Escobar portfolio

PORTFOLIOPierre Escobar

[email protected] 493 18 25 53

Professionnal and Academic experience

Sept 2013 - Aug 2015Laboratoire Bâle, EPFL, Research coordinator, Lausanne, CH

Sept 2011- Nov 2013HHF architekten, project leader, Basel, CH

Dec 2013- Present DEVspace, co-founder, Brussels

May 2011Indesem, TU Delft, Guest teacher, Delft, NL

Sept 2010 - Jan 2011ULB, Teaching assistant, Brussels, BE

Jul 2010 - Jan 2011MS-A, junior architect, Brussels, BE

Sept 2008 - Jul 2009Arons & Gelauff, Intern, Amsterdam, NL__

Education

2005 - 2011ISACF La Cambre, Master in architecture, Brussels, BE

2008 - 2009Academie Van Bouwkunst, exchange program, Amsterdam, NL__

Langages

French, mother tongueEnglish, working proficiencySpanish, speaking proficiency __

Programs

Autocad, Photoshop, Indesign, Illustrator, Sketchup

Contact

CURRICULUM VITAE

LA DEFENSELE PAVMETROPOLITAN LANDSCAPESFRIBOURG BOURGLE LOCLEISHINOMAKI ARTICHAUT

URBANISM

Pierre Escobar

LA DEFENSEPartner offices: AWP + HHF + LEAProgram: Urban planning for the public spaces of the "La Défense" districtLocation: La Défense, ParisCompetition: 2011, 1st prizeStudy: 2011–2013Gross site area: 1.61 km2Client: Defacto, Etablissement public de gestion du quartier de la Défence, Paris

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COEUR TENDRE / VUE

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RE-GRAND AXE / VUE

The project at La Defense is most strongly defined by its pro-grammatic and spatial complexity. This is especially evident in the multileveled nature of circulation, infrastructure, and occupiable space. What appears on the surface as just a slab, is in actuality, just a small part of a larger system. The slab, functioning as a hy-brid ground, serves at once as the pedestrian walkway, a roof to 6 stories of underground infrastructure, and a wall to surrounding streets all the while floating above a transportation hub. In this way, it opitomizes the relationship between landscape, architecture, and infrastructure. In response, a set of guidelines proposed by AWP and HHF reimagines the slab as a key connector in the site instead of a barrier, maximizes efficient use of the space in, on, and around the slab, and develops a holistic vision for a new cultural and pro-grammatic culture on the site.

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AWP + HHF - Plan guide for the public spaces of la Défense district

NATURE INVASION

AWP + HHF - Plan guide for the public spaces of la Défense district

REHABITER LE DOMAINE

Vertical relations

Pavillon vertical relations Green space

Pavillons

Art works Cheminies

LE PAVPartner offices: HHF + AWP + CITECProgram: Vision and Master Plan of Public Spaces and Develop-ment of Mobility ConceptLocation: Praille-Acacias-Vernets, Geneva, SwitzerlandCompetition: 2008, 1st PrizeDesign: 2009 – 2012Gross Site Area: 2.30 km2Client: Canton de Genève (DPAV, DGAT, DCTI)

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Today, the PAV is a mixed-use zone with large industrial areas contain-ing local industries and services as well as more urbanized districts.

On the basis of an existing Master Plan by ENF Architects from Zurich, our team developed a comprehensive vision and guidelines for all fu-ture public spaces and a new mobility concept for the PAV area. The strategy can be summarized in three parts: re-territorializing the PAV by finding a balance between the current chaos and new structuring elements; exploiting the transformation by producing interventions on the site that stimulate urban activities; and generating a new identity through the reinforcement of the existing identity (this by, among other things, establishing a large, emblematic public space).

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METROPOLITANLANDSCAPESStudy, Brussels (BE)Program: Landscape Advertised tender, 2014Completed, 2015Client: VML - Vlaams BouwmeesterDEVspace: Urbanism consultantLead office: ColocoCunsultant: Gilles Clement

1.1 L’espace non-bati comme attout

Le territoire qui correspond à notre étude sur la ville de Bruxelles se présente sous une forme d’écoinçon dont la pointe se situe en cœur de ville et la base élargie en secteur agri-cole. Cet espace ouvert non bâti est une situation rare dans les grandes villes d’Europe .

Cette figure fait apparaître la relation immédiate entre deux mondes que l’évolution des sociétés ont séparé : celui de la production vivrière et celui de la consommation vivrière. Il est possible, utile, voire urgent de changer le modèle d’exploitation , d’économie et de culture qui sépare le consommateur ignorant du producteur robotisé pour les rassembler dans un contexte d’échanges directs , non asservissants et écologiquement soutenables.

Pour cette raison, nous proposons d’assortir le diagnostic d’une série de propositions qui placent les enjeux de productions et distributions vivrières en première position. Puis de déterminer la place des autres fonctions que ce territoire peut assumer en incluant la pos-sibilité d’une extension du bâti et , en certaines circonstances d’une densification possible du bâti existant .

1.2 La configuration d’une opportunité

En nous approchant de plus près, nous pouvons observer la similarité séquencielle de notre site avec l’entité urbaine allant de la Forêt de Soignes à la Porte de Namur. Cette dernière présente d’ailleurs un bel exemple d’ensemble éco-systèmique continu traversant les limites administratives des trois régions du pays.

La préservation de telles séquences pénétrant le tissu urbain nous semble primordial pour le futur de l’agglomération Bruxelloise. Il est donc essentiel de réfléchir à l’agencement des séquences allant du Pajottenland à la porte de Ninove afin de leur donner une cohérence territoriale tout en préservant leurs qualitées naturelles intrinsectes.

Là ou la Foret de Soignes est un poumons pour la ville, nous nous proposons d’axer nos reflexions sur le thème de « la ville nourricières ». Sans oublier de lier cet enjeux au déve-loppement territorial des villes dans leur écosystèmes respetif.

Positionnement métropolitain

Mots clés : écoinçon - échanges directs - écologiquement soutenable

Mots clés : similarité - agencement - cohérence - ville nourricière

Scheutbos hills

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SCHEUTBOS HILLS ECO-PROTUCTIVE PARK

METROPOLITAN LIVINGROOM PARK OF COMPONENTS

The Brussels Metropolitan Landscapes study initiated by the VLM and the Vlaams Bouwmeester intends on establishing a debate on the future of the landscape in and around Brussels, across Bel-gium’s regional borders and governance structures.

The reflection on the Scheutbos-Gare de l’Ouest area addresses the development of landscape as an urban common, and as such the need for a shared endeavour not only between decision-mak-ers, but between all actors who make the landscape. The study translates the potentialities of the site in terms of topography, geol-ogy, situation and morphology into four “metropolitan narratives”: endings of a story that is to be collectively written by a coalition of the willing. The constellation of actions contributing to this endeav-our is to be coordinated by an independent function of urban cura-tor, through an iterative process of reflexive governance.

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Masterplan, Fribourg (CH)Program: Public spaceSize: 100'000 m2Open competition, 20154th prize, 2015Client: City of FribourgDEVspace: UrbanismPartners: Julien Deloffre, Pauline Varloteaux, Pauline CabritConsultant: Siobhan Rockcastle

FRIBOURG BOURG

Masterplan, Le Locle (CH)Program: Public spaceSize: 20'000 m2Open competition, 2015Client: City of Le LocleDEVspace: UrbanismLandscape: Celine BaumannLocal office: Ludivine Gragy

LE LOCLEA new public space design accompanies the adoption of a new circulation plan for the old centre of Fribourg.

The historic context is treated with the greatest regard, through neutral tones and material acting as backdrop for the buildings. New infrastructural necessities are discretely integrated, their visu-al impact minimized. However, the intervention focuses its impact on the urban scale, by proposing a new urban beacon on the oth-er side of the Zähringen Bridge, reconnecting this area of the city through an infrastructure combining urban facilities and a car park, allowing visitors to park and reach the historic center through the–now pedestrian–bridge.

The steep topography of Le Locle defined a unique form of urban-ization, but also induced the establishment of the railway station in disconnection to the urban fabric and 1st of August Square of the city below.

To reconnect these two entities, the paradoxical intervention is to strenghten their specificities and contrasts to induce complemen-tarity. The 1st of August Square becomes a public space where intermodality interacts with the urban fabric. On the other hand, the Esplanade of the Station becomes part of the station infrastructure as a viewpoint on the city of departure or arrival, with a terrace for travellers and strollers alike and a taxi drop-off. The vegetal con-nection between these spaces is extended into a green corridor of transition, dominated by the esplanade and penetrating the urban fabric.

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The redefinition of circulation patterns on a road crossing in Brus-sels allows to transform a residual space into a full-fledged urban square.

The design therefore takes on the challenge to redefine hierarchy between driving and walking in public space. Pavement textures are homogenized throughout the square, roads are raised to side-walk level only subtly demarcated. Sidewalks and terraces are in-creased in size on all sides, further reducing the proportion of space attributed to car use and implying to drivers they are treading on pedestrian ground and thus should drive carefully.

The square itself acts as the focal point of leisure activities, hosting dense vegetation and a semi-circular bench around a topographic play and a fountain as informal playing area for children.

Public space, Brussels (BE)Program: Public squareSize: 2'000 m2Non advertised tender, 2015Expected completion, 2016Construction cost: 195'000 € Client: St Josse Ten NoodeDEVspace: Full processLead architect: Julien DeloffreLandscape : BLOC paysage

ARTICHAUTIn the aftermath of the tsunami of March 11th, 2011 in Japan, the NGO Ishinomaki 2.0 invited several young practitioners from Belgium, France and Luxembourg to the Ishinomaki Architecture Workshop in order to reflect on a post-traumatic masterplan for a sustainable future for Ishinomaki, one of the most damaged cities.

As Ishinomaki citizens are coping with adversity and willing to en-gage and define the future of the city, we chose to gather and share different thoughts, ideas and strategies, related to the existing and coming challenges of the city, rather than establish a monolithic vision of the future.

The results were presented to Japanese officials and local citizens, exhibited for several weeks in the centre of Ishinomaki and summa-rized in a book edited by the ULB Architecture Faculty.

ISHINOMAKIStudy, Ishinomaki (JP)Program: Post traumatic masterplanAcademic workshop, 2011Client: ULBDEVspace: Urban consultancyPartners: 2001 + Julien Deloffre + Julie Collet + Pauline Varloteaux


BRUSILIAB&MSTAY RADICALALMATALAUSANNE JARDIN MARTINE

ARCHITECTUREAND DESIGN

Pierre Escobar

BRUSILIARenovation, Brussels (BE)Program: HousingSize: 120 m2Direct commission, 2013Realised, 2015Construction cost: undisclosed Client: PrivateDEVspace: full processConstruction: Atelier Groot EilandImage credits: Nico Neefs

In this renovation of a 29th floor-apartement, the unobstructed view on the city is a luxury that architecture merely accompanies.Hence the main spatial intervention is opening up the apartment to let the horizon in: all non-structural interior walls of the apartment are removed to allow the interior to float between two horizons.

Parcimonial but strong interventions then anchor the space. A new volume organises the sleeping area, allowing to close and subdi-vide it into a main and guest bedroom when necessary, while letting daylight and the view reach into the centrally positioned bathroom.

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Installation, Venice (IT)program: scenographySize: 40 m2Direct commission, 2014Completed, 2014Construction cost: 15'000 € Client: SuperscriptDEVspace: ScenographyInterface design: Thibault Brevet

STAY RADICAL

Scenography for a thematic event in the Arsenale, organized by New-York-based agency Superscript, during the Venice Biennale of Architecture 2014 (curated by Rem Koolhaas).

A mechanized interface conceived by Thibault Brevet translates the digital content of the debate into analogic marker pen strokes. The information thereby gains the precious, irregular materiality of craftsmanship.

Through the layout of this interface, the textual and graphical in-formation structure the debate as much as the scale of different sessions. For each event, thoughts, quotes and diagrams scroll down on a paper curtain, descending as background for the dis-cussion and reducing the size of the stage as events become more demanding and appealing to smaller audiences.

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Renovation, Paris (FR)Program: RestaurantSize: 80 m2Direct comission, 2013Realised, 2013Construction cost: 45’000 €Client: B&MDEVspace: Concept process

B&MRESTAURANT

Pierre Escobar

Restaurant designs in Paris are more often than not defined by a congestion of space, covered up in a more or less elegant layer of decoration. The Parisian dining experience is rarely relaxing, most-ly dense, exposed and rushed. It’s hard to take a breather when there’s no air to breathe. This is even more true in the case of « burger joints » ruled by efficiency. Restaurant chain B&M, while re-taining the functionality required for any restaurant, attempts at pro-viding what might be the most valuable asset in Paris : abundance of space and the possibility to slow down, to read or engage a last-ing conversation.

It is this spatial generosity that becomes the very identity of B&M. To achieve this result for various contexts, a series of possible ar-chitectural decisions were assembled into a flexible spatial vocab-ulary. From choice of typology to furniture design, these elements can be combined for a strong result in multiple situations.

ALMATARenovation, Brussels (BE)Program: Bio shopSize: 50 m2Direct commission, 2014Realised, 2015Construction cost: 15’000 € Client: Seed sprlDEVspace: full processConstruction: Atelier Groot EilandImage credits: Nico Neef

This interior design for an organic grocery store aims at an optimal use of the limited shop area, but shaping the space through the composition of the shelves, occasionally protruding to create sub-spaces while augmenting the shelving surfaces. The design also provides optimal visibilty into the shop from the cashier standing point.

The resulting layout is rendered to evoke a miniature cityscape of blocks and towers.

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Furniture designProgram: TableSize: 1 m2Concept design: 2014Realised: 2014Construction cost: 50 € Client: Self initiatedDEVspace: Full process

MARTINEInstallation, Lausanne (CH)Program: Building entranceSize: 30 m2Open competition, 2013Finalist, 2013Construction cost: 30'000 €Client: Lausanne JardinDEVspace: ArchitectureLandscape: Celine Baumann

LAUSANNE JARDIN

This artistic intervention in a coverd passage is a play on the notion of transition and an exploration of uncommon vegetation in land-scaping.

A U-shaped object is hung from a mirrored ceiling. By entering the space one is enveloped by a mixture of the extremely diverse types of moss existing in local ecosystems. As one progresses stairs al-low to pass under the object and observe it as a monolith of deep green floating in space.

MARTINE consists of a square of 60 by 60 cm of plywood mul-tiplex, cut in 3 pieces which are then assembled to form the ta-ble, without any need for glue or screws. The table takes minimal packaging space (the size of the flat pan-el), generates a low material loss (the production is made by using a plywood panel of 1220 by 2440 mm enabling to produce 8 ta-bles with one single panel) and can be built and disassembled in less than 30 seconds (and as many times as necessary). Several tables may also be joined together to form a bigger table with a funny pattern.The table can be build locally: Any CNC machine can read the flat-pack plan to produce Martine, enabling minimum transportation and packaging cost and skipping the complex intermediary resellers.


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