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Diana Pinto
cover: University College, Urbino, Italy, 1958-1976, Giancarlo De Carlo.
Name:Diana Saraiva Pinto Address: Av. da Fonte Nova, 5 3050-379 Mealhada, Portugal Mobile: +351 919348549 Email: dii_pinto@hotmail.com Nationality: Portuguese Date of birth: 23/03/1987 Gender: Feminine
Education 2005-2012 Master degree in Architecture University of Coimbra, Faculty of Sciences and Technologies, D’ARQ Final classification of 15 (out of 20) Work experience October 2012 Volunteer in “Lisboa Open House” Lisbon Architecture Triennale Reception, information and guide (Portuguese and English) Language skills Portuguese: mother tongue English: proficent user September 2012 Certificate of International English Language Testing System Final classification of 6,5 (out of 9) 2010/2011 Free course of English for Academic Purposes I (advanced level) Language Center of the Faculty of Letters of the University of Coimbra Spanish: basic user French: basic user 2000-2003 French Lessons Elementary School Italian: basic user 2006 Attendance in the free course of Italian I (beginner level) Language Center of the Faculty of Letters of the University of Coimbra Awards and honours October 2012 Workshop “Selfmade Arena” – June 2012 Workshop “Viewport Winebar” ESAD Matosinhos Building workshops, creative process and detailing draw, built and tested full scale September 2012 6th European Symposium on Research in Architecture and Urban Design Faculty of Architecture, University of Porto Article “Storytelling Ground - the urban dynamic of the contemporary city” July 2012 Master thesis presentation Department of Architecture, University of Coimbra “Berlin, how long is now?” Final classification of 19 (out of 20) July 2011 Published team work developed during the course of Project 5 Magazine “Via Latina, Reinventing the City#8” Edition integrated under the XIII Cultural Week of University of Coimbra April 2011 Project exhibited in “Urban Visions of Mondego Waterfronts” National Museum Machado de Castro, Coimbra Exposition integrated under the XIII Cultural Week of University of Coimbra November 2010 Project selected for the exhibition TAPE Department of Architecture, University of Coimbra Initiative that gathers the best realized works of the year
Computer skills AUTOCAD 2D, 2D (academic formation) ARCHICAD, ARTLANTIS (May 2012 specific workshop) RHINOCEROS (October-December 2011 Rhinoceros application in “Alberti Digital”) ADOBE PHOTOSHOP, ILLUSTRATOR, INDESIGN (April 2010 workshop “Digital Processes”) MS OFFICE Applications (self-learning) Extracurricular activities/ interests Acting – I was part of a School Group Theatre Practice of team sport in organised competition (volleyball and football), regular practice of aerobics. Regular practice of hand drawing and painting obtained through academic formation and self-learning Basic knowledge in photography obtained through self-learning and specifics workshops (CUMN and General Lomography) Organizational skills and competences Good ability in graphics design communication and public expression Able to work independently and/or in groups and capable of adapting to different methods of working Strong organizational skills concerning the capacity to develop multi-functional and multi-disciplinary projects Positive attitude with determination, together with an interest in architectural culture and a strong artistic sensibility Additional information February 2012 Participation in the conference “Cosa Mentale, the Idea in Architecture” (Jean-Paul Jacquard+Florian Beigel+Pezo von Ellrichshausen) October 2012 Participation in the conference “Architecture/ Forest/ Landscape” (Bolle Tham+Borre Skodvin+Aires Mateus+Kengo Kuma) January 2011 Participation in the conference “Jacques Herzog”, Lisbon Triennial of Architecture January 2011 Participation in the conference “Architecture [in] ]out[ Politics”, Lisbon Triennial of Architecture (Jeffrey Inaba+Yona Friedman+Santiago Cirugeda+Philippe Rahm) November 2008 Participation in the colloquy “Art_Real_Mind_Art” (Souto de Moura) November 2005 Participation in the conference “Homage to Fernando Távora” (Alexandre Alves Costa+Siza Vieira) References References and letters of recommendation available on request
Museum of the City of Coimbra The concept of this museum merges from the continuation of the existing urban fabric, allowing the building design. The tensions and the reduced scale created by the narrow streets are transposed in this project by a fragmentation of the volume and for the proximity of each volume.
Scope: Design Studio II Ruler teacher: Ant贸nio Bandeirinha Accountable teacher: Ant贸nio Bandeirinha Place: Coimbra Program: city museum Year: 2008
elevation of Rua da Moeda
model photographs
gallery
reception storage
offices
auditorium
basement floor plan
transversal section
Housing Complex The three-store bands accommodate two different apartment typologies. The basement level establishes the pendent of the ground and defines the park. The ground floor establishes the main entrance and its two steps elevation allows the lightning and the ventilation of the basement level – for the laundry, the storage and the parking lots. Each apartment connects with the street but also with the shared courtyard, which provides them a common green field. The double-height living room allows the exploration of a mezzanine as an indeterminate space.
Scope: Design Studio III Ruler teacher: José Manuel Gigante Accountable teacher: João Nuno Gomes Place: Coimbra Program: collective housing Year: 2009
ground floor plan
north elevation
section detail
bedroom wc bedroom
living room kitchen
living room wc living room
living room
ground floor plan and first floor plan - t3 and t4 typologies
transversal section
Urban Hotel Three volumes are clearly distinguished, each corresponding to distinct programs. The access to the lobby, which is placed underneath the street, can be thought as an extension of the street into the building. The main lobby coordinates the three programmatic volumes. The second volume appears as rising from the terrain and overcoming the elevation. It emphasizes a strong relation with the internal quarter, but also develops its own interior with a gardened cloister. This interior/ exterior relation allows a dynamic design of plans according to the slope.
pantry
double room
suite
individual room
fourth and sixth floor plans of the hotel rooms
Scope: Design Studio IV Ruler teacher: José Fernando Gonçalves Accountable teacher: António Lousa Place: Coimbra Program: urban hotel Year: 2009/2010
treatment swimming sauna room pool
health club
squash
bath house
auditorium rest area
restaurant
third floor plan
elevation of Av. Calouste Gulbenkian
facade steel panels detail
window detail
section detail
A Shelter for a Peligrin One stop on the way works as a “pause” mode in one of Santiago’s religious route. Thus, the intervention seeks an idea of having temporary spaces to support a journey between two points. A fluid form emerges of the design of the preexisting paths and dwellings. The main spaces created a new, rest and hygiene areas, allow a constant lightning, ventilation and a clear articulation with the preexisting structures.
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT
ward
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT
wc
Scope: Iberian Competition Pladur Constructive Solutions 21st Edition 2011 Team: Carla Carvalho, Diana Pinto and Maria Alves Accountable teacher in the local competition: Ant贸nio Lousa Place: Santiago de Compostela Program: temporary pilgrim shelter Year: 2011
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT
constructive system
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT
pray
lounge
lounge
ground floor plan
longitudinal section
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT
area distribution
City of justice The project consists of an orthogonal system of concrete pillars and beams, placed on an extensive riverside lawn. The modular structure of pillars is the main key to the definition of the internal spaces as well as to the definition of the rhythm in the faรงade. A longitudinal axis divides the public areas from the restricted ones through a duplication of circulation space and access points.
yard
courtroom office waiting area
parking
main courtroom restaurant archive
Scope: Design Studio V Ruler teacher: Gonรงalo Byrne Accountable teacher: Nuno Grande Place: Coimbra Program: city of justice Year: 2011
press room
lounge cafeteria
first floor plan
transversal section
longitudinal section
detail
Cargo Bar The aim was to create a space for multiple events during the bathing season. This allows different appropriations according to the type of performance or to the time of the day. We designed an open square intended to be occupied and used for multiple purposes. The waved surface of the freight containers is reinterpreted and conceived as a surface for the projection of light and image. This urban equipment will create the opportunity for alternative events such as festivals, concerts, creative or bazaar practices, or even demonstrations, to take place.
Scope: C창mara Municipal da Figueira da Foz Team: Diana Pinto and Maria Alves Place: Figueira da Foz Program: beach bar in freight containers Year: 2011
dressing
stage
stands
zen room
wc
cloakroom
bar
seafront
dj/vj
ground floor plan
west elevation
Wine Bar with Sami Rintala The wine bar should contain in itself the movement and the repetition of the train nearby and at the same time allow people to relax. Therefore our design was based on the idea of frames, creating the idea of repetition and movement. After city mayor approved the drawing we had 6 days to build it. Wood details, proportions, furniture and facade details, was all designed during the construction process, in a very dynamic way - discussing, sketching, asking, trying it on 1:1 scale, learning.
Scope: Workshop Viewport Wine bar Architects: Sami Rintala, Paolo Mestriner e Massimiliano Spadoni Place: Matosinhos Program: wine bar Year: 2012
lifting the frames
inside bar
ground floor plan
transversal sections
building site
the opening day
Self-made Arena with Dagur Eggertsson With Casa da MĂşsica as a background, a new space for informal meetings was developed. It was designed from the re-enactment of a public arena, open to visitors and people who live this public space. A framed wood structure was created anew and its repetition and progressive bigger dimension designs the sitting points. Proportions, details and structural studies were all developed and discussed during the construction process. Ten days of measuring, cutting and putting the frames together in order to try it on 1:1 scale.
Scope: Workshop Selfmade Arena Architects: Dagur Eggertsson e Paolo Mestriner Place: Porto Program: mini-audit贸rio Year: 2012
deciding solutions and details
building workshop progress
plan and generic elevation
testing the structure at 1:1 scale
the entrance
Berlin, how long is now Master thesis under the title “Berlin, how long is now?”, related with the city of Berlin and the way how the consolidated city gave room to nowadays cities. It focuses on IBA - the International Building Exhibition, in Berlin (1979-87). The analysis of the urban fabric of Berlin leads to a reinterpretation of the perimetral block, according to the contemporary needs. The core of this question resides in the relation between the privacy of the house and its location in a building, which is itself a part of the city and communicates with the public space. The focusing topic can be defined as a social domestic scale. It isn’t about drawing a built mass or the abstraction of the full/ empty plan, but the architecture that gives place to the urban project, the thinking of the public space and its connections. This leads
to the conception of the buildings not as isolated objects but integrated in the operative mode of the block. This conception shows that it is possible to institute continuity between the traditional city and the recent one, the present and the future expansions, without a subjacent rupture. This intermediate position seams those two spheres and creates a third one – the domesticity. (available at: http://issuu.com/dianasaraivapinto/ docs/pinto__diana._berlim__how_long_is_now.)
Teacher: António Lousa Place: Coimbra Title: Berlin, how long is now Year: 2012
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Storytelling ground Integrated in the general theme of EURAU’12 – “Public Space and the Contemporary City” -, this essay opens the place for the everyday space, for the unforeseen and then for the unexpected impromptu, exposing the lacks of planning. This unfinished component has a vital essence for the city because it opens the opportunity for new spatial and new senses of spatial approaches. It also emphasizes the missing, the voids and the deletions, the replacements or the harmonious conscience of those distinct realities. We can talk about a “talking void”, a storytelling ground. And that can be an important issue to understand the city’s dynamic nowadays. The image that the contemporary city pretends to create is a complex network of several relationships between the constructed drawing of the city and the
spontaneous individual and collective experiences that are going to aggregate with each other and fill the empty spaces of the traditional and rational drawing. A new drawing of the public space begins to be developed and operates in the failures of the planning or – according to time, wills or disuse – with merely obsolete structures.These are the territories that carry out the new spaces of the contemporary city, those that fit as residual urban spaces and correspond to a new conception of the public space. (available at: http://issuu.com/dianasaraivapinto/ docs/storytellingground)
Scope: EURAU ‘12 Place: FAUP, Porto Title: Storytelling Ground - the urban dynamic of the contemporary city Year: 2012
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In the search for today’s urbanity
More and more, city and society confuse ea reflects on the other. After all, city is the main s than a half of humanity lives in urban centres modern society, architecture tends preferably to of house. Nowadays the erosion of the public s public sphere. In the 50s and 60s the Team X 1 have de perception of the social and cultural realities o expand the look of the architect by draw anthropological and sociological observations – a hierarchy of associated elements and it must e levels (the House, the Street, the Block and the the theme of the 8th CIAM, where was definitely a “fifth function” emerged: the civic centre and t treated the problem of housing, it focused on un community and to work what defines it and its their new concept took into account the hum functional organization), the identity (peculiar fo and the increasing mobility necessity. The urban vitality could run to the encou contemporary metropolis is confronted to accep ephemeral and of the transitory – cities functio
formally seduced by the chaos, the desire for stability and the necessity of the instability. Chaos that only exists if we see just its forms and exclude their symbolic content, other way spaces, anti-spaces, places and non-places intertwine, complement and coexist. The image that the contemporary city pretends to create is a complex network of several relationships between the constructed drawing of the city and the spontaneous individual and collective experiences that are going to aggregate with each other and fill the empty spaces of the traditional and rational drawing. A new drawing of the public space begins to be developed and operates in the failures of the planning or – according to time, wills or disuse – with merely obsolete structures, the ones that Solà-Morales (with a poetic rhetoric) defines as “terrain vague” 3. These are the territories that carry out the new spaces of the contemporary city, those that fit as residual urban spaces and correspond to a new conception of the public space. Those are the spaces of the 21st century that will build new cities within the explosive and filled voids cities of the 20th century. In the discussion about the urban voids the most important spaces are not the nonbuilt, but the unoccupied ones, without any function and therefore residuals - open to ephemeral interventions and capable of adapting to different pre-existences.
ach other. What happens with one stage of life, considering that more s. Despite the privatization of the the public space over the privacy spaces is seen as a threat to the
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unter of the urban diversity. The pt the current eclectic spirit of the onally obsessed with flexibility and
Fig. 2