PORTFOLIO
Landscape Architecture
JosĂŠ Costa
JosĂŠ Costa
Education 2008 - 11
University of Porto
2011 - Present
University of Porto
Skills
degree in Landscape Architecture master of Landscape Architecture
[Human] Hand Drafting Sketching Model Building Communication Teamwork Craftsmanship
About
email: josejgcosta@gmail.com phone: 00351 910902695 born: 14-01-1990
[Technology] AutoCAD AutoCAD civil 3D Google Sketchup Pro Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Adobe Indesign Maxwell render Corel Paintshop Pro ArcGIS
Info
At the moment I am finishing my last year in the master program of Landscape Architecture, doing my internship at GTL Landschaftsarchitekten in Kassel until July and in the end of September I will conclude my studies and will be ready to enter in the job market.
THIS PORTFOLIO IS BEING UPDATED 24.01.2013
I am currently trying to update my portfolio with my last works so there might be some text, images and links missing, thank you for your comprehension.
2012
Urban planning
Aveiro park
Parks and gardens
2012 2012 2011 2011
2012
Primo Madeira’s house
2011
Cadouços garden
2011
FCUP campus
Spatial planning
2011
Construction details
2011
Drawings & sketches
Yearbook Photography
Cadouços garden
Restoration and maintenance 2011
Porto & Tinto green infrastructure 2011
2011
Dwelling house
Quires urban park
Productive urban garden
2011
2011
Levada river park
Eco- productive park 2011
2010
Aveiro park
Povoa de Varzim
Tinto & Torto watershed
Tinto & Torto tourism promotion 2011
Forest recovery
Other works
The blank spot of Aveiro city A new urbanization
The project has evolved to adapt sustainable design features that meet the needs of the territory. It presented a set of measures for energy, water, housing, circulation, public space and green space. All these elements contribute to a new dynamic system that interacts and innovates the rest of the city.
Project: Landscape Management - 2012 Professors: Maria JosĂŠ Curado
Public space
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Energy
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Traffic
2 floors 3 floors 4 floors 5 floors
Single family dwelling Apartments with only familiar use Apartments
Primary street
Services Marketing center Business center
Secondary street
Pedestrian and cycling path Sports infrastructure Area for infrastructure’s implementation
Tertiary street
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Sport
Traffic flow Crossroads
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Green infrastructure
Project: Landscape management - 2012
Aveiro Urban Park A two phased project
In order to create an urban park to Aveiro city, that cannot be implanted all at the same time for economical reasons it is presented a two phased proposal that creates a dynamic space targeted for active and passive recreation along with an agricultural section. The proposed intervention develops a spatial composition that relies on the creation of recreational permeable areas with meandering walkways complemented by a vegetation structure that breaks the monotony of the horizontal ground. This conception combines the geometric lines, characteristic of the agricultural fields, with the curved lines bringing dynamism and providing sensory. Project: Urban Qualification - 2012 Professors: Teresa Marques
Harmony
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Sustainability
2nd Stage
A A’
B
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Water gathering
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Agriculture fields
Project: Urban qualification - 2012
1st Stage A’ A
B
B’
B’
Recreation
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Open spaces
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Diversity
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Landscape
Project: Urban qualification - 2012
THE BLANK SPOT OF AVEIRO CITY + AVEIRO URBAN PARK + OTHER QUALIFIED GREEN AREAS
existing bicycle path proposed bicycle path
sports complex
by improving and cre
Qualification of the surrounding areas, eating new accesses and public spaces.
Project: Urban qualification - 2012
Levada river park Restoring a disturbed place
The objective of this proposal is to minimize and mitigate the environmental impacts, and visual impact of the surrounding area, as well as integration of structures in the landscape by using proper techniques. With this project, built on the concept of linearity, the area becomes more cohesive, more acessible and combines with a touch of modernity open spaces, productive areas and the surroundings. Another key factor about this proposal is bringing to the surface Tinto’s river. Project: Rehabilitation of environmental impact - 2012 Professors: Isabel Martinho da Silva
Recovery
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Mitigation B’
B
A’ A
B’ B
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Diversity
A’
A
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Landscape
Project: Rehabilitation of environmental impact - 2012
Water
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Open space
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Deambulation
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Light
Project: Rehabilitation of environmental impact - 2012
Protection
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Productivity
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Paths
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Forest
Project: Rehabilitation of environmental impact - 2012
Quires urban park A place of all for all
The intervention area is an abandoned place without apparent function that is progressively disqualifying urban integration. The opportunity in this project is to bring functions, aesthetics, and landscaping / urban integration in order to achieve a harmony between the environmental, ecological and social systems that surround the area. The route in Quires urban park is accompanied by a biomorphic design with smooth curves, to stimulate the user senses. The term sustainability in this project is based on the water management: the WADI plays a crucial role in the accumulation / water retention, that progressively infiltrates in the lower layers of soil, providing soil quality, creating micro-climates zones and attracting and biodiversity. Project: Outdoor spaces II - 2011 Professors: JosÊ Miguel Lameiras & Gonçalo Andrade
Stratification Before
After
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Recreation
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Deam
mbulation |
Suport areas
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Sunlight
Project: Outdoor spaces II 2011
The main goal is to promote spatial, se ing the sustainable function of both sy
ensory, social and urban quality, optimizystems and moderating climate comfort.
Project: Outdoor spaces II 2011
Lourinha Ecoproductive park Promoting biodiversity in an agricultural and urban context
The park of Lourinha is a space that arises in a rural area with tradition but at the same in a zone that has been influenced by the modernization and human pressure of the city. The concept is to make Lourinha a space that can combine pleasure with productivity and biodiversity and where user intervention is the proper management of the space. It is a two phased project, at the first part it was done the design of all the area and in the second part was done all the construction and the detail plans of the south area. Project: Public spaces - 2011 Professors: Paulo Farinha Marques
Biodiversity
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Sustainability | Producti
This is a dynamic project directed for production,
recreation and promotion of biodiversity and the design preserves the character of the place. The park is characterized by a scenic route that slowly reveals different views of the fields, where the sea-
sonal and agricultural diversity are constants.
tivity |
Cooperation |
Deambulation
Mobility
Passive recreation
Trees’ distribution
Project: Vegetation in urban space - 2111
Cadouços garden An urban space next to the sea
Located in Foz do Douro, Porto, this place is inserted in a densified network, surrounded by various services and points of interest. It is a place marked by difficult topography acting as a mediating element between the city and the sea. This project intervention aims for simplicity, with a simple and direct group of paths targeted to the flow of people and cars, with a green expressive area. The main square is centered and unifies the space, linking the movement of people and serves as a support area to the coffee that is oriented along with the street Ria de Cadouços, with its face directed to the sea. The amphitheatre along with a smooth slope combines the pavement and the green spaces. The green area is characterized by a considerable dimension and for being isolated from the traffic through the vegetation and modelation. The geometric forms of infrastructure are cutted by the biomorphic lines of shrubs and herbaceous, and the rhythm is created by trees. Project: Outdoor spaces II - 2011 Professors: José Miguel Lameiras & Gonçalo Andrade
Visual aesthetics | Spring - summer Trees Shrubs Sub-shrubs Herbaceous
Salt tolerance vegetatio Autumn - Winter
on
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Dry meadow
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Recreation
Project: Outdoor spaces II 2011
Productive urban garden Designing with productive plants.
In response to the proposed design of a garden in an urban public space, it is presented a proposal that creates a dynamic place, aimed for active and passive recreation that is integrated with the surrounding urban area. The appreciation of the space is made ​​through the diversity of vegetation, with a rich collection of colors, textures and scents. Project: Vegetation in urban space - 2010 Professors: Jorge Barbosa & Gonçalo Andrade
Quick connection
Colors Textures
Scents
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Productive boxes
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Recreation
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Culture environment
Project: Vegetation in urban space - 2010
The main square is a central point that stands out and provides a connection with the surroundings, combining a range of environments with an educational, entertaining and interactive purpose. The lines of space are marked by the rhythm of vegetation. The central axis that cuts through space, is designed to stand out and to integrate and link the most important spaces like Casa da Musica, the Rotunda da Boavista and the Casa da Musica’s underground.
Primo Madeira’s garden Rehabilitation of a historic garden Project: Cultural landscapes - 2012 Professors: Teresa Marques
Preserve
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History
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Develop
paths’ amendment
eliminated and transplanted vegetation
An emblematic space in the heart of the city carefully restored
opment
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Time
1892 1940 2007
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Change
Project: Cultural Landscapes - 2010
FCUP campus The management design
This proposal seeks to relate the needs of students with the management and maintenance of the several areas with the many limits imposed by the discipline. For each area defined small notes and sketches were made that later led into a proposal that unifies a highly fragmented space and takes advantage of the volume and texture of the various types of vegetation, creating attractive areas for different uses, improving the “image� of Faculdade de Ciencias da Universidade do Porto (FCUP). Exterior space management - 2011 Professors: Paulo Farinha Marques & Jorge Barbosa
Landscape intervention is not a finish management, maintenance and co
Different spaces, different uses, different manag
hed act. The space progresses with ontrol over the elements.
gement.
Exterior space management 2011
Porto & Rio Tinto green
infrastructure Connecting spaces
Porto and Rio Tinto are two cities that have been losing their permeability along the time due to urban and industrial expansion. The goal of this work is to identify different typologies of green spaces in these cities and linking them in the discontinuities through three different types of projects,such as a park, a pocket garden and green street. Project: Plant material application - 2011 Professors: Paulo Farinha Marques & Clรกudia Fernandes
Advantages: geological, hydrological,
Mobility + Services and equipment + Green infrastructure + Heritage
Pine
Some of the several vegetation typologies identified
Eucalypt
biological, metabolic, circulation, social
Project: Plant material application - 2011
The proposal of Porto and Rio Tinto green corridor
Riparian gallery
Roads and surroundings
Three different types of projects to co prop
2.Pocket garden
1.Green street based on SUDS
onnect the discontinuities of the main posal
3.Conceptual park
Project: Plant material application - 2011
Povoa de Varzim Implementation of infrastructure in landscapes
After assimilated concepts such as landscape ecology, sustainable development and a brief introduction to the legal plans of spatial planning, a proposal for the territory of Povoa de Varzim was made, based on the structure: analysis, synthesis and proposal, the objective was to install a built structure (3kmx1km), an urban (80ha) and industrial (20ha) expansion area. Introduction to spatial planning - 2011 Professors: Teresa Andresen & Jorge Barbosa
1.Analysis
2.Synthesis Slopes
Values
Risks
Geology
3. Proposal Soil’s use
Lithology
Rio Tinto & Rio Torto watershed Geographic information systems applied to the spatial planning
The main objectives of this course were: consolidate training in the practice of spatial planning emphasizing the guidelines for the spatial distribution of economic activities to meet the principles of sustainable development and the current framework of the Land Management’s Instruments, with emphasis on the Municipal Master Plan. Spatial planning I - 2011 Professors: Maria JosÊ Curado & JosÊ Miguel Lameiras
These proposals are the result of a wide soil capabilities, risks, among other pote
1.ecological structure
2.sports network
e reflection in the synthesis stage about entialities of this territory.
3.agricultural parks network
Spatial planning I 2011
4.spatial plan
Rio Tinto & Rio Torto tourism promotion A different proposal to different kind of enotourism Spatial planning II - 2012 Professors: Maria JosĂŠ Curado
Objectives of the proposal: stre reclassify the built heritage; utili
engthen the territorial cohesion; ize the existing resources
Mills restoration
Spatial planning II 2012
Tracks
bread farms 9.2km
mills
11km
Roadmap Agricultural fields preservation The logo
Forest recovery Recovery of burn areas: an opportunity to design landscape
In the workshop organized by the University of Tras-osMontes and Alto Douro (UTAD) the main objective was the recovery of a vast burned area. The target area is located in the parishes of Ribeira de Pena and Boticas district of Vila Real, focusing on the area burned in 2009 and 2010, an area of 4000 hectares. The recuperation of the space is proposed through the implementation of fire fighting techniques, using the flora management and implementation of cultural and economic forest services, with the goal to a sustainable development. Regarding the type of intervention, the land was divided mainly in areas of production and maintenance of ecological zones. Workshop UTAD 2011 Several professors from several areas of FCUP and UTAD
Dwelling house Single family lot.
The challenge in this project was to model the ground to obtain 6% inclination on the paths and incorporote the house with the garden, defining the functionality of the surrounded area. Project: Outdoor spaces I - 2009 Professors: Isabel Martinho da Silva & Ricardo Gomes
Construction
details
Construction techniques, plan assessment and intervention on the existing elements.
In this course it was instructed the technical resources needed to build pavements, walls and other built structures used in landscape architecture projects. It was also made a requalification plan for Rainha Dona AmÊlia’s square in order to make the area more attractive and healthy. Project: Construction details - 2010 Professors: Isabel Martinho da Silva & Ricardo Gomes
Drawings & sketches Works made in the drawings’ discipline in FAUP and others in spare time.
In this course were developed observation skills, ability and knowledge in the art of drawing, sensitivity values for plastic and aesthetic aspects. Drawing I - 2008 Professors: Maria JosĂŠ & Raquel Pelayo
Photography
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