Portfolio 2019

MARTA CALVINHO

chicago, tokyo, london,  

architecture portfolio 2018

smith & newton

sou fujimoto

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index resume

universal studio

smng-a

WHOAMI?

hi, i’m marta calvinho. i’d love to work with you.

hobbies:

• photography • travel • @eatingarchitecture • technology/coding • cooking • internet • bike riding • lists • netflix • soccer

WORK

EDUCATION

Smith + Newton Architects

MArch // School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC)

Part II Architect Feb 1st - current / London, UK

Aug ‘11 - May ‘14

Universal Design Studio

Design Assistant Feb 1st - Dec 2nd/ London, UK

BArch // University Lusiada

Sou Fujimoto

International Baccalaureate

Sep ‘08 - Jun ‘11

Internship Aug ‘15 - Dec ‘15 / Tokyo, JP

Sep ‘06 - Jun ‘08

American School of Lisbon

SMNG-A

Sep ‘98 - May ‘08

Architectural Designer Jun‘14 - Jun ‘15 / Chicago, USA

LG Construction

SKILLS

Project Manager Assistant Jan ‘14 - May ‘14 / Chicago, USA

Roula Architects

Internship Feb ‘13 - May ‘13 / Chicago, USA

SAIC

Teacher Assistant Aug ‘12 - Dec‘12 / Chicago, USA

Revit,

Microstation, Vectorworks, Autocad Sketchup, Rhino, Maxwell, Vray Illustrator, Photoshop, Indesign

Laser cutter / CNC, Model-making, 3D Printing Design Feasibility Planning Tender Construction Consultant Coordination

SMITH & NEWTON projects 1QBIC 2Hampstead 3Chancery 4Cromwell 5Visuals

At Smith & Newton I have been focusing on learning how the process of architecture comes together from Riba stages 0-5.

I now have a much better understanding of how structure, design, and building regulations come together to form a final product. Its a small firm so I got involved in about 50 projects in the last year and a half however the ones I worked on more consistently were various small home extensions (0-5), a few residential schemes (stage 0-2),an office lobby renovation (0-5) and a hotel renovation(0-5). The expertise I brought to the studio was producing fast high quality visuals and creative design solutions.

1QBIC QBIC is a trendy milleanial budget friendly hotel born in Amsterdam. It’s recently moved to the UK market and has a hotel in Whitechapel. They wanted to redevelop their restaurant/lobby/bathrooms/facade areas. We worked in conjunction with a interior designer to bring new life to the interiors while keeping the quirky features that it is known for. The idea for the facade was keeping it fun, interesting and instagrammable.

Budget: 500k Stage: Planning Application

Skills 1Microstation

2Interior

Design

3Facade

Development

4FF&E

Schedule

2HAMPSTEAD House Extension and pool house addition in Hamsptead Heath. The couple was hoping to have more space for their family so we proposed a kitchen extension with a basement which had access to a courtyard that would then connect to the green space above. In the back they had a tennis court area which they wanted to transform into a pool house. We designed a two part building separated into leisure and living that come together at a single point, framing the central garden.

Budget: 1.5 million Stage: Planning Application Accepted

Skills 1Model

making

2Microstation 3Planning

App

4Photoshop 5Sketchup

Existing

Proposed

3CHANCERY Interior Lobby Renovation in South London with the addition of a new disabled toilet, storage room, entrance, and custom front desk.

The concept was to clad the room in pale timber slats and then bring the vinyl flooring up a certain datum, giving the effect of the floor extending along the edge of the room. The tones are wood, grey, white which allows the furniture to bring in some colorful fabrics.

Stage: Value Engineering and June

Budget: 400k Tender: 800k construction start.

Skills 1Planning

App

2Microstation 3Construction Package

4Photoshop 5Sketchup 6FF&E Schedule 7Interior Design 8Technical Details

4CROMWELL Interior Lobby Renovation in South London with the addition of a new disabled toilet, storage room, entrance, and custom front desk. The concept was to clad the room in pale timber slats and then bring the vinyl flooring up a certain datum, giving the effect of the floor extending along the edge of the room. The tones are wood, grey, white which allows the furniture to bring in some colorful fabrics.

Stage:

Budget: 150k Tender: Waiting on Construction Packet Prices

Skills 1Planning

App

2Microstation 3Tender

Package

4Photoshop 5Sketchup 6FF&E Schedule 7Interior Design 8Technical Details

Existing

Proposed

Existing

Proposed

5VISUALS

UNIVERSAL DESIGN STUDIO projects 1Studio

2British Airways

3Westfield Mall

4Knighdragon 5IBM 6Nespresso

In my time at UDS I developed

knowledge and sensitivity to materials and overall interior development, that only an intenationally active interior studio could provide.

I have assisted from pitching, to design detailing, as well as submitting a project for planning application and following through construction. I have also developed useful skills in vectorworks.

1STUDIO Universal Design Studio bought a building next door and are currently expanding. I was assigned with the design, development, planning application, and overseeing construction. The GF will be two meeting rooms, FF will be studio space, 2F will be model making, 3F will be the directors studio. GF has also been used as a temporary London Design Festival space for MAP, UDS’s sister company. Construction is currently on going, set to finish end of December

Skills 1Vectorworks

2Interior

Design

3Construction

4FF&E

Schedule

1 Pre-construction

Initial Demo, bringing down original dividing wall

3 Demo of plasterboard and recovering brick wall

Temporary Londong Design Week exhibition

Existing electrical cupboard + electrical head

1120

EQ

1150

1150

SH01

SH01

1150

1150

SH01

SH01

1150

EQ

NOTE: Soundproof wall to only be completed after LDF

EQ

100

860

Acoustic soundproof wall Consul table

Existing radiator

Existing radiator

Existing radiator

SH01

Existing radiator

Bird on a wire jacket holder

Ikea shelves

1150

1150

1150

SH01

SH01

SH01

EQ

995

Poppins umbrella stand Walls to align with each other

FFL +9980 FCL +13028

CM01

CM01

TB01

CM01

TB01

Vitra Wooden Table CM01

CM01

CM01

TB01

Vitra Wooden Table CM01

CM01

CM01

CM01

Existing security grills

CM01

New FD 30 min wall to enclose the proposed new boiler location

1041

2000 A 1150

1150

EQ

EQ 100

EQ

SH01

SH01

1150

1150

1150

SH01

SH01

SH01

SH01

STORAGE

A

821

1250

CM01

Existing security grills

CM01

CM01

900

Grey vinyl floor Forbo color 171

CM01

900

CM01

2200

± 3406

2000 B

1153

4400

EQ

New FD 30 door for access to boiler 385

SH01

New FD 30 door to meeting room, to match existing doors Entrance matting

3000 Existing shutter KU02

Entrance matting

KU01

KU01

KS01

KU01

Existing FD 30 wall retained with new addition wall installed

Grey vinyl floor Forbo color 171

Wooden Stairs Up

Door edges to align with each other Existing shutter

Fire break glass

00_GF_Proposed Plan Scale: 1:50

- 600 x 600 x 800 cupboard - 400 x 600 x 800 cupboard - white top -white painted glass backsplash - sink

770

2 4001 Existing door retained

EXISTING WC

Existing door retained

Existing radiator

905

1

New tea point

618

New door and storage unit in lift space.

Rail to hang jackets + shelf for printer

Existing shower New aluminium shower door (6 series framed hinged)

660

Existing man hole cover access to be retained Vitsoe shelves

Notes

Revision -

Key.

Date

Description

Project No.43 Charlotte Road Drawing Title Proposed Ground Floor Plan

Project number

Drawing number

Revision

0831

1000

/

B 3001

2BRITSH AIRWAYS

This was the development of British Airways Construction Manual, which will have the standards for all their future stores. There are three tiers of membership, and each space has different amenities. Bespoke furniture was designed and detailed in collaboration with Universal Design Studios sister company Barber & Osgerby.

Skills 1Renders 2Drafting 3Construction Manual

4Vectorworks 5Photoshop

3WESTFIELD MALL

QIC requested UDS to renovate a mall in Australia. The job consisted of corridors, bathrooms, bespoke furniture stairs, and food court. worked on all these parts but for brevity have include donly the bespoke furniture. The idea was to create a module of different furniture pieces that could be configured in different ways through out the mall. The materials are colored lightweight concrete, leather and bronze.

Skills 1Renders 2Vectorworks 33D

Modeling

4Photoshop 5Diagrams 6Drafting

4RESIDENTIAL TOWER Interior design for two residential towers in London, currently in develoment. Originally designed by Dugan Morris, and then handed to UDS for further development. The idea is that these apartments are attractive to young couples which might soon become families. There are spaces which can be transformed into yoga rooms, offices, baby rooms, etc, the idea is to provide flexibility and acompany the natural growth of a family.

Materials are genuine, simple and modern.

Skills 1Renders 2Vectorworks 33D

Modeling

4Photoshop 5Diagrams 6Drafting

L

5IBM UDS was hired to redesign IBM’s headquarters through a long-term masterplan. We were also assigned with short-term renovation of Meeting Rooms, Lab Rooms, Directors Office. All the furniture is bespoke and the idea was to create a relaxing atmosphere with natural tones.

Skills 1Vectorworks 2Furniture Quality materials

Reference the architectural palette, natural materials - applied in unexpected ways

Š

3Drafting

81

Scale: 1:35

1063

Conference Table Sideways Elevation

Access panels for P+D

Scale: 1:35

830

20

3600

830

Blackened oak base with 25mm shadow gap at bottom

1063

1063

838

1000

81

81

4

Scale: 1:35

Conference Table Front Elevation 1

750

Scale: 1:35

50

1270

Hiroshima chair

830

Access panels for P+D

3600

20

Blackened oak countertop

Concealed P&D TBC

2

Conference Table Sideways Elevation

81

Conference Table Plan

Scale: 1:35

Conference Table Plan

81

60

1000

3

1

1270

3360

3

838

5900

81

1270

1 Blackened oak countertop 830

Blackened oak base with 25mm shadow gap at bottom

3360

5900

1063

81

4

2

Scale: 1:35

Conference Table Front Elevation 1

Scale: 1:35

Conference Table Axo

1270

50 750

60 Hiroshima chair

Concealed P&D TBC

Conference Table Axo

Scale: 1:35

81

5

5

Scale: 1:35

300

350

Conference Table Front Elevation 2

350

6NESPRESSO International Nespresso store redesign. We went through an extensive study of all the needs that Nespresso wanted to accomplish through their stores and then proceeded to try and bring new life to them without loosing the essence of the brand.

Skills 1Vectorworks 33D

Modeling

4Drafting

1

Plan Scale 1:8 @ A1

2

Axo Scale 1:8 @ A1

+3400 FCL

+3400 FCL

4

+2400 AFFL

+2400 AFFL

+1900 AFFL

+1900 AFFL

+1400 AFFL

+1400 AFFL

+900 AFFL

+900 AFFL

100

5

900

+0.000 FFL

1

1500

1500

1500

900

50

Elevation Scale: 1:25

2

450

+0.000 FFL

Section Scale: 1:25

Aluminium iPad channel

400 25

Plan Scale: 1:25

4

iPad Stand Detail Scale: Half Actual Size

5

Door Opening Detail Scale: 1:4

SCREEN

605

SCREEN

PRINTER

168

150

1200

PRINTER

200

3

500

LED Downlight

EQ

400

10

640 1995

1

VM Props- Plan Scale 1:7 @ A1

10

400

EQ

SOU FUJIMOTO projects 1Hokkaido

2Chibba 3Paris

My time in Japan taught me many lessons, one of them being to not be afraid to think outside the box, but also to produce many iterations for the same concept. My diagrams, conceptual thinking, renderings and illustrator skills were greatly improved.

My patience and dedication to architecture were greatly tested with the 14 hour, 7 day, work days.

1HOKKAIDO

This is a project for Sou Fujimoto’s hometown, Hokkaido. He was asked to design an emblematic bridge for the town. The concept draws on Hokkaido’s famous hills for inspiration, creating a weaving passage through different colored flora, resulting in a ‘floating forest’.

Skills 1Rhino

2Diagrams

3Photoshop

6CHIBBA Competition for a town hall in Chiba, the south of Japan, a city surrounded by mountains. The concept is to bring to life the surrounding mountains, through the flow of the white roof. The space doubles both as a town hall and a community center. It is largely transparent to help bring the outside-inside and to allow flexibility of use.

Skills 1Renders 2Rhino 33D

Modeling

4Photoshop 5Diagrams

6PARIS Paris 13 is a district of Paris that has undergone intense renovation in the last years. For this student housing since the internal program space was small we focused on bringing the facade to life. The idea is these “dancing balconies� that create pockets of social interaction

Skills 1Renders 2Rhino 33D

Modeling

4Photoshop 5Diagrams

SMNG-A

1Chicago 2Kiosk

Smng-a was my first job out of architecture school and it was a good introduction to the field. I worked for a year on a complete set of drawings for a Chicago Public school.

I focused a lot on drawing standards being in charge of elevations and plans. I also did a lot of spec control and electrical coordination.

1CHICAGO

SMNG-A has been the Chicago public school architect of record for the last five years. In 2014 Chicago went through massive public spending cuts which reflect their tolerance for spending in architecture. SMNG-A was chosen to design this school as a guide line for the next phase of public school building. The project finished construction and opened during summer of 2016.

ACCENT WALL COLORS SCHEME

ACCENT WALLS

PT3

VINYL TILE FLOOR

- SECOND FLOOR

PT4

PT5

PT6

VT1

VT2

VT3