ELVIA
architect & urbanist
ELVIA
architect & urbanist Elvia Gonzรกlez Costas. Boulevard Emile Jacqmain 64, 1000, Brussels. +32(0) 479039166. elviagcostas@gmail.com.
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- ELVIA -
Master in Architecture Diploma with honors, 2012 Speciality: Urban Planning. University of A Coruña (Spain) *
Master of Human Settlements Magna cum laude, 2016 Ku Leuven University (Belgium) *
Master of Urbanism & Strategic Planning Magna cum laude, 2017 Ku Leuven University (Belgium) PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE *
Viva architecture architect, 2012-2014 Antwerpen https://viva-architecture.com/ *
Inarco architects architect, 2014-2015 Antwerpen *
Architect by the ‘Orde van Architecten, Antwerpen’ (‘Stage‘ period between 2013 - 2015) *
OSA. Research Group Urbanism & Architecture, KU Leuven University assistant student MaHS-MaUSP, 2016 (MaHS: Master of Human Settlements & MaUSP: Urbanism and Stratetic Planning)
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SKILLS AND COMPETENCES Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Indesign, Lightroom Rhinoceros, 3d Studio Max, Sketchup, gvGis, Autocad 2d/3d, Vectorworks * Languages Spanish & Galician : native, English: C1 Dutch: : level B1. French: A1. Portuguese: A1. PUBLICATIONS DEAR FARM project published in different platforms (elaborated in collaboration with VIVA architecture) Archdaily: http://www.archdaily.com/871311/dear-farm-viva-architecture/ Domus: http://www.domusweb.it/en/architecture/2017/06/06/dear_farm_viva_architecture.html Designboom: https://www.designboom.com/architecture/viva-architecture-deer-farmhouse-netherlands-05-05-2017/ * Underlying cities (2014) Resulting from the workshops with the same name attended by: Xabier Eizaguirre(national urban planning award), Carles Llop(european urban planning award) Future magazine nº39-40 (2013, european+chinese+american edition) Publication of the Master thesis in Architecture, graded with first class (9/10). (“A forest in Betanzos”) PFC ETSAC_Best Master thesis in Architecture from the University of A Coruña. (2013) TU10_Works from the Department of Architectural Projects and Planning, University of A Coruña. (2011) Besides architecture.... Regional chess champion (2004, 2002) I have participated in national championships as an individual player and with the regional team (Galician team). I am interested in art, photography, peinture, sociology, anthropology, politics, philosophy...
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- PROFESSIONAL WORKS selected *
Viva architecture architect, 2012-2014 Antwerpen
https://viva-architecture.com/ pages 08 - 35
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- ACADEMIC WORKS selected *
Master in Architecture Diploma with honors, 2012 University of A CoruĂąa pages 36 - 43
MaHS
Master of Human Settlements Magna cum laude, 2016 Ku Leuven University (Belgium) *
MaUSP
Master of Urbanism & Strategic Planning Magna cum laude, 2017 Ku Leuven University (Belgium) pages 44 - 69
- PROFESSIONAL WORKS -
- VIVA ARCHITECTURE Architect in collaboration with: Sylvie Bruyninckx, Kristiaan Van Weert & Isabelle Verbruggen * Antwerp (Belgium)
10 ‘ BROEKHOF ’
Masterplan in Kontich - Kauwlei, Belgium Design - Feasibility study. 71 housing + social housing units. Viva architecture, 2013
11 ‘ Broekhof ’
12 ‘ Broekhof ’
The concept & the place
13 ‘ Broekhof ’
The masterplan
The typologies
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‘ UP - STAIRS ’ Housing block in Antwerp, Belgium Design phase. Viva architecture, 2013
15 ‘ Up - stairs ’
The relation with the place. Creation of a common space, inside - outside relation
16 ‘ Up - stairs ’
The façade
17 ‘ Up - stairs ’
The plan and the space IN-BETWEEN
18 ‘ ZILVERKWARTIER ’
10 houses in Anterpen, 10 ‘tuinwoningen’, Belgium Design - Feasibility study. Viva architecture, 2013
19 ‘ Zilverkwartier ’
The plan - groundfloor, first floor and second floor. Each house its identity.
20 ‘ PARK LIFE’
Masterplan in Borgloon, Belgium Design competition 2nd award. Viva architecture, 2014 Renovation of an existing house and 12 new row houses & 24 apartments
21 ‘ Park life’
Visualization & masterplan. Mix living and nature.
22 ‘ RATEAU PLATEAU ’
Retail & housing, Kontich, Belgium Design competition. Viva architecture, 2013
23 ‘ Rateau Plateau ’
Intervention in an old factory to create a multidisciplinary space in between. Mixed use of housing and retail. ‘The importance of the commons space’
24 ‘ BEGONIALAAN ’
A house in the forest - Kalmhout , Belgium Building permit for three housing units. Viva architecture, 2014
25 ‘ Begonialaan ’
Visual exercises about the integration in the landscape
26 ‘ DEAR FARM ’
Single family house in Baarle-Nassau, The Netherlands Design and building permit. Viva architecture, 2014 * Archdaily: http://www.archdaily.com/871311/dear-farm-viva-architecture/
27 ‘ Dear farm’
Reinterpretation of the traditional farm
28 ‘ Dear farm’
29 ‘ Dear farm’
30 ‘ HOLLEBEEK PARK’
Housing development in Hoboken, Belgium Design and building permit for three urban blocks (24 apartments), 2013
31 ‘ Hollebeek park ’
From the design to the materialization
32 ‘ Hollebeek park ’
Concept drawings in the first phase of the design, devised by author
33 ‘ Hollebeek park ’
34 ‘ KAN-GOO-ROO HOUSE’
Single family housing in Draguet Vremde, Belgium Construction site, 2014
35 ‘ ATOMIUM PUBLIC BENCH, BRUSSELS ’
Urban intervention in the Atomium square in Brussels Building definition, 2014
- ACADEMIC WORKS -
- MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE Master of Architecture Diploma with honors, 2004 - 2012 * University of A CoruĂąa (Spain)
38 ‘ A FOREST IN BETANZOS ’
Master thesis. Care center & social housing in Betanzos, Spain University of A Coruña, graded 9/10. Promotor: Pablo Gallego Picard.
39 ‘ A forest in Betanzos ’
How should be the city for you? - It mustn´t be possible going from home to work without passing through a forest. ( Alvar Aalto_Between Humanism and Materialism).
40 ‘ A forest in Betanzos ’
The hexagon - tree as a living organism that generates order
41 ‘ A forest in Betanzos ’
“In the density there is life”
42 ‘ A forest in Betanzos ’
The living unit is characterised by its flexibility
43 ‘ A forest in Betanzos ’
Solving the living unit. Each unit has its own identity.
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- MaHS & MaUSP Master of Human Settlements Magna cum laude, 2015 - 2016 * Master of Urbanis and Strategic Planning Magna cum laude, 2016 - 2017 * KU Leuven University, (Belgium)
46 ‘ SEQUENCES OF THE RIVER ’ Cantinho do Céu, O projeto como bordado
Fieldwork impressions in São Paulo, Brazil, 2016
47 ‘ [IN] BETWEEN RIVERS ’ Infrastructure vs Arquitetura pobre Interpretative cartography in São Paulo, Brazil, 2016
48 ‘ THE REVOLUTION OF THE EVERYDAY LIFE ’ Design strategies in Peterbos, Brussels
Studio concept & analysis, 2015 In collaboration with Spandan Das, Floris de Clercq, Niels De Maesschalck & Sandu Niessen Guidance: Promotors: Bruno De Meulder , Viviana d’Auria, Tine Van Herck, Burak Pak & Verena Lenna.
THE EVERYDAY foresight Peterbos, a productive landscape
49 ‘ The revolution of the everyday life ’
50 ‘ The revolution of the everyday life ’
THE EVERYDAY foresight A new market social housing + public housing
51 ‘ The revolution of the everyday life ’
PRODUCIDO POR UN PRODUCTO EDUCATIVO DE AUTODESK
PRODUCIDO POR UN PRODUCTO EDUCATIVO DE AUTODESK
PRODUCIDO POR UN PRODUCTO EDUCATIVO DE AUTODESK
52 ‘ REQUALIFYING THE IN-BETWEENESS - THE WATER AS IDENTITY ’ São Paulo - PinheiroS river
Landscape urbanism studio, requalifying infrastructure redefining urbanism, 2016 In collaboration with Caroline Custine & Ashraf Zaman Promoters: Bruno De Meulder & Viviana d’Auria.
Islands in the surroundings of Pinheiros river
Urban tissue 02 structured by geomorphological conditions low rise housing
Urban tissue 01 structured by the infrastructure highrise housing commercial - industrial
Sample 01
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Islands
> Infrastructure equipments
privileged vulnerable
Estrada da Itapecerica Morro do S
> Land use > Typology
vulnerable communities
Time line
housing : privileged gated communities
mid rise: villas mixed use
low rise: villas cidade jardim_30´s
STRATEGY vulnerable settlements inner logic urban tissue 02
factories warehouses urban tissue 03
urban tissue 01
urban tissue 02
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* Pinheiros river
Industry - Commercial
Residential - Commercial
flood plane_70´s
industry in the floodplane from the 70's urban tissue 01
island with villas inner logic urban tissue 01
urban tissue 03
residential high - rise blocks
residential high - rise blocks
mixed use organized traffic urban tissue 01
urban tissue 02
PRODUCIDO POR UN PRODUCTO EDUCATIVO DE AUTODESK
56 > 3 spatial configurations of the IN - BETWEENESS in - between 01 Vulnerable areas * Change perception > Water as identiy
in - between 02 The valley
in - between 03
The floodplain: Industry
* Introduction of sewage in vulnerable areas Primary collection hub Secondary over flows Aquifer links Level control pipes Link to river stage
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Recollection of rainfall water.
Phase II : enhancing the natural existing ecologies
* Reversing the image of the in-betweenness
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Recovering the ecology of the void
Phase III : activating public realm
* New activities in the common spaces.
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New dynamics. CSA + local market.
PRODUCIDO POR UN PRODUCTO EDUCATIVO DE AUTODESK
> 3 phases / priorities: > Provide drainage network and percolate rain water
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Design strategies
58 ‘ THE SLACHT HUB PROJECT ’ Strategic Spatial Planning studio. Strategy for Dam neighbourhood based on a participatory process, the urbanist as actvist. Antwerp, 2017.
Manifesto available at: http://slachthub.wixsite.com/slachthub
59 ‘SITES OF IN-BETWEEN-NESS’ Spaces of possibility in São Paulo Master thesis, Master of Human Settlements, University of Leuven, 2016 PRODUCIDO POR UN PRODUCTO EDUCATIVO DE AUTODESK
Promoters: Bruno De Meulder & Viviana d’Auria. labyrinth garden stairs
circus
beach
picnic area
cable
sculpture bus stop concerts-events open air cinema
dancing area
WHAT IF….THE IN-BETWEEN BECOMES AN EVENT? PRODUCIDO POR UN PRODUCTO EDUCATIVO DE AUTODESK
‘The heterotopia begins to function fully when people find themselves in a sort of absolute break with their traditional time’ (Foucault) * Utopia 03. The in-between in Campo Limpo as event.
60 ‘ CIRCULAR ANTWERP’
OSA. Research Group Urbanism & Architecture, KU Leuven University Competition design strategy for Antwerp, Belgium. Guidance: Bruno De Meulder & Julie Marin.
Strategies for a circular economy in Antwerp
61 ‘ WHAT IF … ? WE ASK THE CITIZENS ’ A contribution to the implementation of a participatory design in the context of Peterbos (Brussels).
Urban Studies course output. In collaboration with Ernesto Diez Martínez. Guidance: Frank Moulaert.
Time based strategies for Peterbos: awareness + participation + implantation
62 ‘ IN ANNEESSENS ’ Cartographic & Design Explorations
Masther thesis: Urbanism & Strategic Planning, University of Leuven, 2016-2017 In collaboration with: Giovanna Pittalis, Ernesto Diez Martinez. Promoters: Bruno De Meulder & Viviana d’Auria.
Anneessens - the fieldwork , the everyday
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Anneessens - historically in-between
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‘ ON THE COMMONS ’
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Taxonomy of the public spaces - Representative scenes during the day
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Chez nous - Bij Ons
‘The african barber’
L’Avenir d’Anneessens
‘The tea house’
Esg asbl.
‘The clandestine bar’
Taxonomy of the social organizations & the everyday spaces
67 Anneeessens square
Passage des Potiers
Taxonomy of the public spaces - Representative scenes during the day
Synthesis map social infrastructure in Anneessens
Synthesis map public spaces in Anneessens
70 ‘ Drawing the concept...’
71 ‘ Drawing the concept...’
Elvia Gonzรกlez Costas. Boulevard Emile Jacqmain 64, 1000 Brussels. +32(0) 479039166. elviagcostas@gmail.com
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