Architecture Portfolio K e v i n B i g a i g n o n College: Otis College of Art and Design: Advanced Drawing & Environmental Design / july 2001 Sci-Arc (Southern California Institute of Architecture) / spring 2002 EAVT (ecole darchitecture de la ville et des territoires) / Paris Region/ oct 2002-june 2009 WIT (Waterford Institute of Technology / Ireland) / ERASMUS / oct 2007 CCA (California College of the Arts / San Francisco) 4th year exchange student / spring 2008

Graduated: Ecole darchitecture de la ville et des territoires / Paris Region / june 2009

Diploma: Rehabilitaion of Ricardo Bofills Abraxas Housing Units + Urban Design of Noisy-Le-Grand Thesis: Impact of the California High Speed Rail on the california suburbia / june 2009

Published work: Les Halles, Villes Interieurs, (Interior Cities), SEURA Architects, 2003 - 2007La Ville Passante, author-architect David Mangin / 2008 (Frances grand prize of urbanism 2008)

CAD Tools: Auto-Cad / Adobe CS / 3DStudio Max / Maxwell / Sketch-Up / Grasshopper Revit basic / Architecture interests: multi-unit housing / urban planning / environmental issues / rehabilitation

Work experience:

Fondation Wilmotte: International Competition Venice / Italy / 2012Urban Future Organisation International Competition Messina Waterfront / 2011 / 2nd Phase / wonCopper Institute : Internation Competition / Milan / 2010Shigeru Ban Architects Europe / summer workshop with international team / summer 2004Jean De Gastines, architects / environmental project Center Parcs / october 2004 - may 2005SEURA Architects/David Mangin (architecture + urban design): Les Halles competition / 2nd phase design and model making. Masterplan of Sihanoukville, Cambodia / june 2006- april 2007Boulevard Leclerc rehabilitation / Paris-Clichy / august 2006

Notable mentions: solar chimney competition / 2nd / Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees seminar / spring 2006security supervisor at Shigeru Ban building workshop / Pompidou Center / Paris / july - oct 2004

languages: bilingual /english fluent / french fluent / german basic / italian basic / dutch basicother interests: music / art / drawing / travelling / history/ environment

Revealing Abraxas / previously conceiled east facade faces projected parc / diploma 2009

Rehabilitation of Ricardo Bofills Abraxas housing units + urban renewalplan / schematics with M.Brean / student

model 1/1000 scale of current city (top left) and projected rehabilitation (top right),final 3d model (bottom right)

Before areas of interest highlighted

City block Fluidity/ Opening upabolishment of dead-ends/fluidity/parc/redrawing of 1970s plan

ContextNoisy-Le-Grand A parisian suburb

An Eastern suburb...

A compartmentalised hexagon centered around commerce with no parcs, dead end roads. Relativly higher crime & insecurity.

Rehab Strategies step by step

Interconnected Hub + Cultural Nexus

Continuous streets with no dead-ends Concentric focus Progressive density superimposed levels areas of interest Urban Design

Result

interconnected parcs and planted streetways

interconnected underground with subway & tram

Progressive

Phased

Interventions

1970s Hexagon plan

RER A station and A4 highwayCurrent 15 minute walking distance areas of influence shown in metro lines colours

After urban proposal

...connected to Paris

Charles-De-Gaule Airport

Abraxass Rehab / diploma 2009

diploma, rehabilitation of Ricardo Bofills Abraxas housing units + urban renewalplan and section work with M.Brean, student

Abraxass Rehab / diploma 2009

Context Contour preservation

MultiProgrammaticHousing

Hotels

Office

Commerce

Transportation hub

Leisure / cinemaplex

Metro Connection

New urban Parctransfer of parking under groundRevelation of a

East - WestSection

Abraxas Cultural Nexus / Metro connection / ParkingMultiplex

PlanNew buildings in red

New Parc New Plaza

Underground interconnectedness

Parc

To DisneyLand Resorts15 min by Metro

Paris Disney

total 365.428m surface interventionResidential / Office / Hotel / Leisure

Legend

diploma / rehabilitation / Ricardo Bofills Abraxas housing units + urban renewal

North - South Section

East - West Section

Preservation of the original building incorporating a leveled open-spaced atrium undera glassed ceiling that maintains visual continuity with the parc.The hotel includes all amenities such as restaurants, spas, swimming pools, conference center, & leisurly oriented activities.

... & vertical circulation

schematics & Intentionspreservation of concrete structure ...

Glass enveloppe: a bulging junction of two forms

widened perspectivetowards the atrium from the reception

... revealed to the urban parc

According to pagan mythology Abraxas is a half angel half demon entity whose name is

Taming the Beast From housing units to 5 star hotel

A landmark in the hexagon of Noisy-Le-Grand ...

featured in architect Ricardo Bofills landmark housing units built from late 1970s to early 1980s.

The building is featured in Terry Gilliams dystopic and orwelian movie Brazil(1985)

The Palazio is in the shape of an interloc-king helix

- Leveling for atrium continuity with parc- Underground amenities- Covering of glass ceiling

Atrium

New Parc & Hotel EntranceAtriumParc

Palazio room type: double height

Lobby Level atrium with circular access to ... ...underground conference center /amenities / parking / spa

widened entrance at reception for added space and visual continuity to leveled atrium

diploma / rehabilitation / Ricardo Bofills Abraxas housing units + urban renewal models / 1/500 (top) and 1/2500 scale (bottom)

Hotel lobby levelEntrance oriented towards the parc reveals the atriumGlass ceiling sheilds open spaced atrium

Composing the old with the newSpatial organisation is composed of a space revealing a buildingThe parc facing Bofills renovated building reveals the original agriculture layoutThe plaza links the cultural nexus with the multiplex

The hotel faces a broader parc bridging other communitiesA Composition of interlocking neighboring diploma projectsEnhanced accessibility of segregated suburbs by the A4 highway

Hotel room levels Circular branch has horizon and vertical circulation oriented towards atrium and glass ceilingSquare branch has original circulation preserved

Circulation schematic

Electric Vehicle Research Institute San Francisco Bay California College of Arts

South facade with PV panelsmaintained by light steel structure

Detail The 25.000 m of Photo-vol-taic solar panels enables the self suffi-ciency of the Research Institute and excess electricity is transfered to the city of San Franciscos smart grid.

Spatial arranging of interlaping naturally lit introverted prototype-oriented studios facing glassed open spaced atrium with auditorium.

continuity of greenery

program

visual continuity

Location : Pier 32 / Embarcadero

The atrium that faces thes San Francisco Bay, enabling visual contact with this feature, is under a suspended test track below a solar roof top accessible by ramp or studio elevator. The north facade for the offices has a light structure which sustains vegetation.

San Francisco / California

projected city of Sihanoukville / SEURA architects / plan and section work with A. Dambrine + E. Roncen, architect.published in La Ville Passante, 2008 ( Frances Grand Prix de lUrbanisme)

Sihanoukville New Masterplan / Cambodia S.E.U.R.A Architects Paris

Published in Frances national Grand Prize of Urbanism 2008

sections of strip of projected city of Sihanoukville / SEURA architects model 1/100 and 1/200 scale of the Les Halles project / SEURA architects / work with N.Celeste + 10

Sihanoukville Masterplan CambodiaS.E.U.R.A Architects Paris

Les Halles Competition Paris S.E.U.R.A Architects Paris

Shigeru Ban Workshop / Construction of temporary office on the roof of the Centre George Pompidou Center Parcs cottages / Jean DeGastines architect + V. Assens architect

Temporary Paper Tube Structure Shigeru Ban Architects Europe

Center Parcs NormandieJean de Gastines Architect

Centre Pompidou, Paris

Interior

housing units / 3rd year project / professor: Phillipe Barthlmy / eavt

Housing Units rue Cailli Paris 18th