JOÃO AIRTON DE ALMEIDA MONTEIRO NETO
ARCHITECTURAL PROJECTS
+604 720 1756 airtonmn@gmail.com
SUSTAINABILITY STUDIES
Born 22nd of September 1988 ‘Architect, urbanist and master in Clean Energy Engineering. Sustainability and sustainable buildings are my main areas of interest as I believe Architecture is a tool for environmental and social achievements.’
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Junior Architect Vancouver, Canada| April 2018 – April 2019 Rositch Hemphill Architects • Worked on DP, BP, Tender and IFC phases of design. • Gave presenta on on Sustainability and Life-Cycle Assessment applied to buildings for the office staff. • Conducted Life-Cycle Assessment applied to in-house project. Clean Energy / Energy Efficiency Volunteer Researcher Fortaleza, Brazil | October 2016 – December 2016 GBFOR – Green Building for Ci es Consultancy • Analyzed and researched clean energy technologies, energy efficiency and conserva on strategies leading to the design of the municipal green building labeling of Fortaleza, Brazil • Advised engineers on urban planning and municipal building codes Entrepreneur in Social Housing Horizonte, Brazil | February 2014 – December 2016 Partnership with IGM – Gurgel Monteiro Real Estate Ltd. • Construc on Team Manager and Project Architect • Managed construc on site including quality control, materials supply, hiring labour, payroll tracking • Coordinated legal approvals and final sales • Designed and dra ed architectural drawings and 3D model • Partnered with 20+ years of experience professionals Architecture Studio Intern Fortaleza, Brazil | January 2013 – July 2013 MD Associated Architects • Par cipated in architectural design processes from concep on to compleon • Developed architectural drawings using REVIT, AutoCAD, CorelDRAW, Illustrator and Photoshop • Par cipated in legal approval processes Construc on Site Intern Fortaleza, Brazil | August 2012 - December 2012 P&G Engineering and Construc on • Supported construc on site manager with material supply, quality control and payroll tracking Architecture Studio Intern Fortaleza, Brazil | February 2009 - December 2010 NASSER HISSA Associated Architects • Developed architectural drawings using AutoCAD.
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EDUCATION University of Bri sh Columbia - UBC Vancouver, Canada | January 2017 - December 2017 Master of Engineering Leadership in Clean Energy Engineering • Final Capstone Project - Sustainability Applied to Social Housing in Brazil. Access here: (h ps://issuu.com/airton_mn/docs/appp506_final_report_capstone_proje) University of Fortaleza - Unifor Fortaleza, Brazil | August 2008 – August 2015 Bachelor’s Degree in Architecture and Urbanism • Final Architecture Project - Sustainable Social Housing. Access here: (h ps://issuu.com/airton_mn/docs/arquivo_unificado_2015.1_ g_jo__o_) Fachhochshule Köln - FH Köln Cologne, Germany | September 2011 - February 2012 Architecture and Urbanism Academic Exchange
Sawmill Crescent Life-Cycle Assessment
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SKILLS
3D modelling & 2D dra ing Autodesk: AutoCAD, Revit, Sketchup Digital Image & Rendering Adobe CC: Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, CorelDRAW, Enscape, V-Ray
Sawmill Crescent Professional Work 2019
Social Housing Ensemble Professional Work 2016
Sustainable Social Housing Ensemble Academic Work 2015-2017
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Residencial High Rise Academic Work 2012
Phisical Modelling EPS foam cu ng, handcra ing of foam and wood board, cra paper modelling Sustainability & Clean Energy Tally, PVsyst, RETScreen Languages Portuguese (Na ve) English (Fluent) Spanish (Intermediate)
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Hostel in Beira-Mar Academic Work 2012
Sustainable Social Housing Ensemble Life-Cycle Assessment & Clean Energy Project
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Quem passou pela vida em branca nuvem E em plácido repouso adormeceu; Quem não sen u o frio da desgraça, Quem passou pela vida e não sofreu, Foi espectro de homem - não foi homem, Só passou pela vida - não viveu. Francisco Otaviano
He who floated through life on a white cloud and in a gentle, numb repose; Who did not feel the cold touch of misfortune; Who went through life without suffering, was a ghost of a man, was not a man, He simply passed through life, he did not live at all. Francisco Otaviano
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Sawmill Crescent | 2019 | Vancouver, Canada | Rositch Hemphill Architects
Sec on - architecture
East side view Social housing development comissioned by Marcon Developments in partnership with the Vancouver Affordable Housing Agency (VAHA) and Catalyst Community Developments Society. This development consists of a two 5-storey buildings interconnected by a bridge. It is based on a concrete parkade level and 1 floor, which transi ons to a wood frame structure from the 2nd level up. I have been working on this project since the pre-DP stage and through the subsequent stages up to the BP submission. A full IFC set should be issued on the next 30 days. This project has been dra ed 90% using Revit, being the only exep on the detailing, which was made using AutoCAD, as the office is going through a transi on to BIM. On this opportunity, I have accomplished to dra not only plans, eleva ons, sec ons and schedules on Revit, but I have also conducted a full life-cycle assessment of this building using a plug-in called Tally. A report was generated as a complementary demonstra on to our clients and to the office staff (See next page). As LCA will become gradually a more proeminent asset in the architecture industry, the sooner offices and ul mately clients adopt it, the sooner they will forge their compe ve advantage in the market.
1st Floor plan - landscape
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Overall eleva on - architecture
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Sawmill Crescent Life-Cicle Assessment *Warning: Due to the commercial nature of this project, I was not able to use the educa onal version of Tally. I have used Tally trial version for this study in order to perform a demonstra on. Hence, the presence of the program watermark will be found on all graphics and tables presented on this page. On this life-cycle assessment, the focus was to quan fy impacts, as well as understanding the propor ons of which life-cycle stage would have on the overall mix. It was expected that the use of wood as the main construc on material would have a posi ve impact in this case. The use of wood is normally seen as posi ve choice of construc on material, especially in the case of Bris sh Columbia, where forestry is well regulated and there is a responsible management of natural resources. Also, the transporta on footprint is drama cally reduced due to the proximity of the harvest loca on to the construc on site.
As presented below, the end of life stage is responsible for a considerable part of the environmental impact oset of the project. This means that a rela vely high percentage of this building materials could be recycled, reused, repurposed or used as thermal energy. The biggest environmental impacts and energy use comes from the manufacture stage, where many energy intensive processes take place, such as the manufacture of aluminum, glass and cement etc. In our case study, the biggest impacts were due to glass and aluminum, see itemized breakdown by division on the tables on the right bo om side. If we were to target any reduc on on the environmental footprints of this building, being that for aiming any extra points on LEED cer ďŹ ca on or even for the sole purpose of making it more sustainable, a good place to start would be by targe ng the manufacture stage. Finally, this project could be considered a rela vely sustainable project if we, for example, were to compare it to a building made en rely by concrete. However, a few elements could deďŹ netely be tweaked and improved. Such as the subs tu on of some aluminum elements for wood or PVC.
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Social Housing Ensemble | 2015 | Horizonte, Brazil | IGM Real Estate Ltd.
Volterrana floor system West side construc on #1
Longitudinal sec on Stair assembly #1
West side construc on #2
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West side construc on #3 Typical house at construc on phase
View from living room
Stair assembly #2
This social housing ensemble is my first project as an entreperneur, of which I was responsible for the design, construc on site management and sales supervision. This 10-house ensemble was made possible by my partnership IGM Real Estate and the support of a Brazilian Federal Social Housing Program known as “Minha Casa, Minha Vida”. The house program is presented in two floors. Social and service rooms are situated on the ground floor, while the in mate areas, such as bedrooms and washrooms are on the upper floor.
Ven la on and light sha
Tile use at the façade
Some of the highlights of this project are the a en on to passive ven la on and ligh ng, as the lack of lateral fenestra on brought some challenges to this project. That way, zenithal openings were specified in order to solve both problems at once. This way, the house presents two roof openings promo ng ven la on through stack effect plus natural ligh ng.
View from west side
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Stair assembly #3
Other interes ng features to contribute to the inner microclimate are the two indoor gardens by the dining room. The main idea was to bring comfort, economy and healthier lives to low-income families.
View from east side
Upper floor
Ground floor
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Sustainable Social Housing Ensemble | 2015 | Fortaleza, Brazil | Universidade de Fortaleza
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500-litre tank
Rain water Filtered water Grey water
Master bedroom
Filtered grey water Black water 5000-litre tank Ver cal circulaon + washrm.
Kitchen + Laundry
Commercial
Grey water treatment Hydro/ sewage system
Ver cal circulaon + washrm.
Living + balcony
Bedroom + washroom
Modules Final undergraduate project aimed at obtaining the bachelor’s degree in Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Fortaleza in 2015, Brazil. This project consists of social houses located in the city of Fortaleza, Brazil. As residen al deficit is one of the biggest social problems in Brazil, illegal occupa on of vacant sites by homeless families is a common prac ce, especially in high-density urban lands. Hence, the project was accommodated in a city hall site, which was being illegally occupied by seventeen low-income families.
Ground loor
Upper loor
“L” type House
Service
Vertical circulation
Comercial unit
Farming
Bedroom
Living
Longitudinal sec on - ven la on scheme
Sec on through ven la on sha
The project sought to resolve the legal impasse between par es by proposing a set of seventeen sustainable social houses, which included urban farming, rainwater harvesng and reuse, sewage treatment by plants and an urban solar energy farm.
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On one hand, the involved families would be shielded against local rising prices of services and goods, which is o en a consequence of real estate specula on. On the other hand, the city hall would pay for all the construc on costs with a 11-year payback forecast through social symbolic rents coupled with the sales revenue of the PV system energy surplus to the public u lity company.
Ini al study sketches Ensemble view
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Sustainable Social Housing Ensemble Life-Cicle Assessment In 2017, I decided to use my final project at architecture school as a base study for my master’s degree capstone project. The intent was to conduct a life-cycle assessment on what has been designed to be a more sustainable alterna ve to social housing construcon, as well as a to design its PV panel system, which will be presented on the next page. This LCA consists on a “Craddle-to-Grave” scope, on which two op ons were compared. On one side, the social housing project would be built using materials and techniques more typical to the construc on market in Brazil. On the other side, the use of less cement, less metal and more renewable materias would be adopted in order to reach a be er level of sustainability. From that comparison, we could quan fy how less envionmentally impac ul or not is the sustainable op on compared to the typical op on.
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The results were rather interes ng. The sustainable op on performed predictably be er on the the global warming poten al factor. However, it performed slightly worse on other factors such as on smog forma on and acidifica on impacts. On both cases, the biggest impact during the building life-cycle would be on the manufacture phase, or “craddle” phase, followed by end-of-life, transporta on and maintenance. The conclusion, as expected, is that despite the fact that the sustainable op on did not perform be er on all impact categories, it s ll has a smaller impact on the o en most important factor, the global warming poten al. In addi on, it is more reliant on renewable energy sources. Therefore, seeing it from this perspec ve, we can conclude that the sustainable op on is indeed less impac ul to the environment than the typical op on.
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Sustainable Social Housing Ensemble Clean Energy Project Cost of living at the proposed social houses
Clean energy project which is the second part of my master’s degree capstone project, on which the main ojec ve was to quan fy how grid indepedent this social housing could be and if clean energy could be used as means to offset the capital cost of social housing construc on in Fortaleza, Brazil. Using the previously developed house types House I, L and Inverted L, the available roof top area on each kind was used to en rely accomodate the Photo-Voltaic system. Due to difference in roof top areas, the annual energy produc on on each house type varies. For the purpose of simplifica on, only the house type “L” data is being used here to exemplify the PV system design process on this study.
As result of a successful payback less than 30 years, a return on investment of 1.86 would certainly allow for the implementa on of a social rent on this public enterprise. Making it possible for low-income families to leave the outskirts of Fortaleza and live is central areas with be er infrastructure connec vity and public services. The rent would be kept below 30% of the minimum wage as ways to allow families to par cipate on the domes c economy while being financially safe.
The sizing of all the PV panels, including modules and inverters selec on, as well as the orienta on and performance analysis were done using the swiss so ware PVSyst, which provides all the weather and irradia on data essencial to a precise sizing. See tables below. The conclusion of this cleanenergy study is that not only the social housing ensemble of 17 houses would be completely energy independent, but also that it could be used to offset the capital costs of the its construc on (a change in legisla on would be required for allowing the sale of the generated electricity on a the energy market). See Return on Investment and Payback Time tables below.
View of roof top PV panels
Return on investment
Payback forecast
Irradia on in Fortaleza, Brazil
System schema
“L House” PV panel system sizing on PVSyst
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DragĂŁo do Mar Residen al Highrise| 2012 | Fortaleza, Brazil | University of Fortaleza
North-south varia on A
North-south varia on B On this academic project course, the purpose was to give the student the opportunity to design residen al high-rise buildings that would fall within the residen al market context in Fortaleza. This project aimed to take advantage of the recently enacted by-law, which allowed for 36-storey high rises at the central neighbourhood of the city. The site allowed a 360° view of the city of Fortaleza due to the fact of the past height limit imposed un l that par cular me. An uninterrupted view from the hills in the countryside, as well as the beach and the historic neighbourhoods of the city, the concept privileged external areas that could take advantage of all views.
Overall south façade
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In that sense, apartment units where located on the North-South axis in order to take advantage of such a fantas c views, at the same me, excessive solar radia on coming from the the East-West axis was deflected by the specificaon of balconies around the building. Interior design view
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Hostel in Beira-Mar Beach | 2012 | Fortaleza, Brazil | University of Fortaleza
1st floor - entrance, kitchen and social areas
View from break-water at Beira-Mar
Site loca on Conceived in 2012, this project is a tribute to the Brazilian contribu on to Architecture, as well as a homage to the late Brazilian master architect Oscar Niemeyer, who had recently passed away.
Bedroom floor plan North façade sketch
The project theme has been set to be a hybrid between a hotel and a hostel in a sense that it would have the scale related to the first one, and the informal environment and lean economics of the second. The building is comprised of six floors of shared bedrooms in a high valued area of Fortaleza, Brazil, where there are always events, such as conferences and concerts going on. The loca on is also known for its touris c appeal since it is right in front of Beira-Mar beach.
Laundry + administra on floor plan
On the ground floor, instead of a conven onal hotel lobby, the building presents a large shared kitchen on one side, and an open and equally large space for tables and a gourmet kitchen at the other side for groups who are socializing and cooking. Interrup ng the bedroom floors sequence, the laundry floor is placed right between the second and third floors. It func ons as a service and gathering area, this is another op on for social encounters, as guests can enjoy the mid height view of the beach. The administra on of the building is also placed on that floor.
Façade study sketch
Amenity floor plan
On the roof of the building, there are leisure areas such as the pool, beach chairs, a small bar, an arcade and a gym. The main opera onal and service areas of the building were placed on the underground floor such as the warehouse, the employees’ locker rooms and the load and unloading area.
South-west corner view
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North-west corner view
Bird´s eye view sketch from south-west corner
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