Cloe Rene Moreau

Cloe Rene Moreau, (born 31 October 1974) is a famous French architect inspired by the beauties of nature. One of her works was created when she was a student in Paris College of Art, “Globe of Globe” in Paris in 1996 which won the Stirling Prize in 1996. She also won Emporis Skycraper Award in 2000 with “House of Birds” in Vienna 1998. She is best known for her creativity which other people can imagine but can hardly transform the ideas into real life. Her architects do not only perform visual revolution to audience, they are also made to be widely used. For example, “Swing House” in 2004 was famous and successful for university students who needded minimal spaces and effective studying environment.
Early life
Moreau was born on 31 October 1974 in Saint-Emilion, France. As a child she was always dreaming about flying since she was born in small village. She grew up in family, her father Louis John Moreau was a painter and she lost her mother at age of two. Louis had always told her that her mother has flew in the sky that was the major drive for her to design her world famous “Floating Houses in the Air” in 2010.
Moreau moved to Paris to follow architecture, as she was really talented she got into Paris college of Art, a private university with four campuses in Paris, France. She was influenced by Zaha Hadid architects in her studying duration because of Hadid’s continuous movement and smooth lines in her architec which reminded her of smoth movement of birds wings in the air. She was trying to follow Hadid’s dynamic movement and fluidity in her work. She finished her undergradeuate degree program which was Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Design Management. Even she was a student, she designed very unique architecturral structures such as “Globe of Globe” in Paris in 1996, “House of Birds” in Vienna 1998, “Museum of Modern architecture” in Seattle in 2002.
She moved to New York in 2002 to continue her study and she was accpeted in Columbia Graduate school of Architecture, planning and preservation and she got her master of architecture and she did not stop designing. Since then she devoted her professional life to working on architectures that could fly or move.
Architectural work
She invented personal sized swing houses called “Swing House” in 2004. These houses are so small, it designed for students and each has a bed, desk various pullout kicken, two chairs and a lamp and bookshelf. Under the bed, there was a storage for shoes, clothes. The interesting part was all these furnitures were fixed to the house’s floor in order not to move when the house is swinging. swinging was controlled by a motor as well as free motion, it could have controlled speed or being fixed (not moving). The exterior material was made out of lightweight ICF Walls and Energy-efficient glass that in could save the energy inside. it included motorized ladder outside of the home which would only work by recognizing the face of the owner and open up. She invented a very creative way to filter the used water after taking shower that could be watering the plants under the house so each house has beautiful vegetable garden underneath the house, so tanents could grow their own vegetable using he filtered used water. These houses became famous to 2004 and 2006 and so many students were actually living in there because of the affordable price and suitabke size of them.
She did not stop there. She wanted to be able to design houses that can float in the air without any installation so she started her research. After three years of working really hard, she came up with electromagnetic floating buildings titled “Floating Houses in the Air” in 2010. She was influenced by Electromagnetic Floaters and though how she can bring that to architectre. The electromagnetic floater is a device that floats metal objects between two magnets. The two magnents create a force between them and allow the objects in the middle to appear as though they are floating. The force of the gravity pulling down equals the force of the magnents pulling up. She used repellent feature of magnents which means the same sides of the magnet will repel each others. She created a huge strong northside magnent base on the ground and she created the same side magnet base on the bottom of the buildings. Because of the repellent, the building would stay in the air with 5 meters distacne from the ground. This was huge success for her also in architecture history. She won so many awards such as European Prize for Architecture in 2010, World Architecture Festival in 2013 and Spanish International Architecture Prize in 2013 as well.
Prizes and awards
*Stirling Prize in 1996
*Emporis Skycraper Award in 2000
*European Prize for Architecture in 2010
*World Architecture Festival in 2013
*Spanish International Architecture Prize in 2013

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