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luísa coelho ARCHITECT
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luĂsa coelho ARCHITECT architecture portfolio 2013
re s u m e LuĂsa Rodrigues Coelho born 22.01.1988 from Porto, Portugal; currently living Barcelona, Spain
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chronology [Dec’12 - current]
Entry level Architect at B720 Arquitectos | Barcelona, ES Proactive generation of ideas to improve the projects design. Building construction project. Evaluation of different technical solutions.
[Sep’06 - Nov’12]
Master Degree in Architecture at FAUP - Oporto School of Architecture | Porto, PT
Development of good skills in the architectural field, both creative and technical. Final graduation project on the inherent complexity of the social and economical context of an architectural project, exploring what can improve the quality of an architectural intervention. [Jan’12 - May’12]
Collaborator at OODA | Porto, PT
Member of a team of 5 people engaged in an international competition’s design. Sketcher and concept designing; team-work and coordination meetings; model making; rendering and post-production; final boards. [Sep’10 - Jul’11]
Frequency of the M.Arch 5th year at Czech Technical University | Prague, CZ Erasmus Program. Development intercultural team work skills. Attendance of a 6 months Landscape Studio course.
other experiences [2006 - 2012]
Independent development of furniture
and graphic design projects for several clients.
[2006 - 2012]
Organization of several group trips
[May’09 - Sep’10]
Team Leader for the development
[Sep’08]
Rhinoceros Workshop ‘Projecting and modelling complex geometries’ (40 hours).
[Sep’08]
Organizing committee of the symposium “CAC:
[1999 - 2008]
Competitive swimming
for Architectural viewing in Europe. of Junior Enterprises in Architecture Universities of Portugal. Contemporary Architectural Challenges 2008”.
athlete.
awards and exhibitions [May’12] [Sep’07]
Honourable Mention - architecture competition: ‘AEFAUP
Temporary Bar’. Exhibition in ‘Anuária’06’ (annual exhibition from FAUP students): ‘Public Spaces in Barcelona’.
languages portuguese | english | spanish | french
IT skills AutoCad | Revit| Rhinoceros | Sketchup | Vray | InDesign | Illustrator | Photoshop | MS office
C a i s
M a u á
h a r b o u r a re a re h a b i l i t a t i o n location: porto alegre, brazil date: December ’12 - July ‘13 with
B720 - Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos Barcelona, Spain
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aerial view
To overstep the physical barrier created by a railway and a big wall, raised in the decade of 1940, to prevent the floods of the GuaĂba Lake, in Porto Alegre (Brazil), is one of the main goals for the revitalization of MauĂĄ Harbour. This project aims to extend this city to its waters within the creation of public spaces mostly with commercial and leisure character. In the other side, the project wishes also to combat the actual obsolescence of the place, promoting the use and occupation of these 186,000m2. The first step was the rehabilitation of a set of disabled warehouses and the inherent urbanization of the adjacent area. Beyond this sector, the intervention also includes office towers and a shopping centre, with a green rooftop, in the adjacent areas to the harbour. There, the contact with the water is privileged by an extensive walk that connects the two start/end points of the area. To increase the permeability between the city and the lake - fundamental question - were created access gates and subways that aimed to overstep the barrier set up by the railway line and the wall that separates the city from the harbour. The risk of floods coming from the Lake was the reason for keeping the big wall - one of the controversial points of the project. The challenge, thereafter, would mitigate its connotation of physical and visual obstacles by solutions such as the incorporation of a water curtain on the outer face and a vertical garden in the inner face that, by night, confer to the city an incredible light.
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conceptual diagrams
sector II - warehouses
sector III - shopping center
sector I - business park + hotel
sector II - programatic and funcitonality diagram
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interior gallery + exterior sidewalk
warehouse - library
facade constructive detail
Helsinki Central Library international
competition
location: helsinki, finland date: January-May’12 with
OODA - Oporto Office for Design and Architecture Porto, Portugal
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site: implementation area 4792m2
program requirements 16 000m2
New reference point for Helsinki
Makasini Park
Helsinki Central Railway Station Library programatic spaces Green roof
conceptual diagram
street view
This competition purpose was to design a proposal for the Central Library to Helsinki aiming to incorporate a combination of personal cultivation, culture enhancement and entertainment. The library concept has been gradually transformed from a space to read into a social centre with multiple responsibilities. Consequently it’s mandatory to think this project as a functionally and versatile meeting place, a store of education in which the users are the focus and the building itself as a symbol of attraction and connectivity. For this unique equipment, this proposal tries to merge the most efficient program articulation with a strong concept which intends to suggest the overall theme integrated with Helsinki’s context. The building acts as a shifting point between the two demarked urban network of the city - ancient and modern - merging both and creating a public path that connects to the park while it simultaneously generates the formal composition. The overall intention is to generate a vibrant and cultural cluster as an inclusive response to the unique site location and consequently adjust it to the urban fabric block of Toolonlahti. The new Central Library will be much more than a traditional library. It will be a dynamic entity, fully equipped, comprised by the physical spaces themselves as well as technology, library collections, staff, tourists in an all-age designed forefront building.
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aerial view from physical model
sections
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plans
guide lines roof
Light steps Underground
Adjustable surface
Groundfloor Bridge|Public spaces
facade First floor
structure
Second floor
unprofiled glass nanogel insulation
glass 12% Third floor
interior
fourth floor
slabs
voids
fifth floor inner components sixth floor
seventh floor
views from library’s exterior voids
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views from library’s interior
‘A Quinta d’Avó’
i n t e r v e n t i o n i n a r u ra l p l a c e location: viseu, portugal date: September’11-October’12 Master’s Dissertation Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto [FAUP] Oporto School of Architecture
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west view of the intervention
east view of the intervention
In the final stage of an academic journey, the opportunity to design a real architectural project is taken to think about that exact same reality: the academic architectural design versus the professional one and the complexity that it’s thought to be inherent. According to that, the key concepts that are considered inherent to the architecture project are initially explored in the work. Thereby, it begins by questioning what a project is and continues by questioning what an architectural project is. The ambition is to understand what can really raise the quality of a project and, due to that reason, the project’s pre-work is explored, as well as the process of the project creation as a fundamental creative act, focused in real situations of the everyday life. Above that, it is also noticed that Man has a commanding role in the reality of an architectural project and, for that reason, it is also essential to reflect on that intervention, given the complexity that it gives to the project. The exploration of these issues has led to the development of the project ‘Quinta d’Avó’, where the concepts theoretically discussed before will guide the project development along its’ methodology. Therefore, a sustainable answer will appear, both socially and economically sustainable approach, with the guarantee of a project designed to fit the reality that seeks to transform.
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groundfloor plan
weast facade
section
constructive details
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first floor plan
east facade
section
W O O D - S TO C K a e f a u p
t e m p o ra r y
b a r
location: matosinhos, portugal date: May’12 students’ competition
Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto [FAUP] Oporto School of Architecture
in collaboration with Tiago Sá + Carolina Castro
+honorable mention +published in arquitecturabeta, arquitectura crítica
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concept
overlay
idea
trim
ideal concept
support
result
Looking for an ecological concept, the first step for the research addressed the architectural presence within the Nature - every kind of architectural structures designed without the human intervention. From several examples, as the endless underground cities built by the moles or the incredibly durable hexagonal structures of hives, a potential reference has been founded in the nest. By their simultaneous (almost antagonistic) simplicity and complexity, there is a perfect natural example of how nature renews itself and how it makes architecture from their own dead parts. In this sense, following the natural concept of recycling, the proposed material to coat the bar includes a reuse of wooden boards that have already become useless. The application method of the wood, in irregular overlapping layers, confers to the predesigned panels a better weight distribution of their elements, creating a self-supporting structure, as well as a diffuse visual effect, through the light passing across the voids offered by the structure.
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physical model
Agramonte Meadow g o ! a rc h i t e c t u re
v 3 . 0
location: porto, portugal date: Nov’11 24 hours architecture challenge
Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto [FAUP] Oporto School of Architecture
in collaboration with LuĂs Choupina + Michael Oliveira
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site plan undergound plan
Meadows as a space to liberate souls. A site of reflection, introspection and, above all, a meeting point. The flowers that are born on it symbolize the support between the earth and the sky, in a metaphor intrinsic to human life. At the same time, symbol of what grows in the earth and to the earth returns. A home funeral within the city. Serenity, spirituality, reunion are wanted. In the comfort of the earth, this urban meadow emerges as a communicative element between the earth and the hereafter, between the human being and the unknown.
Claude Monet, ‘Campo de Papoilas’ 1872
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conceptual facade
image from virtual model
Karlovo Námestí location: prague, czech republic date: Feb’11-Jun’11 Czech Technical University of Prague (CVUT) erasmus program
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Start point A: study of the Coffee Menu projected for the square
Start point B: interactions’ study between the users of the coffee
In a place with a long and rich history, this square|garden of the new urban centre of Prague is currently disqualified and without any kind of urban planning, function or identity. However, due to its prime location, its development potential is huge - it is easy to predict a big transformation that could revitalize and give life back to this place. Therefore, this proposal emerges as a significantly transformation for this place: from a garden divided in three different parts due to the crossing of two major pathways, disqualified, forgotten by the city, grows a new square and a garden, addressing a new concept that aims to promote the local energy and the interaction with the city. In this sense, the main goal is to endow Karlovo Namesti with energy – energy given from the people who walk through the local; people that go there because the place has something to give to them. A new reality happens in this place: a square and a garden, two functionalities complementing each other, the place and the people that will enjoy the place. A nice place can be now opened to the city, now full of identity and energy. A place where people can breathe and say hello to the good things of life.
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groundfloor plan
sections
progamatic diagram
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virtual model
O p o r t o D o u ro Ho te l hotel+spa+business center location: oporto riverside, portugal date: Sep’09-Jul’10 Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto [FAUP] Oporto School of Architecture academic exercise
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exterior images of the proposal
The proposal for this site just in the banks of Douro River in Porto, demanded the introduction of multiple complexities on the search of the best architectural design. Therefore, some problematic appeared: the theme, because it places the center of the problems leading to the subject, some of the current and most problematic lines of contemporary reflection on the practices and thinking in the field of architecture; and the site because, parallel and similarly, places the inevitable reflection about relevant forms and criteria of an intervention in a part of town that it is in now in with significant transformations - object of programmatic, formal and imagery processes of adaptation. The complexity presented by the program was another premise to be deeply study. Many relationships and connections were analyzed - giving formal coherence, spatial quality and urban relations worthy of such a space in the city.
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groundfloor plan
22º floor - terrace 20º restaurant rooms’ typical floors
first floor plan
the hotel room
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sections
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housing+of f ices+shops location: oporto, portugal date: Sep’08-Jul’09 Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto [FAUP] Oporto School of Architecture academic exercise
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physical model weast and south facades
physical model north and east facades
This academic exercise, denominated as “Urban Form: housing buildings and public and private spaces” was a work of urban completeness, in a place where the contrast of scales, where the function mutation, where the transformation of spaces and a changing of urban equilibrium is happening. A complementarity approach between housing solutions, hosting services and even between public and private outdoor spaces has been studied in the sense of seeking the identity for this place, in its’ specific urban surroundings. The buildings were born in an attempt to approach not only the maximum of quality housing but also to propose offices with a major area in a prime location. To control the effect of the excessive traffic in this site was a challenging goal yielding alternative routes for people passing through this place - between buildings, distant from the street and also in contact with green spaces that currently are not observed in the area. The color emerges as a goal to revitalize the place, introducing clearly a new premise in the area. The intention was also to do a conscious and consistent intervention - to solve the evident problems of the place’s identity, transforming it into a better place to live and to be.
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groundfloor plan
building type floor
constructive details north and south facades
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north facade
south facade east facade
west facade
D r a w i n g D e s i g n location: oporto, portugal date: since Sep’07
extra architecture work
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Jardim da Manga, Coimbra (Portugal)
architectural drawing
graphic design Synchresta Project for PwC
FAUP Arquitectura JĂşnior - branding
Bid365.pt - website design
luĂsa rodrigues coelho 2013