Porto Academy Summer School 2017 :: AFGH Studio

AFGH Andreas Fuhrimann Gabrielle Hächler Lukas Schlatter José Pedro Lima

Ana Carolina Zuin Freitas Ana Rita Ramalho Carolin Eiden Diego Parra Dijana Bukvic Elena Maria Rossi Elena Moroni Gilda Hariri Giovanni Rasetti Hedvig Lindgren Isadora Wagner Corte Real Marco Zambrino Mariano Castillo Torres Nour Machlah Rand Askar Rasha Askar Sara Al Shrbaji Silvia Brotz Xhoana Kristo Victor Galera Puga

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BRIEF AFGH “URBAN ACUPUNCTURE”

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BOTTOM UP URBANISM – SMALL ARCHITECTURAL INTERVENTIONS Since our time Portoacademy 17 at the FAUP is limited we would like to set a task that can be solved and whose goal is to reflect on the principles of architecture and on the phenomenon of the European city in all its complexity, multiple facets and eventful rich history: Porto. The goals are to promote critical thinking and to take a stance towards a design problem, but most importantly to take initiative by presenting your solution in a tangible form that can be implemented in the real world. Take initiative proactively and realize it - the architect as maker (doer mentality). Our workshop will show some of the challenges that you will encounter later in your career, when faced with a task of intervening with a building in an existing city fabric. Rather than a self-referential object, a building is something that has an impact on its surroundings. The project should react to the Reality of the neighbourhood in a sustainable manner. Together we will stroll along the streets of Porto, but rather than visit the traditional centre of the city with all its sights and attractions we would like to walk through the neglected areas and neighbourhoods. This way you will become more familiar with the problems of urban development and can act on them with targeted interventions. The final product will be a collage composed of photos, sketches, text etc. It should show an architectural intervention on a place of your choice in Porto that improves its urban quality and ultimately change the life of the people living there for the better. Every participant should produce a collage (either physically of digitally) of his or her intervention. The scale as well as the spatial program can be chosen freely (from a handrail to a whole building or a bridge etc). The key goal is to define a spatial concept with a social anchoring and give it a real world form. Spatial thinking is required - not only an architectural design object.

ÁLVARO SIZA City renewal in Salemi (Italy), Book Box Thalwil, Escalator and Elevator in Porto, Chairlift in Porto, Guerilla gardening, Library in Magdeburg by KARO Architekten, Pop Up concepts etc. The collage should confront a difficult urban situation with new architectural elements, and consequently visualize solution-oriented concepts as an answer to specific problems. In the process the focus should always be on the human being and on his daily life that should be enriched. An intervention should respond to the real needs of the people (bottom-up) and not of an individual investor or an organisation (top-down). It should not define everything, but allow the ephemeral and provide a framework for future development. In the spirit of the portuguese architect Fernando Tavora, who broke with the myth of the untouchable, immaculate white subliminal architecture and rather encouraged searching for a synthesis between modernity and the vernacular not in a Virgilian Arcadia, though, but in reality, in horribly coincidental circumstances, in the challenges to the organisation of the space and sharing an interest in the historical and contextual roots of architecture. In order to inspire you on your passionate work on the collages, we will show you examples from the history of the development of collage art in different Art periods like DADA, Russian Constructivisme, Surrealiste Collagist and poet Jacques Prévert Paris, Situationistes Paris, Pop art Richard Hamilton, Andy Warhol, David Hockney USA, Contemporary Art: Filip Dujardin etc. Iconic Examples of modern and contemporary architecture like Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, Archigram, Superstudio, Rem Koolhaas (OMA), Yona Friedman etc.

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2017 PORTO ACADEMY ANA CAROLINA ZUIN / BRAZIL URBAN GAPS

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ANA RITA RAMALHO / PORTUGAL AZULEIJOSPIRAL

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2017 PORTO ACADEMY CAROLIN EIDEN / GERMANY LIGHT THE GREYNESS

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DIEGO PARRA / CHILE HIDDEN CITY

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2017 PORTO ACADEMY DIANA BUKVIC / ITALY AS TIME GOES BY

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ELENA MARIA / ITALY CITY FOR SALE

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2017 PORTO ACADEMY ELENA MORONI / ITALY MUTUAL INVASIONS

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GILDA HARIRI / USA BYO FUN

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GIOVANNI RASETTI / ITALY LOST & FOUND

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HEDVIG LINDGREN / SWEDEN STRANGER THAN PARADISE

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ISADORA WAGNER CORTE REAL / BRAZIL SOMEWHERE TO BE

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MARCO ZAMBRINO / ITALY SUPERWALL

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MARIANO CASTILLO TORRES / MEXICO THE PILLARS OF INTERVENTION

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NOUR MACHLAH / SYRIA GALLERY DO PORTO

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2017 PORTO ACADEMY RAND ASKAR / SYRIA DEBRIES APPROPRIATIONS

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RASHA ASKAR / SYRIA DRIVEN FROM THE PRESENT

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SARA AL SHRBAJI / SYRIA EPHEMERAL DISPLACEMENT

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SILVIA BROTZ / GERMANY WE STAY!

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2017 PORTO ACADEMY XHOANA KRISTO / ALBANIA ASSEMBLAGE

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VICTOR GALERA / SPAIN PUNCTUAL CIRCULATIONS

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AFGH Ana Carolina Zuin / Brazil Ana Rita Ramalho / Portugal Carolin Eiden / Germany Diego Parra / Chile Diana Bukvic / Italy Elena Maria / Italy Elena Moroni / Italy Gilda Hariri / USA Giovanni Rasetti / Italy Hedvig Lindgren / Sweden Isadora Wagner Corte Real / Brazil Marco Zambrino / Italy Mariano Castillo Torres / Mexico Nour Machlah / Syria Rand Askar / Syria Rasha Askar / Syria Sara Al Shrbaji / Syria Silvia Brotz / Germany Xhoana Kristo / Albania Victor Galera / Spain

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Urban Gaps Azuleijospiral Light the Greyness Hidden City As time goes by City for Sale Mutual Invasions BYO Fun Lost & Found Stranger than Paradise Somewhere to be SUPERwall The pillars of intervention Galery do Porto Debries Appropriations Driven from the Present Ephemeral Displacement We Stay! assembLAGE Punctual Circulations

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