Matheus Simon Portfolio - 2023

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Welcome to my portfolio, showcasing a diverse range of architectural and urban design projects

My focus has always been on sustainable design and concepts, with a strong emphasis on creating environmentally conscious desings. Each project featured in this portfolio is a testament to my dedication to sustainable design and my commitment to creating functional and beautiful spaces that are in harmony with their surroundings.

KAWE: V+ Dar es Salaam - Tanzania 04

ARTÚNSHÖFÐI: FOOD+ Reykjavik - Iceland

GÅSEBÄCK

Helsinborg - Sweden

SALVADOR FRANCA Porto Alegre - Brazil

MY PRESENTATION VIDEO

MATHEUS SIMON

I am deeply passionate about Architecture and Sustainability, and my goal is to change and transform people›s reality by integrating Architecture and Urban Design with nature and the environment. I believe that by considering the natural world and its needs, we can create better and more sustainable communities.

As an Architect and Urban Designer from Brazil, born on April 12th, 1989, I am currently based in Lund, Sweden while pursuing my Master›s Degree in Sustainable Urban Design at Lund University. With over a decade of experience in full architectural projects, including residential, commercial, hotel, and shopping center developments, I have also founded two startups, a real estate business and a sustainable contractor utilizing Light Gauge Steel Frame technology.

My goal is to utilize my ethical, competent, leadership and technical skills to dedicate myself to transforming cities through sustainability.

KAWE - V+

DAR ES SALAAM - TANZANIA

YEAR: 2022

TYPE: Master´s Degree - Third Semester

UNIVERSITY: Lund University

DESIGN BY: Matheus Simon - Individual work

V+ is a concept that incorporates verandas into the design, with the name „V+“ standing for „Verandas Plus.“ The mixed-use design aims to provide residents with income through commercial areas, farming on the top floors, and solutions for improved living through internal courtyards and social spaces.

V+ uses locally sourced clay bricks with a concrete structure, and the bricks will also be used as a shading element and decorative feature on the facades. The suspended verandas will have a pattern inspired by African culture and will provide accessible walkways from the ground floor to the sixth floor. The facades will also feature street art inspired by African vernacular architecture, highlighting the unique identity of the building.

Tanzania faces challenges in implementing verticalization in buildings due to the importance of verandas in the culture. Dar es Salaam, faces issues such as informality in both houses and businesses, limited access to basic necessities, the dry season, and a lack of natural resources. However, it also has a unique identity, with vibrant and happy people who wear colorful clothing. Their social nature is reflected in the verandas and public spaces, such as streets.

V+ is a proposed solution that addresses three main aspects: identity, permaculture, and the use of suspended verandas. V+ is a building with varying heights that is connected by suspended verandas, allowing the ground floor verandas to be accessible to all residents. The building is located on a corner lot, close to a main street and surrounded by two pedestrian streets.

V+ is a mixed-use concept that incorporates suspended verandas and brings income through commercial areas and farming. Livable areas through courtyards, and social spaces. It uses local clay bricks with a concrete structure. The suspended verandas provide walkability from the ground to the sixth floor. The facades uses street art inspired by African vernacular architecture.

Perspective - Suspended verandas, social spaces

Perspective -West facade and ramps

Art on African vernacular houses Kitengestexture patterns

Tawah clay blocks Block openings

East Facade

West Facade

Detail Plan - 1 bedroom apartment

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Detail Plan - 2 bedroom apartment

Section B-B

Perspective -Urban Farming on the top floors

ARTÚNSHÖFÐI - FOOD+

REYKJAVIK - ICELAND

YEAR: 2022

TYPE: Master´s Degree - Second Semester

UNIVERSITY: Lund University

DESIGN BY: Matheus Simon - Individual work

Iceland is a small country with extreme climate conditions presenting powerful winds, snow and a lack of sun during the whole year, creating a challenging scenario to produce food locally. It is possible to conclude why Iceland imports half of the consumed food in its country.

Food+ aims to create a unique community where people will be part of the food production system, exploring the public spaces with foodrelated activities (food university, food markets, food hall, fish markets, fish production, among others) and using the private buildings to combine the food production with living. Another essential concept is to create a sustainable and productive neighbourhood to serve as an example to transform Iceland into a food production country.

OPPORTUNITIES

Using vertical farming, using hydroponics and aquaponics combined with a unique type of greenhouse, developed in Iceland. Aiming to use these technologies to grow food vertically and using fishing farmings to increase the food production of Iceland.

Considering that almost %50 of the food consumed in Iceland is imported from other countries, means that most of these products travel long distances by sea to reach the country.

The design aims to work with urban farming, using the highest technology to increase food production even in extreme conditions. Through a simple process that combines the use of the LED lights that imitate the solar radiation to feed the plants and the use of sustainable energy from the geothermal sources, it is possible to heat the greenhouses in the region, even without the direct sunlight.

Strategy Diagram - Aiming to integrate the Greenhouses technology with living, producing food in unexpected places, for example, using the topography and the landscape to create productive underground storeys where it is possible to grow food and leveling the ground floor entrances, creating an innovative way of living.

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Masterplan -

Overall Strategy

Detail Plan - Food Market and Food Hall

Detail Plan - Food+ Greenhouse

Section 03

Perspective - Showing the Food Market and Food Hall

Section

Section

Perspective - Showing the Food+ Living (Residential buildings + food production on the underground floors)

GÅSEBÄCK – BUILT ON IDENTITY

HELSINGBORG, SWEDEN

YEAR: 2021

TYPE: Master´s Degree - First Semester

UNIVERSITY: Lund University

DESIGN BY: Matheus Simon - Individual work

Gåsebäck is an isolated island nowadays, separated from Helsingborg, a place with identity, but lost in the city context. The challenge is to renew, recycle and densify the area, transforming it into a quality neighbourhood.

The aim is to create a sustainable community based on its identity and explore the personality that already exists on Gåsebäck. The graffiti creates a unique culture in the neighbourhood, creating a unique opportunity for a fresh start.

OPPORTUNITIES + STRATEGIES

The strategy mainly focuses on the sustainability concepts and Gåsebäck´s identity, especially its “street” culture (graffiti, skate, hip hop, for example).

Opportunities:

- Barriers

- Uses

Strenghs:

- Identity: Graffitis and existing historical buildings.

1. Enhance the connections – between Gåsebäck, Helsinborg and the world, enhancing the quality of the public realm and giving people the possibility to spend their leisure time in quality and culturalbased urban spaces.

2. Build on identity – The plan is to recycle the use of Gåsebäck’s historical brick buildings, using the existing infrastructure to rebuild the urban matrix and create a quality public realm and urban spaces, based on the graffitis and the cultural aspects of the area.

CONSTRUCTION STRATEGY

There is a lack of housing and no sense of community in the area. Due to its location in Helsingborg it is possible to transform the neighbourhood into a cultural landmark. the block, (microclimate, living roofs, energy production, etc.), as a result, it is expected the creation of unique buildings.

3. Construction of community – Gåsebäck needs people occupying its area, the purpose is to create unique buildings and quarters, studying the environmental aspects that affect

AXONOMETRICS

The idea is to focus on the cultural spaces, highlighting the ones that are already there. Recycling some buildings to create a cultural heart of the Gåsebäck.

Heights Diagram

The overall idea is to not densify too much the area.

Uses Diagram

The aim is to keep most of the existing buildings changing its use, creating mixing uses and new functions to the area.

VILA SALVADOR FRANÇA

PORTO ALEGRE - BRAZIL

YEAR: 2014

TYPE: Bachelor Degree - Graduation Project

UNIVERSITY: PUCRS

DESIGN BY: Matheus Simon - Individual work

The Salvador França favela is an unassisted community. The site has 200 families, many of these families do not have even basic sanitation.

The developed design intends to create nine residential blocks with three different types of apartments (with one, two or three bedrooms), it was planned to create commercial areas for some local stores to use. The design covers some primary needs as the primary school for the community and some other solutions as the green roofs located in all the buildings creating urban farms.

STRATEGY DIAGRAMS

The aim is to create two main streets, using the topography to create a unique courtyard and buildings with different apartment typologies buildings and creating high quality social housing.

1. Existing situation

2. Streets creation

3. Densifying buildings

4. Infrastructure

5. Commercial Areas

6. Educational Areas

7. Different Apartments

8. Urban Farms

OVERALL DESIGN

The aim is to achieve an excelence in social housing, creating not just good quality apartments, but good quality urban spaces, like an acessible courtyard.

9. Combined Diagram

B-SIDES

This is a collection of different types of projects and different levels of development.

YGGDRASIL NORSE THEME PARK

The design of the building is Tree of Life of the Viking Culture, in history the would be broken and the 9 worlds that surrounded the tree, would be in the inside of the tree-like building..

EUCLYDES DA CUNHA

YEAR: 2019

TYPE: Professional Project - Residential

OFFICE: Koren Arquitetos

The work developed by Matheus Simon in this project was supporting the Architect Sergio Koren to develop and execute the ideas in technical drawings and in the 3D model.

The participation started in the initial drawings and at the moment the project is been analysed by the city hall construction department for further approval and execution.

BENTO GONÇALVES

PORTO ALEGRE - BRAZIL

YEAR: 2017

TYPE: Professional Project - Residential

OFFICE: Koren Arquitetos

DESIGN BY: Sergio Koren (Lead Architect), Matheus Simon (Freelancer Architect)

The architectural design developed by Koren Arquitetos, the building is located in Porto Alegre. The work developed by Matheus Simon in this project was supporting the Architects Sergio Koren and Marcelo Marrone to develop and execute the ideas in technical drawings and in the 3D model. The participation started in the initial drawings and at the moment the project is prepared for execution on site.

FINNISH INSTITUTE NEWCASTLE

- UK

This project uses sustainable and innovative design basis. The environmental design is present in the terraces/roof gardens, where is possible to have an interaction with nature for all the institute users.

The Finnish Institute project was designed to be the Finland cultural institute to be built in Newcastle upon Tyne — UK. All the design is based on the perfect symmetry, represented on

this project by A paper series, the proportions of the building were created using this concept and a matrix too. The grid is broken only to create an interaction with the existing city.

CRISTIANO 506

PORTO ALEGRE - BRAZIL

YEAR: 2017

TYPE: Professional Project - Residential

OFFICE: Foxprime Tecnologia em Construções

The design was developed using the best city infrastructure and the aim was to build student accommodation. Aiming to offer contemporary and effective design apartments.

The Cristiano Fischer was designed by Matheus as a construction drawing exercise. The building has 12 apartments (one and two bedrooms).