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BACHELOR OF SCIENCES FROM ETH-LAUSANNE / EPFL

Eco le Po l y techn ique Fédé ra le de Lausanne / EPFL (2011 -14 ) P ro jec t1 : A te l i e r A l i ce , p ro fesso r D ie te r D ie t z , A lexand re Noë l P ro jec t2 : A te l i e r A l i ce , p ro fesso r D ie te r D ie t z , Te resa Cheung P ro jec t3 -4 : A te l i e r LAST, p ro fesso r Emanue l Rey (Baua r t a r ch i t ec t s ) O the rs : I n te rac t i ve c i t y r esea rch s tud io , p ro fesso r Je f f r ey Huang ECAL+EPFL l ab ( i ndus t r i a l des ign ) , p ro fesso r Tomas K ra l Théo r i e de l ’ a r ch i t ec tu re , p ro fesso r Jaques Lucan H i s to ry o f A rch i t ec tu re p ro fesso r Robe r to Garg ian i Un i ve rs idad Po l i t ecn i ca de Va lenc ia / UPV (2014 -15 ) P ro jec t5 -6 : Ta l l e r4 , p ro fesso r José Mar ia U rce lay

VARIOUS WORKS: Sw imming teache r, Red f i sh Neuchâ te l , CH (2007 -10 ) R ide r f o r t eam G in K i t eboa rd ing i n te rna t i ona l t eam (2009 ) Snowboard t eache r, Hau te Nendaz , CH (2010 ) R ide r f o r t eam L iqu id Fo rce K i t eboa rd ing Sw i t ze r l and ( 2010 -12 ) Ma te r i a l r espons ib le f o r C lub Pho to EPFL (2011 ) Sa lesman fo r t he Lev i ’s S to re i n Lausanne du r i ng t he weekends (2011 -12 ) I n te rn (pa r t i a l t ime ) f o r I ndex A rch i t ec t s , Lausanne (2011 -12 ) I n te rn (pa r t i a l t ime ) f o r A te l i e r s Beau Rega rd , Geneva (2013 ) K i t esu r f t eache r ( IKO schoo l ) i n San Ca r l es , Ca ta lon ia , Spa in ( 2014 )

COMPETITONS:

F i r s t p r i ze o f Fecu le pho tog raphy compe t i t i on , Lausanne , Sw i t ze r l and (2011 ) F i r s t p r i ze o f t he IVE wo rkshop fo r a s ta r t - up p ro jec t , Sw i t ze r l and (2012 ) Award a t Shangha i I n te rna t i ona l Sc ience & A r t Fes t i va l w i t h U rban Body (2012 ) F i r s t P r i ze o f A rch i zoom a rch i t ec tu re s tuden ts compe t i t i on ( 2013 ) Second p r i ze o f des ign s tuden ts comepe t i t i on f o r BESAR’s new ba r ( 2013 ) Pa r t i c i pa t i on o f Sus ta inab le i s beau t i f u l s tuden t compe t i t i on ( 2013 ) Pa r t i c i pa t i on o f 120hou r a rch i t ec tu re compe t i t i on , Sweden ( 2014 ) EXTRA SCHOLAR PROJECTS:

Urban Body: Workshop in China i n co l l abo ra t i on w i t h Ts ingua Un i ve rs i t y (Be i j i ng ) ( 2011 ) IVE ( I ns t i t u te f o r Va lue -based En te rp r ise): creating a start-up worshop (CH) (2012 ) Monade : Se l f - i n i t i a ted p ro jec t f o r pe rsona l r esea rchs (2014 ) F la t r enova t i on i n Va lenc ia (Spa in ) ( 2014 -15 ) F la t r enova t i on i n S ion (CH) ( 2014 -15 )

COMPUTER SKILLS:

Adobe Pho toshop ; Adobe I l l us t ra to r ; Adobe InDes ign ; Adobe A f te r E f f ec t ; Adobe Edge Animated; Adobe Dreamweaver; Rhinoceros3D; Grashopper (parametric design); Art lantis Cinema 4d; HTML5 (basic) Autocad (intermediate); Archicad(basics); Adobe Premier (basics)

LANGUAGES:

F rench (na t i ve ) ; Eng l i sh (advanced ) ; Span i sh (advanced ) ; Ge rman (bas i cs )

INTERESTS:

Sur f ; K i t esu r f ; Trave l ; Wa te r Po lo ; I ndus t r i a l Des ign ; Pho tog raphy

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PROJECTS

P1_UN ALTO EN EL CAMINO P_07

P2_CREU LESTEL P_15

P3_THE WEEKENDS IN CONFRIEDES P_23

P4_LA NAVE DEL PUERTO P_31

P5_THE URBAN-FRAME PROJECT P_45

P6_HOME2.0 P_55

REAL SCALE INSTALATIONS

RS1_HABITER MON HORIZON P_61

RS2_MONADE P_67

RS3_THE URBAN BODY PROJECT P_73

RS4_DE LA HUERTA A LA CIUDAD P_81

COMPETITIONS

C1_120 HOURS COMPETITION P_87

C2_A VITRINE FOR ARCHIZOOM P_93

OTHERS

D1_INDUSTRIAL- DESIGN P_101

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English: .......A stop along the wayStudent: ...........Nicolas UebersaxProf: ............Maria José UrcelayCourse: ..................P3/taller4School: .......UPV (Valencia, Spain)Date: ....................20/09/2013Semestre: .........................4

UN ALTO EN EL CAMINOu n r ef u g i o a u n c a m i n e n t e

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«...el recorrido discurre suave y lento desde las ruinas de San

Esteban de Muriano.

Tras dejar atrás los muros aún blancos de la última ermita, con

su pequeño porche al sur, tras horas a pleno sol en este largo

trecho, casi llano y sin descanso, el camino se acerca a las laderas

suaves de unos cerros arbolados que van dibujando de manera

clara la frontera entre trigales y encinas.

Pesan ausentes las casas de labranza, sólo encontramos restos de

muros de ribazo o tapias divisorias que parecen formadas por la

retirada de estos materiales de los campos de labranza.

Sol y trigos, y lomas dulces con la vista lejana de la sierra al

fondo. El caminante necesita despedirse de este lugar, reposar y

dedicarle una dilatada mirada para aprenderlo en su memoria, la

noche llegará para diluir lentamente las aristas de lo que hemos

aprendido...» Augusto Monterroso

* Translating sentence into landscape, words into architecture,

the project is a subjective interpretation of Augusto Monzerro’s

text in which a refuge is imagined and conceptualized.

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English: ...volumes above the lightAuthor: ...........Nicolas UebersaxProf: ...........José Maria UrcelayCourse: ..............P3 / taller 4School: .............UPV (Valencia)Date: ...................12/10/2013Semestre: ........................4

CREU LESTELel juego de los volúmenes bajo la luz

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Like a sailing boat, lost in the immensity of the horizon, in the middle

of rice fields, the three volumes of which relate the renovation project

seem like floating.

From the entrance, facing a long dirt path, the hamlet looks like a

harmonious composition of white shapes. Standing on a clay tray,

they tear themselves off the clear blue sky and the tranquility of the

background landscape.

the visitor walks through the path and reaches an old door made of

solid wood slightly open. His look stops for a moment on the details

that make its beauty. Like the middle door leafs, richly decorated

that were used to cool down the cabin during the hot summer days.

The visitor comes in.

His eyes need to get used to the darkness that prevails in the high

room, illuminated only by a second door on the back wall. The

view though this smaller door that stands in a perfect symmetry with

the first one captivates the visitor’s eyes and lost him in a series of

pleasant thoughts.

Based on the first impressions described in the previous text, the

renovation tries to save, restore and enhance the elements and

moments present in this typical vernacular architecture.

Relation to horizontality and verticality, to landscape and to the

human being’s perception are the keys that help its conception.

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English: ...weekends in ConfriedesAuthor: ..........Nicolas UebersaxProf: .......Pascual Sellés CantosCourse: .Arquitectura Tematica IIISchool: .....UPV (Valencia, Spain)Sate: ..................20/11/2013Semestre: .......................4

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The project draws a sustainable weekend house in a mountain

village on the east coast of Spain.

Its conception privileges a large outside garden and a smaller

warm and human scaled house. The inside space revolves around

the fireplace and open a large window on the garden, immersed in

a Mediterranean atmosphere. Existing elements of the landscape:

boulder, rock walls, terraces and Pine forest are part of this closed

microcosm dialoging with its surrounding.

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English: ....The nave of the harborAuthor: ...........Nicolas UebersaxProf: ...........José Maria UrcelayCourse: ..............P3 / taller 4School: .............UPV (Valencia)Date: ...................10/06/2014Semestre: ........................5

LA NAVE DEL PUERTOun techo para Peniscola

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Torn between the diversity of systems that compose the city and

their relations, Peniscola is a small town where the delimitations

have to be clarified.

The proposal takes the opportunity of creating a new oceanic research

center to propose something bigger. A project that could redefine

the limits at the key point where harbor, beach, old town and new

town meet.

Structuring element for urban-scale, the project is a series of pieces

creating a large roof that cover a consequent harbor‘s part. Under this

coverage, everything is mixed and everything goes without apparent

rules in a chaos organized.

Interaction between worker, tourists and fisherman are hidden and

enhanced at the same time, giving this space a unique atmosphere.

As forest of concrete, the project stands in front of the sea, rocked by

the sea breeze, the sound of waves crashing on the pier, the coming

and going of frenetic passers and the movement of large shadows

dancing in the steady rhythm of passing time.

*This project has been selected for a publication by the Talller4 of

university Politecnica de Valencia.

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English: ...when skeleton comes to lifeAuthor: .............Nicolas UebersaxProf: ...........Emanuel Rey (Bauart)Course: .......................Year 2School: ...........EPFL (Lausanne, CH)Date: .....................28/05/2014Semestre: ........................3-4

THE URBAN-FRAME PROJECTlorsque l’ossature prend vie

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With an architecture projected into the future and dealing with

its uncertainity, the Urban-Frame project wishes to respond to the

development of cities in a sustainable way. It takes all servants,

logistic and circulation elements of classical housing and places

them in the building’s skeleton. The action aims to free a generous

served spaces that may then be filled with different types of

typologies responding to a momentary and local needs.

Today, Switzerland has to slow the urban sprawl for ecological

reasons. The typology that has been developed to illustrate the

project tries to reinterpret the basic privacy threshold scheme

of a suburb’s house to convince people that urban density can

be a good thing for everyone.

The inhabitant access to his property by a community passageway

(the street). The entrance takes place through a luminous hanging

garden, spatially connected to a large inside day-area. This area

leaves freedom of arrangement to its user, and gives access to

other more private spaces on the upper level.

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HOME2.0revisiting architecture’s premises

Status: ..................WORKSHOPProf: ...............Jeffrey HuangName: .....................Home2.0Theme: ..........Parametric designSchools: ......EPFL (Lausanne, CH)Date: ..................10/05/2011Grade: ....................... 6/6 57

The project is a one-week workshop about parametric architecture

using grasshopper. The time of the workshop the student is asked to

design Home2. 0.

the project chose to take inspiration in the birth of architecture, when

everything was still free of preconceived ideas.

Based on the writing of Viollet-Le-Duc about the ‹ hutte primitive ›

(primitive hut), it initially identifies the constructive elements of the hut

(structure/fence) to translate it into an architectural scripted language

that can be adapted up to date.

In a hypothetical future, the version 2.0 allows us to parameterize the

genetic code of plants. We are able to change vegetal elements in highly

adaptive living structure. The architecture becomes able to interact with

its inhabitants and environment, it can grow as we need, transform to

protect us from the outside menace or to improve inside comfort. The very

famous “living machine” of Le Corbusier become a habitable organism.

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ARQUITECTURA FUTURISTAcomo una arquitectura retroactiva

Hutte des Caraïbes | Gottfried Semper

This project develops the architecture known as "architecture of the future" as an architecture inspired by the writings of Gottfried Semper and archi-tectural premises. These writings are interested in the primitive hut, having as a primary function the protection.Initially this project identifies the constructive elements of the Semper’s hut into a language. In a second phase the project reinterprets these elements to make a living and adaptive architecture.

The wood is used for framing, it is the structuring element of the project. Three parties are, trunk, branches, twigs. In the draft of these are no longer considered death as in hut, but alive. They are able to grow over time de-pending on the climate and needs. This architecture is a natural architec-ture that can be controlled by human parameterizing its DNA.While the trunk serve as stilts to create an additional level between the house and the environment, twigs and branches are used for their support to the fence. The fence is made of fur or foliage that create the boundary between inside and outside protecting the head. As framed, the living fence is able to interact with the environment or to human scale by densify-ing to make waterproof weather or housing meet the comfort of the living.

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HABITER MON HORIZON“LIVING MY HORIZON”

Student: ........Axel Chevroulet................Nicolas UebersaxProf: ..............Dieter DietzAssistant: .......Alexendre NoëlCourse: ..................Year 1School: .....EPFL (Lausanne, CH)Date: ................20/09/2011Semestre: .....................1 65

The first semester of architecture studies at the EPFL is made of a

series of weekly exercises which aims to challenge our perception

of space and familiarize us the architecture’s tools. In this exercise,

reducing the spatial intervention to its smallest scale we have been

asked to develop a wearable device which alters our perception

of space.

We have built a device in which our vision is parasitized by

someone else. By losing control of his vision, the human loses

its independence. Very quickly, a “master-slave” relationship is

created.

*The project has been selected for a show in the Rolex

Learning Center and won the first prize of a a regional

photography competition.

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MONADEi t ’s a n i c e d a y fo r so m e t h i n g !

Author: ........Paul Brechignac...............Nicolas UebersaxStatus: .....PERSONAL REASEARCHName: ...................MonadeDate: ...............20/04/2013Country: ...........Switzerland

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MONADE

Inspired from the 70’s movement of Ant Corps and its

“inflated cookbook”, Monade is an ephemeral self-initiated

installation. It is generated from an accurate two-dimensional

low-cost crafting process. The physical space it creates is

introverted and redundant. The sensory space it creates is

nourished by lights, colors, sound or physical objects from

the environment. One does not look at it, one looks at the

effect of the context of it.

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THE URBAN BODY PROJECT

Status: .................WORKSHOPName: .................Urban BodySchools: ...........EPFL Lausanne ..............Tsinghua University Date: .................01/05/2011Site: ...........751 art districtCountry: ...................China

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The Urban Body project is an outgoing collaborative project

between the Art and Design Academy of Tsinghua University

(Beijing) and Architecture’s school of the Ecole Polytechnique

Federal de Lausanne (Switzerland). Supported by swissnex China

and others, The project took place during a whole summer in

the 751 art district in Beijing. It proposes the fabrications of

architectonic modules and ecologically sustainable design

prototypes specific to sino-swiss relations and cultures.

An ancient Chinese notion determines the natural environment

to be atmosphere-born through the impact of the elements on

the land. Based on this idea the project, between industrial and

natural, gives rise to a multitude of built small-scale interventions

locally generated.

*This project has been exposed to the Beijing design week and

won the Science & Art Award issued by Shanghai International

Science & Art Festival in 2012.

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Author: ....Yara Brep / Philipp Kentgens........Julia Martinez / Thomas Martinec......... Andrea Pons / Nicolas UebersaxProf: .....Manuel Lillo / Alberto BurgosCourse: ....Materializacion del proyectoSchool: ..................UPV (Valencia)Date: ........................10/06/2014

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the project has been developed during one semester at the

University Politecnica de Valencia (UPV). The students have been

asked to crated a self-made pavilion with a minimum budget of

100 Euros.

We decided to work with the canvas (local’s bamboo) because

of its importance in the Spanish and Valencian construction’s

history. Dealing with this material we tried to reinterpret the

way to implement it, in order to create innovative geometries

and spatial qualities.

In the long term, this project will be proposed as a concept of the

ivy vegetalised pavilion for the development of new economic

green spaces in abandoned urban spaces.

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Competition_

120 HOURS COMPETITION

Status: ............COMPETITIONName: .......Social scafoaldingAuthor: ........Paul Brechignac.................Emilie Apperce ...............Nicolas UebersaxDate: ..............14/02/2014

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Sustainability

As human beings we live, modify and transform our surroundings.

We aim to establish a dialogue with the public. The man belongs

to a wider cycle.

Situation

Three strategic points. Three interventions that find their expression

in the dialogue between scaffolding and existing trees. Three

promenades in the landscape of the festival of Oslo, where the

pavilions become landmark used by visitory to meet and spend

time.

Materiality

The interventions are built as simple scaffolding, from standardised

metallic modules, thus reusable after the festival. Repetition as a

vision for sustainable architecture.

This project has participated to the “120hours” competition and

has been published on “afasia”.

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A VITRINE FOR ARCHIZOOM

Grade: ................First prizeStatus: ...............COMPET TIONName: .....................VITRINEAuthor: ............Quentin Rosset ..................Nicolas UebersaxDate: ..................10/03/2013Country: ..............Switzerland 99

With the new attraction’s point created about the Swiss Tech

Convention Center and the Rolex Learning Center, we would

like to strengthen the identity of the architecture’s building of the

EPFL. We decided to work on a transformation significant due

to its impact but light on its needs. The project takes to task to

work from the inside to the outside of the building, by extending

programs that need to be valued on the façade.

The terraces generated become vitrines that enhance the

strength, the dynamism and the symbol of the school.

At the same time, we are creating two new entrances that allow

to facilitate the inside circulation, reactivate the four corners

of the “Place Nord” and develop new socialization spaces .

*This proposal won the first prize of the competition launched

by Archizoom and the Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne

(EPFL). Today, the project is under study by Backer et Blanc

architecte Studio in Lausanne.

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Name: ....“A chaque pot son couvercle!”Author: ...................Arthur Blanc.......................Nicolas UebersaxProf: .......................Tomas KralCourse: ..............Design IndustrielSchool: ............ECAL (Lausanne, CH)Date: .......................28/06/2013Semestre: ............................4

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A CHAQUE POT SON COUVERCLE!

Extensive overconsumption and wastage are now established facts

in our society till years. Confronted with this challenge, designers

have a key role to play. Indeed they have several approaches

at their disposal to conceive responsible products. Choosing

carefully and sparing materials, recycling or shape optimisation.

many areas remain to be explored.

Choosing the original “Ovomaltine” pot as a research field, the

project tries to imagine a series of simple pieces that could screw

on basic Ovomaltin jar to turn it into an elegent breakfast service.

Different pieces could then be won by the consumer through a

contests on the Ovaltine packaging.

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Nicolas Uebersax

From Switzerland, Neuchâtel

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