Portfolio Erick Cunha
Erick Vinicius Silva da Cunha Architecture Portfolio 18/09/1991 erick.vinicius.s.c@gmail.com +55 83 9642-8411 Honório Cabral Silva, 89 58410-696, Campina Grande, Pb, Brasil skype - erickvscunha
Education 2010-2017 Bachelor of Architecture and Urbanism ‑ UFCG - Campina Grande PB 2014-2015 Exchange Student - New York Institute of Tecnology - New York NY
Project/Research 2010-2011 Habitation, Verticalization and Modern Architecture in Campina Grande (1945-1970): Shapes, Uses and dialogs with the city ‑ UFCG 2012-2013 Graphical Modeling of Caatinga Species Indicated to Environmental Recuperation ‑ UFCG 2015 The Latin American and Caribbean Laboratory - Columbia University New York
Professional Experience 2011 Tutor on the discipline, “Space, Form and Plastics” ‑ UFCG 2013-2014 City Hall of Queimadas Intern, Queimadas 2016 Tutor on the discipline, “Architectural Design 5” ‑ UFCG
Honors portuguese english italian spanish german
Brazil Scientific Mobility Program scholarship recipient 2014-2015
Skills AutoCAD, Rhino, Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, SketchUp, Paneling Tools, Grasshopper,EndNote, Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel), Maquete Fisica
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City to Park
Process
Pocket Museum of the Central Park New York, NY
The “City to Park� is a museum located in the entry of Central Park between Central Park West and 77th Street, next to the Museum of Natural History. The project has as the main goal expand the process of transition between the city and park, manipulating the eye and creating different emotions in the visitant, using forms, spaces, openings and the promenade which is full of compressions, expansions and discoveries. The program of the building has areas of stay and galleries, showing the history of the park.
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roof
windows
walls
implantation
Promenade
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Lower Floor
Roof Plan
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Connection
Concept
Light Rail Vehicles Campina Grande, Pb
The city of Campina Grande, is full of potentials, such as, the public spaces connections, topography and an unused railway. This project detail one of the most problematic areas of the city, an old train station, full of barriers, and social problems. In order to change that, the norther and southern areas are physically connected using footbridges, and to reconquer the vitality, mixed use buildings, in the edges of the park, and the station reativation which also connects the city using a Light Rail Station.
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Cachaça’s landmark
Stages of Cachaça
Museum / Bar of Cachaça Areia, Pb
Cachaça is a very important drink in the history of Areia, this city grew on the late nineteenth century supported by this drink. Therefore an abandoned building located in the center of the city was chosen to receive and intervention of the Museum/Bar of Cachaça. Because the city is an Heritage Site of Brazil, this intervention preserve the building, uses historical connections to intervene and tell the history of the Cachaça, passing for all the stages of the drink, starting with the production and finalizing the hungover.
Concept
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First Floor
Upper Floor
Addiction
Before the intervention
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Look! The lake!
Phenology laboratory Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY
The project located in the park, uses as concept the creation of different views and frames to appreciate the lake, in front of the building, relating with the topography, pushing and pulling the program on the vertical and horizontal and having a relationship with a current pedestrian street of the park. It was created a relationship with the scientist’s laboratories and the public area, the second one plays with height, connections with the lake and continuity of the green of the park.
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First Floor
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Draco
Light Fixture
MIDTERM
ERICK CUNHA PROF. JASON VAN NEST
Inspired on the dragon scales, this light fixture filters some light and let some go, by the sides, but mostly in the lower part, creating a spot light. It has a simple structure and connections using pressure, Draco was model using Paneling Tools 3d a Rhino resource, which gives plenty of different possibility of forms before the final one.
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Rhythm Pedestrian Bridge
The bridge has as concept the rhythm and the way sun light interact with repetitive structure in all the times of the day. To make this piece was create a graphic algorithms, which is a way of manipulation of the form using programming, with the Grasshopper, making possible many forms, this one was chosen because of the structural strength qualities.
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Spreading Ephemeral School Campina Grande, PB
... cities, not buildings. The ephemeral school suits temporal needs of urban areas in expansion with shortage of urban equipment, until the consolidation of the space. Believing in the social role of the space and how it should be offered as public.
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repair
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Conections
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Street Furniture, Competition Recife, PE
... comes up as an experimental urban furniture to structure the public space. A simple covered module that shells different uses distinguished by colors. It can be used separately or as arrange, creating a space of readability and streamline understand for the user.
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Storage
Module
Modular building
First Floor
Upper Floor
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Comercial Building Campina Grande, PB
Using a module of 1,2 m was created 3 types of prefabricated stores, with storage space on the upper, lower part or without storage space and groped with the objective to create a continuous circulation, from the first floor until the last floor, between this circulation is created relaxation areas with a connection with the outside, that could be used by coffee shops and bars.
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Otherside
Movie Ghosts
Can you imagine taking the movie stars of the movies abruptly? Using Photoshop to subtract and create textures.
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Printing
Creation of paintings using printing technics, (1)Exploring the views of Guggenheim New York attaching them together, (2) The romanticist view of a skyline, (3) Collision of the architecture in New York, with 3 of the most easily found buildings, contemporary architecture, using panels and many openings, brown stone houses and buildings.
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Masp Review
The Art Museum of São Paulo (MASP) is an important landmark of São Paulo’s modern movement in Brazil, created by Lina Bo Bardi in 1968. This study recreates the building, using pictures, plans and sections, to understand the solutions, materials and forms used in the building.
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