portfolio architecture - pierre mangematin

- Portfolio - Pierre Mangematin

Education

2015/2016 * Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Nantes - Second year of Master.

2014/2015 Politecnico di Milano - Scuola di Architettura e società. Laurea magistrale - First year of Master.

2014 Graduation. Diploma of architecture studies, Bachelor degree.

2011 à 2014 Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Nantes. Architecture programme.

2011 Baccalauréat - High school degree, economical and social + mathematics option, congratulations of the jury

Pierre Mangematin05/09/1993

140 Rue de Lourmel, 75015, Paris, France23 Rue Voltaire, 44000, Nantes, France

Fr :06-71-61-94-82 - It:[email protected]

LanguagesFrench Mother tongue

English Fluent - TOEIC : 875/990 (2014).Italian Fluent

Spanish Scholar level

Driving License (France - 2014)

Softwaresstrong Autocad, Archicad, Sketchup Pro, Rhinoceros, Adobe Suite CS6 (Photoshop , Illustrator,

Indesign), Artantis Render, Vray Sketchup, Word, Excel.intermediate Revit

Experience

B.L.O.C.K Architectes (Nantes - FR) September 2015 /February 2016 current position* Intern Architect. Work on several competitions : architectural design, graphic documents production, models production, meetings. -Ilot MA11, mixed used programme, 3960m2 of offices, 25 apartments. (Nantes - FR) -Ilot Clinique Legeard Nantes, mixed used programme 1600m2 of offices, 2000m2 of dwellings. (Nantes - FR) -Competition for the design of commercial pavillons, within the refurbishment of Entrepots Mac Donald. (Paris-FR)

Région Île de France - SDAJ - Unité Lycées - Direction de la construction et du patrimoine (Paris – 75-FR) - July 2014 Summer Job. Paris Region - Construction Department, High School Unit. Aministrative management of construction markets and design contracts on Paris high schools. Study of specific documents and contracts (CCTP), meetings and jurys between client and architect’s teams.

Atelier d’architecture Chaix et Morel et Associés (Paris – FR) - January/July 2014 Intern Architect - Site Supervision. Assistance on site supervision, executive drawings and constructive details. -La Trocardière Metropolitan Sports Hall, 9 500m2 (Rezé - FR) B.L.O.C.K Architectes (Nantes - FR) - February 2014 Intern Architect. Presentation models and videos for the client, design studies phase (High School Monge- Nantes-FR), design of collective housing units. (Pradenn -Saint-Herblain-FR). Emmanuel Hurlin Architecte (Paris - FR) - July 2013 Intern Architect. Design of two lofts in a former factory Charenton (92-FR), design phase. Site supervision - 280 social dwellings. Epinay-sur Seine. (92-FR),

Exhibitions/Culture

Ecole Nationale d’Architecture de Nantes, (Nantes - FR) September 2015 /January 2016 current position* Nantes National School of Architecture - Assistant teacher for Bachelor’s students. Course : «Propédeutiques des outils numériques» / «For a propaedeutic approach of numerical culture».

Stellar Works + Neri&Hu, Spazio Rossana Orlandi, Salone Internazionale del Mobile/Fuorisalone 2015, (Milan - IT) - April 2015 Assistant in the organisation, scenography and signage of Stellar Work’s pavillion for Milan Design Week 2015 - Spazio Rossana Orlandi.

«Milano Anamil City»- Collective exhibition, 16 projets for the biodiversity in Milan, Museo civico di storia Naturale, Milan (IT) - February 2015 Currators : Stefano Boeri-Michelle Brunello - Jury invité : Andrea Branzi, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Tiziana Pers, Stefano Graziani Exhibited installation : Installation «BeaBat for Biodiversity» Maison de l’architecture des Pays de la Loire (Nantes - FR) - November 2013/April 2014 Hosting and guiding the public, cultural mediation over architectural exhibitions. Exhibition : Densités-intensités (November 2013 – January 2014); Palazzi of Rotterdam (January-February 2014), 30 ans de l’équerre d’argent (Mars-April 2014). European Patrimonial Days 2012 and 2013 (Nantes-44-FR)` Animation of Architecture tours and visits for 20 to 30 people groups.

Refurbishment of the Prouvé Station «Submarine Prouvé», Nantes, France, 2014100 Housing units along the Loire, Nantes, France, 2013

«La rue du Joli Mai», Saint-Herblain, France, 2014Orhid Water Center, Orhid, Macedonia, 2015

Projects

Submarine Prouvé

Refurbishment of the Prouvé Station, Nantes, 2014

Teacher Evelyne PontoizeauJury Jean François Godet , owner of the Prouvé Station

The project’s idea is to refurbish one of the hundred units of the, work designed by Jean Prouvé (1901-1984) in the late 1960’s for Total oil company.

This former gas station from Rezé, a thirteen glassed faces polygon, is nowadays located in the middle of «l’île de Nantes» where it is used as a welcomed station for ESTUAIRES, contemporary art Biennal exhibition along the Loire river. It is, then, connected to the river but without being physically linked to it.

The Submarine Prouvé project proposes to re-use the famous structure from Prouvé and to offer it a waterproof plastic skin so as to give it a whole new function in the city. This work on materials is the starting point of the project. The initial station’s shape is kept to highlight Prouvé’s work, but then enhanced by the addition of this second skin that enlarge the whole volume.

The station would then be placed directly on the river to become a new public facility : an observatory of the city and the river and a starting station for river trips.These trips would be the occasion to observe the art pieces developped for ESTUAIRES, located on the borders of the river from Nantes to St-Nazaire.

Submarine Prouvé connects to the existing public spaces in a discret way by a gateway and then offers several spaces of exhibition and observation apportioned on three levels : two main levels + the terrace, on the roof. The project stages the original station, as a heritage element and pays tribute to its designer Jean Prouvé through its technical aspects. The gateway and the station are designed as two independent elements.

Malakoff Dwellings

100 Dwellings along the Loire, Nantes, 2013

Teachers François Defrain, Gabriel Rodriguez, Didier Leborgne, Guy Rumé

Can the private urban block become an urbanity condenser ?

The project’s site is an angle plot that currently divides a city area made of various forms and typologies within a neighborhood in a huge phase of transformation (EuroNantes). Our answer, trough this collective housing project is to propose new public paths that cross an open plot and different forms and typologies to better articulate the existing ones.

First of all, the implantation of the buildings is fragmented, and comes from structural axes we chose to extend : a first one in the south of the block, the continuity of Willy Brand’s bridge, a second one that extends an existing alleway in the north. A new access is created on the western part of the plot.This slicing of the site causes a fragmentation of the built elements.

The articulation continues with a variety of the volumes heights that completes the heterogeneous skyline of this changing neighborhood. The volumes are designed to be seen from specific points of view, including the bridge and the paths created inside the block. These tracks allow a progressive discovery of the projet’s scale and complexity.

The projects aims at proposing a vast pannel of journeys for different way of using and living it, and strong contrasts between the private and the public, the outside and the inside, the mineral and the vegetal. The central space is shared and open, it becomes a place for urbanity, a completly absent concept until here, in both the neighborhood and the programme.

External façades are made of rough concrete, whereas all the inner ones are made of wooden slats that create different perceptions of transparencies, particularly on external horizontal circulations.Malakoff dwellings proposes different typologies of housing, from studio apartments to penthouses and intermediate private housing with a small garden.

Wholes are created between the different buildings, they host the vertical circulation cores and large gateways that enables inhabitants to reach their home or to use them as shared terrace when the weather allows it.

Façades & Details

IMAGINER LA SILHOUETTE DE LA RUE DU JOLI MAI

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School compex Sports InfrastructuresAreas to establish collective housing

La Rue du Joli Mai

Urban study, Architecture project «La rue du Joli Mai», St-Herbain, 2014Refurbishment of a school complex , school restaurant, sports hall

Teachers Maëlle Tessier, Elise Roy, Mathieu Chaumet, Solen Nico

Creating a street through the design of public facilities

The first part of the projet aims at studying an area of 1km2 located on the suburbs of Nantes, and proposes a master plan to increase urbanity within this territory.

The chosen area is on the north borders of Nantes, and is made of totally independant groups and subgroups which don’t communicate with eachother : social housing complexes, residential neighborhoods and commercial strips.It seems to be an «in-between» separating the city from the countryside. This first statement of a fractured cluster, gave birth to the main proposal of the architecture project : the crossing.

We chose an existing elementary school built in the 1950’s to link up the commercial strips to the residential areas. The idea of the project is to refurbish the different buildings of the school and to propose an extension of it to answer the population’s growth in the neighborhood. This extension in composed of several programs : a restaurant, a nursery, working studios, a greenhouse, and a sports hall. Dwellings are aded to the program to create an area of functionnal mixity. All these programs are thought to dialogue with the public spaces, to improve urbanity they settle along a street which link the whole complex : «La rue du joli Mai».

The driving element of the whole project is this street, designed perpendicularly to the existing buildings. It connects every element of the program and allow the creation of a new central public space : the school’s esplanade. To better articulate urban and architecture scales, the shapes of the new buildings dialogue with the existing landscape : commercial hangars from one side, individual houses from the other one.

Every façade on the street is thought to be, possibly, entirely open to allow a complete use of the urban complex. A serie of slopes, and the choice of several materials, like wood for the school and perforated metal for the Sports hall, create a new dynamic to «La rue du Jolie Mai».

RÉLEVÉ ACTUEL DU JOLI MAI

pôle périscolairegarderie, danse, chant

gymnaseécole maternelle logements sociauxancien logements de fonction

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«décloisonner le groupe scolaire»

intégrer le groupe scolaire à la traversée

Existing situation

Creating a new porosities trough the complex, crossing the new «Joli Mai» street

Opening the school complex



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THE NURSERY THE PRIMARY SCHOOL RESTAURANT STUDIOS & GREENHOUSE



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STUDIOS & GREENHOUSE THE SMALL SPORTS HALL THE ‘JOLI MAI’ METROPOLITAN SPORTS HALL

The school as an open and flexible complex

The sports hall, a public facility that provides urbanity

View from «L’avenue de Cheverny»

View from the «boulevard de Vannes»

Detailed models - The ‘Joli Mai’ school

Detailed models - The ‘Joli Mai’ Sports Hall

«Promenade Macedonia», International competition Orhid Water Center , 2015Olympic pool, Sport center, public spaces & urban park

Teachers Matteo Poli, Roy Nash, Riccardo Mazzoni

Orhid is a small city located in the southern part of Macedonia. Its geographical position, close to the Albanian’s border, and on Lake named «Orhid’s lake», and it’s historic downtown made it attractive for tourists. The city plans to extend within few years to answer the needs of tourism economy, starting from the activities in connection with the lake itself. The Orhid Water Center is supposed to gather several programmes related to the lake in a part of the city that is not urbanised yet.

The starting point is the promenade Macedonia, main pedestrian path of Ohrid,which begins in the principal square of the historical city, and expands along the lake.The project aims at creating an attractive end for this promenade, connecting the project area to the city center.

The first step is the extension of the promenade towards the project’s site, once there, the promenade itself generates the architecture, adding public facilities and spaces to the program.

The main building hosts an olympic swimming pool that frames views over the lake.Its roof is publicly accessible by a scale that also can be used whether for outdoor performances than for observing the annual Ohrid Marathon. The others parts of the programme, including storage spaces for kayaks, are placed under the scale, along a canal that allows a direct access to the Lake.

A public park is created and divided in two different sides, thus connecting two existing landscapes : the mountain forest and the agricultural fields. Different clearings go along with the path, enriching the uses of the park.

Orhid Water Center

Activity areas

Existing promenade Macedonia

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Framing the lake from the Orhid Water Center

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Urban study, «Linha de Cascais between panoramas and inacessibility» , Lisbon, 2013Urban study, Urban project, exhibition - Beabat - «Milano Animal City - 16 projets for the biodiversity in Milan», Milan, 2015

Master Thesis, «Questioning «The city of the number ones» : Milano 2, anti-city or contemporary utopia?», Milan-Nantes, 2015

Research

Carte des différents points stratégiques du projet sur l’ensemble de l’aire urbaine de Milan

Beabat

Urban study, Urban project, exhibition - Beabat - within «Milano Animal City - 16 projets for the biodiversity in Milan», Milan, 2015

Teachers Stefano Boeri, Michelle BrunelloWhat does biodiversity mean in an urban context? Is it possible to conceive an interaction between vegetation, animals and men in the space that has always been only men’s habitat? What kind of relationship is it possible to establish between men and animals?

The project consists of a strategy to increase animal biodiversity in cities and its pacific coexistence with men. It derives from the analysis of two animals that have a relationship with human beings, in different ways. On one hand bats, which are worm-eating animals very adaptable to city context. On the other hand bees, depending almost completely on men’s care because of the disappearance of natural beehives, and very important for pollination.The choice of bats and bees is due to different reasons:They have similar characteristics in terms of alimentation; they both need vegetation: bees need pollen, while bats eat insects attracted by plants, they don’t interfere with each other; they are active in different moments of a 24-hour day: in general, beesduringthe day and bats at night, they are both flying animals; therefore they can be displaced in height.

In the practical insertion of the project in Milan and its periurban area, the action focuses on some iconic and abandoned structures, such as water towers. These structures have been chosen because of their height and because not inhabitable by men. Besides, great importance has been given to the green areas around them: a 2.5-diameter circular area, which represent the action field of bats and bees, has been analyzed in quantity and quality of green. The project develops from the point of view of animals and therefore takes into account the main real necessities of bats and bees.

Through simple and modular elements that first of all answer animal’s needs:- Wooden panels and steel frames for bats: the first ones to answer summer needs and the second ones for winter periods

APIS MELLIFERAHabitat

Bee’s habitat consists in every envirnment on the planet that contains insect-pollinated flow-ering plants.In general, it is closely related to the presence of flowers and plants and water within about 2 km from the bees’ hive.There are two kind of beehives: the self-produced one and the man-made one. Nowadays the natural beehives are decreasing in number and strongly afflicted by pollution.

Seasonal Activity

Bees are extremely linked to the cycle of the seasons and weather conditions. The life cycle of a hive revolves around the different seasonal blooms and it never stops.

WinterWith low temperatures and adverse weather, the swarm remains in the hive and leave it only during the hottest hours of the day.SpringIn spring begins the season of the most important blooms: fruit trees and wild flowers such as dandelion. In the months of April, May and June the hive reaches its maximum.SummerWith increasing temperature, the working in the hive slows down.AutumnWith the lowering of temperatures, there is a timid recovery of the brood. The months of Octo-ber and November, with no blooms, are stationary months of preparation cold winter.

Diagrammes d’étude entre le mode de vie animal et la hauteur

Un projet basé sur différentes temporalités : journées, saisons

APIS MELLIFERAHabitat

Bee’s habitat consists in every envirnment on the planet that contains insect-pollinated flow-ering plants.In general, it is closely related to the presence of flowers and plants and water within about 2 km from the bees’ hive.There are two kind of beehives: the self-produced one and the man-made one. Nowadays the natural beehives are decreasing in number and strongly afflicted by pollution.

Seasonal Activity

Bees are extremely linked to the cycle of the seasons and weather conditions. The life cycle of a hive revolves around the different seasonal blooms and it never stops.

WinterWith low temperatures and adverse weather, the swarm remains in the hive and leave it only during the hottest hours of the day.SpringIn spring begins the season of the most important blooms: fruit trees and wild flowers such as dandelion. In the months of April, May and June the hive reaches its maximum.SummerWith increasing temperature, the working in the hive slows down.AutumnWith the lowering of temperatures, there is a timid recovery of the brood. The months of Octo-ber and November, with no blooms, are stationary months of preparation cold winter.

HYPSUGO SAVIIHabitat

Its original habitat consists in karst areas or mountain landscapes.Nowadays it can be found in cities and urban areas as well. Mainly in search of obsurity and calm, Savi’s pipistrelle can live everywhere: a cavity, a hole, a tree or a nest box may host it.

Seasonal Activity

Savi’s pipistrelle has an active life in summer and it goes in hibernation in the cold months of the year.

SummerIn summer, during the day, Savi’s pipistrelle rests in its roosting position to save energy.About 20 minutes after sunset, and for the whole night, it goes out to hunt, often by small groups and within a 2km radius from home. It is a nocturnal species.

WinterIn winter the Savi’s pipistrelle moves to adapt vital needs. The hibernation location is not far from the summer one (never more than 20km) and often remains the same from one year to another.Nevertheless this place has to respond to some criterias : the temperature must be colder and steady , and the place must be peaceful, so as to avoid any kind of disturbance. Caves, under-ground vaults and deep rock cracks can answer to these needs.

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Vues des projets, du point de vue de l’animal (chauve-souris)

Towards the evolution of the project : the domestic scale

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Urban study - «Linha de Cascais between panoramas and inacessibility» , Lisbon, 2013

Teachers Raphaëlle Hondelatte, Sophie Delhay

Understanding contemporary urban landscapes : the transport infrastructure’s edges

The Tagus has always been the main driving force of Lisbon. Despite this, it becomes at times totally inacessible, and even invisible from the lower part of the city, its most flat part, a border between the city and the sea.

A serie of sections that study the borderlines of the Tagus from East to West Lisbon reveals horizontal stratifications of these landscapes : the different layers (industrial infrastructures, port infrastructures, roads, railways...) act as a direct bareer that limits the acess to the sea. It also demonstrates a real predominance of the railway lines, often abandoned, on this part of the city.

The main railway line going along the Tagus is the Cascais Line «La linha de Cascais». This line is run by the CP (Portuguese Railway Company) goes from downtown Lisbon (Caîs do Sodré) to Cascais. It’s a heavily used line with over 82 000 users per day/30M per year. On the one side the landscapes bypassed by the Cascais line are quite uncommon, this one goes along the sea and even offers direct panoramas over Lisbon and the Tagus estuary. On the otherside, it generates a bareer, totally impossible to cross, making inacessible or invisible whole areas that have a large potential. Lisboetas have to accept the Cascais line because they need it, despite its consequences, it offers a totally unique landscape journey. We highlighted these views drawing the whole journey of the trains, and identifying direct visual connections between them and the sea. The aim of this study is to demonstrate that transport infrastructures create a strange rere-lationship to the city. This relationship can sometimes be almost poetic but also brutal. Cities like Oeiras or Cruz Quebrada, located on the line’s path, are in decline, can the Cascais line’s poetry save them ?

Linha de Cascais, dividing the Tagus shore and the city, Algès neighborhood

Landscapes and consequences of the Linha de Cascais over Lisbon.

Landscaped sections, the 25,2km of panoramas offered by the Cascais Line, zones of direct visual connections between the sea and the trains

«The City of the Number Ones»

A visual essay showing the two worlds Berlusconi created : The city of the fear: Milan, and his utopia/anti-city: Milano 2

Master Thesis, «Questioning «The city of the number ones» : Milano 2, anti-city or contemporary utopia?»

Academic tutor Amélie Nicolas

«I wanna build a city that educates people with optimism {..} I wanna build a city where we can find everything : the hospital where we give birth, the schools, the offices, a TV per cable made for housewives»

Milan, 1968, the 26th of September, the young Silvio Berlusconi, through its real estate company EdilNord s.a.s buys for 3 billion of Lira from the Leonardo Bonzi count, a whole area of 712 000m2 located in Segrate, at the North-East of Milan.

It’s the starting point of Milano 2, a unique urban project, the most important Berlusconi has ever built, and the one he will be the most proud of. A complex of 2600 apartments that can host up to 10 000 people. Berlusconi turned the original project into a luxurious new town at «8minutes from downtown Milan».

Milano 2 shows a new way of designing the city : the city of the leaders, the business men, the dream of Berlusconi the town planner. He built his utopia on the fear of the Milan of the 1970’s, proposing his future clients to escape the metropolitan chaos - the students, the violence - the poors - to move in Milano 2, «a proposal to think about, the futur of the city».

«The city of the number ones» proposed for the first time, a totally dematerialized public space within a neighborhood : a media network dedicated to its inhabitants : «to see your neighbours, you need to switch the TV on». The project quickly became a sucess and Berlusconi built his media empire from the urban experience of Milano 2.

What can we learn from Milano 2 ? What does remain from the urban utopia nowadays ?

This thesis tends to define and analyse the Utopia as an urban phenomenon, based on the Milano 2 example. It also aims at understanding if we can consider Milano 2, the anti-city, as a kind of postmodern utopia, and then the shift this concept has known.

«La città dei numeri uno» *

Milano 2

* The city of the number ones

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ExhibitionsWorkshop «Absoli» - recreating Lisbon - Nantes, 2015

«Beabat» Installation for «Milano Animal City», Museo civico di storia Naturale, Milan, 2015Scenography & signaletic, Stellar Works+Neri&Hu, Milan design week, Spazio Rossana Orlandi, Milan, 2015

Reproduction of the Lisbon’s map from its urban blocks

«ABSOLI»

Recreating Lisbon from itself, Collectiv workshop, Ensa Nantes, Nantes 2013

Teachers : Raphäelle Hondelatte, Sophie Delhay, Fabienne Legros, François Bruno

Invited Artist : Armelle Caron

Video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR7yOEu3um

LISBOA - ABSOLI

What are our cities made of ?

This 3 days collective workshop, run by artist Armelle Caron, aimed at questionning the cities morpholgy, from the Lisbon example. We tried to experiment, at a large scale, the process created by the artist to classify cities, named «Les villes rangées».

The idea of this workshop was to start rebuilding Lisbon from its voids and built elements.We drew the Lisbon’s plan on a huge carpet, then, we removed the voids from it, revealing the Lisbon’s map over a 200m2 surface.

The next step was to classify the urban blocks of Lisbon, from their type, size, their morphology.

From the rank of the blocks, we tried to build a new city - reforming lisbon from what it is made of. The fictional city, named ABSOLI as an acronym of Lisbon, was created and exhibited in a public space in Nantes, along the river, as if the Tagus was itself replaced.

This collective work was followed by an exhibition and a 5 days on-site exploration in November 2013.

The urban blocks, decomposed, classified, and re-used to create an imaginary city

Vernissage of the exhibition Milano Animal City , February 14th 2015

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«Milano Animal City - 16 projects for the biodiversity in Milan»Collective exhibition, Museo civico di storia Naturale, Milan, February 2015

Installation : Beabat - Beat of Biodiversity

Currators Stefano Boeri, Michelle Brunello

Exhibition Jury Andrea Branzi, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Stefano Graziani, Massimo Moretti

Publications Architecture Press - Abitare , Arte.it, Artslife National Press - La Repubblica, Il Giorno, Panorama

As part of the project Milano Animal City, a collective exhibiton was organized at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale (Natural Science Museum) in February 2015.Each of the 16 teams designed an installation to better explain its concept.

Our installation proposes, within a same structure, 3 spaces the visitor can enter to understand the project (refurbishment of vertical structures to host bats and bees) as the animal itself would see it.

Each space is very well insulated for sound, and proposes a sensorial experience (visual and auditory), from the animal’s point of view. The first space corresponds to the bat in winter, a second one for the bat in summer, and the last one is dedicated to the bee. For exemple, in the bat’s space, the visitor would see the tower in the dark and hear insects flying around, whereas for the bees one, the space is coloured and its vision its blurred.

The installation is made of a timber structure of 250cm height, covered by metal pannels and PVC curtains. A technical corridor is hidden in the inside to allow electrical alimentation for light and sound in each of the 3 spaces of the installation.

Technical schemes of the installation

Pictures of the built installation

Vernissage of Milano Animal City on February 14th 2015

Signage is displayed in different scales over the installation

Pavillon Stellar Works+Neri&Hu

Milan design week, Spazio Rossana Orlandi, Milan, 2015

Organisation, scenography and signage

http://www.stellarworks.com/content/cabinet-curiosity-0

The Rossana Orlandi Gallery in Milan, hosts, every year during the International Design Week , a lot of visitors, professionals of the design world or curious amateurs, gathered to observe the last talents of international Design. Within the gallery, each brand has a small exhbition corner.

How to draw the visitor’s attention in such a small space ?

The organisation of the young Chinese Brand Stellar Works (Best new brand -Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2012) was designed around the idea of a cabinet of curiosity, with the intention of proposing a break around this fast week.

We designed a visible pavillon, that stays discret, but that proposes an intimate and inviting space, the opposite of what a commercial corner usually is. We didn’t want to display a funiture’s catalogue but more an experience around them.From the outside of the room and circulation spaces, visitors are invited to discover the collections in an intimate space, delineated by vertical pannels that play the role of an inside bar.

Signage is found on the funitures displayed, on the vertical pannels, in the way of the gallery’s visit. It highlights, on different scales, the designers of the Brand and the collection, Neri&Hu, and explains the whole process of the pavillon.

I was also in charge of the weekly adaptation of the pavillon during the Design week : how to improve the signage and the disposition of the funitures to offer a better experience to the public.

Views of the installation, furnitures and signage

La Trocardière Metropolitan Sports Hall, Nantes, France, Atelier d’Architecture Chaix & Morel et Associés, 2014Ilot MA11 Competition, Mixed used, housing and offices, Nantes, France, B.L.O.C.K Architectes, September 2015

Experience

Main façade at the end of the construction

La Trocardière Metropolitan Sports Hall

Nantes, France, January 2014 - July 2014Atelier d’architecture Chaix et Morel et Associés

Intern Architect - site supervisionFor 6 months, I’ve been assisting the Architect in charge of the site supervision of the Metropolitan Sports Hall of Nantes. This sports facility that has a capacity of 4100 seats over 9 600m2 now hosts national international competitions of Basketball and Handball.I was present every week on the project’s construction site and during meetings with the client and the building companies, I helped drawing details, supervising the site, choosing materials, and I’ve seen the building growing from the foundations to the inside. It made me understand the most detailed phase and the mutations a project can be affected during its construction. After the end of this internship, I regularly visited the construction site, till its completion.

Client : Nantes Métropole Surface : 9 600m² Budget : 19 M€

Different steps of the construction

Competition, Nantes (FR), September 2015 - October 2015B.L.O.C.K Architectes

Intern ArchitectAs an intern at B.L.O.C.K Architectes, I’ve been participating to several competitions, including the Ilot MA11’s one. 8 teams were pre-selected to answer this small mixed-used tower projet located along the river Loire in Nantes. We decided to split the building in two parts, both refering to the project’s context. :the first one echoes the individual house shapes, with small glass volumes that are fixed to a polycarbonate façade, the second one, more regular, answers the new offices towers growing in the Malakoff neighborhood. The last storeys are dedicated to dwellings with views over the city, whereas the first six ones are offices. I was in charge, with the partner in charge, of the design phase, and the production of graphic documents for the competition’s delivery.

Client : Vinci immobilier Surface : 6 500 m² (5000m² Offices - 1500m2 Dwellings)

The informal shapes of the individual house

portfolio architecture - pierre mangematin

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