
MATHILDE
PROFESSIONAL & PERSONAL
I have been a freelance architect since 2020. I have experience in architecture, interior design and project management. I collaborated with Neybor Services that creates both shared co-living spaces and fully furnished private apartments in Brussels. Before that, I participated in competition La Royale Belge with Stéphanie Parein who gave me the desire to design pure and colorful interiors. I have a certain interest in the re.use of materials that she developed during her 6 month internship at Rotor that dismantle, process and trade salvaged building components.
Languages
French, English, Dutch and improving Spanish
Experiences
SINCE
2020
2021-25
2020
2020
GAP YEAR
Freelance architect
Collaboration with firms & private clients
Working independently with personal clients gave me a stronger sense of responsibility and creative freedom.
Architect decorator & project manager
Neybor Services, Brussels
Neybor is a co-living operating across Brussels, they re-imagine and transform spaces in existing structures to elevate the standard of living in cities. With a dual role as architect and project manager, I completed six construction projects for them - projects ranging from 250 to 700 m². I was responsible for preliminary designs, implementation files, and site supervision (team coordination, delivery planning, and logistics monitoring). My goal was to transform obsolete, old buildings into sensitive and comfortable ready-made homes.
Interior designer for "la Royale Belge" competition
SPIN, Brussels
Stéphanie Parein, an interior designer, requested me to work with her for a competition concerning the realization of a hotel in the brutalist building of Staples and Dufau. I was responsible for the spatial planning of the project. My role was to develop creative concepts in which I had to integrate the interior strategy and identity of Stephanie. She taught me to look beyond technical rules and to focus more on atmosphere, emotion, and the user experience.
Design assistant
Rotor DB, Brussels
Rotor is a cooperative design practice that investigates the organisation of the material environment. I worked on the organisation of the reuse of materials in the Usquare project, the conversion of the former Gendarmerie barracks in Brussels, a 40,000 m² site operated since 1906. This internship gave me an early sensitivity to materials, construction logic, and the life cycle of building components.
Travelling in Central & South America
Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Guadeloupe
Remote Freelance Graphic & Product Designer
for Korok, Décathlon
for Tom Boon Hockey asbl
Intern
During the summer holidays of my studies I worked as an intern at DDAD & BCruysmansArchitect (BE) and at Le Domaine de Chatressac (FR) as an apprentice bricklayer.
STUDENT JOBS
Skills
Architectural softwares:
Archicad
Autocad
Rhino
Sketchup
Adobe softwares:
Photoshop
inDesign
Illustrator
After Effect
Personnal interests
Jewelry:
An admirer of the work of artisans, Mathilde sometimes lends herself to the exercise of jewelry-making. For her, manual labor is a means of rest and meditation, more here.
As an entrepreneurial exercise, Mathilde started designing furniture with Spencer De Smedt. Those are coffee and side table, thought and made in their little kingdom Belgium, have a look here.
Field hockey, Royal Wellington THC:
Mathilde has always been involved with her field hockey team, training three times a week. Being part of a group with a common project and sporting goals is stimulating for her.
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2x National champion Open League (2018 & 2019)
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1x National vice-champion Junior League (2014)
Other sports:
Mathilde supplements her field hockey training with swimming and running. In her spare time, she enjoys taking part in soccer tournaments or playing a leisurely game of tennis.
Scouts:
As a child and teenager, Mathilde was involved in scouting, which taught her a sense of community, a taste for mutual aid and resourcefulness.
Education
2016-2018
2013-2016
2007-2013
Master degree
Graduated magna cum laude
Faculty of architecture, architectural engineering and urban planning, UCL, Brussels, BE
Faculty of architecture, CTU, Prague, CZ - exchange program Master 1
Bachelor degree
Graduated cum laude
Faculty of architecture, architectural engineering and urban planning, UCL, Brussels, BE
High School with bilingual program: French & Dutch
Graduated cum laude
Institut Saint-André, Brussels, BE