CASA NO.V.A.

CASA NO.V.A.

The N.O.V.A. project seeks alternatives to answer contemporary challenges concerning sustainability, flexibility and adaptation of architecture. The aim was not to forge concepts for a theoretical future: we sought to abandon the paradigm of futuristic ideas that never turn into reality and focused on concrete possibilities of evolution.Society expressed its concerns through a crowdsourcing platform, where people from every horizon shared opinions. Common folk and specialists were consulted and our project team used the results as a base for the project.The plot is in a park in Niteroi, part of Rio’s metropolis. It is inserted in a larger project of rehabilitation and seeks to engage the community by developing proposals for a better life through an experimental project.The placement aimed to preserve the trees

Site plan

Flows and connectionsThe blue line corresponds to a high speed road, there´s no pedestrian circulation.The green line correspond to a local street

Ocupation UseThe neighbourhood has a profile of comercial and residencial uses.

Proposal accessThere are two kinds of access. The red arrow indicates private access leading to the residential part. The access indicated by the green arrow allows public access to the park facilities and cafeteria

Proposed blocks and usagesThe bigger block corresponds to the house/private. And the smaller one represents the cafeteria.

Proposed blocks considering existenting trees

Site Analysis

Context

Rio de Janeiro

Niterói

Living of tomorrow:Active house

Closed cycle

economy

technologies and innovation development

living house:interaction

participative community

services, public space and people

interaction

renewble

resources

social

ecology

Today:Conviavilityunifamiliar houses

Research proposal:Conviavilitymultifamiliar house at a public space

Certified wood laminate

Solar panels

Green roof

Ilumination using sunlight

Rain water used in house and garden

Eaves in the perimether protecting the house from direct sunlight

Cross ventilation

Exauhsted air exit

Air cooling under the raised floor

Open concept and sliding doors allow layout flexibility

Gray water reuse in the garden by waterlands system

Soil permeability by raised floor and garden

Alternative transports - bicycle and eletric car

Reforestation using native species enriching the envoirement

Pedagogic project

Composting used in the community vegetable garden

Community waste recycling

Sustainability diagram

01

W E L I V E T O M O R R O W

W E L I V E T O M O R R O W

and exploits the site’s potential by focusing on passive energy solutions such as cross ventilation, vital for a tropical climate. The accesses are part of vast urban paths as the park, the house and a small café, are porous to the city.The wooden structure is based on 2.40 meters modules that allow employing pre-fabricated elements. Different living pods will be shared by permanent families and tourists via AirBNB, organized around collective spaces. Sustainability is ubiquitous and the house is both in symbiosis with its surroundings and creates an autonomous energy producing ecosystem.The N.O.V.A. project seeks more than establishing new paradigms: its objective is to enhance relations that transform architecture into a subject of research that congregates sustainability, behavior and interaction.

Electric Vehicules Recharger

Kids Area

Lake

Pocket ParkSports

Area

Urban Park

Cultural Stage

Outdoor Gym

Bike Park

Indoor Facilities

Kinetic Floor

Composting

Community waste

CommunityVegetable

Garden

Cafeteria

Intelligent street light

Social Analysis: