Design — Isabella Trindade

Isabella Trindade

SELECTED PROJECTS

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Wonder Island. Independent Project Grants Design Competition, the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) and The Architectural League of New York. May 2024.

Wonder Island’s design integrates and enlarges the scale of photographer Alice Austen’s seminal tool, the folding camera, which stemmed from the aspiration to bring cameras outdoors.

The design and assembly of WI are straightforward. Constructed from tubular aluminum scaffolding, its retractable setup, lightweight profile, and compact dimensions of 5’ x 5’ x 10” make it easily transportable by a small vehicle, allowing installation by one person.

Authors: Ana Luisa Rolim and Isabella Trindade; Collaborators: Beatriz Bueno and Ben Stisser.

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Warming Huts, Design Competition, October 2023

Firefly embodies the transience of seasonal change, bringing summer’s light to contrast the winter landscape: interior vs. exterior, colorful structure vs. bleached landscape, warmth vs. frigidity. Firefly triggers visual and tactile experience materialized in a whimsical skin of summery pool noodles, easily manipulated by the visitor. LEDs placed within noodles create the illusion of containing fireflies.

The construction consists of a wooden 2”x 4” frame and perforated plywood inserts in-filled with reusable polyethylene foam noodles, a non-absorbent, bendable lightweight material, functioning as "insulated" walls that keep some warmth inside the hut.

Project authors: Isabella Trindade, Ana Luisa Rolim, Bruno Tinoco, and Gretchen Pfeil

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laneWAY OF LIVING: Green villages in the heart of Toronto's urban fabric.

3rd PRIZE WINNERS of the international competition TORONTO AFFORDABLE HOUSING CHALLENGE, an initiative by Bee Breeders that addresses housing crises in different parts of the globe.

Project authors: Ana Luisa Rolim, Isabella Trindade, Beatriz Bueno, and Larissa Falavigna.

Press:

ArchDaily (https://www.archdaily.com.br/br/966475/equipe-de-arquitetas-brasileiras-e-premiada-em-concurso-de-habitacao-em-toronto-canada)
Archello (https://archello.com/project/laneway-of-living)
Illustrarch (https://illustrarch.com/professional-projects/6834-laneway-of-living-green-villages-in-the-heart-of-torontos-urban-fabric.html)
Bee Breeders (https://architecturecompetitions.com/torontochallenge/)
Projeto (https://revistaprojeto.com.br/noticias/equipe-brasileira-se-destaca-no-toronto-affordable-housing-challenge/)

Piscina Mirabilis. Bacoli, Italy

Piscina Mirabilis. Bacoli, Italy

Rooftop. Competition entry, 2020. Authors: Isabella Trindade, Ana Luisa Rolim, Vera Freire and Eduardo Correia.

Piscina Mirabilis. Bacoli, Italy

Piscina Mirabilis. Bacoli, Italy

The series of voids resulting from the poche of the cruciform pillars supporting the vaulted structure of the cistern becomes a design force: a new floating path immersed into a reflective pool. Entry competition, 2020. Authors: Isabella Trindade, Ana Rolim, Vera Freire, and Eduardo Correia.

Piscina Mirabilis. Bacoli, Italy

Piscina Mirabilis. Bacoli, Italy

The historic aqueduct becomes a path through art. Competition entry, 2020. Authors: Isabella Trindade, Ana Luisa Rolim, Vera Freire, and Eduardo Correia.

Piscina Mirabilis. Bacoli, Italy

Piscina Mirabilis. Bacoli, Italy

The former roman ruin cistern being transformed into a museum. Competition entry, 2020. Authors: Isabella Trindade, Ana Luisa Rolim, Vera Freire and Eduardo Correia

Piscina Mirabilis. Bacoli, Italy

Piscina Mirabilis. Bacoli, Italy

The former roman ruin cistern being transformed into a museum. Competition entry, 2020. Authors: Isabella Trindade, Ana Luisa Rolim, Vera Freire and Eduardo Correia

Piscina Mirabilis. Bacoli, Italy

Piscina Mirabilis. Bacoli, Italy

Natural light penetrates through skylights towards exhibitions’ lower level. Competition entry, 2020. Authors: Isabella Trindade, Ana Luisa Rolim, Vera Freire, and Eduardo Correia.

Piscina Mirabilis. Bacoli, Italy

Piscina Mirabilis. Bacoli, Italy

Section. Authors: Isabella Trindade, Ana Luisa Rolim, Vera Freire and Eduardo Correia

Sheer-ful Living. A Reference to Cheerful.

Sheer-ful Living. A Reference to Cheerful.

Sheer 26 is an urban block for a post-pandemic era, displaying 26 double-occupancy cylindrical units in four levels, with a community-driven ground floor and a rooftop vegetable garden to encourage sustainability of its homeless dwellers. Competition entry 2020, Finalist. Team: Isabella Trindade, Ana Luisa Rolim, and Andrea Câmara

Sheer-ful Living.

Sheer-ful Living.

Sheer-U is a compact home that can be partially, fully or completely enclosed through manipulation of its translucent folding skin, a sheltering sheer up in the sky that can be dematerialized or even disappear, reminding dwellers they control how they want to live. Competition entry 2020, finalist. Team: Isabella Trindade, Ana Luisa Rolim, and Andrea Câmara

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Public School in Brasília, Brazil

Public School in Brasília, Brazil

Located in the outskirts of the city, we understand the building as a park, a spatial experience where interiors and exterior blend in harmonically, generating an active landscape that enhances social interaction.

Honorable Mention, competition entry. Design team: Ana Luisa Rolim, Isabella Trindade, Robson Canuto, and Rodrigo Malvim.

Public School in Brasília, Brazil.

Public School in Brasília, Brazil.

Located in the outskirts of the city, we understand the building as a park, a spatial experience where interiors and exterior blend in harmonically, generating an active landscape that enhances social interaction.

Honorable Mention, competition entry. Design team: Ana Luisa Rolim, Isabella Trindade, Robson Canuto, and Rodrigo Malvim.

Public School in Brasília, Brazil.

Public School in Brasília, Brazil.

Located in the outskirts of the city, we understand the building as a park, a spatial experience where interiors and exterior blend in harmonically, generating an active landscape that enhances social interaction.

Honorable Mention, competition entry. Design team: Ana Luisa Rolim, Isabella Trindade, Robson Canuto, and Rodrigo Malvim.

Private Choice Public Spaces, Jackson, Mississippi, US

Private Choice Public Spaces, Jackson, Mississippi, US

Competition entry. Design Team: Ana Rolim, Erica Costa and Isabella Trindade

Private Choice Public Spaces, Jackson, Mississippi, US

Private Choice Public Spaces, Jackson, Mississippi, US

This is our response to a competition that addresses the Public-Private Interface of the last remaining abortion clinic in Mississippi. The goal is to construct an installation at the existing fence of the Jackson’s Women’s Health Organization, JWHO, providing safe and respectful access to the clinic. Competition entry. Design Team: Ana Rolim, Erica Costa and Isabella Trindade

Anjo Solto Restaurant, Brazil

Anjo Solto Restaurant, Brazil

Design Team: Ana Luisa Rolim, Erica Costa, and Isabella Trindade

Award: 1st place in the yearly competition promoted by Novo Núcleo de Profissionais, Arquitetos e Designers de Pernambuco under the category best commercial interior.

Anjo Solto Restaurant, Brazil

Anjo Solto Restaurant, Brazil

Design Team: Ana Luisa Rolim, Erica Costa, and Isabella Trindade

Award: 1st place in the yearly competition promoted by Novo Núcleo de Profissionais, Arquitetos e Designers de Pernambuco under the category best commercial interior.

Anjo Solto Restaurant, Brazil

Anjo Solto Restaurant, Brazil

Design Team: Ana Luisa Rolim, Erica Costa, and Isabella Trindade

Award: 1st place in the yearly competition promoted by Novo Núcleo de Profissionais, Arquitetos e Designers de Pernambuco under the category best commercial interior.

Loft by the River, Brazil

Loft by the River, Brazil

Indirect and smooth lighting.

Design team: Ana Luisa Rolim e Isabella Trindade

Loft by the River, Brazil

Loft by the River, Brazil

We combined earthy, organic materials with key polished elements. Italian marble flooring contrasts with exposed waffle slab. The lighting is mostly indirect and smooth.

Design team: Ana Luisa Rolim e Isabella Trindade

Pernambuco Judicial School, Brazil

Pernambuco Judicial School, Brazil

Competition entry. Design team: A&R Andrade + Raposo Arquitetos & Isabella Trindade

Pernambuco Judicial School, Brazil

Pernambuco Judicial School, Brazil

Competition entry. Design team: A&R Andrade + Raposo Arquitetos & Isabella Trindade