ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I would like to appreciate Mr. Homero Penteado, Mrs. Natasha Morosky, and the many more teachers I’ve had throughout these years, for contributing to my growth, my character and skills as an architect and designer. You play a big role in this achievement. I would also like to thank Tainã Ruy, Filipi Moreno and Larissa Pinheiro. Without them this portfolio could not be done without their guidance, suggestions and support. They are my role models, colleagues and friends.
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CONTENTS
CURRICULUM VITAE 01 REGENERA Graduation thesis - Holistic Treatment Center Project
02 TROPICÁLIA Landscape - University Plaza Intervention Project
03 STUDENT HUB Architecture - Universityʼs Design Campus Project
04 SOLARIX Interior Design - Solar Panel Company Office Project
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Hi, I’m Luiza Bortolon, a recently graduated architect and urban planner by the Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES) in Brazil. I’m a highly motivated worker, quick learner, can thrive under different every day work scenarios and work very well as a team player. I like to challenge myself and hardly settle inside my comfort zone. Therefore, I’m eager to further my education and expand my knowledge, having the experience to live abroad in a multicultural environment. The following portfolio is a collection of selected bachelor and professional works done in Brazil and an undergraduate project done while studying in Australia. I would like to thank you for your time and consideration and hope you enjoy!
LUIZA LACERDA BORTOLON
Architect Urban Planner Interior Designer
TECH NICAL S K IL L S ARCHICAD
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Vila Velha, ES - Brazil + 55 27 998718589 lu.lbortolon@hotmail.com linkedin/luizalbortolon 4
EDU C AT I O N
PR O FES S IO NA L EXPERI EN CE
Bachelor of Architecture and Urban Design by Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES) – Vitória, Brazil
2019 – 2020 Freelance Interior designer and consultant Vila Velha, ES - Brazil Development of concept design for a solar panel company office space.
Exchange scholarship program “Science without borders” to study architecture at University of New South Wales (UNSW) – Sydney, Australia
2018 – 2020 Intern architect at M.Sky Studio Vila Velha, ES - Brazil Architecture studio specialized in interior and lighting design projects •Performed local measurements and analysis, assisted in developing concept design for residencies and specification of lighting fixtures •Responsible for suppliers’ research, material specification and pricing, woodwork detailing and project coordination of a three-story luxury apartment.
LA NGU AGE S Portuguese | English | Spanish
2017 – 2018 Vitória, ES - Brazil
Volunteer work with NGO “Fábrica de Sorrisos”, serving food for the homeless
Architecture firm specialized in residential buildings and project coordination •Assisted in creating preliminary studies and graphics for client’s presentations •Responsible for modelling, construction detailing and complementary projects coordination of JL,67 residential development for Mazzini construction, amongst other projects.
OTH ER AC T I VI T I E S Advanced statistical inference and asset evaluation worshop Cenography and set styling workshop with the designer Omar Muro
Intern architect at Diocelio Grasselli Studio (DG Projetos)
2016 – 2017 Vitória, ES - Brazil
Inter architect at Banestes Bank Engineering division responsible for the construction and renovation of physical agencies and office spaces •3d modelling for agencies façade studies, digital drawing for electric engineering projects, basic woodwork and construction detailing. •Responsible for agencies organizational layout development and adapting both new and existing projects for people with disabilities, according to Brazilian’s ABNT rules. 5
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REGENERA
HOLISTIC TREATMENT CENTER PROJECT
Graduation Thesis Project Instructor: Homeno Penteado Site: Regência, Espírito Santo Brazil Individual work December, 2019
On the year of 2015 the littoral village of Regência was hit by one of the world’s biggest environmental crimes. A Brazilian iron-ore company, due to negligence in the maintenance procedures, had one of their dams collapse projecting toxic waste on nearby villages and the River Doce. The waste consisted of a mud with heavy chemicals, which made its way down the river killing most aquatic life, until it reached the sea at Regência’s village and spread through the Brazilian coast. Regência is a very slow-paced village with natural richness that attracts many tourists for their unpaved earth streets, simple lifestyle and famous surf waves. The local population that highly relied on their natural resources for a living, were deeply affected by the disaster. The community started to turn to practices such as yoga, aromatherapy and reiki, brought by the “outsiders” in addition to their own cultural heritage tradition like the congo, natural medicine and healers and traditional building techniques as a coping mechanism that brought the population together in informal meetings. The intention with this project was to create a place for to host and expand the population healing, in the wholesome meaning of the word. It proposed a complex of buildings where those activities could take place in order to value and bring back their relations to the land they live in and start to regenerate the sense of belonging within the community. The site chose was a vacant land on the main avenue which is the only path to get to the beach. It is adjacent to the village’s lighthouse that plays a big role as a historic local landmark, in addition to being the highest point of the town. Behind the lighthouse there is a small trail leading to the beach and surrounded by the protected vegetation forests.
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In order to have a spatial organization coherent with the values this complex represented, the concept of the design was based on the Indian “Vastu Architecture� principles. The Vastu philosophy speaks that the built environment should be conceived through the laws and energy flows of nature which flow north to south and east do west, aligned with the cardinal points and meeting in the center. These energy lines that divide the world also translate inside the site forming four quadrants, each represented by one the four natural elements that guided the block division and program of the project.
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01. Reception 02. Admnistration 03. Kitchen 04. Pantry 05. Dressing room 06. Classroom / library 07. Meditation room / Yoga 08. Atrium 09. Therapies 10. Art room 11. Bathrooms 12. Laboratory 13. Garden 14. Lighthouse 15. Rooftop terrace
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The project was also based on the vernacular concepts, bringing local materials and techniques as the main sources of the construction. The idea was to value the cultural techniques such as wattle and daub, already practiced by generations of the local population, while also adding others such as adobe bricks paving and rammed earth walls, to create an example of how the use of these unconventional yet traditional building materials could work to create a contemporary sustainable design. In addition to that, the construction of the building itself could be used to enable and instruct the local population the crafts of earth building.
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As the plan block division, the roofs were also divided in four different structures thought accordingly to their guiding element. On the air quadrant, an independent wood structure works as a canopy levitating over the constructions. Over the ether block, a large shed roof with a southern slope cover both buildings, creating spaces for a green roof with an open coverage and a viewpoint terrace over them. The fire block roof was idealized as the one which provides light and thermic comfort possessing a permeable structural truss as well as skylight openings. Lastly, on the earth block roof the structure was design as if it was buried between the rammed earth walls, crating shelter on the outside and allowing a green roof to take place on the inside.
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On Vastu architecture, the light is treated as the main source of energy. According to this line of thought, the construction should have big openings facing east and north, and very few on the south and west ends. Using that as a guideline, the main openings were placed towards the “Restinga” vegetation forest, creating permeability of the indoor environment with nature, while the front façade kept it’s opening to a minimum to provide privacy and thermic comfort from.
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In order to achieve that result, some details were necessary to adapt to brazillian’s tropical weather. On the meditation room, the east opening was thought as a wattle wood web, done the same as inside the walls but without the filling earth, creating a shading panel while still allowing permeability. The same principle applied to some windows on wet area of the project. On the rammed earth walls, the window treatment was different with chamfered finishes to allow maximum luminosity through the thick walls.
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TROPICÁLIA
UNIVERSITY PLAZA LANDSCAPE INTERVENTION
Landscape Architecture Studio 1 Instructor: Homeno Penteado Site: Vitória, Espírito Santo - Brazil Team: Julia Calazans, Julia Pedruzzi and Luiza Bortolon Role in team: Preliminary studies, conceptual design, technical drawing and architectural representation. November, 2016
The Federal University of Espirito Santo (UFES) is the only public higher education facility of Espirito Santo’s state. In Brazil the public universities are considered the most well rated ones, with very competitive application procedures, where all the brightest minds dream of getting their degree from. Over the years, because of its status, UFES has become an important landmark of the state, being the main scenery not only for education but also political debates, strikes and all sorts of public life manifestos. The university’s main campus was built on a mangrove-adjacent land, with a large are where the government wanted house the variety of departments that compose their academic body in a single place. Although, the buildings and structures that currently exist are a result of unplanned constructions that happened separately and over different periods of time according to demand. That led to a confusing and fragmented site plan, that fails to organize clear paths, hierarquies and common spaces to attend the students’ lives and general use of the space by the community. The purpose of the studio project was to have the students find design solutions for the issues well known by them, faced on campus everyday life such as excessive insolation, noise coming from the highway that exists in front of the main entrance, lack of vegetation and shadow spaces for the tropical weather, while maintaining reinforcing the universities own character.
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Intervention Site
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The intervention site is located on the current university’s main entrance, in front of the administrative building facing Fernando Ferrari Avenue. The extent of the intervention incorporates the surroundings of the administration building, from the façade all the way down to the inner street on its left; the university theatre entrance and the open area in front of it; the adjacent parking lot areas; and the immediate surroundings like the bike lane, sidewalk, and even the avenue itself, in order to create a draw for the users towards the designed space.
The concept of this project was to create a space to enhance the collective and cultural character of the site. According to that, the design parti was thought out as a gathering open area located in front of the theatre, where the new main entrance would be dislocated to. Around it, the solution was to substitute the arid concrete parking spaces for permanency ones that would, creating a comfortable “pocket park” atmosphere, along with a café under the exiting staircase, to support the central meeting area and provide refuges where campus life can take place at.
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The central open space was designed as a circle that is the epicenter where all other spaces originate from. This circle was place in alignment with the theatre’s stairwell and the new main access. From its midpoint, radial lines were drawn in the direction of the usual paths the students take everyday towards the nearby classroom buildings. That originated 3 circular sections disposed around the center on the left. On the right, a tangent line of the main circle pointed the direction which the inside street between the administrative building and the theatre should adjust to.
The vegetation was thought out in terms of creating different characters and lighting sceneries for each specific section. The main central area was left clear for visual and use purposes. On the other hand, most of the permanency spaces and pathways received a green coverage from the tropical sun. The broad sidewalks gave up some space for a tree wall to provide shadow for pedestrians and bikes and cover disguise the avenue lookout. The same principle applied to the exiting walks outside the university buildings, but with taller larger tree, to emphasize the inside.
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The intention with the 3 sections of permanency spaces was to create a variety of environments to inspire different sensations. In order to do that, the natural lighting was the main factor taken into account, achieved by the choice of each vegetation arrangements to produce the desired effects. The space left to the theatre was designed with a dense green canopy to house the cafĂŠ tables in a comfortable shaded environment. Next to it there is sunbathed open lawn space with fewer trees concentrated on the pavemented paths leading to the classroom buildings. The adjacent one closer to the street front, was thought as decorative and seasonable environment with one big flamboyant tree in the center, creating a more delicate canopy that would change throughout the year, going from leafless branches to, blossom red flowers in reference to the theatre portal predominant color. 23
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STUDENT HUB UNIVERSITY’S DESIGN CAMPUS PROJECT
Architectural Design Studio 2 Instructor: Sophia Husni Site: Woolloomoloo, Sydney - NSW Australia Individual work November, 2014
The Studio practice proposed a hypothetical situation where the existing surroundings of the site had been transformed to a TAFE art school precinct of UNSW, containing an administration building, lecture halls, students’ common rooms, classrooms, studios spaces and accommodation housing. The area was currently a residential suburb near Sydney’s CBD, Darlinghurst, Potts Point and Kings Cross. The intention was to develop an architectural proposition for a smallscale, programmatically hybrid public building within this urban setting. The material, geometric, formal and representation aspects were predefined in order to focus on the architectural exploration. The project’s site was a vacant land adjoined on the northern side by units of housing and bounded by three streets, McElhone Street to the east, Reid Avenue to the south and Dowling Street to the west. It originally had an abrupt level difference with a 3m retaining wall dividing a plato on the level of Dowling Street to another plato on McElhone Street’s level, that could be addressed by students as they best saw fit. The full program consisted on a kiosk for sale of light snacks, hot and cold beverages and a preparation room; an art supply shop, with storage space and a window counter point of sale; a bike parking space; a bike workshop and storage; and connecting exhibition spaces for student’s artwork. The site was divided in in 4 big zones, three of which should house the constructed areas of the program and one which should be kept as an open outdoor space.
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The project parti came from the study of Alvaro Siza’s Swimming Pool Complex, where the walls guiding the way down were reinterpreted as the defining design feature. On the student hub project, the “walls� became large enough to allow the circulation and creation of spaces within it, becoming the binding element of all the proposed buildings. They outline the site borders, guarding the area from the surrounding streets and turning the focus towards the inside living spaces. Very few window openings were placed in specific positions to instigate the people from the inside to come out and experience the construction as a whole.
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The walls cut through the higher plato shifting between double height to single height structures, divided in one or two floors. With the intention of creating the feeling of confinement one would feel being inside an actual wall, but still having the comfort of natural lighting and brightness inside them, all of the wall spaces were designed with skylight openings along their paths. The openings create a feeling of immersion for the narrow exhibition spaces inside and also provide the storage and working rooms with adequate illumination.
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To contrast with the wall interior spaces, the main constructed spaces of the kiosk, art shop and bike workshop have big openings providing a bigger integration from interior and exterior spaces, flow of people, lighting and air, through a glass panel store front, an open canopy and louvered door panels.
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GROUND FLOOR 1:200 01. Front loan 02. Art shop 03. Cashier / Storage 04. Circulation 05. Bike parking 06. Bike workshop 07. Workspace
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SOLARIX
SOLAR COMPANY OFFICE SPACE PROJECT
Interior Design Project Site: Vila Velha, EspĂrito Santo Brazil Individual work November, 2019
Solarix is a solar energy company dedicated to the replacement of the conventional energy use for a self-sufficient and environment-friendly solar panel system. The company provides their services for small residencies and commercial business as well as big enterprises. They are a new startup company founded in 2016, composed by young engineers, electricians and interns, that is succeeding in the market and rapidly growing. Given that, the company owners decided to change their previous facilities, located in a shared space with an accounting firm, for their own new office space where they could imprint in their brand and beliefs in every aspect. The room chosen it’s on the top floor of a 3-story building, where the rented space should have the least structural changes possible. The program included an integrated office for the two major business partners, a small conference room, a flexible workspace for their 12 employees, a coffee station, and entrance hall where they wanted to have a display space for the inside home energy converter and a wait room, that could be turned into front desk in the future. The clients were very concerned about having a clean, comfortable and integrated space, with a current look that mixed technology and nature as their core values, all within a budget.
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On the spatial division it was important that every room was served by one of the existing windows to make sure they were supplied with natural light and ventilation when desired. Between the entrance hall and the rest of the office a permeable parting was placed to create a room division but still allow visibility. The meeting room was located near the entrance for easy coming and going without going through the employees. The partners office, on the opposite corner, has the advantage of overseeing all the activities taking place while still being reserved, and the linear work units create a flowing environment avoiding people cluttering.
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The spatial and lighting concepts worked side by side to create the final design outcome of the office. The idea was based on electric energy itself, focusing on showcasing a fully lit and working technical environment provided only with solar energy produced on the spot. As the clients wanted to have the least interventions possible, especially on the ceiling structure, all the electrical cabling as well as lighting fixtures were placed overlapping the exiting ceiling, becoming key features of the project. To reach that result, black rigid cable ducts, tubular LED lamps, track spots and pendants were used, reflecting the detailed attention to every level of this office.
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Since the clients had their own woodworkers and welders at their disposal, the tables and cabinets were designed using timber, plywood and metal cable ducts, to compose a minimal and easy-to-assemble furniture set. The mixed material at the same time provide the comfort of the wood with the elegant industrial look of the black metal.
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To create a sense of company branding, two of the walls were painted in a dark green and the logo decal was printed on the joining edges of these walls inside the meeting room. The green color creates a perfect contrast of a sobriety and seriousness feeling with the light environment around. It also integrates perfectly with the plants brought from the old office into vases and the vertical hanging garden, bringing life and nature for the inside.
In addition to the regular working environment, the company wanted to embrace a free space mindset where employers could feel comfortable, take their time and let creativity flow inside the company. Therefore, the entrance hall was thought both as a waiting room and living place as well as alternative working spot, with sofas, a rug and a beanbag chair. The movable furniture elements give different possibilities of arrangements and makes it easy to be transformed into a secretary’s front desk or expand the working units.
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