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Curriculum VitaeWilliam Alexander Chisholm

Contact information

+32/2/652 03 31+32/471/48 85 4823 avenue du Bois de Chapelle1380 [email protected]

Personal information

07/07/1986, singleBorn in Best ( The Netherlands)Belgian and British citizenship.

EducationJune 2010 Thesis: Architecture & Power, “Mémoire Tarte à la Crème”Sept 2008-June 2010 Master in architecture (anthropology section) at Institut Supérieur d’Architecture Victor Horta, ULB, BrusselsSept 2004-June 2007 Bachelor in architecture at Institut Supérieur d’Architecture Victor Horta, ULB, BrusselsSept 1997-June 2004 Secondary school section math-sciences at Institut Saint-Boniface Parnasse, Brussels

Experience

Oct 2009 - Aug 2010 Student job at the S.A. Foyer Anderlechtois in Anderlecht, Brussels. Drawing and analysis of their social housing park (following the actual norms dictated by the national housing committeeApril 2009 Trainee for 3 weeks at Bureau Coupez in La Hulpe, specialized in small housing. (First contact with an architecture firm, essentially sketchup modeling)

Qualifications

English : Father tongue, fluent French : Mother tongue, fluentDutch : Scholar knowledgeComputer skills: Autocad+++, Adobe Creative Suite++, Google sketchup++, Office++, 3DS Max+,blind typingDriving licence and car available.

Other

Volunteering: 6 years serving in the scouts.

Interests: Guitar, hiking, scouts, art, the study of the landscape, architecture.

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View from the Montbauron Street

The goal of the competition was the rehabilitation of a former depot of the National French Library in Versailles.

The program intended to aerate the site, implanting housing, of-fice surfaces and conserve an archive area all within implanting a modern architectural graft on an architectural heritage.

Architectural approach : «INTROVERS:: AILLES::»We retain the outer shell and rehabilitate the inner plot .

We’ll talk about an internal graft.It is assumed that the enclave of the plot must remain intact. Site conservation is paramount when it comes to urban trans-plant. Our registry is an architectural representation that marks the «Time». One must take into account past, present, future. A past marked by the collective unconscious, a voluntary present and a future to come. Our goal is to recreate interactions, ten-sions, connections between the graft and the existing structures.Everything is focused on the island center, outside nothing is seen, that’s why we’re talking about introversion. We’ll release in the heart of the island space, a public space that will help us bound the streets together with the park at the rear. Our intention is to revitalize the interior of the island and use it to establish a new urban dynamic.It connects to both the Allée de Coubertin significantly by a fault in the C building, rue Montbauron by a walkway overlooking the Park and our new public space by a succession of levels. The new crossing point introduced will interact with a variety of func-tions, public / private space and more accessible nature.Within the building B and C are housing developments both low

Student competition // Versailles

Relief

Green

Traffic

Density

Limits

View from the Montbauron / de Coubertin crossroad View between block A & B

and high income in order to recreate a social mix. We’ll promote quality housing, 1 to 4 bedrooms with private terraces.The building envelope is kept intact towards the street and is modernized and rehabilitated within the plot. The different views of the housing units are privatised using perforated metal fabric acting as a claustra, to create distance and fuzzy vision.The basement of Building B and C will be used for parking lots.Building A will be used for offices, sub-ground levels in the A Building will be kept for archives.On the public space, we’ll create a restaurant interconnected between all levels, it will be accessible and lightend by roof gla-zing on parts of the islet public space.Gradually, when entering the plot, the graft is seen rising and floating above Building A.Skewed, disoriented, it poses a question.Within the islet, the graft push itself, it shines and opens to-wards a future: modern, dense and dynamic. Inside you’ll discover an agora serving as a multipurpose space that can extend outward on the roof of Building A .The graft marks our intervention, it makes a wish to connect 2 periods together.Modernism in the sight of the great times of Versailles, the «château» is visible from the graft.A modern outlook on history.

Concours Fondation Wilmotte // student competition // September 2010

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Global Strategy

Elevation Montbauron Street

Credits: William Chisholm & Denis Browet// September 2010

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Concours Fondation Wilmotte // student competition // September 2010

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Mass Plan

A-A’ section

Building C Building B

Building APark

Park accessFunction schemeAxonometry

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Center islet view View from the tower lobby towards the castle General view

Plan of a social appartment located on the ground floorGeneral plan

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Credits: William Chisholm & Denis Browet// September 2010

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Louvain-la-Neuve the university becomes the Louvain-la-Neuve the citizen.

Louvain-la-Neuve is basically a city created by the Catholic University of Louvain solely for the University. The city was established after the crisis of 1968 where the Flemish students of the university decided that the French section could no longer exist beside them. It created a political schism and the French part moved 30 kilometers away in Wallonia to found the new city and university of Louvain-la-Neuve.Through a special law of the Belgian state, the university became the owner through over the time of approximately 900 hectares located in the towns of Ottignies and Mont-Saint-Guibert.

Thus, over the years, the power of the university has grown so much that it nearly overwhelms today that of the town.Louvain-la-Neuve claims to be a complete city with every service available but it lacks one thing: public service and above all a place, a building that represents the citizens who live there.

A new town council building // Louvain-la-Neuve, Wallonia, Belgium

Subject:- The notion of time in a newtown from the sixties: Louvain-la-Neuve- City analysis, counter propositions

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1969 1980 2009

Limits of the town of Ottigines - Louvain-la-Neuve

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That’s why the project revolves around the creation of a community hall that can accommodate a Town Council moving through the various villages of Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve.

It’s the creation of a building accessible to all, claiming its autonomy from the University. The location of the intervention is at a key place in the city, the square that accomodate the University Rectorate.

The characteristic of the intervention lies in the fact that the building is removable: It can take place or withdraw and give way to the present square, a crossroads for the city, a meeting place that lives. It creates a special place dedicated to the expression of the political power of the Town Council, the first level of power for the citizens.

The fact that the building goes up and down is not in itself accessory but an accepted instrumentalization of architecture like many other architecture have been in the past. The architecture of the space created is generic as the space is supposed to be universal, a real toolbox for the use of everyone and not only for the academic members.It can serve for all the community purposes, from weddings to gym courses or meetings, but firstly for the town councils.Thus, interrupting the visual role of the square, the building honors the council too often forgotten and gives fellow citizens at last, access to the heart of the town’s decisions.

Mass plan city level 1/2000 Site with project incrustation

City diagram

University Square University Square

Mass plan car level 1/2000

The lack of public service in the city is obvious.

Here the public post-office replaced by a private compa-ny, despite several student demonstrations was defen-ding public service appea-rance in the city

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South elevation

Elevated mode of the council chamber

West elevation

Floor plan

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Inside view of the council chamber


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Withdrawed mode of the council chamber

Tier mode on

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Zoom on the tier, section D-D’ 1/200Section cut B-B’ 1/500

Section cut C-C’ 1/500

Section cut E-E’ 1/500

Level -1

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Square level

Elevated mode Withdrawed mode


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Dossin Barracks // Architecture & anthropology studio // June 2007

Dossin Barracks Memorial// Mechelen, Flanders, Belgium

Subject:

A site, a problem, the duty of remembrance.

The barracks have a long and an odd history.

Built by the Austrians in the 18th century to accommodate their garrisons, it was owned afterwards by the Belgian state and used by the army. During the WWII, it was used by the Germans as a transit camp to gather the Jews before sending them to the extermination camps by railway convoy (24 916 Jews and 351 Gypsies were deported from the barracks) At the end of the war it became the property of the Belgian military again. In the seventies it was given to the city of Mechelen who transformed the barracks into luxurious apartments. And from 1995 till now, a part of the barracks hosts the Jewish Museum Of Deportation and Resistance.

Two years ago the Flanders Region decided to organize a architecture competition to establish a new museum and memorial.

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Concept

Dossin Barracks, the symbol of a painful past. A strong and impressive facade, which governs the site.

It is the emotion caused by this facade that will articulate the memorial. The facade and its history becomes meaningful only when they are related to the testimony which in this case is the reflexion of the facade itself. It must reflect everything outwards so that it becomes more vibrant and actual.

When entering the memorial, the visitor is invited to climb a staircase. The facade and porch are discovered little by little under an always heavier footprint, but the ascent stops short and gives way to the staging of the monumental facade. The character of the building takes its full meaning on the way back, which becomes a painful descent into the memory of the past.

For many, the façade remains a memory of their relatives.

The fact that the building is reflecting itself gives instant importance to the place and can therefore act as a memorial.

Crossing the porch, a strong architectural element, can be considered as the symbol of the last glimmers of hope.

“Les miroirs sont les portes parlesquelles la Mort va et vient.”Orphée, Jean Cocteau

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Materials used: red sand and pebbles arranged in channels ranging from 30 to 70 cm

Soil made with sand: memory imprint

Rollers crashing against the rigors and harshness of the facade of the barracks

Sacred enclosureFragility of the soil and is not meant to be trampled

The BLACKBOX: to extravert (mirror). better understanding through

testimonial reflexion.When using the memorial, you have to pass under the box and feel the weight of the tes-timony.

Proposed use:-testimony space-projection space-exposition space

1. Dossin barraks2. IKA3. Convent4. Lane5. Projected Memorial

Existing site 1/5000

Projected site 1/5000

Zoom 1/2000

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Moving cities // Mechanics &context of the projet studio // June 2009

This project is on the rethinking about mobility in the city within the context of the south station of Charleroi. The city of Charleroi has never recovered from its aftermath of the declining coal and steel industry. It is still today a center of heavy industry in the Sambre and Meuse valley, Wallonia.

The city center keeps losing its inhabitants and many real estate projects expected to revitalize the center have still not begun. Front Sambre in front of the actual station is a no man’s land. And yet It is the entry point to the city center as well as the commuter point for train, Metro, and bus transport that serves the entire greater Charleroi (third agglomeration in Belgium, 500 000 ha)

How can we redesign this entry point by improving further the role of the multimodal hub?

Another approach to the multimodal node:

Instead of concentrating the hub like a layered cake, we conceive the new hub as a band, in order to be consistent with the general urban fabric, that is to say, to consider the band as a crossing point between two separate urban entities. The project consists of a bridge, an inhabited bridge in which multimodal services spread. This reinforces the qualities of the band as a service area. It defines clearly the concentration of the different transport sites and establishes a clear connection between Charleroi center and its outskirts. The bridge building is characterized by a continuous architecture, in order to make it clear that it unites the different conveyances that all participate in the deployment of the city.

A New multimodal hub // CharleroiSubject:1/Complete analysis of a city2/Multimodal hub définition

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First phase // Credits: W.Chisholm, S. Van Dam, A.Tequi, M. Busana, C.Van Overstyns// December 2008

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New multimodal hub // Charleroi

Moving cities // Mechanics &context of the projet studio // June 2009

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Second Phase // Credits: William Chisholm // June 2009

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