tiago silva portfolio
january 2016
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contents
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general
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cv
professional experience 12
braga townhall, department of urban planning (internship)
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factory in Ruilhe, Braga (freelance work)
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house in Vila das Aves, Santo Tirso (freelance work; ongoing)
academic projects in Germany 14
working places for students at the Hamburg Harbor
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grids. art gallery at a park in Hamburg
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chapel for Wittenberg, Germany
academic projects in Portugal 26
intervention in a monastery at Douro Valley
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territorial strategy project for a parish in GuimarĂŁes
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info-center for the european capital of culture 2012
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housing unit(s)
other academic works 56
territorial studies
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history of architecture
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drawings
workshops 62
construction. wood structure and furniture, together with EXYZT
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construction. counter for a festival in Hamburg
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landscape. “transcrever� 3
general Full name: Tiago Alves da Silva Phone contact: (+351) 93 853 17 96 Email address: a.tiagoasilva@gmail.com Nationality: Portuguese Birthdate: 28.06.1990
languages Portuguese | native English | very good German | good Spanish | good interaction graphic skills AutoCAD | very good Adobe Photoshop | very good Adobe InDesign | very good Adobe Illustrator | very good SketchUp | medium Microsoft Office | very good Geomedia | good Final Cut | good Rhinoceros | medium Grasshopper (+Rhinoceros) | medium other driving license. light vehicles some personal features versatility, constant learning spirit, capacity of organization and management, responsibility, cooperation spirit, ambition, economization sense, altruism, experience in traveling alone and handling with unexpected situations 5
cv education 2005-08: Carlos Amarante High School, Science and Tecnology 2008-12: University of Minho 2012-13: Hafen City University Hamburg experience 2006-07: Volunteering at Caritas Sensibilization campaigns
2008: Assistance at a company of children’ birthday parties Looking after the children
2009: Assistance at the standardization of scientific papers for University of Minho Document formating in Microsoft Word
2012: Participation in Workshop with EXYZT in Guimarães Wood work; furniture building
2013: Participation in Workshop/Competition, in Hamburg Reusage of old materials; furniture building
2013-14: Volunteering at a kennel in Braga Cleaning the doghouses, walking the dogs
2014 (ongoing): Descriptive Geometry tutoring to high school students 2014: Course on digital techniques Computer Programs such as Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, SketchUp
2014-15: Internship at the Planning Department of Braga’s Town Hall Professional experience phase 1. Bicycle Parking Design phase 2. Assistance at the production of Braga’s Directing Plan phase 3. Braga’s Economical Scenario Mapping and Chacterizing
2015: Courses on the role of architects, by the Portuguese Association of Architects (Ordem dos Arquitectos) Architect’s rights, duties, legislation and other useful information for the practice
2015: Recognition of the Portuguese Association of Architects (Ordem dos Arquitectos) 2015: Participation in Workshop “Transcrever”, in Veiga de Penso, Braga Student’s Supervisor; Assistance at organization
2015: Freelance project: Factory in Ruilhe Professional experience Project Coordinator; Project Author together with Marta Fernandes
2015 (ongoing): Freelance project: House in Vila das Aves Professional experience Project Coordinator; Project Author together with Mariana Anjo
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house in Vila das Aves, Santo Tirso freelance work (ongoing) architect merges with place Drawing is more than just a registering tool. Drawing is the whole process of defining space. Hand working, as in drawing or model building, is a creative process. It is believed that by drawing, you not only understand the space, you internalize it and select the information which you find most relevant. When you draw and build a model, your own body is following the lines of that place.Overlapping drawings, repeating lines and changing them builds a form. For this project, a model was built in order to understand better the existing space and what could be done out of it. For being so small and having such irregular forms, the model was crucial to get a more accurate overview of the area to intervene.
date: December 2015 (ongoing) aim: A small house in the surroundings of Ave river, among fields and other small and dispersed houses, needs to be renewed and expanded. The owners want to use the ground floor to create a small apartment and the top floor to create another one, which extends to the backyard. The challenge is to redefine the inside of the existing house and to design a new volume and its connection to the existing. role: Project coordinator. Project author together with Mariana Anjo. experience earned: • project coordination • dealing with other professionals of the field • talking to clients • dealing with burocratic issues. 8
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factory in Ruilhe, Braga freelance work the material promenade the building is going to contain machines inside, which transform raw material into metal parts. These materials come in a big format and are then cut by the machines into small parts and worked over until they are ready to deliver to the client. The process of transformation includes an order in which work has to be done: material is brought to the factory, it is unloaded from the truck, it is stored, it is transferred to the transformation area, it is then washed, sometimes transformed again and then washed again, in the end it is packed and finally sent to the client. This procedure includes physical motion of the material which has to be made easier and more practical through the spatial layout. This way, the path of the materials was studied in order to develop a sequence of rooms that responds to this need. the main volume is the biggest room and contains the transformation area. On its left side there is another volume that contains support areas to the main room (storage, washing room, packing and shipping area and toilets. On the front, a lower volume was added to contain the office area, which gives a front to the factory, creating a more pleasant façade to the street, contacting with the nearby agricultural fields in a less heavy way, keeping the industrial atmosphere behind the offices.
RECEÇÃO E ARMAZENAMENTO DE MATERIAL MATERIAL ARRIVAL AND STORAGE
ÁREA DE TRANSFORMAÇÃO TRANSFORMATION AREA
date: July - November 2015 (licensing still ongoing)
ÁREA DE LAVAGEM WASHING AREA pavillion. As business started
VISTA LATERAL VIEWsmall aim: A small business existing in the parish of Ruilhe, Braga, was located in anSIDE old, growing, it needed to develop and move into a bigger building but still be in the sorroundings. The challenge was to design an industrial building between the railway and NOVAS INSTALAÇÕES NEW BUILDING EMPRAMETAL agricultural fields. ÁREA DE EMBALAGEM E EXPEDIÇÃO DE MATERIAL NOVAS INSTALAÇÕES NEW BUILDING
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MATERIAL PACKAGING AND SHIPPING AREA
role: Project coordinator. Project author together with Marta Fernandes. Tasks included concept and project definition, concept and technical drawings, leading with burocracy, leading with administration and regulation offices, description writing, discussing with client and other professionals. experience earned: • first contact with law and burocrary issues • first practical experience on defining a building which is actually going to be bult. 10
ÁREA ADMINISTRATIVA ADMINISTRATION AREA
CANAL DE CARGAS E DESCARGAS
Braga
Estação de Ruilhe Ruilhe train station
Junta de Freguesia Parish Council
Futuras instalações Future building Igreja Church Caminho-de-ferro Railway
Estação de Arentim Arentim train station
Futura ligação viária Future street
Localização atual Current location
Nine Famalicão Barcelos
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N14 Braga-Porto
LOCALIZAÇÃO LOCATION Ruilhe, Braga RECEÇÃO E ARMAZENAMENTO DE MATERIAL MATERIAL ARRIVAL AND STORAGE
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ÁREA DE EMBALAGEM E EXPEDIÇÃO DE MATERIAL MATERIAL PACKAGING AND SHIPPING AREA
ÁREA ADMINISTRATIVA ADMINISTRATION AREA
CANAL DE CARGAS E DESCARGAS LOADING AND UNLOADING AISLE
ORGANIZAÇÃO DOS ESPAÇOS SPATIAL LAYOUT
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braga townhall, department of urban planning internship phase 1: bicycle parking
date: July - October 2014 aim: To study several key locations in the city to install bicycle parking and defining their disposition. role: Together with a team: measuring the places, designing the small projects, defining the materials and producing technical drawings for the construction. experience earned: • sensibility towards intervention in public space • first experience within mobility issues
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phase 2: directing plan for the municipality
date: July 2014 - July 2015 aim: Prepare a directing plan with zoning, restrictions and regularions, including small studies to help take decisions, production of texts, documents, drawings, databases and presentations, as well as posters, to communicate the status to the population. This a project of several years. The work dones refers solely to the last one. role: Small urban studies to help define zoning and future streets, including Occupation Index calculations; assistance in text producing and formating; producing graphical material to communicate the work. experience earned: • learning technical and legal concepts related to urban planning • experience in producing official and formal texts and documents • contact with the communication field, as well as public participation
phase 3: economical scenario mapping ang chacterizing
date: February - July 2015 aim: In cooperation with other territorial and administration entities (such as InvestBraga, CCDR-N, CIMCávado and Serviço Municipal de Proteção Civil), there was a need to recognize, map and gather information about the economical scenario in Braga, which consists in industrial, commercialand logistic buildings. The focus was on the most relevant industrial ones, although samples from all types were considered. The goals were, on one hand, to understand which entreprises are there in Braga and of what kind and, on the other hand, to map the vacant buildings and their current state, in order to develop actions of reusing, renewing or turning into something else. At the same, there was the intention of creating a web portal containing all that informaDirecting plan for the municipality tion in order to be used by everyone, and mostly aiding investors to find places to settle. role: Building up the strategy of action, preparing databases to lodge the information, visiting the entreprises to collect the data, loading the obtained info into GIS programs, preparing presentations to show the work to other entities, participating in meetings with other entities and municipalities, analyzing the data, prepared plans and drawings based on the analyses and consulting the Investment Aid Department with the available information. experience earned: • improvement of ability to work with other professionals • contact with different issues and realities in urban planning, other than the ones usually inherent to architecture • improvement of communicating skills • learning GIS programs • experience in talking to citizens about the projects of the town hall department, by Economical scenario mapping and chacterizing going to the entreprises and talking to managers in order to gain their collaboration 12
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working places for students at the Hamburg Harbor academic work at hcu hamburg the in-between (dazwischen mittendrin) the pavilions dedicated to the project were located in an old abandoned goods station, in between the deactivated railways and the water this interstitial space is marked with the memory of this program, as its presence is still very strong; one can see the old wagons, as well as the vegetation growing around remaining pieces of the pre-existent factories in this context, the aim of the project was to bring permeability and dynamic; the concept is about the movement flows, breeding proximity between water, working spaces and old railways, all together in a system of cooperation, which also refers to the whole point of such working places, which different people use together: students and outsiders, which could also be an opportunity for merging students and workers from different areas of study all together and have them communicating, cooperating and learning from each other Oberhafen neighborhood | 1:10000 the university is brought to the old city, and so is its spirit and character
Date: October 2012 - March 2013 Location: Oberhafen, Hamburg Guiding professor: Klaus Sill Aim of the exercise: Within the scope of the construction of a new building for the HafenCity University, which would later become its new installations, the goal was using an old harbor facility to build working and study rooms for the students; the work was developed together with students of civil engineering and urban design Themes: • first approach on technical concerns • very important specific requisite: protection against the floods • first experience in interdisciplinary work
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Key: pavillions 1+2: HCU-interns usage pavillion 3: common usage (connection with the neighborhood) contact with neighborhood pedestrian tunnel meeting points (entrance, in-between spaces) city bike stations Oberhafenkantine Sofa CafĂŠ
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working places for students at the Hamburg Harbor materials key:
7. polycarbonate elements double board 40mm wooden structure 60mm/250mm double board 40mm 8. glass faรงade double glazing with integrated windows and door 9. false ceiling solid wood 200mm 10. floor: wooden planks sealing felt 15mm waterproof insulation sealing felt 15mm floor covering 20mm
1. concrete shoes 2. wooden structure 3. wooden faรงade beam 4. stabilization in two directions 5. wall: wooden sandwich elements 6. concrete elements (1,20m high) reinforced concrete 200mm anchored to the floor for flood risk reasons flood protected doors (reinforced until the height of 1,20m) waterproof insulation 8,5mm gypsum board 15mm
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1,20m high concrete protection stops the possible high waters to enter the rooms
the “small house” inside the big pavilion presents a more efficiently heatable space
translucent polycarbonate plans provide a constant diffused light, ideal to work
punctual openings in the opposable sides of each “small house” guarantee perfect ventilation
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chapel for Wittenberg, Germany academic work at hcu hamburg the third tower with an analysis of the whole city image, it was understandable, that the western entrance in the old city has been somehow neglected: there is no simple way to reach it, even though it is the entrance everyone arriving from the train station uses; the eastern entrance consists of a concentrated point, where several street cross, and where there is a big, prominent tower, belonging the to Castle Church, marking the landscape; right in the center, the City Church can be found, whose tower is also meaningful in the image of Wittenberg; in this context, appeared the idea of designing a third tower, that would define that western side the same way at the same time, this suggestion also gave importance to the urban sensation of the pedestrian near to the tower, and only its effect from a long distance the idea evolved later into a proposal of a religious space; nevertheless, it is still an informal space: more than a building, it should be seen as a structure that responds to the necessities of the city and plays with light to create a conceptually rich and interesting room
Wittenberg city core and connection to train station
Date: May - July 2013 Location: Wittenberg, Low-Saxony Guiding professor(s): Hannah Jonas, Gesine Weinmiller, François von Chappuis Aim of the exercise: Wittenberg is a small city with a big challenge: in the year of 2017 it will experience an uncommon touristic affluence, due to the Jubilee of the Evangelic Church. There was a need to improve the qualities of reception, which gives the opportunity to observe important questions of the city and answer to them, solving problems for this event, but also for the general life in the city. The intervention was freely defined by the students. Themes: • first experience in working with a free program: capacity of discovering a need and suggesting something accordingly chosen site for the project - situation plan • intervening in the image of a city: urban concept 22
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chapel for Wittenberg, Germany
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intervention in a monastery at Douro Valley academic work at uminho diffused memories “it is wrong to think of a restoration as a break in time, as it is also not possible to ignore pre-existence a building needs always a support, a foot, a ground - as it has to be molded according to this ground, or if decided so, the ground has to match the building; when pre-existence does not confine to natural elements, as it is almost always the case, the definition of the building still lays on this realtion the intervention in a historically relevant place, aiming a specific new usage, is all about a complex choice or selection - one must choose which tradition(s) one follows” Tiago Silva, Academic Work, 2012
the intention went about bringing the most of the place into the project decision, which makes it strongly linked to the agricultural exploitation, especially the wine cultures, characterized by being strongly adapted to the slope, seeking for the sun, altering the terrain, the road and the lives, implementing its own poetical sense, which enriches it and, thus, should be part of the whole project, seen after all as only a point amid such a wonderful landscape this way, this idea would be kept all along the process of intervening: the approach to the monastery and the general organization inside the hedge would be part of a system, which, together with the volumes and their disposition, in two arms, mimics the referred features of this one landscape
Date: September 2011 -February 2012 Location: St. André de Ancede Monastery, Baião, Douro Valley Guiding professor(s): Maria Manuel Oliveira, Teresa Ferreira Aim of the exercise: restoration of a monastery whose roots go back to the 12th century, and its transformation into a school of stonework, as well as accommodation for its users. Themes: • sensibility towards inherited spaces and the holy room • the contact between old and new • understanding old concepts and techniques and their development through time • understanding cultural aspects and their reflexion in architecture 26
intervention in a monastery at Douro Valley Key A. staff area B. storage C. auditorium D. toilet E. cafeteria staff area F. exhibition room G. bathroom H. drawing room I. workshop J. workshop storage K. reception L. cafeteria w/ kitchenette M. classroom N. library | computer room O. dining room P. common room Q. bedroom R. inn storage S. laundry room T. kitchen U. inn dining room V. administration office W. meeting room X. faculty room Y. entrance hall
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intervention in a monastery at Douro Valley Key A. staff area B. storage C. auditorium D. toilet E. cafeteria staff area F. exhibition room G. bathroom H. drawing room I. workshop J. workshop storage K. reception L. cafeteria w/ kitchenette M. classroom N. library | computer room O. dining room P. common room Q. bedroom R. inn storage S. laundry room T. kitchen U. inn dining room V. administration office W. meeting room X. faculty room Y. entrance hall
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intervention in a monastery at Douro Valley materials key 1. stone shoe 2. geotextile fabric 3. PVC drain 4. bituminous membrane 5. concrete slabs 6. waterproofing fabric 7. gravel 8. sand 9. stone slab 10. metallic casing 11. wooden door 12. wooden frame 13. colorless waterproofing consolidating paint 14. glass 15. wooden laths 16. thermal and acoustic insulation 17. nogging structure 18. white plaster 19. joining stone 20. small remains 21. double stone masonry wall
22. lime and sand mortar 23. porous concrete 24. thermal insulation 25. concrete shoe 26. molding layer 27. composite slab 28. ceiling structure 29. angled connector 30. colorless protecting mortar 31. wood beam 32. flooring structure 33. flooring planks 34. toutvenant 35. regularizing layer 36. modules for ventilation 37. OSB board 38. box for installations 39. slope-creating beam 40. concrete slab 41. cobbled granite surface 42. self leveling flooring
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territorial strategy project for a parish in Guimarães academic work at uminho appropriation landscape is a result of human action, which transforms the pre-existent dynamics and creates new ones it is crucial to understand the hidden systems carved in this landscape, mostly resultant of spontaneous decisions of its inhabitants these systems can be physical or social and are mirrored in marks left along the processes of occupation and use, that are repeated, temporally and spatially, with a complex but selfsame logic that defines the systems. These were taken as starting points for the interpretation of this place therefore, this territory needed to be observed as a place of coexistence and proximity in order to find out opportunities and build up strategies based on those, denying the usual attitude of accepting the apparent disorganization and all its disadvantages as reasons to consider it a hopeless case of good planning. this particular parish is a good sample of the kind of occupation in North Portugal. It consists of 3-main areas system, directly related to the elevation of the terrain. The lowest corresponds to that of the river and the most agricultural usage. The highest is the least built-up area and has been left to wood and mineral extraction. The middle-high area is, as it is mostly everywhere in North Portugal, where the national road passes by, making it a very concentrated zone of social activity and public facilities. the main intention of this project went about understanding the existing social and physical connections between these areas and suggesting a few main points where it could be improved.
Date: March - July 2012 Location: Ronfe, Guimarães Guiding professor(s): Marta Labastida Aim of the exercise: strategy for a parish in the county of Guimarães, located in North Portugal Themes: • identity of landscape, understanding the intersection of scales and times • critical and active position towards the landscape • broadening the limits of architectural thinking: strategical planning; construction of possible scenarios • questioning and suggesting as a part of the same whole process 38
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territorial strategy project for a parish in Guimar達es The national road is the infrastructure of one system: the area with strongest intensity of social and daily activities. The unfolding of the road into two, with one sense traffic each, allows the narrowing of both and, thus, an easier crossing, so that it ceases to be a bareer. This unfolding is made through existing streets, and by connects their ends to the current road, and turning the cross-sections of both into a more suitable solution the area between the current and the new roads also regains a whole with feature, becoming more appealing to the proliferation of the activities currently being held along the national road. New cross-sections for the confining streets around the national road were also thought over, as can be seen on the pictures
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territorial strategy project for a parish in Guimarães Within the logic of an area between the current national road and the new alternative, this area where there are already several daily facilities, such as banks, schools, grocery shops, cafés, etc., the main topic was about keeping the existing language of low-density, but allowing some spaces in-between to be collective, in order to assure the existence of a social space where polarizing activities can take place, such as trade shops, services and other public facilities. The decisions were mere strategic intentions, therefore, the created plans and sections are just examples of what could happen. Although, the main concern was always to keep the suggested typologies flexible, continuing the local idea of adaptation of buildings into different kinds of uses. A house can have been a house for a decade and turn into a shoe shop, or the ground floor of a house may as well have become a restaurant. The major change in the existing logics is the idea of permeability. On one hand, the intention is about keeping separate buildings with some free space among them; on the other hand, the suggestion is about leaving the usual dividing walls out, or at least some of them, in order to allow the public to walk through and to create quality public space.
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territorial strategy project for a parish in Guimar達es In the higher areas, the building density is even less dense. These areas were usually left to vegetation, and the main activities being held are based on extraction of resources, such as wood or sometimes (not in this case) minerals The intention was to strengthen the contact between these areas and the areas of social intensity, suggesting smooth transitions between zones with public facilities, assuring good pathways leading onto the higher areas and bringing the vegetation of these areas closer to the zones of polarization. Among the areas of extraction, the proposal is dedicated to the already existent paths, making them more walkable by improving them and marking them with particular species of trees, this way guaranteeing the connection between different social intensity zones (in different valleys).
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territorial strategy project for a parish in Guimar達es The low elevation is characterized by the presence of the Ave river. This area creates a big system os usages that is reflected a bit among the whole landscape, at any elevation. The main usage is the agriculture, but also some remains of industry facilities which made use of water can be inserted of this system. The area around the national road, full of social intensity and public activity, contacts directly with these usages. People who use that space have their lives very closely related to the existence of this system and the agricultural fields even touch the national road sometimes. The transition between the two areas, although, is currently done in a very dysfunctional way and, sometimes, imperceptibly. To improve this relation, paths were also defined to allow the access to the water; key-points of open and common space were created to explore these important transitions.
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info-center for the european capital of culture 2012 academic work at uminho a gate to the walled city the place of the intervention was considered to be an “urban forest”, which demands a special attention towards the impact of a possible building the tree web was perceived as a curtain that blurs what is happening behind and lets only the light through; the suggested façades try to mimic the particularity of this effect: the plans limiting the volumes sideways consist of metal grids, which, on one hand, define a modulated field inside to support slabs and walls and, on the other hands, create the desired “curtain” effect the erratic insertion of the closed volumes in the modulated field inside the grids creates voids where light goes through and alternating opaque plans the grid itself has a void which defines a pathway through the building S. Dâmaso Alley is a remaining place from the old border; although, it no longer makes sense nowadays, because it’s become more of a central place, surrounded by the city. Even so, the movements associated to this place are mostly done lengthwise. This way, the info-center tries to go against this tendency and create an important transversal moment which lies in the transition into the walled city. Based on this idea, the chosen location among the alley emphasizes the only break in the north façade of the alley, i.e. the wall.
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Date: October 2010 - February 2011 Location: S. Dâmaso Alley, Guimarães Guiding professor: Elisiário Miranda Aim of the exercise: design an info-center to the European Capital of Culture 2012 in its previous year (the place was being changed at the time, with a project of Maria Manuel Oliveira) Themes: • dealing with an urban space in the middle of the city, which requires a specific sensibility • opportunity to work together with the real project of a teacher, and to take part in the transformation of a city where one lives and studies, even though it was not built. It represents to some extent the opinion of the students on its future • first approach to the relation between materiality and idea 48
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housing unit(s) academic work at uminho flowing down the search for elements of the project area brought an attention directed to the density variation of the city-outskirts transition place there is a void along the lowest level, associated to a stream and a growing density as one goes up the hills around the image of the project originates in a research on the notion of urban distribution; this way, it adapts to the surroundings and to the pre-existence, grabbing this idea of changing density according to geographical elevation and turning it into a project concept, defining the disposition and the character of the built mass
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image of Patrick Geddes | Alison and Peter Smithson study on territorial occupation
Date: March - July 2010 Location: Creixomil, Guimarães Guiding professor: Maria Manuel Oliveira Aim of the exercise: development of ten housing units with a diversified program, including apartments, shops, hotel rooms, a kindergarten and a gym in a place nearby the city of Guimarães, between a national road and a highway, next to agricultural fields Themes: • common vs. public vs. private space • dwelling and living space • important focus on conceptual work, rather than materiality and construction (second-year project) • urban/territorial role of such project and social effects • reptition os patterns vs. variation of usages 50
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grids. art gallery at a park in Hamburg academic work at hcu hamburg volume vs. void the task of developing a building that should integrate a grid was answered with abstract concepts; each of the volumes correspond to a different way of applying this grid: one of them is based on single points, and because of that, became quite open and transparent in order to emphasize the structure, the other one consists of a logic from plans that a fit an identical grid, but this time these plans represent walls, which are disposed strategically to create openings that provide the necessary amount and type of light the intersection of the two volumes results in an angle that allows the building to harmonize with the surroundings, being one of them parallel to an existing path, and the other one perpendicular to the street; the small volumes works as a moving part of the big one; a tension is created: in the end, a complex volume is obtained, expressed by crossed directions, whose intersection demanded a solution that became an interesting challenge; this way it gets closer to the concept of abstraction, which relates strongly to the paintings to exhibit in the inside it was decided to take the direction of one of the paths of the park to support the ideas with a connection to the place; the chosen area of the park has its explanation in the attempt to use this building to define better two already existing areas of the park: one must deal with the train station nearby, and thus a lot more agitated, and the other with the dense surrounding, based on familiar houses, a lot narrower and actually becoming as wide as a street on its end
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territorial studies academic work at uminho Date: September 2010 - June 2011 Guiding professor(s): Vicenzo Riso, Daniel Pereira Aim: critical and interpretative study of a part of the surroundings of Guimar達es, using hand drawing as an analysis and representation tool. It is about the physical features of the place and the way the mankind reacts to those
The drawings above are part of a task which was about finding out marks in the landscape that resulted from human activity in such a way, that a break in time is clear for those locations. These human actions happen to be quite repetitive and logical. There was an effort to find them using aerial views, plans and travling around the place and understanding different kinds of human actions, catagorizing them and finding their logic, their variation and, accordingly, the justifications and interpretations. Another task was about preparing the landscape to receive a residential neighborhood, using the marks left by an industrial site. Industrial sites have usually big effects on the landscape, because of their big surface, accesses and other necessary infrastructures. The challenge was mostly to understand what can be done out of such a human altered site. Again, the required method was to find an existing logic, bringing it into the project concept and studying possible variations. The section and the models on the next page show the adaptation of the landscape into several platforms at different heights, making use of the idea of an existing pipe which flows oil between the different levels, carrying the concept of infrastructure into the project, which has a leading path down the hill and then attaches branches which distribute to the different houses. 56
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history of architecture academic work at uminho Date: September 2010 - June 2011 Guiding professor(s): Jorge Correia, Ana Lopes Aim: long term research about two chapels in the city of Guimar達es, where a detailed study is performed, starting with the measurement of the entire spaces and further drawing of these on the computer, along with a search in books and archives of the city, discovering the whole history of these places, in what comes to usage, space transformation, etc the whole information has to be interpreted and analyzed, confronting it with social, symbolic and conceptual aspects this work is crucial to the formation of a point of view of architecture as atemporal: the evolution of the methods and necessities exists, but the core of the architectural thinking is kept, as it lies in the attitude of interpreting a place, a way of living, the available resources, etc. some pictures at the right show the typological and symbolic studies of all the elements of each chapel
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Spatial analysis Analyzing the spatial layout of the chapels and the symbolic meaning of axes and alignments.
Spatial evolution Studying the construction in order to figure out the evolution of the chapels, comparing it with similar buildings and confronting it with the evolution of the surrounding territory.
Element deconstruction Interpretation of the individual elements present in the chapels, studying them and their usage in similar building in other locations; understanding the symbolic meaning of such elements and their variations
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hand drawing academic work at uminho; free time Date: September 2008 - February 2010 Guiding professor: Carlos Corais Aim: Through the whole first year and the half of the second, the students are required to draw different objects, people, spaces inside the school, places around the city, etc using various methods like sketches, scratches, colorful, black and white, detailed, etc. this kind of observation drawing is relevant in the formation of architects, as it teaches, not only to represent, but to analyze, to recognize and, very specially, to be able to select information.
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construction. wood structure and furniture together with EXYZT workshop Date: March 2012 Location: ASA Factory, Guimarães Aim: EXYZT is a group of young people who develop small intervention built in the place, by a team which lives in the construction site while it’s operating, and hires people from the surroundings to participate, this way bringing some local value and combining it with international experience and outside interpretation. This one took place in Guimarães in the scope of the European Capital of Culture 2012, consisting of a place for presentation, exhibition and conferences. It was about a wooden structure that creates a hollow volume where an auditorium takes place. This structure was placed inside an old abandoned factory in the surroundings of Guimarães. The whole team includes designing, video and photo recording, researching and even cooking fields. The whole construction of the structure, as well as the furniture, and the preparation of the wood is taken care by the team, making it a very interesting experience on the dialogue between architectural idea and transformation of the materials, until the final level, and taking part even in its usage. Role: Chair building, picture documentation. Experience earned: • first international conctact • knowledge about the behaviour of wood • team working • first practical constructing experience, touching the materials and transforming them into objects or construction parts: very important realisation about the real concept of tectonics and structure
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construction. counter for a festival in Hamburg workshop Date: March 2013 Location: Wilhelmsburg, Hamburg Aim: Competition between working students in order to develop a piece of furniture to use in a bar at Dockville Festival, to take place in the Hamburg’s neighborhood of Wilhelmsburg, a poorer but growing zone of the city. The request was to find old materials and parts of construction, put them together and design an idea of rearranging them into creating the counter. The winning idea was then built by all the teams together. Role: Competition participator and winner, together with a team. Experience earned: • furniture design experience • reusage of old materials: conscienceness and creativity • team working
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landscape. “transcrever” workshop Date: September 2015 Location: Veiga de Penso, Braga Aim: Veiga de Penso is a big agricultural valley with the common northern portuguese occupation, chacterized by dispersion, proximity or fusion between rural and urban lifestyles, typology perversity, etc. A group of former architecture students of University of Minho organized this workshop, with the intention of interpreting the area of Penso, in Braga. The participants, which were around 25 students of different countries (Portugal, France, Syria) and 8 supervisors, from different fields of study (architecture, landscape architecture, storytelling) were then divided into 4 teams, which arrived to different conclusions and final pieces. The four teams camped in the place and spent one week there, walking around the valley, talking to the locals and producing digital and physical materials. The goal was to follow a specific look to the landscape, taking advantage of the stay in the place of the project, seeing it from the inside, living in it, which is something uncommon in the architecture practice. The final materials could either be leaning towards representation, showing important existing logics, or more about suggesting scenarios, finding specific situations in that area and giving ideas of change or use. In the end, the results were exhibited in a Gallery in the city center of Braga. During the workshop, the students had the opportunity to be supervised by old students, by professors from University of Minho and to attend to talks from professors, elements of public administraion, locals and Álvaro Domingues. Role: Supervisor of a team; assistant in preparing the workshop and the exhibition, mostly in logistic issues. Experience earned: • experience in event organization (logistic) • experience in talking to students, listening to their ideas, and giving advice in order to create improvement • sensibility towards planning based on local observations and dialogues
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