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Sylvie GruberBorn on 05/08/1989 in Brussels

178 rue de la Pêcherie 1180 Brussels BelgiumTél : 0032/477.57.92.29E-mail : gruber.sylvie@gmail.comwww.sylviegruber.com

Education

2008 - 2011

2011 - 2012

2012 - 2013

November 2013 - December 2013

2007 - 2008

2007

Bachelor in Architecture«Université Libre de Bruxelles» ‘Faculty of Architecture La Cambre/Horta’- Brussels, Belgium

Master in Architecture - Exchange year«Ecole d’Ingénieurs et d’Architectes de Fribourg» ‘JointMaster of Architecture’- Fribourg, Switzerland

Master in Architecture«Université Libre de Bruxelles» ‘Faculty of Architecture La Cambre/Horta’- Brussels, Belgium

Autodesk 3Ds Max Training Course«APLG» - Brussels, Belgium

High School Exchange Year «Swampscott High School» - Massachussets, USA

High School Diploma «Athénée Ganenou» - Brussels, Belgium

Professional & Social Experience

Summer 2011

August - December 2012

November 2013 - March 2014

2011

2005 - 2007

Architecture Internship «Atelier Guy Melvier» - Brussels, Belgium

Saleswoman «Boutique Essentiel» - Brussels, Belgium

Architecture internship «Olivier Demoulin Architecture» - Brussels, Belgium

Coaching and private lessons «My Sherpa» - Brussels, Belgium

Youth Movement Counselor «Habonim Dror»- Brussels, Belgium

Languages

French : Native language

English : Bilingual - 104/120, «TOEFL» I.B.T

Deutch : Oral & Written basics

Hebrew: Oral & Written basics

Computer Skills

Office : Word, Powerpoint, Excel

Adobe : Photoshop, In Design, Illustrator

Autodesk : Autocad, 3ds Max

Google : Sketchup

Interest

Digital & Analog photography

Travelling

Cooking & Baking

Art Exhibitions & Movies

Table of Contents

Marionnettes in the Marolles

Housing & Workspace for Designers

‘Brigittines’ Social Housing Transformation

Cook & Book in Lausanne Industrial Area

Housing & School extensionin Boisfort

Re-thinking the Westland Shopping Center in its territory : 2 visions of the future

Photographie

Voyages

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In the Brussels Neighbourhood of the « Ma-rolles », this project offers to create a mario-nettes’ theater, as well as a housing for the theater’s manager. The idea developed in this project follows a « shifting » principle : the functions are placed in boxes that over-lap in order to create a new passage and establish different views and relationships between the interior and exterior spaces. The marionettes’ theater and the entry of the housing are located on the ground floor. We find two performance spaces: one inside, and one outside. They are connected by the backstage and the workshop that can, according to the pup-peteers wish, be visually opened on the street.The housing is located on the first floor. It uses the ‘shifting boxes’ from the ground floor to create a big terrace.This floor is also divided in three boxes: the kit-chen, the living room and the « night » spaces.The living room box is spreading on top of the street passage and al-lows views on the public space.

Marionnettes in the Marolles

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Ground Floor Plan

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1. Marionnettes in the Marolles _ Brussels, Belgium

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On an open space of 400 square meters, it was asked to design a housing for a designers’ couple with kids, as well as their workspace. Getting very little natural light, the project was conceived around different ways to bring light inside the building. To do so, the separa-tion between the rooms is not realized with plain walls but by different types of patios and pane divider, either transparent or trans-lucent. They enable a maximal light supply and fade the limits between the inside and the outside. There are three types of patios : vegetal patios, wooden terraces and a cen-tral pool. The pool also separates the hou-sing from the workspace. Wooden claustras are used to hide the most private functions.

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Interior Views

«Here is a surprising project. Surprising by its capacity to bluff us through its documents, while offering us a project worthy of interpretation, or even poetry. Clinging on to the program and the use, as well as the delimited context, S. Gruber aspires to create a universe that merges in both active and contempla-

tive ways the living spaces to the carefully chosen, framed and composed natural elements» -

Fabien DautrebandeB.Arch 2 Studio Teacher

Student Work School Publication

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The « Chapelle/Brigittines » neighbourhood is a particular site that cumulates infrastruc-tures (train station), architectures (Les Bri-gittines, Recyclart) and public spaces (Ursu-lines Place). The goal of this project was first to bring a reflection on the neighbourhood and a way to link the different elements of the area. It was also asked to offer a transfor-mation solution for the ‘Brigittines’ Social Housing which is actually in really bad shape.

The project proposes to transform the Social Housing by changing its « L » typology into a « U », allowing to redefine public and semi-public and private spaces. By playing on the height of the different parts of the building, the project tries not only to improve the in-tegration of the building in the neighbou-rhood, but also to improve views on the city.By creating different public spaces, the project tries to connect the building to the train sta-tion and the Skate-Park on the Ursulines Place.A large public space is created for the inhabitants by deviating the car traffic beside the Social Housing.The public space contains a sport field, a playground, a coffee shop, green spaces and walking roads.

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« Ride the Bull » - Which projects for residual spaces of Wes-tern Lausanne crossed by the highway ring ?Rather than thinking the changing of the ter-ritory through a large-scale urban project, it was asked to study singular objects as the hypothesis of a possible local transformation.

Set up in the middle of an industrial area borde-ring the highway, the project tries to influence a transformation of the territory by choosing a particular program: a « Cook & Book ». Thanks to its peculiar function, the project should enable the site to be more ‘liveable’ for its future inha-bitants. The « Cook&Book » (including a books-hop, a restaurant, a coffee place, a library, a culi-nary school as well as a few shops), is developed on a continuous 10.000 square meters space. The functions are deployed in a single buil-ding, using the natural topography differences of the site. The « Cook & Book » is conceived as a continuous space where all the functions are linked through different topographic pla-teau. Patios are distributed throughout the building, in ways that allow not only light to be brought inside the spaces but also to separate – and visually connect– the different functions.

Cook & Bookin Industrial Area

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Ground Floor Plan

4. Cook & Book in Industrial Area _ Lausanne, Switzerland

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Artificial Topography

Culinary School

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The deconsecrated St-Hubert Church is located on an important site, on the crossing of main roads, a train station and a public place. If the church is no longer used for its primary goal, it was asked to think about a way to transform the site, by either refurbishing the church or propo-sing a new building instead. It was chosen to replace the old church by a new housing buil-ding. The project tries to reconnect the site to its context by proposing a building recreating a block starting from the existing “Assomption School”. Two public spaces are recreated on ei-ther side of the new building – one more ‘urban’ in front of the boulevard, and the other more ‘lo-cal’ with a playground. The handling of the buil-ding heights tries to link the different typologi-cal aspects of the site ; the building is starting from a 12 storey’s tower placed in front of the boulevard and then its height decreases until it coincides with the individual houses nearby. Various exterior spaces are offered for the new inhabitants along the terraces created by the heights differences in the building. This artificial ride leads to a shared space on top of the tower.

Housing & School Extension in Boisfort

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Situation Housing Typologies

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In response to evidences that show the progressive death of peri-urban regio-nal malls in the USA and to arguments that show the possibility of such a perspective for Brussels malls, this project focuses on thoughts and ways to avoid the apparition of « dead mall » in Brussels.

Realized on the “Westland Shopping Center” in Anderlecht, Western Brussels, the project ex-plores different ways to ensure the survival of the shopping center and to reintegrate it on its territory. Indeed, this territory has been radically transformed since the creation of the mall in the 70’, growing from an agricultural environment to a suburban neighbourhood, it became today a real part of the city, integrated to its center.

The project proposed to work on two hy-pothesis, both based on a common obser-vation: in order to survive, the shopping center has to evolve. It can either do so by diminishing into a proximity commercial cen-ter that has a local ambition (hypothesis A), or by growing even more and reaffirming its regional status and ambition (hypothesis B).

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Hypothesis A

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Hypothesis A - Re-position the site as a real neighbourhood center with new buildings of collectives func-

tions (school, gym, workspaces, services,...)

- Move all the remaining shops on the ground floor in a «  U  » form, around a public space

(market space, fair space,...)

- Refurbish the old commercial spaces from the 1st level into housings and public spaces

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Re-Thinking the ‘Westland Shopping Center’ in its territory : 2 visions of the future _ Brussels, Belgium

Hypothesis B

- Develop a better connexion to the city cen-ter by building a park-and-ride facility at the exit of the highway. This specific function establishes a need for better public transpor-

tation from the site to the city center

- Develop new activities on site, other than commercial (housing, equipment, services)

in order to enhance the uses of the site

- Create new commercial buildings orienta-ted towards the boulevard, arranged around pedestrian spaces that link the existing shop-

ping center to the new commercial spaces.

- Open up two new public spaces (a public place towards the boulevard and a park on the North of the site) that connect the dif-

ferent levels of the shopping center.

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«To photograph: it is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye and the

heart».

Henri Quartier-Bresson

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«The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in

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