ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO JOÃO SOUSA 2012-2017
PROFILE Architect, designer and maker. Currently working as Lead Architect and Lab Manager at VitruviusFabLab-IUL (Digital Fabrication Laboratory) of ISCTE-IUL (University Institute of Lisbon). Works and conducts research in the spaces between conception and materialization, exploring complex systems, new formality and material solutions. Interests and experience in lab and field project development and management, with key focus on CAD/CAM technologies, robotic fabrication, algorithmic design, decentralized production and collaborative and interdisciplinary action-research models.
PERSONAL Name
João Pedro T. M. M. Sousa
Nationality
Portuguese
WORK EXPERIENCE since 2014
Vitruvius FabLab ISCTE-IUL, Portugal INTERN ARCHITECT / COLLABORATOR / LEAD ARCHITECT Lead researcher and collaborator in several projects within academic and industry environments using digital fabrication. Organization of multiple educational activities, conferences, workshops, and scientific dissemination and public outreach events. Laboratory manager with vast experience in the operation of main digital fabrication hardware and software.
since 2013
Self-employed, Portugal ARCHITECT / DESIGNER Working with clients from different contexts and in several project stages on the creation and implementation of architectural and furniture design projects. Operation of digital fabrication in the full production chain from conception to physical making.
2013
Wierszyllowski & Projektanci, Poland INTERN ARCHITECT Work carried under the traineeship program IAESTE. Experience in multiple stages of interior design, from surveying and research to creative development and execution.
Date of birth 06 of October of 1989, Évora, Portugal Languages
Portuguese, English, Spanish, French
CONTACT Autocad
Arduino
Rhino3D
Revit
GCode
V-Ray for Rhino
+351 968129205
Fusion 360
Photoshop
CNC Milling
jsousaarq@gmail.com
InDesign
Illustrator
Laser Cutter
joaosousa.net
Sketchup
Archicad
3D Printer
Address
Rua Augusto Gil, 28 4ºD, Lisboa, Portugal
Mobile Email Website
PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
Grasshopper
EDUCATION 2014 - 2015
Advanced Course Studies in Digital Architecture FINAL CLASSIFICATION: 17/20 3rd cycle Post-Graduate Degree. Research project entitled “CorkBuild: Expanded Corkboard Parametric Building System”. Research with the support of Amorim Isolamentos, SA. ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa / Faculty of Architecture of University of Porto / University of Bath / Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of University of São Paulo
2007 - 2012
Integrated Master in Architecture FINAL CLASSIFICATION: 14/20 ISCED-7 / FHEQ-7. Dissertation on the theme “New Cultural Places: the panorama behind of the small icons”. ISCTE – Lisbon University Institute, School of Technology and Architecture
OTHER QUALIFICATIONS 2015
REFERENCES
Professional Internship of Admission to the Portuguese Architects Association. Member n. 23142
Susana Nascimento, Post-Doc Policy Analyst / Researcher, EU Policy Lab, Joint
2014 2013
Courses of VRay for Rhino (16h) and Grasshopper 3D (16h), taught by Rhino3dportugal 3rd Cycle Postgraduate Seminar “Sustainable Technologies and Transdisciplinary Futures: From Collaborative Design to Digital Fabrication” at Vitruvius FabLab ISCTE-IUL
2013
Training (8h) in Product Design, Funding and Business Model Canvas methods by MakeFest Workshop, ISCTE- IUL.
2012
Course of Rhino3D Level I (24 hours), taught by Rhino3dportugal
Research Centre, European Commission. Email: susana.nascimento@ec.europa.eu Alexandre Pólvora, PhD Policy Analyst / Researcher, EU Policy Lab, Joint Research Centre, European Commission. Email: alexandre.polvora@ec.europa.eu Vasco Rato, PhD Director of Sustainability at ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. Deputy Director of the School of Technology and Architecture. Assistant Professor
PERSO N AL SKILLS Criativity Teamwork Management Leadership Communication Organization Research
H OB B IE S D I G I TA L FA B R I C AT I O N VIDEO MUSIC GRAPHIC ART A R T I N S TA L L AT I O N S ELECTRONICS
at the Dpt. of Architecture and Urbanism and researcher at ISTAR-IUL and Vitruvius FabLab-IUL. Email: vasco.rato@iscte-iul.pt
ACADEMIC WORKS INTEGRATED MASTER IN ARCHITECTURE _ ISCTE-IUL DIGITAL ARCHITECTURE _ ISCTE-IUL
2012
SANTOS-O-NOVO MONASTERY SURROUNDINGS TYPE Interpretive Centre, Student Residence and Urban Design LOCATION Lisbon, Portugal AREA 20 000 m2
The Santos-o-Novo Monastery was build in the beginning of the 17th century in Santo António valley, a peripheral rural area of Lisbon. The architectural proposal intends to an urban redevelopment of the entire area surrounding the monastery and a degraded palace of the same century, regulating pathways and accessibility in a very uneven topography and fixing the relationship of large buildings with the surroundings. Through the creation of two new buildings, which are related, and the conversion of the palace, its new uses are essential factors for the revitalization of this new centrality. The transformation of an empty area adjacent to the monastery, has resulted in a volume built half-buried that houses the Interpretive Center of the Holy Martyrs of Lisbon. The solution adopted, allows to create a better balance in the relations of scale with the surroundings of the monastery, enhancing the monumental complex. The theme of the permanent exhibition has the particularity of being a founding legend of the city, the Holy Martyrs of Lisbon, to which the monastery is dedicated to. This involvement led to the creation of paths, ascending ramps, in connivance with the legend itself. The main exhibition room, a perfect dome semi-salient on the rooftop, identifies an ideal space for contemplation, meditation and exaltation. The creation of the new student residence for ISCTE-IUL adjacent to the palace gives the possibility of increasing young population in the area which is vital to its enlivenment and attractiveness. To reconcile this duality, the solution went through the recovery and conservation of the palace, purging it of exterior and interior auxiliary constructions. To the interior of the palace garden, is developed the facade of the new body of the residence that houses most of the rooms, all opened to the Tagus river. The configuration of the new volumes frames the palace and, by manipulating the number of floors of each body, the building is organized and outside areas are distributed. A new urban space will become the main entrance of the residence, giving relevance to the facade of the original body of the palace, which in this new small square goes to confront directly with the side facade of the church of the monastery, in a new scale ratio. Briefly, in the palace are located the public and multipurpose spaces, main entrance and reception, lounge and study areas, while in the new volume are located the students bedrooms and technical facilities.
Site Plan
First Floor
Cross-sections and elevations
2015
CORKBUILD
EXPANDED CORKBOARD PARAMETRIC BUILDING SYSTEM TYPE Research project APPLICATION Building system MATERIALS Wood, Cork Blocks TECHNIQUES Parametric design, digital fabrication
This work intended to explore the application of expanded insulation corkboard (ICB) and wood (OSB) in a building system digitally designed and produced, bringing numerous advantages related to its adaptability, customization and optimization. The expanded corkboard is used as insulation and exterior finishing material attached to a timber WikiHouse structure, along with waterproofing solutions. The result is a total constructive solution, thermally optimized, customizable at the level of its overall dimensions and appearance. There was developed a new system to optimize the insulation and waterproofing of the corkboards, using Geco on Grasshopper and Ecotect softwares. This system can be applied in a parametric definition to generate WikiHouse structures using Grasshopper. The parametric solution aimed for the user to generate a ‘CorkHouse’, using the WikiHouse concept and with the proposed CorkBuild system. The user can also choose a geometric definition for superficial exterior texture generation therefore customizing the external appearance of a CorkHouse. The proposed building system is thought to be entirely produced via digital fabrication. This uses industrial machines controlled by computer orders (CNC – computer numerically controlled) to change the shape or properties of materials.
CORKBUILD Grasshopper + Geco + Ecotect analysis for thermal optimization
CorkBuild process
Base Panel (OSB 12mm + Expanded Corkboard 40mm) Waterproof Fabric OSB sub-structure 12mm External Expanded Corkboard as finishing with customized geometry
WikiHouse Structure
CorkBuild detailed system
Grasshopper deďŹ nition and CNC fabrication of the exterior surface
CorkBuild real scale prototype
PROFESSIONAL WORKS
2014
ISCTE-IUL GREENFEST STAND TYPE Temporary Exhibition Stand DESIGN TEAM Vitruvius FabLab: João Sousa, Maria João de Oliveira, Bárbara Varela and Alexandra Paio LOCATION Estoril, Portugal AREA 9 m2
The ISCTE-IUL stand built for the GREENFEST 2014 sustainability fair was made with a constructive structure previously developed at Vitruvius FabLab of ISCTE-IUL for the international workshop ‘Contemporary living patterns in mass housing in Europe’ organized within project ‘OIKONET: a global multidisciplinary network on housing research and learning’, co-financed by the European Union. It was attended by 50 students and 20 professors of 16 European Universities. “Portela de Sacavém” and “Bairro da Liberdade” neighbourhoods worked as case-studies. The purpose of the workshop was to increment an interdisciplinary dialog to develop an adaptive housing project through customized OSB wood panels and readapt pre-existing houses to contemporary living patterns. The stand used two OSB ring structures of the workshop containing features of four different projects that were used for different purposes whilst in the fair, combined with a floor and wall for the ISCTE-IUL logo and TV. All the elements used in the stand (plants, tools or clothesline) acted as a way to show the different functions for each housing project.
3.00 m
3.00 m
Overall plan
2015
ISCTE-IUL FUTURÁLIA STAND TYPE Temporary Exhibition Stand DESIGN TEAM Vitruvius FabLab: Maria João de Oliveira, João Sousa, Susana Neves and Alexandra Paio LOCATION Lisbon, Portugal AREA 54 m2
The project of ISCTE-IUL stand for Futurália 2015 fair in Lisbon proposed to be established as a multifunctional element and totally (re)adaptable to different types of situation.The structural base element is the formal element of the stand – a Greek cross – seeking to communicate the transparency, versatility and contemporaneity. The contrasting element is the cube that will perform as storage, balcony, information spots or stools. The material chosen was birch plywood, a bright, clean material with the required structural needs. The floor in composed with a 2cm wood derivate covered with carpet. The Futurália 2015 stand was composed with 4 areas: general information spot with a larger reception desk and university info, a storage unit with a large screen to the outside and a big touch screen to the inside, a smaller information desk and the area that unites all the others: the space inside the stand intended to work as a gathering and lounge place, where anyone could pass throught. With the resource of digital design and manufacturing techniques, this stand pretended to be (re)used for other activities and events. Its modular feature allows for the conception of endless formal arrangements, permitting for its re-organization and incorporation in any other type of space. After the main arrangement at Futurália 2015, the same structure was reused and rebuilt to meet other requirements and purposes, resulting in a different layout.
9.00 m
6.00 m
Overall plan
2015
CORK SHELL PAVILION TYPE Temporary Exhibition Stand DESIGN TEAM João Sousa, Filipe Brandão ASSOCIATED RESEARCH GROUPS VFABLAB/ISCTE-IUL, DFL/FAUP COMISSION AND PRODUCTION Amorim Isolamentos, SA LOCATION Oporto, Portugal AREA 72 m2
Amorim Isolamentos Pavilion at Concreta 2015, a fair of materials and construction in Oporto, Portugal, was developed with the purpose of presenting to the public the most recent applications of insulation cork board, material of choice of the brand. It was designed by João Sousa and Filipe Brandão, former students of the Advanced Studies Course in Digital Architecture (CEAAD), a partnership between ISCTE-IUL (Lisbon) and FAUP (Oporto), under the coordination of the professors José Pedro Sousa and Alexandra Paio. The original idea came out of the desire to carry the visitors to the origin of the insulation cork board – the cork oak tree – that cannot be separated from its ecosystem – the montado. There was an initial approach concentrated on the montado, but we then focused on the tree and the extractive process of the cork, following the suggestion of Amorim Isolamentos. A set of images of cork stripping and the bark shells the extraction process generates immediately came to mind. The project concept originated from the mingling of images of the extractive process of cork bark from the oak tree. It’s sought to condense in a gesture the peeling of the bark from a cork oak’s trunk. The spiral seemed the most appropriate way to transport the visitor from the noisy fair environment to a space of silence and intimate contact with the material and its origin, while a second elliptical shell closes the pavilion space. The interior staggered surfaces are meant to support real scale samples of the diverse constructive solutions with the brand’s products. This concept materialization allows exploring a lighting solution that emphasizes the cork surface’s texture, one of the most distinctive features of the material. Two of the constructive solutions presented resulted from the authors’ research projects at CEAAD course. Cork ReWall (Filipe Brandão) is a parametric partition wall constructive system composed of OSB structure and a customizable composite panel of insulation cork board and plywood. CorkBuild (João Sousa) is an exterior parametric constructive solution for roofs and façades that includes two layers of insulation cork board with waterproofing and customizable texture.
ALÇADO C
0.33 0.94
P14
P13
P12
P15
P11
P10 P17
1
6.00
1.65
0.9
ALÇADO D
P16
P20
0.85
P9
ALÇADO B
0.76
P1
P18
P19
0
P8
1.0
1.22
P2
P7 P4
P5
P3
P6 0.32
12.00
ALÇADO A
Overall plan
PLANTA GERAL
Desenhos dos módulos expositivos Stand Amorim Isolamentos Concreta 2015 Projecto: Filipe Brandão e João Sousa Coordenação: José Pedro Sousa e Alexandra Paio
Escala 1:50 (Todas as medidas em metros)
2016
ISCTE-IUL FUTURÁLIA STAND TYPE Temporary Exhibition Stand DESIGN TEAM Vitruvius FabLab: João Sousa, Maria João de Oliveira, Susana Neves and Alexandra Paio LOCATION Lisbon, Portugal AREA 81 m2
The project for the ISCTE-IUL Futurália Stand of 2016 had two premises. It had to include an interactive installation called Morfogénese Musical, a project in partnership between the university and the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência of Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, which is a robotic flower that interacts with the people to teach about the genetic code of a plant. It had also to have a big storage unit for the merchandising of the institution to be distributed to the visitors. So, this stand was developed under the idea of a wave that emerged from the robotic flower and collided with the storage unit, creating the big volume and leaving the rest of the area almost empty, inviting the visitors inside the stand. This empty area had different types of balconies, some for the institutional information of the university, others to present some projects being developed at ISCTE-IUL.
Grasshopper deďŹ nition of the wae system
CorkBuild process
Overall plan
2017
UM CLICK POR ELA EXHIBITION TYPE Photography Exhibition Structures DESIGN TEAM Vitruvius FabLab: João Sousa LOCATION Lisbon, Portugal AREA 100 m2
This photography exhibition project had three main premises: each individual structure had to be resistant and easy enough to be assembled in several occasions and different places; it had to be self sustained and mobile; and had to be light and visually permeable in order to easily perceive the location of the photographs. The motto for this exhibition was to make people aware of ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis – ELA in portuguese) disease. The selected pictures were the result of a photograph competition from different photographers. It was conceived starting from the simplest form of a tree: trunk and branches as slim elegant strips of plywood, slightly twisted, united by coloured rings. The photographs were then sustained from these branches, like leaves, arranged by thematic groups. The whole structure was mounted on wheels to be moved around with no trouble and can be easily assembled, thanks to simple CNC milled slots.
Grasshopper deďŹ nition of the entire system
FURNITURE DESIGN Through the technique of digital design and fabrication I’ve been developing customized designs of furniture objects for specific clients, using different types of wood and wood derivatives and digital joints of the pieces fabricated with CNC milling machines and laser cutters.
BEANSTALK ASHTRAY
PUZZLE BENCH
LIVING HINGES LAMP
CT DRINKS CART
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