Interview with JosÉ Ricardo Basiches

We are a relatively young company, which operates in the Brazilian market with various types of work. Today we have a team of 15 architects.
We are in a quest to do something different for the cities and leave something beautiful and unique.

It is something that has a concept and a think behind the appearance.

Currently we have differents types of work, such as: apartments reforms, shops, gyms, houses and buildings.

My favorite design is, as always I say the last one I did, because I am in a continuous learning, maturing my work and seeking new challenges.

A residential complex of 23 houses in the city of São Paulo.

Today we use for drawings 2D the Autocad tool and we are entering in the BIM world with Vector Works and Revit.

Everytime I start a new project and begin the first sketch, I just let it flow and that releases my creativity.

I always try to focus to achieve the result that pleases my clients, this is my focus.

Enormous satisfaction and almost a delirium of lightness and balance.

Something very difficult to describe with words! It is an achievement that is something very emotional pure and sensitive.

The passion and love that arises in all work together with the energy of customers who believe in our work.

I believe that a good design should first meet the required needs. The functionality is a key item and must be aligned with aesthetics.

Show people that designed with the intent to improve and take care of the city responsibly no matter the scale that representes.

The role of design is critical since it is part of everyday life so it must align the functionality with aesthetics with sustainability. I believe that the future of design lies in developing new technologies along with the issue of sustainability.

My last exhibition was on the 25th of Septmber, 2013 in the Tomie Ohtake Institute in São Paulo - "The good architecture that the city of São Paulo has lost". I wish that our work could be displayed in the next bienal of Architecture in São Paulo.

My biggest inspiration it is life. The small details of what I see and feel in every person and in every space that I frequent.

A tuned contemporary design with new global trends that brings some elements of Brazilian culture. Creates a clean and light design by geometric volumes.

I live in São Paulo, the biggest city in Brazil and the world's seventh largest city. We definitely have a strong influence of brutalist architecture and Brazilian culture in general. We have a great legacy of architectural production produced in the decades from 1950 to 1970 who also reverberated internationally. In recent years our architectural production aimed to improve quality of projects with this architecture as a reference.

We work in several stages: from design, development to project construction. Always aiming to improve and please our customers.

The designer is the agent who will work to show paths to be taken in relation to the product concerned.
He who can draw new possibilities and will be directly responsible for the final product.
Today due to the competition between the companies, the design becomes a differential.
Companies may select a good designer by knowledge and positive results of their work and also depend
the affinity of ideas and concepts to be deployed in the product design.

After meetings for knowledge of customer needs, studies are conducted through sketches and studies of conceptual mass.
At this stage research and technical inquiries are made. Studies are evolving and new meetings are held with the client until we get a final product that covers all the desired needs. Studies on 3D models and physical models are also part of the creation process.

I think all are fundamental.

During the morning I dedicate my time in the office to the operation, organization and activities of the office staff. In the afternoon I dedicate myself to the creation, development and meeting with clients of the projects process. Lunch time with clients or prospective clients and sometimes with office staff. I try to practice some sport, in the morning or evening.

Be updated with the latest trends, visit exhibitions and attend lectures.
When and if you get a chance, meet the design offices and their work process.

The designer is the point of convergence and transition of the whole process, it becomes the central reference point and he is the "owner" of ideas.
At the same time it must be a good manager of the entire team working on the project, otherwise the result will not be what you want. This mismanagement of the process can be a negative point, the designer should also be a good manager.

Being curious, persistent and do not hold the pre-established rules, be bold in the ideas.

Learn to equalize technical concept and the client's wishes to get to a final product in an innovative and successful design.

Programs Autocad, Vectorworks and mdelagem 3D programs. We are starting the process in the office BIM with Revit program.
Search through websites and books and projective discussion between the teams office.

We work as a time. We divide the tasks into different teams working on different stages of the process design, optimizing our time.

The process takes about a month.

What are my inspirations.

The most importante I believe it was the residential building Quatá, because of the difficulty we were placed to translate a new concept required by the customer. We designed the smallest apartment in Brazil along with solutions that integrate public and private space.

A few construction companies like EVEN, TECNISA and VITACON and private clients.

I like mostly to work with buildings, residential and comercial because of the realtionship of the scale and it´s relationship with the city.

I wish to work with public spaces and buildings by national and international competition.

I have a team. No one does anything alone!

We have this new Project of a residential building in São Paulo, that has a diferente design and work with a new concept of the realitionship of public and private spaces.

www.basiches.com.br

No, I think it has all been covered.