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Diogo Cruz Architecture
Portfolio dArq FCTUC
Index
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Curriculum Vitae
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Museum
rua jo達o cabreira, coimbra, 2008
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Hotel
montes claros, coimbra, 2010
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Cultural Center casa do sal, coimbra, 2011
Personal Information Name Naturality Nationality Date of Birth Email Telephone
Diogo Alexandre Pedrosa Amaral da Cruz Durban, South Africa Portuguese 1988 - 10 - 30 dacruz1988@gmail.com +351 964894643
Education Date Title of Qualification Main Activities
10.2006 - 07.2012 Master’s Degree in Architecture Departamento de Arquitectura da Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra
Professional Experience Date Occupation Main Activities Employer
08.2010 - 09.2010 Summer Internship Project development for the modernization of a school in Batalha. Execution of surveys, technical drawings and models. Atelier do Corvo
Type of Business
Architectural Office
Client
Parque Escolar, E.P.E
Date Occupation Main Activities Employer Type of Business Client
06.2010 - 07.2010 Summer Internship Development of urban project as part of Murtosa’s historic center urbanization plan. Technical drawing of elements from the same project. Síntese Consultancy and Planning Office Murtosa Town Hall
Date
08.2009 - 09.2009
Occupation
Summer Internship
Main Activities Employer Type of Business Client
Project development for the modernization and requalification of Miranda do Corvo’s town market, Coimbra. Execution of surveys, technical drawings and models. Atelier do Corvo Architectural Office Miranda do Corvo Town Hall
Date
08.2008 - 09.2008
Occupation
Summer Internship
Main Activities Employer Type of Business Client
Project development for a dwelling destined for agritourism in Quinta do Mouro, Miranda do Corvo. Execution of surveys, technical drawings and models. Atelier do Corvo Architectural Office Pedro Domingos
Skills Languages
Portuguese [native], English [Certificate in Advance English], German [Zertifikat Deutsch], Spanish [independent user]
Software
Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Autodesk AutoCAD (2D/3D), Autodesk 3D Studio Max, Google Sketchup, Graphisoft Archicad, Maxon Cinema 4D, V-Ray. Microsoft Office.
Museum in Coimbra’s Downtown rua joão cabreira, coimbra, 2008 exercise developed for 2nd year project class
Since 1992 there have been plans to create a tram line in Coimbra in order to improve public transportation within the city. Although some demolition works had already got underway in the city’s downtown area the whole project has nonetheless been recently halted due to financial dificulties. It was within this context that the students were asked to develop a museum in one these demolished areas. Furthermore, one of the main conditions of the project was that it had to adapt itself to the fact that the before mentioned tram line would have to pass through it. In regard to the exterior design of the building, the main idea was to prolong the variation of heights which can be seen throughout the downtown’s condensed urban grid. With that in mind, the project was intended to be a set of volumes, each representing a specific exhibition room. By doing this the building itself would materialize with the surrounding area, thus creating a sense of belonging with the locale. The program of the Museum is constituted naturally by the exhibition area in the upper floor, in addition to an auditorium, cafeteria, museum store, garage, workshop spaces and an administrative area, which are distributed throughout the lower level. As one can see from the following drawings and renderings, attention was given for each space to receive natural ilumination, either in the form of windows, skylights or clerestories.
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Program: 1- Exhibition Area 2- W.C. 3- Service Elevator
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1st Floor
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4- Foyer 5- Auditorium 6- Cafeteria 7- Museum Store 8 Administrative Offices 9- Workshop 10- Garage
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Ground Floor
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Roof Plan
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Public Space
Street View 11
Museum’s Interior Space
Exhibition Room 12
Hotel in Celas’ Economic Core montes claros, coimbra, 2010 exercise developed for 4th year project class
This project consists in a 4 star hotel to be located in one of Coimbra’s busiest zones. The intervention area is divided into 2 sectors: Conchada to the west, which is mainly in a residential area built in the 1940’s, and Celas to the east, which is mostly occupied by commercial and health services, including the Coimbra University Hospital and the Portuguese Institute of Oncology. It was decided that the best course of action was to locate the Hotel right between the two sectors in a quarter called Montes Claros. Unlike most of the surrounding neighbourhoods, this area benefited from an open space provided by a small playground located right in front of it, thus allowing the hotel to have a good amount of sun exposure and also a panoramic view of Coimbra’s skyline. The hotel adapts itself to the curved layout of the terrain which defines the distribuition of the bedrooms alongside the facade. The main lobby serves as the “heart” of the project, having a height of 12 meters and being characterized by a system of skylights made out of concrete beams, “showering” it with natural illumination. This large hall has also openings along the walls creating small links between it and the other programs distributed throughout the hotel. Lastly, there was an attempt to open some of the hotel’s services to the surrounding community, mainly the bar, restaurant and the conference room, situated in the ground floor.
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Program: 1- Spa Area 2- Bedrooms 3- Suites 2nd Floor 2 4
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4- Administrative sector 5- Mechanical Room 6- Elevators 7- Patio
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1st Floor 5 17 11
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8- Entrance 9- Reception 10- W.C. 11- Main Lobby 12- Conference Room 13- Bar 14- Leisure Area 15- Restaurant 16- Kitchen 17- Garage Access
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Ground Floor Plan
Underground Floor Plan (Parking Lot and Warehouse)
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Second Floor Plan 0m
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16 1 - Reinforced Concrete 2 - Tout-Venant (0,1 m) 3 - Gravel (0,2 m) 4 - Blinding Concrete (5 cm) 5 - Felt 6 - Concrete Grout Lightly Reinforced 7 - Thick Bituminous Layer 8 - Blinding Layer 9 - Corrugated PVC Drain 10 - Concrete Masonry Unit 11 - Extruded Polystyrene 12 - Gravel (0,15 m) 13 - B20 Concrete Grout (5 cm) 14 - Laying Mortar (5 cm) 15 - Paving Stone (50X50mm) 16 - Zinc Plate 17 - Stone Threshold 18 - Pladur 19 - Wood 20 - Expanded Polystyrene 21 - Levelling Layer 22 - Stone 23 - Lightweight Aggregate Concrete 24 - Asphalt Roll Roofing (2) 25 - Geotextile 26 - Layer of Pebbles 27 - Aluminium Framework
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Reception
Main Lobby 19
Interior Patio
Hotel in Montes Claros 20
Coimbra Cultural Center casa do sal, coimbra, 2011 exercise developed for 5th year project class
As part of a general proposal entitled “Reinventar Coimbra� (To Reinvent Coimbra) the project is located in Vale de Coselhas, which is a green space surrounded by highways which provide a fast connection to one of the city’s main services: Coimbra University Hospitals. The 1st phase of this project consisted in a group work with the objective of requalifying this untapped space. In order to bring the citizens to this area, a solution had to be found concerning the poor access between the park and the surrounding area, which was severed because of the adjacent highways. These improvements came in the form of underground tunnels, designed so that no interference would come to the automobile circulation and some alterations in the layout of IC2 highway. Likewise new programs were introduced in the park: a tram stop, a cultural center, a hotel, a business center and finally a residential area. For the 2nd phase of the project, each student became responsible for a portion of the proposed programs. The CCC (Coimbra Cultural Center) is a multi purpose complex situated in the western part of Vale de Coselhas, more specifically an area called Casa do Sal, and extends itself halfway accross the park. The main volume of the CCC is composed by 3 bodies representing the following purposes: a media library and cinema room (west body), a great auditorium for theatre perfomances (middle body) and a museum (east body). Following eastward one can find the library which displays a close relation with the water mirror - one of the most present elements throughout the newly designed green space - and finally the restaurant which is turned to face the continuation of the park.
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General Plan for the Requalification of Vale de Coselhas
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1- Tram Stop, 2- Media Library and Cinema, 3- Auditorium, 4- Museum, 5- Library, 6- Restaurant
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Coimbra Cultural Center Roof plan
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First Floor plan
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1- Store Room, 2- Upper Entrance to the Auditorium, 3- Media Library ,4- West Entrance, 5- Administrative Department, 6- Cinema, 7- South Entrance, 8- Auditorium, 9- Access to Dressing Rooms, 10- Garage, 11- East Entrance, 12- Museum ,13- Bar, 14- Shop, 15- Exhibition Gallery, 16- Stage, 17- Workshop, 18- Museum, 19- Library, 20- Underground Parking Lot
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Underground Floor plan
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North Facade
Library Entrance Platform 27
South Facade
View from the West Side of the Park 28
Diogo Cruz Email dacruz1988@gmail.com Phone +351964894643 http://issuu.com/diogocruz6