SUBdV and the Environmental Ornamention

 SUBdV – Prague Library

One of the highlights of the RAW event was to witness the refreshing work of Anne Save de Beaurecueil and Franklin Lee from SUBdV and to hear their lucid and engaged approach to architecture at the Sunday RAW Seminar. Subscribing to a sharp digital technical agenda their architectural projects are incredibly engaged to a series of parameters including ecological building and social ones.

 SUBdV – Paraisopolis

Projects like Paraisopolis illustrate it well. Working within the contraints of a favela the project proposal addresses infrastructural problems by extending pedestrian flows of the streets and the surrouding neighborhood. As explained by the architects “The steep slopes have been terraced to create open green space, in a series of Community Gardens, where the inhabitants of the current favela can grow fresh products for themselves, as well as to sell in the Farmer’s Market area, which can attract shoppers from the Morumbi neighborhood.” The project also includes an amphitheatre for cultural performances, basketball courts and shopping spaces. The design process uses generative algorithms and environmental simulations and the architects have worked with a team of consultants including BEA.

An interesting article about their work was recently published here (in italian): http://www.presstletter.com/articolo.asp?articolo=1547

SUBdV / about

 Sonic Studio – Sao Paulo

Prior to forming their independent practice, Anne Save de Beaurecueil and Franklin Lee both earned Masters’ Degrees from Columbia University (GSAPP). Anne has worked for Bernard Tschumi and Zaha Hadid and both have worked for Ken Yeang. Franklin has also worked for the New York firm Beyer Blinder Belle.
The work of their practice ranges from large urban-scale design of cultural centers in China to the building of smaller scale interiors in São Paulo Brazil. They were invited to compete, and were finalists in a number of large competitions in China: a master plan for a new resort competition in Pudong, Shanghai, a landscape design project for the design of the Guangzhou Park Invited Competition in Hainan Province, the landscape and bridge design for the Haikou Waterfront Invited Competitio in the Hainan Province, and the architectural and urban design for the Changsha Cultural Complex Park Invited Competitio in the Hunan Province. In São Paulo, they have completed the Loft On Off Renovation in Jardim Iolanda as well as the – “Sonic Studio” Rehearsal Studio, and are currently working on the design of the Clarindo Lofts in Jardim Sul. They have been published, have lectured and exhibited work worldwide.

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SUBdV / scope

Ceomaba Shops – Sao Paulo

Fresh Performance

Anne Save de Beaurecueil and Franklin Lee, based in both São Paulo and London, are directors of the architecture office SUBdV www.subdv.com, designing and building projects in São Paulo, Brazil, while also teaching at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London.

Both their academic and own design work attempt to achieve a certain type of ‘freshness’ through the creating of performative architecture, to mediate both environmental and cultural flows. Following in the lineage of a Brazilian Modern Architecture which transformed European Modernism by creating a new porosity for external environmental forces and ground circulation systems, the goal of the work now is to design mediation systems that allow for an enhanced performance of social and ecological flows, allowing for the constant movement and evolution of forces, to create spaces and organizations that can dynamically adapt to changing climatic and programmatic issues. Movement brings freshness, both as a generative design system, as well as a building performance.

Specifically, the work focuses on architecture and urban projects that employ Environmental Ornamentation to address different cultural agendas within ecological building strategies. For this, the practice uses parametric computation and environmental mediation to create articulated flow management systems. From urban interventions, such as in the design of large cultural complexes, to the design of a smaller scale rehearsal space in São Paulo, the practice uses generative algorithms, iterative associative modeling, and environmental simulations, to structure and calibrate refined transfers of different types of forces, from the movement of people, to the transmittal of wind, sound and light.

The exhibit will highlight, using physical models and printed documentation, three projects that address this theme of fresh performance. The design of the Sonic Studio rehearsal space in São Paulo used geometric algorithms to create a multiple scale and multiple angled sound reflector system, to allow for a diffused sound landscape and flexible instrument arrangements. The design of the Cemoabá Lofts in São Paulo project used agent based associative modeling to have changing sun-angles drive the geometry of a system of iterative sun-shades. Finally, a library in Prague addresses the mediation and negotiation of multiple environmental and urban issues.

Besides currently teaching at the Architectural Association, Anne Save de Beaurecueil and Franklin Lee have also taught at the Pratt Institute Graduate School of Architecture, New York and the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Preservation and Planning (GSAPP).

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