LISA DIOGO
WHO AM I? 1 Brief self presentation
CV 3 Professional and academic presentation
WHAT IF? A DESIGN STRATEGY BRIDGING URBAN EDGES IN A SECTION OF THE CONTEMPORARY AARHUS 5 Urban Mobility . Social Sustainability . Cycling . Place Making . Temporary Uses _ MSc04-Urban Design [February-June 2017]
SLOW DOWN 9 Mobility . Transit Spaces . Infrastructures . LRT . Landscape . Place Making _ MSc02-Urban Design [March-June 2016]
MAPPING GREYSCAPES 11 Contribution article & illustration to the ‘Urban Design Kaleidoscope 2017’ [July-September 2017]
TOURISM IN TRANSFORMATION : From urban chaos to urban resilience in Barcelona 13 Article and illustrations submited to ‘The Urban Transcripts Journal’’ [October 2017 & March 2018]
ART INDUSTRY 15 Strategy . Temporary Uses . City Making . Conversion of Buildings _ MSc01-Urban Design [December 2015]
STIGSBORG ON THE MOVE 17 Sustainable Mobility . Development Strategy . Cycling . Users’ Experience [May 2016]
THE ICEBERG 18 Student Housing . Green Roofs . Urban Block Consolidation _ MA08-Architecture [February 2010 & June 2011]
MAPPING A JOURNEY THROUGH BERLIN 19 Urban Mobility . Public Transport . Mapping . Users’ Experience . Less Material Existences [May 2016]
OTHER PROJECTS 21 Summary of a few projects developed in collaboration with B(A)ª arquitectos & URBIMAGEM [2012-2015]
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Urban explorer passionate for creating spaces with & for people, for improving urban mobility, for building a more sustainable and resilient environment and for challenging the daily use of urban spaces
Design, research & development oriented within sustainable urban developments and transformations, urban mobility, strategic design, community engagement and collaborative design
Searching for new challenges in development and creation of urban spaces within my expertise fields. Looking forward to contribute and work in a stimulating, vivid and open-minded environment to add to my experience.
WHO AM I? I am a young Portuguese urban designer and architect passionate for creating spaces with & for people,for challenging the traditional use of urban spaces and for discussing future sustainable scenarios for our cities. I am both design, development and research-oriented within urban mobility, sustainable urban developments, and public spaces transformation. After my MArch in Architecture, I worked for 2 years and 6 months cooperating in projects such as housing, rehabilitation and design of commercial spaces. The work developed in this period has increased my keenness for the dialogue between architecture and its users. Seeking to improve my knowledge, I decided to expand my education. Studying Urban Design was a key step in my path. I currently work within new residential developments in the United Kingdom where I aim to contribute with my social awareness and sustainable urban insights. In my international journey, I have been working in teams and individually and I embraced projects with different scales and outcomes from articles to illustrations and design solutions from early stages to final ones. It is in the symbiosis between ‘design – knowledge sharing – citizens’ participation’, that my passion in the field stands and how I believe that meaningful experiences, innovative outcomes, and sustainable solutions can be reached.
I am a modest and considerate person with an open-minded and egalitarian attitude. Being curious, methodical, and appreciative of a diversity of opinions define me professionally. I am reliable, trustworthy and tolerant with a high interpersonal awareness. Willing to learn, naturally curious and passionate for urban design, I look forward for my next professional step and to keep evolving with inspiring and more experienced ‘urban minds’. 2
ELISA DIOGO ANDRADE SILVA urban designer & architect Passionate for urban mobility, creating spaces with & for people, for improving urban life and for building a more resilient environment.
Elisa Silva Elisa SilvaElisa Silva
Dynamic and enthusiastic with 3 and half years of experience within design and problem solving concerning urban design & architecture. Both design, research and development-oriented within the urban realm, its intriguing transformations and its dialogue with people. Looking for new opportunities to work in an openminded and stimulating work environment to add to my international professional experience. Check out my latest projects here.
CONTACTS 8 Clare Street, CB4 3BY, Cambridge, UK +44 07878 350224 +351 91 825 65 21 elisadiogosilva@gmail.com linkedin.com/in/elisa-diogo
2018 - TO PRESENT MOMENT
2D & 3D ArchiCAD
urban designer I pegasus group cambridge, united kingdom Working in a team of urban designers and planners and closely with the Urban Design Director on detailed applications of new residential developments in the UK. • Participation in the development and design of new residential developments with the Essex Design Guide as a starting point has increased my knowledge regarding UK Design Codes and good urban pratices; • Delivery of Design Access Statements, Concept Layouts and Site Layouts, Constraints & Opportunities Plans, Framework Plans and other supporting plans, Streetscenes and House Type Packs.
2D & 3D AutoCAD
2016
SOFTWARE
Revit Vectorworks Grasshopper Illustrator Photoshop InDesign Artlantis Windows OS Microsoft Office Mac OS 3
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
research assistant in urban design I aalborg university aalborg, denmark Worked with an assistant professor within the research topic- Urban Mobilities. • First author of a conference paper ‘Mapping Unknown Knowns- Sensitizing mobilities designers to mobile and lived experiences in physical infrastructures’; • Conducting a research project extended my expertise on mapping processes and on the importance of both material and less material matters in the citizens' daily urban mobility; • Structured & developed an urban mobilities design archive improving my organizational skills.
2012 - 2015
architectural assistant I urbimagem & b(a)ª porto, portugal Worked closely with the Architect Director and Civil engineer team on both national and international projects (Angola, Cape Verde and Brazil). Main focus on private housing, residential developments, house rehabilitation & refurbishments, and interior design of retail spaces. • Architectural, detailed and construction drawings (2D & 3D), measurements and quotes enlarged my experience regarding the built environment and project/construction phases; • Regular site visits and follow-ups at construction site expanded my knowledge on site and increased my awareness towards the built environment; • Coordination of the Materials Department encompassed meetings, visit to materials/ construction fairs, along with materiality studies and materials research; • Participation on the development of a light steel frame system - by B(A)ª - to generate a low-cost and less traditional construction system applied in residential projects in developing countries.
LANGUAGES Portuguese [native] English Spanish Danish
BUSINESS COMPETENCES Teamwork & Communication Problem solving Analytical, Critical & Forward thinking Dynamism, Motivation & Persistence Accountable & Effective Leadership, Initiative & professionalism
ORGANIZATIONAL & SOCIAL ACTIVITIES 2008-2010 Member of Architecture Students Association_PRO-ARQ at Lusíada University [Portugal]. 2000-2004 Member of Rotary International_ Matosinhos Interact Club [Portugal].
PERSONAL INTERESTS Travelling Jogging Cooking Music Books & Reading Photography Coffee & Talk Swimming Spending time with family & friends
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND 2015-2017
msc urban design I aalborg university aalborg, denmark Subjects ranged from water management, to landscape design, urban mobility, sustainable urban transformations, social sustainability, performative design and the smart city. • Approaching themes through 'problem based learning' method fomented pragmatic results that address current urban and global issues based on a teamwork effort; • Urban transformation, urban mobility and social integrated urban fabrics are present in my master thesis [LINK] and are my expertise fields; • Acquired competences regarding concept development, design, research, mapping and technical matters such as transit infrastructures and water management, offering me tools to work within creation and transformation of urban fabrics.
2004-2012 [2010-2011 ABROAD] ba + ma architecture I lusíada university porto, portugal & brno, czech republic Residential developments, hospitals & health, schools & education, social housing and urban interventions were the explored themes approached through individual projects. • At Brno University of Technology, conversion and adaption of buildings to new uses, as well as elderly and student housing were in focus amplifying my architectural knowledge; • Social integration through architecture and urban fabric transformations ended up being my specialization present in my master's thesis [LINK]; • Site analysis, concept development, design approaches, materials and construction methods and details, offering me tools to work within creation and transformation of a variety of architectural projects.
SKILLS & COMPETENCES professional & technical personal & relational • Urban mobility & transit spaces design • Teamwork-oriented • Environmentally sustainable transformations • Good Interpersonal Awareness • Socially sustainable transformations • Passionate & Enthusiastic • Strategic design, Place-making & Co-design • Outgoing • Mapping, Methodologies & Processes • Communicative & Open-minded • Housing & Mixed-Used developments • Dynamic • Residential and Mixed-used developments • Curious • Architectural drawings • Reliable
PUBLICATIONS 2019 . article [online]:
Tourism in transformation: From an urban hectic environment to urban resilience in Barcelona. The Urban Transcripts Journal. [LINK].
2019 . article [online]:
‘Gentritourism‘ as a phenomenon and the subculture of visitors emerged from it. The Urban Transcripts Journal. [LINK].
2017 . contribution to aalborg university urban design catalogue:
Mapping greyscapes. In: Lanng, D. & Lange, I.,ed. 2017. Urban Design Kaleidoscope 2017. Aalborg: AAU press. pp.21-22. [LINK]
2016 . conference paper [in press]:
Mapping Unknown Knowns - Sensitizing mobilities designers to mobile and lived experiences in physical infrastructures. In: C-MUS, Material Mobilities. Aalborg, Denmark.
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WHAT IF?
A DESIGN STRATEGY BRIDGING URBAN EDGES IN A SECTION OF THE CONTEMPORARY AARHUS
Viborgvej Ringvejen
Ringgaden
ÅBYHØJ
AARHUS C
GELLERUP
Silkeborgvej
The City Section . Site Map . Context Map
AARHUS . DENMARK MOSTLY PRESENT IN THE DESIGN PROCESS, SOCIAL IMPACT, THE PROJECT’S TECHNICAL PARAMETERS, 3D, PLANS, DIAGRAMS & THE PROJECT’S STORY TELLING.
The residential development Gellerup in the West of Aarhus has since its foundation been accompanied by social problems. The area has slowly become an enclosed island disconnected from the surrounding urban fabric. Current regeneration of Gellerup is focusing on the embedded potentials transforming the area into a vibrant urban life, but it has a tendency to lose sight of the wider urban context. This project develops a design strategy bridging the edges that disconnect Gellerup from the larger context. What if the issues are caused bye a lack of knowledge and awareness of the area? What if it is a result of physical and mental barriers within the city?
The project examines a section of the contemporary Aarhus including Aarhus C, Åbyhøj and Gellerup. It is a strategy strongly inspired in the architectural power to brand working with 3 concepts of time; permanent interventions - bicycle and pedestrian path connecting the three areas -, temporary installations and events - that enlighten people about Gellerup while adding experiences to daily commuters. 5
Playful Playful
A FOUR-PHASED STRATEGY
Art Social Art
1.Gellerup’s Strengths Social
Art Playful1.Gellerup’s Social Art Playful Social 1.Gellerup’s
Strengths Strengths
In order to brand the playful, social and artistic qualities of Gellerup are examined, picked and ‘grabbed’.
1.Gellerup’s Strengths
2.Interventions, events and a temporary path 2.Interventions, events and a temporary path 2.Interventions, events and a temporary path 2.Interventions, events and a temporary path
3.Permanent path and opening of the ’Blok4’ 3.Permanent path and opening of the ’Blok4’ 3.Permanent path and opening of the ’Blok4’ 3.Permanent path and opening of the ’Blok4’
4.The path 4.The path 4.The path 4.The path
These qualities are reinterpreted and superimposed in Aarhus C in order to create an awareness of what is happening in Gellerup by working as a teaser of what is yet to come. A temporary path is introduced in Aarhus C pointing towards the opening of the permanent path running through Åbyhøj. A permanent path inaugurates at the same time as the opening of Blok B4 creating a strong physical connection along the section. Shortterm interventions along the section aim to generate meaningful experiences catalyzing the process of awareness, slowly fading the existing mental edges. The catalyst leaves when edges are bridged.
The permanent path . Its location and connection to other areas of the city
THE PATH It crosses significant points of the area in order to brand the existing unknown potentials. It is a discovery and playful path that shows less known areas of the city.
C. A. Thyregods Vej
Strong visible elements create a clear understanding of the path. The project has chosen to work with the colour yellow to create a resilient identity that colours the surface of the bike path to higher the safety of the cyclists. Furthermore, the yellow surface aims to emphasize social meetings spots between the different existing cultures and to activate existing functions.
The Park One way ->
The Cemetery
Fenrisvej Århus statsgymnasium Basketball Bike pitstop
The Bridge Street intersection
Globus1 Blok B4
Art installation Herb garden
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The Allotments Klokkervej
DESIGN SPOTS
The School & Carit Etlars Vej
Two spots, The School & The Plaza, were selected to be designed in more detail to explore and reveal the architectural power to brand.
Gammelgårdsskolen Skater park Playground Running track ‘Plug and play’ Food Bazar One way ->
The concept . The path, The nodes, the turns, and their materiality
The Plaza Kvickly/parking Plug-in activity Plug-in Bazar Bus stop Recycling
Connection to path
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IN ADDITION TO THE STRATEGY, TWO SPACES WERE DESIGNED IN MORE DETAIL TO INVESTIGATE THE POSSIBILITIES OF THIS PROJECT IN URBAN TERMS...
THE PLAZA Connection Parking
The Plaza
The space
[KVICKLY SUPERMARKET]
Kvickly is an ordinary grocery store defined by an anonymous architecture over decorated by advertisement signs. It is one of the largest public areas in Åbyhøj playing a central role in the daily residents’ routines. The space has a large exposure as it is placed directly to the busy Silkeborgvej, the main vein connecting Gellerup and Aarhus C, thus having great potentials yet to be explored. The project claims the space to a public domain – a plaza.
The dune
What if the parking lot was a social meeting spot?
The concept works the area in layers that are added to enphasize certain activities, or functions. The design interprets the bazar and the social characteristics of Gellerup into the context of Kvickly’s parking lot. It is a spatial reorganisation creating the opportunity for people to meet and experience a multicultural shopping experience. Kvickly Bazar is a flexible structure allowing food trucks and Kvickly’s vegetables market to ‘plug-in’ their products. A food truck selling fish already occupies the area several times a week, and by introducing the plug-in bazar, the grocery shopping at Kvickly can be supplemented with exotic spices, providing an urban platform for cultural exchanges.
The Flows
The food bazar
Through meaningful experiences, certain misconceptions towards Gellerup tend to diminish ‘breaking down’ less tangible edges of the urban fabric.
The functions
OK OK
FOOD
Bus
Comercial signs
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CULTURE
BAZAR KVICKLY T H E P A T H
Bus
Through architecture, branding becomes interactive and creates an opportunity for a metting spot in a less traditional space of the city that offers what other metting areas of the city do not.
Site plan . The Plaza
View from Silkeborgvej [Aarhus - Gellerup direction]
[GAMMELGÅRDSSKOLEN]
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Gammelgårdsskolen is the local public school having pupils from both Åbyhøj and Gellerup. It is therefore, a space of daily social exchanges between cultures. The project opens up the school towards the street making it an active actor in the urban life. It uses the falling terrain to make a skater park that can be used both during the school day and after. The skater park is surrounded with seating stairs making it a social space for children and teenagers to meet, skate, observe and talk. The yellow colour is used to create a playful surface, moreover, it creates an awareness that the space is for the vulnerable road users and the cars have to follow their pace. Following the same concept as Kvickly, the place introduces space for food truck to plug-in and sell food during lunch break presenting the children to different cultures.
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Site plan . The school & The residential street
THE RESIDENTIAL STREET
[C. A. THYREGODS VEJ]
C. A. Thyregods Vej is a common residential street in a Danish suburb inhabited by economically strong families, where the land plots are divided with fences. However, the street does not reflect the life happening behind these. The street itself is empty with boring sidewalks and parking along the side. It does not create opportunities for socializing. The project claims the street back to its original function as a social meeting platform between humans in movement. It works with two layers: daily mobile space and social events. The first one is frictionless for cyclists, creating in the meanwhile friction for car drivers offering a safer space for the most vulnerable road users. Furthermore, the street now offers what the backyard does not offer, a long hard surface affording to play with your neighbours, with bikes, roller skates and skateboards.
The school atmosphere with the plug-in trucks on a school day
The street on an event day
The new character of the street becomes a potential platform for social events such as neighbourhood parties, play days etc. bringing different cultures closer.
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SLOW DOWN Concept development section
VESTBYEN TRAIN STATION AALBORG . DENMARK MOSTLY PRESENT IN THE DESIGN PROCESS, PROJECT’S TECHNICAL ISSUES, BUILDING AND PRESENTING A RELEVANT THEORY DISCUSSION, AND THE PROJECT’S STORY TELLING.
Vestbyen Station is a node of many mobile situations however, it is not designed for their needs. Daily routes are taking more time on people’s life so they should not be taken for granted, they should be explored and challenged. With this insights in mind, the project aims to offer an experience to these ordinary daily moments both while on the move or waiting for a transportation mode. Vestbyen Station will enjoy a better integration with the surroundings, serve their needs and will be ‘the entrance’ to the nearby future developments. Resembling the landscape of Scandinavian nature, the site will be greener and lusher than the ordinary urban station establishing a connection with the surrounding green areas. The vision is to give the travellers an extraordinary experience through their senses and different affordances, and by this creating a slower pace in the urban fabric.
[B]
LANDSCAPE OF MOBILE AFFORDANCES LANDSCAPE OF AFFORDANCES
MOBILE SITUATION A B
[A] SLOW DOWN
[C]
VESTBYEN STATION
Slow down is experiencing, touching, feeling, interacting, tasting, smelling while moving.
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The design merges landscape and mobility offering experiences that are not normally seen in a place like Vestbyen Station. Through that experience, it is desired that users embrace the site not only as a transit space, but as an area with its own life and identity. The concept aims on getting people to slow down. A bicycle ride should be enjoyed, a daily route to school should be an experience and waiting for the train should be playful. It is through a landscape that the physical settings gain shape affording diverse situations, facilitating daily practices, and improving interactions. Through a landscape of affordances becomes effortless to grab a coffee, park a bike, seat and enjoy the sun, interact with other passers-by or find an alternative route crossing the pleasing smells and lovely colours of this Scandinavian inspired landscape urban station. Routes and connections as the greater feature of the area, give to flows major priority. Therefore, existing and necessary flows ‘shape’ the landscape drawing the access to different modes of transport as establishes the connection between them.
[A] THE TRAIN PLATFORM The landscape grows from the bottom grabbing the train platform creating a link between both levels. Once it gets to the waiting area, is interrupted by a concrete structure that affords seating. In this area, emerges the opportunity to interact while waiting. Benches with games 25,92,100,20 on the surfaces that can only be played with the presence of another user might strengthen the possibility of interaction. Implementing two benches close enough to one another can also instigate interaction by ‘pointing out’ each others presence. Once more, the social realm comes forward.
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[B] THE NEW TUNNEL The tunnel is crossing diagonally the train platform creating a new flow in the site that connects directly the new car parking in the west side of the platform with the east side. This flow will be used by people heading Kvickly supermarket, the language school, the new parking or by those who just look for a faster connection to the west side of the platform. The tunnel will see its walls made of corten-steel become illuminated during night time through some holes, thus affording guidance, safeness and playfulness due to the material’s texture and the lights, improving the experience while on the move.
[C] THE CAFÉ
[ADDED COMMERCIAL SPACE]
This moment is placed in a central location regarding the intervention site and is expected to bring some life to the area. Due to its connection to a function, it becomes a recreational and a longer staying area, thus it provides different atmospheres: A clean concrete surface enriched by outdoor furniture allowing a pleasant stay while enjoying a long coffee in a more urban atmosphere, while slightly above emerges a ‘secret garden’. This latest presents the area with a smaller scale space that has an intimate and cosy feeling. The space affords different activites while waiting for the train offer a possibility of longer stays bringing life to the site.
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The peculiar atmosphere offered by the distinctive Scandinavian landscape
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MAPPING GREYSCAPES RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AND ILLUSTRATION.
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Aarhus comprises different intensities, deficits, temporalities, people, and moments that play a role in urban daily life. However, none of the temporary activities, the resilient cultural intensity, the development of certain areas, the lack of knowledge, and misconceptions toward other areas are represented, in the ordinary mapping of urban structures. Through an inventive superimposition of representation techniques, such as letterings, drawings, photographs, words, and symbols (and perhaps many others), the lived environment of Aarhus is suggested.” (Silva, 2017:21) The illustration explores mapping, a common technique among architects and urban designers, with the insights of interpreting the urban fabric as the result of the vibrant and mutable dialogue between people and the physical settings through time (Spirn, 1988). Thus, it becomes an explorative surface illustrating the urban fabric as a living scenario and not as the perpetual settings of human life. This illustration is part of an article that emerges from a study trip mapping assignment and the conference paper ‘Mapping Unknown Knowns – Sensitizing mobilities designers to mobile and lived experiences in physical infrastructures’ by Elisa Silva, Ditte Lanng & Simon Wind, presented at C-MUS 2016 Conference – Material Mobilities. The interpretation of Aarhus city is inspired on interviews carried out within the scope of my Urban Design master thesis ‘What if? A design strategy bridging urban edges in a section of the contemporary Aarhus’, by Elisa, Louise & Maria (AAU, 2017). Full article available here. Go ahead, click, and check it out! Mapping Greyscapes. In: Lanng, D. & Lange, I.,ed. 2017. Urban Design Kaleidoscope 2017. Aalborg: AAU press. pp.21-22.
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MAPPING MORE THAN GREYSCAPES - mapping less-material existences of Aarhusâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; urban lived environment
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TOURISM IN TRANSFORMATION FROM AN URBAN HECTIC ENVIRONMENT TO URBAN RESILIENCE IN BARCELONA RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AND ILLUSTRATIONS.
Congested traffic infrastructures, overcrowded public spaces, schedules that avert groups of tourists’ from entering in order to keep the space functioning, property speculation, paid entrances into public parks to avoid a too high number of visitors, restless nights for city dwellers, unfriendly social environment between visitors and residents, endless queues that ruin the essence of spaces, excessive erosion of cultural heritage. These are only a few of the consequences of mass tourism.
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Are schedule restrictions the most effective solution to overcrowded spaces? Should the urban fabric be treated like an amusement park serving tourism necessities? Are barriers the answer to this type of urban occurrences? It is urgent to sketch, experiment and formulate solutions for the future of our cities.”
The article highlights the attractive and touristic city of Barcelona to sustain and illustrate how damaging can mass tourism be. ‘Alternative tourism’ is a possible response to mass tourism and so, steps taken so far to mediate the situation are analysed and brought forth. From public platforms that arbitrate all stakeholders’ interests along with citizen’s concerns, to citizens’ love for their city by carrying out by their own hands alternative accommodations that vision to diminish the environmental footprint of each visitor are the kick-start to dig for possible alternatives for our future cities. Urban designers, planners and architects, as some of the people that better know their cities and among the ones responsible for it must participate actively of such discussions. The article is available at ‘The Urban Transcripts Journal’. Check it out here.
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THE OVERCROWDED CITY - A collage of excerpts of two different illustrations of the article intending to picture the crowded city, the atmosphere experienced by tourists and residents, the lack of visitorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; awareness about the city and its public space caused by certain over-branded elements of the city.
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Site plan . 1/2000
1. Non-place
2. Flow creation
3. Scaffold phase
4. Plug-in phase
5. Cinema & Greenhouse
6. Art Centre
ART INDUSTRY
TEMPORARY ART CENTRE . HOLSTEBRO . DENMARK
MOSTLY PRESENT IN THE DESIGN & THINKING PROCESS, 3D, PLANS AND BUILDING A RELEVANT THEORY DISCUSSION.
The Slaughter house, once an important piece of the ‘puzzle’ that generated history and employment to the city of Holstebro, is now under a process of transformation, re-adaptation to the new needs of the city. It can be stated to be in a transition zone between the city centre and the University College (VIA) Campus and simultaneously in a transition period between being a city cultural mark to a new area of development of the city. According to Sennet (2006), transition zones are usually of great potential regarding the creation of new democratic spaces, in other words, are of great potential for co-creation, for development of new identities and for being the meeting platform between citizens and stakeholders.
In this under development context, the ArtIndustry project emerges as a catalyst for an old industrial building, where Art arises as the key element and connector between the existing functions, new functions and the players of the area. The idea goes by looking at the site as the main structure that aggregates multiple architecture elements. Those elements, besides being temporary and movable, connect to the main structure. The project uses Art as the ‘plug-in’ where exhibition boxes are plugged-in on a main structure, similarlly to the capsules in the Plug-in City. These capsules are interpreted as devices that can be moved and pluged-in in other areas of the site and of the city.
The ‘Temporary Art Centre’ is not only a work in progress as it ends-up being a teaser of what is yet to come
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The building has an “under construction” or “work in progress” character acquired by the use of scaffolds, containers and polycarbonate boxes. Through its materiality, provides a closer and sensorial connection between it and the users, also known as haptic architecture or somaaesthetic experience defined and obtained by body’s motion and body’s contact with materiality (Pallasmaa, 2005). The scaffolds are the main structure, like the bones in a human body while containers represent the static functions of the intervention - entrance, reception/ information point and caffe area - somehow like the organs in the human body. As for the polycarbonate boxes, those are the most similar to a body’s skin, they represent what it shanges from person to person. These boxes are where exhibitions are held offering a small and cosy space protected from the surroundings where people can relate with the art works.
Timeline of the strategy
STRATEGY
Axonometry of the ‘Temporary Art Centre’
With Aarhus as the European Capital of Culture 2017, the underdeveloped area of the Slaughter house will host an intervention that will open doors to the future planned Art Centre. In a 20 years perspective, the temporary Art Centre will emerge in the exact year of 2017. The strategy starts with a small intervention consisting in a bus stop made out of scaffolds and polycarbonate that will draw attention towards the site and its future transformations. Following, another element is introduced, the container. During this time other smaller interventions aiming a bigger connection to the city life, will also take place. Between 2017 and 2020 - the expected time for the planned Art Centre - the temporary intervention will function as a catalyst for the area. After 2020 until 2025, the art boxes, the plug-in elements of the project, will start to be spread in the surroundings in order to maintain a tight link between both interventions. In the five years between 2025 and 2030, it is expected that the plug-in element (art boxes) will be plugged-out and spread in other areas of the property in order to boost the public space and to contribute to its development. From 2030 onwards, those same boxes will be spread through the city in order to preserve a memory of the ArtIndustry intervention contributing to a more cultural city while creating an unique identity.
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Site plan of the activating areas
STIGSBORG
DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY . AALBORG . DENMARK MOSTLY PRESENT IN THE DESIGN PROCESS, SOCIAL IMPACT, DIAGRAMS & THE PROJECT’S STORY TELLING.
With the 2017 DGI games event as a kickstarter, the Stigsborg area in Nørresundby will be a health centre with a focus on connecting Stigsborg internally and to Nørresundby and to Aalborg through interactive pedal motion, fun and exercise. With commuter and recreational cycling paths, the area will be a part of everyday life, encouraging people to explore and take a tour through a smart landscape of barren nature mixed with interactive technology. The ambition is to create connections and abridge distances between the different areas of the site and simultaneously improve its connections with the surroundings. Combining this strategy with ‘Aalborg Cykelbys’ vision in developing and creating some new commuter and recreational bicycle paths, emerges the smart bike that will shorten the travel time and meanwhile create an opportunity of interaction, learning and
exploring Stigsborg area and the city of Aalborg. The smart bike will use an application, ‘On the Move’ app, that works as a guide to the city by using a GPS system giving the user a chance to autonomously discover the city. Feedback from previous users of the bikes will give people an opportunity to discover secret places. Simultaneously, this system will collect data that can be used to improve Stigsborg area but also the city of Aalborg. Thus, the strategy will evolve according to the feedback given by the users. The strategy has a temporary character and is designed to be used in the temporary events held in Stigsborg. Five different areas have been picked out and will contain smaller installations to fit the overall strategy of improving health and the fun of cycling.
Timeline of the strategy actions & city events
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‘On the Move’ App. Collects users’ data to improve the strategy and help other users.
Site plan . 1/2000
1. THE ICEBERG
2. BREAKING POINTS
1. THE SHAPE
1. THE BUILDING
A mass emerges filling up the big existing void in order to solidify the city block.
The big mass, resembling an iceberg, breaks into smaller masses to incorporate functions.
The mass becomes less compact and starts to gain different shapes due to the breaking points.
The mass is now composed by five separated pieces whose shapes still resemble an iceberg.
THE ICEBERG
STUDENT HOUSING . BRNO . CZECH REPUBLIC INDIVIDUAL PROJECT - ALL ELEMENTS AND PHASES WERE EXECUTED BY ME.
When designing the project, some issues were considered regarding the structure of the city. It’s a river front quite consolidated, with the exception of the operation area, a corner without identity, which are usually quite relevant spaces that define roads and are often landmarks in cities. These reasons led to an imposing intervention that occupies the entire block to close it, like a stone, like an iceberg. The simple iceberg was broken into pieces in order to create as many facades as possible but always as part of a single element, as if we reunite them, they would become one block only. The project is developed in the three front buildings where the two
hindquarters are for later intervention to be areas that support the university and the residence. All social and administrative spaces are located on the ground floor with a more public nature and the upper floors are dedicated to the rooms and apartments. These were designed to be for two people and apartments for four or five people. The desired image for the project is the compactness and coldness given by the concrete with openings that appear random, however, are based on the same measure which is divided into parts to create the apertures. The aim of the project is to give cohesion to the site, and as an iceberg, be impactful, exceptional, monumental, large and cohesive.
‘The Iceberg’ student housing consolidates and marks the corner of the block offering a stronger identity and a visual reference to the area.
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NOISE LOVELY S EMPTY AIR BORIN SOUND CONFUSI SPRING TRANSIT A Smells
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COLOURS HUNGRY CONTRAST LIFE DARK CALM COLD RELAXED EMPTY ALONE BORING
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OTHER PROJECTS
B(A)ª ARQUITECTOS & URBIMAGEM . PORTO . PORTUGAL Between 2012 and 2014 at B(A)ª-Balthazar Aroso, arquitectos, while doing a curricular internship and the admission internship to the Association of Portuguese Architects, I had the opportunity to work in different phases of architecture such as surveys, urban analysis, follow the conceptual development of some projects, execution project, follow-up at site construction and materiality studies. It was an enriching experience concerning the different stages of a project. The main areas in focus were housing, housing rehabilitation and expansion and also the change of use of commercial spaces. I had also the chance to participate in a public competition for urban requalification in Sardinia. From 2014 to 2015 I worked at URBIMAGEM, which is a part of B(A)ª group, where I was working with space organization, construction architecture, architectural drawings (plans, sections, 3D, detailed contruction drawings), measurements and budgets, materials and both applying and creating light steel frame systems (LSF B(A)ª system) in both national and international projects. Both experiences in B(A)ª group provide me a transversal architectural knowledge on different stages of an architecture project. Some of the projects are posted on their websites, and other are still being developed and were not yet published.
Urban regeneration . Sardinia, Italy [competition]
Housing rehabilitation . Porto, Portugal.
Housing development . Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal. 21
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