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Up-load your shedding after green Xmas & white easter

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:16:48 GMT

Bonjour tout le monde,

vous m'avez sacrément manqué!

HI SOUTH AFRICA! First come first, I have to tell you are as fantastic as your country and as the dream you carry. You might have no electricity, but you have six times more sun than a north european country. Remember photovoltaic cells work there when there is no sun, so think about this free provider of power above your head. Technologies travel, SA should lead the sun field rather than bowing at the dangerous nuclear gift so generously offered by french opportunists.

Enough of that stuff, A BIG HUG to SA ARTISTS, they are so many creative people and strong mind here, behind beautiful fragile diversity.

Some news of MoByJo project, quickly, it's going well. In a year I managed to reach the landowner, the best developer for the area and a wonderful mysterious free agent from the City... It's only due to South African open mind and kindness that a young foreign professional can talk to the right people...and a little bit to my strong will also. Thank you very much again south africans.Even if I'm excited about the whole affair, let's be patient, I will keep you updated. I just can add that if you cover 2/3 of MoByJo tower with photovoltaic cells you could provide 3 millions kW/ h.....

Un peu de français maintenant. Mes amis, j'ai ajouté un petit album photo avec des souvenir de notre Noel d'Afrique entre autre. Vous le trouverez en dessous de l'album MobyJo sous le titre upload your shedding ( en Afrique du Sud load shedding c'est une coupure de courant planifiée...)

Je suis desolee pour le retard de mes mises a jour question blog et d'avoir disparu d'msn. Mais me revoila, back to live on msn! Attention j'ai un pauvre internet d'ici, 3G mais 500Mg par mois de data. Ca file a toute vitesse, dc je ne peux pas telecharger vos photos

a moins qu'elles soient très légères. Je ne peux pas non plus vous faire un coucou webcam, mais ca viendra. En attendant je vous ai mis une photo de moi sur l'album. Je sens que vous commence a m'oublier serieusement et a avoir plus une idee de ce que j'etais que de ce que je suis. Voila, je suis toujours moi, et depuis la derniere fois, et bien j'ai encore change plein de chose héhé, mais j'ai gardé l'essentiel : mon chien, mon appart et ma belle voiture!

Je vous fais mille excuse pour les anniv que je loupe, les cremailleres que je rate, et les bieres que je manque entre amis. En attendant ke vous veniez en vacances je reussi ma vie ici. I miss you and our country smells.

6 months, le bilan

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:26:27 GMT

Hi friends ! how are you doing ? Spring is well there, so its time to say goodbye to winter.
bon je crois que je vais faire le bilan en francais. Sorry english spoken reader, this will be mainly in French.
After six month in South Africa, the most important is : I am still in love with this country. I have post a new album under " South Winter" will add more pics later.

Pourtant le bilan n'est pas facile, en six mois :
-j'ai trouve un appart de 90m2 en trois jours avec une vue imprenable sur 50km, pour 450euros par mois, hiHIhI! j'avoue ke meme mes contacts Sud Africains trouvent que j'ai de la chance.
-j'ai achete le necessaire pour etre independante ( frigo machine a laver meuble) et me suis en gros installer en deux semaines. Compter 4000 euros pour commencer du bon pieds dans ce pays.
-j'ai reussi a me faire vole une voiture de location dans un complexe securise
-j'ai quitte ma boite et retrouve illico un autre emploi mieux paye
-j'ai fait importe mon chien a grand frais, pour un service minable. Quoique vous dise la compagnie ki importe votre animal, ne les croyez pas. Au dernier moment on vous fait signer des decharges et votre animal arrive traumatise si vous ne pouvez le garder avec vous. A eviter absolument.
-je vais enfin avoir mon work permit, alors que je l'aurais obtenu en deux mois pour dix fois moins cher en France, je n'exagere meme pas.
-Je vous conseille South African Airlines si vous voulez venir me voir, achat en ligne, mais attention, je viens de perdre mon billet retour parcequ'il ne m'ont pas envoye la confirmation d'echange de date de vol... a eviter absolument : Go voyage! c'est pas moins cher et vous risquez de ne pas monter dans l'avion.
- J'ai trouve ici 10 architectes enthusiastes pour mon projet, pour un seul qui n'y crois pas.
- Je trouve tous les produits et toutes les marques que je trouve a Strasbourg, mais moins cher bien sur :-b
- J'ai trouve 6 pretendants en six mois, et enfin un lover digne de ce nom ( this one is for you Marc). Je pense avoir disons 3 vrais amis, et plein de potes.
- Je n'ai toujours pas trouve le temps d'explorer la contree, et de vous envoyer de meilleures photo que ca.

Je vous embrasse, mes amis, et puis les inconnus aussi pourquoi pas.
Thank you South Africa.

MoByJo & me update

Mon, 30 Jul 2007 09:42:03 GMT

Goeie dag ! Ungakhatezeki, take it easy...

Well, everything can happen, you just have to believe.

I hope everybody is very well, ca va la France ? j'ai appris que mes frequentations alsaciennes profite de mon absence pour aller tous ensemble en boite... m'en fiche, na! Le offshore ca pu le vomi

Seriously, MoByJo project is doing well. The City of Johannesburg loves it, YES! the intermodal tower I designed happens to be just were a multimodal station is planned for 2010.... and the Land Use proposed me to go for approval to add my urban design to the Spatial Development Framework for region F. It's a Alleluia! good news ! Even if it is also a huge process. The word "Icon" for the city renewal has been use for the tower. I am so please, as my aim was to please Johannesburg citizens.

Quant a moi, I already change from my former company to a bigger one, with only fun to design, like big villas, casinos, luxury hotels all around the hype place of the world and of course a better salary .

Je dois aussi ajouter que j'ai enfin quatre chaises autour de mon kitchen bar, vous etes donc les bienvenus fransozens friends !

Voila, I have to apoligize for still not giving you new pics to look, I promise as soon as I get the opportunity, you will have brand new albums to look at.

Lot of Love, I miss you like hell you french crew.

Joburg Monorail

Tue, 29 May 2007 14:57:57 GMT

'afternoon people,

I hope everyone is very well. The news of the month is that Newcyc Vision, a Malaysian investment consortium, is planning to built a monorail between Soweto and the CBD. The project is called "Going Up" and guess what ? it takes the same route MoByJo project does. it's like a blessing for me, telling me my design is sensible. The main difference lies in the fact I proposed a tramway, which would obviously cost less and be more convenient for everyday transport. On the other hand, I have to admit a monorail will have a more impressiv look for the 2010 Soccer World Cup event. And the Malaysian consortium is relying on private money, so... Anyway, let's hope this is for the best for JOHANNESBURG future, I believe it.

Original report :

The project is a private sector initiative by the Malaysian investment consortium, Newcyc Vision

BUSINESS NEWS
'Going up' - Gauteng's new monorail
Wed, 16 May 2007

A R12-billion monorail will be built between Johannesburg and Soweto in the next two years, it was announced on Wednesday. "By 2009 no one from Soweto should have to wait more than 15 minutes for transport," Gauteng Finance and Economic Affairs MEC Paul Mashatile said at the launch of the project in Sandton.Work on the 44.7-kilometre monorail and its 39 stations will start in September.The monorail was intended to complement and not compete against existing forms of transport, said Mashatile.

Moving people ‘efficiently’

"The problem in South Africa when it comes to public transport is not competition; the problem is people queue for three to four hours (for transport). "We want to move people: move them efficiently; move them safely; move them in an affordable way..." It was hoped the monorail would move 1.5 million passengers a day, between Soweto and Johannesburg, to ease congestion on the roads. The monorail service will consist of 4.5 metres high, rubber-wheeled carbon fibre carriages, 10 metres long and three metres wide — able to carry 107 passengers each. These will run on concrete beams atop six-metre tall pillars situated mainly on the centre medians between road carriageways, and will dock at aerial stations accessed via escalators.

Set to be a hybrid

The hybrid variety used in South Africa will run on a combination of electricity and solar-powered batteries. The monorail is expected to cost $25-million a kilometre (about R173-million) to build, but none of this will be borne by the government. The project is a private sector initiative by the Malaysian investment consortium, Newcyc Vision, with which Mashatile, Gauteng Public Transport Road and Works MEC Ignatius Jacobs and Gauteng Economic Development Agency chief executive officer Keith Khoza signed a deal on Wednesday. Newcyc has been given three months to find Black Economic Empowerment partners.

Companies invited

Newcyc chief executive officer Jeyakumar Varathan has invited both small local development companies and big civil construction companies to present the consortium with their profiles. He said that while raw materials were being sourced outside South Africa because of present local shortages, construction would take place in the country at a factory in Mogale City, next to the Merafong Hospital. Built on 20 hectares of land provided by the Gauteng government, the factory would be the hub of monorail developments throughout Africa. Jacobs said he first proposed that the idea of a monorail for Gauteng be explored in his 2002 strategic agenda for transport. However, year-long work on a feasibility study for the project had been kept largely secret until now to prevent any escalation in the prices of, among other things, land, said Mashatile.

Essentially a ‘skybridge’

The monorail was not expected to result in expropriations similar to those caused by construction of the Gautrain, and only minimal disruption was expected "because we're going up. This is a skybridge," said Jacobs. "We are convinced we are entering a new era of modernising public transport to our province. It's a revolution," he said. Instead of being run by computerised high technology, the South African service would be labour intensive, in the interests of creating jobs and reducing poverty, he said. The project was expected to create 100 permanent jobs per kilometre. It would create 5000 jobs during construction with another 2400 at the factory. While round-trip tickets were expected to cost R10 each, rides between stations would cost less, to encourage inner-city travelling in Soweto — between shopping centres, stadia and major heritage sites. The entire route would take 45 minutes to cover at an average speed of 40 kilometres an hour, with a peak speed of 80 kilometres an hour. Trains would run every 10 to 15 minutes and every three minutes during peaks. Sapa

link to Newcyc website :

http://www.newsysip.com/

alle, pas besoin de traduc en francais, toute facon j'ai qu'un QWERTY sous la main, et ca serai plein de faute ;-)

busy & happy

Thu, 10 May 2007 11:00:58 GMT

Hola !

I'm very well settling in SA with very hot architecture projects ! My MobYJo project (find comment in previous post) is going to be presented wealthy client (cooooooooool)

Bonjour tout le monde, juste un petit mot d'Afrique du Sud pour vous rapeller que la France n'est pas la seule option qu'en on est architecte...

Quelques exemple de projet sur lesquels je bosse :

- atelier de poterie pour handicapes

- business district and criquet field

- musee et hotel sur un fort a Cape Town

- creation d'une Miami-Monaco a Durban...

vala, pas de quoi s'ennuyer !

Bisous, kiss, Hug & love ! Gwen

du pot d'adieu to the house warming

Mon, 02 Apr 2007 12:52:39 GMT

Hi !

Bonjour tout le monde, voici enfin un album avec les photos de ma nouvelle vie en Afrique du Sud.

Ca fait un petit peu plus d'un mois maintenant que j'ai quitte Strabourg pour Johannesburg. Ici c'est l'automne, ce ki signifie que certains arbres perdent leur feuille, mais pas les palmiers, hehe. Et que j'ai passe mon dimanche en bikini a bronzer :-)

Les hirondelles bisarement se preparent a partir, donc je pense que ca va bientot etre vraiment le printemps en Europe. Les pigeons eux sont toujours a la saison des amours. De mon apart j'entend les aigles crier le matin. Il y aussi des colibris, et des merles vert et orange. Ma pendaison de cremaillere c'est tres bien passee, sans chaises, sans table sans canape, mais avec assez d'alcool et de bonne humeur, et surtout une vue qui vous fait oublier tout le reste.

Mes amis d'Europe, comme j'aimerai que vous poussiez voir tout ce que les photos ne rendront jamais. Je vous laisse parceque je suis au bureau et que j'ai du boulot... Plein d'amour. G

en attendant

Sat, 03 Mar 2007 16:57:09 GMT

- Bonjour-

- en attendant - mon casier judiciaire vierge - mon permis de travail - mon compte bancaire - ma voiture - et mon abonnement tel+net - j'ai trouvé mon apart - des tongues - des colibris sur les fleurs d'eagle rock - et je ne peux pas télécharger les photos sur le blog - désolée -

- je vous envoie donc - mes pensées les plus tendres - la puissance du soleil ici - et le rêve de se réaliser ailleur parcequ'il existe mieux que la vie grise et triste - dédicace à toutes celles et ceux que g laissé à Stras et qui n'avaient pas le moral - allez prendre l'air hors frontière -

- ce qui me manque le plus ici - le son de vos voix - savoir que même si je ne vous touchais pas en Europe - ici je ne peux pas vous prendre la main -

- Gwen -

after diiip

Sat, 10 Feb 2007 17:08:10 GMT

Bonjour tout le monde, Hi everybody !

tout d'abord félicitation à la nouvelle vague de diplômé, heureuse de vous compter dans le cercle des archis DPLG chers confrères et chères consoeurs :)

si vous êtes là c sûrement parceque je vous ai envoyé le lien vers mon blog WELCOME! Alors gspr ke vous allez promener votre regard critique sur les différents albums, aimer les liens en liste, et me faire part de votre avis dans vos commentaires. Pour vous remercier de votre visite et abuser de votre patience, deux petits poèmes de ma composition :

A Bertrand d’At

Aux Danseurs du Ballet de l’Opéra National du Rhin and the other short one in english this time

Les Murailles d’Hermine TOO YOUNG

Aux nobles corps I live my present in a past tense

Aux sexes qui pleurent My futur blocked up by the fence

De vouloir qu’ils s’affleurent Of false fatherhood pretends

De ne pouvoir encore I hope I could once sense

Daddy

La douleur est le don de la quête But know I won't be that lenght

Qui cherche l’autre pour l’être Happy

Quand c’est par l’âme que le corps se meut 'cause the man who should have been mine

C’est le contact déchirant du tissu qui émeut had forced his body in my mind

and steal in me the Child

Il n’y a de plus douces murailles Whenever, never too young to remind.

Que celles où l’homme s’entaille.

MoByJo = Moved By Joburg

Wed, 10 Jan 2007 15:03:38 GMT

Hello ! I wish You a Happy New Year 2007 whoever You are, and hope You'll find this interesting.

Bonjour ! Je vous souhaite à tous une Bonne Année 2007 ! Les albums photos concernant MoByJo vous présentent mon dernier projet d'archi et d'urbanisme sur Johannesburg (Afrique du Sud). Les commentaires sont en anglais mais le contenu des images donne un aperçu parlant du projet.

MoByJo is the main project I worked on last year. Since my trip (Dec 2005) in South Africa, it took approximately 8 month to analyse, understand and assess the existing and the needs, design the transport and urban project, write the memoir "architecture and identity : intermodal facilieties for Johannesburg". And the rendering stage took almost a month, for the plates, models and powerpoint to look convincing. Here (in pictures) is what it is (almost) all about.

MoByJo project is about Johannesburg, a city fifteen times as wide as Paris. As it is so huge, and its short history so eventful, it is ideal place for a very open question, which is the link between architecture and identity.

At the beginning, it should have been “just” an intermodal station, but Johannesburg vastness leads to think in a bigger scale, and it is at the end an urban project. This project is designed in the real context of a municipality wish, and answer to everyday life needs of Johannesburg inhabitants. But it also goes along with an international event, as it is on the site where first and final match of the soccer world cup 2010 will happen.

In concrete terms, the one hundred pages memoir ask the flaw between Soweto and Joburg CBD, as in its urban fabric than in its public transport network, the two being intimately bind in its history. Today reality for Joburg is the construction underway of the Gautrain, aimed to link the international airport to Pretoria and the inner city of Johannesburg. This high speed train will end is route in the main station (rail) of Joburg. The line that goes from there directly to Soweto deserving Soccer City with the FNB stadium, is only deserved by motorway and public transport relies on private minibus and taxi company. This is already a problem for every day working trips people from Soweto have to do through the City going north. Even if this private business keeps Soweto running, it won't be efficient enough to provide transport for the mass of tourism the 2010 Soccer World Cup will convey here. The new motorways planed by the municipality will ad to the traffic jams at the cross highways at the Crown Interchange. To really free Soweto from old inherited enclosed situation, to let it benefits from tourism, to offer the world cup a strategic development area, and at least to offer Johannesburg a breath, let loose the north/south belt. MoByJo project suggests a tramway line and urban development linking Park Station, the Crown knot, Soccer City and Soweto. This would complete the sheme planed for 2010, goes along with the 2030 world class city vision, and above all, build shared advantages for the south african dream to last.

More than helpfull link : http://www.joburg.org.za/

SA blooooooues

Fri, 26 May 2006 17:12:46 GMT

hi,

i miss SA so much, c vrai koi, on est déjà fin mai et j'ai un feu de cheminé pour me réchauffer...

ici les amis il fait trop froid. là bas on se dit hi how are you tt le temps, et chacun prend le temps de répondre, i'm fine ! et toi ? du mec qui prend ton ticket de parking à la dame qui rigole avec toi en attendant son minibus. malgrè les crimes, ils n'ont pas peur de sourir, pas peur de s'ouvrir. Il n'y a pas de fatalité, rien n'est froid et figé, on peut tout bouger. fo se chauffer héhé crois ke v encore aller danser ce soir ;p

PS presqu'1 an après : il fait toujours froid et moche, alors j'ai mis les photos de mes derniers voyages intéressants au niveau archi et paysage, voir album Marseille, Venise, et Joburg. Le bonheur des voyages sur le coup, c'est de changer d'air. Le bonheur des photos après, c'est de changer de point de vue.

vive la création de site

Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:39:41 GMT

hola !

vive les blogs et ts c trucs ki permettent de se déverser, d'étaler son ego et c humeur. ça pullule, c facile à faire bref, ça sert à rien.

je cherche depuis une semaine à réaliser un site tt bête, avec une page "mur" pr ke tt le monde puisse s'exercer au graffiti, ou laisser un message à la postérité. MAIS comme je m'y connais pas c presque impossible. Les offres de site prémaché pr les débutant ne propose jamais autres choses que des bloggisations (mes photos, mon profil,et gnagnagna). sinon fo payer ts les mois, ts les ans, ttes les réincarnation.

PLEASE Help ! said LeeLoo and me too...

ma vie mon oeuuuuvre

Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:31:56 GMT

Et oui, à partir d'un certain âge il faut savoir devancer les biographes...

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tout le monde c lire l'anglais ?

This is about me :

French (still)

Free (hope forever)

Female

Born in Strasbourg (headquarter of Europe, don't U know ?) in 1979

Licence : tourism car

Well educated in :

Walbourg Seminaire de Jeunes from 1990 to 1997. That was, maybe still is, one of the best private school isolated in a desperated and how so beautiful countryside.

Learned there, well almost everything they teach, even latin for 5 years, bases of prog, german for 7 years (maybe listening "radio regenbogen" help much more), arts, sciences and some of the english I always try to improve by reading in this beloved language. Get by the way the baccalauréat S (school leaving certificate) svt (science spe biologie).

Also confirmed there that You better trust nature than humans, but they are so intrigated, let's try to find beauty everywhere.

Then :

maybe I could explain why if You ask, but here U will just learn that before enterring architectur school, I spend a year in biologie faculty, another in medecine and one last in law...

Join the ENSAS (strasbourg national advanced school of architecture) in 2000 :) and obtained my marks like a good girl (almost)

From there :

I plan to move in SA soon, just after graduating ( project on Joburg city public transport and identifying architecture )

NOW :

I got my DPLG, diploma delivered by the french government after six years of study in architecture with first class honours ( cum Laude ) and highly commended for the MoByJo project " architecture and identity : intermodal facilities for Johannesburg. Dec the 8th 2006. YES !

Experiences :

First funny one in 1996 : a little survey on almost 200 over 16 years old students (some teachers and the director) in my private school about...homosexuality. (keep in mind it was an only boy christian boarding school) THAT was really interresting.

In 1997 :

ooolalalala, j'en ai déjà marre ! la suite pt être un jour...

this is becoming very personal... if you want more info ask me for a real CV. =^-^= THANKS !

Photo Album: Up-load your shedding after a greenXmas & a white Easter

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 08:41:10 GMT

Up-load your shedding after a greenXmas & a white Easter

if you come via Dubaï

fresh from the hairdresser

Drakensberg landscape

Drakensberg 26Dec

la petite maison dans la prairie

2bad kids a la peche aux crabes

et d'eau fraiche

with the monkeys

heavy cloud

high lake

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Photo Album: South Winter

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:05:49 GMT

South Winter

l'avantage c ken dessous de 20 degre j'ai la piscine pour moi toute seule...

moon mood

clouds mood

la bete ke j'ai conduit et kon m'a volee au bout de six mois. TIA(this is Africa, kils disent ici..)

Apres 20 ans d'attente il a neige a Joburg. Moi je ne m'y attendais pas.

termites et ardoises dans un des park a 5 min de chez moi.

un bel aloe d'hiver.

un ferox importe

CBD au fond

un oiseau

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Photo Album: du pot d'adieu to the house warming

Mon, 02 Apr 2007 13:40:58 GMT

du pot d'adieu to the house warming

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pot d'adieu

Photo sans titre

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Photo Album: Venise Venice Venezia (hiver 2006)

Fri, 02 Feb 2007 18:54:42 GMT

Venise Venice Venezia (hiver 2006)

welcome in Venezia

Santa Maria di Miracoli

SMdM inside

scuola del gesuite

Grand Gothard

inside the scualo(wonderf- ul blue marble)

have this low point of view from ...

a detail in Como

false string details

Frari

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Photo Album: l'art c subjectif !

Fri, 02 Feb 2007 18:51:21 GMT

l'art c subjectif !

voilu ti une jolie maquette de 1ère année d'archi

tissu d'intérieur féminin (si si g fais une année de médecine)

drapé

mais kske c ?

nu fusain

crayon

point crayon

nu crayon

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Photo Album: MoByJo Project

Thu, 01 Feb 2007 17:48:13 GMT

MoByJo Project

Joburg municipality analysis plate

Urban planning and transport project

Key point site & structural principles

MoByJo intermodal tower (inserted on a Walter Knirr picture)

urban planning concept model

electro CBD

multimodal tower model

memoir front page

project presentation

models presentation

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Photo Album: Moved By Joburg

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:29:17 GMT

Moved By Joburg

site view (Joburg CBD west) with intermodal tower insert on a Walter Knirr picture

Joburg's 11 regions

Joburg population density

work's points of departure

work's destinations

bus network (morning rush hours)

rail network

minibus & taxi network

development corridors

municipal intention versus MoByJo Gautram Project

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Photo Album: B-] Joburg Cape Town Pretoria South Africa ! dec 2005

Wed, 17 Jan 2007 15:56:57 GMT

B-] Joburg Cape Town Pretoria South Africa ! dec 2005

Madrid Airport

Wit's university Joburg

Joburg

Joburg Fox street

Joburg from china town

Joburg

Joburg CBD

Joburg Rosarch

Soweto low income housing

Soweto

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Photo Album: SdB : my washing machine :) (January 2006)

Wed, 17 Jan 2007 15:28:57 GMT

SdB : my washing machine :) (January 2006)


before	works in progress	works in progress	works in progress
works in progress	works in progress	the new washing machine !	I love details
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Photo Album: stage Tekton architectes (2005)

Wed, 17 Jan 2007 15:23:52 GMT

stage Tekton architectes (2005)

3opt15.06.2005

exparchi1

exparchi2

exparchi3

entre2peaux 1

espace 1

hall d'accueil 2

Pers

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présenstage

Photo Album: Projet logement collectif (2002)

Wed, 17 Jan 2007 15:11:11 GMT

Projet logement collectif (2002)

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Photo Album: Projet équipement scolaire (2003)

Wed, 17 Jan 2007 15:03:21 GMT

Projet équipement scolaire (2003)

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Photo Album: International Workshop on Marostica (2nd semester 2006)

Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:25:09 GMT

International Workshop on Marostica (2nd semester 2006)

Marostica great wall ;-)

X_tramuros plate 1

X_tramuros plate 2

X_tramuros plate 3

X_tramuros plate 4

exhibition

X_tramuros model at home

site model

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