Luc Pfister graduate architect

luc pfistergraduate architect

P: 07.88.37.79.67M: [email protected]

born 02.27.19911 rue des balayeurs 67000 Strasbourg, FrancePhone: 07.88.37.79.67E-mail: [email protected] driving licence (private vehicle)

education

professional experience

skills

miscelaneous

Ecole nationale supérieure d’architecture de Strasbourg, FranceMaster’s degree - Diploma of State in Architecture (DEA)

Lycée International de Valbonne Sophia-Antipolis, FranceBaccalauréat in Sciences, Physics and Chemistry, International Option of the Baccalauréat in English

Wilwood elementary school/Briarcliff middle school, Mountain Lakes, USA4th, 5th and 6th years of Elementary and Middle schools

2009-2014

2009

2001-2003

07 & 09.2013

07.2011

07.2010

04.2009

04.2007

Architecture internshipAgence MW, Strasbourg, France

Architecture internshipBergeolle Vieillard Architectes ENSAIS, Strasbourg, France

Work experienceCAP Sud Maçonnerie, Roquefort-les-Pins, France

Architecture internshipAgence d’architecture et d’urbanisme Bernard Fauroux, Valbonne, France

Architecture internshipAnne Mangano, Architect of the Haute-Alsace University, Mulhouse, France

English FrenchGerman

AutoCAD 2DArchiCADSketchupAdobe creative suiteArtlantis studioMicrosoft office

Litterature, cinema, arts, travellingSwimming, hiking, skiing

fluent mother languageacademic standard

languagues

interestssports

software

luc pfistergraduate architect

Rethink and group together the development of a ski resort as an infrastructural buidling Siviez/4 Vallées/Switzerlandpublic facility and housing - final year project - M. Arch. 2nd year

This project raises several questions upon the urbanization of a high-alitude ski resort, urban sprawl, the role of ski lifts, the accesses to the resort and the temporality of its functioning. The bias is therefore to rethink the development of the ski resort in order to group together the different elements which it is composed of in a single, unified, infrastructural building which would respond to the landscape and match the needs of the resort.

Liaison domaine skiableContinuitées paysagères

Lignes de forces du terrain

Echappées visuelles

Lignes de forces landscaped continuities skiing connections and liftinglines of force

master plan

R-5/ Lobby, conference center, sport centre, spa

AUBERGE DE JEUNESSECENTR

E DE CONGR

ESBILB

IOTHEQU

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SALLE MULTISPORTPISCINESPA DETENTESALLES DE MASSAGE

SOLARIIUM

GR

AD

INS

VOLLEYBALLCAMP DEVACANCES

BOXEVESTIAIRESBASKETBALLFOO

TBALL CAMP D’ENTRAINEMENT

DANSE JUDO

SQ

UA

SHPROJECTIONSALLES DE TRAVAIL

LIEU D’EXPOSITION PISTE DE SKI

VELO CONCERTEN PLEIN AIR

TELESIEGE

TELESIEGE

TELECABINE

INTER

NET

LOUNGESALLE A MANGER

AUDITORIUMSALLES DE REUNIONCONFERENCES

SALLE DE CINEMARECEPT

IONSTUDIOS T4T2 DUPLEX

STUDIOS T4T3 DUPLEX

LOGEMENTS

APPARTEMENTS

HOTEL

ACCEUIL RESTAURANTBAR

GRENOUILLERERECEPTION

BAR

BARCASIERS

CAISSES

SUPERMARCHEMAGASIN DE SPORT

TERRASSESLOGEMENTSSTUDIOS LOGEMENTS

STUDIOSLOGEMENTS

LOGEMENTS

perspective longitudinal cross-section

R-2/Gondolas’ plaza, restaurants, bars, shops

AUBERGE DE JEUNESSE

CENTRE DE C

ONGRES

BILBIOTH

EQUE

SALLE MULTISPORTPISCINESPA DETENTESALLES DE MASSAGE

SOLARIIUM

GR

AD

INS

VOLLEYBALLCAMP DEVACANCES

BOXEVESTIAIRESBASKETBALLFOO

TBALL CAMP D’ENTRAINEMENT

DANSE JUDO

SQ

UA

SHPROJECTIONSALLES DE TRAVAIL

LIEU D’EXPOSITION PISTE DE SKI

VELO CONCERTEN PLEIN AIR

TELESIEGE

TELESIEGE

TELECABINE

INTER

NET

LOUNGESALLE A MANGER

AUDITORIUMSALLES DE REUNIONCONFERENCES

SALLE DE CINEMARECEPT

ION

STUDIOS T4T2 DUPLEX

STUDIOS T4T3 DUPLEX

LOGEMENTS

APPARTEMENTS

HOTEL

ACCEUIL RESTAURANTBAR

GRENOUILLERERECEPTION

BAR

BARCASIERS

CAISSES

SUPERMARCHEMAGASIN DE SPORT

TERRASSESLOGEMENTSSTUDIOS LOGEMENTS

STUDIOSLOGEMENTS

LOGEMENTS

perspective longitudinal cross-section

The project is an alternative vision of what exists on site. It groups together the arrival of a funicular train - which allows the resort to be accessed directly from the Rhone Valley -, three ski lifts to access the slopes, a sport center emphasizing the technicality of the ski slopes, a convention center, a hotel, shops and a spa.The resort tries to limit its land use to a minimum in order to keep the valley at its most natural state and allow for diverse activities such as cross-country skiing. Moreover, it has to allow the crossing of the river and the access road to the Cleuson dam upstream to unite the two mountain-sides of the skiing resort. It also has to overlook the views towards the Rhone Valley at the North and the Mont-Fort, at the South. Of these principles, ensue the decision to design a buidling with a strong architectural identity, a bridge stepping over the lands-cape.

The project establishes a duality in the temporality of the resort’s functioning, centered on a sports dynamic in winter - with skiing - and in summer - with hiking and cycling - and on a slower dynamic around isolation and meditation in autumn and spring, usually off-peaks periods of ski resorts. The program is organized around these two periods, always in connection with the landscape, a place of intense activities but also convenient for resting and relaxation.

cross section on lobby and gondolas’ plaza

sport center

cross section on spa and shops

spa/wellness area

passageway to the apartments 4 persons studios

with loggias

typical floor/studios, T2, T3, T4 with loggias

youth hostel style rooms with loggias

Elévation sur parc

Coupe longitudinale

1

5

10

20

Atelier des AutomatesCentre des mêtiers d’art

1 Acceuil 2 Galerie d’exposition 3 Brasserie 4 T3

12 3

4

4

This rehabilitation is based on a derelect industrial buidling in between Mulhouse’s city center and its univeristy campus. Based upon a masterplan, the entire neihgborhood has been transformed, inclu-ding the industrial site’s main building - the foundry - into an extension of the campus. Therefore, this building is being modified into an art center with artists’ studios and their housing as well as exhibi-tion spaces and learning spaces. To accomodate these new uses, the building is split in two parts along a pedestrian and cyclist axis uniting together different parts of the neighborhood. One side of the building accomodates the art center while the other side houses a restaurant on the ground floor and the apartments above it. The art center revolves around a three-storey void and its monumental strai-case and elevator. The exhibitions spaces are on the ground floor, in connection with the exterior public spaces and learning areas. The studios are in the storeys and each have a bathroom and office. They are directly connected to the apartments through footbridges crossing the dividing void. The later is entirely glassed and covered in a «second skin», hand-made by the artists and craftsmen.

Atelier des Automates - Le 9/15Plan RDC 1/500e

ground floor

floor 2

cross section

Rehabilitation of an industrial building into an art center, artists’ studios and housingpublic facilities - M. Arch. 2nd year

Science center for climate and energypublic facilities - M. Arch. 1st year

master plan ground floor

floor 1

city side

entrance side

The science center fot climate and energy is located at the heart of the 2050 regenerative city, actively participating in its dynamism. The ground floor is dedicated to the public spaces - restaurant, exhibi-tion spaces, reception rooms and library - which are greatly opened towards the city and the harbor. In the two cantilevered storeys marking the entrance hall are grouped the scientific laboratories, bene-fiiting from great views and calm. The building is drilled by patios serving as lights shafts and gardens which allow for dialogue between the different areas and storeys.

cross section

A 2050 regenerative cityurban planning - M. Arch. 1st year

This urban project consists of imagining the transforma-tion of the oil harbor, next to the Robertsau, at the North of Strasbourg, into a 2050 regenerative city. It is in close relation with the Robertsau, a village-type neighborhood of northern Strasbourg, and its forest which hosts many outdoor activities highly ap-preciated by the population. This project concentrates on the transportation system connecting the city to the rest of Strasbourg through a new tram, bus line and pedestrian and cyclist axis along the river Ill. Besides, a central, densed neighborhood will bring autonomy and dynamism to the 2050 regenerative city, while neighborhing areas will strongly mix nature and hou-sing together through a new way of life centered around car-free public spaces and activities on the banks of the Rhine river and effectively connected to the bigger ur-ban scale through intelligent public and alternative trans-portation.

public and natural spaces

master plan

roadsbicycle paths

public spacesnatural spaces

gardens

public transportation

An Alsacian village’s entranceurban planning - M. Arch. 1st year

This urban project takes place at the doors of Dorlisheim and Molsheim, near Strasbourg. It required to link together two retail malls to the city center of Dorlisheim, while main-taing and reinforcing the natural corridor along the river Bruche to clearly separate the two towns and ensure the diversity of the region’s fauna and flora, greatly endange-red by the Alsace’s plain’s corn mono-culture. The neighborhood was conceived around urban poles made of shops and public acco-modations, such as a nursery, a public school and a cultural cen-ter. Buildings with shops and bars were raised along the main bou-levards to create dynamism. On the other hand, the center of the neighborhood houses smaller buil-dings and row houses in direct link with the green corridor, which also serves as a communications’ axis in-between the new neighborhood, the historical city center, the railway station and other villages.

master plan zoom on the row houses - ground floor

North/South section on boulevard

Ecological super-neighborhoodurban planning - M. Arch. 1st year

This urban concept consists of urbanizing a 1km2 neighborhood, encercled by 2x2 urban boulevards with a central lane for public transports. The neighborhood is crossed by an important blue and green natural cor-ridor. Service «loop» roads, mainly one-way, allow access to the center of the neighborhood from the boule-vards, while parking is only allowed on the periphery in order to minimize the car’s place and emphasize the pedestrian and cyclist axis designed to promote «gentle mobility» and social interactions.

master plan

greenery road network public spaces building heigths

Strasbourg’s university’s sports centerpublic facilities - B. Arch. 3rd year

This sports center is established at the heart of the university campus. Contrasting with the monolithic exterior of the building, the interior spaces are divided into several individual and imbricated blocks. This imbrication allows for visual links in-between the different areas of the building. It is also used to bring natural light throu-ghout the facility. An important central void is created to house the cafeteria, the social heart of the sports center, as well as the symbolic climbing wall which runs through the entire height of the building.

RDC R+1 R+2

cross section

ground floor floor 1 floor 2

Research facility for history and philosophy of the artspublic facilities - B.Arch. 3rd year

In the heart of Strasbourg, on a plot surrounded by three streets and a gable wall, is designed a foundation for history and philosophy of the arts. It is built in the continuity of the existing buildings on the neihgborhing plot and closes the plot with alignments on all three surrounding streets. The building is constituted of a three-story South-West block, a two-story North-East block and a suspended block connecting the other two and marking the alignment on the main street. The center of the plot is therefore freed, allowing for the realization of a sunlit garden. The facility’s public spaces are organized in the South-West block; the entrance hall being highlited by the cantilevered block, which houses the library and the reaserchers’ private offices. Their housings being in the North-East, two-story block, the library and offices are still accessible to the researchers even whith the facility closed to the public.

ground floor

cross section

floor 1

floor 2

In a new neighborhood of a mid-sized town, develops a group of row houses in order to ensure densed and compact housings and prevent urban sprawl. This project of four individual houses takes place in between a North one-way street, a South pedes-trian alley, an East park and ano-ther built plot in the West. The houses are built on 4.5 x 20m plots and are each intented to-wards different uses and occupa-tions: large family, couple without children... The reduced width of the plots were a challenge to create functional, innovative inte-riors, largely opened on the out-side gardens.

With Vincent Auffret, Emilie Ro-bert and Damien Rochon.

Row houseshousing - B. Arch. 2nd year

park side

street side

garden sideplan

Vestige of a former hamlet, a pen with high walls encloses an 11x30m plot. The house leans on the entire length of the North wall, thereby creating an East/West longitudinal axis. It serves every room of the building, from the entrance hall to a magical and intimate east garden offering a wonderful framed view through a 2x2m opening in the outer protective wall. Natural materials, such as wood and stone found on site, are used for the construction of the house. The building is articulated around three thick walls which organize the dif-ferent rooms and functions. The central one houses cuboards, the restroom and the bathroom while creating a corridor uniting the living area with the master bedroom and an access to the garden and an additional multi-function room. The longitudinality of the house is reinforced through this northern corridor and the highly-placed window which runs on its entire length, bringing in homogenous light.

House in a penhousing - B. Arch. 2nd year

plan

Chestnut wood design contest - The chestnut chairdesign - B. Arch. 3rd year

The chestnut chair gathers the men, the culture and the landscape of the northern Vosges region. The chestnut wood, cut in the forests of the northern Vosges, is worked by craftsmen in local companies. This sculptural chair, inspired by the ches-tnut bug’s shape, is scary and agressive outside, yet a protective and comfortable cocoon inside; emphasizing this type of wood and the craftmanship associated with it.

With Vincent Auffret.

Cross sections Constructive details

Materiality

Design and construction of a neo-christmas treedesign - M. Arch. 1st year

This project, in collaboration with the French railway company - SNCF - and the non-profit organization Jeu-nesse au Plein Air, aimed at designing and building a Jules Vernes inspired neo-christmas tree. Three propo-sals were submited to the SNCF which chose one of them. The tree was then partially pre-built in a studio and put-up in Strasbourg’s train station over a night and was exposed there for the entire length of the Advent. It was made of several wooden wheels around a centered wooden trunk. It was decorated with big knots which could be bought by passer-bys with the organization in order to organize holiday trips for kids. With Vincent Auffret, Esin Ekizoglu, Pauline Lanzini, Chloé Martens, Ferial Nadji, Xavier Oster, Luc Pfister, Emilie Robert, Damien Rochon and Morgane Amet.

niveau 2

niveau 3

niveau 6

niveau 7

élévation

détail structurel

An observation tower for the Jardin des Deux RivesConstruir’ Acier contest - M. Arch. 1st year

This 30m high belvedere is meant to be a powerful viewpoint over the Deux-Rives footbridge - crossing the Rhine river between France and Germany - and the Rhine region from the Vosges to the Black Forest. The staircase starts at the center of the tower before exiting and entering the tower at several points, depending on the views that are framed. The metal-built tower is covered by a semi-transparent wire-net-ting contrasting with the opaque and bright-colored straicases’ lifeline.

With Emilie Robert.

Architecture Principe face to «the ville malade», the «sick city»: What is the place of Archi-tecture Principe and of the Oblique Function among the forward-looking and utopian movements of the 1960’s, in their questionnings on «la ville malade» and its solutions?graduation thesis - M. Arch. 2nd year

En conclusion, Architecture Principe s’inscrit dans la continuité des travaux utopiques des années ’60, tout en se démarquant sur certains points. En effet, ils rejoignent les critiques du mouvement moderne et des transformations récentes de la société, établis par nombre de groupes d’architectes et d’urbanistes, ainsi que leurs pensées directrices sur la nécessité de reformuler le tissu urbain et social, la libération de la surface du sol naturel et le développement des réseaux. Cependant, le groupe de Parent et de Virilio se distingue par leur réponse radicale à ces problèmes. En effet, contrairement aux autres mouvements - hormis les radicaux italiens qui installent le projet comme « utopie critique », « consciente et stratégique » cherchant à abolir les « espoirs fallacieux et ses rêves irréalisables » en associant l’utopie à la conception comme outil de réflexion – qui prennent plus ou moins appui sur les changements de la société et ses besoins pour élaborer leurs projets mégastructuraux, Architecture Principe n’accepte pas ces évolutions urbaines et communautaires et développe ainsi une utopie sociale, sociétale, architecturale et urbaine globale cherchant à modifier l’homme vis-à-vis de son propre corps et de son environnement construit et sociétal.

Cette étude de la place d’Architecture Principe parmi les mouvements utopiques des années ‘60 pourrait aisément se prolonger sur le devenir de ces mouvements et leurs descendances. Des projets comme le Centre Pompidou de Paris de Richard Rogers et Renzo Piano et la Philharmonie de Paris de Jean Nouvel, pour ne citer qu’eux, établissent un lien de parenté très clair avec les projets d’Archigram et de Parent. Mais à l’échelle urbaine, qu’a-t-il été retenu de ces travaux ? Leurs idées ont-elle été reprises par les architectes des générations futures ? Par les urbanistes ? On peut également se poser la question du rapport présent entre urbanisme, architecture et les évolutions récentes de la société.

The rehabilitation of this apartment does not fundamentally transform the functio-nal division of the spaces; these being well distributed and in compliance with the expectations of the owners. However, the arrangement seeks to reinforce its double orientation and the openess of the living areas while maximising storage and the practical aspects. To do this, the partition walls separating the kitchen, the corridor and the living room are eliminated in order to create one spacious living room with an open-planned kitchen. A unique piece of furniture forms the entrance hall and the kitchen, bringing in storage, space and natural light to the entryway. The partition wall between the kitchen and the bedroom is also modified obliquely to maximise views, natural light and fluidity of flow. This partition is designed as a thick wall housing a cupboard and a desk for the secondary bedroom. This principle is extended across the entire apartment in order to create one thick and functional wall separting the living spaces from the sleeping spaces.

Rehabilitation of an apartementpersonal project - 2014

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