PORTFOLIO 2014 MIGUEL DARCY
Miguel Darcy de Oliveira Miranda Pontifical Catholic University (PUC-Rio) BArch 5-year program - School of Architecture and Urbanism
CONTENT Curriculum Vitae Index Selected Works
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CURRICULUM VITAE Miguel Darcy de Oliveira Miranda Lives in Rio de Janeiro - Brazil 20.01.1992, Rio de Janeiro - Brazil Contact migueldarcymiranda@gmail.com Benjamin Batista Street, 197/402 +55 21 987643120 ZIP: 22461-120
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Education 1995 - 2009 2009 2010 to today Language Portuguese German English Academic 2011 2013 2012 to today 2014 2013 to today
Autocad 2014, Rhinoceros 5.0, Grasshopper, Sketchup Pro, VRay, Quantum GIS, Adobe CS (Photoshop, Illustrator and Indesign) Corcovado German School, Rio de Janeiro Abitur (Zeugnis der Allgemeinen Hochschulreife) Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro - PUC-Rio School of Architecture and Urbanism Native language Proficient level - Deutsches Sprachdiplom der Kultusministerkonferenz Stufe I und II Proficient level - Certificate in Advanced English (CAE) - Cambridge University
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Architectural Drawing teaching assistant Diagrams and Layers-Advanced Representation Techniques teaching assistant CAU PUC-Rio Website assistant “Reverse Atlantis: New Oil Territories in Brazil” Studio teaching assitant TEPP Research Grant - “Reverse Atlantis - New Oil Territories in Brazil: Urbanism and Planning” with professors Gabriel Duarte and Marcos Favero Elected to the Student’s Union main board
Professional Experience 2008 2012 - 2013 2013 to today
1 week internship in Índio da Costa AUDT office Internship in Campo AUD office Architectural visualization freelancer
Workshops and Other Activities 2007 - 2008 2009 2012 2012 - 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2014 2014 2014 Publications, Awards and Exhibitions 2009 2010 2012 2012 2013 2013 2013 2014 2014
Art Model Drawing Course in Visual Arts School of Rio de Janeiro Cofounder of the NOVE Group (New Voluntary Student Organization) 3 Shelters Workshop Local contact of Michigan’s Taubman College Urban Design Studio in Rio de Janeiro (professors Maria Arquero de Alarcón and El Hadi Jazairy) South America Project - SAP - Harvard Graduate School of Design Became member of ENTRE Group - Interviews with Architects Held interviews during the X Biennale of São Paulo with ENTRE Group New Cartographies - Exhibition and International Symposium Worked as freelancer for the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy - ITDP Selected to the design team of MoMA’s PS1 89PLUS Pavillion in Rio de Janeiro (discontinued due to budget cut) International Workshop with Columbia University and Studio-X Rio in Rio das Pedras Intertwined Territories - One Week Workshop in Macaé
NOVE nominated to the “Personality of the Year Award” by O Globo Newspaper “Weekend Residence in Itaipava” selected to PRUMO Exhibition 3 Shelters Workshop Exhibited in PUC’s and UFRJ’s Campi 3 Shelters Workshop Published in AU Magazine Peace Parks project selected to the XIII Biennial of Buenos Aires New Cartographies exhibited in StudioX RJ New Cartographies’ Map of Rio selected to the X Biennial of São Paulo Presented 89PLUS Pavillion project at the event’s opening panel 89PLUS Pavillion project exhibited in StudioX RJ
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INDEX Student Work Comission Professional Work Freelancer Competition Exhibited / Published / Winner
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Residential Tower in Santo Cristo South America Project - Peace Parks
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89PLUS Rio Pavillion
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Reverse Atlantis Research Grant
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New Cartographies Exhibition
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Public Mediateque in Lapa
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Urban Foundations - Europan Competition
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3 Shelters Workshop
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Renovation of Rio’s National Library
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Urban Renewal of Canto de Itaipu
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ENTRE - Interviews with Architects
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Shared Residence in Pires de Almeida Street
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RESIDENTIAL TOWER IN SANTO CRISTO PUC-Rio Collective Housing Studio Rio de Janeiro, Brasil 2013
The designed building places itself in a very peculiar site: exactly on the border between Rio’s port area, which currently goes through an intense renewal and verticalization process, and Morro do Pinto, a very traditional, low density, residential neighbourhood in the city. Because of this condition, the project should dialogue with buildings on both sides of the street. While the building as a whole is understood as a tower, fitting in the context of the new office skyscrapers in the area, the individual apartments are distinguishable from one another. Therefore the tower no longer operates as a homogeneous unity, but a set of individual dwellings, similar to what happens in Morro do Pinto. Due to its verticality, the project creates a public square on the ground floor, which is a big local defficiency, as well as suggests a possible crossing through the block in the future. The apartaments are organized around a central core, which contains both stairs and elevators, and fit freely with one another. They vary in size and shape, as a way of ensuring diversity in social and economical terms. The apartments on the lowest levels are the ones smaller in total ground floor area, whilst bigger ones are placed higher, whence the city port and Guanabara Bay can be seen.
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New Developments
Morro do Pinto
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Yellow: 1 bedroom Orange: 2 bedrooms Red: 3 bedrooms
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SOUTH AMERICA PROJECT - SAP PEACE PARKS PUC-Rio Infrastructure, Landscape and Borders Studio Border between Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay 2013 Displayed at the XIII Architectural Biennale of Buenos Aires SAP The South America Project (SAP) is a trans-continental applied research network that proactively endorses the role of design within rapidly transforming geographies of the South American Continent. SAP specifically focuses on how a spatial synthesis best afforded by design can provide alternative physical and experiential identities to the current spatial transformations reshaping the South American Hinterland, in particular fast paced modes of resource extraction and an unprecedented regional integration at a continental scale (primarily through roads, energy grids, fluvial corridors, and telecommunication networks). Launched by Felipe Correa and Ana María Durán Calisto, with the support of the Department of Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, and the Loeb Fellowship, the project brings together a broad host of academic insitutions, scholars and designers from diverse fields, in order to create a projective platform that can allow for Architecture and the diverse disciplines affiliated to the constructed environment to actively partake in proposing more comprehensive models of urbanization for South America. The Park The project explores the concept of ‘Peace Parks’, which are protected ecological sanctuaries with its management shared by all countries involved. The shared park expands the notion of political border by creating a surface of exchange instead of a dividing line. Coupled with the deployment of the parks are a series of strategies that promote tourism and sustainable development, creating jobs and boosting local economies. Given the diversity of ecosystems along the longitudinal axis of the South American continent, the project sheds light onto a potential connection between the different biomes through various conservation areas. Within this logic, the proposed Peace Park is part of a strategy which creates a transitional zone between the Pampas and the Brazilian Coastal Forest biomes, fostering a much richer biodiversity.
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Water level variation The river bend of the Quaraí River, which allows for the cross connection of Monte Caseros, Bella Unión and Barra do Quaraí, also generates a complex geopolitical and ecological condition that are both strategic and delicately balanced. This condition is coupled with the historical presence of important military bases in each city and major national parks or ecological sanctuaries. The project investigates opportunities to implement a type of jointly administered international natural park on the triple border known as ‘peace park’. A peace park implements a neutral zone for both ecological and border control reasons. It functions as a dilated border crossing, and is normally implemented in areas where strict border control is particularly difficult, but necessary.
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The project also seeks to resolve a territorial issue between Brazil and Uruguay. The Brazilian Island, located in the Quaraí River, is officially part of the brazilian territory because of a contraditory decision and has been recently reclaimed by Uruguay. Because the Peace Park works as a shared territory, this no longer is a problem.
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YEAR 8 Aduana implementation
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Park aerial view with highlighted amenities
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Example of amenity: Kayak Station
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89PLUS RIO PAVILLION INTERVENTION IN MAM-RIO Working with CANTEIRO Collective Comission Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2014 Presented at 89PLUS event in Rio Displayed at Studio-X Rio 89PLUS 89plus is a long-term, international, multi-platform research project co-founded by Simon Castets and Hans Ulrich Obrist, investigating the generation of innovators born in or after 1989. Without forecasting artistic trends or predicting future creation, 89plus manifests itself through panels, books, periodicals and exhibitions, bringing together individuals from a generation whose voices are only starting to be heard, yet which accounts for almost half of the world’s population. Marked by several paradigm-shifting events, the year 1989 saw the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the start of the post-Cold War period; the introduction of the World Wide Web and the beginning of the universal availability of the Internet. Positing a relationship between these world-changing events and creative production at large, 89plus introduces the work of some of this generation’s most inspiring protagonists. About the project The current urban transformations taking place in Rio de Janeiro - a city engaged in torrential efforts toward construction, materials and happenings - coupled with the need for a temporary pavillion to host the 2 day events for the 89+ at MAMRio, brought the desire to expand the realm of architecture through a greater approximation between art, architecture and construction. Starting with the sketch of a wall which cuts through MAM´s clear span and its park, designed by one of Brazil´s greatest architects, Affonso Eduardo Reidy, the temporary pavillion makes use of the formwork construction technology as a critical strategy of operation in the carioca urban context, and occupies the negative volume (where concrete would otherwise be poured) through an articulation of the formwork and its supports. A pavillion which, much like the 89+ generation, avoids crystallization and places itself in a constant process, closing distinctions between assembly, disassembly and the object. The exhibition is realized beyond the days of the event, and all the phases of the pavillion and its own ephemeral qualities underscored become part of the discourse of the project and part of the dialogues proposed by 89+. MAM-Rio - image of the modern brazilian project - again under construction, seen here as a new construction site which reconstructs - calling out to young artists, architects, scientists of the 89+ generation - a proposal for one of the greatest legacies of Reidy´s architecture: the potency in the relation between architecture, art, landscape, city and construction.
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PORTFOLIOS EXHIBITION
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WORKSHOP, PRESENTATIONS AND VIEWPOINT
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REVERSE ATLANTIS Laboratory for Architecture, Infrastructure and Territory Working with Gabriel Duarte, Marcos Favero and Sergio Musiello Research Grant Ceará, Brazil 2013-2014
The laboratory proposes to investigate and develop new ways of monitoring and planning projects, which vary in scale (architecture to territory),related to transformation processes in the brazilian equatorial coast, triggered by oil basins auctions in May 2013, by the Brazilian National Petroleum Agency. From Amapá to Rio Grande do Norte, new areas of exploration -admittedly a territory marked by complex ecologies and insufficiently monitored urbanization processesconstitute a context of analysis and action that offers the chance of a critical accompaniment facing their urban planning and landscape transformations, providing conditions for the development of more sustainable patterns of urbanization in different aspects to the territory that characterizes the equatorial margin of Brazil. The first analysed territory is around the Port of Pecém, in the outskirts of Fortaleza, the state capital of Ceará. Following federal economic plans, Pecém is soon to be one of the country’s main ports and currently heads to its fourth expansion. It follows a model defined as a port-industrial complex, which can also be found in Marseille(FR), Kashima(JP) and Suape(BR), creating a cluster of industries inside the port’s legal perimeter. Coupled with Suape, the Port of Pecém aims to be the most important exportation hub of the region, while Suape, which is closer to consumer markets, receives the majority of imported products. Among many others, three major industries have already been installed in Pécem, namely: Siderurgic Company of Pecém, Premium II Oil Refinery and Energia Pecém thermoelectric plant. All of them have environmental, social and urban consequences, which can already be observed in Pecém and in the cities around it, such as the sudden arrival of 5000 korean workers, several new allotments over dunes, ever-growing influx of tourists and private investments and the setup of heavy industrial supply infrastructures across the landscape, such as highways, railroads, energy lines, water channels and wind turbines.
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PORT OF PECÉM
TRANSNORDESTINA RAILROAD
PORT OF SUAPE
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Existing Oil Platforms
Urban Expansion Area Already Installed Industries
Premium 2 Oil Refinery Port of Pecém Industrial Complex
Paracuru Taíba Port of Pecém’s Piers CE-085 Highway (being duplicated) Cumbuco Transnordestina Railroad BR-222 Highway Fortaleza
Dunes
Anacés Indigenous Reserve
Environmental Protection Areas
Major Water Bodies
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NEW CARTOGRAPHIES RIO DE JANEIRO INTERACTIVE MAP Working with CAMPO Aud and Gabriel Kozlowski Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2013 Displayed at the X Architectural Biennale of São Paulo
New Cartographies The New Cartographies project proposes to work mapping as a creative instrument of recognition, criticism and action on the urban territory. Sponsored by the Pró-Design program of the City of Rio de Janeiro, the project, conceived by CAMPO aud, developed partnerships and research on participative mapping that strives to go beyond mere physical representations of the territory, having the city of Rio de Janeiro as its main focus. The New Cartographies Exhibition happened between May 17th and June 8th, 2013 at the Carioca Design Center, and showed works from CAMPO and from invited artists, architects and designers (Lize Mogel, Christian Nold, Fabio Lopez, Wikimapia, Wellington Cançado and Renata Marques). It was later selected to be part of the X São Paulo Biennial as a permanent exhibition through the event. The Map This map was created with the intention of provide a complete and immediate visualization of the urban area of the city of Rio de Janeiro. Today, there aren’t any available maps that allow us to understand the relation between the form of the city and its empty areas with such detail and clarity as the one presented here. Due to the precision of the drawing, it is possible to identify relations of mass, density, proximity, importance, location, among others, with each building and with the city as a whole. The tracks system shows the accessible extension of the territory and, as a consequence, how the city is served by the transportation system infrastructures. Alongside the information related to the built / artificial areas, the drawing of the natural landscape presents in a flattened way the landforms that compose the typical “carioca” landscape. From that, it is possible to see the influence that the mountains have over the limits and the construction of the city. As a strategy to organize the collected information and diminish the visual complexity generated the high amount of printed information, we decided to control the exposition of the map through the intensity of light projected over it. Then, the same projection was used to highlight, with colors and light in a controlled way, a sequence of information considered important to clarify how the city if organized today. The projection is prepared in a loop that puts together 65 layers which vary from basic information about the political division of the city (macrozones, administrative regions, neighborhoods) to more complex information about urban dynamics (areas transformed for the Olympic complexes, the main future projects for the city, etc.). With this map, we intend to offer a tool to understand the city of Rio in a clear and objective way, and to some extent democratize the access to essential information to understand the direction that the city is taking.
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Carthographic base onto which the layers were projected Dimensions: 10m x 3m
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Information Source Most of the digital files that served as a base for the construction of the printed map came from dwg files created in 2008 by the Rio de Janeiro Municipality. 753 files were gathered and 15 layers were selected, cleaned and modified in order to form the content of the eight vertical stripes, measuring 67x255 cm each, which together form this complete map. The other files used, with information about the streets network, represented by the axis of the roads, were extracted from a digital base offered by Pereira Passos Institute on its website.
Primary Information Most of dwg bases provided by the Municipality of Rio de Janeiro are incomplete. The areas that lack most information are located in the far west, close to the Sepetiba Bay, and in the northwest area, close to Campo Grande and Santa Cruz. Due to the fact that the road system originates from a dierent file than the rest of the map, and because it is more complete and consistent with the actual reality, it is possible to observe the areas where there is lack of information: on those areas we can see the axis of the streets, but there are no buildings close to them.
Coordenadas geográficas Geographical coordinators
Sub-bacias hidrográficas Sub watershed
Vias de transporte Transportation system
Áreas do Morar Carioca Areas for the
Foto aérea Aerial photo
Rios Rivers
Futuro trem de alta velocidade Future high speed train
Lotes irregulares Irregular plots
Foto aérea + macrozonas Aerial photo + macrozones
Pluviosidade Rainfall
Túneis Tunnels
Mar: perfil atual Seashore: current ou
Regiões Administrativas Administrative Regions
Logradouros Streets
Áreas de preservação Preservation areas
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Bairros Neighborhoods
Logradouros principais Main streets
Favelas Slums
Aterros sobre alagadiços Landfill over
Bacias hidrográficas Watershed
Linhas de BRT BRT system
Unidades de Polícia Pacificadora (UPPs) Pacifying Police Units (UPPs)
Aterros sobre o mar Landfill over the
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Added Information An important part of the work was to approximate those bases of the reality. Manual work was necessary to draw buildings that were not on the original dwg files. Those drawings were based on Goggle Earth aerial photos. This process was used in critical situations where the lack of information could have compromised the understanding on how the city works and how it is organized nowadays. The buildings on the ‘favelas’ (slums), which are completely missing from the original dwg base, were represented as a pile of buildings, where its form and position do not correspond to reality, but where the general border of the favela does.
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Limits Because of the diculty to find dwg files with the built areas to cities around Rio, and because the data and indexes found were presented according to municipalities, we decided to consider as a study area the city of Rio de Janeiro inside its limits, and not the metropolitan region, which goes beyond this political outlining.
Desmontes Disassembles
Projetos futuros Future projects
Índice rendimento Yield index
Aeroportos Airports
Hotéis: projeto, reforma, construção Hotels: project, renewal construction
Índice população Population index
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Cemitérios Cemeteries
Equipamentos públicos Public equipment
Índice de densidade Density index
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Empresas do setor de óleo e gás Oil and gas companies
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Índice de alfabetização Literacy index
Índice de Desenvolvimento Humano (IDH) Human Development Index
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Intervenções no porto Interventions in the port area
Índice de envelhecimento Aging index
Moradores em setor subnormal Citizens in the subnormal sector
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PUBLIC MEDIATEQUE IN LAPA
PUC-Rio Collective Spaces Design Studio Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2011
As part of the university’s 2 year studio, focused on collective spaces, it was proposed to imagine a mediateque in downtown Rio. The given site, however, didn’t take full advantage of the area’s potentials, and was, therefore, altered. With the closing of a deserted street and occupation of two nearby parking lots, the project creates a new public square for the city, which articulates all the public equipment around it: public school, Rio’s Metropolitan Cathedral, two important concert halls and the projected mediateque. It undestands the city as the ultimate collective space, whereas its vertical circulation is public and its ground floor is an extension of the square. The building organizes itself vertically around a spiral ramp, which growth is virtually infinte and is adaptable to future expansions and new technologies. Different rooms are “plugged” on each side of it, transforming it into a buffer zone between the two sides of the mediateque, planned according to natural lighting: digital media on the façade that gets less sunlight and books and galleries on the opposite one. The mediatheque follows the principle of not only displaying contents, but also offering conditions of new ones to be created. Just like an idea forms in the brain, with the clash of two concepts, it is the clash of contents and, by extension, of people, that inspires new ideas to be first thought. The ramp is designed to be a space where people can meet and share ideas. It can, therefore, be considered a knowledge infrastructure. Just like Babel Tower, the mediateque is a symbol of human achievement and is a reflex of its intellect through art and knowledge, which, like the vertical spiral, is in constant growth.
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Urban intervention The deserted street and the parking lots should be closed in order to create a new public square, which integrates all the surrounding public equipments. The initially proposed site for the mediateque is than changed, since a much better site is originated between Rua do Lavradio and the new public space. Therefore the mediateque becomes an extension of the city, connecting the square and the street through its ground floor while, on the other hand, takes advantage of the public square for its own activities.
.Deserted Street .Underutilized Land as Parking Lots
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How a new idea forms in the brain: CLASH OF CONCEPTS
Mediatheque as catalyst of new contents: CLASH OF CONTENTS Ramp visually conects all the different rooms and works as a mixing space, clashing various contents as a way of producing new ones.
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URBAN FOUNDATIONS PLAN D’AOU Working at CAMPO Aud Europan International Competition Marseille, France 2013
The project was conceived to accommodate for both highly successful futures of the site and drastic failures. Like infrastructures designed to create conditions for other activities to happen, the Urban Foundations project enables its adaptation for calculated densifications and potential eventual evacuations. The main concept of the project uses an analogy with the foundations of a building to create a series of architectural, urban, and landscape conditions that can respond to the uncertainties of Plan d’Aou. Developed as a prototypical strategy that can permeate and influence development for the entire study site, the architectural and urban strategies presented here establish an indissoluble relationship founded upon adaptability. Both the urban and architectural strategies have been conceived to guarantee the adequate implementation of site development in different levels. The relatively excessive use of structural materials (concrete) in the construction of the armature can be justified by its infrastructural role, and occupied over time, if necessary. This might seem odd at first, but this type of investment consciously accounts for flexibility in development. The armature can as much be used as a bare spatial structure for outdoor activities – assuming the role of interactive monument – as it can a plinth for vertical expansion, provided the market highlights this opportunity and an increase in density is desired by the community and local planning authorities. The project was conceived with the simplest possible expression – the least technical, least lyrical, and an almost primitive structural solution. This simplicity allows it to create a generous platform for myriad programs to occur. The static armature is equipped with all the basic technical features that a multifunctional building requires for fluid programming. The concrete armature contrasts with the lightweight wooden and plaster partitions used to create the different compartments of the building. This contrast does not only accommodate any number of layout variations, but also gives the building a tectonic identity that is unique and enduring, in light of the multiple changeable scenarios that are enabled.
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3 SHELTERS WORKSHOP ARCHITECTURE OUT OF CHAIRS Workshop with PUC-Rio, UFRJ and Estácio de Sá University Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2012
After a lecture given by Shigeru Ban as part of the Arqfuturo event in 2012, three architecture schools of Rio de Janeiro (PUC, UFRJ and Estácio de Sá) decided to arrange a joint workshop with the intention of creating shelters out of nonconventional materials. While UFRJ and Estácio de Sás’ students focused their research on used pallets and used market boxes, the students of PUC decided to face a problem on campus: the disposal of old chairs. The chairs were usually jumbled at the back of warehouse, out of sight of anyone passing by. They were first disassembled, generating 3 components: a wooden seat, a wooden backrest and the chair’s metal structure, alongside with metal screws. When stacked, the chairs would naturally form a semi-arch, each of them composed by 7 chairs. Those were afterwards paired with a second, opposing, semi-arch and topped with another chair, that worked like a joint. The whole structure would then be tensioned with a steel cable, resulting in a firm arch-like structure that defined the shelter’s structural module. The wooden props would then be fixated to the metal structure using the old screws and a nylon bracket to make the shelter’s closure. The result is a linear pavillion made of 10 modules and 130 chairs.
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RENOVATION OF RIO’S NATIONAL LIBRARY Worked as a freelancer for CAMPO Aud Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2013-2014
The project proposes new models for occupancy to resolve both technical and functional issues (related to the security of the building, the collection, staff and visitors) and organizational barriers of existing spaces and work environments, minimizing any interference in the original architecture. New occupation layouts seek to interfere in the most delicate way possible in the building. Furniture, mezzanines, partitions, among others behave almost independently in spaces giving identity and greater functionality . The external gardens have different concepts of intervention intrinsically related to their functional and public roles. The garden at the corner of Rua Pedro Lessa emerges as a major public square open to the city, a place of permanence and conviviality that will host the public from the National Library in a generous and frank manner. It assumes a strong material/tectonic character with sawn granite floors, which are now ramps (movement) and seating areas (permanence). It is conceived as a ‘mineral garden’, where green has its specific place and importance. Meanwhile, the opposite garden will be more restrained, with more dense vegetation and with exclusive use of accredited officials or the Library. The vegetation and trees serve as elements to disguise the various technical components that will be deployed in this area due to the functional demands of the modernization of the building infrastructure.
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Urban Renewal in Canto de Itaipu Working at CAMPO Aud Niter贸i, Brazil 2013 Public Competition Winner
The Urban, Social and Environmental Project for the Canto de Itaipu neighborhood aimed to stimulate economic and social development of the local fishing community through a project of urban intervention that sought to stop the current process of degradation and revitalize their surroundings through a set of actions and propositions that expected to preserve the cultural values of traditional fishing and the historical, natural and environmental heritage present in the area. The intervention project started with the awareness that the problems faced by the area would only be fully resolved in its relationship with the city, nature and heritage, if their environmental, cultural, design and urban planning were developed to act together. Along with the strengthening of the economic activities of artisanal fishing and tourism, it is clear that Canto de Itaipu provides a unique context that brings the potential qualities of becoming an exemplary sustainable urban development. Thus, this project articulated the different agents involved, broadening the spectrum of solutions and guidelines. It was of vital importance to this project, the adoption of a participatory process that included a schedule of meetings, workshops and presentations involving local residents, local and public authorities and other groups of interest. This allowed a channel for ongoing dialogue and communication in two-way street, with all the actors involved in the project. The attraction of the actors to the process of establishing best urban solutions was crucial to the success of the initiative and their commitment to the project.
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11 ENTRE INTERVIEWS WITH ARCHITECTS BY ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS ENTRE is a collective group of students initiated in the School of Architecture and Urbanism at PUC-Rio 2013+ Some of the interviews were part of the X Architectural Bienalle of São Paulo
The group started in 2009 with the aim of bringing architects and architecture students together through interviews. In order to do so, we launched the site entre.arq.br in which the interviews were published periodically. In 2012, the material of 13 interviews was compiled and culminated in the publication of the 1st book “ENTRE – Interviews with Architects by Students of Architecture” (Viana & Mosley, 2012). Now we come to the point that we need to expand in order to continue the project and, for this, we will create a new format to make it smarter and increase its coverage. We will transform ENTRE into a collaborative platform, involving students in the formulation of the interviews and publish the results in a new book, which complements the first one. This new format was first put to use during the X São Paulo Architecture Biennale, where 5 interviews were held: GrupoSP, UNA Arquitetos, METRO Arquitetos, Nelson Brissac and Philip Yang. More at: http://issuu.com/g.kozlowski/docs/livroentre
Interviews The collective has already held interviews with: Ana Luiza Nobre and Guilherme Wisnik Andrade Morettin Arquitetos Associados BLAC Campo AUD Carla Juaçaba Grupo SP João Filgueiras de Lima (Lelé) João Walter Toscano METRO Arquitetos MMBB Nelson Brissac Nitsche Arquitetos Philip Yang Rua Arquitetos SPBR UNA Arquitetos Vazio S/A
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Public interview with Philip Yang during the S達o Paulo Biennale
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SHARED RESIDENCE IN PIRES DE ALMEIDA STREET PUC-Rio Preservation and Restoration Design Studio Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2012
The 23 buildings in Pires de Almeida Street were built to house all the employees of an insurance company, in the decade of 1920. The street is organized diagrammatically, and its elements reflect the hierarchical structure of the company at the time. In the first 4 buildings lived the president and directors and, therefore, have a higher quality in terms of natural ventilation, insulation and materials used, as well as being the only ones with lifts. The second set’s units are a little smaller, but still very comfortable to live in and face a bucolic square, with plenty of trees and a playground, while the units of the next two sets keep getting smaller and denser. While the regular apartment of the first 4 buildings is 200 square meter big on average, the unit in the far end is only 63 square meter. As time went by, the street no longer was inhabited merely by the company’s staff, but its structure remained the same. The hierarchy is now a result of the economic conditions of its residents, creating a healthy environment where people of different social classes coexist. Historically, due to its low costs, the last 2 sets of buildings used to house artists, students and exiles who had just returned to the country, giving to the street a character of an intense cultural production. However most of these traits have been lost during the years. Because of the rising real estate speculation in the city, even the last 2 buildings went through changes and fusions, becoming high class apartments and leaving behind the street’s biggest quality: being a democratic and diverse environment. Our project seeks to restore the residential diversity of the street, bringing its apartments to a minimal size as a way of insuring its accessible prices while, on the other hand, provides a wide living space, enhancing therefore the quality of life and connecting its inhabitants. It operates on the last building on the right and on the cul-de-sac, which was formerly used as soccer field and nowadays is a parking lot.
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Existing slabs of the street’s last building, adjacent to the cul-de-sac
Creation of a void that permeates the slabs in half of the building, while the other one remains intact
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18 individual apartments of 2mx2m each, in both sides of the void
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Creation of a second void, which defines a collective living space
Stretchment of the stairs’ steps, which develop as tables, walkways and a bleacher
Project creates an alternative for cheap residence without, however, compromising the quality of the spaces
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