
MATHILDE
PROFESSIONAL & PERSONAL
Mathilde is a freelance architect. She has been mainly working on renovation and extension projects. She just left her job at Neybor Services that creates both shared co-living spaces and fully furnished private apartments in Brussels to focus on a private projects and new collaborations.
Before that, she participated in competition La Royale Belge with Stéphanie Parein who gave her the desire to design pure and colorful interiors.
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Mathilde has 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
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).
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Interior designer for "la Royale Belge" competition
SPIN, Brussels
Stéphanie Parein has been working as an interior designer all over Europe. I worked with her for a competition concerning the realization of a hotel in the brutalist building of Staples and Dufau, the former "Royale Belge". I was responsible for all the spatial planning for the project. The goal was to incorporate Stéphanie's tastes and interior design preferences to achieve a balance between space, color, light, and materials.
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Design assistant
Rotor DB, Brussels​
Rotor is a cooperative design practice that investigates the organisation of the material environment. I worked with Rotor on the organisation of the reuse of materials in the Usquare project. This real estate operation concerns the conversion of the former Gendarmerie barracks in Brussels, a 40,000 m² site operated since 1906 by the gendarmerie and then by the federal police.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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)
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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.
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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
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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
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High School with bilingual program: French & Dutch
Graduated cum laude
Institut Saint-André, Brussels, BE