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Existing + Culturally Significant OccupationRio de Janeiro

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Interpretation

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E D U C A T I O NF u t e b o l é V i d a

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C U L T U R E

M A R K E TTo create spaces for comfortable classrooms that the community can take advantage of. Most of the children that live in the favela have trouble getting to school; two main reasons are distance and dropping out of school. This implementation of classrooms can mini-mize one of the two and hopefully create a snowball effect to eliminate the other one. This can create a larger sense of ownership for the teachers as well as build a larger importance to education, especially in

areas like favelas.

Soccer is more important than important, if it were possible. “Soccer is life” is not just a saying for fun, for many countries around the world, and without a doubt in South America. Especially for the players who live in the favelas, soccer is a getaway from the often danger-ous and hectic lifestyle. With the FIFA World Cup being held in the backyard of Complexo do Alemao, there are a lot of conflicting elements with building enough infrastructure for an event that lasts a month versus building better infrastructure for hundreds of thousands of

people that struggle to get by in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro.

Dancing is an important part of any culture, and in Brazil we can find some of the liveliest music and dances. Samba fills the streets on any given day, especially during carnivale season, where all the samba schools that exist and are major parts of it reside solely in favelas. Hip Hop is also beginning to impact the youths of the favelas, hence the breakdancing and the creation of entirely new

dance styles.

Markets are the heart of any community, literally bringing everyone together for the sake of getting the right kind of vegetable. If I can provide one central point for some of the markets to reconvene it would make it easier to find them as well as for the market owners to exchange pieces of ideas with each other. In terms of entertainment and diving into culture, I immediately think of Capoeira. It’s a mixture of martial arts and dance and is innevitably an impressive feat.

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TCA JULY 2013 LOST BOY SHOP STOREFRONT LAYOUT 4

ALL PHOTOGRAPHY TAKEN BY: Monica Sanchez Diaz

Comienzo

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BijaRi: Brazilian Artists in Medellin (Comuna 1)“Contando con Nosotros” looked to get close into that young neighborhood for a collaboration with its people, to create a story with its memories, history, conflicts and desires. The phrases and themes come together to form an intervention over the roofs to portray testimonies that mold an identity that is under construction as an open book, and keep writing its memories until they form into cities.

Triggering the Favela Roofscapehttp://vimeo.com/35007967#at=0

Complexo do Alemao Teleferico and Morro Alemao

Roughly 300,000 total population.

Morro do Alemao= German Hill after settler Leonard Kaczmarkiewicz

1920 | Leather Factory1946 | Avenida Brasil1951 | Beginning Settlements

Triggering the Favela Roofscape

Complexo do Alemao Teleferico and Morro Alemao

27.65%>3.4%Favela Population growth > Rest of the city population

growth in 10 years

65%of Favela Inhabitants

considered middle class

Open ProgramRio de Janeiro

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Existing + Culturally Significant OccupationRio de Janeiro

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Interpretation

Case Studies: Transportation systems present in South American cities Focus on Cable Cars (Gondolas)

PERCENTAGE OF POPULATION LIVING IN SLUM CONDITIONS

“massive urbanisation means hundreds of already near-bankrupt cities trying to cope in 20 years with the kind of problems London or New York only managed to address with difficulty in 150 years.” John Vidal (2004) from Chapter 1 of “Tomorrow’s Crises Today” by Chris Horwood

COLOMBIA

VENEZUELA

BRAZIL

Population:46,056,000



20%

16.1%

32%

http://www.prb.org/DataFinder/Topic/Rankings.aspx?ind=13http://www.indexmundi.com/colombia/slum-population.html

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FLAWS IN THE CABLE CAR CASE STUDIES

Medellin Caracas Rio de Janeiro

$$$$$$ INCREASE IN METRO FARES

GONDOLAS

http://www.irinnews.org/pdf/in-depth/tomorrowscrisestoday-chapter6.pdfhttp://riotimesonline.com/brazil-news/rio-politics/rios-favela-population-largest-in-brazil/#

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/05/world/americas/brazil-faces-obstacles-in-preparations-for-rio-olympics.html?_r=1&http://rioonwatch.org/?p=3367http://rioonwatch.org/?p=3252

http://oglobo.globo.com/rio/rio-capital-verde-20-anos-depois-4068395http://iets.org.br/

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ROOF AS FACADEKenya—Aimed skyward from photos atop a train, the eyes of women pierce a rooftop landscape in Nairobi's Kibera slum.

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GENERAL POPULATION

Colombia Venezuela Brazil

60%45% 26%PUBLICDEBT

20.337.8 26.3POP.

DENSITY: PPL PER

SQ. KM.

LARGESTCITYPOP.

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95% 75%h a d t i l e floors

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RIO DE JANEIRO’S FAVELAS

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the community for 10+ yrs

26%employed

in own business

From a Survey by the IETS, interesting results came up when speaking to and comparing results from 6 of the major favelas in rio de Janeiro. They interviewed 92,000 people across the 6 favelas (total population of all favelas in Rio de Janeiro is 1,400,000).

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ON The Gondola/Cable Car system creates pockets of urban acupuncture that allows for the informal

settlements that obtained this asset to their community to expand their possibilities of integration to the formal city. Whether or not the informal communities want to be involved is entirely up to them. One way to allow for the community to feel a sense of proprietorship with these new systems,

such as the gondola, I am proposing a sort of advertising to be acquired by the inhabitants of certain houses. Specifically looking and exploring the Complexo do Alemao in Rio de Janeiro, we will

envision a roof that acts as a mediator between the ground floor inhabitant and the soaring spectator, albeit some of those spectators are inhabitants as well.

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What are the tactics used in the planification of the roof systems?

What type of advertising are we talking about?

How are they being integrated into the existing houses?

How are these roof systems spatially redefining the informal landscape, as well as the formal gondola?

What space does this system inhabit? And what strategy is it using to inhabit that space?

XY GRID GO VERTICAL! XYZ

Triggering the Favela Roofscape

THESIS PREPCase Studies: Transportation systems present in South American cities Focus on Cable Cars (Gondolas)

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Existing Roof Conditions in Complexo do Alemao

French Artist: JR, Author of “Women are Heroes”

“Today I am revealing the first image from a project I did almost a year ago in the complete shadows… 10 years ago I was enlarging for the first time huge images of people from this neighborhood on the walls of

riots started in France at this exact same place, in front of the pastings. My friend @ladjly still lives there, and when we heard they were going to destroy the buildings for a new renovation plan we decided to do a last action inside it with the portraits we had from 2004/2005. We gathered a team of 25 that had previously pasted with me around the globe and we went inside the buildings with no authorization and pasted faces on the different apartments. We got arrested when we came out of the building later in the night but the police didn't under-stand why we pasted inside a tower that would be destroyed the next

When the cranes arrived the next day to destroy the building, this is what they found… More images to be published in the next days. #SuburbsofParis #prodbyEtienneandSaid #showatLazaridesGallery”-From JR Intsagram Account.

French Artist: JR, Author of Women are Heroes


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ARCHITECT FavelaCommunity

Building Relationships

THE LETTERED FAVELA: THE FOLLIES OF VACANCY IN COMPLEXO DO ALEMAO, RIO DE JANEIRO


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E D U C A T I O NF u t e b o l é V i d a

D A N C E

C U L T U R E

M A R K E TTo create spaces for comfortable classrooms that the community can take advantage of. Most of the children that live in the favela have trouble getting to school; two main reasons are distance and dropping out of school. This implementation of classrooms can mini-mize one of the two and hopefully create a snowball effect to eliminate the other one. This can create a larger sense of ownership for the teachers as well as build a larger importance to education, especially in

areas like favelas.

Soccer is more important than important, if it were possible. “Soccer is life” is not just a saying for fun, for many countries around the world, and without a doubt in South America. Especially for the players who live in the favelas, soccer is a getaway from the often danger-ous and hectic lifestyle. With the FIFA World Cup being held in the backyard of Complexo do Alemao, there are a lot of conflicting elements with building enough infrastructure for an event that lasts a month versus building better infrastructure for hundreds of thousands of

people that struggle to get by in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro.

Dancing is an important part of any culture, and in Brazil we can find some of the liveliest music and dances. Samba fills the streets on any given day, especially during carnivale season, where all the samba schools that exist and are major parts of it reside solely in favelas. Hip Hop is also beginning to impact the youths of the favelas, hence the breakdancing and the creation of entirely new

dance styles.

Markets are the heart of any community, literally bringing everyone together for the sake of getting the right kind of vegetable. If I can provide one central point for some of the markets to reconvene it would make it easier to find them as well as for the market owners to exchange pieces of ideas with each other. In terms of entertainment and diving into culture, I immediately think of Capoeira. It’s a mixture of martial arts and dance and is innevitably an impressive feat.

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THESISTHE LETTERED FAVELA: THE FOLLIES OF VACANCY IN COMPLEXO DO ALEMAO, RIO DE JANEIRO

t h e p e r s i s t e n c e a n e w i m p r i n t ,

a c r o s s a b r o k e n g r o u n dA G R O U N D P L A N E T H A T C R E A T ES A D ES T I N A T I O N N O T A D E T O U R T H R O U G H T T H E H E A R T O F C I T Y

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The Walls of Firenze

Roman Walls

Medival Walls

Bridges

City Blocks

SITE

SU ABROAD|Florence

In partnership with Nicole M. Homeny

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s t a n d i n g

T H E G R I D

I N F I N I T E P E R S P E C T I V E

F O C A L P O I N T S

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ANALYSIS OF THE ANNUNCIATION

the annunciation, Friar Bartolomeo

the annunciation, Piero della Francesca

THE VIRGIN

CORINTHIAN COLUMN,

BONE OF THE BUILDING

the building blocks of buildings

CORINTHIAN COLUMN, doric COLUMN, ionic COLUMN, tuscan COLUMN, composite cOLUMN,

the devotions of the marian faith

the object mary god


Piero della Francesca

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BASILICA DI SAN MARCO|VENEZIABas-Relief Model

CIUDADES DEL SURLANDSCAPE URBANISM, MODERNISM AND THE SOUTH AMERICAN CITY

COPACABANA BEACH, RIO DE JANIERO

NIEMEYER, SAO PAULO

SAO PAULO

MEXICOMexico City: Myth, Mechanics and Modernity

To create a unique, collaged site from examples of strip malls from all around the worldEXPLORING MID CITIES

The study of big box architectureBIG BOX UTOPIA EUPHORIA

BOSTON UNIVERSITY EXPANSION OF BU FACILTIES INTO STRIP-BASED BUILDINGS

Longitudinal Section0’’

5’’ 10’’

16’’

College of Fine ArtsCommonwealth Ave.

Charles River

EL -15'

Transverse Section0’’

5’’ 10’’

16’’

LIBRARYJYVASKYLA, NORWAY

Longitudinal Section0’’

5’’ 10’’

16’’

College of Fine ArtsCommonwealth Ave.

Charles River

JYVASKYLA, NORWAY

Professional Practice

LOST BOY SHOPJean store in Alfred I. Dupont Historic building, Miami, FL (Trelles Cabarrocas Architects)

In collaboration with Luis Trelles and Christopher Rodriguez

LOST BOY SHOP

In collaboration with Luis Trelles and Chris-topher Rodriguez



In collaboration with Luis Trelles and Chris-topher Rodriguez

LOST BOY SHOP

C3TEC | CAGUAS, PRWorkshop /exhibition space in Salon Explora, to be used by Middle and High School students as a hands-on science and technology experience

C3TEC | WORKSTATION

CORB -BOLOGNA

PEREZ CRUZ WINERY

ROMA, ITALIA

SAUDADE

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