SEBASTIEN GEYGraduate

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SEBASTIEN GEY Graduate Architect Part II, Benvs (Hns) Dip (Hns). French, 03.07.1990

Pro-active team player with strong management, design and sustainability skills. Highly motivated, adaptable and flexible ready to make the necessary efforts to get a project the extra step or to win competitions. Lived in 4 different countries.

ARCHITECTURAL/URBAN DESIGNAble to work at each design phase from concept development to as-built documentation, integrating sustainability and inter-disciplinary knowledge.

ADAPTABILITYCapacity to effectively and rapidly accommodate change both in terms of working environment and problem-solving situation.

PARAMETRIC DESIGNAble to set up and operate parametric design tools as well as building up projects with parametric interdependencies.

MANAGEMENTAble to plan, manage, execute and supervise projects both in design and construction phase.

ARCHITECTURAL DOCUMENTATIONAble to produce and understand technical design, including tendering and construction documentation.

Nathaniel KOLBE: n.kolbe@londonmet.ac.ukJonas LUNDBERG: jonas@urbanfuture.org

CAD/BIM

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCY

KEY SKILLS

LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY

REFEREES

Design & Layout3D modellingParametric modellingMicrosoft Suite

FrenchEnglishSpanish

CURRICULUM 2015

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PROFESSIONAL DIPLOMA PART II : Completion of Professional Diploma in Architecture RIBA Part II with Distinctions from The Cass School of Architec-ture (London Metropolitan University).

SOLAR DECATHLON LAC 2015 : Team Captain, Site operations Manager, Head of Adapt-able Facade Design Research, Co-leader of Lucidum Mycelium Research Lab.

URBAN FUTURE ORGANISATIONS (UFO) : Architectural Assistant & EPS foam construction specialist.London (United Kingdom)

SG|STUDIO : Founder & Architectural Consultant specialised in competi-tion projects. Noumea, New Caledonia (France)

CALBAT CONSTRUCTION : Architectural Assistant. Duties included 2d drafting, site su-pervision, and practice’s architectural profile management.Noumea, New Caledonia (France)

ARTIMON ARCHITECTURE : Architectural Assistant. Large and diverse range of projects & competitions. BIM technicianNoumea, New Caledonia (France)

BACHELOR OF ENVS - ARCHITECTURE PART I : Completion of Bachelor of Environments majoring in Ar-chitecture with Honours from The University of Melbourne, Australia.

ARM ARCHITECTURE : Architectural Intern. Duties included 3d rendering and post-processing, 2d drafting and tendering management.

www.sgstudio-architecture.com

Copyright 2015 Sebastien Gey

Sample of academic and professional architectural work, which emerge out of the desire to integrate design and science in order to meet the permanently evolving needs of the contemporary living. I believe in design which supports neither the existence of an utopian architecture nor orthogonal pragmatism but rather tends to merge digital formalism with clever use of curvatures and patterning.

CONTENTS 2015

AUSTRALIAN PAVILION : Competition entry for the design of the Australian pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2013 as part of Superstudio 2012, a national student competition.

Mobius hotel & ENTERTAINMENT : Bachelor (Part 1) thesis project exploring the spatial benefits from complex geometries such as the Mobius strip.

HIGH SCHOOL : Winning entry for a professional com-petition of a 2000 students high school located within an environmentally protected area.

HOSPITAL : Winning entry for a professional competition of a 12000 sqm medical centre in the Northern Province of New Caledonia.

HEART TOWERS : Student project proposing a set of inter-connected towers as part of a larger masterplan for the Thames estuary in Eastern London.

BURBU BAR : Conception of a 4 storey lounge bar & restaurant in the historical centre of Granada, Spain. Interior fit out and renovation of heritage building.

DDP VISITOR CENTRE : Design & Built EPS foam pavilion at the Dongdaemun Design Plaza in Seoul, South Korea.

Sol_ID HOUSING : Diploma (Part 2) thesis project as part of competition entry for the Solar Decathlon Latin America & Caribbean 2015 (SDLAC15). Design investigation through various scales from urban masterplan down to individual building clusters.

Sol_ID PROTOTYPE : Design & Built mycelium prototype as ultimate deliverable for the SDLAC 2015.

AUSTRALIAN PAVILION

Superstudio 2012 was a national stu-dent competition for the design of the Australian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2013. The specificity of this contest is that it only allow the com-

petitors to design for 24 hours prior presenting their project to a panel of distinguished profes-sionals.

This year, the brief required a portable installa-tion or pavilion. Our direct response to this was creating a set of tasteable, smellable and vis-ible items as an invitation to the physical pavil-ion in Venice. The underlying concept was to restrain people to change themselves prior to changing their environment by directly engag-ing with our senses.The journey through the installation required the stakeholders to crawl, crouch, climb, and rely on each of their senses in order to go from end to another of the maze-like pavilion.

MOBIUS HOTEL

Mobius is the name given to the hotel resort as a reference to the 3 dimensional geometry used throughout the project. The Möbi-us strip consists in a surface with

only one side and only one boundary. It also has the mathematical property of being non-orientable which implies that It can be realized as a ruled endless surface.

In this context, these geometrical characteris-tics were used in order to blur the boundaries between what is inside from what is outside. The intent was to embrace as much as pos-sible the surrounding environment which illus-trated Melbourne’s most appealing sceneries. The building and its site genuinely stood as a setting with panoramic vistas while being sur-rounded with St Kilda harbor’s water.

MOBIUS HOTEL & ENTERTAINMENT

UNDERGROUND CARPARKLOADING DOCK

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GOLF COURSELANDSCAPED GARDENS

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HOTEL RECEPTIONLOBBY

LUGGAGE ROOMSTAFF ROOM

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HOTEL ROOMSHOTEL FACILITIES

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ROOFTOP SWIMMING POOLLEVEL 04

The building is a depiction of the surrounding context, mimicking the profile of an ocean liner, especially at night. The skin of the building embodies one of the most essential element of the design. The perforations in the galvanized steel cladding dif-fer both in size and density in order to match the internal programmatic requirements. Also, this architectural gesture enables to deal with issues of privacy by adjusting the

frequency of perforations according to their location onsite. For instance, at the front of the hotel, facing the surrounding residential suburbs and the main street, the skin looks more opaque while it becomes a system of curtain Low-E glazed walls towards the waterfront at the back of the building.

Internally, the idea of continuous and endless circulation has been carried out with the im-plementations of interconnecting circular ramps. The Mobius geometry allowed to control the semi-private spaces where hotel guests and external attendees to the entertainment centre of the complex may cross path. This also enabled to free the internal core of the building in order to generate an external atrium spreading light throughout the building.

PROGRAMMES & CIRCULATION

MONT DORE HIGH SCHOOL

The project was co-designed with leading New Cale-donian firm Artimon and French giant Chabannes Ar-chitectes. The new high school will be located in Mont Dore, nearby the New Caledonian capital, Noumea. Cur-

rently under construction at the moment, the project is due to be completed in 2016.

The site is located within an environmentally protected area, sur-rounded by palm trees fields and mangrove swamps. The initial design therefore drew its inspirations from the local environment. The building aims at narrowly engage with the environment. The two inner-courtyards are designed in a way that a peripheral view out is guaranteed. The structural and slanted series of louvres wrapping around the building act as a filter between the distinct environments while allowing vast amount of natural lighting.

The overlapping stripes depict an 8-shape which enables a continuity in plan. The overall building morphology guarantees a view out for every single rooms with the circulation facing the in-ner courtyards which facilitates the surveillance of the recreational spaces.

At night, we like to metaphorically qualify our project as a piece of “jewelry” (education) in its tropical encasing. The building intents to provide a comfortable environment for teaching while offering a relaxing and peaceful place for the students residing onsite.

MONT DORE HIGH SCHOOL

NORTHERN PROVINCE HOSPITAL

Elected winning entry for a national competition for the design of a large healthcare complex in the Northern Province of New Caledonia, it was co-designed with leading New

Caledonian firm Artimon and French architec-tural practice Patrice Genet Architecte.

The building embraces the aboriginal cultural heritage as much as possible with the use of noble but locally produced materials. The over-all plan of the hospital is spread out over two floors with a central double-height atrium which helps to blend the building into the surrounding environment.

Our primary intentions were to drift away as much as possible from the standardised hospital’s feel where anxiety and doubts are encountered as soon as the front gates are walked through.

Another essential element in the natives’ culture addresses the light and its meaning. Through-out the project, we attempted to permanently facilitate the penetration of natural daylight into the building which certainly provides a peace-ful atmosphere and ease the patient’s recov-ery.

Finally, the incorporation of light as part of the design strategy was taken further in the atrium, where a perforated aluminium ceiling was in-troduced. The perforations are supposed to mimic a star-filled sky, depicting another indig-enous belief that conveys notions of heritage and serenity.

KONE MEDICAL CENTRE

HEARTS TOWERS

The Heart’s towers represent a building proposal as part of a “high density/low carbon footprint”

masterplan located in the Thames estuary. The diagrid consists in an energetic coat for the building. The triangulated panels are used for 3 differ-ent outcomes. Most are fitted with algae bioreactors while the southern facade accom-modates those populated with fritted PVGU panels and 35% of the entire skin is dedicated to openings and balconies.

Greater London is under the scope of several major infrastructure developments including the new Thames barrier, the megaport Thames Gateway and the next

biggest European 6-runways airport.

The masterplan encompasses the fields of urbanism, architecture but also politics. Our proposal suggests to link up two cities, Tilbury in Essex and Gravesend in Kent, merely sepa-rated by the Thames. Historically, associating the two regions does not fall under the politi-cally correct.

We believe that combining the industrial heri-tage from Tilbury with the relatively dynamic Gravesend’s economy would optimize the benefits to be drawn from the major develop-ments proposed in the area.

Parametrically developed, the masterplan is based on the principle of attraction. On each riverbank, a major parkland has been select-ed alongside areas of significance such as the Waterfront city or the healthcare district in Gravesend in order to determine the centers of attraction for urban density and programmatic distribution.

These selected areas would then control the maximum height, size, typology and program for each developable zones located within their range of attraction. The variations in type, from plain to courtyard-based, eventually guaran-tee various scale of privacy while implementing a cluster-based interconnectivity in between the urban blocks.

ONE CITY, ONE RIVER MASTERPLAN

BURBU BAR

GROUND FLOOR BEFORE PROJECT STAIRCASE BEFORE PROJECT

LEVEL 01 BEFORE PROJECT

GBurbu Bar is the first of a new franchise of restaurants and bars. The site is located in the middle of Granada’s historical center which was of significance in the design

development. The traditional facade of the 4 storeys building was to be maintained which restricted our intervention to an internal fit out.

One of the main challenges for this project was about the lack of available space. Fulfilling the client’s wishes while complying with the Span-ish regulations and guaranteeing a comfort-able usable space was a difficult task. On the ground floor, this was essentially achieved with the morphology of the bar. Parametrically de-signed in order to adapt the double curvature to the use of the space, the bar’s edges point in and out in order to create a sitting space at the back while opening up the access into the premise. The design of this essential furniture was also critical as a marketing tool. The LEDs located on its side and those fitted on the walls act as guidelines aiming at a focal point while structuring the view and animating the space.

In addition to dealing with the lack of space, we also had to fill the bar with natural light as much as possible. Being located on the ground floor of a 4-storeys building, this was achieved by opening up the front using foldable glazed panels while reflecting the light whenever pos-sible using mirrors, angles and reflective sur-faces.

The project was completed in April 2014 for a building cost of 38 000 euros.

BURBU BAR GRANADA

As part of our entry for the Solar De-cathlon Latin America Caribbean 2015, we were invited to propose a sustainable, affordable and ef-ficient alternative to social housing

in Colombia.

At the urban scale, we introduced the underly-ing concept of the design that is applied in both cluster and individual units. The overall CLG (Cross-laminated Guadua, a local bamboo specie) structure is used as a gridshell for the Mycelium curved canopy that wraps around the building along both short elevations as well as the roof. The same material is used for the floors that are suspended from the overarch-ing canopy via a series a steel rods. Thus, it frees the internal floors from any load-bearing elements which champions adaptability and flexibility. The double floor to ceiling height also enables the occupants to expand vertically on demand.

Each resident is invited to purchase a lot within the floor plate’s area. Given the social nature of Colombia and the identified needs for flex-ible living, the stakeholders can expand or decrease their home by simply adding/re-moving the required prefabricated pods. This shift in resolution creates an architecture that is not only critically aware of the economic con-straints but also creates an environment where inhabitants can observe permanence not as a top down imposition but as a projection of their own aspirations into the future

CLUSTER DESIGN

SOL...ID HOUSING

Lot purchase & Service + living poddwelling size: 1 couple

Installation of additional living podsdwelling size: 1 couple + 2 children

Expansion to the mezzanine leveldwelling size: 1 couple, 1 adult, 2 children

Completion and sublet of mezzanine level2 dwellings

Alongside Team HelioMet, we have entered the Solar Decathlon Latin America & Caribbean 2015, an in-ternational competition showcas-ing alternatives housing solutions

promoting self-efficiency and sustainability.

This is our second participation in the contest. We previously entered the Solar Decathlon China 2013 where we built a fully-functional house out of EPS foam as a placeholder for bio-foam, which awarded us the RIBA Presi-dent’s Silver Medal.

This year, the design embraces the principles of self-built architecture where locally produc-ing materials is paramount. A bio-composite called Mycelium was therefore developed as an alternative for lightweight, affordable and low-carbon building material. Beyond the ac-tual design of the prototype , we want to en-courage the development of this material that is made from local agricultural waste, as an opportunity to generate a new form of income as part of a circular economy scheme.

SOLAR DECATHLON

SOL...ID PROTOTYPE

We are designing and building “SOL_ID”, a fully functional prototype, solar powered, sus-tainable, affordable and show-casing an alternative to social

housing in order to compete at the prestigious Solar Decathlon Latin American & Caribbean 2015 in December.

Our goal was to develop a new typology of adaptable housing that addresses the issues of cost, and sustainability whilst being con-textually relevant. Through the use of cheap, locally sourced lightweight materials, the over-arching architectural concept for the design of the prototype unit is the possibility of having flexible interchangeable space. The design is driven from the simple idea of adapting the interior layout through different lifecycle stages and multigenerational adaptive living.

The assembly of the unit is arranged through a mix of prefabrication and on site simple tech-niques. The materials used have been de-signed for maximum efficiency for acoustics, insulation and ventilation along with maximiz-ing floor area. The unique façade has an in-terchangeable screen that allows the family to alter the interior according to privacy and orien-tation preferences.

The wet areas, such as the kitchen and bath-room are located off one core pod. Although not possible in our prototype, as a family grows additional bedrooms can be added into the free space or the mezzanine above. The pods will be designed so the reverse is pos-sible when the family decreases in size.

PROTOTYPE ASSEMBLY

Located in the heart of Seoul, the kiosk was designed and built alongside inter-national firm, UFO. The building is constructed out of Expanded Polystyrene Sty-rofoam (EPS) blocks, which were hot wire cut onsite prior to be secured together using a specifically designed M12 tensioning system. Initially intended to be temporary, the EPS kiosk showcases lightweight construc-

tion, high thermal mass and low-skilled labour construction while allowing for quick assembly and disassembly. The structure consists in a series of M12 steel rods tensioned on both ends using a sets of spread plates which, combined with the friction of foam, achieves structural integrity. The building is finished with a cement powder render to ascertain weather resiliency.

DONGDAEMUN DESIGN PLAZA KIOSK

CONTACTS

SEBASTIEN GEY Graduate Architect Part II

@ : sg.sgstudio@gmail.comm : +44 787 915 2828A : 18 Truman Walk E33FB London

www.sgstudio-architecture.com

Copyright 2015 Sebastien Gey

Sample of academic and professional architectural work, which emerge out of the desire to integrate design and science in order to meet the permanently evolving needs of the contemporary living. I believe in design which supports neither the existence of an utopian architecture nor orthogonal pragmatism but rather tends to merge digital formalism with clever use of curvatures and patterning.

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