Contests
Taking part to a contest is a good way to evaluate my skills, and work on unusual projects. This is the chance to meet new people, from possible future partners, to possible future clients, or even just some good connections. Thanks to them, I discovered new ways of working, new ways of thinking, and new values, like team work.
Winner of the local heritage days, Lyon 2013
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The Architect and the Interior Designer don't only have a creation role. They must be able to get inspired by the existent, and even to adapt to it.
This local heritage days were a chance for me to work on one of these ancient buildings: the desecrated Bryuères Church was closed for few years, and offered several refurbishment possibilities. This allowed me to get in touch with the regional heritage, by working on a non-ordinary project. This is an awareness about yesterday heritage, in order to save it, transform it, and so design tomorrow heritage.
From this old forsaken church, my partner (a student in architecture) and I designed a great auditorium. Indeed, the ancient vicarage had been turn into a music school, with an about thirty places car park. Moreover, the philharmonic of the town needed a place to practise and to play. The auditorium was obviously the logical suite of the global context.
We designed contemporary cloister in place of the car park, which connected again the ancient vicarage to the church, and welcomed the main entrance in the corner of the two streets. The rooftop of the north side aisle was turned into exterior terraces, easy to reach by the first floor.
Campus Création, Lyon 2013
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The 10 years of Lyon firm creation contest.
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A team of five students from CREAD interior design school has been created for the 10 years of the Campus Création contest: Léa Orcel, Sylvain Marceau, Antoine Dury, Anthony Robert and Lofty Kelsch. These young future interior designers worked onto the scenography and the layout of the place that received the event on may the 15th of 2013 : the huge patio of the Hôtel de Ville of Lyon.
So, thirty stands, two exchange spaces, a radio space and a welcome space had been designed. The way that has been chosen was ecology, recycling, unexpected and customisation: some many partition walls made of craft paper had been erected, contrasting with the sophisticated and perennial decor that offered this majestuous place.
The teams of students from different sectors had been able to appropriate these stands, in order to highlight the product they developed through their new firm, to present it to the numerous visitors, and perhaps win a price.
Photographies taken by a professionnal.
