Luís
Ferreira
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Luís Ferreira
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http://ineedanarchitect.wordpress.com/
Contacts
+351963441418
luisfilipensf@gmail.com
Education
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urban planning Abu-Dhabi l United Arab Emirates l 2008
pool and gym Carcereira l Oporto l 2007
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Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto No. 030201061 September July 2007 (4 years)
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2003 -
Politecnico di Milano
No. 720170 September 2007 - July 2008, 5
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open source competition Accra l Ghana l 2010
year, by ERASMUS student exchange protocol
Professional
Edigaia
imobil-
iária, S.A. . V ila Nova de Gaia (Portugal) . Professional
internship
- March 2009
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September
2008
Architects Portugal January 2010 - July 2010 Câmara Municipal de Espinho . Espinho
PEPAL gram
(Professional at
internship
Municipal
May 2011 - May 2012
Council) l
internship
REM Pro . Riga (Lat-
April 2014 l In Concept . Porto/Maputo . BIM
Autodesk 3Ds Max
chitecture
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Autodesk VIZ
Autodesk Revit Ar-
Sketchup Pro
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Moscow l Russia l 2010
office refurbishment S. Mamede Infesta l Oporto l 2011
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Skills
architect . April 2015 - Present Software Autodesk Autocad
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collective housing
pro-
via) . Professional Internship . October 2013 -
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Ermesinde l Portugal l 2010
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VA studio . Oporto (Portu-
gal) Internship for admission in Order of the
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municipal market
Rhinoceros
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artistic installation Guimarães l Portugal l 2012
Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Premiere Pro
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Microsoft Office
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Lumion Pro
Languages English (C1) . Italian (B1) . Spanish (A2)
master plan Samara l Russia l 2013
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01 l pool and gym
Carcereira l Oporto l 2007
Urban context
The
area
in
analysis
is mainly characterized by intense road traffic, since this block, latter terminal for vans and buses, is surrounded by Sidónio Pais avenue, one of the entry/exit points of the city from the VCI (one of the main traffic rings of Oporto). The site has an irregular form and its dimension is huge regarding the dimension of the asked program.
Concept
[Water vapour Be submerged
Do not see clearly]
It’s a one piece building volume,
arousing people’s curiosity for its translucent nature. Almost a strange object that appears in the city, the volume is easily accepted as an equipment, but not quite easy as a pool and a gym.
Insertion
The volume sits on
the center of the site, controlling the space. On an effort to overcome the volumetrical scarcity of the place, a 65 meter side square with leaning rooftop rises.The building reaches 7,5 meter high, a reasonable but not excessive height for this kind of equipment. Besides, these dimensions have to do with the dominant surrounding heights. It’s a building that gains a dominant character in a very disqualified place of the city. A volume that shows its skin but hides the interior.
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02 l urban planning
Abu-Dhabi l United Arab Emirates l 2008
+ Concept
The acknowledge and constant refor-
mulation of what could be the axis which would provide the connection between Abu-Dhabi and the site was the greatest generator of the plan. Regarding the Brasilia and Washington examples, both presented a straight axis where more or less the treatment and result of public spaces leaded us to a certain monotony. The aim in this plan was to escape from that single direction, presenting a dynamic axis, where public spaces were succeding one after another with always diferent characteristics, shapes and sizes.
Proposal
The plan went through much experi-
mentation, especially regarding to the main axis. The road network configuration, its interrelation with the water system and consequently the organization and definition of public space over the territory were the key points for further definition of the entire plan. Functionally, residential zones (orange in the picture), the embassies and the mosque (in purple) and government area (in blue) were distinguished and separated. The most important buildings appear along the axis, such is the case of the mosque or the towers corresponding to the 7 Emirates.
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03 l open source competition
Accra l Ghana l 2010
Concept
The coverage of Ghanaian vernacular
house has a very important role in defining the housing space, as well as the climate control. Departing from here, the “Home Coverage” was generated, in which coverage defines an area of family life protected from the hot African sun.
Description
The spatial configuration
of “Home Coverage” arose from the reinterpretation of the concept of local family - the relations established in a shared outdoor space, the patio, which in turn is related to the interior of the house, running everything as a whole. With an external image defined by the nature of its material/skin, the bamboo, the house shifts on the inside.The materials used (wood and bamboo) are available locally and the construction does not require skilled labor, ensuring a construction available to everyone.
Modular system
For economic reasons,
both the structure and coverage are fixed elements, allowing residents the possibility of future development, reorganizing the house internally through the addition / subtraction of panels.
Sustainability
To
build
the
“Home Coverage”, we chose to use the largest possible number of natural elements to ensure the rational use of resources to build, light and ventilate the house, as well as reduce the environmental impact and the use of polluting energy .
solar protection rainwater ventilation
04 l municipal market
Ermesinde l Portugal l 2010
Context
The study area / intervention falls within
the core of a block in a dense urban fabric of the town of Ermesinde, characterized by a disordered and disqualified urbanism, where the structural equipments appear on random locations, reflecting the lack of a proper urban planning.
Insertion
The urban space is the unifying element
of the different functional benefits, providing more human scale pathways, a more direct contact with the functionality of buildings and urban facilities, as playgrounds and amphitheaters. In the market it is assumed to be fundamental to revive the tradition associated with it, giving rise to a new concept of living space also framed in the ambition to rejuvenate the economic activity of the area.
Concept
Formally, the interven-
tion in the central space - the starting point - is the outcome from an orthogonal modeling effort associated with a tridimensional morphology of the fair tents, embodied in the fragmentation of the building and the slope of the roofs, creating a spatial dynamic that brings together the various functional spaces. Socially, the intervention aims to humanize spaces through a more direct interconnection with the population, approaching the scale of buildings to the human scale.
05 l collective housing
Moscow l Russia l 2010
Concept
The modular plugging construction - Lego
- emerges as the active ingredient in the project design, providing a variety of formal compositions, either through an organic pattern, based on a relation between Nature and Man, or in a geometric pattern, based on the relation Construction - Man. The intervention strategy relates with the distinction between public and private space, resulting from the specific requirements of the program, and the evolutive character of the floors developed, providing a switch between the use and omission of typologies that create a porous building, leading to its own architectural dynamism.
Insertion
The program clearly refers not only to a
Russian context but instead calls for global urban coverage, whose response to that would clearly be an asset. In this sense, the program proposes right from the start a study on a possible integration of the proposal in four urban contexts - highway, main road, compact urban area and city park. The pursue of this flexibility helped actually to the arrival at final solution, since volumetric and programmatic factors were progressively shaped to meet these different contexts.
06 l office refurbishment
S. Mamede Infesta l Oporto l 2011
Program
The project to renovate the facilities of
Oporto delegation of Pierre Fabre Dermo CosmÊtique was requested in order to upgrade the image of the training room and work spaces, somewhat dated, and create new functional relationships and benefits that would contribute to the best use of the space. After contact with the older solution, two main objectives became clear, guiding the intervention: enhancing the entry of natural light and ensure continuity and functionality of both the space and program – the distribution of different rooms and services was not consistent in the previous model, as it generated programmatic incompatibilities.
Concept
The foundation of all the intervention is
based on a path, an undulating corridor, which was thought not only as a circulation and access space, but as an essential void to a program that is condensed into it at different moments. The route, touching both ends of the interior space, creates visual communication to the outside and thus provides the natural light. On the right side are located, sequentially, the entrances to the offices, the treatment room and training room. In turn, on the left side were grouped the services and several cabinets to support training in a continuing curved body punctuated by small niches, each with its own specific function.
Materials
The use of
polycarbonate, although limited for budget reasons to the room entrances, was crucial, allowing exterior light to enter into the rooms. Regarding artificial lighting, the corridor curviness and continuity was addressed and reinforced through plans of indirect light that wave, following the design of the space. The contrast between the black carpet and white walls in plasterboard were explored in pursuit of a clean, almost laboratory visual, in accordance with the ideals and image that the company wants to convey.
07 l artistic installation
Guimarães l Portugal l 2012
Context
As a part on schedule to Guimarães
- European Capital of Culture 2012 - the POP-UP spaces competition aimed at producing art installations that could move through the city, offering something unexpected. In the present work, it was the intention to design something able to gather the attentions and reactions to anyone visiting the city streets, turning this interaction into a future memory of who visited Guimarães by this time, providing a reinterpretation of a particular cultural and educational message.
Inspiration
The
images that refer to this “magic box”, where the body is separated and lives momentarily distinct realities, seemed to us a very interesting starting point. By placing the head in a “hole,” the person “leaves” the body in the background reality and the head engages a completely different scenario.
Project
The project consists of a tubular steel
structure wrapped around in white screen and its main purpose is to allow the observation of one or more monuments from a central point in the city. This structure gives us a new framework of these monuments. People who walk by are invited to enter inside through a slot in its base screen at the height of 1.40 m above the ground. Inside, the viewer is limited by the view of the screen all the way around, which is cut at a strategic point in order to create a framework for a particular point of interest nearby, in the exterior. The experience is completed by sentences printed in the screen that refer to what the viewer is looking at.
“...let the compass of curiosity guide us through the Couros neighbourhood, where men transfigured in primitive servants move their hook sticks, plunging and revolving fresh hides in the pools, rasping and greasing them on platforms in their mills.”
08 l masterplan
Samara l Russia l 2013
Context
Samara is nowadays one important city
in Russia, continuously growing across the decades in political, social, economic and cultural magnitude. This master plan brings the opportunity to participate actively in this process by proposing an urban solution for a disregarded site within the city of Samara.
Concept
An option was
taken to continue the main existing axis as the proposal intends to connect the new with the old. In that way, a main axis is designed to connect west and east parts of the site, at the same time organizing it in two main areas. Facing the river to the north, the strategy was to create an urban park which spreads all across that area. The other main area, facing Novo-Sadovaya street to the south, has the quality of an urban centre, since it faces one of the main traffic axis of the city.
Project A new vibrant city emerges, aiming to connect itself to the remaining urban territory, although also capable to function on its own as it implements residential, commerce, services and offices. The calmness and leisure ambiance of the park is carefully balanced with the urban dynamic from the shopping and business activities present in the mixed use area through a controlled permeability. Becoming a hotspot for the connection of old and new, the master plan has the potential to generate a new urban dynamic to a continuously growing Samara.
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