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curriculum vitae| Personal information Name: Tânia Filipa Correia Cabrita Nationality: Portuguese Date of birth: 04|01|1989 Residence: rua general humberto delgado 2d, guia| albufeira Mobile number: 912020003 e-mail adress: ART.taniacabrita@gmail.com
Education training: Qualification awarded: Architecture | Course in architecture with integrated Masters (completed in February 2015)
Education or training organisation/ name and locality: universidade lusiada de lisboa
Software formacion: autocad 2d/3d, archicad, sketchup, artlantis render, photoshop, revit, 3D studiomax, Lumion, indesign, illustrator, excel
Mother language: portuguese Other language: english - good | spanish - medium Work experience: Dates: from August 2015 until current time Occupation or position held: Architect Main activities and responsabilities: Models of drafting and 3D models (archicad and sketchup), building structural systems design (Autocad), image preparation (Photoshop) and 3D movie (Lumion). Employer’s name and locality: NM Architects – Arq. Nuno Morgado, Avenida da Liberdade, Lisboa. Type of Business or sector: Architecture studio
I’ve always showed a huge passion for Architecture, great dedication, creativity, accuracy and determination. The integrity of the learning process, from the conceptual part to the execution was a very fulfilling challenge. Nonetheless the most satisfying part of the development of an architecture project is seeing it materialize through 3D models and transmiting the emotion of the lived spaces through images, thus having a more realistic perception of the project itself and the sensitivity of the place. Personally I'm a very proactive person, dedicated, dynamic, with excellent ability to adapt to a new reality and looking for new challenges in the architecture world.
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Livable bridge | Av. Infante Santo em Lisboa, Portugal
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Village in Caneças | Odivelas, Portugal
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Single family housing| Caneças, Odivelas, Portugal
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House for an architecture student | Rua do Olival, Lisboa, Portugal
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Lx factory | AlcÂntara, Lisboa, Portugal
Universidade Lusiada de Lisboa | 2nd year theme III - lecturer Helena Botelho
Housing for young peolple, housing for the elderly, living space for seniors, elementary school, street market, multiuse auditorium
Universidade Lusiada de Lisboa | 4th year theme III - lecturer Barros Gomes
Universidade Lusiada de Lisboa | 5th year theme 0 - lecturer Rui Alves
Housing for students, art galleries, contemporary art museum, lofts for artists Universidade Lusiada de Lisboa | 5th year theme I - lecturer Rui Alves
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Hostel & Cowork | AlcÂntara, Lisboa, Portugal
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Ensamble Studio| Antón Garcia Abril & Collaborators
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Previous studies and 3d movie| New Team SA
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Image Work| Photomontage and 3d model
Universidade Lusiada de Lisboa | 5th year theme I - lecturer Rui Alves
Internship - September 2014 to April 2015
Architect - April 2015 until current time
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livable bridge|
livable bridge
av. infante santo, lisboa, portugal
Seven shops: bakery, tobacco shop, pet store,butchery shop, fish store, grocery store A volume arises and articulates itself creating empty spaces. A volume directed to a patio, situated in a lower elevation than the bridge, allows access to a direct commercial area. This courtyard is designed to commerce and leisure, and where the direct access to the avenida infante santo happens. The courtyard created by the volume of the bridge interconnects in an underground way resulting in the diversification of spatial relationships. The courtyard will function as a place of passage and lounge, which hosts various connections and experiences. The volume of the bridge will be articulated in order to create extensions of what you will see from the place where you are, to different exterior elements. The interior spaces (shops) will result from the relation and articulation between courtyards that will occasionally manifest along the bridge. The observer is surprised in a positive way by a new delicate and harmonious reality towards the city. 4
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caneรงas |
village in caneรงas odivelas, portugal
Regarding the proposed road system, being this area very vibrant due to automobile circulation because of the nacional 250, I opted for the strategy of the camera. So, the national road will do the car flowing outside Caneรงas, passing near the crel area Giving greater coherence and organization of the car circulation Since this has no roads designed for car traffic, and that another solution would be to pass the road by the existing roa d area, which would not solve the needs of canecas. In terms of public transport circulation, the alternative for improving the system would be the extension of the Odivelas Metropolitan line. Making a connection with the area of Caneรงas more specifically, the old part of the village. This allows a greater mobility of people to town and from city to the village, and simultaneously further development for this area. Come into existence several parking areas that promote better ease and adherence to the proposed metropolitan structure. This way, my solution allows Caneรงas to have a new "breathe", focusing mainly on the railway area and articulating the road system around it, keeping away the car flow. 8
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housing for the elderly
living space for seniors
multiuse auditorium
elementary school
water garden
single family housing
housing for young people
street market
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caneรงas, public space|
The strongest idea throughout the project involves the separation of the old and the new รกreas of caneรงas. This situation is possible with a wall that functions as a transition between the old and new giving new public spaces to the village, including a garden water that works throughout its length. different spaces emerge in this area, especially water areas with different types of vegetation, seating areas and a square that is articulated by market area, allowing the passage of the old town to the new zone. The water garden works through fluctuations in field, connecting heights and allowing pedestrian acess. This garden has two functions during the time of year with more plenty of water (winter), it is possible that the water level increases and that this area is highlighted mainly by the spaces that emerge from existing lines of water there. However, at times when the water has owest levels in drier seasons, the garden works with a slightly different character. The nonexistence of water projects a dry garden with white rolled pebble with various tree types. The idea is essentially to adapt this space to the various climate changes that occur throughout the year, giving always a feeling of well being for people who inhabit and live it.
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the social center for the elderly was designed in a very similar way as the housing typologies for senior segment. Easy mobility and access to the site both pedestrian and for public transporation. The volume is articulated by a courtyard that defines all interior spaces, computer room, multipurpose room, cafeteria, reception, changing rooms for the pool which is located in the center of the courtyard, as well as storage areas and administration office. All these areas are developed at the ground level The fact that the location is near the center of the quinta dos castanheiros is due to the idea that these people are able to have
areas computer room multipurpose room Cafeteria crowds bathroom Hall office of management storage
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The building is organized around a large patio space, which allows creating a more controlled environment for the school. The idea was to create an "interior" outside environment. The Patio space, besides being used as a sports field, can also work as a socializing area and an extension of some classrooms to the outside, creating more dynamic classes. The program is mainly organized on the 1st floor, being the ground floor used only for manual component classes, reception area and cafeteria, also having access to the elevator for mobility issues. On the 1st floor are located the library, teachers room, administration and the remaining classrooms. The school has three possible access being the main one on the right side of the building where the lobby is located making distribution to other areas and floors
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classroom 55m2 (piso 0) classroom 67m2 (piso 1) bathroom 28m2 hall 80m2 access area 43m2 refectory 140m2 secretariat 77.8m2 staff room 73m2 library 93m2 playground
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the multiuse room is assumed as the starting point of this wall which rises from the topography. Opens on the old area of Caneรงas but maintains contact with the water garden that exists at the other end. The multiuse room is intersected by courtyards that blend with the exterior, existing a constant contact with the public space รกreas. It is constituted by a concert hall which has 200 seats. This zone is switchable, allowing the show to be indoors or outdoors. the chairs have the ability to move to the exterior enlarging the space and creating diferente dynamics. There is also in the lobby area a cafeteria that supports the shows, as well as an administration office with storage area and even a changing room that supports the show area.
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caneças, street market|
The market works in the following of the multipurpose room allowing a link between them through 1st floor, this arm defines the spaces through the empty spaces (patios), which relate to outside public spaces. In the central part of the market happens a square on the ground floor that promotes the access from the old area to the new area of the water garden. This plaza serves as a seating area, for socializing, sports use, small events, etc ... The market at the ground level works as a petty trading, handicraft shops area, among others. At the 1st level, the market has direct connection with the road to facilitate the entire system of loading and unloading as well as direct access market. Are developed, butcher, fishmonger, cafĂŠ with hot bread, florist, restaurant, garbage area and administration office with area for storage and cleaning.
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caneças, housing for the elderly|
The senior housing is located on Rua alto do coxo in Caneças lnext to quinta das Castanheiras. The project part comes from a careful perception of the life of a very specific kind of community, a kind of micro-society with its own rules. As an answer to the life in community and on the other hand to the life in solitude. The project is designed base on the relationship established in this society: independent centers are added to a set of clear expression. The reduced mobility of those who will live in the houses, requires making every move as a different and emotional experience. The volumes assume themselves as a wall that comes free, punctual, and naturally out of the the topography. It limits and defines an open space organizing the whole lot. Enphasazing the transition betwween an agricultural area and the quinta das castanheiras area, delimiting two different realities that are very close and accessible to this age group. White volumes emerge from the ground and merge into the landscape as if they had always been part of that place. The housing could not have been designed differently, is extending outside inwards, making all these situations connect. A patio house is therefore a haven for nature and the outdoors. Twelve units are defined to operate longitudinally, each volume corresponding to two houses. These volumes are defined through a central courtyard, promoting a common area to houses and functions as a transition space between the quinta das castanheiras and and agricultural areas. The patio extends to the interior of the houses, forming small courtyards that communicate with the outside areas including the kitchen, living room and bathroom. The simplicity combined with form and the capture of the outside are the predominant feelings of the project.
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Sixteen apartments are developed for youth segment. The courtyard house concept is present once again, trying to capture the exterior to the interior of the apartments. The spaces are developed around the kitchen which is the heart of the house, as well as the courtyard keeping direct contact with the kitchen, living room, bathroom and hallway to the bedrooms. And occasionally there is contact with the cover’s exterior, which is an accessible roof garden and it tries to solve the access of people from the highest part of the plot to the one where the wall ends. The flow of people may be intense, but the privacy of the apartments is guaranteed.
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caneças, single family housing|
single family housing odivelas, portugal
The house is situated in the village of Caneças, close to the railway station area. All this area emerges in a free and spontaneous way, by means of the existing water courses. A water garden forms surrounding all this area, passages, hangouts, a variety of vegetation growing in the garden fusing with the landscape as if they were always a part of that place. The house could not have been conceived in any other way, is the exterior that elongates to the interior, making all this situations connect with one another. The courtyard house is, therefore, a shelter from nature and the exterior. Eleven longitudinally operated houses are defined. Formed as something very light on the landscape and with an idea of lightness of volume of the houses in the space they’re embedded in, giving the impression that they’re naturally and rightfully there. The areas in the interior are defined by the existing empty spaces, the yards overrule, always existing an interaction among all the parts. There’s a versatilty in the use of the house; a connection with the exterior is mantained, but it’s affirmed as an enclosed nucleous on itself. The simplicity allied with shape and captation of the exterior are the predominating sensations in this project. The architecture of the project is also determined by systems of renewable energies. The accesible green roof, not only promotes a good termic isolation, it also has a rain water collecting system, which is stored in a 100m2 cistern situated in the first floor platform. This system will be used to supply the swimming pool and for the watering of the green roof. Photovoltaic panels are used too, for collecting solar energy and water heating, making the house more thrifty and sustainable. The LED lights used foresee a more economical system and a cleaner design The project results in a contemporary design that aims to interact with nature and ambience. It is designed in order to convey an idea of lightness to the viewer, reason why the material used in it’s base is exposed concrete, to get across the impression of volume gliding on top of the water garden that surrounds it. Therefore it presents itself as a varety of white volumes of a very synthetic nature, levitating in the landscape. 25
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1. concrete 2. regularization coating 3. geotextile coating 4. vegetable plot 5. boulder white 6. brick white 7. zinc 8. thermal insulation 9. waterproofing screen 10. plaster white 11. plasterboard 12. metal frame 13. ceramic brick (30x20x11cm) 14. window oscilo-batente ("ESSENZA") 15. stone 16. concrete 17. lighting 18. plasterboard 19. waterproofing screen 20. thermal insulation 0.04m (ROOFMATE) 21. screed 22. stone 23. waterproofing screen 24. indirect light 25. concrete 26. portuguese pavement 27. concrete 28. concrete 29. vegetable plot 30. concrete 31. the suport wall 32. gravel 33.. sand 34. zinc 35. screed 36. thermal insulation 0.04m (roofmata) 37. regularization coating 38. concrete 39. stone 40. concrete stone 41. solid wood 42. thermal insulation 43. boulder gray 44. glass of water detail B 46.regularization coating 47. stone (azulinho de cascais)
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house for an architecture student|
house for an architecture student rua do olival, lisboa, portugal
The house is situated in rua do olival in Lisbon . the whole area emerges freely and spontaneously through the old marginal that existed there . Reading the place and interpretating the diferente architectural situations of this area give place to several volumes out o step with each other which represent various existing heights. The housing could not have been designed differently, is extending outside inwards , causing all these situations connect to each other . A patio huse is therefore a haven for nature and the outdoors. The project is essentially defined by the idea of generating several volumes of voids ( courtyards ) that are interlinked , The architecture of the project is also determined by sustainable energy systems . not only the accessible green roof promotes good thermal insulation , but there is also a system to capture rainwater where storage functions through a tank of 100m2 , on the first floor. This system will serve to provide irrigation coverage as well as other green spaces of the house , bathroom etc. ... Photovoltaic panels are also used to provide the capture of solar energy for the house and water heating panels are used , making it the most economical and sustainable housing as possible . The LED lights used , provide for a more ecomic system and a cleaner design . The project follows a contemporary design that intends to interact with nature and the environment . The selected material is exposed concrete with wood grain , to convey a greater sense of harmony to the volume. To sum up, there are asserted overlapping volumes of very simple language , which create voids which relate to the street facade . 31 .
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lx factory|
lx factory
alcÂntara, lisboa, portugal
BETWEEN THE AVAILABLE CITY AND SPECULATIVE SPACE : THE EVIDENCE OF THE ARCHITECTURAL OBJECT It is an occupied area , apparently with v arious possible uses, with the course of time and the lack of conditions may become another urbanistic void in Lisbon . An almost transparent element will be created in its essence , another milestone in its origin that redraws a crossing . Something that merges with the past of the place giving it a new life 36
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SIDUL Co-Work Hostel
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housing for students is located in Lx factory . The housing is created based on a wall that is comes out of the course that connects with the artistic areas proposed by the program.The link is made through the interior of the building connecting with the existing performance buildind in lx factory becoming a connection point and aso a crossing between the new and the existing architecture. twenty apartments are developed to the youth segment . The courtyard house concept is present once again , trying to capture the exterior to the interior of the apartments . The spaces are developed around the kitchen which is the center of the house, as well as the courtyard which maintains contact with the kitchen , living room , bathroom and hallway to the bedrooms . Occasionally there is contact with the cover’s exterior , which is an accessible and walkable coverage that seeks to link up to the existing route.
program: 1-room 2-room / kitchnete 3-courtyard 4-bathroom
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The main idea of the project is part of a course that seeks to keep and simultaneously recover the existing buildings at Lx Factory , enabling new experiences to the place . The beginning of the route takes place on the housing for Young people leading to the performance building which maintains a pre existing connection with the old fabrics factory , allowing access to the art galeries through the second floor. . This arm gives place to ten galleries connecting to the museum, library and plaza that develop in front of Lx towards the river . The intention to keep all these interconnected volumes , brings a new dynamic to the site without it losing its identity . The galleries are organized by voids ( courtyards ) to allow visual connection with the outdoors and at the same time a relationship with the interior .
galerias de arte 15-entrace 16-ticket / info point 17-galleries 18-bathroom
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The museum seeks to address the topography of the site , which is completely flat . through the idea of the courtyard are created two different levels of heights that turn into 2 squares The library , museum and caf茅 are part of the same space and relate to each other . The museum turns into a patio that articulates all spaces as well as the entire exhibition of the museum course . This whole area is buried , which allows different visual dynamics of the public space .
Biblioteca 11-study room 12-library 13-bathroom f / m 14-cafeteria
Museum 20-Reception 21-shop 22-hall 23-cloackroom 24-ticket 25-bathroom 26-Cafeteria/ restaurant 27-exposition area 28-Audit贸rium 29-workshops areas 30-technical areas
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The Lofts for artists are directly related to all the art รกreas. These spaces are turned to a square , enabling a greater relationship with the public space. The Lofts are articulated by courtyards that define all areas . All the private areas are at a higher elevation and part of the atelier keeps a more direct contact with the public space of the plaza and mu seum.
Program: 1-room 2-living room and kitchnete 3-courtyard 4-bathroom 5-Atelier
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Hostel & Cowork|
Hostel & Cowork AlcÂntara, lisboa, portugal
Recover the old Wool factory Berardo Daupiais, 1834. The main figures are the interior space and the thick walls (facade). The reading of the overall space is maintained despite the introduction of the program. The wall with indoor arcades distributes over houses and volumes along with the social functions on the ground floor. The wall contains stairs, spaces illuminated by the inside walls and spaces that form transition relations with light. The most private areas, bedrooms, bathrooms, are arranged as habitable volumes offset each other, regrando space. The introduction of volumes within this relates to the light and you want to “modulate” the main space of the factory emphasizing its original features. Relations between volumes are allowed between small courtyards. The building also allows the crossing of Rua Maria Luisa Holstein towards Sidul. The construction of the old plant inside on the idea of building for the continuation of co-work zone. The idea of co-work refers to the old dimension of manufactures Wool. The area occupies reflects the reminiscence of the past, which once occupied. 46
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Ensamble Studio|
ENSAMBLE STUDIO Madrid office Calle Cabo Candelaria 9B, 28290, Las Rozas Madrid, Spain Boston Office 37 Fra nklin St., Brookline, MA 02445, USA
Hemeroscopium House and Studio
Antón Garcia Abril & Collaborators Internship - Septem ber 2014 to March 2015
Ensamble studio is an architectural team based en 2000 which projects are exposed structures that explore the essence of materials to create space. Among the studio´s most relevant cmpleted works are Hemeroscopium House, Martemar House (Malaga, Spain), Music studies center and SGAE Central Office (Santiago de Compostela, Spain), The Truffle (Costa da Morte, Spain); and Telecel theatre (Mexico City). Ensamble Ensamble Studio has work in the rehabilitation of many historical buildings like: Reader´s House (Madrid, Spain), Museum of Mesoamerican Art (Salamanca, Spain) and Mit Warehouse (Boston, USA). 49
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The actual use of the building as storage of the MIT Warehouse of Boston misses many oppotunities the building offers due to its urban situa in campus. The new program aims to open this asset to all MIT community through a rich combination of uses: co-working space terrace, undergraduate residence and maker space commercial. An intelligent intervention in old buildings can give them new & better life. MET building will become the key space at the services of MITcommunity.
The Reader´s House The Reader´s House project is the result of a competition that took place in 2006, in wich Ensamble Studio won the first prize. The purpose of the competition was to restore the Warehouses 13, 14, 17c of the Old Slaughterhouse to incorporate a new educational program. The proposal made by Ensamble Studio maintains and enhances the original character of the industrial complex, by imposing a new order to the one of the pre-existent buildings. The confluence and relationship of the new system and the existing one forms a new space.
Museum of Mesoamerican Art The Museum of Mesoamerican Art in Salamanca, Spain, has been established in the old building know as “Casa de Maria La Brava”. To go throught the Salamanca stone facade, a thick stainless steel gate announces the treasure it protects and serves as a threshold between the historical Salamanca and the new XX1 century space housed within. Studyning thoroughly the acncient cultures of America provoked the need to transport us to a new mysterious world, and the space had to echo the difference between cultures and times. The inside is a metalic space with cold lights sliding on its interior walls that invokes an ambiguous time, between tradition and modernity.
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Cyclopean House in Boston Cyclopean House is built, using the vigor of the builder, and the ingenuity of the engineer, to start a journey from the place of its manufacture –Madrid- to the place where it can definitely lie -on top of an existing garage, the ugly duckling of the area, located in a calm residential neighborhood of Brookline. The one-story gloomy construction accommodates the parking, workshop and service spaces, following its basic structural logic, and is completed with the big room built on it by the assembly of the large prefabricated elements that rest after their long transatlantic voyage. This open-plan double-height living area includes the main domestic activities and enables the transformation of the residual building into a two-story residential unit, technologically and spatially adapted to its time and the life of its users.
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Two Towers|
Previous studies | Two Towers
PROPOSED MIXED USE DEVELOPMENT - ACCRA - GHANA
Our ambition was to create a block which divides into two towers. There’s a deliberate difference between the two proposed blocks, although both have the same genesis. The two parts make up the whole. In this sense, each tower is programmatically isolated in order to focus the program according to the nature of each one of them. This design practice remains the axiom of the industrial revolution, man controls nature. We feel sustainability is a much greater concept which can guide a new culture of design resulting in real change. Our intention is to create a balanced environment that evokes the feeling of exploring nature while simultaneously a responsive model for the development of urban space in harmony with nature. A sustainable architecture in modern concept. Real sustainability results in a harmonious civilization. This is the biggest challenge of our time. As an attempt to gain better apreciation for the surrounding context, community and even geography we intended to integrate nature into the architectural design, the building blends into its surrounding landscapes perfectly. Therefore the building aims not only to be an integral part of the site, but also to transform the place from where it arises by blending into the ground resulting in a public square enclosed by two horizontal elements that simultaneously limit and give access to the public spaces. This allows various dinamics between people, space and architecture itself. Also the outdoor living spaces that happen along the towers allow the landscape to enter it, pushing the boundaries that define the relationship between architecture and nature between inside and outside. The void is also responsible for defining the building. It is the intention of the project to take advantage of the absence of matter in order to achieve volumetric spaces, to define “superficially” the whole and to manipulate the notion of scale. Concepts such as micro and macro-scale converge to define the whole, emerging the city as a pretext for its achievement. The object is reflected directly as a consequence of the urban environment, resulting from the topographical transformation of the structural occurrences that characterize it. Therefore, it grows as a “live” form that is transformed as it frees itself from the media that contains it. The building is designed to create transition shaded areas between interior / exterior and this concern exists also on a material level. Thus, although there is glass in the building, it exists ocasionally isolated in the background, in order to protect the interior from sun exposure. In the foreground, in order to emphasize the abstract nature of the intervention, the mesh is introduced as an additional protection, a reflective filter to the outmost intense radiation. The towers are enclosed by a perforated metal screen facade that catches the light like a hanging sheet of fabric. It contibutes to a better climatization of the building. It also works as a shading devide and allows residentes to control the amount of daylight entering the interior and the level of privacy desired in the interior, creating a constantly changing facade. In addition to this, the adjustability of the facade relates to the flexibility concept used in the interior spaces design.
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Two Towers|
OFFICE AREA
RESIDENTIAL AREA
HOTEL AREA
COMMERCIAL AREA
PARKING
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Two Towers|
In terms of space planning, one of the towers was designed to be both hotel and residential area while the other was intended to hold the office space. Regarding the residential area, each resident will be able to select a setting and a preferred floor plan from a list of possible layouts. Proving the versatility of the floors and aiming to broaden the typological range of the dwellings, different types of divisibility are proposed. This flexibility allows to articulate bigger or smaller typologies, according to the market trend during construction and marketing phases, without changing the external image of the set. However, empty spaces are alternated in each floor in order to extend the outside to the inside of the housing and to merge natural and constructed; the location of these voids was thought so that it could bring dynamism to the space. Our ambition was to provide each resident a unique experience of the city, a heterarchitical distribution. The design of the office spaces was also based on a versatile logic of occupation. In this sense, it allows different appropriations according to the specific needs of those who will come to occupy them. A smooth operation is guaranteed whether for situations of a single fraction as for solutions of extreme fragmentation, by the repetition of the module. The two floors above the ground level take advantage of the existing slope of the site. This means less foundation on an unstable underground. There’s a shopping gallery with different entries, from which offices and housing are acceded. It works as an extension of the street. with green areas, outdoor terraces in order to attenuate the density of the construction and enhance the quality of the solution. These spaces can be optionally extended to other users. The towers extend themselves into the interior of the gallery. The parking lot is projected in the ground level and three floors below, considering all the assembled functions. The entrance is made in the ground level, where there is a common ramp leading to floor -1 serving separately residential and commercial areas. From there on, independent ramps give access to the lower floors, individualizing housing and hotel from offices parking. Thus, it is intended that the intervention could be considered as an icon of the city of Accra, being gradually assimilated as inseparable from its urban and architectural landscape and as a way of allowing modernity to meet nature.
A PA RT M E N T C O N C E P T
HOTEL AND OFFICE CONCEPT
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Two Towers|
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LEVEL 28
LEVEL 29
BEDROOMS AND SUITES
S TO R A G E
LIVING ROOM
S TA I R S
TO I L E T
KITCHEN
GREEN ROOF
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Military hospital |
Previous study | Military Hospital Proposal Chad- Djamena
OUR AMBITION WAS TO CREATE A BUILDING BY SUBTRACTING VOLUMES OF A MAJOR BLOCK. THE VOIDS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR DEFINING THE BUILDING. IT IS THE INTENTION OF THE PROJECT TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE ABSENCE OF MATTER IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE VOLUMETRIC SPACES, TO DEFINE “SUPERFICIALLY” THE WHOLE AND TO MANIPULATE THE NOTION OF SCALE. THIS RESULTS IN A PATIO THAT CONNECTS ALL THE ELEMENTS OF THE HOSPITAL. THERE’S A DELIBERATE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE FIVE HIGHEST PROPOSED BLOCKS, ALTHOUGH BOTH HAVE THE SAME GENESIS. IN THIS SENSE, EACH TOWER IS PROGRAMMATICALLY ISOLATED IN ORDER TO FOCUS THE PROGRAM ACCORDING TO THE NATURE OF EACH ONE OF THEM. AS AN ATTEMPT TO GAIN BETTER APRECIATION FOR THE SURROUNDING CONTEXT, COMMUNITY AND EVEN GEOGRAPHY WE INTENDED TO INTEGRATE NATURE INTO THE ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN, THE BUILDING BLENDS INTO ITS SURROUNDING LANDSCAPES PERFECTLY. THE MAIN ENTRANCE OF THE HOSPITAL HAPPENS AS AN EXTENSION OF THE PUBLIC SPACE, CREATING A RELATIONSHIP WITH THE AVENUE BY USING A RAMP THAT LEADS TO THE RECEPTION AREA. THERE IS AN OPPOSITE EMERGENCY ENTRANCE WHICH IS LOCATED NEARBY THE HELIPORTS. THE OUTDOOR LIVING SPACES THAT HAPPEN ALONG THE HOSPITAL ALLOW THE LANDSCAPE TO ENTER IT, PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES THAT DEFINE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ARCHITECTURE AND NATURE BETWEEN INSIDE AND OUTSIDE. THEREFORE THE BUILDING AIMS NOT ONLY TO BE AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE SITE, BUT ALSO TO ALLOW VARIOUS DINAMICS BETWEEN PEOPLE, SPACE AND ARCHITECTURE ITSELF. HEALTH CARE FACILITIES ARE AMONG THE MOST ENERGY-INTENSIVE FACILITIES. THE ENERGY USE INTENSITY OF HOSPITALS APPROXIMATELY IT IS USED MAINLY GLASS, OCASIONALLY ISOLATED IN THE BACKGROUND, IN ORDER TO PROTECT THE INTERIOR FROM SUN IS EXPOSURE WHICH THREE TIMESTO THAT OF A TYPICAL OFFICE BUILDING. THEREFORE, ENERGY SAVING MEASURES CAN THE PLAYBUILDING A SIGNIFICANT LOWERING CONTIBUTES A BETTER CLIMATIZATION OF THE BUILDING. THE USE OF GLASS INTENDS TO MAKE APPEARROLE MOREFOR TRANSPARENT AND OPEN. CLEANLINESS AND MAINTENANCE WAS ANOTHER REASON FOR CHOOSING THIS MATERIAL ENERGY CONSUMPTION AND ENERGY COSTS, AS WELL AS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION. IN TERMS OF SPACE PLANNING, THE HOSPITAL IS DIVIDED MAINLY INTO THREE SECTIONS: A (MATERNITY), B (ONCOLOGY) AND C (GENERAL SPECIALITIES). THESE THREE AREAS FIT INTO THE FIVE HIGHEST ELEMENTS, WHICH EXTEND THEMSELVES INTO THE INTERIOR
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THE MAIN ENTRANCE IS MADE IN THE GROUND LEVEL, WHERE THERE IS A COMMON RAMP LEADING TO FLOOR -1 SERVING AS AN ACCESS TO THE RECEPTION. FROM THERE ON, THERE ARE INDEPENDENT ACCESSES TO THE FLOORS ABOVE, ACCORDING TO THE SECTIONS OF THE HOSPITAL. IN THE LOWEST FLOOR OCCUR THE AREAS MORE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC SUCH AS SHOPS, RESTAURANT AND CAFETERIA. ALSO THE PATIOS, THAT HAPPEN THROUGH THE BUILDING ARE A WAY OF ATTENUATING THE DENSITY OF THE CONSTRUCTION AND ENHANCE THE QUALITY OF THE SOLUTION. ALL THE EXTERIOR AREA FUNCTIONS AS PUBLIC SPACE. TO SUM UP, IT IS INTENDED THAT THE INTERVENTION COULD BE CONSIDERED AS A WAY OF ALLOWING MODERNITY TO MEET NATURE. WE AIMED TO NOT ONLY CREATE AN EXPRESSIVE FORM, BUT TO FORWARD THE NOTION OF WHAT HEALTH CARE ARCHITECTURE CAN ACHIEVE.
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Military hospital |
N
LEVEL 0
GARDEN
N
LEVEL 1
WATER GARDEN GARDEN
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Military hospital |
LEVEL 3
LEVEL 2
LEVEL 1
LEVEL 0
LEVEL -1
LEVEL -2
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Military hospital |
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Bricomat building |
Previous study | Bricomat building Proposal PROPOSED MIXED USE DEVELOPMENT - ACCRA - GHANA
The building aims not only to be an integral part of the site, but also to transform the place from where it arises. Therefore we created a horizontal element (the store). On its coverage we have a green roof that works as an extension of the existing public space. We have access to this area by the ramps that are wrapped around the building while commercial access is located around the exterior edge at the street level. This allows various dinamics between people, space and architecture itself. Even tough we intended that all the different parts of the proposal could make up the whole our main ambition was to create a building with a deliberate difference between the three proposed areas: commercial, office and residential. In this sense, given that the ground level corresponds to the store area we added various elements on top of it destined for the office and residential area. These building volumes are conceived as an envelope enclosing a vast void. They happen along the perimeter of the store roof attempting to create the largest green courtyard possible which functions as an extension of the existing public space. This elevated green space is created to make the access to the offices and housing area more private. However the ramps enable the continuation of the pedestrian path and the creation of public space for everyone. Pathways are cut into the perimeter to allow a free flow between courtyard and the surrounding area. The void is responsible for defining the building. It is the intention of the project to take advantage of the absence of matter in order to achieve volumetric spaces, to define “superficially� the whole and to manipulate the notion of scale. Concepts such as micro and macro-scale converge to define the whole, emerging the city as a pretext for its achievement. Our office and housing development demanded a scheme with a clear sequence of exterior spaces that would not block the sun from their offices and apartments. Therefore it was conceived as a porous wall along the sides of the green space that resembles a chessboard with the perforated white surface. By pulling apart the overall volume of the wall, creating modules of housing its scale is reduced and a clear vision of the public space, in the void areas, and private living, in the modules is achieved. The courtyard space has sun during the day and simultaneously ensures that a majority of apartment units and also the offices will have a view. To sum up we feel sustainability is a much greater concept which can guide a new culture of design resulting in real change. Our intention is to create a balanced environment that evokes the feeling of exploring nature while simultaneously a responsive model for the development of urban space in harmony with nature. Using a minimalist style we try to draw attention to the variable experiences people can have through the building.
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Bricomat building |
BRICOMAT STORE
OFFICES
APARTMENTS
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Bricomat building |
The volume placed on the store area roof is destined to the office area and is composed by two levels. The design of the office spaces was based on a versatile logic of occupation. In this sense, it allows different appropriations according to the specific needs of those who will come to occupy them. In terms of space planning, the store is mainly designed as an open space except for the exhibition areas than happen along the limits of the store in two different levels. Then the following six volumes up are residential. Regarding this area, each resident will be able to select a setting and a preferred floor plan from a list of possible layouts. Proving the versatility of the floors and aiming to broaden the typological range of the dwellings, different types of divisibility are proposed. This flexibility allows to articulate bigger or smaller typologies, according to the market trend during construction and marketing phases, without changing the external image of the set. However, empty spaces are alternated in each floor in order to extend the outside to the inside of the housing and to merge natural and constructed; the location of these voids was thought so that it could bring dynamism to the space. Our ambition was to provide each resident a unique experience. The parking lot entrance is made in the ground level, where there is a common ramp leading to floor -1 serving commercial, office and residential areas with separated access points to each one of them. Thus, it is intended that the intervention could be considered as an icon of the city of Accra, being gradually assimilated as inseparable from its urban and architectural landscape.
APARTMENTS
STORAGEROOM
HALL
BEDROOM
BATHROOM
LIVINGROOM
KITCHEN
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Business Bay Tower|
Previous study | Business Bay Tower Towers for apartments and comercial area - Dubai
The project is located in the city of Dubai, in the Business Bay a commercial and business cluster where luxury and innovation emerge. It’s a city where mild public spaces are specially desired and encouraged as they offer shelter from the torrid sun and desert winds. This is also why green areas are so important: apart from the health benefits, they provide cooling shadows and help reduce the temperature. Vegetation is an interesting aspect of this project: a contemporary technical solution for temperature control in the building. The three towers are born and connected using the common and public areas in the building, in which case creates a large base for this elegant figures to rise freely. While developing this tower we felt the need of a dynamic but elegant gesture. A gesture that could mellow the aggression of the sun and the desert wind. A structural axis was used to rotate the modular units of this elegant construction to interrupt the projection of the sun (and wind) and, at the same time, favour the growth of a “green-well� across all floors, to increase ventilation and temperature control purposes. In addition, to ensure the privacy of the dwellers, the commercial and dwelling spaces were designed as distinct units in the tower: the entrances are different, as are the spatial relations they promote. Furthermore, the space created by the entrance lobby elevates the tower, in order to create a green covered area that connects both residential and commercial spaces.
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Business Bay Tower|
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Business Bay Tower|
COMMERCIAL AREA
R E S TA U R A N T A R E A
The tower’s access to the comercial area is made by a podium, which elevates himself over some stores as well as a reception garden that leades to the entry for his inhabitants. Due to the distinct character of the programs, public and private, they have different access and they are also connected themselves (in the upper levels with sinuous bridges, to not disrupt the elegance of the towers). Every dweling typology is made with the ideia of being flexible units, able to adapt to different tastes and types of residents. Both T2 and T4 typologies (in all the 60 floors) are duplex to ensure a flexibility in the transition from a T2 use to T4. We chose the T2 typology thinking in the Businessmen’s needs from the sorrounding area, prevailing a temporary use of the apartments. The space was designed to garantee the comfort in both luxourious duplex units. Regarding the T5 units, adding the fact that they have bigger areas, a more luxurious and comfortable spaces were ensured, with access to exterior spaces as swiming-pool and patios.
A PA RT M E N T S E N T R A N C E
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Business Bay Tower|
POOL 2
TA N N I N G A R E A
POOL 1
TA N N I N G A R E A
S PA
A PA RT M E N T S T 5
A PA RT M E N T S T 2
A PA RT M E N T S T 2
A PA RT M E N T S T 5
A PA RT M E N T S T 5
A PA RT M E N T S T 2
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Rehabilitation of Apartments |
Previous study | Baview ocean and residence building Proposal Rehabilitation of Apartments - Sesimbra, Portugal
Bayview Ocean and Residence Resort’s proposal are in the most privileged hillside of Sesimbra’s village. This location is one of the main advantages. It’s the perfect place for beach and sun lovers but is also a backdrop of beautiful nature, at only 30 min from Lisbon. Magnificent backdrops to discover, between beaches and mountains and even various cultural, leisure and nautical sports activities. Sesimbra is very close to Setubal Peninsula, Arrábida and Espichel Cape – zones of breathtaking nature. Bayview Ocean and Residence Resort is a reconstruction and it consists in T0, T1 and T1 Duplex Apartments. It offers a wide flexibility of use, becoming very functional. The architecture and decoration in the habitational areas are both contemporary, where the main idea was to create a relationship between the interior and exterior. There are 77 apartments: 3 T1; 8 T1 Duplex and 67 T0. Spa, sauna, Turkish bath, interior/exterior swimming pool, bar, Chinese restaurant and the lobby are located on the ground floor with the rest of the common areas. The restaurant has a terrace/viewpoint directly to the pool and Sesimbra’s Bay. There’s a connection between the interior and exterior pool through different waterfalls heights.
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Rehabilitation |
LEVEL 0
LEVEL 2
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Rehabilitation |
A P A R T M E N T S
T 0
69
Rehabilitation |
DUPLEX T1
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Rehabilitation |
Previous study | Scaleta Apartments Apartments - Creta, Greece
Scaleta Apartments is located just 15 min from the town centre of Rethymnom. Scaleta is situated only 130 m away from the hotel beach and the view is one of the best in Crete. The sunset is famous throughout Crete (compared by our clients with the famous sunset of Santorini island), and even the locals visit the hotel and enjoy a drink during summer sunsets. The near surroundings are full of historical monuments, monasteries, ancient buildings and local traditional villages. Rethymnom is the centre of Crete and an ideal location to meet and explore the entire island since the hotel is built very close to the main Cretan national road. Scaleta Apartments is a reconstruction and it consists in T0 and T1 Duplex Apartments. It offers a wide flexibility of use, becoming very functional. The architecture and decoration in the habitational areas are both contemporary, where the main idea was to create a relationship between the interior and exterior. There are 89 apartments: 21 T1 Duplex and 67 T0. Spa, sauna, Turkish bath, interior/exterior swimming pool, bar, Chinese restaurant and the lobby are located on the ground floor with the rest of the common areas. The restaurant has water mirrors and terraces with traditional vegetation.
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Rehabilitation |
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Rehabilitation |
T1 duplex
T0
LEVEL 0
T1 duplex
T0
LEVEL 1
Spa and pool
reception
restaurant
LEVEL 0 73
Rehabilitation | A P A R T M E N T S
T 0 +1
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Rehabilitation | A P A R T M E N T S
T 0
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Rehabilitation |
D U P L E X
T 1
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Image work |
Image Work | Photomontage and 3d model Archicad and photoshop
AVENIDA FONTES PEREIRA DE MELO, LISBOA
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Image work |
RUA Sﾃグ SEBASTIﾃグ DA PEDREIRA, LISBOA
AVENIDA FONTES PEREIRA DE MELO, LISBOA
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Image work |
R U a D O C O N D E R E D O N DO , L I S B O A | Renovation of an apartment
R U a D O C O N D E R E D O N DO , L I S B O A | Renovation of an apartment
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