Braga
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parking areas reception + administration office store + minimarket + counter area staff locker rooms and wc jet wash area maintenance garage refueling area magazines area restaurant kitchen + storage disco / open space walking / artists’ space solid surface with low vegetation
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relaxing / soil with mixed vegetation
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surfaces diagram
scale 1.2000
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masterplan scale 1.1000
visitor path staff path vehicle path
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Maia Circus A drop between fast and slow, intercity and neighborhood. This proposal tries to combine different elements, creating a new society inside the already existing one. And this society is constantly changing as the people come and go. Its core is the artists that have the possibility to stay in the modules, and the passers-by, that alternate every few hours, its inhabitants. Everyone contributes here with different ways, as nobody could exist without the other one. The proposal is developed based on three axes, joining three circles: the industrial chimney (past), the roundabout (present), the circular building that I create as the third vertex (future) of this triangle that moves through time. I choose to preserve some of the ruins in order to preserve somehow the identity of the place, combining a prevailing shape used as a landmark. The visitor has the opportunity to rest and relax during his trip, but also meet art and education, and even entertain himself. A promenade by the railway is a parallel movement to and from the surroundings, (the metro station, the university), but at a lower speed.
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groundfloor plan
movement diagram
scale 1.2000
scale 1.500
plant nursery
kitchen + storage
disco
restaurant
magazines area
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uses diagram
scale 1.100
double u-profiled glass
sip structural system
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Eight modules are created to host e;ight artists for a specific period of time. Different specialties are intended to coexist: 01. architecture 02. sculpture 03. painting 04. poetry 05. music 06. dance 07. cinema 08. photography
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wall-closet closet that contains secondary uses, saving space out
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sip structural system =Structural Insulated Panel: composite building material with structural properties same as an I-beam or I-column
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u-profiled glass =annealed glass for high light diffusion free view of the art process
fusion of the inside with the outside
small art exhibition
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visitors’ path
artist’s workplace folding bed working desk folding table kitchen wardrobe storage for art material
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ground floor plan of the artists’ module
scale 1:50
biggest exhibition
private moments of the artist with light control
different positions of the shades provide different conditions of space, of privacy and openness
shades’ system
scale 1.50
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west elevation
scale 1.200