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SELECTED PROJECTS 2010|2015
Mafalda Carmona Selected Works 2010 | 2015 JAN | 2016
Mafalda Carmona
SELECTED PROJECTS 2010|2015
“ Start by doing what’s necessary, Then what’s possible, And suddenly you are doing The impossible” *
* St. Francis of Assis
Mafalda Carmona
SELECTED PROJECTS 2010|2015 ** Architecture Portfolio and Sample Work
2015 | 2014
Mafalda Carmona Profile About and CV
2014
SOS_Project Pin Architecture February 2014 Top 6 Runner Up
2013 | 2010 | 2009
** This Portfolio gathers Conceptual Projects developed over the last five years, from 2010 to 2015, all of them were competition proposals which show case a path in which one project lays under the previous and goes further, often provoking one another and where as well it is very clear the reinterpretation or reference to examples from architectural history and architects as Gaudi, Marcel Breuer or Le Corbusier.
F3RH_Project Pod Competition “Re-Grow” Australia, Victoria, May 2009 Architizer Competition 2010 Winner Article at ecofriend.com, March 2012 World Architecture Award 2013
RoSaS_Project Sunbrella Competition 2014 Portugal, Belém, May 2014 Featured at Sunbrella Sponsor 2014 World Architecture Award 2015
2013
BAAL_Project Biophilic Architecture Portugal, Palmela, May 2013 World Architecture Award Shortlist
2010
LC2_Project Fakro Competition 2010 Portugal, Paio-Pires, April 2010 World Architecture Award 2010
2014
Hub_it! Project MNPG Arch Competition Australia, October 2014 Honourable Mention Sustainability
2012
RGB_Project FuturArc Prize Competition China, GWC, June 2012 AECcafe.com , 2012 World Architecture Award Shortlist
2010
Void_Project Guggenheim 2.0 Competition 2010 “Re-Contemplating the Void” EUA, New York, May 2010 Published Style & Design , June2010
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PROFILE
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Mafalda Carmona I am an architect with a Architectural Master Degree by the Portuguese University Lusíada of Lisbon, the city where I was born, at the oldest district of Lisbon, Alfama, the birthplace of Fado, but I lived part of my childhood in Angola, Luanda. Mafalda Carmona Profile About and CV
Before being an architect, in 1985 I received the Bachelor’s Degree as Electrotechnology Technician from Frei Luís de Sousa School at Almada, an industrial city where former Lisnave shipyard was located and nearby I lived for almost three decades. I was admitted at OAP, Architects Portuguese Order in 1992 and in 1996, I went to a specialization course in Architectural Analysis and Semiology at the Lusíada Center of Architectural and Technological Studies. Between 1990 and 2009 I worked at several Portuguese well-known Architecture Offices at Lisbon and Sesimbra where I have being actively involved in the practice's work. Since 2000 I live at Sesimbra, a small village at Setúbal District, with a beautiful natural bay and by late 2009 I'm entering Architectural Competitions. I aim to communicate to the larger number of people the active role of Architecture and Art in people's lives with both Architecture Projects and as well by holding, since December 2010, as administrator the Facebook page called Archiactivity, meaning Architecture plus Activity, which has now 9K followers, with the motto: Let's Move the World UP through Art and Architecture! I also publish architecture projects and reports at some other platforms such as World Architecture Community (WAC), Architizer and Academia.edu. With the activity in Architecture field I am doing my best to propose real and mean full changes in the environment by applying my best interest and abilities in Rehabilitation of Planet Conditions by Architectural continuous research, hoping to find innovative and creative solutions to real problems through Architecture. Currently I still live and work at Sesimbra, near one of the most Mediterranean impressive landscapes: Serra da Arrábida. Sesimbra, January 2016.
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ABOUT
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Personal Information
Competitions and Awards
Mafalda Carmona 2970-847 Cotovia SSB
At Architizer Competition Competition 2010 I won the prize by popular voting by the Architizer Community and the entry submitted at Guggenheim Competition Re:Contemplating the Void, was included in an article at the Italian weekly L'Espresso, at the Section Style and Design and in 2012 the RGB_Project was published at AECCafe.com.
+351 962129490 mafaldacarmona@yahoo.com (EN) http://archiactivity.wix.com/mafalda_carmona (PT) http://archiactivity.wix.com/mafaldacarmona Portuguese 1st November 1968 Female Married Architecture Education
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1987|1992 Master Degree in Architecture Final Thesis “Industrial Pátios and Vilas Rehabilitation at Lisbon” – Pátio do Cabrinha as a Study Case to contemporary urban community analysis, in collaboration with Alcântara Municipality Urban Services Portuguese University Lusíada of Lisbon (ULL)
I was invited to participate in a Brazilian first issue Magazine ZINE#01 by VAASTU Office and the theory article Genetic Dynamic Architecture first published at World Architecture Community in 2010 is also published at www.archifame.com site and is included into Maged Elsamny Architecture Thesis for the degree of Doctor, University of Alexandria. My proposal to Pin Architecture competition February 2014 was at Top6 with a post-modern world vision about sea level rise and Sunbrella Future of Shade 2014 Competition proposal, RoSaS Project, was featured at sponsor Sunbrella site as one of the Most Innovative Entries. At the end of 2014, the proposal to MNPG Arch Competition 2014, Hubit! Project wins the Sustainability Honorable Mention and was featured in several online Publications. At 2015, March, 25, RoSaS_Project is a 20+20+X Architecture Awards 19th Cycle Award Winner. I'm also a World Architecture Community Awards Winner at 13th Cycle (2013) and 8th Cycle (2010) with the F3RH and LC2 Projects.
1996 Specialization Course Architecture in Architectural Analysis and Semiology Lusíada Center of Architectural and Technological Studies Portuguese University Lusíada of Lisbon (ULL)
The artistic project 52+1, entitled " Children in the Public Urban Space is the sign of a more human world" (Crianças no espaço público é sinal de um mundo mais humano) in which I was invited to collaborate as one of the 52 invited plastic artists, is approved by the FUNCULTURA (Fundo Pernambucano de Incentivo à Cultura) and will be implemented as a collective exposition and catalog by 2016.
Skills and Competences
Currently I still live and work at Sesimbra near one of the most Mediterranean impressive landscapes: Serra da Arrábida.
Portuguese Native English Sufficient in understanding, written and spoken French Sufficient in understanding, written and spoken Spanish Sufficient in understanding, written and spoken Adobe Photoshop, Gimp, Indesign Sketchup Pro, V-Ray Auto Cad Autodesk
Personal Characteristics Extremely autonomous, enthusiastic, non-conventional thinker, resilient worker, non scholastic conventional education. Experienced both as team leader as well as collaborator. Endless curiosity, peculiar correlation capacity, very good analysis capacity.
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RoSaS
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RoSaS_Project Sunbrella Competition 2014 Portugal, BelĂŠm, May 2014 Featured at Sunbrella Sponsor 2014 World Architecture Award 2015
RoSaS IS AN INNOVATIVE BAND STAND The concept uses the architectural sign Bandstand to transform an urban arid and overexposed space, such as an empty square, into a vivid fresh urban space. RoSaS is conceived not as an object for contemplation but as a catalyzing experience. The emphasis on Radiance is closely aligned with RoSaS design to maximize sun-light control, ventilation, fresh air and colored fabric surfaces, used as sensory tools. RoSaS key design, to reinforce dynamics and motion aesthetics, it is both circular form and bright curved lines. RoSaS is a prototype for a new approach to the urban Bandstand typology which can be installed in different variations, at several public spaces. The general approach related to Tango was chosen by its improvisation, creative discovery, spontaneity, evolution of movement along the space in circular and fluid scheme and, as well, the use of Accordion. In a perspective view RoSaS evolves in width, along a circular path, forming a rippled pattern, as if music sound waves and dance steps are responsible for revealing the changes operated at original Sunbrella fabric strips, transforming it into sculptural shapes with geometrical design, fulfilled with gaps, resembling the Accordion shape.
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From sun rise to sunset, sun-light pass through the gaps transforming inner RoSaS into a glowing radiant space, as if people were under shadow trees in a natural landscape. Imperative duty to find in nature the original form justifies conscientious incorporation of Nature world logic. The surface’s design consists in vertically and horizontally Sunbrella fabric strips, which are assembled on top and bottom to a circular tubular structure. These strips are mobile and folded to control gap width. Strips can have changing sizes and depths as well as different color scheme to adapt to either the surrounding context or performance. Its radiant effect will change depending on the sunlight and its incident angle as well as observer’s position.
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HUB_IT!
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Hub_it!_Project is a Contemporary Hub to the Snowy Mountains submitted to the MNPG Arch International Competition 2014 . MNPG Arch is working to improve architecture every two years. Awarding a first place prize, as well as honourable mentions in Sustainability, Resourcefullness, Best Practice and Most Innovative.
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Hub_it! Project MNPG Arch Competition Australia, October 2014 Honourable Mention Sustainability
SUSTAINABLE HUB Hub it! is a comprehensive process design that allows for the adaptation of collaboration with the local area, ski resorts and companies to create a resilient construction. Not a village, this community would serve the health of the region’s natural wonder. By respecting the land, the building has a sensitive impact on the environment without detracting from the living scenery. Importantly, it is a self sufficient structure that can grow or shrink depending on the needs of the habitat. Hub it! is not a proposal, but rather a System (or a Process) that will lead to several outcomes depending on the prevailing variables for each site implementation according specific adaptation. Among all possibilities at Snowy Mountains, Hub it! was applied to Guthega Gate House Pondage at Snowy River. The Guthega Dam was created as an integral part of the Snowy Mountains Hydro Electricity Scheme, and the site option was made taking in account the opportunity to link Public/Private Partnership (Snowy Mountain Hydro Electric Company /Ski Resorts/Local Community) and Nature, as a leading world show case how these entities can join together by their common interest in preserve the environment through a successful eco-strategy of engagement and cooperation. According to this, Hub it! aims to link all public and private entities, local population and nature in to a resilient process leading to meaningful changes to environment quality, helping to promote biodiversity and environmental health.
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The Hub it! key design, to reinforce adaptability and replication aesthetics, it is both hexagonal form and curved lines. The South surface’s, designed to adapt to cold winter climate, and act as buffer zone against cold and snow, consists in vertically and horizontally strips, which are assembled on top and bottom to a circular tubular structure. These strips are mobile and folded to control gap width. Strips can have changing sizes and depths to adapt to either the surrounding context or site location. The branches and bend forms inspired the Hub it! aesthetics and also its colour scheme in whites, as an attempt to be a "ghost" in the landscape, as if Hubs would merge with the environment as a mimetic approach to snow gum trees and flowers, which occur as woodlands also between 1300-1800m sub alpine zones, where record low temperature during the winter were minus 23 degree. This project was designed thinking that overtime could change, allowing the areas and program of the Hub it! to grown and shrink, to appear or disappear with the changing needs, remaining always as a modern space. Hub it! is an innovative proposal inspired by nature and human-nature cooperation based, that aims to be a focal point around which human and nature events occurs. It is a self sufficient structure, being able to produce its own food in the Roof Vegetable Garden, respecting a low impact recycling policy. It was designed for 2-5 people to live in, but has the ability to replicate by a "mathematical formula", because of its hexagonal cells structure, assembling honeycomb, and form or joint a larger community.
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SOS
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SOS_Project Pin Architecture February 2014 Top 6 Runner Up
SOS TO SEA LEVEL RISING Sea levels are rising globally, both incrementally and in bursts. The areas most vulnerable to flooding are also some of the most densely populated in the world. As oceans rise, building owners will not willingly abandon their valuable waterfront properties. In the absence of large municipal solutions, such as levees and sea walls, how might an individual property be retrofitted for continued use? When the ground floor is surrounded by seawater, how is it kept dry and occupiable? How is the experience and utility of a space enhanced by being plunged underwater? What happens when a floor sinks? At February Brief the topic is “The Sinking Floor� and participants are asked to design a retrofit for a single building where the sea level has risen above the ground floor. Submissions may be technical, conceptual, practical, and/or artistic. JURY COMMENTS "The complexity and texture reveal a world where reality is upside down. The image is intriguing while not alienating. With familiar challenges but realized in a post modern world."
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BAAL
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22 “Biophilic Archeological Artifact for Living “or BAAL_Project is in the context of modern architectural theory, in which genius loci has profound implications for place-making and by this principle , the design should always be adapted to the context in which it is located. Furthermore, in biophilic projects, nature is the great source of inspiration and uses biomimicry as a way to blur with the nature environment.
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BAAL_Project Biophilic Architecture Portugal, Palmela, May 2013 World Architecture Award Shortlist
GENIUS LOCIS AND OTHER TALES FROM BIOPHILIC ARCHITECTURE The starting point for this Biophilic proposal it is a fictional narrative in which the project exists as the remaining ruins from a 13th century architectural structure belonging to the Order of Santiago, in an archaeological site at Palmela, Portugal. These facts came to public knowledge in early 2013 when the scientific community discloses the interesting use of biophilic architecture by this old society, which apparently already had the knowledge of artificial hygromorphs. Attending to their natural environment of pine forests they should have, by the use of biomimetic analogues, applied the pine cone environmental response to humidity by changing their shape, opening when dry and closing when wet, as a practical example to their construction techniques using it to control house ventilation and temperature. After this, the local community has decided building using this ancestral heritage way of living.
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BAAL
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BAAL_Project it is an activist project therefore uses biomimicry as a way to blur with the nature. Views Left to Right:: Northeast | South | Southwest
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RGB
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26 RGB_Project conceptual idea is to make the growing tourism a coordinate element to stop desertification. The FuturArc Prize was launched in 2007 by the BCI Group of Companies to generate forward-thinking, innovative design ideas for Asia. Through the force of imagination, it aspires to capture visions of a sustainable future.
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RGB_Project FuturArc Prize Competition China, GWC, June 2012 AECcafe.com ,2012 World Architecture Award Shortlist
RGB IS A PROJECT FOR STOPPING THE LOSS OF LAND TO DESERTS Since 2005, the hotel industry in China is developing in a high speed, with the growth of disposable wealth Per capita, more and more families are devoting their attention on lifestyle vacations. To meet these requirements, there are growing trends of tourist hotels in scenic spots. But hotel architectures in terms of energy consumption, pollution and carbon footprints during and after the construction usually have a huge impact on the ecological system, especially in a natural environment. RGB_Project has a new approach towards Great Wall human occupation, not as a tourist scenery but as community center. At actual desertification process it is estimated that 233.100 hectares of land become desert each year- not because the climate is drying, but because the natural land cover has been destroyed. The sum of RGB_Project data and China's reforestation Program is almost 2 million hectares per year of natural land cover, beginning 2012 and ending 2020 with a total amount in this period of more than 12 million hectares, that would made desertification values go back until reach 1973 values.
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Some of the projects presented at this portfolio are considered connected to a very unique kind of architecture, the activist architecture:
"Each architect has a role as a citizen, being responsible for improving the quality of the world and the lives of others. Architects can begin a path of active design contribution and cross-disciplinary collaboration to create options for social activism and design as advocacy." Ophelia Fletcher WAC
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F3RH
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30 F3RH_Project “is a modular housing units to counter the effects of natural calamities to improved practicality, and more importantly adaptability to an existing or probable situation.” in ecofriend.com Article, March 2012.
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F3RH_Project Pod Competition “Re-Grow” Australia, Victoria, May 2009 Architizer Competition 2010 Winner Article at ecofriend.com, March 2012 World Architecture Award 2013
FIRE-SUPPRESSION SYSTEM
“The ambit of the design takes a collective approach to solve the predicaments faced by people during natural catastrophes. The first step of the project deals with the construction of an unobtrusive, prefabricated concrete structure, designated as the House Pod. This will be the starting point of the whole complex, where the affected families can initially retire. Now, coming to the scope of the F3RH, this will be the main quarter for sustenance and long term habitation, free from the clutches of adverse natural effects. The entire block has been envisaged as a floating colony, inspired by the effective survival instincts of certain insects during bush fires. The modular housing units would be placed on special underwater rubber tanks equipped with sensitive sprinklers, while they will be kept afloat by hydraulic mechanisms.” in ecofriend.com Article, March 2012.
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32 F3RH_Project “And, that is exactly what F3RH (Free Fire Floating Resistant House) epitomizes, by posing as a sturdy, floating residential unit immune to the frequent bush fires of Australia.” in ecofriend.com Article, March 2012.
“As the water gets released from the flexible tanks, the housing units would sink further down, thus effectively surrounding themselves with a ‘moat’ of water and fire retardant mixture. Finally, coming to the structural quality of the dwelling units, they will be designed like a simple box type building, in plastic fiber concrete reinforced with a hot dip galvanized mesh. As a matter of fact, each of them will be integrated with internal utilities like frame fitting, electricity and sewerage systems. Moreover, they will also be equipped with an emergency kit, which would include food, water, batteries and even an air purification system.” in ecofriend.com Article, March 2012.
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LC2_Project Fakro Competition 2010 Portugal, Paio-Pires, April 2010 World Architecture Award 2010
LC2_PROJECT EXPLORES THE IDEA OF USING HEAVY MACHINERY EQUIPMENT PARTS Equipment parts such as cranes, excavators, track dozers - or parts of these products, the cabin, are the formal basis for theoretical exploration in the renovation of this company headquarters and a top loft for the owner, in a 300m2 office addition that adjoins the existing, and unfinished, structure plant of L offices. The pre-existence on the site is rooted in industry, consisting of warehouses, workshops and offices. The intervention focuses on an office consisting of two volumes, one cubic with two floors, which we shall call "a", and another L-shaped, which we shall call "b.
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The LC2 [Light Caterpillar Cabinet] species will be those that will organize and integrate not only the space for sale, display and exchange of heavy industrial equipment, but also space for recovery, maintenance and recycling of used industrial machinery, and also the loft, with an area of outdoor recreation and leisure. The LC2 nested species emerges as a consequence of spontaneous experimentation as a set of individual beings with common genetic (genotype) in an apparent disorder merely organized according to the environment (phenotype) following the instincts of the group. At a later stage these specimens may turn into something very different, either because of environmental adaptation, either because their own preferences and empathy. The species LC2, as other species in nature like butterflies, insects and many plants, is perfectly adapted to the environment. That is the reason for its yellow color, which is designed to capture, through components of ink, the energy from the sun required for the entire system. In this way, new species could be placed on top of existing structures, in a way they unifies the existing places and are the defining element of new places. _In this specific example, they adopt one color, one disposition, one esthetic that is used by almost machinery brands: the yellow color and metallic skin. Yet, in their desire to adapt they can be green, cover with ivy, blue, glass, bamboo, wood, ceramic tiles, and multiple skins to generate light, wind, shadow, worm, cold, in order to supply the needs of the environment and to deal with sustainable development to a green self production cycle in a sort of self sufficiency, letting LC2 act as shelters, housing small mammals, and domestic animals like rabbits and chickens, and also several species of birds living in the area, and can also acts as greenhouses for vegetable culture.
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VOID
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Void_Project Guggenheim 2.0 Competition 2010 “Re-Contemplating the Void” EUA, New York, May 2010 Published L’Espresso Style & Design , June2010
VOID_PROJECT IS A SENSORY EXPERIENCE White square spiral ramp rising up in increasing perimeter, the spiral within the spiral, the void within the void, and the square opposed to the existing circle. In each ramp sections there are white polygonal boxes with different environments: jungle, desert, city, open field, as well as sound, light, color, taste, smell… The path begins at the rotunda floor with a white initial box completely empty, going through countless boxes along sensory climb up and finish in light dome. These boxes are irregular derivations from the cube with upper and lower windows to allow the viewer to look at the boxes below and above him, and in that way he will fell vertigo and void in all that lies outside the box he is in. At the side of the ramp there is an endless lighting that forms strand of red color and pattern variable: that’s the only element that isn’t white.
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40 Void_Project “This artistic intervention to interpret the most famous “empty” in the world turns going Up a “physical” experience in the visitor’s sensory experience: colors, sounds and scents awaken the attention and in each floor a box offers different biotopes and correspondent environments - jungle, desert, city .” in L’Espresso Article Style & Design by Daniella Giammusso.
JAN | 2016 Mafalda Carmona Selected Works 2010 | 2015
I believe in the spirit of Frank Lloyd Wright's concept "The Logic of the Plan":
*** Frank Lloyd Wright, first published: Architectural Record, January 1928.
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“Human beings should look as well in the building as flowers do. People should belong to the building just as it should belong to them.” ***