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Breno Lourenco // Creative Portfolio
// Architecture is the art of transformation—shaping spaces where beauty emerges through change and unrepeatable moments.
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11111111111111111111 2030 Antiquarianism // History through the Ages of Architectural Manipulation
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Contemporary Ideas of Ruins
Multiversity
// Unveiling Stories of Antiquarianism at Somerset House
// Learning through unintentional encounters
// The Art of Bathing as Experience
44444444444444444444 Fragmented Perspectives // Enhancing the Museum Experience
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Redefining Antiquarianism 2030 presents a composite column uniting the Theatrical Reverie and Neoclassical Alchemist, blending Soane’s eclecticism with Picturesque irregularity. Departing from symmetry and convention, it transforms antiquarianism from preservation into experimentation. The column thus becomes both a vessel of history and a symbol of a forward-looking, dynamic future.
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Antiqua[Morph] Engine The Antiqua[Morph] Engine is a theatrical machine that merges the Reverie’s poetic deconstruction with the Alchemist’s constructive precision, embodying 2030 antiquarianism as a balance of tradition, innovation, and spectacle.
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+ William Chambers The Traditional Antiquarian
= John Soane The Eclectic Antiquarian
2030 Antiquarian as The Neoclassica Alchemist
2030 Antiquarian as The Theatrical Reverie
Huge Street Marionette Puppeteering + Picturesque
Shadow Puppeteering + Theatrical Elements
Column model Exploration [Construction]
Triptych Exploration [Deconstruction]
Me The 2030 Antiquarian
Antiqua[Morph] Engine
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The Antiquarian’s Anthropocene 1. This main section drawing unites history, adaptation, and innovation, illustrating how Somerset House evolves from neoclassical origins to speculative futures. It highlights architecture’s fluid response to technology, environment, and the Anthropocene, where preservation and transformation continuously reshape meaning and use.
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Unveiling Stories of Antiquarianism at Somerset House--
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--Concept & Methodology ’26 Debating Chamber into Garden of Ruins By 2050, the Debating Chamber reflects the fragility of permanence as erosion, corrosion, and shifting volumes expose its slow collapse. Light filtering through cracks transforms decay into spectacle, revealing architecture suspended between stability and dissolution.
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Learning through unintentional encounters The project aims to create a 1000m² public building in Elephant and Castle that redefines the idea of a school by providing creative, inclusive spaces for youth and the wider community, fostering unintentional learning, social unity, and curiosity through an architectural language that bridges cultural divides and counters the effects of gentrification.
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Experiencing the Breno Lourenco // Creative Portfolio Frame 1. Through a physical investigation of Elephant and Castle, a series of photographs revealed a pattern in the area. Window Frames of all sorts stood out to me and became an initial point of investigation. How do we experience frames? windows? views? how have we been told to see? Is there an alternative view to the ones we’ve been told to view?
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Framing Device Viewfinder This model explores the idea of framing and sequencing views through layered, movable components that create shifting apertures and dynamic perspectives.
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Layers of Ritual
The Art of Bathing as Experience--
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▼ Please Click to view short film ▼
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Image: The Design Behind How We Create And Who We Are--
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Image Attire Campaign Storyboard--
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