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FOREWORD
catarina mendonça 4. January. 1989 architect / designer / creative /
I am Catarina Mendonça, a young architect that realized how important it is to design ourselves, to design the work of our dreams, to pursue it in order to design the life we want to live. My work is based in a master in architecture, but it quickly developed to further and overlapping fields of interest, such as interior, graphic and editorial design, and photography. Doing what we love seems to be an obvious and easy thing to say and do, but in fact aligning our passion with our creative work, is the challenge I deal myself constantly with. I remember being a child and dreaming about beauty. There were some abstract images floating in my mind, spaces of beauty and joy. That dream lead me to study architecture, and move to Lisbon when I was seventeen, to initiate a new and challenging chapter in my life. During my studies I also wanted to study abroad, to improve my academic career, to learn a new language, to experience and be part of other culture. Thus, during one year, I studied in Vienna under the Erasmus Program. This year was one of the most enrichtest experiences in my life, that allowed me to grow as individual and professionaly by the contact with other realities and people. After finishing the master degree I started a new process in my personal creation. Search for another way, to explore again this abstract and inherent will in me to create beauty around. So that, besides keep doing contemporary dance, I started on my own to develop some interior design projects, which gave me an enormous joy. At the same time, my will to learn more lead me to attend an international Phd: “Architecture. Public. City”. In 2013 by coincidence Vienna called me back now to do an internship at Delugan Meissl Asssociated Architects, after which I integrated
the design team. At DMAA, I was responsible for the graphic design laboratory _ developing works such as the design of the office’s portfolios, layouts, publication material, lecture’s presentations, brochures, illustrations and graphics. In this edition I present some architectural work that I developed during my studies, including culture, housing and urban design, and some other works that I participated in while I was working at DMAA studio. For other works, please jump to page 39 in this edition.
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Library Berlin Berlin, Germany
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Berlin City Hall Berlin, Germany
BURG HOCHOSTERWITZ Carinthia, Austria
GREENHOUSE Changchun, China
LIVING IN A GARDEN Lisbon, Portugal
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SUR DE LA PLAGE Le Touquet, France
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“Do not cover your ideas, give away everything you know, and more will come back to you� Paul Arden
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Office Delugan Meissl Associated Architects DMAA Type: Mixed Use, Towers, Living, Offices, Cultural Year 2014 Address Munich Competition 1st Price Gross surface area 40.500 m² Site area 7.362 m² Height 58,5 m Number of levels 22 Team Alejandro Carrera Christian Gross Catarina Mendonça Diogo Teixeira
The concept for the project is defined by the following points: 1. Parceling and urban spatial connection using the „flight Badger“ _ Pergola on the housing block and public garden above the civic center. 2.Function Distribution / use 3.Path through the ground floor and connection to the market 4. Path through-way lock floor / Tiefhof / access to the subway. Exposure and function distribution. Integration of the urban landscape and park on the stairs to the Tiefhof. 5.Acoustic measures: Road side: Double facade in the office and fixed glazing in the living tower at the box type apartments. Courtyard: double facade in the office and glazed loggia (openable) in the apartments in the tower 6. Exposure of the lock floor by perforation and possible extensibility of the restoration and Concert hall on the Tiefhof. 7. Access distribution Day / Night From courtyard during the day. Access from the street during the day and evening. 8. Flow diagram through the Blocks
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In this project I integrated the design team, in which I was responsible for designing the pictographs, architectural drawings and graphics.
Bürgerschaftlische Nutzung
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LIBRARY BERLIN BERLIN
Office Delugan Meissl Associated Architects DMAA Type: Cultural Address Berlin Competition 2013 Floor area 52.000 m² Site area 21.000 m² Height 58,5 m Number of levels 15 Team Michael Lohmann Diogo Teixeira Bogdahn Hambasan Catarina Mendonça Alejandro Carrera Elisabeth Kofler Francesca Caldesi
In this project I integrated the design team, in which I was responsible for designing the pictographs, architectural drawings and graphics.
The construction of a central library in the 21st century is required to meet the demands of a classic library, as well as provide low-threshold access to digital information and communication in general. The transition from old to new also addresses the issue of urban space: the cube sits between the conflicting priorities of the new quarters and the park landscape of Tempelhofer Field and therefore functions as a beacon. It also needs to account for the main flows of pedestrians and the junction of public transport such as the S- and U-Bahns. The striking structure is immediately surrounded by the „poetic mystery forest“: A wysteria canopy arching over the entire scene of the library provides a complex play of light and shadow and density and color during the change of the seasons. The hub function in the public foyer is carried on into the barrier-free structure itself. The public event space with restaurants on the ninth floor (the highest publicly accessible floor) acts as a counterpoint to this.
The areas of the free scene and the administration lie above this. In between are the library sections and the path for the flaneur, which represents an underlying architectural concept. The closed stacks and shipping and disposal areas are housed in the basement. Meeting at the levels of the library sections, the available spaces graduate from the inside, the catalog and info area graduate outwards, and the work stations graduate in their intensity. However, special attention is thereby given to a strong visual link between the outer ring and central zone. The materials used are kept to a minimum: warm terrazzo, concrete, and various acoustically effective surfaces. The facade is divided into a thermally effective primary facade made from opaque and transparent elements, with a horizontal grid that makes reference to the library and office grid. Over this primary facade a poetic-looking vertical lamella matrix is stretched, which moves about freely acting as sun protection and which changes the appearance of the building depending on the light and wind direction.
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HINTERGRUNDBEREICHE FREIE SZENE VERANSTALTUNG
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Office Delugan Meissl Associated Architects DMAA Type: Offices Year 2014 Address Berlin Competition 2014 Project Manager Sebastian Brunke Team Alejandro Carrera Michael Lohnmann Catarina Mendonça Bogdam Hambassan
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BERLIN CITY HALL BERLIN Due the urban situation, the project arises with an L-shaped To complete the urban site structure. This is based on the maximum possible Eaves and remains below the high-rise area. The projects sought to create a clear courtyard situation, in order to optimize the exposure situation for the construction and optimum connectivity with Dorotheenstraße 93 where the new building is placed. The space is organized in accordance to the space program. Thus, the higher point is placed to keep the courtyard as free as possible, and is established as an extension of the southern holdings, which is seen from the street from a distance and so does not interfere with the image of the ensemble. The northern leg of the L-shaped structure is upstream side of the courtyard is a single-storey low-rise building. This entails the canteen, a large meeting room, and a large foyer which is the waiting area, and can be used for events simultaneously. Together with the new building a clear and concise outer
space is created. Through the floor to ceiling glazing of street level is a direct reference is made to the court and created a high level of amenity value. Immediately after the main entrance of the Schadowstraße is located the main foyer. South of it, between maturity and eastern leg, the required parking spaces are housed. In the western part of the yard a generous space is situated, which connects directly to the canteen area. The need for transparency in simultaneous demand for security control was considered in the main entrance at Schadowstraße, where a highly transparent access with annealed transparent common areas are placed. The view from outside is passed through the front edge of the courtyard side low-rise visually inward and creates a strong visual reference to the court. The development of the individual cores are independent of each other and accessible from the courtyard so that the individual departments can directly access on the shorter path.
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Category Greenhouse, Museum Address Changchun, China Floor area 6.835,16 m² Gross surface area 18.955 m² Site area 2.168.428 m² Height 30 m Number of levels 3 Number of basements 0 Project team Diogo Teixeira Michael Lohmann Petras Vestartas Catarina Mendonça
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Design Studio Master Thesis arch. Ana Marta Feliciano arch. Ant贸nio Leite Type: Museum & Hotel Year 2012 Address Carinthia, Austria
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BURG HOCHOSTERWITZ CARINTHIA Hochosterwitz, is a castle whose construction has gone through several centuries. The wall that surrounds and adapts to the rock, is characterised by its gates to the castle. The gates invite the visitor to go on the path until the top of the castle. Along the way, the visitor is constantly surprised by the wealth of Hochosterwitz, both for its architecture, the richness of its construction, the surrounding landscape, by its magnitude. The proposal seeks to establish a balance between old and new, in which the new is not intended to replace or remove the old. Rather it is a symbiosis that both have their role, in which the newenhances and highlights the old. The castle stands out as the protagonist. conceptual diagrams
Generally the projectis materialized according to three assumptions, including, analysis and knowledge of the site, which defines it as a place, the restoration and conservation to safeguard the main pre-existing and ultimately intervene to enhance the set of Hochosterwitz, adapting appropriately to the new programs and features. Thus, in the proposed rehabilitation of the Castle Hochosterwitz, the old and new are distinguished in full harmony and distinction, that is, either by its materiality, morphology or character. The spaces are allocated according to the program they host.
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Project selected to Secil University Award 2012
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Design Studio Master Thesis Class arch. William Alsop Type: Urban Design Year 2010 Address Le Touquet, France
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SUR DE LA PLAGE LE TOUQUET In the 1800’s, De Villemessant, owner and manager of the newspaper “Le Figaro”, turned Le Touquet’s dunes and forest into a hunting estate. Helping Le-Touquet to became known as Paris-Plage. Throughout its history, the city grew and developed becaming one of the most welcoming and atractive seaside resorts in Europe, mostly among english and french people. Althought, despite the preserving heritage of the past, Le Touquet seems to be again under the shadow, and an image renewal of the city is necessary. This project seeks, by creating new functions and places of interest, a new way of interpret and live the beach and the city as a common place and give to Le Touquet an image of a water front experience city.
Thus, the project proposes a net of beach infraestructures, providing beach shelters, toillets, cafés and restaurants, some cultural equipments a cultural center and artist studios along the promenade, and some leisure equipments as a nautic center and natural pools. Conceptualy, the project seeks to recreate the dunes topography and create some ground elevations, in order to create and chanel different views, allowing at the same to overcome the different hight between the beach and the promenade.
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SEE THE WATER - increase public acess to the waterfront - link view corridors to physical acess - streets contiguous to the beach - entries to create view corridors increasing physical and visual acess to the water - green corridor along the waterfront
FEEL THE WATER
1. parc de l'estuaire 2. beach 3. parking along the beach placed with beach supplies and cultural and leisure equipments. 4. road along the beach, complemented with green corridors and cycling paths to reduce the trafic, and create a qualified promenade 5. town centre 6. market 7. church 8. nautic port & club + environmental research centre 9. beach country club 10. culture & art space 11. public natural baths + south nautic port
- public natural baths - infinity pools
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- rental bike points - cycling path
- pedestrian connection from south nautic port to north nautic port - public transportation along the waterfront
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Living in a Garden
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Design Studio Master Thesis Class arch. Pedro Belo Ravara Type: Housing & Urban Design Year 2009 Address Lisbon, Portugal
LISBON Living in a garden project, located in an old and typical neighborhood in Lisbon (Ajuda). It is placed in between Calçada da Ajuda in the east side and for General Massano Amorim Street in the west side. The site, inside walls, marks a strong presence in the urban context of Ajuda’s neighborhood, due the presence of an old ruin of a mansion and its terrific garden. As project assumption, it should be kept 50% of the existing green area, due its presence in the urban Ajuda’s area, also characterized by several green spaces. Moreover, the proposal should free the ground floor and occupy only 50% of it. The project sought to redefine the idea of block, thus was defined by several axes (Largo da Memória, Calçada da Ajuda), establishing at the same time neighborhood relations like proximity and complementary. The proposal its constituted by two blocks, organized around the garden, in the higher level of the site. The main block organizes the area around the garden, establishing two courtyards, one in the center and the other in the north area, allowing the approximation to the neighborhood’s North part. The smaller block, parallel to Massano Amorim Street, through its ground floor permeability allows a natural relationship between the proposal and the old neighborhood Regarding the program, it provides housing (two typologies: three or one bedroom) a student dorm in the upper floor, seeking to dynamize and revitalize this old area of the city. The ground floor guarantees spaces also
for several cultural, working and leisure activities, such as art galleries, artist studios, cafes and shops. The project is characterized by a strong dynamism awarded by its relations and spaces. The proposal constitutes itself as an excellence space not only for those who live there but also for all the Ajuda’s and city inhabitants, by the new ambiances it proposes, the views to the Tagus river, and by the correlation between the proposal and the urban context where it is inserted.
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Design Studio Master Thesis Class arch. Pedro Belo Ravara Type: Housing & Urban Design Year 2009
STUDY Prototype housing is designed to accommodate people in a temporary situation, the prototypes would be used by the population living nearby, whose habitation is found unavailable for works, fire, or if the city needs extra accomodation. Thus the project had as assumptions such contingency conditions and changeable with respect to time and use of the prototypes. Each prototype should accommodate at least three people, without being deprived of basic needs for housing: hygiene, accessibility, meals, rest (...) Moreover fot the project should also be taken into account their possible aggregation. Furthermore, as the prototype should have maximum area 30m2 and 120m3 maximum volume. To develop the project, could not be forgotten the concepts of comfort, flexibility and adaptability; server space and space served, public space and private space, function space and visual space, equipment and furniture; structure and distribution; facade and surroundings. Initially the project sought to define a structure for organizing and generating spaces. The motor of the project was the placement of the “motor” (made up of the areas of water: sinks, toilets), which define the space
immediately told private (zone of personal hygiene and sleep) and public space (living area / dining ).Once the motor serves both public space prototype as private space, for reasons of accessibility should be placed between these spaces, thereby establishing the boundary simultaneously public / private. During the project, for better optimization of space, never to be forgotten premise of establishing an axis between public / private, the prototype resumed as ideal model, prototypu < Gr. protótypos, model; f. m.,first type; model; standard; the most perfect model. Thus, after an exhaustive and meticulous articulation of space, it was possible to reach a generating metrics that organizes the spaces; the space is organized in a grid grating (1.40mx 2m). Small modules of 1.4mx 2m were designed for different uses: sleep, living, cooking, studying, and the motor occupies two modules.Thus it is possible to ensure flexibility in the prototype, once can use up to 10 small modules, each occupant can set the modules that best suits each one and each lifestyle. The design shown the prototype of four small modules sleeping, the “motor” cooking a module, a module living and two free. The concept is expressed as modules within a module. motor
❝Represents a type of selfsuficient architecture, inside a bigger one. Casa Collage, Un ensayo sobre la arquitectura de la casa
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more than its exterios, the interior design represents the new architectural shape for the celula, in ”excertos de Casa Collage, Un ensayo sobre la arquitectura de la casa”. Xavier Monteyes e Pere Fuertes
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â&#x20AC;&#x153;perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to removeâ&#x20AC;? Antoine de Saint-Exupury