ARCHITECTURE
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P O LYA N N A G A LVÃ O Selected work
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Cultural Hub for the rebirth of a brutalist icon
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Master thesis project
Growing buidings Climate design project
Under5 Subway station in Qatar
Ostiense office
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Mixed use
Living within landscape Collective housing in a collective nature
Music conservatory Bachelor thesis project
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PROFILE
I have recently graduated in Master of Architecture cum laude at KULeuven university in Belgium, a major with a strong approach in resilient and sustainable strategies, from where I became apt to develop strong solutions from an in-depth perspective through the use of existing buildings in a sustainable way.
Polyanna Galvão
+32 456 05 89 78 polygalvao7@gmail.com Ghent, Belgium
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I also have working experience as an intern at the governmental public agency in the field of urban and infrastructure planning and for filled this internship for the timespan of 2 years. It has given me great experience in various projects on different levels and this all under the supervision of a team of senior architects. I believe that this gave me a variety of skills and the ability to work and collaborate in groups, and therefore I gained technical abilities like drawings, creating 3d models and surveys. I’m looking for a challenging and creative environment with a company that loves creativity and sustainable building and developing as much as I do.
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Yours sincerely, Polyanna Galvão
R E S U M E
E D U C AT I O N > Master of Architecture cum laude Resilient and sustainable strategies KULeuven University - Belgium (2019-2021) > Bachelor of Architecure and Urban Planning Federal University of Paraíba - Brazil (2011-2017) > Scholarship at Science without Borders University of Roma Tre - Italy (2014-2015)
R E L AT E D E X P E R I E N C E > Complementary course Curso de Luz. (Lighting Design course), Lighting Studio Waldir Junior, 2021. Copywriting course, in progress. O novo mercado - Icaro de Carvalho, 2021. > Volunteer Participated as a volunteer researcher at the Project Memoria João Pessoa: Informatizando a história do nosso patrimônio, within the LPPM – Research, Design and Memory Laboratory at UFPB. (2012-2014) > Researcher Participated in the research with LACESSE Accessibility Laboratory, in partnership with several laboratories from the UFPB. The program entitled “Integrated Rehabilitation Strategies for Social Housing in the Central Area of João Pessoa, PB, Brazil”. (2013)
WORK EXPERIENCE > ..
Intern at Work Superintendence of the State of Paraíba’s Development .Plan - SUPLAN (2015-2017) Producing drawings and layouts and assisting the architects throughout the projects. Learned digital design techniques for creating 3D models and renderings. Accompanied architects to the surveys. Observed the overall design process, from drafting the sketches to working with the developer on-site.
TECHNICAL SKILLS Archicad
Sketchup
Autocad
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Photoshop
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Illustrator
Microsoft Office
Indesign
O R G A N I Z AT I O N A L S K I L L S > International Seminar Urbicentros 5 Peripheral centralities/central peripheries (2016) Volunteer monitor in charge to organize the outdoor activities. > International Seminar Urbicentros 4 Invisibility and contradictions in urban centre (2013) Volunteer monitor. Support in the event organization.
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Cultural Hub for the rebirth of a brutalist icon Master Thesis Project Once more Bravoure Design Studio Prof: Bram Aerts KULeuven - 2020/21
My project consists in the proposition of renovation of the former GB building, located in the municipality of Evere, a suburb area of Brussels. The research deals with the problematic of the brutalist buildings dating from 60’s and 70’s. Although these gems have significant qualities, they are currently declining in performance, facing the obsolescence or even the end of their life cycle. The propose aims through the adaptive reuse to bring a new life for the building, mitigating its premature demolition and reintegrating to the reality. Taking in consideration the aspects investigated, the GB building has a great opportunity for the socio regeneration of the centrality area of Evere. Despite the private current use as hypermarket and partially occupied with the administration function, the building has an immense opportunity to become a catalyst for the civic life.
FROM A HYPERMARKET TO A LEISURE AND ART EDUCATIONAL CENTRE
In regards to comprehend the conception of GB building design, a brief historic overview was made. The development of hypermarkets in Brussels emerged through the modernization ideas supported by the political strategy of post war, as a clear process of transformation of the retail sector.
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Design proposal with the system of perforated squares for lightining
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Original design
The interventions enhance the connections from outside, antecipating the user experience
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The repurposing is based on a cultural program that has the strategy of enriching the character of the suburban area, bringing diversity and strengthen the recreational potential. This way, the building plays an important role as a node of social intensification, with significant value for the neighborhood, more than what a simple commercial building can offer to the local community.
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GB Building in 1973, Evere - Belgium
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Light up, mix more and gathering
Box of light is a system that is punched through all the floors to enhance the quality of rooms A mix of uses coexist together are articulated by encouter spaces Social interation is encouraged by the openess
Office space The office space is an open play typology that offer greater flexibility. Although looks a wide surface, the boxes of light define the space in small zones, such as working desks, meeting rooms and areas to take a break.
Transversal section
Open up to the surroundings In the surrounding context, the building opens up to the public. People can get inside through the 2 main entrances on the ground floor and also direct access on level -2 via the garden through the Leopold III Avenue. Besides that, they can have free access to the rooftop level via the slope. In opposite of the original design, this intervention takes away the priority to the access through vehicles and gives to the people a building that welcomes pedestrians.
The common garden is embraced by the stepped picnic area connecting different levels together.
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Former vehicle slope converted into a walk passage The main circulation for people access the rooftop garden Integrated to the museum, the last part of exhibition room leads from -1 level to outside
Rooftop garden
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The wild hanging garden
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The slope invites the residents and the locals to enjoy the wild garden. As a kid that can play while your parents observe from the balcony or neighbors that go for a run, the area becomes a safe park in the center of Evere.
COLLECTIVE HOUSING
The office tower has an elongate and deep shape, measuring 72m by 25m. To better accommodate the housing program, 10m of the width was removed, providing enough natural light for the apartments via this way
Floor plan of families housing units
Floor plan of students and young professionals units East facade, the spacious corridor promotes the conviviality between the neighbors and let the sunlight flows into the housing units
LIGHTNING AND CONVIVIALITY
The units have enough sunlight with the partial demolition of the east side of the building, this way all of them have double orientation and get benefit by the crossed ventilation and lightning. The old windows were removed, creating a continuous balcony that is distributed for all the apartments. This strategy brings more domesticity for the old office façade and allows the residents to enjoy the views of the surroundings.
Family housing 75 sqm 2 bedrooms
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Views of the different housing units, highlight to the spacious balcony gained though the transformation of the old office facade
Cohousing unit 20sqm One person studio
Family housing 55 sqm 1 bedroom
West facade
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Growing buildings Sustainability project
Group project - Climate Design Studio Year 1, semester 2, 2020
Growing Billings is a Project that explores natural solutions that could replace conventional construction materials, being equally efficient but more ecologically and economically responsible. The ambition is to cultivate, process and produce on site a construction material to build the Gentburgge Village under the flyover, a village that will gradually grow according to the material production. We have selected the Mycelium as the identity and main natural element to produce Mushrooms Bricks. The process consists of organic material processed by the mycelium, forming strong, lightweight and fully compostable forms, that can be shaped into bricks. Collecting agricultural waste from the surroundings of Ghent, we will provide infrastructure to bring the waste and resources to produce the bricks in the factory under the flyover. After a period, the bricks can be taken back to the soil, creating a compost to grow mushrooms again, closing the cycle. The aim is that by 2040, Gentburgge will take a regenerative approach in a circularity system with a zero-waste goal.
2040 SCENARIO In 2040, Gentbrugge will be a ‘circular’ neighborhood and flyover will work for reinforcing the identity. The mycelium bricks production of the Growing Buildings project will become crucial to build a completely new village, reactivating the leftover space under the flyover, creating a completely new environment. From the City scale to the detail, all working together to achieve the enhanced result. The key factors to close cycles in the system is to make a more diverse, compact and integrated dynamic, eliminating waste and encouraging a continual use of resources, providing a healthy ecological system.
CITY SCALE The agricultural waste as well the coffee residuos will be recollected from surroundings to be transported to the Gentbrugge Village. The resources will be storage and reuse. The waste will use as the basic organic material to produce the mycelium bricks and the coffee waste, will practice as a compost to grow the mushrooms for the mycelium tissue and also to produce coffee tiles for interior floorings.
Ghent, Belgium
From city to village: the waste collection will be transport directly inside of the factory. The resources are storage and reused closing the cycle.
VILLAGE SCALE As the primary material is Mycelium Bricks, working with the grid system is decided to create collaboration inside the village with modular systems and build it easier for all. The buildings are located right under the flyover, and the main concerns were about taking enough sunlight and have proper passive ventilation. As a solution, it’s decided to place this grid not parallel to the road but with 45 degrees rotations to flyover footprint. Thanks to this rotation, facades percentage on sides have increased, and it’s possible to take the maximum sunlight and improve the ventilation quality inside the village.
First floor plan
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Detail Scale Modular design of 6 by 6m with an open ground floor. CLT structure, mycelium bricks walls of 30cm that also have insulation properties and recycled concrete from the flyover opening for foundations.Covering proposal, primarily a 1m glass gap as double façade to expose the mycelium material.
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The module offers different possibilities according to design with opened or closed ground floor and several covering alternatives as timber covering, stonecycling cladding and glass with 15cm ventilation air gap to expose the mycelium material.
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Under5 Subway station in Qatar
Group project - Design Studio Year 2, semester 1, 2020
The station Under 5 is named on the principle of seamless transit. Located in Al Khor, a suburban town around 50 km far from Doha, the station provides an easily interchange for the passangers, through different levels and modes of transportation, reaching the metro from any part of it in less than 5 minutes. This concept was born by the fact that the Qatari society is car oriented and this is its mainly mode of transportation. The design prioritizes the pods and car sharing with the shorter interchange – less than 1 minute – to encourage the Qatari to use the metro and the shared transport. To reach the desirable seamless, the design starts from a gentle ramp traversing through the entire site to improve the car users experience. Besides that, the transition time from the other modes: buses, pods, bike and steps are located within the different layers of the building to achieve more use efficiency, because no matter which side you enter, you can access the station with an ease way.
SEAMLESS TRANSIT IN LESS THAN 5 MINUTES The function organization is divided into 3 levels, with an intermediate level that is split into two floors that host essential facilities and rooms that support the station. The natural fluidity from the outside is kept in the interior by the curved walls, embracing the void and spaces which are accessible to the public.
Perspective from the entrance
Zoning and function Democratic transportation and space Respect to the boundaries of society
LANDSCAPING PLANNING ON SITE Sculpting the oasis The sculpting of the site gave rise to an obvious obstacle: the high ground water level in Al-Khor. To tackle this issue, we designed a moat-like element at 3m below ground and watertight structure. By creating a water feature and planting native trees on these contours we are also able to create a microclimate for the building. An important thing to consider while designing the station was the sun path. In the summer the sun angle is almost 90 degree which prevented us from creating any opening in the roof directly open to the sky. The openings are created in the roof in such a way that only east that is the morning sun will enter the building directly.
Seamless transit on site Ramp design
Design of roof based on the sun path
Initial site condition
Groundwater level -3m
Sculpting the site along the road by creating countours till level -6.5m
Designing moat like element within the contours will help to manage the ground water
Transversal section Modes of transportation organized in different levels to otimize the seamless transit
Longitudinal section Visual connection by the void Landscape as the oasis
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Ostiense Office Mixed use
Building Integration Studio Year 1, semester 1, 2019
The Ostiense office is a mixed functional building unifying office space with commercial stores. From this point, the project is connected through a common area on the ground floor, where the working area can be accessed by a vertical circulation, while the shops are placed on the ground floor. A conference room also integrates the building, completing the required program for an office building. The primary concern for a commercial-office building is the control of light and ventilation, giving sufficient comfort for the required activities. Another challenge was the privacy and acoustic that a conference room imposes, especially located above the shops, that normally concentrates great amount of people and noise.
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TECHNICS The solution was to positioning the shafts in a smarter way, placing the 4 main shafts in the way that helps the fruition of ducts. In the office zone, the ducts follow the longitudinal direction of the beams instead of the previous perpendicular way that caused many problems, while in the conference room, the use of TTP floors exempt the use of beams between them, so the ducts can go freely through the ceiling. A 2 7.50
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Floor finishing tiles 15 mm Screed 60 mm Vapour barrier PE-foil Acoustic insulation DFM 40mm Thermal insulation PUR 2x100mm Screed 60mm Hollow core 265 mm
open space aluminium cassette panels system 350mm cavity 250 mm Thermal insulation PUR 2x100 mm PE-foil (vapour barrier) Clay block 190 mm Thermal insulation PUR 100 mm Waterproofing layer EPDM Corten steel sheet 5 mm
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Living within landscape Collective housing in a collective nature
Design Studio Project Year 1, semester 2, 2020
The main idea is to return the alliance between the landscape and their dwellers. The built and un¬built is brought together in a coherent arrangement. The settlement is dated from many centuries ago, when the productive land was intensively cultivated, and the landscape held a rich catalogue of trees, pasture lands, bodies of water, roads and fences. However, due to the pressure of urbanization these elements were pushed behind and the existing urban landscape is disconnected with the agricultural back¬ground with which it cannot share an effective relationship. Through this scenario, living in the collective landscape is a project of a suburban housing that enhance its value from its proximity to the valuable nature, solving this way the issue of pressuring the consumption of land.
MASTERPLAN: NATURE AS FOREGROUND The public green spaces are introduced in between the housing and the productive land. The bike path makes the connection between the points of interest of the site and the walk paths complete the circulation, especially through the points of collective activities situated in the common house.
Semi public Courtyard The core of the building enhances the neighbors interaction, a semi public area, open to the public but mainly meant for the relaxation of the building’s dwellers. With this courtyard, the idea is to bring a more vibrant space to the suburban borders of the district. The terraced apartments have front gardens to separate from the public area, avoiding any violation of the private life.
The buildings also contain individual storage rooms and common house that hosts public functions, like a coworking and study room, playroom and a space for community workshop and other activities related to it. They are oriented towards the main public landscape rooms.
Kangaroo apartment Ground floor plan
Duplex apartment
Compact duplex
Terraced apartment
The idea of connecting to the landscape aims to keep the unpaved area as much as possible and treating as different living zones to enhance the quality of the open spaces. The collective housing also contribute to ensure this quality through its courtyard, at the same time having a visually connection to the other areas. The productive land is accessible not only to the dwellers but also welcome people from neighbourhood to enjoy the vegetables produced in the field.
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Music Conservatory in Palacete, João Pessoa-Brazil Bachelor Thesis Project Federal University of Paraiba 2017
The music conservatory is an institution dedicated to the teaching and learning of music, from basic to professional level. The school is located in a plot of historical relevance, due to the presence of the pre-existing building dated from the beginning of the 20th century. Furthermore, this plot is inserted into the heritage perimeter of João Pessoa. The project aims to bring new life to this heritage site through an adaptive reuse, transforming an abandoned palacete into a vibrant music school. The proposal respects the monument to the maximum, enhancing its hierarchical importance in relation to the new volume. The school is opened any time of the day hosting a variety of didactic activities, rehearsals, concerts and cultural events at all levels, local to regional. The collective character of the music school is emphasized by its urban quality: the internal wide square, which connects both parts, acts as if they wished to participate to the public space and city life. Following this, the square connects the conservatory to the city, while introducing an urban pedestrian scale to the area.
RESPECT TO THE HERITAGE Due to the complex school program, a new building was created, nestling behind the palacete. The additional building has strategically positioned openings to frame the surrounding views. Therefore, the slight cut nestles the building in the landscape minimizing its impact and amplifying the scale from the performance stage below.
Palacete
The plot has the strong presence of the palacete, a garage and an apart bungalow which hosts the family’s library. By exploring the potential of the site, the school is gentle positioned behind the old buildings hosting all the teaching space and concert room, while the program of the others is oriented to welcome people for a visiting.
Family’s library
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Music classrooms require all the acoustic requirements of sound insulation and sound absorption. In addition to the soundproof treatment, the shape of the slope walls and the sound-absorbing wood panels are helping to heighten the 0 5 space visually and achieve an excellent acoustic effect.
In respect to the heritage, the new volume is limited to the height of the palacete
Facade and framed views Harmony and contrast with the pre-existing building
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Intern views of the school music Corridors acts as space of conviviality and antecipate student performance
Square as node of social interaction The outside becomes a gentle space that invites students for practice while appreciating the mutual presence of old and new buildings
Polyanna Galvão Tel : +32 456 05 89 78 linkedin.com/in/polyannagalvao polygalvao7@gmail.com
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