Nathalie Jolivert Portfolio 2016

NATHALIE JOLIVERT PORTFOLIO

NATHALIE JOLIVERT PORTFOLIOTABLE OF CONTENTS

ARCHITECTURE1- Pixelating Bamboo- Architectural Association Visiting School..........................2- Viviane Gauthier’s Studio.........................................................................................3- Saint Margaret Convent in Haïti- Studio Drum Collaborative............................4- Ecole Elie Dubois- Architecture for Humanity ......................................................5- Building Local in Colombia- Bamboo design-build workshop........................6- Davis Park Pavilion- RISD project............................................................................7- Bamboo Eco-Touristic Center in la Guajira, Colombia- RISD project ..............

MIXED-MEDIA1- Curiosités Urbaines, Solo Exhibition in Haiti..........................................................2- Carnet de Voyages....................................................................................................3- Brand Design Projects...............................................................................................4- Roof-Top Flyers in New York City............................................................................5- Swiss Embassy Mural in Haiti....................................................................................6- Roots of Development Tapestry for the USAID....................................................

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Pixelating BambooLocation: Kenscoff, HaïtiType: Experimental . Pavilion DesignYear: 2014

Inspired by late Victor A. Wynne’s adobe block compressor which has remained intact on the site we were given, me and my team-mate, Jean-Eddy Samedi, stu-dent at Universite de Quisqueya, explored ways to work with earth-blocks and bamboo blocks to design a simple pavilion.

About the AA Haiti Visiting School: An intensive workshop in experimental architectural design contextualized for the climate, culture and materiality of Haiti. Through speculative proposals which inte-grate bamboo, the aim is to create a vision for a lightweight contemporary Haitian built environment.

SECTION

Student Presentations during the workshop

PLAN VIEW

CONTEXT

INTERIOR VIEW

Location: Port-au-Prince, HaïtiType: ResidentialYear: 2015

Viviane Gauthier is an elderly dancer who lives and conduct dance classes in one of the most renown Gingerbread Houses in Port-au-Prince. This house is subject to a restoration by the British firm Mac Aslan.

My colleagues and I, at the Architectural Association Visiting School in Haiti were tasked by Mac Aslan Architects to provide Viviane Gauthier with a temporary shelter in the back-yard of her residence, in which she could reside during the restoration work.

This proposal is designed with bamboo as primary structural material.

Viviane Gauthier’s Studio

The Interior

Proposal for Mdme Viviane Gauthier’s Gingerbread HousePAGE 2

Introduction

The facade of Madame Gauthier’s Gingerbread House(Photo Jenna M. McKnight)

Students on the last AA Haiti Visiting School Course, in Croix des Bouquets, Haiti(Photo Bahare Khodabande)

It is an honour for the Architectural Association Haiti Visiting School to be invited to work alongside John McAslan Architects to design a bamboo structure for Madame Viviane Gauthier. The opportunity this material presents to Haiti is immense. Bamboo is increasingly being seen as a replacement to the structural weaknesses of Haiti’s built environment and a fast growing solution to Haiti’s critical deforestation.

month later an earthquake 500 times more powerful, hit central Chile resulting in the deaths of 525. The was a disaster of Haiti’s lack of lightweight building materials, working practices, and construction, not nature.

The problems of the Haitian construction industry are widely accepted. However, Haiti has a perfect

immense deforestation over the latter half of the twentieth century, which has resulted in the eradication of all but 2% of Haiti’s trees due to agriculture and poverty. This has removed lightweight materials from

January 2010.

For the past three years the Architectural Association Visiting School has been working in Haiti teaching short design courses, blending contemporary design and testing computer software with the material and construction knowledge of bamboo. This programme develops projects contextualised for the climate and culture of Haiti and materiality of bamboo. Students are pushed, immersed, and intensively tutored in a range of new skills to absorb, imagine and create. This agenda aims to propose a vision for a lightweight contemporary Haitian built environment; demonstrate the role and importance of the architect as designer; and create a platform linking bamboo growers, land owners, and the construction industry together.

Such an opportunity to demonstrate the aesthetic and structural potential of bamboo in a project such as Madame Gauthier’s Gingerbread House presents an opportunity to showcase bamboo, and propagate its

Viviane Gauthier’s Gingerbread House

Why Bamboo:

Viviane Gauthier’s Gingerbread House is one of the most renown houses of this typology, still standing in Port-au-Prince after the devetating earthquake of January 10, 2010. It is a cultural landmark which structural integrity has been well-studied by preservationists who are now working towards the restoration of the house.

Haiti suffers from a high rate of deforastation. The cultivation and use of bamboo, a fast growing crop with tremendous structural properties that compete with steel, could be highly benefitial to the nation in its efforts of reforestation. Currently, there is a large bamboo plantation located in Marmelade- in the Northern Department of Haiti- which this brief proposes to use as resource for the construction of Madame Gauthier’s temporary studio.


Why bamboo for Haiti?

Imported Colombian bamboo is already being used on projects in Port au Prince. This house in the suburb of Croix des Bouquets was built by local bamboo architect Gary Pierre Charles.

Bamboo is already growing in large quantities in Marmelade, in the North of Haiti.

The issue of deforestation has, in recent years, been tackled with investment in bamboo. The story of bamboo in Haiti started in the 1950s when Victor Wynne began a process of conserving an area of forested land in the midst of widespread deforestation. He looked at ways of improving and repairing the

Bamboo is a truly remarkable plant and Haiti’s mountainous territory makes it an ideal location for rapid growth and industrial development.

SPEED OF GROWTHConsidered as a grass, bamboo can grow up to one meter per day. The construction grade bamboo Guadua

This can be a quick source of material for charcoal production to relieve the burden from the slow growing trees currently deforested at an unsustainable rate for that very fuel source. After this initial growth spurt over the next 4-5 years guadua can grow up to 30 metres tall.

HAITI’S TOPOGRAPHY 65% of this island nation is over a 7% gradient and bamboo grown on an incline drains faster and becomes

some of the best construction grade bamboo in the world.

WATER ABSORPTIONOne hectare of Guadua Bamboo can absorb up to 30,000 litres of water during the hurricane season and deposit this slowly back into the soil. With landslides being the deadly result of deforestation during these seasons this can be an instant life saver to rural communities in Haiti.

CARBON ABSORPTIONBamboo can sequester up to twice as much carbon as trees. Given the worldwide drive to curb carbon

bamboo could earn money for the grower. This would not only pay for the bamboo cultivation, but also provide livelihoods to those growing bamboo as well.

A NEW ECONOMYBamboo is used worldwide as a hard wearing, carbon friendly material for buildings and products, from

such as this one can easily transfer and develop into other sectors, developing a new bamboo economy.

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Site Plan

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Existing Gingerbread House

Proposed Residence

Main Entrance

Existing tree onsite


Ground Floor Plan

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1. Bedroom2. Living Room3. Bathroom4. Storage5. Main entry

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The Interior

1. Colombian guadua bamboo2. Haitian vulgaris bamboo 3. Concrete footings

Bamboo Vulgaris

Bamboo Guadua

Bamboo Species

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Location: Diameter: 4-10 cmPole lengths: 10-20 mClimate: Tropical - Subtropical

Location: ColombiaDiameter: 10-15 cm (max 25cm)Pole lengths: 15-30 mClimate: Tropical - Subtropical

North Elevation

Proposed Structure

Cross bracing

2ND STORY FLOOR HEIGHT RESPECTED

North Elevation


Truss Structure

PRIMARY STRUCTURE100mm poles

ROOF STRUCTURE50mm poles

ROOF BEAM

ROOF CROSS BRACING75 mm poles

CROSS BRACING75 mm poles

CROSS BRACING100 mm poles

CONCRETE FOOTING

0.5 m BRICK WALL

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50mm poles

Section AAConcrete footing

FootingsA

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1. 10 cm bamboo poles2. Steel rod3. Concrete foundations4. Steel rebar5. Skylights

Cement to be poured here and then sealed.

10mm diameter steel rebar

North

Concrete Footing

Structure Inspired by the ‘Gingerbread’ Style

Structural Details

Scale at A3 1:20

Scale at A3 1:40Scale at A3 1:40

OVERLAID WITH GINGERBREAD DETAILING

MADAME GAUTHIER’S GINGERBREAD HOUSE DETAILING

CONSTRUCTION POINTS

ROOF TILTED TO ALLOW VENTILATION

CONSTRUCTION POINTS

CONSTRUCTION POINTS

PROPOSED BAMBOO DETAILING

BAMBOO COLUMN DETAILING

CONCRETE FOOTING

0 1m 2m

EAST ELEVATION

Scale at A3 1:20

Scale at A3 1:40Scale at A3 1:40

OVERLAID WITH GINGERBREAD DETAILING

MADAME GAUTHIER’S GINGERBREAD HOUSE DETAILING

CONSTRUCTION POINTS

ROOF TILTED TO ALLOW VENTILATION

CONSTRUCTION POINTS

CONSTRUCTION POINTS

PROPOSED BAMBOO DETAILING

BAMBOO COLUMN DETAILING

CONCRETE FOOTING

0 1m 2m

EAST ELEVATION

Given the importance of using this project as a means of training current carpenters to use bamboo, the structural system is designed to be built in a similar way to a timber structure.

Truss Construction


The PanelsBamboo panels to seal the residence from the elements

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1. Roof grills2. Upper screens3. Dense screen between house and residence4. Dense external screen5. Awning frames

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Metal ShinglesMetal roof tiles can be manufactured at Croix des Bouquets. Skilled Artisans skill can create these tiles whilst supporting the local economy.

Metal Shingle organisation

Bamboo Purlins

Bamboo Rafters

Bamboo Slat nailing strips

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Metal Shingles1

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Metal Shingle organisation2

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Bamboo Slat nailing strips

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Bamboo Rafters4

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Bamboo Purlins5

Cross bracing bamboo columns

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Skylight

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Bamboo arch7

Side roof

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Top chord6

The curvature of the metallic shingles on the roof can reduce the wind resistance on the roof in a hurricane, reducing the pressure build up.

The Roof

The Roof

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1. Main roof2. 3. 4. Roof panels that allow light through5. Existing tree on site

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EXISTING TREE

secondary cover can be added to weatherproof the interior.

SKYLIGHTSAbove the bedroom and the living room, glazed skylights allow light into the interior of the residence.

Metalic tiles

Rubber sealant cover

Glazing panel

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The Team

Diego Perez EspitiaPerezReiter Architects, Bogota, Colombia Diego Perez-Espitia is a registered Colombian architect. He graduated with honours from University of Los Andes (2000) and obtained his Masters degree in Architecture and Urbanism with a thesis on Parametric Urbanism at the Architectural Association’s Design Research Lab (2008). For the last seven years his work has focused on the application of algorithmic design techniques at a wide range of urban and architecture design projects. Diego has worked for Zaha Hadid Architects and MAD Architects, where he founded and lead the Parametric Design Team. He is now founding partner at PerezReiter Architects, based in Colombia and Austria, where he currently explores the potentials and constraints of generative design and digital fabrication through architecture and interior design commissions. Diego has taught at University of Los Andes (Bogota), Tsinghua University (Beijing) and the Architectural Association (London), and has lectured at universities and design institutes in Colombia, Wales, England, Turkey and China. He is Director of the AA Bogota Visiting School.

Rose Di SarnoGensler, Los Angels, USARose graduated from the University of Southern California in 2008 with a Bachelor of Architecture degree. During her time at USC, Rose travelled extensively through Southeast Asia, observing and studying the adaptive modernization of densely populated countries in which the extremes of the economic spectrum are visible. Paired with a team of students from the

under-funded schools in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Professionally, Rose has worked in Beijing, China, where her projects ranged in scale from single family residential projects, to urban art installations, cultural centres and large scale commercial developments. She currently lives and works in Los Angles, California.

John Osmond Naylor (Programme Director)Architectural Association John, originally from South Shields in the North of England, graduated from the Architectural Association, London in 2013. His interest lays in architecture as a tool for social development. The material of bamboo with its lightweight, seismic and

and Haiti. In 2013 this work won him both the AA Holloway Prize and the Fosters Prize for Sustainable Development.

Architecture, and rare architects. He has taught at the Architectural Association (London); Tsinghua University (Beijing); Singapore Polytechnic (Singapore); the Leeds School of Architecture (UK); and continues to direct the AA Visiting Programme in Haiti.

Aditya AachiCullinan Studio, London, UK Aditya is currently a Part II Architect at Cullinan Studio in London. He gained his undergraduate degree at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL and his Diploma at the Architectural Association School of Architecture. While at the Architectural Association he was awarded the Foster+Partners and AA prize for Infrastructure. Aditya is interested in exploring the role of the architect in humanitarian and socio-politically complex situations. He has worked with various NGO’s and charities as well as the UN to deliver and develop both architectural projects and consultation tools. While working internationally for architecture practices such as Grimshaw Architects and Foster+ Partners, Aditya pursued his interests in infrastructure and political lobbying. He was part of the design team for the Lubetkin Prize winning Casa Kike at Gianni Botsford Architects.

Nathalie JolivertArchitectural Designer, Port au PrinceNathalie graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2012 with a Bachelor of Architecture and a Bachelor of Fine Arts. During her years at RISD she won the Gensler National Diversity Award in 2011 which featured her eco-touristic project for the indigenous Wayuu tribe of La Guajira in Colombia. Professionally, Nathalie worked on various projects with Architecture For Humanity and Studio Drum Collaborative in Haiti. As a painter, she also won a travel art residency to Bangladesh and Malawi with the USAID towards an exhibition at the Frontiers in Development Forum in Washington, DC (2014). In 2014 Nathalie attended the AA Haiti Visiting School and in 2015 joined us as an assistant tutor coordinating the school’s cultural programme. Nathalie currently lives and works in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

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The TeamThis project was a team effort between five tutors at the Architectural Association Visiting School of Haiti.

John Naylor.......................AA Haiti Visiting School DirectorDiego Perez Espitia.........Perez Reiter Architects, Bogota Colombia Aditya Aachi.....................Cullinan Studio, London, UKRose Disarno....................Gensler Los Angeles, USA

and Myself.

For more information about the AA Visiting School Haiti, Visit: haiti.aaschool.ac.uk

Saint-Margaret ConventLocation: Port-au-Prince, HaïtiType: Residential - Post-Earthquake 2010 ReconstructionYear: 2014

Established in 1927, Saint-Margaret’s Convent provides a safe environment for the nuns of the Episcopal Diocese of Haiti to carry out their services. Located in the heart of downtown Port-au-Prince, the convent’s facilities were destroyed during the 2010 earthquake.

As the lead architect for this project at Studio Drum Collaborative, I was tasked to design a new ten-bedroom building in which the nuns could seamlessly carry out their daily rites. Nestled in dense vegetation, the convent’s new designs will pre-serve the sanctuarial atmosphere of the nuns’ religious immersion. In addition to residential units for the nuns, the amenities in Saint-Margaret’s Convent will include a private chapel, office rooms and common spaces for visitors.

URBAN CONTEXTSAINT-MARGARET SITE WITHIN THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH CAMPUS-BLOCK

EXPLORATORY SKETCHES AND MODELS

MAIN FAÇADE

Holy-Trinity Cathedral

SiteRue

Montalais

FIRST FLOOR PLANwith Central Chapel and common rooms

SECOND FLOOR PLANwith dormitories and central terrace

ROOF PLANwith canvas roof structure over balconies and open-air walkway

École Élie DuboisLocation: Port-au-Prince, HaïtiType: Architectural Renovation- Post-Earthquake 2010Year: 2014

École Élie Dubois is an all girls secondary school located in the historic district of Port-au-Prince, a few blocks fromt the National Palace. Established in 1913 by the Community of the Daughters of Mary, École Élie Dubois began as a vocational boarding school. The school currently offers the standard Baccalaureate curriculum as well as professional skills and vocational training courses for embroidery, fash-ion, and decorative arts. The original historic classroom building, which faces the main entrance on Rue du Centre, will undergo a complete renovation. The resto-ration work on this historic campus is supported by the Barefoot Foundation, Fon-dation CINA, Students Rebuild with the Bezos family Foundation and Interamerican Development Bank (IDB).

As an architectrual consultant for Architecture for Humanity, I cordinated the archi-tectural and structural team to produce the Construction Documents for the reha-bilitation of Ecole Elie Dubois.

Interior view of top floor prior renovation process

Mansard Roof under reconstruction

This project consisted in a close documentation of existing conditions, including that of a century old mansard roof that had to be entirely rebuilt

A concrete balcony added to the East Façade of the building in the 1970s had to be demolished as well because it caused dam-age to the original building during the earthquake of 2010

This balcony was to be replaced with a light-weight metal balcony with exterior staircases as second means of egress in case of another earthquake.

Building Local in ColombiaLocation: Valley of Cocora, ColombiaType: Design-Build with Guadua Bamboo Year: 2015

Building Local was a workshop that consisted in building a kiosk with the use of Guadua Bamboo in the Valley of Cocora, coffee region of Colombia.

This workshop was organized by a Colombian architect and urbanist who previously led the housing projects of Morne Hercule and Morne Lazarre with UNOPS in Haiti, in which she has convinced the Haitian government to start using bamboo in the design of its housing projects post-earthquake.

I attended the Building Local workshop along with two other Haitian colleagues whom I encouraged to sign-up in the longer goals of a stronger South-South cooperation between Haiti and Colombia in the bamboo industry.

For more information on the workshop: www.buildinglocal.wordpress.com

During the Building Local workshop, we experienced with various Bamboo applications under the guidance of local architects and builders. We also benefitted from guest lecturers, and visited important bamboo constructions, such as the ZERI pavillion designed by the well-renown Colombian architect Simon Velez.

A few team members standing on the kiosk’s rooftop Preparing door panels with flattened out bamboo strips

Field-trip to the ZERI Pavilion designed by Simon Velez The finished door panels

The Kiosk, final product of the 15 day long Building Local Workshop 2015

Davis Park PavilionLocation: Providence, Rhode IslandType: Design-Build , Community ProjectYear: 2008

The Architectural Design Principles Studio at RISD starts with a collaborative de-sign-build exercise. For this project we were assigned to design a structure which could provide seating or shading in Davis Park, a public park located in Provi-dence. The only construction materials allowed were wood members and rope. In our group, our goal was to be economical, and our design approach was to merge the art of weaving with space structure methods, for the design of a dy-namic piece. In our final proposal, the interweaving of wood and rope allowed for the assembly of a sculptural pavilion through which people could walk safely. Although our project did not provide as much shading as we hoped, it challenged us to learn about innovative design solutions, strength of materials, structure and the power of connection details.

Sketch models and construction process

Final product and the team

Bamboo Eco-Touristic Center Location: La Guajira, ColombiaType: Commercial Year: 2010

This project received the First Prize in the Gensler National Diversity Award in 2011

The RISD studio, Principles of Ecological Design, was a collaboration with the archi-tecture students at the Autonomous University of the Caribbean in Colombia. This Colombian school had been engaged by the Wayuu, an indigenous tribe, to help expand their village with the addition of a school, a clinic and commercial center.

My proposal focuses on a tourist-accessible commercial center and is reminiscent of a traditional Wayuu structure, the enramada. There are no walls in the enramada. In this open space, the Wayuu welcome guests, weave and take naps in chichorros (hammocks). This commercial center is also designed to allow interaction, be-tween the local and global communitites. Women would sell their woven goods in small enramadas situated around a central communal eating space, where tour-ists enjoy Wayuu cuisine. An interweaving of different cultures would be fostered through mutual benefits.

RAIN-WATER CATCHMENT SYSTEM

Detail Drawing of Bamboo Connections inspired by Indigeous Colombian knotting practices

Elevation of the Communal Restaurant

MIXED MEDIAThis section contains various projects I worked on as a Freelance Designer and Painter.

MIXED-MEDIA1- Curiosités Urbaines, Solo Exhibition in Haiti.........................................................2- Carnet de Voyages...................................................................................................3- Brand Design Projects..............................................................................................4- Roof-Top Flyers in New York City............................................................................5- Swiss Embassy Mural in Haiti...................................................................................6- Roots of Development Tapestry for the USAID...................................................

Work produced for Curiosités Urbaines

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CURIOSITÉS URBAINES

I organized a Solo Exhibition which theme “Curiosités Urbaines” explored the urban landscape of Haiti. The black and white paintings depicted everyday scenes of the chaotic urban life of Port-au-Prince, and played with expressions commonly painted on the “tap-taps”, colorful privately-owned public automobiles.

The exhibition took place in Port-au-Prince and was well received by visitors and the local press. 20% of profits went to the largest pediatrician hospital in Haiti: Hospital Saint-Damien, Nos Petits Frères et Soeurs.

Solo Exhibition in Port-au-Prince, Haïti | 2016

CARNET DE VOYAGES

Self-published book of illustrations depicting the immigrant’s experience and the contrast of journey between those who have the power to travel comfortably versus those who travel in the desperate need to escape hardships in their country of origin.The dark figures throughout the zine are inspired by the cut metal artwork of Haiti.

Preface by historian Winter Schneider.

Carnet de Voyages was exhibited at Yale University during the Odds and Ends Art Book Fair in December 2015.

Self-published art-book | 2015

BRAND DESIGN

Logo Design for “BAWOSYA Cooperative” a hand-made paper company based in Haiti - new initiative of the organization “Haiti Partners”www.haitipartners.org

Logo Design for “Fondasyon Banbou” an upcoming organization bringing together various actors in the bamboo industry of Haïtiwww.fondasyonbanbou.wordpress.org

Logo Design for “AYITATTOO” temporary tattoo design company inspired by the Haitian culture: www.ayitattoo.ht

Select Logo Designs for Various Clients

BRAND DESIGN

First set of illustrations and logo design for AYITATTOO a temporary tattoo business inspired by Haitian culture. The tattoos depict images of:

* Haïti, written in the style of the lettering found on Tap-Taps

* Erzulie, the Goddess of Love in Haitian Vaudou

* The Palm Tree, symbol of freedom in Haiti

* Tèt Chaje, common Kreyòl expression of an “explosive mind”

* The Tap-Tap, colorful privately owned public automobile

Ayitattoo illustrations for temporary tattoos inspired by Haitian Culture

This illustration draws inspiration from the subculture of rooftop pigeon herders in New York. Two summers ago, I was work-ing with a few artists and we were hanging out on their rooftop in Brooklyn, when around 5pm, we witnessed a swarm of pigeons fly out from a rooftop in what looked like a well-studied choreography. The oldest artist, who has lived in NY all his life, explained to us that this was a game that the residents in the area played. They inherited this tradition from European immigrants and appropriated it in Brooklyn.

“Pigeons are social animals”, the artist explained. The owners who lose their pigeons to their neighbors’ flocks will later have to pay a sum to get them back. It was a nice evening in Brooklyn and it was quite calming for us to see the pigeons fly out from each rooftop and eventually group with each other.

With summer, the season of rooftop gatherings is upon us. And with it the tradition of pigeon-herding. However, with the city expanding and the number of high-rise buildings soaring, I wonder what impact this may have on this age-old cher-ished tradition above ground, and what it ultimately means in the context of human-scale interactions, the animals and na-ture that have to co-habit.

THE ROOFTOP FLYERSProposal submitted to the 14 x 48 organization which goal is to exhibit artwork on vacant Billboards in New York City | 2016

MORNES ET MONTAGNESAcrylic Painting - 6’x12’ - Winning artwork in a National Competition organized by the Swiss Embassy in Haiti | 2014

In this painting, the goal was to celebrate different aspects of the Haitian and Swiss culture. “Mornes et Montagnes” written in the similar fonts found on the tap-taps [pub-lic buses of Haiti]refers to the mountains of both Haiti and Switzerland. In Haiti, mountains are often referred to as “Mòn” which in creole is derived from the french word “Mornes”. Switzerland mostly gets involved in agricultural projects in Haiti and thus, on the left, a mango tree seems to bear fruit as the sun shines light on Haiti behind the Swiss Alps. The Eidelweiss flower also grows on the Haitian side and on the Swiss Alps the symbols of the Vaudou god of crossroads “Papa Legba” are drawn on the ground. The sunrays circle is continued with the long horns of the Swiss Alps folkloric musical tradition. Finally, the Hispaniolan Trogon, endangered national bird of Haiti is also illustrat-ed in the mango tree.

MORNES ET MONTAGNESSketches and Research Process

ROOTS OF DEVELOPMENTHand-Sown Tapestry and Acrylic Painting - 9’x16’ - RISD x USAID Artist in Residency Program | 2014

Upon my art research on the overlap between the sectors of development and human virtues, conducted over a series of collaborative sessions at the Chancellor’s College of Malawi and Dhaka University, I developed an allegory of development and virtue. The tapestry here uses a metaphorical visual language to illustrate the interconnected-ness of the development pillars of Climate Change, Water and Sanitation, Infrastructure, along with the related virtues: Respect, Dignity, Compassion, Justice, Love, Patience, and Courage. The relationships between the “sectors” and the virtues are motivated by conversations with members of poor communities in Malawi, Bangladesh, and Haïti; as well as exchanges with the students in Malawi and Bangladesh, and mission officers of USAID in those countires, who helped illuminate the challenges of international de-velopment, and reflected personally on the virtues inherent in that work. Haiti is evoked by the presence of the endangered red-breasted Hispaniolan Trogon, a national sym-bol of hope and resilience, but also of fragility and challenge.

ROOTS OF DEVELOPMENTArt Research and Workshops in Bangladesh and Malawi - RISD x USAID Artist in Residency Program | 2014

THANK YOU!

Nathalie Jolivert

Contact Information:

[email protected] 224 Street, Cambria HeigthsNew York, NY 11411