Erika Saman Cesarino Urban Design + Urban Planning Selected works
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Introduction and resumĂŠ
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professional work and competitions
UrbanLab Natal 9 Orla Livre 15
academic works
Communal Recreational Space Sustainable Urban Mobility W3 Sul Street Revitalization of Ceilândia City Center Revised Urban Planning for University of Brasilia campus
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Erika Saman Cesarino Full name
Erika Saman Diogenes Cesarino Date of birth
May 27th 1993 Home
Berkeley | CA
Visa
J2 | With EAD
Nationality
Brasil
Degree
B. Architecture and Urbanism
Contact
erikasaman@gmail.com US +1 (786) 516 5004
As an architect, born and raised in the modernist icon city of Brasilia, Brazil, I see modernistic cities and it’s problems with a profound perspective. The addition of being graduated from the Architecture College at University of Brasilia, a school with strong ties with the late architects Oscar Niemeyer and Lucio Costa, made me in one hand cherish the city architecture legacy, and in the other hand understand why and how the urbanistic problems arise and imagine ways to answer it. My undergrad studies comprehend both architectural and urbanistic realms, giving me the opportunity to work with both subjects. Early on, I realized that the urban aspect of the course was the one that impacted me the most and that is why I’ve chosen to focus on it. I search for a urban design with emphasis in sustainability and the social aspects, respecting the land and its history. My participation in multiple urban planning and urban design contests has played a crucial role on my ability to work with large groups of people, to come up with diverse ideas, to rapidly visualize problems and to develop projects within narrow deadlines. I look forward to a opportunity to work in a practice in the San Francisco Bay Area as I see that most of the urban problems I’ve encountered in Brazil, are visible here. Furthermore, in the course of my professional life I’ve developed a broad portfolio of references and ideas to solve such problems. I’m a highly motivated architect who enjoys working hard to see ideas and inspirations become meaningful designs and aim to be a valuable team member to a multidisciplinary design practice, contributing with my ideas and dedication to create high quality projects.
Education University of Brasilia | School of Architecture and Urbanism
Brasilia, Brazil 2011 - 2016
Bachelor in Architecture, Urban Planning, Landscape and Urban Design.
Professional Experience Architectural Internship - Part Time | CEPLAN - UnB Planning Center
Brasilia, Brazil 2015 - 2016
Interior Design Architect | Private Office
Brasilia, Brazil 2017 - 2018
Revision of guide lines and regulations for the campus Master Plan, collection of data about the campus expansion history and preparation of computer-based and hard copy graphic materials for studies. Design of street furniture and of various layouts for laboratories and classroom expansions using Autocad and Sketch Up. Development of interior design projects for residential, offices and commercial clients.
Participation in Competitions Brasilia, Brazil 2015
Urban 21 | Arco Editorial
National urban design contest for architecture students. The project achieved 2nd place in the competition.
Natal, Brazil 2017
UrbanLab Natal | Inter-american Development Bank
International Urban Design Contest for students and recently graduated professionals. The project achieved 3rd place in the competition.
Brasilia, Brazil 2018
Orla Livre | Brasilia’s Government
National urban design and landscape design contest for architects.
Publications and Awards Nova Colina II Project | 2nd Place at Urban21 Urban Design Contest by Arco Editorial Nova Colina II Project | Publication at the Magazine Projeto Design #428 by Arco Editorial Planejamento Vivo Project | Undergrad Final Project published at ARQUI #7 UnB Architectural Journal Retoma Ribeira Project | 3rd Place at UrbanLab Natal by Interamerican Development Bank
2015 2015 2016 2017
Professional Skills Softwares
Autocad
Advanced
Sketch-Up Advanced Archicad ArcGis
Beginner Beginner
Adobe Illustrator
Languages Advanced
Adobe Photoshop Advanced Adobe InDesign MS Office
Intermediate Advanced
Portuguese English Spanish French
Native Fluent Intermediate Beginner
Personal Skills Quick learner | Dedicated | Team Player | Easy-going | Highly Motivated | Hard Worker
Interests Analog Photography | Languages | Arts & Crafts | Watercolor Painting | Travelling
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Professional Work | Competitions Orla Livre UrbanLab Brasil
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Urban Design Competition
Orla Livre
Collaborator: Débora Quinderé Lorena Borges Marcela Scheer Nicholas Martino Rui Do Rosario Professional work Typology | Urban Design Location | Brasilia, Brazil Year | 2018
The need for a landscape contemplation space integrated daily life in the city of Brasilia gave rise to Lake Paranoá, an lake surrounding the city center. However, over time, the occupancy of these spaces ended up separating most pa population from access to the lake. An urban plan for Lake P shore should have as its main purpose the integration population of Brasília to the water. This integration can be facilitated both by an urban des structures more vivid and human spaces, and by the use technologies in the management and maintenance o spaces, connecting different systems and actions that occu public realm in a single transparent and accessible databas population. Paranoá has the potential to be a triggering spac development of a more intelligent, sustainable and humane
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Urban Mobility
Technological Field
The incentive to create technology companies near Plano Piloto and the University of Brasilia would bring development and innovation to the city, improving the local economy and transforming Brasilia into a national technological center.
The Integrated Mobility Plan is one interventions guidelines. An articulation b the existing transport modes: bus, sub rapid bus, the introduction of Light Tr Waterway modes, and complementatio cycle network. Given the proposed con and its consequent wide access, it gu the right to the city, bringing the lake ba daily life of the city and its citizens.
Vital Urban Development
Densifying the urban fabric and encouraging the occupation of existing voids between the Plano Piloto and Lake Paranoรก is an effective way to increase the movement of pedestrians along the lakeshore. Is proposed a mixed use occupation with financial incentives to sustainable practices such as rainwater harvesting, electric power production and landscape design.
Leisure and commerce
The connection of the proposed densification area with the other side of the lake through a pedestrian bridge reinforces the potential of these spaces for leisure and commerce activities distributed throughout the waterfront and reducing the use of cars.
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Sports and Leisure
Many areas suitable for bathing and integration with residential areas reinforce the potential of this stretch of the north lake to receive a large Linear Park propitious to sports and leisure activities.
Ecotourism
Environmental preservation areas, especially wildlife preservation and ecological parks receive trail treatments as a means of attracting ecotourism and qualifying access spaces to the lake. Guided ecological activities can be organized and shared through the Orla Livre App.
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Place Branding
Street Furniture
Solar Panels on Bus and Light Trail Stops
Shared Bicycles
Informative Totens
Connectivity with the app LED Lights
Concrete Flower Beds
Plastic Wood
Plastic Wood Concrete base
Zoning Map
Zones Densification Zone Environmental Protection Zone Consolidated City Zone Commercial Shore Mixed Use Shore Urban Park Shore Institutional Shore Cultural Shore Sportive Shore Ecotourism Shore
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Cafes and Restaurants
Spots and Leisure
Landscaped Garden Local kiosks
Perimeter Street Dog Park Pier
Southern Lake Park The two sections of the park are connected by a pedestrian bridge, along side to the existent bridge. The larger portion of the park is adjacent to high scale residencies, the smaller portion is next to the proposed densification development, where urban voids are filled by mixed use buildings, creating housing closer to the shore, to ensure the park will receive a larger amount of users on the daily basis
Landscaped Garden Local kiosks
Mixed Use Developments
Running Paths and bathing area Cooper lane and Therapeutic Garden Proposed access to a future bridge Parking Lot
Mixed Use Developments
Kiosks
Proposed Bridge
Running Paths Pier
Bathing Area
Soccer Field
Northern Lake Park Northern Lake Park is located in a peninsula, the park and the neighborhood in this peninsula should have more connections to the other side of the lake, connections made by the proposed bridges. Those would enhance the urban mobility, making more people being able to use the area. The urban voids found in the area should be occupied as well, by mixed use developments.
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Urban Design Competition
UrbanLab Brasil
Collaborator: Débora Quinderé Lorena Borges Isabela Bandeira Professional work Typology | Urban Design Location | Natal, Brazil Year | 2017 Awarded | 3rd Place
Retoma Ribeira project has the goal of restoring the Natal city historical port district of Ribeira, requalifying and increasing the local population. Ribeira is a stigmatized region, with absence of residencies, many unoccupied lots and historic buildings in ruins. In order to recover the neighborhood, the project foresees a series of modifications and restructures, such as the use and occupation of the soil, the streets and transit, the buildings heights and also the detailed use of the instruments of the Estatuto da Cidade, the Brazilian urban planning law. The proposal aims to make the area attractive for housing, a vital issue for the dynamization of the neighborhood, using devices that improve the local quality of life and rescue the importance that the region has had for the city of Natal. The inclusion of residential areas and the urban operation consortium for construction of the Pier Ribeira are great attractions for investors. These changes generate potential of population attraction and valorization of the area in the urban context.
Project Guidelines
CONNECTION TO THE RIVER
DENSIFICATION
GREEN SPACES
VOLUMETRIC AMBIANCE
The project foresees the valorization of the Potengi River, with the construction of Ribeira Pier and the opening of the streets visuals to it. To regain the recreational use and appreciation of nature.
To optimize the existing infrastructure, making it economically viable and ensuring greater urban dynamicity.
Created in strategic areas, parks and squares offers encounter spaces to the community and helps in the construction of the local community identity.
The proposal works with 2 different ambiences: One closer to the Potengi River, with a pier and a less crowded area, respecting the historical buildings. Another from the Ave Duque de Caixias, with a greater density, allowing the construction of housing developments.
URBANITY
PERMEABLE AND ACTIVE FACADES
TRANSIT CONNECTIVITY
PEDESTRIAN PRIORITY
To ensure diversity of activities and socioeconomic profiles. Also in the social issue, lots used for social housing gain the possibility of building up stipulated hight.
To promote “eyes” on the streets and bring more security. In addition to enabling interaction and movement on the sidewalks.
The transit system with sustainable transport alternatives, such as bicycles, ferries and light rails.
Sidewalks were resized for installation of urban furniture and inclusion of vegetation, elements responsible for making walking more enjoyable.
PEDESTRIAN PRIORITY DENSIFICATION CONNECTION TO THE RIVER
VOLUMETRIC AMBIANCE
PERMEABLE AND ACTIVE FACADES
URBANITY
TRANSIT CONNECTIVITY
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Streets Hierarchy
Potengy River
Main Avenues Secondary Streets Local Streets Pedestrian Streets Existent bus stops Project addition bus stops (300 meters radius)
Land Use Potengy River
Residential Mixed Use 1 Mixed Use 2 Mixed Use 3
Commercial Green Areas Institutional Cultural Equipments
Building Heights
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Potengy River
Metropolitan Transit System The Street Hierarchy was the project guideline to determine Land Use and the Building Codes. The Main Streets are more busy, they have Public Transportation, mixed use buildings with various services, commerce and retail, institutional uses as police station and post office and also higher buildings, to accommodate the demand. Secondary Streets have smaller shops, some mixed use buildings and the hight of those buildings decreases as it approaches to the River Potengy. Local and pedestrian shared streets are mainly residential areas. A Metropolitan Transit System was designed to connect the neighborhood, the city of Natal and its metropolitan area, using not only buses, but Bicycle Lanes, Light Rails and Ferries Lines.
Existent Light Rails Project Light Rails Project Ferrie Lines Light Rail Station - Existent Light Rail Station + Shared bicycles - Project Light Rail Station + Shared bicycles + Ferries Station - Project Ferries Station + Shared bicycles - Project
Mixed Use 1 - Retail and Offices Mixed Use 2 - Retail, Offices and Residential Mixed Use 3 - Store Front on ground level
Duque de Caixias Ave.
Chile Shared Street
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Cruise ships often dock on the river Potengi, the Chile Avenue Maritime Passenger Terminal Square should be a attractive place for tourists and inhabitants that use de area for shopping and recreational activities.
Most of the historic buildings are in ruins and the facades are the only structures yet usable. The idea is to preserve the historic facades and to turn the interior of the lots into gardens and public spaces.
Duque de Caixias Avenue is a important street in the city, it connects the neighborhood with the city center and has a well established urban infrastructure. There is a Light Rail station just outside the area, the project proposes the continuation of this transit system along Duque de Caixias to substitute some the inefficient bus lines that ride through Ribeira.
Chile Avenue should become a vibrant pedestrian shared street, where people can find fish markets, small shops and entertainment close to the river.
The Ribeira Pier attends both to fishermen, where they can dock the fish boats and unload the days catch, and to the population as a place of recreational, cultural and sportive use. The Pier also is a connection point between the opposite sides of the Potengy River, as ferries boards passengers to take them to different parts of the city.
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Academic Works Landscape Design | Communal Recreational Space Urban Design | Sustainable Urban Mobility W3 Sul Street Urban Design | Revitalization of Ceilândia City Center Bachelors Degree Thesis | Revised Master Plan for University of Brasilia campus
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Bachelor Degree Thesis
UnB campus Master Plan Tutor: MĂ´nica Fiuza Gondin Academic work Typology | Urban Design and Planning Location | Brasilia, Brazil Year | 2016
The University of Brasilia was created in 1962 by the anthropologist Darcy Ribeiro, two years after the inauguration of the new Brazilian capital. And it is the 5th best University in Brazil. UnB campus original project was design by Oscar Niemeyer. At the time he was the director of the Architecture School and of CEPLAN, the UnB Planning Center. Part of Niemeyer’s projects were implemented, although during the years under the military dictatorship, Brazilian intellectuals were persecuted, Niemeyer being a declared communist left the university in 1965, along the university foundres and many others teachers as a protest and after fled to exile in France. In the next decades, most of its iconic buildings were
built, but the great expansion happened during the 2000s, when the federal government allocated a large amount of resources for universities. The expansion happened fast and there wasn’t a updated Master Plan to guide the new constructions. This project proposes a new Master Plan for the campus, correcting the main issues found in the area: insecurity, long distances among buildings, lack of green usable open spaces, overdimensioned parking lots, inefficient bus lines, lack of housing for students and spaces for services related to the university users and last but not least, the lack of connection between the campus and the adjacent neighborhood. The project imagines the campus as a living urban
organism, that dialogues with the city, as usable during school recess, as a tourist attraction with its iconic buildings and as a more democratic space. As this is a extensive project, in here I’ll show just its principal and most important aspects: Street system, Land Occupation, Land Use, Occupation Codes and Public Transit System. The entire project is available in Portuguese at: https://issuu.com/erikasamancesarino/docs/ caderno_diploma____o_2___erikasaman
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Existent Streets Proposed Streets
New Street Grid The project’s starting point was the street network. The existent streets were continued following a orthogonal pattern. Existing blocks lengths are reduced, more entrances to campus are available and the space legibility is enhanced.
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Major Avenues Primary Streets Secondary Streets Local Streets Pedestrian only Streets
Street Hierarchy The Street Hierarchy identifies the most connected streets by the use of Axial Map and Axial Analysis. The importance of setting a hierarchy is to define which streets would have public transit, would be wider or narrower profiles, would have cycle lanes and also defines the land use.
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Existent Buildings
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Existent Buildings Proposed Blocks Squares Green Areas Parks and Environmental Protection
New Land Occupation
Parks and Environmental Protection spaces are the most valuable land the university owns. Those spaces are rich in pure water springs and endangered species of fauna and flora, they must be preserved and studied by the university, but also open to the city inhabitants to learn about it and enjoy. Green Areas and Squares are strategic spaces for interaction, public demonstrations, sports and cultural activities. The Proposed Blocks are spaces destined for buildings construction according to Buildings Occupancy Typologies and the parameters indicated by the Proposed Block Occupation Code.
Block Occupancy Typologies Aligned Buildings
Internal Patio
Gap between building and sidewalk
Buildings parallel to the Street
Block Occupation Code Gaps
Gaps between building and streets up to 8 meters. Buildings with auditoriums and large classrooms can have superior gaps to shelter larger grou of people.
Occupancy Blocks could have 60% of its area occupied by constructions. Open spaces in those blocks could be internal patios, gardens and squares. Rates Parking
Reduction of parking spaces and prioritizing elder and disabilities parking offerings. Parking only along streets, no more insecure and overdimensioned parking lots. Introduction of parking meters to generate revenue and reduce the number of cars parked for lo periods of time.
Heights
Buildings heights are defined by the designated map, based on the block distance to Paranoรก La and on the existent buildings near by. The Colina zone, a residential area for professors and students, has the higher buildings, floors above pilotis. Buildings closer to L4 Avenue has the shorter height, only 2 floors. Th guaranties the campus beautiful views of the lake.
Residential Residential Mixed Use Mixed Use Institutional Commercial
New Land Use
The most important use in a university campus is the institutional use, where all activities related to learning and researching are located. Although the university shouldn’t separate this use from others that can enhance the campus experience. Spaces for cafes, markets, eating, exercising, living and many other activities essential to the daily life. Mixed use buildings are located mostly on Primary Streets, those buildings have not only the institutional use but those complementary to it. Residential Mixed Use buildings have commerce and services necessary for the daily life of a campus resident. Residential buildings are located in a calmer area in the campus, as professors and students need time and space to study. Residential
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1 Story Building 2 Story Building 3 Story Building 4 Story Building 5 and 6 Story Building
Building Heights The buildings heights are based on existent buildings and the distance from the Paranoรก Lake. The blocks closer to the Lake are lower then the ones further to the Lake. Residential and Mixed Residential buildings have up to 6 floors, based on the existent professors apartment buildings in the campus. This staggering ensures that the beautiful lake visuals continue to exist throughout the campus.
Primary Streets Section
Frontage Zone 3 to 8 m
Drive Lane 3 m Drive Lane 3 m Drive Lane 3,3 m Parking Lane 2,3 m Street furniture >2,8 m Cycling Lane 3 m Buffer >1 m Sidewalk >3,5 m
Street furniture >2,8 m Parking Lane 2,3 m Drive Lane 3,3 m
Sidewalk >3,5 m
Frontage Zone 3 to 8 m
34 meters wide
Intersection Between Primary Streets
Bus Routes Bus Stops
Public Transit As one of the project’s guidelines is the reduction of parking spaces, the public transportation have to be reformulated, to be efficient and attract more users. Bus routes are defined by the street hierarchy, those streets are, at most, 400 meters apart, that means that routes are in walking distance from each other. The project also indicates where should be bus stops, inside and outside the campus.
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Insecure and over dimensioned parking lots become future development spaces in the heart of the campus, where all urban infrastructure is consolidated, introducing usable and designed green areas and reducing storm water run-offs, a serious problem in the campus.
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Most buildings built in the year 2000 are detached from the street, they have enormous gaps from the sidewalks and walking in the campus can be a arduous task mostly because of that. The project proposes the shortening of the existent blocks and the occupation of those voids with university developments.
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Landscape Design
Subway Station Plaza Tutor: Maria Assunção Rodrigues Colaborator: Talita Maboni Academic work Typology | Landscape Design Location | Brasilia, Brazil Year | 2014
Águas Claras is a growing neighborhood in Brasilia, Brazil, for middle c families, mostly young adults with children. The neighborhood has 3 subw stations, but most of its residents don’t use the public transportation on daily basis. This project has as goal to make the Arniqueiras Subway Stat outdoor plaza more attractive to subway users and also to the residents near The conditions at the plot was decaying, there was weed growing, gr died and dirt all around. The sidewalks didn’t reflect the paths chosen by passbyers, there was a lack of shaded areas and paths. Cars parked on the and no place to park bikes. We designed a public space that would connect the entrance of the subw station with the surrounding buildings and the parking lot, proving shad paths, resting spaces, food kiosks and comfortable and inviting places for us Mango trees were chosen to be inside grassed areas, this specimen gro beautifully in Brazil, provide shade and fruit. Along the sidewalks and park spaces, Oiti trees, providing shade without fruits or branches that could and cause harm. And Jabuticaba trees close to the kiosks and resting spac jabuticaba is a little eatable Brazilian fruit that grows at the trunks and branc of the tree, it also provides shade. The result was a simple, yet functional design that address the demands a enhances the area with nice and well put vegetation that invites the users a neighbors to enjoy the space.
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Myrciana cauliflora Jabuticaba tree
Concrete blocks at the busiest transit areas. High resistance and easy maintenance.
Concrete grass paver blocks at the resting spaces. Helps with rain absortion.
Batatás grass. Type of grass resilient to the city’s harsh weather conditions of drought during most of the year.
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Landscape Design
For the last 20 years in Brasilia, the number of closed residential condominiums grew exponentially and almost every development built outside the Plano Piloto has private recreational areas for its residents. This project is for one of those condominiums, situated in the neighborhood of Aguas Claras. To solve the lots 4 meter incline, the recreational area was divided into 6 levels, connected by stairs and also ramps for wheel chair access. On each level you can find gardens, resting areas, a pool, a sand court and a playground. The majority of the residents are young families with children, so one of the demands was to design spaces for kids, teens and also the adults. The sand court has two uses, during the dry season it can be used to play sports and during the rainy months it works as a drainage system to reduce rain water runoff, as well as the gardens, that work as bioretention.
Communal Recreational Space
Tutor: Maria Assunção Rodrigues Academic work Typology | Landscape Design Location | Brasilia, Brazil Year | 2014
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Mangifera indica Mango Tree Lilium candidum Madonna Lily
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Urban Design
Ceilândia Center Revitalization Tutor: Gabriela Tenório Collaborators: Alexssandra Silva; Elizabeth Cavalcante; Giovanni Munoz; Luis Baracat; Priscila Gerardi. Academic work Typology | Urban Design Location | Brasilia, Brazil Year | 2015
In 1956 the construction for Brazil’s the new capital began. Brasilia was built by the hands and sweat of thousands of slave descendant workers migrated from northeastern Brazil, seeking a new and better life in the heart of the Nation, leaving behind the poverty and lack of opportunities of their homeland. Those workers encountered a enormous construction site and no place to live, being lead to build their own permanent homes in unused lands close to the work sites. By 1970, the Brasilia’s influent elite began a task-force with the government to eradicate those informal settlements. In 1971, almost 80 thousand construction workers, woman and children were relocated 28 kilometers away from their homes to a completely undeveloped area, a rural land, later called Ceilândia. Nowadays, Ceilândia is the most populated neighborhood in the capital, being home for almost 500 thousand people. It was supposed to be a dormitory city, but now it employs half of its population, with over 12 thousand retail business. The area needs a better space to house the cultural, recreational and sports scene that is growing every year. Since its conception, Ceilândia was considered to be the most violent and insecure district, as a consequence, the community had to live with the stigma criminality, especially amongst young black people. The project proposes changes to create a more democratic space, empowering the population.
Aerial View of Ceilândia’s center, Helio Prates Avenue.
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Reconnecting Ceilândia On average, a Ceilândia resident takes 3 hours to go and come back from Plano Piloto using public transportation. Most jobs are concentrated there, as well as educational and recreational activities. Brasilia has one of the 10 worst public transportation systems in the World and it is Brazil’s most fragmented metropolitan region, that and the unequal urban development generates Ceilândia’s main issues. With that in mind, the project has as its backbone the reconnection between Ceilândia and Plano Piloto, as well as with the surrounding neighborhoods, introducing a transportation mode not yet implanted in the area, the Light Rail Trans, or Street Cars.
Extension of the Subway Line including other neighborhoods on the system
Creation of a Street Car Line connecting Ceilândia, Samambaia e Taguatinga
Reduction of the dependency on inefficient bus lines and cars, reducing traffic congestion
Macro Area Map | Proposition for Metropolitan Transportation System Western Distrito Federal
DF 085 Highway DF 095 Highway Subway current line Light Rails
Subway extension
Ceilândia Center Taguatinga Center Samambaia Center
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Light Rails | Street Car The Light Trail, or Street Car, passing through Helio Prates Ave., to connect Ceilândia with Taguatinga and Samambaia.
Bus Lines
Cycling Lanes
The Bus Lines would To provide a cycling be located on the friendly neighborhood, Transit Corridor Streets bicycle lanes were and on the Main design on every major Connection Streets, street and local streets reducing Helio Prates would be shared Ave. transit flow. spaces.
Pedestrians For the pedestrians wide sidewalks, street furniture and vegetation. It also need well design city parks and squares, giving the population a space for social and cultural entertainment, and for sports and other outdoor activities.
Innercity Transportation System A coherent street grid not only helps the pedestrian orientation, but it makes the urban infrastructures and the public transportation more efficient. The project proposes the reduction of dead-end streets, extending those, when possible, through unoccupied and undeveloped lots at the end of the cul-de-sac.
Residential Shared Streets Connection Streets Main Connection Streets Transit Corridor Streets Helio Prates Avenue
Residential Blocks Before
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Mixed Use Blocks Before
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Parks and Squares
Land Use and Building Heights To develop the neighborhood center and to bring more diversity to the area, the Land Use and Building Heights has to suffer a few changes. First is to appoint lots for squares and parks, considering that the area has no public spaces for social interaction. The project selected historical and affective spaces, such as the surroundings of the Central Market and the Ceilândia Water Tower lot. Also, the proximities to public institutional buildings, such as Ceilândia’s Forum, the Public Clinic, some churches and the Police Station. Smaller lots were destined to local parks in residential streets. Institutional lots maintain their original use, most of these institutions are used by public and for governmental buildings, like the Ceilândia Regional Hospital, the Fire Fighter Station, Police Station and the Utility Company. The only exclusive commercial buildings are the historical Central Market and the new Popular Shopping Center. Along Helio Prates Avenue most lots are mixed use, destined for retail, offices and apartments and on streets with less traffic, the use is only for residential buildings. Nowadays, the majority of buildings in the area are 1 to 2 story tall. In order to densify the center, to contain the neighborhood growth and reduce the urban sprawl, the limit for buildings heights has to increase to accommodate more residents in the center, where the public transportation and utilities are well consolidate. Creating space for multifamily apartment buildings and for office buildings and leaving the street level for retail and other services.
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Buildings for Social Housing
Mixed Use Buildings at higher transit streets and Residential Use Buildings at local streets
Mixed Use Buildings at Ave. Helio Prates and Residential Buildings at lower transit streets
Mixed Use Buildings at the core center of the neighborhood
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Urban Design
Sustainable Urban Mobility Tutor: Marcos Thadeu MagalhĂŁes Colaborator: Geraldo Garcia; Wilson Porto. Academic work Tipology | Urban Design Location | Brasilia, Brazil Year | 2015
One of the most critical issues the Modernist Urban Design has left us is its the car centered Urban Mobility. Brasilia, the modernist designed capital of Brazil, suffers with traffic, undeveloped public transit, hostile spaces and sidewalks for pedestrian and uninviting public spaces. This project redesign a entire avenue, changing its paradigm of a ill and unsafe street to a comforting place to live and enjoy.
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The Subject BrasĂlia the modernist planned city, was designed by Lucio Costa to be the capital of Brasil, when the Federal Government moved from Rio de Janeiro in 1956. Its airplane shaped design is known world wide but even though it is the Brazilian power center and it is Unescos World Heritage, is easy to find a lack of maintenance, care, quality public transportation, accessibility and comfort. The W3 Sul Avenue, an arterial street at Plano Piloto, was a vibrant place, full of activities and people until the 1970s, when it hold most of the commerce and services of the capital along its 3.54 miles. But, in the last 3 decades, with the construction of shopping malls in the city, most W3 Sul street shops, markets, restaurants, cultural and retail spaces were being abandoned, causing the buildings to decay from lack of maintenance, parks and public spaces become uninteresting and robberies became more frequent on the adjacent houses. Even though of its numerous problems and stigma, during business hours this Avenue still has plenty car transit and many passbyers, mostly because of its bus lines, schools, hospitals and vast institutional and office buildings nearby. The project intends to address the problems mentioned and details a section of the street as a example to be replicated.
1 and 2 story residential buildings
1 and 2 buildings
story
commercial
To create a dynamic street, the Zoning should have a few modifications. Residential lots on the margin of the street should also be mixed use, this would solve the existing problem of irregular retail, offices and services that happen on most houses facing the Avenue. Up to 3 story buildings
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All Commerce lots should be transformed into Mixed Use lots, being able to build not only retail business but apartment buildings and offices too. This will bring nightlife to the street.
Up to 4 buildings
story
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use
April 21 Square
308 Sul School
Residential Mixed Uses
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The Mobility Plan W3 Sul Avenue has 119 distinct bus lines coming through it, connecting the city center to the other neighborhoods, or as they are called, Satellite Cities. Which means that the street is crowded with old, pollutant, inefficient buses, that make the exactly same route through it. The project proposes to exchange the Bus Lines, to a Street Car Line on a dedicated lane at the center of the street. Also with signal and operational traffic improvements to secure efficiency to the system and cut waiting time on intersections, making the public transportation competitive with private cars. There is also the addition of bicycle lanes adjacent to the Street Car lane, on the center of the street, providing minimum interruption, and with bike locks at each Street Car Stop.
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Shaded Bicycle Lane Confort for cyclists
The Street Design As most of Brasilia, it is easier to drive to places than to walk at W3 Sul Avenue. This project brings the pedestrians to the highlight, giving them a more comfortable, safer, easier and more accessible way to experience the street. Making W3 Sul Ave. a interesting place, giving it back the importance it once had and vanishing the stigma it has now.
Wider Midblock Crosswalk Safety for pedestrians Speed Limit Reduction Safety for pedestrians
Crosswalk Ramp Accessibility for limited mobility pedestrians
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Flow-Through Planters Less runoff Red Clay Paver Blocks - Pervious pavement for Street Furniture Zone Grey Clay Paver Blocks - Pervious and easier maintenece on high Pedestrian Through Zone Tactile Pavement - Aid for visually disabled pedestrians Grass Grid Paver Blocks - Traffic calming and pervious pavement for low car traffic zones
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Thank You! Erika Saman Cesarino +1(786)516-5004