Ana Luisa Rolim
Ana Luisa Rolim is an architect and educator, with experiences encompassing architectural design practice in the U.S. and Brazil, as well as, design studio teaching at undergraduate and graduate levels.
Ana has a Ph.D. degree in architecture from the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), Brazil, and a Postgraduate Coursework in Green Building Design from The Cooper Union School, in New York City. Her interest in human responses to spaces culminated in the PhD thesis entitled "The Progressive Gallery Paradox: Spatial configuration and focus in the light of architectural morphology and neuroscience", which explores the connection between neuroscience and architectural morphology regarding how museum visitors engage with space in real and virtual environments.
Ana has received several awards in design competitions, both as a designer and an educator: Toronto Affordable Housing (2021); Cultural Heritage Challenge (Built project), Brazil (2019); Best Graduation Thesis of Brazil and Portugal (2019); International Modern Collective Living Challenge (2017), and Faith & Form International Awards Program for Religious Art & Architecture (2016).
Her recent published work has focused on architectural morphology, the interface between architecture and neuroscience , generative and digital design, as support towards the critical understanding of design methodologies, museum spaces, modern architecture and social housing.
Supervisors: Luiz Manuel do Eirado Amorim and Advisor, PhD thesis
Ana has a Ph.D. degree in architecture from the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), Brazil, and a Postgraduate Coursework in Green Building Design from The Cooper Union School, in New York City. Her interest in human responses to spaces culminated in the PhD thesis entitled "The Progressive Gallery Paradox: Spatial configuration and focus in the light of architectural morphology and neuroscience", which explores the connection between neuroscience and architectural morphology regarding how museum visitors engage with space in real and virtual environments.
Ana has received several awards in design competitions, both as a designer and an educator: Toronto Affordable Housing (2021); Cultural Heritage Challenge (Built project), Brazil (2019); Best Graduation Thesis of Brazil and Portugal (2019); International Modern Collective Living Challenge (2017), and Faith & Form International Awards Program for Religious Art & Architecture (2016).
Her recent published work has focused on architectural morphology, the interface between architecture and neuroscience , generative and digital design, as support towards the critical understanding of design methodologies, museum spaces, modern architecture and social housing.
Supervisors: Luiz Manuel do Eirado Amorim and Advisor, PhD thesis
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Brazilian architecture, widely known for its bold modernism, holds a particular place in Latin American architectural legacy. Despite its diversity, it is possible to recognize a strong cultural expression in a set of representative works, and among them, the work created by the Italian emigrant Lina Bo Bardi (1914-1992) became an unquestionable reference.
This paper focuses on Bo Bardi’s adaptive reuse projects in Brazil. It is particularly concerned with the ways in which her work marked a new approach to heritage and sustainable design within Brazilian architecture, particularly in two cases in Salvador and São Paulo, through which she sought to question the role played by local character and regional identity in architecture.
The theory of architectural structuralism is applied to the problem of domestic space in the current pandemic era. A brief history of pandemics in the 20th century and the relationship between them and domestic space is presented. In such contexts, isolation was a fundamental mechanism of virus prevention and containment in domestic environments, while many desirable sanitary protocols were not considered in the design of housing solutions. As an alternative approach and to better adapt to problems caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, we revisit the Dutch architectural structuralism movement. Combining its approach - aimed at valuing the collective space via individual standards - with housing sanitary strategies in combating pandemics, the focus is on the production of domestic spaces in the 21st century, proposing a set of guidelines to mitigate the effects of the COVID-19 at the domestic scale.
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Focando no comportamento espacial de visitantes, investiga-se uma tipologia de espaço expositivo com arranjo sequencial de ambientes, denominada “galeria progressiva” (GP). Resultado de uma tese de doutoramento, propõe-se a interface entre neurociência e sintaxe espacial. Avalia-se o impacto de GPs na função atencional pela aferição da resposta de foco em visitantes em galerias virtuais. As hipóteses iniciais sobre GPs foram: campos visuais são altamente inteligíveis; leiautes deterministas levam à visitação com maior foco e o espaço impacta decisivamente na visita, sobretudo quando rotas são limitadas. São analisados leiautes hipotéticos simples, exemplares históricos e duas GPs modernas, o Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum e o Museu do Crescimento Ilimitado. Posteriormente, procede a análise de variações complexas e, finalmente, a avaliação de percursos de visitantes e captura de foco durante navegação virtual em galerias, cerne deste artigo. O “Grau de Progressividade” e o “Índice de Variação de Picos de Foco” são introduzidos, levando à relação de proximidade entre geometria espacial e respostas neurais, que pode fornecer valiosos dados para projetos curatoriais e arquitetônicos. Resultados revelaram que a coexistência de inteligibilidade, boa intervisibilidade e geometria definidora de rotas, diferente da hipótese, não levou a respostas com maior foco, apontando para o paradoxo em questão.
in such layouts, the focus of this paper. The “Degree of Progression” and the “Index of Variation of Peaks of Focus” are introduced. The first relates to spatial progression through associations with syntactic measures and the second quantifies the variation of focus during visitation. After comparing real visitors’ paths and responses of focus with results from syntactic analyses, a close relationship between spatial geometry and neural responses was observed, which may provide valuable data for
curatorial and architectural projects. Findings showed that the coexistence of intelligibility, good intervisibility of fields and a route-defining geometry, contrary to hypothesis, did not necessarily lead to highly focused visitation experiences, revealing the PG paradox.
social experience. After performing syntactic analysis through maps, graphs, and agent simulation, site observation and tracking of visitors, we concluded that the gallery layout seemed to favor the social character of the space more than the post-renovation layout that officially converted the gallery into a museum did.
Neste trabalho analisa-se em que medida a reforma da década de 1990 teria afetado o comportamento social dos visitantes na Galeria Metropolitana de Arte Aloisio Magalhães, então convertida em Museu de Arte Moderna Aloisio Magalhães (MAMAM), instituição cultural localizada na cidade do Recife, Região Nordeste do Brasil. A fundamentação adotada está na teoria da lógica social do espaço, campo que tem corroborado na compreensão do funcionamento social e significado cultural de espaços de museu a partir de duas premissas: museus informam conhecimento e narrativa e geram uma experiência espacial e social. Após análises sintáticas através de mapas, grafos e simulação com agentes autômatos, além de observações in loco e rastreamento de visitantes, observou-se que o leiaute antigo da galeria parecia favorecer mais o caráter social do espaço do que aquele posterior à reforma, que converteu o edifício oficialmente em museu.
spatial configuration might influence the visitor’s experience from the point of view of their movement and visibility in space. As a contribution, in a broad spectrum, we hope to cast light on the understanding of design solutions employed in modern architecture and, specifically, the spatial attributes related to the museum’s spiralling layout.
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Brazilian architecture, widely known for its bold modernism, holds a particular place in Latin American architectural legacy. Despite its diversity, it is possible to recognize a strong cultural expression in a set of representative works, and among them, the work created by the Italian emigrant Lina Bo Bardi (1914-1992) became an unquestionable reference.
This paper focuses on Bo Bardi’s adaptive reuse projects in Brazil. It is particularly concerned with the ways in which her work marked a new approach to heritage and sustainable design within Brazilian architecture, particularly in two cases in Salvador and São Paulo, through which she sought to question the role played by local character and regional identity in architecture.
The theory of architectural structuralism is applied to the problem of domestic space in the current pandemic era. A brief history of pandemics in the 20th century and the relationship between them and domestic space is presented. In such contexts, isolation was a fundamental mechanism of virus prevention and containment in domestic environments, while many desirable sanitary protocols were not considered in the design of housing solutions. As an alternative approach and to better adapt to problems caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, we revisit the Dutch architectural structuralism movement. Combining its approach - aimed at valuing the collective space via individual standards - with housing sanitary strategies in combating pandemics, the focus is on the production of domestic spaces in the 21st century, proposing a set of guidelines to mitigate the effects of the COVID-19 at the domestic scale.
Focando no comportamento espacial de visitantes, investiga-se uma tipologia de espaço expositivo com arranjo sequencial de ambientes, denominada “galeria progressiva” (GP). Resultado de uma tese de doutoramento, propõe-se a interface entre neurociência e sintaxe espacial. Avalia-se o impacto de GPs na função atencional pela aferição da resposta de foco em visitantes em galerias virtuais. As hipóteses iniciais sobre GPs foram: campos visuais são altamente inteligíveis; leiautes deterministas levam à visitação com maior foco e o espaço impacta decisivamente na visita, sobretudo quando rotas são limitadas. São analisados leiautes hipotéticos simples, exemplares históricos e duas GPs modernas, o Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum e o Museu do Crescimento Ilimitado. Posteriormente, procede a análise de variações complexas e, finalmente, a avaliação de percursos de visitantes e captura de foco durante navegação virtual em galerias, cerne deste artigo. O “Grau de Progressividade” e o “Índice de Variação de Picos de Foco” são introduzidos, levando à relação de proximidade entre geometria espacial e respostas neurais, que pode fornecer valiosos dados para projetos curatoriais e arquitetônicos. Resultados revelaram que a coexistência de inteligibilidade, boa intervisibilidade e geometria definidora de rotas, diferente da hipótese, não levou a respostas com maior foco, apontando para o paradoxo em questão.
in such layouts, the focus of this paper. The “Degree of Progression” and the “Index of Variation of Peaks of Focus” are introduced. The first relates to spatial progression through associations with syntactic measures and the second quantifies the variation of focus during visitation. After comparing real visitors’ paths and responses of focus with results from syntactic analyses, a close relationship between spatial geometry and neural responses was observed, which may provide valuable data for
curatorial and architectural projects. Findings showed that the coexistence of intelligibility, good intervisibility of fields and a route-defining geometry, contrary to hypothesis, did not necessarily lead to highly focused visitation experiences, revealing the PG paradox.
social experience. After performing syntactic analysis through maps, graphs, and agent simulation, site observation and tracking of visitors, we concluded that the gallery layout seemed to favor the social character of the space more than the post-renovation layout that officially converted the gallery into a museum did.
Neste trabalho analisa-se em que medida a reforma da década de 1990 teria afetado o comportamento social dos visitantes na Galeria Metropolitana de Arte Aloisio Magalhães, então convertida em Museu de Arte Moderna Aloisio Magalhães (MAMAM), instituição cultural localizada na cidade do Recife, Região Nordeste do Brasil. A fundamentação adotada está na teoria da lógica social do espaço, campo que tem corroborado na compreensão do funcionamento social e significado cultural de espaços de museu a partir de duas premissas: museus informam conhecimento e narrativa e geram uma experiência espacial e social. Após análises sintáticas através de mapas, grafos e simulação com agentes autômatos, além de observações in loco e rastreamento de visitantes, observou-se que o leiaute antigo da galeria parecia favorecer mais o caráter social do espaço do que aquele posterior à reforma, que converteu o edifício oficialmente em museu.
spatial configuration might influence the visitor’s experience from the point of view of their movement and visibility in space. As a contribution, in a broad spectrum, we hope to cast light on the understanding of design solutions employed in modern architecture and, specifically, the spatial attributes related to the museum’s spiralling layout.