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Thiago Barros architect FAU-UFRJ 2010 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil +55 21 81294327 t.lopesbarros@gmail.com
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2008_2010 _selected works _Environment Museum Annex/M.U.M.A. _Advanced Environmental Research Unit _Lagoas da Serra house _Re(hab) Mangueira _Confort-se
_Environment Museum Annex/M.U.M.A. Enviroment Museum Annex/ M.U.M.A. 2010 Architecture Contest Jardim Botanico, Rio de Janeiro Development of an annex to the Museum of the Environment focused on sustainable solutions for a new environmental agenda Annex to the museum organization of free spaces around the block in addition to an administrative head with auditorium
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Concept of digitalization of the collection's natural museum for the digital world expressed in the formalism of the proposed architectural object.
conception
Andre Daemon, Danilo Santos e Gustavo Mourao
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Jardim Botanico Arboretum
Enviroment Museum Annex/ M.U.M.A.
Enviroment Museum (existing building)
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DIGITAL COLLECTION REGISTER
MUSEUM
MUMA BOTANICAL GARDEN
NATURAL COLLECTION ARBORETUM
A behavioral comprehensive analysis from the new 'digital generation' determines the conceptual design principle in order to mix the natural and digital realities, through a language that is easily assimilated and induces the participation of these new consumers who increasingly turn away from real experiences of built and natural spaces in favor of the virtual spaces.
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The Botanical Garden complex has as it main term his natural collection. The idea of an interactive museum as part of the complex is reflected on the wish to record all the information and data of it’s collection, forming a complete digital database, which not only registers the natural, but cultivate a conscience of responsability about the global ecological problems, demonstrating that without care, in a near future, the only way to experience nature will be digitally.This close comparison of the natural collection with the digital tries to intesifies the differences showing that nature can’t be replaced, and the digital experience will never be the same as walk between the arboretum enviroment. The design is guided by this new digital culture that is embodied in the spatiality of the project, mainly by the huge lobby of the Annex 01, facing a large subtraction of a digitalized tree envolving an ancient existent tree, analogy icon of the Arboretum and it’s digital relation.
The landscape design features a visual pattern integrated with the facade of the proposed buildings. The drawing indicates the flow of movement and the colors show the proximity of the arboretum. The furniture was designed to create small installations which refers to the nature of the surrounding area, prompting the user interaction with objects. This interaction is an entertaining way for the kids to understand the importance of nature.
atrium exposition sanitary
coffe shop
multimidia collection
museum shop
sanitary
Annex ground floor(exit) - 0,45 m
groups host
technical areas
storage
Museum basement floor - 0,85 m
exposition
planting workshop
The new annex Annex first floor +2,75 m
educational center
ambiental center acess hall volume storage
box office
Museum ground floor(acess) +1,56 m
The first annex had it’s circulation resolved in a way that coming from the original museum were possible to run a route passing through all areas of the new museum and ultimately leading to access the store and coffe shop, which would be the stop before the big final, an ancient tree surrounded by a bright atrium of coexistence and ventilation of the building. The connection between the two buildings is via the second floor of the old museum.
balcony exposition projection room
Annex second floor(transition) +5,95 m
exposition
exposition exposition
Museum second floor(transition) +5,95 m
exposition
Annex third floor +9,15 m
The second paviment focuses most of the activities of exposure. Just below is the ground floor, place the box office, controls and host school groups. Even further down is the basement for technical areas and storage suport for the museum. The new annex provides long floor, with free plans for large exhibitions. Still, due to the created strutural modulation the facility to specialization of space is very large, with endless possible combinations of plans for diversity kinds of expositions and cultural uses.
The spaces created around the atrium have breaks in the rhythm creating more surfaces that can be as support for parts of the exhibits. Moreover spaces were proposed with a high degree of specialization, with unique activities that could be aggregated at the museum's program, which aims to encourage the awareness of nature through their activities. The projection room, for example, is a space that possess high height and a many surfaces em variety of heights and sizes allowing dinamic projections and video mapping.
Another example of specialization of the proposed space would be the “planting workshop”, a place of learning where you can plant the object of study directly in the buildings facade, allowing to analyze the degree of sunlight and observe the growth of roots in translucent compartments, sharing it’s experience with the museum visitors.
Main exposition room on the annex of environment museum, and the spaciousness created by insolation, a natural part of the museuns collection. Observatorium terrace with botanical garden view observatorium terrace
Connection between the annex and the old museum third paviment
Exposition room (picture above) second paviment
first paviment
Annex exit to the gardens
Main circulation flow
ground paviment
serverd water tank kitchen tank condensing units rain water tank
green roof
kitchen
sanitaries
electric bomb served tank
supply system schematic section
Climatization The climatization project was thought to be least impacting as possible. The technology of choice was the type VVR (variable volume refrigeration) considered low impact nature and offering considerable savings in energy costs and space. The system provides effective air conditioning at every stage of operation and allows different floors or environments to have their independent control. Evaporators units with models of different capacities can be installed in one system that will automatically control the flow of air in each unit and provide comfort in environments of various sizes enabling also shut down part of the system that do not require conditioning. Instalations The other installations systems run through shafts and distributed between the liner, allowing freedom of modulation. The shafts are located in the center of the building to facilitate the distribution along each floor. The hidrossanitarias installations and fire systens are located in the fourth floor and have a compartment for rain water harvesting and water served. The terraces kitchen has its own reservoirs supplied by water served.
The sustentable system
Power Efficiency The technologies employed to ensure the User comfort seeking low power consumption are based on abundant ventilation and natural ilumination, well as the use of glass and machinery of national production with a high rate of efficiency. Structural system + Materiality The dry construction technology employed provides speed of execution and reduces the amount of waste. The structural system, is designed in metal frames and inserted into a 80x80cm mesh in order to facilitate the standardization of the profiles and the flexibility of layout and assembly. All materials are produced on an industrial scale in Brazil and found easily in the market.
materiality schematic system
internal use
dual oriented use
80 places auditorium
sanitary
sanitary
kitchen
storage
foyer
bleachers
director
meeting
secretary
manager
dual oriented auditorium plan
acess
sanitaries
The auditorium The auditorium space is a multifunctional integration proposal with its surroundings. The idea is to have an area that provides the continuity of the free space into the architecture and the other way around. The functionality of space also serves to support the external area. The dual oriented use is achieved by solving the space with a free plan, the presence of large movable panels and bleachers and gathering assessment. Access to the auditorium is through a large semiopen staircase that leads also to a large terrace with wide open spaces and terraces that serves to support the proposed use of the architectural ensemble. Below that audience is concentrated the administrative area, with independent access.
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The immersion in a hostile environment
development Thiago Barros oriented by Luiz Fernando Janot
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valuation of natural capital through a structure that allows to live in the forest
animals interaction
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shelter
risk of never going back to the concrete jungle
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U.M.A.A. ÂŽ
unidade de monitoramento ambiental avançado
content may vary with the proposed use
100% SUSTEINABLE
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100% portable and reusable
conteĂşdo safety, comfort, research, environmental protection, monitoring, new dwelling spaces, sustainability, ecology, protection of foreign, modulation, mobility, use of local labor, storage, treatment wildlife, air structure, low impact, reusable, Harmony man against nature, valuation of natural capital break new boundaries, tensigridade, adaptability, ecotourism, encouraging local development use of recusos natural emissions control carbon, contact with various biodiversity
The advanced environmental research and monitoring unit (UMAA) appears to meet a demand for a structure capable of providing comfort, security, shelter and infrastructure tied to a very low impact on the site of implantation. This unit would be a way of inhabiting the forest for a long time increasing the potential of research and monitoring of areas of environmental preservation. Modulation would allow their size to be determined by the number of people involved in the research (researchers, guides, photographers, etc.), the size of the area being researched and collected material to be stored during the stay.
_Advanced enviromental ressearch and monitoring unit/U.M.A.A. Advanced ambiental monitoring unit/U.M.A.A. 2010 Academic-Graduation Project Amazon Forest, Amazon, Brazil Development of a research unit that can be installed in areas with low level of human disturbance Primary module that can be grouped creating endless combinations of free format by User
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Join the concepts of adaptation, biomimicry and tensegrity resulting in a unitary module that have edless combinations
conception
Prof. Luiz Fernando Janot
orientation
.Biggest tropical forest on earth .Place of the worlds biggest diversity (1/4 of fauna and world flora ) .17% of disponible water .15.000 rivers .60% of brazilian territory .20 milions ihabitants .1/5 of the earths produced oxygen .Trees canopies from 30 to 50 meters high .17% of total area devasted
The concept of Natural Capital quantifies the value of forests, ecosystems, land, sea and air. Measures the value of biodiversity and natural wealth of a nation, a concept similar to the value of firms expressed by titles and deeds. Balancing the artificial concept, fluctuating with the economic capacity of natural systems, we can counter the impact of the industrial economy to global ecology and natural resources, using an accounting standard adopted in the economy, bringing a real economic value to justify the preservation investment in a structure able to monitor forest areas.
The solution for the Amazon is explore it without putting it down
BOREAL FOREST .low humidity .dense and uniform vegetation .-54º to 21°C .low precipitation level
TROPICAL FOREST .high humidity .dense and variety vegetation .14º C to 42º C .high precipitation level
The anthropic level indicates the degree of contact of the native forest with human intervention. It is believed that even with the devastation at a rapid pace there are still areas, mainly in the Amazon forest, which remain intact, including Indian tribes who never came into contact with civilization. These areas may be considered priceless because their new frontiers in the field of biomedicine.
Although the project studied applicability to the Amazon jungle, its characteristics make it able to adapt to various conditions allowing the occupation of other forests to be preserved around the world, using the concept of 'think globally, act locally'.
going higher
The forest biodiversity can be understood by split tracks at different heights. With the tree tops ranging between 30 and 50 meters, as researchers move away vertically, new species are discovered and can be studied in their natural habitat. Besides the constant rains often flood the soil. Animal Protection is also sought with the initiative to live in the heights, beyond the playful aspect of living in the canopy and allow more effective monitoring of the surrounding areas.
for that we need to go deeper and higher. going deeper
As we advance into the woods increase exponentially the possibilities of new fields of research, but also increase the risks and dangers, such as dangerous animals and the difficulty of food and shelter. The current research camps have many drawbacks such as lack of security against animals, need to clear a large area for deployment, need a lot of labor for assembly and transport, lack of infrastructure for research, the need for proximity to a river. These aspects hinder the progress of teams in more remote areas, preventing they to stay for long periods. The lack of conditions doesn’t allow the exploration of the canopy and ends away more specialized manpower in the area of research. The progresse in ressearch is stoped by mothernature.
PROJECTUAL DEMAND
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Transportable and lightweight structure capable of achieving great heights in an unstable manner by providing shelter and infrastructure in a secure and self-sustaining way.
ADAPTABILITY TENSEGRITY BIOMIMICRY module
The ADAPTABILITY arises from the need of a form that can work around the trees. The module must be grouped overcoming the barriers imposed by the natural environment, that can not be modified. This adaptability is also about mobility, proposing a module that is lightweight and easy to carry, that reaching the implantation site could be grouped easily.
type of module and structure
Known the need of adaptability comes the demand for a module that was selftransformable and self-supporting. Being shipped as easy to get at the implantation site could turn into large structures capable of hold the program, and easily assembled by local labor. The TENSIGRITY has this feature by using tensile and compressive forces to mount a balanced system from triangular shapes in this case.
type of structure and formalism
Determined the module and the type of structure enters the relationship of this structure with the environment and the formal aspect of the group. The BIOMIMECRY studies models of nature, getting inspired by organic shapes and the function of natural systens to generate replicable structures by man. In this proposal the group uses the forest as their structure and the solutions found by some living organisms to determine the formal aspect of the whole.
ADAPTABILITY
TENSIGRITY
BIOMIMICRY
Known for Bucminster Fuller as Vector Equilibrium or Dynamaxion the CUBOCTAHEDRON is a polyhedron with eight triangular faces and six square faces, with the same balance principle from the geodesic structures, as worked out by Fuller, where tensile and compressive forces interact giving stability to the assembly. From the shape, the design of the module takes into account the need for a multi purpose space that when combined can add various functions related to the proposed program. Thus the original edges is transformed into hollow sections with 9 cm gauge .These 24 identical sized profiles have 3,20 m. This creates a module with a ceiling height of 4.53 m that when splited generates two spaces of 2.26 m in height. The central surface area is 19 m2 and the bottom surface area is 10.25 m2. The larger area was thinked to house the major activities and uses and the smaller to storage or technical areas. To achieve this floor split, four 4.53 m bars were added to make a central locking of the object and the mesh structure for the central settlement of the floor. This addition brings more rigidity and safety to the system making it composed entirely of triangles.
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Self-transformation is a unique quality of the form. With their joints elastic connected, the form can bent and when released go back to its original shape.
Self-transformation
Modular system
MALEABLE JOINT, soft and elastic neoprene , waterproof, used to make the connection of the bars in a flexible manner allowing for self-transformation in the workplace
STRUCTURE profile in tubular aluminum gauge 9 cm also with a mesh well positioned to serve as a basis for installation of the floor assembly.
FLOOR, polyethylene sheets or made in situ with wood pieces sit on the aluminum mesh.
CONECTOR, aluminum galvanized, pre-fabricated in the angles of the system, divided in a away that embraces the junction of the edges over the neoprene, providing structural stability to the system.
Materiality ESTRUTURA
The materiality of the unit is determined by the set of all materials that can be added or combined to suit the local conditions. The basic form is composed of aluminum tubes connected by elastic joints of neoprene. Thus the subject is able to be folded and transported but does not provide structural rigidity. To achieve this rigidity galvanized aluminum connectors are prefabricated in the exact angle, the expansion joints are overlapped to provide stability, so that it may receive protections and covers as needed.
PERFORATED SCREEN transparent with microperforations allow passage of air and light, but manages to keep the insects isolated from the system
CLOSING SYSTEM, prefabricated polyethylene in the size of the two triangles, being opaque or translucent must accompany the use of module and protect from rain being usad as the user needs
FECHAMENTO
User-enviroment interaction
Looking to increase the user-objectnature relation, perforated elastic coverings are added to the bars of the system allowing greater capacity for mimicry and free transformation by user, even after the occupation and isolation of the traditional construction methods. This serves as an elastic support for the use of elements of the immediate surroundings (bambus, vines, twigs, plants) with the purpose of protection from sunlight, compartiment divisions inside the object or creation of spaciliaties transitions between natural x constructed. These transictions spaces brings the environment into the structure , adding more permeability in the nature for man and nature within the architectural object. Thus the object is undergoing constant change and adaptation.
The vital experience of the user completes the form
Access is one of the most delicate parts of the installation. The initial course is conducted by foresters to determine the place that the load should be left without the need for landing and clearing the area, jeopardizing the ecosystem and away the animals, which are one of the sources. Mounted system, workers access land or may be left above the pvc ballon and slide by a tube.
Air pvc floating to be engaged over the canopy of trees serving to collect water and energy, and indicate placement of the set and air access for users via slide tube
Elastic ropes used to install the roof coverage
Networks used to create living areas and observation around the trees by connecting modules together
Mobility system Main structure arranged in a triangular grouping to facilitate transport
The system prioritizes air access because it is the most usual in this type of installation but can be adapted for land or inland waterway
Assembly process 1-Choose a tree with high resistance and a brest diameter greater than 90cm. 2-Wrap the tree with the base module to be seated with a simple foundation in the four points that touch the ground. 3-The unit functions as a scaffold, each module serves as a support mounted assembly to the next. 4-As reached the desired height, the same system is repeated horizontally, always balancing the set through steel cables and a counterweight.
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Suply sistems The water system starts with the circular pvc floats that fits the treetops and is endowed with a surface capable of collecting rainwater and receive solar panels. Just below the water collected is stored in a tank built from the basic module with a tight closure. Depending on the demand, more or less conservatories can be installed. From the storage, water is distributed to individual sanitary modules ready to be attached to the system.The sanitaries are designed to work in pairs, creating a pipe alleway between they. The sewage goes through a basic treatment and is returned to nature.
pvc floats water tank
sanitary1_ 2,40 m2 +sanitary 2_2,40 m2 +circulation 15,40 m2
distribuiton gathering
treatment box
pair sanitaries floor plan 1-50
Roof coverage The roof coverage goal is to give the outside cover and protect the whole unit, being the striking color a factor of identification for users facilitating the visualization of the whole group from long distances. The color is also crucial for the imposition of the object facing the enviroment, creating a contrast ratio aiming away dangerous animals. Protect from heavy rains, preventing them from hiting directly on the modules, causing discomfort and acoustic insulation are also functions of the coverage. The way that catterpilars weave around wires, using the branches as the surrounding support, is the inspiration for the resulting formalism achived by the unit.
The polygonal mesh is extracted from the skin of a reptile, has several gradients of opacity that serve as a filter for the passage of light. With the necessity of a given area receive less sun, the coverage must be overlapped to the desired degree 0% 50% 80%
For the case study it was used a plan of a forest in sustentable management process. The principle for the implementation of the object was the analysis of solar orientation, organizing the sectors in a way to stay sheltered from west insolation. Determined the orientation a large ‘mother tree’ has been chosen to accommodate the development of the core set, from which there are organized ressearch labs, storage, refectory, bathrooms, bedrooms and transitions between natural x ocupied. The set was scaled to approximately 60 users, has two floors and its spatial organization based on the concept of mega-objects
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Case study based on the megaobjects concept _closed areas _secondary acess
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Animal and researchers interaction estimulated by the transition spaces of the structure. View from a circulation area coiled with the coverage gradients working on the creation of a weel iluminated and stimulating environment.
Central core
The central core from which the project develops, has the main function of provide a transitional space between the natural environment and the ocupied. The gesture of embrasses a ‘mother tree’ brings in it a symbolic establishment of a natural element as the major landmark of the arhitectural object, besides the core still concentrates the main entrance of the structure and the distribuiton for all areas. Another core function is to provide thermal comfort by acting as a sort of prism of ventilation. A large open lobby work as a passage for the warm air that is pushed out through that space, allowing an efficient cross circulation in conjunction with exhaust air.
The project core holds the functions of distribuiton, integration between natural x ocupied, termic confort, main acess, and a simbolic embrace of the mothernature
Coverage sketchs
Design process
Structural study model
Implantation studies
Self-trasformation study process from original form to a transportable one
_Lagoas da Serra House
Lagoas da Serra Hoyse 2009-2010 (conclusion date of construction) Private client Caratinga, Minas Gerais - Brazil A new ordinary house condominiun in a brazillian contryside town is rapidly getting occupied as a weekend and holiday dwelling, with good potential for new designs ideas. 3 suites weekend residence with integrated rooms, which articulate exterior and interior spaces. Familiarity and conviviality atmosphere combined with open interior spaces eliminate walls and private circulations, mixing public with private spaces and interor with exterior. The plastic form responds to those changes, adapting itself with simplicity and clearness. Danilo Santos
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The natural environment was an aspect of utmost importance to the owners of the residence and should be framed in relationship with the interior of the house. The architectural typology of the surrounding area should establish a relationship of contrast against the new proposed architecture, bringing attention to it. Apparent concrete elements, such as stairs and the varanda, are combined with glass and clean white and neutral shapes. The plentiful use of wood, besides window frames and handrails, on the facades are a important design feature that guarantee insolation protection, ventilation and a romantic connection with the contryside condominium.
Plentifull use of certified wood in the construction process
CONVERTIBLE SUITE
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LIVING-DINNING ROOM
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CLOSET
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KITCHEN
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KITCHEN
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The constructive solutions also took part in the conception of the project, which would bring rapid responses and low cost, since the change to the new space was an emergency. Furthermore the slope of the roof is designed to receive solar panels, an ecological concern still costly in Brazil, but good received by the customer.
From the scratch to construction
The Mangueira favela
The favela typology in Rio de Janeiro can be understood as an architecture based on improvisation, in spontaneity, bases on the use of materials available and accessible, able to transform the demands of family growth or adaptation to the terrain, an object of indefinable final form. Located on a hill their residual spaces are not orthogonal and rational, its alleys demand swings to be covered, that is where many believe that births the inherent ability to samba of its residents. The dance, the socialization, the samba, the absence of tight spatial boundaries, the sense of community are aspects to be completely understood as the logic of slum housing and perhaps replicated in other architecture experiments.
The rupture axis
The train line work as an axis of the split between the Mangueira favela and the formal city, marking the separation of the spaces clearly. However, this axis is a representation of a social break because it shows the limits of interaction between the city dweller and the slums people, a representation of the physical and psychological separation and prejudice between these two realities.
The formal city
The formal city is understood in this context as the urban Cartesian thought, represented by orthogonal lines and blocks. Inhabited by bourgeois society of Rio de Janeiro endowed with prejudice and unable to understand and respect other cultures. Near the study area we identify a landmark, the Maracana stadium, impartial space where the urban enclaves are set aside and all are equal in favor of a goal, watch a team win.
Favela da Mangueira
Formal city
conection point
_Re(hab) Mangueira Multipurpose connection structure and urban analysis Re(hab) Mangueira, multipurpose connection structure 2008 Academic Project Favela da Mangueira, Rio de Janeiro- Brazil Development of a free project based on the workshop concept of connection and determined by suturing Mixed-use structure as a integration proposal between the formal city and the slum
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Based on the labyrinth concept the shape brings the spontaneity of the slum into a structure that aims to connect the converging realities
conception
Prof. Cristov達o Duarte
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Workshop strategy
Maracan達 stadium
Railway rupture axis
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As an open wound in the urban, the concept of the workshop was to address the road axis as a break to be sewn or sutured. Large structural frames were scattered along the track and each student being responsible for developing a point of this multi-user system with the support of the clamp structure.
Formal city
proposal point
Maracan達 Stadium
Mangueira favela
Social housing
Conection structure
Formal city
The border line between the formal city and the slum is the most valuable space for its residents receveing the function of a center, meeting, developing and distribution, linear and not a central point as we see in the Cartesian city . This arrangement adds a symbolic function of protection barrier to this linear fringe, currency, being reinforced by the train railway. The railway fragments and breaks, highlighting the differences, the structure is concentrates and breaks the barrier.
‘‘A Mangueira não morreu nem morrerá Isso não acontecerá Tem seu nome na história Mangueira tu és um cenário coberto de glória” Mangueira teu cenário é uma beleza Que a natureza criou O morro com seus barracões de zinco Quando amanhece que explendor Todo mundo te conhece ao longe Pelo som dos seus tamborins E o rufar do seu tambor Chegou ô, ô, ô, ô A Mangueira chegou, ô, ô Mangueira teu passado de glória Está gravado na história É verde e rosa a cor da tua bandeira Prá mostrar a essa gente Que o samba é lá em Mangueira Mangueira teu cenário é uma beleza Que a natureza criou O morro com seus barracões de zinco Quando amanhece que explendor Todo mundo te conhece ao longe Pelo som dos seus tamborins E o rufar do seu tambor Chegou ô, ô, ô, ô A Mangueira chegou, ô, ô’’ (Chico Buarque) ‘’Mangueira did not die and will not That will not happen It has his name in history Mangueira your scenary is covered of glory Mangueira your scenery is a beauty That nature has created The hill with its zinc shacks At sunrise that splendor Everyone knows you from far By the sound of your tambourines And the beat of your drums Arrived ô ô ô ô The Mangueira had came, ô ô ! Mangueira your glory past Is recorded in history It's pink and green the color of your flag To show this people That the Samba is there in Mangueira’’
The music of samba, color, swings, spontanity, joy, freedom and tradition are the major characteristics of the Mangueira favela, culture expressed in music by Chico Buarque.These attractive elements will create the linkcity slum inside and around the connection structure
The Labyrinth
The structure has a non orthogonal formalism because it is based on the labyrinth logic of slums, the logic of sway, the dynamics not comprehended by the city said formal, designed from a Cartesian urbanism. The crossing of lines, the zigzag, borned from a spontaneous and adaptable architecture that permeates the subconscious of the user, reflecting its way of being, in his swing for example, the samba dance as a expression of what many believe is a logical consequence of the labyrinthine and truncated spaces of slums. In the created Structure this labyrinth experience is exposed to city residents with a formal mid-term integration and transition ‘slum x city’ through a mega mixed-use object, where the user experience will foster the continuous creation of new uses. The proposal consists of mazes to be found, and not to lose, common place to get rid of prejudices, the social constraints and stereotypical images, based on analysis of the work of Brazilian plastic artist Hélio Oiticica, who championed the spontaneous life of Rio de Janeiro slums, especially the Mangueira Favela, the object of study.
The labirynth as a mixed-use structure
Social equipament school civic center medical office
leisure and sports
Free market place
Favela Acess
Shops and restaurants
Train station
Amphitheater
Formal city Acess
The power of improvisation in the construction of a sense of place, was the key concept for creating large spaces without using a clearly defined use. Spaces intended for the free expression of popular culture, through activities that can arise spontaneously, as dance, street fairs, sports , music, experiences of social exchanges incetivated by an architectural object, demonstrating typical cultural activities from Mangueira.
first platform +6,00m
social equipament
favela acess
amphitheater
shops first platform
train station
city acess
Two distinct realities encouraged to meet and share experiences through a spatiality that provides activities of common interest, a reflection of traditional cultural life of Rio de Janeiro who has been sidelined by imposed social barriers
second platform +12,00m
favela acess
second platform shops
Free market / Free space
city acess
Study model of the relation between an existent industry shed and the structure area designed for social equipaments serving the favela population
third platform +15,00m
favela acess
leisure and sports
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city acess
Formal city structure acess
Train station acess
The confort dream The temporary installation in a S達o Paulo window shop came from the pure idea of comfort surpassing the limits of a dream, a surreal space where feelings get mixed, being the formal result confuse to understand when you are outside of this abstraction. Dream, comfort or madness? The playful atmosphere of a dream is materialized by the abundance of white. Using specially selected products from the store, the space is built from the minimum unit of the pillow, which is multiplied by a large illuminated wall and everywhere in the environment. Semi-transparent panels separate the window from the rest of the shop, thus delimiting the space, which concentrates the gaze of passers by in the shopping mall. The design is born from an abstraction for pillows, which creates the first conceptual guideline, Cube pillows. Its form is shaped and defined when placed in the context of the mattress store in question. Their openings and views are oriented and targeted to both the mall and into the store itself, inviting passers-by to comfort themselves, losing the situation referential, the comfort dream goes beyond the limits of reality, bringing a confused comfort to the user
Confort unity
+ Iluminated confort unity
Abstraction
Conception
_Conforte-se design and execution of a crazy dream Conforte-se (confort yourself) 2010 Contest Project Castor Store, Sao Paulo- Brazil Selected project in a design competition for window installations in a large shopping center in S達o Paulo
project year issue site context
content
Based on the concept of a comfort dream surpassing the boundaries of reality bringing confusion to mind
conception
Danilo Santos
co-authory
LOJA EXISTENTE
Mix dreams, reality and madness as a concept for the exhibition shop for a brand of mattresses.
Materialization Aplication
circuit
wood board
lamp
protection cage
Assembly pillow
Being a temporary instalation in one of the largest malls in the capital city, the assembly was designed to be fast, secure and intelligent, including the fact that should assembled by the creators(in this case only two architects) in only two nights, while the shopping center was closed. Two independent circuits feeding nine iluminatted pillows. Each pillow is structured on the basis of compensated, receiving the fluorescent lamp isolating the pillow by a wire mesh. The pillows were covered with perforated plastic type material called tenax, ensuring volume, light and ventilation, exhausting the heat from behind.
Iluminated pillow unit
Iluminated pillow wall
User interaction
Store display plan