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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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Adono Furniture:

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.

  • 2x National champion Open League (2018 & 2019)

  • 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

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