Ricardo Miguel Guimar達es
RICARDO MIGUEL
GUIMARÃES
EXPERIENCE OCTOBER 2014 | Volunteer at the Open House Lisboa event by Trienal de Arquitectura.
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS JULY 2014 | Architecture Master’s Degree by Faculdade de Arquitectura da UL, with the Final Project and Cientific Thesis Lugar da Arquitectura: Expansão da Faculdade de Arquitectura (Architecture’s Place: Expansion of the Architecture School). Ricardo Miguel Guimarães, architect 30 May 1990
2008 > 2014 | Student of the Architecture Master’s Degree at Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade de Lisboa.
Rua Cruz Vermelha 11 1d 1600 - 052 Lisboa, Portugal ricardo.miguel.guimaraes@gmail.com +351 91 453 31 37
Architect currently in Lisbon, Portugal, recently graduated by the Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade de Lisboa. Ambitious and hard-working person that easily integrates competitive and stimulating environments.
2011 > 2012 | Erasmus exchange student at the Escola Tècnica d’Arquitectura del Vallès da Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, in Barcelona 2005 > 2008 | Student of the Visual Arts course at the Escola Secundária de Bocage, in Setúbal.
ACTIVITIES JANUARY 2015 | Participation at the Pet Festival at FIL as spokesman of the brand Exobyo.
INTERESTS > Cinema > Reading > Travelling > Sports > Free-hand drawing
2013 > Present | A2 level student of the german language at the Goethe Institut, in Lisbon. AUGUST 2005 | Intensive english course in London by the International Languages Center. JUNE 2006 | Exchange program in Tampere, Finland, by the Escola Secundária de Bocage.
SKILLS TECHNICAL
SOFTWARE
LANGUAGES
> Free-hand drawing
> Autocad
> Portuguese (native)
> Watercolor painting
> Photoshop
> Models construction
> InDesign
> Graphic representation
> Illustrator
> Photomontages
> Microsoft Office
> Watercolor painting > Music > Museums and exhibitions > Photography
> 3d Studio Max > Acrobat
> English (fluent) > Spanish (basic) > German (A2 level)
2014. LISBON. PLACE OF ARCHITECTURE | This project began with the idea of configuring
a prominent portuguese school of Architecture (Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade de Lisboa) as a public building, “open” to the city of Lisbon and container of a multiplicity of experiences around Architecture. The intention was to rebuild the image and identity of the school as a multidisciplinary and cultural place; as “brand” and “house” of Architecture in the city. Conceptually, this project is validated by the suggestion of an object that is “born” in the place itself, irrupting from the ground, rising to build the inexistent façade and “face” of Faculdade de Arquitectura. Defining at the same time the platform where the pre-existing volumes rest. In the West limit of the site, in an alusion to the incomplete project of 1989, a longitudinal solid is built that while housing the majority of the new functions defines the new image of the school making it recognizable and identifiable. The interior space was intended dynamic and vibrant validated by a constant movement; by a permanent coming and going. Concretized ambiguously by the notions of place of permanence and place of passage, materializing in multiple and vast experiences. For the development of the project, the constant breaking of the limit between interior and exterior space was also fundamental, allowing the built space to attain a certain continuous, infinite and undefined nature. Programmatically the project includes 3 new levels of classrooms, 1 dedicated to professors offices, and 2 other dedicated to a library. It also includes a main floor, and one another, underground, dedicated to the students developing along two different levels.
The upper and main level makes the entrance to the building and and school’s area. This level assumes a certain public nature revolving around the different auditoriums destined to large events and conferences. It also dialogues directly with the main bar, pre-existing buildings and with the exterior areas of the school. The two inferior levels house the students working place. This open and wide space dialogues directly with the main auditorium and with the exterior pateos that provide the necessary natural light for a healthy working environment. Having it’s own entrance it may work separately from the other levels allowing a permanent and constant use. This space assumes a relevant role personifying the “engine” that makes the school “move”. It is dedicated mostly to the work done outside the classroom and is a place of convergence to all the school’s population. It’s open and informal nature allows a closer contact and interaction between students and an intensive and stimulating interchange of ideas.
From below up: The three first floors are dedicated to classrooms - each floor assuming a different type of classroom depending on it’s dimensions (theoretical, architecture laboratories, and informal/ theoretical); The forth floor is dedicated to the teachers and administrative population, housing most of the professors offices, the president room and other meeting rooms; The two highest floors are destined to several studying rooms and to a library that replaces the pre-existing one, open not only to the school’s population but also to a broader public.
2012. MACLIS - Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Lisboa | This project corresponds to a museum of contemporary art formed by two separate sets of buildings, established in relation of complementarity. The volume of bigger expression located at North houses the exhibition rooms as well as the traditional functions and space of a museum (ticket office, cloakroom, restaurant, bar and administrative offices). It’s form is a direct consequence of a conceptual aglomeration of different and longitudinal solids along a straight axis. The interior space, delimited and caracterized by the singularities of each of the “boxes” that confine it, was intended fluid, continuous and dynamic - result of the plurality of relations that are established, not only between the solids, but also between interior and exterior space. The work of Art that populates the different exhibition rooms are produced in the buildings located South of the Museum - these four small workshops destined to artists or other types of artistic activity establish themselves as an extension, not only formal, but also functional of the nature of the Museum. Due to the position they occupy and the way they interact with the exterior space of the sorounding gardens, the workshops assume themselves a certain exhibition character, making possible a closer and direct relationship between the spectator and the making of the piece of Art. From the relation established between the two sets of buildings a transitory and intermediary space is created, a small street of access to the buildings that is itself as well populated by the contemporary Art. The street establishes itself as a unifier medium between the two realities (production and exhibition).
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1. main entrance and foyer of the museum 2. permanent exhibition rooms (developed in two levels) 3. temporary exhibition room 4. storage and administrative area 5. restaurant 6. museum’s cafeteria 7. artist’s workshops
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2010. EMERGENCY COLLECTIVE HOUSING IN LISBON | This project corresponds is an
answer to a hypothetical emergency situation that calls for an immediate and quick housing of a limited number of people. With that in mind, the concepts of flexibility and adaptability were defined as fundamental and essential do the development of the proposal, that results in two separate architectonic systems that although dependent of one another may work independently and in different contexts. A first permanent structure is proposed in the shape of an “U” resembling the traditional idea quarter that closes on itself interacting only with the square and main entrance of Ajuda’s National Palace. This building develops in two different levels - an inferior one that is destined to temporary events like small street markets; and another one, superior, that is dedicated to the allocation of the collective habitational modules. These 22 houses were developed separately and can also work in different contexts and places. In the design phase, the different nature of the systems suggested a clear demarcation that is personified in the chosen constructive materials. The outer perimeter of the “U” building is covered in pre-made metal plates, being the inside made of concrete. Both of the materials are intended to suggest a more robust and permanent nature that diametrically contrasts with the ephemeral and “fragile” nature of the modules built in wood. Each of these 22 habitational modules develop along two different levels and can be used to a maximum of 88 individuals (4 per house). The ground-floor is destined to the social areas and the upper one to the sleeping quarters. In this image we can see an exploded axonometry of the different level of the “U” building.
Ricardo Miguel Guimar達es ricardo.miguel.guimaraes@gmail.com 00351 914 533 137