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BACHELOR OF SCIENCES FROM ETH-LAUSANNE / EPFL

Ecole Polytechnique Fdrale de Lausanne / EPFL (2011-14 )

Project1: Atelier Alice, professor Dieter Dietz, Alexandre Nol

Project2: Atelier Alice, professor Dieter Dietz, Teresa Cheung

Project3-4: Atelier LAST, professor Emanuel Rey (Bauart architects)

Others: Interactive city research studio, professor Jeffrey Huang ECAL+EPFL lab (industrial design), professor Tomas Kral

Thorie de larchitecture, professor Jaques Lucan

History of Architecture professor Roberto Gargiani

Universidad Politecnica de Valencia / UPV (2014-15 )

Project5-6: Taller4, professor Jos Maria Urcelay

EXTRA SCHOLAR PROJECTS:

Urban Body: Workshop in China in collaboration with Tsingua University (Beijing) (2 01 1)

IVE (Institute for Value-based Enterprise): creating a start-up worshop (CH) (2 01 2) Monade: Self-initiated project for personal researchs (2014)

Flat renovation in Valencia (Spain) (2014-15 )

Flat renovation in Sion (CH) (2014-15 )

COMPETITONS:

First prize of Fecule photography competition, Lausanne, CH (2011)

First prize of the IVE workshop for a start-up project, Switzerland (2012)

Award at Shanghai International Science & Art Festival with Urban Body (2012)

First Prize of Archizoom architecture students competition (2013)

Second prize of design students comepetition for BESARs new bar (2013)

Participation of Sustainable is beautiful student competition (2013) Participation of 120hour architecture competition, Sweden (2014)

WORKS: Swimming teacher, Redfish Neuchtel, CH (2007-10 )

Rider for team Gin Kiteboarding international team (2009)

Snowboard teacher, Haute Nendaz, CH (2010)

Rider for team Liquid Force Kiteboarding Switzerland (2010-12 )

Material responsible for Club Photo EPFL (2011)

Salesman for the Levis Store in Lausanne during the weekends (2011-12 )

Intern (partial time) for Index Architects, Lausanne (2011-12 )

Intern (partial time) for Ateliers Beau Regard, Geneva (2013)

Kitesurf teacher (IKO school) in San Carles, Catalonia, Spain (2014)

COMPUTER SKILLS:

Adobe Photoshop; Adobe Illustrator; Adobe InDesign; Adobe After Effect; Adobe

Edge Animated; Adobe Dreamweaver; Rhinoceros3 D; Grashopp er (parametric de-

sign); Artlantis

Cine ma 4d; HTML5 (basic) Autocad (intermediate); Archicad(basics); Adobe Premier

(basics)

LANGUAGES:

French (Advenced); English (good); Spanish (good); German (basic)

INTERES:

Surf; Kites urf; Travel; Water Polo; Industrial De sign; Ph otography

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EXERCISES

E1_UN ALTO EN EL CAMINO P_07

E2_CREU LESTEL P_15

E3_THE WEEKENDS IN CONFRIEDES P_23

E4_LA NAVE DEL PUERTO P_31

E5_THE URBAN-FRAME PROJECT P_43

E6_HOME2.0 P_53

PAVILLION

P1_HABITER MON HORIZON P_59

P2_MONADE P_65

P3_THE URBAN BODY PROJECT P_71

P4_DE LA HUERTA A LA CIUDAD P_79

COMPETITION

C1_120 HOURS COMPETITION P_87

C2_A VITRINE FOR ARCHIZOOM P_93

OTHERS

D1_INDUSTRIAL- DESIGN P_99

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Eng. title: .......A stop along the way

Student: ..............Nicolas Uebersax

Prof: ...............Maria Jos Urcelay

Course: .....................P3/taller4

School: ..........UPV (Valencia, Spain)

Date: .......................20/09/2013

Semestre: ............................4

UN ALTO EN EL CAMINOu n r e f u g i o a u n c a m i n e n t e

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...el recorrido discurre suave y lento desde las ruinas de San

Esteban de Muriano.

Tras dejar atrs los muros an blancos de la ltima ermita, con

su pequeo porche al sur, tras horas a pleno sol en este largo

trecho, casi llano y sin descanso, el camino se acerca a las laderas

suaves de unos cerros arbolados que van dibujando de manera

clara la frontera entre trigales y encinas.

Pesan ausentes las casas de labranza, slo encontramos restos de

muros de ribazo o tapias divisorias que parecen formadas por la

retirada de estos materiales de los campos de labranza.

Sol y trigos, y lomas dulces con la vista lejana de la sierra al

fondo. El caminante necesita despedirse de este lugar, reposar y

dedicarle una dilatada mirada para aprenderlo en su memoria, la

noche llegar para diluir lentamente las aristas de lo que hemos

aprendido... Augusto Monterroso

Translating words into landscape and architecture, the project is

a subjective interpretation of Augusto Monzerros text in which

a refuge is imagined and conceptualized.

UN ALTO EN EL CAMINO

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Eng. title: ...volumes above the lightAuthor: ..............Nicolas Uebersax

Prof: ..............Jos Maria Urcelay

Course: .................P3 / taller 4

School: ................UPV (Valencia)

Date: ......................12/10/2013

Semestre: ...........................4

CREU LESTELel juego de los volmenes bajo la luz

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P_2

Like a sailing boat, lost in the immensity of the horizon, in the middle

of rice fields, the three volumes of which relate the renovation project

seem like floating.

From the entrance, facing a long dirt path, the hamlet looks like a

harmonious composition of white shapes. Standing on a clay tray,

they tear themselves off the clear blue sky and the tranquility of the

background landscape.

the visitor walks through the path and reaches an old door made of

solid wood slightly open. His look stops for a moment on the details

that make its beauty. Like the middle door leafs, richly decorated

that were used to cool down the cabin during the hot summer days.

The visitor comes in.

His eyes need to get used to the darkness that prevails in the high

room, illuminated only by a second door on the back wall. The

view though this smaller door that stands in a perfect symmetry with

the first one captivates the visitors eyes and lost him in a series of

pleasant thoughts.

Based on the first impressions described in the previous text, the

renovation tries to save, restore and enhance the elements and

moments present in this typical vernacular architecture.

Relation to horizontality and verticality, to landscape and to the

human beings perception are the keys that help its conception.

CREU-LESTEL

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Author: .............Nicolas Uebersax

Prof: ..........Pascual Sells Cantos

Course: ....Arquitectura Tematica III

School: ........UPV (Valencia, Spain)

Sate: .....................20/11/2013

Semestre: ..........................4

FIN DE SEMANAS EN CONFRIEDES

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Eng. title: ......The nave of the harborAuthor: ................Nicolas Uebersax

Prof: ................Jos Maria Urcelay

Course: ...................P3 / taller 4

School: ...................UPV (Valencia)

Date: .........................10/06/2014

Semestre: ..............................5

LA NAVE DEL PUERTO

un techo para Peniscola

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P_4

Torn between the diversity of systems that compose the city and

their relations, Peniscola is a small town where the delimitations

has to be clarified.

The proposal takes the opportunity of creating a new oceanic research

center to propose something bigger. A project that could redefine

the limits at the key point where harbor, beach, old town and new

town meet.

Structuring element for urban-scale, the project is a series of pieces

creating a large roof that cover a consequent harbors part. Under this

coverage, everything is mixed and everything goes without apparent

rules in a chaos organized.

Interaction between worker, tourists and fisherman are hidden and

enhanced at the same time, giving this space a unique atmosphere.

As forest of concrete, the project stands in front of the sea, rocked by

the sea breeze, the sound of waves crashing on the pier, the coming

and going of frenetic passers and the movement of large shadows

dancing in the steady rhythm of passing time.

This project has been selected for a publication by the Talller4 of

university Politecnica de Valencia.

LA NAVE DEL PUERTO

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SERVICE WAY

FISHERMANS STOREHOUSE

BUS PARKING

PUBLIC PARKING

PL. DEL MERCADO

REPARATION ZONE

PUBLIC SWIMMINGPOOL

ORIEL ACCES

OCEANIC RESEARCH CENTER

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Eng. title: ...when skeleton comes to life

Author: ..................Nicolas Uebersax

Prof: ................Emanuel Rey (Bauart)

Course: ............................Year 2

School: ...............EPFL (Lausanne, CH)

Date: ..........................28/05/2014

Semestre: .............................3-4

THE URBAN-FRAME PROJECTlorsque l ossature pre nd vie

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HOME2.0revisiting architectures premises

Status: ..................WORKSHOPProf: ...............Jeffrey Huang

Name: .....................Home2.0

Theme: ..........Parametric design

Schools: ......EPFL (Lausanne, CH)

Date: ..................10/05/2011

Country: ..............Switzerland

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The project is a one-week workshop about parametric architecture

using grasshopper. The time of the workshop the student is asked to

design home2. 0.

the project chose to take inspiration in the birth of architecture, when

everything was still free of preconceived ideas.

Based on the writing of Viollet-Le-Duc about the hutte primitive

(primitive hut), it initially identifies the constructive elements of the

hut (structure/fence) to translate it into an architectural scripted language

that can be adapted up to date.

In a hypothetical future, the version 2.0 allows us to parameterize the

genetic code of plants. We are able to change vegetal elements in highly

adaptive living structure. The architecture becomes able to interact with

its inhabitants and environment, it can grow as we need, transform to

protect us from the outside menace or to improve inside comfort. The very

famous living machine of Le Corbusier become a habitable organism.

HOME 2.0

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HABITER MON HORIZONLIVING MY HORIZON

Student: ...........Axel Chevroulet

...................Nicolas Uebersax

Prof: .................Dieter Dietz

Assistant: ..........Alexendre Nol

Course: .....................Year 1

School: ........EPFL (Lausanne, CH)

Date: ...................20/09/2011

Semestre: ........................1

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MONADEi t s a n i c e d a y f o r s o m e t h i n g !

Author: ..........Paul Brechignac

.................Nicolas Uebersax

Status: .......PERSONAL REASEARCH

Name: .....................Monade

Date: .................20/04/2013

Country: .............Switzerland

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MONADE

Inspired from the 70s movement of Ant Corps and its

inflated cookbook, Monade is an ephemeral self-initiated

installation. It is generated from an accurate two-dimensional

low-cost crafting process. The physical space it creates is

introverted and redundant. The sensory space it creates is

nourished by lights, colors, sound or physical objects from

the environment. One does not look at it, one looks at the

effect of the context of it.

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THE URBAN BODY PROJECT

Status: .................WORKSHOPName: .................Urban Body

Schools: ...........EPFL Lausanne

..............Tsinghua University

Date: .................01/05/2011

Site: ...........751 art district

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The Urban Body project is an outgoing collaborative project

between the Art and Design Academy of Tsinghua University

(Beijing) and Architectures school of the Ecole Polytechnique

Federal de Lausanne (Switzerland). Supported by swissnex China

and others, The project took place during a whole summer in

the 751 art district in Beijing. It proposes the fabrications of

architectonic modules and ecologically sustainable design

prototypes specific to sino-swiss relations and cultures.

An ancient Chinese notion determines the natural environment

to be atmosphere-born through the impact of the elements on

the land. Based on this idea the project, between industrial and

natural, gives rise to a multitude of built small-scale interventions

locally generated.

This project has been exposed to the Beijing design week and

won the Science & Art Award issued by Shanghai International

Science & Art Festival in 2012.

URBAN BODY

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Author: .....Julia Martinez / Andrea Pons

.............Yara Brep / Philipp Kentgens

..........Thomas Martinec / Nicolas Uebersax

Prof: ......Manuel Lillo / Alberto Burgos

Course: .....Materializacion del proyecto

School: ...................UPV (Valencia)

Date: .........................10/06/2014

DE LA HUERTA A LA CIUDAD

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Competition_

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120 hours competition

Status: ............COMPETITIONName: .......Social scafoalding

Author: ........Paul Brechignac

.................Emilie Apperce

...............Nicolas Uebersax

Date: ..............14/02/2014

Country: ................Sweden

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Sustainability

As human beings we live, modify and transform our surroundings.

We aim to establish a dialogue with the public. The man belongs

to a wider cycle.

Situation

Three strategic points. Three interventions that find their expression

in the dialogue between scaffolding and existing trees. Three

promenades in the landscape of the festival of Oslo, where the

pavilions become landmark used by visitory to meet and spend

time.

Materiality

The interventions are built as simple scaffolding, from standardised

metallic modules, thus reusable after the festival. Repetition as a

vision for sustainable architecture.

This project has participated to the 120hours competition and

has been published on afasia.

120 HOURS

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A VITRINE FOR ARCHIZOOM

Status: ...............COMPET TIONName: .....................VITRINE

Author: ............Quentin Rosset

..................Nicolas Uebersax

Date: ..................10/03/2013

Country: ..............Switzerland

Grade: ................First prize

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With the new attractions point created about the Swiss Tech

Convention Center and the Rolex Learning Center, we would

like to strengthen the identity of the architectures building of

the EPFL. We decided to work on a transformation significant

due to its impact but light on its needs. The project takes to

task to work from the inside to the outside of the building. The

project extends programs that need to be valued on the faade.

The terraces generated become vitrines that enhance the

strength, the dynamism and the symbol of the school.

At the same time, we are creating two new entrances that allow

to facilitate the inside circulation, reactivate the four corners

of the Place Nord and develop new socialization spaces .

This proposal won the first prize of the competition launched

by Archizoom and the Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne

(EPFL). Today, the project is under study by Backer et Blanc

architecte Studio in Lausanne.

VITRINE

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CRITIQUE FINALE AFFICHAGE FINALE EXPOSITION DE PETITE TAILLELAYOUTESPACEDAPERITIF

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Name: ............A chaque pot son couvercle!

Author: ...........................Arthur Blanc

...............................Nicolas Uebersax

Prof: ...............................Tomas Kral

Course: ......................Design Industriel

School: ....................ECAL (Lausanne, CH)

Date: ...............................28/06/2013

Semestre: ....................................4

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A CHAQUE POT

SON COUVERCLE!

Extensive overconsumption and wastage are now established facts

in our society till years. Confronted with this challenge, designers

have a key role to play. Indeed they have several approaches

at their disposal to conceive responsible products. Choosing

carefully and sparing materials, recycling or shape optimisation.

many areas remain to be explored.

Choosing the original Ovomaltine pot as a research field, the

project tries to imagine a series of simple pieces that could screw

on basic Ovomaltin jar to turn it into an elegent breakfast service.

Different pieces could then be won by the consumer through

contests on Ovaltine packaging.

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