2009-04-27

Algeco competition

Awaiting results of the 2009 Algeco competition / should be in may... I will then post pics from the freshest, nicest, most playfull, colourfull model ever made and seen (by my partner and I).

Montparnasse. A laboratory for urban (hyper)density.

Density was the main subject of this workshop proposed by architects Philippe Gazeau and Stéphane Maupin at ENSAPVS (Paris 2008-2009), with the belief it could be a tool for urban renewal or transformation. Even an already dense city like Paris would benefit, even need, an increase of its population within its limits in order to oppose the rather deadly but very real tendances of museification, and urban sprawl. Evidently however, this approach is not about letting everybody build higher all over the place. The area of study had then to be carefully chosen: we went on working on the site of Montparnasse.
We tried not to think too much about what would be harmful for the existing city in such a dramatic increase of the density or what form should it take, but precisely on the opposite: what could it allow? How does the city benefits from the insertion of high-rise or mega-buildings?

Each of our buildings hosts altogether a major equipment, such as a sports field, swimming-pool, library… and particular housing / offices directly in contact with it. We seek good couples to ensure that everybody benefits from the major porosity between the city and the equipment, and then between the equipment and its more private extension.




[Team project with Marie-Laure Cazes]

Treviso - Scalo Motta

Project initiated at the master of Landscape Architecture in Venice (Pr. Paolo Ceccon, Michela De Poli 2008). Urban/landscape scale



[Team project with Quentin Georgelin, Simone Teso]

W competition 2008



[Team project with Nicolas Thomelin]

Colli Euganei

Portraiting landscape. A personal introduction to the Colli Euganei regional park in the Veneto (Italy). Team project submitted at the Landscape Master in Venice (IUAV - 2008).


[Team project with Quentin Georgelin, Nicolas Thomelin]

2009-04-26

Interaction Venice

Design and "fast and dirty" prototype for a Vaporetto user interface in Venice. This was our collective entry for the Gillian Crampton-Smith and Philip Tabor Interaction Design Theory class at the IUAV, Venice (2007).


[Team project with Marco Bertoldo, Laura Bordin, Leandro Lisboa]

Sacca San Mattia - Venice Lagoon Park

Entry for the 2007 2G competition, then developped at the Landscape Master Class in Venice. This is a collective proposal for an evolving park on the artificial industrial island of San Mattia near Murano in the Venice Lagoon. The topography, vegetation and functions of the park change over the time, seasons, years... as the water/earth limit fades to eventually turn the island into a Lagoon factory.

[exhibited at the 5th Barcelona Landscape Biennial, 2008]





[Team project with Quentin Georgelin, Giovanni Gabai, Ludovico Tiberio]

Back from Barcelona

some drawings from a two weeks sketch-trip to Barcelona (2006).

Students house.

Third year project on the Orsay Science faculty campus near Paris, for a Students house with a small theater, cafeteria, library and computer room, offices (2006).

OTUA competition 2007

House of Poetry, Paris.

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[Team project with Clément Bertin]

House for an art collector in southern France.

Every phase of the project was to be designed in model and section only, excluding the plan. Focusing on the section resulted in finding richer strategies in terms of scale, variety of the spaces, natural light, views... The plan is definitly a more abstract tool, that should not let forget the human scale. (2006)



6 double heigt appartments in Paris

2nd year final project (2006).

Arcelor Competition

Hundred thousand billion steel cabanons (2006).

2012 Olympics Pavilion



2005, esquisse.

ma maison en 2x2 !

"Minimaousse2" competition 2005
Minimal aggregating houses.



[Team project with Malak Mebkhout]

Up in the trees

1st year final project (2005), set up near Paris. A small home up in the trees.



the metaphor