Archinect
Laura Minchin

Laura Minchin

Brussels, BE

 
View Portfolio

About 

After successful experiences as a full-time member of several ambitious offices, I decided to offer a more flexible collaboration with architectural studios that I want to work with. I am aware that offices face intense periods of work, dealing with several new projects and competitions that require more staff for only a few weeks or months. Therefore, I offer to work with you with a real freelance approach for competitions and graphical research.

Throughout my experiences I have been able to experience intense periods of competitions work at LANORG, or more recently with MangerNielsen architects, where I offered fast and creative design research and refined graphical content. I get stimulated and offer my best work in new environments, having the possibility to work with new people and getting in touch with several approaches to architecture. I am excited to expand my architectural practice, with aspiration and ingenuity. My curiosity and responsiveness, are my best assets to integrate in a new firm during a demanding period of time.

Employment 

Freelance / Self employed, Brussels, BE, Freelance architect

Short term and recurring missions in architectural offices to work in competitions, submission of offers and tender files.
-Design of plans for offices and collective housing.
-Volumetric, typological and facade research during competition phases.
-Presentation drawings in the form of diagrams, illustrations and collages.
-Technical drawings for submission of offers and tender file. -Assistance during meetings with the contracting authority and general contractors.
Working with Org permanent modernity (Bruxelles), MSA (Bruxelles) Manger Nielsen (Bruxelles), Patrick Mauger (Paris).

Jun 2022 - current
 

ORG Permanent Modernity, Brussels, BE, architect junior

Competition for a sailing club in Oostende
Design and rendering with Autocad Rhino and PSD.
Competition for collective housing building in Beveren
Design and rendering of 40 apartments.
Conversion of a listed factory to a office building
Programming and design of a listed building in Ghent using Autocad and Rhinoceros 3D.

Sep 2020 - Oct 2021
 

Coldefy, Paris, FR, architecte junior

Communication assistant
File’s design and creation for the totem pole of the DOMUS exhibition at the Venice Biennale.
Office building project in Bagnolet
Modeling and complete rendering of the PRO on REVIT.
Urban project MKNO
Plans, elevations and facades of a housing tower and a media library on autocad.

Nov 2019 - Apr 2020
 

Bordas Peiro, Paris, FR, architecte junior

Office communication
Support for press releases and social media management.
Competition of a student housing in Saclay
Design, modeling and production of render images on Autocad, Revit, Skecthup, Lumion and the Adobe Suite.
Requalification of the facade of the Malakoff market
Drawing of technical details for the tender file on Autocad and modeling of details on sketchup.

May 2019 - Oct 2019
 

Education 

ENSAV Superior National Architecture School of Versailles, Versailles, FR, Masters, architecture

End-of-studies project February 2019 with distinction Museum and free port in an abandoned village in Ïle-de-France questioning the periurban.
Master thesis ‘Participatory design or architecture in crisis’ How and why can participatory design be a response to the refugee crisis in Germany?

Sep 2017 - Feb 2019
 

TU Muenchen, Munich, DE, Masters, architecture

Participative design project with refugees in Bayern.
Architectural project and implementation of participatory tools and methods.
Speculative design ‘Scripting Architecture’
Story telling as a project tool with Cinema 4D.

Sep 2016 - Aug 2017
 

Areas of Specialization 

Skills