Academic Portfolio (2011-2013)

MARCELO PAIVA GERAB

PORTFOLIO

CONT

PUBLIC LIBRARY

SUBJECT: BUILDING PROJECT V

HYBRID BUILDING

SUBJECT: BUILDING PROJECT VI

DOWNTOWN SOCIAL HOUSING

SUBJECT: URBAN PLANNING VII

AMSTERDAM ICONIC PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE POOL COMPLEX

AC-CA STUDENT COMPETITION SUBJECT: BUILDING PROJECT VIII

ENTS

5th SEMESTER

03/06

6th SEMESTER

07/10

7th SEMESTER

11/14

EARLY 2012

15/18

8th SEMESTER

19/22

PUBLIC LIBRARY Caio Prado Street x GravataĂ­ Street - SĂŁo Paulo, Brazil

#01 The site has 2490m2 and is located downtown, in a corner between a small local street and a larger one that connects two important axis in the city.

#02 The purpose was to give the pedestrians a complete permeability for a free transposition and occupancy, so the red stripe represents a required flow that guided the following steps.

#05 The staff building had its corner lifted up for the garage access that is right under it.

#06 The centre of the site is depressed to change the relationship between its interior and the streets.

#09 The ground rises until the top of the buildings.

#10 No amount of ground is lost, it is given back to the city as a new topography.

5th SEMESTER

03/04

LIBRARY STAFF PUBLIC LIVING AUDITORIUM PEDESTRIANS PARKING

#03 The ground level has the staff building, an auditorium and a space for public living with a foyer, a cafe and a restaurant.

#04 Their shapes followed the site lines and the transposition axe.

#07 The auditorium and the public living are dragged to allow light entering and air circulation.

#08 To connect the blocks, the ground is depressed and the auditorium has one of its faces hollowed to enable access.

#11 The actual library program is placed at 5 floors in a metallic structure supported by the ground level concrete structure and by its vertical circulation concrete block.

PUBLIC LIBRARY

SUBJECT: BUILDING PROJECT V

Aerial view, showing the full object

METALIC STRUCTURE CEILING WOOD SHEET GLASS FLOOR

Exploded constructive module

Perspective section cut

5th SEMESTER

View from GravataĂ­ street

View from Caio Prado street

05/06

HYBRID BUILDING

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Augusta Street x Dona Ant么nia Street - S茫o Paulo, Brazil

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Augusta Floor +00m #01 Auditorium #02 Ticket office #03 Cafe #04 Foyer #05 Bakery #06 Bakery kitchen #07 Restaurant #08 Restaurant kitchen #09 Office building reception hall #10 Stores #11 Stairway #12 Garage access #13 Toilets #14 Gallery store

Dona Ant么nia Floor +04m #10 Stores #11 Stairway #12 Garage access #13 Toilets #14 Gallery store #15 Gallery reception #16 Gallery exhibition space #17 Gallery access #18 Bar #19 Bar kitchen #20 Apartment building reception hall #21 Apartments access

6th SEMESTER

07/08

CONCRETE WHITE PAINTING BRICKS NATURAL BRICKS

View from Augusta street

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Housing and Offices Support Floor +08m #13 Toilets #22 Apartment building’s open social area #23 Dwelling warehouse #24 Offices open social area #25 Meeting halls #26 Offices warehouse

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Modules Basic Floor +14m #27 Dwelling open access hall #28 85m2 apartment #29 120m2 duplex apartment #30 60m2 apartment #31 60m2 offices with baths #32 Offices open access hall

HYBRID BUILDING

SUBJECT: BUILDING PROJECT VI

View from the corner

METALIC STRUCTURE

CONCRETE STRUCTURE

6th SEMESTER

09/10

View from Dona Ant么nia street

Sequencial perspective section cuts

DOWNTOWN SOCIAL HOUSING Luz - São Paulo, Brazil

Luz was one of the first neighbourhoods in São Paulo, with some buildings dating from the end of the XVIII century. In the beginning it was a suburban area, but the railway construction in the end of XIX century strengthened its relation to the rest of the city and turned it into an important commercial and industrial point for the whole country. At that time, when factories still used to be located in urban areas, a large workman’s village was built there, followed by some very important public and cultural spaces like museums, galleries, concert halls and public squares.

In the beginning of the XX century, as São Paulo started turning into one of the most important cities in Brazil, its population increased fast. Beside this increase, urban life conditions was getting every time worse, which made high and medium class people start moving to new neighbourhoods distant from the centre of the city, and low class people to even more distant suburban areas with lack of infrastructure.

For the people who couldn’t afford a home, the solution was to start inhabiting slums and to occupy abandoned buildings downtown that had lost their value.

This condition reached its peak in the late 70’s decade, when the city’s central area emptiness was evident.

Although transport and sanitary conditions have always been well supplied, for the private enterprises it became uninteresting to invest capital there and the only government investment was the construction of a subway station connected to the railway, but it didn’t change the actual situation. From that time on, the region is been strongly used as an important commercial point of the city, but no one lives there, people just get there in the morning to work and to buy things, leaving it in the afternoon. This non inhabitation condition makes people stop taking care of the area and starting a general feeling of an unowned place, which has a cyclical effect over it.

2500m2

4500m2

Project area

Full volume

7th SEMESTER

With this complex historical situation clear in mind, this revitalization project consists on the reactivation of the area based on its densification and permanent use of its equipments during day and night time. To achieve these conditions, a permeable commercial base is placed on the ground level and allows a free circulation for a pedestrian access from anywhere around the blocks.

Habitation for the people who most use and work on the neighbourhood’s commerce is placed over it, along the site axis, as shown in the scheme beside: social housing until the 3rd floor, so the access is made by stairs and ramps, reducing the costs with the elevator operation; and medium class housing in four floors over one of the social housing buildings to attract private investments, with access made by stairs and elevators, and directly connected by a footbridge to the garage building that is placed on the other block. The garage building reduces ground loss for parking areas and also allows a sidewalk enlargement. The rooftops are used as a common space for the dwellers’ leisure.

11/12

SOCIAL HOUSING

GARAGE BUILDING

MEDIUM CLASS HOUSING

COMMERCIAL MODULES

Full volume

DOWNTOWN SOCIAL HOUSING

SUBJECT: URBAN PLANNING VII

Neighbour building view Aerial view

7th SEMESTER

View from the street between the blocks

View from inside the apartment building, ground level

View from inside the apartment building, second floor level

13/14

AMSTERDAM ICONIC PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE Amstel River - Amsterdam, Netherlands

EXPLODE

ARRAY

DISPLACE

JOIN

View from the full brigde with an exemple of lights intervention

Section cut

EARLY 2012

The city of Amsterdam is an important gathering point of global commercial activities. Taking an important part in the Dutch economy, the port of Amsterdam, one of the most important in Europe, has developed to receive the increasing commercial demand. With the economic recession, it became too expensive to return empty containers to their countries of origin. In most cases, it was cheaper to buy new ones.

Breaking the cycle has generated a lot of useless and empty containers piling up on the docks of various shipping ports. In 2008, the number of 10’ containers at the port of Amsterdam reached 870,258 units. Many of them remained empty at the port.

For the design of the footbridge, aiming for a greater flexibility guided the decision to use the 10’ unit. This unit provides a greater structural stability and unlimited arrangement possibilities.

The flexible modulation of the unit allows the construction of the chaotic volume creating an infrastructure open to a wide range of uses and types of appropriations created by the citizens.

The variations inside the modules in all physical aspects such as openings, stairs, entrances and streams seek to enable spontaneous occupation of the modules creating different spaces inside the bridge.

The footbridge reaches its full potential when occupied simultaneously by the variety of uses and flows. The delicate visual interference on the background and existing landscape overcomes the idea of the static object when different human activities and occupations take place. Observing the object from a distance, the sequence of perceptions one has of the structure causes a low impact on the surrounding area. However, when approaching the object, it becomes more dense and solid.

Recreational areas such as the diving pool, open auditorium and decks located at the margins configure flexible and multi-functional spaces that create a strong integration between the life of the city, the edges of the canal and the bridge.

15/16

MAIN PATH

REPAIR STATION ADMINISTRATION

RESTROOMS CAFE

STRUCTURE

EXTRAS

AMSTERDAM ICONIC PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE

AC-CA STUDENT COMPETITION

View from the sidewalk

View from the sidewalk

View from the bridge

EARLY 2012

17/18

Competition entry

POOL COMPLEX Nove de Julho Avenue to Santo Antônio Street - São Paulo, Brazil

The project is located between two parallel roads downtown São Paulo: Nove de Julho avenue and Santo Antônio street. The first is a large avenue that works as an important axis, linking one of the airports and many important points to the center of the city; and the second is a small local street at Bixiga’s neighbourhood, one of the most populated areas of the city nowadays, with a large number of inhabitants but lack of social and urban living near the avenue.

This project was made in two steps.

First, the group part, we studied the region, made a masterplan for the area and determined the lines of direction for the incoming interventions of each member. The next step, the individual part., each one chose one available site on the avenue and made a proposal for it.

Nove de Julho is a large avenue placed on a valley area over a canalized river with a few possibilities of transposition by the pedestrians, being an obstacle between the local neighbourhoods. As it is a high-speed avenue, there aren’t many public attraction situated on it, so its actual use is mainly the automobile circulation with almost no place to stay for some time.

Taking that as one of the biggest problems of the area, the masterplan adopted by my group was to take off the 2km elevated, reconstruct it underground and replace it by a linear park at the ground level surrounded by two local and low-speed streets.

For my individual project, I chose a 1200m2 site and I maintained a section of the elevated right in front of it, showing that it could be reused as a new material element on the city and do not necessarily needs to be destroyed or removed.

8th SEMESTER

The site has 9 meters of level difference, being Nove de Julho avenue the +0.0m level and Santo Ant么nio street the +9.0m. Besides, the rest of the program fits in two more levels between them, and in one more level underground. A public footbridge followed by a stair makes the connection from the +9.0m level to the maintained elevated section, and then to the new park at +0.0m level, intented to facilitate pedestrians access to Nove de Julho avenue. The maintained elevated section covers a skate park linked to the linear park and also can be used for public reunions.

19/20

View from Nove de Julho Avenue

+9.0m Public wood deck/ Newsstand/ Maintained elevated section +6.0m Pools access: Reception/ Dressing-room/ Fancy diving pool/ Olimpic pool/ Sauna +3.0m Medical examination/ Administration +0.0m Leisure swimming pool/ Restaurant -4.5m Skate park/ Toilets/ Employees dressing-room/ Machine room

Section cut

POOL COMPLEX

View from Nove de Julho Avenue

View from the leisure swimming pool on the ground level

View from Santo Ant么nio street

SUBJECT: BUILDING PROJECT VIII

8th SEMESTER

View from the mainteined viaduct section used as an auditorium on a possible external cinema

21/22

JANUARY 2013

Cover image made by pin hole photography technique, took from my bedroom window where I spent most time producing these works.