114 Faubourg

The warmness and exuberance of a two-storey deluxe dahlias garden.

Luminous animated walls

114 Faubourg is a Michelin star awarded deluxe brasserie, located within the Résidence Matignon wing of the Bristol palace hotel. The restaurant concept showcase a high-end relaxed two-floor space whereby the fine gourmet have a sight on an open-plan kitchen and an enclosed wine cave collection, like a precious jewelry boutique. The warm and exuberant dahlias atmosphere is designed by top-notch event designer Guendolina Litta Modignani, in collaboration with interior designer Daniel Pätzelt.


Luminous animated handrails


Luminous coves and ceiling lace
Site - Groundfloor lighting plan - July 2007
Site - Basement lighting layouts - July 2007

• Date: 2007
• LD: ACT Architecture, Sint-Pieters-Leeuw (Belgium).
• Category: FFE - Lighting concept and integration

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114 Faubourg

The warmness and exuberance of a two-storey deluxe dahlias garden.

Luminous animated walls

114 Faubourg is a Michelin star awarded deluxe brasserie, located within the Résidence Matignon wing of the Bristol palace hotel. The restaurant concept showcase a high-end relaxed two-floor space whereby the fine gourmet have a sight on an open-plan kitchen and an enclosed wine cave collection, like a precious jewelry boutique. The warm and exuberant dahlias atmosphere is designed by top-notch event designer Guendolina Litta Modignani, in collaboration with interior designer Daniel Pätzelt.


Luminous animated handrails


Luminous coves and ceiling lace
Site - Groundfloor lighting plan - July 2007
Site - Basement lighting layouts - July 2007

• Date: 2007
• LD: ACT Architecture, Sint-Pieters-Leeuw (Belgium).
• Category: FFE - Lighting concept and integration

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114 Faubourg

The warmness and exuberance of a two-storey deluxe dahlias garden.

Luminous animated walls

114 Faubourg is a Michelin star awarded deluxe brasserie, located within the Résidence Matignon wing of the Bristol palace hotel. The restaurant concept showcase a high-end relaxed two-floor space whereby the fine gourmet have a sight on an open-plan kitchen and an enclosed wine cave collection, like a precious jewelry boutique. The warm and exuberant dahlias atmosphere is designed by top-notch event designer Guendolina Litta Modignani, in collaboration with interior designer Daniel Pätzelt.


Luminous animated handrails


Luminous coves and ceiling lace
Site - Groundfloor lighting plan - July 2007
Site - Basement lighting layouts - July 2007

• Date: 2007
• LD: ACT Architecture, Sint-Pieters-Leeuw (Belgium).
• Category: FFE - Lighting concept and integration

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114 Faubourg

The warmness and exuberance of a two-storey deluxe dahlias garden.

Luminous animated walls

114 Faubourg is a Michelin star awarded deluxe brasserie, located within the Résidence Matignon wing of the Bristol palace hotel. The restaurant concept showcase a high-end relaxed two-floor space whereby the fine gourmet have a sight on an open-plan kitchen and an enclosed wine cave collection, like a precious jewelry boutique. The warm and exuberant dahlias atmosphere is designed by top-notch event designer Guendolina Litta Modignani, in collaboration with interior designer Daniel Pätzelt.


Luminous animated handrails


Luminous coves and ceiling lace
Site - Groundfloor lighting plan - July 2007
Site - Basement lighting layouts - July 2007

• Date: 2007
• LD: ACT Architecture, Sint-Pieters-Leeuw (Belgium).
• Category: FFE - Lighting concept and integration

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Blue Room - Terrace Gardens

Urban oasis on roof terraces

Blue Room is a well-known family owned restaurant in downtown Mombasa Island. Frequented by businessmen, friend groups and families, this local favored meeting point is also a must stopover for travelers and tourists. Beyond the corner restaurant, it is a two-storey commercial arcade with several brands outlets and offices.

The roof terrace gardens project is aimed to vertically double its surface and prolongs the pleasure of hanging out under shaded gazebos within a luxurious micro-forest composted by vertical and raised bed gardens and orchards : a reviewed conception of the urban oasis.

The organic bio fruits, aromatic herbs, flowers and vegetables produced on the terraces are supplying the restaurant multiple kitchens; extra are sold to clients craving for rare and high-quality species.

The terraces are Blue Room statements for social responsibilities in making the city greener and a better place to share and experience agrarian urbanism.

• Date: Nov 2017
• Client: Blue Room, Mombasa CBD (Kenya).
• Category: Vertical and Rooftop gardens

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Villa Peak Koh Samui

The sassy, sleek and glamorous "Peak" : a lifestyle signature

From the main road, this villa keeps a discreet profile; like a fortress silhouette, it only unreveals its luxury after accessing through a footbridge over a tropical garden moat, staging a dramatic private entrance.
This six-bedroom luxury rental villa is designed to host upto 18 guests with a full world-class concierge services and amenities; with a house management quarter and entry, the personnel can stay unnoticed by the residents, allowing the magical and serein lifestyle experience to run smoothly.

The design renders the elegancy of a four-masted sailboat, a sea vessel which reveals its architectural features only from the seaside. Its skyscrapper, the highest sail, is a 4-storey light and slim structure that dares protrude like a peak, each floors are self-contained 80sqm high-end master bedroom.

This spectacular signature architecture stretches still the water with a long eliptic deck nesting a raised lawn garden, a deep and swallow infinity pool, an island, a build-in gazebo and a firepit open air lounge.

A roof garden offers a large panoramic view next to a 1st floor gym and spa amenity. On the groundfloor level, the 59 sqm foyer welcomes the guests ; a recessed full equipped 166 sqm open space hosts the living, dining, bar and kitchen spaces facing the sea; on its back a 25 sqm home cinema soundproofed insures an intimate movie watching experience. This common area gives access to the beach and infinity pool through a three water falls spurting out from a vertical luxurious garden, allowing outdoor shower and sand removal.

• Date: April, 2015
• Client: Private A.A (France), Koh Samui Island (Thailland).
• Category: High-End Villa Design

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Halsey Street Brooklyn

Fulfilling the Brownstone House Victorian spirit and cachet

Halsey street is part of Bedford Historic District - one of the US’s largest and most prominent Afro-Caribbean-American neighborhoods - with distinctive and well-preserved late-19th-century residential streetscapes. Built in 1901 in the Stuyvesant Heights neighborhood, this single family owned 3-stories brownstone house has a typical Neo Grec style façade.

Fond of African Art and culture, the owner requested for the renovation to host an art gallery and a housing unit within the parlour space. The proposed layouts articulate this particularity through a two-level extension: the creation of a conservatory protruding on the garden side ; staging a spacious, modern and luminous kitchen; freeing the existing floor spaces and giving dramatic accesses to the garden.

Two-storey Conservatory
Eventually, the design had value to the property by fulfilling the Victorian spirit and cachet with an architectural device that relates to posh and exclusive residence.

Sight from the entrance, looking towards the art gallery

Sight from the art gallery, facing the reception desk

Sight from the art gallery, looking toward the entrance

Conservatory Kitchen, Sub-Zero and Wolf appliances, with a luminous ceiling to emphasize daylight

• Date: 2013
• Client: Private, Brooklyn (USA).
• Category: Residence retrofit & extension

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Niort - St-André Hill

OrganiCtity, when the territorial geography dictates agro-urban policies.

The Sèvre Niortaise river runs for 158 kilometers, including 21.5 km in Niort town. It takes its source in the Sepvret and flows into the Atlantic Ocean. The history of the land shows that Niort, formely a sea port, was founded around a ford at the junction point of the river and two hills : the ST-André hill on the right river bank and St-Pezenne hill on the opposite -leading to a geological threshold called the "Seuil du Poitou" which marks the French territorial division between cultures, religions, politics and linguistics-.

Though out its history, Niort has been a city in advance of socio-economical and technological changes, and its geographical particulars has been playing a major role in that. In 2013, at the time of the study, Niort is an oxymoron : leading metropole specialized in IT, Insurance and Finance but with a shrinking CBD and a growing locavore demand for organic food.

Crossing solar radiation, pedological & infrastructural data determined agro-urban potentialities.
The study has emphasized that the most promising and challenging area is the St-André Hill : a long stretch of land in fuschia on the map.

The headland on the right river bank bridges the historical medieval part of the CBD and the periurban outskirt of town till the suburb where most of the working class is living. This phenomena empties the metropole, making it into a place for entertainment and shopping, vivid only during after works hours and week-ends. To reverse the process, the aim is to recreate a social fabric on that segment of town to settle an agro-urban district to repopulate the abandonned districts on the St-André hill.

ST-André hill geo-characterization : thie trasect grid is used to compose the urban scenography, staging a agrarian urban entity applying the South-African Agriliving concept, declined accordingly to each area morphogenetic specific pattern.

An organic agrarian urban "machine" : in order to be sustainable, the agro-urban district has to settle a symbiosis between the different sectors and articulates roles, productions and fluids technical requirements in terms of energy, waste, resource production, flow and stockage.

The mecanical parts of the urban organic machine : St-André hill has six urban identities with different urban morphologies. The project articulates six different applications of the South-African Agriliving concept :

• St-Gelais : an historical narrow urban fabric, with hidden garden beyond the medieval walls,
• Largeau : a 26,000 sqm military compound built in 1933 (17 2-to-3-storey buildings, 130 flats),
• Les Sablières hillslope : a 60's group of 50 one-story rowhouse,
• Les Sablières hilltop : a 50's residential maisonnette area,
• Tartifume hillslope : the southern mediaval slope,
• Cité Pontereau : a mid 70's group of six 10-storey housing tower.

Tartifume hillslope : the southern medieval slope restructured as the final stage in grey water phytoepuration process; with several cascades as filtered water reoxygeneytion treatment till its stockage in the reservoir pond, before to be lifted back to the hilltop through Archimedean Screw water lifting devices.

City Pontereau : Agriliving applied on six housing towers

• Date: 2013 - 2014
• Client: Niort town & Habitat Sud Deux-Sèvres, Niort(FR).
• Category: Agro-Urban & Symbiostic Design

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La boîte du jour

Fairy tale ephemeral shop for Xmas season @ Citadium.

The ephemeral shop is a 3 month streetware retail boutique staging trendy young designers works at the prime groundfloor entry spot of the Citadium megastore (a Printemps streetware trademark).

La Boîte du Jour took the challenge to use cardboard paper displays under the theme of the Deer Forest to emphasize the imaginary fairy tale ambiance. The main iconic pieces are handmade using appropriate paper-based technology (APT) to promote resources recycling; a technic taught by Mrs Jean Westmacott.

'Deer-Deer' is a double-sided dressing and attire display cabinet with a symetrical deer fretwork pattern and a central elliptic mirror. This handmade cardboard furniture is modular : the glass trays are removable as well as the central penderie rod. This design is using the appropriate paper-based technology (APT) which insures solidity, heavy duty and waterproof properties. 100% recycled cardboard, magazine, kraft paper, glass and mirror. A fireproofing treatment was done to comply with fire and safety regulations.

• Date: 2009
• Clients: Gio&Ikuko & Charlotte Martyr, Paris (France).
• Category: Retail & APT FFE Design

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Floating Data - Archives

An intelligent structural dispositive able to take the load of ever changing destination.

In a world with fast paced changing technology, economy and environment, the project interogates how architectural design can cope with floating parameters. The outcome is an architecture conceived as an intelligent container that can host additional floating structures; and, its envelop has versatile façades and roofs properties, thought as interface to articulate technical fluids and information flows : becoming screen, breathing panels, etc...

The multiple level of object encapsulation and the building conception are related to IT Oriented Object Programming concept. Thinking the built-environment through object classification and living anatomical mecanism as conceptual framework helps to make the shift into architectural and urban circular economy and amplifies the potential of creating symbiosis.

• Date: 2014
• Prospective design of an eco-fonctional building design.
• Category: Architectural Design

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Blue Room - Main

Reshaping the particulars of a show kitchen restaurant.

The main concern of this renovation is the installation of a show kitchen with a custom-made brick charcoal piano and wood oven, to reduce energy consumtion, improve the operations, renew the menu and engage the customer with a closer relationship.

Located in the CBD, in the hardware stores area, at the fringe of the business office towers, on Haile Selassie leading to the Railways station, Blue Room is an obvious spot for a coffee-tea breaks, meals, snacks, ice-creams and pastries. Since 1952, Blue Room is a self-service food service, willing to upraise the restaurant quality and operations, the design has to keep this particular praised by the clients and set a seated service at the same time.

• Date: 2012
• Client : Blue Room, Mombasa CBD (Kenya)
• Category: Food Service Design

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Pont-de-Pierre Post Office

When the urban landscape gives the tempo to the façade of a public building.

The Pont-de-Pierre district in Bobigny is chracterized by a suburban dense low-income collective housing next to the infamous "Les Courtillières" a large development housing and an industrial area personified by the red brick historic Imprimerie Nationale. Within this contrasted aera, there is a lot of social tension resukting in the systemaic act of vandalism on the building related to the governement. In that landscape the small post office located within the housing development is a soft target.

The challenge is to conceive a building that would be assimilated as naturally belonging to the district as if it was always there and part of the local landscape and culture. To succeed, the façade design takes into account the landscape emblematic colors, materials and rythm to give a sense of belongingness.

The industrial colour and material palette.

The wall cladding tile pattern study takes inspiration from the large housing development.

The façade plays with all the iconic elements of the urban landscape; the melting pot result turns to a building with its own unique visual brand. The shape, proportions, material cladding and rythm game with the signage have profiled a sympathic crossbreeding entity, with its five flag poles, proud and upstanding just like the population living around.

• Date: 2009
• Client : Philippe Royer, architect
• Category: Façade Design

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