PORTFOLIO 2008-2014

Romain Bourlier

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ASSEMBLY

2/1UNO WORKSHOP

THE HOUSEL. Piqueras

A house (100 m2) which is not designed with rooms but from its four vital functions (feeding, bathing, resting, meeting) and a hypothesis-one found in literature (here, J.-M. de Heredia).The space dedicated to each function is a square, previously qualified (directional centripetal, centrifugal, regular, irregular, deep, wide...) and which must remain recognizable.An organisation chart defines the relationships between those functions, then between spaces. Intersections become the main programmatic spots. The light helps to qualify and to unify the whole project.

Architecture is created by using opacities and transparencies, in an elementary approach, rather than walls, doors and windows.The presentation is made using a 1:50 scale, with sections, facades, plans, charts and a white vinci cardboard model including furniture.

Floor plan

South section and facade

Organisation chart

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SHAPE

THE PICTUREL. Piqueras

2/2UNO WORKSHOP

Plans of exhibition floors

Axonometric projections Picture processing

The analysis and processing of a famous photography in black and white make it possible to determine its lines of force and composition.Afterwards, the image is reproduced with pencil, pen, in grayscale, saturated and desaturated colours and finally borrowing the style of a well-known painter (Matisse was chosen here).This analysis serves as a starting point for an exhibition centre project, which section and plan are inspired by the previous redrawn photography.The presentation is made using a 1:200 scale and gouache for sections, plans and axonometrics, and using white vinci cardboard for the model.

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ROUTE

3/1UNO WORKSHOP

THE 30 x 30 SPACEA. Dervieux

Perspective view of the reading room

A local library (1 500 m2) is created following the visitor’s route into space. A series of successive perspectives is used to define internal organization basics, circulation and light quality. They are drawn using simple elements: columns create a regular structural grid while opacities without thickness divide space and create volumes.Then, a work using models of different scales (1:200, 1:100, 1:50) establishes programs and features.Particular attention is paid to the facades, which must guide the walker to the entrance.

The exercise aims to get familiar with the “free plan” concept (plan libre) and to train to project using a constant back and forth between perspective, drawing and model, between interior and exterior points of view.The presentation is made with plans and diagrams on a 1:100 scale, a model made of white vinci cardboard on a 1:50 scale, and perspectives drawn with pencil.

Model (1:50)Plans of first and second floors

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UNIFICATION

4 x 1 = 5A. Dervieux

3/2UNO WORKSHOP

A vertical house is set within a 11 meters long, 11 meters high and 3,66 meters wide volume (inspired by the Unité d’Habitation - Le Corbusier). Spaces are created by horizontal and vertical planes which serve as floor, furniture and supports for circulation. This is an exercise about the “free cut” concept (coupe libre). Meanwhile, subjective analysis of the site chosen for the project (here in Pantin, near Paris) is used to create images which will serve as the main view for the house. The window is designed in detail, based on this view.

The last part of the project assembles four of those vertical houses on a narrow plot, adapting them to each situation to offer equivalent benefits.The interstitial space of the plot is laid out as a common space shared by the four families, with a defined program (here, an outside dining-room). Four units thus finally create five spaces.

Window

Cross section of a houseImage and model of the site

Final section

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DETAIL

4/1SHAPES & TECHNIQUES

RESEARCH CENTRES. Jones - B. Helal

The project of a new research building for the École Polytechnique de Montréal (25 000 m2) allows both architect and engineer students to work in teams, in a situation of integrated design where questions of sustainable development, use and tectonics (K. Frampton) are thus formulated from the technical, scientific and architectural points of views.The site located on the slopes of Mount Royal is characterized by a very green environment which is fully integrated in the project. It penetrates to the very heart of the new building thanks to the development of a large central

atrium, distributive and bright. Research laboratories have a double height. The structure adapts to the labs to clear the surface of any bearing point. The offices are spread around on two levels. The ground floor is assigned to common areas such as the cafeteria, auditorium, administration, storage rooms...The design work is done with plans, sections and elevations using a 1:500 scale, as well as for the general models, and a 1:100 scale for the structural model.

Models : 1:500 (first version) - 1:100 (structure) - 1:500 (second version)

Floor plan

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CONCEPT

PROGRAM(S)G. Adamczyk

4/2SHAPES & FUNCTIONS

A small building in the heart of the Plateau of Montreal, housing a dance company, an architectural studio, a café and student rooms, is used for a thinking on those four different programs and their interactions. The first half of the project is devoted to the formulation and graphical representation of the guiding concept; the second half is dedicated to the drawing of the building itself.Based on an almost typological approach, relationships between different uses have been defined: allocated spaces are grouped around a central void, square-shaped, left totally free.

The residents choose to use it according to their desires.Four thick walls, hosting services and circulations, delimit the void; these walls are built using four materials (brick, wood, concrete, steel) associated with the four programs.The presentation is made using a 1:200 scale, with plans, sections, elevations and internal and external perspectives made with SketchUp and V-Ray.

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Charts : components - concept - temporality

Floor plan Cross sections and café

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UTOPIA

5/1FROM TERRITORY TO BUILDING

LEARNING FROM GUISEF. Fromonot - B. Jullien

The restoration of the right wing of the Familistère of Guise (France) is an opportunity to consider the future of the nineteenth century social utopias through a reflection about the concrete modern needs of collective housing.The project is divided in two stages. First, existing flats of the Familistère are adapted to actual needs: the emphasis is put on the generosity of existing spaces and dimensions, particularly suited to the creation of intergenerational housing inspired by the béguinages of Picardy. Second, the lessons learnt from this rehabilitation, are used for the

design of a new collective housing on a vacant land (2 ha) of the Paris suburbs (Gentilly), retaining the essence of J.-B. Godin ideas, founder of the Familistère.With the concept of récommune, theorized by F. Lordon, the focus was set on the democratic takeover of the housing by the inhabitants themselves. A central space is dedicated to a meeting room where inhabitants can take collective decisions on their future.The presentation uses a 1:500 scale for the overall plans and a 1:200 scale for the housing.

Familistère transformation: new programs, housing organisation and heating system

Floor plan: two combs

Housing organisation: five strips

Longitudinal sections: shared spaces

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SUBAGGLO

ECONOMICAL TRANSFORMATIONSB. Mariolle - P. Villien

5/2 GRADUATION PROJECT

In partnership with the Regional Council of Ile-de-France, this graduation project is focused on the becoming of the subagglo territory (located between built cities, agricultural lands and industrial areas) in 2040. The main purpose is to work on existing built objects after having imagined a relevant question concerning their future transformation.Here, a huge warehouse area in the town of Le Coudray-Montceaux is a pretext to question the sustainability of this business model and its possible reconversion in relation to the Seine and the suburban train.

A new rail line, elevated to highlight its landscape dimension and preserve a large public surface, crosses the town from the logistical area – increased to serve as a large metropolitan warehouse – to the Seine, straddling the highway, the national road 7 and the suburban train.It is being a link without being a barrier, supporting multiple programs and allowing crossings. Doing so, it preserves the potential of reconversion of large industrial grounds into housing, offices, etc.

Two bridges: on highway and on Seine

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210places

50 000vehic./jr

70bat./jr

100trains/jr

43 000hab.

4 700hab.

510 hab.

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Cross sections: adaptable links

A territorial line related to its context: factories, Seine, warehouses, fields and transportation network.

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LIGHT

Barcelona Pavilion, with Soulages

GEOMETRY

Lourmarin castle

Panthéon, Paris

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COLOUR SCENOGRAPHY

Bronzes de la Couronne (G. Pimienta, R. Baroin) - Musée du Louvre, 1999

Rameau’s Platée (Ch. Thomas, L. Pelly) - Opéra Garnier, 2009

First year exercise : scenery for an itinerant opera