand how to organize work at a larger scale when I worked on Orly’s bathroom restructuration.

This year as an architect, I developed both team work and personal engagement, met and presented projects to clients, I designed and had to find technical solutions.

¬ Construction of the new Hospital complex of Capesterre, Guadeloupe ¬ Restructuring Orly’s bathroom, Aéroport de Paris ¬ House extension in Les Lilas, Paris ¬ Restructuring Starbucks coffee shop in Saint-Germain-en-Laye

COLLECTIF 07

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HCapesterre ospital complex of capesterre belle-eau Belle-Eau, Guadeloupe, France 2012-2013

© Collectif 07 The mission given to Collectif 07, grouped together with SNC Lavalin engineers, is to finish the construction of the hospital complex designed by other architects in 2008 and stoped in 2010.

The site measures 75 000 m2 and the hospital is composed of thirteen buildings and contains 20 000 m2.

217 beds are available. The client is the Centre Hospitalier de Capesterre Belle-Eau (CHCBE).

From Collectif 07’s studio, one associate and one architect have moved to Guadeloupe, thus ensuring that the construction site progresses correctly day by day. In Paris, two architects and I have been helping them for over a year, to succeed in this task. We submitted modifications made to the design of the project to the contractor to adapt the project to real-life site conditions, correct errors and remedy omissions to the construction documents. I mainly gave visas to the enterpises’ plans and resolved technical details.

We are expecting the delivery early 2014 now.

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O rly airport’s new bathroom Aéroport de Paris, France 2013

© ADP + Collectif 07

As the four associates of the firm all worked for

Aéroport de Paris (ADP) before creating Collectif 07, they have had the ability to continue working for them every year. This project was about the new bathroom in East Orly’s extention. Both the meetings with architects from ADP, who have ingenuite big size company methodology, and site plan

the detailed scale needed to provide construction plans were extremely teachful to me. In fact there were three different blocs of bathroom to create on two different floors.

It is also interesting to see how much attention is put into an aiport’s bathroom as it contributes to the general satisfaction of the travelers.

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HLesouse extension Lilas, France 2013

Š Collectif 07

To me, an important part of the architect’s job is his ability to understand his client, translate his needs into drawn propositions and then realize his wishes. Try to manoeuvre with him between his dreams and the reality. I believe this is a wonderful challenge. In a smaller scale project like this house extension in Northern Paris, I was extremely happy to communicate digroundfloor plan

rectly with the clients, a family of three who needed more room for their home. While reorganising the first floor, where the common spaces like the kitchen and sitting room are located, I proposed to extend the lower floor leading to the garden with generous bedrooms. Above the extension, a new terrace welcomes family and friends while extending the garden on the gained

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indoor room.

SSaint-Germain-en-Laye, tarbucks coffeehouse France 2013

Š Collectif 07

Following the construction of a shop is always extremely impressive. To see in six weeks the demolition and re-elaboration of a totally new space has tought me that when they know what to do, the enterprises can manage great work in no time.

In this project, the confrontation with the healthy, classical, bourgeois mayor of Saint Germain en Laye was also quite an experience as this is the first Starbucks Coffee established in the city. Moreover, the coffee

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shop will be located near the 12th century castle of the city so special care was drawn on the subtle integration of this American worldwide spread coffeehouse chain in its environment.

Particular attention was payed on reglementation for disabled people. It was quite challenging in this narrow spaces.

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RECO

¬ Matteo Emmer, director at Collectif 07, Paris ¬ Jean-François Roger-France, teacher at St Luc-LOCI, Brussels

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