EDUARDO DUGAICH
São Paulo Brazil 2018
ARCHI TECTURE PORT FOLIO
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Herewith, I declare that all the work samples shown in this portfolio are eitheir entirely my work or group works in which I was part of. Thus, I confirm my authorship and/or participation in all of the projects developed and shown in this portfolio, duly specified in the project descriptions.
Eduardo Dugaich Tavares de Oliveira
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EDUARDO DUGAICH
ABOUT A graduate architect who drives to find inspiration from a new source of knowledge, in order to learn more about the integration of imaginative and innovative ways to remodel our environment. As an architecture lover, I seek to be an architect who provides original designs and solutions that respond to the demands of contemporary society. Furthermore, as new ways of problem solving arise, the challenge of architecture increases and requires choosing new paths in terms of sustainability, materiality and technology. Believing in the humanity centered design, I strive to show, in the portfolio, the power to bring change to communities at every scale by combining design with culture and arts.
INFO
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Eduardo Dugaich Tavares de Oliveira
(feb. 2014-present) MDB Studio Co-founder Architectural marketing / Competitions / Small scale projects São Paulo, Brazil
Date of birth: 31.10.1992 Nationality: brazilian Marital status: single dugaich.eduardo@gmail.com +55 (11) 97440-7770 Skype Name: edugaich Rua Mourato Coelho, 50, apt.71 Pinheiros - São Paulo, BR - 05417-000
REFERENCES Prof. Msc. PhD. Luciano Margotto Co-founder at Republica Arquitetura luciano@republica.arq.br Prof. Msc. Daniel Corsi da Silva Co-founder at Corsi Hirano arquitetos corsi@corsihirano.com Arch. Yuri Vital dos Santos Co-founder at São Paulo Arquitetura escritorioyurivital@gmail.com Arch. Anderson Fabiano Freitas Co-founder at Apiacás Arquitetos anderson@apiacasarquitetos.com.br + 55 11 3159 1970 4
Apiacás Arquitetos (aug. 2016-feb. 2017) Architecture Intern Design creative process / Competitions / 3D Visualization / Executive drawings São Paulo, Brazil Yuri Vital Arquiteto (jul. 2014-jun. 2015) Architecture Intern Design creative process / Competitions / 3D Visualization São Paulo, Brazil LABi (jul. 2013-jun. 2014) Software Instructor / 3D Visualizer 3D visualizer / SketchUp+Vray+Photoshop+InDesign teacher São Paulo, Brazil
EDUCATION
AWARDS
Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie School of Architecture and Urbanism (5 year bachelor + Undergraduate Thesis) Graduation Date 06/feb. 2018 São Paulo, Brazil Thesis title: The Floating Space Thesis Final Grade: 9.55/10
Finalist Project (International) Pinnochio’s Library in Collodi, IT - YAC
Universidade Lusíada de Lisboa School of Architecture (2015/2016) Exchange Student Lisbon, Portugal
Finalist Project (International) Sacred Architecture in Tanaff - Senegal 1st prize Vertical Farm on Av. Paulista
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2nd prize (National) Urban Furniture for the city of São Paulo 3rd prize (National) Proposal to design a transposition in SP 3rd prize Pampulha Lagoon Infopoint
EXTRACURRICULAR
SOFTWARE
Rhino Course Laboratório de Ideias
(feb.2018)
Revit Course Laboratório de Ideias
(feb.2018)
Microsoft Office AutoCad SketchUp V-ray Photoshop InDesign Rhino Revit Illustrator ArchiCad Lumion
Future cities (jan.2018 - present) Course - 11 modules ETH Zürich online through EDX AR Architects (mar.2017) SESC competition Professional architecture competition as part of the team Acayaba Rosemberg Arquitetos Corsi Hirano Arquitetos (jul.2016) Housing competition Professional architecture competition as part of the team Corsi Hirano Arquitetos ArchiCad Course - 5 weeks São Paulo, Brazil
(2016)
City and territory - 5 weeks (2015) Maria Antonia Institute - São Paulo, BR English Course B2(.1) - 6 weeks (2015) San Francisco - CA, USA
(National)
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LANGUAGES Portuguese English Spanish
(native) (fluent) (reading)
VOLUNTEER WORK FIC (Fraternidade Irmã Clara) (2013) Instituition for children with cerebral palsy Assisting the staff and carying for the children São Paulo, Brazil
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THE FLOATING SPACE A Prospective Urban Study
“The contemporary city is no longer a cultural heritage, architecture is no longer thought as a spatial habitat creation. The relationship between building and livability are lost, shelters are created instead of cultural heritage.” (BRISSAC, 2003)
rua Florêncio de Abreu
rua Boa Vista
ladeira Porto Geral
rua Constituição rua 25 de Março
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*essay about the theoretical approach of the thesis on the last page of the portfolio ACADEMIC UNDERGRADUATE THESIS PROJECT Metropolitan Mixed Use Universidade Mackenzie 2017 Mentored by Tito Lívio Frascino and Daniel Corsi da Silva corsi@corsihirano.com Location: São Paulo, Brazil Role: Author Exact contribution: conceptual development; project development; all the 2D and 3D graphic content; physical model
The project is inspired by the film Metropolis, one of the classics by the German director Fritz Lang, presenting a future where the city is structured in vertical layers according to the different social strata. In the practical approach, as a strategy of occupation, the project provides a different view on urban spaces: on the ground floors, public areas are generated through strategic removals. This makes the creation of connections possible, which make the steep terrain and its levels work out as a whole, including the access to the subway station being located nearby. Moreover, the four towers provide densification uses, such as
hotel rooms, residential modules and offices to the aerial space, as well as public uses throughout the buildings to make spontaneous encounter possible on each floor. The morphology of the the entire set is thought to be connected by a continuous void, that starts on the underground and generates a continuous path throughout all pavements composing the design. That void is called the “floating space”, since it is not part of a specific morphologic territory, but spontaneously formed by the same sort of occupation, floating through the underground, ground floors and aerial, creating new social relations within the city layers. Removals
“Street view - portraits”. Michael Wolf. The portraits of the real territorry are shown through the blurred lens of the day-to-day life. People are no longer identified, and neither is the city.
New block on the ground floor
Blind walls espaço público
viaduto Sta. Ifigênia
(rua das ferragens) (rua do comércio)
rua 25 de Março
rua Boa Vista
(rua das empresas)
rua Florêncio de Abreu
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rua XV de Novembro
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AERIAL SPACE
tower A
_Density through diversity _Theater workshop _Dance workshop _Restaurant _Hotel _Living _Offices
tower D tower C
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LEVEL FLORร NCIO _Public Park _Urban furniture _Transposition to 25 de Marรงo st.
CORPORATE _Corporate floors _Self-storage
SUBWAY ACCESS _Corporate rooms _Self-storage _Hidden commerce _Linear Park _Access to subway station _Public washrooms
LEVEL LADEIRA _Open air gallery _Market _access tower B _Public washrooms _Self-storage
LEVEL 25 de Marรงo _Foodo court _Public washrooms _Self-storage
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Floor plan 01: st. 25 de Março
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Synthesis Tower: A Method: The void
The private and The public uses
tower A
The private and The public circulation
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tower B
tower C
tower D
The full and The void
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Monastery
viaduto Sta. IfigĂŞnia
Mirante do Vale
h = 170m
Urban section plan
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new constructions
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CHAPTER 37 ...continuing the fairytale...
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“...everything that you bring to a child (...) must be given in the form of fairy tales, legends, and stories in which everything is endowed with feeling. “ p. 16 Steiner, Rudolf *
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION FINALIST MENTION Pinocchio Childrens Library Young Architects Competition Professional Competition 2017 Team Work with Marcos Bresser, Thiago Maurelio, Daniel Zahoul and Pedro Petry Location: Collodi, Italy Role: Co-author and Team leader Exact contribution: Conceptual development; project development; 3D modelling; 3D images The fairytale world exists beneath every land.
real world fairy tale Imagination, fantasy, creativity, these are only a few, but important aspects of children’s education. As the vessel of an important fairytale collection, the proposed intervention works intimately with the perceptionof reality and fantasy. The aim is to go beyond the content of the tales. The project is conceived as a vehicle for imagination, such as a book. Once you read the story behind the occult of its characters, each person’s imagination gives life and scenery to it. Such as a book, each child’s and adult’s imagination dives into a once upon a time, in a far, far away realm… Outside the fairytale In order to conceive the transition between reality and fantasy, it became imperative to conceal the intervention. Collodi has a strong personality with an expressive historical heritage. Creating a sudden contrast between the existing buildings and a new contemporary intervention could reveal negative, impairing the “fairytale like scenery” that the village already presents.
Inside the fairytale It is particularly good for children to be given the opportunity to add as much as possible to playthings out of their own fantasy. Inside a predominantly underground construction the visitor loses an overall perception of the outside world. This different and expanding scenery presents not only the essential features of a contemporary well-equipped library with its surrounding programs. A variety of textures, materials, colors, geometries set an enormous range of ways to incite both children’s and adult’s imagination. Tunnels turn into caves, bleachers into mountains, moving curtains into knights, shelves into castles, nets into swamps... Likewise the log once destined to be used to light a fire, but filled with the life of a puppet: the spaces, surfaces and furniture are the inanimate waiting for an imaginative mind to be animated. Rather than a simple fairytale vessel, the Pinocchio Children’s Library is the fairytale experience itself
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modular furniture (40x40cm) “mountains, tunnels...”
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“serpents, tongues, ufos...”
weightlessness
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BEACON OF HOPE
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A place for all different creeds and beliefs; for all different people; for all different religions; for all humankind. A place for all.
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION FINALIST PROJECT Sacred Architecture in Tanaff Kaira Looro Organization 2017 Team Work with Marcos Bresser and Thiago Maurelio Location: Tanaff, Senegal Role: Co-author and Team leader Exact contribution: Conceptual development; project development; SketchUp 3D modelling; 3D images
To create a Sacred Building, as well as a landmark, for Tanaff the ideal site chosen for the intervention is the place in the middle of the main street of Tanaff where an old sacred building stands today, for several reasons: 1. it sets a perspective allowing the new building to be seen by locals and visitors from the main street; 2. It prioritizes the gathering of people, over the efficiency and rationality of traffic; 3. by respecting the design´s imprint, passersby will have to follow the outline, hardly missing its existence; 4. moreover, the connection of the place’s sacredness remains in the village people’s memory
as it has been a holy place for long; 5. finally, on its northwest side, the new sacred building will face what today is already an open square, valuing this empty site, hopefully maintaining it unoccupied by constructions (diagram 1). Symbolically, the new building is structured as if the old one has had its roof simply turned upside down. Rather than a shelter from market rain, it becomes a large rain-water collector, embracing nature parking lot as an ally (diagram 2). The upper openings for ventilation and natural illumination are protected from the outside noise by the steep roof above the outtown hall er ring (diagram 3). new sacred space market
parking lot elementary school
town hall
Light of hope
new sacred space health center elementary school
secondary school health center
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diagram 1 St. Simons Lighthouse early 40s
consolidating the square through occupied space
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roof inversion - embracing nature
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secondary school diagram 3 isolation of the inner space
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Floor Plan moments 01. public square; 02. outer ring; 03. inner space.
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emergency > possibility of laying beds; > water and food distribution; > support and shelter for medical assistance.
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Interior View
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Folded aluminum flashing
folded aluminum flashing
Iron sheet roof
iron sheet roof
Ventilated roof opening
ventilated roof opening
White paint finish Baobab wood ceiling
white paint finish baobab wood ceiling
White paint finish baobab
white paint finish baobab wood
Inner roof column
inner roof column
Indirect lighting
indirect lighting
Local straw roof
local straw roof
Palm wood primary roof structure
palm wood primary roof structure
Folded aluminum gutter
folded aluminum gutter
Rainwater drain for reuse
rainwater drain for reuse
Reddish brick
reddish brick
Air chamber for insulation and hidraulics
air chamber for insulation and hidraulic instalations
Palm wood beams
palm wood beams inner roof structure
Plumbing
plumbing
Clean water tap
clean water tap
Aluminum wash basin
aluminum wash basin
Greywater collection for reuse
greywater collection for reuse
White ciment floor
white cement floor reddish cement/laterite floor concrete slab concrete foundation
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URBAN BREATHER
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The Vertical Farm comes as a sustainable trigger to change the metropolitan built enviroment of SĂŁo Paulo through technology and innovation, based on the idea of resilience.
NATIONAL COMPETITION 1st PLACE Vertical Farm on Paulista Av. Projetar.org Student Competition 2014 Team Work with Marcos Bresser and Thiago Maurelio Location: SĂŁo Paulo, Brazil Role: Co-author and Team leader Exact contribution: Conceptual development; project development; detail development and drawing; 3D modelling; 3D images; construction diagrams
Duality and similarities, rural and urban
O lavrador - Candido Portinari
Metropolis - Fritz Lang
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Bringing health to the people, the vertical farm takes place on the most important avenue of the city. Based on the idea of sustainability, the buiding brings the farm production to the consolidated urban environment. One auditorium, slabs for agricultural production, as well as
multipurpose rooms are designed and arranged to supply the products and manpower needs with the best insolation, insulation and ventilation for each space inside the megastructure. The ground floor
The structure: Steel mainly
The food line Using the subway station located under the site of intervention, it is possible to create a food transportation system. By using the subway lines (closed for passengers at night) the farm production can be transported to, then, the biggest and most important food market of the city.
Along the “food line”, the largest stations can be used by local distributers as a “night food market”, bringing different uses and grater diversity to the different parts of the city.
Slabs: Concrete
Inner facades: Glass
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Outter skin: Etched glass
The rain water is reused by the building itself. Moreover, food and farm production make usable the water that they previously utilized for the growth, generating an auto-sustainable cycle that creates an agricultural production system.
The Vertical Farm is pictured as a “lung� for the city: the poluted air is cleaned throughout the building and put back to the population through the subway connection, that works as a breathe.
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MODULAR MULTIUSE
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An industrialized village that arises along the train track. Social connectivity is the major benefit of living in this megastructure.
ACADEMIC Modular Megastructure Universidade Lusíada de Lisboa Exchange Student 2015 Location: Sines, Portugal
The “Utopy”
The Plug-In City - Archigram
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The multi-purpose complex is placed at a site close to a portuguese industrial village which has grown majorly in inhabitants over the past years. The design aims at the containment of the gap between population and infrastructure, as well as the supply for the demands of the working people. The moduled steel superstructure takes advantage of the traintrack along the terrain, by which the construction
The extruded site and maximum capacity of intervention.
modules arrive. Everything is modular and changeable in this mutable complex. The modules can be used for housing, shops and services, as well as other uses to create an auto sustainable enviroment floating above the public park on the ground floor.
Construction Logic
Public footbridges
Inner footbridges
The open spaces around the lifted monolith, creating a park underneath
Pillars
The stepped form brings natural light to all the modules, no matter the position inside the structure.
Beams
The central atrium provides natural ventilation through the entire complex.
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Ground floor plan
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HYBRID BLOCK
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Located in the middle of an old industrial neighborhood, the complex brings a new start for the territory. Density and diversity, as well as public spaces, are the trigger for the change.
ACADEMIC Hybrid Block Universidade Mackenzie 8th Semester 2016 Mentored by Daniela Getlingler daniela.getlinger@mackenzie.br Location: SĂŁo Paulo, Brazil Role: Author Exact contribution: conceptual development; project development; all the 2D and 3D graphic content
The open space, plazas around the world
Piaza San Marco - Venice
Praça do Rossio - Lisbon
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The Hybrid Block creates an escape among the inumerable factories that take place in the surroundings. The Human scale is the base for everything. It generates surprising paths throughout the complex and
creates a great atmosfere where people feel comfortable to walk through, relax on the lawns and gather on the multi-purpose courts. Encounter defines the major goal in this project. The diversity generators such as the school,
library, houses, cafĂŠs, restaurant, auditorium, muilti-purpose rooms, gym, and lawns along the complex make the buildings capable of generating encounter through diversity.
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TRANSGRESSION
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SĂŁo Paulo is a thickened layer of infrastructure. Therefore, the vertical circulation aims at the connection of the unconnected layers of the city.
3rd Place Transposition Proposal {CURA} Student Competition 2016 Team Work with Daniel Zahoul and Thiago Maurelio Location: SĂŁo Paulo, Brazil
The landscape of the chosen site is composed by one of the longest avenues of the city, a tunnel passing under the most known museum in town, the museum itself and a bridge floating over the valley. The staircase and elevators came as a trial to resignificate all the imediate surrounding.
The vertical element now connects the lower level, redesigned as a small public square, to all the intermediate levels until the last floor, where there is a direct link to Paulista Avenue.
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URBAN FURNITURE
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Social and structural bond are the premise to design each of the elements for the urban furniture of SĂŁo Paulo. This idea aims at bringing the city and its inhabitants together in a more social comunity.
PROFESSIONAL COMPETITION 2nd PLACE Urban Furniture for S達o Paulo S達o Paulo Hall and SP Urbanismo Open National Competition 2016 Team Work with Marcos Bresser, Thiago Maurelio, Pedro Petry, Daniel Zahoul, Murilo Zidan, Eduardo Saguas Miller and Julien Boulay
The aim of this competition was to design elements for the urban furniture of the city of S達o Paulo. The proposal is based on the idea of structural and social connectivity. A connector was designed to provide a structural bond and do equip with an internet connection through an established router. Hence, people are connect-
ed and aware of what kind of furniture resides in each part of the city. A series of structural elements was designed to create an assembly line for the furniture, making the process of putting the parts together the same for each of the elements.
Location: S達o Paulo, Brazil Role: Co-author Exact contribution: Conceptual development; project development; 3D images
Multipurpose kiosk In total, the elements for the urban furniture are composed by several families: - Multipurpose kiosk - Public bathroom - Shelter at taxi stops - Banches family
- Trash can family - Drinking fountain - Bicycle rack - Guard rail family
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The app The connectors are designed to provide several utilities, as well as information about the technical status of the furniture. All the information is stored in the app CiData, that is responsable to update everyone who is interested in using each furniture
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DWELLING professional competition
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Participation in the competition for a new housing complex in an unhabited area of Brasilia, Brazil, following the city’s modern masterplan.
PROFESSIONAL COMPETITION New housing complex CODHAB organization Professional National Competition 2016 Corsi Hirano Arquitetos team Location: Brasilia, Brazil Role: Collaborator Exact contribution: competition process assitent; conceptual development; detailed axonometric drawing
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Unit type 1 Unit type 2 Unit type 3 Unit type 4
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Total Units: 14
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Circulation: 138,87 m2 Total floor area: 885,09m2
CORNER MODULE
Systems and scales: The building’s architectureis defined by the organization of elements of multiple scales. following a strict modular coordination: the apartment units, the partial modules formed by four units groups and the entire pavements. The elements mentioned above in compination with circulation and collective spaces generate the group that, as a whole, work as small village in each floor. Program: the project approaches all of the program’s requirements through the conception of multiple typologies and the coherent proposition of collective spaces, always respecting the areas previously defined by the regulative legislation. All the units provide a typological variation according to the costume’s needs.
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Circulation: 172,93 m2 Total floor area: 885,09m2
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Facades: The facades of the apartment units are thought as versatile elements aiming at the comfort of the interiors, as well as the construction of its identity. Respecting the limits of the opennings, the windows are combined in order to promote an exellent natural ventilation and natural insolation comfort. These opennings are thought as elements that can be customized according to the costumers needs and wishes. Thus, we have reached, as a final proposal, an architectural complex that is not rigid in terms of cromatic compositions. In this case, the final indentity of the building is created by its inhabitants. First, the building shows up as a neurtal structure that, throughout time, can be spontaneouslly adapted and, therefore, enable the manifestation of its inhabitants. Furthermore, a physical support is provided in front of every window in order to be used as a vegetation compartment, bringing natural elements to the interiors of the apartments, helping with the climate control inside the building as a whole.
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*The Floating Space São Paulo, Brazil, december 2017
Undergraduate thesis Project author: Eduardo Dugaich Tavares de Oliveira Title of the Project: The Floating Space: Interpretations of the Metropolis The project is inspired by the film Metropolis, one of the classics by the German director Fritz Lang, presenting a future where the city is structured in vertical layers according to the different social strata. ‘The Floating Space’ is a prospective urban study located in the center of São Paulo, one of the most dynamic cities in the world. As its current population grows at a fast-moving rate, São Paulo’s basic amenities are declining in quality in terms of housing, retail and public space. As this scenario acuminates, the project presents an innovative solution to support the population with a research-based approach, that uses under-utilized areas and ‘left behind’ empty spaces to present a different-minded and effective solution for space creation, while staying connected to the city’s cultural and historical roots. As the architect Bernard Tschumi (1993) already acknowledged, architecture is not only about space and form, but also about event, action and what happens in space. Thus, ‘The Floating Space’ also shows a sense of support of human activity, helping people fit in harmony with the environment, while promoting well-being, creating something that not only is innovative, but reflects and symbolizes culture and traditions. Therefore, the connection between culture and city, as well as the relation between people and society, can offer a new beginning to this perplexing urban center, cherishing and respecting its historical heritage and meaning. Since the 1930’s São Paulo’s growth based on internal migration is a remarkable example of population movement. In the 1940’s the city had a population of roughly one million people, rising to nine million residents in 1990‘s (Minkel, 2018). However, the development of the city could not keep up with this exponential evolution, presenting limitations in terms of quality of life and efficiency of space in the city center. The project is located within a block in the central area, showing the described conditions. Therefore, the area has become a place of no-one, or best, a “non-place”.
“If a place can be defined as identity, relational and historical, a space that cannot be defined neither as identity nor as relational nor as historical will define a non-place“ (AUGÉ, 2017) The research underlying the project was developed following two major lines of thought: the Hidden and the Evident. They provide core themes, which combined, connect the project with the significance of the population’s demand and cultural relevance in the territory. Accordingly, the city can be interpreted by these two distinct, although complementary, forms. Describing the Evident, the picture that São Paulo exposes to its inhabitants and the world is fascinating; a great variety in terms of population, uses and multicultural diversity. However, despite of the vibrant character of the city, the people apparently do not experience the place. The population somehow is not able to use all this assumed cultural and social abundance, which brings the discussion to another view on this exact same territory in the center of São Paulo: the unshown reality of the place, namely “Entropy”, the “Hidden”.
“The contemporary city is no longer a cultural heritage, architecture is no longer thought as a spatial habitat creation. The relationship between building and livability are lost, shelters are created instead of cultural heritage.” (BRISSAC, 2003) 52
The design follows a strategic development, which divides the theoretical background and building construction in two phases: the underground space and the aerial space. The Underground Space – The Foundation The underground space represents all the built mass below the city’s urban levels, which includes all the street level constructions, exempting the roads and sidewalks, which belong to a different sort of space. The space shelters well-known facilities in the city of São Paulo, such as underground urban hallways, malls and the interiors of the stores. Additionally, the underground stations the subterranean galleries of water, sewage and electricity, as well as subway stations. Even though the underground space provides a rich network of potential connection possibilities, ways of access would have to be created to utilize it, as historical architectural planning favored financial and political exploitation, by sacrificing possible social usability. Thus, the project seeks to create new access, providing the possibility of circulation and transposition, in order to fulfill the needs of users in the territory. The Aerial Space – The Inspired Emergent from the underground space stands the aerial space. This space shows the feasibility of using verticality, occupying unknown places above the ground. The vertical circulation elements are part of a complex system of access that permeate the functioning of the airspace. For that, the use of elevators and escalators provide an indispensable link to the aerial space. However, the use of the vertical space is so far limited to private use, encapsulating it from public use. The project shows a possible solution. The folding of the city’s horizontal layer to a vertical dimension creates a different form of public occupation, mainly in the areas where the lots are small and scarce. The Floating Space - The Innovation The “floating space” is left between the underground and the aerial. It is the place, which does not result from morphological consolidations, but rather is the consequence of them. The shops, schools, markets and all uses that belong to the landscape and enable diversity have an exchange relation with the empty space that permeates the “program” and enables the “event”.
“In short, space is a practiced place. Thus, the street, geometrically defined by urbanism, is transformed into space by pedestrians” (CERTEAU, 1990) The floating space is a continuous void, that legitimates the existence of a public circulation without barriers. Besides, it allows a range of diverse uses in an intentionally free route that transfers the logic of the streets and sidewalks to the vertical and horizontal dimensions of the city. It creates the improbable moment where the public space gains importance amongst the built mesh of the city. The possibility of transgression brings out the feeling of exaltation and experience of the space. The floating space reveals the hidden possibilities amongst the buildings. It presents a diverse possibility of improbable connections and paths. The constant circulation floating through the underground and aerial space allows the floating space to be spontaneously occupied. Thus, the lot is no longer a limiter, but a multiplier. In this way, the city gains a new political order: prioritizing the public space and overflowing the private dimension of uses by providing them with encounter, movement and spontaneity.
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Eduardo Dugaich Tavares de Oliveira dugaich.eduardo@gmail.com +55 (11) 97440-7770 +55 (11) 3082-2105 Rua Mourato Coelho, 50, apt.71 Pinheiros - SĂŁo Paulo, BR - 05417-000