Guilherme Arnon Schmitt portfolio '15
Info
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06.13.1992 Brazil Curitiba, PR, Brazil +55 41 9546-5118 guilherme.arnon@gmail.com cargocollective/guilhermeschmitt
Resume education
'10 – '15
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná — Curitiba, Brazil Barchelor’s degree, Architecture and Urbanism
'13
Parsons The New School For Design — New York, NY, U.S.A. Visiting Student — B. ARCH, Architectural Design School of Constructed Environments
'13
Eugene Lang Liberal Arts College — New York, NY, U.S.A. Visiting Student — BA, Urban Studies Department
experience / awards
'15
CeneGAU — PUCPR Director of Culture
'14 / 6 – present
Curitiba Research and Urban Planning Institute IPPUC — Curitiba, Brazil Architecture intern
'14
Atelier 33.55 — Student Collective Collaborator
'14
Hello Nature — Combo Competitions Participant
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Grand Bay Construction, LLC — Santa Rosa Beach, Florida Architecture intern
'13
M. Arch studio “Cities with Wet Feet” — Parsons, NYC Third-year M.arch studio “Cities With Wet Feet” at Parsons with Bjarke Ingels, Daniel Kidd and Jeremy Alain Siegel of Bjarke Ingels Group BIG
'13
Dean’s List — The New School
'13
“Science Without Borders” — CAPES Full scholarship exchange program at Parsons The New School for Design in New York City
'13
1st place — “Academic Design Competition for design of new logo for School of Architecture and Urbanism Course” — PUCPR
'11
“Entre Escalas” — SACADA 2011 Participant Parametric design and digital fabrication workshop by Atelier UM+D
'10 - '11
Proarq arquitetura — Curitiba, PR, Brazil Architecture intern Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects Sketchup PRO, Rhinoceros, Maya (basic) VRay ArcGIS Grasshopper (basic) Revit, ArchiCAD (basic) AutoCAD, Vectorworks
skills
Index
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DOBBS FERRY BOAT ACADEMY & MARITIME MUSEUM
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VERTICAL HOUSING PROJECT
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MUNICIPAL SCHOOL
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MAYPOLE CYCLE
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GOWANUS CANAL(S)
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OTHER
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Dobbs Ferry Boat Academy & Maritime Museum '13 – Dobbs Ferry, NY, USA Parsons Design Studio IV
Dobbs Ferry is a small town by the Hudson River, north of New York City and about 11.000 inhabitants. The basic objective of the project was to design a maritime museum and/ or a boat academy which would bring a new life to the city and remind the people of the history of the place and their former relation with navigation, as well as capacitate people on the wood boats building technique. However after looking to the site and further developing the concept, the goal became to build something to reconnect people to the water and to the art of manufacturing wooden boats. Thus, the project got much more subjective,exploring the materiality of the building elements, relations between light and shadows and ways to lead the visitor through the design, sometimes showing and denying specific views causing him to explore the site in order to understand it, instead of revealing everything at once.
Ultimately the concepts of the museum and the academy turned into one thing and one space, exposing not only the final product of its maritime production – the boats – but also all the process behind their fabrication.
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process The design process went through a series of steps in order to ‘unpack’ the preconceived ideas and to get the closest we could to the meaning of the site’s conditions. It begun with the visit of the site and the production of a video telling the experience. Then we produced a series of material studies in which two or more items of distinct properties were combined in order to study transparencies, resistance, permeability etc.; study models – scribed relief – made through cutting, scoring, folding and adding layers to amplify conditions of the site to extract the spatial qualities of the site and surroundings context. The final presentation combined all the relevant outcome of the semester and was based mainly on the watercolor and graphite representation. Right Material studies Left Study models
The boat academy teaches the art of building wooden boats which are exposed in spaces on a thick wall which connects the museum/academy to the water – the gallery.
Gallery section
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Study models – site interations
Presentation models
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Isometric section
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Vertical Housing Project '12 – Hugo Lange, Curitiba, PR + Victor Escorsin
This project explores a different design approach right in the middle of a growing neighborhood of Curitiba, Hugo Lange, populated by anachronic buildings which often sell ordinary design under the extravagance label. This project offers diversity by contemporary design combining different apartment types and large open green areas. The building stands on a single tower with north facing apartments, which ensures solar light all day long. The south facade contains the vertical and horizontal circulations and the access to all of the apartments. The ground floor offers plenty of green areas plus spaces of leisure and recreation. The project sums over 6000 m² – 8 apartment levels, two garage floors and leisure spaces.
Modulation digram
Types
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The design features 7 apartment types arranged on many configurations from single, duples; one to three bedrooms. This ensures the building houses people of different incomes and age groups. Ground floor plan
Perspective transverse section cuts
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Municipal School '12 – Atuba, Curitiba, PR +Victor Escorsin +Renan Sanson
With a very large program which requires classrooms for students from kindergarten to high-school, the project explores the relations between the age groups and its study spaces. Also, the project interacts with the surrounding community as an open sports court and patio. Instead of concentration all of the classrooms in one massive tower, it was chosen a quite horizontal shape with “U” shaped blocks configuring a central patio which has two levels: the lower, open to the community
connected to the gym, and the upper level, dedicated to the school use. The design created also created hierarchy between the volumes, age groups and the natural site’s topography. On the lower elevation there is the kindergarten with direct access to the patio. On the higher elevations there are the primary education block which classrooms are located on a horizontal bar. Behind it, the high-school building which is two story tall indicating where the grown ups are.
Isometric sections
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With the age groups on different blocks it is easier for the school to control the students, preventing conflicts. The classrooms were oriented in a way to receive natural illumination and feature metallic brise soleil elements which allow good amount of light but block direct sun light. Also, due the blocks horizontality, natural cross ventilation allows minimum use of artificial cooling and heating equipment.
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The school also features an auditorium, large dinning hall and arts and sciences laboratories. C
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Isometric perspective
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Much of the design came from the structural system used - metallic structure with vierendeel trusses and steel deck slabs which made possible to free the ground level and create large covered patios which are ideal spaces for students play and meet.
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1. Pilars 2. Vierendeel beams 3. Trasverse trusses 4. Longitudinal lockings 5. Steel Deck slabs 6. Partitions 7. Finishings
Perspective - external patio
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Maypole Cycle Hello Nature '14 – Omneberget,Höga Kusten, Sweden + Guilherme Figueiredo + Frederico De Lucas
Site
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The Hello Nature competition asked us to design a structure that for education and leisure while celebrating nature right at the UNESCO’s World Herritage site – The High Coast. “There are numerous evidences of the positive impacts of nature in the human life – physically and psychologically. Unfortunately, as the humanity grew in number and technologically, we have been using nature merely as a resource font, recklessly exploring it, which in recent years motivated a movement to keep man away from nature. We believe men has the right and the need to live connected to nature. That thought led us to an approach which takes outdoor activities as a central idea and motivator. If people need to become environmentally conscious, it is essential that they get to know nature physically – the fresh pure mountain air, the colors and sounds...That’s the core of conservancy. Our intervention takes outdoor activities as the best way to know nature, and creates a reference object on the landscape to guide the hikers. But that poses a question: How big an intervention needs to be in order to be significant? Respect is the key word in this case. Our biggest challenge was to find a way to design the most significant intervention, combining the site specific conditions with the concept of celebration, while still respecting nature. The design approach sought to find that sweet spot, which we believe was
achieved through two different elements strongly bonded to the natural dynamics. In Sweden nature is celebrated when winter ends and spring begins. Long periods of cold and snow makes people rejoice when the sun comes out. During the day the celebration usually takes place around a pole – the Maypole, and at night, people get together around fires and watch the stars. This rite is a celebration of nature’s dynamics wich means the series of transformations that happens to nature over time. Some of these are faster and easier to observe, like seasons, others are extremely slow but equally important, e.g., the High Coast. With all that in mind the design resulted in two elements combining all these concepts, the natural dynamics, celebration, respect and coexistence with nature in a very subtle way in which architecture doesn’t draws more attention to itself than to the nature around it. “
Maypole Glass enclosure
Soil layers exposed
Glass markings tell the history of the place
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The intervention have two elements. One that for summer and another for the winter. The first one is a glass pole which refers to the traditional Maypole. Inside the pole there are layers extracted from the bedrock, stacked in chronological order. The glass allows people to see the layers so it works as a vertical showcase which tells the history of the place and teaches people that even something solid as a rock is subject to the natural dynamic – which shaped the site’s landscape. The glass is engraved with markings indicating the age of the rock layers. The pole is also a landmark to guide the hikers which climb the mountain.
The block is excavated on the inside to create a chimney which allows for a fire inside the shelter. An opening on one side opens a view to the lake and the stars. These two elements are a way to create shelter and, at the same time, tell a story, referring to the local traditions and through minimal interventions.
The second element is to be used in winter, when the site becomes inhospitable because of the cold. Therefore, a shelter is necessary. It is made out of a stone block which sits above a hole on the ground, creating something like a cave. Conceptual diagram
Hiker getting to the shelter. A block of stone on the landscape
Below the block, a spac from snow and cold
ce for rest keeping the hiker
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A small openingon the top of the rock serves as a chimney for the fire. On one side, another opening allows the hiker to see the lake and the horizon
Celebration: summer
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Celebration: winter
1 Neighborhood perimeter 2 Predicted flood zone / Sandy 3 Zonning a Industrial b Residential
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Site location
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Gowanus Canal(s) '13 – Gowanus - Booklyn, NYC, NY, USA Design Studio V
After the Hurricane Sandy which hit the east coast of the USA in October 2012, government started a initiative to rethink the costal cities assuming that more storms like Sandy will come and that this is a new climate condition they have to deal with. New York City was one of the most severely affected cities summing up to $80 billion damage. In the face of that, an international competition called Rebuild By Design selected 10 teams to add resiliency to the region. The architecture office BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group – is one of the the teams leaders and it decided to partner up with Parsons The New School for Design to bring discussion to a university classroom. This was the theme for the last year graduate studio during the Fall semester. Gowanus Canal(s) was one of the projects produced during that class, which focus on the Gowanus area in Brooklyn which suffered severe damage with Sandy. This neighborhood is also one of the most polluted of NYC due an industrial occupation which dumped oil and waste into the Gowanus canal. This canal used to be a rich and vivid marsh back in the dutch times, but after several landfills it became a single polluted canal. The design tries to reconfigure the site re-introducing a new canal network and a new land zoning aiming to clean the water, build new land to accommodate the increasing demand for housing and create resilience so that the new households can live without worrying about a storm. The process started with the study of several urban canals in the world. Therefore it was possible to achieve a series of section cuts of each typology which were combined to create the new Gowanus canal. The final result is a design in wich the canal area was increased allowing for floodable public spaces on its margins that work like a buffer in case of storms. It also features filtering vegetation to help decontaminate the water.
Case studies
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Proposed section - storm
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1 Neighborhood perimeter 2 New canal network – islands and peninsulas 3 Landfills – flood proof areas 3 Waterfront vegetation + stormwater retention lake
The Proteus Gowanus counted on a network of canals which configured a marsh. The marsh contained the floods and ensured a healthy ecosystem. The shape of the new Gowanus creates the maximum contact area between the water and the margins, the same way the microvilli works in a cell, increasing the absorption of impurities by the plants.
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Building typology diagram
Site plan
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Collective Studio PUCPR '14 – Comendador Araújo Street, Curitiba, PR Acadêmic Competition + team
Proposal of an ephemeral project on Comendador Araújo Street to celebrate the ‘World Car Free Day’. Located downtown Curitiba, the street is surrounded by shops and commercial buildings which draw many pedestrians to the site. It is also an extension of the Rua XV, a street closed for automobiles on the ‘70 that became a pedestrian boulevard. Taking a closer look, we see that between the shops and buildings are numerous parking lots. Through the unpacking of the ephemeral idea, we made an analogy to a circus, which is also itinerant. It is something that materializes anywhere out of thin air and while it is there, it makes many people happy. The same way it comes, it goes, leaving the feeling of nostalgia. With that in mind, the project took the shape of a ‘itinerant pedestrian boulevard’ which would occupy a block long stretch over a short period of time. The car traffic would be deviated and a new landscape would be installed on the shape of a wavy green carpet. At this point the parking are useless, so we decided to use them as ‘rooms’ with various functions connected to the carpet – outdoor cinema, bazar, and food festivals. After the stipulated period, the carpet would be removed until it reappears weeks later on another block of the street.
Present site condition / proposal
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Transverse e longitudinal section cuts
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Japanese Restaurant '14 Interior Design Studio + Barbara Ferrarini + Jaqueline Maia
Isometric sections
Exploded axonometric
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Herschel Shop '14 Interior Design Studio + Barbara Ferrarini + Jaqueline Maia + Renan Sanson
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