POR LETICI TFO AROLIM LIO CABRAL architecture/urban art
BIO / INFO Leticia Rolim Cabral, 22 Architecture and Urbanism student at São Paulo State University - conclusion in 2016
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND Dec 2010 Graduated from Highschool Feb 2011-Today BA Architecture and Urbanism at São PauloState University 2012-Today “Virus Mutante” public art extension project
KEY SKILLS Spatial design thinking Electronic modeling Organizational skills Intermediate Spanish
March 2012 “A Roof for my Country” volunteer in the construction of emergency houses in São Paulo favelas
Autodesk Autocad
Feb 2013- Jun 2013 AIESEC Bauru member in the communication team
Rhinoceros 3D
2011-2012-2013 Member of the Architecture Week organizing commettee
Basic Adobe Photoshop
Aug 2014 SIGGRAPH Vancouver student volunteer 2014-Today Extension course on scenography
Google SkecthUp
Adobe Illustrator
Basic Sony Vegas
architecture in the urban scale edification extension project extracurricular
Conceptual development A public university campus should be an effective public space. Based on this premise we aimed to create a new unit for the FAAC (Architecture, Arts and Communication College) in the city center, in front of the train station’s historical building and rail yard. This is a complex and dynamic area, whose degraded aspect conflicts with a strong commercial concentration, together with the historical heritage. We explored the site’s rich points of view to the landscape. Drainange was another project determinative, since its area is subjected to floods.
FAAC
university campus extension group design by Juliana Garcia, Larissa Sartori, Leticia Cabral and Thais Fuchs academic project Bauru-SP Sept 2014 - Nov 2014
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Key concepts 1. Drainage pools 2 and 3. Visual perspectives 4. Directional axes to the plaza 5. Permeable floor 6. Inner yards
We accentuated the public aspect of the campus, constructed as a plaza or simply a circulation path to the city’s population. It is meant to integrate Bauru’s cultural circuit with the artistic courses ministrated, by spaces such as theatres and auditoriums that can be used both for students and community.
New constructed structures represented in red
court
DISTILLERY
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locker rooms
playground
historical site revitalization solo design academic work Lençois Paulista-SP March 2014 - May 2014
memorial/ observatory
court
courses
plaza commerce Generating this project there was the proposal to reativate a former distillery building, as well as its whole production area, to receive a vocational course program’s extension - which includes manual works, informatics and workshops for cars and bicycles. Since the city already has a remarkable cultural structure, in tune with the creative side of the ministrated courses, I sought to transform the area into a public, open recreative space, able to receive cultural activity and become a park for the city’s population.
bike maintenance car workshop computer courses
woods
free internet/ cafeteria
"dry" plaza B
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toilets living area woodwork
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One structuring premise for this project emerged from the way circulation was organized: first in two main rational axes, then the border paths and an organic circuit for bicycles, which extend to a bike lane in the city.
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section BB
The distillation tower and chimney mark the landscape of the city, and the new structures were proposed in a way not to compete with the existing ones. The huge drink barrels were transformed in an observatory, taking advantage of the site’s privileged height.
KINDERGARTEN
post occupation evaluation project group design academic work Bauru-SP Oct2014-Dec2014
This project consisted in visiting and evaluating a kindergarten in Bauru by several techniques such as interviews, walkthrough and thematic drawing activities - performed by my group. We’ve spotted the school’s needs in terms of structure, environmental comfort and programmatic uses and used it to develop project guidelines. The entire class then worked on a project for short term and long term modifications and each group of three people produced its own report on the process.
Administration/informatic area: confusing functions disposition, lack of natural lighting and ventilation. Inappropriate furniture
TV/sleeping room: conflict of uses; need to improve acoustic ans luminic comfort
Classrooms: need for better furniture, organization and visual identity
Right side corridor: also presents drainage problems; we aim to create a vegetated area conforming an acoustic and visual barrier to the classrooms
Entrance circulation: used as playground; there’s noise from the street and warmth from the concrete floor. Need for a coverture.
Back court: Actually a dirt ground where there’s water accumulation. Absence of sitting or shaded spaces. Covered yard: connected to the entrance area, often empty during playing time, when children are rather play in the front hallway. Meant to be improved by new layout, painting and furniture.
Toilets: The male restroom is used as a deposit. Need to suit the toilet for both children and adults; optimize empty spaces. Kitchen: nice temperature, appropriate furniture. Outdoor sink to aid cleaning of tableware, food and hygiene. Refectory: well illuminated, two access doors, good ventilation and well sanitized. Side playground: residual area with toys appropriated only for the smaller children.
The class proposed most of the changes in the outdoor area, including the yard in front of the classrooms - in which my project focused - transformed in a water playground spot. We found a way to unify those external areas with the use of a continuous coverture that works at some points as a rain protection or simply as a pergola. It was an interesting process in which we had constant contact with the studied site, presenting the final results to the school’s administration.
“VÍRUS MUTANTE”
public art extension project
Vírus Mutante is a group born from an Unesp extension project - in which I participate since 2012 - that seeks to investigate the city and its users and propose public art interventions. We are leaded by professor Sidney Tamai, doctor in Architecture and Urbanism. The project on this page is called “1:1” - it consists in giving a person an exten-
ded pencil that maximizes the hand’s movements to draw a real size model. It was ministrated to architecture students by us as a workshop in the college’s “Architecture Week” of 2014; the resulting drawings were adaptated into a scenario placed in a campus living area.
“Hercule Florence� festival intervention located in the former train station of Campinas city. The group helped in the Coursework of the student Ligia Moreira Rodrigues; it used tensioned fabric and projections - videos of the city made by us.
DETACHABLES
public space intervention design by Leticia Cabral and Lauro Franzé Filho “Vírus Mutante” extension project Bauru-SP May 2014
Given the prerogative of the ephemeral and disposable aspect of the contemporary city phenomena, supported the idea of "post-it city" - in which, as well as the peel-off stickers, an urban object can be inserted temporarily to be relocated, discarded or reused - and given the expanded field of view - where shapes, materials, processes and procedures are defined considering the relationship between art / architecture / town and the specificity of places to rethink the contemporary city in its additions and contradictions - emerges the Detachables, trying to introduce new ways of understanding the unoticed urban spaces through which we transit daily. From four specific installations of interactive and non intrusive nature, these interventions require human interaction to be completed:
• Wall longitudinally arranged in a pedestrian walk - a barrier built with a gap at the eye level is placed in a crowded space; the objective of this intervention is to cross glances, the unexpected glimpse, discovering other unknown pedestrian. • Sign with a hidden message - is put into a common place and only a lever driven by another individual reveals the message; the object is constructed so that it is impossible to to pull the lever on your own, requiring a second person for viewing it.
Bauru city map
• Two retroprojetors are placed in a sidewalk - one projects a message, the other eclipses it. The message projected can only be seen when someone else passes in front of one of the retroprojetors, intercepting its light.
Interventions loci
• Can tied by a thread - an interactive game in which the can is attached to a wire and moves on a single axis in opposite directions. Each end of the axis marks a score, and players are passersby who kick the object from one side to the other; a game with multiple players without identification.
The detachables seek to awaken new insights into residual city spaces, in a subtle way for the participants involved.
SCENOGRAPHY
proposal for a public space event Bauru - SP June 2014 As a practical exercise for the extension course on scenography, the class developed proposals for an intervention in a public space of Bauru. The main guidelines were to incorporate easy access material - in the case, fabric and pvc tubes - to think of light effects for nighttime and create a performance. In this page I display my sketches for one initial proposal, that sought to create niches of fabric held by people and structured with pvc, as an action would be projected within those niches. The performance should be slow and gradative to mark the time passage and would be held in a central plaza of Bauru.
The final result, although, was very different: the entire class came around a collective solution through a brainstorm and due to limited time and budget the intervention was set in the campus. We’ve created a small event with music and synchronized projections, including the ones of a retrorpojector being manipulated live.
AIESEC ARCHITECTURE BAURU WEEK
young international organization member from Feb 2013 - June 2013 communication sector in the left: example of artwork created
students organized college event (workshops+lectures) member of lectures sector in the years of 2011, 2012 and 2013
A ROOF FOR SIGGRAPH 2014 digital technology and MY COUNTRY animation conference construction of emergency houses
São Paulo’s Pedra Branca favela March 2012
student volunteer Vancouver BC Aug 2014
THANK YOU!
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