General architecture
AERONAUTICS
I act at different levels of the design or retrofit of devices and the technical justification, up to modeling, prototyping, manufacturing and monitoring of achievements.
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Conventional aircraft. A deep aeronautical culture allows me to draw on history, solutions that have worked, and augment them with current solutions or innovations necessary to achieve objectives.
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Rotocrafst. I use my fifteen years spent designing helicopters within the Airbus helicopters group, and particularly by constantly seeking to innovate to achieve increasingly demanding objectives.
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VTOL & STOL. In search of more innovative solutions to respond to the markets addressed by rotary wings, I have developed a rare skill in the field of short or vertical take-off machines, from tilt-rotors to tilt-fans (patent) and including tilt -wings and jet solutions.
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Airships. Having acquired atypical experience by participating in several airship projects, my approach as an architect allows me to maintain a critical analysis of the solutions adopted, and to be forceful of proposals.
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UAVs. As founder of the aeronautical competitiveness cluster in the South-East of France, I was at the forefront of the launch of UAVs sectors in our country. UAVs have opened up new avenues in architecture.
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Ground support and equipment. Realization of an electric vehicle intended to place the bombs under planes, or design of retractable helipads, each time, the good knowledge of the use and the aircraft, made it possible to find optimal solutions.
NAVAL ARCHITECTURE
More than 50 ships designed and built, in France and around the world; from sailboats, single and multihull, to motorboats for leisure or work vessels.
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French specialist in ground effect and Ekranoplans, these extremely fast machines, half ships, half planes, form the link between my naval and aeronautical skills.
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Expertise in submerged or semi-submerged hulls (wave piercer, SWATH), and energy optimization (drag reduction particulary).
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High speed. Among the various programs that I managed, a military interceptor program allowed me to highlight surface effect catamaran hulls that I had already made for the yachting world.
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Hydrofoils. My first ship built while I was still studying, the VILLE DE MEZE, was a foiler trimaran. Technologies and performances have evolved a lot since then, but there is nothing like physically and concretely confronting the problems (cavitation, ventilation, etc.) to understand them and gain the greatest experience from them.
LAND VEHICLES
I generally work on the design of unconventional vehicles, which require a global approach of design, integrating specific objectives.
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Utility vehicles and ground segment. Vehicles intended to move potentially dangerous loads, requiring specific architecture. Upstream integration of functions leads to a completely new and atypical architecture which offers the best response to a sometimes complex problem.
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Design and manufacture of an electrically assisted Velomobile. Velomobiles are the small streamlined vehicles that are most often found in Belgium or Netherlands. The challenge, in France, was to acquire this know-how, and to develop an electrically assisted vehicle, to compensate for the fact that France is not a flat country, then to achieve it while respecting strong constraints, in particular on the mass.
REALESTATE
Although I sometimes work on the architecture of traditional houses or buildings, I am mainly asked for proposals for innovative architecture, integrating particular construction methods, or strong energy optimization.
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Traditional buildings. Participation in the creation of a housing plus retail complex, based on a former listed mill, on behalf of a real estate developer.
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Modular buildings. Innovation on processes and modular architecture as part of the GREENNOVATION program
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Development of a concept of partially self-built houses as part of a resilient hamlet project, in partnership with a municipality in the south of France.
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Development of a resort complex in Tunisia, integrating the local style into energy-efficient constructions.
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Current developments focus on the creation of atypical habitats: geodesic domes, tiny houses, perched habitats, etc.