Anna La Marca Architecture Portfolio 2019
Anna La Marca I am a multidisciplinary architect. In the past years I have worked with interior design and architecture but I also have experience with product and graphic design along with landscape architecture. I have special interest in woodwork, furniture design, cenography and temporary instalations. I am a creative person who is constantly looking for challenges. I am very organized, proactive and a fast-learner. I am currently seeking for new oportunities in Sweden that allow me to express my creativity and to grow as a professional.
Professional Experience | Arbeteserfarenhet 10/18 - now F-Studio Freelance Architect 03/18 - 10/18 Wabi-Sabi Ateliê Landscape Architect & Product Design Assistant 02/17 - 03/18 Manoela Fleck - Architects Architect Assistant 03/17 - 03/18 Public Parks and Gardens Rio de Janeiro Municipality
Landscape Intern
08/16 - 11/16 Rio-Galeão Airport Architecture Intern
Workshop | Workshop 12/2016 RaumLabor Berlin + Vila Itororó (SP) Project “Goethe na Vila” 2
26 years old, Brazilian / Italian Stockholm Län + 46 79 336 96 19 pn: 199208234246 annalamarca@live.com
Education | Utbildining 2011 - 2017 Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, UFRJ Bachelor in Architecture and Urbanism 2014-2015 University of Groningen (Netherlands) Exchange Student
Volunteer Work | Volontärarbete 2012 - 2014 Storyteller Students Project Storyteller for sick kids hospitalized at the university hospital
Languages | Språk Portuguese - Native English - Fluent Swedish - Beginner Spanish - Basic
Computer Skills | Datorfärdigheter Adobe Suite (Ps, Il, Id, Lg) , AutoCAD, Sketchup, V-RAY, 3D MAX
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LARGE SCALE - Architecture
LITEN SKALA - Interventioner
#1 Alien Refuge #2 Mixed-Use Building
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MEDIUM SCALE Interior & Furniture Design #3 VeloCity #4 Architecture Office #5 Pedregulho LOFT
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MEDIUM SKALA Inredningsarkitektur & Mรถbeldesign 16 22 28
SMALL SCALE - Interventions #6 (re)Sensitizing Pathways
#1 Alien Refuge #2 Mixed-Use Building
#3 VeloCity #4 Architecture Office #5 Pedregulho LOFT
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#1 ALIEN REFUGE In the first year of college, students were asked to propose a project of a “Refuge”, an isolated building in the university campus where a guest professor or authority could work, study and concentrate during their stay. Each student was designated with a concept-word that had to be used as a guide for the design. My word was “Alien”. Understanding “alien” as everything that is foreigner or odd, the project’s challenge was to translate this concept into architecture. The site chosen for the project was a plot located in the side of a white neocolonial church and also near a workers’ village that was composed of houses with simple structures such as white walls and traditional gable roof. Following the alien concept, the project aimed in exploring the form and materiality to create contrast between the refuge’s architecture and its surroundings, which caused strangeness in the landscape context. To shape the building, the different levels of the terrain, along with the site views and vegetation were taken into account. The result was a house/object that dialogued with its surroundings by being a complete stranger in the landscape.
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Conceptual image | Konceptuell bild
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Church Kyrkan
Location Plan | Lokaliseringsplan
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2 - Bedroom Suite
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4 - Balcony
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5 - Living Room
5 - Vardagsroom
6 - Kitchen
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#2 MIXED-USE BUILDING
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Integrating disciplines such as architecture, landscape and structural design, this atelie studio asked the students to develop a residential building with the ground-floor for comercial use. It was also assigned that the surrounding area should go through interventions. The main challenge was to integrate all disciplines not only to create a well designed building, but also to transform its surroundings, making it more attractive to the general public. The site chosen for the project is located in a busy area in the city of Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil. Its rich surroundings contain schools, restaurants, stores and a Cultural Center (Oi Futuro). The project was developed with the objective of creating a new cultural corridor in the neighborhood, connecting and integrating all the attractions that the area already offered. In order to do so, one of the streets that surrounded the plots was closed to car traffic, and was made acessible only for pedestrians. This created a connection axis between the ‘Largo do Machado Square’ to the ‘Oi Futuro Cultural Center’. Such axis was reinforced with the patterns drawn on the sidewalk.
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The installation of a big screen in front of the Cultural Center, along with the addition of interactive urban furniture that could be used and manipulated by the public, brought a new livability to the public space, which became a new area of interests and meetings.
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“Largo do Machado� Square Platz
Location Plan | Lokaliseringsplan
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1 - Stores
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2 - Residential Lobby
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3 - Staff Restroom
3 - Personal Toalett
4 - Staff Kitchen
4 - Personal Kök
5 - Garbage Storage
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Plan | VÃ¥ningen
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#3 VELO-CITY In this project we were asked to propose a commercial project for an old storage space in a neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Along with the interior project for the space, students were also invited to conceptualize the brand that was going to occupy the space, also developing merchandizing. The creative process was inspired by the concept of “slowcity”. Because bikes are gaining more and more space in the routine of Rio de Janeiro’s inhabitants, the idea for a bike rental shop called Velo-City arose. VeloCity is a wordplay, “Velo” means bike in french. The name was choosen to state what the store wanted to offer to its costumers, a new way to see, meet and enjoy the city: with a different velocity. Due to the store location in the south part of the city, near beaches, rainforest and other natural areas, the store offered tematic bike routes not only for turists, but also for locals. Besides the tours, the shop would also sell and distribute items related to the bike universe. Along with the store space, a snackbar area and a parklet were proposed to extend the outdoor experimentation and to promote the encounter of locals and foster people to meet in a casual way. The space is proposed to be much more than just a garage for bikes.
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Flexibility and fluidity were key concepts to the development of the project. Phyisical separations were left aside and gave space to integration. Graphisms, textures and colors were important elements used to indicate the multiple functions of the store that are distributed lengthwise. The versatility promoted by the pegboard wall along with a support system that stores bikes on the ceiling allows the store’s layout to be re-arranged according to the necessities. That way, the shop turns into a dynamic space, able to hold multiple uses simultaneously.
Materials and color pallete | Material och Färgpalett
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Pattern Gradient | Gradient Mönster
+ Public + Offentlig
+ Private + Privat
Flexibility | Flexibilitet
Opened Facade | Öppet Fasad
Closed Facade | Stängt Fasad
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Conceptual images | Konceptuella bilder
#4 ARCHITECTURE OFFICE I worked in this project as an Assistant Architect. For one year I worked for Manoela Fleck, a Brazilian architect with a small bureau in Rio de Janeiro. When the architect needed to change her office address to better receive the clients, she rented out a comercial room that needed to be renovate. Because it was a small space, it needed to be optimazed. Together, we designed a partition to separate the working space, where the architects would develop projects and concepts, from the sitting area, where meetings with clients and providers would take place. Because the office had a beautiful view to one of the city’s most famous post-cards, the partition was made translucent, so the clients could also see through it. The materials were chosen to showcase how the bureau worked. Also, some furniture were designed and executed by our team. The intention was to use the office as a small showroom for the clients.
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Conceptual image | Konceptuell bild
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Materials and color pallete | Material och Färgpalett
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Furniture Design | Mรถbeldesign
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#5 PEDREGULHO LOFT For this interior design atelie, students were asked to develop a renovation project for one of the people that lived in a popular habitational building in Rio de Janeiro, called Pedregulho. Luiza, a photographer that would spent the next three years living in the building and documenting the everyday life of Pedregulho’s inhabitants, was the person I was assigned to work for. Therefore, I chose to let the first floor open so she could receive her neighbors for interviews, photographies and talkings. The second floor would be more private, with her room and workspace, but also without any sort of physical separation to maintain the open concept of the loft. The project proposed site-specific materials, furniture and constructive solutions, trying to invest in style instead of trends and standards. During the semester, my work consisted in not only creating the concept, but also in developing all the executive and technical drawings, such as lightning, floor, demolishion/ construction plans, detaling of wet areas, furniture, materials and so on. Conceptual image | Konceptuell bild
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1st Floor Plan
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Conceptual images | Konceptuella bilder
#6 (re)Sensitizing Pathways: After several studies in Rio de Janeiro City center one alley was choosen to receive a temporary intervention proposal with the main goal of inviting every day pedestrians to become active agents of urban life. The intervention presented here was thought locally, i.e., to one specific alley, but its structure, material and assemblys were designed to make it also possible to disassemble and reassemble it in different locations. Travessa do Tinoco “Travessa do Tinoco� used to be a very busy street. The proximity with cultural centers and historical places along with the presence of restaurants in its buildings, made the alley a very attractive place in the past. People used to go there to meet friends, have lunch, hear some samba, take a beer in happy hour and so on. Once the restaurants closed, people stopped going there. Now, they mostly use the alley only as a shortcut Conceptual image | Konceptuell bild
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Proposal: - Create an intervention capable of fostering people’s attention and interest; - Provide opportunities for public appropriation
This intervention explores the form of a tunnel to reinforce the crossing nature of a place of passage.
Supported in rails and with pantographic structure the object can be manipulated, being able to be opened and closed by the public.
The tunnel is created by a succession of porticos in metallic structure of constant width and variant heights. Tissue is added to its top in order to create a ceiling.
While the public can move most part of the structure, the middle modules are fixed to maintain the tunnel’s stability.
The middle part have horizontal elements that can be reorganized along the structure according to the users will.
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Conceptual images | Konceptuella bilder
Rua do Mercado
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Tack sĂĽ mycket!
Thank you! Obrigada!
annalamarca@live.com + 46 79 336 96 19