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Francini Laufer Schuh Architecture
Francini Laufer Schuh
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Utrecht - NL
+31 6 27145233 linkedin.com/in/francini-schuh
francinischuh@hotmail.com
I am a committed and enthusiastic Architecture student looking for a position in which I can learn and grow as an Architect. Besides having a particular interest about interiors, housing design and adaptive reuse, I am also eager to expand my experience and knowledge in other areas within the profession.
EDUCATION
Sep 2023 - currently
Master Architecture
Delft University of Technology | NL
Sep 2020 - Jul 2023
Bachelor Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences
Eindhoven University of Technology | NL
Aug 2016 - Jul 2019
Bachelor Architecture and Urbanism
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul | BR
WORK EXPERIENCE
Sep 2018 - Sep 2019
Architecture Intern
Procuradoria da República no Rio Grande do Sul | BR
Sep 2016 - Aug 2018
Administrative Management Assistant
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul | BR
Sep 2014 - Sep 2016
Sales Consultant
Yázigi Language School | BR
EXTRA ACTIVITIES & VOLUNTEER WORK
Apr 2022 - Mar 2023
Commissioner of Promotion
Bouwkunde Bedrijvendagen TU Eindhoven | NL
Nov 2014 - Aug 2019
Secretary, Treasurer, Protocol and Public Relations
Rotaract Club Dois Irmãos | BR
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DE DUIVELSTEEN
A new meeting environment for BROEI
2 3 4
FLE HOUSING
Future-proof living in Sloterdijk
URBAN REUNION
(Re)connecting people and the city
SELF-LEARNING
Growarq | Revit + Lumion course
1DE DUIVELSTEEN
A new meeting environment for BROEI
In collaboration with Yueyi Liang
MSc 2 Salon
Interiors, Buildings, Cities - 2024
Adapting a centuries-old building in Ghent to meet the demands of BROEI, an organization for young people with a fluid dynamic, is challenging. BROEI is an open house that offers space, time and support to young enthusiasts, creatives, and entrepreneurs (16-30 years old) for six months, organizing programs with them within three areas: Technology & Sustainability, Expression & Creativity, and Learning & Entrepreneurship. For that, they ask for space for a bar - its heart -, a multipurpose room and workshop rooms.
The Duivelsteen building has a monumental character and rustic materials, such as bricks and stones. Considering that, the research question guiding the design is:
How to preserve and use the original features of the Duivelsteen building while combining the flexibility and fluidity required by BROEI?
Flexibility
1. The workshop rooms are spread in three spaces, each of them assigned to an area of development of BROEI: Technology & Sustainability, Expression & Creativity and Learning & Entrepreneurship.
2. Workshop rooms can be subdivided in smaller rooms with foldable and/or sliding doors, and the workshop on the ground floor can be extended to the outside, connecting to the public and enlarging its usable area.
Axonometric view
Drawing by Yueyi Liang
3. Open platforms provide free use space, which BROEI’s users can claim in different ways and use for different activities, according to their needs.
at multipurpose room
Functional wall - use
4. The functional partition walls act as space definer, while also providing space for storage and/or display.
Functional wall - building scheme
Platform at Bar BROEI
Platform
Drawing by Yueyi Liang
Drawing by Yueyi Liang Open platforms Functional wall
(190,68 m²) Multipurpose Room
(159,69 m²) Bar BROEI
Ground floor
(23,57 m²) Kitchen
(190,68 m²) Multipurpose Room
m²)
m²)
(23,35 m²) Expression & Creativity
m²) Expression & Creativity
(43,64
(21,19 m²) Office BROEI
Physical model on scale 1:25
Physical model on scale 1:25
2FLE HOUSING
Future-proof living in Sloterdijk
In collaboration with Julia Kudła
MSc 1 Fundamentals of Housing Design
Architecture and Dwelling - 2024
Flex is a residential building in Amsterdam Sloterdijk, that constitutes an answer to the question: how do we live tomorrow?
The concept derives from a willingness to face constantly increasing challenges concerning housing architecture nowadays and possibly in the future. Following a speculative design approach, the project is deliberated from a 4-dimensional perspective, including not only the building lifecycle but also inhabitants’ lifespan and changing lifestyles. Therefore, the structural system and functions’ distribution go along with multiple adaptive strategies, enabling various rearrangements and spatial reuse in the future.
The simplicity of that complex system is reflected in modular layout and regular grid structure. Flex provides various dimensions for well being for the users and non-human species by improving the biodiversity in the area.
non-affordable properties
non-affordable properties
non-affordable properties
decrease in social interaction
decrease in social interaction
decrease in social interaction
changing lifestyles lack of stability ageing population
changing lifestyles lack of stability ageing population
changing lifestyles lack of stability ageing population
Challenges concerning present (and future) residential architecture
within individual apartments
within individual apartments
within individual apartments
within the whole building
within the whole building
within the whole building
Flexibility
tall rooms
tall rooms
tall rooms
regular structural grid
non-loadbearing partition walls
design for disassembly
non-loadbearing partition walls regular structural grid
design for disassembly
design for disassembly
non-loadbearing partition walls regular structural grid
Adaptive strategies
Flex is a mixed-use development, with commercial rooms on the plinth and residences on the upper floors. The inner courtyard functions as a more private street, where residents meet each other. The dwellings offered range from small studios to large apartments for families and/or friends who want to share a home.
Axonometric view
Ground floor
Plot division and connection in between
Drawing by Julia Kudła
Floor 3
Impression from inner street
Drawing by Julia Kudła
Housing typologies
Two bedroom apartment
- all rooms revolve around a central loggia
- intimate and social zones are isolated from each other
- both rooms offer space for home office
One bedroom apartment
- two zones: one intimate, one social - bedroom can have a private office
- office can be separated from the bedroom
- living room can be extended/connected to the office
Studio
- studio spaces are separated by a furniture functional core
- office area creates a transition from living room to bedroom
- whole studio is well-lit by large openings that connect to a narrow balcony
Two bedrooms apartment
Family
or Friends apartment
- rooms are spread around a wet nucleus
- intimate area is isolated from social area
- social area in L shape revolving around a large corner loggia
- two zones: one intimate, one social - apartment can be extended to the gallery in front
- apartment can be separated into two other zones, by closing off the kitchen - largest bedroom can be used as a master suite
A - interior floor
- Floor covering 20mm
- Anhydrite screed 50mm with heating pipes
- Separating layer
- Mineral fiber sound insulation 30mm
- Three-ply sheeting 27mm
- Glulam timber ribs 80x220 (axial spacing: 625mm)
- Wood fiber insulation between ribs 160mm
- Three-ply sheeting 27mm
- Support structure for ceiling panels
- Fire-resistant gypsum plasterboard 2x18mm
B - terrace floor
- Basalt tiles 45x45x2cm
- Wooden suport structure floating floor
- Waterproof layer 5mm
- Glass fiber rigid insulation 2x100mm
- Three-ply sheeting 27mm
- Glulam timber ribs 80x220 (axial spacing: 625mm)
- Wood fiber insulation between ribs 160mm
- Three-ply sheeting 27mm
- Support structure for ceiling panels
- Fire-resistant gypsum plasterboard 2x18mm
C - terrace parapet
- Oil-treated timber batens 75x75mm
- Oil-treated plywood panel 25mm
- Glass fiber rigid insulation 40mm
- Fire-resistant gypsum plasterboard 12.5mm
- Timber panel structure 240x60mm (axial spacing: 600mm)
- Wood fiber insulation between ribs 240mm
- Waterproof layer 5mm
- Oil-treated plywood panel 35mm
- Steel planter
3URBAN REUNION
(Re)conecting people and the city
In collaboration with Leonie Straub and Luuk Krijnen MSc 1 Aesthetics of Sustainable Design Public Building - 2024
Given the urgency to repurpose existing structures, the Urban (re)Union project proposes a new use for the old Delft town hall, designed by Jo Coenen and located in the city center. Currently a student house, the building has lost important qualities of its original design. The new public use aims to restore these values, such as connecting different parts of the city and utilizing curved shapes for spatial quality.
The new plan includes mixed use: the ground floor becomes a public passage with a helical ramp extending to a public terrace. The atrium, currently poorly lit, will have a steel and glass roof for more natural light. The street-facing room opens to the city with large folding doors, becoming a public space with a repair café, mini-library, and study/work areas.
A room at the back, now student dorms, will be partly transformed into study spaces and transitional accommodation for refugees, who will also receive social assistance and coaching in rooms around the atrium.
manifesto (re)connect revive battle loneliness elderly youngsters refugees
Ground floor - currently
Collages by Leonie Straub
Collages by Leonie Straub
Ground floor - future
Strategy of intervention
Section - future
4SELF-LEARNING
Growarq | Revit + Lumion course
Results obtained by following Growarq’s course and methodology
The Cotiporã House is a single-family home designed by Growarq and used as model to be developed throughout the Growarq Revit & Lumion course, provided via video lessons. In this course, students go from very basic to advanced skills in Revit and Lumion, using the Growarq methodology and workflow, together with the Growarq template for Revit. The images presented in this section are some of the results obtained by me along the course, all of them using only Revit or Revit and Lumion.
Front view
Backyard view
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Ground floor
Pavimento térreo
Sunset atmosphere Lateral street view
Exploded axonometric
