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‘‘To be an architect’’ What it means for me :

To reveal the world its real beauty; hope and light where it seems not to be any. To turn the reality into surprise; variety and challenge as prime rules. To act with generosity; optimism and honesty as inherent qualities. To fulfill the expectations of tomorrow cities; generic and emotions will stand together.

For architects understand the exceptionality of being and work to give it the importance it requires.

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Studio Link ArcChina pavilionGarden Club-houseWien Museum CompetitionBauhaus Museum CompetitionChicago Lakefront Kiosk CompetitionOMAJean-Jacques Bosc Bridge Competition winning entryLAB City Ecole CentraleX-TUCité des Civilisations du VinDLMagnum Photo GalleryFamilly House Bretagne

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PROJECTSTechnutopia 2073 in Pacific ~ Fairy Tale 2016Fog Harvester in Namibia ~ eVolo 2014Port City in Boulogne-sur-MerActive Barges on East River NYCHigher Space, Hotel and Spa in ChicagoTwo sided, 30,000m2 offices and commercial in ParisHigh Stratum, 100 units condo in BerlinFrench Pavilion for Milan EXPO 2015Urbanities, Public Facilities in ParisPlace des Manèges, Urban DesignGandamaison, Art InstallationStudent Housing in Versailles

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CHiNA PAviLiON STANDiNG AT EXPO 2015 iN MiLAN

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A Roof for the people

Rejecting the typical notion of a cultural pavilion as an object in a plaza, the China Pavilion is instead conceived as a field of spaces. Envisioned as a cloud hovering over a “land of hope”, the Pavilion is experienced as a series of public programs located beneath a floating roof, the unique design of which creates an iconic image for the project and a unique presence within the Expo grounds. The theme for the China Pavilion is “The Land of Hope”. The project embodies this through its undulating roof form, derived by merging the profile of a city skyline on the building’s North side with the profile of a landscape on the South side, expressing the idea that “hope” can be realized when city and nature exist in harmony.

PARAMETRiC MODEL COLORED BY PANEL TYPE

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March 2014 - May 2015Milan, iT

China Pavilion EXPO Milan 2015Studio Link Arc

FROM SCHEMATIC DESIGN TO CONSTRUCTION ADMINISTRATIONChief Architect: Yichen LuProject Manager: Kenneth Namkung, Qinwen CaiProject Team: Alban Denic, Shuning Fan, Mario Bastianelli, Yoko Fujita, Chen Hu, Ching-Tsung Huang, Hyunjoo Lee, Dongyul Kim, ivi Diamantopoulou, Wei Huang, Zachary Grzybowski, Elvira Hoxha, Aymar Mariño-Maza, Zoe Yuan

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The roof is a complex assemblage of interdependent elements. The freeform geometry, original proposal from the competition has been rationalized with a new set of rules driving the design to a buildable state.

As part of a whole, bamboo panels, supporters, waterproof membrane, rafters and purlins are all having a precisely defined and explored relationship and hierarchy.South and North profiles being conceptually and geometrically different, the variety of panel types follows as well.

in order to proceed to rationalization, anchor point was necessary. The whole roof design can be summarized as a single base surface.

The planar geometry of each panel eventually became more concrete with the introduction of welded metal frames both-sided by bamboo strips with specific texture.

UNFOLDED ROOF FOR CONSTRUCTiON DRAWiNG SHOP-DRAWiNGS FOR FABRiCATiON ROOF STRUCTURAL LAYERiNG

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Supporters are the structural link for these panels. intrinsically they drive the geometry.

Panels, staggering and supporters all go together. Each affects the others in very subtle way and imposes its own limits.Paneling system is based on grid with u and v coordinate. Geometry curvature can be looked on these two directions. As a major fact, geometry appeared constant on a longitudinal axis and highly curved on transversal axis. Each panel row happens to be quite constant in panel types and supporter lengths.

Although the supporters align, the set of curvatures being almost unique at every supporter brought a lot of different scenarios.

Supporters are designed to embrace maximum flexibility with a minimized customization.

DETAiL SECTiON PANEL SUPPORTER FiXTURE DETAiLTiMBER CUSTOM STRUCTURAL NODE

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DIALOGUE IParametric Design

Qinwen Cai : As the architectural designer who participated in the parametric design in early stages, how did you coordinate with Satoru? What working methods did you find helpful to the communication rather effectively? What kinds of problems were solved utilizing these methods?

Alban Denic : As buildings become more and more complex in our contemporary era, we are constantly facing highly skilled experts who bring their knowledge to the process. The pavilion is no exception to this, and the geometry of the roof has definitely been a design challenge. Transdisciplinary teams are empowered to achieve great designs; the main task then becomes communication. The more specialized individuals we interact with, the more in-depth we tend to judge, sometimes at the price of a clear overall reading. As architectural designer to work

on the Pavilion, it was important to me to always bring experts language, in our case our geometry consultant Satoru (ATLv), to a ground of understanding for the whole team and enable efficient decision making. Ultimately, we had to be able to reach an end and control the process for the paneling; therefore we had to fully understand its complexity.As a start and young office, we had no set method to address such a design challenge. Discussing back and forth, every week with Satoru was very helpful to test systems virtually on the whole geometry, and physically on models to control texture and transparency. 3D model on Rhino was a great tool for efficient visualization and communication with our consultant. What i like to call the “behavior” of the paneling on such a surface was very unique with very few constants. Designing the paneling was one thing, solving conflicts was another one, yet interconnected.All along, we have been very cautious on panels’ proportions and orientations, and

these decisions were being implemented in the digital geometry creating new conditions that we were able to address. The biggest challenge was to come up with a rigorous and effective supporter strategy. A system, simple and universal, that could integrate all the micro variations across the roof. To do so, we really had to fully understand the extent of the roof geometry, extracts the constants, name typologies of surfaces (valley/corner/peak/angle…), use case study on most extreme geometry variation. Basically setting the rules and defining the principles from an abstract geometry to a buildable envelope.The first big breakthrough was integrating the concept of “Supporters lines” in the roof design. As a result of panelingmodel, the supports happened to always be arranged along curves almost parallel to each other. After that, the more we were moving in depth with the paneling, we had to become more and more precise and naming elements with their variations. For about 3months, every day was a new discovery, a

new feature, a new conflict.

QC : SLA has always emphasized the importance of making physical models. During the process involving intensive computer programming such as parametric design, you and your colleagues made a great number of physical models. What kind of study were they meant to target? What did they mainly help?

AD : Physical models were a necessary tool to keep control of the design. We were able to test various dimensions and sensations that the parametrical tool, even though very powerful, doesn’t allow. very early, even the shape of a single panel was studied at a big scale. Folding and support came after. Major precision was required to achieve a model that would match the digital one. i remember a magical moment in office when after a week of work on a massive 1m2 model 1to20 scale, we placed the roof extract on top of our glass conference table and everyone slipped below to see for the

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first time a feel of being under the roof.

QC : in your design methodology, does the paneling drive the design, or the design drives the paneling？how is this question answered in the design of the China Pavilion?

AD : That is true that paneling is receiving a lot of emphasis in contemporary architecture since we see the construction of new forms that requires reinterpretation of what a building skin would be. in that sense, we see more and more non-standard skins that create a unique imagery as part of a signature. To me, good paneling is a response to a strong concept, and in the case of the China Pavilion, it does answer the central goal to create a tremendous roof offering protection and a filtered light to the contemplation space below.

TECHNiCAL MODEL SUPPORTiNG STRATEGY STABiLiTY ANALYSiS + ADDiTiONAL SUPPORTERS FULLY DETAiLED MODEL

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DIALOGUE IIPrototyping and Fabrication

QC : When Bodino Engineering was developing the supporters for final production, you also did a great amount of work in parallel. What was your main role specifically? Do you think these tasks such as extracting data of the supporters or working on the shop drawings of the bamboo panels exceeded the conventional scope of work for an architect? What was the biggest challenge for you at that time? How did you manage to solve the problems that you encountered?

AD : i remember seeing great looking real scale mock up of the roof in Bodino workshop. it was such a thrill to see it comes true. i think our collaboration with Bodino was to bring knowledge of both of us to find the middle ground. i mean, we knew the constrains and they knew the technique (with advices from F&M). My role was to summarize the conditions of the roof to be

able to transfer the knowledge to them. At that point we had already spent 3months rationalizing the surface with the help of our geometry consultant Satoru (ATLv) and Chinese engineers façade specialists EFC. We have been able to rationalize supporters along supporter lines. We established the fact that supporter lines were laid out as repetition of a set of three lines with individual features. Because of planar geometry of panels, one of these three lines was highly irregular and was increasing our tolerance on the fabrication of supporters. These studies were made possible thanks to the use of parametrical tool like Grasshopper and Excel to measure and target supporter amid a poll of 1500 lines that were given from ATLv.Also, Bodino was collaborating with us and consultant on the design of the PvC waterproofing membrane that was installed right below the panels. As a detail not to collide with any panel, it was our task to check in 3D very closely if any conflict would happen in between. The geometry

of panels was to be adjusted, supporters were modified. Around September 2014, the panels were finalized, and the process was then to flatten all the information we have been working on in order to provide a base for construction.As a matter of scope, i think parametrical design is a real challenge. it is definitely a challenge for the industry that, according to what i saw of the construction, is well equipped to process all custom buildings; but it is even more a challenge in term of design and construction documentation. Assembling thousand pieces together were they unique or same will take same amount of time. instead, explaining and coordinating about thousand pieces all similar or all unique makes a very big difference. Any ambiguity has to be avoided when considering expanding drawing over almost 300 panel types or more than a thousand steel plate connection on the roof structure. in order to do so, one needs to think at the root of the logic. Parametrical tools allow us to treat such an amount of

data. As an architectural office, it is very good we were able to provide the technical sheets of panels as we were developing it from start. We all learnt a lot during the process. A mission statement of Link-Arc, i feel, is to really keep a grip on the design process from idea to construction with a full understanding of design and details along with intense collaboration. As part of this, we have been able to maintain a very small tolerance from the 3D to the fabrication in order to provide a safe ground for the installation. Over a roof of 74m x 35m, we designed the paneling within 5mm tolerance until we reach installation!When i had to face such a task as providing panel type drawings, it was immense pressure from manufacturer to receive the drawings as soon as possible. Bamboo panels are made of a rigid aluminum frame covered both sides with bamboo strips. These two materials would ultimately correspond to different manufacturers, in China and in italy. The layout had to be clear to match a flawless production line.

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The overall roof of the China pavilion is made of 1052 panels. These are divided among 6 categories corresponding to their geometry (F for Folded, FF for Double Folded, T for Trimmed, TF for Trimmed and Folded, S for Squared and SP for Special). Within each category, panel types are numbered following croissant dimensions to reach a total of 291 panel types (291 drawings where every nail had to be drawn).Parametrical tools like Grasshopper were used in the process to extract frame outline drawings and dimensions, count of element, location on the roof grid and folding angle directly from the 3D. Bamboo strips were then drawn upon frame outline using smart dynamic blocks in AutoCAD. in order to keep track of data, i also used CSv table extract from CAD to Excel and Data Link.After 6 months of being intimate with the roof and working on technical details with my senior architect Qinwen Cai, i had at that time an excellent knowledge of every panel. i received her help to define drawings standards, and then assumed the

production of drawings on my own. We were all very excited to see the paneling getting real!The definition of supporters didn’t require drawings from our part. Final count reached around 1800 supporters composed of 3 modules (each module with more than 10 size increments). This was a extremely intense coordination. We collaboratively worked around a 3D model that we weekly shared with Bodino and F&M teams. ATLv digitally build the generic supporter solution. We then collectively came through every local situation, creating unfolded roof maps and panel support analysis. Rhinoscript and Grasshopper were used in the process.

QC : As a young architect from Europe, how do you consider the experience of working on the China Pavilion? Was there any connection or difference between this working experience with your previous professional experience and education?

AD : Working on the China Pavilion has definitely been a great opportunity to learn and improve my skills, work in close team with leading senior architect. it was the first time i was facing such a complex project and really enjoyed sorting it out. it was also the first time i was working on a project towards construction and had to address technical detail. We had a great team of experts to help us through the process (ATLv, F&M, EFC and Bodino).

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SCHEMATIC DESIGN AND DESIGN DEVELOPMENTDesign Architect: Yichen LuAssociate in Charge: Qinwen Cai, Ching-Tsung HuangProject Architect: Dongyul KimProject Team: Alban Denic, Jose Silva, Zifan Liu, Chen Hu

Intimacy and Luxury

Shenzhen North Bay neighborhood is under a spur a development and along the new residential towers happening on site, a Clubhouse is needed to prepare the future residents. Aside from North bay intense road network, the Garden Clubhouse offers an intimate experience of composed volumes and variety of space. The city is booming, the Clubhouse provides peace and stability. Gallery space, patio, terrace are planned along an harmonious spatial sequence with magnified moments.

Feb 2014Shenzhen North Bay, CN

Garden Club-houseStudio Link Arc

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Intervention in Historic Karlplatz

At the edge of a World Heritage Site, the Public Museum of the City of vienna takes place in the continuous unsolved chaos of Karplatz, sided with the incredible Saint Charles Church. The challenge is triple. Respect the Church, address the plaza and design an outstanding museum to add to the city jewels. This structure, both overground and underground, comes as an extension to the existing Museum. The rhythm of columns discretely follows the baroque order of surrounding façades. The heritage is untouched; the new museum rises over the city as a temple to Humanity, celebrating openness and sense of time.

May 2015vienna, AT

WIEN MUSEUM ExtensionStudio Link Arc

COMPETITIONProject leaders: ian WatchornProject team: Alban Denic, Chen Hu, Hyunjoo Lee

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March 2015Dessau, DE

BAUHAUS MUSEUMStudio Link Arc

COMPETITIONProject leaders: ian WatchornProject team: Alban Denic, Chen Hu, Hyunjoo Lee

CULTURAL HUB

EVENT AND EDUCATION

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Museum in a Park

in the past two decades the assumed need for ‘ultra-flexible black box museum space’ has resulted in a disorientating and faceless museum volume that can be placed anywhere in the world with little or no relationship to context. The open floor plate and flexible space that curators have once desired so much has become an Achilles heel of exhibition design and engaging museum experience: an empty vessel, empty of inspiration, empty of a truly unique experience for the visitor.

Our proposal seeks to undermine this trend by readdressing the museum and exhibition paradigm as both an exhibition specific and place specific response to the program requirements.

Through this desire we have encapsulated the needs expressed in the brief and those acquired through our research of both exhibition experience and Bauhaus ideology.

We seek to answer the specific questions of both how to exhibit a school and how to integrate that exhibition building into the urban context in which it sits.

The overarching concept is a sensitive and sympathetic approach to the context; a building of two dichotomies; a hard edge to the east that addresses the fabric of the city and a soft edge to the west that addresses the park.

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Face the City / Filter the Nature

The kiosk, according to modern times, is very much restricted to minimal square footage and maximum function since it aims to respond to a special need. This design addresses the question of how to reintroduce the notion of social space as expressed in the ancient idea of a kiosk onto a contemporary context.The design has been centered on the use of very simple wood modules in order to build the expendable space of the kiosk. The exclusive inside is intimately separated from the extensive outside by a filtering façade built upon light staggering of wood profiles.

Mar 2015Chicago, iL

LAKEFRONT KIOSKStudio Link Arc

COMPETITIONProject leaders: Alban DenicProject team: Hyunjoo Lee, Dongyul Kim

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Sept 2012Bordeaux, FR

Jean-Jacques Bosc bridgeOMA

COMPETITION AND STUDY PHASEPartner-in-charge: Rem KoolhaasTeam 2011-2012: Alban Denic, Ana Reis, Clément Blanchet, Deborah Mateo, Emily Crabb, Henry Bardsley, ida Stople, irgen Salianji, Kristin Schaefer, Lawrence-Olivier Mahadoo, Lukasz Skalec, Marc-Achille Filhol, Maria Aller Rey, Min Hong Khor, Paul Feeney, Pierre-Jean Le Maitre, Romina Grillo, Sai Shu, Sang Woo Kim, Saul Smeding, Xavier Travert

Neutral plateforme for civic expression

OMA’s stripped-down design for the Pont Jean-Jacques Bosc attempts to rethink the civic function and symbolism of a 21st century bridge. A platform 44 metres wide and 549 metres long is stretched beyond the water on either side, creating a seamless connection with the land.The design is kept to the simplest expression - the least technical, least lyrical, an almost primitive structural solution. The bridge itself is not the ‘event’ in the city, but a platform that can accommodate all the events of the city.

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Oct 2012-Jan 2013Paris Saclay, FR

LAB CITY Ecole CentraleOMA

SCHEMATIC DESIGNProject leaders: Clément Blanchet, Edouard PervèsProject team: Maria Aller Rey, Gabriella Bandeira, Eugenio Cardoso, Alban Denic, Cristina Martin de Juan, Pedro Pitarch Alonso, Ana Rubin, Saul Smeding

Turn a «Black Out» into a Field of knowledge

in an era of privatization, cities are facing a major challenge: investment in the public domain depends increasingly on the private sector. As a result of this reframing of the collective agreement, the role of architecture often reduced the visual impact of its shape and surface rather than its potential contribution to a new educational, social and civic dimension. The competition launched by the Ecole Centrale Paris for the design of a new engineering school has become the perfect opportunity to explore ways to answer this demanding challenge.

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June 2012Bordeaux, FR

CITÉ DES CIVILISATIONS DU VINX-TU

A Celebration of Culture in the City

As wine is becoming more popular and spread out in the world, it creates momentum of celebration in Bordeaux, considered internationally as wine culture epicenter.The Cité des Civilisations du vin, its design evocative of wine subtle qualities, sits on the shore of the Gironde offering an event in the city as multiple large point of view are available.From a core of concrete bear walls, a facade system of curved timber members create the desired silhouette. A paneling of trapezoidal perforated metal is covering the structure and gives the Museum a light champagne color.

BIDDING PhaseProject Leaders: Dominique Zentelin, Mathias LukacsResearch Team: Joan Tarragon, Gaëlle Le Borgne, Stefania Maccagan, Alban Denic, Cristina Sanchez, Sylvain Raillard, Maÿlis Fabre, Heiner Babon, Kathryn Frost

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SCHEMATIC AND DEVELOPEMENT DESIGNArchitect : David LeclercTeam member : Alban Denic

June-Sept 2009Paris vi, FR

MAGNUM Photo GalleryDL Architecture

FURNiTURE PROJECT

PLAN AND iNTERiOR ELEvATiON SiTUATiON PLAN

Renovating office into gallery in medieval Saint Germains

MAGNUM Photographer - an american photographer collective internationally famous for their work - took the opportunity to reattribute their office space in the historical parisian district of Saint Germains and give room for a ground floor Photography Gallery.The process was delicate since the clay-stone building already had several lives. Along several interactions with the client, fine detailing of exhibition wall panels and furniture project made their way to completion.Our approach was simple. To go back to original matter of the building by removing all the superficial layers. Humidity was a challenge. We also discovered a beautiful check pattern tailing dating back from Xviii Century that greatly improve character of the gallery.

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BUILDING PERMITArchitect : David LeclercTeam member : Alban Denic

August 2009Finistère, FR

Family House BretagneDL Architecture

House extension: traditional and contemporary

This house extension is designed on top of ruins of previous farm corpus. The new body of the house is meant to express complementarity with the existant stone house and at the same time offer all the advantages of a new construction - space, comfort, economy of energy, new materials, and light.

The Bretagne region is indeed a very traditionnal place concerning house construction with a strong expression of vernacular style.Simplicity and sobriety were our tool to find the aesthetic contrast with the existant.

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TECHNUTOPiA 2073

22nd of April, 2073My helicopter landed on the small landing pad of the station. The children ran up to

greet me.“What was that strange bird?” They

screeched, unaccustomed to the sight and sounds of a helicopter.

“it’s a helicopter!” i shouted over the the noise of the helicopter. i stepped onto the

station ground and stumbled. as the ground swayed beneath me. The children giggled. Walking on this platform was like walking while drunk; the ground swayed beneath

me. One boy in particular caught my eye. He

skipped and ran even as the station platform dipped and swayed. i stumbled over to him.

He started speaking to me immediately. “Hello, what brings you here?

“i’m here to find Edna, she takes care of your supply from the continent….”

The boy smiled at me mysteriously. “i’m Catherine. What’s your name?”

“i’m Nemo.”“You walk like a natural. Like you own this

station”“They say one day i will be the leader of this place! And i also swim! But i wish i could fly

like you. My world is not so big... i can walk it all in one day! How is it beyond the horizon?

How many days is your world?”“Well, my world takes more than a lifetime to

traverse”“i’ve learned in school that your world

yearns to explore the sky. My world yearns to explore the ocean.”

This was my first encounter with Nemo, aged 12. He was born on Pacific-1.

His parents arrived to the station as environmental refugees with hopes for a second chance. Over subsequent visits,

Nemo and i became friends. For the 50th year anniversary of Technutopia,

i am creating a documentary on Pacific-1. i expected to find a disaster. instead i found

hope.2025 marked the year that global

temperatures rose by 2°C. Agreements were not enough to hold off earth’s disintegration.

Catastrophes escalated. immigration

tensions mushroomed to unforeseen heights. 2025 marked the year of many firsts.

People were born as refugees and died as refugees. Some never touched dry land.

Babies were born with no country.Scientists huddled together and offered

the world a clear ultimatum. Either we once again pledge to limit our impact or we

increase our control. Thus environmental technological husbandry was born. it was

coined Technutopia.Climate Watch was inaugurated to create Technutopia. Technology would keep the world stitched together. Grids of satellites would monitor the magnitude of storms.

They would water parched land and restore the planet to its natural state.

Ocean Chapter was designated the aquatic arm of Climate Watch. Ocean Chapter

deployed numerous stations around the earth, one per ocean. its stated goal was

to support humanity, to reduce ocean pollution and to develop deep-sea medical research. Pacific-1 was one of the offshore

stations.The station was a paradigm for

cities. it was the future. For a time it worked. The Ocean Chapter was bringing jobs, food and habitat remediation. But two decades later, all stations collapsed. Back on land, immigration tensions climaxed and local wars broke out. Focus shifted from

planetary survival to national security. The meager international funds that sustained

the Ocean Chapter disintegrated. The program crumbled into obscurity.

All stations were abandoned. But not for long. Slowly these metallic islands started

attracting intellectuals, refugees, artists and wild birds. Pacific-1 quickly became the

biggest commune of 21st Century.News of repopulation of the offshore

stations did not reach dry land for many years. Decades later, journalists were

dispatched to all corners of the earth to document these newly thriving ocean

platforms. That’s how i ended up here, on the Pacific-1, to document this thriving

bastion of the Pacific.

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COMPETITIONTeam members : Alban Denic

Jan 2016New York, NY

Technutopia 2073BLANK SPACE ~ FAIRY TALE 2016When technology is the new nature

21st of February, 2074i arrived at Pacific-1 yesterday. The ocean

waves were rough and rocked the station violently. As usual the station dwellers

walked normally while i struggled to stand. Nemo was playing soccer on the helicopter

landing pad and invited me to show me the station’s pisciculture. Nemo skipped

along the station as i walked behind him, stumbling on the swaying ground.

Fish farming was a way of life at this station. Nemo was a natural. He spent every waking moment at his family’s fish farm pods. These pods were circular holes that incubated fish to send back to the mainland. Nemo led me over to them, holding me by the hand. He

must have sensed my nervousness. “Come and see,” he gestured.

i followed him and looked into a pod. it was simple and ingenious. A net held the fish from escaping out into the sea. The pods

were pristine as ocean water cycled rapidly through the nets. Plants surrounded each pod as miniature mangroves to filter the

water. Unlike the dirty fish farms that we once had back on land.

“i like to play and hunt sea-gulls among the mangroves,” Nemo told me. “Look! Migratory birds started taking refuge here.” He pointed

at birds resting at some pods further on.Nemo ran towards them and jumped into a pod. He pulled grains from his pocket and threw some in the water. Sea-bass flocked

to his side.i walked over to him in shock.

“How did you learn to swim?” i asked. “i was 4. My dad pushed me in the water

because i broke a net. i saw the fishes and i moved like them. i envy them for moving so

fast. Now i can swim with them, see!” Nemo moved his body from side to side like

one of the fish to demonstrate.

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FiSH FARMiNG AND RECYCLED AiRCRAFT

22nd of February, 2074Nemo’s dad is cooking for us tonight. Nemo

picks me up from my lodgings and takes me to his home. On his way he went to the community locker and dropped off a massive container that he had tied to

himself. Nemo spoke to me as he walked to his

home. “i had to empty my mom’s dinghy this

morning. She spent the night by the plastic continent chipping away at it. Do you know

where this comes from?”“From us...” Sighed Catherine.

“Someone threw that in the water… Are they planning to buy it back?”

“i guess…”“That’s absurd!” Nemo exclaimed.

i felt embarrassed. Nemo was so happy in this world and everyone seemed so

unhappy in my world. Even though we had everything and he had nothing. My world

seemed wasteful and absurd.

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RECYCLiNG ECONOMY

3rd of June, 2074This is my first trip back in several months. Nemo has agreed to show me the station

laboratory. Pacific-1 has fully equipped labs on the station’s sublevel. These labs were

linked to observation spheres at the bottom of the ocean.

in the lab the light is dim and red. Creatures swim around in tall cylindrical aquariums.

Temperature and pressure are carefully acclimated to the creature’s needs. Thomas,

the head of the station lab introduces himself and tells us proteins are being

extracted and tested here. “Our team will find a way to strengthen human bones to prevent osteoporosis.”

Nemo’s eyes widen as he listens. “i want to do this in the future.” Nemo says,

still wide eyed. “But my dad tells me he

needs someone in the farm.”Nemo pulled out a book of sea creatures

and flipped a page. “These are called benthos and only appear

very deep. Thomas once showed me a sample under his microscope lenses. He knows about all the species in the ocean

and told me that he finds a new one everyday.”

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UNDERWATER OBSERvATiON

3rd of June, 2074Later that day in the lab an announcement

sounded.“it-is-now-three-pee-mm-wind-blows-at-

ten-mm-pee-hh-sky-is-clear-wind-will-lower-in-the-evening” said an automated

voice. This announcement announced the time of day. it was time to meet Thomas and

descend to the bottom of the ocean. He took Nemo and i down in small pods. The

long descent was worth the wait.Deep sea was absolute darkness. The

hydrothermal vents were incredible and gave birth to a plethora of life. Life down here came in extraordinary shapes and

colors. The vents were comprised of deposits of gold, silver and copper.

i was glad these vents were still intact in contrast to our decaying world back on

land and the water above. Many had already been destroyed for the metal deposits that

surrounded them. Locations have been omitted from this documentary to protect

these rare life forms.During the entire trip Nemo kept his nose pressed against the wind shield. We saw mountains, canyons and vents. Colorful

creatures floated around us. These creatures pressed up against our the wind shield

curious at our bright lights in the canyon of darkness. The water was peppered with

grains of plastic.

“Do you see this beauty? Nemo shouted, i can’t let it be destroyed. i hope your land is

not as dirty as this ocean.”After this undersea journey i was left with

the feeling of profound failure. We had not invested enough in our heralded

Technutopia. it was supposed to be our savior. And here i was looking at the plastic

residues from the plastic continents that had filtered down to the bottom of the ocean. Pacific-1 and its sister stations were our last beacons of hope. Pacific-1 was a paradigm

for cities. it remains the future.

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BED OF THE OCEAN

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Jan 2014Namibia

Fog HarvesterPUBLISHED in EVOLO SKYCRAPERS 3

COMPETITION :Team members : Alban Denic, Olivier Dauce

Harvest water from Nature

On 28th July 2010, through Resolution 64/292, the United Nations General Assembly explicitly recognized the human right to water and sanitation. it has been acknowledged that “clean drinking water and sanitation are essential to the realization of all human rights”. Aside from these declarations, approximately still 884 million people lack access to safe drinking water and 1.5 million children under 5 years of age die each year as a result of water related diseases.Considering the overall picture of access to drinking water, 40% of this population is currently located in Sub-Saharan countries. The study of the World Bank (Fig.1) explains the water consumption challenge faced by African Sub-Saharan cities and compares their capacities to respond to it. Cities located under the red line are showed as providing a very poor water supply service facing heavy demand; therefore many of these are located in the Gulf of Guinea.

THE NAMiBiAN DESERT MORNiNG FOG

MASTER PLAN FOR THE FOG HARvESTER

THE BEETLE ONYMACRiS UNGUiCULARiS ELECTRiFiED NET TECHNOLOGY

NAMiB FOG FOG HARvESTER BOTTLiNG PLANT RECYCLiNG PLANT OPERATiNG BY SHiPS

THE WORLD BANK, JULY 2012.

URBAN WATER MANAGEMENT CHALLENGES vERSUS iNSTiTUTiONAL AND ECONOMiC CAPACiTiES. FUTURE POPULATiON iN SUB-SAHARiAN CiTiES

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Furthermore, by crossing the data to the future population expected in 2050 (Fig.2), one can see a preview of how bad will be the situation in the future.

indeed, the density of these cities– mainly due to a high nativity rate and an uncontrolled urbanization - is already one of the most important in the world. A very high density brings local issues in term of public sanitation, security and overcrowding.

For instance, recently Lagos oversteps 10 million living souls, but about two third of them are still living in slums without access to drinking water (one of the most important slum area in Lagos, Ajegunle shelters 500.000 inhabitants).

FOG HARvESTER SECTiONTHROUGH THE CENTRAL TANK AND MAiNTENANCE DECK

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if it’s a utopia to send water to the entire world, it’s possible to help the local scale. The Gulf of Guinea is the main place for the peak demand concerning access to drinking water.By combining these four parameters: the need for water, the expected population in 2050, the ability of the city to respond to the demand, and their access to maritime routes, this process highlights 9 cities matching these criteria as primary targets: Abidjan, Accra, Cotonou, Lagos, ibadan, Yaoundé, Brazzaville, Kinshasa and Luanda, totalizing more than 40.000.000 inhabitants.

3000 kilometers from there, faraway to the South is located the hyper-arid Namib Desert. This place is famous for being one of the most hostile environments for life in the world, but one would be surprise to know that almost every day a heavy fog is covering this extreme territory over a 60km wide corridor along the coast.Created thanks to a moist air flow coming from the ocean via the Benguala cold stream, this fog begins thicker and thicker until noon,

when temperatures rise from the inland with the sunshine and then dry air pushes it back to the seashore. Every day, these are millions of liters of drinkable water which are going directly into the ocean.Along with this fact, the Namib Desert is the house of a little creature, the beetle Onymacris unguicularis which is able to survive to the highest temperature by drinking… the fog water condensed during the night on his carapace.

inspired by this ability to transform vapor into drinkable water, and guided by prototypes experiment in 2013 by the MiT in the Atacama Desert, Chile, our concept is to collect water from the fog by scaling up this developing technology, thus providing people with drinkable water in a sustainable way. This “fog harvester” is part of a larger vision including maritime routes from the Namibian industrial harbor Walvis Bay to help the Gulf of Guinea water supply.

FOG HARvESTER SECTiONDETAiL OF THE CENTRAL TOWER

COLLECTOR FiELD

MAiNTENANCE DECK

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FiLTERiNG DEviCE

HOUSiNG

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Turn Local Industry Into A City Revival

PORT-CiTiES around the world are places to share and exchange, trade and communicate. Port cities are places you feel connected to the World. Living in a port city is a daily journey with the unique status of being a PORT-CiTiZEN.

PORTS AND CiTiES in Europe have lost their common ground and split from early XXth century, due to progress during the industrial PORTS AND CiTiES in Europe split from early XXth century, due to progress during the industrial Revolution. Ports are now a total different reality than cities, taking place in a global world with efficiency and availability. Cities also have evolved significantly toward a more inquisitive way of life with a layered reality and fast pace of life. Today, these two entities seem to share opposite interests. Point has been proven that a healthy economy can emerge from such a partnership. At the root of this partnership,

people are the inseparable link upon which cities and ports rely on, and they are the first to be addressed to debate the success of any of these two entities.

BOULOGNE-SUR-MER (FR) has always been a city with big ambition. After reconstruction period following World War ii ravage, decision has been made to separate port and city for a more organized economy. This has brought Boulogne as the first European place for seafood market while it disconnected the people from their waterfront. Today, as a consequence of the crisis, this economy has turned out to be fragile. The situation asks for creative solutions.

Our intent is to address a contemporary PORT-CiTY to reinforced Boulogne-sur-Mer jeopardized economy and reconnect people to the waterfront.

THESIS PROJECTTeam members : Alban Denic, Camille Labelle, Anais Pointillart

June 2013Boulogne-sur-Mer, FR

Port-CityD3 UNBUILT VISION 2013 HONORABLE MENTION

LONDRES

NANTES DUNKERQUE

BOULOGNE-SUR-MER

MARSEiLLES

PORT-CiTiES

NAUSiCAA

BASSiN NAPOLÉONCHANTiER

NAvAL

QUAi GAMBETTAOFFiCE DE TOURiSME

GARE ROUTiÈRE

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CAB

QUARTiER RÉPUBLiQUE

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115 MUsed to reinvent itself, to react and seemingly able to respond to contradictory interests, Port-Cities have become the places “par excellence” for multiple innovations ranging from technology advancement to environmental science, urban planning and social science, including interdisciplinary approaches. Thus Port-Cities are the laboratories for the city of tomorrow; interconnected, innovation-driven and reactive.

“innovation ville Port”_Sept2011_Fédération Nationale des Agences d’Urbanisme (FNAU)

This point [the misunderstanding in between city and port policy makers] is well-illustrated by the latest ‘code of conduct’ issued in 2010 by the European Sea Ports Organization, which calls upon all responsible authorities to change ‘the waterfront development paradigm’ in order to come up with win-win solutions that reinforce rather than weaken port-city relations.

*isabelle vRiES, Area Developer, Port of Rotterdam, ND, Thesis ON interface PORT/CiTY TU Delft

improving cities attractiveness, not only more compact but also more fluid, is a strategical cornerstone; and considering this approach, ports may become a mighty advantage.

Olivier Lemaire, Director AivP

SiTE iNTEGRATiON1TO500 SiTE MODEL

CiTY PLAN

550 M

2016 ?CiTY + iNDUSTRY + TOURiSM + EDUCATiON

2000STRUGGLiNG WORK FORCE

1980REBUiLT AND MODERN: GROWTH

1939-45BOMBED AFTER PERiOD OF PROSPERiTY

60CiTY + iNDUSTRY + TOURiSM + EDUCATiON

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Fish stock is dropping..why not farm them sustainably ?

The question of food is a priority to address in our contemporary society. Fish stocks are running low and this precariousness is creating tension globally on Earth. Different policies along with healthier and less polluting fish farming are part of the solution. in Boulogne-sur-Mer, an important project is taking place in this field, engaging a further development in fish farming in order to maintain an economy of almost ten thousand people, and hundred millions euro every year and placing Boulogne as an “avant-garde” innovation place in Europe.

PORT-CiTY aims to reactivate the discussion in between professionals and citizens, engaging fish farming vision with the public. Our proposal does so while implementing a prototypal fish farm within the Port-City. Even though the farm is clearly under scaled compared to the food requirement, it serves as a mean of communication and entertainment for the public space. it also brings back fishing as a sociable behavior in urban space.

THE PROTOTYPAL FiSH FARM is implement vertically in order to allow the pathway to circulate around and reach the top on a gentle ramp. Four columns of water are built into a greenhouse with the only piece

of vegetation to protect and better control the climate. Each column correspond to one specie of fish. The column is further divided for the different ages of the fish allowing five up to six generations of fish to live in the same water-column. The intent of such a design is to create an educational path around the theme of the fish farming which is becoming everyday a necessity closer to us. Addressing this question on a public space is a big step toward more understanding and support.

FiSH FARMS WiTH EDUCATiONAL PATH

FiSH FARMS CYCLE THROUGHOUT PORT-CiTY

2 LABORATORiES3 FiRST YEAR POOLS

1 MATURiNG POOLS

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City within the City,the Open Fortress

This horizontal Port-City takes place on a previous ferry gate to United Kingdom North Europe and New York, now outdated and no longer in use. This previous activity left an empty and vast platform in between the city on the right bank, and the modern port on the left, making it the right opportunity to realize the transitional link. The intent is to treat the Port-City, not as an enclosure that lock the place inside but rather as frames cut out from it and open toward the space around. Along with creating an exciting and pluralist inside world, the public space is framed with strong axes that keep people connected to the larger site, meaning port and city altogether.

THE PUBLiC PLATFORM OF PORT-CiTY

PLACE JACQUES ROUGERiE

TERRiTORY iNSERTiON

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< XiXth C.primitive Port/City

ELEvATED PARKiNG

THE «KNOWLEDGE WALK»PERiPHERiCAL PEDWAY

iNTEGRATED SHiPYARD

HOUSiNG UNiTS

DOUBLE SKiNNEDFACADE

FiSH FARMEDUCATiONAL

AQUARiUM

URBAN FRAME

PLATFORM FORMARiTiME TRANSPORTATiON

SERviCE ALLEY

MARiTiME STATiONPATRiMONiAL HERiTAGE

PUBLiC PLATFORMFiSH FARMiNG PONDS

RESEARCH LABORATORiES

BUSiNESS iNCUBATOR

XiXth S. - early XXth c.Expanding Port/City, Spatial schism

mid XXth C.Modern Port and city, Time schism

1960 - 1980Retreat form the waterfront

1970 - 1990urban renewal of waterfronts

1980 - TodayA new link for Ports and cities

ORGANiZATiONAL DiAGRAM OF PORT-CiTY

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GROUND FLOOR PLAN +1M

«KNOWLEDGE WALK» +12M

PORT ELEvATiON

CiTY ELEvATiON

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Active commuting ?

What is researched here is an answer for how to make transit time valuable, and how this value can influence these prime factors such as time and price, but then integrating others like health and entertainement. These barges are to respond to the crucial need of transportation over the East River, but also to offer new way to express the desire to live together as a collective enterprise. A piece of land you can rent for an exceptional event, a transformable public place, the ship which will lead one on the other bank, the fishing farm one is going to spend the afternoon, the beach one will be enjoying the sun all along the East River while he is commuting, or the daily bath on swimming pool for one another.More than only an architectural move, it is a total reshaping of the society toward a democracy more active and participative.

COMPETITIONTeam members : Alban Denic

May 2011New York, NY

Active BargesSEMIFINALIST ONE PRIZE 2011

BRiDGE SATURATiON

BARGES MODULES POSSiBiLiTiES MATRiCE

BARGE MODEL

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BARGE PROTOTYPE BARGE MODEL

FROM THE iNSiDE OF A BARGE

iSLAND OF BARGES

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BARGE OPEN STRUCTURE

BARGES iMPLEMENTATiON MASTER PLAN

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THE HiGHER PLACE FROM THE CHiCAGO RivER

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Raising from urban noise.

Wolf Point in Chicago is unique for its feature. Even though it is surrounded by urban activities, it has a very silent space. Using silence as a base for the design, we strive to develop transcendental spaces, both in intense and intimate relationships between water, space and sky. This silence was discovered high in the air. When one can ascends to the top of a building, he must welcome the silence that enable him to appreciate the space and the view.

This idea was applied to the architecture of the project and a portion of the programs were elevated above the urban noise. By leaving an open area on the ground where the programs would have been located, a void was also created. Playing with this negative footprint, we allow the urban layered-floor, so dense in Chicago, to catch his breath.

DESIGN :Team members : Alban Denic, Jason Smith

Dec. 2010Chicago, iL

Higher Place,GRADUATE DESIGN AWARD

THE HiGHER PLACE

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SPA AND WELLNESS CENTER

6TH FLOOR - STREET LEvELB1 FLOOR - MiD-GROUNDB2 FLOOR - WATER LEvEL

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MAiN TOWER SECTiONMODEL ELEvATiON

13TH FLOOR 15TH FLOOR

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Feb. 2012Paris, FR

Two sided

How to bridge an active train line ?

The challenge in this site is the fact that we were facing a rupture between two districts which would need to be connected in a close future. This rupture was due to the old rail track still in use today. Our intent is to overlap this crack to turn obstacle into symbol of union. This is 30 000m² (323,000 sqf) of office space along with a number of facilities which find their good location up in this new floor.

A progressive fragmentation in the design follows the scale of districts from a boulevard façade with a strong identity to more little volumes closer to the human scale of the future residential zone nearby.

Stratification des réseaux

DESIGN :Team members : Alban Denic, Aurélie Kapéja

AERiAL viEW OF THE PROJECT

THE SiTE iS A BUSY CROSSROAD

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LARGE OFFiCE FACADE

TRANSvERSAL SECTiON LONGiTUDiNAL SECTiON

SMALL OFFiCE FACADE

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HiGHWAY NODE CONTEXT LEvEL 6 FLOOR PLAN

PLATFORM LEvEL FLOOR PLAN

PARKiNG LEvEL FLOOR PLAN

77HOUSiNG iN BERLiN 1TO200 MODEL HOUSiNG iN BERLiN 1TO500 MODEL

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Jun. 2010Berlin, DE

High Stratum

How to catalyst community life ?

This housing project takes place in Berlin. The 100 units have been united in five greater unities of twenty each to respond to the urban scale surrounding. We opened the site to the pedestrian to optimize activities, shopping, public amenities and create a sense of place. To ensure a good relationship between these two worlds, public and private, a complete wall free level has been designed nine meters high (30 feet) with a particular attention to vertical connections.

The idea here is to make it a true center for communities living upstairs, attemping to gather collective practices in one fun and attractive place. Thus exchanges within communities would be easy, more intense and friendly.

CONCEPTUAL MODEL

HiGH STRATUM 1TO200 MODEL

DESIGN :Team members : Alban Denic, Olivier Dauce

HOUSiNG TYPOLOGiES

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viEW OF THE STRATUM

TRANSvERSAL SECTiON OF MASSiNG

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STREET APPEAL

PEDESTRiAN CiRCULATiON iNNER-BLOCK HOUSiNG TYPiCAL FLOOR PLAN

81OBSERvATORY PAviLiON

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Apr. 2010Milan, iT

French pavilionEXPO Milan 2015

Sensitive path to exhibition

Far away, two straight bright lines in the city. When one is approaching, a vertiginous experience catches him observing all these people moving so easily in the height. The reinterpreted two seeds tanks apperas as towers of glass and steel frame settled in the middle of the Universal Exposition of Milan. Leant on the glass railing, one may be amazed by the stir below, just enought to understand that the exhibition is hidden under his feet! Sensations, the first material of this project, provide the meaning for this sculptural architecture.

COMPETITIONTeam members : Alban Denic, Olivier Dauce, Marc Bouvelle, Benjamin Martin

APPROACHiNG THE MONUMENTS

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ELEvATORS vOiD

TANKS SECTiON

MASTER PLAN

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RAMP ENTRANCE

BELOW GROUND EXHiBiTiON

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AERiAL viEWURBAN iNTEGRATiON MODEL

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Can a street climb a building ?

The city of Pantin, in the Northern suburb of Paris is one of the very growing areas in the region ile de France. in order to design this site, we must worry about the future of this site and build an idea of what could be an anticipation. This small programmatic city is to respond to nulerous of condominium projects in close surrounding. The decision has been to raise the street to the top. A web of ramps leads the pedestrian to his goal, but giving an appreciation of the walk itself. The goal is in the journey. These walkways are made of surprises created by the «over-density».

Feb. 2010Paris, FR

Urbanities

UNROLLED WALK-WAY

COMPACiTY AND EFFiCiENCY

DESIGN :Team members : Alban Denic, Olivier Dauce

CANAL PERSPECTivE SKETCH

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LONGiTUDiNAL SECTiON AA’

TRANSvERSAL SECTiON BB’ TRANSvERSAL SECTiON CC’

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GYMNASiUM LEvEL 3 FLOOR PLAN

LiBRARY AND COMMERCES GROUND FLOOR PLAN

89PLACE DES MANÈGES, MAiN PLAZA

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May 2009versailles, FR

Place des ManègesK 09 Competition

ARCADES SEQUENCE TORii REFERENCEMEGABLOCK AND PEDESTRiAN STREET

buildings

pedestrian

carways

COMPETITIONTeam members : Alban Denic, Olivier Dauce

ACCESS FROMAvENUE DE SCEAUX

How to lead the citizen ?

The Xviiè century town planning in versailles has left us this icone of these three huge and magnifiscent avenues. Nevertheless, they separate versailles in two distinct ditricts lacking connections. The «Traversée» this artistic walkway lead the visitors going through this liminal bloc thanks to arcades remodeled following the japanese Torii. in the meantime these arcades enhance this place as a real nod for more pedestrian connections, more porosity.

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SECTiON THROUGH PLAZA

OvERALL PLAN OF THE “TRAvERSEE” DETAiLED PLAN OF THE PLAZA

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ART CORRiDOR

ACCESS FROM AvENUE DE PARiS

93WOOD SPATiALiTY

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The workshop “Gandamaison”, in the Spring Summer 2008, consisted in an in depth design research around the theme of accumulation as a mean of creation to conclude as an ephemeral scheme for the biannual exhibition at the Maréchalerie. The work of Tadashi KAWAMATA carries an interpretation on the social environment and the relationships among people. in every work, the artist surrounds himself with students, locals and groups who get involved in the design and the fabrication process.

“Gandamaison” is the combination of the two words “Gandam” and “Maison”. “Gandam” is to echo the Japanese origins of Mr Tadashi KAWAMATA as the name is given to the popular robots built by accumulation of custom pieces. “Maison” is the French word for Home, the main exercise for architects which is to define home for humanity. “Gandamaison” therefore sets up the bases for a workshop intersecting art and architecture.

WORKSHOP :Artist : Tadashi KAWAMATATeam members : Alban Denic, Olivier Dauce, Jean valère Gaultier, Michael Brunel, Théo, Aude, Nathalie Buclin, Timothée Eck

Jul. 2008 Public Art Installationversailles, FR

‘‘Gandamaison’’with guest Tadashi KAWAMATA feat. in «NUIT BLANCHES PARISIENNES»

WOOD SPATiALiTY

The workshop was centered on the single rule to create space via the numerous accumulation of a simple unique module, the wooden crate. After an intensive workshop of experimentation, a shortlisted team of student in which i was involved has been invited to built with the artist the final piece at the Centre for the Contemporary Art in Maréchalerie, versailles.

95WOOD SPATiALiTYBEHiND THE SCENESETTiNG THE NETSPRiME STRUCTURE

96ENTRANCEWOODEN CRATE MONUMENTOUTDOOR iNSTALLATiONTEMPORARY CRANE

97GROUND FLOOR PLANSPATiALiTY MODEL

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Feb. 2009versailles, FR

Student housing

How to enter the city?

What a surprise to find on this district of versailles an extraodinary cohabitation of all ages. This diversity has been the reason to design a introverty building able to house all these differences. The central squared place with its cafeteria is the element which highlight this exchange between generations. Students who travel here far from their home can walk a place they appropriate for themselves before approching the city. A way to bring confidence.

DESIGN :Alban Denic

SOUTH ELEvATiON

NORTH ELEvATiON

SECTiON THROUGH COMMUNiTY CENTER