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