Portfolio Ed. 2021 - English

PORTFOLIO BEATRIZ RODRIGUES FERNANDES PEREIRA 2011-2021 ED.

INDEX 00 Bryant Park: Architecture Design 04 Clube: Colaborative School 06 Movement City: Landscape and Urban Design 08 Frontier Park: Landscape and Architecture Design 12 For the Public: Urban Intervention 16 Future Cities: Urban Interactive Design 18 More People. Less Noise: Urban Furniture Design 19 Gávea Public Elementary School: Architecture Design 20

00 BRYANT PARK: ARCHITECTURE DESIGN Evolo - 2017 Beatriz Rodrigues, Lucas Coelho Netto and Pedro Leite

The race for taller and more technologically-advanced buildings has compromised the skyscraper’s relationship to its own locus, the city. As the design of these large architectures become more and more monumental, and their importance as symbols of culture and economic-development increase, what remains of a connection to the human-scale and the urban street life gradually disappears.

The Zero-Zero Bryant Park is a syntax of the unseen consequences, at the city scale, of the skyscraper’s ideal. The tower levitates over of one the most denselypopulated squares in Manhattan, emphasizing this detachment from street life. That is, we eliminate what is only a bureaucratic part of the skyscraper model, the groundfloors. A black and white portrait of the autonomy of skyscraper’s phenomena, the tower is on its own aerial isolation, and it is only accessible through air. Thus, because it has no address, the tower is named Zero-Zero Bryant Park. In peaceful indifference, the private building life and t h e city’s dynamic are absent of one another.

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CLUBE: COLABORATIVE SCHOOL StartUp - 2017 Co-founders: Beatriz Rodrigues and Pedro Leite

Clube is a startup created in early 2017 with the aim of offering students and

architecture professionals workshops and cultural events related to their profession. In united efforts, there were held many all-day workshops (of Photoshop, InDesign, V-Ray and other software), amounting for more than 100 students, and a free event with many activities, including a movie exhibition and following discussion.

Together, Pedro Leite and I were responsible for the entire construction of the

business: from the graphic identity of the startup to the teaching of the workshops. The goal was to unify diverse talents and offer support for what students couldn’t learn on their own. We created Clube because there had to be a name to this phenomenon that already happens in the architecture’s school: the small efforts that we make together with our friends, who try to overcome the individualism presented by the profession itself. A movement in favor of fewer lone heroes and more team-won Pritzkers. We believe in moments of learning in addition to teacher-to-student, but also of studentto-student.We believe in unique ideas and the sharing of skills, without secret recipes.

Together, more capable, we design, write and create.

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MOVEMENT CITY: LANDSCAPE AND URBAN DESIGN PUC RIO - Diploma Project - 2016.2 Beatriz Rodrigues

Movement City an analysis of the bus stop spaces in the Rio de Janeiro, beyond

instrument of public transport infrastructure, but as a key public space in the contemporary city. Since it was possible to observe in these spaces of transport, which yet had little attention of the brazilian urban designer, a series of apparent spontaneous and independent processes of occupation and appropriation, mainly pointing to the question of new programs for public spaces.

In the contemporary Rio de Janeiro, public spaces are losing their fixed locus (plazas,

parks, markets) to those of flow (bus stops, stations, terminals). This city, where the spaces of flows are increasingly more fluid, and the fixed spaces, increasingly artificial, is enunciated by Bauman Zygmunt as the liquid modernity city, which operates with more emphasis on mobility than on permanence, where the points of connection between flows of people, information and goods gain greater importance than the established formal spaces.

Thus, the project to intervene in a bus stop in the west zone of Rio de Janeiro wasn’t

a simple proposal to improve the quality of a space already in use, but a opportunity to create a public space which was according to contemporary demand. In fact, based on my research, I believe that a proposal for new public space anywhere else would not have the same chance of success as one already which was already part of the flow.

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FRONTIER PARK: LANDSCAPE AND ARCHITECTURE DESIGN PUC RIO - Landscape Architecture Studio - 2015.6 Laura Dezuzart, Mariana Netto and Beatriz Rodrigues

Our design problematic for the intervetion at the Quinta da Boa Vista Park starts

at the urban scale. We interpreted the negative border, that separates the park from the surrounding urban fabric, as a consequence of the city’s sprawl, which has been disconnected from the park. As Charles Waldheim provokes with his questions about the dichotomy between nature and city – “can the city improve nature?” and “can the city be conceived as a park?” – this project reflects on these conjures, deciding to guarantee the preservation of the area of the park not only through landscape redesign, but also by using elements of said city. That is, simultaneously, the insertion of architecture elements in this boarder creates a “shield”, preventing any uncontrolled advance from the city, activating this yet forgotten space, attracting users and bringing life to it. We chose to create two buildings, one at the north end and the other at the south end, both with a mixed use program.

According to James Corner, in Terra Fluxus, the understanding of landscape

is directly connected to the dynamics and ecological processes, referring to the nature’s chronology. Considering this, the Frontier Park incorporates time processes, in terms of cycles. Thus, the interlocking of three different water cycle, configuring cyclical climatic conditions (wet, dry and saturated soils), vegetation growth and forms of appropriation of the space by the user.

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FOR THE PUBLIC: URBAN INTERVENTION PARSONS - City Studio - Fall 2014 Lillian Steedman, Christopher Hepner and Beatriz Rodrigues

The blocks cleared in SPURA (located on the Lower East Side, Manhattan, New

York City) almost 40 years ago that left numerous families displaced have been largely unused, except as parking lots. Now, there is proposed development of the sites into a complex called Essex Crossing that will include mixed income housing, retail space, office space, restaurants, and a museum.

Through our project, we aim to bring awareness to this commonly unknown

history, the proposed developments of the future, and equally important, to question what happens in this present moment in between.

To spread this type of awareness we created four posters. Each focuses on a site

in SPURA, representing neighborhood elements that could be lost or gained through the proposed development. The posters each include contrasting images of past and the proposed future of the site where the poster is hung, accompanied by a micro history and future plans, coming together to situate the site’s present moment as transitional and in between. We have also included a key in the form of a map, indicating the sites we are bringing attention to and their importance.

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FUTURE CITIES: URBAN INTERACTIVE DESIGN PARSONS - Urban Interactive Design - Spring 2015 Beatriz Rodrigues

In the topic of Future Cities, I took this opportunity to, while looking ahead, to

critically analyze the present scenario of interaction design. Contemporary technologic innovations have all seem take a tangent path from practicality to a visual illustration. We have become convinced that apps should be the solution to everything, and that every surface – fridges, cars, kitchen counters – should have an interactive screen added to it.

My projection then is radical to the present: no screens and more invisible interactions.

In the urban environment, the No UI (No User Interface) technology will allow

pedestrian to use their hands to do more while walking, while still being connected virtually.

Below, we see the aesthetic of the city, which becomes much more accentuated because we are sight-free. People are now paying attention, visual arts have great importance.

Graphic design, urban arts, architecture, advertisement, are main features of the urban landscape.

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MORE PEOPLE, LESS NOISE: URBAN FURNITURE DESIGN PARSONS - Urban Interactive Design - Spring 2015 Galit Lurya and Beatriz Rodrigues

Our concept was to intervene in this public environment, in the realms of the

auditory experience, creating a relaxing and inviting outdoor space that visitors of Union Square (Manhattan, New York City) would like to stay in for prolonged amounts of time.

We propose to surround the East and South areas of Union Square park with evergreen trees and shrubs, acoustic panels, creating a division from the street traffic and assisting in reducing traffic noises.

In order to reinforce the noise reduction, the roads surrounding the park will be

paved in cobblestone, reducing the driving speed. To encourage visitors to lengthen their stay, benches will be placed around the perimeter, facing towards the park. The benches, designed as one unit, combine acoustic panels that break the sound waves and assist in absorbing noise. The panels will blend in with the environment and offer an additional layer of functionality by providing shade to the sitting areas.

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GÁVEA PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: ARCHITECTURE DESIGN PUC RIO - Collective Space Design Studio - 2012.2 Gabriella Dorville and Beatriz Rodrigues

Our project concept for this public elementary school is ignited by a reevaluation

of the pedagogical program in Brazil. In what way could architecture potentialize a better learning and environment for the school? Primarily, our intervention was to change the current dynamics of the classroom, designating it no longer by year but course.

The change of room each time a new subject is approached, would be a transition to make the student better prepared for a change in topic. This concept inverts also the traditional dynamic where the student stays static and teacher moves, ceasing the feeling of confinement that younger students may present. In fact, the circulation between classrooms itself is designed to be the most valuable space of the project.

Another concept was to make a more positive bridge between the school and

neighborhood. The connecting element of the educational area with the public space is through a sports complex, so that a school infrastructure can be used by all during the weekends.

With this architecture of connection and convergence, a new value is given to the

educational space, giving life to components that were previously only functional. The flow among classrooms generate social and learning exchanges.

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