Architecture Portfolio|2023

CLÁUDIA AIRES DE SÁ MIRANDA

nationality//brazilian, italian

+55 (38) 98832-1359

+39 3517772537

claudia.miranda@usp.br

Milano, IT São Paulo, BR Belo Horizonte, BR

//EDUCATION AND TRAINING//

Master of Science in Building Architecture

School of Architecture Urban Planning Construction Engineering

Politecnico di Milano (PoliMi)

Graduation in Architecture and Urbanism

Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo

Universidade de São Paulo (FAU-USP)

Academic Exchange

Faculdade de Arquitetura

Universidade do Porto (FAUP)

Architecture for Heritage

High-Level Training Course | 2020 Edition YACacademy

//WORK EXPERIENCE//

Mario Cucinella Architects

Collaboration | Bologna, Italia

BCMF Architects

Intern to Junior Architect | Belo Horizonte, Brasil

Empominas Construction and Incorporation Company

Intern | Montes Claros, Brasil

Gil Rocha Architecture and Interiors

Intern | Montes Claros, Brasil

//COURSES//

Parametric Design BIM Oriented through Grasshopper+Rhino

Ph.D. Gabriele Stancato | DigiSkills group, Politecnico di Milano

Lina Bo Bardi from idea to construction

PhD. Marina Grinover | MASP School

Autodesk Revit/ Basic Architectural Platform EngenhaBIM

Ultimate Photoshop Training: From Beginner to Pro Udemy

Course ARCHICAD 22: Beginner and Intermediate Udemy

Learn Lumion 8: From basic to advanced Udemy

//SKILLS//

AutoCAD Revit

ArchiCAD Rhino

Grasshopper QGis SketchUp Lumion

//LANGUAGE//

Portuguese Mother thongue

English Fluent Italian Fluent CILS B2

Vray InDesign Photoshop Illustrator

Premiere Pro Ms Office

//SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION//

Scientific Research PUB

French Basic Spanish Basic

Atlas of precarious housing in Brazil: regional particularities and challenges for urbanization - phase 2

Instructor: DSc. Karina Leitão

//ACADEMIC

ACTIVITIES//

Graduation Monitoring

AUH0516: Social Foundations of Architecture and Urbanism II

Instructor: DSc. Ana Lucia Duarte Lanna

//COMPETITIONS//

Workshop de Architectura de la Universidad Mayor (WAUM)

Santiago, Chile | Representative of FAU-USP

Kindergarten Rehabilitation in Bolivia ArchSharing + TECHO Bolivia

GO! Architecture v. 11 Associação de Estudantes da FAUP (AEFAUP)

Tree House Module Young Architects Competitions (YAC)

Senegal Elementary School ArchStorming + Let’s Build My School

To Whom It May Concern:

It is my pleasure to write a reference letter for Cláudia Aires. We gratefully recommend her as an extremely talented and capable person for successfully pursuing her academic and work ambitions, undoubtedly an asset to any professional practice.

Cláudia has collaborated with BCMF Arquitetos during 2021 (from January to August), working initially as an intern at first and then as Junior Architect, during her undergraduate course at USP (Universidade de São Paulo). During her time with us, Cláudia has worked in projects of different scales and typologies, from single-family houses and residential towers to the masterplan and infra-structure for the concession of State Parks in various regions of Brazil Using professional software, she has skillfully drafted 2D and 3D urban and architectural drawings (Revit, AutoCAD, Lumion), developed conceptual and construction documents, prepared various presentations (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesgin) and wrote endless reports. She also had the opportunity to deal with different clients, players and consultants in the field of Urban Planning and Architecture.

Cláudia is an extremely bright, talented and hard-working person with a profound interest in Architecture and Urbanism, who is able to communicate her ideas clearly and effectively. She has demonstrated to have high initiative to successfully accomplish all her assigned tasks, with special remarks to her creativity and level of responsibility, as well as interpersonal skills.

For the time that we’ve had Cláudia working with us, we have learned to know her as a friendly person with a positive attitude, who has dedicated her time and effort to BCMF with enthusiasm and executed her work to our entire satisfaction.

We strongly recommend her as an asset to any practice and wish Cláudia all the best for her future (even though she is welcome back at BCMF at any time).

Bruno Campos (Arch. Dipl. CAU MG 43664/0, Arch. MA / UK ) Owner at BCMF Arquitetos Belo Horizonte, February 2022.

MASTERPLAN EX CASERMA PRANDINA

Site// Padova, Italia

Team // Antonio Todarello, Cláudia Aires, Vitória Hassuani

Year // 2022

Orientation // Tomaso Monestiroli, Vassilis Mpampatsikos, Simone Boldrin, Fulvio Re Cecconi

Area // 136.000 m2

This project was carried out as part of the “Laboratory of Architecture for Complex Constructions I”, the the final studio of the first year of the Master of Science in Building Architectue held on the Politecnico di Milano.

The project is located in the area “ex caserma Prandina”, a former military area that today presents itself in an almost total state of abandonment, despite its proximity to the city center. The area presents: an internal division in several fractional lots, belonging partly to the Municipality of Padova and currently used as parking spaces or as public offices; a big portion of public gardens and woods, which will be maintained in the project status; and a convent of nuns, the Monastero della Vestizione. The rest of the area presents instead as an agglomeration of abandoned buildings and in great state of decay.

The state of the buildings in the area has addressed the design idea on a demolition reasoning and redesign of the lot, trying to keep as much as possible the vegetation present in alignment with the intention of creating a building complex surrounded by a green park.

The project consists of six buildings with the following destinations: four linear buildings that host 3 floors of residences for university students, given the importance that the university has for the city of Padova, and a pilotis of commercial spaces that can be of service both for new tenants of the area, both for the inhabitants of the city; a building that serves as a multipurpose hall which hosts exhibitions, sporting and recreational events and shows; and a building that hosts the library.

Rooms facade section

Pavilion facade section

DESIGN CAMPUS ROCCA DI MODIGLIANA

Site// Modigliana, Italy

Team // Alberto Ghezzi, Armand Chirinian, Cecilia Salazar, Cláudia Aires de Sá, Shaomin He

Year // 2021

Orientation // Francesca Singer (SANAA)

Area // 5.000 m2

This project was carried out as part of the 2020 edition of the Architecture for Heritage course by YAC Academy. After the theorical lessons, we had a studio practice guided by architect Francesca Singer from SANAA and conducted in collaboration with Agenzia del Demanio- the Italian Government Real Estate Agency- and the Municipality of Modigliana.

The group had to work on the Rocca dei Conti Guidi, a symbolic architecture of a medieval village that lays on the promontory between the Tramazzo and Ibola rivers, in the city of Modigliana. Due to a very strong production chain in the field of furniture that is locally present, the Municipality would like the fortress repurposing to be oriented towards the establishment of an international school of architecture and design.

The project is fundamentally based on three movements:

• The requalification of the existing buildings, in order to host the most intimate portion of the program, such as bedrooms, bathrooms and study areas.

• The consolidation of the mountain plateau, below the great ruin, as a large public square composed of staircases and platforms; the intention here was to consolidate the cultural and leisure events that already took place in this space, as well as to attract new activities.

• The implementation of a small-scale building located between the Rocca and the other buildings. This building would open, on the one hand, to the city of Modigliana, and on the other, to the created square, through the windows, openings and a terrace.

RESEARCH STATION JARAGUÁ STATE PARK

Site// Jaraguá State Park, São Paulo, Brazil

Team // Camila Medeiros, Cláudia Aires, Felipe Giacomin, Henrique Carmona, Natália Soffner, Nathalia Fujii

Year // 2021

Orientation // AUP 0448 Architecture and Industry

Area //

This work was carried out in the scope of the discipline AUP 0448 Architecture and Industry. The demand consisted in proposing a temporary modular architecture for the Jaraguá State Park based on the survey of an existing demand for the Conservation Unit.

The demand raised through the study of the Jaraguá State Park Management Plan was the need to propose an infrastructure to support the research of fauna and flora, due to the existing demand for this equipment and the lack of infrastructure of this type in the Park.

It was decided to build at height as a way to rationalize the implementation of the module among the trees and in accordance with the park’s rugged terrain. The construction system adopted was a metallic scaffolding structure, capable of providing a clean, efficient, detachable and agile deployment at height.

The module program is developed along half levels and dictates the rhythm and the characteristics of the façade openings, which vary in terms of panel dimensions, materials (clear glass, translucent glass and opaque metal) and types of openings.

1. program

2. structure

3.

2 Tubo Horizontal 1,05m

3 Tubo diagonal vertical 1,05x2,50m

4 Plataforma para tubo 2,00x0,32m

5 Tubo horizontal ‘tubo à tubo’ 1,05m

6 Tubo horizontal 4,00m

facade

1. vertical structural tube H=2,00m

2. horizontal tube L=1,05 m

3. diagonal tube HxL=2,00mx1,05m

4. perforated platform floor

5. horizontal tube “tube to tube” L=1,05m

6. horizontal tube L=4,00m

scaffolding structure vertical facade panels

1. Transparent panel door/window

2. Transparent fix panel

3. Opaque panel

4. Translucide panel

6. transport

4. structure + facade

5. foundation

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STUDENTS RESIDENCE IN PORTO

Site// Bonfim, Porto, Portugal

Team // Individual

Year // 2019-2020

Orientation // Francisco Vieira Campos

Area // 23.300 m2

This project was developed during the Academic Exchange that I held with the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto, in Portugal, in the academic year 2019-2020. It corresponds to the work produced jointly for the disciplines of Project IV, Construction III and Structural Systems.

Because it was a 1-year studio, it was possible to develop the project completely: study of the surroundings; road proposal; survey of references, conceptualization of the idea; definition of program distribution, formality and materiality; HVAC compatibility; structural design; constructive detailing.

The architectural idea made use of the building’s organization through two perimeter galleries that connect the site’s highest point to the lowest point, and give access to the residential buildings and to the collective building. This is located next to the main street, while those are fragmented along the slope.

The collective portion is distributed in boxes with translucent polycarbonate facades and the residential buildings behave like terraced boxes; in both, the modulation of the openings in the facade plan establish a well-defined vertical rhythm, which is also reinforced by the gallery concrete openings.

SENEGAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Local // Marsassoum, Senegal

Team // Lívia Frugoli, Nathan Brito, Vitória Hassuani

Year // 2020

Orientation // Area // 1172 m2

This project was carried out in the context of participation in the “Senegal Elementary School” competition, promoted by the association Archstorming in collaboration with LBMS (Let’s build my school).

The matter was to replace a temporary school located in Marsassoum, Senegal, with permanent structures, built using techniques that were innovative, low cost and easily feasible by local labor and volunteers.

There was a well-defined lot, a well-defined program of spaces/ uses, a list of available materials and a restricted budget to be respected.

The group’s proposal called for the distribution of the most expressive part of the program, seven rooms of 63 m2 each, in two rows around a central courtyard with a tree already grown. A living area is located between this patio and an entrance, and the programs are interconnected by gravel paths that run through the terrain.

Constructively, we opted the use of rammed earth walls and roofs supported by a proper wooden structure composed of sandwich pillars and wagon beams. We chose to trim the roofs in order to enable the captation of water for the cisterns built between the rooms, and also for the promotion of dynamic effect of light and visuals through the various roofing plans. Finally, an attempt was made to build a project narrative that would help its understanding and construction by the people who come to execute it.

4 3 6

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CISTERN 37

herbs:

steel: corten

rosemary, basil, lavanda

wood: american walnut

corten steel pipes climbing plants

THE SECRET GARDEN: MATERIALS

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wood: american walnut

A ROOM IN THE GARDEN: BETWEEN NATURE AND ARCHITECTURE

Office// Mario Cucinella Architects

Site// Cesare Roversi Arredamenti Factory, Moglia, Italia

Team // Cláudia Aires de Sá, Federica de Marchi

Year // 2022

Orientation // Davide Raffaelli

Area // 450 m2

Cesare Rovesi arredamenti factory is not a typical Italian modern factory with just one big industrial building that includes a production area, offices, storages, R&D labs, etc. Instead, the company’s headquarters is located inside a beautiful garden with several trees all around, and it is composed by some small and medium buildings with white or brick surfaces, covered with sloping/curved roofs.

The scope of the project foresees the creation of a stair in order to connect the garden with the second floor of the future guest house, thus making it independent from the main entrance; other further goals are the creation of connections between (1) the big exposition building, (2) the small exposition building, (3) the main entrance, (4) the warehouses. In the area there are some big trees (Ginko Biloba) that have a relevant scenic value for the context and therefore must be highlighted by the project.

The group’s idea for structuring the proposal was based on the concept of “the room in the garden”: that is, the establishment of a path and a series of small “rooms” amidst the vegetation, these being at the same time intimate/welcoming and connected with surrounding vegetation.

The shape of the stairs draws a first, and most important, circle that takes up the trunk of a tree. From there, other circular hotspots are consolidated along the route, establishing diverse but always close relationships with the existing buildings and with the new garden, this one composed of varied and captivating vegetation.

Flowers

Climbing Plants

Low-medium bushes Grass Herbs

1 Path in walnut board and corten steel edging

2 Raised platform in walnut board and corten steel edging

3 Vegetation tank in corten steel structure

4 Stair with floor in walnut board and boarder beams in corten steel plates

5 Stiffening structure in corten steel plates

6 Vertical corten steel muillon, 10 x 2.5 cm

CONSERVATION UNITS MATO GROSSO DO SUL AND GOIÁS

Office// BCMF Architects

Site// Conservation Units of Mato Grosso do Sul and Goias

Team // BCMF Architects

Year // 2021

Area //

This project is part of the BNDES’ Conservation Units Concession Program, which aims to structure the concession of public services or use of public property in conservation units in 3 Conservation Units (CUs) in the State of Goiás and 5 Conservation Units in the State of Mato Grosso do Sul, based on a contract signed between the National Bank for Social Development (BNDES) and the respective States.

Some important initiatives for the concession of Conservation Units are in development in Brazil, with the objective of promoting sustainable development by means of valuing the natural heritage, which includes the structuring and promotion of public use at the CUs. The structuring of concession projects for conservation units under this program is based on environmental preservation, promotion of sustainable visitation, income generation and regional development.

The technical services required for structuring the projects are provided by a Consortium comprising four companies: BCMF Architects (Preliminary Engineering or Architecture and Transport Studies); Plantuc (Socio-environmental and cultural Studies); Systemica (Commercial evaluation and demand Study); and Manesco, Ramires, Perez, Azevedo Marques - Lawyers Society (Legal Study).

The 3 Conservation Units covered in the State of Goiás are: State Park of Serra de Caldas Novas (PESCaN); Altamiro de Moura Pacheco State Park (PEAMP) in conjunction with the João Leite State Park (PEJoL); and the Terra Ronca State Park (PETeR). The 5 Conservation Units covered in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul are: Natural Monument of Gruta da Lagoa Azul (MONAGLA), Prosa State Park (PEP), Nações Indígenas Park (PNI), Várzeas do Rio Ivinhema State Park ( PEVRI), Nascentes do Taquari State Park (PENT).

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ECOPARK VIETNAM

Office // CallisonRTKL

Site// Hanoi, Vietnam

Team // Amanda Castilho, Lucas Moreira, Cláudia Aires de Sá

Year // 2021

Orientation // Camila de Simas (CallisonRTKL)

Area //

This work consisted in the realization of graphic products (renders) of a conceptual design stage for a masterplan located in the city of Hanoi, capital of Vietnam.

The masterplan comprised a project for a portion of the city with:

• Large-scale commercial, residential and hospitality buildings;

• Medium and small scale commercial and residential buildings;

• Sets of residential houses;

• Strong integrationwith the river through decks, bridges, waterfront sidewalks and the possibility of carrying out river activities (swimming, using river vehicles);

• Strong vegetative integration through intensely vegetated areas (linear parks on the banks of the river, urban squares, golf course and green terraces);

The work was carried out for the CallisonRTKL office, a global agency active in the areas of architecture, urban planning and design, with offices in North and Central America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.