Projecto V

2007/2008

cruzamento

crossing

croisement

- work divided in three parts: Analysis (group of 4 students), Strategy (first approach – group of 4; study deepening – group of 2), and Proposal (group of 2)

- vast territory rarefied from Guimarães to Vizela, deepening a part

- water line, railway line, road EN, secondary road parallel to the EN

Strategy:

- proposal to treat the territory fertilizing it by its vocations

- transversal path defined by an existing bridge, with intentions of structuring, connects the road EN to the secondary road parallel to the EN permitting  the connection of the two extremes of the valley (pretension to hierarchize and strengthen in order to become structuring with the help of lines of trees along the path)

- agriculture to the water line; construction and movement zone to the roads (hierarchizing them through spaces with different characters)

Proposal:

- pulling (from the terrain): housing lots + agriculture, both defined by vineyard modules (secondary road parallel to the EN), associated to a school

- placing: offices + collective housing + services dependents from the movement zone (road EN), associated to a factory recovered to market

- unlevel: agricultural space reliant on the water line, associated, by continuity, to a path that accompanies the railway barrier; on the other side of the railway also an interior path supporting the constructions reliant on the road EN and to the multi-uses new square associated to the large scale factory that upholds; transversality of the bridge marked by the continuity of the line of trees of great span

Projecto IV

2006/2007

biblioteca da Universidade do Minho - pólo de Azurém

Minho University's Library - Azurém's campus

Bibliothèque de l’Université du Minho - campus de Azurém

- program pretension to the library to have a urban character serving not only the university campus but also the city

- the campus stretches out through a valley, having construction on the North hill and a garden on the South hill – connected to the castle’s gardens (being able to choose to implant the building wherever I wanted, I opted to close the construction area by North and East, taking advantage of a plan already approved for that zone of the campus)

- the building proposes to create a retreated square; an exterior living place to the new users of this campus zone, in harmony with the garden that occupies the other side of the valley; the interior composes by a peripheral private strip and a public zone on the centre, living from that various uses agglutinator courtyard

- there are three moments in the building’s fruition: the courtyard, the entrance and the reading room; from these three it’s possible to accede to all building’s spaces

- in the lower level an L composes spaces with different scales – the small scale rests hidden in a wood wall (in L – private) and a big open-space arises turned to the courtyard, prolonging the inner uses to the exterior

- in the upper level a big open-space arises with three boxes (audiovisual rooms and entrance stairs – while the audiovisuals are dark spaces, the entrance stairs arise in a light well)

- in the North top the building brakes the terrain with the passives deposit distributed by both levels on a double height space

- roofing lowers on circulation paths in the reading room to allow light entrance through translucid glass and to mark heights difference between circulation and living; light comes from above
- in the exterior facades an horizontal rip warrants the surrounding landscape dominium, while the interior orients the sights to the inner courtyard

Projecto III

2003/2004

casasdensas - habitação colectiva

densehouses - colective housing

maisonsdenses - logement collectif

- program pretension of 54 flats and 20 work units

- program: T1 of 50m2, T2 of 100m2, T3 of 150m2 and T4 of 200m2

- scale articulation from barrio with a garden (between high elevation – stop, rest, contemplation – and lower elevation of constant passage of people and cars – link between barrio nucleus and road E.N. 206)

- maintaining the rural memory of the place with its stone walls, and preserving its marks of a peregrination path, one entangles parallelepipeds on the terrain and, by supporting walls, one creates new public spaces; buildings hang from the supporting walls setting free the ground level to accommodate the arrival and parking space

- central corridors at all the buildings longitude terminate in living rooms that tear the buildings transversely

- neutrality of spaces (private zones and common zones do not distinguish by their dimensions, but by their use or strategical positioning towards the entrance and services zone)

- flats transversal space loose the building density permitting, sometimes, to see through the front building, by the layout of living rooms one in front of the other

Projecto III

2003/2004

casaslongas - habitação para um bibliotecário com loja

longhouses - librarian's house with store

maisonslongues - habitation pour un bibliothécaire avec magasin

- program pretension to unite work with housing (each student chose a skill)

- by the roofing lowering to 1,50m and the facade pull back from the street, one can bring the public space towards the lot interior, permitting a visual relation with the far through the building

- public / private: the rooms body stands out, by the distance, isolating itself; the house common part runs downward relating the living room with the store by a void at the lot beginning; the access to the store is made from upwards

Projecto II

1999/2000

cidade linear

linear city

cité linéaire

- program pretension of autonomous city with punctual physical relations with the landscape
- commerce and services are the centre / pretext to the type-section development

Projecto II

1999/2000
parques de estacionamento
parking lots
parcs de stationnement

- program pretension of plasticity / formal gaming

- program pretension that both buildings are viewed from several points in the city

- program pretension of relation between both buildings
- full / void relation or male / female (as one presents its face to the city, going up compacted, the other opens a space between the bodies, subtracting a visual axis prolonged from the first building)

Projecto II

1999/2000
condutores de espaço
space conductors
conducteurs d’espace

- visual relations
- spaces physical relations