Selecteed Works 2014 - 2020
_PORTFOLIO Camila Huber
Architecture . Landscape Architecture . Urban Design
Camila Huber is a Brazilian Architect, Landscape Architect and Urban Designer. At the Harvard Graduate School of Design, she pursued a dual degree in Urban Design and Landscape Architecture. Her interests lie on understanding globalization processes and its imprint on the contemporary landscape, with that she aims to mediate tensions between locality and globalization. Prior to coming to Harvard, she worked in a diverse spectrum of design projects across scales, ranging from university masterplans and slums re-urbanization projects to interior design and construction management.
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table of contents academic High-Low: Blurring the Line in the Semi-Arid Landscape Architecture . GSD Thesis
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World’s End Landscape Architecture . GSD Core Studio
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Nested Corners Urban Design . GSD Core Studio
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Spiritual Center Landscape Architecture . GSD Core Technology Course
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professional Dallas Downtown Cap Urban Design . Utile Design
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Viatnamese German University Urban Design . Machado and Silvetti Associates
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Atlantic Basin Study Urban Design . AECOM
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The Skin of Light Architecture . Competition
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Academic
HIGH-LOW: Blurring the Line in the Semi-Arid Landscape Architecture Thesis - GSD - 2019-2020 Advisor: Pablo PĂŠrez-Ramos All graphics by Camila Huber
Ecological Restoration Nursery
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This thesis work looks at the transformation of a highly engineered infrastructure into one that responds to unstable natural forces and become the basis for low technique interventions. This project specifically investigates the case of Sao Francisco River diversion, in the Semi-Arid of Brazil. The diversion was conceived of as a set of prototypical sections, disregarding the environment it is traversing, dividing the territory as a hard line. The instability of the current climate regime and the demand to preserve and restore ecosystems provides a framework to reflect on how to intervene and make large -scale infrastructure responsive to the current social and environmental age. This proposal has the capacity to inform change at a regional scale. It will deploy punctual strategies that will take the current built structure as a catalyst for low-tech water management interventions. It serves as a mediator between a highly engineered infrastructure and the old vernacular knowledge. Such tension ultimately questions the endurance of large-scale prototypical infrastructure practice.
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Ecological Restoration Dry Nursery This section of the diversion infrastructure serves as a laboratory for desertification restoration techniques. The following nursery typology induce moisture through the placement of branch and trunk piles protected by shading devices that enhance the moisture generation process.
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Reservoir This frame holds the intersection of a rural community, a temporary river, and the canal. The over ground canal is dismantled in strategic sections according to drainage flows to accommodate a reservoir that supplies the agricultural fields. Such fields are also supplied by small dams, constructed from earth, and placed in lowlands to accumulate water runoff.
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Retention Pools / Orchards This section concentrates a few agricultural communities that were divided by the construction of the diversion canal. The canal also works as a feature to dam water in strategic areas according to drainage patterns to support communal orchards. Furthermore, a system of retention pools responding to drainage patterns is conceived to support agricultural production.
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Social Infrastructure / Agriculture This section concentrates a few agricultural communities that were divided by the construction of the diversion canal. The modular social infrastructure serves as a bridge that re-connects the villas and acts as a water storage device. The canal also works as a feature to dam water in strategic areas according to drainage patterns to support communal orchards. Furthermore, a system of retention pools responding to drainage patterns is conceived to support agricultural production.
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Public Space Components
Landform Dams
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Academic
WORLD’S END Re-Thinking Conservation Landscape Architecture Core Studio - GSD - Fall 2018 Team: Carson Fisk-Vittori, Mckenna Mitchell and Simon Escabi
Game being played by reviewers
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World’s end is a protected group of drumlins designed by Olmsted and conserved by The Trustees of the Reservation. The primary aim of the project was to retreat the neighboring community of Hull, threatened by sea level rise, to the high lands of world’s end. As a swap, Hull, a barrier island, would become a conserved coastline. A Community Coastline Coalition was proposed to work with government agencies to amend outdated land and conservation laws and make them relevant to the age of the Anthropocene, in which extreme (un)natural events became an urgent matter. The proposal creates a game to serve as a tool for communities in retreatment process to make decisions on how they want to settle in their new neighborhood. The parameters of Urban and Landscape Design are based on the site’s environmental characteristics and vulnerabilities, but ultimately on the community decisions.
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relevant to the age of the Anthropocene. With the support of the WMO and UNEP our intent is to create an opportunity for the island community of Hull to move to the higher land of World’s End, a protected group of drumlins designed by Olmsted, and conserved by The Trustees of the Reservation since 1967.
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highly incentivised to move through financial and insurance aids.
Hull community conservation area and are rewarded with the same benefits allocated for type A plots.
Rolling Easement Diagram
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Site Environmental Parameters
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Image Credit: Carson Fisk-Vittori
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Completed views after a game round
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Image Credit: Camila Huber and Mckenna Mitchell
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Academic
NESTED CORNERS A New Model for Mixed Income Housing in Chicago Urban Design Core Studio - GSD - Fall 2017 Team: Charles Smith
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Beginning with the site of intervention right beside the remaining of Cabrini Green social housing project, our design seeks to understand the failure of such project and to propose a new tactic to address domesticity and collectivity, but more important-ly an approach on how to activate vacant lands. The corner has always been throughout history, one of the most important spaces of social interaction in the city. Specifically, in Chicago, where the skyscrapers were theorized and materialized by Louis Sullivan, the corners had its function and therefore its form. Our aim is to explore the corner as an epicenter and the different edge conditions, brought through the re-introduction of the alleyways, as ways of condensing people of different social back-grounds to create a diverse superblock.
Image Credit: Camila Huber and Charles Smith
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Design Strategies
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Masterplan
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Main Corner
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Academic
Spiritual Center Landscape Architecture - Ecology, Techniques and Technologies - GSD - Spring 2019 All graphics by Camila Huber
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Ecologies, Techniques and Technologies is a course that gives students the essential technical concepts and skills needed to reshape the land for circulation, occupancy, drainage, stability and performance. For the given site and architecture, the program of a spiritual center was chosen. The approach was of an enclosed reflection pool as the medium for a connection with the metaphysical. Such spiritual experience is also enabled through the planting and path design where moments of enclosed dense vegetation combined with breaths of glades lead to a pond where all the site’s water is drained.
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Details Rain Garden
Bioswale
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Green Roof
Reflection Pool
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DALLAS DOWNTOWN CAP Surface Design and Development Test Fit Utile Design - 2020 Team: Matthew Littell, Elizabeth Van Der Els, Taskina Tareen, Lisa Hollywood and Yuting Zhang
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This study builds on the significant planning that has occurred over multiple years related to the reconstruction of I-45 and I-69, and the depression and capping of a section between Downtown Dallas and the EaDo neighborhood. While previous studies had envisioned a detailed landscape plan for the cap, this study introduces a framework for a range of more development-intensive uses on the cap and adjacent parcels. The plan explores the potential for private development at varied scales and breaks up the landscape element into smaller, neighborhood-scaled open spaces with an eye toward long-term phased implementation.
Image Credit: Yuting Zhang and Camila Huber
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Key Public Spaces
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Market Plaza
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Key Public Spaces
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Event Lawn
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Professional
VIATNAMESE GERMAN UNIVERSITY Post Competition Phase - Machado and Silvetti Associates - 2014 Team: Adam Wagner, Carmine D’Alessandro, Christian Lavista, Craig Mutter, Dany Gutierrez, Evan Brinkman, James Carrico, Jeffry Burchard, Jorge Silvetti, Jose Ribera, Lucia Valentin, Nicolas Viterbo, Noel Murphy, Patrick Ruggiero, Paul Fiegenschue, Rodolfo Machado, Seiee Kim, Sophia Zelov, Stephanie Randazzo Dwyer and Yu Chen.
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In the authors’ words: We are proposing a spatial and formal organization that is very flexible. As a true model, it can be transformed and reused in a variety of urban or rural contextual situations. The campus is dense and compact and does not utilize or spill over the entire available land area but leaves a portion of the site open and available for enjoyment as a natural space or for future campus expansion. We present a campus that seeks to lovingly linger in the collective mind of the community as an oasis of learning, a memorable and unique campus where the most advanced knowledge is imparted in the most appropriate and pleasurable of settings, a campus to which all will enjoy returning on a regular basis, from their formative years onward.
Image Credit: Camila Huber and Christian Lavista
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Design Strategies
Density The program of the campus is compressed to form a semi-urban condition of density.
Public Ground Floor and Continuous Ceiling A master ceiling across the site protects people from rain and sun.
Center of Campus Academic, Living and Recreational zones surround the center of Campus wich becomes a commons area. 40
Masterplan
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Uses
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Academic Quadrangle
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University Commons
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Professional
ATLANTIC BASIN STUDY Expanding Brooklyn Waterfront AECOM Urban Design and Landscape Architecture Studio NYC 2018 Team: Jennifer Gotlieb, Joseph Marchiafava, Konstantina Tzemou and Mario Ulloa. Supervisors: Christopher Stienon, Francis Cooke and Gonzalo Cruz
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The potential redevelopment of Red Hook Container Terminal in Brooklyn triggered AECOM NY to prepare a study on a vision for a mixed-use development in the Atlantic Basin Terminal. The project is guided by four drivers. First is a resilient waterfront able to mitigate extreme weather and natural events. Second, a pursue for an equitable development. Third, an incentive for growth facilitated with clear connections with the existing urban fabric, a subway stop, bike and pedestrian paths improvement and the presence of higher education facilities. Last, is the quest for sustainability, which is promoted with high percentage of impervious surface and biodiversity.
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Masterplan Masterplan
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Image Credit: Camila Huber and Konstantina Tzemou
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Basin District
Piers District
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Towers District
Park District
Image Credit: Camila Huber and Konstantina Tzemou
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Professional
THE SKIN OF LIGHT Echoing Aalto’s sensibility through the void Alvar Aalto Extension Museum Competition - Gavea Architects - 2015 Team: Alziro Neto, Felipe Rio Branco and Mariana Meneguetti
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With reference to the importance of the Finnish architect, the intention is to consolidate the atmosphere that permeates the boundaries of sense and matter present in the spaces created by Aalto. The consolidation of this atmosphere is defined from the idea of reverberation of the precepts present in Aalto’s architecture. The idea is to define and delimit the parameters that conform this “between” through the topography, matter, and light. Each of these elements represents the echo of Aalto’s architecture: [I] through a topographic surface that mimics with the terrain and shapes the structure of the articulation between the two architectures; [II] the reverberation of the wood profiles, a material to which Aalto always referred as part of the best relationship to human sensitivity with respect to temperature; [III] and the light surface from the slab, which surrounds the space and reflects and resonates the celestial vault into the environment.
Image Credit: Alziro Neto and Camila Huber
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Design Strategies
Section A
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1. Void
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The in between space of both buildings will be kept as a distinct void to highlight both neighboring and solid museums.
The crossing of pathw the intention of passage the buildings and extension as a solid f
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3. Reverberation
ways highlights eway between d dissolves the frontier to the park.
The repetition of the wooden pillars brings the experience of light and matter, strong concepts in Aalto’s architecture.
Image Credit: Camila Huber and Mariana Meneguetti
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Section B
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Main Street Access
Main Hall
Image Credit: Alziro Neto and Camila Huber
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