PORTFOLIO • 2017
DANILO SAMPAIO
DANILO SAMPAIO • PORTFOLIO • 2017
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CURRICULUM VITAE
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MANCHESTER AIRPORT
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STANSTED AIRPORT
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PEARL DIVE CENTRE
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CELLULAR INSTRUMENTS
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THE ANGLED BUILDING
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HORTUM MACHINA, B.
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CURRICULUM VITAE
DANILO SAMPAIO • MArch, BArch, PGDip - Architect, Designer & Urban Designer
PERSONAL STATEMENT Brazil-born Portuguese architect has worked
in the country of Brazil since early 2010, in
UCL, in September 2015, receiving the
in the architectural industry for a period
late 2002, received a ‘Buildings Technician’
‘B-Pro Bronze Prize’ for the ‘reEarth Project’.
of more than 10 years altogether. His
professional title from a state trade school
Besides his extensive architectural training,
experience covers a wide range of projects
in Rio de Janeiro, when his work experience
he has undertaken a ‘International
worldwide of different sectors, scales, and
began. Graduated in late 2009 as ‘Architect
Business Administration’ certification from
stages, including Manchester and Stansted
and Urban Designer’ after completing a
‘Manhattan Institute of Management’, in
Airports for Pascall+Watson in the last
5-year bachelor’s degree from the ‘Federal
New York City, and is currently on course
two years and Maracana Stadium in Rio de
University of Rio de Janeiro’, which is 5th
to register with the ARB in late 2017. He
Janeiro for the 2007 Pan American Games
Place in the QS Latin American University
is currently working at a well-recognised
consortium. In addition to his design and
Rankings 2016. Has a master’s degree in
studio (AJ100) in Central London since
technical skills, he has gained valuable
‘Architecture’ from the ‘Porto University’s
October 2015, soon after his graduation
management experience through his
Architecture Faculty’, and graduated with a
from The Bartlett, UCL.
education and professional experiences.
‘Distinction’ in ‘MArch Architectural Design’
Registered as “Architect and Urban Designer”
from the Bartlett School of Architecture,
KEY SKILLS • • • • • • • •
Project Leading within a small team for Arktectus; Project Running within a larger team for Pascall+Watson; Client and supplier facetime and development; Key Designer roles of Architecture under Design Directors and Associates; BIM/Revit: 3+ Years professionally trained, BIM Lead within the project team for Arktectus; Other Software: AutoCAD, Rhinoceros, SketchUp, 3DS Max, V-Ray (...); Graphic Design: Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign; Foreign Languages: Portuguese (mother tongue), English (fluent), Spanish (intermediate) and German (basic).
KEY ACHIEVEMENTS BIM/Revit Team for the MANTP (Manchester Airport Transformation Programme) for Pascall+Watson. BIM/Revit Leader and Design Responsibility for the L.I.E.M.M.P. project for Arktectus. Lead Designer for the Highbridge Station proposal under the guidance of Manhatta Architecture’s principal, Richard Garey, AIA. Project and Team Leader and International Representative for the Container City Project for Arktectus, in partnership with The HL Turner Group.
The Bartlett’s B-Pro Prize for the ‘reEarth Project’ in MArch Architectural Design. CAPES/CNPq selected for Professional Master’s Program entitled “Science Without Borders, USA”. LEED Silver Certification for the Pinwheel School Unit’s C.E. Erich Walter Heine. Greenbest Prize for the Pinwheel School Unit’s C.E. Erich Walter Heine.
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UK 2015
BR 2014
BR 2013
BR 2012 Greenbest
B-Pro Prize
CAPES/CNPq
LEED Schools
3rd Place | The Bartlett
Professional Masters
Silver Certification
1st Place
School of Architecture
“Science Without Borders”
Green Building Council
Sustainable Design
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CURRICULUM VITAE
DANILO SAMPAIO • MArch, BArch, PGDip - Architect, Designer & Urban Designer
PRACTICES
EDUCATION
PASCALL+WATSON ARCHITECTS 2015 ›› 2017 • Part II Architectural Designer ›› ARB Architect INTERACTIVE ARCHITECTURE LAB 2014 ›› 2017 • Architectural Designer & Researcher ›› Collaborator MANHATTA ARCHITECTURE 2014 ›› 2017 • Overseas Architect ›› Collaborator THE H.L. TURNER GROUP 2012 ›› 2013 • International Representative ›› Overseas Architect ARKTECTUS SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE 2011 ›› 2014 • CAU Architect ›› CAU Lead Architect PROJECTUS CONSULTING 2010 ›› 2011 • CAU Architect GAFISA CONSTRUCTION 2008 ›› 2010 • Architectural Intern ›› CAU Architect RAFFA ARCHITECTURE 2004 ›› 2007 • Architectural Intern ›› Senior Architectural Intern
2017 MASTER’S DEGREE
MArch, Architecture Porto University’s Architecture Faculty, FAUP
2015 MASTER’S DEGREE
MArch, Architectural Design The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
2013 POSTGRADUATE CERTIFICATE
PGCert, Business Administration Manhattan Institute of Management, MIM
2009 BACHELOR’S DEGREE
BArch, Architecture and Urban Design Architecture and Urbanism Faculty, UFRJ
2002 TECHNICAL CERTIFICATE
Cert, Building Construction Tech. Technical High School Ferreira Viana, ETEFEV
Porto, Portugal
London, United Kingdom
New York, United States
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
PROFESSIONAL SKILLS Architectural & Urban Designs • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Sketching, Modelling & Making • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Team Management & Leadership • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Research & Development • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Project Planning & Management • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Engineering Services (MEP) & Data Design • • • • • • • • • •
Construction Management & Field Operations • • • • • • •
Parametric Design • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Sustainable Design & Certification • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Programming • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
SOFTWARE SKILLS Autodesk AutoCAD • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Rhinoceros • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Autodesk Revit • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Grasshopper • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Autodesk 3ds Max • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
SketchUp • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Autodesk Maya • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Blender • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Adobe Photoshop • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Adobe InDesign • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Adobe Illustrator • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Adobe Lightroom • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Others: ArchiCAD, Microstation, SolidWorks, Autodesk PowerMill, Aveva PDMS, Corel Draw, Microsoft Office, Arduino, V-ray, Maxwell, Keyshot, Lumion etc.
AFFILIATIONS
LANGUAGES
UK EXPECTED 2017
PT IN PROGRESS 2017
BR 2010
BR 2009
ARB
OA
CAU
CREA
Architects Registration Board
Ordem dos Arquitectos
Conselho de Arquitetura e Urbanismo
Conselho Regional de
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Engenharia e Agronomia
Portuguese • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • English • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Spanish • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • German • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
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CURRICULUM VITAE
DANILO SAMPAIO • MArch, BArch, PGDip - Architect, Designer & Urban Designer
KEY PROJECTS AVIATION PROJECTS
INTERIOR DESIGN PROJECTS
INSTALLATION PROJECTS
MANCHESTER AIRPORT PASCALL+WATSON 2016 ›› Current Manchester, UK
I was transferred to Manchester Airport project for the beginning of phase 2, due to workload at that moment, soon after the completion of Stansted Airport’s phases 1 and 2. Set for completion in 2024, MANTP (Manchester Airport Transformation Programme Terminal) consists in merging Terminal Two with Terminal Three, getting a 900,000sq ft extension, alongside new Piers (4 in total), Car Park Buildings and others. Initially, I joined the Fit-out Team and worked actively developing all the “Look and Feel” of the Main Terminal. I also worked alongside the Associate in charge on the development of different types of proposals for the client and shareholders (Airline Companies) in between Phases, in order to meet specific requirements and improve passenger experience throughout the new Terminal. After working in different packages of the Phase 3, the project is currently on Phase 4 and construction has already started (as of August 2017). Value £1bn.
STANSTED AIRPORT PASCALL+WATSON 2016 London, UK
My role consisted of developing all the material necessary for the phases’ completion, under the guidance of the Associate in charge. The key challenge for the project was to design a new 34,000m2 building that uniquely relocates all arrivals functions to a separate facility, to support future growth and attract new passengers and airlines. The design focuses on a modular sky-lit roof floating above generous double height spaces, with a bespoke design that complements the architecture of the iconic existing building. Value £130m.
DEEP DIVE CENTRE PASCALL+WATSON 2015 Dubai, UAE
The Deep Dive Centre, or Pearl Dive Centre, was the first project I worked on at Pascall+Watson. Located in Dubai, UAE, the building is focused entirely on a 60-metres-deep pool for deep diving and its supporting facilities. I was part of the Interior Design Team for the Virtual Reality Area, Public Dining Bar, Private Lounge, Interactive Space, Integrated Dining and Concierge. My role consisted of developing all the material necessary for the phases’ completion, under the guidance of the Associate in charge. I was also responsible for the modelling of key furniture elements, layout and “look and feel” proposals, using Rhino and Revit as main software. The organic design was mostly precedented by the work of Zaha Hadid, uniting function and aesthetic in one single place, in order to better suit the clients desires and aspirations.
CELLULAR INSTR. IAL 2015 Malta, MT
I was part of the “Interactive Architecture Lab” team for two of its main installations where human interaction and design were always the focus of the work developed in the lab. Cellular Instruments, which is currently a permanent installation of the Malta’s Science Museum, and MyCUP, installed for 3 months at the Bank of America’s building in Central London, are two good examples of uniting design, innovation and technology. From the modelling and rendering software in the computer screen, raw materials being shaped in 3d printers and CNC machines, until the final phases of fabrication and assembly, this experience was of extreme importance in order to understand the little parts of design process. In partnership with The Bartlett School of Architecture.
MyCUP IAL 2015 London, UK
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CURRICULUM VITAE
DANILO SAMPAIO • MArch, BArch, PGDip - Architect, Designer & Urban Designer
KEY PROJECTS PROPOSAL PROJECTS
EDUCATION PROJECTS
INDUSTRIAL PROJECTS
ACADEMIC PROJECTS
HIGHBRIDGE STATION MANHATTA 2014 New York, USA
I was responsible for the full development of an architecturalurbanistic design, in collaboration with Manhatta Architecture, P.C. The project offers much needed amenities to area residents and a public commons that provides a place to meet, relax and enjoy the beautiful borough of the Bronx. The design helps to promote and enhance several environmental aspects, as well as the visual integration between the other buildings next to it, respecting the original aspect of the street.
L.I.E.M.M.P. ARKTECTUS 2014 ›› 2015 Rio de Janeiro, BR
BIM/Revit and Design Leader for the L.I.E.M.M.P. project. The “Integrated Laboratories of Molecular Ecology and Oil Microbiology” is a cutting-edge design, conceived to achieve the LEED Gold certification and, consequently, PROCEL Edifica. It’s designed with all standards and premises of sustainability in architecture, promoting an innovative high quality education system for UFRJ, which is one of the most prestigious universities in the World.
PINWHEEL UNIT ARKTECTUS 2013 Rio de Janeiro, BR
I took part in the Pinwheel Teaching Unit as Architectural and MEP designer, as well as being responsible for the complete digital modelling and the implementation of its architectural drawings using Revit as main software. The building was designed to become an educative tool not only for students, but also for an entire community next to it. LEED Schools Silver Certified.
THE CONTAINER CITY ARKTECTUS 2012 ›› 2013 Rio de Janeiro, BR
I was responsible for management, ‘Architectural and Infrastructural Designs’, ‘Renders and Animations’ and ‘Project Management Plan (PMP)’ of an innovative architectural complex, with more than 110.000sqm for repairs, processing and assembly of special projects for containers and housing modules. Located in Rio de Janeiro, this new plant, as a whole, aims to meet the need of the current era, through a sustainable construction, designed to reduce the environmental impact in many aspects.
INHAUMA SHIPYARD PROJECTUS 2011 Rio de Janeiro, BR
I was the Architect responsible for the Phases 01, 02 and 03 of the total renovation of the former Ishibras Shipyard, under the guidance of the Senior Architect in charge. Leased by one of the largest oil companies in the world - PETROBRAS, the whole complex is 330,000m2, intended to be transformed in a self-dependet “Portuary City”.
THE ReEARTH PROJECT IAL / THE BARTLETT 2014 ›› 2017 London, UK
A three meters tall geodesic sphere that functions as an exoskeleton for a suspended garden. Its plants are the actuators that takes the notion of staticity away from the structure and gives it the flexibility to have its own behaviour. It happens due to differences in specific electrophysiological sensing of plants’ conditions. Theoretically, the garden is the core that represents the life that drives the ‘Spaceship Earth’, giving it the autonomy to be a living presence among us. MArch Graduation Project. Grade: Distinction.
C.S.T. UFRJ 2009 Rio de Janeiro, BR
“One metonymic ambiguous form that advances against the bay, radiating light, sound and movement”. The City of Sound Technology is formed by architectural theory, art and technique and its strongest inspiration comes from what the title itself suggests: the sound. BArch Graduation Project. Grade: Distinction (Equivalent).
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MANTP - MANCHESTER AIRPORT TRANSFORMATION PROGRAMME
MANCHESTER AIRPORT
MANCHESTER AIRPORT
MANTP - MANCHESTER AIRPORT TRANSFORMATION PROGRAMME
Year • • • • • • • • 2016 ›› 2017 Issue
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Site • • • • • • • • • Manchester, UK Area • • • • • • • • 83,500m2 Context • • • • • Expansion, Fit-out, Design Studio • • • • • • Pascall+Watson Architects Role • • • • • • • • Part II Architectural Designer Set for completion in 2020, and dubbed the biggest single construction project ever to take place in Greater Manchester, Terminal Two will merge with Terminal Three and get a 900,000sq ft extension. The entire project will be complete by 2023, but major changes will be noticeable as early as 2019. The plan comes with the promise of faster check-in and security checks, as well as a speedier journey through immigration and baggage claim. The £1bn Transformation Programme is all about investing in the future, continuing to grow by securing more direct
flight services in its role as the North’s global gateway. But it is also about investing in facilities and in the latest technology to provide passengers with best possible experience. Apart from creating new jobs and thousands of new car parking spaces, the transformation also hoped the hub will get US pre-clearance so passengers can get through immigration, customs and agricultural inspection before boarding their flight. Improvements include a ‘luxury’ Terminal Two with double height ceilings, lots of glass, light and a big open space; improved security to
cut peak queuing time from 15 to 10 minutes and offpeak to five minutes; automatic bag-drops; more space and comfort in the departure lounge and at the gate; an extension to the Terminal Two multi-storey car park; bigger taxiway to allow two aircraft - like the Boeing 777 and a Boeing 747 - to pass each other; a new baggage hall with latest technology; three piers with stands for aircraft to allow smooth take-offs and departures; green features of a carbon neutral terminal, including free cooling technology and combined heat and power; among others.
Information and imagery taken from online sources.
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MANCHESTER AIRPORT
MANTP - MANCHESTER AIRPORT TRANSFORMATION PROGRAMME The design focuses on creating a distinctive international identity for Manchester Airport: the interior fit-out is selfrecognisable when seen alongside other international airport terminals; the aspirations of the airport reflect the passengers demographics. Processes are designed to an international standard: it is to become comparable to international leader hub airports, being identified within the UK and international airport community. The aspirations to consider involve the airport capacity, number of connections, minimum connecting time, passenger experience, retail experience and future expansion of the terminal.
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Potential use of local character can give Manchester airport a sense of place and identity. A contemporary design solution is to ensure the design response is appropriate to client’s expectations and requirements. A holistic approach to the project ensures continuity of solutions and materials throughout the airport, also considering the interface between the areas of new and existing finishes. Identify a hierarchy for the different types of spaces within the airport. Consider the following issues for each area: look and feel; functional requirements; dwell time; budget (£ - £££). The processes of the airport should be legible to the passenger at all times. Relaxed and comfortable
passengers are more receptive to what Manchester airport has to offer. Intent: increased efficiency in passengers processing; ensure passengers are relaxed and stress free; increased commercial potential; positive experience to ensure repeat business. Ensure the design response is fully aligned to cost expectation. Material selection should be cost effective: standardized and modular systems; avoid bespoke systems where possible; self-finish materials can be used where possible to reduce cost of cladding materials; ‘open’ ceiling systems reduce the amount of materials required to achieve a similar visual impression as a solid ceiling.
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MANCHESTER AIRPORT
MANTP - MANCHESTER AIRPORT TRANSFORMATION PROGRAMME
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ARRIVALS TERMINAL
STANSTED AIRPORT
STANSTED AIRPORT
ARRIVALS TERMINAL
Year • • • • • • • • 2016 Issue
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Architectural Design
Site • • • • • • • • • London, UK Area • • • • • • • • 30,204m2 Context • • • • • Expansion, Study Studio • • • • • • Pascall+Watson Architects Role • • • • • • • • Part II Architectural Designer The proposed Stansted Arrivals Terminal is sited north east of the existing terminal and is 30,204m2 over 3 levels. Alongside the key dimensions given after initial studies, the existing building, designed by Norman Foster, influences in the proposed architectural development, mostly on its scale and massing, materials and textures, site-lines and key views and relationship to existing terminal. The key features of the new Arrivals Terminal are ruled by a contemporary response to complement the existing terminal. It is to be simple, functional and, last but not least, minimalist.
The building is set out as far as 18m from existing terminal, 17.2m from Radisson Hotel and 8.3m from TTS maintenance building. The key dimensions are 90m wide and 155m deep. The main areas are: (gross) ground level 11,445m2; mezzanine 13,003m2; concourse 5,756m2; (net) ground level 8,960m2; mezzanine 12,030m2; concourse 5,410m2; and the total net area is 26,400m2. In terms of key height and dimensions, the vertical set out is coordinated with baggage, services and structure requirements. The key dimensions are: typical floor to floor levels 6/7m; typical ceiling height 4m; baggage
factory height 5m; height difference to main terminal 4.22m (note: mezzanine floor level is as existing terminal departure level). The arrivals terminal building form is expressed as key elements. The plaza / arrivals forecourt is to provide an extension of concourse functions and onward travel connections. The façade hierarchy expresses the entrance facade and canopy. The roof and skylights is a modular roof system and light filled interior. The structural solution is to maximize internal usable area, considering its future flexibility, modular system (18x18m grid) and simple aesthetic (exposed columns and beam cladding).
Information and imagery taken from online sources.
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STANSTED AIRPORT
ARRIVALS TERMINAL
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STANSTED AIRPORT
ARRIVALS TERMINAL
The new building has a clear, intuitive progression through arrivals functions. Arriving passengers leave the terminal at the correct level for onward travel. The plaza is an extension of the arrivals concourse functions. The clear facade gives legibility of building functions. Low level canopy at interface with forecourt provides climatic shelter to plaza and onward travel. The final design is a simple, contemporary response to architectural language of existing terminal. It also emphasises primary façade to plaza and provides a climatic shelter at forecourt edge of plaza and roof-lights that relate to modularity of existing terminal roof.
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Illumination of every campus buildings and external appearance at night influences the terminal lighting: the terminal has a white colour up-lighting and commercial buildings are warm white with accent lighting. The building counts with a dynamic interior design, with intuitive way finding. Similarly to the existing terminal, designed by Norman Foster, the proposed design centrers on the roof module and natural lighting. The main look and feel and materials are: sealed double glazed units at the facade, with a low emissivity coating and an inert gas filling. This gives a level of thermal insulation at a U value of 1.6 for the whole wall.
The glass is toughened and allows passengers clear sighting to the exterior. Translucent glass is used in the flank walls, where there is no protecting canopy to provide shade. It is inter-leafed with two layers of translucent PVC which is calculated to reduce solar heat gain by more than 60%; white painted structural steelwork; metal cladding in silver grey colour; white back painted glass and opaque glass spandrel panels are used in the walls; in-situ concrete, coffered concrete floor of the and concrete retaining walls are used in the underground extension. Main components include hard floors, raised floors, wall lining, columns, wayfinding, skylights and media.
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DEEP DIVE CENTRE DUBAI
PEARL DIVE CENTRE
PEARL DIVE CENTRE
DEEP DIVE CENTRE DUBAI
Year • • • • • • • • 2015 Issue
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Site • • • • • • • • • Dubai, UEA Area • • • • • • • • 34,000m2 Context • • • • • Fit-out, Design Studio • • • • • • Pascall+Watson Architects Role • • • • • • • • Part II Architectural Designer The Pearl Dive Centre is a building that is currently under construction in Dubai that has - as its main attraction - a 60 metres deep pool for deep-diving and all different types of facilities to support and entertain its users and visitors. The centre’s program comprises in the ‘virtual reality space’, ‘fine dining’ and ‘juice bar’ (VN27 work package), and ‘concierge’, ‘interactive space’, ‘integrated dining’ and ‘lounge’ (VN28 work package). After reviewed and distilled the information from phase one of this project to design the VN27 and VN28 packages, an opportunity to extend the scope of the program and create an active space that appeals to divers and non-divers alike came to light.
As many visitors will have guests with them who will not be diving, it is important to develop relevant design solutions that cater to the different users. After several layout studies were developed, aimed to create a living landscape for visitors to explore, the interior design was inspired by the existing organic wall geometry to create low sculpted levels with varying heights and different activities that support small clusters of groups. The fishtank (Image 1) creates a friendly welcome upon entering the area, with benches for contemplation. It enhances the connection to the underwater world and creates a gentle view barrier of the car park from the concierge area.
The integrated dining (Image 2) is a large open space that can be used in many different ways. The furniture is modular and can be arranged to become a large dining table, a bar-like counter and a small desk-like units, ideal for talks and lectures. It also has a with a large glass window that connects the underwater world to the out of water world. Both spaces encourage discovery, play and relaxation, attracting every type user. The private lounge (Image 3) was designed as an exclusive facility for the crown prince. The space is welcoming, luxurious and comfortable. The prince and guests can be differently entertained while waiting to begin or after their dive.
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MALTA SCIENCE MUSEUM INSTALLATION
CELLULAR INSTRUMENTS
CELLULAR INSTRUMENTS
MALTA SCIENCE MUSEUM INSTALLATION
Year • • • • • • • • 2015 Issue
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Site • • • • • • • • • Valletta, MT Area • • • • • • • • 34,000m2 Context • • • • • Design, Fabrication Studio • • • • • • IALab Role • • • • • • • • Assistant Designer Scientific exploration is the process of unpacking the laws of the universe through rigorous testing of theories. ‘Cellular Instruments’ highlights the role of the scientist as one of discovery rather than invention - a process concerned with uncovering phenomena and representing it in discreet mathematical models. Drawing references from packing patterns observed in primitive cells, this
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reactive sculpture communicates the process of discovery as one which is dynamic, intriguing and interactive. The sculpture is composed of a number of ‘cells’ in the process of unpacking from a central attractor - a metaphor to the process of discovery as multiple scientists attempt to uncover the same phenomena from different angles. The proposal makes use of the provided track lights to
illuminate the external structure of the cell, and introduces another set of lights to illuminate the internal nucleus. The latter are reactive to motion, and a nucleus will glow when a visitor approaches a particular cell. This will provide ephemeral light patterns which are generated from the visitor’s motion - a reference to the inclusive nature of scientific learning.
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CELLULAR INSTRUMENTS
MALTA SCIENCE MUSEUM INSTALLATION
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CELLULAR INSTRUMENTS
MALTA SCIENCE MUSEUM INSTALLATION
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HIGHBRIDGE STATION
THE ANGLED BUILDING
THE ANGLED BUILDING
HIGHBRIDGE STATION
Year • • • • • • • • 2014 Issue
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Site • • • • • • • • • New York, US Area • • • • • • • • 1,580m2 Context • • • • • Requalification, Design Studio • • • • • • Manhatta Architecture Role • • • • • • • • Lead Architectural Designer The economic decline of the Highbridge neighbourhood in the mid twentieth century was in large part the result of the elimination of three critical pieces of infrastructure. In 1958, the Polo Ground Shuttle was demolished eliminating Sedgwick Avenue and Anderson-Jerome Avenues subway stations. Around the same timeframe, the Putnam Railway closed eliminating Sedgwick and Highbridge regional rail stations. Later in the 1970’s, the Highbridge pedestrian bridge was closed further isolating the neighborhood. New York City commenced the restoration of the Highbridge pedestrian path in 2012. Inspired by this project, Manhatta Architecture sought to explore the possibility of restoring subway service to the Highbridge neighbourhood via a 3 Train extension. Doing so will benefit the transit starved Highbridge neighbourhood and reduce game-day congestion.
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Highbridge Station is more than just a subway station. It will offer much needed amenities to area residents including a fresh foods market and fitness centre. Highbridge Pub will serve as a social space for residents and visiting sports fans. A youth hostel will provide affordable lodging and attract international tourism to further add to diversity of the borough. A public commons will provide a place to meet, relax and enjoy the beautiful borough of the Bronx. The design helps to promote and enhance several environmental aspects, such as: sun lighting; wind circulation; usage of solar energy either for heating water, producing energy or both; green roof for social integration and thermal protection; rainwater captioning for toilets and major cleaning usages; the visual integration between the other buildings next to it, respecting the original
aspect of the street; to take advantage of the irregular aspect of the terrain, avoiding major excavations; and many others. Captive tool for all types of users and also for the entire community of the Bronx. The concept is expressed by the way the building is designed. Angular shapes - to direct the spectator view and to refer to the architectural concept - can be found all over the building’s façades, and its higher exemplification is on the way the curtain walls “tear” them. These strategically placed openings are designed in conformation with the rest of the building which is covered by “metalon” panels. The panels have a dark colouring and the glasses follow this same appearance. The idea here is to have them working as “camouflaged windows”, giving spectators a visual unity of the panels and windows.
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THE ANGLED BUILDING
HIGHBRIDGE STATION
This contemporary architecture and urban equipment has one singular feature that benefits everyone: the 162nd st. extents through the building until it finally connects to Jerome ave (Image 1). The facade on Anderson ave. is to maintain the street aspect (a sort of corridor; aligned façades) and at the same time to create an “invitation” through the subtraction of a specific amount of volume, always respecting the identity and unity of the project. This subtraction - aligned with the 162nd street - can be interpreted as a portal that connects the street to the building, transforming the entrances on both avenues into open-public spaces. The pedestrians have the option
to follow different paths through the building, which lead them to different contexts: the elevator, the escalator and the grand staircase. The building is a welcoming place as it is designed to make people naturally walk through it. The building is structured by an angular grid, which makes the design entirely and rationally aligned. This grid allows the usage of a modular construction, which will cover more than 75% of the hostel. There are no angles different than 22.5, 45 and 90, and most of the grid’s lines are exactly placed either 11 or 22 feet away from each other. 12 feet separate each floor, despite the ground and first levels (18 feet), providing an openness sensation to
all users. The Grand Staircase’s are used as a translucent element composed by glass openings that provides the entry of natural lighting to the fitness centre and the subway station. The building’s structure respects the architectural concept, function, practicality, and promotes harmony with its surroundings. The subway area is intend to connect the underground passageway and to provide an easy and smooth way for people to move from the Jerome Avenue level (ground) to Anderson Avenue level (2nd) - approximately 36 feet height - through the double elevators that will arrive in the middle of the internal court.
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The Highbridge Subway Station (Image 4), Highbridge Fitness Centre (Image 5) and Highbridge Pub (Image 6) entrances are all placed on Jerome Av., which connects to their first floors and the second floor of the pub. The second floor hosts the Highbridge Market (Image 7), on Anderson Avenue, the internal court and the Highbridge Youth Hostel’s entrance (Image 2). The catwalk at the third floor (Image 8) is intended to make people move around the building all the time, placing a “24/7” eye on the internal court (Images 7 and 8) and staircase. It connects the portion of the building that faces Anderson Avenue to the main portion, and there’s a living room in
between where guests can relax watching people passing by. This area hosts an architectural concept that is based on user’s contemplation of a specific area: the extension of the 162nd street in the building (Image 1) and the internal court (Images 7 and 8). From the fourth floor, the modular construction takes place in the design. These modules can be modified by either removing or adding walls and openings since their structural alignment will always remain the same. On the Anderson Avenue side, all the accesses to the hostel rooms face the internal court and the catwalk through outdoor corridors. The inclination of the roof is intended to help on
the sun energy collection. Facing south-westwards, it also helps to illustrate the architectural concept as it promotes a continuation of the nearby building’s heights, creating a “visual union” between them. The rooftop (Image 3) is totally habitable, where people can experience great lookout points of Manhattan and the Yankees Stadium. The area is also used as film screening for the hostel guests, an open-air alternative for the covered living area.
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THE RE-EARTH PROJECT
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Site • • • • • • • • • London, UK Area • • • • • • • • 3 Metres Diametre Context • • • • • Research, Design, Fabricate Studio • • • • • • IALab, The Bartlett, UCL Role • • • • • • • • Researcher & Lead Designer Harnessing the collective intelligence of plant behaviour, ‘The reEarth Project’ explores new forms of bio-cooperative interaction between people and nature, within the built environment. While plants lack a nervous system, they can, much like animals, become electro-chemically stimulated by their surrounding environment. Through the study of plant electro-physiology, we have wired their primitive ‘intelligence’ into the control-loop of an autonomous robotic ecosystem. Half garden, half machine - a new cybernetic lifeform, named ‘Hortum Machina, B.’. Echoing the architecture of Buckminster Fuller, the geodesic sphere is both exoskeleton and ecological iconography. Its core of twelve garden modules, each carrying native British species on outwardly-extending
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linear actuators allow the structure to become mobile by shifting its centre-of-gravity. Electrophysiological sensing of the state of individual plants collectively and democratically controls decision-making of the orientation of the structure and its mobility. In the near future context of driverless cars, autonomous flying vehicles, and seemingly endless other forms of intelligent robotics co-habiting our built environment. Hortum machina is a speculative urban cybergardener. At present, there is a general acceptance that we are shifting towards a greener London, with designated areas for nature. However, the London Natural History Society states that much of Greater London is now inhabited and dominated by non-native plants. As these often tend to
be invasive, their communities spread while many of the native plants are becoming increasingly threatened. Motivated by the idea to make London a ‘National Park City’, the project is an intelligent landscape that works as an extension to a park, a vessel with native plants situated inside a geodesic sphere that travels through unknown land: the urban London. The “Exoskeleton of Life” is driven consequent to electrophysiological data as the plants are imagined to be the intelligence of the structure, with the purpose of reprocreating themselves: it spreads and repopulates the native life that it carries in its core, taking seeds from the enclosed-limited space to this new-broad natural environment called planet Earth.
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Upon signal receipt of a daylight transition, the augmented plants act by informing the system about the gardens’ needs. The corresponding module then expands out by means of a linear actuator to act as a weight shifter. Consequently, the sphere rolls so that the shaded/sun lit faces of the gardens are interchanged. Alternatively, through a series of sensors that seek out new external conditions, the plants’ architecture searches for new spots of sun, until a potential location is acquired. The design proposes a 1,5 metres (diametre) spherical garden composed by 12 garden modules that are protected by a 3 metres (diametre) exoskeleton made out
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of sandblasted aluminium pipes. Hortum Machina, B. – a definite vessel that connotes to the “model of the earth” – consists in a layered structural system composed by inner core, outer core and crust: structure, garden modules and exoskeleton, respectively. Composed by structure, linear actuators, and garden modules, the inner and outer cores compose the exoskeleton’s spherical robot. Aluminium fins generated from the diagonals of an icosahedron compose the beautiful structural framework that embraces 12 linear actuators. Attached to each actuator there are 12 garden modules that are filled with rare British plants. The core
rests in the centre of the vessel, using the concept of centre of gravity as a mean of propulsion. As critical to engineering as it is fundamental to physics, it works as a weighted-stability shifter that dictates which step the sphere should take and, therefore, where it should go, given by the plants’ response to the external environment observed through electrophysiology. They are the drivers of the linear actuators that, eventually, would make the whole structure shit towards a specific position. Thereafter, seeds can be dispersed away, repopulating the area with native plants.
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The ‘reEarth’ Project is a hybrid of academic research and physical fabrication, embedded by technologies that promote controlled-dynamic behaviours in both micro and macro scales structures. The idea of Earth as the entire overarching vessel of both organic and synthetic collaborative and competing systems was mainly what brought the ‘reEarth’ project concept to life. reEarth aims to be an embodiment of both organic and synthetic collaborative and competing systems. The geodesic sphere is what better materialize the motivation of this work through both technical and philosophical perspectives, carrying all the connotations and associations with a “model of the Earth”.
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An exoskeleton device is to provide balance, control and most of the energy required to work alongside gravity while the “operator” stays in control, determining at what time and where to move. The principles of tensegrity apply at essentially every detectable scale in the exoskeleton. The complexity of tensegrity structures, such as the geodesic dome, is comprehended by several features such as structure, joints, ligaments, connections, closings and many others, in its own scale and configuration. In that sense, the sphere works as a protective steel-meshed exoskeleton that plays with the speculative notion that, in order to save the world from an ecological catastrophe, we should protect ourselves indoors.
‘The Exoskeleton of Life’ will house and protect life but will continuously interact with the external environment. The garden and its plants represent the living things that will be enclosed within this limited architectural space. We, as humans, are life-dependent on plants. Therefore, to support this movement and promote individual awareness, the geodesic sphere has the ambition to be a structure that allows plants to autonomously commute. Raised from the ground level to the height of the observer’s eyes, it is a personification of plants that occupy a notorious and physical space within our society.
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“It has long been recognized that architects
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process; physical design prototypes and
work to fulfil functional and aesthetic
historical, ethical, technical and functional
speculative theoretical exploration (...). The
requirements in the production of space,
approaches of geodesic spheres and domes
proper understanding of those key features
as stated by Vitruvius in his ‘Ten Books on
in architecture, linking to the “dymaxion”
is important to speculate and, consequently,
Architecture’. In so doing, it is widely accepted
and “tensegrity” structures popularized by
manipulate their effects on completely
that architecture exists as a static condition.
Buckminster Fuller; characteristics of living
static structures and the built environment,
Buildings are increasingly trying to more
things and skeletal systems to back up the
narrowing the gap between micro and macro
efficiently conform to the nature, and its
suggestion that such features are to naturally
scale designs.”
environment. Dr. Dan Lockton suggests in his
interact, react and adapt to changing
PhD thesis that such a static built environment,
situations in their use, operation, or location;
whether in the architectural or urban scale,
an extensive investigation of conceptual and
influences behaviour and well-being. In 1924,
technical referencing, used on both written
Winston Churchill stated its influence upon
and physical works, to establish guidelines
human character and action: “we make our
for the documentation of the ‘Methodology’
buildings and afterwards they make us. They regulate the course of our lives”. The potential
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for a responsive architecture that mimics living
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systems to meet such functional concerns has
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been less thoughtfully examined.
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The Geodesic Sphere as an Exoskeleton of Life
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