Portfolio by David Mendonça

Portfolio

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Built project

Professional project. Client: Paulo Roberto Guimarães. Authorship: David Mendonça.

Wooden Chalet Project of a wooden chalet in Cachoeiras de Macacu, Rio de Janeiro. The project is built since 2017. The main challenge in this project was the sharp terrain slope, just a small portion of it is horizontal. In order to increase the horizontal area a suspended deck was designed. All the trees within the deck area were preserved.

Contre-plongée, this picture shows the first construction stage of the Chalet: the wooden structure up on the deck already built.

To preserve all the trees, holes were made in the deck floor, so the trees could be part of it, and also keep its natural shade.

A great overview of the site landscape, deck and all the trees.

Construction detail, shows the three different materials used to built the deck: concrete, steel and wood.

To improve the interaction, on the preserved trees Orchids have been planted.

On this stage the structure is already complete, the walls are being built with overlapping timber boards.

Team Project: André Lopes, David Mendonça, Felipe Madeira, Natasha Atallah, Núbia Gremion, Tiago Queiroz, Vitor Nunes

Design Competition: Urban Furniture Finalist proposal to a design competition of an urban furniture catalogue. The competition was requested by the São Paulo City Hall. The furnitures were designed in order to attend all the specifications about sustainability, accessibility and adaptability.

Full proposal: https://issuu.com/davidmendonca/docs/urbanfurniture

Team Project: Bruno Amadei, David Mendonça, Lívia Romariz, Natália Ásfora, Raíssa Gerheim. Advisors: Rosina Trevisan, Andrés Pássaro. Consultancy: Lygia Niemeyer, Patrizia Di Trapano.

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Idea Competition: Cine Icaraí

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Winner proposal of an intervention to recover and revitalize the architecture of the Icaraí Cinema, built in the 40s to lodge a cinema hall and residential apartments. The plan preserves its original use as a cinema, adjusting the complex to fit a space of presentation of various musical groups which are part of de Fluminense Federal University (UFF), a business space, restaurant, café, showroom and many other cultural areas. The winner idea was used to built the recovering project, its construction is estimated to begin by the end of 2014.

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SALAS EMPRESARIAIS

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HALL

PLATÉIA

SALA DE CINEMA E CONCERTOS

PAV. TÉCNICO

BACKSTAGE

PAV. TÉCNICO

Same space..

Distinct configurations

Main Elevation

Section B

B LIXO SECO 2.7m²

BOMBONIER 8.4m²

LIXO ORGÂNICO 4.6m²

INFRAESTRUTURA 38.8m²

SAÍDA DO PÚBLICO

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SUBESTAÇÃO 38.8m² PALCO

BICICLETÁRIO VERTICAL 2.9m²

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ESPAÇO RESERVADO PARA ARMAZENAGEM DE ESTRUTURA DO PALCO MÓVEL

PROJEÇÃO DA ESCADA METÁLICA DE INCÊNDIO PARA ATENDER O TERCEIRO PAVIMENTO

RESERVATÓRIO INFERIOR DE ÁGUA DE REUSO (COLETA NA COBERTURA)

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HALL 96.8m²

RECORTE NO PALCO PARA SAÍDA DO PIANO

0.61m

SANIT. PNE 4.22m²

ACESSO PRINCIPAL

PALCO FIXO 64.00m²

BACKSTAGE 44.00m² 0.00m

0.81m

PLATÉIA 302.7m² CAPACIDADE: 342 LUGARES

Variavel

LTR

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BILHETERIA 6.60m²

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Barreira acústica. Carpete no piso e forro de absorção nas paredes.

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HALL DE SERVIÇO 8,37m²

DEPÓSITO 4.00m²

Ground level

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TELA FORMATO CINEMASCOPE 1 : 2.35

ANTE-SALA 35.60m²

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Courtyard

The suggestion for this pavement consists in the removal of the current roof, made of earth-flex tiles, that covers the main slab above the cinema’s audience, lowered regarding the surrounding roofs, and not visible at street level. From this new layout, arises an elevated terrace with about 300m², serving as a space for daily and nocturnal outdoors activities.

Mobile Website

The project was published on http://www.noticias.uff.br/noticias/2013/04/concurso-ideias-premiacao.php Mobile website: https://sites.google.com/site/cineicaraiuff/

Team Project: David Mendonça, Tainá Galdino

Design Competition: Projetar003 The challenge of designing a building in a historic site, as is the 13th May Avenue, is to know how to insert, discreetly and elegantly, being only one more actor, among the existent ones. Thus this design proposal to the music, theatre, and dance school, fits itself obeying the relevant legislation for the preservation of the Theatro Municipal surrounding. With a discreet facade, compose of brises and glass, without vibrant colours or complex colours, in order to, even though stands amongst the other surrounding buildings, it is not going to fade the importance of Theatro Municipal.

“All the arts contribute to the greatest of all arts, the art of living. (Bertolt Brecht)

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Theatre

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MUSIC SCHOOL

Acesso ao subsolo, onde estão localizados os camarins e apoio técnico ao palco.

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Individual Project, Professor: Andrés Passaro, Interior design

The Coffee Shop Interior design of a café in Rio Sul Shopping Centre. This Design Studio has a focus on small scale projects, for commercial and private customers.

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Individual Project, Professor: Andrés Passaro Interior design

Horto Loft Interior design of a loft in Horto (residential neighbourhood in Rio), the discipline mixes planning with costumer treatment. Each student is supposed to comply with a psycho-social profile created by another student, containing the needs and characteristics of the “customer”, and the result is the executive project of the residence as well as the presentation for the customer.

Individual Project, Tutor Tom Morgan RMIT - Architecture Design Studio

New Babylon This project is about the urban utopia called New Babylon and its generative system. The re-interpretation of New Babylon, now translated into a code /** * File: NewBab_May14.cga * Created: 7 May 2014 06:31:00 GMT * Author: davidmendonca */ version “2013.1”

SectorFloorSlab --> offset(-((split.total-split.index)*7), border) Slab

attr Zoning = 0 attr Heritage = 0 attr Water = 0 attr maxheight = 30 attr LOD = false attr sectorsize = 0 splitoperation = 1-(split.index/split.total) Lot --> case Zoning <= 0 : SuburbanHouse case Zoning <= 60 : CommonWhealthLand //case Zoning <= 61 : LowDensityResidentialZone case Zoning <= 87 : FarmingZone case Zoning <= 120 : UrbanGrowthZone case Zoning <= 122 : GreenWedgeZone case Zoning <= 180 : PublicConservationNResourceZone case Zoning <= 181 : SpecialUseZone4 case Zoning <= 182 : SpecialUseZone1 case Zoning <= 240 : Industrial else: NIL ////////////////////

SectorObjectStart --> alignScopeToAxes(y) offset(-20,inside) comp(f){top: offset(-40, border) scatter(surface, 10, uniform) { SectorObj }}

SectorObj --> s(0,0,0) set(trim.vertical, false) i(fileRandom(“assets/models/kit0*.obj”)) //rotate(abs, pivot, 90,180,0) Mass LegPlacementSector --> split(z){~40 : LegPlacement}* # End Crossing test

SuburbanHouse --> case geometry.area >= 1400 : NIL case geometry.area <= 50 : NIL else: SuburbanHouseStart

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SuburbanHouseStart --> case touches(inter) : s(0,0,0) else: setback(rand(5,8)){street.front : Yard | remainder : SuburbanHouseMass}

ElevatedLot --> alignScopeToAxes(y) t(0,20,0) StartingSlab LegPlacement t(0,5,0) split(z){‘0.3 : BorderSlab | ‘0.4 : NIL | ‘0.3 : r(0,180,0) center(xz) BorderSlab}

SuburbanHouseMass --> alignScopeToGeometry(yUp, any, longest) innerRect offset(-1, inside) split(x){ (rand(15,20)) : HouseFootprint | ~1 : Backyard } HouseFootprint --> extrude(rand(4,8)) comp(f){top : HouseRoof | side : HouseWall} HouseRoof --> 50% : roofGable(rand(15,25),0.5) RoofMaterial else : roofHip(rand(15,25),0.5) RoofMaterial Joint --> comp(f){all: ElevatedLot} Street --> ElevatedLot Crossing --> SectorStart # Start Crossing test SectorStart --> case geometry.area <= 10000: t(0,20,0) StartingSlab else:

LotTest --> 100% : ElevatedLot else : NIL

LegPlacement --> reverseNormals split(z){5 : LegObject | ~30 : NIL | 5 : LegObject} LegObject --> reverseNormals extrude(-scope.elevation+5) split(x){~50 : LegModel}* LegModel --> i(fileRandom(“assets/models/V*.obj”)) BorderSlab --> split(x){~50 : BorderSlabSplit}*

BorderSlabSplit --> s(‘1,’1,’rand(0.75,1.25)) extrude(20) BorderVolume split(y){5 : comp(f){bottom: BorderSlabUnit | all : NIL}}* BorderVolume --> comp(f){back : ApartmentStart | all : NIL}

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s(‘0.5,’1,’0.5) //center(xz) extrude(0.5) comp(f){top : GrassTexture | side : WallTexture} else : NIL

ApartmentStart --> split(x){‘0.25 : ApartmentChoice}* ApartmentChoice --> 50% : extrude(rand(5,10)) ApartmentObject else : NIL ApartmentObject --> alignScopeToAxes(y) t(0,0,-5) s(‘1,’rand(0.75,1.25),’1) texture(fileRandom(“assets/textures/window0*.jpg”)) setupProjection(0, scope.xy, 5, 5, 1) comp(f){side : ApartmentFloors | top : ConcreteTexture | bottom : ConcreteTexture} ApartmentFloors --> case LOD == true: split(y){3.5 : ApartmentFacade}* else: ApartmentFacade

WallTexture --> texture(“assets/textures/concrete02.jpg”) GrassTexture --> alignScopeToAxes(y) setupProjection(0, scope.xz, 10, 10, 1) texture(fileRandom(“assets/textures/grass0*.jpg”)) projectUV(0) Core --> s(30,1,30) i(“assets/models/corecirc.obj”) cleanupGeometry(all, 0.1) extrude(rand(25,40+maxheight)) t(0,-50,0) ////////////////////

ApartmentFacade --> SolarTest SolarTest --> case geometry.angle(azimuth) <= 45 && geometry.angle(azimuth) >= 0: projectUV(0) case geometry.angle(azimuth) >= 315 && geometry.angle(azimuth) <= 360: projectUV(0) else : projectUV(0) SunShade --> s(‘1.05,’1.05,’1.05) center(xyz) // split faces and test the location for sunshades

HouseWall --> color(1,1,0.9) RoofMaterial --> alignScopeToAxes(y) setupProjection(0, scope.xz, 10, 10, 1) texture(fileRandom(“assets/textures/roof*.jpg”)) projectUV(0) Yard --> NIL Backyard --> NIL

////////// BorderSlabUnit --> setPivot(xyz, 2) alignScopeToAxes(y) s(‘1,’1,’splitoperation) Slab StartingSlab --> Slab Slab --> extrude(1) ParkTest ConcreteTexture ConcreteTexture--> alignScopeToAxes(y) setupProjection(0, scope.xz, 50, 50, 1) texture(fileRandom(“assets/textures/concrete0*.jpg”)) projectUV(0) ParkTest --> case geometry.isRectangular(5) && geometry.area >= 2000 && geometry.area <= 10000: ParkObject else: NIL ParkObject --> 33% :

PLAN OF A NET + SECTOR Farm camps are located through all the net, the urban farmers concept is what keep them alive, all the citizens contribute to it.

35m

Apartment buildings are located at the net’s facade, with a rate that occupy arond 40% with buildings, the facade needs also to be open to the outisde

The sectors are specific spaces where the citizens can perform many activities, from social to service activities; here is the space to act. One sector does not need to be particularly different from another, but regardless the size, they can offer all or just some of the activities.

15m

130m

set(sectorsize, geometry.area) t(0,20,0) StartingSlab LegPlacementSector SectorObjectStart t(0,5,0) extrude(40) split(y){8 : comp(f){bottom: SectorFloorSlab | all : NIL}}*

SECTION OF A NET + SECTOR

Can we code Utopia?

architectonics + new babylon

This project is about the urban utopia called New Babylon and its generative system. The re-interpretation of New Babylon, now translated into a code, started through the precedent analysis: understanding the architectonics, the city’s components, its image and the approach to a site and society. To make this possible a set of rules were written in a shape grammar system enabling the creation of parametric models. New Babylon consists of two main elements: the network and the sector. The sector is the smallest element, the basic unit of the New Babylonian network, one of the links in the chain that make it up. In its simplest form, the sector incorporates a number of superimposed horizontal spaces linked to each other and to the ground by vertical elements, and one or more fixed nuclei for services. The network perceived from within is a continuous space. A mega structure that connects the sectors and provides space to be used as farming camps and also dwelling.

Individual work, Professor James Miyamoto. Conception of Architecture Form I

Monument of Homage to the Soldiers Model developed with paper, duplex and polystyrene. The work consists in the construction of a reduced model of the Monument of Homage to the Soldiers and its objective is to recognize the basic principles wich inform the structure and the form organization of architectonic space as the projectual development and the materialized representation of the plastic-formal intention.

Individual Project, Professor James Miyamoto Conceiving of the architectural shape I

Courtyard House The subject consists in the making of scale models of architectural projects, using paraná paper, duplex paper and styrofoam. The Courtyard House is the student’s first contact with his own planning, and it is up to him to attend the needs of a specific program, and, from that, develop the project and build the model.

Individual Project, Professor James Miyamoto Conceiving of the architectural shape I

Compositional Intent The Compositional Intent has its origins in three different architectural projects chosen by the student, where he must educe a reference from each one, as to develop his own project and scale model. In this work, the student is induced to work with various materials and colours.

Individual Project, Professor Pedro Engel Conceiving of the architectural shape II

The Hideaway - Symbiotic House The Hideaway plan had as a projectual kickstart the word “symbiosis”, the harmonic relationship between two living beings. From this idea, the house should have a harmonic relation with its surroundings, hence, the idea of a house made of clay.

Team Project, Tutor Nick Williams, Nancy Cheng RMIT, Digital Material (Design elective)

Inner Beauty This project moved between hands-on crafting and computational methods in a hybrid physical-digital design process. The elective studied how a shading panel can provide different kinds of visual delight as the sun moves, while shielding direct sunlight and providing usable daylighting. Both physical and digital simulation were used for evaluating the panel’s effectiveness for decreasing heat and improving the lighting. As a team, students were divided into daylighting simulation, digital design and physical model making. I took part on the physical model making team.

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RMIT DESIGN HUB : Program, Views and Sunstudies Image: Daniel Sykes

Along to the design process, heat analysis and simulations were made, as a guideline of how the openings would be distributed. The building choosen as a model was the RMIT Design Hub.

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Each piece fabricated is a unique piece, once the part choosen is a sample of the variaton. This was a conscious choice, in order to try out the fabrication process of non-standard parts.

Assemble detail Scale 1:2

Assemble detail

Joint detail

Image: Daniel Sykes

Model making process

The model making process started with cutting the metal sheets into the flattened shapes that were designed. The machines used in this process were the guillotine, metabo plate shears and the band saw.

The external faces of some modules were painted yellow to have tested the possibility of colour interaction with sunlight, the interior faces remained the natural metal color.

This is a decisive moment and it is important to pay attention on what was designed in the 3D digital model, in order to have it done the same way in the physical model. All the process was followed side by side the digital model.

Image: Ben, Gustav and Vincent.

Graphic Journal Class, Renato Alarcão Visual Arts. Autorship: David Mendonça

Stencil Art - Skull Series Stencil applied in pages of kraft and sulfite paper, aqualine, oil and spray ink.

Individual work, Professor Eduardo Rocha.

Observational Drawing II Works developed with pencil, ilustrated with nankeen, magic color or color pencil, wich consist in the graphic representation of a model, the drawings should be a reference of famous architect’s works’ like Tadao Ando, Helmut Jahn, Mario Botta and others.

A Glance At The City. Autorship: David Mendonça

Photographs - City Series Photographs taken as a hobby or as part of academic works, using a Canon Powershot A620 or an iPhone 5S.

- Gustavo Capanema Building, Rio de Janeiro - Morro do Estado Favela, Niterói

Sunset, La Trobe Street, Melbourne. Cement Silos, Australian Portland Cement abandoned factory.