Fernando Minto

Fernando Minto

Professor
fminto@puc-rio.br

He holds a degree in Architecture and Urbanism from UNIMEP – Methodist University of Piracicaba (1998) with the UNESCO Chair in Earth Construction, a master’s degree in practical constructive experimentation in architecture education from FAU USP (2009), and a PhD in construction technology from PROARQ at FAU-UFRJ (2020). He is an associate professor at the Department of Architecture and Urbanism at the School of Industrial Design of the State University of Rio de Janeiro. Since 2003, he has been working as a university professor in the field of architecture and urbanism: Faculdades Integradas Módulo (2003-2004), FMU-SP (2010-2012), UNIBAN-SP (2009-2011), PUC-Campinas (2010-2011), São Judas Tadeu University – SP (2012-2013), FAU-UFRJ (2014-2015), Santa Úrsula University-RJ (2013-present). He has experience in technical assistance for housing production, construction technology, and earth construction. He has worked in several architecture offices with projects and construction in general and currently coordinates an architecture office in Rio de Janeiro, Matéria Base, since 2013. He is a researcher in the Red Proterra research networks, Terra Brasil network, with an emphasis on earth construction. Currently, he is a professor at DAU – PUC-Rio, where he supervises the Experimental Site, he is a professor at DAU/ESDI/UERJ, where he coordinates the CANTEIRO EXPERIMENTAU extension project and the Extension Nucleus, and he is part of the Technical Assistance Collective CATÁLISE in Rio de Janeiro. He is also a researcher in the naMORAR group – a nucleus of extension, research, and teaching activities on issues and dialogues with urban popular housing (formerly CiHabE – City, Housing, and Education).

Disciplinas

ARQ1503
Experimentation based on the concepts of prefabrication, digital manufacturing and self-construction, in which components produced in a factory are assembled on site by unskilled labor. Execution of drawings and models as tools for approaching prefabricated elements and assembled work. Manufacture and assembly of a work designed and developed collectively, based on experiments carried outs.

Sala

Canteiro experimental

Professor(es)

Luciano Alvares, Fernando Minto

ARQ1112
Structured as a project and research laboratory open to students from different periods and courses, its objective is to create a collaborative space for multidisciplinary learning about the reality of precarious and low-income settlements in our urban and rural areas. The discipline falls within the scope of university extension and aims to develop technical advisory projects in Architecture and Urbanism. In this way, it has the following characteristics and objectives: i) starts from demands originating from a specific location; ii) develops from a constant and permanent dialogical exchange with local collectives and agents of the territory in question; ii) it must provoke a structured production of knowledge in local and academic knowledge, providing solutions to local demands and updating knowledge based on professional experience in precarious and/or vulnerable territories.

Sala

IMA1

Professor(es)

Tatiana Terry, Maira Martins, Fernando Minto, Pedro Évora, Rachel Coutinho Marques da Silva, Marcos Favero

ARQ1521
SPECIAL TOPICS IN COMMUNITY ARCHITECTURE I

The course is offered within the scope of University Extension in low-density popular settlements in our city, aiming at ecological sanitation solutions and sustainable housing, valuing local memory, technologies, and knowledge with a strong multidisciplinary approach.

Sala

IMA2

Professor(es)

Tatiana Terry, Fernando Minto

ARQ1102
Analysis and design of residential architectural space. Study of shape and volume. Dwelling, living. Being, resting, producing, recreating within the scope of the residence. Organization and structuring of space on the housing scale. Study of the relationship between the residential building and the site and surroundings, observing physical, typological characteristics, proportion and scale. Flows, circulation and connections in internal environments and between them and external environments. Continuity of studies carried out in Introduction to the Project (ARQ1101), deepening aspects such as: study of form and volume, analysis of architectural space, organization and structuring of space. The study of spatial relationships and proportions between sectors, environments and the exterior space of a residence. The study of the dimensioning of residential space, sectors and environments, through the critical and concrete use of space and furniture through the analysis of real examples visited, survey and recognition of the living spaces themselves and encouraging each student to search for these notions. The relationships between the architectural object and the site and immediate surroundings, observing typology, proportion, scale and physical characteristics, solar orientation, topography, existence of watercourses, vegetation, neighboring buildings, among others. Notions of design methodology and timeline for evolution. Initial notions of structure.

Sala

IMA1

Professor(es)

Alder Catunda, Antonio Sena, Antonyony Carlos Jordão Heitor, Caio Calafate, Dely Bentes, Fernando Minto, Luciano Alvares, Marco Antônio Matilde de Azevedo, Monica Aguiar, Roberio Catelani, Silvio Dias