Although the office Delima+Arquitetura was officially opened in 2013, our partnership started yet at the Federal University of Paraiba in Brazil, in 2009, through the participation in the national ideas competition for the new headquarters of Acre's Planetarium, also located in Brazil. This partnership proved very fruitful, yielding our first Honorable Mention in competitions and the certainty that a future society would be the natural and productive path for us as architects. With academic training in Architecture and Urbanism we received our Bachelor's degree in 2010. Additionally, we still accumulate and pursue other degrees; Davi de Lima graduated as a Building Technician in 2000 by the Federal Institute of Paraiba, translating this into almost 15 years of experience and practice in the field, and Livia Loureiro is currently a Ph.D student in Architecture at Texas A&M University.

Our first society as licensed architects took place inside the office 7S34W located in the city of Joao Pessoa, in Brazil. Founded in 2010, it had Davi de Lima as one of the founding partners and Livia Loureiro as an associate architect. Between the years of 2010 and 2013 we produced a large variety of projects, transiting in numerous sub-areas and gathering several acknowledgments, highlighting awards and honorable mentions granted by the Brazilian Institute of Architects, IAB/PB, an entity comparable to the AIA in the United States. Yet in 2013, we decided to leave the previous practice and open a new one: Delima+Arquitetura. This decision had the aim of develop and evolve a design philosophy that places the architecture intimately connected to the space in which will be inserted, generating benefits in several areas of its site: urban, economic and social. In the following year, the office had its work acknowledged and praised by renowned Brazilian critics, highlighting Francisco Sales Trajano Filho, who drawn the attention to an architecture that “frankly contrasts from pretensions and rhetoric used by existing works by reconciling international progress and resources through the confrontation of design problematic with unique situations and limited means”, when analyzing our proposal for the Sanctuary Nossa Senhora de Fatima.

Imbued by this philosophy and seeking to deepen our critical thinking in architecture and propose discussions about comprehensive and inherent themes in the field we decided to invest in academia. Currently, Livia Loureiro develops a Ph.D dissertation at Texas A&M University, and lectures as a Instructor for the ARCH 305 studio, answering a request of the Department of Architecture, who acknowledged the value of the practice experience developed in Brazil. At the same time, Davi de Lima acts as a guest consultant in the class and keeps working on projects in Brazil, United States and in international architectural competitions.

2015 – Excellence in Diversity Award, Texas A&M University – Tiny House Project

2014 – Design Publication in the Yearbook of the Brazilian Institute of Architects, IAB/PB.

2014 – Selected Design Office through a national Open Call for the Event “Thursday's Talks” with the project of the Sanctuary N. S. d Fatima

2012 – 1st Place - – Brazilian Institute of Architects, IAB/PBCategory Institutional Building – Project of CECAPRO

2012 - Honorable Mention – Brazilian Institute of Architects, IAB/PB Category Commercial Building – Office - Project of Business BRK

2012 - 2nd Place – Brazilian Institute of Architects, IAB/PB Category Single Family Building - Project of Residence Carapibus

2012 - 3rd Place – Brazilian Institute of Architects, IAB/PB Category Commercial Building – Service -Project of Bananeiras' Hotel

2012 - Lecture at University Center of Joao Pessoa – UNIPE inside the XXIII Forum of Architecture and Urbanism Joao Pessoa, Paraiba, Brazil Theme: Detached House

2011 – Lecture at Federal University of Paraíba – UFPB Joao Pessoa, Paraiba, Brazil Theme: Urban Requalification – The Public Space Revalued

2011 - Lecture at Faculdade de Ciências Sociais Aplicadas – FACISA Joao Pessoa, Paraiba, Brazil Theme: Urban Requalification – The Public Space Revalued

2011 - Lecture at the FJAL – Young Latin American Architects Forum Fortaleza, Ceara, BrazilTheme: 7S34W – Geography and Identity

2009 - Honorable Mention – Brazilian Institute of Architects, IAB/PB Category Public or Institutional Building - Project of Acre's Planetarium

I understand the concept of a project as an analytical process, and the solution of the problem presented through the analysis of both the inherent variables of the project and the existing architectonic solutions for it. Through the survey of conditions and identification of results, I have the best approach to be adopted; a logical exercise. One of the major pillars of my philosophy is to always incorporate local materials and techniques in my works. With this premise I pose myself an instantly challenge: produce a contemporary architecture rooted with the vernacular character of its local place. From this, I touch another key point of my approach: the economic and social empowerment of individuals involved in the work. At this stage, the architecture already generates benefits even before it was built.

When I think about architecture in my office, this reflection never considers it as an isolated object, without connections and stripped from urban relations. My architecture seeks to link closely the object to its space of insertion, respecting the pre-existence in any scenario, whether urban or rural. The building always will be at the city's service, providing spaces of transition between public and private, between the social and isolation, thus establishing a healthy and sustainable partnership.

With these principles, I aim to give a real and significant contribution to the architectural community. In order to achieve such accomplishment, I embraced also the “glocal” concept in my work. The idea behind this notion is simple, but incredibly effective; it means to think architecture in a dynamic way, applying a local and effective approach in order to generate positive results and benefits that can reach a global scale. Accordingly, people, places and lives will be touched and transformed, thus forming the ideal theory attributed to the work of an architect, a healthy cycle: think – execute – transform – acknowledge – think something new.

EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE Federal University of Paraiba – UFPB (2003 –2010)Joao Pessoa, Paraiba, Brazil Five-year professional degree in architecture and urban planning

Federal Institute of Paraiba - CEFET (1996 - 2000)Joao Pessoa, Paraiba, Brazil Four-year professional degree in building technics

ADDITIONAL COURSEWORK – UFPB (07/2013)

Joao Pessoa, Paraiba, Brazil Course: Designing Institutions: Architecture as the top of the Iceberg in Latin America

– UFPB (08/2010)Joao Pessoa, Paraiba, Brazil Course: The Dimension of the Modern and Identity of Latin America Architecture

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCEDelima + Arquitetura (2013 – present)Founding Partner – DirectorInstituto Aprender Mais - IAM (2011– 2013)Joao Pessoa, Paraiba, BrazilTeacher of the Interior Design Course7S34W (2010 – 2013)Founding Partner – DirectorCEPAM (2009–2010)National Institute of Historic and Artistic Heritage - IPHAN (2009–2009)InternJoão Pessoa City Hall - PMJP (2002–2009)Intern

Federal University of Paraiba

Federal University of Paraiba

Practice BackgroundDesign Philosophy

DAVI DE LIMA

Awards, recognition and other highlights

CECAPROJoão Pessoa l PB l BR l 2010

Bananeiras HotelBananeiras l PB l BR l 2011

Carapibus HouseConde l PB l BRAZIL l 2012

BRK João Pessoa l PB l BR l 2012

Tiny HouseAustin l TX l USA l 2015

Concept HouseAreia l PB l BRAZIL l 2013

Sanctuary N. S. FátimaSapé l PB l BRAZIL l 2013

Praia Bela HousePitimbu l PB l BRAZIL l 2016

SOME REPRESENTATIVE PROJECTS

With a very rational program the hotel has 18 apartments and is distributed in two floors. The ground floor was naturally destined to the social spaces, administration, restaurants, pool area and part of the accommodations. The lobby with a high ceiling allows the continuity of the spaces between the floors and accentuates the relation interior versus exterior and built environment versus natural environment. The upper floor houses the other lodging premises, with two apartments having a external area to incorporate a terrace and a hot tub.

The main view of the land is West oriented and the temperatures fluctuate a lot through the year with a defined Winter and Summer. To adapt the building to the thermal variation of the region and ensure the visual of the rural landscape the windows were detailed with a double thermal-acoustic glass and shutters to minimize the transmission of the heat and to control the entrance of natural light. The materials used in the construction have a rustic and natural character such as stone and wood, and preferably from a local company.

Bananeiras HotelBananeiras l PB l BRAZIL l 2011

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The land chosen to insert the hotel is located in the South of the city of Bananeiras, in a peripheral area of rural characteristics and 550 meters of altitude. The elevated place, offers a panoramic view of the city and it is close from representative historic buildings such as the train station and the old hotel of the station which reinforces their exceptional tourism potential.

The position of the building followed the geometric configuration of the land and explored the facades' movement in relation to the diversity of the visuals of the lush and bucolic natural and built landscape. At a first glance the proposal evokes the traditional orthogonal box to house the programmatic content of the design. Also, were created two axes of articulation and rotation to accommodate the building to the land's contour, highlight some visuals and create a social square for access and as a support for the pool.

This study proposes the inclusion of a public building in a site with steep slope, resulting in a linear positioning for the program which was reached with minimal cost of earth movement. The building has a privileged view of the woods at the same time that opens onto the street, making the building inviting, as well as a park space for passers-by. Additionally, this project searches to promote the contiguity relationship with the external environment, so that is also used by the community without interfering with the restricted areas of the equipment.

The project answers to the demands of the architectural program and to the conditions of the site, its surrounding, its geometry and insulation. A positioning that values the place's visuals and define the access of pedestrian and cars by the flow of the main street and distributes the building in a way to take advantage of both natural lighting and the dense vegetation area of the surrounding, and incorporate rainwater harvesting techniques and reuse for wastewater.

CECAPROJoão Pessoa l PB l BRAZIL l 2010

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The adopted concept was to create an arrival open space that would allow the transparency and the easy access of the population, collaborating with the understanding of the public function of the building. A square that extends on the ground floor and provides space for cultural and leisure activities organized by the the municipal government as well as by NGO's.

The general services and the hydraulic and mechanical installations are distributed in three colors, an element that articulates the project, which concentrates the bathrooms, the shafts and the vertical circulation, providing the control of the access in the building's lobby and in the parking garage, besides contributing to the

The basic functions of the program are developed on the ground floor and in the two underground paviments, vital spot of the operation and of the public nature of the entity. The upper floors were reserved for the administrative and restrict sectors and were distributed following a hierarchical reasoning.

These spaces were treated in a way to ensure easy distribution and malleability both by the structural solution adopted as by the use of panels in the closing of the spaces, the design allows facility of changes of layout by the absence of columns in the middle of the pavements and a metallic grid replacing the plaster lining, facilitating the re-arrange of the fixtures.

The group of the underground pavements destined for the support functions and parking lots has a prestressed concrete base supported on the columns with capitals. In the upper levels was adopted a 8,00m by 8,00 modulation in concrete due to the Vierendeel beam, which is supported by three structural cores. The building receives yet protection from masonry visors, to alleviate the sensation of glare from the solar incidence, however, ensures to the offices' floors a thermal and luminic comfort and the maintenance of the exterior view.

The projection of the second florr over the first contributes to the protection of the windows from the climate change, creating a transition area amid interior and exterior, and allowing that the window plan may remain open even in rainy days. The transparency provided by large glass panels is balanced with wooden louvers and larger vegetation on the western facade, more vulnerable to privacy from the street and the sunlight.

Over the covering slab was designed beyond the solar panel system, a constant water blade with the function of thermal isolation and control of the heat. Also, was arranged the capture of the excess rainwater to redirect to a cistern located under the natural ground on the side of the residence, in order to assist in the use of private, cleaning of the building and garden maintenance.

Carapibus HouseConde l PB l BRAZIL l 2012

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This residence was proposed for a lot at the top of the cliff of Carapibus beach in the city of Conde. The building was moved from the border of the lot and was elevated from the ground to preserve the wide view of the ocean. The building is defined from a group formed by six columns that delimitate and house the garage space, a support bedroom, laundry area and the social access stairs that connect all the floors, and supports a large horizontal plan, reserved for the social activities, gastronomy and for the pool. Under this plan was designed a concrete and glass box where was set the private area of the house. The access to this pavement was made through a bridge that crosses the living room, admitting that this flow ensures a general view of the internal spaces and of the external terrace of the house, at the same time that allows a bigger isolation from the rest of the social and service activities.

BRK João Pessoa l PB l BRAZIL l 2012

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The rectangular and narrow shape of the lot generated a floor plan where the largest faces of the building were disposed in a East - West orientation. The challenge of the party was balance the need of transparency, justified by the beautiful views of the beach and of the historic center of the city, and the strong solar incidence in the tower of the building.

In the north, east and south facades were used large thermal-acoustic glass panels to control the heat transmission and the isolation of the noises caused by the intense vehicle traffic in the vicinity. In the west face, the decision was to restrict the windows to narrow vertical frames that would allow capture some landscape clippings from the historic center and the Sanhaua river, where the city started its expansion.

Some floors were interspersed with aluminum louvers to boost the volumetric reading of the building, to be used as a filter and allows, in some floors, a fuller opening to the west.

The city of Joao Pessoa has been following the expressive change of its skyline in the past 30 years. The verticalization of the constructions is the reflection of the demographic growth and population density in the neighborhoods with great supply of urban facilities. On one hand, the offer of multifamily residential buildings has multiplied itself exponentially, but on the other hand, the comercial enterprises still remain predominantly horizontal and the few vertical architectonic proposals presented are volumetric and spatially little expressive and very conservative.

In the current urban context the Epitacio Pessoa Avenue has an important role as the main road axis and one of the largest vectors of urban expansion of the city, housing the main comercial buildings of Joao Pessoa. In this sense, the Business BRK is located at the midpoint of the main comercial avenue of João Pessoa, between the river that bathes the historic city and the coastline where the city expanded.

The building is composed by two boxes: a horizontal with three floors for stores, restaurants, small offices and a bank, and a vertical with 30 floors that houses free floor plans and large spaces. The geographic location of the site and the altitude in comparison to the historic center and the coast drove the short rotations in the vertical box with the aim of alternate distinct view angles once every three or six pavements of the building.

Sanctuary Nossa Senhora de FátimaSapé l PB l BRAZIL l 2013

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With flexible spaces the buildings can be adapted to several uses

and to a wide range of users, enabling different activities to occur

simultaneously, including the roof, which was designed to be fully

operative, such as a contemplative square than as a garden for the

realization of community work. As a result, besides having a better

control of the buildings interior temperature through the use of the

green roof, the floor area can be doubled without any increase of

built area. Also, for the green roof was designed a water collection

system, redirecting them to the cisterns scattered along the

buildings, having all the surplus conducted to the large reflective

pond located at the center between the buildings.

Ultimately, the reflecting pool at the same time that creates a

strategic void free from circulation between the buildings, also has

the task to help the humidity control in the warmer months and

during the drought season, as well as in the cooling of the

predominant Southeast ventilation, which runs through all the

reflecting pool before ventilate the space designated for the chapel,

a space designed to receive a major concentration of people for long

periods.

The site chosen to house the sanctuary is located at the West part of

the city of Sape - Paraiba, a rural and peripheral area. The starting

point for the position of the building was the search for the balance

between the built space and the natural landscape around it. We

would like the user to have the same feeling from the external natural

environment, within the lot limits. For that, the needs program was

divided in three buildings with specific uses while maintaining

generous setbacks from each other, so that when walking between

them the user could always have a visual connection with the

mountain and the outside environment.

Since it is a work to be built with money from donations, the design

was thought in a way that all the buildings could be built in stages in a

simple and fast manner, using local materials and technology,

making possible the engagement of the community in the

construction process. The buildings are divided into three basic

elements: a horizontal and flat floor, a horizontal and flat slab with

supporting columns and vertical closings, through a metallic hollow

“brise-soleil”, an element that controls the access of natural

insulation and ventilation.

Concept HouseAreia l PB l BRAZIL l 2013

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The ground floor houses the garage, services and and area for

social activities and gastronomy, which connect with all the other

floors through the stairs. The transparent glass panel is responsible

for defining the relation between integration and isolation among

the internal and external areas of the house. The open kitchen and

the large living room extends to back the gourmet terrace and the

balcony that juts a swing towards the cliff. In addition, the next floor

was reserved for the intimate area. Its access through the living

room stairs, at the same time that enables an overview of the

interior and exterior space allows a greater isolation from the rest

of the house and the creation of a “quiet island.”.

In conclusion, the projection of the second floor over the first

contributed to the creation of the terraces and to the protection of

the windows from insulation and from the weather. The water blade

over the roof slab has the function of thermal isolation and reservoir

for rainwater harvesting.

This residence was proposed for a land at the top of a mountain in the

city of Areia – Paraiba. The building was removed from the land's

border and elevated from the ground to preserve the broad view from

the lake. This way rose above the slab that elevates the house from

the ground, a concrete and glass box, supported by four columns

that receive a set of powerful beams that uphold the living room floor

and allow the creation of an apparent slab on the bedroom and the

external terrace.

The party leaves clear the intention of emphasizing the tectonic

aspect of the work and explores its structural characteristics as the

defining elements of architecture.

Tiny HouseAustin l TX l USA l 2015

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During the process of design, many were the learned lessons, as well as the setbacks. Being Latin American Architect's by formation, we had to deal with new constructions systems that we were not used to work with, as well as the challenge of portraying our architectural truth without compromising the main objective: to design an affordable proposal for the Community First! and to help the homeless. Several investigations were performed, maturing the original idea and aggregating new perspectives and expertise from the current literature and some inspirational projects. This action resulted in the review of the preliminary plans, grouping valuable contributions for the final project.

The power of architecture is immeasurable. In this case, the Tiny House calls attention not only for the homelessness matter but also for the fact that this condition has no face, color, gender or age. Anyone is subject to homelessness in our current society, where economic conditions change rapidly. For those in this situation, being able to have even a “tiny” house means that they are able to restore their lives, to be reinserted into society and most important, to be seen again for what they really are: citizens.

The Tiny House Project is an investigation that derived from two Independent Doctoral Studies realized at Texas A&M University. The first realized in the Fall 2014, and the second during the Spring 2015. This study began after the visit of Alan Graham, chief executive officer of the Mobile Loaves and Fishes, an organization that sponsors the Community First! Village, a master-planned community located in Austin, Texas. During his speech, Alan opened our eyes to see the issue of homelessness not only as a contemporary matter, but also, as an amazing opportunity to contribute with architecture. Thinking “glocal” is a trend that embraces two concepts: “global” and “local”. In this project, the aim was to present a local proposal that could inspire a global response to homelessness, starting with Austin.

The design is the result not only of the literature review developed in the Fall '14, but also of the most suitable materials for construction. Form, function and sustainable reasoning played a fundamental role as premises of the result presented in this document. With the proposal of making the tiny house portable for the Community use, the project was designed to fit in a trailer wagon. Additionally, no bathroom or kitchen area was designed, since the Community wanted the users to enjoy the shared environment of a community kitchen and begin their re-socialization process. In this sense, the design was focused in making the Tiny House an extension of the collective area, providing an external deck that connects with the house, opening a possibility for the creation of a neighborhood environment, reinforcing the sense of place.

Loft 1701Conde l PB l BRAZIL l 2014

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Also, were designed systems of solar and water harvesting in the slab covering the building. The uptake of water is done through drains and distributed by pipes to the cistern located under the terrace wooden deck. This allows the reuse of the same in clean-up activities, gardening and pool use.

All the building was designed to be a smart and sustainable architecture. The rooms were thought to maximize the use of the predominantly natural lighting and ventilation, at the same time that have places like the stairs, bathrooms and closet facing the area of major insulation.

This loft was proposed for a lot located between the native forest and the main access road to the municipality of Conde. Located in a heavy car traffic avenue, the loft had its fenestration entirely focused on the batch funds and into the woods beyond the green area of integration and open garages between the building and the street.

The ground floor was intended for service areas, social activities and gastronomy, where they connect to the pool via the terrace formed by a long wooden deck.

The use of mobile transparent glass panels defined the relationship of integrating internal and external areas to the lot of background. The open kitchen and a large extended living room support the gourmet terrace and the pool area towards the native forest.

The next floor was intended for the suite and a private terrace of controlled access. This pavement while closes the street, provides an overview of the external spaces to the bottom of the lot and the native forest, allowing greater privacy from the street and the rest of the building.

The building was designed to have all the structure and external walls executed in concrete, a material of large use and local knowledge, with the other closing mixing mobile wood panels or mobile steel and glass panels.

The decision of wotk with the natural look of the concrete follows the concept of leave visible all the infrastructure of the building, generating easy access and low-cost maintenance.

The house follows sustainable paramaters for design and

construction. It was applied in the development of the design

flexible materials and a simple and modular structural system which

allows this construction to be set pretty much everywhere, using

local or industrialized technology. This flexibility also extends to the

planning of internal partitions and own household size, enabling

initially secluded and well-defined spaces undergoing expansiont

or even connecting with the outer landscape, teasing and

emphasizing a symbiosis between nature and space made by man.

The roof follows the same concept. Waterproof and covered by a

green lining, covering requires a very low cost of construction and

maintenance.

The facades consist of enormous sections of glass panels offering view and light to all rooms of the residence, reducing effectively the consumption of electrical energy stemmed from artificial lighting and creating a window to landscape.

Starting from these conditions and from the local legislation, were initiated positioning studies of the build in the lot, searching to fulfill the needs program in face of the better use of the land, of the natural cross ventilation and protection of insulation, without losing the light as well as the search of the minimal ocupation of the lot, aiming to preserve its bigger portion for the maintenance of a large green area.

Insulation Ventilation Visuals Position

East Sun West Sun Main Ventilation Cross Ventilation Visuals

Original Lot Cut Lot Landed Lot Green Lining Pond | Pool

The topography was used and split into two large levels. Over this two defined plans, the needs program was set, distributed in three built levels. The inferior level, with southeast view, was partially buried

and houses an independent and complete residence. This level is composed of living and dining rooms integrated with the kitchen, balcony over an artificial pond, social bathroom, and a laundry area,

besides two bedrooms and a master suite.

The intermediate floor, at the street level, was intended in its bigger portion for the maintenance of the green area, arrival access, garage and terrace, besides the social areas, kitchen and a complete laundry

and maintenance support for the residence.

The upper level is occupied by two suites, both with balconies of permanence at southeast and an elevated garden at northwest, to help controlling the insulation and to establish a direct relation with the

existing green area.

The roof was also used in its fullness. Composed by a large plan to capture rainwater and to protect the windows during the times of major insulation has the job of a great gazebo, formed by a terrace and a

pool type streak, positioned in the way of receiving sunlight throughout the entire day, plus a garden dedicated to leisure.

Praia Bela HousePitimbu l PB l BRAZIL l 2016