works_Manuel Mota

Manuel Mot a

Wo rks_2016/ 23

NEXT.ART Illustration course, certified b y D G E R T, Lisbon.

2016

Oporto FAUP

Student Union

A E F A U P, Communication department

2017

2018 München TUM

2019 Student Union

Oporto FAUP

A E F A U P, Communication department

DAU/PUC-RJ

Rio de Janeiro PUC-RJ

Bamboo structures (intense course)

2020

Colaboration w/ Rigo 23

LA Metro - Winning Mosaic proposal, Beverly Hills metro station

2021 Clube de Desenho

Master School

Course in advanced drawing; Course in Figure drawing.

Deutsch Sprachkurs

Oporto FAUP

2022 Simbolo Oportuno, Lda Construction Worker

Los Angeles MOTET DESIGN GROUP Colaboration w/ Rigo 23

2023

Exhibit at Minessota S t r e e t P r o j e c t , S F. - ‘ 3 1 s t of Feb, with the Angola 3’

Oil painting SNBA Oil Painting course, Certified by SNBA, Lisbon.

2024

PATH_2016/2023

PORTFOLIO

INTRO The present set of works merges a selection of (both academic and independent) projects developed between 2016 and 2023.

Throughout this document, the purpose falls in archiving a sum of moments that complete a genuine spectrum of the works developed, both individually and collectively, up to this present moment.

An effort was made to encompass here, some academic projects that had more relevance throughout the course and design competitions (from large landscape interventions to installation pieces) and further complementary elements that line up an important part of the developed interdisciplinary practise.

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Highlighted works A n n u a l E x h i b i t i o n _ 2 0 1 7 F A U P. Selected with 2nd-year Project.

Honorable mension “barraca da queima_” annual competition, Oporto, Portugal.

Selected workshop (33/155) “A c q u a i n t w o r k s h o p ” a t EA S A _ Switzerland annual architecture assembly under the 2019 theme: ‘ To u r i s t ’

Selected Illustration works “MA_Magazine” annual artist open call under the 2021 theme: ‘Imaginar’

Local winners & Iberian finalists “Pladur 2021_” annual competition, Madrid, Spain.

Finalists “Mycelium Installation Proposal” to play a role at O.Z.O.R.A. 2023, Dadpuszta, Hungary.

Collaboration w/ Rigo_23 for winning proposal (built by 2025)

“ Tile mosaic - Rodeo de las águas” for the new Rodeo Drive/ Beverly Hill’s Metro station, LA, CA, USA.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Anuária

CURRICULUM

PERSONAL INFO Manuel Mota 01.01.1997 Portuguese and Brazilian nationality

Education and Work

Complementary Practise

Secondary School

Sport

2012_2015

2008_2014

S c i e n c e a n d Te c h n o l o g i c a l S t u d i e s , at ESM, Oeiras, Lisbon, Portugal.

University

Competition Dinghy Sailing (optimist & Laser 4.7) Federate sailor at S.A.D. club, Belém, Lisbon, Portugal.

Music

2015_2022

Integrated Masters in Architecture, at Faculty of Architecture of Oporto’s University (FAUP), Oporto, Portugal.

Exchange programs 2017_2018

Winter and Summer Semester (1 y e a r ) , a t Te c h n i s c h e U n i v e r s i t ä t München (TUM), Munich, Germany.

2019_2020

Summer Semester (6 months), at Pontif ícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-RJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.

Work (architecture and curation related) 2022_2023

Architect at Motet Design Group, Los Angeles, CA, USA. 2023

A r t i s t a s s i s t a n t f o r Ri g o_ 2 3 a t M i n nesota Street Project, San Francisco, Ca, USA.

2008_2012 + 2012_2015

Piano (4 years), prof. O. Orgakova.

Guitar (3years), prof. C. Andrade.

Language courses 2009_2015

English learning, at Bristish Coucil and New Institut of Languages, Oeiras, Lisbon, Portugal. (Levels A1 to C1).

Illustration course 2014_2015

Illustration course (8 months) at N E X T. A R T e n t i t y, Li s b o n , P o r t u g a l .

Student Union 2015_2017 + 2018_2019

Student Union vowel at (AEFAUP) for the communication department (responsible for graphic communications), Oporto, Portugal.

Sport 2015_2019

DOMAINS

Kickboxing and Muaythay, federate at Centro Desportivo da Universidade do Porto (CDUP), Oporto, Portugal.

Languages

Drawing course

Portuguese English Spanish French German

(Mother language) (Fluent) (Level C1) (Level B2) (B1 Goethe certificate)

2020_2021

Advanced drawing course (10 months) at Clube de Desenho, Oporto, Portugal.

Language courses 2020_2023

German learning, at Masters School and Goethe Institut, Oporto and Lisbon (Levels A1 to B2), Lisbon,

Graphic Autocad Archicad Sketch Up Rihno Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Adobe Indesign Drawing Painting

(Deep knowledge) (Advanced knowledge) (Deep knowledge) (Basic knowledge) (Deep knowledge) (Basic knowledge) (Advanced knowledge) (Deep knowledge) (Deep knowledge)

Portugal.

Oil painting course 2020_2021

Oil painting intense course at the SNBA, Lisbon, Portugal.

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Cafe and bar

2016

Project for a cafe/bar using 3x3m modular grid, Oporto, Portugal.

Student Residence, Public Market and Restaurant

2017

Urban and housing project for an unbounded Oporto central area, Oporto, Portugal.

Courtyard Living Housing project, inside the urban block, München, Germany.

Music School Project for a Jazz school and a Jazz club, Oporto, Portugal.

Forstfarm mit Herberge in Buhweju

2018

Project for local production and lodging in collaboration w/ Swiss org. ‘Kids of Africa‘, Nsika, Uganda.

Santa Catarina ’s Chapel

2019

Research project under the H.A.P. chair, Alpedrinha, Fundão, Portugal.

Urban Project for Deodoro

2020

Renovation project for the urban area of Deodoro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Thesis Research Work

2021

‘The courtyard living.

Shape and scale between private and public. Porto, three case studies’ Porto, Portugal.

Mobile Home in Malibu Project for a 2 bedroom Mobile home at the Malibu Cove, trailer park, Malibu, CA, USA.

House Restoration in Aveiras

2022

Project to transform a countryside wine-seller into a house, Pontével, Portugal. (under construction)

House in Serra Grande

2023

Project for a two rooms house, on steep hill over the sea, Serra Grande, Bahia, Brasil. (awaiting approval)

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ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL WORK

ALL DEVELOPED PROJECTS

Guest house annex Project for a 2 bedroom annex house, Ribeira d’ilhas, Portugal.

Go. V10_18 48h competition for a public outdoor contemplation and laundry area, Oporto, Portugal.

Kindergarten Competition for a kinder garden complex restoration, L’arboreda, La paz, Bolivia.

View Point in the Fjords Competition for a view point, Geiranger, Norway.

EASA_tourist Selected workshop at EASA_Switzerland 2019, Villars, Switzerland.

PLADUR_2019

Barraca Queima

Competition for a self sustainable community in Paradinha, Arouca, Portugal

Competition for the a kiosk stand at “queima das fitas 2019”, Porto, Portugal.

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House on a Cliff Competition for an Yoga retreat centre, Vale Moses, Portugal

Rodeo de las aguas Rigo23 - Winning project for the LA Beverly Hills Metro station Mural Mosaic, LA, USA.

PLADUR_2021

TheARK: Borders

Competition for senior residence in Carcavelos, Lisboa, Portugal.

Competition challenging boarders spaces. Name of Project: ‘Roots of Tibet‘.

MA_magazine Published short story, watercolour.

MA_IV

Woodcraft Product design developed at TAÍRA_workshop practise, Bahia, Brazil.

O.Z.O.R.A. festival

Two in One

Project proposal for an installation, linking architecture and mycelium structures, Dadpuszta, Hungary.

Competition launched by Novecento Lighting company, for a LED lighting design that can adapt for both floor and celling fittings.

COMPETITIONS/COLLABORATIONS

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Student Residence, Public Market and Restaurant

Urban and housing project for an unbounded Oporto central area, Oporto, Portugal.

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PLADUR_2019

Competition for a self sustainable community in Paradinha, Arouca, Portugal.

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Forstfarm mit Herberge in Buhweju

Project for local production and lodging in collaboration w/ Suiss org. ‘Kids of Africa‘, Nsika, Uganda.

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Music School

Project for a Jazz school and a Jazz club, Oporto, Portugal.

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Courtyard Living

Housing project, inside the urban block, München, Germany.

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EASA_tourist

Selected workshop at EASA_Switzerland 2019, Villars, Switzerland.

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House in Serra Grande

Project for lodging with two bedrooms, on a mountain overlooking the sea, Serra Grande, Bahia, Brazil.

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Barraca Queima

Competition for the a kiosk stand at “queima das fitas 2019”, Porto, Portugal.

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O.Z.O.R.A. festival

Project proposal for an installation, linking architecture and mycelium structures, Dadpuszta, Hungary.

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TheARK: Borders

Competition challenging boarders spaces. Name of Project: ‘Roots of Tibet‘.

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Drawing/ exercises

Water colour and Coloured pencil training exercises.

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Chapel’s research/analysis

‘Santa Catarina’s chapel, Alpedrinha, Fundão’

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Research ‘Typologies’

Woodburn Terrace, re-creation of interiores atmosphere through modeling, Typoligies analysis.

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Contacts

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2016_2023

Selected Works

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Porto, Portugal.

Student Residence, Public Market and Restaurant

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2003

SITE

CONTEXT Within the 2nd year’s academic program, is framed a project that aims to integrate a disconnected area in the historical urban centre of Oporto.

The site arrives to this day unable to articulate two contrasting atmospheres in the city’s landscape, that came to shock after the 1948 demolitions.

Exposing the compact and intimate character of the pre-existing medieval fabric to a new flow of tourists and cars.

[VIEW OF AVENIDA D. AFONSO HENRIQUES]

PROPOSAL

The project emerges, aiming to re-articulate functionally and formally two urban universes, while establishing a transition between the open avenue and the dense medieval mass.

The project’s development becomes grounded on a sensible analysis of the pre-existent urban reality so that the new formal guidelines can hold the scale and the circulations natural to the place, respecting the collective memory on the city’s constant transformations.

[VIEW OF ESTAÇÃO DE SÃO BENTO]

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[PROJECT PROPOSAL]

University Housing Cafe Public Market

Student Union HQ

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PART OF A SERIE OF 9 A1 SHEETS DRAWN BY HAND FOR THE FINAL PROJECT HANDOUT

Competition for a self sustainable community.

Paradinha, Arouca, Portugal

Pladur_2019

2019

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(reference_Yukito Futagawa)

CONTEXT Within the 2019_Pladur competition program, taking place in the inner valleys of northern Portugal, an extended analysis is made, based on the site’s pre-existent shapes and functions.

The project grows from the pre-existent schist stone walls that organically draw the valley’s old agricultural terraces.

SITE ROUGH SKETCHS

PROPOSAL An exercise is then made of fitting the proposed program, prioritizing social cohesion and the future needs of the community.

Being aware of time and of our constant need for transformation, we integrate the site’s essence projecting in itself a new ruin.

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Nsika, Uganda.

Forstfarm mit Herberge in Buhweju

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2018

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Bee farm

Workshops

Fruit farm (orchard)

showers and W/C

Camping ground

Workers’ house

CONTEXT The following program emerged between architect Florian Naglers’ studio at TUM, and the Swiss organization “Kids of Africa”, focusing on Africa’s future generations.

The project aimed to develop, on two hill branches (in the east side of Buhweju), a socio-economical program targeting sustainable agricultural and local tourism practises.

Guests’ house

PROPOSAL The design, ensuing the topography’s movement, restrains its form of the natural need for water distribution.

From this starting point, alongside the steep water streams idea from Madeira Island ‘as levadas’, the project calmly follows the topography, carrying a watercourse that will allow to organize functionally the program’s needs.

Guest house

Workers’ house

Camping ground

Fruit farm (orchard)

Workshops

Entrance_ Water tank

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bananafiber roof substructure

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bamboodoors

fired brick walls

concretebeams

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Workers’ house

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Guest house

Project for a jazz school and a jazz club, Oporto, Portugal.

Music School

2018_19

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SITE

CONTEXT Throughout the 4th year design chair, its proposed a project for a Jazz school and a Jazz Club.

The exercise will follow the need to restructure a site, with around 9 500 m2, constrained by the contrasting urban surroundings.

The program comes out has an opportunity to integrate and qualify the

PROPOSAL At first, the process aimed to absorb urban fragmentation, by shaping volumes that could establish a dialogue with the surrounding scale.

In a second phase was also understood the possibility of dealing with the surrounding scale using the natural volume of trees (through non-built mass).

encompassing urban landscape.

By offering green moments to the city, able to qualify and absorb the many neighbouring formal logics, comes the opportunity to center the Jazz essence, drawing more intimate and hidden spaces away from the public flow.

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Club Toilets

Jazz Club

Jazz Club and School entrance

Multivalent Auditorium

Common Toilets

Machine/techinical room

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Combos practise

Administration area

Library (archives)

Library (entrance)

Orchestra rooms

Cafe

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Multivalent Auditorium

Backstage

Reception

School main entrance

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Practical classes

Library (groundfloor)

Theoretical classes

Theoretical classes

Machine/techinical room

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Housing project, inside the urban block.

Heidehausen, München, Germany.

Courtyard Living

2017_18

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CONTEXT The project is developed within the studio Krücker Bates’ topic for the 2017/28 Winter Semester. This exercise approaches issues like urban densification, city’s sprawl (in particular the case of Munich), and the consequent potential of the courtyard living as an element able to solve those broader issues.

[Ai-Heidehausen north-east blocks] M 1:1000

PROPOSAL The project is seen as an opportunity to create a parallel outdoor living, where the streets’ formality can break free.

While structuring it’s housing program, the proposed volumes search to stablish a sensible dialogue between the street and the courtyard living in the heart of the urban block.

[modelled interior moment]

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[Groundfloor]

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[first floor]

Point of view for interior model

[Case study floor plan for Model picture]

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acquaint 1. The state of being acquainted or casually familiar

with someone or something.

EASA_tourist

Selected workshop for EASA_2019, Villars, Switzerland.

2. Personal knowledge as a result of study, experience.

[Workshop booklet]

2019

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THE EVENT EASA EASA 2019 was held in Villars-Sur-Ollon between the 26th of July and the 11th of August, with the theme TOURIST. This annual assembly aims to promote the discovery of territories and cultures by organizing workshops in which the participants acquire new knowledge and skills through the practice of creative, intellectual and manual activities. Participants take part in the animation of the local context while tackling its issues.

THE SITE VILLARS_SWS throughout EASA 2019, VillarsSur-Ollon, become a good example of how contemporary alpine landscapes have been reframed by the presence of man-made infrastructures, notably for the purpose of mass tourism. How can one suggest a fruitful reading of this landscape?

WO R K S H O P/ _ACQUAINT This workshop focuses on modern traveling as an act of movement, leading to a non-understanding of the place.

The idea is to raise awareness through three distinct infrastructures that question the tourist boundaries and test human reactions towards the local environment.

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Put together the 9 participants.

First briefing Villars scroll First site discussions

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PRESENTATION

29.07

FINDING

Drawing Research Observation Interpretations ”Thinking with the hands”

30.07

Wood workshop Design and sculpt pieces Fabric workshop Group orientation Production begins

01.08

DRAWING 31.07

02.08

MAKING

03.08 Experiment the installation site Transport Material Measure, Register correct positioning Assemble Install

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INSTALLING

08.08 09.08 Reflect on the final outcome, contemplate and experience the result.

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schedule_for_JULY_AUG_2019

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INSTALLATION 2_‘MOVING’

Commission for the design of a house on a mountain overlooking the sea, Serra Grande, Bahia, Brazil.

House in Serra Grande

2023

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CONTEXT The project takes place in the locality of Serra Grande, in Bahia, Brazil. The mountain that gives its name to the locality is characterized by its encounter with the sea, marking the beginning of the extensive beach shore (about 36 km) that stretches to the south. The plot, surrounded by the dense Atlantic forest, slopes to the south, overlooking the vastly known cocoa coast.

A commission is then given to design a residence of about 100m2, with two independent bedrooms, and a common area with kitchen, living room, pool, laundry, and sanitary facilities to support the pool.

PROPOSAL Constrained by legal limitations (30% of the total land area) and minimum building distances, the proposal seeks to respond successively to various intentions. Initially, attention is drawn to the relationship with the street, where the entrance is articulated. Here, a veil in cobogó is created, mitigating the building’s presence on the street and encouraging a discovery of the interior space. Simultaneously, it allows the passage of warm northern winds and natural light.

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PROPOSAL Next, the design focused on the functional organization of the laundry, WC, and stairs, creating a unique movement that extends to the exterior, shielding the common outdoor areas from strong south-eastern winds. Efforts were made to avoid the alignment of the pool with the roof of the rooms on the lower floor.

Based on these premises, the project aims to provide each interior space with a corresponding exterior.

[SUB LEVEL - ROOMS]

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Competition for a Kiosk stand at “Queima das fitas 2019”.

Oporto, Portugal.

Barraca da Queima

AEFAUP_ “Proposal for a temporary kiosk stand at the annual ‘stripe burning fest’. Has a way of exploring a material that slightly escapes our routine, raises a proposal where bamboo

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plays the main role.”

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PROPOSAL So that, a positive impact can be added beyond the festival’s time frame, bamboo came as an easy element to be re-used and integrated into future events. From here, becomes important to frame that bamboo in itself requires a reduced soil area by plant and represents one of the most versatile woods in the world. With this proposal, we compose a bamboo skin, around the fixed (mandatory) metal frame that structures the standing volume.

The light bamboo structure rearranges 192 bamboo reeds with a diameter between 4,5 and 5 cm by 3 m high. The bamboo is then attached using only a 6mm rope (sisal natural fiber) leaving each bamboo piece intact. The functionality of the space, including the rain coating, is then completed with transparent traps and 4 mdf plates.

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Project proposal for an installation, linking architecture and mycelium structures, Dadpuszta, Hungary.

O.Z.O.R.A. Festival

[Submission handout]

2023

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Cables to support electric lighting

Electric light cable

Light

Wheat bale walls

Standart steal cable

Stud structure

Capert Layering (nest) Clay flooring

Medium and coarse gravel

Road base

Isometric View

CONTEXT

PROPOSAL

Installation project developed under

From the beginning, the project’s ap-

Time is the essential element for un-

the O.Z.O.R.A. Festival’s open call for

proach to the theme - Mycelium -, fol-

derstanding and internalizing the pro-

artists and installations, for the 2023

lowed a path of technical and symbolic

ject. Mysterious at first, it is a process

Edition, staging the theme Mycelium.

representation. The spatial character

that is not fully revealed immediately,

of the installation appears as the living

and that gradually makes known its

“Mycelium is used by trees as pathways

stage that plays a lead role in one of

personal, aesthetic, and functional

to communicate.

the richest cycles of our ecosystem.

dimensions, from its birth and life, until

And from it’s fructification one may witness the growth of mushrooms.”

its death.

Front Elevation

Section ASide Elevation

Plan Section (1,25m)

Section A

Plan Section (1,25m)

Section B

Top View (4,5m)

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Top View (4,5m)

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Process/Schedule From five edible Mycelium variants [Oyster mushrooms (Pink, Yellow, and Grey), Pioppino mushrooms, and Shitake mushrooms], Patterns on the bale walls can then be drawn, by making use of each specie’s colours and textures. The patters start to gain shape has the fructification process takes life throughout the festival’s period.

[It marks the beginning of the event, It takes over from its initial state, brutality, until converting it to a state of “inexistence”, a state of perfection, the end of a cycle].

June, 20th

July, 23th

Look for a cool [wooded and shaded] area, with access to a hose and easy access for a carrier.

T1

July, 22th

T4

July, 31th

T6

Insert the coarse grave and press.

Insert the medium gravel and press.

Festival days

Assemble the walls two by two, star with corners - do not forget the screw the bottom beam to the clay floor.

Prepare the cob mixture [sand, clay and straw].

Insert the cob press.

Leave to dry.

T3

(back to nature)

Assemble and nail the 2 walls with doors [5 wooden pieces - top and bottom beam, central beam (type 1) and corner pieces (type 2 and 3) and door stud (type 4)].

Delineate the perimeter of the installation on the grounds.

Brush oil on the surface.

Leave to dry.

T7

Layout the tarp on the ground in cool and shaded area.

Arrange the straw bales on the tarp.

Inoculate the straw bales.

Stack the straw bales horizontally along the structure, and the corner bales vertically.

Water [make sure they are well wetted].

Attach the bales to the structure along the stacking process with cable.

Cover the straw bales with another tarp.

Make a few reserv bales.

June [2024]

T5

Assemble and nail the 2 walls without door [5 wooden blocks - upper and power beam, central beam (type 1) and corner studs (type 2)].

Water daily [make sure the are well wetted].

T2

August, 6th

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T9

T1

Choose the installation site

T2

Build the floor

T3

Prepare the bales

T4

Micelyum growth period

T5

Micelyum frutification period

T6

Assemble the frame

T7

Assemble the bales

T8

Lay the fabric on the floor

T9

Assemble the lamp and electricals

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Competition challenging boarder space.

Name of Project: ‘Roots of Tibet’.

TheArk: Redidgn Borders

[Routes Draft studies]

TheArk_ “One single line could divide between opportunity and hope and poverty and oblivion.”

CONTEXT The aim holds on the transformation of forgotten lines, and what defines the current ‘spectrum’ of border’s identity.

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PROPOSAL The current proposal aims to evoke Tibetan cultural memory as a case study, to (re) understand the meaning and the strength of border lines. The project targets the notion of border through the revival of the long and hardened paths that defined and connected Tibet with the world until it’s occupation in 1961. The border as a path, the border as a transition.

The transition as a fundamental part of a place’s identity. Tibet’s comes as a contemporary reminder of strong cultural and territorial oppressions.

[Miran Fort]

[Sven Hedin]

[Tea Route]

[Hexi Corridor]

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[Salt Route]

[The Exile]

“A garden which can be reached only by passing through a series of outer gardens keeps its secrecy. A temple which can be reached only by passing through a sequence of approach courts is able to be a special thing in a man’s heart. The magnificence of a mountain peak is increased by the difficulty of reaching the upper valleys from which it can be seen; the beauty of a women is intensified by the slowness of her unveiling; the great beauty of a river bank-its rushes, water rats, small fish, wild flowers-are violated by a too direct approach; even the ecology cannot stand up to the too direct approach-the, things will simply be devoured.”

Alexander, C. ; Ishikawa, S.; Silverstein, M.: “24. Sacred Sites - A pattern Language”. 1977.

Oxford University Press, New York.

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Water colour and Colour pencils training exercises.

Drawing exercises

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_Pencil exercise using only the three primary colours

_Narrative studies (Caran d’ache Coloured pencils)

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_Narrative studies (Caran d’ache Coloured pencils)

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_Published short story, watercolour. MA_IV

_Water Colour

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_Water Colour

Resaerch Project on an unmapped Chapel, History of Portuguese architecture, Alpedrinha, Fundão, Potugal.

‘Santa Catarina’s chapel’.

[Final document]

2019

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This work is an outcome of the practical development at the History of Portuguese Architecture chair, within the Integrated Masters Course in Architecture.

This research consists fundamentally on an extensive measuring, both graphic and historical, from the context in which the small Santa Catarina chapel sits, at the vila of Alpedrinha in Fundão, Portugal.

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Research Work on typologies, Woodburn Terrace, Edinburgh, Ireland.

‘Typologies’.

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