Felipe Rio Branco

Felipe Rio Branco

Professor
felipe.riobranco@gavea.arq.br

Co-founder of the Gávea Arquitetos office, located in Rio de Janeiro, since 2007. He has experience participating in various architecture competitions, with a highlight being the award received at the 48th Annual IAB Awards with the project ‘Casa do Artista Quando Jovem’ in 2010.

He graduated as an architect in 2002 from the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at UFRJ and completed a postgraduate degree in ‘History of Art and Modern Architecture in Brazil’ at PUC-Rio. In 2017, he obtained a Master’s degree in Urbanism from the Postgraduate Program in Urbanism at UFRJ. Among his academic experiences, it is worth mentioning his time as a substitute professor at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at UFRJ from 2011 to 2013 and from 2015 to 2017, where he taught various disciplines in the Design Department. Currently, he is a member of the faculty at the Department of Architecture and Urbanism at PUC-Rio, holding the position of adjunct professor, where he teaches the Collective Space Design course [4th semester].

Disciplinas

ARQ1104
Collective Space Project deals with spaces dedicated to the public, within a context that relates people and collective space, and analyzes places of common use such as squares, parks, leisure areas, schools, stadiums, transport stations, meeting rooms shows, cultural spaces, markets, etc. The subject discusses the role of cities as promoters of the occupation of public space as opposed to private space, in addition to the processes of occupation and identity construction that these spaces require in the context of culture.

The subject ARQ 1104 has as its theme, more than collective space, public space. Its main objective is to promote reflection on what distinguishes public architecture from private architecture. To this end, two lines of design exercises are developed: (1) projects with an emphasis on structural systems and construction methods, whose programs have an eminently public profile, as is the case of the Media Library with a public square and spaces for collective coexistence; (2) collective space projects, such as the Dance School. The themes to be explored in the first exercise are: universal accessibility, modulation, reproducibility, flexibility, adaptability, prefabrication and treatment of free areas, and in the second exercise: relationship with the surroundings, verticalization, stacking, cubing, plumb, organization of flows and constructive rationalization.

Sala

IMA2

Professor(es)

Otavio Leonidio, Laís Bronstein, Roberio Catelani, Pedro Lobão, Felipe Rio Branco, Adriano Mendonça, Tiago Tardin Abdelhay, Raul Bueno, Mariana Vieira