Graça Correia Correia / Ragazzi
host institution
support
sponsors
R
Graรงa Correia David Ottosson Joana Tomaz Adele Pinna Alexandra Burecu Adele Pinna Alexandra Burecu Alice Sanllustro Annamaria Santarcangelo Anna Kowalik Asia Barnocchi Brad Wetherall Catarina Branco Frantiska Podzimkova Hรกkon Sveinbjornsson Katarina Hubeny Mariana de Paola Mariantonietta Pepe Susana Ribeiro Teodora Stefanova Thomas Abela
2016 www.portoacademy.info
Graça Correia challenged the students to design a house at a site close to the Faculty of Architecture. The goal was for the students to explore their relationship with the site, which has a unique topography and dramatic view, characteristic of Porto. The development of the project requires a study of how form relates to the city – and, specifically for Porto, how the “house” relates to the hill. The house wants to see (or not see) the territory it is given. The section is essential to understanding this relationship, and the aim is for the section to be a final drawing representative of the core “idea” behind the design. For architects, a house is a laboratory where one can study solutions that can later be applied in larger projects. It is a way to develop specific solutions that can become answers to the universal problems that emerge in any work. A house represents a kind of attachment to a place – it’s built on a site and will itself will became a site. “The idea is at the site, even more than in the mind” (A.SIZA) is a central concept at FAUP since many years back – “for those who know how to look” – some add. And in fact, transforming an idea – an attitude towards a site – into a built work, is what architecture is about, whatever the scale. Therefore, to build a house is an adventure that requires patience, guts and enthusiasm. Writing about houses, Gonçalo M. Tavares offers two stories – “Window”, in O senhor Calvino and “Spoon” by Samuel Beckett – that tell us how architecture can influence our perception of the world. Our challenge is to use these thoughts when de- signing a House as a Site, from a Site as a House.
Points of Departure - Porto’s Vocabulary
Points of Departure - Composition
Points of Departure - Searching for simplicity
Translation
Adele Pinna
00.84
Alexandra Burecu
Alice Sanllustro
Annamaria Santarcangelo
Anna Kowalik
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT
RODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT
D
Asia Barnocchi
Brad Wetherall
Catarina Branco
Frantiska Podzimkova
rooftop view
Hรกkon Sveinbjornsson
AA
BB 13.95
A
B
Katarina Hubeny
Mariana de Paola
Mariantonietta Pepe
Susana Ribeiro
Teodora Stefanova
Thomas Abela