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MODULAR This portfolio is a selection from all the academic work done in the discipline of project over the course of architecture. They all address the pre-fabrication and modularisation from different perspec-tives: The 3rd year project focuses on the construction of a faade from standard parts that allow differ-ent light situations as the combination of these parts, while producing a very strong image, which repre-sents the brand which is based there - Peter Saville - graphic designer. The 4th year project addresses the modularization, not in terms of pre-production as the work of the 3rd year, but as a structure that develops from a triangular diagram, which builts the whole housing and all the necessary infrastructure, reorganizing the urban mesh and building a new type of city. The 5th year project is based on eight pre-fabricated parts which, through different possibilities of combination, build a maritime walk, a museum, and housing for temporary stay, inventing, well, a new front line. The identity of this area leads through the unit of its overall image, obtained from the repetition of a set of parts that constitute the entire built.

MODULARMODULAR FACADE

MODULAR HOUSING

MODULAR WALK

3rd year STUDIO + HOUSE

4th year PLANNING + HOUSING

5th year WATERFRONT + MUSEUM + HOUSING

MODULO 3rd years Project

It was asked to think about a project that houses the home and studio of Peter Saville, a graphic designer, in the same building, thereby serv-ing as the place of residence and work. It was very important for this project to achieve a strong image for the building in the way it would represent the Peter Saville brand. Thus, the faade is made of large panels of glass and a metal mesh that controls the entry of light inside the building. The mesh is made from the overlapping of metal pieces with the shape of the first two letters of the designers name - S and A (SAville). Depending on the concentration of these pieces in the panels, may come more or less light in the building. While filtering the outside light, these pieces create a strong and clear image which easily allows linking the building to the brand.

Front panel

SECTION

Panels(pieces - letters)

connecting pieces

concrete

MODULO 4th years Project

This proposal results from the analysis of Pinhal Novo according to how it had been built, and how it should be built. First, analysing the construction, had lead to the conclusion that this town is completely weakened, without any logic of spatial organization, and expansion plan, that could guide the growth that this area has been suffering. To respond to these problems, this project generates a new logic of expansion through the modeling of terrain, giving not only the struc-ture of this new site, but also an identity.

If we look carefully, either large cities or metropolitan areas, are developed through a concentric shape, and this is one of the charac-teristics that most influence in the lack of quality in our cities. Most cities focus their equipment and jobs in the center, making the grow-ing residential areas to more remote areas, and make urban areas with great dynamism and quite saturated during the day and deserted at night.

From this point of view, and trying to combat this concentricity, the "linear city" is presented as a solution that gives a number of dwell-ings proportional to the number of facilities and green areas, getting a city that grows first and foremost on quality and not quantity. Thus, anchored to the existent city, begins to grow a city that complete it and can be expanded. The idea is a corridor, with several tracks that match the green areas of leisure, cultivation, residential areas ... and which vary in thickness (or percentage) according to the needs of the people and the city itself, creating spaces with different qualities, providing different types of ownership and promoting the relationship between individuals. However, although this system gives the possi-bility of tracks to be repeated or applied anywhere, the draft plan relates directly to the place, Pinhal Novo. The way the tracks relate to each other and with the place (in this case with the city pre-existing), is specific and different from any other place. What defines a possibility of expansion is the system of tracks and how to develop the housing typologies.

planningPinhal Novo

railway line

railway station

garden

concrete seats

pedestrian walk

bicycle path

acess to the health centre

water zone

gardens

roadroof gardens

acess to the houses

gardens

agricultural elds

parking

acess to the other side of the railway line

pre existing agricultural elds

gardens

multi eld

pavimented walk

road

parking

seats

pavimented oor

bicycle path

agricultural gardens

housing acess

gardens

water zone

gardens

pre existing agricultural elds

acess to the houses

road

acess to the nursery

acess to the arts centrepedestrian walk

acess to the health club

gardens

pedestrian acess to the fair

pavimented oor of the fair

pedestrian walk

bicycle path

gardens of the urban park

roof gardens

pre existing vineyardswalk

bicycle path

pedestrian acess to the fair

garden of the urban park

pavimented oor of the fair

acess from the fair to the park

park-s pedestrian walk

acess to the parking

bicycle path

road

pre existing cemetery

The housing system developed has the triangular shape as base, resulting in a residential cluster, uniform across the city, but able to make great possibilities of variability across the typology, and from the view of who runs the space, recognizing in them distinct qualities, far from fall in a monotone space. The importance of this system lays on the efficiency in concentrating residential building, reversing the trend of dispersation that hapens in suburbs of large cities. This system requires that the houses were built allways aggregated to each other. Since the accesses are made mostly by the roofs, which can be walked throughout its length, and the access of a dwelling is the cover of the other, the system only works if the homes are necessarily aggregated, thus inducing concentration. In addition to this intention, it also promotes a change in civic attitudes of people in that their gardens are in the coverage of their homes. The roofs, which can be walked, become into a huge garden of culti-vation. Almost without realizing, each of the inhabitants is building a section of public space, taking the attitude that what is public is the responsibility of all, developing little by little a sense of citizenship. The fact that the gardens are located exactly on top of housing, means that each resident feels somehow obliged to take care of that piece of land, because the care the inhabitant will have with his garden, will have direct implications on the behavior of their housing, including the level of thermal insulation (because the earth is a great insulator). The idea of triangulation is gradually adapted to the scale of equipment and the city. One objective of this work, and the reason behinds a so strong image to the city, is to solve the problem of adul-teration that is present in most of the suburbs of big cities. The resulting image of this plan, not only personalizes and gives a soul to this town, but also allows that it may be developed, serving as an instrument of territorial marketing.

sistema evolutivo

Tipologias Habitacionais

T1

Top plan

Pathways plan_ 0m height

T3T1

T2

T1T2

T2

T2 T1

T1

top view

Housing Typologies

T1

outside view

Housing Typologies

T2 Option1

outside view

Housing Typologies

T2 Option2

outside view

Housing Typologies

T3

MODULO 5th years Project

The project consists of a maritime walk that moves on the river, and is constructed from a number of standard pre-manufactured parts, which are repeated in a particular scheme along the margin, likely to be repeated for the length that you want. These parts are like sculptures, forming reservoirs of water which create flooding platforms, and intro-duce variations in the possibilities of living the walk depending on high or low tide. Functioning as the old tide mills, these concrete pieces produce energy from changes in water levels, giving light throughout the journey. The exercise of this project, is the invention of a sea walk that is not limited to a platform on which to walk, but it reinvents a common structure on the banks of the Tejo River - tidal mills - and thereby enriches the sea walk by the environment that is produced through water reservoirs, which are filling and emptying as the tides, producing sounds, highlighting the presence of water in the experience of the tour at the border of the river.

modular systemMaritime walk

8 PIECES

COMBINATION A COMBINATION B COMBINATION C

A B B C A B A C A A B B A C B A A C B A B C A A B CB C B A B C

scheme: ABBABAAB - the combination C, and the banks along the walk, are placed from 3 in 3 pieces to ensure a good night illumination (through banks that have the embedded light system) and the energy eciency of walking (through the generator which is the part C)

For the museum, much research has been based around the definition of what can or should be a contemporary museum, the way the exhibition space could be articulated for permanent and tem-porary exhibition, and how this can influenciate the structure to construct interior and exterior space. The main exercise was about finding the real nature of the interior spaces of a very particular structure and a program such as multiple and open a museum. The mass consumption, led to the construction of new public spaces as distribution and consumption scenarios, whether in goods, culture or information. The museums are one of these scenarios, which with the access to culture by the masses, turned into spaces of consumption, where the cultural offerings abound and tend to have a global charac-ter, characterized by the continuous expansion of the range of activities developed inside. From this point of view, the project of the museum was designed as a structure, or an organism which can be enlarged when ever is needed more space, beeing in constant expansion. Thus, the museum comes as a continuation of the maritime walk, con-sisting of the same models of pre-fabricated parts, but where there was water on the sidewalk inside the tanks, now gives rise to areas of exhibition. This strategy allows the adding of space to the museum area. Since the maritime walk is already built there, whenever is needed to enlarge the area of exhibi-tion, a piece of the maritime walk can be empted, which stops working as tide mill, and will operate as part of the museum.

modular Museum

a a

b

bPlan Floor -2

0Section b

1 2 3 4 5 6

0 outside; photography exhibition1 permanent exhibition2 temporary exhibition3 warehouse of the studio4 studio5 roofing6 studio outside

river

rio

0 permanent exhibition

1 studio light box

2 cover garden

3 temporary exhibition

4 acess to the photography exhibition

5 permanent exhibition

6 acess

7 lobby/ recepcion

8 window for the entry of light

9 WC acess

10 store of the cafeteria

11 roof

0 1 2 3 4 5Section a

7 8 9 10 116

The volume which leads to housing is one of the basic pre-fabricated parts, through which the sea walk is built. Each housing is one of those parts rotated, and the proposed design reflects and expresses this condition, consisting in defining the vacuum's own piece. The living space arsies from the design of the hollow space.From the outside, the gable has the traditional shape of a house with a roof of two waters. The interior is designed as a single area which extends over the river through a large range that frames the landscape, and occupies an entire side of the object. From this space arises a parallelepi-pedic projection which has the space to sleep and the bathroom, in small compartments, with the aim of privileging the living area. Separating these two spaces is a structure of storage and food prepara-tion, ensuring the privacy of the area of sleep and hygiene. The houses extend along the sea walk, which provides a way of access or, alternatively, there is also a winding path that connects Portinho da Costa to the walk, creating a scenic route by pine trees and landscape. At night, along with boxes of electrical generators, the housing draw a rhythm of light that draws the margin and defines it, for the first time, as a specific identity.

modular Housing

The volume of housing is one of the pieces of the sea walk, reversed, where some parts are subtracted to allow the accessof people and the entry of light, offering views over the river and the sky.

west elevation south elevation east elevation north elevation

01 2 3 5 6 7 8

4

9Section c

10 11

4

3

0 double glass

1 padded seat

2 concrete

3 support infrastructure in wood

4 white plywood 10mm

5 autonivelante

6 adjustment layer

7 screen asphalt

8 roofmate 4cm

9 concrete

10 conduits for water

11 electricity

0 entry

1 living room

2 kitchen

3 bedroom

4 bathroom

0

1

23

4

31.35m2

c c