architecture
PORTFOLIO 2004 - present
WORK Collective Housing..... 9 Church Nossa Sra. Penha Franรงa..... 15 Museum..... 21 Urban Design..... 29 Marine Research Center..... 39 The Crown..... 49 Mosque..... 61 Shuffle House..... 77 House in Ermesinde..... 91 page 9-29 Academic Work at Faculty of Architecture University of Oporto page 29-49 Academic Work at AHO - Arkitektur designhogsolen page 49-105 work at ONOFFICE architects
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Collective housing academic work Faculty of Architecture University of Porto
Boavista, Oporto 2006 This project was realized during the third year in the Faculty of Architecture of Oporto. It was the first year students started experimenting with computer softwares to project architecture. The program consisted in a collective housing project plus an offer of offices and commercial spaces at street level. This happened in Boavista, more precisely in a terrain vague next to the world-known Rem Koolhaas’ building: Casa da Musica (House of Music). The strategy for
this was to embody the 3 ambiences into the same complex: the offices and their need for visibility, the retail and its need for street life, the houses and its need for a sense of calm and peace - in one of the busiest sites of the city.
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Church Nossa Sra. Penha de Franca academic work Faculty of Architecture University of Porto
Braga, Portugal 2007 Religious architecture. One convent, one church, somewhere during the eighteenth century. After you choose the place, you must draw it, no previews drawings to support, just visit the place, measure, understand, in the midst of origins, past, present and future - analyse and understand how this building took time, and how time transformed it.
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Museum academic work Faculty of Architecture University of Porto
Matosinhos, Oporto 2007 This project was realized during the fouth year at Faculty of Architecture at the University of Oporto. The program was a museum of contemporary art in Matosinhos - the warehouse, seaside site, known for its long gone industries. The strategy was then to make a museum that was itself a container of culture, playing along with the ortogonal urban situation and history of the site. The clean geometrical shape perceived from the outside was then relentlessly opposed by the
conflicting geometries inside. Some detailing of construction was part of the exercise.
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Urban Design
Academic project Arkitektur- og designhogskolen i Oslo course director: Peter Hemmersam
Oslo, Norway 2008 This was the first project I did in Norway during my Erasmus exchange student experience. The opportunity for desining a stadium in the outskirts of Oslo presented as the city was applying for the Football European Cup in 2012. A game of wave like structures created a new dynamic in the site, where a series of stores and services that would serve the stadium during the Europe Cup and would afterwards become services for the locals. The entire wave-like project
aims to create an uniform space that would after be inhabited by the locals. The stadium is designed with an architectural approach that integrates him in this wave concept, and its continuity of ciculation makes him a part of the wave park, allowing for visitants to walk around the stadium and come out on the other side enjoying the view.
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Marine Research Center
Academic project Arkitektur- og designhogskolen i Oslo course director: Neven Fuchs-Mikac invited teachers: Aires Mateus e associados
Guincho, Lisboa 2009 The challenge was to create a Marine Research Center in Guincho, Lisbon. The site, a steep rocky sea side place was perfect for creating rock like structures that bended in with the natural site thus creating an architectural object that blends in with the site or, at least, plays by the same rules. Four different volumes are created, with different heights and directions, creating patios and interesting spaces for people to relax and work.
Drawing and modelling was meant to be as minimal as possible, resulting in simple and beautiful designs which were afterwards arranged in an exhibition.
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The Crown
in collaboration with ON OFFICE and AND-RE competition Intercontinental Hotel and business district team leader: Leon Rost
Yerevan, Armenia 2009 “The Crown” is an architectural proposal for an Intercontinental Hotel, International Business Center for Mercedes (IBC), and Luxury Apartments in Armenia’s capital, Yerevan. Composed of three buildings at the pinnacle point of Yerevan’s northern skyline, the Crown reminisces the golden ages of Armenian history, when its kingdom spanned between the Caspian and Mediterranean seas. Since then, Armenia has endured a tumultuous history and has now emerged as an
independent republic competitive in the world of 21st century economics. The Crown of Armenia provides contemporary facilities and accommodation for travel and commerce, to facilitate the economic growth of the nation. The Crown acts as a beacon and flagship that will steer Armenian economy into the new millennium.
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The mosque through architecture Dubai, UAE traffic design competition vol. 2 in collaboration with ON OFFICE team leader: Francesco Zorzi
2010
In the midst of overwelming Dubai, a challenge for creating a mosque appears as a oportunity to make a statement. In chaos, religious architecture calls for calmness and serenity, in such an important statement as it is in a situation where star system architects have exploited shape, volume, color, materials, movement to exhaustion. The cubical shape of the building appeals to moderity and hopefully appeals to the use of architecture for creating inteligent solutions rather
than merely spectacular ones. The rigid volume is cut-out by spheres that vary in size and position according to the spaces needed to create in the practice of faith. This exercise automatically creates domed, being the dome the more iconic way of roofing these spaces. Everything works towards an iconic and symbolical building, with minimal effort.
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The crazyness of Dubai’s akyline: where more is the rule.
When more is the standard, doing less becomes the way to stand out.
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Shuffle House
Wallpaper* architect directory 2010 in collaboration with ON OFFICE team leader: Leon Rost
Oporto, Portugal 2010 For this year’s Architects Directory, we’ve opened up the minds of our 30 chosen studios, giving them a dream brief with just a few qualifications. Divided between town and country, the 30 conceptual structures shown here are intended as architectural provocations, practice statements that embody individual approaches, without ever losing sight of the economic and environmental concerns that have been pushed to the forefront of the agenda as never before. Scattered across a
selection of sites from the Ukraine to Argentina, half in cities and half on rural sites, these houses are the fresh visions of emerging architectural talents, each designed to maximise the qualities of its particular site, as well as point to new ways of making a home.
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method concept experiment
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Because the programatic portion of the house and the circulation slice operate independently, they are able to develop separate identities.
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A typical Porto house has a simple section like a tic-tac-toe board, with repetitive spaces and a middle stairwell. The Shuffle House digests the client’s programmatic requests and poses the question: If each room has different demands for space, shouldn’t each room claim the space it needs, more like a Mondrian grid, or a cell structure?
Typically the stairs, bathrooms, and service functions are located in the middle of the building. This deprives the building of a fluid longitudinal connection.
The result is a collage of different sized rooms stretched and shuffled within a typical building envelope. A longitudinal slice of the building is designated for circulation and services, and we allowed this portion of the building to take a contrasting form to the rectangularity of the rooms.
By organizing the stairs and bathrooms in a longitudinal slice of the building, we gain connections and visibility through the building.
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WElCOME to the suburbs
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Housein collaboration in Ermesinde with ON OFFICE team leader: Ricardo Guedes
Ermesinde, Porto 2010 For this year’s Architects Directory, we’ve opened up the minds of our 30 chosen studios, giving them a dream brief with just a few qualifications. Divided between town and country, the 30 conceptual structures shown here are intended as architectural provocations, practice statements that embody individual approaches, without ever losing sight of the economic and environmental concerns that have been pushed to the forefront of the agenda as never before. Scattered across a
selection of sites from the Ukraine to Argentina, half in cities and half on rural sites, these houses are the fresh visions of emerging architectural talents, each designed to maximise the qualities of its particular site, as well as point to new ways of making a home.
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Attic
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QUARTO
SUITE
QUARTO QUARTO VESTIR
First floor
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GARAGEM
SALA DE JANTAR
DESPENSA
COZINHA ENTRADA
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BIBLIOTECA SALA DE TRABALHO
BALNEARIO SALA DE ESTAR
SAUNA
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PATIO LAVANDARIA
Backyard
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