STEPHANE GAULIN-BROWN 2014 PORTFOLIO

INTRO

Hello,

Thank you for taking the time to look through my portfolio. I’m glad to be sharing some of the ideas I’ve been working on recently. Below you’ll find a few kind words from people I’ve worked with. Then, there’s a CV with probably more info about me than you would care to know, but might find interesting. And finally, at the heart of it all - projects. It’s a varied catalogue of my recent ideas and experiments, which sometimes stretch beyond the boundaries of architecture. Enjoy.

- Stephane Gaulin-Brown

KYRA CLARKSON ARCHITECT 51 FULTON AVENUE TORONTO ON CANADA M4K 1X7 TEL/FAX 416 466 4709 MOBILE 416 884 4709

Stephane Gaulin Brown reference KCAReferenceLetter_SGB.docx Page 1

Date: October 6, 2014 From: Kyra Clarkson, Principal Re: Stephane Gauin-Brown Stephane Gauin-Brown worked in our office for two months in the spring of 2014. He was the first architectural intern to join our small office, and he integrated himself seamlessly. He accomplished a lot in this short amount of time, building three models for modern houses and assisting with the production of a package of detailed construction drawings for a renovation project. He visited the construction sites on more than one occasion, prepared presentation material for a zoning hearing and attended the zoning meeting at City Hall. Stephane is very focused and showed dedication to the work. He took on tasks that he had not undertaken before with a positive spirit, and he gained knowledge and experience with these challenges. He works independently but knows when to ask questions. His personality is warm and open, and he was able to fluidly move between tasks as needed in a small office such as ours. Working with Stephane was a pleasure and he quickly became integrated in our daily office life. We could not offer him longer employment, but we would highly recommend him to any office looking for a diligent and sincere team member. Please let me know if you have any questions or need further information. With many thanks, Kyra Clarkson Principal, Kyra Clarkson Architect

2455 Empress aveCobble Hill, BC, CanadaV0R 1L5

Nationality: Canadian + British

Website: http://stephanegaulinbrown.comEmail: stephane.gaulin-brown@gmail.com

EDUCATION

EXPERIENCE

École Polytechnique Féderale de Lausanne, SwitzerlandExchange semester

University of WaterlooCandidate for Bachelor of Architectural Studies, Honours

University of VictoriaGeneral Studies: Physics, Art, German and Art History

Student Intern Architect: Philip Beesley Architect inc.Construction documents for 10,000m2 bread factory retrofit to film studiosProject development and documentation of residential renovation

Student Intern Architect: Kyra Clarkson Architect, TorontoBuilt physical presentation models of modern houses.Produced presentation graphics for city committee meetings.Prepared construction package for residential homes.

Student Intern Architect: Perkins & Will, TorontoDesigned custom furniture concepts for the Bank of Canada Produced construction plans & details for Markham Community Centre and pool.

Student Intern Architect: Manasc Isaac Architects, EdmontonHelped with space planning and representation of the Canadian High Arctic Research Station CompetitionDesigned potential youth housing and created phasing graphics for Yellowhead Youth Centre feasibility studyCorrected red lined construction drawings

Assembly line worker: Audi AG, Ingolstadt, GermanyAssembled audi A4 chassis members in a fast paced environmentCommunicated entirely in German

English Tutor: Nachilfschule, Schwaebish Gmuend, GermanyRan grammatical lessons for primary students and oral lessons for secondary studentsCreated assignments and organized homework

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CV

To be destroyed: Museum of Canadian Contemporary ArtDesign for the future of art exhibition selected to be exhibited

Granwiches: Sandwich Business, Cambridge ONInitiated a small business within school that sells cheap and healthy sandwiches to studentsDeveloped new recipes, marketed sandwich days, and budgeted expenses

Home Construction: Susan Brown, Cobble Hill BCWall framing, window installation, exterior sheathing, ridge beam construction, shinglingResearched cathedral ceiling and roof construction details

Student Council President: Cowichan Secondary School, Duncan, BCInitiated and ran charitable fund raisers and school wide eventsOrganized the creation of a school ice hockey team

Volunteer Trail Construction: Quarry Nature Park, Cobble Hill, BCBuilt and refurbished sustainable hiking trails

Junior City Councilor Mayor: City Hall, Duncan BCDiscussed and created theoretical bills to improve the city of Duncan

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SKILLS

AutoCAD, Archicad, Sketchup, Revit, Rhinoceros(3D modeling), VRay, Microsoft Office, Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator

French (written and oral) German (oral)

SOFTWARE

LANGUAGES

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SELF-DRIVEN INITIATIVES

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Cook: Le Faubourg, Munich, GermanyPrepared entrées and deserts in a stress driven environment Quickly learnt weekly recipes

Trail Construction Laborer: Valhalla Trails Ltd, Cowichan Bay, BCCompiled and organized survey data. Surveyed new and existing trails to ensure sustainabilityWorked individually building and maintaining trails

Yard Worker: Clive Lawrence, Arbutus Ridge, BCDesigned and built outdoor koi pondWorked alone building terraced steps and maintaining the property

Camp Councillor: Centre Jean Noël Trudel, Trois-Rivières, QuébecPrepared and led activities for young children

TO BE DESTROYED

MIXITÉ

CURIOSITY SHIP

AURELIAN WALL HOUSE

VAPOR BEBE

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PROJECTS

MOCCA - TO BE DESTROYED1

TYPE: CompetitionNOTES: Chosen to be exhibited at the Museum of Canadian Contemporary Art

What is the future of art exhibition?

As our cities become increasingly dense and efficient, the suburbs’ wanton waste of asphalt becomes fetishized. The sublime depravity of its emptiness and the strict reasoning of economy attracts powerful institutions of art seeking to build new mega galleries.The antithetical nature of their new architecture is a glorification of expanding emptiness and of acute objectification: something identifiable at 100km/hr.Similar to the factories and spaces of mechanical

production loved by the early Modernists, this architecture responds to spaces of distribution (e.g. Amazon.ca fulfillment centres); places where objects rest momentarily before moving on.These spaces find new meaning within an art culture where images are digitally and physically in constant movement.

Stephane Gaulin-BrownorthophotoEPFL / LAURE — Semestre d’automne 2013 [13SA] — Critique Finale [C4B]

TYPE: Studio ProjectSUPERVISOR: Andreas BassiNOTES: Done while on exchange at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.

As the region around lake Geneva densifies, strategies must be found to accommodate growth while maintaining the natural qualities of the lake and region. How can architecture, in this context, make a meaningful connection with the site while still respecting the larger ecological systems?

My solution is a building set back from the lake, maintaining as much of the natural waterfront as possible. Furthermore, it is sunken into the ground - visually removing it from the continuity of the forest. The

roof, flush with the ground, is now a transitionary public space between forest and lake. Bellow, the canal allows every occupant to have a waterfront property, and boat slip, connected to the lake.

It is a building at once experientially connected with the land, and, also consciously offset from the larger systems of the lake and forest.

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APARTMENTS OFFICES CULTURAL

Stephane Gaulin-Brownphoto maquetteEPFL / LAURE — Semestre d’automne 2013 [13SA] — Critique Finale [C4B]

Stephane Gaulin-Brownrépartition programmatique

logements 61% 11’500 m2

3’700 m2 maisons-appartements 3’800 m2 appartements

2’200 m2 logements associatifs 1’800 m2 studios

Bureaux 19% 1’000 m2 bureaux Fondation ripaille 3’000 m2 bureaux Ville de Thonon

Equipements touristiques 20 % 990 m2 restaurant, cuisine

450 m2 débarcadère, foyer 2’175 m2 musée, salles de conférences

1’000 m2 surfaces d’activités

Parking 260 places de stationnement

ToTAl 20’115 m2

EPFL / LAURE — Semestre d’automne 2013 [13SA] — Critique Finale [C4B]

PROGRAMMATIC DISTRIBUTION

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-3 / WATER LEVELCommercial and Cultural

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SECTIONCommercial and Cultural

SECTIONHousing and Commercial

CURIOSITY SHIP3

TYPE: Competition

How can the perversion of form augment experience?

This exaggeration of the surround of the tub provides a space to heighten the beauty of the bathing experience. It becomes a place for books, magazines, notebooks, music, plants, flowers, works of art, etc.

Through form, bathing becomes an experience of new beauty and thought. A time to read, contemplate and rest. It is the antithesis of the shower - fast and efficient. Curiosity Ship seeks clarity and new possibilities through form.

AURELIAN WALL HOUSE Stephane Gaulin-Brown

AURELIAN WALL HOUSE3

TYPE: Studio ProjectSUPERVISOR: Lorenzo PignattiNOTES: Completed during Waterloo Rome program

The wall house aligns itself with two unique contexts: the geometry of nearby objects also embedded in the Aurelian wall of Rome, and the non-christian graveyard where Keats and Shelley are buried. The circular terrace, which sits on top of the wall, visually connects and anchors the building towards the pyramid of Cestius and the rectangular guard towers of the wall. It proclaims its own space along the relentless wall.

Inside, most of the house is shielded from views of the graveyard, except the bath. Here the floor steps down and the window sits flush with the tile. It is an embodied space of bathing and contemplation, where one’s own nakedness -in contrast with the graveyard- reveals the fragility of the human body.

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CONTEXT

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MORTALITY

FLOOR PLAN

SITE PLAN

TRANSVERSE SECTIONS

NORTH AND SOUTH ELEVATIONS

LONGITUDINAL SECTION

VAPOR BEBE3

TYPE: Art installation NOTES: Done in Collaboration with Soo Han and Alfonso Bonilla

Vapor Bebe is site specific installation executed in the rain forest of Vancouver Island.

The modifications of the sheet in response to the topography, geology, hydrology and foliage of the landscape created responsive forms, which reflected the natural systems, reshaped them, negated them - a three dimensional collage of natural and synthetic .

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COBBLE HILL MOUNTAIN

PrologueWe spent three days in December 2012 at Susan Brown’s house on Vancouver Island. It was drizzly and dark outside, as is usual at that time of year. Inside the amber fire cast shadows between the exposed floor joists above; the whole place was only about three quarters finished, which is the way all cabins should stay.

A big challenge was practicality when mustering material; local resources were required not only in the knowledge of the site. The local hardware store hid the Vapor bebe in a wooden shed at the very back of the lot.

Immediately hiking up the mountain to explore possible sites for the next two days helped the project and the site merge conceptually. In the evening, we drank tea around the fire, talked, sucked on honey sticks, and drew ideas and plans.

We weren’t extremely prepared, so we experimented with the shapes of the landscape and the extremely foreign almost alien character of our vapor bebe.

Experimentation led to discover that with this material could play with different light levels in the forest and, in the stream, the flow of the water. It was a three dimensional collage of synthetic and natural.

Vapor bebe stuck out as an object trying to fit into the systems of the mountain.

Sometimes awkward and others playful; between water, light and geological systems reflecting and reshaping them.

REFLECTIXAssembled Depth (In Inches) 7 In.Assembled Height (In Inches) 24Assembled Weight (In LBS) 2 Lbs.Assembled Width (In Inches) 6Country of Origin United StatesItem Depth 20 In.Item Height 48 In.Item Weight 26 Lbs.Item Width 20 In.

« Reflects 97 percent of radiant energy.

« Nontoxic/noncarcinogenic.

« Does not require protective gear to install.

REFLECTIX

Assembled Depth (In Inches) 7 In.Assembled Height (In Inches) 24Assembled Weight (In LBS) 2 Lbs.Assembled Width (In Inches) 6Country of Origin United StatesItem Depth 20 In.Item Height 48 In.Item Weight 26 Lbs.Item Width 20 In.

« Reflects 97 percent of radiant energy.

« Nontoxic/noncarcinogenic.

« Does not require protective gear to install.

REFLECTIX

Country of Origin - United States of America

<< Reflects 97 % of radiant energy.

<< Non-toxic / non-carcinogenic<< Does not require protective gear to install

SITE PLAN

CONCEPTUAL SKETCHES

A Protocell flask with high power LED reflex B Thermoformed diagrid acrylic spar C Tentacle with shape-memory alloy actuator D Infrared proximity sensor with LED reflex

1 Aluminum sled mount 2 Shape-memory alloy actuated lever assembly 3 Copolyester tongue stiffener 4 Copolyester tongue 5 Isoprene polymer lash 6 Shape-memory alloy mount 7 Acrylic lever 8 Lever base plate 9 Securing clip 10 Type I tongue depression plate 11 Type II tongue depression plate 12 - 13 Tongue securing clips 14 - 18 Monofilament guide mount and lash clips 19 Tongue securing clip 20 Type I tongue depression plate 21 -22 Assorted shoulder bolts 23 - 24 Assorted nylon lock nuts 25 Wire crimp 20 Monofilament guides 27 Sleeve washer 28 Shoulder bolt

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PHILIP BEESLEY ARCHITECT3

TYPE: Internship

My work at Philip Beesley Architect inc. was divided between the two areas of interest of the office: near living sculptural environments, and architectural design.

On the sculptures I worked developing construction methods for thermoformed Plexiglas components which were produced in collaboration with fashion designer Iris van Herpen. Also I was involved with 3D modeling components for presentation graphics.

On the architectural end, I worked producing building permit, and construction drawings for several retrofit and renovation projects. I was responsible for product and building code research and the shepherding of the projects pass the building department.

KYRA CLARKSON ARCHITECT3TYPE: Internship

At KCA I was heavily involved with producing presentation models for several modern houses. Also, I assisted with site visits, the production of detailed construction drawings and presentation material for a zoning hearing at City Hall.

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