PORTFOLIO : CHARLIE BRUZZESE

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CHARLIE BRUZZESE EDUCATION

CONTACT

ABOUT

2013 - 2015 Master’s degree - ENSA Nancy :

• Study and analysis of existing social and collective housing, leading to the design of a residential building• Conceptual creation of a theater in Nancy around the theme of “reversibility”• Restoration of an old garage facility and redesign into a park with lodging and public spaces.

2009 - 2013 Bachelor’s degree - ENSA Nancy:

Achievement in fundamental sizing and scaling. Study of light and spaces through multiple projects, urban planning concepts and approaches, construction fundamentals and basic architectural design.

2008 - 2009 MANAA - Le Corbusier’s Highschool - Strasbourg:

(one-year intensive program preparing for the national competitive exam for entry to art & architecture schools.) : Intensive study of various disciplines including architecture, fashion, arts, illustration, painting, object design and a comprehensive approachto drawing and its techniques.

2006 - 2008 High school diploma - Le Corbusier’s Highschool - Strasbourg:

Secondary Education: fundamental design skills, architectural drawing, and architectural history.

Morocco : Rabat , Marrakesh, Casablanca :

Porto, Braga, Lisbon

Netherlands : Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht

Denmark, Sweeden: Copenhagen, Malmö

Belgium :Bruxelles, Gent

England : London

Luxembourg :Luxembourg, Belval

Germany : Viel-Am-Rhein, Stuttgart

Switzerland :Zurich, Basel, Lausanne

Italy : Genova, Côme

Spain : Barcelona, Figueres

Interested in all kinds of artistic expression particu-larly photography and drawing, whose localized status encourage an attention to and an understanding of my surroundings. My interest in experiential activities such as exploring and discovering have also fortified an open-minded outlook, leading me to seek further adventures through a position in a new country.

www.charlie-bruzzese.comcharlie.bruzzese@gmail.com+33 6 73 11 17 17

TRAVELSCOMPUTER SKILLS

INTERESTS

OTHER SKILLSFrench - Native languageEnglish - FluentGerman - Beginner

+ Fast learner+ Enhanced curiosity+ Accurate on manual tasks+ Skilled with computers+ Tremendous Coffee maker

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EXPERIENCE

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2016

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Internship - 7 monthsSeARCH architectsAmsterdam - Netherlands

MASTER’S DEGREE

Internship - 2 monthsSaad Bargash Arcitects Rabat - Morocco

Freelance - 1 monthAtelier d’architecture Barbu/CochetNancy - France

BACHELOR’S DEGREE

Internship - 2 monthsReal-estate officeReims - France

Internship - 1 monthMasonry companySoultz - France

HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA

Internship - 1 monthEconomist officeMulhouse - France

EARLIER EXPERIENCE

Internship - 2 monthsResearch departmentMulhouse - France

Internship - 2 weeksCarpenter companyBergholtz - France

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LIght & space........................................................................................................................................08SMAC........................................................................................................................................................12LOGEMENT..................................................................................................................................................14Theater.....................................................................................................................................................18living in a park.....................................................................................................................................22primary school (pfe)................................................................................................................................26Nautical center in rabat........................................................................................................................30HTBW - Forest............................................................................................................................................34(SeARCH) Paris housing...........................................................................................................................38(SeARch) DEVENTER - DE vikingtheater....................................................................................................42

PROJEcTs.

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LIGHT & space

This first independant project aimed on mastering natural light, as well as space in their most minimal settings. Therefore, the project has to neglect any use or programmatic values.

«Light and space» project tend to instruct the basic relations of an architectural ideal. As per say, the study is only based on light, space, views and the promenade. These entities are all linked to one another by the standard aspects of the architectural primal dialogue like the walls, ceilings, stairs, posts, etc.... All these ele-ments are organized with the adequate semiotic, such as dilated and compressed spaces, expended spaces, and so forth, and so on.

Bachelor 1st year : 2009Laurent Koetz / Pascale Richter

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Café. Groundfloor

SMAC

Located in Metz, north-east of France, the «salle des musiques ac-tuelles» is situated in a very complex part of the city, splet by the highway. The neibhorood, hosting currently old social housing from the sixties, is to become a new challenge for the municipality ‘s next urban projects.

The project is composed by two volumes, the first one is horizontal, half burried, as the other impose itself vertically and offers multi-ples views toward the city of Metz and its surroundings. The pro-gram tend to inject a new dynamic and attractiveness toward a forsaken neighborhood.

Bachelor 3rd year : 2012Felice Fanuele/ Daniel Remy

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Livingroom

Logement

The «logement» project tends to focus on the proportions and the organisation of a standard and modular appartment, that could grow from one room to duplex. The exercise aims to develop as far as possible an unique typology, which would remain coherent while mutating.

Thus, the appartment is developped even before the outside shape and the volume of the building. This way of thinking and doing is meant to create an ideal place to live, and shape the building around it. To point the fact that the inside spaces are the ones the inhabitant will really use.

Master 1st year : 2012Pascale Richter/ Laurent Koetz

Standard appartment plan

Standard appartment model

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North façade

Schematic urban model Perspective.

The building itself is a compact bloc facing the main street, while creating an enclave at the plot’s center, leaving the remaining space for private inner gardens.On the groundfloor, a café is closing the angle, protected by a discreet canteliever. the model below is showing a schematic model summerizing the plot limits and the urbanistic intentions.

18View toward the main entrance

theater

This project is located in Nancy, nearby the trainstation. The exer-cise, strictly conceptual, aims to create a building using the word «reversibility» as an only guideline. The spaces are first generated within an abstract model, which is focusing on a pure conceptual idea, in order for the project to speak for itself. Firstly, all the ge-nerated spaces are created without any use or program. Space is generated in its most abstract form.

Secondly, the program fills the blank spaces. Every major space is opening itself toward the «foyer» which is the main space that makes the cafe, the restaurant, the shop, the library and the theater communicating with each others in a continuous space.

Master 1st year : 2013Laurent Beaudouin / Jonathan Coppa

Conceptual model Groundfloor

Foyer

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Library

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Concept.

Urban planningTheater

Living in a park

Located near the city of Nancy, along a boulevard, the chosen site used to host a garage. This project is subject to a very specific pro-grammatic development which is oscillating betwin landscape and urbanism. The coming and going betwin a large set of scales allowed to build a real piece of city that includes family houses, social housing, cinema, museums, and a tower.

The urbanistic structure is developing itself using the plot bounda-ries and surroundings. The adjacent boulevard, the cimatery, the building next to it, are constitive elements giving the whole plan-ning a reason to hide, to open, to close, to show, to reaveal itself when needed.

Master 2nd year : 2013Laurent Beaudouin / Jonathan Coppa

Restaurant.

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Tower and cinema museum

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Duplex

Tower standard floor plan (Duplex highlighted)

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Concept schemes

Ground planView from the main street

Primary school

For this final study case I choose to work on an existing school in Strasbourg. This specific school has been extended and modified since the first building grew up from the ground, over a hundred years ago. The main purpose was to restructure the whole school, by implementing straight axes, based on the existing building’s shapes and locations, without altering its natural state. (schemes)

I started to produce an extended analysis of the site and its sur-rounding. Afterwars, the concept is emerging as if it was a natural deduction of the surroundings and the site itself. The rest of the production is including visuals, technical drawings and sketches relaying what the whole project would look like.

Année master 2 : 2014Laurent Beaudouin / Emeline Curien / Pascale Richter

Views toward the inner gardens

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Library from outside

Cross section

Longitudinal section

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Nautical center

The site and its programatic surfaces doesn’t leave any free mo-vement regarding the volume itself. So I decided to create a very compact bloc, assuming that the programme’s surfaces had to fit on this very restricted area.

Once it was done, I used access and views toward the surroundings as guidelines to remove parts off of the main volume. Working with negative spaces allowed me to open and lead the people toward this claustrophobic and very closed bloc. The visitor access to the building is a horizontal cavity. The other access are vertical and very narrow so the visitors wouldn’t choose them intuitively, like a very tight urban street.

Year 2014Competition for Saad Bargash architectes.

GroundfloorGround planView from the boulevard

Entrance lobby

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Transversal section

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HTBW - Forest

«How to build in the wilderness»

«Our planet is becomming smaller and smaller as the human po-pulation is getting bigger and bigger. A hundred years from now, space, like water and food will be subject to rationning. No matter if you are the richest man alive or the poorest, the new system is strict: you cannot have more than what you need, for the sake of humanity fair survival.

After producing big cities, megapolises, which destroyed or mo-difyed the most part of the planet earth’s natural state, the huma-nity is trying to reconnect itself with the remains of a wild and ruth-less nature. In that new way of investing wilderness, the mistakes of the past century were meticulously analysed so they could be avoided. A new way of thinking space and wealth repartition was about to become a common model to build cities in the wilderness without altering it.

The new laws on urbanisation born from a world consensus, were to be respectful of people and the mere qualities of the wild spaces, designeted to be invested. Deserts should stay deserts, forest should stay forests, and so on, and so forth.»

Year 2016 to presentPersonnal project

Schemes

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Inside view

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Paris housing

The competition was won at the end of 2015. My work on this on-going project had multiple facets. I started to produce visuals to communicate clearly the project’s updates throught the latest phases to the client. These perspectives included the façades sou-th and north) as well as the appartments (Axonometric visuals and inside views). Visuals aside, I participated to the design of major spaces, such as the entrance hall, the bicycle shed and the cor-ridors.

The long term practice on this project helped me to become fami-liar with a large set of tasks. I learn how to work with a team on a complex project, through Archicad teamwork project, which great-ly enhanced my archicad knowledge. I also had the possibility to improve my knowledge in french regulations, including disabled people, fire, urban rules, etc.. And the last but not the least, I was able to draw the façade details to set up a booklet, helping us rea-lised how we would arrange the cladding panels on the main fa-çade and on the ramp.

Year 2015 to present.Courtesy of SeARCH architects - Amsterdam

Perspective south-west

Main entranceAppartment T2

Appartment T3

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Façade details booklet

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De VIKING theater

Located in a small city in Netherlands, De Viking theater is meant to bring a new dynamic throughout the city. The project started three years ago and is currently at its final phase. My first task re-garding this phase was to provide designs for the façades and the inside spaces, in order to visualise the choosen materials and the signage.

As for the second task, I have been asked to design the restrooms according to a certain standard. My proposal tend to arange the space with quiet colors, as opposed to the rest of the building’s in-teriors. The black and white tiles reminds us of the old movies and thus, brings us back in time for a short while.

The work on this project, short but quite intense, allowed me to aknwoledge the choosen material samples and put them directly into the perspectives, in order to have very accurate visuals.

Year 2013 to present.Courtesy of SeARCH architects - Amsterdam

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travel sketches.........................................................................................................................................08Kahn’s fisher house..................................................................................................................................12ronchamp analysis..................................................................................................................................14utrecht’s school of managment analysis..............................................................................................14Illustrations..........................................................................................................................................20miscellaneous.........................................................................................................................................25

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travel sketches

The sketches below and at right had been realised during my per-sonnal and scholar travels. Most of them are followed by an accu-rate note, revealing a detail or a material that aroused my interest back then.

Every sketches is using its own visual dialect, in order to underline the building or space»s most important features.

Sketches since 2009techniques: watercolor, colorpencils, trias, felt-tip pens.

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Maison fisher

This work of studies on Louis Kahn’s Fisher’s house was meant to practice arcitectural drawing conventions using only traditional methods and tools.

Bachelor 3rd year : 2012Claude Valentin

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ronchamp

This first study was meant to create a compete analysis of a chosen building, whithin a fiveteen pages booklet. In order to do so, each student had to visit the building and gather as many informations as possible (on sight sketches, photos, notes, etc...)

This exercise had for main objective to teach us how to see, and explain what we saw throughtout explicit drawings, that could be easily understandable by anyone.

Notre dame du haut, in Ronchamp, is a perfect sized building for this kind of exercise, and allow us quickly to understand Le Corbu-sier’s leading intentions.

Bachelor 1st year : 2010Anne-Marie Crozetière

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sch. of economics

Same exercise as the previous one, on a very different building type, regarding the scale and the programmatic uses. The Meca-noo’s project in Utrecht, Netherland: the faculty of economics and managment is a wide an complex project. This analysis aims to iso-late its main features, to sumurize it’s cryptic architecture.

To decypher the building, the analysis is exploring plans, details, perspectives, sections and axonometry, back and forth.

Bachelor 2nd year : 2011Anne-Marie Crozetière

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Illustrations

These works are gathering multiple parts of different exercises. The first one, at right, was meant to create ten different dresses, based on a «planche de tendances» (see below). This collage is mixing up textures, drawings, colors, photos that have no primary correlation, in order to have a strong visual reference, during the whole crea-ting process.

The second exercise is a personnal project, based on the very ac-tual theme of identity: how wee see ourselves, or how we would like to be seen by our peers.

Year 2008+Techniques: pencils, watercolor, felt-tip pens

FashionWatercolorFelt-tip pensColorpencils

Hiding your true self ?Felt-tip pensColorpencilsTrias

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miscellaneous

These series are gathering all the techniques I practices during my free time, as well as my academic hours.

Pince à cils pencil & gouache

Year 2007+Techniques: pencils, watercolors, felt tip pens, china ink, feather, ftrias, acrylic, pastels...

WoodencubeTrias, felt tip penscolor pencils

Cheyenne portraitFeather with china ink

LamborghiniFelt tip pens, trias, color pencils, dry pastels

Karl blossefeldtChina ink

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At right, the picture shows a collage, made with several photos, printed, modified with the help of watercolor, colorpencils and felt tip pens, then scanned to be edited on photoshop. This post apocalyptic scene, reflects a pessimistic view of the future in which mankind would have self destruct it’s own race and left only ruins as a trace of its short presence on the planet’s surface.

The other exercices are personnal work I made to explore photo-shop’s unlimitless possibilities with a graphic tablet.

Rugby ballMade for ENSAN’s sportive association.

Ryan GoslinPhoto-realistic portrait

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PhotographY.

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Architecture

The first serie is showing architectural details and matter reccu-rence in architecture in an almost abstract way. This way of framing very thightly allows me to simplify my subject at its maximal state. From a very complex entity that is a building, I try to extract only one feature and focus on it, leaving aside everything else. These photographies are some sort of a simplified fragments, belonging to a whole, hard to apprehend building.

Year 2009+Photographies taken with a Nikon D5000.

Messe Basel - Herzog & De MeuronSignal box - Basel - Herzog & De Meuron

Basel stadium façade - Herzog & De Meuron

66Pavillon - Chateau La Coste - Tadao Ando Pavillon serpentine - Chateau La Coste - Franck Gehry Montpellier trainstation - Jean-Marie Duthilleul

Nemo - Amsterdam - Renzo Piano

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Landscape

The landscape is a very primal source of inspiration. It has a long history related to architecture. Because any building, in it’s most modest shape, is modifying it. Thus, being able to observe and analyse it can help to understand what the site needs to keep its mere qualities while still being modified by a building.

A simplified photography can extract the soul of a land or a place. It can reveal the obviousness of a future architectural shape and its materiality on the site. To me, being aware of its sourrounding is the essence of the architectural conception, this is why, the landscape contemplation is an important part of my photographic work.

Year 2009+Photographies taken with Nikon D5000.

View on a Chapel- Collioure - France Arid mountains - Chefchaouen - Maroc

View on Guimarens - Portugal

70Pre-saharien desert - Missour - Maroc Vineyards under the sun - Canet - France Swamps in the south - Maguelone - France

Chefchaouen - Maroc

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cities

Cities have, has been and will always have the same status as the landscape, when it comes to architecture. In a way that it is, by a phenomenological process, that architecture emerges from cities as well as it emerges from the countryside or even the wilderness.

Only an accurate analysis will provide the correct materials to know how and what to build, according to the surrounding volumes, ma-teriality, hights, etc..

The photography of an urban place gives clarity and power to the place’s consistency.

Year 2009+Photographies taken with a Nikon D5000.

Pavment street - Amsterdam - Pays-Bas Appropriation of a street - Amsterdam - Pays-Bas

View on the Porto’s rooftops - Portugal

74Sunset - Amsterdam - Pays-BasStreet in Braga - PortugalNear the Ocean - Lisbon - Portugal

Rabat’s medina - Maroc

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