Miguel Darcy - Portfolio 2017

PORTFOLIO 2017 MIGUEL DARCY

Miguel Darcy Portfolio 2017

CURRICULUM VITAE Miguel Darcy de Oliveira Miranda Lives in Rio de Janeiro - Brazil 20.01.1992, Rio de Janeiro - Brazil Contact migueldarcymiranda@gmail.com Benjamin Batista Street, 197/402 +55 21 987643120 ZIP: 22461-120

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Education 2010 to 2016

Autocad, Rhinoceros, Grasshopper, Sketchup Pro, VRay, Quantum GIS, Adobe CC (Photoshop, Illustrator and Indesign)

1995 - 2009

Bachelor of Architecture and Urban Design PUC-Rio - Department of Architecture and Urbanism 5-year Professional Program Corcovado German School, Rio de Janeiro - Abitur (Zeugnis der Allgemeinen Hochschulreife)

Language Portuguese German English

Native language Proficient level - Deutsches Sprachdiplom der Kultusministerkonferenz Stufe I und II Proficient level - Certificate in Advanced English (CAE) - Cambridge University

Professional Experience 2017 2015 2012 - 2013 2013 - today Academic Experience 2014 2014 2013 to 2014 2012 to 2013 2013 2011 Workshops and Other Activities 2017 2014 2014 2014 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2012 - 2013

Short-term collaboration with Gru.a Arquitetos - Rio de Janeiro, BR Internship at OMA*AMO - Office for Metropolitan Architecture - New York, US Internship at Campo AUD - Rio de Janeiro, BR Architectural visualization freelancer

Elected to the Student’s Union main board “Reverse Atlantis: New Oil Territories in Brazil” Studio teaching assitant TEPP Research Grant - “Reverse Atlantis - New Oil Territories in Brazil: Urbanism and Planning” with professors Gabriel Duarte and Marcos Favero CAU PUC-Rio Website assistant Diagrams and Layers-Advanced Representation Techniques teaching assistant Architectural Drawing teaching assistant

2012 2009

Parallels - Brazilian Unbuilt Masterpieces research in partnership with Gabriel Kozlowski and MIR Intertwined Territories - One Week Workshop in Macaé International Workshop with Columbia University and Studio-X Rio in Rio das Pedras Selected to the design team of MoMA’s PS1 89PLUS Pavillion in Rio de Janeiro Worked as freelancer for ITDP - Institute for Transportation and Development Policy New Cartographies - Exhibition and International Symposium Held interviews during the X Biennale of São Paulo with ENTRE Group Became member of ENTRE Group - Interviews with Architects South America Project - SAP - Harvard Graduate School of Design Local contact of Michigan’s Taubman College Urban Design Studio in Rio de Janeiro (professors Maria Arquero de Alarcón and El Hadi Jazairy) 3 Shelters Workshop Cofounder of the NOVE Group (New Voluntary Student Organization)

Publications, Awards and Exhibitions 2017 2016 2014 2014 2013 2013 2013 2012 2012 2010 2009

Selected by Archdaily Brazil as one of the 25 best BArch theses from Brazil and Portugal “Expanded Lines - Borderland Urbanisms: Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina” book published online Presented 89PLUS Pavillion project at the event’s opening panel 89PLUS Pavillion project exhibited in Studio-X RJ New Cartographies exhibited in Studio-X RJ New Cartographies’ Map of Rio selected to the X Biennial of São Paulo Peace Parks project selected to the XIII Biennial of Buenos Aires 3 Shelters Workshop Published in AU Magazine 3 Shelters Workshop Exhibited in PUC’s and UFRJ’s Campi “Weekend Residence in Itaipava” selected to PRUMO Exhibition NOVE nominated to the “Personality of the Year Award” by O Globo Newspaper

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New Food Distribution Center in São Paulo - BArch Thesis

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New Shared Headquarters of the CAU/BR and the IAB/DF

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Alto da Boa Vista Bike House

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South America Project - Peace Parks

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89PLUS Rio Pavillion and Exhibition

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Reverse Atlantis Research Grant

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Residential Tower in Santo Cristo

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OMA - Toranomon Hills Station Tower

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OMA - 121 East 22nd Street Residential Tower

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Campo AUD - New Cartographies Exhibition

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Campo AUD - Urban Foundations - Europan Competition

*All graphic content, unless otherwise credited, was developed by me.

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Market complex as seen from Rodoanel

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01 NEW FOOD DISTRIBUTION CENTER IN SÃO PAULO

Advisor: Gabriel Duarte BArch Thesis São Paulo, Brazil 2016 Selected by Archdaily as one of the 25 best BArch theses of Brazil and Portugal This thesis explores the role of major infrastructures in cities and focuses on the fresh food distribution network. It investigates the conundrum of public food distribution centers in Brazil (CEASA’s) and how they interact with the city and the people, both on their immediate sorroundings and on a broader scale. Former stages for cultural, economical and political expressions, such as the greek Agora, the roman Forum and the classical town square, the places of food exchange in our cities have turned into empty parking lots, detached from the public and located in the city’s hinterland. Furthermore, the CEASA’s have stalled their investments in infrastructure, technology and expansions, rendering their activities increasingly problematic over time due to overloading and infrastructural inefficiencies. These issues become more blatant in the CEASA São Paulo, also called CEAGESP, for it is the largest food distribution center in terms of volume in Latin America and the third largest in the world.

Brazilian distribution centers act mainly as middleman between producers who sell on wholesale and markets, either private, public or street markets, while also selling on retail to individual consumers on specific days. The major mode of transport in and out these centers is by truck, whilst railroads are sparsely used. Therefore the proposed new CEAGESP is located in the intersection of three major highways in São Paulo: the two main access highways in terms of food transport and São Paulo’s ring road (Rodoanel), thus ensuring a fast transit without overloading the city’s inner roads. It also stands halfway between the city center and agricultural fields.

The Rodoanel itself has its own set of dilemmas: if on the one hand it connects distant parts of the city and mitigates intense traffic in inner roads, on the other it segregates the urban fabric upon which it crosses. The project seeks to take advantage of the main issues set by these two major infrastructures: the monofunctionality of the private warehouses of CEAGESP, which define the market space solely as an industrial environment, and the rupture caused by the Rodoanel in the urban fabric.

The result is the stacking of the warehouses permeated by a continuous loop of roads, which allows for the unloading of goods segregated from the public. This stacking is made in such a way that it bridges across the Rodoanel and reconnects both sides of it, while also creates a surface for the further development of the city with public amenities. In the center there is a tower that plays two distinct roles: on a local scale it ensures an initial density that charges the market with people and also houses CEAGESP’s offices, and on a metropolitan scale it serves as an urban landmark that generates awareness on our food distribution system and invites the public to take part in it.

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The current model of food distribution center around the world is on the brink of a revolution. As contemporary cities evolve into polycentric patterns and there are no longer clear edges that define city, suburbs and coutryside, the concentration of food in one location is a logistical nightmare. The supply is vunerable to a set of adverse conditions, from floods to blockades, fires or any event that impairs the flow of goods or even damages the market infrastructure itself. On the flip side, having multiple centers of food trade generates its own plethora of issues. The main argument in favor of concentration is price control.

The prices of food in these centers are extremely dynamic as a means of ensuring the lowest prices possible. If scattered across the city, the fluctuation of prices would introduce an instability in the distribution chain and would ultimately hinder the distribution network, attracting unexpected traffic and overloading local roads, not to mention the impossibility of planning ahead purchases.

The location of the new CEAGESP takes these variables into consideration for it assumes the Rodoanel itself as the spine of the distribution network; not only for food logistics but also other infrastructures. In its current state, the food exchange system relies on physical proximity for its equilibrium, but it seems imminent the inclusion of digital tools for price control, much like the transition of stock exchanges into the virtual realm.

It is therefore established that the main site for the new CEAGESP is located on the stretch between the two main highways; Castelo Branco and Raposo Tavares, but secondary units could be considered in the future along the Rodoanel.

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Orientation According to Topography The current state of the site is defined by the presence of the Rodoanel Highway. It creates a bufferzone that segregates both sides of it, and the lack of proper crossings results in a deserted lot.

Consequently, the buildings around it turn their backs to the bufferzone, which ironically is one of the few green spaces left.

The existing topography creates a valley, along which the volume of the market is oriented. This gesture establishes a connection between the two low-density neighbourhoods on both extremes of the site.

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In order to cross the highway, the volume must be lifted in its middle, creating a bridge-like structure.

The rate of ascent is designed in order to be comfortable to be climbed and also offer spaces of leisure.

It is created a surface upon which the city can further develop itself, rendering the crossing of the highway much more pleasant than the existing footbridges. This also refers to the definition of the term infrastructure, as something that enables other relationships to be established.

Stacked Warehouses Create Vertical Market The total height of the volume in the middle allows for 4 stories of stacked warehouses, where the goods are stored and exchanged.

Slits on both sides of the project are created for both insolation and natural ventilation of the warehouses and also house public activities. The largest one is destined for a large public market, where producers sell their products on retail and is nowadays the main public activity of CEAGESP, and the other is a sports court. The latter serves both the public (it stands next to existing public schools and parks) and the workers of CEAGESP like drivers and carriers, who are iddle most of the time.

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Continuous Loop Allows for Free Circulation through the Market In order for the market to function as an unity, the warehouses need to be connected to one another.

There are two truck entrances for the market, one in each direction of Rodoanel.

They develop into a spiral that connects all warehouses vertically. Escalators, stairs, elevators and platforms are used by users and goods transportation.

In doing so, the CEAGESP no longer needs to be an horizontal field with all the free spaces used as parking. It enables the crossing of the market and invites the local comunity to partake in the market activity.

Difference in Ceiling Heights Hosts Various Programs Because of ceiling height differences due to the slanting surface, there is a series of interstitial spaces with various programs.

From 0 to 3 meters ceiling height there are planters for the greenroof. It is deep enough to support vegetation and tree roots.

Public amenities, like public library, exhibition spaces and restaurants are placed in the interstices from 3 to 5 meters. The maximum ceiling height is 5 meters, ideal for the food exchange activity.

The diagram on the next page describes this concept further.

Tower and Secondary Accesses Above Parking Pavillions The tower on the center serves two purposes: It generates an initial density for the complex, hosting office spaces and auditorium, and also works as an urban landmark.

Since CEAGESP is a metropolitan equipment, having it seen from far away reminds the population of the role it plays in their lives. The tower is directly connected to the highway and railroad below, and transforms the market into a hub.

Three parking space pavillions allow for secondary pedestrian access to the upper platform and also activate the site where they land. They are lined with storefronts and restaurants and offer parking for events when the market is iddle.

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Circulation and Sustainability Along the Free Market and the sports courts are vertical circulation cores and bathrooms. In them happens the flow not only of people, but also of goods by pallet lifting platforms, so that the products are transported between one pavilion to another with more agility.

Both the market and sports areas need to be sheltered from direct sunlight and rain, but it is still desirable that they have natural lighting. For this reason they are covered by two layers of ETFE, a self-cleaning and highly resistant plastic material. Between the two layers is created an air mattress that thermal and acoustically insulates the internal spaces.

The U-beams that support the roof also collect rainwater.

Coexistence between public programs and logistic activity The juxtaposition of public and logistic activities is possible mainly because of their working hours. In order for the city to be supplied in the morning with fresh food, they must be exchanged at dawn, when public activities are closed and therefore are not disturbed by heavy truck flow or noise pollution. On the other hand, it is during the time when CEAGESP would be idle that public activities work.

The public activities range from library, as shown below, to outdoor cinema, sports hall, restaurants, educational and exhibition spaces, multipurpose rooms and auditorium.

These activities take advantage of the newly created railroad station, and transform the complex into a commercial hub.

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Free market open to the public

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Main entrance underneath the plenary and sunken garden Image credit: Jan Casimir

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02 NEW SHARED HEADQUARTERS OF THE BRAZILIAN COUNCIL OF ARCHITECTURE AND THE BRAZILIAN ARCHITECTURE INSTITUTE Team: Gabriel Duarte, Gabriel Kozlowski and Luisa Schettino Contribution: Schematic design phase. Production of 2D and 3D drawings, rendering and images postproduction.

National Competition Brasília, Brazil 2016 From the recent creation of the CAU (Brazilian Council of Architecture and Urbanism) in 2010 to the intensification of the struggles of all regional IABs (Brazilian Architecture Institutes) for a more active voice in society and national policies, the second decade of the twenty-first century has been marked by profound changes in the institutional, social and cultural representations of architecture and urbanism in Brazil.

This project for a shared headquarters for IAB-Brasília and the national office of the CAU-BR is a symbol of this period, expressed through the way it occupies the ground and its formal arrangement, which articulates spaces of different scales. It is the result of a national competition, which aims at further developing the culture of competitions for public buildings in Brazil. It also intends to demonstrate that such works can be realized within their budgets and schedules.

The peripheral occupation of the lot by a stepped volume, framed by two raised blocks, creates a sequence of intermediate spaces – crossings and transitions– that translate into form the current moment of the IAB-CAU consolidation.

This porous volume surrounds and gives access to different civic and meeting spaces, from the descending entrance square, through the large central patio, to terraces of workspace environments. All these spaces are intertwined, inviting for participation and dialogue, values that underpin the role played by the institutions they host.

The stepped volumes, where most of the workspaces and services are concentrated, are structured on simple concrete supports and steel-deck slabs with moderate spans. Its rigidly controlled modulation avoids structural transition components and allows for vertical and horizontal distribution of all its installations to be concentrated in the four circulation cores. Exceptions occur strategically and symbolically in the spaces intended for public and civic use. The auditorium and the plenary occupy large metal trusses, which rise on sturdy and simple supports at the ends of the building, thus creating large porticoes that open to the city and the landscape.

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Separation Clear organization of functions in two autonomous parts reinforces the clear readability of the project

Insolation All rooms have ideal lighting and ventilation

Framing Special programs frame the site, defining the area of interaction between the two institutions

Monumentality The lifted special blocks guarantee the necessary monumentality to the buildings of BrasĂ­lia

Crossing Uninterrupted movement across the site enables spatial fluidity and independent access for each institution

Coexistence Internal patio typology establishes a center for the project where the two groups meet

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Main entrance: interactive screen and concept store

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03 Alto da Boa Vista Bike House

Collaboration with: Gru.a Arquitetos Contribution: building survey, overall schematic design, design development and construction documents, 2D and 3D drawings, rendering and images postproduction Comission Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2017 The Itamaraty Mansion is one of the oldest and, during the coffee economic period, the largest coffee farm in Brazil. The XIX century house is located at the hearth of the Tijuca Forest, which is the world’s largest urban forest, and is in the epicenter of the two sectors of the Tijuca National Park. It used to belong to the Count of Itamaraty and was frequently visited by D. Pedro II, the emperor of Brazil. Since the democratization of Brazil, however, the building went through several modifications that altered its program, which ranged from a fast food restaurant in the 1960’s to an event and open air party venue in the early 2000’s.

The site has been sporadically used over the last few years for those purposes, but the inner spaces have been abandoned for decades.

In 2017 a brazillian outdoor sports clothing brand identified the potential of turning the mansion into a brand concept store and meeting point for its costumers.

Every weekend, hundreds of cyclists, runners and hikers stop by the gas station across the street from the mansion to fill their water bottles, take a quick shower, have a snack or make minor repairs to their equipment. The desire was to offer these athletes better suited amenities inside the mansion, attracting potential costumers to their concept store.

The program, however, evolved into a more ambitious project. The mansion’s location makes it the perfect entry point to the forest, having many of the national park’s visiting sites at a walking distance. Residents and tourists will be able to get information about trails, circuits, ecology and brazilian history on the site through an interactive screen upon arrival, returning the mansion’s initial condition of being a landmark.

Coffee is the element that links the different ages the building has gone through.

The history of the site as a coffee farm, the most profitable export of Brazil for more than one century, the transformations that this agricultural activity imposed in the forest and the high consumption of caffeine among athletes all come together under the same roof. Outdoor breakfasts and brunches, a fairly new habit in Rio de Janeiro, also attract the general public to the mansion and Alto da Boa Vista itself, a neighbourhood that is vital to the city’s history and ecology and is not as known as it should be.

Because of the historical importance of the main building, permits are an intricate subject. Any alteration to the original morphology and façades would not be allowed. Therefore, all accessibility or infrastructural additions were designed with temporary materials, such as scaffoldings and containers, so that it would not impair the original structure.

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01. Mechanical repairs 02. Temporary access to upper level 03. Access square and meeting point 04. General information and interactive map 05. Multipurpose room and concept store 06. CafĂŠ 07. Outside eating and gathering 08. Bike racks 09. VIP bike storage 10. Changing rooms 11. Administrative spaces 12. Parking / event space

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Gas Station The gas station has become over the past few years the main pitstop for bikers. It offers a bathroom for taking a quick shower and changing clothes and sells snacks and drinks.

It concentrates the bikers all in one place, and for not having walls, it turned the pitstop into more of a social experience rather than a trivial one.

The venue, however, is overcrowded and its amenities are subpar; the fastfood offered is unhealthy and the bathrooms are precarious.

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Afonso Viseu Square This square is used as a meeting point for entering the hiking trails of the Tijuca Forest, and The Taunay Waterfall, Mayrink Chapel and Tijuca Forest National Park Visitor Center are only a couple minutes away. The square has become the main access hub for many of the most visited trails in Rio, but does not offer infrastructure for the visitors.

The project inteds not to overshadow the square, but to work as an extension of it.

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South american borders, cities and nature reserve areas

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04 SOUTH AMERICA PROJECT - SAP PEACE PARKS Team: Carolina Chataignier PUC-Rio Infrastructure, Landscape and Borders Studio Border between Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay 2013 Displayed at the XIII Architectural Biennial of Buenos Aires SAP The South America Project (SAP) is a trans-continental applied research network that proactively endorses the role of design within rapidly transforming geographies of the South American Continent. SAP specifically focuses on how a spatial synthesis best afforded by design can provide alternative physical and experiential identities to the current spatial transformations reshaping the South American Hinterland, in particular fast paced modes of resource extraction and an unprecedented regional integration at a continental scale (primarily through roads, energy grids, fluvial corridors, and telecommunication networks). Launched

by Felipe Correa and Ana María Durán Calisto, with the support of the Department of Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, and the Loeb Fellowship, the project brings together a broad host of academic insitutions, scholars and designers from diverse fields, in order to create a projective platform that can allow for Architecture and the diverse disciplines affiliated to the constructed environment to actively partake in proposing more comprehensive models of urbanization for South America.

The Park The project explores the concept of ‘Peace Parks’, which are protected ecological sanctuaries on the border of two or more countries, with its management shared by all nations involved. The shared park expands the notion of political border by creating a surface of exchange instead of a dividing line. Coupled with the deployment of the parks are a series of strategies that promote tourism and sustainable development, creating jobs and boosting local economies. Given the diversity of ecosystems along the longitudinal axis of the South American continent, the project sheds light onto a potential connection between the different biomes through various conservation areas. Within this logic, the proposed Peace Park is part of a strategy which creates a transitional zone between the Pampas and the Brazilian Coastal Forest biomes, fostering a much richer biodiversity.

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Water level variation The river bend of the Quaraí River, which allows for the cross connection of Monte Caseros, Bella Unión and Barra do Quaraí, also generates a complex geopolitical and ecological condition that are both strategic and delicately balanced.

This condition is coupled with the historical presence of important military bases in each city and major national parks or ecological sanctuaries. The project investigates opportunities to implement a type of jointly administered international natural park on the triple border known as ‘peace park’. A peace park implements a neutral zone for both ecological and border control reasons. It functions as a dilated border crossing, and is normally implemented in areas where strict border control is particularly difficult, but necessary.

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The project also seeks to resolve a territorial issue between Brazil and Uruguay. The Brazilian Island, located in the Quaraí River, is officially part of the brazilian territory because of a contraditory decision and has been recently reclaimed by Uruguay. Because the Peace Park works as a shared territory, this no longer is a problem.

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05 89PLUS RIO PAVILLION INTERVENTION IN MAM-RIO

Working with: CANTEIRO Collective Comission Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2014 Presented at 89PLUS event in Rio Displayed at Studio-X Rio 89PLUS 89plus is a long-term, international, multi-platform research project co-founded

by Simon Castets and Hans Ulrich Obrist, investigating the generation of innovators born in or after 1989. Without forecasting artistic trends or predicting future creation, 89plus manifests itself through panels, books, periodicals and exhibitions, bringing together individuals from a generation whose voices are only starting to be heard, yet which accounts for almost half of the world’s population.

Marked by several paradigm-shifting events, the year 1989 saw the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the start of the post-Cold War period; the introduction of the World Wide Web and the beginning of the universal availability of the Internet.

Positing a relationship between these world-changing events and creative production at large, 89plus introduces the work of some of this generation’s most inspiring protagonists.

About the project The current urban transformations taking place in Rio de Janeiro - a city engaged in torrential efforts toward construction, materials and happenings - coupled with the need for a temporary pavillion to host the 2 day events for the 89+ at MAMRio, brought the desire to expand the realm of architecture through a greater approximation between art, architecture and construction.

Starting with the sketch of a wall which cuts through MAM´s clear span and its park, designed by one of Brazil´s greatest architects, Affonso Eduardo Reidy, the temporary pavillion makes use of the formwork construction technology as a critical strategy of operation in the carioca urban context, and occupies the negative volume (where concrete would otherwise be poured) through an articulation of the formwork and its supports. A pavillion which, much like the 89+ generation, avoids crystallization and places itself in a constant process, closing distinctions between assembly, disassembly and the object. The exhibition is realized beyond the days of the event, and all the phases of the pavillion and its own ephemeral qualities underscored become part of the discourse of the project and part of the dialogues proposed by 89+.

MAM-Rio - image of the modern brazilian project - again under construction, seen here as a new construction site which reconstructs - calling out to young artists, architects, scientists of the 89+ generation - a proposal for one of the greatest legacies of Reidy´s architecture: the potency in the relation between architecture, art, landscape, city and construction.

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Exhibition corridor cutting through MAM’s free span, which becomes the event’s gathering space

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06 REVERSE ATLANTIS Laboratory for Architecture, Infrastructure and Territory Working with: professors Gabriel Duarte and Marcos Favero Contribution: overall research, investigation of potential project sites and production of maps, GIS databases, 2D and 3D drawings Research Grant - TEPP fellow Ceará, Brazil 2013-2014 The laboratory proposes to investigate and develop new ways of monitoring and planning projects, which vary in scale (architecture to territory),related to transformation processes in the brazilian equatorial coast, triggered by oil basins auctions in May 2013, by the Brazilian National Petroleum Agency. From Amapá to Rio Grande do Norte, new areas of exploration -admittedly a territory marked by complex ecologies and insufficiently monitored urbanization processesconstitute a context of analysis and action that offers the chance of a critical accompaniment facing their urban planning and landscape transformations, providing conditions for the development of more sustainable patterns of urbanization in different aspects to the territory that characterizes the equatorial margin of Brazil.

The first analysed territory is around the Port of Pecém, in the outskirts of Fortaleza, the state capital of Ceará. Following federal economic plans, Pecém is soon to be one of the country’s main ports and currently heads to its fourth expansion. It follows a model defined as a port-industrial complex, which can also be found in Marseille(FR), Kashima(JP) and Suape(BR), creating a cluster of industries inside the port’s legal perimeter. Coupled with Suape, the Port of Pecém aims to be the most important exportation hub of the region, while Suape, which is closer to consumer markets, receives the majority of imported products.

Among many others, three major industries have already been installed in Pécem, namely: Siderurgic Company of Pecém, Premium II Oil Refinery and Energia Pecém thermoelectric plant. All of them have environmental, social and urban consequences, which can already be observed in Pecém and in the cities around it, such as the sudden arrival of 5000 korean workers, several new allotments over dunes, ever-growing influx of tourists and private investments and the setup of heavy industrial supply infrastructures across the landscape, such as highways, railroads, energy lines, water channels and wind turbines.

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Premium 2 Oil Refinery Port of Pecém Industrial Complex

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Paracuru Taíba Port of Pecém’s Piers CE-085 Highway (being duplicated) Cumbuco Transnordestina Railroad BR-222 Highway Fortaleza

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07 RESIDENTIAL TOWER IN SANTO CRISTO

Team: Olavo Herz, Luiza Barbosa, Roberta Pacheco and Domingo Castro PUC-Rio Collective Housing Studio Rio de Janeiro, Brasil 2013 The designed building is placed in a very peculiar site: exactly on the border between Rio’s port area, which currently undergoes an intense renewal and verticalization process, and Morro do Pinto, a very traditional, low density, residential neighbourhood in the city. Because of this condition, the project should dialogue with buildings on both sides of the street. While the building as a whole is understood as a tower, fitting in the context of the new office skyscrapers in the area, the individual apartments are distinguishable from one another. Therefore the tower no longer operates as a homogeneous unity, but a set of individual dwellings, similar to what happens in Morro do Pinto.

Due to its verticality, the project creates a public square on the ground floor, which is a big local defficiency, as well as suggests a possible crossing through the block in the future. The apartaments are organized around a central core, which contains both stairs and elevators, and fit freely with one another. They vary in size and shape, as a way of ensuring diversity in social and economical terms. The apartments on the lowest levels are the ones smaller in total ground floor area, whilst bigger ones are placed higher, whence the city port and Guanabara Bay can be seen.

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08 TORANOMON HILLS STATION TOWER Working at: OMA*AMO Contribution: schematic design phase. Production of models, 2D and 3D drawings and images postproduction Tokyo, Japan 2015

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09 PARK GROVE Working at: OMA*AMO Contribution: construction documents phase. Production of 2D and 3D drawings, rendering and images postproduction Miami, United States 2015

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10 121 EAST 22ND STREET RESIDENTIAL TOWER

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Map displayed at New Cartographies exhibition in Studio-X Rio

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11 NEW CARTOGRAPHIES RIO DE JANEIRO INTERACTIVE MAP Working at: Campo AUD Contribution: overall research and production of printed map and cartographic layers projection Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2013 Displayed at the X Architectural Biennial of São Paulo New Cartographies The New Cartographies project proposes to work mapping as a creative instrument of recognition, criticism and action on the urban territory. It developed partnerships and research on participative mapping that strives to go beyond mere physical representations of the territory, having the city of Rio de Janeiro as its main focus.

The New Cartographies Exhibition happened between May 17th and June 8th, 2013 at the Carioca Design Center, and showed works from CAMPO and from invited artists, architects and designers (Lize Mogel, Christian Nold, Fabio Lopez, Wikimapia, Wellington Cançado and Renata Marques). It was later selected to be part of the X São Paulo Biennial as a permanent exhibition through the event.

This map was created with the intention of providing a complete and immediate visualization of the urban area of the city of Rio de Janeiro. Today, there aren’t any available maps that allow us to understand the relation between the form of the city and its empty areas with such detail and clarity as the one presented here.

Due to the precision of the drawing, it is possible to identify relations of mass, density, proximity, importance, location, among others, with each building and with the city as a whole. With this map, we intend to offer a tool to understand the city of Rio in a clear and objective way, and to some extent democratize the access to essential information to understand the direction that the city is taking.

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12 URBAN FOUNDATIONS - PLAN D’AOU EUROPAN COMPETITION Working at: Campo AUD Contribution: schematic design phase. Production of 2D and 3D drawings, rendering and images postproduction.

Marseille, France 2013

The project was conceived to accommodate for both highly successful futures of the site and drastic failures. Like infrastructures designed to create conditions for other activities to happen, the Urban Foundations project enables its adaptation for calculated densifications and potential eventual evacuations. The main concept of the project uses an analogy with the foundations of a building to create a series of architectural, urban, and landscape conditions that can respond to the uncertainties of Plan d’Aou. Developed as a prototypical strategy that can permeate and influence development for the entire study site, the architectural and urban strategies presented here establish an indissoluble relationship founded upon adaptability.

Both the urban and architectural strategies have been conceived to guarantee the adequate implementation of site development in different levels. The relatively excessive use of structural materials (concrete) in the construction of the armature can be justified by its infrastructural role, and occupied over time, if necessary.

This might seem odd at first, but this type of investment consciously accounts for flexibility in development. The armature can as much be used as a bare spatial structure for outdoor activities – assuming the role of interactive monument – as it can be a plinth for vertical expansion, provided the market highlights this opportunity and an increase in density is desired by the community and local planning authorities.

The project was conceived with the simplest possible expression – the least technical, least lyrical, and an almost primitive structural solution. This simplicity allows it to create a generous platform for myriad of programs to occur. The static armature is equipped with all the basic technical features that a multifunctional building requires for fluid programming. The concrete armature contrasts with the lightweight wooden and plaster partitions used to create the different compartments of the building. This contrast does not only accommodate any number of layout variations, but also gives the building a tectonic identity that is unique and enduring, in light of the multiple changeable scenarios that are enabled.

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