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Residential Building

Seraing / Belgium

Studio : Housing

3rd Bachelor

Project for 23 social housing apartments in an industrial city close to Lige.

The primary goal was to build housing with double orientation. Duplex and tri-

plex houses were divided to create a distribution corridor on every 2 levels

which in turn provides double orientation and light for the 2 others levels. The

idea of a slice increases the cross space. To increase variety, various modular

spaces are used, which render each apartment unique. The building is eleva-

ted to offer a public space and technical features at ground floor level. The

facade is offset to give identity to the apartments, it also provides terraces.


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Ground floor

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2

3

4


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A B

A B

Private House

Matapera / Spain

Studio : Projectes Arquitectonics

(UPC Barcelona / Ferrater)

1st Master

This house has a particular brief: the host needed very private spaces for his diff e-

rent activities. The answer to this request is a radical separation of functions which

in turn translates into a radial plan. This division provides different patios that remain

exclusive to each functions, along with optimal orientation. The envelop is opaque

except for the garden side and the first floor level, the interior facade is treated with

opaque or glass walls. The house adapts to the terrain and creates duality in levels.


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Section AA

Section BB

Implantation


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Caixia Tower

Barcelona / Spain

Studio : Projectes Arquitectonics

(UPC Barcelona / Bru Bistuer)

1st Master

The Caixia Bank is an office tower localised in Poblenou, on the Diagonal of

Barcelona. The program requires many public spaces. The intention is to give t he

public the opportunity to climb the tower thanks to different types of public spaces

on several levels. These functions are sometimes connected and make for inte-

resting circulation and multiple views of the city. The plan is defined by the plot.


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Implantation


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Masterplan

Roca del Valles / Spain

Studio : Urbanism

1st Master

This project is an urbanism scheme located next to a village in proximity with

an environmental protection zone. The terrain is located between a village, a

road and a river. The idea was to connect with the village using social drivers

that is to say offices, shops, restaurants, public spaces. This part is evolves

gradually into housing zones. Therefore high office buildings with public spaces

become medium height apartment buildings with streets which in turn become

small houses with gardens. The public zone evolves with urban blocs which slowly

become streets leading up to the housing zone. It was important for this pro-

ject to work with the green spaces and the connections with the river, therefore

some blocks are open onto the river which in turn make good public spaces.

Furthermore, a walkway has been created along the river where the protected

plants of the region can be preserved and observed. Finally, the buildings gradually

expand as they follow the river providing protection and direction to the center.


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Trademart

Brussels / Belgium

Studio : Space Speculation

2nd Master

The Trademart is a building from 1972 directed by John Portman and Staepels

Pollak and is restricted to a permanent platform for fashion and interior de-

sign in Europe. The building is very poor due to its interior. It is the perfect

example of what Rem Koolhaas calls Junkspace :a spacious interior with neon

lights, ultra functional, controlled, saturated of detestable materials . The Trade-

mart is huge, this is a large square with 200m sides, almost 250,000 m, but

despite its 200,000 visitors annually, much of its space remains abandoned.


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The Trademart is a building that deserves attention because, despite its use and its current state it

has many advantages for future redevelopment. It is located on the Heysel and is therefore easily

accessible, its structure allows flexibility in the plan and its pure form gives it a strong identity.

If urban planning often limits the city to its functionality, the megastructures sometimes fol-

lows the same direction, their hyperfunctionality gives rise to a limited space experiments.

The megastructure is defined as a building encompassing a "city", so I wanted to address

this issue of the megastructure playing with its own definition, therefore creating a megastruc-

ture encompassing several cities in order to create different identities and space experiments.

The principle of the project is to preserve the architecture by giving each level a new identity. The Tra-

demart plan closely approximates the plans of Vauban, so I wanted to continue the exercise and see if

the ground floor can retain its Vauban identity , the upper floors can create new identities with other urban

plans. I used different principles of great cities like Barcelona or Chicago but also the plans of Le Corbusier

or KGDVS, concentrated together inside the Trademart. This is an interesting exercise since it compares

different urban principles to the same scale, it analyses different urban patterns in a new perspective.

The various plans, therefore, lead singular patterns of circulation but also diffe-

rent densities. I represented these densities with furniture showing several possi-

ble scenarios and efficiencies that these urban systems could provide within a megastructure.

The superposition is preserved and the variety is found at project level. We can nevertheless dis-

cover the different spatial properties through patios that suggest the various principles of circulation

for each "city" and that blur our understanding of the building by removing all forms of rationality.


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Cerda Corbusier


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Vauban

Vegas

Burnham

Office


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Collaborations


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Houndstooth Sidewalk

Collaboration MS-Architects

Brussel / Belgium

Dansaert Street

2011

Client: City of Brussels

This is a collaboration between the ms-architects practice and a graphic designer :

Els Vande Kerckhove. The project brief was to draw a pattern for the sidewalk on

Dansaert Street. The historic functionality of the street was the main artery of a

textile market, so the chosen pattern was houndstooth . There are many constraints

to designing a sidewalk, we had to use a basic pavement structure that was easy

to place and to change. The pavement pattern had to be with the correct dimen-

sions and materials so as to be noticed by the public but not overwhelming to use.


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Master plan Model


Binche / Belgium

2010

Client: City of Binche

Binche is a small city with an historical center that evolved along the

roads around it. This project consisted of enhancing the future of the

city by planning interesting zones to build. The principal idea was to

connect two neighborhoods separated by a flood zone. This zone has

been treated as a green zone where we can find sports grounds,

promenades, and vegetation. So the new buildings we propose are on

an elevated zone and are open to the green zone. This new urban

planning allows an highest density and new connections for the city.

Master plan 3D model


Namur / Belgium

2010

Client: City of Namur

This project is a study of several propositions for sport

facilities. The program is regroups different installations

such as an iceskating rink, a football pitch (exterior or

interior), a parking lotWe made various propositions

with different schemes, budgets and timing scenarios.

European Neighbourhood Planning


Brussels / Belgium

2011

Client: City of Brussels

In a neighbourhood contract condition, this project aims to

connect different streets around a railroad. It's a pedestrian

concourse which starts at the public space of the Euro-

pean Parliament and stretches until the Germoir Bridge.

The principal constraints were

the topography, and the small

width along the railroad. As

we studied different types of

passageways (stairs, slopes,

bridges) we chose to design

it with different materials which

could provide a sequential

movement to the walkway.

One section of the project

was the Artisans street.

This street is currently wi-

thout sewer facilities and lets

the water flow along the si-

dewalk. The intention was to

keep this system but to op-

timise its management. The-

refore the street is divided

into two parts : the car side,

and a mineral side which can

absorb the water. Also two

buffers are placed at each

entrance to slow down traffic.


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Housing Navez

Competition / Winner


Brussels / Belgium

2011/ 2012

Client: Schaerbeek

The Navez project is an apartment building on a unique site. It's located on a

street intersection at the entrance of Brussels, so it's the first building you see

when you enter in the city. Due to the small size of the plot, the project gets

wider from the first floor level and transforms the principal facade into a concave

angle to give to the facade a welcoming position. This facade has full north orien-

tation, therefore a patio is built on the south orientation to maximise the sunlight.

The patio and the north facade divide the project into two parts which hang on a

vertical circulation, and which provide different levels around this circulation. All these

devices generate multiple viewpoints, privacy and an interesting sense of movement.


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Ground floor 1

2 3

4 5

Stairs section - apartment distribution

Elevation from Lambermont Boulevard


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Camo Cinema

Competition / Winner

Collaboration V+ architects

Namur / Belgium

2012

Client : City of Namur

This is a contest in association with an contractor and specialists, which re-

quires construction documents. The projects goal is to renovate a cinema by

adding more screens and to allow for better acoustics. The old cinema has

already been expanded through the adjacent house which in turn creates a

complex circulation scenario in the existing building. The primary idea for the

contest is to simplify and to control this circulation and to enlarge the cinemas.


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Ground floor

3rd floor


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AA Section

BB Section

CC Section

Facade

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