PORT FOLIO Architecture and Urbanism
Monique Vale Szpoganicz April 2019
CONTACT Tel: +55 (48) 9 9928-8600 E-mail: moszpoganicz@gmail.com https://www.behance.net/moszpoganicz https://issuu.com/moszpoganicz
CURRICULUM
Monique Vale Szpoganicz Brusque, Santa Catarina September 16th, 1993
EDUCATION Architecture and Urbanism Federal University of Santa Catarina Florianópolis, Brazil Architectural Studies University of Strathclyde Glasgow, United Kingdom
softwares Autocad Sketchup Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Adobe Indesign
Podium Revit Archicad Office Pack
LANGUAGES Portuguese English German
professional experience August 2018 | December 2018 Design and execution of the Off White Cat’s physical store in Brusque, Santa Catarina. Brusque, Santa Catarina August 2017 | July 2018 Luciana Caiaffa Architecture and Interiors. Florianópolis, Santa Catarina.
October 2015 | February 2017 AR Architecture and Interiors. Florianópolis, Santa Catarina. July 2015 URBAN DESIGN STUDIES UNIT University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom.
1 off white caT Physical Store
Off White Cat The brand of handbags and accessories aims at the simplicity, timelessness and authenticity of its products, so the architecture of its store could not disrupt. Using a physical space laden with the shop owners’ familiar memories, it was sought to preserve some of its most striking characteristics by bringing them back to the surface. The renovation and the project happened simultaneously due to the deadline of delivery of the place, causing the initial idea to change greatly due to the events. There was a need to raise the floor to avoid flooding, and the need to remove the plaster due to moisture. With the removal of the plaster we found a brick wall that was worth preserving even with its imperfections and thus created itself one of the main elements of the store. Iron, cement and glass were used as the main composing elements of the store. We leave the constructive truth of the place well reinforced, and in addition, the whole electrical installation was apparent in order to facilitate the changes that the store will have. Its interior has brought the brand’s proposal to strengthen local producers, with this, the main elements of wood are made by small local producers. Many of the exhibition elements were mined and recycled to be inserted into the store. The chosen paintings are also from a local artist, and the vegetation, a striking and present element was chosen to compose with the rest of the store. The link between the brand proposal, the family’s memory and constructive simplicity denoted the concept for this store / office.
BRAND
memory
physical store
concept
BEFORE
2 FLAT 302 Interiors
Flat 302 A photographer who already knew quite the style of apartment he would want brought the concepts: industrial, practical and modern. Among all the references we selected the ones that most pleased and fit the day to day functionality. The final result made the best use of the spaces proposing another response to those already existing in other units of the building. Cement, colors, wood and coatings were used to compose the environments of the apartment. Allied to the diverse possibilities of exposing personal photos of the photographer that would make the apartment even more his own.
3 heritage intervention
academic
A new alternative for the Renaux Factory When I was passing through Primeiro de Maio Avenue in my city, Brusque, Santa Catarina, the magnificence of the Factory Carlos Renaux was something that caught my eye. Since the year 2013 the factory has declared bankruptcy and I have watched its physical space suffer with the effects of time and degradation. I always imagined what this space could become since its original use no longer served, and from this curiosity was born the theme for this final thesis. In search of a better understanding on the subject and in order to preserve the integrity of the memory above any insertion, I studied the history not only of the factory but also of the city in which it is inserted and I understood that one is directly influence of the other. Therefore, rethinking this industrial park would not only be a personal yearning, but also a way to keep the memory of the city’s population alive. The complex city, the one that keeps its history preserved while investing in its future, is the focus of this work, seeking to create a mentality focused on preservation, and showing ways to deal with this architectural legacy. The textile factory, Carlos Renaux, is just one case in a city where factories that are sometimes centuries old have ceased to become an active part of the economy and the physical space is so large that its demolition would be unsustainable. The work that began as a desire to deconstruct thoughts of those who believe that the solution is demolition has turned out to be an example of how this thought could be employed. Giving a factory a guideline and insertions, whether architectural or intentional in order to make it present in the daily life of the city and not just a passive observer. The factory came from a long textile tradition with not only the name, but a factory park of great strength in the city and that calls for an intervention that brings back to that community. Two points were preliminary: its openness to the public as an accessible and quality urban space, and also its reinsertion into the economy while preserving its textile memory. In addition, the care about heritage preservation should guide any and all interventions to be made on site in order to maintain its integrity. In order to maintain the memory of its former use, it was thought in what way fashion is seen and produced today, not only in the city, but in the whole, with the aim of making the old factory a textile producer in a more public situation, more accessible and more contemporary. However, given its scale, relegating only one use to the site would overestimate the capacity of use and also the size of the manufacturing park. The place should be used as a whole, employ all the parts, preserving its physical and subjective memory, opening it to the city as previously it was, rethinking its Fordist productive line in a new mechanism and, in addition, promoting its sustainability not only in the preservation of its park but also in its internal use. Cover all the steps of creating a fashion product to its end point by rethinking its discard or return. In addition, integrate other consumers in order to create a dynamic that is not limited to working hours, but to leisure and services. The proposal aims to create a proper production cycle within these sheds, that is, cover all stages of a fashion product, inciting the creative industry. To focus on the prototype, on creation, to make this place an innovative place again - as it has already been - and give the possibilities to create this product from conception to its return. The place would work with specific courses, such as support for the faculties and technical courses of fashion already existing in the city, as well as as incubator of new companies and developer of the existing ones. A symbiotic process between the creative industry and the community, since to make viable the use of this space, some services would be inserted next to the sheds. The purpose is no longer just a workplace but a place of coexistence.
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proposed cicle EDUCATION
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The unsustainability of both civil construction and fashion production is rethought in the preservation of heritage and also in the destination given to leftover material. One of the sheds proposes to find this destination. Besides the cycle, support sheds are planned, that is, spaces destined for food, stay, leisure and recreation, so that the factory space is no longer seen as an enclosed space but a quality urban space. All companies to be placed in the complex, either renting rooms for their installation or those of food and services would bring part of the financial return to the maintenance entity. The proposal is that this be a public-private collaboration so that the space is viable and with character of public experience. Therefore, the general proposal aims to encompass the urban, social, cultural and ecological spheres of development on a smaller and larger scale. To promote changes that do not interfere with the built heritage, maintaining the respect for the existing architecture and without denying its past to the detriment of modern structures. Use history as a stimulator. In short, the project preserves the memory of the textile industry created by Carlos Renaux, but resigns it in order to participate more actively in the economy of Brusque through the teaching and production of fashion in all its aspects. In addition to resuming the experience that existed in the early days of the factory, through the permanence in its urban space.
Given the size of its factory area, to admit that this change would happen overnight is utopian thinking. The proposal starts from the idea of ​​starting with a generator nucleus that will conduct future changes, acting as a stimulator for the next insertions to be executed. There is a first design but it is from this core and the demands that arise that the project will develop. The first step of insertion would be the opening and requalificating the urban space, connecting points of interest of green spaces in order to embrace all the buildings in an accessible route so that the possibility of walking trough the whole is implicit. In addition to providing large squares for public events of the city as attractive. The urban space becomes a pleasant space to stay. A second moment would be the design of two sheds in the heart of the factory area, two of the oldest sheds, but also because of their location in the whole, would be a good motivator for renovating adjacent sheds, as well as inciting people to enter the complex.
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BEFORE
PROPOSAL
4 habhost Project Studio
ACADEMIC
HABHOST The project proposed seeks to encompass several layers and aspects of everyday life in the city center of Florianópolis through a program that aims to be democratic in the sense of the proposed functions, both literally and subjectively. The ground floor is left free in order to be publicly occupied without, however, obstructing the path of passers-by who have a more pleasant path to cross from one street to another. Only a vertical tower makes the path of the pedestrians with the upper floors, separated by a raised floor. The first and second floors of the building have the proposal to offer venue for events, the floors have the most different types of rooms, auditoriums and spaces of permanence so that the public can enjoy its space with the proposal to enlarge the place and yourself. However, the space given as public should not be used for personal profit purposes without it being partially reversed in improvements to the building itself. The initial proposal of the project developed in the studio brought something that was called “memory walkway” since it even indirectly evoked the remembrance of the streets, the city, the landscape by means of a walk. In the final proposal of the building, this catwalk takes a more static form and the walk becomes permanence, so the third floor forms an elevated square that generates another public space for the center of the city, and still makes the intermediate between the low and the high city, or old and new. The two upper blocks are divided into hostel and housing, being connected through a connecting walkway. The first one, of management of the own entity that maintains the building, aims to bring resources for maintenance of the same besides proposing a inbetween space, with high turn of people and cultures that attracts people to the projected space. The housing, on the other hand, fulfills the social role that the place brings. The floors have small apartments that are made available to the population for a certain time, which in turn can be used as manpower for the maintenance of the building. Implemented with facades on Mauro Ramos Avenue and Dr. Zulmar Cross, the building has a block that contemplates the program and another that houses the circulation. The proposed features and setbacks bring the permeability necessary to be attractive to passers-by and still make the transition from their surroundings. The materiality of the building is given by a metallic structure that conforms its skeleton, slabs in steel deck and closings in masonry and wood. The metal structure is released from the building conforming the structure of support to the outdoor, denoting the light character that the material has in relation to other constructive systems. In a search of the relation of the building with its surroundings, the block was worked so that the building does not have its perimeter very demarcated. The site is played by levels that make the experience of pedestrians more playful. The different heights make up small stands, and a grandstand for the arena stage in their midst that still proposes different experiences for those who participate. Aiming for an integration with Hercilio Luz Avenue, which now departs from the ground floor due to an unusable street, the square increased taking the street as a useful area of expansion and the river was reopened - with due treatment - evoking again the feeling initially proposed by the project that would be to bring to the fore the memory of an old Florianópolis. The building is located at the east end of the lot, along with Mauro Ramos Avenue but opening the way through a raised ground floor. Its main facades are to the east and west, keeping the building illuminated for much of the day. * Project detailing. Only selected parts due to its extension.
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5 VILA APARECIDA park Urbanism Studio
ACADEMIC
Vila Aparecida Park The Vila Aparecida Park project was developed in partnership with fellow academics Enzo Pittol Nercolini, Isabela de Carvalho Figueir처, Stefan Maier and Tiago Escher Guimar찾es da Silva. The project proposal was the design of an urban park in an intervention area located in the mainland portion of the city of Florian처polis, near the Vila Aparecida community. A park for Vila Aparecida needs to be more than a public space, it needs to be a social and community space, capable of breaking with urban limits and allowing the free flow of social vectors that already flood the adjacent blocks. The project aimed to transform a forgotten and underutilized area into another one in which the community is appropriate. Contemplating users at different scales, the Vila Aparecida Park presents itself as a social catalyst capable of responding to the needs of the community. The main strategy of the project was organized in 3 scales: > Semi-public: consists on meeting the needs of the lack of space for activities that concern the urban life of the inhabitants of the edges of the intervention field. Already the use of the precarious space in sidewalks for the collective appropriation with the creation of vegetable gardens, installations of clothesline, barbecues for festivities etc. is perceptible. > Community: seeks to respond to an economic need of the inhabitants of Vila Aparecida. The strong community organization has led us to propose a cooperative not only to manage the park, but also to use its space to generate income. Thus, large-scale vegetable gardens were created where it is proposed to plant items that can be commercialized later. Giving identity to the community, it was sought through the cultivation of flowers to stabilize an economic activity in the park. > Public: proposes to attend to the lack of public spaces and leisure of Florian처polis and its metropolitan region.
6 modular
Competition Projetar 018
MODULAR | emergency shelter The emergency shelter project - MODULAR was developed in partnership with fellow students Breno Ayres, Isabela Figueiró, Júlia Thomé and Maísa Jordão for an edition of the projetar.org contest. The design choices are based on the idea of providing shelter and protection to those affected by natural disasters, since they are essential concepts in the restructuring of traumatized families. The proposal developed by the group seeks the simplicity of the form linked to the ease of assembly, through privacy and the creation of spaces that allow greater appropriation. The materials chosen were designed to be light, resistant, low cost, to allow a modularization with fittings and to facilitate the transportation of the module by two individuals. The base would be the four-user module, from which, according to need, it could be expanded through attachments derived from it. Thus, we have also been able to meet the demand of six and eight people with constructive equity and family comfort. In order not to lose the resilient character, we chose not to propose a definitive settlement. Thus modules can be organized to fit the reality of any site. Materials used: High Density Polyethylene (HDPE) - Fencing / Structural Transparent acrylic plates - Frames OSB Wood - Fence Metal latches Racks Photovoltaic
module 4 people
module 6 people
module 8 people
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
INSTRUCTIONS Identify the floor and ceiling boards and those of the walls. Unfold the walls, let them vertically and make sure they locked in that position. Attach the walls on the floor rails and the ceiling on the wall rails as per the picture.
After docked, be sure to lock the plates. Repeat the step of fitting ceiling, floor and walls if the module received is for 6 or 8 people, according to the image. Unfold and fit the largest wall on one side. Attach the acrylic plates to the remaining plate and the insert on the opposite surface of item 6. Attach the rack and top bed plate to the creases and assemble the furniture as pictured.