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Contents Condensed Version Resume
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Orange Barrel Media HQ
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Grimshaw
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AI Assemblies
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Library in 2050
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Facade Proposal
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Urban Fragmento
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Urban Infill
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Lourenรงo Vaz Pinto I believe the blend of my Portuguese architecture education and the new radical technological based architecture taught at SCI-Arc has aggregated and helped me develop a strong personal style. I have a care for context and human experience whilst being interested in producing provocative work that also questions society and thus architecture. I enjoy using design as a tool of transformation and guidance. I believe this is the correct way to approach the immense responsibility we have as designers of worlds, no matter digital or physical.
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Resume Lourenรงo Vaz Pinto Born: Address:
Cellphone:
905 E 2nd Street, apt.328 Los Angeles, California, 90012 1 (213) 317 6340
Skype:
lourencovp
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lourencovp@outlook.com
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18/06/1996 - Lisbon, Portugal
Fluent in Portuguese, English Average in Spanish
Education 2018-2020
Southern California Institute of Architecture Master of Architecture II The program engages on edge methods of representation while focusing on finding the next architectural theories merging technology with architecture and speculating through them.
2015-2018
Lisbon School of Architecture Bachelor of Architecture + Urbanism The program was delivered with a real world approach giving tools and techniques for the workplace.
2015
Embassy CES Oxford Headington Certificate of English, A+
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Porto School of Architecture Architecture 1 month program.
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Skills
3D Houdini Rhino Grasshopper Archicad Revit
ZBrush Maya Unity
2D
Physical
Rendering
AutoCad Photoshop Illustrator InDesign
3D Printing Laser Cutting CNC Routing Coloured Resin Spray Painting
Vray Lumion Twinmotion Arnold Mantra Keyshot
Work 2019
Grimshaw Architects Architecture Design Intern at Grimshaw Architects New York office, worked from concept design to 3d modeling and rendering, projects include La Guardia Airport Entrance Hall, and the JFK Airport masterplan.
2017-2019
Freelance Beach House - Project for a small house directly on the beach, concept, details, contractors. Saboia Residences - Five stories, ten apartments building, full architecture and drawing set.
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Fragmentos de Arquitectura Part time Junior Architect (while finishing Bsc) Managed several apartment renovations, from conceptual to details and contractors.
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Achievements 2019-2020
Teachers Assistant at SCI_Arc TA for Maxi Spina and Randy Jefferson during the 2019 Fall Semester for the 3rd year undergraduate class, Material and Tectonics.
2019
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Architecture Intern during the 2017 summer, general CAD work, Modeling large portions of Lisbon for an Urban Proposal.
Underscore Publication - 2019 Published at the Magazine Underscore - Money Versions with the Home Competition Entry, 224 House.
2019
Pandopopulus AI Future of Housing Prize winner with an artificial intelligence based housing project to develop affordable housing solutions.
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Paris Affordable House Challenge 2019 2nd Prize winner with the entry “Urban Infill�.
Voluntary 2018
Unicef Volunteer Founder of the Unicef Lisbon Youth Group, after the work done as National Junior Representative, started helping Unicef Portugal create their youth group.
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CISV International Portuguese National Junior Representative Elected by the members of CISV Portugal to represente the youth movement natianally and internationally. Attended several conferences.
Chairman of the Village Program Committee Organised several camps a year with over a hundred, eleven-year-olds and thirty plus adults to give training to the children on peace education.
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Instructor_Tom Wiscombe Location_Columbus, Ohio Subject_Design Studio
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Orange Barrel Media HQ
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“An unconventional office building, ignoring the architectural element of slabs and columns, this building uses circulation that penetrates and revolves around the core to produce the required office spaces.�
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The Orange Barrel Media HQ proposal revolves around various architectural ideas. The typology of office spaces is plagued with a stiff and entrenched way of producing office spaces, the open floor plan that allows for flexibility rarely used, or the segmentation of a slab into smaller rooms, both tried and proved to have its flaws. This project looks at the office building, not as a stationary situation, but acknowledges that the office building has a constant flow of moving people, from going to a meeting, leaving for lunch hour to a client visiting, the idea that the office building mainly serves the stationary office work is resisted by eliminating the stationary architectural elements of columns and slabs and betting entirely on the circulation to bring forth the space required, the core serves its function for vertical transition, and the long ever-flowing arms that penetrate and exit the core serve as both the office space and the primary circulation method. The three elements utilized in this project consist of the box, the core and the arms, all of them consisting of subparts. The project uses the idea of the model kit to produce rapid transformations and enact on the
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idea of the building as a kit of parts. The arms exist as components that are layered with structure and texture; it is in the arms that the office space exists, inside or outside, the regular office worker might find himself on top of the arm he used to reach his desk. The total and complete elimination of the column leaves a project that has no structural grid and thus finds other methods of construction. The idea of the arms as components is further pushed by acknowledging the new methods of construction where the arms are built in a controlled manufacturing site and later transported to the site for full assembly. The core serves as the only structural element in the project, thus being a full massive mass of concrete where the arms, penetrate, attach and rest. The last element is the box which contains the architecture and provides a closed and safe environment. The box is cut for the addition of an auditorium in the first floor, and on top for a rooftop with a view to Columbus downtown.
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Photograph, Model Kit of OBM HQ Proposal
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Parts Photograph, Parts
Penetration Photograph, Core
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Rendered, Component Arms
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Rendered, Isometric Floor Plan I
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Rooftop
Core Office Space
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Interior Arm Office Spaces
Viewpoint
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Interior Social Spaces Interior Auditorium
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Rendered, Courtyard View
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Rendered, Lobby
Rendered, Office Space II
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Due to a confidentiality agreement I cannot showcase the work produced at Grimshaw Architects NYC Office.
Please contact Mo Bala for references: mo.bala@grimshaw.global
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I was an Architecture Design Intern at Grimshaw Architects New York office, and have worked from concept design to 3d modeling and rendering, projects include La Guardia Airport Entrance Hall, and the JFK Airport masterplan.
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Instructor_Casey Rehm Partner_Theo Dattola, Emil Senheusen, Yibo Qiao, Isabella Socorro Subject_AI Assemblies
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AI Assemblies
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“Artificial Inteligence Produced Proto-Architecture”
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Design Brief
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The project utilizes convolutional neural networks in combination with robotic assembly algorithms to produce scaled timber structures. In addition to 3D form generation. Neural networks will be used in to develop 2D texture applications for the structures, exploring the relationship between 3D form and 2D image. The class will explore the opportunities and limitations inherent in machine learning-based automated design and fabrication. Additionally, the class will explore how mereological explorations within architectural production can be utilized as generative inputs into non-human forms of graphic expression. The semester long project has three main components. The first exercise will focus on training 3D GAN convolutional neural networks on student created datasets of obj files to produce massing models of proto-architectural objects. These models will then be translated into pattern schedules for wood tectonic elements and assembled utilizing the robots. Pattern and tool path generation will utilize Grasshopper and Python with initial techniques utilizing cellular growth algorithms. Students will explore how to subdivide their massings into rational sub-components to accentuate pattern in
relationship to form and to optimize orientation for the robot work sphere. The second phase of the project will utilize photographs of the assembled components as inputs in Cycle Consistent Adversarial Networks to generate a graphics package for the final objects. These will be applied through vinyl printing, flatbed printing, hydro dipping or robotic airbrushing. Students will exhibit their final object of approximately 1m3 as well as process samples of pattern study and neural network output. In the end, the project utilizes several different mechanisms to produce a proto architecture made out of discrete components, produced using neural Gan Networks known as Artificial Intelligence, and the Robotic Arms to construct the output for said neural networks. The role of the designer is highly questioned in this exercise and puts us in the curator role more often than not.
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Photograph, Robotic Arm assembling the model
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Drawing, Elevation II
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Top view, Assembly Panel XII
Render, GAN Innput - Output
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AI Generated Proto-Architecture The second phase of the project utilizes photographs of the assembled components as inputs in Cycle Consistent Adversarial Networks to generate a graphics package for the final objects. These will be applied through vinyl printing, flatbed printing, hydro dipping or robotic airbrushing. tudents will exhibit their final object of approximately 1m3 as well as process samples of pattern study and neural network output.
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Render, Facade I with Neural Network 2D texture
Render, Facade III with Neural Network 2D texture
Render, Top VIew with Neural Network 2D texture
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Instructor_Damjan Jovanovic Location_Atlanta, Georgia Partner_Phillip Hood Subject_Design Studio
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Atlanta Library 2050
11.09.2019
“We believe that today and in the future people value experiences in the way we once valued knowledge.� Watch the Video Produced for Design Documentation Here
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Design Brief The goal is to create a library people want in the twenty-first and twenty-second century. Today people only go to their local library if they need a book, or need access to a computer. To create a successful building is to create a place that people want to go to, not a place people travel to out of necessity. This idea is reinforced by the specific needs of a city like Atlanta. It has an unwelcoming environment that creates a cold experience for pedestrians and a forgettable one for those travelling by car. We also believe that today and in the future people value experiences in the way we once valued knowledge. With the expansion of the internet and the invention of the smartphone. Every person has access to limitless information, and the stockpiles of data that used to be held at libraries are not necessary anymore. Currently, through examples in social media, we use images and posts to share our experiences. Not only will the library help share these experiences, but it will be useful in creating them as well. This is combined with experimentation and discovery within the resolution. In order to create constantly new experiences, the viewers perspective must be continu-
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ously shifted. As one gets closer or further away from the building, the level of detail and depth within the facade changes. So with every approach, every different angle, the viewer is introduced to a new experience. For much of our design process, we looked at the project for the French National Library in 1785 by Boulee representing the classical idea of thought, today’s time has been investigating a different form human thought. In today’s internet meme fueled ADD culture we have access to all the information we could ever need. This library chooses to focus less on what we can access and more on how we access it. The building is a sensory overload as with the information it contains. Screens, projections, AR, and holograms put more information around you than you can consume. This is reflected in the textures and intricate spatial qualities of the program. Flashing lights from the thousands of servers in the core, the rough cave-like texture in the rocks, the bright lights around the ramps, the dark crevices and holes in the corners of rooms, the lush green grass and vegetation of the gardens. In the end, this library allows visitors to still go on a satisfying
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Drawing, Ramp
Drawing, Core
Drawing, Rocks
Drawing, Diamond Skin
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Drawing, Floorplan 4th Floor
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Drawing, Section A
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Render, Detailed Sectional Chunck II
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Instructor_Maxi Spina, Randy Jefferson Location_Seoul, South Korea Partners_Gregory Kokkottis, Kristoffer Lund, Nero He Subject_Adv. Material Tectonics
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Facade Proposal
10.15.2019
“Envelope transformation of exisiting facade, Trutec Building by Barkow Leibinger”
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The Trutec is an office building in Seoul, designed by Barkow and Leibinger. Our previous analysis of the building was focused on the visual clarity of the facade, but also the tectonic complexity of this curtain wall. The precise geometry of these glass panels allows for the creation of sharp aesthetics, achieved through variation of shape and inclination. This exercise aims to break down this amazingly resolved facade, by introducing a second skin layer, which does not interfere with its geometrical complexity, keeping the profiles as sleek and slender as possible. The additional layer does not affect the existing panels but rather shapes a secondary layer of glazing, able to increase the ability of the curtain wall to control interior temperatures better. The secondary skin is made of glass panels supported on an aluminium frame. The frame duplicates the geometry of the existing facade and is attached to it. All the joints are placed on the orthogonal mullions and not the inclined CNC-cut frame of the diagonal glass panels, as the structural stability of the latter remains debatable. The outer Low-E glass layer preserves the three-dimensionality of the original design, while the
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interior layer can now be made of flat laminated glass panels. Both layers have operable parts. The success of this intervention lies in breaking down the original intention of the architect to concentrate all the functions of the curtain wall into one single layer. By separating the layers and assigning different roles to them, we manage to use the interior glass facade purely for air and water sealing, while using the exterior one to control temperature and sunlight. This allows for materials to get finer, and potentially for the original glass to be replaced with an alternative Low-E glass material that would reduce the overall cost of the facade while simultaneously maintaining its reflective aesthetics. Overall the exercise demands and high level of precision in modelling, rendering drawing and model making, it is the joined process and workflow that allows to achieve realistic but still speculative results.
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Technical Drawing, Overview
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Original Studied Faรงade
Axonomeric, Original Facade Overview I
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Axonomeric, Original Roof Detail
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Axonomeric, Original Facade Detail III
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Proposed Operable Second Skin
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Axonomeric, Proposed Roof Detail
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The glass panels are supported on an aluminium frame. The frame duplicates the geometry of the existing facade and is attached to it. All the joints are placed on the orthogonal mullions and not the inclined CNC-cut frame of the diagonal glass panels, as the structural stability of the latter remains debatable. The outer Low-E glass layer preserves the three-dimensionality of the original design, while the interior layer can now be made of flat laminated glass panels. Both layers have operable parts.
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The success of this intervention lies in breaking down the original intention of the architect to concentrate all the functions of the curtain wall into one single layer. By separating the layers and assigning different roles to them, we manage to use the interior glass facade purely for air and water sealing, while using the exterior one to control temperature and sunlight. This allows for materials to get finer, and potentially for the original glass to be replaced with an alternative Low-E glass material that would reduce the overall cost of the facade while simultaneously maintaining its reflective aesthetics.
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Axonomeric, C2 Window Panel Detail Connection to Slab
Axonomeric,C3 Window Panel Detail 4 Way Joint - Angled Glass Panel
Axonomeric, C4 Window Panel Detail 4 WAY Joint - Flat Glass Panel
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Axonomeric,C1 Windows Panel Detail 3 way Joint
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Axonomeric, Proposed Facade Overview III
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Instructor_Joao Silva Leite Location_Lisbon, Portugal Subject_Design Studio, Bsc
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Urban Fragmento
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“A fragment lost in its context of old Portuguese buildings with a strong marked presence.�
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Design Brief This project looks at residential housing not as another stack of apartments but as an object that can revitalise an area that is in need of it. Due to the new investment in the area, the proposed building is dynamic and full of energy to rebrand this old Lisbon area as something that’s in transformation. The project itself maintains several classic housing ideas in frame, like cross ventilation, separation of social and private areas, but literally twists those notions to arrive to an object that represents the new generation of people that don’t want an apartment but want to be part of the city. The object itself comes from the idea of extruding the site entirely, and through several measured cuts give as much space as possible on the ground levels as public. This allows for the several programs leasing and commercial spaces requested, instead of doing regular cuts the faceted typology that influenced the cuts to create sharp and dynamic edges that embed themselves in the symbolic meaning of the building. Façade wise the panelling solution is porous and allows air to flow through it, this solution adds an extra layer of shading to the entire building which in sunny
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Lisbon, heat is always an issue. This solution also allows with time for plants to grow and connect, creating a multilayered exterior look. The panelling positioning comes from the original faceted cuts performed on the massing and creates a dynamic movement as if the building is always moving forward adding one more layer of symbolic meaning to the original concept. The section shows the overall organisation of the building where the principal axis holds the vertical and horizontal circulation, and the exterior sides hold the housing units. The circulation is perforated with different cuts that create an indoor space that is open to airflow, allowing a successful cross ventilation strategy for every housing unit. There is a communal outdoor space on the last floor with a spectacular view of the sea, while in on the bottom floors there is parking with commercial spaces on top of it.
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Garage
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Mass Cutting/Fragmenting The object itself comes from the idea of extruding the site entirely, and through several measured cuts give as much space as possible on the ground levels as public. This allows for the several programs leasing and commercial spaces
requested, instead of doing regular cuts the faceted typology that influenced the cuts to create sharp and dynamic edges that embed themselves in the symbolic meaning of the building.
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The Faรงade The panelling solution is porous and allows air to flow through it, this solution adds an extra layer of shading to the entire building which in sunny Lisbon, heat is always an issue. This solution also allows with time for plants to grow and connect, creating a multilayered exterior look. The panelling positioning comes from the original faceted cuts performed on the massing and creates a dynamic movement as if the building is always moving forward adding one more layer of symbolic meaning to the original concept.
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Axonometry, Housing unit with core
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Client_ Evolution Avenue Ltd Location_ Estoril , Portugal Status_ Approved for Construction
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Saboia Residences
03.05.2019
“Freelance project entirely designed by myself and has received government approval. This is a rehabilitation project to expand a small house to produce a Residential 10 apartment building. Its look derives from the highly strict area regulations�.
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This Freelance project requested a significant alteration and renovation of a house into a 5 storie and 10 apartment complex in Estoril, Portugal with a small budget. The project was designed and documented into governmental approval; the only people involved in it was my client and myself. The solutions found, always kept in mind its financial costs, the transformation was quite significant, the project went from a two-story small house to a five-story, ten apartments building with a garage and garden with a communal swimming pool. The design follows a couple of simple rules that give it stability and ease of construction, the clean and straightforward lines deliver a quiet residential building that knows what it is in the context it exists in. It is a simple building that is sure of itself. To maintain costs down the stairs and elevator shaft stayed in the same position found in the existing building, that position gave an immediate division in terms of floor space management. South-facing is where the three-bedroom apartments are located with a living room that has access to a large veranda and a view to
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the sea, and to the north side, the smaller apartments have a protected view into the quiet residential street. The entire social area is surrounded by wood armoires that overlay the walls everywhere. This gives a contrast between the blue ocean view and the wood-panelled walls from when the house is entered. Each bedroom is a suite to follow economic trends in the area and promote a better standard of living. There is also a small laundry room in the larger apartments, regarding the smaller north-facing apartments which contain a more humble approach making use of a more traditional floor plan while maintaining as much open space as possible considering the overall size. The top floor is the owners’ floor and due to the city council had to maintain the context pitched roof; thus the real challenge was in the modelling and calculating comfortable spaces in a pitched roof environment.
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To maintain costs down the stairs and elevator shaft stayed in the same position, that position gave an immediate division in terms of floor space management. South facing is where the three bedroom apartments are located with a living room that has access to a large veranda and a view to the sea. The entire social area is surrounded by wood armoires that overlay the walls everywhere. This gives a contrast between the blue ocean view and the wood panelled walls perspective from when the house is entered.
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Instructor_John Enright Location_Paris, France Subject_Design Studio
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Urban Infill
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“Urban Infill mines the thousands of open spaces located throughout Paris in the shape of its urban courtyards to use as added affordable housing sites.� 2nd Prize Winner Paris Affordable Housing Challenge Look at the Full Competition Boards Here
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Design Brief This project utilizes the forgotten spaces that exist everywhere in Paris, filters them by size and fills them. The Parisien courtyard blocks are born a new with a core that create a new community by offering the top floor to the residents of the entire block, dedicating it to a communal garden and leisure area.
Europe as a region that holds immense history through its standing architecture is a particular complex situation where the need for more is supplanted by regulations and a branched typology as a solution within the existing parameters found in the city, the objects generated through various sets of proportions.
The following floors below are dedicated to micro units for the generation that can’t leave their parents home. The proposed 1037 masses respect the basic building distance regimentation and sun/cross ventilation requirements of the existing context.
The proposal is effectively invisible to the 35 million tourists that visit Paris yearly and enjoy the beautiful boulevards and typical architec-ture and feed the city making it its biggest economic input, while still densifying the 2.4 million habitant city center.
In total there is 1.969.713 m2 of added area and 6.354.253 m3 of volume added throughout the city, with this method the amount of housing in the city increases by 81.500 new 15m2/30m2 units in the center of Paris which represent up to 135.000 people that can finally move into the city.
The overall shape of the objects are all created according to the same set of rules creating 1037 buildings that are produced by the city to its most fundamental aspects, from the need of housing to the its shape.
In the past few centuries with the population growth and urban emigration en mass to cities where millions live where thousands used to, the situation has mutated not to housing quality but to the lack thereof, thus, the need for densification has increased.
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The process starts with the offset of the outline of the selected 1037 courtyard outlines in a logic where the courtyards existing building height is used to produce the proportion of the offset distance, thus 1/3 of the existing height is offset to the interior of the courtyard outline as a buffer between the context.
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URBAN MASS GENERATION In the past few centuries with the population growth and urban emigration en mass to cities where millions live where thousands used to, the situation has mutated not to housing quality but to the lack thereof, thus, the need for densification has increased. Europe as a region that holds immense history through its standing architecture is a particular complex situation.
Urban Infill uses a branched typology as a solution within the existing parameters found in the city, the objects generated through various sets of proportions. The proposal is effectively invisible to the 35 million tourists that visit Paris yearly and enjoy the beautiful boulevards and typical architecture and feed the city making it its biggest economic input, while still densifying the 2.4 million habitant city center.
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Perspective Section, Urban Block, Avenue Pierre ler de Serbie / Avenue Marceau / Rue Quentin-Bauchart
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TYPICAL MASS The overall shape of the objects are all created according to the same set of rules creating 1037 buildings that are produced by the city to its most fundamental aspects, from the need of housing to the its shape. The process starts with the offset of the outline of the selected 1037 courtyard outlines in a logic where the courtyards existing building height is used to produce the
proportion of the offset distance, thus 1/3 of the existing height is offset to the interior of the courtyard outline as a buffer between the context and the new courtyard mass, furthermore the tapering of the courtyard mass according to basic sun needs for the existing buildings allow an even greater buffer creating an open and light space. The micro units due to their variability of floor plan exist as open spaces with a functional wall modules.
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Isometric, Facade Detail, Facade plus Module, Frosted Glass Panels, Light Steel Frame
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Blank
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“Blank proposes and assumes architecture as the struggle between background and foreground.� Watch the Video Presentation by clicking here Find out more by visiting the website here
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Design Brief Blank proposes and assumes architecture as the struggle between background and foreground.
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It at times purposely holds architecture in a state of pure blankness using an architectural container that is reductive and simple; this container holds and hides the architecture, which only flows out when absolutely required. The architecture is thus the dichotomy between container and contained, background and foreground. The contained mass stems from the idea of object continuity, background cohesion and mass injection towards utility. The mass, when absolutely necessary, creeps, shifts, and structures the foreground into existence, thus presenting people and their activities as the spatial point of focus. By getting rid of the unnecessary, the decorative, and the frivolous, the mass is the connecting point of function - it flows out to become a rail, a step, or seating - and when its utility is no longer needed, the architectural gestures retreat back into their container, to their original blank state.
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The architectural object thus produced is perceived through layers and manufactured by poche. The layers within the object represent an alternative to the part, producing differentiation without fragmentation. Layers are contiguous, not discretized. A whole may be layered and remain internally self-consistent, whether cut, extracted or excavated. The architecture discourse today seems to ignore the fact that the discipline has majorly become a component-based profession. Such a statement becomes evident by observing the tools we utilise today, like BIM and its physically-produced counterparts. The architectural system works based on the categorising and subdividing of architectural elements to ease the mass production of components. Buildings produced using such a method end up resembling a Frankenstein concoction of structures, brands, aesthetics and code requirements. Today architecture encounters itself as discipline far away from its structurally and aesthetically focused past, in a world of Architectural Aggregation where architectural components exist in a state of exaggerated repetition for the sake of awe, profit and efficiency.
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Lisbon School of Architecture | Fragmentos | Freelance Work | Southern California Institue of Architecture | Grimshaw lourencovp@outlook.com 2020