Yorik's Site
Welcome,
This site is my personal homepage. You'll find here my own architecture projects, drawings I made for other architects, and an ever growing open source section containing tutorials and other projects I participate. For the most adventurous reader, there is also a personnal section containing, well, all kind of stuff...
So feel free to browse around, have fun, and if you liked (or not), or if you have any question I might be able to respond, don't hesitate to leave me a message on the guestblog.
This site is my personal homepage. You'll find here my own architecture projects, drawings I made for other architects, and an ever growing open source section containing tutorials and other projects I participate. For the most adventurous reader, there is also a personnal section containing, well, all kind of stuff...
So feel free to browse around, have fun, and if you liked (or not), or if you have any question I might be able to respond, don't hesitate to leave me a message on the guestblog.
updated on 30.07.2007
Professional services 
Since Maíra and me are now working as freelance architects, this page describes the professional services that we are offering to architects, engineers, constructors and other planners around the globe.
added on 01.01.2009
The Guestblog
This is my blog and also where things happen on this site! It is open for anyone to read and write, so be sure to leave me some comments there!
Architecture projects
This section presents architecture projects completely made and conceived by
myself or in collaboration with friends. Feel free to download and reuse the available files.
added on 13.09.2009
Open Fort 400
A project entry for the OpenFort 400 competition in Amsterdam. The proposal investigates density, stacking, and infectious spots as ferment for innovative urban design. More images here.
added on 15.02.2009
Delft Faculteit Bouwkunde
A quite theorical competition project for the new Faculteit Bouwkunde building of the Delft University, that was, although the result is far from usual, a tremendous reflexion experience. Made with Maíra & Sander.
added on 23.05.2008
Bodø City Harbour Competition
This is a competition for the transformation of the old harbour of Bodø, Norway, into a living city waterfront. The project was made with Angelica, Maíra & Sander.
added on 01.03.2008
Kallari Chocolate Factory
This is a competition project I made for a chocolate factory run by a community in Ecuador. Drawings are on the OAN page. The project is a big roof under which activities occur in a non-hierarchic mode.
added on 11.06.2007
Pé de Arte, Cultura e Educação
This is a project for a new facilities center for the NGO Pé de Arte, Cultura e Educação in Brazil. It is hosted on OAN since it is an open participation project. Come have a look and help us...
added on 20.04.2007
San Isidro lofts building
A competition project for a residencial building in Lima. Mainly a reflexion over diffraction, opening, circulation space as a social system and a quest for some new life quality. Made with Maíra and Janis.
added on 08.02.2007
Stockholm Library
A not so recent project made with Maíra and Janis, it is the official celebration of our come-back in the world of architecture competitions...
added on 31.01.2007
Pennington Road footbridge
A competition project for a footbridge in Liverpool, made with Maíra and Janis. A tentative to intersect the dark industrial past and a kind of nostalgic feeling, along with a strong over-tensionated movement...
added on 30.12.2006
Vila Mariana Roof
A small project for a roof cover in a factory in São Paulo, made with Amá arquitetos. It is very simple and zen. Unfortunately the project got canceled, so the real thing didn't happen...
added on 01.11.2005
Malama Learning Center
Another competition project made with Maíra and Thomas in 2003 for a community centre in Kapolei, Hawaii. This one focused around integration between human being and environment.
added on 23.04.2005
Moscow City Hall
A competition project for the new city hall of Moscow, Russia, made in 2002 with Thomas. The project constructs itself on a grid that grows in all directions, spreading out of its bath.
added on 23.04.2005
Aomori Northern Style Housing Complex
A competition project for a housing complex in Aomori, Japan. Made in 2001 with Maíra. It deals with difference of scales in surrounding urban environment and heavy population density in compact area. It also suggests different daylife routine and social interaction.
Works and drawings
Here you'll find architecture and other types of graphical work,
architecture documents, drawings, renderings, websites, logos, animations
made for other architects or planners or, before 2006, while working in
architecture studios.
added on 03.04.2007
Works of 2007
This page shows works made in 2007, with some sketches, perspectives and 2d drawings of architecture projects... As always now, all 3D is made with Blender.
added on 01.01.2003
Works of 2003
Works made in 2003 while working at Nasser Hissa Arquitetos in Fortaleza.
added on 01.01.2002
Works of 2002 and before
Works made in 2002, several made at GAD'Design in Porto Alegre, and some other stuff from before, like travel drawings, etc...
added on 19.02.2006
Animations
These are almost all pieces of architecture animations I already made. The latest ones can also be viewed with better quality on my Vimeo page.
Open-source corner
Here are samples of my activities in the open-source world. There
are tutorials, code, scripts, themes, models and other things.
Everything here is
, so feel free to download, copy and reuse at you own will...
added on 05.04.2006
Blender stuff
This page contains scripts and themes I made for Blender, all freely available to download and use as you wish.
added on 17.04.2007
FreeCAD stuff
This page contains custom linux builds and stuff I'm developing for FreeCAD. You are welcome (read: begged) to install FreeCAD, test it and give us some feedback...
added on 19.01.2008
Linux stuff
This page contains themes, scripts and config files I made mostly for my own system. Feel free to copy or use...
added on 17.11.2009
Wordpress plugins
This page contains plugins for wordpress. They are also available via the wordpress plugin repository.
added on 07.03.2009
Architecture workflow on Linux
A short article explaining what kind of architecture workflow you can do on Linux.
added on 01.06.2006
Urban design with Blender
A tutorial showing two examples of how Blender can be used in designing very large urban environments.
added on 21.07.2006
Introduction to architecture modeling with Blender
A tutorial explaining the basics of architecture modeling with Blender
added on 15.04.2008
Modeling architecture with precision in Blender
A tutorial about modeling architecture precisely in Blender.
added on 18.09.2009
Architecture composition with Blender
An article showing how Blender is an excellent platform for architecture creation, based on a project I made some time ago.
added on 06.11.2006
Parametric objects in Blender
An article showing how to make parametric objects in Blender.
added on 01.02.2008
Treemaking tutorial
A tutorial showing how to model realistic-looking vegetation with open-source tools.
added on 17.07.2007
The Blender greenhouse
This is a repository of (hopefully) realistic plants and trees made with ngPlant and Blender, for use in your 3D scenes as 3D models or as alpha textures for billboard-style vegetation.
added on 01.01.2009
Alpha textures
These are alpha textures in .png format I made over time, free to use and reuse...
added on 24.03.2008
Blender external renderers comparison
This is a quick comparison of what I could get from several free external renderers availables for blender. This is not an extensive comparison, but a quick test of what a new user can expect to achieve quickly.
added on 11.06.2008
Rendering plugin for ngPlant
This is a plugin I made for ngPlant, that allows to render an image directly from it, without the need to export to another program.
Personal stuff
Here there is a bit of everything, ideas, experiments, and a couple of other
things for your reading pleasure. Feel free to explore and reuse, everything is
...
added on 23.04.2005
Le voyage imaginaire
This is a graphic novel I made in Cape Town in 1999, with only worst possible quality pen and paper never really finished...
added on 23.04.2005
The hell on earth
Another graphic story made in Brugge in 1998, also unfinished I must confess. A more apocalyptic style, with no dialogs.
added on 01.05.2006
An aborted one
An aborted story I began with Grégoire, that never went further either. These are the first sheets of what it could have been.
added on 22.09.2006
Derrière les lignes ennemies
Une petite histoire écrite en 2001 lors d'un grand match de coupe du monde qui opposa la Belgique au Brésil...
added on 22.09.2006
Yorik au tribunal
Un autre récit totalement véridique, ultra-réaliste, de mes mésaventures judiciaires. L'on y apprendra comment je m'en sortis honoris causa et habeas corpus...
added on 22.09.2006
75 heures d'enfer
Où l'on apprendra comment nous traversâmes le continent en bus pouilleux, voyage qui dura non moins de 75 heures assurément historiques...
added on 22.09.2006
Pernambouc
Un synopsis que j'ai écrit un jour, et dont je ne sus que faire, sinon l'utiliser pour allonger cette page, à défaut d'autres usages moins honorables.
added on 01.01.2009
Guestblog
The guestblog, which is my blog, but also where things happen on this site. You are welcome to add your word there too!
added on 01.01.2005
Guestblog archive
And for the real passionate, here are the 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006 and 2005 archives of this famous, internationally awarded guestblog...
started on 22.08.2006
Maupassy
Une passionnante épopée imaginée et écrite à au moins 10 mains par les habitués de ce site, dont votre serviteur. Déjà parus, Duel à la petite cuiller, et un tome 2 qui tourna court...
added on 22.01.2005
Music
A couple of musical experiments I made an absurdly long time ago, Please be clement if you dare to enter there...
added on 22.01.2005
Animations
Some old and simple flash animations I made mostly to entertain friends, but that neverthless were good training for discovering animation techniques.
added on 28.06.2007
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Wikiversity Arch School -
Inventário de receitas -
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There are more of my hotspots on the guestblog page.