PERSONAL INFORMATION
João Pedro Mesquita Delgado 02/1997 | Portugal +351916510506 joao.delgado.97@gmail.com Rua Manuel Ferreira, nº12, 1ºC, Linda-a-Velha, Oeiras
EDUCATION 2019/2020
Exchange Student Program in Shanghai, China Tongji University | College of Architecture and Urban Planning
2018 - now
Master’s Degree in Architecture Instituto Superior Técnico
2015-2018
Degree in Studies of Architecture Instituto Superior Técnico
2012-2015
Highschool Graduation Escola Secundária Professor José Augusto Lucas
SKILLS Architectural Design Software Advanced
Autodesk AutoCAD
Good
Autodesk Revit | Rhinoceros | VRay
Basic
Dialux
Editing Software
Adobe Photoshop | Adobe InDesign
Video Editing Software
Sony Vegas PRO
Technical
Drawing, Model Making, Digital Rendering, Digital Collage
LANGUAGES Portuguese (native language) English - CAE Certificate
COMPETITIONS 2020
Young Architects Competition - Hill of the Arts with Clara Oliveira YAC, Turin, February-April 2020 https://www.youngarchitectscompetitions.com/
2019
Concurso Prémio Universidades Trienal de Lisboa with Manuel Baptista Trienal de Lisboa, Marvila, Lisbon, February-April 2019 https://www.trienaldelisboa.com/open-calls-pt/d/opencalls_t2019-universidades
2018
Resilient Homes Design Challenge with Clara Oliveira and Manuel Baptista Build Academy, Nepal, September - December 2018 https://buildacademy.com/resilienthomes/
AWARDS 2019
Finalist in Concurso Prémio Universidades Trienal de Lisboa
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2018
Internship at Docomomo International Docomomo International Headquarters in Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, June-July 2018
2019
Architectural Tour Guide at Allkind Tours Lisbon, June-August 2019
OTHER INFORMATION Currently working on my Master Thesis with Professor Ana Tostões on Chinese Modernity.
WORKS
House in Meco “Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty” . Junichiro Tanizaki The southern town of Meco and its neighbouring villages offer a relaxing refuge to those whishing to escape the bustling metropolis. The presence of the sea filling the site with its soft breeze and the rustling of trees make nature the power it deserves. The presence of an ever expanding promontory allows us to soak in all of nature’s delights in an awe inspiring perspective. The proposal to design a vacation house for this site left no shortage of inspiration and ideas to explore several relationships between man and nature. The creation of a place that for once suggested a resting, and stopping motion while being in close contact with the site seemed a natural course of action. Always taking inspiration from the great tradition and heritage of Japanese architecture and literature, the appreciation of an architecture that was built from the inside looking out, that embraced the far reaching shadows and looked at the dwelling as an intermediate between the exterior and interior.
Fornos, Meco | 2017 Design Studio III with Arch. J.P. Falcão de Campos, Arch. Miguel Braz and Arch. Filipa Mourão
01 - Living Room | 32.3m² 02 - Kitchen | 15.5m² 03 - Bedroom | 15.7m² 04 - Master Suite | 23.3m² 05 - Office | 15.4m² 06 - Guest Room | 15.4m²
07 - Bathroom | 6.9m² 08 - Kitchenette | 6.9m² 09 - Pantry | 4.8m² 10 - Storage | 6.9m²
House Plan 1:200
Location Plan 1:2000
East Facade 1:300
A-A’ Section 1:300
A Campus by the Docks with Manuel Baptista “By the Tagus, you go to the World” . Alberto Caeiro In a crucial border of Lisbon, where the Tagus River meets the Atlantic Ocean, a Campus of the Sea is proposed in the old instaltions of Doca-Pesca. The project articulates the two realities of the campus, the research workspaces and workshops and the researchers residences for temporary housing. In that sense a manifestation of the private and the public must be defined at an urban level using both the relationship of the site with the sea and with the dock for that effect. Turned to the dock is the bustling life of the project. A “ring” of public programs from the campus life to restaurants, bars and shops circumdates the beautiful Doca de Pedrouços and keeps in close contact the boats and the workshop areas. On the other side, the residential volumes create a linear green park that opens the site to the sea and the Tagus estuary. With this dynamic the project very deliberately contrast what is the more public life of the dock with the more private of the green and the sea meeting all the necessities out of the people who inhabit the campus but also offering a new seaside space for the residents of Algés and kickstarting an urban renewal of the entire shoreline offering both active and resting spaces at an urban scale.
Doca de Pedrouços, Algés | 2018 Design Studio III with Arch. J.P. Falcão de Campos, Arch. Miguel Braz and Arch. Filipa Mourão
Site Plan 1:4000
01 - Researcher Residence 02 - Commercial Building 03 - Research Buildings
Researchers Residences Plan 1:1000
01 - Entrance | 41m² 02 - Business | 63m²
Site Section 1:500
A-A’ Section 1:400
North Elevation
East Elevation
West Elevation T0 1st Floor
T1 2nd Floor
South Elevation
T1 - Duplex 3rd Floor
Duplex First Floor
T0
01 - Living Room | 18/28m² 02 - Bedroom| 6/10m² 03 - Balcony | 13/20m²
Duplex Second Floor
T1
04 - Kitchen | 7/12m² 05 - WC| 4m²
Apartment Plans 1:150
Nakagin Capsule Tower Model with Clara Oliveira and Manuel Baptista “We regard human society as a vital process - a continuous development from atom to nebula” - Metabolist Manifesto It was in 1970 that Japan dazzled the world with 1970 World Expo as a celebration and culmination of 10 years of Metabolist experiments and utopias. In that same year Kisho Kurokawa built the Nakagin Capsule Tower with a bold constructional system and utopian character. Imagined to be part of an urban cluster of towers, the Capsule Tower was designed to, in the spirit of modernity, be modular, temporary and mobile, just like a living organism. The cosmopolitan and transient nature of the modern world called, according to Kurokawa, for a completely modular city where people could transport and change their home at a an affordable and fast pace. With that in mind the capsule tower has 2 central structural cores that hold the access to the apartment, and a variety of different capsules that can be arranged in any way people want when fixing their house. In that nature, and in attempting to reconstruct on a model the spirit of the Metabolist, this model transfers the basic principles of the tower to a small accessible scale, with all the capsules being removable and reorganized to a magnet fixation system.
2018 Design Studio III with Arch. J.P. Falcão de Campos, Arch. Miguel Braz and Arch. Filipa Mourão
Marvila Cultura Center with Manuel Baptista Trienal de Lisboa Universities Competition Finalist
‘Architecture is to Geometrize’ - Álvaro Siza Vieira The dialogue between the project and the architectural heritage of Marvila, assumed in the form of the Palácio da Quinta dos Pinheiros, will form a centre always in contact with both the memory and the future, represented in a light structure that rises from the ground floor. The central linearity between the project and the palace gives it a new instilled importance, which is formalized in a grand ascension that connects all the different podiums, marking the palace as a crowning finale in a dynamic promenade architectural. A new synthesis planning a post-modernist balance between the rooted erudition of the Greek tradition and the eclectic modern heritage, breaking with dogmatic views of architecture and trying to reach a harmonious aesthetic for the future. The structure touches the podiums in the form of a grid of slender pillars that shape the space connecting it with the urban fabric, and offers free appropriation for social use. The roof is opened in two strategic locations, an open air square with the objective of bringing light and ‘gather people’, and an auditorium capable of hosting live events and shows for the community. A weightless glass structure is introduced in contrast with the hardness of the podiums and utilizes the roof using its structural components to assume its materiality in a light free open space, where the more educational activities, like workshops and study spaces, take place.
Marvila | 2019 Design Studio V w/ Arch. Ricardo Bak Gordon, Arch. Pedro Sousa & Arch. Pedro Domingos Trienal de Lisboa Universities Competition
Location Plan 1:10000
Longitudinal Section 1:1500
01 - Auditorium 02 - Public Square
03 - Commercial Area 04 - Quinta dos Pinheiros Palace
Roof Plan 1:1000
01 - Auditorium
02 - Public Square
03 - Commercial Area
04 - Quinta dos Pinheiros Palace
Bird’s Eye View Axonometric 1:1500
05 - Student Workplace
Worm’s Eye View Axonometric 1:200
01 - Black Painted Steel 02 - Lioz Marble
03 - Concrete 04 - Waterproofing Layer
05 - Steel Window Frame 07 - Lighting Fixture 06 - Drainage
Constructive Section B-B’ 1:150
Artem Conclusus with Clara Oliveira
“(...) a work is inseperable from the manner of its foundation in the ground and the ascendancy of its structure� - Gottfried Semper Assuming the present heritage as immutable and part of the natural growing environment, a stereotomic foundation is proposed to shelter the Hill of the Arts. The search for shelter and wordly expression have always been tightly knit. Architecture as a shelter, as a safe space to explore the artistic experience contrasted to the natural world, is, in that sense, the conceptual drive behind this project. On a constant dynamic between the natural, ever changing and always growing, and the man made, geometrazied and static, Art finds a place to grow and be nourished. Being the nucleus of the project the auditorium serves as a node to the entire project, connecting its three main levels. At the top most level, the public sphere, a minimal intervention can be seen as a way to highlight the already existing beautiful heritage present at the site; The level below, the Art and Wellness Center, has the most radical transformation and the clash between the stereomically designed marble and natural elements brings both comfort and dynamism to the heart of the project. Finally, at the bottom level, the more private area of the program is accomodated and we have the Artist Rooms and the sprawling forest with sparce Art Cabins, structures made to synthethise the project in a single locus and confront in an intense micro cosmos the man made and the natural, a literal refuge.
Villa Altissimo, Turin | 2020 Hill of the Arts Competition by Young Architects Competitions youngarchitectscompetitions.com
01 - Guest House 02 - Restaurant 03 - Theather
04 - Spa / Art Area 05 - Art Cabins
A-A’ Section 1:300
01 - Restaurant 03 - Art Workshops 02 - Guest House 04 - Theather 01 - Restaurant Ground Level Plan 02 - Guest House 1:300
03 - Workshop Spaces 04 - Auditorium
Ground Floor Plan 1:300
01 - Theather 05 - Sauna - Art/Wellness Center Plan06 - Turkish 01 - Bath Auditorium 02-1- Art Space 031:300 - Artist Rooms 02 -Room Art Gallery 07 - Locker 04 - Thermal Baths 08 - Outside Pool
03 - Artist Room - Atelier 04 - Thermal Baths
-1 Floor Plan 1:300
Shanghai K11 Commodifying the Spectacle for a new Retail Avant-Garde
“(...) architecture may well have to merge with vulgar reality and accept juxtaposition and montage as design principles which allow for this merging.” - Hilden Heynen In a programmatic and spatial sense, retail embodies the spirit of capitalism and has associated with it much of the malignments that characterize our age: a commodification of our daily life. This commodification creates a fragile feeling of superficiality and inauthenthicity that pervade our quotidian life where “all that is solid melts into air” . To use capitalism’s and modernity’s contradictions towards a real experience is the aim of this project. The constant stream of images and juxtaposition of experiences can be a real opportunity for artistic exploration. Retail can, thus, offer a physical space, an atelier of the self, where the consumer has enough freedom and stimuli to be constantly engaged in an artistic exploration. The commodity becomes the paradoxical authenthicity, and thus, the cornerstone of this new architectural space. Using the showcase as the architectural manifestation of the commodity, the project proposes a dialogue with the commodity through the materiality of architecture. Hence, the structuring principle of a wall in direct relation to an object becomes the genesis of the project. From this genesis a spectacle occurs, of montages and juxtapositions that break away all spatial conceptions and stimulate the consumer into a frenzy. In this environment the consumer becomes producer free to explore himself artistically in a curation of the self. Tus the project establishes the inversion of the producer-consumer relationship, an inversion of the store space and a new unity between Art and Consumerism.
K11 Mall, Shanghai | 2019 Design Studio on Future of Retail with Arch. Ercoment Ergul
Background 1:40
Ceiling 1:40
Table 1:40
Showcase 1:40