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Is a Portuguese Architecture portfolio by
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CATL
(Free Time Activities Center)
children after school facility
2008’09 | ULP | 1st grade Tutor. Architects Patrícia Diogo and João Rapagão
The proposal is based on the target - children. I thought of a simple volumetric form that allowed from outside an immediate understanding of the interior spaces and functions. I looked for a relationship between the shape of the yellow garage that borders the site to the volumes of the proposal, including its traditional pitched roof. We thus achieve a continuity and integration in engaging and at the same time break, creativity and originality in the formal language of architecture.
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CATL
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roof floor
Entered the building. Our attention is captured by the play of light / shade given by the columns that make up the corridor facing us. On our side we have the reception area / dressing room. While we go through hallway, three rooms of 40m2 each born to our left. These rooms are facing south and overlooking the garden outside. Lulled by the rhythm of the arches that surround us, a sculpture will cylindrical tearing behind a big window glass. We feel a break, a change of direction, we entered the multipurpose space. This space adjacent to the corridor, not overlapping it, complete it, giving it momentum and movement. On the other side of the glass wall that limits us, we see a tree, a natural element that focuses the alignment of volumes.
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northwest elevation
CATL
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CATL
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main floor
Another cylindrical shape slows us the way and give us the opportunity to choose where to go. Following, we have a hallway, an exit. Spaces adjacent to this, appear sequentially according to a narrow hierarchy: Storage, the first of these spaces, appears in front of the Multipurpose, supporting it. Pantry and private bathroom are the spaces that follows, at the beginning of the hallway, still in the multipurpose trail. Ahead we have the rest room, more sheltered from the noise of children. Finally, the administration room, the most private space of this building. It is the culmination of a journey, of a sense of a lived reality. 0
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CATL
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CUBE (CUBE HOUSE)
private house
2010’11 | ULP | 3rd grade Tutor. Architect Jorge Carvalho (aNc Architects)
When asked to design I house for myself as an architect, my first concern was my relation with the city. While I try to be aware of everything that happens and take a closer look about the world, the term “privacy” is something that I appreciate. Thus, assuming an attitude which I admit to be a little “coward” I pretend to watch without being seen! A concept somewhat contradictory that I named “hidden watchtower”. For this, I chose a high point of the terrain and adapted the building to topography, hiding it in the landscape, as if the project plays hide and seek with the nature.
roof plan
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CUBE
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cube fragmentation
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It was required in this exercise to start from a 9x9x9 meters cube. Thus, the fragmentation of the cube was related to my daily routine. I Divided it into three parts, related to three different events of the day: Sleeping, Working and Relaxing. Each of these volumes has different views of the landscape.
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main floor plan
CUBE
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south elevation
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CUBE
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“Just like what happens in real life, when we choose what we want to be and deal with the consequences, in architecture is up to us to decide the path of our proposal, what we want to look at...” 0
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Jørn Utzon
section BB’
CUBE
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DM2
(D.MANUEL II)
collective housing
2011 | OODA | Under construction Team: Diogo Brito, Rodrigo Vilas Boas, Francisco Lencastre, Lourenço Menezes Rodrigues
One of the most demanding tasks in Porto nowadays is the intervention on the major amount of old and historical buildings of Porto´s downtown. This project is a renovation of a 20th century building to convert to a 17 housing unit for students and young people in general.
T0 T0+1 T1 up T1 front T1 back storage common area
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vertical distribution
2nd floor plan
flat distribution
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pattern diagram
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section B
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typologies diagram
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section C
under construction
dm2
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HCB
(BONJOIA MASTERPLAN)
collective housing
2010’11 | ULP | 3rd grade Tutor. Architect Jorge Carvalho (aNc Architects)
Although the topic of this work aimed at housing, what the program meant more than any other intention was an urban intervention in the village of Noeda. Thus, all the problems that this site has, the lack of connections was the most I heed (especially with regard to access and relationships with intrinsic neighborhood of Alto da Bela isolated from the rest of city, serves as “a city within a city”). As a premise to solve this problem, I started with a triangular mesh that followed the alignments of existing streets and wished to “sew” all terrain intervention.
masterplan
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HCB
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To prioritize connections and attach key points such as entrances/exits of the city, as well as large green spaces - “Jardim da Corujeira, “Monte da Bela” and the new City Park - created a fluid major axis, which, in contrast with the orthogonal obtained mesh, excels and invites. In order to emphasize the theme of unity, I design a network of paths which cross the buildings and uncover the inner block. This space aims to become a place of ambiguous experiences: - Of dynamic scope - promoting outdoor activities like running, biking, etc; - Resting-oriented - allowing reading time or contact with the neighborhood;
typical floor plan
site section
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the buildings appear along the ground with two dissimilar attitudes: - With the intention of solving existing urban problems; - Filling in the gaps on the “other side” of the site; In an attempt to soften the sharp difference in elevation and slope of the land, the heights of the volumes depend on the environment around it. In an effort to lessen the magnificence of the volumes, and streamline its image leading to exhaustion the previous theme of “permeability”, I apply a “slatted” facade which refers to a skeleton and gives transparency to the volumes. typologies plan - t3 duplex
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HCB
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Something I never understood about housing/dwellings are the empty rooms after the children leave the parental home (Steven Holl - Void space / Hinged Space Apartments - Japan). So, I designed a system of housing typologies which develops this issue, making the house interior through foldable
panels, not only in the rooms but also in the common spaces of the house, where it is possible to obtain different variations of the same area.
HCB
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DANCEA (DANCE ACADEMY)
dance school
2011’12| FAUP | 4th grade Tutor. Architect Carlos Prata
On the edge of Matosinhos, adjacent to the port of Leixões, opposite the market, in relation to the drawbridge - the site is characterized by huge scale problems - from the territory to the building, and to design and think the city with the city itself. There was a need for an urban elevation to the port of Leixões inexistent so far. The urban mesh fades out towards the bridge, this is an area with a lot of car traffic but no public spaces that serve the local population.
site plan
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DANCEA
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The proposal is a Dance Academy, endowed with some multipurpose rooms, an auditorium, a small library and other schools services - a small program when compared with the site dimension, which, I think the “empty” will have at least as much relevance as the “filled”, by this I mean that my first concern will be the public space design. Therefore, conceptually linking the site with the intervention intentions, I envisioned a barrier, a border post - one Seawall, to magnify the separation between the city consolidated mesh, and an empty space which releases this ground all its intrinsic dynamism. The shape is located on the east, and it is concerned with solving the gable of Rua Do Conde Alto Mearim Street and give it street front. At the same time released all remaining land for public space that serves not only the Academy but the entire City.
entrance floor plan
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DANCEA
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A skewed existing building launches a volume that crowns the inner block and marks the entry into the building itself per vehicle. The pedestrian entrance to the Academy is made following the walkway that runs through this site.
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DANCEA
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Entering the building of exposed red ocher pigment concrete, we find ourselves in the large central lobby: On the right we have the auditorium and a bookstore, to the left we are faced with an inviting journey by school, surrounding the central courtyard and provides a top view of the many studios before culminating in the Library. On the ground floor we have the school itself, with exclusive access to students and teachers, where rooms are located consecutively around the bench that descends from the central atrium. The building is closed on itself, and breathes from the courtyards that serve mainly the 3 studios. A single tear in the northwest corner of the volume - Library / Administration - is the unique visual contact with the outside world - the Port of LeixĂľes. DANCEA
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NTCART
(NEW TAIPEI CITY MUSEUM OF ART)
international competition
2011 | OODA | Merit award Team: Diogo Brito, Rodrigo Vilas Boas, Francisco Lencastre, Lourenço Menezes Rodrigues
The competition intention was to create a pioneering and innovative design concept which will stand as a new-age landmark and a symbolic voice to the world of Taipei City new spirit.
Square
Overall volumetry
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The concept form proposed emerges from a big volumetric cube in confrontation with a smaller inner structure cube - hypercube - in which is applied a mathematical form that relates both. Then the big outer bisectrices clamp (as structural elements) and sucked the in between surfaces to a central point - hypercube as core. The main museum is positioned above and the Children Museum of Art is located below the sheltered square that is created under the main sculptural piece. The Museum of Art itself flows on a continuous ramp between the outer skin and the hyper core cube inside all the way to the top.
Large special exhibit room 1200 sqm
Information center 20 sqm
Library 1500 sqm
Large special exhibit room 1200 sqm
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Cube
Footprint
NTCART
Exhibit Void 1200 sqm
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Bisectrices
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Outer clamping structure
Skin adaptation
Museum of Art
- Clamped to bisectrices - Sucked by a central point
Formalization
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_ART
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Hypercube, formula_4 dimensional cube
Mathematical based sculpture
Taiwanese traditional lanterns light
Taiwanese traditional roofs
perspectived section
Admistrative spaces Lobby
Art - themed restaurant
Special exhibit space
Children Museum of Art
Permanent exhibit space
Art Arcade shops
Art resource center
Collection Storehouse
Art bookstore
Car/ Motorcycle Parking
“Experience art� Class room
Tour Bus parking
Gift Shop
Technical Area
program diagram
NTCART
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LEEUWARDEN (URBAN WATER LILIES)
international competition 2011 | OODA | Europan 11 Team: OODA + OOIO
The design of the proposal was instinctively developed under basic and determinant assumptions reflected from the local. Water, rurality, urbanity and cultural habits and traditions. The floating water lilies. This living in water organisms are in their essence specimens that naturally make a “bridge� between water and land world, developing a particular and sustainable ecosystem. Simultaneously the floating water lilies are also a recognizable icon of the Friesland province identity. Our proposal design was based in this concept, trying to develop a new parallel urban system. The need to combine and establish environmental relationships within the study area and the city of Leeuwarden, led us to a cellular organization, created from the abstraction of a water lilies set
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masterplan
LEEUWARDEN
Through the juxtaposition , overlap and repetition of the floating cells we were able to organize and develop a unique residential and common environment with high integration of water, green spaces and agricultural areas. In this way it was possible to bring together all the new residential habits and the natural /rural preexistences, creating a sustainable
residential system in harmonious coexistence with the urban and natural environments. In this sense all the apartment housing blocks are the exceptional forms with a more vertical assumption, and that are also related with the concept representing the abstraction of the Water lily flower.
Typology G Plot 48x48 2 units
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140 sqm Medium
Ground fl
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Ground fl
Typology G Plot 48x48 2 units
4x
140 sqm Medium
Typology H Plot 60x60 3 units Ground floor
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18 x 140 sqm Medium
140 sqm Medium
Ground fl Ground floor
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typology G Typology H Plot 60x60 3 units
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1st floor
1st phase plan
LEEUWARDEN
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LOIOS
(LARGO DOS LOIOS)
collective housing
2011 | OODA | Under construction Team: Diogo Brito, Rodrigo Vilas Boas, Francisco Lencastre, Lourenço Menezes Rodrigues
The concept of sustainable construction considers the creation, rehabilitation and responsible management of a healthy built environment based on efficient resources and ecological principles contributing to social, environmental and economic balance. Indeed, in this project, the two buildings to rehabilitate belong to the nineteenth century and are located in Porto’s downtown. The West facade that articulates the urban front of to Praça dos Lóios, is preserved almost in its entirety.
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LOIOS
The floors are divided into four independent fractions where each is equipped with a prefabricated module that solves all the functional needs of housing, consisting of: a toilet, kitchen, working area or sleeping space, cabinets for storage, a drawer to bed and still room for the infrastructure of water supply and ventilation due to a building
with housing overlapping fractions. This module can be applied in other rehabilitations, in buildings of the eighteenth / nineteenth century in Porto’s historic center because it has the ability to adapt to the typical dimensions of housing of this era fulfilling the technical requirements and livability of our days.
Sofá
Escritório
Armário
Banco
Cama
Cama 180º
Instalação Sanitária
2nd floor plan
Mesa de apoio Cozinha
module possibilities diagram
under construction
LOIOS
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FOZA
(FOZ ATELIER)
private office
2012’13 | FAUP | 4th grade Tutor. Architect JosÊ Gigante
The idea was to design an office for a small group of young architects. When I first look at the site I became fascinated with the diversity of roof slopes and how these dialogue each other. The proposal tries to continue that dialogue by changing the heights and slopes, adapting them to the program and surrounding specifications and needs. The entrance is made by a narrow street so the main facade can communicate freely with the square in which empties.
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FOZA
The building is developed on 2 levels corresponding to 2 workspaces and meeting. Both open onto a courtyard that serves as the lung of the whole building. The only opening to the city is a long and shallow window which observes the traditional square in front of it.
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patio floor 1:200
front facade 1:200
FOZA
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Capacete em zinco Camarinha de zinco
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Tela pitonada
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Poliestereno extrudido Tela asfaltica
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Ripado de madeira
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Asna de madeira
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Betao
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Poliestereno extrudido
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Tijolo macico
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Tela asfaltica Poliestereno extrudido
Camarinha de zinco Caleira em zinco Capacete em zinco Tela pitonada Asna de madeira Perfil metรกlico Tijolo maciรงo Poliestereno extrudido
Tijolo maciรงo pintado
Caixa de ar
entrance facade 1:200 Laje de Betao Perfil metalico
(2 cm)
Soalho Barrotes de Madeira
(2 cm)
Poliestereno expandido Cordao de mastique betuminoso Poliestereno expandido Filme de polietileno Poliestereno extrudido Membrana betuminosa elastomera Regularizacao
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Caixa de brita
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FOZA
Capacete em zinco Camarinha de zinco
(2cm) (2cm)
Tela pitonada
(0.2cm)
Poliestereno extrudido Tela asfaltica
(0.2cm)
Ripado de madeira
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Asna de madeira
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Betao
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(2cm) (2cm) (2cm) (0.2cm)
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Poliestereno extrudido
(2cm)
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Tijolo macico
(11cm) (8cm)
(11cm)
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Laje de Betao Perfil metalico
Tela asfaltica Poliestereno extrudido
Camarinha de zinco Caleira em zinco Capacete em zinco Tela pitonada Asna de madeira Perfil metรกlico Tijolo maciรงo Poliestereno extrudido
Tijolo maciรงo pintado
Caixa de ar
(2 cm)
Soalho Barrotes de Madeira
(2 cm)
Poliestereno expandido Cordao de mastique betuminoso Poliestereno expandido Filme de polietileno Poliestereno extrudido Membrana betuminosa elastomera Regularizacao
(5cm)
Caixa de brita
(20cm)
FOZA
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UOC
(Campanhã Urban Planning)
masterplan
2012’13 | FAUP | 5th grade Tutor. Architect Rui Mealha and Manuel F. Sá
Located in the metropolitan area of Porto, the internal Beltway - VCI, is a large flow of automobile infrastructure. Crosses the city surrounding it and connecting to the city of Vila Nova de Gaia. Its total length is 21 km and crosses the Douro river via two bridges, the Ponte da Arrábida and Ponte do Freixo. The VCI receives a set of rapid transit from the North and South of the country, collecting it and distributing it through Porto from highway nodes. Although the VCI has an important role when putting together various important sectors of Porto this is also an element of rupture in the City’s mesh. Separates the city into two parts which over time were earning disparate forms losing the continuity between the two, especially with regard to its public spaces and its fluidity.
strategy
program per area
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UOC
‘LIKE A TISSUE’ suggests our idea of sewing the two margins VCI with three main lines: one pedestrian path, a bike path that encourages sport and healthy life and a system of green spaces and lines that promote life quality in the city. A ‘good idea of the city’ should take into consideration the quality of life of citizens, as the city is made for these.
The disruption caused by VCI turns impossible for a pleasant crossing between the two sides. This wound caused in the city brings with it other problems such as the emergence of blocks being ripped, building wraps grotesque, dead ends, viaducts without urban quality, among others. Checked the problematic matter in this study to minimize their negative impacts, for this we define the following objectives: -urban identity and image of the city-ecological structure integrated in diverse systems -circulation system and urban mobility, including collective transport yourselves and individual as well as footpaths and cycle routes, -re-qualifying the ‘interface’ between the various systems,« -enhance the recreational areas and sports, promoting a better quality of life for citizens
green
operative units by connection
UOC
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masterplan
UOC
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When we look at this area, the image seems scattered to us too, confusing. Seen in the same tranche of land, a set of forms and varied systems that do not communicate with each other: Private housing adjacent to huge factory buildings; Hampered access to several residential areas; Campanh達 Train and Subway that does not have an urban design for the East entrance; Educational and cultural facilities isolated from any practicable public space, etc. The masterplan proposed here is thought, perspective a structured urban planning in long term. So not only is taken into account the profile of the users of the present time as well as the characteristics of them within a 15-20 years. In this scope, we must considerer not only the aging population that inhabits the area of Campanh達 or the people who use the train station, but also users that a possible integration of the HST / High Speed in this route will (it is predicted that within 10-15 years the project has a green light).
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So that the traffic (car, train, Tgv, subway and bus) as well as access to these could be done separately from conventional urban routes, I create an avenue that runs on 2 axes and 2 levels - An axis which is taken as a public space to separate two car ways serves users outside and another perpendicular to the first and that communicates with the various interfaces on the lower level and creates the link between the entries East and West of the Station, as well as connects to the newly formed “extension� of the Park East of Porto and establishments that sustains it.
2nd level plan
UOC
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With the intention of complementing the existing range of facilities and serve the users that will eventually scale in travel, I suggest a hotel that draws the hinge between the railway lines and the Park. About the Alameda Platform, an office building and other to support TGV rise up together. In order to connect the Masterplan of Antas / Dragon Stadium this area now re-qualified is proposed another promenade that has a pedestrian and bicycle path in the space of two tracks. In its follow-up, these routes extend in the underground to the Park East of Porto, which, in turn, connects well with Marina Freixo. In Stage 2 which may or may not come to materialize, it is thought a set of collective housing that give front promenade and organize a space that lies between this road and the Park.
1st level plan
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UOC
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The foundation of the project is thus the public space - Timeless.
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