Daniel Maia Architecture Portfolio by Daniel Maia

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Daniel JosĂŠ Ribeiro Maia Selected Academic and Professional Projects

Daniel José Ribeiro Maia Contacts (00) +351 919154759 danielmaia.arq@gmail.com R. João de Barros nº 39 4450-705 Leça da Palmeira

Curriculum Vitæ

I am a young architect, having just recenly finished my Masters. During my studies and professional experiences I have worked with in all scales of architecture and covered also a good number of building typologies. Also, side by side with the academic path, I have took part in professional competitions, organized several academic events for students and was a member of the Portuguese comitee to organize the biggest architecture student’s assembly in Europe - EASA. Althroughout my studies I tryed complementing them with some ‘close to reallity experience’, taking the time to get an internship in Copenhagen where I was given the oportunity to take part in competitions, some which we had the pleasure to win, and designing elements for a book publication about the office’s works. Besides this internship I took part in professional competitions in collaboration both with Infusão Arquitectos as well as with other recent graduates as myself. As stated before, I just recently finished my Masters, having worked along Francisco Viera de Campos as my tutor for a very special project focusing on spaces for children. I am eager to learn, and surelly commited to do my best to keep up with the expectations. The following document presents a series of selected works, both academic and professional, as well as detailed information about myself and my work. I hope you enjoy it.

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Studies 2014 · Awarded the Master in Architecture degree by the Faculty of Architecture of Oporto’s University 2013 · Internship at Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter - Copenhaggen 2013 · Erasmus exchange program in Oslo’s School of Architecture and Design 2011 · Bachelor’s Degree completed at FAUP - Faculty of Architecture of Oporto’s University

Projects and Awards February 2015 · Porto Pool Promenade, Ctrl Space Competitions - Honorable Mention November 2014 · Masters Final Project, Chidren’s Shelter and Culture House - Selected for the Ibero-American Architecture Bienale’s student competition February 2014 · 120Hours International Competition for Students - Honorable Mention November 2013 · Internship at Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter Fremtidens Bæredygtige Almene Housing Competition September 2013 · Internship at Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter Aarhus Watch Tower Competition Win (completion scheduled for 2015) August 2013 · Internship at Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter - Horsholm Center Competition Win (completion scheduled for 2016) June 2013 · Internship at Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter - Tullinge Library Competition May 2013 · Internship at Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter - Red Cross Volunteer House Competition finalist November 2012 · Erasmus Academic Project Asahikawa House + Sapporo House - Selected for Aho Works Prize of Merit October 2012 · Member of the Portuguese Comitee bidding to organise EASA – European Assembly of Students of Architecture in Oporto July 2012 in Helsinki, Finland · EASA – European Assembly of Students of Architecture June 2012 · Dance Academy - Academic project April 2012 in Porto, Portugal · BADEL BLOCK competition for the city of Zagreb in coolaboration with Infusão Arquitectos. Project considered in Final Stage Appreciation

Dance Box Academic Project · 1st year of Masters Program Tutored by Arq. José Gigante

A venue for dance. How to design a school where the performance of dance can be incorporated into all areas of the building? This was the first question I asked myself starting this project. The goal was clear from the beggining: the building shall not distract attention from its own activity. This space is made out of a neutral white box that attatches itself to the block behind it, therefore giving it a smooth continuity and connection to the docks. The piece also creates an urban dialogue with the market on the other side of the bridge, which brings balance to the site. The curve walls seen on the corner that faces the bridge, direct peoples movement to specific points in the building, both from the inside and outside. The arrangement around the main courtyard was carefully planed in order to make people use the building, always, being perfectly aware of their movement through space. In order to do this, spacial continuity and fluidity is required, and that is the reason why, for example, all the dance classerooms are connnected through smaller courtyards, facing eachothers. All spaces are designed by and for dance, building a box full of movement that spreads out to the city, giving space for a more close relationship between the comunity and cultural activities. This open-spaced box that, with its straight lines ensures a smooth insertion in the site’s context, is designed to contrast itself; It includes distinctive differences in shape and architectural language that relate directly to the Human body’s movement. These sleek lines amongst the straight and simplistic edges of the structure highlight the differences between the imaginative and the logical – of art and of order and how both can come out of each other. This is something that is inherently human, which is found in all aspects of nature.

Asahikawa House Academic Project · Tutored by Arq. Jun Igarashi Selected for AHO Works Prize of Merit

Inhabiting the family structure How to rediscover the sense of what is family space in two completely different urban situatinons? Taking into account the experience of Japanese society, culture and family living, this project proposes answers based on three main conditions: -fluid spacial connection -response to the site’s surroundings -rigor that gives space for diversity Both the Sapporo and Asahikawa House, clearly express that the structural beams are the space defining elements. These make the user’s body twist as he goes from space to space, allowing at the same time for diversity in how furniture or other day a day elemnts are used and placed. The Asahikawa project builds up this massive wood shell that englobes all parts of the family living unit, hiding the “beam jungle” from the outside and, thus, making it extremely relevant in this big open spaces. The beams are also designed in such a way that they are structuraly relevant and, at the same time, define the way people move through the house. The wodden shell opens up in strategic points in order to connect this protected interior spaces with the surrounding fields and views. Summing up, this structure is built up on the idea of a dense volume, sprouting in the middle of nowhere, thus creating a proeminet figure in the landscape and at the same time, relating to the Japanese buiding tradition. In both projects it became clear that the answer to the first queston raised , somehow between how clear the dialogue between architecture and the human movement that inhabits it and the way this relationship affects the family day-to-day life in this two situations.

Sapporo House Academic Project · Tutored by Arq. Jun Igarashi Selected for AHO Works Prize of Merit

Inhabiting the family structure How to rediscover the sense of what is family space in two completely different urban situatinons? Taking into account the experience of Japanese society, culture and family living, this project proposes answers based on three main conditions: -fluid spacial connection -response to the site’s surroundings -rigor that gives space for diversity Both the Sapporo and Asahikawa House, clearly express that the structural beams are the space defining elements. These make the user’s body twist as he goes from space to space, allowing at the same time for diversity in how furniture or other day a day elemnts are used and placed. The Sapporo house, on the other hand, doesn’t hide this “structural ruin” made habitable. Through a policarbonate skin, it shows itself to the city and expands it’s interior to the surrounding buildings. Here the purpose was to design big, solid and confortable spaces in a very small site. Again, through the beams, we can observe a serie of conecting platforms that are spread inside the “light box”. This makes up for a big family space which is subdivided in smaller elements that still connect, in a very direct way, to the main area. In both projects it became clear that the answer to the first queston raised , somehow between how clear the dialogue between architecture and the human movement that inhabits it and the way this relationship affects the family day-to-day life in this two situations.

Children as Reference

Restoration and Extension of the Children’s Shelter Masters Thesis Project · tutored by Francisco Vieira de Campos Selected for Ibero-American Architecture Bienale Student Competition

“Let the architect be so - a man amongst men - a space organizer - a creator of happiness.” Fernando Távora

The document herewith presented is a synthesis of my academic and professional experiences throughout the last 6 years. The challenge I propose myself to is to draw up a project for the restoration and expansion of Rogério de Azevedo’s project: Abrigo dos Pequeninos (1935). None the less, it is not my ambition to seek perfect and/ or timeless solutions for the making of children dedicated spaces. I do not believe in perfection nor the quest for it. What draws my attention though, is to identify and clarify a local social penury - the lack of a variety of cultural spaces dedicated to children and the existance of an empty kindergarten, which the local community craves for. Therefore, the purpose of the developed work is to raise awareness to this theme, bringing solutions in to motivate the debate on children dedicated spaces in the Fontainhas area. The idea is born of my international experience, taking special note of the following ones: a study trip to Japan and an internship in Copenhagen with Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter. Given the fact that the origins of the explored theme is a set of spatial experiences directly connected to the reality of the visited places, standing out the Fuji kindergarden, the Munkegaard School and the Amager’s Children Culture House, it became logic that the final expression of this personal study, would be an academic project set in a real context. Consequently, and derived of an introspection and analysis of what these experiences represented, the project process goes through understanding, both the infant along with all its implied physical and psychological complexity and the architectonic development around the theme. The project is not real, but the necessity for it is. I will be more fortunate to learn from the process of designing it, than the children of S. Vítor because of the absence of it’s construction, or any other project that should be more successful in the exercise of shaping the local needs into a building. What is then an architect if not “a creator of happiness”?

Badel Block Zagreb Finalist · Badel Block Zagreb Competion Along with Infusão Arquitectos and Arq. João Pedro

The project’s theme aims to design space for new urban experiences in dialogue with the city’s memory of the industrial block. The presented idea focuses on creating a new Badel Block that works as a dynamic center providing urban activities in its core, and, at the same time, revitalizes socially and economically all the area that evolves it. Therefore, our proposal is set in five structuring principles: -the cultural heritage of industrial character’s revitalization; -creating a new, contemporary identity for the block; -designing a careful dialogue between constructed and non constructed spaces; -projecting a contemporary block respecting the pre-existing buildings; -organize urban coherency between green spaces, squares and buildings in the Badel Block and inserted in Zagreb’s urban logic. Our solution is drawn creating a vivid contrast between, public and private, built and non built spaces. The non built space matches the proposal of a big square that aims to be integrated in an existing circuit of squares and gardens that pop up in Zagreb, alongside the Šubićeva Street, thus integrating itself in the already consolidated city urban web. On the other hand, this new square complements the big Park Bartula Ka[i]a next to the market. This suggested the use of a solid square, focused in the day-to-day living of its users by being surrounded by a series of programs that enable a constant way of living. By opposition, the built space matches sensitively, half of the intervention area, thus balancing the two elements of the composition. This built space acts as a mediator between the open and wide public space and the pre-existing buildings inside and outside the block. It is designed as an embracing element that surrounds the main square and establishes the boundaries of the block redefining its image, thus taking to the everyday users a more human scale.

look out oya Honorable Mention 路 120Hours Competion along with Rui Cardoso and Ant贸nio Mesquita

A stair and a pavillion Embracing the park, looking over new experiences. Our goal is to design a sensible space that emphasises the role that nature can play in the city and commemorates the Oya festival, as well as creating opportunities to experience these in new and diverse ways. The structure is built into two major sections: The triangular top is elevated above the tree-tops to create a landmark in its environment and acting as a viewpoint for the park, the festival and the city skyline. The base is infused with the hill and the pavilion creates a peaceful space that resembles a garden maze, where we aim to incorporate an exhibition area promoting environmental awareness. The entire structure will be built from wood highlighting the ecological link with nature and embracing Norwegian heritage. The elements of this structure combined will look to be a beacon of experiences in the park and the festival, while promoting spaces for contemplation, celebrating social connectivity and connecting the people and the city of Oslo with nature.

Tullinge Library Invited Competion Finalist Dorte Mandrup Intership

The program for Tullingebergsvägen is a strong vision of a public building with a moving and engaging content, a content that is shaped by citizens and staff together, which is constantly innovating and offering new and surprising choices. The building will therefore be an open, robust and flexible framework that allows for a continuous change of substance. Flexibility can be achieved in several ways; 60s and 70s structuralism added uniform and general rooms, distributed along the long corridors. The price was a lack of spatial variation and orientation, and the space that could probably be used for a lot instead was not really good for anything. Another form of flexibility is the idea of “basic room” and different types of rooms, all of which meet certain basic needs. Large spaces with high ceilings complemented by smaller and intimate room formations. Variation in the length and height in these open spaces are important. By making use of both fundamental and diverse room typologies, we coded a building for different purposes. These “boxes” create distinctive room sequences with a simple and clear circulation, so that different parts of the building may be used at times when others are closed.

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Aarhus Watch Tower Competion Win · Scheduled for completion in 2015 Dorte Mandrup Intership

From a distance the dynamically shaped composition will become a strong focal point for this new part of the city. At close encounter the Lookout Tower will be a generous and hospitable place for the new area - stimulating citizens to take rest and inhabit the place. Quote from jury report -Translated from Danish

The jury characterizes the winning project as a “architecturally superior solution” to the task at hand. The tower is shaped like a sharp origami cut, urban sculpture with a significant architecturalexpression. The white steel tower will stand out as a glowing landmark giving identity to the area and act as a point of reference and meetings in this new part of the city. The tower creates a lively route from the quayside to the viewing platform 7.5 meters above. The visitor is lead below the expressive cantilevered body of the tower, to a position hovering above the reflective water surface of the harbor. The movement continues upwards via a spacious staircase fitted for seating - offering magnificent panoramic views of the harbor and the bay. The journey culminates at a spacious and sheltered viewing platform above the treetops of the boulevard. Aarhus will gain a beautiful and significant landmark celebrating vision and social encounters at the edge of the water. The structure is made of weldedsteel plates, produced in a shipyard and sailed to the site.

the weather...

movement and stay

shelter from the rain as well as sun exposure

the stair widens and becomes a place for activity and stay

Horsholm Center Competion Win · Scheduled for completion in 2016 Dorte Mandrup Intership

The new building stands open and inviting. It is designed as a sculptural shaped volume so that it marks the corner of Rungstedvej and Kammerrådensvej. A closed volume is sculpted towards the existing distinctive gable roof on Rungstedvej. The two buildings will be viewed simultaneously and perceived as a connected public grid. The complex is designed scaling down the relation between this new construction and Kammerrådensvej, expressing the mixed functions located upstairs. Above the public services this center provides, we place a set of 16 luxury duplex apartments that stand out in the composition with large bow windows that mark their rythm along Kammerrådensvej. The facades are covered with Tombak (bronze alloy) which ages with a beautiful deep brown glow, supplemented with white plastered facades, and slatted panels made of hardwood. The project is a new construction scheduled for completion in 2016 and offers a hybrid program of a convenience store, a fitness center and 16 penthouse apartments - each with its own roof garden. “The building was designed by Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter and combines a strong architectural expression with a deep sense of place and of potential” – quote from the jury.

Omnia Mecum Porto Honarable Mention · Porto Pool Promenade, Ctrl-Space Competitions Along with Mariana Barreira, Ricardo Amaral and Ricardo Domingues

“I carry with me all things.” We took this as an apropriate motto for our project, since it expresses a strong resolve to incorporate, in it’s design, the history and atmosphere of the sorrounding city heritage. Our proposal starts with a very objective move: connecting the two edges of the site, redrawing the city’s and river’s limit. Having this solid line settled, we carve in small harbours and bays, restructuring an intricate design between land and water. The intervention takes shape into two diferent realities facing each other, opening up a gap between them that no longer separates but unifies by creating tension. We believe that building with voids is to architecture as much as silence is to music - it stresses and therefore enhances the relation between the parts. We then turn our focus into the promenade spacial experience along the new platform, breaking it down to two platforms and thus creating two diferent promenade qualities: the top one, opening up a plaza working as a balcony over the river for the existing traditional housing block. On a final stage, we aimed to design these platforms in a strong relation to the river itself. To do so, we deconstructed them, breaking it down in specific points, opening up space for the pools, a long pier and a small dock serving a cannoing school. During this process, the elements constructing the several programs along the promenade, took a stronger role in spacial composition: small walls take shape becoming volumes that mediate the relationship between the pool level and both platforms above. This also sugested that the program should be distribuited in a more organic composition. Thus the idea of designing a group of interior pools / spa arose. This made sense to us, specially taking into account the weather’s instability in Oporto, allowing the pools to be used in varied and pleasant ways, throughout the seasons.

The pools center becomes a beacon in the overall composition, mediating the transition between the restaurant and bars area to the West and the big harbour to the East. It also takes an important role in all levels by opening up a crystal like skylight in the top level plaza, looking out to the promenade in the inferior level and drawing a sundeck and outside pool in direct relationship with the river, the rocks and the harbour. To the East we envisioned designing a polivalent space working toghether witht he harbor. We think of it as a venue for a Harbor Association, meaning it’s meant to be used mostly by people who actually use the harbor such as fisherman or boat owners. Though we also see potential for public usage, such as exhibitions, traditional festivities such as “S. João” parties, or simply as a normal bar with a vantajous location plus a tourist cruiseship ticket selling point. This space takes high importance due to the simple, yet elegant conection it builds between the two levels and also closes off the overall compossition, facing the Luiz I bridge. The two platforms meet in a single two level pathway, thus creating a linear course parallel to the harbor with two diferent atmospheres: above, shadowed by the tree tops, allowing for jogging, biking or simply walking; below, a tunnel shaped curve, sheeted in a ceramic pannel resembles the Ribeira Tunnel and the traditional portuguese ceramic tiles. Summing up, our solution is drawn creating a vivid contrast between built space and river. Moreover, where these contrasts appear, an intricate and intimate relationship is established between the city and the water, thus creating a strong and contemporary identity for the new peomenade, anchored in the history and tradition of the city’s relationship with the Douro River.

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