Eduardo Romano
Architecture Portfolio 2017
Eduardo de Carvalho Romano Rio de Janeiro - Brazil 22.07.1996 eduardodecarvalhoromano@gmail.com
Education 2014 - present 2000 - 2013
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) Department of Architecture and Urbanism ColĂŠgio Teresiano CAP/PUC
Professional Experience 2016 - 2017
EMAUD | University Office of Architecture and Urbanism
Academic 2017 - present 2017 2016 - present 2016
PIBIC Research Grant | Architecture and Virtual Reality UIA Seoul 2017 | Published Paper Surfaces of Contact Exhibition Elected to the Students Union Main Board Member of Ser Urbano Organization | PUC-Rio Architecture Week Introduction to Parametric Design Teaching Assistant Advanced Representation Techniques Teaching Assistant
Workshops and Other Actvities 2017
2016 2014
Hyperthreads | AA Visiting School Rio de Janeiro Workshop Surfaces of Contact Research Design Studio Interactive Architecture | Arduino + Digital Fabrication Workshop Surfaces of Contact Workshop in Dusseldorf INSITU Workshop | Parametrization and Digital Fabrication Sankofa Project | Revitalization of Pedra do Sal Wall English + Art and Design Course | University of the Arts London Art and Design Course | Central Saint Martins College of Art
Language Portuguese English
Native Language Advanced | Language Centre - University of the Arts London
Knowledge Software
Autocad
Rhinoceros
Grasshopper
Photoshop
Illustrator
InDesign
V-Ray
QGis
SketchUp
3D Printing
Laser Cutting
Physical Modelling
Arduino
Maya
CNC Milling
Crafting Skills
Notions of
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Inhabiting Space and Time Residential Studio Project Year: 2017 Site: Gloria, Rio de Janeiro Site Area: 600 m²
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What Could Have Been? or The Failing Urbanism Surfaces of Contact Research Design Studio Dusseldorf University of Applied Sciences and Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro Professors: Bernhard Franken, Gabi Schillig, Veronica Natividade Year: 2017 Site: Rio de Janeiro In progress
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São Sebastião Residential Revitalization Studio Project Co-author: Alice Sion, Caio Abido
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Urban Development Plan for Santa Cruz Air Force Base in Rio de Janeiro
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Year: 2016 Site Area: 9,000 m²
Urban Planning for Rio de Janeiro’s Vargens Area Urban Planning Studio Project
Developed in EMAUD
Year: 2017
Architects in Charge:
Site: Vargens - Rio de Janeiro
Rodrigo Rinaldi, Vera Hazan
Site Area: 12,000,000 m²
Year: 2017 Site: Santa Cruz Air Force Base Site Area: 25,000,000 m²
Sankofa Project
Ser Urbano PUC-Rio Architecture Week Organization Team Member Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Year: 2016 - 2017
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“Sail” Facade Element INSITU Workshop - PUC-Rio Co-author: Giulia Chagas
Professors: Pedro Campos Costa, Veronica Natividade Year: 2016
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Introduction to Parametric Design Project Co-author: Rafael Magioli Professor: Veronica Natividade Site: Pedra do Sal - Rio de Janeiro Year: 2016
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INHABITING SPACE AND TIME Residential Studio Project PUC-Rio Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2017
The project is an alternative to the stereotype-based system common in architectural practice, seeking to understand the appropriated apartment value as a materialization of the inhabitant’s identity. Housing is understood as the junction of two elements: the house – as physical space, under the architect’s initial control – and the home – as a phenomenon, impossible to be projected, which results from the appropriation of the inhabitant. Generally, the architect creates the house as the shell of the home, seeking to contain its manifestation into the house’s interior. Therefore, seeking to counter this approach, the project seeks to create a harmonious dialogue between what it is the architect’s job to define and what it is up to the inhabitant to appropriate,
creating houses that welcome and do not suffocate their homes. As a design response, the project seeks to create nonprogrammed living spaces, breaking the stereotyped space hierarchy and seeing hierarchies being born from appropriation, allowing different configurations to occur in a same internal division and allowing free spacial arrangements to happen. In this context, there is the balcony space as the utmost appropriation, the moment that the home becomes so strong and present that breaks the shell and starts to modify the architecture itself. The building stays in constant change, both internally and externally, along with people’s changes. That way, inhabiting goes beyond the physical dimension; it is about inhabiting space and time.
10/1. Bogdan GĂŽrbovan Series of photographs. The photos were taken at the exact same spot in different floors of the building, and all apartments are identical.
“The house is a concrete, intimate and unique setting of one’s life, while a broader notion of architecture necessarily implies generalization, detachment, and abstraction. The act of inhabiting reveals the ontological origins of architecture, deals with the primordial dimensions of inhabiting space and time, while at the same time transforming a meaningless space into a special space, a place, and eventually the home of a person.” PALLASMAA, Juhani. Habitar. São Paulo, Gustavo Gili, 2017, p. 7 Free Translation
Architecture conceived as a vessel for homes, a space that acts as a frame for multiple apropriations.
What if that aproppriation becomes so strong and potent that it breaks the vessel and changes the architecture?
All apartments have a structured space for free appropriation, iniatilly sold as a terrace or garden. The changes in these spaces change the overall morphology of the building, causing a never-ending mutation of the building.
The apartments have spacial configurations that breaks the stereotyped hierarchy, allowing different appropriations whitin the same typology to take place. Simulation 1 - First Floor
Simulation 1 - Second Floor
Simulation 2 - First Floor
Simulation 2 - Second Floor
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WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN? Surfaces of Contact Research Design Studio Co-author: João Catolé PUC-Rio + Dusseldorf University of Applied Ciences Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2017
As Brazil’s former capital and internationally known city, Rio de Janeiro has been the target of several attempts of urban planning throughout history, yet the city still is extremely chaotic and uneven from an urbanistic perspective. This research project intends to question why none of the urban plans designed for Rio has worked and imagine how the city would have looked like if the the timeline of applied and refused plans was different. Analysing a series of plans designed for the city, one trait can be used as a link between all: the attempt to contain all of the city’s complexity and intentions in a “final”
and static drawing that would solve all of the city’s problems, yet none of these drawings were entirely implanted. The recurrent failure of urban planners is due to the inability to incorporate the unpredictable character of cities and their non strategical but compositional approach. This way, it is concluded that all timelines would have one thing in common in their result: a chaotic and uneven city.
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Agache Plan
Bernardes Plan
Using a historical cut between 1923 (the end of Perreira Passos Renewal and beggining of Rio’s Modern Development) and today, the research focuses on four of the most influent Urban Plans in Rio: Alfred Agache’s Plan, Ler Corbusier’s Plan, Sergio Bernardes’s Plan and Constatino Dioxiadis’s Plan.
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Le Corbusier Plan
Dioxiadis Plan
Agache Plan
Le Corbusier Plan
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Start of temporal cut
Actual Timeline
Realized Plan
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Partially Realized Plan Non Realized Plan
Dioxiadis Plan
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IF THE TIMELINE WAS DIFFERENT, WHAT WOULD BE THE RESULT?
Sergio Bernardes Plan
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All timelines have the same result in the macro scale as the urban plans which were made throughout the twenthieth century have the same type of product: a static drawing of a “final form� for the city.
All plans would have been disturbed by the immensity of wills and intentions that fight within a city. To avoid complete chaos and create a factible urban planning for Rio de Janeiro, the future plans must take into account the uncontrollable character the city has.
Knowing that this research has been done in an architecture and urbanism school, how to make the architects and students understand that the city can’t be controlled by a static drawing?
FRUSTRATION
Make them see their own plans being swallowed by all other wills.
GENERATE THE CHAOS
Reset the city and let the planners make their own timeline
If others couldn’t solve the city, they can.
The result exceeded all expectations
The planner respo wanted a floating in Rodrigo de Frei
The planner did not like the grid tissue that Ipanema has today, so he drew a curved one.
The planner wanted a cosmopolitan city, so he drew a Hollywood sign on Christ the Redeemer’s mountain.
One planner drew this uterus-like tissue. Then other planners got angry by having an uterus in their city.
First, one planner drew an urban tissue that ressembled a medieval city. Then another planner did not like it, cut out of the city and left it in the middle of the ocean. It was interpretated as an island.
The end result proved that a static drawing cannot solve the problems of a city since another intention will come in the future and disturb it. As a continuation of this research, the result of this experiment will be used as the “chaotic imput� in the possible timelines, to simulate alternative presents of Rio.
onsible for this shopping mall itas Lagoon
This planner marked his indignation with the current president in the Mountains.
This is Rio de Janeiro’s warmest area, so one planer made a lagoon to lower the temperatures.
This is a complete chaos.
This was the first intervention. The planner wanted a city full of preservated areas. It started well.
To be continued
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URBAN DEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR SANTA CRUZ AIR FORCE BASE Collaborator Intern Responsible Architects: Rodrigo Rinaldi, Vera Hazan EMAUD - University Office of Architecture and Urbanism Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2017
With Rio de Janeiro’s recent urban development towards the West Zone, the neighborhood of Santa Cruz, the west limit of the city became the next target for investiment. However, a huge part of the area, corresponding to 2% of the city’s total area remains underused: The military zone of Santa Cruz Air Force Base, that due historical underuse became partially a sediment deposit of Itaguai port’s dredging, part a manioc plantation and part the actual Air Force Base. Looking to explore the Area’s full potential, the Brazilian Air Force comissioned PUC-Rio’s Office of Architecture and Urbanism to design a series of projects that would result
in a strategical and staged urban development plan for the area. The first project, shown here is a vocation plan for the area, an utopic scenario that would explore the land to its full potential. From this plan, the new masterplan for the Base and its consequent project will be developed. The key strategy for this project was to research programs and design spatial configurations that would connect the urban tissue and the differnet contexts that make frontiers with the base and still respect the high security level that a military base requires.
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1,193 km2 Air Base Approach Range Non-occupable Areas
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0,108 km2 0,308 km2 Adulterated Soil Area. To build in this area, a compactation and decontamination process is needeed. Firstly, it is sugested an eucalyptus plantation to be shifted in fases to the other uses, depending on both enviromental and economic conditions.
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Existing Operational Area High Security Area, must be fenced.
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Mangrove Area of archeological and enviromental importance The regeneration of this area can solve the base’s problems, as animals continually trespass the security areas, by concentrating them in a more natural habitat. Precision Approach Path Indicator Area of Aircraft Approach to the lane. Constructions not allowed.
Radar Hill Observatory Area with great potential for tourism. Imperial Pier Old pier where the Imperial Family used to land. Important historical and touristic site.
Industry Airport Heliport PrĂŠ-Sal Operational Center
Hydroport
Exististing Airport
Launch Zone
Mangrove Preservation Area
Archeological Area
Urban Tissue Expansion
Cultural Complex: The Zeppellin Museum
New Military Villa
Operational and Administrative Area
Racetrack
Water Treatment Station
Radar Hill: Observatory and Touristic Area
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SER URBANO PUC-RIO ARCHITECTURE WEEK Organization Team Member PUC-Rio Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2016 - 2017
Ser Urbano is the most important and traditional event of PUC-Rio Department of Architecture and Urbanism. With the meaning of “Urban Being” the event tries to discuss a different theme each year, always with the same objective: to question what is the role of Architects and Urbanists today, how should we act in cities and how should we dialogue with the urban beings that live in it. This event is very special to all students due to completely being organized by them, from the theme choice to the lecturers. In this way, the event always has a character of resistance against the taboos of the Brazilian academy, trying to discuss
what is dismissed to be discussed in the studios. With eight editions so far, Ser Urbano has been consagrated as one of Rio de Janeiro’s architecture scenario most important events, reaching out to other universities and briging people from all of Brazil to watch in person or via streaming.
Photo: Lucas Coelho Netto
S E R UR B A NO 8a SEMANA DE ARQUITETURA E URBANISMO PUC-RIO APOIO C AAU E DAU facebook.com/serurbanopucrio
2017 Edition Bodyfield Sensible body, latent body, vibrative body, desiring, urban bodies, social bodies, ativist bodies, of performances, of spaces that explore our senses. Field, macro-scale territory, support field, infrastructural, networked fields, virtual field, inhabited field, far from the sensitive. The 2017 edition of Ser Urbano intends to reflect on an approximation of the architecture with these territories and scales, different among themselves, and still little discussed in our academic space.
Photos: Lucas Coelho Netto
2016 Edition Project, Fiction and Imagination Is there a right way to design? If all of our academic projects stay on paper, what makes a few more real than others? We want to question the boundaries between seemingly opposite categories, between “reality” and “fiction”, “real” and “imaginary”, “practice” and “theory”, “projected” and “constructed”, “right” and “wrong”. We believe that it is necessary to assume the fictional character of academic projects and to understand its pedagogical purpose, to question this institution that allows only some authorized fictions. Maybe we still lack in imagination.
Photos: Barbara Cabral
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URBAN PLANNING FOR RIO DE JANEIRO’S VARGENS AREA Urban Planning Studio Project PUC-Rio Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2017
As one of Rio de Janeiro’s last rural and swamp areas, Vargens is currently the most enviromentaly sensible area of the city. However, the region became the imobiliary market’s target for new investiment, following the development of Barra da Tijuca in the 90s and Recreio in the last decade. This intention to build and get profit from the land associated with an Urban Development Law for the area, which completely ignores the importance of the area as a rich water colector ecossystem, created a treat to all west region of the city. If the current development plan is fully implanted, Rio will not only lose its last swamp, but all surroundings will
suffer from floodings with the water that comes from the mountains that surround the area, since this water is now stored in Vargens. With these conditions, this alternative of Urban Planning had to dialogue not only with the sensible enviroment of the area but also with the intentions of the market to build on it, to find a balance between urbanization and preservation.
Legend Protected Areas Hydrography Existing Centralities Infrastructure Media (Water, Sewer, Electricity and Garbage Collection) 0% - 10% 10% - 20% 20% - 40% 40% - 60% 60% - 80% 80% - 100%
Key Aspects: Environmentally Sensitive Area Great Interest from the Market to build on it Isolated area lacking in infrastructure
How to operate to preserve natural ecosystems and existing community relationships at the same time as to structure and connect the place?
To complexify and create new relations
To create new centralities
To enable infrastructure
To stop the landfilling process
To preserve the current green areas
To create a water management system
“If there is to be a “new urbanism” it will not be based on the twin fantasies of order and omnipotence; it will be the staging of uncertainty; it will no longer be concerned with the arrangement of more or less permanent objects but with the irrigation of territories with potential; it will no longer aim for stable configurations but for the creation of enabling fields that accommodate processes that refuse to be crystallized into definitive form; it will no longer be about meticulous definition, the imposition of limits, but about expanding notions, denying boundaries...” KOOLHAAS, Rem. What Ever Happened to Urbanism? In: KOOLHAAS, Rem; MAU, Bruce. S,M,L,XL. New York: Monacelli Press, 1995. p.969.
Legend Protected Areas Hydrography Existing Centralities Proposed Centralities Existing Neighborhood Proposed Neighborhood Centrality - Neighborhood Link Existing nfrastructure Infrastructure Extension Bycicle and Pedestrian Path Light Rail Transport Higher Density Occupation Lower Density Occupation Low Risk of Flooding Medium Risk of Flooding High Risk of Flooding Extreme Risk of Flooding
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Infrastructure Use CLUSTER VARGEM GRANDE Area: 98 735 m² Anchor: Record Television Studios
By directing the Market’s will to build in this area in high density points - clusters - it is possible to preserve the majority of the area.
CLUSTER VARGEM PEQUENA Area: 165 545 m² Anchor: Vargem Pequena Neighborhood
CLUSTER SERNAMBETIBA Area: 96 829 m² Anchor: Recreio do Bandeirantes Neighborhood
CLUSTER AMÉRICAS Area: 78 658 m² Anchor: BRT Station
CLUSTER BENVINDO DE NOVAES Area: 78 658 m² Anchor: Américas Shopping
The clusters act as infrastructural catalysts, allowing the expansion of infrastructure to the low density areas between them and the main roads.
Logic of Occupation and Land Use
High Density in Surroundings
Low Density in Surroudings
Need for Preservation
Low Risk of Flooding Medium Risk of Flooding High Risk of Flooding Extreme Risk of Flooding The park is based on a matrix that defines the occupational logic and land use, so the localization of the programs are always changing, responding to the changes of its context. This map shows a possible occupation.
Legend Hydrography Bicycle and Pedestrian Path Light Rail Transport Park Limit Preservation and Ecotourism Area Leisure and General Public Area Agriculture Area Proposed Ponds
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“This preparation of surfaces for future aproppriation differs form merely formal interest in single surface construction. It is much more strategic, emphasizing means over ends and operational logic over compositional design.� CORNER, James. Terra Fluxus. In: WALDHEIM, Charles. The Landscape Urbanism Reader. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2006. P. 31.
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Peatonal and Cycleways
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“SAIL” FACADE ELEMENT INSITU Workshop Co-author: Giulia Chagas PUC-Rio Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2016
With the new Portugal Consulate under construction at the time, the architect Pedro Campos Costa teamed up with PUC-Rio to make a workshop with the university students. The goal was to design a perforated façade element, known in Brazil as “cobogó” to be constructed and implanted in the consulate’s façade. Divided in teams, the students worked in different designs and finished the two week process with a full scale concrete prototype of a cobogó. The “sail” design was inspired by the portuguese caravels sails, representing the connection between Brazil and Portugal. After the two first weeks,
the cobogó named “trança“ (braid) was chosen by the architect and a few students continued to prepare new prototypes and molds for the piece. Using methods of digital fabrication such as CNC milling with an Router and a Robotic Arm, the final prototypes were made and, along with molds made abroad, went to the construction site for the final concreting.
The design is inspired by the caravels flags, creating planes that fold and mold light.
Different compositions were tested and later 3D printed to se how the shadows would respond.
Image: Giulia Chagas
Prototypes Fabrication
Bonus: This was the built design.
Authors: Rafael Magioli Michelle Loschiavo Olivia Serra Natascha Scagliusi Monique Menezes
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SÃO SEBASTIÃO RESIDENTIAL Revitalization Studio Project Co-author: Alice Sion, Caio Abido PUC-Rio Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2016
Located on Bento Lisboa Street, close from the Laranjeiras neighborhood center, the chosen site for revitalization was the home of one of Brazil’s firsts Hospitals until 1996. The once imposing neoclassical buildings were effaced by several annexes coupled to them over time, effacing their individuality and transforming the whole complex into a sort of maze.. Interpreting the original conformation as a field condition,,the annexes are removed in order to restore and expose again the relations between the two main buildings: two converging axes determining a bottleneck, the site’s tension point. From these axes it is
created a circulation that recomposes the continuity of the complex, yet respecting and emphasizing each building individuality and the preexisting conflict. From the ordered building, two new ones are developed, those which contrast this order, disturbing the field and creating a new conflict between old and new, regular and irregular. As a result, there is a residential complex formed by distinct constructed languages(?) that, besides belonging to different historical periods, have spatial logics that are consistent with their times.
1883 Construction of the bathroom, wall, square and house of the slaves
1888 Abolition of slavery
1908 Main hall: rooms, delivery rooms, hall Architect: JosĂŠ Valentim Dunham
1912 Annex: new three-floor pavilion, platform, foundation wall, link between the central pavilion and the Annex Modification of the pavilion under construction. Proposal of change in structure: removal of the central columns with reinforcement on the floors. dorms, cafeteria, pharmacy Architects: Vicente de Pigra and Alberto Reeve
1912.2 Increase in the existing attachment new attachment library and bedrooms Architect: Alberto Reeve
1914 Annex on the pavement of the square and the second floor
1996 Hospital Closure
2005 2009 Fire in the administration building
Launch of the Quartier Carioca project, next to the site
2016 The property is still closed
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SANKOFA PROJECT Introduction to Parametric Design Project Co-author: Rafael Magioli PUC-Rio Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2016
As a final project for the Introduction to Parametric Design Class, PUC-Rio teamed with the artist Vanessa Rosa and the comuniy of Quilombo da Pedra do Sal to paint a wall in front of Pedra do Sal, an important historical site in Rio de Janeiro. Located in the recently revitalized Port zone of Rio, Pedra do Sal used to be the place where slaves unloaded the salt piles from the ships in the past. Today, one of the most important places of the region, known as Little Africa, the memories of the place have had suffered a series of deletion attempts by the governments throughout history. Using patterns
found in african culture and the work from artists from the community, the group decided to evoke the memory in the mural, to spray paint the wall. The students were responsible for the production of the stencils used in the painting, understanding the logic of the patterns and recreating them in grasshopper, making it possible to be laser cut.
Understanding the logic of the patterns and recrecreating it in grasshopper allowed us to produce the stencils for the painting.
Example of defition used for pattern making
Link to Aljazeera Plus coverage of the painting. For more information https://www.facebook.com/sankofapedradosal/
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