Olivier Faber

Olivier is an enrolled student in the Master of Architecture. Originally from France, he studied architecture in Switzerland and graduated from EPF Lausanne (EPFL). While in exchange at ETH Zurich (ETHZ) during his senior year, Olivier worked under the professorship of Dirk Hebel on building for disassembly and urban mining. Since then, he has worked at various design practices, such as De Rosee Sa in London, UK, and Rahul Mehrotra Architect in Mumbai, India. Besides this, Olivier dedicated the academic year 2017-2018 to self-driven research on the historical development of energy infrastructures in cities and the ever-changing relationship between architecture and the societies in which it sits. Since at MIT, his work has been primarily focused on buildings' adaptive reuse and low-carbon construction. 

Projects
Option Studio | Repositioning of 101 Barclay Street, NY
This project proposed the adaptive reuse of the 101 Barclay's Street, NNY, lowering the building's EUI by proposing a complete facade reskinning, offsetting some of its load through a solar canopy, increasing its role in urban resilience with a roof park, and reducing its conditioning loads with a solar chimney.
Option Studio | A Semester-long waste pavilion
This project attempts to transform our understanding of waste and material use, taking the culture of plotting in architecture school as a case study: collecting about 70kg of discarded plotter paper throughout MIT School of Architecture and Planning and building a student exhibition pavilion out of it.
CORE 3 | A processing plant for decarbonized food
This project proposes a low-carbon embodied carbon, net-zero, and affordably constructed seaweed processing plant and public market co-operative in Portland, Maine. It is a project that considers and acknowledges the fundamentally entangled relations between global climate change, building construction, and urban food culture.

Contact

ofaber@mit.edu