Portfolio Architecture | Joana Teles

JOANA TELES

A recent graduate student looking to learn more about the true meaning of architecture. Passionate about the concept of sustainable architecture, looking to explore the creative ideas of different cultures.

Curriculum

EDUCATION

2013 - 2017

SECONDARY SCHOOL

Secondary School Dona Maria

ll - Braga, Portugal

2017 - 2020

UNIVERSITY OF MINHO

Bachelor in residential architecture and urbanism

2020 - 2021

KATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN, BELGIUM

Exchange student in program

Erasmus+, 1st year Masters

2020 - 2022

UNIVERSITY OF MINHO

Masters in Construction & Sustainability

March 2023

UNIVERSITY OF MINHO

Masters Degree

SOFTWARE SKILLS

Autocad

Revit

SketchUp

Lumion

Photoshop

Indesign

Office

D5 render Rhino

ADITIONAL COURSES

Lumion course - Attendance completion diploma

Revit course - Domestika completion diploma

Language exam - English B2Babelium diploma, 2020

OneClickLCA- Building LCA training completion certificate

LANGUAGES

Portuguese Native English B2

Dutch (speaking)

AWARDS

2023 - Public votes award in the national stage of the international Saint gobain student contest

2023 - International conference on Green BuildingICoGB

2023 - Publication of the Oasis project in the Archi-News magazine

OASIS IN LISBON

Course: Saint-Gobain Student

Contest 2023 - public votes award in the national stage

Tipology: Residential sustainable building

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Date: 20/04/2023

We live in a time where cities are growing with an increasing number of buildings and consequent reduction of vegetation. This imbalance between habitlable area and green area has negative consequences, resulting in decreased air quality, the occurrence of floods caused by soil sealing, and people’s disconnection with the

This is a project that identifyies the adaptations needed to current architecture to make it more sustainable. It is a pertinent and necessary issue that the replacement of vegetation that is removed from the lot under construction be done in the building to be constructed. This is a proposal to mitigate the impact of buildings on the urban

Water required: 1185 m3 | Water collected from this roof: 1135 m3 (96%)

Annual water consumption: 4500m3 | Recovered grey water (accounts for 50% of annual water consumption):

Given that the facade includes 375 photovoltaic panels, the system will have a total power output of 27000

The building covers an implementation area of 2160 m2 (square meter) and offers 3030 m2 of green area, both achieved with an effective reduction of the useful living area of only 30 m2.

consumption): 675m3 (15%) or 27 kW.

both in horizontal and vertical gardens. This was

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Portfolio | Joana Teles

Portfolio | Joana Teles

KLIMOP

Course: Temporary Dry joint project design

Tipology: Community center

Location: praça dos laranjais, Guimarães, Portugal

Date:06/2020

This project is a proposal for a temporary dry joint building that can house a community kitchen, public bathrooms, a tower viewpoint and a leisure space beneath the project.

The aim is to use as little material as possible to produce this project and to use insulations only in the modules applyed.

This project has structure made of steel with finishings in wood. The modules are positioned in the grid and are connected by an outside corridor that is covered. The project offers a tower that provides vertical access with openings to diferent views of interest of the city. the project connects the other side of the street offering a passage with greenery as a viewpoint.

Community kitchen view

BONNIE & CLYDE

Course: Residential project

Tipology: Residential Building

Location: Guimarães, Portugal

Date: 06/2019

The Bonnie and Clyde project consists of two residential buildings positioned in continuation with each other, with an existing building in between. The project focused mainly on the execution of the building dedicated to “Bonnie”. The apartments are arranged in a way to guarantee an alternation between empty and occupied spaces. Some passages were integrated to connect both volumes.

Portfolio | Joana Teles

Portfolio | Joana Teles

Typologies

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LUDOTHEC

Course: Integration in the urban context - Ludothec

Tipology: Playroom building

Location: Guimarães, Portugal

Date: 01/2020

The project is based on the creation of solids referring to the project’s playrooms. The rooms are manifested in the orthogonal volumes positioned around a center courtyard that houses all circulations and accesses to the rooms and spaces, thus marking the importance of this central space. The ground floor is dedicated to the service and staff rooms and the arrival to the building, with a bar and reception space.

The first floor is for the pedagogical space, with a room for music, crafting & media and the second floor is dedicated to the recreational space. The playground is located around the classrooms and is accessible to all floors. The structure of the project is made of concrete in the service areas and steel in the upper floor modules. The rooms contain a slatted wood structure that allows the interior to be illuminated with natural light and offers the necessary privacy.

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SILENT SERVANTS

Course: Rehabilitation of a building block in Brussels

Tipology: Residential Building & office center

Location: Brussels

Date: 06/2021

For this project the main goal was to enrich the original building with more light, to connect public spaces to living spaces and to create office spaces where the play of the slabs brought different relations on each floor. Whenever the facades present an arch-shaped glass, it means that the floor is in fact double height. The main entrance is also highlighted in the same way. The big building houses the housing part of the program and the small building the offices. In the process of transformation of the building it was decided that the vertical accesses should remain as in the original project to preserve its structure.

Each building has a crown. The crown of the big building has a daycare with connection to an open space dedicated to children where there is all kinds of entertainment. However, to leave the program contrast of both buildings, the crown of the small building is dedicated to meeting rooms with space around that can be used as viewpoint. The big building housing units includes a duplex in the midle that is positioned in a mirrored way, resulting in the creation of a central public space of double high ceiling where the residents can enjoy a library, a living social area, an outdoor area and a more social entrance area.

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FOODPARK

Course: Climate Designgroup work

Tipology: Comunity center & residential building

Location: Ghent, Belgium

Date: 2021

Since the neighbourhood in ghent Watersportbaan lacks outdoor spaces and activities, it’s necessary to bring back functions and open spaces. This project adresses those issues by creating a green infrastructure where productive agricultural places are implemented in public zones, educating the citizens on how to be sustainable and to encourage their participation in activities.

This green infrastructure is created as a path from the street to the waterside, with lots of leisure zones and markets on the way, where people can enroll in activities to help cultivate food. In adition the project offers composting areas and fertilizers by reusing biological waste from neighbours. This way it encourages people to participate in this production and learn to be more eco-friendly.

PROJECT FRAGMENT

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VERTICAL GARDEN

Vertical Farming is an economically cautious and efficient choice as it grows quickly, weighs little and occupies less area.

WADI’S

A wadi retains rainwater and purifies it, after which the water infiltrates into the subsoil. In this way, the wadi helps against flooding and drought.

BIKE STORAGE

Pedestrians and cyclists are dominant in traffic. A safe storage place for cyclists can be found at our vertical farm.

Foodpark | Selected Works

CULINARY SCHOOL

On the groundfloor is a culinary center where students who go to school at the Watersportbaansite can have culinary classes. The center is organised around an inner courtyard with a ramp that leads to the roof and the upper levels with public access.

GREEN PEDESTRIAN PATHWAY

Foodpark has a green pedestrian pathway connecting the mixed function building,to the other building all the way to the canal.

WASTEMANAGEMENT

There is a closed cycle of production and waste, so it is possible to use the harvested compost to fertilize plants.

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ADAPTABLE APARTMENTS

The apartment is designed as a space that can evolve throughout the years, according to the family’s growth within it, fulfilling its changing needs.Starting from a single-person-studio and then, when in need of more space, it can expand into a family-sized apartment

• HPC panel (1 cm)

• Metal sub structure

• Windproof layer with vapor diffusion

• Polypropylene (0,5 mm)

• Insulation, rockwool (10 cm)

• Fiber cement board (1,25)

• Insulation layer, rockwool (6 cm)

• Fiber cement board (1,25 cm)

• Cement based adhesive for external coating (0,2 cm)

• External cladding, HPL panels (1 cm)

• Indoor concrete Tiles (1 cm)

• Mortar fixation (1,5 cm)

• Heating system (3 cm)

• OSB panel

• Thermal insulation

• Expanded perlite panel (1,5 cm)

• Corugated sheet (7,5 cm)

• Air cavity (40 cm)

• Accoustic insulation, mineral wool (7 cm)

• Gypsum board (1 cm)

• Plaster finishing

Mesh for plant support

Outdoor planting as a shading system

• Indoor concrete Tiles (1 cm)

• Mortar fixation (1,5 cm)

• Mineral wool (12 cm)

• Concrete slab (15 cm)