a little bit of sofia's projects

2013 PORTFOLIO

Sofia Paiva de Araujo

Sumary

•  ARTISTIC DRAWINGS Hands Chairs

Buildings People

Charcoal Drawing and Nude Drawings

•  ARCHITECTURAL PROJECTS First Semester Project

Second Semester Project

•  CREATIVE DESIGN

All sketches made and scanned by Sofia Paiva de Araujo.

ARTISTIC DRAWINGS

The artistic drawing has been worked in order to leave free and skillful hands, facilitating the creative process and inspiring the use of paper and pencil as elements of creation rather than technological instruments.

Hands

The hands drawing was carried out to put to work the visualization exercise. Hands are a part of the human body seen day-by-day but still ignored, the details and designs are not easily kept in mind.

Chairs

Chairs make part of the traditional furniture, remarkable and useable, its designs are great to practice perspective drawings techniques

Buildings

Expanded to the world outside, drawing buildings brings the ability to relate urbanism and architecture with drawing techniques in order to create ideas as well as letting the imagination flows.

People

Faces are seen everyday, and by drawing people’s �physiognomy � ,, elements as organization, proportion and the Golden ratio can be put in practice.

Charcoal Drawing and Nude Drawings

Placing the pencil aside, the charcoal is a great material for quick drawings and freedom of the hand movements, and once put together with nude drawing, creates a sublime and artistically experience.

ARCHITECTURAL PROJECTS

Architectural projects being worked since freshman year, putting in practice creative ideas, good solutions and well structured designs. Each semester a new concept of construction, first a chapel, secondly a school building.

First Semester Project

The Chapel was meant to be built in Coremas, PB, a small deeply religious city that faces difficult drought and hunger issues. This little chapel takes place in this town to bring hope and a peaceful site where people could go to practice their faiths and believes.

Its glass door has thorn triangular shape, becomes somewhat crude in its outlook, but with increases of 20cm on the walls and ceiling, its ventilates the room, brings lightness and serenity to people.

Second Semester Project

To avoid a static and monotonous contraction, instead of leaving straight and parallel forms, it has been chosen a curve shape and uneven provision. With a central courtyard and a partial closing of the construction, this area provides visual comfort, putting an aggressive space by side for a cozy space. The curved shape also enhances the circulation axis.

The use of colored pivoting brise-soleil panels, protects against the incidence of sunlight and brings joy to this place, reducing the hostility found in most schools.

CREATIVE DESIGN

For the geometric construction class, a creative design challenge was pulled out: create a traditional Brazilian interior design element – a cobogo/ balustrade .

Practicing the use of materials as plaster and wood, this exercise required 20 plaster pieces – so an all wall could be build – and one in wood to be used as a model.

This exercise demanded solutions for thermal comfort, usable designs and creation of sublime ambiences.

This has been a portfolio from an architecture and urbanism student, who has just started the

third semester in the University Católica de Brasília – UCB.

With the intend of showing a little bit of the work and projects released and hopes to learn a lot more and increase the knowledge of art, architecture and this sublime world we are all

living in.

by Sofia Paiva de Araujo

14th Februaty 2014.