Selected Works by Flavia Ghirotto Santos

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SELECTED WORKS | FLÁVIA GHIROTTO SANTOS | 2015

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RESEARCH

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10 NOMAD 32 TAMBABA 10 NOMAD 32 TAMBABA A Behavioural Fabrication System Beach Resor t A Behavioural Fabrication System Beach Resor t

RESEARCH 18 LAMBDA 18 LAMBDA Evaluating the Edge of Ch aos Evaluating the Edge of Chaos

RESEARCH 2 2 MR. FLOPPY 2 2 MR. FLOPPY Behavioural Matter Behavioural Matter

RESEARCH 26 SUPPLE PAVILION 26 SUPPLE PAVILION Supple Pavilion 01 | 02 | 03 Supple Pavilion 01 | 02 | 03

PROFESSIONAL 38 CASA SUL 38 CASA SUL Summer House Summer House

PROFESSIONAL 44 HERCHCOVITCH 44 HERCHCOVITCH Flagship Store | Sao Paulo Flagship Store | Sao Paulo

PROFESSIONAL 48 HERCHCOVITCH 48 HERCHCOVITCH Flagship Store | Rio de Janeiro Flagship Store | Rio de Janeiro

INDEX SPECIAL PROJECTS

PROFESSIONAL 52 CARMIM 52 CA RMIM Flagship Store Flagship Store

72 LOOP>>60HZ 72 LOOP>>60HZ Transmissions from the Drones Orchestra Transmissions from the Drones Orchestra

COMPETITION

ABOUT

60 NTHISS 06 CV 60 NTHISS 06 CV Re-thinking the Housing System Experience Re-thinking the Housing System Experience

SPECIAL PROJECTS 66 EMOTIVE CITY 66 EMOTIVE CITY Future Exhibition ture FestFest Exhibition

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SPECIAL PROJECTS 70 ARCHIGRAM OPERA 70 ARCHIGRAM OPERA A A Exihibition A A Exihibition

EDUCATION ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE Master Degree

MArch Design Research Laboratory (AADRL) London/UK [2013-2015] http://drl.aaschool.ac.uk/ http://pr2014.aaschool.ac.uk/DRL/NoMad

FUNDAÇÃO ARMANDO ALVARES PENTEADO - FAAP Bachelor Degree BArch in Architecture and Urbanism

FLÁVIA GHIROTTO SANTOS

ARCHITECT + INTERACTIVE DESIGNER

DETAILS Brazilian, 28 years UK Visa: Tier 4 w/ work permission 20h/week Licensed Architect (CAU / Brazil)

5 years of professional experience

São Paulo/Brazil [2009] http://www.faap.br/

FURTHER EDUCATION Generative Modeling Ernesto Bueno | LABi São Paulo/Brazil [2012] http://www.labideias.com.br/

Photography International Institute of Photography - IIF [200 hours] São Paulo/Brazil [2011]

CONTACT +44 (0) 7983 672163 flagss@gmail.com www.linkedin.com/in/flaviaghirottosantos

REFERENCES

http://presencial.iif.com.br/

Revit Architecture Cadritech [32 hours] São Paulo/Brazil [2010] http://www.cadritech.com.br/

Art Direction for Cinema Escola São Paulo São Paulo/Brazil [2010] http://www.escolasaopaulo.org

Theodore Spyropoulos AA DRL Director theo@minimaforms.com +44 (0) 20 7887 4000

LANGUAGES Portuguese [Native speaker] English [IELTS overall band score 7.0]

Robert Stuart-Smith Kokkugia / AADRL Studio Course Master rob@kokkugia.com +44 (0) 7878 202387 Tito Ficarelli Arkitito arkitito@arkitito.com +55 (11) 3063 4683 Franklin Lee SubDV subdv@subdv.com +55 (11) 3062 3522

French [ Ecole France Langue/Paris - 2010] Spanish [Basic writing | Intermediate oral expression and reading]

PROFESSIONAL MINIMAFORMS Collaboration

London/UK [2015] Theodore Spyropoulos | http://www.minimaforms.com

Main activities: Design of the ‘Emotive City’, an immersive interactive installation exhibited at the Future Fest exihibition, in March 2015.

GUERRA | GHIROTTO Co- Founder

São Paulo/Brazil [2011 - 2013]

Main activities: Guerra | Ghirotto was a partnership for providing architectural and design services. The main activities were the creation and development of architectural and interior projects, concepts, relationship with clients and crafting business proposals.

ARKITITO Architect

São Paulo/Brazil [2008 - 2009 | 2011 - 2013] Tito Ficarelli and Chantal Ficarelli | http://www.arkitito.com

Main activities: Development of residential, commercial and conceptual apparel stores, working closely with important brands in Brazil. Scenographic projects for public exhibitions at MAB - FAAP (Museum of Brazilian Art); Scenic designs for the Brazilian television channel RedeTV; Project development and construction management of residential and interior design projects; Execution of technical drawings, budget sheets, visualizations and presentations.

ELAINE RIBEIRO ARQUITETURA Collaboration

Ilhabela/Brazil [2008-2009] Elaine Ribeiro | http://www.elaineribeiro.com.br/

Main activities: Collaborative design for a summer house in Ilhabela/SP. Architectural concept, interior design, technical drawings and construction management.

SÃO PAULO MUNICIPAL THEATRE Intern

São Paulo/Brazil [2009] Lilian Jaha | http://www.teatromunicipal.sp.gov.br/

Main activities: Monitoring of the restoration works that were held in the theater; Design for internal expositions.

SPECIAL PROJECTS THE ARCHIGRAM OPERA [and ZOO] – the 50 years young celebration Architectural Association School of Architecture London/UK [2014] http://conversations.aaschool.ac.uk/the-archigram-opera-zoo-a-review/

Collaboration with Theodore Spyropoulos for a screen multimedia installation to celebrate the 50 years of the Archigram Opera, the Living City and the publication of the fourth issue of Archigram magazine, with the presence of Peter Cook, David Greene and Dennis Crompton.

LOOP>>60Hz: Transmissions From The Drone Orchestra Barbican

London/UK [2014] http://vimeo.com/112402691

Collaboration with Samantha Lee and Oliviu Lugojan-Ghenciu for the production of drones costume for an Audio-Visual performance at Barbican Theatre, featuring the musical pioneer John Cale (ex-Velvet Underground) and the architectural visionary Liam Young, as part of the ‘Digital Revolution’ exhibition at Barbican.

RESEARCH NOMAD - BEHAVIOURAL ASSEMBLY SYSTEM

AADRL Master research, tutored by Theodore Spyropoulos, with the assistance of Mostafa El Sayed and Apostolis Despotidis. London/UK [2013 - 2015]

Main activities: noMad is a behavioural assembly system that marks a shift from our built environment as a finite lifecycle construction to autonomous, non-finite and real-time solutions to adapt dynamically to the demands of its environment. In a self-assembly fabrication approach of negotiating space‘, noMad aims to enable architecture with a sensory system, localised bottom-up decision making by self-aware unit to unit communication, instead of a deterministic, superimposed building plan.

SUPPLE PAVILION WORKSHOPS AA Visiting School

High-Low Design Workshop | São Paulo Visiting School w/ International Festival of Eletronic Lanaguase - FILE São Paulo/Brazil [2011]

Supple Pavilion workshop 01 | São Paulo Architecture Biennale in Oscar Niemeyer’s OCA building São Paulo/Brazil [2011]

Supple Pavilion workshop 02 | Pimpolhos da Grande Rio Samba School Rio de Janeiro/Brazil [2012]

Design Leader

www.subdv.com | Anne Save de Beaurecueil and Franklin Lee

Project of a dynamic interactive pleating fabric structure, developed during the workshop “AA High-Low - São Paulo Visiting School”, under the design brief and guidance of Tutor Robert Stuart-Smith. The project was further developed through a series of workshops with the objective of producing a 1:1 scale of an interactive and flexible pavilion structure, using associative modeling, Grasshopper, Processing, Arduino, recursive scripting and digital 1:1 fabrication.

RESEARCH RESEARCH

NOMAD

agenda | development of a self-assembling fabrication system utilizing machinic behaviour and real-time decision making to enable architecture with a sensory system. noMad proposes a behavioural fabrication system that marks a shift of our build environment as a finite lifecycle construct, but is instead looking for autonomous, non-finite and real-time solutions to adapt dynamically to the demands of its environment - constantly restructuring itself. In a self-assembling fabrication approach of ‚negotiated space‘, noMad aims to enable architecture with a sensory system, localising decision making by self-aware unit to unit communication instead of a deterministic, superimposed building plan. Anchored in the world of self-structuring polyhedra, noMad is based on principles of synergetics, the study of geometry in transformation and the impact of a local change on its global systems behaviour: a single unit can autonomously change state, shifting its state by a simple rotational translation from one polyhedra to the other.

Hereby, noMad is operating on different scales of (collective) intelligence and behaviour, each autonomously self-assembling to the next higher order of organisation - from a highly mobile, nomadic states to high population spatial configurations. noMad proposes a system, that can self-regulate and adapt, react to outside influences and demands and encourages both interaction and communication.

shell | structural bumper • interlocking topography •

unit connector | unit to unit communication • magnetic interface •

suspended servo | double servo (reverse mounted) • unit’s center of gravity •

rotational mechanism | double rotational axis • planar rotational hinged •

structural joints | face-load-bearing function • telescope arms embedded in mechanism

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characteristics

taxonomy | specie assembly configuration 13 x

performance multi-directional lifting / point-symetric reconfiguration specie locomotion configuration 10x

performance five legged locomotion / structural dome specie cluster configuration 13 x

performance dense clustering / volume expansion

• site migration • units in system: 30 000 • repositioning time: 2 hours

noon configuration

interim configuration

evening configuration

• centralized setup • units in system: 13 000 x 4 • assembly time: 12 hours

• decentralized setup • units in system: 7 000 x 3 • assembly time: 6 hours

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ING, BASED IN PHYSICAL AND CONTEXT CONSTRAINTS, AND EVOLVES OVER TIME.

legend | anchor seeding direction of growth length of cantilever

bridge deployment

LAMBDA

The aim of this research was to explore architectural possibilities with the use of generative strategies inside Processing software. We explored the principles of cellular automata through the rules of the game of life. We defined the initial conditions for the system to grow, first in a 2d grid and after in a 3d space, retrieving data in order to improve the design. We developed a voxel based code, and through the rulesets we created different patterns of grow. We stacked these grids, creating a 3d voxel grid, allowing the system to grow indefinetly, using only the rulesets to determine the carachteristiques of the cells reproduction. The first step to observe changes is scaling of initial pattern slightly, cell by cell, and significantly, changing not necessarily the whole geometry in 2d but each part linearly as well. Pattern fractalizing is also a technique involved into observation. Complexity is achieved by subdividing cells 2 and 4 times. Changing of the ruleset played certain role in the research. However it is not a primary approach to design the ca in this particular case, just equal

branch of exploration. Grid is a source of completely new behavior. We explored from square cells to hexagonal, from 8 (straight and diagonal) to 6 identical neighbours. During the process of evaluation several separated outlines can be described: butterfly effect, the edge of chaos as a boarder between predictability and stability, population development (in terms of density as tendency to extinct or overcrowd), the direction of development and stable/dynamic type of growth.

system rulesets | 01_2d rules deployment of initial pattern

02_stacking searching for most stable route, extracting of central core as primary structure

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evaluation and cataloguing |

evaluation |

diferentiation and optmization |

optimization

03_routing searching for most stable route, extracting of central core as primary structure

04_full 3d ruleset optimization trough re-configuration and re-animation of secondary structure withfull 26 neighbors 3D ruleset

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MR. FLOPPY BEHAVIOURAL MATTER

The aim of this project was to design a lighting installation able to transform in time by making use of passive and active actuation. In order to provide unique movement and lighting effects we analysed material behaviour through the organisation of matter and energy within supple membranes. We developed fabrication strategies that harness energy transfer for generative design by utilising principles such as pre-tensioned surfaces. Our focus was to analyse thermodynamic states of rich poly-scalar materials, in particular silicone. As a result we created a single-object installation, which can be duplicated in order to organise space. The natural behavioural characteristic of silicone was utilised to produce a surface which was stretched and held in a permanent and pre-tensioned state by an integrated primary frame. The unique movement is controlled with micro-processors such as Arduino, computer programming, and actuators (electric motors, flex sensors and led lighting). The structure of the jellyfish was the main inspiration for the project. Jellyfishs body are made of a gelatinous material - the jelly - that employs a loose network of nerves, located in the epidermis, which is called a

“nerve net”. They detects various stimuli via this nerve net, which then transmits impulses both throughout the nerve net and around a circular nerve ring to other nerve cells. Initial analysis of surface material behaviour were explored with lycra models. By introducing forces in particular pushing, pulling and stretching the material is transformed throughout its surface creating various movements and forms. Analysis of material and behavioural nature of lycra surfaces was later adapted to silicone. We also used piano wires to structure and achieve a tensile state with the silicone. In order to achieve a greater control of the form we introduced different amounths of silicone in different parts of the body, creating a structured but flexible membrane. Our research led to the proposition of a surface with structural ribs of wires that crossed in the middle, where a pivotal point forms the “activate button”. By pushing this central pivotal zone, the wings automatically flex and recoil in opposing directions.

BEHAVIOURAL MATTERS 24 MR. FLOPPY Plan of final shape , zoning

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piano wire along the boundary to provide the tension of the shape

THE RIGIDNESS OF THE Final shape, comprises 2 zones. There is an internal shape of 4 wings which is pre-tensioned and a floppy boundary with tassels attached. These 2 different states interact - movement in the tensile zone causes the floppy boundary to react, pulling the tassels in alternate positions.

WIRES AND THE FLEXIBILITY OF THE SILICONE CREATES

CONFLICTING FORCES THAT HELPS THE MATERIAL TO STRUCTURE AND CREATE FORMS

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SUPPLE PAVILION AA SÃO PAULO VISITING SCHOOL| ELETRONIC LANGUAGE INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL - FILE São Paulo/Brazil [2011] SUPPLE PAVILION WORKSHOP 01 | SÃO PAULO ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE IN OSCAR NIEMEYER’S OCA BUILDING São Paulo/Brazil [2011] SUPPLE PAVILION WORKSHOP 02 | PIMPOLHOS DA GRANDE RIO SAMBA SCHOOL Rio de Janeiro/Brazil [2012] Workshop Directors | Franklin Lee and Anne S. Beaurecueil Tutors | Robert Stuart-Smith, Lawrence Friesen Collaborators | Toru Hasegawa, Yoojin Kim, Ernesto Bueno, Affonso Orciuoli, Arthur Mamou-Mani, Lucas de Sordi, Thiago Mundin, Loira, Maurício Zelada, Aline Sultani, Thomas von Gutten, Helen Sakano Design Team | Flávia Ghirotto Santos, Cynthia Nojimoto, Gilfranco Alves, Humberto da Mata and Rafael Morozowski Ardjomand

The Supple Pavilions was a project of a dynamic interactive pleating fabric structure, developed during the workshop “AA High-Low - São Paulo Visiting School” in Jul/11, at the International Festival of Electronic Language – FILE under the design brief and guidance of Tutor Robert Stuart-Smith. The project was chosen to be further developed through a series of workshops with the focus on producing a 1:1 scale of an interactive and flexible pavilion structure, using associative modeling, Grasshopper, Processing, Arduino, recursive scripting and digital 1:1 fabrication. The project aims to demonstrate from the experimentation and use of digital media the persuit to establish new levels of use of hybrid processes, establishing modes of interaction among participating agents in the project, in keeping with contemporary realities. The design emerged from several studies of multimaterial behaviour that were catalogued and investigated, like the combination of Lycra and steel

cables to create form. Cybernetics concepts like “loop”and “feedback” were the main driven for the actuated membrane and the idea of creating a space that changes and reacts to humam behaviour. Sensors capture the light variations and movement of people, sending imputs to the system, thats responds with mechanical movements of the structure. The structure is also activated by external constrains, such as rain or excessive light, adjusting it’s behaviour to adapt. The project was developed within a social framework of cultural events linked to the idea of new technologies and design. An iphone APP was developed to interact with the system, generating responses in the model, as a method to promote our project and seek future investment. The project was taken to the brazilian government and is currently under analysis.

“WE NO LONGER THINK OF ARCHITECTURE AS STATIC AND IMMUTABLE; INSTEAD WE SEE IT AS DYNAMIC, RESPONSIVE AND CONVERSANT.” USMAN HAQUE

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model preparation | planarize/ flatten / nest SENVOLVIMENTO / FABRICAÇÃO DA MEMBRANA 3. Nest

PROFESSIONAL PROFESSIONAL

The resort, located on the beach in Pitimbu, distant 68 km from JoĂŁo Pessoa / PE, Brazil, was designed with the objective of meeting the real estate quota system and time-sharing, systems which are lacking in the Brazilian Northeast. Designed to function as a second residence, but with the structure of a resort, the project will be launched in 2015. The region where the project is housed is an APP Permanent Protection Area, and the solutions with less impact were mandatory to the approval of this project. We seek solutions that ameliorate the impact of the project, which has about 38.000m2 building, and that stand out against the other ventures that have emerged in the region. The use of natural materials, local labor and sustainable solutions were incorporated by customers as an added value to the project, allowing alternatives to the expected. The project has a total of 160 apartments, divided into studios, 1 bedroom apartments, 2 bedroom and 2 bedroom with terrace. In addition, the resort features restaurants, bars, community recreation areas, spa and a convention center.

The project implementation took into account the large sloping ground, insolation and winds, resulting in pleasant environments, without the need for air conditioning. Following the wishes of the client, the resort was designed to integrate all of the environments, with spaces without a defined limit, integrating green areas with enclosed areas

PITIMBU REAGION HAS SOME OF THE BEST BEACHES IN BRAZIL, HOWEVER, THE AREA HAS DIFFICULT ACCESS AND HAS NO INFRASTRUCTURE TO RECEIVE PEOPLE FOR LONGER PERIODS

site plan| visualization and technical drawing

technical drawing| social building | plan - level 63.00

technical drawing| social building | plan - level 60.00

technical drawing| apartment building

“Casa Sul” was a project developed together with the brazilian architect Elaine Ribeiro, where I collaborated at all stages, from the architectural design, to interior design and decoration. I contributed in all the steps of conceptualising it, collaborating with ideas and strategies. I also followed closely the build up process, trough the elaboration of technical drawings, managing the construction to the final output of the project. I also collaborated in the research of materials and sustainable solutions, learning a lot about rustic techniques and wood construction, the key elements of the design of the house. The house is located in Ilhabela, a Brazilian island with restricted access, where 80% of the area is a protected native forest and therefore the concern with the environment is a prescriptive for new projects. With the goal of trying to make it as sustainable as possible, low-impact solutions were implemented trough the use of sustainable processes, natural materials and sustainable resources, such as local manpower, reforestation wood with structural qualities, solar

heating, earth coating, green roof, bamboo structure, bamboo coating and rainwater reuse system. Also, the choice of the materials were based on what was available locally, as well as the use of natural resources found on site, like rocks and soil for the walls coating. Interior details like taps, ceiling coating and switches were custom designed and fabricated with local artisans.

The structure of the house is mixed, with autoclaved eucalyptus pillars and Pequi sawn beams. The structural pieces has bigger mesurements than the conventional ones. The eucalyptufor the structure was chosen based in the lower price compared with other structural woods, but also because of the quick assembly process. The roof structure is made out of 20x25cm beams, 6x12cm Pequi sawn rafters and big colonial tiles.

Dentro da morada, a sensação é a de estar em um ambiente agradável, aconchegante e espaçoso. Integração é a palavra que define o setor social, decorado com móveis de tons claros. Destaque para o ventilador de 3,5 m de diâmetro, que espanta o calor com charme. O piso é de arenito amarelo com medidas especiais sob encomenda. A cozinha é um capítulo à parte. O balcão é revestido de pastilha de coco, complementado por uma mesa de vidro temperado. O colorido fica por conta das charmosas luminárias acima da pia. Descoordenadas, conferem informalidade ao ambiente. Quando o desejo for preparar alimentos com privacidade, basta fechar a porta que faz a comunicação com os demais cômodos e ficar no sossego. As suítes seguem o mesmo padrão. Duas foram dispostas no térreo, outras no pavimento superior e mais uma sob a laje da piscina.

A estrutura da casa é mista, com pilares de eucalipto auto-

second floor

A profissional procurou valorizar a vista para o mar. “A paisagem de Ilhabela é lindíssima! Quis que os moradores pudessem ter o prazer de viver e estar diante de uma natureza tão maravilhosa”, conta.

clavado torneados e vigas serradas de pequi. As peças apresentam medidas maiores do que as convencionais, o que confere um padrão diferenciado. Houve o cuidado de optar por tons aproximados, para que a harmonia fosse garantida. “Escolhi o eucalipto por possuir um método construtivo mais rápido, o aspecto visual agradável e um custo menor”, diz Elaine. O telhado foi feito com vigas de 20 x 25 cm, caibros serrados de pequi de 6 x 12 cm e coberto com telhas coloniais gigantes, de Itu, SP. Hora de curtir a área de lazer. A churrasqueira foi construída próxima à varanda. Para chegar ao local, é preciso passar pelo deque de eucalipto e pedra São Tomé. O espaço conta com uma mesa, lavabo e um armário. Mas se a intenção for dar um mergulho, nada melhor do que cair na piscina de 53 m². Elaborada em concreto armado, foi revestida com pastilhas de vidro azul (Colormix). Possui formato sinuoso, prainha com profundidade de 0,45 m e 1,45 m na parte mais funda. Tudo na companhia de um belíssimo jardim tropical, criado pelo paisagista Gil Fialho, de São Paulo, SP.

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SUSTAINTABILITY WAS MANDATORY. ALL THE MATERIALS USED WERE HARVESTED LOCALLY OR FROM CERTIFIED SUPPLIERS AND LOW-IMPACT SOLUTIONS WERE APPLIED IN THE PROJECT

04 0 5 0

15 1 4 13

1.71

3.62

3,20 0.72X2.15

0.72X2.15 1,1 9

1,00

SUITE 3

deck

2,15

1.15

4 .35x1.85 1.00

SUITE 4

2.99

2.24

1.25 x 1.85

HALL

.30

1.15

APROVADO

spot

0.82X 2.15

2.24X2.83

2.18

1.12

1.59

Estacionamento 3

.27

BB spot

2,30

LAV.

05 0 6 07 08 09

spot

BANHO 01

2,30

BANHO 01

3,85

3.30x1.85 1.00

1 6 15 14 13 12 11 10

ESCALA 1:100

0.60 x 1.78 1.40

11.24

VAZIO

CORTE BB

SOBE

0.18

SUÍTE HÓSPEDE

0.60 x 1.78 1.00

-3.99

E SERVIÇO

0.8 2X2.15

projeção do mezanino

1.29

SOBE

3,34

2.70

P. N. T. 87 PEDRA

Estacionamento 5

CONSERVAR 3.15

AR EA 5 9, 53 M2

-2.44

3.19

-1.73

0.62

ÁREA CALÇADA DE PEDRA

-1.41

-1.00

1.16

2.74

1.16

87,80

Estacionamento 1

ÁREA 54,19M 2

COZINHA/ JANTAR

5.34x1.85 1.00

BALCÃO H= 0.90 M

12.53

piscina

projeção do mezanino

AREA 31,89 M2

COZINHA/ JANTAR praia

6 .24x1.85 1.00

ESTAR

Estacionamento 6

Estacionamento 4

3.82

LAVABO

2.30

0.72X2.15

- 1.00

1.25 x1.85

87.66 = -0.05

2.30

Estacionamento 2

3.25

87.68 = -0.03

BANHO 01

2.30

BANHO 01

NOTA: - SISTEMA DE ESGOTO: Será utilizado o mesmo sistema de esgoto já aprovado. 04 05 06 07 08 09

5.73 11.91

projeção da parede pavimento inferior

5.70 3.11

TERRAÇO 90,66 = 2.95

0.60

2.00

ELEMENTO VAZADO

3.33

1.65

0.33

7.20

VIGA DE MADEIRA 20X25 CM

02 01

1.29

1.91

1.86

3.75

3.38

PILAR DE EUCALIPTO TORNEADO ø=268 mm

4.01 BASE EM BLOCO DE CONCRETO

11.95

5.26

PAVIMENTO TÉRREO CORTE AA

ESCALA 1:100

3.15

12.53 3.82

5.07

3.20

90,65 = 2.94

3.85

4.38 90,68 = 2.97

ÁREA DO TERRENO ..................................................841,30 M²

1.15

ÁREA CONSTRUÍDA APROVADA PAVIMENTO TÉRREO ................................................216,82 m² PAVIMENTO SUPERIOR ............................................102,67 m² CHURRASQUEIRA ........................................................19,23 m²

11.91

2.01

projeção da parede pavimento inferior

3.49

5.70

90,68 = 2.97

VAZIO

TOTAL DA CONSTRUÇÃO

TERRAÇO

I.A. = 57%%% - T.O. = 47%%%

90,66 = 2.95

APROVAÇÃO

3.33

17.74

1.65

7.20

PILAR DE EUCALIPTO TORNEADO ø=268 mm

11.95

technical drawing| ground floor and mezannine plan ESCALA 1:100

TOTAL

338,72 m²

ÁREA CONSTRUÍDA A SER CONSERVADA PAVIMENTO INFERIOR ................................................93,65 m² PISCINA .........................................................................51,15 m²

0.60

3.11

10.19

AA MEZANINO

5.98

PAVIMENTO TÉRREO

DECLARO QUE A RECONHECIMEN PROPRIEDADE D

ÁREAS

SUITE 2

87.68 = -0.03

4.01

ALAMEDA DAS AROEIRAS ILHABELA - SP

0.95 D

0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3

90,68 = 2.97

04 05 06 07 08 09

15 14 13 12 11 10

PROJEÇÃO DO TELHADO

5.73

SUITE CASAL

6.78

ESTAR

WALBERT ANTÔNIO DOS

SITUAÇÃO

2.44

PROPRIETÁRIO

BANHO 01

SUITE 4 87.71 = 0.00

PROJETO DE CONSER

LOCAL

90,63 = 2.93

2.30

90,63 = 2.93

BANHO 01

OBRA

3.40

2.30

87.66 = -0.05

projeção do mezanino

9.13 2.01

projeção do telhado

3.38

7.00

ESTAR

.17,5

00.00

6.63

VARANDA

2.44

87.68 = -0.03

PAVIMENTO INFERIOR

1.16

projeção do telhado

28,30m

5.60 3.45

1.72

1.52

1.00

VARANDA

PEDRA COZINHA

0.15

2.88

16.20

10.19

BALCÃO H= 0.90 M

MEZANINO

2.97

87 ÁREA DE SERVIÇO

AREA 19,71 M2 -1.00

ÁREA DE PRESERVAÇÃO

ESTAR

VIGA DE MADEIRA 20X25 CM

P. N. T.

1.30

CHURRASQUEIRA

1.00

AA 1.60

0.20

2.87

5.98

2.72

BANHO SERV.

3.49

1.59

5.34

TERRAÇO

3.57

8.00

0.25

QUARTO SERVIÇO

QUARTO HÓSPEDES

P. N. T.

-1.00

ÁREA 54,19M2

90,68 = 2.97

1.45

2.18

4.72

NHO

1.85

0.25

0.90

SUITE CASAL

0.27

1.12

7.69

2.51

deck

AREA 31,89 M2

ÁREA CALÇADA DE PEDRA

2.53

8.00

1.21

-1.41

praia

spot

1.15

SOBE

9.34

-1.73

spot

-1.00

CUMEEIRA

87.71 = 0.00

11.04

-2.44

6.78

COZINHA/ JANTAR

AREA 5 9,5 3 M2

8.08

projeção do mezanino

spot

piscina

-1.33

0.30

1.20

HALL

2.24

2.26

87.68 = -0.03

spot

87.71 = 0.00

16 15 14 13 12 11 10

2.15

3.56

87.68 = -0.03

11.33 03

SUITE 4

2.30

1.19

LAV.

90,65 = 2.94

3.85

2.55

1.00

87.71 = 0.00

2.18

3.20

PROJEÇÃO DO TELHADO

SUITE 3

1.20 05

BANHO 0

PEDRA

87.68 = -0.03

0.33

VARANDA

projeção do telhado

PILOTIS

300.300.300.300.300.30

90,63 = 2.93

3.48

87.66 = -0.05

-1.00

.33

AREA 19,71 M 2

AR MÁR IO

CHURRASQUEIRA -1.33

LAJE REVESTIDA DE PEDRA SERRADA

PAVIMENTO SUPERIOR

ESCALA 1:100

483,52 m²

Zona: ZU2

PROJ. E RE

ESPAÇO VAZIO

TELHA DE BARRO I = 26 %%%

PEDRA SOBE

1.20

PERGOLADO

89 PATAMAR

04 03 02 01

LAJE REVESTIDA DE PEDRA SERRADA CHURRASQUEIRA

3.25

86 85 84

FACHADA FRONTAL

CX D'ÁGUA 2000 L

spot

deck

2,30

8.00

1.15

2.24

1.25 x 1.85

.30

SUITE 4

1.15

2.99

HALL

2.53

2,15

0.82X 2.15

1 6 15 14 13 12 11 10

05 0 6 07 08 09

LAV.

0.25

3,20 0.72X2.15 1,1 9

1,00

2.24X2.83

1.29

0.60 x 1.78 1.40

2,30

0.60 x 1.78 1.00

8.00

BANHO

2.97

APROVADO

spot

BANHO 01

0.72X2.15

SUITE 3

2.18

1.12

1.59

Estacionamento 3

Estacio

0.25

spot

MEZANINO

BANHO 01

3,85

3.30x1.85 1.00

1.40

1.70 1.20

2.18

11.24

3.62

0.8 2X2.15

VAZIO

2.83

SOBE

1.29

SOBE

.27

projeção do mezanino

PEDRA

1.71

3,34

04 0 5 06 07 08 09

15 1 4 13 12 11 10

ESCALA 1:100

CONSERVAR

87,80

-1.00

ÁREA 54,19M 2

VARANDA

SALA DE ESTAR

Estacionamento 1

COZINHA/ JANTAR

BANHO

00.00

Estacionamento 4

P. N. T.

ESTAR

Esta

2.72

ÁREA CALÇADA DE PEDRA

-1.41

praia

COZINHA/ JANTAR

5.34x1.85 1.00

BALCÃO H= 0.90 M

-2.44

-1.73

1.55

AR EA 5 9, 53 M2

.17,5

piscina

projeção do mezanino

AREA 31,89 M2

- 1.00

1.25 x1.85

ATERRO

Estacionamento 2

3.48

LAVABO

0.72X2.15

0.17

-0.98

CHURRASQUEIRA

LAJE REVESTIDA DE PEDRA SERRADA

AREA 19,71 M 2

0.33

AR MÁR IO

CHURRASQUEIRA -1.33

-1.00

1.31

0.18

SUÍTE HÓSPEDE

CORTE BB

spot

ESCALA 1:100

AREA 5 9,5 3 M2

-2.44

-1.73

ÁREA CALÇADA DE PEDRA

-1.41

-1.00

praia

12.53 3.19

0.62

2.87

16.20

28,30m

2.18

2.30 87.66 = -0.05

87.66 = -0.05

0.25

87.68 = -0.03

BANHO 01

2.30

BANHO 01 8.00

projeção do telhado

ÁREA DE PRESERVAÇÃO

1.60

87.68 = -0.03

3.20

VIGA DE MADEIRA 20X25 CM

5.60

2.51

0.90

1.45

ESTAR

BASE EM BLOCO DE CONCRETO

4.72

CORTE AA

BANHO 01 BANHO

3.85

90,65 = 2.94

90,63 = 2.93

BANHO 01

WALBERT ANTÔNIO

87.68 = -0.03

0.33

2.30 90,63 = 2.93

2.94

VARANDA

PEDRA 05 04 03

LOCAL 7.20

ALAMEDA DAS AROEI ILHABELA - SP .65

3.40

7.69

acesso a casa de maquinas piscina

PROPRIETÁRIO

3.45

5.07

1.52

0.94

12.53

3.82

2.30

4.60

technical drawing| Facade, section BB and section AA QUARTO HÓSPEDES

PROJETO DE CON

OBRA

3.57

QUARTO SERVIÇO

3.66

DESPENSA

ESCALA 1:100

NHO 01 3.20

BALCÃO H= 0.90 M

1.21

1.70

5.34

1.85

11.04

87.66 = -0.05

87.71 = 0.00

SOBE

9.34

3.15

1.59

COZINHA/ JANTAR

1.15

projeção do mezanino

2.24

VIGA DE MADEIRA 20X25 CM

SOBE 08

2.18

1.12

1.20

6.78

1.20

HALL

0.30 01

ESTAR

0.27

0.300.300.300.300.300.300.30

P. N. T. PEDRA

87.68 = -0.03

2.26 00.00

11.33

COZINHA

.17,5

1.00

2.72

P. N. T.

2.72

1.72

0.33

87.71 = 0.00

MEZANINO

04 05 06 07 08 09

87.68 = -0.03

2.97

SUITE 4

2.30

1.19

LAV.

16 15 14 13 12 11 10

3.56

2.53

TERRAÇO

0.25

8.00

1.00

87.71 = 0.00

PILOTIS

2.15

SUITE 3

BANHO

87.68 = -0.03

AREA 19,71 M2 -1.00

3.15

1.16

CUMEEIRA

1.16

CHURRASQ

1.00

-1.00

2.74

1.16

ÁREA 54,19M2

84 -1.33

8.08

BANHO

deck

AREA 31,89

piscina

2.55

-3.99

1.29

NOTA: - SISTEMA DE ESGOTO: Será utilizado o mesmo sistema de esgoto já aprovado.

ÁREA DE SERVIÇO

spot

.33

2.70

3.00 4.61

3.25

P. N. T. projeção do telhado

spot

VARANDA

PEDRA

Alexandre Herchcovitch, is an internationally renowned Brazilian fashion designer. With stores both in Brazil and Tokyo, he have been sent down the runways of New York, Paris, London and Sao Paulo Fashion Weeks. His collections are discussed in the editorial sections of the most important fashion and behavior magazines, both in Brazil and abroad. Recognized for his avant-garde design, he’s also an active contributor to Sao Paulo’s alternative night scene. The architectural brief for the concept store demanded a space that would reflect the hip, but yet punk, essence of the brand. With the proposal to intervene minimally in the existing space, the proposal design takes inspiration from industrial sheds. Expanding trough two levels, the store has a long rectangular plan that is enhanced by a gradient shift of colors, that subdivides it into sections; the entrance area is covered in black, while colors become

clear towards back of the shop, creating a sense of arousement. The white room stands out. The area has a glassroof ceiling two times as higher as the entranceway, increasing the brightness of the space. Products are displayed in used and unusual custom designed furniture, that remarks those of industrial sheds, like painted wooden doors and hydraulic pipes.

THE BRIEF WAS TO INTERVEINE MINIMALLY IN THE EXISTING SPACE, HAVING AS REFERENCE THE ARCHITECTURE OF INDUSTRIAL SHEDS. THE SPACE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A “FASHION STATEMENT” FOR THE BRAND

hanger detail |

lightining detail |

furniture detail |

Following up the concept store in Sao Paulo, the Rio de Janeiro shop was designed to reach a more conventional public, with the aim of expanding the brand identity. The core elements of the concept store were kept, like the furniture and the idea of the duality between an enclosed/claustrophobic space and an infinite one, that is translated trought the lower ceiling in the back of the shop and the backlighted ceilling of the main space. The lighted ceiling was also an strategy to increase the space perception, as it was too small.

TO INCREASE THE SPACE, THE CEILING RECEIVED A BACKLIGHT SYSTEM, MIMICKING THE SENSATION OF A SPATIOUS AREA WITH A GLASS ROOF

lightining and ceiling plan |

layout and flooring plan | 50

sections A, B and C |

Carmim is a big Brazilian brand focused in clothing and accessories, but also commercialize shoes and home accessories. Carmim searched our office to rethink the concept of the brand, which is targeted to an young audience, in touch with fashion trends. The brief was to expand the brand, targeting also the adult public that already had an audience in the other branches of the group. There was a requirement for using fine materials that could represent the “posh” side of the brand. We used a mixture of rustic materials with finest and stately finishes. The final result was a repositioning of the brand in the market, which eventually expand this new concept to the entire network of the stores. I collaborated in all phases of the project,developing the brand concept, making presentations to the clients, preparing technical drawings and monitoring and managing the construction.

CARMIM WAS TARGETING A NEW PUBLIC FOR THE BRAND, WITHOUT DISCONNECTING IT FROM ITS OLD, YOUNG, CLIENTS.

approval drawings| level plans

COMPETITION COMPETITION

Competition for the development of new sustainable housing typologies for CDHU, Brazilian popular housing system. The goal was to work with the concepts of Metadesign, working in all spheres of comprisement of a project like this. I participated in all phases, but with a focus on developing concepts and architecture and the functioning of the system itself. Believing that the power of CDHU can go beyond simply delivering spaces built for a needy part of society, we designed thinking in relations which would be made within this space, not imposing a way of life that is often incompatible with the user’s interest, but allowing them to use this as an extension of that society, which often this public finds himself excluded. The CDHU should not be reference of standard only for low-income people, but for the whole society. Among the changes with which we consider, is the ascendancy of the middle class as a participant of the consumer society, the family planning, endowed with longings and desires, and not only meeting the demands of survival. But, strictly speaking, very little can be said about what is yet to come, on demands and desires. Thus, we contemplate the need for adaptability of construction.

So, we decided to propose not only a new type of building, but an entire community, considering the project as a system and not as an application solution absolutely circumstantial, covering not only the constructive way, but its functioning, its impact on society as a whole and the community created within it, making its architectural concept intrinsic part of the operation of this community. The architecture, to be sustainable, must abandon the habit of being demolished when is no longer relevant to the social context. To escape this unsustainable logic, architecture should try to follow the social environment fluctuations ,becoming a system of pre - fabricated from open arrangement and low maintenance. The building itself should become an “Equipment Sustainable Living”, besides involving housing multifunctional aspects such as urban farming, local energy production, solar heating, commercial activity and productivity autonomous and pluralization of social activities.

T H E H OUS I N G A S A SYS T E M , T H E B UI L D I N G A S A S USTA I N A B L E L I V I NG EQUI PM E N T. COM PUT I N G F OR T H E N FL E X IBILIZE

layout options |

painéis de concreto celular

composicao de fechamentos | painéis de concreto celular

painéis de concreto celular associado a lamina corrugada de aluminio

composicao de fechamentos | variacao de caixilhos garante ventilacao e insolacao

viga metálica trelicada 12m

viga metálica trelicada 6m

guarda corpo metálico 2m/1m

suporte de micro-plantio

habitable cluster | inventory of pieces

conector de paredes

vedo da camada estrutural

conector pilar/ viga

grelha estrutural metálica | 2mx1m

loan de impermeabilizacao do forro

piso modular | forro modular | 1mx1m 2mx1m

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SPECIAL SPECIAL PROJECTS PROJECTS

Team | Mustafa El Sayed, Apostolis Despotidis, Ilya Pereyaslavtsev, Agata Banaszek, Octavian Gheorghiu, Houze Xu, Iuquiu Jiang, Maria Paula Velasquez, Fanos Katsaris, Pavlina Vardoulaki, Hitesh Katiyar, Irina Safovona, Nhan Vo, Julian Lin, Flávia Ghirotto Santos Exihibited at | NESTA’S | FUTURE FEST EXHIBITION

Emotive City is immersive environment designed to explore our evolving relations with machines.

and self-organize itself, defining the different scales through which ‘Emotive City’ would operate.

The project is an speculative proposal of the future of the cities, where everything is interconnect and interrelated and where the behaviour of the users influences and shapes the living environment. In this proposal, the concept of architecture shifts from the idea of space to a highly interactive and participatory environment, by enabling the architecture to find itself through communication and evolve from that. In the city of the future, architecture could be driven and organized and built around human interactions, and those interactions would define which form this architecture would have in a self-organized city. In this sense, every living environment could interact and communicate, creating an ecology of living machines that are generative and capable of making decisions.

The model was an interactive installation where 2500 clusters of acrylic spheres representing the living spaces of the future. The model was placed in the top a table together with a swarm of intelligent robots capable of making decisions and interact with the public. The robots represented the interaction that humans and machines would have in the future, where human behaviour would affect the decisions of these machines. Each sphere had a LED light inside where the colors, controlled by a generative algorithm, would swarm across the structure, influenced by the interaction of the robots and the people and also trhough twitter feeds that represented emotional states of the people in the city. Those interactions were also expressed trough a video interface, that was capable of gathering the data and visually represent it to the public.

Together with the main installation were also exhibited the research projects from Spyroupolos Studio at DRL (including my research project NOMAD), an ecology of different machines that are capable of self-assembly

I was responsible for designing the hardware and the behaviour fo the robots, and how they would interfere with the main structure. I also contributed in the production and assembly of the main structure.

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ARCHIGRAM OPERA [AND ZOO]

About | Screen multimedia installation to celebrate the 50 years of the Archigram Opera, with the presence of Peter Cook, David Greene and Dennis Crompton. Status | Completed Location | London/UK Date | 2014 Team | Collaboration with Theodore Spyropoulos Exihibited at | Architectural Association School of Architecture

The celebration of the 50 years after Archigram´s first major exhibition, the Living City and the publication to the fourth issue of Archigram magazine, the Architectural Association (AA) decided to recreated the scenery, allowing to experience the 1972 four-screen multimedia installation that is the Archigram Opera. The Opera was screened amidst large-scale Zoo creatures and pop-ups from the Archigram archive. Archigram - Warren Chalk (b.1927, d. 1987), Peter Cook (b.1936), Dennis Crompton (b.1935), David Greene (b.1937), Ron Herron (b.1930, d. 1994), and Michael Webb (b.1937) - was a visionary London-based architectural practice. Their synthesis of culture and technology in their many speculative projects ignited much discussion and debate at

the time, and their projects continue to impact the architectural profession today. Together with other students, we recriated the space and the installations for the celebration.

ARCHIGRAM WAS, BEYOND EVERYTHING, IMMENSELY CREATIVE. I DON’T THINK WE HAVE TO BE SHY ABOUT THAT. WHEN THE GROUP WAS FIRST FORMED IN 1964 IT CONSISTED OF SIX MEN WHO RANGED IN TEMPERAMENT FROM THE LACONIC TO THE BRIGHTEYED, AND IN AGE AND EXPERIENCE FROM THE HARDENED BUILDERS OF LOCAL AUTHORITY SCHOOLS AND PUBLIC BUILDINGS, TO YOUNG ARCHITECTS WHO WERE IN THEIR FIRST JOBS AFTER SCHOOL.” PETER COOK, LONDON 2012.

LOOP>>60Hz:

Known for experimenting with technologies and industrial sounds in his music, John Cale has thrived at the vanguard of a myriad of creative disciplines, from setting the stage for an underground, noise-bending attack on rock and roll with the Velvet Underground, to his current genre-bending music of today, like tuning his instruments to the hum of refrigerator motors, the frequency of modernisation. Liam Young, a visionary architect, speculates about the urban futures, telling stories about the possibilities of drone technologies in the cities of tomorrow. In this collaboration, they explored the soundscape of a new generation, the distant rumble of drone propellers as emerging cultural objects. Typically associated with military applications, they are presented as a collection of flying machines, nomadic audio infrastructure and instruments to create an immersive live musical and visual performance. A flock of autonomous DJI copters are programmed as aerial dancers and are mounted with specially engineered wireless speakers

to broadcast the instruments of the band. Other copters are dressed in elaborate costumes to disguise their form and reflect light across the audience below. I’ve collaborated in the production of the drones costumes during the pre-production of the show, under pressure conditions to meet the short deadline, following up with the all the specific processes and that a show like this demands.

i n d ex N oMad La mbda Mr. Flo ppy Su p ple Pa vilion Ta mbaba C a s a Sul H erc hcovitc h Sao Paul o H erc hcovitc h Rio de J an ei ro C a r mim Nt hi ss Emo tive City A rc higram Opera Loop >> 6 0hz

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