Clément Dagneaux2013

www.clementdagneaux.com

E/ hello@clementdagneaux.com P/ +33 647.139.951 A/ 10, Allée Brancas, 44000 Nantes, France

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Clément Dagneauxhello@clementdagneaux.comwww.clementdagneaux.com+33 647.139.95106.1988

Born in France; raised in Italy. Lived in Paris, Milan, New York, and Florida. Currently studying for a Masters Degree in Architecture at the National School of Architecture of Nantes, France. Studied interior design at the National Center for Dis-tance Learning, graduated 2009. Background in filmmaking, ani-mation and computer graphics.

French and American citizenshipFluent in French, Italian and English

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Education

2013. National School of Architecture, Nantes, France Masters of Architecture 1st Year

2012. National School of Architecture, Nantes, France Bachelor of Architecture

2009. National Center for Distance Learning, Paris, France Diploma in Interior Design

2006. Gabriel Guist’hau High School, Nantes France High School Diploma, Literature, Film Making

Experience

2012. ADDRN Urban Planning Agency, Saint-Nazaire, France Conducting a prospective study on the future of the city’s waterfront. Planning and organizing the guidelines to the urban and architectural project.

2012. DTACC, Architecture firm, Paris, France Assisting head architect on meetings during the construction of Radisson’s four star hotel.

2011. DC + CV, Interior Design, Nantes, France Creating an interior design partnership. Designing interiors for offices, houses and apartments on the West Coast of France.

2011. ADDRN Urban Planning Agency, Saint-Nazaire, France Conducting a prospective study on planning 100.000 sq. ft of public space in the city’s WWII Submarine Base

2010. CFMV, Architecture + Communication company, Nantes, France Creating an architecture and communication partnership company. Counseling construction firms, industrial firms, property developers on communication strategies. Designing images, films, and apps for products and projects.

2009. ART, Interior Design, Nantes, France Internship as assistant to an interior designer.

2007. Charged LLC, Animation + computer graphics, New York, USA Production assistant in an animation and computer graphics film studio in Brooklyn, New York.

Software

IIIIIIIIII Autocad IIIIIII ArchicadIIIIIIIIII Photoshop, Indesign, Illustrator, After EffectsIIIIIIIIII SketchupIIIIIIIIII Cinema 4dIIIIIIIIII Artlantis IIII 3ds Max III RevitIIIIIIIIII Word, Excel, Powerpoint

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IndexPage 6 Simplicity & Complexity

Page 10 Rethinking the Waterfront

Page 14 Edict of Nantes

Page 18 Changing Ecologies

Page 22 Radisson Palace

Page 26 Submarine Base

Page 30 Naval Architecture

Page 32 Heron Bridge

Page 34 Salar de Uyuni

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NANTES, JANUARY 25, 2013

Simplicity & Complexity

Status Architecture school project, fourth year, 2012Professors Louis Paillard + Nathalie RalletProject name Simplicity & ComplexityLocation PA (Paris, France)Team Clément Dagneaux, Valentin Caro

The constant growth of the world’s population has result-ed in the uncontrolled sprawl of all major cities around the globe over the past 20 years. This resulted in a chron-ic decrease of available land surface and in the increase of issues related to ecology.

A solution is urgently needed, and the architecture and urbanism of tomorrow should be a sustainable answer to these problems.

In an era of ever-growing constraints, the standardiza-tion of manufacturing methods, the increase of regula-tion, and the rising cost of construction, the challenge the architect faces, is to design space with complex pre-defined tools.

Our project “Simplicity & Complexity” proposes a meth-od aimed at simplifying the design and the manufactur-ing process while incorporating the choices and tastes of consumers in the development of an urban form. The proposed system is a global solution that is hyper-dense, multifunctional, green, adaptable, and therefore sustain-able.

Established on the partition of an urban grid, the concept appears at first to be based on a rigid frame but actually leaves the field open to the creativity of the designer. Sim-ilar to Lego bricks, the dimensions of the building unit of this architectural game originate from the standardized dimensions of construction products.

The project’s logic tends to erase the boundary between scales by creating a nesting puzzle that can multiply to in-finity. This allows for a combination of typologies in three dimensions, liberating living spaces, as well as breathing spaces and porosities. The product of this experiment is a sample of a city, at once dense and permeable, built and green, simple and complex.

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SAINT NAZAIRE, SEPTEMBER 1, 2012

Rethinking the WaterfrontStatus Mission for Saint Nazaire city urban planning agency (ADDRN)Project name Rethinking the WaterfrontLocation SN (Saint Nazaire, France)Team Clément Dagneaux, Valentin Caro

The city of Saint-Nazaire on the Atlantic coast of France is a town of 70,000. Partially destroyed during WWII, it has ever since been rebuilding itself while trying to re-store its maritime identity. The global project, entitled «Ville-Port» is led by the ADDRN urban planning agency and consists of a complex set of interventions whose op-erational phases go back to 1990.

2012 marks a turning point in the project as its third phase is entered upon. The ADDRN decides to call on two architecture students for a fresh perspective of the situation.

The goal of the mission is a wide urban, architectural, scenographic, reflection on the rehabilitation of the wa-terfront from the harbour to the estuary (approximately 4 miles). The project is established on a month-long study of the current operating of this space on different scales.

It is determined that the goal is not to install a linear project but rather to work on specific points of articula-tion between the sea, the city, the port and the river.

The proposed interventions are of various scales, ranging from the reorganization of the urban plan to scenograph-ic initatives. Their goal is to recreate and enhance the seam between the city and the water.

The project, presented to the mayor and other elected of-ficials, has attracted great interest and has become the base for specifications regarding the future call for en-tries for architecture and urban firms to rejuvenate the waterfront.

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NANTES, JUNE 28, 2012

Edict of NantesStatus Architecture school project, third year, 2011Professor Jean RobeinProject name Edict of NantesLocation NTE (Nantes)Team Clément Dagneaux

The project aims to create student housing combined with senior citizen housing as well as different types of shops such as a laudromat and a café.

The architectural projet establishes itself in different ways on the site (the square of the Edict of Nantes). First, in respecting an historical and urban, the building aims to create a physical boudary between private and public space. Divided in three distinct elements, the building is pierced by three gaps reflecting the porosity of the actual square.

These openings constitute the fulcrum of the project, driving the users from the mineral world of the city to a green garden in the heart of the development. The three volumes allow the different functions to coexist within the same shell.

The question is to offer to the inhabitants different feel-ings and sensations through architectural features by playing with light environments, the relationship between the shops and the street, highlighting the unevenness of the ground materials.

The site is a determining factor, not only of the architec-tural form, but also of the concept. The project questions the different states of mind architecture can create be-tween the building and the city.

Overall the project tends to fully respect a complicated context, while injecting a contemporary conception into a sample of XVIII century urbanism.

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NANTES, JANUARY 23, 2012

Changing EcologiesStatus Architecture school project, third year, 2011Professors Raphaëlle Hondelatte + Sophie DelhayeProject name Changing ecologiesLocation NTE (Nantes)Team Clément Dagneaux

A six-months long study committed to analyzing the in-trinsic relations between industrial and residential areas along the Loire river, between Rezé and Le Pellerin (10 miles).

Shared heritage of the territory spread over the river’s banks, these spaces periodically intermingle creating an heterogeneous urban fabric.

The first phase of the analysis consists in the dissection on six cases where these circumstances arise. We quickly notice that the various examples show similarities as well as special features.

The second phase focuses on categorizing these examples according to their topologies and their characteristics. Three scenarios are identified.

A first case in which «enclosure» is established as the main characteristic. Inhabited areas become confined when faced industrial expansion. An introversion char-acterized by dense road networks and a weak relation to green spaces.

A second case in which «detachment» is established as the main characteristic. A geographical distance is creat-ed between the two entities, as the landscape appears to become an element of isolation and respiration.

A third case in which «friction» is established as the main characteristic. The urban fabric and the industrial fabric intermingle periodically. A context of hybridation where interweavement tightens or loosens occasionally.

After more than 150 analytic maps, the third phase of the study sketches three «projects» questioning the value and the use of the limit.

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NANTES, JUNE 8, 2012

Radisson PalaceStatus Construction site supervision internship, 2012Architectural firm DTACC ParisProject name Changing ecologiesLocation NTE (Nantes)

Built in 1851, Nantes’ former Courthouse ceased to per-form its functions in 2000. Five years later, the General Council of Loire-Atlantique steps forward to save the building by finding a new use for it. Among the different proposals received, the County has décides to retain the project transforming the courthouse into a four star ho-tel, in conjunction with a brand new contemporary art space. In 2007, the General Council brings together AXA Real Estate, Rezidor, Radisson BLU, Cogedim, Nuel and DTACC to create and conduct the future project.

This is the framework of my construction site supervi-sion internship, lasting for a period of four months from Februrary to June 2012.

This case study of the rehabilitation of the Courthouse into a palace hotel is an approach to the architecture and standards of public buildings as well as an introduction to our architectual heritage.

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SAINT NAZAIRE, SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Submarine BaseStatus Mission for Saint Nazaire city urban planning agency (addrn) Project name Submarine BaseLocation SN (Saint Nazaire, France)Team Clément Dagneaux, Valentin Caro Fabien Legoff, Maxime Aupiais

The agency for the sustainable development of Saint-Nazaire’s region (ADDRN) decides, following a consul-tation in April 2011, to assign a mission on the subject of the town’s Submarine Base to the four members of CFMV (Communication & Marketing company co-created in 2010). Built in 1943 during WWII on the Atlantic Wall by the German army, the monument, now open to the public since 1994, gives rise to questions on various levels.

The mission consists in providing a new point of view on the following subject: How to improve the public image and use of the public spaces in the Submarine Base of the city of Saint-Nazaire.

The assignment is organized around three stages starting with an objective inventory of the building and its con-text, then establishing a masterplan outlining guidelines to the future project, and finally proposing a wide range of architectural, urban, scenic, artistic interventions meeting the following criteria:

1 - Reaffirm the organizational structure of the Base2 - Revive the interior public spaces of the Base3 - Consider the building as part of the urban itinerary4 - Connect the system to the existing flows5 - Punctuate the flow of events generating attractivity

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KYOTO, DECEMBER 6, 2011

French Cultural CenterStatus Creative partnership, 2011Project name EFEO Kyoto CenterLocation KY (Kyoto, Japan)Team Clément Dagneaux, Valentin Caro, Atelier Nelobo

The French Architecture Firm Nelobo, associated with the Japanese engineering firm Shinsaku Munemoto & Associates, enter the competition launched by the French School of the Middle East execute the conception of their research center in Kyoto, Japan.

They propose a 4000 sq. ft. resolutely experimental build-ing, composed of reading rooms, research labs, informa-tion centers, and common spaces.

Shortly before the entry deadline, Nelobo turns to an ex-ternal service provider to achieve the visual communi-cation of the project necessary to the presentation of the project to the competition jury.

The CFMV team (Communication & Marketing company co-created in 2010) designs and renders a series of 3d images illustrating the exterior and interior of the build-ing.

The project is declared the winner and its construction should start in 2014 for an approximate budget of 1.2 M$.

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NANTES, MAY 15, 2011

The Heron BridgeStatus Creative partnership, 2009 - ongoinProject name The Heron BridgeLocation FR (France)Team Clément Dagneaux, Valentin Caro, Jules Eymard, Paul Jaquet, Mattie Le Voyer

Winner of the national architecture competition Constru-iacier 2011, the project of the Heron Bridge aims to con-nect the Island of Nantes to The Heron Island to the east, linking it to the city’s future green lung.

The Architecture students responible for the project, Paul Jaquet, Jules Eymard and Mattie Le Voyer call on CFMV (Communication & Marketing company co-created in 2010) to direct a short cg movie presenting the project as a three dimensional model.

A successful collaboration, since Paul Jaquet, Jules Ey-mard and Mattie Le Voyer won the competition in Paris, at the National Center of Architecture in front of 200 oth-er participants, thanks to this melting pot of creativity.

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BOLIVIA, JANUARY 28, 2011

Salar de UyuniStatus Architecture school project, second year, 2010Professors Michel Bertreux + Louis Paillard + Stéphane LagréProject name Na3Li11Location BO (Bolivia)Team Clément Dagneaux, Emmanuel Chomarat, Maxime Aupiais

This utopic project developed over a six-month period is an oppurtunity to create an imaginary scenario illustrat-ed by computer-generated illustrations.

Located in Bolivia, the Salar de Uyuni is the world’s larg-est lithium reserve. Lithium is the essential element in the development of clean energy for the future. The financial and economic stakes are high, and the decline of the oil industry attracts small and large companies to invest in this new generation material.

Gradually, an architecture settles around the desert. In this futuristic universe, each camp is equipped with auto-mated vehicle storage, desalting and rehydration rooms, retractable worker rooms arranged around a high tech central space served by podcars.

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