Architecture Portfolio
RITA ROCHA 2015
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RITA FORJAZ ROCHA
Porto, Portugal 14.10.1992 mobile: 00351 919 510 654 (PT) 0049 1623236828 (DE) ritafrocha@gmail.com
Index
Cafeteria
Cultural Center
Teacher’s residence
Collective Housing
GO!V05
Lab FAUP
120 hours
Crasto
Garage Extruder
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p.14
p.24
p.8
p.18
p.26
p.12
p.20
p.28
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curriculum
CV vitae
SKILLS Languages • Portuguese mother tongue • English advanced • German upper intermediate • Spanish intermediate
I consider myself a sympathetic and open minded person who likes creative, encouraging and thrilling environments. Architecture design fascinates me because of its never ending possibilities and the idea of creating a building from sketch to 1:1 details.
Software • Autodesk AutoCAD advanced • Adobe Photoshop advanced • Adobe Illustrator advanced • Adobe InDesign advanced • Rhinoceros advanced • Office (Word, Excel and PowerPoint) advanced • Vray intermediate • ArchiCAD intermediate
Studing Architecture was a challenge that I took gladly and I am eager to contribute with my knowledge in an office.
Driver’s License • A1 •B
Regarding working skills I can assure you that I am a hardworking person and that I am very passionate about every project I get involved in. I am always willing to improve myself as well as my skills. I also constantly look for new activities that can enrich me as a person.
WORK EXPERIENCE
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS
INTERESTS AND ACHIEVEMENTS
2010-current Master in Architecture Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto
• Sports: sailing, swimming, dancing, running
PERSONAL STATEMENT
Modules included: • Architectural and Urbanistic Design • Free Drawing • Architecture and Urbanistic Theory • Architecture and Urbanistic History 2014-2015 (Winter semestre) Master in Architecture Technische Universität Berlin Modules included: • Architectural Design • Urbanistic History and Thinking • Architecture Theory 2007-2010 High School Diploma in Visual Arts Escola Secundária de Alberto Sampaio National Exams: • Mathematics (20) • Geometry (20) • Portuguese Language (18) • Free Drawing (16)
I worked as a lifegard in the summers of 2013 to 2015 which allowed me to improve my sense of responsability and communication.
2012 participation in the UIM 2012 Partnership between Universidade do Universidade de Oviedo and Escola Naval which developed an high sense of teamwork
Porto,
• Drawing, writing, reading 2007-2010 colaboration in the megazine “Defacto” 2012 colaboration in the newspaper “El Comércio” where I improved my communication skills and working with short deadlines. • Traveling 2009 organization of schooltrip to Madrid and ARCO where skills as leadership, organising and planning were essential
AWARDS • Garage Extruder: BUCHPREIS in Concrete Design Competition 2014/15 STRUCTURE (www.concretedesigncompetition.de)
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recomendation letters Reccomendation letter Rita Rocha
I’m honored to inform you that the applicant Rita Rocha was my student during the school year of 2013/2014 in the subject Projecto IV, in “Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto” (FAUP), Portugal. Besides her human skills, she proved to be remarkably efficient, adding a great amount of accuracy, sensitivity, effort and persistence in her developed work. Therefore, I’m strongly legitimated to affirm that she fulfills all the required skills to be successful at any work she challenges herself to accomplish. Accordingly, without hesitation, I recommend her acceptance.
Porto, 29th of June 2015
Nuno Brandão Costa (Architect, teacher in “Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto (FAUP)” – Portugal)
5 TU Berlin | Straße des 17. Juni 135 | 10623 Berlin
Fakultät | Planen Bauen Umwelt School | Planning Building Environment Institut für Architektur Institute of Architecture
Adip Architecture Design Innovation Program www.adip.tu-berlin.de Prof. Dr.sc. Rainer Hehl Berlin, June 30 2015
Letter of Recommendation
To whom it might concern, This is to state that Rita Forjaz Rocha successfully participated in the Master/Bachelor studio EXTRASPACECRAFT at the Architecture Design Innovation Program ADIP of the Institute for Architecture TU Berlin during the winter semester 2014/2015. Her work shows excellent skills in research and design and her presentations and theoretical works are proof of great discipline and conceptual consistency. She can very well mediate between different scales and is equally strong in thinking architectural and urban design practice as part of a larger cultural, economic and political frameworks. Her design projects are intelligently developed with a strong emphasis on the concept and the adaptation of building typologies within the given context. As Rita Forjaz Rocha proved to be an excellent student I would like to recommend her for an internship. Sincerely,
Prof.Dr.sc. Rainer Hehl
www.tu-berlin.de
Sekretariat A61 Strasse des 17. Juni 135 10623 Berlin Fon +49 (0)30. 314 21893 mail@adip.tu-berlin.de
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academic work
The unique site of this project with no buildings in the surroundings and deeply inserted in the middle of the Oporto’s City Park was quite an interesting challenge. The concept was to exalt the nature and to qualify the interior spaces through the relation that they establish with the outside, a relation that is different from space to space.
cafeteria
cooking zone
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2011
bar counter
storage
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b terrace
wc
hall
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coffee shop
floor plan scale 1:100
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Oporto, Portugal
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sections . scale 1:150
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academic work
cultural center 2012
cultural center
teacher’s residence
site plan . scale 1:1000
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Oporto, Portugal
The two volumes elevate themselves from the square valuing not only the relation with each other but also drawing the exterior space. The project tries to establish a strong relation with the site in which it implants and also improve it. The articulation with the “Jardim das Virtudes� was also a very studied aspect.
east facade . scale 1:500
south facade . scale 1:500
section . scale 1:500
section . scale 1:500
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view of the expositions room
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entrance floor plan . scale 1:500
1. entrance 2. box office 3. expositions room 4. multifunctional room 5. stage 6. auditorium/conference room 7. wc 8. control room 9. storage
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1. hall/foyer 2. cafeteria 3. expositions room 4. multifunctional room 5. stage 6. auditorium/conference room 7. female wc 8. male wc 9. administrative room 10. storage 11. pantry 12. workshop 13. dock loading and unloading
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main floor plan . scale 1:500
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basement floor plan . scale 1:500
1. parking access 2. emergency exit 3. garbage room 4. machine room 5. dock loading and unloading 6. people’s parking acess 7. staff room 8. bathroom/dressing room
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academic work
teachers’ residence 2012
This project was conceived at the same time as the Cultural Centre and their locations are nearby. The main characteristic of the site is the huge difference between the heights of the two streets that form the boundaries of the residence. This difference was solved with the creation of two volumes, distinguished in terms of room types and each one articulated with a different street, and including a public path that connects the two streets.
east facade . scale 1:500
west facade . scale 1:500
section + north facade . scale 1:500
Oporto, Portugal
13 study room 5 6study room 6 bathroom entrance double room 34 bathroom kitchnette 4 5 kitchnette roomroom2 3double 1 single room 1 2single
roomroom dressing foyerroom 8 9staff laundryroom 10 laundry room room room 11 10 garbage 12 machine 8 7staff 11 garbage 12 m 9 dressing
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1 single room 7 foyer
2 double room
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3 bathroom
4 kitchnette 5 study room 6 entrance
9 dressing room 10 laundry 11 garbage room 12 machine room
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academic work
collective hausing 2013
north facade
south facade asphalt
granite stone
granite cube
exposed concrete
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ground floor plan . scale 1:500
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Oporto, Portugal
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The shape and characteristics of the building find their meaning in the context in which it inserts itself. The ground floor works as a mediation space between the metro station, north, and the square, south. The facades try to reveal discipline and coherence and not only the direct translation of the inside necessities. The development of the constructive details of all this ideas also took a big part in defining a more concrete building.
type A
module with: two bedrooms flat + three bedrooms flat
type B
module with: three bedrooms flat (duplex) + four bedrooms flat (duplex)
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1. steel tubular 2. steel corner 3. flat bar 90.20 4.corrugated zinc plate 5. zinc plate 6. steel tube 7. concrete pillar 8. brick 9. cork 10. mineral wool 11. drainage membrane 12. plaster 13. wood panel 14. wood footer 1
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floor plan detail (bedroom) . scale 1:20
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floor plan (floors 1 to 4) . scale 1:500
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Perfil D | Escala 1/50
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competition
GO!V05 2013
with Diogo PaixĂŁo and Sara Martins
The proposal lives from the site – an intersection of paths and ways that materialize in the concept of the greek stoa. A space that works as an attractive pole and also as a market that promotes the interaction and exchange of experiences and knowledge. The program creates selfemployment and enriches the public space. It is also intended for the proposal to take advantage of the characteristics of the site and use it as a lookout over the city.
floor plan . scale 1:500
Oporto, Portugal
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academic work
lab FAUP 2014
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site plan . scale 1:1000
longitudinal section
west facade
FOLHA UM FOLHA UM
east facade
Oporto, Portugal
21 exploded axonometry of the different floors
The shape and characteristics of the building find their meaning in the context in which it inserts itself. The ground floor works as a mediation space between the metro station, north, and the square, south. The facades try to reveal discipline and coherence and not only the direct translation of the inside necessities. The development of the constructive details of all this ideas also took a big part in defining a more concrete building.
possible configurations of the class rooms
22 steel framework window blind
concrete
extruded polystyrene
HE360M
drainage membrane
steel sheet
zinc plate
concrete
steel tubular 180 x 80 mm HE360M
microcement leightweight concrete concrete
visualisation of a class room with one open wall
visualisation of a class room with two open walls
metal grid
drainage membrane concrete rigging crushed stone soil
west facade section . scale 1:50
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view of the multipurpose room
view of the entrace and model making room
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competition
120 hours 2014
with Diogo PaixĂŁo
The project operates in a double base: take the festival to the city and the people to the festival. The interaction begins outside the the park: stools are scattered all over Oslo. The idea: bring them to the festival. The meeting point stands where three paths come together and the intervention creates of a variety of chilling and partying spaces. The structure and also the stools are built using square timber stakes and reused corrugated cardboard.
floor plan of the intervention in the festival’s area
Oslo, Norway
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academic work
Crasto 2014
south facade 4.04m
18.87m 128.46
7.00m
125.57
125.66
125.67
129.47
127.76
127.24
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133.95
125.70
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3.94m 5.17m
131.45
126.98
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ground floor plan of the monastery’s church as it is nowadays . scale 1:200 12 m
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ground floor plan propose of the monastery’s church in the XII century . scale 1:200
church in 1967 (right) and in 2013 (left)
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Ponte da Barca, Portugal This investigation had as study object the monastery of S. Martinho do Crasto. From this building, whose traces are nowadays really scarce, only the church subsists, although it had suffered a great number of interventions during the centuries. The goal is to understand how the monastery and the church were in the Romanesque period. This analysis is made not only in the building scale but also in both a territorial scale and of the church’s surroundings.
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outside facade, inside facade and plas from three of the four nave’s doors . scale 1:100
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church in 1967 (below) and in 2013 (above)
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plan proposing the cloister’s location
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section looking south . scale 1:200
7.29m
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▼126.15 ▼125.57
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academic work
Garage Extruder 2015
with Max Rudolph
BRING LIFE TO THE SQUARE - BRING LIFE TO THE SURROUNDINGS The intervention takes its program and characteristics from the context in which it inserts. The structure is also taken from the site – the generic grid from the garage under the square. A compact building is constructed above, leaving the ground floor free to be crossed and to make the accesses to the upper levels.
C O N T E X T existing situation
extrude the underground parking for circulation
perforate the volume for light reasons and to plant trees
underground parking with its generic grid
defining three different flat types
creating an artificial topography
G E N E R I C
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10 m
ground floor plan and landscape concept . scale 1:500
Berlin, Germany
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axonometric view of the context
Concrete Design Competition 2014/15 STRUCTURE
BUCHPREIS
www.concretedesigncompetition.de
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Bringing density and people to the area, creating housing and improving the landscape will create the conditions for the commercial function to work. At the ground floor the possibilities to beneficiate from the park are infinitive with alternated zones of vegetation and concrete associated with trees, benches, a playground and a skating park. At the roof the neighbours have the possibility not only to profit from a terrace directly above their houses but also to share this space and interact with the others.
possible scenario for the diverse appropriation of the roof tops
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axonometry of the f lat types and their different configuration options
f lat sizes:
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~ 45 m2
B
~ 90 m2
C
~ 135 m2
longitudinal section . scale 1:200
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10 m
links
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contacts
00351 919 510 654 (PT) 0049 1623236828 (DE) ritafrocha@gmail.com