Scenographic installation for birds observation.

2022-2024, Lausanne

In collaboration with En-dehors, Julien Mercier, Christophe Guberan, Pini Groupe SA and ISI.

Price winner, Le cercle des oiseaux, for Lausanne Jardin.

The mouth of the Vuachère is a place of many particularities, and anyone visiting the site will immediately notice the gracious presence of numerous lake birds. In fact, the alluvial deposits of the Vuachère carry the microorganisms on which they feed. We have come up with a temporary scenographic installation that extends the welcome given to the lake birds, and offers users the opportunity to observe them without disturbing them.The installation we propose to create extends the existing temporary infrastructure of the bridge by flowing into the lake in such a way as to form a giant perch. The promenade along the quays is a place much frequented by humans. The circle creates a vast environment inaccessible to humans, from which perching birds can maintain a privileged relationship with the lake and the Vuachère, while observing passers-by from a distance. The island, for its part, allows swimming birds to join the invitation to the circle.

Greenhouse for the social foundation FARA.

2023-, Fribourg

In collaboration with En-Dehors and Ferme de Bassenges, Fribourg CH. Greenhouse and fields for the social foundation FARA.

FARA's micro-farm is intended to be both a production tool and a means of social cohesion. The farm and its activities will provide a setting for its beneficiaries, as well as a window on rural life and the world of organic farming for school visits and the inhabitants of the city of Fribourg. By using biointensive growing techniques, the goal is to reach food autonomy for the whole foundation. Thanks to a multiple pitch orientation and a natural ventilation system, the greenhouse will serve as a solid spatial support for cultures as well as activities. The small service building, by taking shelter inside the greenhouse structure, develops a succession of conditions that provoke synergies of energy fluxes and uses.

Workshop and garage extension.

2021-2022, Savigny

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Since the end of the 19th century, the Lausanne region has put aside the construction of local sandstone called "molasse". All the important buildings in the region - such as the cathedral, the castle and the former university - were built with this tone.

The Nialin quarter in Savigny, in the heart of which the garage and workshop project is located, is a former molasse quarry which employed around thirty workers until 1870. More generally, the molasse quarries in Savigny were developed when those in Lausanne were too difficult to access. Today, the commune keeps the trace of this excavation by large circuses dug in the topography, terraces on which the individual houses were then built, during the 1970s.

The stone facade project has its origins in the history of the place, but its formal logic lies in the optimisation of the size of the blocks and the desire to reduce the effort of building. 2m wide by 1,20m high by 20cm thick; this was the basic measure defined in consultation with the operators and craftsmen of the Villarlod quarry for the design.

In addition to the bluestone, the facade consists of prefabricated concrete elements that act as a horizontal drop and a vertical windbreak. At the same time, these elements incorporate a reinforcement mesh that enables the monolithic construction to withstand seismic stresses.

Finally, the roof of the building is a wooden frame and the eaves that protect the stones from erosion will integrate photovoltaic panels in the form of a cornice that completes an assumed tectonic composition.

Workshop extension.

2018-2023, Seiry

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The extension project fits into a steeply sloping context. Its location, straddling two levels of the garden and the house, creates new links and makes use of spaces that were previously impassable in the local topography.

Like a cut the intervention orients and redefines the garden space of an ordinary suburban suburb (the infra-ordinary). Using earth as a material, this wall exposes the interior composition of the ground to the outside.

On the lower level, the workshop space serves the garden and living spaces of the house located on this level, while on the upper level, it enlarges the reception area and allows the house to benefit from the southern sunshine while providing additional parking if required. Glass bricks bridge the gap between the earthen construction and the concrete structure, bringing natural light into the interior spaces.

Raw earth, Pisé

Recent awareness of the dangers of exploiting non-renewable resources has brought raw earth back to the forefront of the architectural scene. A similar phenomenon is emerging in industry, which is increasingly interested in developing a new construction process that include this age-old material.
Raw earth has many advantages: on the one hand, it meets today's sustainable requirements; on the other, it is compatible with modern construction processes. These days, climate considerations influence both the energy performance of buildings and their spatial development, as well as the urban planning of our cities. That's why the aesthetic and cultural issues surrounding the use of raw earth are just as crucial to its democratisation as the ecological benefits it brings. This project takes a careful stance on these issues and proposes a site-specific response.

Transformation of a single-family villa into a boarding school.

2020-2021, Épalinges

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The aim of the transformation was to turn a single-family villa into a boarding school for thirteen teenagers and two adults. Three specific interventions redefine the house's program, giving it a collective, rather than just individual, reality: the staircase, the kitchen and the bathrooms.

The staircase, linked to the entrance to the house, is a generous cut in the existing structure, in tune with the communal rather than the individual. On the ground and second floors, the double-height emphasises the entrance and distinguishes the two bedroom levels from the common spaces on the ground floor below. The spiral staircase articulates the three floors, minimising its footprint on the landings. The choice of reinforcement eliminated the constraints of formwork and enabled the staircase to be attached directly to the existing elements, whilst creating a monumental, space-generating object.

The kitchen, closed and individual, opens up to welcome the new shared dimension of the house. The former fireplace accommodates working alcoves and becomes an inhabited wall.

The shower rooms, previously oversized and flashy, are redesigned so that several young people can shower at the same time. In these spaces, showers are not conceived as rooms, but as spaces, whose shape hugs the minimal intimate space that users need to be able to wash. The choice of large sheets of metal for the design of these showers prefigures these surfaces, which become spaces through their curves.

Extension of two housing buildings, wooden prefab. construction.

2021-, Lausanne

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Confronted with the need to densify rather than expand, the city of Lausanne must reconsider its growth on the existing. More than a simple layer, it is an opportunity to rethink the rooftops to make them accessible, communal and animated spaces also capable of collecting rainwater and capturing solar energy. Wooden construction, due to its prefabrication potential, is an obvious choice to minimise on-site work.

Would the future of the city lie in an ecosystem integrating the existing and its addition in a mutual project?

Elevation and renovation.

2023-, Pully

The municipality of Pully is currently considering the densification of its territory. The majority of built-up plots have been subjected to a tabula rasa in order to maximize buildable areas.
With a view to gentle densification, the project proposes to take over the existing one storey mansard roof, preserving the pre-existing lines and materiality. The result is a one-storey addition that saves resources, preserves embodied carbon and integrates through evolution rather than substitution.
In an urban context subject to strong economic pressure, can gentle densification find weapons in pre-existing forms without falling into the trap of a nostalgic vision?

Collective workshop in collaboration with Atelier Switzer and Roger Boltshauser.

2017, St Gallen

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The rammed earth construction reveals here its properties in the primitive figure of the wall. The project implements a static system that allows a flexible use of space and light. This flexibility answers to the different needs of the Sitterwerk’ site; with its varieties of programs coexisting on the same campus (production, exhibition, administration and housing).

A prefabricated hybrid module that combines earth and concrete, without mixing them, is a constructive response that allows the composition of a dynamic facade coherent to the inner needs. The concrete component gives a clear hosting position for the beams which can be placed at different heights according to the change of use. Every element can be demounted and reused.

Transformation of a single-family house into a collective habitat.

2020-2021, Echichens

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It is the inversion of a void by a solid; an a priori anecdotal gap, replaced by an open volume on a 1960s single-family house. The modest intervention transforms a closed system into a typology of collective housing, flexible and evolutive.

The project is intended to be a "light bubble" that provides an entrance area open to the outside for a flat, while bringing natural light to the common vertical circulation. The intervention makes it possible to turn around the central staircase, transforming the 3 room flat with one bathroom into a 4 or 5 room flat with 2 bathrooms.

The thin and assumed metal frame elements that materialise the project are at the same time interior walls and façade elements; an interface between two spaces that touch and identify each other. Interiority (inner) is embodied as an ambiguous notion, also translated in the choice of double-sided granulated glass.

In response to the current problem of the densification of residential areas, the use of specific architectural interventions questions lifestyles and interfaces between dwellings - while at the same time bringing quality to them.

Platform for information and discussion on the topic of soil and earth construction.

2021-2022, Bâle

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Selected to take part to the Swiss Art Awards 2022; ellipsearchitecture proposed to transform part of the floor of the Basel’s exhibition hall into a platform for information and discussion on the topic of soil and earth construction. The platform itself was imagined as being made of rammed earth and stones. The material, a reconditioned mix of waste from industrial processes, would have been re-used in another construction site after the exhibition.

There are many things we should do as architects these days. We decided to start with ground.

A construction cooperative.

2023-, Lausanne

Origo brings together different players in the construction industry to pool and share know-how and rethink construction practices.

Origo is committed to using, promoting and perfecting geo and bio-sourced materials and developing alternative, resilient and local solutions, participating in research and development projects or certifying materials and methods of implementation.

Sustainable and responsible construction is possible!

www.cooperative-origo.ch

Vernacular chestnuts smokehouse transformation.

2017-2018, Camorino

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In Switzerland, alpine environment and its constructions are highly regulated. Vernacular construction technics are mandatory to refurbish any built. To prevent ruins, enormous efforts are needed to access sites with materials and tools. Isn’t it paradoxical to keep these constructions alive but unchanged? Shouldn't the vernacular evolve with time?

Invited competition for Logement Idéal SC, Lausanne.

2023, Lausanne

In collaboration with En-Dehors, Basler & Hofmann SA and Célia Küpfer.

Invited competition for Logement Idéal SC, Lausanne.

Whereas the original brief was to demolish and rebuild a 42-unit building dating from the 1960s, the project involved retaining the existing structure and combining the old and the new to benefit from the combined qualities of each part. The old is retained for its materials, embedded CO2, techniques and foundations. The new additions, in the form of an H, increase the density of the plot, comply with new housing standards and structurally update the whole in line with new seismic standards.

The typologies are developed around the 2 existing stairwells. Bedrooms are mainly located in the old structure, while living rooms and kitchens have been moved into the new sections to benefit from maximum natural light and avoid overlooking.

On the roof, a multi-purpose communal space for tenants and local residents was built in the form of a penthouse. The parts of the roof of the existing building located outside the building zone are transformed into a terrace for communal laundry facilities.

This strategy makes it possible to save 84% CO2-eq on the existing parts by transforming them, and 42% CO2-eq on the project as a whole, compared with demolition and reconstruction.

Shouldn't thinking about existing structures become an essential part of any densification project?

Transformation and renovation of an individual villa, internal partition.

2020-2021, St Prex

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It is the lower floor of a family villa that we want to be able to evolve, according to the needs of its inhabitants; to allow it to become in alternance a common space of meeting and a place of privacy and intimacy.

By precisely drawing a line that distinguishes an inside from an outside, and by placing a wall along this line, several moments are identified in this folded space: entrance and living room, dressing room and alcove. Then, by the movement of this wall, the uses are reversed: the mobile wall allows to privatise a part of the living room to create a vast guest room in relation with its own intimate spaces.

By its materiality, glass and metal, the wall plays with the perception and the point of view of the user: sometimes moiré, translucent or even opaque, according to the needs of intimacy and light. In this movement of bodies in space, some rooms tease the standards of conventional housing, such as the bedroom that unfolds at night and closes during the day only to take the size of a bed.

The project can be read as a device in depth (mise en abyme), whose articulated deployment guides the uses. By choreographing the movements of the occupants, it stages the multiple ways of inhabiting this place.

House extension.

2022-2024, La Tour-de-Peilz

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Opposed to the concept of Tabula-rasa, the volumetric composition is a tool to apprehend the densification of suburban areas often reserved for individual housing. A wall in rammed-earth acts as a link and separation between 2 housing units. The first, existing, faces the landscape, the second, added, develops along the wall in the form of sequence of spaces towards the lake and its falling mountains, keeping a low profile in the topography. In a first phase of construction in 2024, the existing house will be enlarged while incorporating the elements of the future extension. The project doesn't stop with the realization, but prefigures and integrates a future vision of densification. How to intervene in a sensitive way in order to allow a new cohabitation and to rethink the spaces according to the lifestyles?

Workshop and participatory construction site at the Belle-Idée Psychiatric Hospital.

2021, Genève

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The kiosk, a wooden construction located just in front of the Nicolas Bouvier centre, is an important meeting place, where the inhabitants of the hospital meet, to discuss, smoke, drink a coffee, observe and detach.
Following a storm in 2019, a century-old oak tree in the hospital park, dating from the first plantations on the estate, fell, uprooted by the force of the wind. Thanks to the company Les Deux Rivières, the tree was cut down and its wood used to renovate the kiosk.

The idea was proposed by two participants during the consultation days.
The idea was to cut the kiosk in half and widen it by using the wood of the fallen oak.

"I see the beneficial side, the escape, the possibility of exchanging; we have the right to breathe, we can laugh, we can dance, we can sing, we can meet. We share.”
"It is a centre, a landmark. It's really a very important place.”
"You come out of your unit and you're out and in at the same time.”
"It's a safe space.”
Anonymous beneficiary of the kiosk

In collaboration with legros_studio.

Renovation of a “ferme” with bio-based materials.

2023-, Pailly

Renovation of a “ferme” with bio-based materials

For the past 50 years, the Gros-de-Vaud countryside has been at the centre of a process of large population increase with several deleterious effects on its territory. Renovating and transforming old farm dwellings is a viable alternative to the continued construction of still intact agricultural plots.

Extension project in response to the Anarchitecture competition by CIRA.

2021, Lausanne

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The extension project is a response to the Anarchitecture competition proposed by CIRA.

After analysing the existing situation and the new needs expressed by its users, the project seeks to extend the use of existing spaces while creating new structures.

As far as possible, we have reused elements in situ. In fact, certain parts have been moved or replaced by conversions that are both geometric (e.g. the framework by changing the angle) and of use (e.g. external facades becoming a multi-storey shelf wall).

The large rammed earth wall positioned to the south-east would act as a hydrometric and calorific regulator for the new workspace and cafeteria. On top of this, it would be a real building block of shared knowledge; its construction could easily be the subject of a workshop on self-construction techniques, earth being the ideal material for initiating open-source constructive knowledge.

The entire project has been designed to be organised in modules, some of which could be altered or abandoned depending on budgetary constraints and changes of use that emerge over time.

Architectural competition based on pre‑selection.

2019, Bulle

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In collaboration with Atelier Atlantico + Daniel Willi SA + Yves Pedrazzini + Jean-Claude Albertin, 4th Prize

Architectural competition based on pre-selection.

Located in the centre of Bulle, a place of identity, memory and knowledge, the museum and library are struggling to find their place in a rapidly changing town. The lack of space and the suburban layout of a building centred on itself are detracting from the influence of a local institution that clearly deserves a regional and national reputation.

The garden as an interface

The position of the building now ensures the porosity of two explicitly different urban fabrics by creating new pathways from the old roads. They re-establish a long-forgotten urban and social connection. Within the new system, the city and the house face each other without trying to impose themselves on each other. A scenography is put in place that proposes urban relationships with a serendipitous character, and the gardens blur the boundaries between the building and the surrounding space. The library and museum are as much the visitor's objective as they are an excuse to stroll around.

Evolution of an identity

The project proposes to integrate the current qualities and identity of the existing building by positioning it at the centre of a new open system. The existing building will be complemented and clad with a new façade. By completely encompassing the museum, it becomes a narrative bubble within the library.

Urban and spatial setting

The building is conducive to study, wandering and meditation, whether alone or in a group, yet it is not closed in on itself: its vast openings pierced through the light-coloured concrete look out onto the world, the city and the people who have entrusted the museum's management with the magnificent but difficult task of taking care of their past, by inscribing it in a new public space. The library is no longer a safe with elitist facades, but an urban system that integrates the building.

Programmatic flexibility and curation

The immediate periphery of the building offers a third space for social values, while its centre becomes a space for a diversity of curation for the museum, as well as a working space during peak periods.
The strength of this 'house', anchored in the past and serving current practices, lies in the fact that it is not typologically defined. This allows it to adapt to any significant change, including the disappearance of the object book, and offers residents the opportunity to benefit from a strong, renewed contact between society and its built environment.

Transformation and extension of a collective house.

2020-, Roveredo

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“For more than 50 years, the Graubünden municipality of Roveredo has been cut in two by a highway built against the will of the population. A connection that has taken away homes, land and the only square in the town. Now, for the first time in Switzerland, the motorway will be dismantled and the land returned to citizens.”

Transformation implies making choices on what we consider important in the life history of a building. The notions of original or authentic state in time are often simplistic views of diverse form and vibrant moments. A house made of stones stood there through continuous changes for 200 years before its restauration in 2002. The development of a new path across the ancient core of the building unfolds new forms of inhabiting. A play of unexpected sequences animates the in-between.

Workshop for the symposium Culture du Bâti dans l’Existant.

2022, Lausanne

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In collaboration with collectif PAM!, l’atelier azar, EPFL – SAR (Nina Cattaneo & Roman Alonso)

Workshop for the symposium Culture du Bâti dans l’Existant

“The activity takes the form of a theatrical gesture that cleaves structural space”

(Gordon Matta-Clark, Building Dissections, Arts Magazine, March 1976)

La gare accesible: exploration and identification of a closed site.

La Rasude is an enclosed place, a city within a city, dedicated for almost a century to the Post Office and the SBB. From the outside, it seems inaccessible, mysterious, even frightening. It is said that in its bowels are hidden mysterious secret passages that cut through the station from side to side. But above all, the site is to be dismantled to create a new housing and office district, but for whom?

The workshop attempts, through a labyrinthine exploration, to discover and manifest the different accesses from the public space to the currently inaccessible platforms.

Open Architecture Competition, Final round.

2019, Lattecaldo

The construction of a pre-school for the new Breggia municipality follows the direction launched by the primary school project more than 40 years ago: that of regrouping the various sites in the Muggio Valley in one building.

The project is located on the east side of the primary school, leaving intact its relationship with the valuable green spaces already existing (especially the beautiful expanse in front of the classrooms, a space favoured by the pupils).

To date, the relationship between the basketball court and the football pitch is ambiguous, and the large grassy space to the east of the gymnasium is not used to its best advantage, and almost never by the pupils of the primary school. The position of the new kindergarten therefore becomes clear when responding to this issue.

The project identifies 3 key points at site level:

It provides easy pedestrian access to the site thanks to a porch, covered porch and a vehicular access for deliveries (especially the kitchen). This is without compromising the normal flow of the existing primary school.
The proximity of the new refectory to the primary school and its autonomy from the infant school without separating it from the unity of the architectural gesture.
The arrangement in line following the natural shape of the hollow that structures the site and regulates the relationship between the two topographical elevations of the football pitch and the basketball court. This reinforces the visual direction towards the muggio valley especially the precious view of the municipality of Caneggio and its church (Santa Maria Assunta).

In its internal organisation:

The kindergarten, its facilities and the primary schools refectory cohabit symbiotically under the same roof without, however, sacrificing their independence and autonomy.
The two sections of the kindergarten are identical due to their symmetry on two floors and allow gradual movement towards the park according to a logical sequence of the programme on the site.
Being the largest and most flexible of the spaces in the programme, the movement room is located as a meeting point at the apex of the two sections, allowing with its generosity its possible use as a multipurpose room outside school hours.

Architecture Competition, Honorable mention.

2018, Lausanne

In collaboration with Christophe Pittet and Sophie Tschumy.

The pavilion was designed as a large, modular space, with a structure consisting of rammed-earth columns and glue-laminated timber beams. A stable, durable construction that can be renewed over time was preferred to a lightweight structure with a shorter lifespan. All the while knowing that pisé remains a material that can be recycled in its entirety if dismantled. The flexibility and calibrated neutrality of the space make it possible to diversify and transform uses over time.

The structure housing the doctor's surgeries is a lightweight wooden construction totally independent of the pavilion structure. It acts as a divider between the pavilion's two main spaces. The suggested separations of the virtual training space are designed to allow a certain freedom for the various technological functions such as terminals and screens.

House extension and renovation.

2021-, Tour-de-Peilz

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Despite a great potential for evolution, the suburban fabric still struggles to respond to the need for flexibility and the arrival of new lifestyles. By placing two wooden pavilions on top of a 1960s house, new possibilities for use emerge, while allowing for reversibility of configurations. A staircase is delicately placed in the existing house and connects the two floors through the center of the volume and allows natural light to enter. On the new floor, a wooden terrasse separates and connects the twin volumes by articulating their in-between space in a scenic platform on the Riviera landscape.

Mountain dwelling.

2023, Alps

A case study is the examination of a particular case within a real-world context. Whether it is possible to imagine a project without an actual site remains suspended. A set of parameters allows it to be shaped. This case is not a project suitable for just any site. It is specifically designed for a specific place, but whose exact existence we do not yet know.

ellipsearchitecture #figures #gap #tracé #non-site

Reconstruction of a wooden hameau.

2021-, Hérémence

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The traditional wooden construction called “madrier” is an essential part of the built heritage of the Valaisan Alps. Initially gathered in the form of agricultural settlements, these wooden “ruins” have, due to their static dismantling system, the possibility of being transported and rebuilt on new foundations. Small communities can develop again by integrating the constructive elements and identity of the past.

Mobile mini libraries.

2021-2022, Yverdon-les-Bains

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In collaboration with @legros_studio and AFIRO

Project is initiate by the Public Library of Yverdon-les-Bains through a participatory design process.

Mobile mini libraries for the Cygnes and Vilette districts in Yverdon-les-bains. The autonomous lunar modules will act like satellites of the public library in the outer circles of the city.

Aire de jeux et gradins en pisé.

2020-, Etoz

In collaboration with Ecole de Stael, Lausanne, Arbio SA et GCM SA

Rammed earth playground and bleacher.

Thought as a structure allowing playing and gathering but also as a monumental symbol of a logical reuse of excavation “waste”, this project in rammed earth composed of 6 perforated pillars is the result of a common experimentation between architect, civil engineer, craftsman, recycling company and a school as user.

A collective process to turn the excavation “waste” into a building material for the future ?

Pedagogical Public Infrastructure for Parc Rigot, Geneva.

2023, Geneva

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In collaboration with Studio Cirstoc/Frascoli/Pretolani, ALICE-EPFL

Forgotten by the public for many years, Parc Rigot is regaining its role as a place to recharge one's batteries in the heart of one of the city's liveliest districts. Thanks to various projects, the public is now invited to stroll and relax in a green space redesigned by first-year architecture students. The project under the age-old oak tree has brought this space back to life by removing the layer of asphalt on the tree's roots and offering visitors seating sheltered from the summer heat. The shape of the low wall guides visitors from the entrance of Parc Rigot to its heart, towards the second part of the project, which is a meeting place protected from the sun by a circular wooden structure. Planted paths between the different projects reactivate the wasteland destined to be destroyed by future building sites, raising awareness of their potential and fate. The building materials used are rammed earth, reused bricks and oak from trees felled in Geneva's forests.

Students

Leo Bovier, Robin Chavanne, Tristan Combépine, Anastasia Conrad, Andrea Crespo Salas, Marie Farquet, Aïna Froidevaux, Yohann Kunz, Theo Kurz, Joana Lopes Mendes, Nathan Magnin, Florent Monges, Wilson Osorio Moreno, Henna Rafik, Samy Rossier, Grégory Rudin, Gaby Salin, Marion Schaub, Adrien Stajic, Apolline Viet & Elisabeth Weber, Blai Abel Serrano, Adrien Avondet, Matteo Bourdin, Léa Bredou, Tess Cerruti, David De Almeida Catalao, Inès Ducrest, Joya El Laham, Etienne Favet, Sofia Gomez Duque, Augustin Guillod, Yasmine Helfand, Roman Jeanneret-Grosjean, Liliana Lorenzo Serantes, Mathis Maghe, Camille Schmidig, Amanda Schwab, Ilia Stanton, Noa Varé & Basile Zbinden, Ezekiel Bürki, Inès Burlion, Nicolas Cattin, Juliette Chantraine, Pierre Curci, Carla Devallet, Elise Donnet-Descartes, Laila Fahmy, Valentina Fantini, Beatriz, Gabriel Ribeiro, Diego Gimenez, George Hall Allen, Jérémie Hoang, Darcey Knott, Marie-Loriane Lascha, Flore Pogodalla, Clémentine Rigo, Paul Schellingen & Flavio Silvestri

Roof elevation and transformation, school infrastructure.

2020-, Blonay

Roof elevation and transformation, school infrastructure.

Chantemerle school has developed through self-construction. A model directly linked to the pedagogy it transmits. At present the school complex comprises four main buildings connected by several interstitial elements that guarantee its hybrid internal continuity. The functions are totally mixed and interconnected even within a single floor of a building creating an open and organic system.

The project enlarges one of the buildings by raising its roof and designing a new connection from which common spaces, bedrooms and classrooms are developed reinforcing the idea of mixed cohabitation.

A new entrance space to the complex cuts across the floors proposing a new relationship to the outside.

Creation of separate bed spaces with a common area in a single habitat.

2020, Lausanne

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The project proposes the creation of 2 separate bed spaces with a common area in a single habitat.

The project consists of:

A permanent part; an adobe wall (clay concrete/compressed earth) that will remain on the site.
A part that can be dismantled and reused; made of wood and metal that is easy to store.

The project should have been built in the garden of an existing ALJF house. Permits were not granted.

Instrastructure publique pédagogique.

2021, Vernier

In collaboration with Studio Legros & Pretolani, ALICE-EPFL

Pedagogical Public Infrastructure

Situated between the Rhone river and the Bois de la Grille, the area known as “Au Moulin” is home to a recent and very popular public park. On this same plot of land, a rich biodiversity from the river banks and an associative house project coexist. It is in this environment that students from the first year of architecture have spent four weeks designing and building together “Ar-Ko”. The ephemeral structure stood directly on the water for more than one year, providing a unique experience of the river and its environment.

Studio Directors: Mattia Pretolani & Romain Legros
Students Assistant: Antoine Iweins & Emma Larcelet
Students: Agnes Galantay,Barth Mathilde, Castellón Arévalo Pablo, De Montgolfier Alexia, Ducos Agathe, Favre Nils, Gisiger Marion, Guigues Nora, Hansra Sartorius Raúl, Kleyr Victor, Le Hir Hélène, Leresche Quentin, Maerean Anna, Mazotti Michael, Mentes Alara, Milanovic Nikola, Mokssit Kawtar, Mouine Nadège, Philipona Mylène, Saunders-Nazareth Kemmett, Schaffner Paul, Treyer Gabriel, Walther Timo

Ahumadaireland Raphael, Antonelli Timothe, Aymon Zoé, Belov Vladislav, Blanc Ludovicnoah, Brutsch Thomas, Coelhoalves Pedro, Damwan Delphine, Davel Quentin, Egger Valentin, Gal Solène, Hammoud Farah, Haziri Ardian, Herzig grgoire, Huyag Tuyakaidi, Sofianekempf Liloukir Semira, Kpuzi Emmanuel, Lihatchi Alexandru, Ludwig Emeline, Meilhat Emma, Mohamedmakkiibrahimsalem Aya, Nicod Julien, Perron Clement, Pilloud Lucas, Ponsar Chloe, Rabiller Benjamin, Raugel Jade, Rieder Emilie, Turelli Nikita

C (061) le cercle des oiseaux

A (063) common farm

(018) individual infrastructure

(002) garden infrastructure

(011) collective home

The kitchen, closed and individual, opens up to welcome the new shared dimension of the house. The former fireplace accommodates working alcoves and becomes an inhabited wall.

(014) collective roofs

(067) shared mansard

(000) earth pavillon

(009) collective interstice

C (047) common ground

There are many things we should do as architects these days. We decided to start with ground.

R (065) origo

(001) grà

C (060) kimchi

(013) guest sequence

(049) shared wall

A (039) common kiosk

(072) pailly

C (032) common archive

After analysing the existing situation and the new needs expressed by its users, the project seeks to extend the use of existing spaces while creating new structures.

The entire project has been designed to be organised in modules, some of which could be altered or abandoned depending on budgetary constraints and changes of use that emerge over time.

C (028) phylactère

(007) rore

A (058) aux-quais !

Workshop for the symposium Culture du Bâti dans l’Existant

“The activity takes the form of a theatrical gesture that cleaves structural space”

La gare accesible: exploration and identification of a closed site.

The workshop attempts, through a labyrinthine exploration, to discover and manifest the different accesses from the public space to the currently inaccessible platforms.

C (027) due di due

C (025) virtuhall

(021) twin pavilions

(068) case study

ellipsearchitecture #figures #gap #tracé #non-site

(017) collective ruins

A (016) 2 lunes

(012) earth bleacher

Rammed earth playground and bleacher.

A collective process to turn the excavation “waste” into a building material for the future ?

A (070) via

(008) inhabited school

(005) shared gap

A (038) ar-ko