Portfolio 2012-2017

portfolio susana ayres 2012 - 2017

selected works

ARCHITECTURE CV

SUSANA AYRES ayres.ss@gmail.com 0031 649 719 469 Portugal 28/06/1988

WORK EXPERIENCE

SOFTWARE

Group A

We Love the City

Marc Koehler Architects

Rotterdam NL, May 2015 / Aug 2017

Mecanoo

Delft, NL, Oct 2013 / Apr 2014 (internship)

Bracher Filisetti Somlo

São Paulo BR. Jan 2011 / Jul 2011 (internship)

Rotterdam NL, Apr 2014 / Jan 2015 Amsterdam NL, Jan 2015 (collaboration)

AutoCad 2D ArchiCad Sketchup Rhinoceros Photoshop Illustrator InDesign Revit DiaLux

SKILLS EDUCATION Integrated Masters in Architecture 2006/2012

Architecture Faculty of Technical University of Lisbon (FAUTL) Portugal Architecture and Urbanism Faculty of The São Paulo University (FAUSP) Brazil, interchange program in 2010

Final Project-dissertation

Masters award

“The Flexible in Permanent: a proposal on the reuse of the National Cordage Factory”. On adaptability and polivalence of Architecture through the passage of time.

2012. 19/20 (http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/5457) “Best Master Students UTL”, UTL and Santander Totta 2012

architecture concept design development design technical drawings analysis graphic design model making

STRENGTHS creative curious determined communicative responsible willing to learn

COMPETITIONS

honorable mention,

“House it!”; 2013 - DESAFIOS URBANOS ‘12; student

category; Espaço de Arquitectura, PT short-listed “2kind: A layered approach”; 2012 - DAF 2012 Designing for Adaptable Futures Student Competition; Loughborough Univertsity, UK 2

LANGUAGES Portuguese English Dutch Spanish

SOME OTHER STUFF

PROJECTS AND COLLABORATIONS IN ACADEMIC CONTEXT 2009

Cultural and Comunication Department of the Students Association, FAUTL (AEFA)

2009

Conference organizer: MAD People; Moda, Arquitectura, Design – 2nd Take, at FAUTL

2008-2009

General Co-coordinator, content writing: esphera, nº 3-4 – Students Association of FAUTL magazine

2007

Contents and Advertising Coordinator: esphera, nº 2 – magazine of Students Association of FAUTL

OTHER ACTIVITIES 2014

ArchiKidz Rotterdam 2014, volunteering in staff

2013

Social volunteering within the project JAC - Just a Change

2013

Volunteering with Arquitectos Sem Fronteiras Portugal (Architects Without Borders Portugal) in the Acção Reparar of Santa Casa da Misericórdia

2012

Logistics and room assistant: European Federalism Conference: Moving Forward with the European Dream, Oporto

2012

Setting team, entrance control and ticket office: Festival Passagem de Ano Tradballs, Coimbra

2011

Setting team, room assistant, guided tours: Experimenta Design 2011, Useless, Utilitas Interrupta, Lisbon

2004-2009

Ilustrations for child books; Os livros que insistem em contar histórias, Fátima Effe, Editora Gatafunho / Carta de Amor e outros segredos, Fátima Effe, Pé de Página Editores / Sports Anuary 2003-2004 of Externato da Luz

OTHER INTERESTS

graphic design, illustration, writing, photography.

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project-thesis

final project-dissertation for Integrated Masters in Architecture |  2012 |individual |  cultural, multi-uses |  Lisbon, Portugal

THE FLEXIBLE IN THE PERMANENT A PROPOSAL ON THE REUSE OF THE NATIONAL CORDAGE FACTORY timelapse of the urban environment

proposition The study of ‘flexibility’ is relevant not only as a matter of Architecture but also as a necessity inherent to ‘dwelling’ and is increasingly important in an ever evolving society. The aim of this work is to understand flexibility (the same as adaptability, or versatility) through its origin: the ‘permanent’, which is opposed to the ephemeral and the changeable, and essentially exists in architectural form. To this end, the distinction between ‘form’ and ‘use’ is peremptory; the use to which the space will be put to will eventually prove to be uncontrollable. To design for the flexible is also to avoid understanding the future use of space as unchangeable and to build for the unknown, trying to integrate into the building the ability to absorb, adapt or transform itself when faced with new appropriations along ‘time’ - a key factor of the dichotomy between change and permanence.

fundamental theoretical principles for the approach taken TIME: TEMPORALITY AND TEMPORARIETY Changing requires movement between two estates, and all movement happens in Time. Therefore, to be possible for a space to prove itself adaptable, a period in time must elapse. adaptive reuse / change ...

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THE “ART OF FRAMING” As structure is to interpretation, as competence is to performance, frame will be to generic space. The ‘adaptability of a space’ depends on its ability to provide possibility of change and to accomodate it. (See below the steps for generating a frame, from left to right: separation / singularization / selection / arrangement / concluded frame.)

FRAME AND GENERIC SPACE Based on this sense, the dissertation paper aimed to set forth not only the ideological basis for a systematization of flexibility, but also to gather together the principles and methodologies that address the efficiency of the concept, approaching what may be a very brief guide to the practices promulgated. Pre-eminent authors such as Bernard Leupen, Herman Hertzberger, and Stewart Brand will be used as references.

The project itself proposes to adapt the National Cordage Factory to its current uses for which it was never properly prepared. The combination of the old factory building with the theme of ‘flexibility’ showed to be consistent and unfolded in a reciprocal manner, based both on formal characteristics, which had already proven multifunctional, and on the relevance of a program based in diverse cultural events already in place . In this dynamic, the ‘reuse’ of the Cordage Factory is designed according to the assumptions and criteria set out over the essay, and through the implementation of new means and functional cores, both architectural and technical.

‘Flexibility’ consists in a non-commiting and resilient approach to architecture, undeviable from the human needs of living. This study objectively concludes that the very ethics of our projectoriented culture can benefit from the adoption of these considerations explored; accepting the transformation of habits, occupation, and thus of built matter itself.

As structure is to interpretation, as competence is to performance, frame will be to generic space. The ‘adaptability of a space’ depends on its ability to provide possibility of change and to accomodate it.

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LAYERING In order to better make space for change, the architectural form can embrace several features such as the concept of layering; separate elements will respond to the different architectural layers - structure, skin, scenery, access, services - so that their different cycles of transformation don’t collide but rather co-exist dynamically. objectos serviços cenário/planta pele estrutura (terreno)

SCENERY BUFFERING One possible strategy to integrate flexibility into the design process is to preddict several scenarios with different plausabilities so that the initial programme turns into a more thorough idea of principles and guidelines. The result of this action should contemplate what were initially unpredicted situations in order to better respond to the unpredictable. multiple approaches with a hypothetical sense colective programme

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FUNCTION SUBLIMATION Proposing the sublimation of the different functions, either necessary or hypothetical, to achieve an architectural archetype that will be able to both accomodate and induce each one of them.

In other terms, extracting and conjugating principles and requirements to generate a possible solution. sublimation function A

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useful life

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accessibility

appropriation through flexibility: new building for workspaces

polyvalent room (auditorium) and underground spaces supporting the new uses

the intervention is juxtaposed to the preexisting space

demolitions a new hotel is proposed

the nuclear space is preserved, as essentially identitary for the cordage factory complex 7

axonometry - the building’s interior with no built occupation, as a shell

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constructive axonometry of the partitions engaging system

possible floor layouts resulting from the users appropriation

open-space: 1st floor free of partitions, occupied only with furniture and occasional mezzanines to create a hint of diversity

individuality: maximized number of independentspaces for a more individualized work environment

organicity: a set of different and mixed needs demand variety in the primary subdivision of the comon space, This division might occur in the creation of “areas� rather than individualized smaller spaces

lenghtwise section - a flexible and transformable interior space 9

ground floor detail - great halls / circulation devices / courtyard

ground floor detail - central turret / entrance for the auditorium (-1) / main entrance for the factory great halls

transverse section - accessibility core / entrance through the central turret

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various possible configurations to the module uses A prefabricated metal structure module is proposed. Its dimentions were extracted or are directly related with the volumetry, rythm and spatiality of the cordage factory. The module is conceived to work as a generic support/container to be appropriated in the most diverse ways and to aid in the transformation, sub division and occupation of the comon space itself, interior as exterior.

transverse section - accessibility core / polyvalent room

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constructive section 1:75 - detail of the new building’s open space / the cordage factory’s great halls and adjacent support spaces

4 tábuas portantes multilaminadas de madeira (30mm) apoio de goma (15mm)

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perfis de aço galvanizado (25mm)

grade metálica em aço patinado Corten (60mm)

caixa de ar para piso técnico, acessível pontualmente

suportes metálicos membrana de PVC impermebealizante 1 chapa perfurada de aço patinado Corten (10mm) peças de aço para suporte estrutura portante em aço tubular (150mm x 100mm / 100mm x 100mm) janela com vidro triplo e caixilhos anti pontes térmicas portadas interiores deslizantes, acabamento em gesso cartonado (alterável)

membrana de PVC impermebealizante

laje colaborante composta (120mm): betão aligeirado, chapa metálica plissada

poliestireno extrudido para isolamento térmico (35 mm)

vigas metálicas dimensões variadas para suporte

laje colaborante composta (145mm): betão aligeirado, chapa metálica plissada

lã de rocha (100mm)

suportes metálicos (190mm)

laje colaborante composta (210mm):betão, chapa metálica plissada

lã de rocha (75mm) placas anti-fogo de aglomerado de silicato e cimento

placas em gesso cartonado (25mm) treliça estrutural em aço tubular pintado e cabos metálicos

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membrana de PVC antivapor

viga estrutural em aço pintado (1000mm x 250mm)

chapa de aço galvanizado

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5 soalho laminado

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membrana de PVC para barreira anti-vapor

blocos de lioz (800mm x 300mm x 75mm) existentes

aglomerado expandido de cortiça (35mm)

argamassa permeável

laje colaborante composta (170mm): betão, chapa metálica plissada

tout-venant (290mm)

viga estrutural em aço (400mm)

areia (120mm)

manta geotêxtil de anticontaminação terreno compactado

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telha lusa cerâmica existente

caixilhos de alumínio estilo pombalino existente: vidro duplo com quebra de ponte térmica

soalho laminado

soalho laminado

membrana de PVC para barreira anti-vapor

membrana de PVC para barreira anti-vapor

micro-estacas préfabricadas de betão armado (diâmetro 250mm)

blocos calcários existentes (300mm x 450mm x 800mm)

portadas interiores de madeira com caixilho lateral metálico fixo na parede

aglomerado expandido de cortiça (35mm)

aglomerado expandido de cortiça (35mm)

chapa metálica moldada ripas de madeira (85mm x 30mm) vigotas de madeira (60mm x 30mm) lã de rocha para isolamento térmico e acústico (60mm) membrana de PVC para barreira anti-vapor tábuas de madeira revestida a tinta branca (20mm)

laje colaborante composta (170mm): betão, chapa metálica plissada

laje colaborante composta (270mm): betão; chapa metálica plissada

asna estrutural em aço tubular galvanizado

caixa de brita selada para drenagem de água e humidade

estrutura temporária: tecto falso com acabamento em gesso cartonado

ancoragens metálicas para contrariação dos efeitos de flutuamento

barrotes de madeira (220mm x 100mm)

laje de betão armado (300mm)

asna estrutural existente em madeira maciça

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camada de betão armado selante

argamassa permeável areia (120mm)

caixa de ar com bombeamento e drenagem para extracção da água

tout-venant (290mm)

membrana de PVC impermeabilizante e anti-vapor

terreno compactado

betão armado (300mm) poliestireno extrudido (50mm) gesso cartonado pintado de branco (25mm) estrutura temporária: perfis metálicos tubulares ligeiros, caixa de serviços / espaço para iluminação, placas de gesso cartonado pintado de branco

manta geotêxtil anticontaminação

built model of one of the intervention focus: the new building for flexible open space - scale 1:100

South elevation - focus on the new flexible building, conceived for workspaces as a starting point 14

built model of overall intervention: birds eye - scale 1:500

underground level - scale 1:500

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professional work

GROUP A ARCHITECTEN  What I learned:

G GROUP A is a Rotterdam based office, building mainly in the Netherlands but ambitiously expanding his field of action into other countries like China. They are specialized in office spaces, urbanism and infrastructural buildings. Concerning business inteligence, Group A is a quite versatile office, that adatps his practice to the demands and wishes of the clients and market.

A clear insight and participation in all of the projects’ phases, from concept to building site.

Understanding how contractors proceed and influence an architect’s work.

Participating in a design-and-build process.

Integration of artistic input and artistic pieces into architecture.

Acquired sotfware abilities: basic use of Revit

Main software used, by order of relevance: AutoCad 2D, Sketchup, Indesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Revit.

 2016-2017 | collective |  infrastructural facility / |  Netherlands

X-RAY FACILITY FOR MAASVLAKTE during construction

visualization for proposal, competition entry / volume concept

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execution drawings for cable trays and embedded pipes

execution drawings general / printed letters for facade

roof detailing /during construction / as built

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 2015-2017 | collective |  infrastructural / mobility / commercial / art |  Netherlands

OOSTLIJN METRO STATIONS REFURBISHMENT, AMSTERDAM

original state / visualizations / as built

“tile coding”; execution drawings of the murals 20

execution floor drawings; floor tiles inventarisation and evaluation 21

foiled glass panels, as built Elke station moet zijn eigen kleur combinatie en patroon hebben, zodat hun identiteiten sterker zullen zijn. De kleurcombinaties komen vanuit een bepaalde harmonie van kleuren. Het motief van het patroon is altijd met de oorsprong van de naam verbonden.

combinaties

80% fill

45% fill

HARMONIE VOLGENS BESCHIKBARE SPECTRUM EN GEKOZEN COMBINATIES (KLEUREN ZIJN BIJ BENADERING.)

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KLEUREN EN VOLGORDE chromatic harmony and gradient concept for the stations’ motiefs 22

21. GAASPERPLAS

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first tests with the foil perforation

EERSTE SAMENGESTELD MONSTER MET KLEUREERSTE SAMENGESTELD MONSTER MET KLEUR "LILY" IN TWEE PERFORATIES. "LILY" IN TWEE PERFORATIES.

several foiled glass motiefs, as built SAMENGESTELDE GLASPUI MET KLEURFOLIE “VIOLET” EN DICHROIDE FOLIE.

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 2017 | collective |  residential / commercial / offices / art museum / social housing / high-end housing |  Netherlands

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4. PROGRAMMA, FUNCTIONELE KWALITEIT EN AFZET

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Het driedimensionale daklandschap van ‘De Kroes’ biedt verschillende belevingswaarden op verschillende niveaus van het gebouw en ‘verkleurt’ van openbaar beleefbaar op maaiveldniveau via collectief op de eerste dakniveaus naar individueel op de hogere dakniveaus. Het daklandschap is beleefbaar binnen vanuit de gebouwen van ‘De Kroes’ én van buitenaf vanuit omringende straten en gebouwen. De opbouw van het daklandschap volgt de massaopzet van de architectuur (van XS naar XL) en gaat hiermee een dialoog aan. Dat betekent dat voor de verschillende hoogtelagen een gedifferentieerd landschapsontwerp wordt toegepast waarbij vier functionele zones worden aangehouden: 1. Op het maaiveld wordt een constructieve bijdrage geleverd aan de vergroening en verzachting van het straatlandschap en het woonmilieu van de Veemarkt in het bijzonder. Hier worden aan de zonnige zijde van het gebouw patio’s / entreetuinen toegevoegd.

de omliggende straten verzorgen. Hier wordt ruimte gemaakt voor collectieve activiteiten en wordt een veelheid aan plekken gemaakt te midden van uitbundig bloeiende bomen en struiken die tevens allerlei insecten en stadsvogeltjes aantrekken. Hieromheen wordt een royale groene kraag gemaakt van winterharde grassen en inheemse bomen.

3. Op +36/+42 meter bevindt zich een weelderig grassendak dat een hoofdfunctie in de waterhuishouding van de gebouwen op zich neemt in de vorm van een polderdak. Op deze laag wordt water van het dak plus de hogere lagen verzameld om in droge periodes water af te geven aan de lager gelegen daktuinen.

4. Op de twee toppen (+70/+90 meter) zullen sedum rotstuinen worden gerealiseerd. De afwezigheid van mensen en de beschutting die de rotstuinen bieden gecombineerd met het vrije uitzicht op de lager gelegen omgeving, maakt deze dakvlakken geschikt voor stedelijke roofdieren zoals de slechtvalk.

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Verticale groen beleving

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Hemelwatercascade

layered water strategy

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PRIVAAT

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layered landscape and use strategy

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longitudinal section through atriums 25

South elevation, residential facade / massing and facade detailing concepts

life at street level; the human scale lanes

variable materiality

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level 0: restauration, bike parking, green pockets, housing

levels 1-3: The Art Space

levels 5-9: SOHO living&working concept

levels from 10: high-end housing 27

 2017 | collective |  cultural / residential / food growing / urban planning / street and traffic |  China

YANTAI MUSIC INSTUMENTS MUSEUM - ACQUISITION museum impression, entrance for the cub house

volumetry concept museum axonometry / logitudinal section inner courtyard / main facade

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 2015 | colective |  residential |  Netherlands

MARC KOEHLER ARCHITECTS

 What I learned:

G Marc Koeher Architects is a very innovative office in terms of house design and solutions.

A brief collaboration with them for work/force support in a competition atmosphere was a trully valuable experience.

New work experience within an office with a very inspiring and unique practice.

Main task consisted on touching up and creating atmosphere in the project images.

Main software used, by order of relevance: Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator.

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 2014-2015 | colective |  residential / commercial / offices / free program / urban planning / street and traffic |  Netherlands

WE LOVE THE CITY

G We Love the City is an urban planning office that focuses on a participatory approach and a close dialogue with the clients. Their work and projects literally make space in the city/ district/neighboorhood for new ideas and uses, from bold, change-making common people.

 What I learned: Better communication in atmosphere development; The big picture: thinking in an urban and collective scale; New perspective on the developping process, beyond the architect’s role; Reaching for the user/client’s vision and communicating graphically for their understanding; Use-concept developing;

Main software used, by order of relevance: Adobe Suite, AutoCad 2D, Sketchup

New presentation skills and direct interaction with the client; Practice on urban approach.

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 2013-2014 |  colective |  residential / mixed use / urban space / educational |  The Netherlands

MECANOO ARCHITECTEN

G Mecanoo is one of the biggest offices in the Netherlands, working on a great variety of projects with every kind of programme and scale. Their internal dynamic is very intense and they specialize in several fields.

Their 10 statements hold great sensitivity and concern for the user on their approach to architecture.

The dynamics of a big office;

 What I learned:

Flexibility while switching teams and tasks; Solving the puzzle between a programme and the client’s spoken (and non-spoken) requests; Main software used, by order of relevance: Rhinoceros 3D, V-Ray, Adobe Photoshop, AutoCad 2D, Sketchup.

Acquired new software skills such as Rhinoceros and V-Ray, and a brief introduction to Revit; The search of alternatives as essential part of the design process.

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academic / student competitions

submission for “EPAUS ‘12” contest, student cat. |  2012 |  collective |  temporary / cultural / appropriation |  Cacilhas, Portugal

ART F(OL)LOW EXPERIMENTAL AND TEMPORARY RIVERSIDE USES

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submission for “DESAFIOS URBANOS ‘12” contest, student cat. |  2012 |  colective |  residential / cultural |  Guimarães, Portugal

HOUSE IT! A NEW CONCEPT FOR ‘DWELLING’ IN THE CAPITAL OF CULTURE strategic urban integration functioning cultural infraestructures

networking

social capital

new exterior public spaces

free and appropiable interior space

variable periods accomodation

phased intervention 1) starting point alterations and demolishions

polyvalence

2) continued use: growing occupation

With the increased influx of both workforce and tourism to the city, so too increases the global need for accommodation. In this sense, ‘house it’ is an idea of ​​an experimental project, where the skeleton of a decommissioned plant is occupoed through means of assemblage and disassemblage of prefabricated dwellings. These houses will provide shelter for a predicted wave of newcomers, either they have plans to stay for 30 days, ten months, or even four years.In this Manner, what was once only a skeleton becomes a vibrant and unexpected part of the city.

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House it’ is also characterized by the “do it yourslef” idea. The units are built on site by their future inhabitants making them an active part of the project since its inception, establishing the possibility of an organic direct response to the needs of the migrant population that settles there.The transformation of space is also a main goal, since the modules are designed to articulate between each other and to generate a large number of possible layouts.

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According to the demand, the strategy will start from a “zero phase”: a public urban facility is openned to host cultural independent activities. Meanwhile this first gesture in the public realm will hopefully familiarize the city with the new available place. As housing is sought, the large space is gradually transferred to the new residents, and again, cyclically transferred back to the city when eventually they stop making use of it.

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The European Capital of Culture 2013 has brought a new path to the historic city of Guimarães: it has re-lightened the spark of inovation, giving breath to several iniciatives and entrerprises in the most diverse fields. Guimarães is nowadays seen as an intense and dynamic place were art centres, scientific investigation laboratories and, among many more, business incubators coexist. In this context, to considerate this city’s future means to keep alive all of the newly created infraestructures, also also benefiting the existing ones, and to boost new integrating dynamics. People from all over the place will arrive for leisure, work, investigation, academic projects, or for any suitable reason.

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vegetable gardens

main alley

light, air, access

public garden

basic module

horizontal connection

minimum unit

short term residence, associated activity

vertical connection

collective/individual housing short/long term

horizontal connection

transverse section warehouses 1 and 2

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transverse section warehouses 1 and 2

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growing occupation, densification in time 1st and 2nd floor

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T0 T2 T3 T4 T0 +1 listing of prefabricated units used in each typology

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2018, what’s next?

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