NUNO SEGURA SELECTED WORKS
PROFILE + CURRICULLUM VITAE_
Nuno Segura (Lisbon, 1979), Master’s in Architecture, from the DA / UAL – Department of Architecture of Universidade Autónoma of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal (2012), by the orientation of the professors: Aires Mateus (Practical part) and Joaquim Moreno (Theoretical part). Was Intern of MXTstudio (2011) and of Artur Afonso (2015), and Draftsman in Miguel Judas Architects Lda (2005 to 2006). Shortlisted Finalist in Student Competition of Ideas “ARCHINEWS STAND CONCEPT | TEKTÓNICA 2011”, FIL - International Market-Place of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal (2011). Winner of the Competition of Ideas “Change the Neighbourhood” of the Program Choices 2011, with the NU KRE Project of the Association of Dwellers of Cova da Moura, collaboration by invite. Winner of the Students Competition “Let’s Talk About Houses: Cova da Moura” of Lisbon Architecture Triennial Second Edition, Cova da Moura, Amadora, Portugal (2010). In recent years, was involved in production, design and publishing of drawings and images to architecture publications. In parallel with the study of architecture, he is dedicated to the creation of photography and instalation works. Some were exhibited in the annual art event of Caldas Late Night, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal. His last participation was with a photography work “Doors of Memory” (2013), and in the year before with the installation “Command Space” (2012). He is deeply interested in the transdisciplinary thought in Architecture. History, Philosophy, Art and Technology are tastes and vocabularies of election. His work searches integration in the places or areas rather than rupture. Silence, Time, Memory and Palimpsest are materials of reflection and construction. Drawing and or processes of construction are a result and not a reason. Far from searching for continuity within this type of creative thought process in Architecture, also seeks to meet and work inside others forms of creative thinking. In Architecture we never thought alone, we thought with others. Team work, sociability and organization are important factors that are considered in the developing of any project. Humility, Dedication, Sensitivity, Creativity and Pragmatic Thought are intrinsic values that also offer. Above all, desires a workspace of dialogue, learning and evolution in group, in continuity or rupture with the processes already learned.
Currently living in Lisbon, Portugal, is available to travel and work outside Portugal.
Contact Information Email: nuno.manuel.simoes.segura@gmail.com Skype: nuno_manuel_simoes_segura
Full Name: Nuno Manuel Simões Segura Marital Status: Single
Birth Date: 04.02.1979
Nationality: Portuguese (born in Lisbon, Portugal)
Personal Skills / Competences: Eager, Learner, Curious, Sharp, Perfectionist, Responsible Character, Hard Worker, High Sense of Responsibility, Communication, Leadership, Creative. Total Experience: 2 months internship plus 1 year full time as Draftsman (Design Development, Execution Drawings and Project Licensing), 6 months collaboration as Intern (Concept Development, Concept Design Development, Detail Design and Construction Documents). Since 2013 in design, production and publishing of drawings and images to architecture publications.
CONTACTS Address: Travessa do Cabral nº25-3º Direito, 1200-073 Lisbon, Portugal Mobile / WhatsApp: +351 91 391 08 14 Email: nuno.manuel.simoes.segura@gmail.com Skype: nuno_manuel_simoes_segura EDUCATION 2012
Master’s Thesis Dissertation: The Blue Museum of Juromenha: Memory, Permanence and Palimpsest: The Metonymy of Tectonics, by the orientation of the professors: Aires Mateus (Pratical) and Joaquim Moreno (Theoretical), in DA/UAL - Department of Architecture of Universidade Autónoma of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal.
2009 – 2011
Master’s Degree, in DA/UAL - Department of Architecture of Universidade Autónoma of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal.
2006 – 2009
Bachelor’s
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Universidade Autónoma of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal. 2004 – 2005
Professional Course of Design and Project of Civil Construction III (Draftsman), Institute of Employment and Professional Formation – Regional Management of Lisbon and Tejo Valley: Professional Center of Formation of Seixal, Almada, Setúbal, Portugal.
WORK EXPERIENCE 2013 – Now
Self Employed / Freelance Design, production and publishing of drawings and images to architecture publications.
2015
Intern, with Artur Afonso, Cascais, Portugal. Concept Development, Concept Design Development: - Nadir Afonso Mausoleum in Chaves, Portugal.
2011
Intern, project collaboration at MXTstudio, Lisbon, Portugal. Design Development and Construction Documents: - Pedestrian and Cycling Bridge in Lisbon, Portugal.
2005 – 2006
Intership Draftsman and Draftsman, at Miguel Judas Architects Lda, Lisbon, Portugal. Design Development, Execution Drawings and Project Licensing on the following projects: - Single-Family Housing in Alpiarça, Santarém, Portugal. - Varanda dos Mateus GuestHouse in Monsanto, Idanha-à-Nova, Castelo Branco, Portugal. - Red Cell Offices in Lisbon, Portugal
COMPETITIONS 2011
[ARCHINEWS
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Student
Competition of Ideas, FIL - International Market-Place of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal (National Competition) Collaboration with university colleagues - Shortlisted Finalist 2011
[NU KRE Project], Competition of Ideas “Change the Neighbourhood” of the Program Choices 2011, Cova da Moura, Amadora, Portugal (National Competition), Project commissioned by the Association of Dwellers of Cova da Moura (by invitation), Built in: May of 2011. Collaboration with university colleagues - First Place Winner Project
2010
[The Thin Red Line], Let’s Talk About Houses: Cova da Moura – Students Competition, Lisbon Architecture Triennial Second Edition Cova da Moura, Amadora, Portugal (National Competition) Collaboration with university colleagues - First Place Winner Project
EXHIBITIONS / INSTALLATIONS 2013
[Doors of Memory], Photography, Exhibited at Caldas Late Night 2013, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal.
2013
[The Blue Museum of Jurumenha], Architecture, Slideshow of Master’s Thesis Dissertation, collective exhibition, in collaboration with DA/UAL (Lisbon, Portugal) and the Academy of Architecture of Mendrisio (Mendrisio, Switzerland), Exhibition in Museum of Contemporary Art of Juromenha Exposition, at Forum Cultural Transfronteiriço do Alandroal, Alandroal, Évora, Portugal.
2012
[Command Space], Video Installation in Collaboration, Exhibited at Caldas Late Night 2012, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal.
2011
[ArchiNews Exhibited
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Architecture,
ARCHINEWS
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Competition Exposition, at FIL, Lisbon, Portugal. 2010 – 2011
[The Thin Red Line], Architecture, Competition Panels and Models, Exhibited in "Let’s Talk About Houses: Competitions of Lisbon Triennial of Architecture" Second Edition, at Museum of Electricity, Lisbon, Portugal.
CONFERENCES 2014
Guest Lecturer in: Opening of the new DA / UAL building in Campo de Ourique, Lisbon, Portugal. Held in 10 of March of 2014
2010
Guest
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Conferences
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Competions Second Edition “Let’s Talk About Houses: Cova da Moura Project”, Museum of Electricity, Lisbon, Portugal. Held in 29 of November of 2010
WORKSHOPS 2008
The re-design of the Shoreline of Bay of Cascais, IX International Architecture Seminar, integrated in the group of ARX Portugal, DA/UAL, Lisbon, Portugal.
LANGUAGE SKILLS Portuguese: Spoken + Written + Reading – Native English: Spoken + Written + Reading - Fluent Castelhano: Spoken + Reading - Basic TECHNICAL SKILLS Autodesk AutoCAD (2D only) - Advanced Grafisoft ArchiCAD (3D modulation) - Medium Google SketchUp - Medium Microsoft Office (Word and PowerPoint) - Medium Adobe Photoshop - Medium Artlantis Studio - Advanced Next Limit Maxwell Render - Advanced Physical Model Building (Cardboards, Paper, Concrete, Balsa Wood, etc) Medium NOTES / REFERENCES Contact References, Copy of Certificates and Employment Letters will be provided upon request.
ACADEMIC | MASTER’S THESIS_ The Blue Museum Of Juromenha
Site: Juromenha, Alandroal, Évora, Portugal Program: Museum of Comtemporary Art, Rehabilitation of Site, Public Space
DISSERTATION TUTORS: Aires Mateus (Pratical) and Joaquim Moreno (Theoretical) http://www.airesmateus.com/ http://www.ceau.arq.up.pt/investigador.asp?id=78&tipo=doutorados&order=Grau
Located in Alto Alentejo, in the Guadiana Banks, the Fortress of Juromenha masters the landscape, haughty to the village that was its mother. It's a legacy of unquestionable importance by their patrimonial and identity values. Today, far from its zenith, it is reduced to ruins: a presence, a silent watchman in the landscape. The Blue Museum of Juromenha aspires to write a new layer of time, which starts from the premise of the human occupation started in that same place; a metaphor that focuses in the drawing and the rehabilitation, incorporating time as a material. It is formalized as a general plan of intervention, which aims for the total recovery of the edified still present and its incorporation as equipment of support to the museum; opening what was inaccessible as public space, revealing the landscape that was defended. The new building rises from the idea of evoking several layers of time (Celtic, Roman and Arabic), deleted and not present now, taking form as space and atmosphere. It is not an attempt of emulation; it is a search, in which the result is a synthesis of drawing: archetypes of space and light. The materiality is of pigmented blue concrete in various tones, metaphors of the time that passed. The blue colour represents in the Arabic culture, the introspection and protection: a trope of the night, where the stars are the zenithal light. The exceptions are the two rooms with corten steel. Not only does it refer to the military condition of the place but also evoking the tradition of the gilded wood of the Portuguese Baroque. Another exception is the preexisting cistern. It is autonomous from the others rooms and open to the elements. It features a rag of water of 0.30m that not only permits the control of the temperature of the room but also maintains the material conservation. Overall, it aspires to be an intimate character where space is the protagonist. A new layer of time until the day that it isn’t useful. Because the history of buildings end when they are no longer useful and are deleted...
ISSUU Link http://issuu.com/nunosegura/docs/reduze_size
ACADEMIC | COMPETION_ Archinews Stand Concept | Tektónica 2011 Site: F.I.L. – International Marketplace of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal Program: Marketplace Stand
COMPETION TUTORS: Ricardo Carvalho (Ricardo Carvalho + Joana Vilhena | Arquitectos) and Telmo Cruz (MXTStudio) www.rcjv.com www.mxtstudio.com
In collaboration with: Ana Leila Fernandes and Alexandre Vicente
The Tektónica – International Market-Place of Civil Construction is an annual professional event for civil construction firms and material brands to show their products and services. The ArchiNews Magazine in partnership with AIP-CE / FIL – Tektónica, promoted, around universities of architecture of Portugal, a national competition of ideas for the conception and design of the ArchiNews Magazine Stand in the 2011 edition of Tektónica. The winning proposal would be developed to the construction level and would be the ArchiNews Magazine Stand. These types of events are extremely powerful tools of marketing and publicity. The managing of the brand generates a visual and formal identity of the space of exhibition of the firm. These are spaces that, to mediate the attention and approach of clients, express the ephemeral in their construction character of pre-fabrication, assembly and disassembly. Short in their time of life and assembly and dense of appeals, they express the identity of visual density of this reality. The comprehension of this reality is read by the multiple layers that make part of this. Deeply connected to this perception is the relation between time and space, in that the density of elements in space is inherent to the accumulation of happenings. This inner dependency between space and time can be investigated by the separation between place and space, as a possibility of understanding the change of time and experience or experiment with intensity. One suggestion that is based in the uncertainty of perception of reality: the beginning, middle and end of a happening. It is something that doesn’t start or end. It is like a labyrinth where the infinite, a metaphor of time, acts in the body. In the eyes of the observer the displayed content is what captures his attention, inside a universe wherein the dark is not a closure but just a narrative of infinite.
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ACADEMIC | COMPETION_ The Thin Red Line | Lisbon Architecture Triennale 2010 Site: Cova da Moura, Amadora, Lisbon, Portugal Program: Public Space
COMPETION TUTOR: Pedro Campos Costa www.camposcosta.com In collaboration with: Alexandre Vicente, Maria Macedo and Tiago Pereira Located on the outskirts of Lisbon, Cova da Moura is characterized by a morphology that is organic in nature, typical of urban agglomerations with vernacular roots, many times enclosed, without the definition of public spaces and pronounced topography. This neighbourhood is a home for everyone, in which the roads are an extension of the dwellings and a space that is common to all of them. Here, roads are more than access routes: they are a stage for social expression, generators of identity, social ties, and a feeling of safety and well-being. Thus emerges the idea of transition associated with the ambivalent character of these urban spaces, which can possibly be compared with some spaces within a house: transition, overlapping of practices and identities that can be found in each one of these spaces. The decision is to intervene in empty spaces associated with the absence of buildings or resulting merely from points where existing roads meet, coinciding with three structuring elements: property, public facilities, and entrances to the neighbourhood. The intention is to renovate them, characterizing them by designing them as spaces with an ambivalent character, reaffirming the ritual meaning of existing practices without diluting their identities. The design of each space originates from a line that identifies and names it, establishes a boundary, and contains the urban space. It is transformed into horizontal monoliths of tectonic expression where people can sit down, play, or where a tree might be planted. Is just emptied to receive rainwater or it grows to define levels and contain the terrain. It is defined by a single material associated with one colour: red-colour concrete. This intervention acts in two ways. One, financed externally, is the line that creates a unity that serves as a reference and is based on identity. The other is self-built and alludes to the tradition of co-operation as well as the materials found in local buildings – brick, concrete, stone, paving and bitumen. It is therefore proposed that this is a process of sequential improvement and enhancement of the practices and identities of these public spaces and of Cova da Moura. After all, architecture is nothing if doesn’t serve the people. LINKS http://www.trienaldelisboa.com/2010/en/news/116 http://casabellaweb.eu/2010/10/26/cova-da-moura-a-house-in-luanda/
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SOCIAL PROGRAM | COMPETION_ NU KRE Project | Competition of Ideas “Change the Neighbourhood 2011” Site: Cova da Moura, Amadora, Lisbon, Portugal Program: Public Space
In collaboration with: Alexandre Vicente, Maria Macedo, Tiago Pereira and the Association of Dwellers of Cova da Moura
After the Lisbon Architecture Triennial Students Competition, we received an invitation of the Association of Dwellers of Cova da Moura to lead and coordinate the teams of design and construction of the NU KRE Project. This project was to compete in the Competition of Ideas Change the Neighbourhood. Taking part in the governmental program “Program Choices 2011�, the Competition of Ideas Change the Neighbourhood mission was to promote the social inclusion of children and young people of vulnerable socioeconomic contexts, bringing to them equal opportunities and integrity of social identities. The objective was, with a limited budget of five thousand Euro, to do the best possible public space requalification to help improve the quality of the neighbourhood. The NU KRE Project is the union of some areas from the original project of the Lisbon Architecture Triennial Students Competition and some others selected by the Association of Dwellers of Cova da Moura. The areas of intervention were very sensitive to the community of Cova da Moura. The drug traffic areas or poor conditions surrounding social program buildings, like day care centres or schools, were the precise sites of intervention selected. The question was how to do it, with such a limited budget and which materials we could use on the construction. From the problem, came the solution: the selection of materials. In the Lisbon Architecture Triennial Students Competition, the thought in the choosing of the materials was the availability. Something that which be found onsite or could be easily obtained, such as surplus materials. After a few phone calls we gained access to some debris panels happily given by Viroc, end of the day surplus concrete from a nearby building construction, and tires and steel rod debris from a junkyard, all at no cost and all suitable materials for public space design or urban furniture pieces. Despite the free materials and low resources we could secure, we concluded that would be better to focus the intervention in the construction of just three spaces. Due to political and legal factors of the city of Amadora Municipality to the Cova da Moura neighbourhood, it was only possible to construct one of the three spaces of intervention proposal. A second space ended in the formwork and was later destroyed. A sad end to a good thing.
All photos by Ricardo Vaz, my friend and photographer who documented the process. www.behance.net/ricardojoaovaz
PROFESSIONAL | DEVELOPMENT AND DETAIL DESIGN_ Pedestrian and Cycling Bridge Site: Lisbon, Portugal Program: Bridge Infrastructure
In collaboration as Intern in MXTstudio www.mxtstudio.com
The City, perhaps the most complex of all human creations, and Lisbon is a great city, accumulates and superimposes every instant of evolution, multiplies in different maps with multiple lines, memories of its history of continuities and discontinuities, wills and values, past, present and future, inevitably optimistic. The “International Competition for Ideas for a New Cycling Bridge in Lisbon”, sponsored by Foundation GALP Energia in the initiative “Bridges for a more positive future” within the EXD 09, with the theme “It’s About Time”, called for the urgency in the refletion in the transportation modes in cities, and the new balances of the planet’s ecology demands from cities. Upon the cities, and Lisbon is no exception, new route lines are already landing, witnessing this trend, closer to the primordial walk. This bridge belongs to those new maps, in which filigrees of paths, new and existing overlap, intersect and connect to the current infrastruture, re-establishing continuities in places where they are now prevented by different speeds. Here, is an opportunity to built a new map. Literally detaching of the ground a new network of paths, in part memory of previous alleyways and paths, passing over the major arterial road, which is the 2º Ring Road, in a superimposed song of zigzagging lines of different scales and modes of transportation. This bridge thus becomes an element shaper of terrestrial flows, assuming a decisive role in a universe linked to a individual travelling, on foot, bicycle, skatebord or skates, Segway or any other. It becomes a referential to mobility, simultaneously bound and binding to future urban scenarios, and accomplice of an urbanity whose contours are increasingly being defined over concepts of sustainable devolopment. excerpt text by MXTstudio
Photography by João Morgado Architecture Photography www.joaomorgado.com
EXHIBITION | INSTALLATION_ Command Space | Caldas Late Night 2012 Site: Caldas da Rainha, Portugal Program: Video, Photografy
In collaboration with: Micael Figueiredo and Ruben Chaves Figueiredo
COMMAND: action lines of digital code, which serve to plan and order the binary code. SPACE: public urban space
The experience of the individual in the contemporary society is constantly under limitations and rules. COMMAND SPACE_ is the result of the intrinsic problematic to this phenomenon: Surveillance, Manipulation and Limit. A driftage in the perspective of the relation Man / Space.
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EXHIBITION | INSTALLATION_ Doors of Memory | Caldas Late Night 2013 Site: Caldas da Rainha, Portugal Program: Photografy
This work is a personal reflexion about the place where I have always lived in Lisbon. It is rooted in the meaning that Memory is an image of time; people and place are contained within. It is something where the sense of matter is always intrinsically related and implicit. A sense of reflective nostalgia before departure.
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