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Blog post 5 - My Future Job

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 Hello everyone! Welcome back to my blog. In this fifth post I would like to talk about my future job as an architect. When I picture myself in my future job, I imagine being in a nice working environment, meeting kind co-workers as well as being personally true to myself and what I love. As an architect, I would like to be part of sustainable and environmentally well-managed projects in which I could be able to design and plan buildings that could both contribute and transform the existing damage to our natural resources. Along with that, materials that are massively useful in order to find confortable and well-qualified living spaces. In that sense, I would prefer working outdoors since it would allow me to be more connected to the building itself, not only through the design but also in the creation process of bringing a building to life and serve its purpose. [ A project in Auckland that I would love to see in person! -  Under Pohutukawa / Herbst Architects ] Furthermore, ...

Blog 4 - The best kind of music!

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 Hello everyone! Welcome back to my blog!   In this post, I would like to share with you about my fascination about music and what it means to me daily. To begin with, I have to say that music is everything to me, it represents the fuel for my entire mood and motivation to deal with all kinds of activities that I do in my daily routine. It can make me feel fully motivated, chilled, happy, focus, sad, nostalgic, which are just a few of the emotions that the music can generate on me. Regarding this topic, I have to talk about BSO music, which basically means  original soundtrack . It refers to the musical compositions made for audiovisual projects, such as videogames, series, animes, movies and so on and so forth, fulfilling a fundamental role in the setting and message that the work tries to convey to the audience. [Darth Vader, Storm Troopers Crash Stage as L.A. Philharmonic Honors John Williams] My experience with the BSO music begins with videogames. I have played p...

The PassivHaus

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 Hello everyone! A pleasure to share with you some ideas again! In today's post I would like to write about a concept that it's related to architecture and represents a whole new perspective for me: The PassivHaus. First of all, the PassivHaus is a concept explored in the 80's, specifically in Germany, where the Ministry of environment promoted an investigation to find strategies to optimize the home's performances in terms of energy efficiency. In its evaluating role, the PassivHaus involves  different parameters in order to achieve between 70% and 80% of less energy intakes, reducing the use of active heating systems such as wood heaters , many of which depend on energy with high percentages of carbon emissions. Source: Novo Design - PassivHaus In addition to that, the PassiveHaus allows the creation of strategies in the houses' architectural design in order to achieve an adequate thermal comfort for a good quality of life. The benefits of encouraging this approac...