Hugo Oliveira Academic Portfolio 2007-2009
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Biografical Notes
Born in Arlington, VA (USA) in 1984 to Portuguese parents, lives in the Washington DC area until 6 years. Moves to Portugal in December 1990. In 2000 creates Unique MJ Events. An event management company working for numerous other companies (Allianz, CIMPOR, Continental, Reuters, SAP, SKF, among others). Attends ISCTE-IUL from 2003 to 2009 graduating in Architecture (Master Degree). In 2006 becomes member of NAU-ISCTE (architecture and urban design student’s nucleus), being responsible for the organization of various lectures and exhibitions as well as the creation of the NAU Newsletter (interviews with: Josep Lluís Mateo, Embaixada, David Adjaye, E-Studio, and articles by Carlos Ferrater, Robert Venturi, Eduardo Arroyo, Pedro Bandeira, among others). Selected for the ISCTE-IUL Architecture School Exhibition in 2006. Selected for an Urban Design Program named “Ecopolis: Sustainable Planning and Design Principles” held in Florence (Italy) in June 2008, and financed by the European Commission. In September 2009 organized the 2009-2010 opening school year workshop with the theme “Black Boxes” (after Emilio Tuñón’s lecture in Argentina). Articles, lectures and a exhibition from 8 Portuguese offices were the result of this event as well as student-teacher’s objects/installations. In November 2009 concludes master degree in architecture with the dissertation on “Contemporary Residential Transience - Specificities in its Domestic and Urban Appropriation”. (This work led to the presentation of the idea to Vodafone Portugal and IKEA Portugal).
Application skills in: Autocad 2d/3d, Revit, Archicad, Illustrator, Photoshop, Indesign, 3ds Max.
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Library in Marvila
Poço do Bispo Dock Infante D. Henrique Avenue This project starts with two questions: “what type of public building Marvila needs?” and “can it connect the historical center to a new urban epicenter?”. The local population asked for a library or theater so that the currant stigma about Marvila could be eclipsed. Could these two programs be associated and fused just like contents in an iPod? Located at the Poço do Bispo Dock (where an industrial metallic shed exists and plays a deep formal influence regarding the new proposal), the library is interpreted as a book fortress where beneath it appears an urban stage.
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An open wide landscape-oriented window? There’s nothing more stupid...
Many models were made having in mind: 1. the formality of the existing metallic shed, 2. the idea of suspended monolith of books with an urban stage beneath, 3. the need for an indirect natural illumination scheme without falling in the temptation os open wide windows oriented towards the river.
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These peripheral niches allow the creation various spaces inside the library. Although from the exterior the building seems a rigid block, inside there are 80cm levels that make the space less static defining different degrees of intimacy. 8
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Section through Market (looking south)
Section (looking north)
East Elevation
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Underground Floor Plan (Children Library)
Ground Floor Plan (Cafe and Access)
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First Floor Plan (Adult Library)
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East Long Section
North Cross Section South Cross Section
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White Sikaplan Membrane White Plasterboard White Concrete (Exterior)
White GRP
Maple Flooring
Glass
White Concrete Printed Floor White Plasterboard
White GRP
Maple Flooring Blue Rubber Floor Constructive Section & Materials
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8 Houses in Marvila Açúcar Street, 43
To whom should 8 houses be made in Marvila? Who would be interested in living there? Should we lose the opportunity to promote the (fast) rent of houses in a period of financial crisis like the one started in 2008? Could there be a new housing management model that could - at the same time - boost an old industrial site rehabilitating abandoned lots? 16
The project tries to make much more than a place for 8 families to live in. After identifying a lot it was essential to promote a new type of living inside it. “Public” areas (interior and exterior) were maximized at the same time that the areas related with the housing were minimized. This tries to respond to the requests of a person who lives in residential transience which tend to be minimal in a sense. 8 very small houses between 2 pre-existing walls (4.50m apart), developed over a bookshop and a biströ (related to the exterior public space and the interior housing areas) emphasizes the ambiguity of introverted and extroverted space.
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Level +4.42 (Flats 2nd floor)
Level +2.22 (Flats 1st floor)
Level +/-0.00 (Entrances)
Level -1.02 (Bookshop/Bistrรถ)
Vertical Access Flat A Flat B Flat C Flat D Bookshop Bistrรถ
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One of my favourite ideas is the following: to first think about the building as a big mass of shades and then, just as in an excavation process, place the lights and let the luminosity soak the inside
Peter Zumthor 23
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Section and Elevations
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White Sikaplan Membrane
White GRP White Plasterboard White Concrete Floor
OSB Floor
Light Maple Floor
Glass
Corten Steel
Polyamide Net
Dark Concrete Printed Floor
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