MARCELA SANTOS ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO
CONTENTS:
RESUMÉ WEINLAND PARK HOUSING THE CHELSEA HOTEL WATER IN WATER CAMBRIDGE ART CENTER HOTEL AT THE MISSIONS NEW AIRPORT TERMINAL OHIO HEALTHWAYS SKETCHES - CHURCHES OF BELÉM
MARCELA SANTOS contact@marcelasantos.com 1220 Waterford Pointe Cir. Columbus, OH 43228 (614) 607-2088
EDUCATION 2008-2011* Master of Architecture Candidate The Ohio State University - Columbus, OH *Expected Graduation
2002-2007 Bachelor in Architecture and Urbanism
Universidade Federal do Pará (Federal University of Pará) - Belém, Brazil
2005 Career Discovery Program
Certficate Program at Harvard Graduate School of Design - Cambridge, MA
REFERENCES LANGUAGES English Fluent Portuguese Native language French Intermediate level Spanish Intermediate level
SKILLS Autocad 2010 Revit 2009 Illustrator CS5 InDesign CS5
Lightroom 3 Photoshop CS5 3D Studio Max 10 V-Ray
Kay Bea Jones, Associate Professor Knowlton School of Architecture (OSU) jones.76@osu.edu Toni Ramirez, Program Manager Office of Diversity and Inclusion (OSU) morrillscholars@osu.edu (614) 292-0965 Joaquim Meira, Associate Architect m2p Arquitetura e Engenharia Belém, Brazil arquitetura@m2p.com.br
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2010-2011 Graduate Assistant Ohio State University Administrative Assistant Office of Diversity and Inclusion Manager of student application database for Morrill Scholars Program Editor of the department newsletters and website
Teaching Assistant Knowlton School of Architecture Assisted Professor Ben Wilke in Architecture 202, an introductory studio Responsible for 12-13 students, freshman level
2007-2008 Architect and Urbanist International Professional Affiliation: Registered Architect and Urbanist in Brazil under 15.491-D CREA/PA Architect and Urbanist SEHAB – Municipality of Ananindeua Housing Bureau, Ananindeua, Brazil Technical assessment of existing homes for the approval of government funded programs Design low-income housing and urban plans for areas of intervention
Technical Supervisor B&M Construtora, Belém, Brazil On-site construction supervision, material ordering and receiving, employee registration
Free-lance Architect and Urbanist Interior Design, lighting, layout, selection of finishings, furniture, construction site management
Proposal for a new studio-based Architecture program curriculum Free-lance work for FIBRA College in partnership with Architect Luciana Teixeira
Circuito das Águas Housing Complex
Free-lance project for Estrutura engineering firm, Ananindeua, Brazil 12 buildings with a total of 196 two-bedroom apartments Built area of 10,500m² and urbanization for a 22,000 square meter site
2004-2007 Architecture Intern M2P Arquitetura e Engenharia, Belém, Brazil Design development in projects ranging from single family homes to hotels, labs and reporpusing of historical buildings; Drafting, specs, detailing, site visits, realistic 3D renderings using 3DS Max and Vray
WEINLAND PARK HOUSING
WEINLAND PARK HOUSING COLUMBUS, OH
Alley
Ohio State University, 2010 Professor Kay Bea Jones Partnership with Marcela Figueira
Huckleberry House
C Shared Shared B Bakery Laundry
Computer Labs
Apartments
Apartments
The Office of Diversity and Inclusion at Ohio State administers the ACCESS Collaborative Program. This program aids single parents who desire the opportunity to attend college. We proposed to create a branch at Weinland Park that would serve students and the neighborhood. The program includes: residences, a day care center, classrooms, computer labs with internet access, a cafĂŠ and a garden center. Glass boxes were be placed among wooden facades as a way to display the activities in each part of the complex. The surfaces of the buildings take on different patterns according to the need for natural light and privacy. In the residential area, child safety was the main design driver, from the sliding interior panels to the enclosed shared backyard, so that all moms can watch all children at all times.
Greenhouse/Flower Shop
Planting Events
Classrooms
Site layout and focal points Lower level program Upper level program
Daycare
F Library Cafe
4th Ave
N 8th St
Site location
Alley multiplies fronts, divides site.
Porch
Entrance
Access to balcony
Interior (child-safety panel)
Up Down
Bedroom
Living Room Bathroom Utilities
Master Bedroom Kitchen
Flower Box Access to shared backyard
Apartment, lower level
Perspective
Apartment, upper level
Shared backyard
THE CHELSEA HOTEL
THE CHELSEA HOTEL COLUMBUS, OH Comprehensive Studio, Ohio State University, 2010 Professors John McMorrough and Michael Cadwell Partnership with Bob Cervas and Kyle Schneider
shopping
Massing
night life
Gallery-hop ‘til you drop!
The Chelsea is a hotel in New York City which historically housed extended stay guests. It became well known because of the celebrities, rock stars and other sex socialites that made it their home and helped establish its reputation as a facilitator grocery of unique guest interactions. The intention of this proposal is to transplant the spirit of the Chelsea from NYC to Columbus, to a site in the Short North Arts District. The The Short North environment diverse community in this neighborhood would favor the “Chelsea” type of social and artistic interaction. The form of the building begins as a miesian, rectilinear high rise with a prototypical floor plan. This floor plan gets broken down by a stain that manifests itself throughout the building. The stain is used as a device that disrupts the existing plan and creates anomalies in the program and circulation. These anomalies turn into public spaces, becoming apparent in the façade. The skin of the building is composed of unfinished metal, so that the stain keeps growing overtime in the form of corrosion.
View from Goodale Park
reckless behaviors
dining
Jager bombs!
pop stars
socializing
Try anything once...
Diversity of personality
drugs musicians
coffee
writers
short north event attendees
Fenestration types
library
12th. Floor Plan Private Interior: Light manifestation of the stain is graphic
Ground Plan
Public Interior: Three dimensional manifestation of stain
1. THE SID Compact room able to serve very short term guests. Murderers, for example
2. THE COHEN Regular sized room to serve residents for stays laster longer than a day. It should be enough time to write a short story.
3. THE EDIE Room with structure to serve permanent residents. Allows time for residents to make, say, a movie. Unit types Stain growing over time
WATER IN WATER
WATER IN WATER SHANGHAI, CHINA Vertical Studio, Landscape Arch and Architecture, Ohio State University, 2010 Professors Ann Pendleton-Jullian and Sarah Cowles Partnership with Marcela Figueira
Form
Sections
The idea of relative movement within water is the main focus of this project. Submersed in water contained within a vessel which itself is floating in water, one is able to move with or against the flow of the current carrying the boat. The boat allows the passenger the possibility of taking a break from the metropolis. In the boat, one can swim or relax in a hot tub. The main concept for this project is to have a shell within a shell. The former holds a lap pool with gathering areas for multiple people, while the latter supports this microenvironment and separates it from the untamed exterior. On the lower level, the outer shell holds hot tubs, a bar and dressing rooms. Male and female hot tubs are incompletely segregated – eventually joining one another in a shared tub.In Chinese culture, male prevails over female. The male form holds more power both in the working world and in personal relationships. The outer shell represents the male, which surrounds and protects the inside shell representing the female. The male is solid, massive and muscular and supports the female, which is delicate, smooth and more fragile. At one point the female form invades that of the male, expressing the more modern view of female independence and equality.
Program deck pool upper level program hot tubs dressing rooms bar
hot tub
hot tubs lower level program
Female Male
group
individual
group
Longitudinal Section
Lower Level Plan
Wild water
Processed water
CAMBRIDGE ART CENTER
CAMBRIDGE ART CENTER CAMBRIDGE, MA Career Discovery Program, Graduate School of Design at Harvard, 2005 Instructor Farzana Ghandi The Art Center takes place on the Harvard Campus. The building proposed was also an art school. Because light is an important component to this program, I decided to experiment with the use of light in the building. The program wraps around a central light well, where the vertical circulation is located and highlighted. This light well shifts to a larger size and form as it reaches the roof, to funnel in the light. The auditorium and galleries are lit by narrow slits on the roof, while studio spaces have abundant light.
Light Studies
Light over circulation
Section
Kindergarten Classroom
Kindergarten Playroom Auditorium
Gallery
Gallery
Auditorium
Studios
Covered Plaza
1st Level (Ground)
Studio Spaces
2nd Level
Classroom Roof Terrace Office
Office
Classroom
Classroom
3rd Level
Studios
4th Level
Model
HOTEL AT THE MISSIONS
HOTEL AT THE MISSIONS SÃO MIGUEL DAS MISSÕES, BRAZIL Vertical Studio, Landscape Arch and Architecture, Ohio State University, 2009 Professors Ann Pendleton-Jullian and Jason Kentner Partnership with Marcela Figueira While in São Miguel, we identified the sensation of isolation as the greatest attractive feature of the town. Taking this into consideration, we propose an urban plan consisting of a shift in the main routes of access to the city to peripheral areas. This shift will stimulate the growth of the city within 3 urban peninsulas while enlarging the area surrounding the mission ruins and maintaining the feeling of remoteness in that area. Each of the peninsulas will take on a different approach: going from more rural, to more urban. We propose three hotels: each placed strategically adjacent to the peninsula that would allow a different speed of travel experience. The three hotels will vary in their built-to-landscape ratio respecting its adjacencies.We propose creating three units (bedroom, bathroom and garden), which would be put together in accordance to the needs of the tourists catered by each hotel.
Components:
Mixed
Urban Hotel
Hotel Ruins
Hotel
Rural
Building x Landscape Ration
Urban
Possible combinations
Bedroom
Bathroom
Garden
Mixed
Rural
+3m
Restaurant
0
Gallery
-1.5m Lobby
Plan for “Urban” Hotel
NEW AIRPORT TERMINAL
NEW AIRPORT TERMINAL SANTARÉM, BRAZIL Thesis Project, Universidade Federal do Pará, 2007 Professor José Maria Bassalo Santarém is the third most important city in the Amazon region of Brazil. It is located almost exactly between the two most important ones, Belém and Manaus. Because Santarém is right on the junction of the Amazon River and the Tapajós River, it has shown great economical and touristic growth in the past years. The existing airport of Santarém serves approximately ten municipalities nearby and has experienced an intense increase in passengers since the major Brazilian airline Gol included it in its routes. The current infra-structure does not accommodate the new demand of flights and passengers.This proposal for a new terminal quadruples the airport’s capacity in terms of cargo and passenger demands, with its 11 thousand square meters divided in 3 stories. To make use of the year-round abundant sunlight of this tropical location, the roof is made of a translucent canvas tensile structure that would cut artificial lighting usage down to a minimum.
Longitudinal Section
Ground Plan
Belém Manaus
Santarém
Section
Section
In this proposal, the application of the canvas is tensioned over the spatial latticed beam. The association of tissue and the metallic structure is repeated laterally, forming a light, easy to replicate structure.
In the center, the roof is raised to make room for a third level observatory, taking into consideration a habit of the local inhabitants currently: going to the airport for a stroll, a snack, and a view of the airplanes and of the river backdrop.
OHIO HEALTHWAYS
OHIO HEALTHWAYS Ohio State University, 2011 Professor Karen Lewis Partnership with Marcela Figueira This project proposes to connect the 3C’s through a Health corridor around a rail line. Ohio has three large internationally known hospitals, and because of its low cost of living, mid-size cities and lots of available space, it could be a successful destination for wellness. The population of Ohio could also benefit from the pursuit of an exemplary healthier lifestyle. Each of the hospitals, as train stations, would become a regional hub and create a new connection between the cities. The main idea is to transform the health experience from “ill” to “well”, bringing in the element of nature to tie together the different scales of wellness.
Cleveland
Cleveland Clinic 80 nations send patients every year, 3.7 million visits on the Cleveland campus.
Scales of Wellness ICU
Columbus
Ohio State Medical Center More tha $185 million in internal and external research funding. Patient in ICU, needs organ transplant
Cincinnati
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital 3rd. best Children’s Hospital in the nation.
health Patient in recovery, needs rehabilitation
spirit
alternative medicine
Word cloud of what is being said about wellness on Twitter.
Disabled patient, needs recreation
Water
Hospitals
Freeways
Alt. Medicine
Train rail
Spirituality
Sedentary person, needs physical activity
Active person, needs disease prevention
An urban system that supports health
Organ Transportation
How a train rail can connect the 3Cs and create a wellness corridor pedestrian path
train rail path
bicycle path
West Chester Hospital
New Regional Hub
Adapting existing infra-structure
Using the existing freeway and adding a train portion would be a way to make use of the current infra-structure and not hurt the city with an additional boundary created by a train track.
The system is topped off with the introduction of the train station situated as to make the hospital a new regional hub and establish a different relationship between the 3 cities.
6 reasons to take a bus:
Physical Therapy
cost time reliability free wi-fi greener
Spirituality
Some believe that spiritual practices, including meditation, prayer and contemplation, are intended to develop wellness from inside out.
Underground Parking
Rehabilitation Center
Chapel
Parking goes under the ground to make room for public green spaces intended to add a natural presence to the health experience.
Alternative Medicine
Alternative Medicine Clinic
Focuses on individualizing treatments, treating the whole person, promoting self-care and self-healing, and recognizing the spiritual nature of each individual.
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Bike Path
Water and Health
The 315 health corridor
The presence of water has the potential of changing the character of the health experience. Lining water fronts with parks adds the nature element to the scales of wellness, encouraging the pursuit of health.
Linking physical activites with the health facilities creates a new way of achieving a higher state of Wellness and allows the contact between different users of the system.
5mi
heliport
20mi
Cincinnati hospital
Revisioning the hospital room
There are four essential qualities that needed to be part of the long-term hospital environment: a sense of control, comfort, a sense of connectedness with life outside the hospital, and family environment, in order to transform the experience.
Wellness
Health is the general condition of a person in all aspects. It is also a level of functional and/or metabolic efficiency of an organism, often implicitly human. From Google dictionary: "The state of being free from illness or injury". Welness embraces beyond health. It is related to peace of mind, calmness and comfort. Hapiness is said to only be possible through welness. Being well means being in synch with oneself; with one’s thoughts and actions; feelings and emotions.
SKETCHES - CHURCHES OF BELÉM
MARCELA SANTOS contact@marcelasantos.com 1220 Waterford Pointe Cir. Columbus, OH 43228 (614) 607-2088
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