FREDERICO COELHO LEITE PORTFOLIO 2008-14
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Frederico Augusto Coelho Leite Rua 5 de Outubro, nยบ 948 4ยบ andar 4445-310 Ermesinde, Porto, Portugal +351 917176351 frederico.coelho.leite@gmail.com frederico.leite.arq Portuguese
EDUCATIONAL INFO
INFO
1988 2004 - 2007 2007 - 2010 2010 - 2014 2013 - 2014
WORK EXPERIENCE 03/2011 - 05/2011 07/2014 (2 weeks) PERSONAL SKILLS social
technical languages
software
others training workshops
AREAS OF INTEREST
Born in Porto. Arts and Crafts, Escola Secundária de Ermesinde. Graduation degree in Architecture, Universidade Lusíada do Porto. Master degree in Architecture, Universidade Lusíada do Porto. Master Thesis ‘The Future of the Past instrumentalization of historicism in the modern intervention’. Colaborated with architect José Mendes Godinho. Colaborated with architect Bernardo Rodrigues. Ability to work in a team; Acting diligently, especially in unforeseen and / or urgent situations; Good ability to stimulate teamwork. Experience in planning design and model making. 03 Portuguese - native language English - advanced level - First Certificate in English (FCE) Level B2, Oporto 06/2006 French - basic level Spanish - basic level Studied AutoCAD | ArchiCAD | Rhino | V-ray | Photoshop | Sketchup. Also work with MAC OS | Windows | Vectorworks | Revit | InDesign | Illustrator | MS-Office | Microstation. Theory | History | Graphic Communication | Design | Photography Professional Training Course in Project Management organized by Ordem dos Arquitectos. Course of Rhino 3D and VRay organized by the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto. Architecture | CAD Desing | 3D modeling and visualization | Investigation
CONTENT
WORKS
05-37 ACADEMIC AND COMPETITION 2008-2014
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DRAWINGS
38 ACADEMIC 2009
WRITINGS
39 ACADEMIC 2013-2014
WORKS
06-07 RETREAT HOUSE PENAFIEL ACADEMIC 2008
08-13 ARTISTS RESIDENCE OPORTO ACADEMIC 2009
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14-19 BOAVISTA HOUSING OPORTO ACADEMIC 2010
20-25 PERFORMING ART CENTRE VILA NOVA DE GAIA ACADEMIC 2011
26-33 THERMAL HOTEL MELGAÇO ACADEMIC* 2012
*As part of my Master Thesis project.
34-37 THE POP-UP INDUSTRY BOLOGNA COMPETITION* 2014 *As member of group FRAME4.
RETREAT HOUSE
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The retreat house designed for the architect Eduardo Souro de Moura is an exercise to study the relations of the minimum proportions necessary in temporary housing. In this exercise there are two elements that determine the location of the intervention which are the main road, the unnatural element wich provides the acess to the house; and the Douro river, the natural element for contemplation. These elements combined result in a natural flow that needs to break the strictly rigidity of the site, allowing a contemporary intervention in a perfect symbiosis between nature and construction where the architect can enjoy his retreat with a magnificent view.
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ARTIST RESIDENCE
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work studios
auditorium
residence
outdoor auditorium
library
exhibition hall
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entry lobby
The centre for resident artists comes inserted in the artistic paradigm of Oporto, taking place in one of the access arteries into the city, near the campus, but still an area where cultural development has a slow appearence. The site that awaits the proposal for a new building represents a void in the city without any kind of function allocated, but has properties that make it desirable for the program in study, which are its dimensions, the proximity to emerging cities and its relationship with the surrounding nature. The image of the building represents the study of approximation and fitting a functional program to where it belongs, respecting all its surrounding conditions in a purely minimalist gesture, contemplating two auditoriums, one interior and other exterior, exhibition halls, work studios, public services and a residence in a programmatic loop.
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BOAVISTA HOUSING
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The assignment location is situated in the center of Oporto, among some icons of the city’s architecture like Casa da Música designed by Rem Koolhaas and the metro station designed by Eduardo Souto de Moura. However, its development has stagnated and is considered to be a gap to the city user. The regeneration proposes a pedestrian network directed to the different focus of the site as well as the creation of collective housing, commerce and services that lie within the existing network.
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Despite of being located in a site where architecture is reaching to its potential, buildings should express their own personalities, perform their own roles and serve their own purposes. In response to this conditions, the collective housing is designed to act as an open theatre to the city, build in concrete and glass in a modular system. This option allows the building to fit in the place, capturing the permeability and sustainability that the site offers, contributing to improve the core a city which is growing faster in the last years.
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Level 3 | Plan 8,60m
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West Elevation
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R E N D E R
PERFORMING ART CENTRE
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The study area is the escarpment of Vila Nova de Gaia, facing the historic center of Oporto, which is occupied with illegal and poor housing, build during the 19th century. The intervention site is a gap between two unlinked types of marginals: one with a high flow traffic and another highly related to local turism. Thus, the goal is to create a funtional program that fill the gap and promote new oportunities and concepts to increase local turism. To fulfill this goal, it is created a new recreation area to promote local commerce and a parking area at the low level, forming a single piece that fits and clings to the ground. This area is connected to a new square by a footbridge. The adjacent ruin that works as romantic piece of the site provides a partial recovery that allows it to function as a loft where it can be developed several temporary projects. The existing stores are restructured to work as a hotel to support the proposed equipment on the top of the escarpment - the performing art centre -, and the Monastery of Serra do Pilar becomes a museum.
parking lot commerce recreation loft
new square
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hotel
performing art centre museum
green recreation spaces
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What is the relationship beteween buildings and spaces? How can they relate with themselves even when they are build in different eras? This proposal aims to study the possibilities that can be extracted from playing with different shapes of the building, being fragmentation the base concept. The final form of the monastery is interpreted as being too static and quite disproportionate, but it is also the start point for the new proposal. The fragmentation comes from the simulation of a certain continuity of the monastery building. The momentum of the proposal is acquired by the twist of its form which contains the core of the main program and it acts as a visual landmark of the site. The harmony of the scene happens when both buildings take advantage of their surroundings.
Experimental centre Black-box auditorium Work areas and storage rooms Rehearsal rooms Workshops Residence
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THERMAL HOTEL
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The territory of Melgaรงo is inside the Minho region, with the area of Peso being characterized by hydrotherapy, as result of the existence of a thermal park, a factor that influenced the development of the case study area, with a property circumscribed where the ruin of a hotel as well as other outbuildings are set to an intervention. The ruined building was a manor house of the Peso viscounts, later converted into a hotel - their name, the Grand Hotel Pezo - factor that forced the successive expansion and interventions over time.
The first approach to the ruin comes from a rational process of decomposition followed by the abstraction of all the elements that compose it in order to contemplate the morphology of the volume, as well as the absence of matter. The ruin was formed by the outer walls, remaining the inside in deep emptiness. After abstraction, the formalization of the functional program takes the lead of the intellectual process, and converging with the previous assumption, determines the usability of the pre-existence building. The sustainability of functional program was not contemplated by the dimension of the existing building so that it took the intervention as a necessity. Once the intervention contemplated a new volume, the matter of image is associated to the issue of form and the juxtaposition of different languages was one of our goals for the study. The new volume is developed under metamorphic logic, taking advantage of its pre-existence, using it as housing and extending from the inside continuously. Opposed to the language of the original building with the aim to formulate its own rules and assume an austere and sober character, the new volume is projected by long white façades combining the plasticity of the composition with controlled lighting of interior spaces and picturesque contemplation of the Thermal Park. In one of the moments of more formal tension, the connection between the pre-existence and the new volume is made with strong convictions, creating a dialectic in which the walls of the new volume are developped by retreating in the horizontal plane, so the two volumes distinguish themselves and assume their own rules. In searching for an equivalent value, the two volumes respect the values of ​​ scale, articulation and texture, where each serves as a scenario for the other. 27
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Reception hall
Restaurant
Work office
Kitchen
Lounge room
Rooms
Circulation hall
Service entrance
Vertical access
Cellar
Transition areas
Cloakroom
Bar and playroom
Storage
Bar and playroom
Toilet
Lounge room and library
Courtyard
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Roof plan
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East Elevation
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North Elevation
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Massive old riga wood pavement Existing granite wall Insulation - high density polystyrene with floor heating setting trap systems armed screed armed rigging rockfill peripheral drainage pavement in hammered granite plate ‘OSB - Kronoply osb3’ plywood with 18mm asphalt screen ‘Polyxo 40’ type, double, crossed thermal insulation boards ‘Roofmate EN’ PVC slat ‘Onduline’ type glued to the insulation with ‘MP TECOFIX’ type glue brim and straw tile, patinated ‘J Umbelino’ type false ceiling ‘Pladur’ type copper gutter plaster tin mop board larch in old riga wood concrete slab existing granite cornice
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THE POP-UP INDUSTRY
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In an initial study on the approach of the program to this building, it’s developed an analysis of who would use this space. A social and economic global complex moment, where economic dynamics call for entrepreneurship and social concepts review the concepts of globalization, it is needed a sustainable solution easily adaptable to different cultural contexts. This reasoning leads to an elimination of time in the building, through exists only as a space to be occupied at any time. So, it is developed a program that simulates a system of intellectual production that reaches the entire site, individual and collective society. The release of the space limitation in dating and temporal context permits greater global context.
For this modernist factory without use or function we thought that the first thing to do was recover it, not for a specific time or labor, but retrieving an abstract system of relations that will keep the proud of the building allowing different activities along the time. The building is organized around a void, where is arranged a set of ramps with cultural content, organized to simulate a system of cultural production: creation - test - maturation - disclosure. This system is developed according to a set of ramps that converges to a center defined as area of the auditorium, which organizes the empty factory. The goal is to develop a self - sustainable system to create new projects to achieve the most diverse social needs. The ramps create the relations between the different spaces/functions. Each ramp has areas for work, exhibitions and presentations. WORK
CIRCULATION
AUDITORIUM
CIRCULATION EXHIBITIONS
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AUDITORIUM EXHIBITIONS
CIRCULATION
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Plan 0,10m
Plan 4,20m
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INSTALLATION AND CONSTRUCTION OF THE CLUSTERS 3D PRINTERS
RAMP
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CORE
Separating, introducing or allowing a new point of view. It’s the force of the core taking over the old building and restoring the proud of the meaning and the use. We proposed a Core as a void that generates a centrifugal movement from were everything is created. In support of this kind of adaptation, and sustain the development of new entrepreneurial projects, offer up 3d printers where people who want to develop pop-up businesses, structure modules can print que need and build them in empty space of the building. The concept of free occupancy of the building is followed by the release of 3D printers, where people who want to develop pop-up businesses, can print structure modules that need and build them in empty space of the building.
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DRAWINGS
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The Future of the Past - instrumentalization of historicism in the modern intervention*
WRITINGS
‘The problem of historicism and its intermittent influence on
architectural theory and methodology appears in the Modern movement as one of the pillars of its support. However, the origin of its fundamentals which permits to analyze its gradual evolution through the history lies in the Renaissance movement, the period that emerged as the first sociocultural revolution in the true sense of the term ‘modern’. The characteristic cycle of the architectural history evolution manifests often by overcoming it, looking for forms of expression that overlap with conventional images and claim the condition of modernity (in the context in which they operate).
The intermittency of historicism emerged in the Modern movement
which project methodology was orientated according to principles of abstraction, in favour of empirical experience and acting on a laboratory environment at the cost of history values. Allied to the positivist vision and faith in progress, the modernist avant-garde convictions protuded under exaltation of the industrial metaphor, which expression envisioned a new code of values devoid of any relation to history.
The lack of flexibility of the architecture led by the radical
expression of Modern movement bankrupted its values and the incongruity of their premises, calling for a methodology that would translate into more inclusive processes. That transition ocurred gradually, leading to sedimentation of historical time, consolidated by solutions that regarded historicism as a decisive factor in project methodology – allowing today to include analogous processes on the statement of present tense.’ *Abstract from my Master Thesis available here: http://issuu.com/fredericocoelholeite/docs/disserta____o_ frederico_coelho_leit
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