Portfolio Antonio Pessoa Mauricio Selected Works 2015-2018
Antonio Pessoa Mauricio +55 21 99623 6867 antoniopessoamauricio@gmail.com
CURRICULUM VITAE Antônio Pessoa Mauricio Architecture and Urbanism Student 21/10/1993 - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil antoniopessoamauricio@gmail.com +55 21 9962 36867 Fluent Languages: English and Portuguese Software Rhinoceros 3d, Grasshopper, Vray, Quantum GIS, Autocad, Revit, Adobe CC (Photoshop, Illustrator and Indesign), Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint)
Education 1996-2012 PRIMARY AND HIGH SCHOOL | THE BRITISH SCHOOL OF RIO DE JANEIRO 2013-2018 BACHELHORS IN ARCHITECTURE & URBANISM (PROFESSIONAL DEGREE) CANDIDATE | PUC–RIO
Professional Experience 2015-2017
INTERN | EMDAU - MODEL OFFICE OF ARCHITECTURE PUC Worked as co-author of architectural design projects alongside architects and other professionals. Within the particular hierarchy of the practise, worked as 'Intern in Charge' (project manager) of the Grand Jean de Montigny Theatre from 2015 to 2017 and of The Science Station and Ports Authority of Fernando de Noronha from 2016 to 2017.
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INTERN | INDIO DA COSTA A.U.D.T Worked in projects of varying uses and scales, from interior design to large scale public buildings. Developed drawings and graphics ranging from technical drawings, renders, conceptual diagrams, client presentations and colaborated in competition boards. Developed design proposals at conceptual stages, modeling of complex geometries and parametric models. Paticipated in meetings with clients and other professionals.
Workshops, Short Courses and Other Activities 2012 Parque Laje Visual Arts School - "The Creative Process" 2014 AA Visting School - Rio de Janeiro - "Padrão FIFA" 2016 DAU/PUC-Rio - "INSITU - Cobogó/Parametric Architecture" 2017 DAU/PUC-Rio - "Kinectic Architecture" 2017 IEEE - "Introduction to the Arduino Platform"
Awards, Publications and Exhibitions 2015 Porto Mediatheque project exhibited at SERURBANO 2016 Rua Bernardo #57 residential project awarded as Best in Studio 2017 Science Station and Ports Authority of Fernando de Noronha published in 'PUC-Urgente' 2017 Science Station and Ports Authority of Fernando de Noronha published in 'A Folha de São Paulo" 2017 Science Station and Ports Authority of Fernando de Noronha selected as a finalist for the Saint Gobain Prize for Sustainable architecture
CONTENTS
Academic Work
Porous Block
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Hybrid Building - Porto 45
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Rua Bernardo #57
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Competition Entries
Observatory Houses in Roccaslegna
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Solid/Liquid
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Professional Experience
EMDAU - Science Sation and Ports Authority of Fernando de Noronha
Recommendation Letters
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*Unless explicitly stated, all the graphical content present in this publication was produced by me 3
Porous Block Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Coauthor(s): Mateus Keiper
How could we rethink the urban block in order to provide cities with fluid relationships between programs, public and private spaces, the build and the unbuilt environment? This question kick started the design of the Porous Block project which had as it site an oversized and underused city block right at the neighborhood border of Leblon with Gavea in Rio de Janeiro, a dense and consolidated part of the city. Formerly a Military Police headquarter, the site, which occupies most of the block, is completely walled, rendering its surroundings atypically lifeless for the region and reinforcing the negative urban effects brought by the sheer size of the block. Preliminary studies led to the understating that, summing up to over thirty-four thousand square meters, the scale of the project in question transcended that expected for an architecture project, as its area is equivalent to quite a few small city blocks. Therefore, the opportunity of speculating upon new urban realities became clear. Assuming that the valuable real estate would lead to the development of characterless boxes with the sole purpose of maximizing rentable floor area, as is frequently the case, however appreciating the positive urban outcomes of high-density buildings, the formal operations that lead to the final design were initiated with the
Year: 2017
Type: mixed use
Studio: 8 - Utopic Architecture
maxing out of the legal building envelope. Inspired by the formal logics behind medieval cities, the soil eroded by ants to build their colonies and by river to reach the sea, the solid volume was subsequently eroded by the impulses to create new connections within the urban fabric and rich public spaces. The resulting volume was porous; its faces were fluid in nature, seamlessly transitioning from vertical to horizontal and from landscape to edifice. The same concept that lead to formal erosions of the block, transforming it into a porous artefact, lead to the development of its eroded faces as a porous membrane. Starting from the traditional brises-solei, we understood that variations of the depth of its horizontal elements radically transformed an element that had the sole purpose of shedding excess sun light while allowing for the natural ventilation into a hybrid technology capable of serving several functions. The building skin developed, smoothly transitions from stairways to agents that gradually control de amount of natural light penetrating the buildings, form elements that create ambiences to ones that indicate movement. Accordingly, the building skin developed constitutes a truly infrastructural element of the project as it is meticulously modulated to respond to different stimulus.
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PRELIMINARY ANALISIS
SUN PATH & PREVALENT WINDS southern winds cool the site while special atention should to given to nothern facades which receive excessive radiation.
LAND USE
Residential Comercial Hospitals
Provisory Police Station Offices
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DEVELOPMENT POTENTIAL
The topography of the site gradually slopes towards it southern front.
If the site was fully developed within the local legislation, a total floor area of 136 000m2 could be built.
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POTENTIAL PROGRAM DISTRIBUTION
The current program is sprawled within the site in low buildings.
If the program was redistributed within a vertical building it would ocupy only 2.3% of the terrain
INITIAL FORMAL OPERATIONS
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Largely unbuilt, the site houses several trees of significant size and importances. The main green areas were mapped and indexed to inform the next stages of the design process.
2 The Main green areas superposed with interesting existing ambiences along the site, indicating the location of future public and green spaces. Furthermore, several points of access to the block were established, based on external activity, and connect amongst each other and with the proposed green spaces.
3 The network of green spaces and pathways conecting them to city fabric were subtracted from the conceptual extrusion of the site, resulting in the early floorplan of the design.
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THE HYBRID FUNCTIONS THE BUILDING SKIN Evolving from the traditional Brises-solei, the building's skin is meticulously manipulated as a response to different types of stimulus. Therefore, even though is clearly understood as a single element, it serves varying functions.
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CONTROL OF NATURAL LIGHT
Functioning as traditional brise-solei the skin limits direct radiation exposure while alowing the building to be naturaly vetilated.
By varying the width of the horizontal facede elements, it becomes possbile to modulate the amount of natural light penetrating the building.
INTERMEDIARY SPATIALITIES
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By peeling off the skin from the building, intermediary spatialites are created, smoothening the transition from inside to outside.
Building overhangs create covered pathways and public spaces.
STAIRWAYS & BLEACHERS
PATHWAYS & MOVEMENT
The varying of the angle of the skin and the width of its horizontal elements create stairways, seats and bleachers.
The curvature of the skin and relationship to multiple faces induce movement through pathways.
image credit: Antonio Mauricio & Mateus Keiper
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1 Intermediary Spacialities - The porosity of the skin allows garden to extend uninterrupted between the outside and inside of the skin, creating intermediary spaces.
2 Bridges & Tunnels - the overlapping of pathways at ground level and programmatic necessity of certain programs, at higher levels, to be connected, leads to the creation of specialities akin to tunnels and bridges.
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3 Vertical Conections - Programs are distributed fluidly within the buildings, frequently occupying different levels.
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PHYSICAL MODEL Though computer software was necessary to design sucha complex building, physical models were used thoughtout the process to further aid in the understaing of proportions, scale and spatialities.
TYPICAL CROSS-SECTION Though the final design seems complex com a construction point of view, it's mostly made up of tandard structural elements such as coluns, beams and slabs. This drawing illustrates clearly the main constructive elements of the building as well as their relationship. 15
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BUILDING SKIN The complex geometry of the skin that resulted from its reaction to different kinds of stimulus.
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image credit: Antonio Mauricio & Mateus Keiper
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Hybrid Building - Porto 45 Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Team: M. Keiper & J. Tablet
In site of the the FIFA World Cup of 2014 and the Olympic Games of 2016, the city of Rio de Janeiro was able to mobilize federal investments of unseen magnitude as a pretext for preparing itself for the games and remaining within the frame of cameras of the international media for long after that. One of the regions of the city which had heavily investment during this period was the old port, which was fully 'revitalized'. This region however was in a farely good state when compared, for example, to the poverty filled Favelas of the city which lack even proper sewage systems. Critics were quick to point out the many other flaws of the scheme but perhaps one of the most relevant at the time of the project was how the lack of planning and the incentives for immediate development of the area lead to a quick proliferation of luxury office buildings which not only lead to an aggressive gentrification of the area but emptied the region of all the culture and history it's inhabitants carried within themselves and also proved unsustainable from a urbanistic
Year: 2016
Type: Mixed Use
Studio: 7 - Residential Architecture
point of view as the region became monofunctional. The aim of this project was to develop a pilot residential building for the region which could house tenants from different social stratums and family configurations as a means of combining the gentrification and increasing the quality of life in the region as it turned it into a more lively multifunctional area. The resulting building motions towards new forms of inhabiting the dense urban areas. At street level, the urban block is crossed with galleries, increasing the porosity of the urban fabric and enlivening them with shops and services. As we move up, the program switches to residential as it offers inhabitants modular apartments which can easily be repartitioned to fit the changing needs of families. Taking cue from the nearby favelas, many of the apartments feature large terraces created to serve as important recreational spaces to the building's inhabitants and change the usual condition of life in apartments.
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4 - the residential blocks are elevated over the street level comercial base through which galleries are openned, connecting the corners of the site.
5 - the horizontal and vertical circulation of the residential blocks are attached to the building.
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Rua Bernardo #57 Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Team: not aplicable
This project was the result of a fast paced exercise proposed by the residential architecture studio at PUC-Rio. It consists of a flexible low-rise residential building located in the traditional neighbourhood of Engenho de Dentro, in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro. It's ample connection with the streets aims at replicating the public/private relationship that the homes of 'sobrado' typology (a portugues heritage still very present in the area) provide while allowing for an increase in density.
Year: 2016
Type: Residential
Studio: 7 - Residential Architecture
development, as it makes use of off-the-shelf componenets which enjoy the benefits of economies of scale, making it possible for the apartments resale value to be accessible to the Carioca middle class.
Throughtout all of the design phases several strategies were developed and implemented in order to maximise energy eficiency and comfort within the building, resulting in an architecture which is truly suited to the tropical climate of Rio de Janeiro. Some of the most evident aspects The pre-fab construction log- of these strategies are the ic of the project allows for a brise- soleils, vegetation and fast and relatively inexpensive the 'L' shaped implantation.
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1 - A minimum residential module was established
2 - The model was replicated and arranged in a 'L' in order to maximise ventilation and light
3 - Reentrant varandas, a typical element of tropical architecture, were created for each apartment
4 - Space was make for the vegetation planted in the varandas to grow
5 - Half modules and vegetation were added do the terrace, creating unique apartments
6 - A below-grade parking garage was created - in order to comply with local regulations
7 - Openings for light and vetilation were made allowing for a future programatic flexibility
8 - The horizontal and vertical circulation walkways were added
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Due to the local buildings codes, the project was forced to have parking spaces for every apartment, even though this is in direct contradiction to contemporary urban trends of reducing the use of automobiles in favor of walking, cycling and public transport. Therefore, a series openings were created in order to allow the below-grade level to be filled with light and the ground floor was slightly raised making it possible for there to be cross-ventilation through the below-grade level. All these operations were done to allow for a probable change in use of this level in the near future which would result in more apartments or other rentable spaces in favor of less parking spaces.
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Along the second and third floors the aparments enjoy balconies with lush vegetation which filters the sun light, decrease the ambient temperature and recycle the city air. In front of the openings where vegetation is not present a brise skin protects the apartments from excess radiation while still allowing views, indirect light and ventilation to pass through.
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The modular nature of the design, coupled with ease of modifying the architecture due to the pre-fab construction, allows for endless variations of layouts. In the configuration shown in the following plans, the apartments can vary from 36m2 to 72m2 but these layouts should by no means be considered as fixed since they are designed to organically change as the size of family units increase and decrease and tenants change. This flexibility is also of the interest of real estate investors and developers and the apartments can change to suit the demands of the market in any given moment.
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Infinite Skyscapes Location: Roccascalegna, Italy Team: G. Chagas, G. Paiva, J. Tabet
Between the vastness of Earth and Sky, there is Roccascalegna, where countless men have passed, leaving behind the marks of their ambition; these marks are still present today, as and in architecture, but beyond that, it is a place of nature. Nature, that outlives men and remains practically untouched when observed through its own scale of time, in its sublime vastness. With the constant shifts of civilizations, the fortress and the old town have lost its strategic relevance and with it, the efforts of continuous maintenance required to preserve them. However, their cultural relevance, is perhaps, today, stronger than ever, as having lost their original meaning, they stand as sublime monuments of our very own condition as human beings. A change in meaning, requires slight, although new, architectural and programmatic interventions to allow the most
Year: 2017
Type: Cultural/Hospitality
Competition: Observatory Houses
to be made of such beautiful and emotional places. This proposal responds to the program suggested by the organizers by recommending that the observatory houses be carefully and individually positioned within the northern region of the site - due to its topography - where they would be connected to a network of paths that meet in small contemplative clearings, which all connect to one main clearing, with water mirror’s reflecting the eternal skies above. In turn, the ‘sky lounge’ is positioned within the fortress, since in it, are some of the highest observation points in the regions - which proved useful as places of military observation in the past, and could become valuable for astronomical observatories in the future – and as proposed by the program, could function symbiotically with the existing one, drawing a larger amount of visitors to the location.
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CONCEPT The architectureappears to be made out of light, shaped by the strong, frigid winds of the region and landing on the ground ever so slightly. Its conical form, which geometrically motions to the eternal skies and references primitive architecture, is truncated at its top, forming an oculus in each of all the proposed buildings, flooding them with the vastness of the skies.
ELEMENTS It’s skin, made of locally sourced timber, is peeled as if it had been slowly eroded, forming a light veil which allows nature to flow into the space while assuring peaceful privacy to the inhabitants. The totality of this architecture is a meditative space, completely involved with the transcendent nature and skies of Roccascalegna bringing one closer to its environment as well as one’s self. 39
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CASTELL Between the vastness of Earth and Sky, there is Roccascalegna, where countless men have passed, leaving behind the marks of their ambition; these marks are still present today, as and in architecture, but beyond that, it is a place of nature. Nature, that outlives men and remains practically untouched when observed through its own scale of time, in its sublime vastness. 41
image credit: Gulia Chagas
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Solid/Liquid Location: Mumbai, India Team: J. Tabet & G. Saad
In a city where 60% of its population resides informally, we aim not to contain it but incorporate informality and self-construction as a legitimate urban creative force. Infrastructural towers rise from water and earth allowing the logic of the informal city to grow in directions in which it once was constrained, skywards and
Year: 2018
Type: Master Plan
Competition: Reside
seawards. Similar to a living organism the city informally grows and retracts, according to the needs of its diverse inhabitants, who cohabit this cloud, sometimes suspended, reaching views of the horizon, and sometimes just touching the water, allowing life in direct connection with the sea.
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image credit: Gabriela Saad & Antonio Mauricio
View from an Internal Alley Catering to the logics of informality, the streets and alleys (as well as most os the built environment) inside the territory are ultimately defined by its habitants, who organically agree over the shoulds and shoud nots rather than adhering to top-down planning.
image credit: Gabriela Saad & Julia Tabet
Urban Planning & Design - Pendotiba Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Coauthor(s): n/a
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Year: 2016
Type: urban
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View from a roof terrace From the top a dwelling, the amorphous aggregate dissolves as it advances over water. The elements which provided it's structural support and infrastructure become moorings for the boats of fisherman, which in turn serve as a different kind of structure to the community.
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Cranes aid the logic of informality to perpetuate its self vertically along the infrastructure towers.
The occupation of the complex maybe porous, allowing for public spaces and light wells distributed along several different levels and locations.
Ever changing infrastructural towers not only allow access and structure to the buildings but also provide building services like sanitation and electricity.
INFRASTRUCTURE Steering clear from the usual approach taken by architects of producing strict and rigid plans, this project aims to provide only the most basic means for the build environment to grow and develop freely. Infrastructural columns provide mechanical, electrical and plumbing services vertically, allowing the logic of the informal city to grow skywards.
In this scenario the inhabitants, with their fishing culture, advance the complex over the ocean creating a hybrid of housing and port infrastructure.
In a dystopic scenario where social segregation is the norm, the Worli demographic restrains itself to the higher levels of the complex while the Koli demographic keep inhabiting the lower levels, in contact with the ocean.
Neglected, the growing need of access to transport infrastructure of the inhabitants of the complex leads the structure to grow over and around the Bandra-Worli Sea Link.
SCENARIOS The concept of the project renders its form ever-chaging and unpredictable by nature. Ultimately, if "urbanism is frozen politics", the form of the building at any given moment would be a manifestation of the complex relationships of its dwellers with one another and their environment. 49
View from across the bay (south-west) image credit: Gabriela Saad
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Port Authority & Science Station Location: F. de Noronha, Brazil Architects: EM-DAU
Coming from a group composed mostly of students, the brazilian Navy was outright impressed with the entry developed by EM-DAU for the architecture competition for a new scientific station of Antartica in the year of 2013. Not only did the academic environment lead to significant architectural and tecnological achievements but it guranteed that the knowledge created was shared, contributing to the development of a new generation of architects. In the following year the Navy reached out to PUC-Rio requesting the develop- ment of a hybrid architecture to house a new state-of-the- art Science Station and Port Authority in the archipel- ago of Fernando de Noronha. Named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2001 and located 360km off the coast of Natal, Fernando de Noronha is an archipelago composed of 21 islands of volcanic formation. Throughout histo- ry the Archipelago had diverse
Year: 2015 - on going Role: Intern in charge (2016-2017)
uses from a Prison to an american military base to a prominent touristic desti- nation, which together with an ill enforcement of federal laws led to a gradual devas- tation of it's natural ecologi- cal condition. The proposed project developed by EM- DAU has two objectives: the first is to establish a center for the development of scientific knowledge on the region and it's dissemination, in order to raise ecological awarness and protect the natural environment. The second objective is to aid law enforcement and public services in the archipelago by housing the islands' Port Authority HQ. Through out the 2 years I worked at EM-DAU as an intern I played an integral role on the development of this project and was appointed as student-in-charge in 2016, leading the efforts of research and design under the supervision of EM-DAU's cordinator Vera Hazan.
* Finalist of the Saint-Gobain Prize for Sustainable Architecture under the 'Institutional architecture' category * project published in the university's newspaper "PUC Urgente" * project published in the renowned newspaper "A Folha de SĂŁo Paulo"
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The Science Station of Fernando de Noronha is part of a larger group of stations located on Brazil’s main oceanic islands such as the archipelago of São Pedro e São Paulo, Trindade Islands and Atol da Rocas. However, it’s the only one of these stations located in an archipelago of relative easy access which became, for this reason among others, a very famous touristic destination within Brazil, attracting 91 000 tourists in 2016. For this reason, a different kind of program was envisioned, one where not only science would be made but disseminated to tourists and locals alike, raising environmental awareness and even serving as civic and cultural hotspot within the islands. As we discovered the need by the Brazilian Navy for a building to house the Port Authority of the region in the site next to the one destined to the science station, we soon realized the possibility of housing both programs under the same roof in a way that they could function independently but symbiotically enrich the experience of visitors and further assist in transforming the building in a well needed civic center and meeting place for the region. The responsibilities of building in such a fragile ecosystem led us to a long research on energy efficient buildings in tropical climates, which ranged from
vernacular to the high-tech. With an average annual temperature of 26.7 C and a constant wind regime, it became clear how we could manage incdoor temperatures mainly through design. Therefore the program develops itself under a large canopy, protecting the building from the excessive radiation while allowing wind and indirect sunlight to freely pass under it. In order to protect the facades from excessive exposure to the rising and setting sun as well as keep too much insects from the interior of the building while still allowing light and wind to pass thought, a hybrid system of brise-solei and aluminum screens were developed. The program was rationalized into 5 main groups: Ports Authority Private, Ports Authority Public, Exhibition Space, Science Station Administrative and Science Station Research. Their needs to able to function independently led the cluster of modules of each program to be spatially separated, allowing the project to be formally understood as different building under one roof. Through these voids, the two main vertical circulations are located, bridges connect the buildings and openings are made on the canopy to further allow light in. Due to the lack of skilled labor, precarious infra-structure and overall logistics difficulty of building in an
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island a few hundred kilometers into the Atlantic ocean we developed a modular construction system for easy transportation, assembly and maintenance within the given restrains. Furthermore the system allows the building to be constructed and occupied in separate modules which became an interesting possibility among both parties responsible for the project since the kind of funding needed for the completion of the whole building may only be raised over a few years. Right from the first stag- es of its conception, the project had as its conceptual basis the free flow of knowledge, from creation to dis-
semination. Beginning with its de- sign at PUCRio, where students and teachers worked in a collaborative process and open- ly share the work with peers, to the construction system and the de- velopment of a building site where an unskilled workforce will be able to learn-bydoing, to the symbiotic relationship of the expositions gallery and the many labs within the building, that will allow the work being carried out by the scientific researches on the field to be shared with visitors. The Science Station and Ports Authority of Fernando de Noronha has become an example of how architectural design can result in much more than a building.
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Reference letter Rio de Janeiro, 1st July 2018 To whom it may concern,
It is with great pleasure that I present the Brazilian student Antonio Mauricio, who had the opportunity to work for two years as an intern at EMDAU (The Model Office for Architecture and Urbanism at PUC-Rio), of which I hold the title of supervisor. He also participated in a few different classes that I teach, including ‘Studio IV – Collective Space’. During this semester, he developed along with his studio partner one of the best projects we’ve seen. His seriousness, restlessness, professionalism, spatial vision and mastery of graphic programs made his work always have good results. In turn, while at EMDAU, Antonio quickly built upon his skills and excelled at the responsibilities to him entitled, becoming a very valuable and cherished member of our team. He easily integrated many different groups, of varied sizes and compositions and led the efforts, as ‘Intern in Charge’, of both The GrandJean de Montigny Theater and Museum as well as The Ports Authority and Science Station of Fernando de Noronha. Furthermore, Antonio stood out among his peers as a determined and creative individual within all the scenarios I had the pleasure to supervise him in. He showed that he is passionate about his work and able to bring the tasks he is entrusted with to completion. He stands, without a doubt, among the very good students I have come across over my career. For all these reasons, I have no hesitation in supporting Antonio’s application to your practice. I hope I have added some information regarding Antonio’s profile.
Best Regards,
Vera Hazan PHD in URBAN DESIGN, PROURB/FAU/UFRJ Professor of The Department of Architecture and Urbanism at PUC-Rio Supervisor of the Model Office of Architecture and Urbanism at PUC-Rio verahazan@puc-rio.br + 55 21 3527-2409/ 3527-2410/ 9987478-23
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Antonio Pessoa Mauricio +55 21 99623 6867 antoniopessoamauricio@gmail.com