Marcela Melo Architecture Portfolio by Marcela Melo

MARCELA MELO

2021

portfolio

architecture

“I B E L IEVE THINGS MAY BE DIF F E RE N T AND WORTH TRYIN G” Zaha Hadid

M A R C E L A M E LO January 19th, 1996 marcelamelo.msa@gmail.com +351 933 086 413 Porto, Portugal

A BOUT M E I am interested in creative works involving exchange, communication and art. I have good interpersonal relationships, responsibility and enthusiasm. I am a positive, disciplined and curious person, excited to learn and also inspire others. Challenges are great motivations for the development of new skills and new perspectives.

I NTERESTS Interior Design Design Well-being Technology

Communication Enterpreneurship Tourism Sustainability

I DIOM S Portuguese English Italian

Swedish Spanish French

S KILLS Archicad Autocad Illustrator SketchUp

Rhino Indesign Grasshopper Photoshop

V Ray Revit Cura 3D

E DU CATION . Bachelor in Architecture and Urbanism - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 2014/2017 . Bachelor and Master in Architecture - Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal - 2017/2020 . Master in Architecture, Exchange Programme Lund University, Sweden - 2018/2019

AR CHITECTURE EXPERI E N C E S . Internship at Aires Mateus Assistance with the conception of the pavilion for the Milan Design Week 2020; work with 3D modelling, printing and assembling physical models, for later exhibitions of the atelier. . Volunteer Work in Open House Porto Guidance for the visitors, into two selected projects of OHP; revealing conceptual, constructional and spatial architecture information about the buildings, normally closed to the common public. . Mentoring in the Immersion Course “Architectural Observational Trip Chile” Visit to projects from Alejandro Aravena, Smiljan Radic, Cecilia Puga and Toyo Ito; and elaboration of the architectural journal of the trip, with draws, details and descriptions of the visited places. . Zero Energy Design Course by Delft University Lessons on designing a zero-energy concept for architectural projects and already constructed buildings, going through a new task of the New Stepped Approach for each week’s assignments. . Interior Luxury Design Course by Ciszak Dalmas Ferrari Architecture Studio Development of briefing approaches, strategical design thinking, project development and material analysis in order to create an exclusive, functional and attractive interior commercial space.

2019/2020 8 months Lisbon, PT

2018 2 days Porto, PT

2016 1 week Chile

2021 7 weeks ongoing online

AR CHITECTURE COMPET I T I ON S . Participation on Europan 15

2019

Within the context of a productive city, the project applied patterns of different cities around the world as a way to solve the local challenges for the sustainable development of Böras in Sweden. . Participation on Rome Collective Living Challenge

Lund, SE

2019

This project conceived a new way of living: on the top of the older layers of Rome, experimenting with the concept of low-income, temporary dwelling and the required co-living lifestyle ideal.

Lund, SE

OTHER EXPERI E N C E S . Rosa Et Al Townhouse Hotel Experience Analysis of the dynamics and functional aspects of the tourist company by following their workers during 3 labour shifts to understand the working environment and its challenges. . Winner of Helsingborg Innovation Challenge Creation of an app (design of a canvas model, prototype, and pitch) to share data about the origin of food; in order to help people doing more sustainable choices when shopping. . Member of the organization World Values Initiative Work in the Sales and Marketing Team (branding, visual design and advertising) for World Values Day 2019, host this workshop and represented WVI on the student fair ARKAD 2018. . Volunteer Work at Fågelskolan School Teaching of English grammar, vocabulary and speaking for pupils in grade 9.

2019 Porto, PT

2018, 24h Lund, SE

2018 Lund, SE

COPA FOOD CENTER OF ODIVELAS A PROJECT FOR A COMMUNITY KITCHEN AS A SPACE FOR SOCIAL INTEGRATION

2020, FAUL, LISBON ARCHITECTURE FINAL MASTER PROJECT, THESIS SITE: ODIVELAS, LISBON, PORTUGAL

COpA is a community center to support the familiar food production reestablishing the relationship with the food and between the inhabitants of the South of Odivelas. The aim is to help and educate local farms and propose a space to experience and coexists between the different cultures and existing nationalities. The act of cook and commensalism can be a catalyst to a society

divided nowadays. The COpA is based on the activities related to food production and the act of cooking and eating together. The COpA is inserted in an urban proposal of an urban park which provides more spaces for food production and new activities and environments for the local population.

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greenhouse storage

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despensa kitchen

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incubator kitchen communal room multiuse room

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bar / cafe educational room

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auditorium

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composting room reception administration shower rooms

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Implantation 1 - the settlement of the buildings is done according to the relevant flows The important flows are the one from the pedestrian bridge to the urban park (1); from the pedestrian bridge to the commercial street and vegetable gardens (2); and from the pedestrian bridge to the metro station (3). 2 - the Kitchen and Community Oven are placed at the central area of the site, between the important flows This movement allows the kitchen to be a place where you can see the other buildings of the center, on the surrounding.

3 - the Dining Room is placed next to the Community Kitchen and the pedestrian bridge

and an incubator kitchen with the purpose to share knowledge about food production.

Close to the kitchen, it facilitates food transportation; and close to the pedestrian bridge, attracts more visitors.

6 - the building of the Storage is placed in the middle of the site configuring a courtyard

4 - the Auditorium is located through the main flow, closer to the activities of the main street The Auditorium has an ante-chamber and the auditorium itself with steps directing to the outside deck. 5 - the Educational Center is established in a more reserved area of the site The Educational Center has an office, an educational room,

This building has also a composting center and a multiuse room on the second floor. 7 - the Support building is added near the courtyard and the most common activities Inside the Support building, there are shower rooms and a reception. 8 - The greenhouse is located facing the South in the open area of the site

Entrances The volumes have a subtraction in their access. The façades have semi-open entries, because of the wooden sticks. Therefore, the relation between the public and private space is gradual and offers a new ambiance for interaction between inside and outside.

Flexibility The Auditorium has slide doors between the outside and inside and between the areas inside. In this way, space can adapt to diverse activities and also integrate with the exterior. a. The auditorium with use of the outside deck In interactive shows, the door

of the auditorium can open to the deck, integrating with the outside area. b. Internal expansion of the Auditorium With the need for a big audience, the auditorium can be integrated with the ante-chamber. c.Exposition The ante-chamber can be used for small conferences and small art exhibitions. Both the antechamber and the auditorium can be used separated. d. Free days With days of no events the auditorium and ante-chamber can be used according to the need of the public during the day.

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TAKE THE FABRIC!

from the top: Garment Distric New York, Eixample Barcelona, Taito Tokyo, Pacific Heights San Francisco, Garbatella Rome, Casco Sevilla, Nuruosmaieye Istanbul, Hamptons Bays Hamptons, Klouvas Mykonos, Malibu Los Angeles, Kingohusene Helsingor.

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2019, LUND URBAN/ARQUITECTURE COMPETITION: EUROPAN SITE: GASSLOSSA, BORåS, SWEDEN PARTNERS: FATEMEH BAHARI, ISAK JANNERT, JOSE BARBOSA

The Europan Competition offers sites chosen by the Municipalities of different countries in Europe. They aim to discuss the winner project with the politicians members and apply it, in order to develop the selected area of the city. Europan 15 focus on the issue of the productive city for the future. This city needs to consider synergies between ecosystems, biotopes and artefacts, functions, uses, and citizen.

Creating s y n e r g i e s anticipate and make the urban authorities more aware of their responsibilities towards the environment. This site was chosen because of the luxurious river and its greenery and connections qualities inside the city of Boras.

Borås is a segregated city, where the neighbourhoods are defined and clearly separated from each other. The city configures a patchwork of urban fabric, with different layouts and configuration. These islands are recognised through particular environment

The Red Town is a community where people gather around at the open spaces configured by organic paths and court yards. Communal gardens, shared facilities rooms and workshops are placed on the ground of the residential neighbourhood.

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The Purple City is a vibrant and dense neighbourhood place for living and working. Old uses like the concrete and textile factory are kept while new co-working, shops and dwellings are created. An intense urban atmosphere is provided for the locals and tourists.

The yellow village is a quite neighbour-hood established on the hills in the middle of the forest. The houses are linearly adapting thought the levels, generating openings and closures protecting and opening the exploration of the forest and landscape.

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Every urban area consists of an urban fabric. Whether these have been built up over the years of settlement or have been meticulously designed, they all have their own set of qualities. These qualities are what make them desirable places to live, work and play. These urban qualities are often so clear that they are visible by looking at the plan of the city. These plans help to understand the configuration, movement, scale and space.

capable of creating scenarios. The proposal of the project is to apply three distinctive urban fabrics in the city of Borås. These fabrics are chosen by the relevant characteristic intended to be generated in each particular part of the site. The patterns are adapted and changed according to the specifics qualities of the proposed area. Three new neighbourhoods are created consisting in totally different atmospheres and scales. A city, a town, and a village are built.

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The memory of walking through and becoming part of a space. The experience of perceiving an environment. This understanding is a direct consequence of how a built space has been created. These spaces come together in a specific plan. And this different plan generates diverse cities, towns or villages.

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a3 - connection The bridge going over the railway makes the border between the city and Gässlösa disappear. This bridge is part of the green line which runs through the city. This green path leads to the city centre which makes it even more important in terms of bike and pedestrian commute in northsouth direction in the city. Seeing as the green path goes beside the school, it facilitate the commute of students from northern neighbourhoods. a4 - a new movement the citizens of Borås should be able to move along Viskan more freely. In the northern part of the site a new place is created along the river to continue this movement from the city. By adding a bridge from what is today a parking area, we not only create a new dynamic but also a much safer and more welcoming entrance to Gässlösa, from the city centre. b1 - schools-movement A school adds life and dynamic in a city. When they are close to the children the amount of car travels is lower, because, if a traffic safe path is available, children can bike by themselves. Therefore, one school is placed in every neighbourhood. In the city

a school for the older children (gymnasium or högstadie), in the town for the younger children (lågstadie and mellanstadiet), and in the village, a kindergarten is proposed. The green path connects them, where the speed is low and the children can play safely while going to school. b2 - use your neighbours To have a mixed city, the neighbourhoods should be lived to their whole potential. By placing schools near green areas, these can be used by the children for school activities and also, during their free time. The middle school, can use some of the sports facilities at the other side of the river. These facilities are part of the green paths mentioned in B1. b4 - production in the city By planting dense trees around the concrete factory it is possible to buffer the dust and the sound to make the presence of concrete factory possible in the city fabric. c2, c3 - the meeting place This is where the three different neighbour-hoods meet. The Island is a magical place with an unique atmosphere; a farm inside the city. The space is dedicated to growing food and connecting people with food production. Along with the greenhouses, a

dynamic environment is created with a food castle consisting of a food market on the ground floor and a restaurant on the top, placed on a rock looking over above the new Viskan. c4 - slops beyond the hills From the houses at the hill, the variation of high and inclination of the roofs shape a fun and modern city, gradually copying the hills. c1 - mixed city keeping old buildings is an important way to create a lively and changing city. The old buildings has often lower rents that allows other uses. Some buildings can be saved by that reason since they also will help getting in another scale and time in the city. d2 - the encounter In a valley between two hills a small road is going. The road is surrounded by the village. The village meets the town down the cliff, where a recreational water space is created between the forest. The old silos have fishes and plants where people can observe and interact. d3 - forest kindergarten To play in nature help children to develop their gross motor skills. as a small hub connecting the forest village to rest of Borås is

the forest kindergarten. With a well designed interior and the company of the green path it is possible to have a mixed used that someone else use the building in the evening to activate this otherwise dark corner of the site.

e3 - protect from the wild When looking at small villages around in the world there is often a clear border between the village and the nature. Here every opening to the wild side is squeezed together to create this protective border.

e1, f1 - connection surprises Surprises is needed in city walking. The yellow village is totally hidden in the hilly forest from someplace. Like when entering the village from the south, the first thing seen is a animal hospital, while in the narrow road. Where you first go up for the narrow road, see the animal hospital, and then suddenly, behind some trees, see a long line of houses appear.

e4 - connection over the city Göta, Kristineberg previously only two neighbourhoods are now neighbours. A path throw Gässlösa connects the city.

e2 - adapts to landscape Humans like to flatten out where they live. To have a straight floor to walk on, to have a garden that is flat so you can play games... Humans also likes to walk around in the landscape to see the height differences. The idea of the village is to preserve the landscape as much as possible and don’t flatten it to put gardens, and big suburban villas. Instead do long and narrow plots to build the houses on. The houses then are divided further into three steps. A larger one, a cosy one, and an atrium.

time - development Considering the further development of the city towards south, the proposal is to stop Gäslossa from being a hindrance towards it, but to empower this progress, instead. The first step is building the farming island to provide a strong and characteristic core for the site. At this time, a connecting bridge should be built to enable more fluent movements. Then, the buildings in the neighbourhoods will start from the areas along the river and will continue to the hills. Therefore, The progress of the proposal will go on with partly residences, services and product

a vision of the new Gasslossa the 3 neighbourhoods bringing life!

AMA’S ARCHIVE

2019 - 2020, LISBON INTERNSHIP AIRES MATEUS & ASSOCIATES DEPARTMENT PUBLICATION

In the publication department, the models are developed for both study and final representation were they are kept in the archive for future exibithions. They are built in different materials including paper, foam, and acrylic with diverse techiniques and instruments depending on the intention of the model.

a. Casa no Tempo - Silent Living Finished Project The models aim to express the simplicity and monolithic architecture conception of the house. The thickness of the walls combined with the service areas and the strategic and delimited openings. This model pieces were cut in the milling Machine, vertically in PVC layers of 4mm. After that, it was assembled, sanded and had a coverage of plaster and white painting.

b. Casas de Convidados Melides - Guest House Melides Project in Construction The model of the whole site intends to show how the aquitecture explore the topography creating open and closed spaces. The houses of the model were printed in the 3D printing machine. The landscape was built using foam layers as a base, a glued net, and plaster to unify and smooth the surface. After the assembly, the model was painted in white.

THE EDUCATIONAL NETWORK ALTERAÇÕES URBANAS NA COMUNIDADE HOJE

principal rota de acesso à comunidade área de acesso restrito áreas livres pouco convidativas

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OS NOVOS ESPAÇOS PÚBLICOS

1 A PRAÇA DO MAR

2016, FAU UFRJ

STUDIO V: KINDERGARTEN SCHOOL SITE: TUBIACANGA, RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL PARTNER: VICTORIA MICHELINI

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A PRAÇA DE ACESSO

Tubiacanga is a small community marked through history by the neglect of the government. The lack of presence of the municipality, turned the region in a independent neighbourhood. The inhabitants cooperate with each other to develop projects for the area and maintein the sea environment. where fishing is strongly practiced. Therefore, the education of the children is the key to keep traditions and guarantee the future of the group.

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The education is created by their own population with the aim to extend the school journey, the space, time, agents and opportunities to ensure a high-quality tuition and social development. The belief that the education is in the city’s life, not only limited to the walls of the school, extends the responsibility to the whole community, articulating different sectors such as education, health, social assistance and culture. The school is inserted in an Educational Territory that includes institutional buildings, but also, generous, participative and stimulating spaces of volunteers from the community. The path taken by the students between the school and the partners and between the partners is the route. All streets, sidewalks, urban equipment such as traffic lights, poles and furniture and even the walls, accesses and openings of houses should be reviewed to ensure the safety of the children. The aim is to build a process that goes beyond the limits of the traditional education. A network of cooperation collaborating for the exchange of knowledge, reaffirmation of their identity and creation of resistance and development.

school library community small park the new sea square the triangulation of buildings with different functions creates a square which integrates different uses and people.

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The arrangement of the school connects the inner part of the community with the sea until the deck. It also creates more reserved court yards for the smallest students. The many difference of levels helps to configure different spaces for different activities on the outside area. 1 - The Yellow classrooms are the ateliers which functions as knots. They serve as rooms for the community practices, like lectures and workshops for the whole neighbourhood. 2 - The roof has it largest side to the south, because of the predominant direction of the winds for more efficient hot air flow. This aperture also optimizes lightning.

west façades, and levels

the open and closed court yards

the access yard the main access of the school is made through a square which integrates it into the sport pavillion

behind children’s classrooms, balcony, levels and brises

students, teachers and local representative members at the meeting, flyer of the event made by my partner and I

Once upon a a time an imaginary school... architecture students of UFRJ with Sergio Ricardo from the social organization Alive Bay, presents their study about an educational territory in Tubiacanga. Presentation at Clube Flecheiras 13/02, Monday, 19h

Projects Presentations for the community and Municipality The implantation study of the Educational Territory was presented at the local sport club in Tubiacanga. The proposals were constructed by the students after various researches and interviews with the local school committee and the children. The others subjects of the presentations were the recreational and green areas, environmental preservation, history and urban development through a political approach to implement new strategies for future of the neighborhood. Partners: Movimento Baía Viva, Fórum Insulano, APELT - Associação de Pescadores Livres de Tubiacanga, FAU-UFRJ e IPPUR-UFRJ.

THE CITY ESCAPE

2019, LUND UNIVERSITY ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION: ROME COLLECTIVE LIVING CHALLENGE SITE: ROME, ITALY PARTNER: FATME HODROY

Rome is a city of layers that carry the history of the world, expressed in the architecture of the ruins, squares, churches and buildings. Valuable spaces that makes it one of the most desirable cities to visit and live in. It is continually changing, growing and becoming denser, but it doesn’t offer good

options for the new inhabitants. There is, a need for changes and new developments. The urgency of space, specially new dwelling and green areas, are what the city is lacking most.

The Rome Collective Living Competition proposes a new idea of co-living in the traditional and chaotic city of Rome. The housing solutions could potentially be implemented across the city to increase housing stock so it should be flexible enough to adapt to different locations and inhabitant requirements.

The project creates new residential areas aligned through the more sustainable and sociable way of living. It offers a shared lifestyle for the currents inhabitants of the city, who already share a building and a square. It connects them trough a greater common space where they share facilities and enjoy the greenery. It also integrates them to the new inhabitants of the city

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. no interaction outside co-living co-living units physical limits common space private space

New way of living . interaction inside the building, between neighbours . interaction outside co-living, between building and coliving . interaction outside between building

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layer 3 - connecting path

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City Centre of Rome flat rooftops - potential residential building sites non flat rooftops - city infra-structure and archive

The flat rooftops appears as a gap in the occupied city. By exploring this spefic environment the city is enable to grow vertically, leaving existing public space free on the ground floor and changing the city’s perspectives.

The existing building is kept with its architectural expression but the neighbouring properties are changed. The vertical circulation of the exiting building is used and a garden is established offering a recreational and green outdoor, keeping the qualities of a rooftop.

To provide a more convienient lifestyle for the new inhabitants, the centre of the city is chosen as a potencial area for the sites as it is supported by infrastructure such as services and transportations.

A path walk connects the elevators and staircase from the existing buildings, integrating them to the new common spaces.

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a vision of the rooftop. a garden where people share their life and enjoy the greenery and outdoor activities

FAST AND UNIQUE!

APPLIED TO SHELTER

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With Grasshopper comand, there were tryes of different formats of the brick which will configurate the shelter. The cylinders shapes don’t create secure connections and intersect with each other when curved with the surface

2018, LUND UNIVERSITY SPATIAL EXPERIMENTS SITE: DASHT-E KAVIR DESERT, IRAN PARTNER: AMANDA KAPLAN

The cone bricks adjust themselves to the curves becoming different from each other with specific rotation and angles. This strategy can proportionate interesting lighting effects

With the use of other Grasshopper command, some bricks are capped in order to protect the shelter from the sun.

The proposal of the exercise was to develop an architecture element to be part of a shelter in the desert. Because of the availability of clay at the site it was chosen as the main material. Also, the vernacular architecture in Iran, marked by patterns, based on geometrical figures, configures the establishment of a network of bricks.

The aim of this project was to discover a type of brick that could be applied and create a pattern network into one specific surface. During the semester, a lot of experiments were made to find a specific shape and logic of the brick interaction that could allow flexibility of connections and freedom for the form itself. The process of construction is thought to be simple, quick and unique. The intention is to combine vernacular architecture, using local knowledge and material aligned with the possibilities of new technologies such as the software Grasshopper and 3D Printers. These news tools speed up the time spent on the project, from creation to execution. The construction has its costs reduced as the material and brick are made in the site requiring less need of massive transportation. All the bricks are different as they adapt to the specif surface. (next page)

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AFTERNOON LIGHT

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DIRECT LIGHT DURING T H E H O L E D AY

The Construction Process

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The use of the software Grasshopper develop a script that create a specific network of bricks

The adobe clay is produced at the site by mixing local sand with natural straws and water

In reason of the singularity of the bricks, the 3D Printer Machine is used to produce the brick

The bricks are numbered in order of printing and aligned so they can be easily arranged together.

A simple concrete cylinder is constructed and buried under the sand, connected by metal curved beams to structure the surface of the self-supported bricks.

The cones are related with the same logic , applied all over the defined surface.

They wait to be dried in the sun.

A “mountain” of sand is build so the bricks can be arranged in the correct position until the whole shelter is established. The bricks are united with mortar that fills the little gaps in between making it stronger.

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network of brick follow the same parameter, capped and uncapped

the bricks configures interesting shadows effects

the gaps between the bricks are filled with clay

THE COMPOSE STAIR

2016, RIO DE JANEIRO, FAU UFRJ CONSTRUCTION PROCESS SITE: CONSTRUCTION SITE OF FAU PARTNERS: FERNANDA, GUILHERME, JULIA, LUIZA, NICOLE, PEDRO E VICTÓRIA

The proposal of this course was the construction of an architectural element in reinforced concrete. The semester was based on the whole process of construction, from the draws and conception of the pieces; measurement and mix of the material; the construction of the wooden formwork, drop off the concrete, and unmold after 28 days of wait.

The concept of the stair is to integrate itself when assembled also serving as a shelf for small objects frequently used on the construction site. For the required place, the stair has the minimum of 60cm on the floor, and the high is approximately 50cm high. Therefore, 15 liters of concrete was needed, which included: . 6,25 kg of cement . 12,62kg of sand . 12,7kg of gravel . 3,37 liters of water

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T H A N K YO U !