[Nuit Blanche]

hey people,
some pics of the latest stuff i found to keep me busy, asides my current work : the 'Nuit Blanche' of this Oct 4th.
I was proposed to take part to a small performance, strange happening which melted electronic music, a real choir (the guys in the windows, called 'White Spirit Band'), light animation and video projections.
My rôle was to make a video there, and that is what it gave : lots of people, who seemed to like it...

Superstar architect!

Hi everybody !

… Here I am! Almost one year I didn’t post anything here! But I’m alive, and something new… I’m an architect… Yes, really! I’m graduated! J
So it’s time for me to give you news of everything!

In June I presented the last project of my studies… It’s a museum about bridges in Oporto, Portugal. (photo joined) I joined an explanation text below…

Yesterday, I presented this project to a contest of accessibility, and I won!!!! I’m gonna have a lot of money to visit you now! J Sooooo Happy!

Today I also choose the office I’ll work in… I changed my mind yesterday and I finally chose a small office but designing really interesting project with perfectionism and talent. It’s called NS architecture, we’re four, and it’s in Liège periphery…

I'll probably travel to Asia and South america in one year, when i'll have made some economies... I wanna visit Brice in Shangaï and I could probably find a great office in Argentina.

I miss you all, I remember all the souvenirs we got and I wanna meet you somewhere… (It’s so far from you to live in West Europe)

Maybe I should leave Belgium because the country is not at his best state at the moment. Lots of problems with economy and politic stuffs… like a real mess… Two days ago, we thought about a banking bankruptcy… But the country finally repurchased the bank J

Today Belgium is not rainy (thanks GOD J) so I’m gonna enjoy it J

See you soon I hope!

Kisses from the rainy country!

m a r i e.

Museum of Bridges in Oporto, Portugal

Oporto is the city of bridges ; these are numerous and the most famous is the « Ponte Luis » from the disciple of Gustave Eiffel.
The project is situated in front of these, at the bottom of the hill, behind the houses of the most tourist embankment of Oporto which go along the Douro river. The site is exceptional for a museum of bridges because the disproportionate scale of the « Ponte Luis » offer an interesting sight.

To install this museum, I prolong an automobile tunnel, by recovering it by a structure integrated into the project, to find a surface on which the museum is built then. For that, I use various thematics present in the site : layers climbing on the hill, prop wall, linearity, pedestrian network in three dimensions, hanging garden…

A stage of structure (wall-beams) and technical rooms is dissimulated behind the « prop » wall ; we can also find there the cafeteria-restaurant and the temporary exhibition (interactive relation with the restaurant) in the bridge direction.

The entrance and the permanent exhibition are just above, connected to a public place joining the various ways from the bottom and the top of the site.
The lengthened volume in front contains the second part of the permanent exhibition with a point of culmination towards the Luis bridge and the room about Oporto, city of bridges. The organization is based on actual crierias of museography : continuous wire (conductive wall, footbridge), visual breakthrough, fixed reference marks (patio…), nuance of spaces (large-small, open-closed…) (like the difference between the two levels of the permanent exhibition),…

The more private parts of the museum (areas of teaching, press, research and direction) are located at the back of the site and in the volume overhanging the hanging garden (social control)…

make the walls tumble down

so finally we did it!!! peti and me removed the kitchen wall, and we also made some minor improvements like throwing the shelves away and painting this and that to some awesome colors :D

no corridor anymore, and hopefully in a week our selective waste bin will also be ready...

and for those living near berlin, here's some association about the project :D

This must be underwater love

Bp's over

Hi friends!
It's not even a week since i'm home and quite many things are happening here after my arrival, and that's why post comes now (for me it should come even later, cause i still cannot find right words to express how thankful i am to all of you who made my stay in Bp so good). But at the same time i didn't want you to wait too long and have the feeling that i already forgot about everything :P No, i didn't.

I can definitely say - those 2 months of summertime were my best ones. Of course i had some incredible time before this summer, of course i was missing few friends around me even now, but i never had such a perfect summer in a sum. And as i like it intense, i liked it even more.

Everyday work (almost everyday, hehe), coming back around 6pm (many times later), having a dinner, doing some sports (till John was there, later we skipped this point) and parties (rarely other activities) in Godor, Szimpla, Corvinteto, Fecske, Buddha Beach, ZP or even in Rio. All that with liters of wines, frocs, sunsets and one but special sunrise at Gellert hill, with all of you guys, yeah that was amazing.

Hopefully you'll contiune with playing frisbee, or start if you didn't try yet and will meet on next olympics, hehe.

Have fun and keep on smiling in Hungary, Greece, England, Poland, Canada, USA, Greece, Thailand, Brazil, Ireland, Australia, Croatia, Norway, Germany, Syria, Lebanon, Romania, Spain, Russia, Turkey, Switzerland and Scotland!

köszönöm
michal

hallo heidi! hallo grossvater!

dear friends. I proudly announce that I got the job in the curating team of the 4th International Architecture Biennal Rotterdam 2009!

that means I am working under Prof. Kees Christiaanse at the ETH in Zurich for the next several months. I've been there last week and signed the papers. Zurich is a lovely city. I like it somehow. BUT the rooms are like gold dust. almost none existing but pretty expensive. we will see how it works. with october I am goin down there.

of course you guys are welcome to visit me and some nice piece of swiss cubical architecture.

Waiting for....

waiting for the new IKEA catalogue
waiting for September!


(Belongs to IKEA's advertising campaign)

Funny, in a good way

Back from my holidays in Southern Europe... and brought some impressions.

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[1]: memorial for the victims of the 56 revolution. and some tourists who need to hide anywhere possible.

[2]: Budapest streets. Budapest host.

[3]+[4]: preparations for square metre drinking of hell. the cups were completely empty some hours later and all of us were quite happy (not the day after though).

[5]: Buda and Pest from above.

[6]: not the end!

[7]: I am doing QUITE well in getting an orientation of Budapest. Quite!

[8]: Sziget 2008: one free ticket, some GREAT free bands, some cheap beer. Adam made me discover that great Hungarian band called Erik Sumo. I brought you one song to get into them. Click n enjoy (see above, "music")!

[9]: Hungarian bottle opener


Altogether... Thanks again for some wunderbare days and nights in the city of free public transport, it was so great with you! Rather sooner than later I'll be back for having breakfast on the windowsills, lunch in the park and beer on the roof. And more Pálinka. Szimpla I don't really need, we have it here although I doubted it (so sorry!) :]
Say szia to people I met and give the ticket controller a hug (I see them ANYWHERE in Berlin now although I've got a valid ticket... brrr)!

Was good, in a funny way!

falerone

at least i’ve recieved the photos of my 3 weeks in italy
it was great and meant a lot to me, what else could i say, one of the greatest presents i’ve ever given myself


stripe1 - 2 weeks in falerone with 10 hungarian students of architecture (i would call 6 of these now friends), just painting, sleeping, drinking wine and varnelli, having nice conversations, going to bed at 4 a.m every day

stripe2 - some of the works i’ve painted there

stripe3 - 3 days of walking to assisi, finding a place for meditation, meeting brother ambroggio

stripe4
- visiting one of my friends in milan, 3 lazy days without my heavy backpack at least

what is the rude guy doin in his holidays?

he became

a DJ

a member of myspace

a guy that doesn't sleep before 4am at the weekends.

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he is visting exhibitions in Berlin an trying to organise one

he layouting a book for the chair of housing design (BIG BUCKS)

he shows his ass for a sustainable future

he is waiting for a consent of the ETH Zurich to help curating the Rotterdam Architecture Biennale 2009

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he is kinda taking a break from architecture and discovers the world around.

Lüc, your Diploma is great. Very senseful and  conclusive and sensitive. The topic is acually the future for architects in Europe. New, Old and sth between. 

I also like the graphic pretty much , 98% are d'accord =P

I hope will work together later in our lifes. You are the first who finished. I guess I will be the last.

Bonne chance!