Along with my fellow artists Mateus, Sasha, and Daly, we have been deeply immersed in exploring the site under the guidance of the TMS team. Our initial visits included a thorough site analysis, during which we used the TMS Media desk’s 360-degree camera to document the existing facilities. Conversations with social workers from the Asylum […]
Category: work
The IVORY COAST SHELL was developed through remote collaboration at Bamboo Pure in Bali, Indonesia. Spearheaded by Camilla Mafra and scrutinised by the Bamboo Pure structural team, the project took shape. My role involved designing a bamboo gridshell to envelop a 50-square-meter habitation, drawing insights from client references, technical schematics, and an assemblage manual. The […]
The NATURA BIOMATERIAL FACADE was carried out in collaboration with the architectural firm Estudio Guto Requena under the coordination of architect Guto Requena. My role involved developing a modular biomaterial block and designing the facade for Natura’s flagship store in Rio de Janeiro, utilizing parametric tools. For a flagship project in the beauty sector, a […]
cultivarte arches The CULTIVARTE Arches were developed in a three-day workshop by the architect Jaime Peña. The workshop involved fabricating and rigging ten arches. The project was designed by Jaime Peña Studio using Rhinoceros and Grasshopper. The construction was led by the Cultivarte team, Jaime and the workshop participants. First, a bamboo frame was built […]
The TACUARA Pavilion was part of a workshop that included six online sessions and three in-person sessions. This workshop was conducted in collaboration with Professor Mansur Arevalo and Tacuara Diseño en Bambú. Initially, our course featured informative sessions on bamboo construction led by Uraba Ponzone and Camila Duque from Tacuara Diseño en Bambú. Following that, […]
TACUARA DISEÑO EN BAMBÚ and the architect Luis Santiago Montoya Ramírez designed the CANDELA SPA project. My contribution came during in the construction phase, redesigning the project in Grasshopper to improve the workflow on the construction site and providing hands on support to the prefabrication, assembly, and painting of bamboo parts. This project reflects a […]
belas bamboo The BELAS Bamboo was developed in Architectural Association Visiting School São Paulo in 2022. The workshop relied on Augmented Reality (AR) technology to guide manual fabrication actions for developing complex geometries built with bamboo. Bamboo was chosen as the material because it is a local material that grows fast and is a carbon-sequestering […]
casa caiçara The CAIÇARA House are being developed at SUBdV Arquitetura e Design. It is about 3 hours from Sao Paulo – Barra do Sahy. The site is in an Atlantic Forest Mountain with limited car access. We are planning to add detached 4 bedrooms on the site, because of the limitations with material transportation […]
sou energy The SOU Energy façade was developed at SUBdV Architecture. The goal was to generate an ornamental and efficient façade. We worked with a sustainability team that gave us the optimal angles for each facade; that way, we could use this data as an input to start our work. My function was to design […]
wood pavillion The WOOD Pavilion was developed at SUBdV Architecture for a wedding in Sao Paulo. Our goal was to set a hexagonal wood lining, which should be fixed in a metal existing structure of 10m in length by 7m wights, and 8m high. For form-finding, a flat hexagon grid was drawn and applied to […]