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One Community Welcomes Fernando Bitencourt to the Structural Design Team
One Community welcomes Fernando Bitencourt to the Structural Design Team as our newest member of Team Brazil!
4th-year Civil Engineering/Construction Engineering Management Student: Fernando speaks four languages, including Portuguese (native), English (fluent), Spanish (basic) and French (basic) and has good skills in leadership, communication and teamwork. He also has knowledge and experience with calculation softwares like Ftool and AutoCAD. Fernando grew up doing volunteer work in his hometown, first representing his high school and then being part of Interact Club, where he developed his above listed skills. Fernando wishes to gain experience in his field and also in volunteer work, and that’s why he sees One Community as a unique chance to apply those desires. As a member of the One Community Intern Team, Fernando applies his knowledge of Structural Engineering, the most interesting Civil Engineering area in his opinion, and he brings his desire to build a sustainable world.
WELCOME TO THE TEAM FERNANDO!
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One Community Welcomes Adolpho Maia to the Mechanical Engineering Team
One Community welcomes Adolpho Maia to the Mechanical Engineering Team as our newest member of Team Brazil!
5th-year Mechanical Engineering Student: Adolpho is in a Brazilian exchange program called Science Without Borders, where he came to the USA to learn new technologies, gain experience, become fluent speaking English, and explore and learn about a different culture. He is currently living in California and studying mechanical engineering at California State University Long Beach. He has one year of experience working in a school furniture factory as a mechanical engineering intern, a production inspector, and as a machine programmer. Adolpho has finished an entrepreneurship course and is also a member of Theta Chi Fraternity where he learned how to work as a group and how group dynamics work when there are a lot of people working on the same thing. Adolpho is currently fluent in English, has listening and comprehension skills in Spanish, and is a beginner in Italian. He believes that sustainability and wanting to change the world is something that starts within ourselves; first of all with the desire to do something, and then putting time and effort into it – and what could possibly be better than using what our planet gives to us, without destroying it. Adolpho’s focus as a member of the One Community team is on design and structural analysis for the vermiculture toilet designs.
WELCOME TO THE TEAM ADOLPHO!
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One Community Welcomes Joao Bernardes to the Hydraulics Team
One Community welcomes Joao Bernardes to the Hydraulics Team as our newest member of Team Brazil!
4th-year Civil Engineering Student: Joao is a Civil Engineering student at Universidade Federal de Uberlandia (UFU), which is a renowned and accredited Brazilian university. He is currently studying at California State University, Long Beach as part of an exchange program called Science Without Borders on behalf of CAPES and the Brazilian Government. Back in Brazil, Joao worked with management and monitoring of civil engineering works and hydraulic projects at the university. He has knowledge and experience with softwares such as Revit, AutoCAD, and AutoCAD Civil 3D. In addition, Joao participated in Civil Engineering’s Academic Board as Treasurer, where he gained experience with cash management and strengthened his sense of teamwork, as well as planning and organization skills. Joao speaks three languages (Portuguese, English and Spanish) and considers himself to be communicative with a great sense of leadership and teamwork. Ever since he was a child, Joao has had a great desire to make a difference in people’s lives. Now he sees that he can do this by applying his knowledge in sustainable projects that will help people and contribute to world change. With One Community, Joao joins the Hydraulics Team designing for the 7 Sustainable Village Models.
WELCOME TO THE TEAM JOAO!
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One Community Welcomes Renata Maehara to the Design Team
One Community welcomes Renata Maehara to the Design Team as our newest member of Team Brazil!
4th-year Civil Engineering Student and Lead Drafter: Renata currently studies at California State University, Long Beach as an exchange student. She speaks three languages; Portuguese (native), English (advanced) and French (intermediate). During her high school she did a Technical Civil Construction course with habilitation on Management, Architectural Projecting and Rationalization of the construction. This course introduced Renata to the construction area and had her working as an intern draftsman in an architecture office for one year before entering college. This experience improved Renata’s skills in teamwork, planning, organization and AutoCAD, Revit, and 3D Max softwares. It also gave her the opportunity to interact with professionals in the construction field and it amplified her interest and knowledge in this area. This influenced Renata to make Civil Construction Sustainability her priority of studies from the beginning of college. As a volunteer member of the One Community Intern Team, Renata sees the opportunity to learn and gain more professional and personal experience while applying her knowledge helping with the design and development of the Duplicable City Center and the Cob Village.
WELCOME TO THE TEAM RENATA!
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One Community Welcomes Roberto Santos to the Hydraulics Team
One Community welcomes Roberto Santos to the Hydraulics Team as our newest member of Team Brazil!
Roberto is a 3rd-year Civil Engineering Brazilian Exchange Student currently at California State University, Long Beach. His native language is Portuguese, and he also speaks English (advanced) and French (basic). Roberto is very skilled with the software AutoCAD and Revit. Since his childhood he liked to create and develop new things, and this is why he has chosen to be an engineer and take the opportunity to come to study in the US. This experience gave him the chance to be in contact with a new culture and gain a new perspective of the world. Back at his University in Brazil (Federal University of Uberlandia), he was a co-founder of the Civil Engineering Junior Enterprise of his university and also the director of quality. In this position he was responsible for the organization and continuous development of the Junior Enterprise. Being part of this company taught him teamwork skills and to be determined. He also worked with the project and design of the water distribution system of a small city. Now, as a volunteer of One Community, he brings his skills and experience for further development as a member of the Hydraulics Team designing for the 7 Sustainable Village Models.
WELCOME TO THE TEAM ROBERTO!
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One Community Welcomes Victor Oliveira to the Architecture Team
One Community welcomes Victor Oliveira to the Architecture Team as our newest member of Team Brazil!
3rd-year Architecture and Urban Planning Student: Victor is an undergraduate student from Universidade Federal de Viçosa in Brazil, and he always designs with a focus on functionality, aesthetics, and sustainability. Since he was a child, Victor always had an interest in building things and changing spaces. When his older brother was admitted to a course of Architecture and showed Victor the world of architecture, he decided to study Architecture and Urban Planning, too. In college, Victor discovered his passion for 3D modeling and technical drawings. He recognized that making people understand and visualize the project idea is as important as designing it and developed a wide variety of software knowledge including Revit, AutoCAD, 3DsMax, Illustrator, and Photoshop. Victor also enjoys working groups, and in Viçosa he once lived with three other architecture students, which contributed to his development and experience through collaborative exchange and suggestions on the projects everyone was working on. Coming from a big city in Brazil, Victor became interested in sustainability when he saw people wasting natural resources and clearing forests. Victor believes that in order to improve the quality of life man needs nature and must take care of it. He brings this belief and his passion for design and visualization to the design team working on the 7 Sustainable Village Models.
WELCOME TO THE TEAM VICTOR!
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One Community Welcomes Raquel Alves to the Architecture Team
One Community welcomes Raquel Alves to the Architecture Team as our newest member of Team Brazil!
3rd-year Architecture and Urban Planning Student: Raquel is a Brazilian student who has 3 years experience studying Architecture and Urban Planning. She has worked with architects in her city doing freelance work and projects that have intensely developed her skills with 3D modeling softwares like Sketchup, Revit, 3DS Max and AutoCAD. Raquel’s passion is visual representations of projects, seeing this is as important as the concept and the creation part of the project. Working in groups is another skill that Raquel excels at, with almost all of her projects in Brazil being made with a team. She likes to share ideas and learn with others. Studying Urban Design in 2014 at SCAD (Savannah College of Art and Design) has added to her passion for design and she won 2nd Place in a competition, “Urban Cities Competition,” transforming abandoned grain silos into usable, energy efficient, and versatile living spaces. Focusing on sustainability and recycling to create and develop ideas, Raquel is helping develop and create beautiful visualizations of village models 4-7.
WELCOME TO THE TEAM RAQUEL!
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One Community Welcomes Samantha Freitas to the Architecture Team
One Community welcomes Samantha Freitas to the Architecture Team as our newest member of Team Brazil!
3rd-year Architecture and Interior Design Student: Samantha enrolled in a five-year architecture and urban planning program, and is currently participating in a one-year exchange program at Savannah College of Art and Design. Samantha has worked as a volunteer since high school and also has a degree in Linguistics. She is looking to improve her skills not only in architecture but also in interior design because she thinks architecture should be thorough and designed harmoniously with interior design thinking. Samantha advocates that design be accessible to all, creating a more beautiful, healthy, and sustainable world. As a member of the One Community design team working on the 7 Sustainable Village Models, Samantha is excited to put into practice everything she believes about accessible design while learning with designers and collaborators from many areas.
WELCOME TO THE TEAM SAMANTHA!
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One Community Welcomes Flávia Bozeda to the Architecture Team
One Community welcomes Flávia Galimberte Bozeda to the Architecture Team as our newest member of Team Brazil!
5th-year Architecture and Interior Design Student: Flávia believes that architecture is not just to create functional and aesthetically attractive spaces and buildings, but also to give users positive sensations and feelings, which create memories. With a background working with interior design for two years, she discovered her passion for colors, materials and furniture. For Flávia, interior design is an important link for architecture and the user, making architecture more human. Although she has a high knowledge with softwares like AutoCAD, Revit, 3DsMax, SketchUp and Rhino, Flávia prefers to be surrounded by markers, pens and colored pencils. From a big metropolis in Brazil, her interest in sustainable design emerged by noticing how people waste material and she wishes to recreate the relationship between man and the environment. As a member of the One Community design team, Flávia is working on the interior design and layout specifics of village models 2-7.
WELCOME TO THE TEAM FLÁVIA!
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One Community Welcomes Song Dong to the Design Team
One Community welcomes Song Dong to the Design Team as our newest Partner/Consultant!
M.S. in Mechanical Engineering: Song earned his M.S. degree from UCLA and B.S. degree in Marine Engineering from Tianjin University, China. Song is interested in damage and failure of materials in mechanical design, finite element analysis of structure, CAD modeling, as well as mechanism kinematics. He is passionate about making smart and eco-designed products to help people gain a smarter and healthier lifestyle. As a One Community partner, Song Dong helped with elevation drawings of the Earthbag Village clusters and SolidWorks structural calculations.
WELCOME TO THE TEAM SONG!
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