Rui Ferreira architecture portfolio
PERSONAL INFORMATION Name Date of Birth Nationality Telephone E-mail
Rui Filipe Alves Ferreira 18 de Abril, 1986 Portuguesa +351 918933222 ruifilipeaf@gmail.com
EDUCATION
LANGUAGES Portuguese
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English
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Spanish
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French
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German
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2012
German course (Initiation) - TECNISIGN, Coimbra (32h)
2012
Master’s Degree in Architecture at the Faculty of Science and Tecnhnology of the University of Coimbra
TECHNICAL SKILLS
2011
Photoshop 5 course - FLAG, Coimbra (25h)
Autodesk AutoCAD
2011
Adobe InDesign 5 course- FLAG, Coimbra (25h)
2009-2010
Exchange at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of São Paulo (FAU-USP) (2 semesters)
2008
Revit Architecture 2009 course - EdiCAD, Coimbra (30h)
2007
3D Studio Max workshop - 45 Graus, Coimbra (25h)
WORK EXPERIENCE 2010
Colaboration with Aflalo & Gasperini Arquitetos, São Paulo, Brazil
2003
Volunteer work organized by the Portuguese Youth Institute (IPJ), at the Social Centre of S. João, Coimbra
2002
Volunteer work organized by the Portuguese Youth Institute (IPJ), at the National Forest of Choupal, Coimbra
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Dwelling + Workshop
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Apartment Building
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Faculty of Architecture
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Vertical Public Equipment
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New Lisboa Square
Dwelling + Workshop
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Dwelling + Workshop | Coimbra The exercise is to develop a dwelling with a workshop for a painter, in an irregular urban grid residential area. The slope levels between the upper road and the bottom of the lot differ in about 10 meters. The project is a single compact volume, that isolates itself from the road, and opens up to the slope. The dwelling area is separated from the workshop outwardly by the entrance, and inwardly by the stairs. That allows an independent exterior acess to each of the areas, while they are still connected in the interior.
The lobby is the most peculiar area of the house: the outer wall blocks the view when you enter the house, stimulating curiosity, pulling the viewer to the level bellow and to the outside, where the landscape can be contemplated. 1st floor plan
Ground floor plan
Apartment Building
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Apartment Building | Coimbra The exercise is to develop an apartment building with a shopping area. The building integrates 36 apartments, of which half are two-bedroom and the other half are three-bedroom. The building is situated in the Solum district in Coimbra, an urban area with mainly residential buildings. The solution is to integrate the whole program into a single volume, with an underground parking, shops on the ground floor and the dwellings above.
The interior of the building is organized according to a modular measure that transposes itself to the facade. It was also created a central core that contains all the service areas (bath, laundry and storage rooms) and the vertical accesses to the dwellings. This leaves the facade free to get the maximum sunlight possible. In order to control that sunlight exposure every opening has its own exterior shading system.
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Standard level plan
Longitudinal section
Zync frill Cobble Insulation Slope Glassfiber Reinforced Concrete panel
Concrete slab
Pladur board
Sliding frame
Black-out shade
Double glass Rail
Threshold stone Wooden floor
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UPN Steel profile
Detail S1
Cross section
Sliding frame
Double glass
Interior finishing - plaster Concrete pillar
Brick wall
Insulation Steel tubular
UPN Steel profile
Shading panel Glassfiber Reinforced Concrete panel
Detail P1
Architecture Faculty
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Architecture Faculty | Coimbra The exercise is to design a building for the Architecture Faculty of the University of Coimbra, connected to the Design Department located in the Arts College. The lot is a slope limited by the Padre Ant贸nio Vieira street to the east and by the Arts College to the west.
The project consists of a horizontal body opposed by 3 vertical volumes. The 2 larger volumes stand out as the main entrance points, and there is where the vertical accesses and the Project rooms are located. The smaller volume contains the teachers rooms and the administration. This building is directly connected to the cloister above, where the Design Department is located, in order to facilitate and encourage collaboration between these two schools.
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Entrance floor plan, level 99
Cross section, through the auditorium
Between the two main volumes is the large auditorium and the bar. These two flexible spaces are designed so they can be merged into one: the folding panels can retract, extending the auditorium area till the balcony. It is also at this level that the connection between the new building and the Design Departments building is made.
Bar and auditorium floor plan, level 94
Besides the main entrances at level 99, there is also a secundary one at level 89. This entrance is accessible through a stairway that starts at the building below (Casa das Caldeiras), thereby connecting the Faculty to the Padre Ant贸nio Vieira street. In this level, between the two main volumes, there are located the theoretical rooms, the models room, a small auditorium and a lounge for the students.
Theoretical and models room floor plan, level 89
Longitudinal section
Vertical Public Equipment
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Vertical Public Equipment | São Paulo The exercise is to develop a set of public services verticaly concentrated in a single building, for the inhabitants of the Luz disctrict, in São Paulo, Brazil. The “L” shaped lot has 3 street fronts and is framed between an office building to the north and a parking silo to the south. The project consists of 2 volumes - one horizontal and one vertical - separated by a central area where the entrance and the acesses to the diferent programs are located.
*designed in collaboration with Márcio Ballmann and Diana Noronha Feio
The east volume concentrates all the sports facilities - a swimming pool (ground level), 2 multi-sports fields (levels 1/2 and 3/4) and a gymnasium (level 5) - and the pre-school outdoor patio. On the west volume there is a restaurant (ground floor), a day nursery (floors 1 to 3), a pre-school (floors 4 to 6), a library (8th and 9th floors) and a technical area (floor 7). There are also 3 underground movie theatres, with an independent access and functioning.
Ground floor
Green rooftop Library Technical floor Gymnasium Pre-school Day nursery Multi-sports fields Restaurant Swimming pool
1st floor
2nd floor
Each program has its own independent access, so that the different circulations do not intersect: two elevators give access to the sports facilities, another two go to the pre-school and day nursery, and two more reach the library, the tecnhical floor and the rooftop. The facade has double glass: the outside glass works like a “skin� that controls the sunlight exposure through a combination of transparent and opaque glasses.
5th floor
9th floor
Separated from the main volumes are the emergency stairways for the sports facilities and the elevators that give access to the top floors, with punctual connections. These elements are covered with zinc creating a contrast with the building’s glass facade.
New Lisboa Square
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New Lisboa Square | Oporto The Lisboa Square is a fundamental space of Oporto, located in the transition between the small scale of the medieval city and the big scale of the XVIII/XIX centuries’ public projects of the bourgeois city (such as the Clérigos tower, the prison of Relação, and the Rectory of Porto’s University). It’s an essential meeting point of the city, not only for the areas and buildings that it relates to, but also by the distinct groups of people that gather there. The permanent flow of people, during day and night comes from the recent awakening of the new bohemian culture from Galeria de Paris and Cândido dos Reis street.
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No Rules, Great Spot, besides being the competition motto, is the denial and the resistance to the bureaucratic process that has been devoting Lisboa square to its impersonal relationship with Oporto city. On this premise, the new project appears permeable to its surroundings, by “talking” to its distinguished neighbours:
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*designed in collaboration with Ana Amaral, João Jesus and Rui Baltazar
Clérigo’s tower Rectory of Porto’s University Cordoaria’s garden Prison of Relação NO RULES, GREAT SPOT - the phrase written in Lisboa square’s demolished walls is the motto of this international competition.
Crossing the square from Galeria de Paris to the Cordoaria’s garden
Cordoaria‘s Garden
Rectory of Porto’s University
Lisboa Square
Its program forges links with the city: the open-air auditorium with its background scenery (the Clérigos tower); the extension of the Galeria de Paris street invading the new square; the gradual transition to the green space nearby; the functional deflection of the tramway; and the setup of various leisure facilities.
Deflection of the tramway and creation of a tramstation on the southeast side of the square
Prison of Relação (Portuguese Institute of Photography)
+ Clérigos Tower
Gradual transition of the green space from the Cordoaria’s garden
Its new urban character focuses on the negative space: the square as a mass of magma in formation, shaped by its surroundings, celebrating the free useful space. Thus arises, liquid and influenceable, distancing itself from the Aliados Avenue and from its ascetic condition of the formal Europena square.
Creation of an open-air auditorium with the ClĂŠrigos tower as background
Skatepark on the north side
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