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Timothee Mercier

Timothee Mercier

New York, NY, US

 

About 

Date of Birth:      29th of April 1993                                                   Nationality:         French

 

Address:                                                               Mobile:         +1(484) 320-0630

370 Lancaster Avenue                                      Email:  [email protected]

Haverford, Pennsylvania

 

Educational Qualifications

 

2011-Now            Haverford College                                                                 Haverford, Pennsylvania

 

                                    Major: Growth and Structure of Cities

                                   

 

2005-2011           Lycée Charles de Gaulle                                                                         London, England

French Baccalaureate

Social and Economic Section (ES)

 

2002-2005           International School                                                                           Geneva, Switzerland

Bilingual Stream

 

1998-2002           Kellett School                                                                                              Hong Kong           

English system

 

Internships

 

Summer 2014   Ronald Lu & Partners                                                                      Hong Kong

 

 Operating with over 500 employees RLP has produced a wide range of projects in the Pearl River Delta region, including Hong Kong’s first Zero Carbon Footprint building and a very special collaboration with Frank Gehry for the Opus Hong Kong residential towers. Over the course of the summer I followed and helped the design team in charge of the Xiqu Center in Hong Kong’s up and coming West Kowloon                                                       Cultural District.

 

Spring 2014       Voith & Mactavish Architects                                               Philadelphia

                                   

Voith & Mactavish Architects is a Philadelphia-based studio specializing in collegiate                                                                          architecture. My work there as an intern consisted mainly in re-designing their digital collection of college campus site plans.
 

June 2013            JOYCE WANG                                                                               Hong Kong

                     

WANG is a very successful interior design studio based in Hong Kong which won the Interior Design “Best of Year” Award in 2011. My work during the summer included designing the roof deck for a penthouse in Shanghai, China.

 

Jul-Aug  2013      StudioPlus Architects                                                                         Geneva, Switzerland


The studio works on different scales, from housing projects and urban planning to interior architecture. I worked on models for the majority of my internship. One model in particular can be found in my portfolio: the corner row house of a three-house block in Corsier, Geneva.   

 

 

Summer 2012    Townhouse Gallery                                                                                 Cairo, Egypt

                                   

Townhouse Gallery is an exhibition center and art school in central Cairo, Egypt. The Gallery focused on educating the Egyptian public on Middle Eastern art. It developed modules for art students in Cairo and introduced international collaboration between local and European artists. 

 

Summer 2010    Based Upon                                                                                               London, England

Interior decoration specialized in furniture. They specialize in a substance called liquid metal that they apply onto bespoke furniture. I spent most of the time in the workshop.

 

Summer 2009    Study Abroad                                                                                       Legodimo, Botswana

Legodimo is a reserve in Botswana, Africa. The camp is focused on protecting the surrounding eco-system. Work in the camp can range from building a new toolshed to chasing poachers out of the reserve.

                                                     

 

Summer 2009    Central Saint Martins school of design                                        London
 

Sketching and fundamentals of graphic design                  

 

Computer Programming (Architecture) Qualifications
 

AutoCAD (2014)

Rhinoceros

Google Sketchup

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Indesign

 

Languages

 

English, French (mother tongue), Spanish (conversational),

 

Sports Activities

Muay Thai (Thai boxing)

Varsity Tennis at Haverford College