This portfolio is a sam-ple of the projects I have worked on during my studies. It tackles projects of highly diverse ranges and scales. Selecting them accordingly to the time I have spent developing them allows me to illus-trate the various work-ing methods I have been using. My universe has evolved significantly in the course of my studies. Having studied in two different universities has given me the opportu-nity to learn highly dif-ferentiated approaches to architecture, from which I could draw my personal vision. The references, working methods, desires and expectations that are part of my universe are in constant evolution, hence my interest for scale jumps. My final work on Charleroi gave me the opportunity to tackle macro and micro issues and further increased my will to diversify my sub-jects of reflection.

Studies

2012

Master diploma in architecture at I.S.A. La Cambre Bruxelles -BelgiumDistinction

2009

Bac diploma in architecture at I.S.A St Luc Bruxelles - Belgium

2005

General sencondary education diploma at St Albert of Jodoigne School - BelgiumHigh Maths/High Science sec-tion

1999

General primary education diplo-ma at Instituut van Mariadal van Hoegaarden - Belgium(deutch immersion)

Experience

2013

Internship in FRES Architectureoffice - Geneva - Switzerland

2012

Internship in Suède 36 office - Bruxelles - Belgium

Evolo contest

Velux contest

2010

Zinneke Parade conteste, artistic mobil kitchen - First prize

2009

Co-fondator of Attention à la tête asbl. Organising of concerts, artists meetings, ....

Languages

French

Mother tongue

Deutch

Good skills

English

Good skills

Programs

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2008

Management of an 12 adults group during a participative travel to Bénin - Africa

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“ Express the feelings the city awakes in you with the means of representa-tion of your choice on a 70 x 100 cm sheet. Work in groups of three. You have 24 hours starting from now.”

Right after a day spent visiting and attending conferences in Char-leroi, we don’t even have the time to let the large amount of informa-tion settle down. We are immedi-ately assigned to draw a picture of the city. With no hindsight, only a harsh, direct image full of clichés, but paradoxically very genuine, can strike the eye of the beholder. Af-ter concerting my colleagues, three features are stressed: raw material-ity, the city’s marked topography and, finally, the sensation of con-finement offered by the ring road that surrounds the city.

The project consists in stressing these three characteristics. First, by choosing an appropriate location in which every material expresses itself in its genuine form: it shall be the school’s garage. Then we depict

the slope using a colour gradation. Finally, we decide to explode the format in order to give impact to the project.

Thus, the projects results from a superposition of grillages and a colour gradation based not only on the various features that stood out during our visit, but also on some sort of aesthetic conveyed by the city we were yet not fully con-scious of.

With

and

“ Society critic”

The subject at hand is vast. I opt for the consumary sociaty, and his progra-mated absolescence

By transposing this question into our western society, a major question arose: what is most fragile in our society? It is the individual.

ONE WEEK

OBSOLESCENCE PROGRAMMEE

MASTER II

“ Contextless assignment. Require-ments: 20 residences with a high level of flexibility in programming. Determine a highly specific pro-gramming. Minimum ground im-pact.”

The absence of context allows to directing the architectural research towards questions not related to the site itself. Having no con-straint actually proves itself to be quite constraining. The absence of a specified site, by allowing eve-rything, makes it hard to define a guideline. Thus, I used the pro-gram as a starting point. I opted for a theme I was well acquainted with: climbing.

Starting from this basic premise, I began to model a simple shape, a right-angled parallelepiped, in order to make it meet the require-ments of a climbing centre (indoor and outdoor). The original con-cept implies that every object built must be exploitable for climbing according to the centre’s

temporalities. If an apartment is temporarily uninhabited, it must be exploitable as a training facil-ity. But the apartment must keep a certain degree of intimacy when occupied.Starting from a constraintless pro-ject, I now have to face a highly constraining question: how to inhabit an object?

Basic paralleli-pedic rectangle’s

deformation

Collective spaces hollow /

Adjacent programs : sport shop - changing

room - restaurant, bar -polyvalent

space - panoramic view room /

Vertical circulation

Horizontal circulation / Hol-

lowed object / Interns climbing

walls

Once the project has been drawn, I had to insert the program.

First, I dug the object in order to allow the alpinist to pass from one side of the tacking to the other without being forced to go around it. These hollows also provide com-mon spaces for the inhabitants.

Then I determined the exact site of the adjoining programs such as a restaurant, a sports shop, locker-rooms and a panoramic sight point. These are situated around the hollows so a maximum num-ber of people can benefit from the common spaces. Given the shape of the object, every apartment is unique. The housing environment had to be completely retought and new solutions had to be found in order to offer a pleasant living en-vironment whether for one-room, two-room or three-room apart-ments.

In this project, every space is ques-tioned. I thus had to call the basic assumptions I had concerning housing environment in question in order to bring an object to life.

Explosed axonometry illustratingthe different

appartement’s typologies.Adjacent programsare in

red

Intern views of the hollowed

spaces when the appartements are

used and when some of them are

transformed in training rooms

Intern views of an appartement

when it’s used and when it’s

transformed in training rooms

Duplex’s defor-mation wich

defined the living spaces and give more different

hights propice-for the climbing

training.

To preserve intim-ity, the windows are

extruded. When the appartement is

empty, the frame is folded to permit

the acces

The project in his context or the

alpinist fantasm

Plans level 5,6,7,8

Section

“Europan Competition”

A 5 ha. fallow land on the banks of the Sambre River in a wooded landscape – an idyllic site at first glare. The city’s ambition is to lay out the rough terrain in or-der to favour housing and eco-nomic activities.

The question at hand relates to the status that should be given to the site: is it part of the urban fabric or is it fully autonomous?

In fact, on the opposite bank, the town of Sambreville turns completely its back to the river. Furthermore, the dominant buildings located on the river’s bank are essentially isolated large farms or factories that are part of the urban fabric.

During the preliminary analysis, a series of points are picked out to give a clear structure to the project: the height must match those of the farms and factories already located on the Sambre’s banks; the pro-gram must combine housing, edu-cational and commercial facilities and production sites; the question surrounding water supply must be emphasised; finally, the site must

remain accessible to everyone. The chosen programing is highly specific: breading and transforma-tion of local fish for food produc-tion. This program allows for the investigation of a new peri-urban typology that aims to combine housing an industrial activity – two usually distinct dimensions.

Big size’s cartography

Observation :- dense city center / tertiary

- industry and housing estate at the city border/ secondary- outskirts agricultural production / primary

Evolution, territoy and green spaces saturation :- Developement of the individual and estate housings

- Production moving away- Territory zoning

- Study of a new typology mixing housing, primary,secondary and tertiary sectors- Territory economy and fonctionnal mixity

Once the template is established, its shape is modified in order to optimise sights by taking distance from the railway that runs along the site, taking the need for an ac-cess to the road for trucks into account, as well as the need for a connection to the river’s bank. The connection to the river’s bank can be achieved in various ways. First, big stairs connect the access to the bridge leading to the city centre and the embankment. The stairs dimin-ish the site’s striking level gaps and can also be used as terraces for the embankment that can occasionally be transformed into a stage, with the Sambre as background scenery. Furthermore, a restaurant set in the embankment slope gives peasants who take a walk the opportunity to rest and enjoy products from the factory. Finally, a series of slopes connect the frame to the embank-ment.

VolumeViews

AncrageImbrication

Light

Explosed axonometry of

the different fonctions and

housing typolo-gies

There is about a dozen of differ-ent apartment typologies. Be it crossing apartments or sometimes duplexes, the various housing facilities are destined to match the needs of the largest possible num-ber of family types, resulting in greater mixing. Each apartment

has a double relation to water: in the foreground, with the basins and their colours reflecting on the buildings’ fronts, at the site’s scale, and in the background, with the Sambre, at the scale of larger sur-roundings.

Finally, the basins and the crops conclusively fix the complex into the site. The large basins on at the top of the site leak out water coming from the Sambre, which is then used for the fish basin ponds. The fish basin ponds are divided in three distinct categories, ac-cording to the size of the fish. These stretches of water are ar-ranged in a way that makes them accessible to every inhabitant or passer-by so they can enjoy the landscape layout.

In conclusion, I would say that this project is a reflection on peri-urban urbanism in small towns as well as a typological study connecting economic activity and everyday life. This research work has been accomplished as a response to the industrial and residential zoning that typifies Walloon suburban areas, and that often results in a destructuring of the urban fabric.

Implantation planSection AA’

Sections in the intern street

View of the truck’s loading

space

View of the promenade and

the restaurant

Plans of the EE’ section

First, I had to take on the great city of Charleroi and try to un-derstand it in order to develop urban planning strategies and tac-tics. Then I wrote a report on the various temporalities of a post-industrial city with Charleroi as a background, which allowed me to stress the factors that co-con-dition the city’s decay. Once I was holding these in hand, I was able to begin with the last step that consisted in defining guidelines allowing to reapproriate sites that are being abandoned because of the ring road surrounding the city.

“Charleroi... when we first met, you were dying. I wanted to immortal-ize your slow agony. But it was not your last breath I was feeling. It was your hunger for vengeance.”

As my visits to the city people call the capital of the “Black Lands” went on, I discovered spellbind-ing ruins, mechanical landscapes and imposing infrastructures that may sometimes feel oppressive but that also convey an unexplainable impression of sturdiness. To me as an architect, there was something romantic about that slow agony I was facing and I have kept pictures of a phantasmagorical universe in my mind. After analysing them, those views of the mind appeared to me as disconnected from real-ity but also as offering a poetic notion I could work with. Look-ing for a concept able to give new dynamism to this low-growth city, some questions arose concerning the way of implementing a global urban planning. This working process consisted of three steps.

Topographic plan of the big

Chaleroi

During my first visits to Char-leroi, I discovered a dead city. The sites surrounded by the ring road seemed to be abandoned by their inhabitants. Indeed, this young city, which has had stunning growth numbers after the indus-trial revolution due to its coal mines, has faced a dramatic eco-nomic and demographic decline during the 1960s. There is an im-portant migration from the city centre to the surrounding areas. After the analysis of city maps, I made a first observation: the ur-ban fabric is not radiocentric but polynuclear.

By that I mean that, as it was growing rapidly, the city wanted to develop around the centre, brought out by the ring. But we observe that the urban fabric has its roots in several central points. In addition, the savage growth has resulted in a very distinctive urban planning typology in Char-leroi. We can see a confrontation between the imposing factories and slag heaps and the small buildings designed for housing, and an alternation of empty and filled-out spaces that alter the structure of the urban fabric.

To conclude this analysis, I would argue that Charleroi did not have the time to develop accordingly to its own identity but has been inevitably shaped by History, and should therefore accept its iden-tity.

Starting from this statement, I tried to elaborate tactics and strategies in order for the city to recognise its own identity and in the same time to heal the wounds of the industrial era. These tactics and strategies can be defined as direct actions, as “close combat”, that can be conceived for an

overall use but that can also be-come very specific and contextual once they are implemented. Strat-egies force us to think in broader terms, on the scale of the whole territory.

Radiocentric

Polynuclear

The first step consists in reappro-priating the territory that I have divided in two types. The first of them consists of the fallows and slag heaps that are currently aban-doned. Once those areas have been identified and registered in the common ground, they can be reappropriated by the inhabitants. The second type is what I have called new landscapes – those huge stacks of scrap, piles of sand and construction waste, and so on that form along the canal. While the slag heaps have integrated the collective memory of the inhabit-ants, stacks and piles caused by new industries are highly unpopu-lar even though their movements are quite fascinating. Readapting the territory also implies a work on the changes of scale. To start working on this territory, I drafted a series of interventions varying between three factors: the object, the waiting time and the walk. The object allows to put emphasis on an underestimated space; the waiting time allows the beholder to retain progressively the land-scape in his mind, in his experi-ence and thus to accept it; the development allows the inhabitant to inhabit it and thus to anchor its memories in this very space.

New landscapes

Identified abondoned territories

Territories reappropiations’s

propositions

Being done with this first step, I begun getting interested in the city’s temporalities to the point that I wrote a report on this topic. Without pretending to be exhaus-tive, I tried to identify temporal forms of different scales at differ-ent times in post-industrial cit-ies. By searching in the past and analysing the present, a solution firmly anchored in its context in terms of urban planning could emerge for the future. First, a series of examples of factors caus-ing ruptures in the city’s cycle allowed me to focus my research on concrete points. The questions related to the city’s proper tempo-rality and architecture then al-lowed me to stress the importance of memory and permanence as a vector of the city’s identity. The research goes on along the marks and the tracks left by the time and their influence on the urban set-ting, from the micro scale of the material to the macro level of the landscape. Then, identifying com-mon elements in various defini-tions of sustainability allowed me to incorporate concepts such as resilience and, most importantly, mutability in urban planning in order to open the debate on a pos-sible new methodology of urban-ism. This work rises the question of the architect’s role when he

modifies a urban setting, indepen-dently of the scope of his interven-tion, and the question related to the necessity of humbleness in this respect. Why should we try to con-trol things that we have no influ-ence on knowing that, as J. Richter points out, “Time completes all creation.”

The second step is the identifica-tion of the various poles that con-stitute the city and their needs in terms of programming. Those vari-ous poles must be interconnected by an efficient network of trans-ports in order to become a urban ensemble.

Propositions and programmatics

potentials of the identifiated poles

To start working on the city centre and more particularly on the ring road, which was the third part of my project, I began by taking a lit-tle distance from what had already been done. That is the reason why I started analysing photographic pic-tures that I annotated with person-al reflexions or observations I had heard during my visits. Through a collection of several pictures called “Day One: a random story”, I tried to point out ordinary details.

Of course, those pictures are a com-pletely subjective view of the mind that does not pretend to change the city’s image. This notebook is to be seen more as a tool that makes the beholder discover or rediscover Charleroi from a different perspec-tive, with a poetic dimension., in which one can write notes, draw pictures, that can be torn apart an in which one can stick everything that strikes his attention, every-thing that crosses his mind.

After that, it was important to have an idea of the vision that the inhabitants have concerning their city. To do so, I used three tools: a survey called “Attaches et contre-attaches”, carried out by the city of Charleroi in 2006; a questionnaire that I submitted to people on the market place and a series of four installations. These tools allowed me to establish a map reflecting the feelings brought out by the city.

Project presentation

“ Day One :a randam story ”

extract

Interventionsexamples

Feelings map

Having gathered all these elements, the identification of high-potential locations allowed me to draft a punctual project or what I call “slope architecture and landscape”. To illustrate those drafts, I devel-oped one of these interventions.

Map of the proposition’s

sketches in the potential

identifiated

Adjacent programs to the identifiated

spaces

Having done that, I identified spac-es that are abandoned or underused because of the ring road. This in-frastructure has a strong impact on the city and provides a sensation of seclusion in its centre. However, if the targeted goal is to develop the different poles, it is important that the ring road and the spaces it generates are integrated, that the citizens live within them. By ana-lysing the functions of the areas surrounding these identified spaces, various poles seem to emerge. For example, the north-east zone is surrounded by several health cen-tres and sports facilities such as the football stadium and the dance centre; developing these aspects in that particular area could therefore be interesting.

Before I started implementing architectural modifications, I thought it was important to ana-lyse the different typologies of the ring road. Running sometimes over and sometimes under the city, it defines a particular rhythmic for both pedestrians and drivers.

Ring road rythmic’s examples viewed by

drivers and pedestrians

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The belvedere opens on the sur-rounding slag heaps, near factories and the city. In the middle of what we once have built in the name of progress and that has come to dominate us, Men can regain their central place. The monolith also has impact on the drivers, who, af-ter having dominated the city while driving on the ring road, suddenly face an upright building, which reminds them that they are still anchored in the urban fabric.

There is something utopian about this project. It is some sort of man-ifesto, but it is more than just that. It allows me to inhabit a forgotten location, to anchor memories in it. The goal of these first steps of a more global urban planning pro-ject is to sublimate an existing site. Places with a particular mark come from the ring road: places that have to be rediscovered in order to be accepted.

The site is located south-east of the city centre. It features elements that, at first sight, seem to be highly constraining but that appear to be the site’s qualities. Indeed, an important motorway node runs through the site. Gigantic factories line the area and the canal runs not far from it. The concept consists of an imposing hollow concrete mon-olith that stands out between two access roads.

Pedestrians can access it through three paths that slowly sink into the ground. When the user walks into the belvedere, he notices that the site is roofless. While he goes up, he can also progressively notice openings. First, he can see a road with cars driving at low speed. But, as he continues to move up, the cars are running faster and faster. A feeling of seclusion comes over him due to the proximity, the speed of the cars and the sound of their engines, amplified by the open-ings’ shapes. This sensation reaches its highest point at the level of the ring road, where the cars reach a high speed. The pedestrian con-tinues his way up and finally gets past the ring road and, once he has reached the top, he stands in the light, dominating what oppressed him before.

Belevedere plans

Implantation plan

Situation plan

Project pres-entation with

two models.One has a

concrete base to understand the cinematic

of the project.The second is an implanta-

tion model to understand

the complex-ity of the road

ring at this place.

The context is drawn ont

the floor at the implantation model scale.It permit to

use all the space for the presentation

3DS Max images issued from a video about the Small House of Sejima

Presentation pannels forEvolo’s contest with A.Maes, N. Baeck and

F. Bihr