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QUALIFICATIONS

2012

Architect at John Fleming Architects

Drawing / Illustration workshop’s with:

{ Madalena Mattoso / André Caetano / Eduardo Salavisa }2011

2011

Architect at Alice Santiago Faria e Pedro Bígida Arquitectos

Drawing assistant supervisor to the Drawing I classes [UC]

Master‘s degree in Architecture, University of Coimbra

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Autocad, Archicad, Sketchup, Artlantis, Revit Building

Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Oice™ Sotware

Driver License

CONTACT

Tel. +353 083 353 5190

Email: [email protected]

Adress: 127 Block C, he Forum, Ballymoss Road, Dublin 18

BIO

João Jesus (born 1986, Portugal) inishes his master’s in Architecture

studies with the thesis “Travel Drawing. Notebooks of enduring

demand” which later is invited to present in several universities like the

UBI, UC and in the Carmo’s Museum.

Being a passionate junior architect without formal restraints justifys

his creative and critical mind, able to produce innovative ideas through

experience gained from working at the architecture students magazine

NU.

His compulsive sketching and ilustrating activity is deinitly a powerfull

inluence in his lifestyle and architecture pursue.

In 2011 starts his internship in the Alice Santiago Faria and Pedro

Brígida Arquitectos while provides assistance in drawing classes in the

University of Coimbra.

In 2012 creates the SketchCrawlCoimbra collective assembling regularly

a group of 50 people to draw in that same city. In August is invited

to be a graphic reporter to the Saira’s Landscape Arts Festival and in

September starts the Bussaco’s Drawing events.

Nowadays lives and works in Dublin (Ireland) at John Fleming

Architects, enroling the activities of such groups as the Dublin Sketchers

and the City Life Drawing sessions while cooperates with the streetstyle

blog StreetLights.pt.

ScopeMaster’s degree in Architecture

PlaceDARQ, University of Coimbra

House for a Painter

Architecture Faculty

ScopeDesign Studio III

ProfessorJoão Fôja

ProgramDwelling and workshop

for an artist

he vacant lot develops in a place where the slope levels vary

considerably in a sharp diferential of 10 meters counting since the

upper road to the build set down by the river Mondego.

It is easy to point out the irregular urban grid of an uncharacterized residential area, certainly linked to its implantation conditions than to the deinition of

precise alignmentes

Taking into account the presented program (dwelling and workshop

for an artist) and the diicult implantation conditions it was chosen as

a projectual strategy to merge this two moments in a single volume of

a cube – that way minimizing the programmatic dispersion.

Playing in the material and constructive dependency it was search the formal symbiosis between the two

while exploring the diferent and possible interactions.

Detail of thesouth wall

It was intended to unravel

the relational capabilities

of seemingly divergent

spaces in a clear special and

functional logic.

Leisure, work and living

spaces are intertwined freeing

the surrounding green for

contemplation of the hill to the

river in the west.

Section A

Ground Floor

Section B

First Floor Second Floor

HouseWorkshop

he interstitial location and context of the slope are

easily resumed by a constant interplay between two

diferent realities – explained for a simple historical

reason - they existed to emphasize their separation (for

defense of the city before walled).

ScopeDesign Studio VI

ProfessorCarlos Martins

ProgramArchitecture Faculty of Coimbra

(Addition to the Arts College)

his dichotomy between the artiicial platform of the Upper Town to the west and the

apparent green slopes to the east suggests a clear and intentional separation between the top

and slope, now wanted verdant.

he ancient wall, which develops and articulates the peripheral boundary

of the Acropolis above, contextualizes the place of viewpoint or vertical

plane. he proposal results from a volume that follows the guidance of

the S.Jerónimo’s College but inwardly pursues the connection to the Arts

College, underneath the wall.he volume resulting from the intersection of a rectangle

and a triangle, searches in the sharpness of its edges to

be the launching motive of that slope, in a movement

contained within the logic of so many other places at the

Old Coimbra’s University - this time justifying itself as a

viewpoint-building.

“Stone and white plastered

walls, concrete loors and

columns aim for an inherently

Portuguese atmosphere built

in two separate moments:

one of contemplation of the

opposite extensively built

valley, and another one about

the crystallized-dictatorship-

past-history patent in the

Uptown Coimbra.”

Section A

Section B

Detail A

Site Plan

B

A

A program analysis was thought to facilitate this

reading, accommodating in the new addition the

most representative elements of an architecture school

and those of a more autonomous character in the Arts

College right above in the Acropole).

Project, drawing and models classrooms are installed

in the new building as well as the large auditorium

and exhibition places.

heoretical, practical rooms, small auditoriums, research

spaces and library are installed at the Arts College

(integrated with the other courses there established, mainly

theoretical).

he projectual strategy aims to minimize the presence

of elements in the cover enhancing a dry atmosphere,

contemplative of opposite landscape.

For salubrity purposes many ‘water mirrors’, were

designed, ‘refreshing’ somehow the extensive

platform above.

Axonometry

Hall, Cafeteria,Exhubition spaces, Auditory

Architecture classrooms, models and computer rooms, dark room, professors’ oices

Secretary, doctoral studies, art and multimedia studies

fotography and arts classrooms, library, study spaces, students association room

artists accomodations,lounge spaces

GROUND LEVEL // SQUARE

Charnelhouse in Conchada

Exteriors for the Hotel das Penhas Douradas

Colmeal Village

FirmAlice Santiago Faria e Pedro Brígida

Arquitectos

DateFrom April 2011 to March 2012

ProgramCharnelhouse in Conchada

LocationConchada Cemitery, Coimbra

Date2011/2012

A professional internship that aims the integration

to the Architects Registration Board must convey

in a transversal fashion the suitable capacities of

the newly graduated architect.

herefore it was taken into account the contact with all phases

of the architecture project, passing through the project survey,

design basis, licensing and construction.

Starting with the Chanelhouse was a way of aproching all those

phases with a simpler but demanding exercise.

Conchada’s cemitery singular neogothic design and peculiar

material choice (Ançã’s limestone) continues expanding. It

is asked to design a charnelhouse for the entrance of the Rua

Nova, situated in an accented corner.

It was decided to use the same beije stone that dominates the

whole complex, and it was pursued the absence of stone joints

and ornaments of any kind.

hat way it was designed taking into account it’s basic programme: one place where

people can pay respect to the deceased and not only a place to be buried. Its live use

asks for some very dear elements to the architectural practice like the carefull treatment

of light (designed as a perforated minimalist rosace on the walls and ceiling).

Axonometries

Floor Plan Roof Section A Section B

Section C Section D

Section E Section F

CBD

A

F

E

ProgramExteriors for the Hotel (parking lot,gates, signage and bin protection)

LocationPenhas Douradas, Serra da Estrela

Date2011/2012

he Casa das Penhas Douradas - the irst mountain hotel in

Portugal - is situated at an altitude of 1500 meters in Serra da

Estrela. It’s location assures it’s isolation and consequent harsh

but beautifull landscapes.

here it sats a 19th century building that now is integrated in the

clever plan of Pedro Brigida and Alice Santiago Faria.

Step by step the hotel is in continued expansion, being the last

additions an interior pool and spa.

he client, being sensitive about the human/built impact in protected areas like this one, asked

to be designed the exterior arrangements of the hotel. Parking lot, the hotel signage and a

mechanism to cover the garbage bins where part of a scheme that wants to merge with nature.

he parking lot was design with its gentle access ramp and walled with

metal tubes, highliting its transparency.

he signage, composed by it’s name in folded metal was inserted in the

entrance of the complex, next to the metal sign with its logo.

East Elevation

Gate Plan

Parking lot Section

Signage Plan

Gate Sections

Gate Detail

As the parking lot wall, the bins protection cover was designed

in metal tubes with various hights. Its shape aimed into similar

objectives, prettending to be a light structure that would gain patina

over time, that way masking its artiicial look.

ProgramHotel and Units forturist accomodation

LocationColmeal, Figueira de Castelo-Rodrigo

Date2011/2012

Colmeal is located in Figueira Castelo Rodrigo, in the

north of Portugal, just a few kilometres from Spain, in a

valley plated by a small stream.

here sits the remains of a small stone village, tainted by

the radical eviction of its last inhabitants in the early 50s.

Trying to contradict the apparent desertiication of the portuguese interior

is the local city hall that, together with the landowner, plan to bring back

life into those same stone walls.

Its rich history is still visible in the remain buildings, where sits the birth manor of Pedro

Álvares Cabral (famous navigator and discoverer of Brazil), the Colmeal church and

fountain (unique in this parts for its elaborate construction.

It was commisioned a study for a Rural Hotel and spa to be located in the Cabral House (for

it’s size and historic importance) and a set of small houses for tourist accommodation to be

built on the remaining exhisting houses that formed the village. he church was part of a

renovation plan, that together with the constuction of the parish council and tourist oice

would promote the place ensuring its daily use.

North View

Wall detailMain Plan

It was decided that, taking into account the bad structural shape of all constructions, the new

buildings would be designed as a liquid mass shelled by this old irregular walls.

herefore the exhisting houses, consisting mainly of schist masonry walls with granite wedges

were intended to accomodate this hidden hosts, ensuring its irst stone occupants and the

nature that surrounds them.

All units would follow this logic and also the hotel that, with a continuous susseccion of

irregular spaces, work the slope that ends up in the spa and pool of the complex.

West view

Southwest view

he new Colmeal, still showing its deeply rural heritage, needed now the

basic water and sewage structures that where designed taking into account

the main streets and geographical conditions.

his approach was thought in order to preserve its natural and historical

speciity, hoping that through this new use Colmeal’s Village can lourish

again, communing with nature.

Hotel Section

FirmJohn Fleming Architects

DateFrom October 2012 to February 2013

he Bernard Shaw presentation

Gleann Petit

ProgramBar and bier garden expansion

18 Spec Houses Plan

Locationhe Bernard Shaw (bar), Dublin

Gleann Petit, Mullingar

Date2012/2013

he Bernard Shaw location in Dublin (above) // North and south Gleann

Petit, Mullingar (below).

he Bernard Shaw Presentation

Gleann Petit’s place, located in Mullingar Co. Westmeath is part of a much bigger

scheme that now, divided in two zones, urges to be solved.

Both north and south plans will accommodate 18 units, divided in 4 types: Semi-

detached, Detached, Detached with Garage and Corner House.

Highly appealing to the market speciicities, the houses where impanted taking into

account their position in the main scheme.

he contact with design options profoundly connected with the irish real estate

market where part of the main discussion of this project.

he materials were thought with that intention too, featuring red brick, render inish

and metal windows,

ScopePrivate comissions // Personal pursue

DateFrom June 2011 to February 2013

Competitions

Drawing activity

Lisboa Square (former Mercado do Anjo and Clérigos Shopping)

is a fundamental space of Porto’s city, located in the transition

between the small scale of the medieval city and the big scale

of the public projects of the bourgeois city of the XVIII/XIX’s

century’s – such as the Torre dos Clérigos, Cadeia da Relação,

Reitoria da Universidade.

Scope‘No Rules Great Spot’ Competition

TeamAna Amaral, João Jesus,

Rui Baltazar, Rui Ferreira

Program‘Praça de Lisboa’

(square in center Oporto)

he permanent low of people, during day and night lows from the recent awakening

of the new bohemian culture from the Galerias de Paris and Cândido dos Reis streets.

It’s an essential meeting point of the city, not only

by the areas and buildings that it relates to, but

also, by the distinct groups of people that gather

(students, workers, tourists, retired people).

herefore the recognition of an obvious necessity for a public

space, noting collective and capable space, seemed fundamental

and formally emerges as an uneven square.

he presented proposal aims to recognize the

importance of this space in the current context

of urban regeneration, in regard to its ability in

nurturing new urban dynamics in the process of

reprogramming the city.

It was of utmost importance also the articulation with the network of streams of public and urban

spaces that make up the outskirts of Lisbon Square taking in principle the lines of basic movement

(pedestrian, electrical and automobile).

his programmatic freedom – between the plaza, auditorium, stairs, skate-park, and continuity of

the green to the west - enhances the adjustment capacity of that square, and its use to a fully inclusive

range of audience so diverse.

It was pursued a formal solution or an

urban-programmatic-reasoning capable

of ensuring a dynamic daily experience

between the Square and its surroundings.

Coimbra’s dowtown, as many of its european siblings, has being

struggling for its survival. he appearence of big commercial areas

allied to bad politics accelerated its decay.

Fighting this tendency is the APBC, an association created to

promote and, together with the shopkeepers, bring back new life

to this part of town.

ScopeBriosa’s Show window (‘he University goes

downtown” Competition) - 1st Prize

TeamJoão Jesus, Alexandre Relvão

ProgramShow window

It was when Orlanda Duarte, Alexandre Relvão and myself got together to design a

showindow that could transmit the univesity’s principles (embodied in this case by the

courses colours in glass jugs). he colours were made possible by dyeing the Briosa’s

most famous candy, therefore promoting their product as well.

herefore the APBC, the University of Coimbra and the city council

purposed their city to the candidacy of the UNESCO heritage, strengthening

ties between them through several projects.

One of this projects was a show window competition for the downtown

shops, with the intervention of all those creative ideas lowing from the

university’s arts background.

Being an urban sketcher made me realize how many people were

as much enthisiastic towards drawing as I am. herefore, living

in a city where there were so many drawings oportunities was

the jumpstart of this project.

Sketchcrawling, as a global movement of Enrico Casarosa, stands

for a group of people gathering to draw on various locations.

ScopeSketchCrawl Coimbra

TeamAlexandre Relvão, Ana Almeida, André Caetano,

António Monteiro, Miguel Ruivo, João Jesus

ProgramDrawing event in Coimbra

SketchCrawl Coimbra events aim for those who want to sketch and share all those

ideas about art and drawing. Having no age or special skills required, we think that

knowledge comes from everywhere and that we can learn from everyone.

Events held from April 2012 to Januray 2013:

SC Baixa de Coimbra // SC Jardim Botânico // SC Fanzine

SC Penacova // SC Tedx// SC República do Pra-Kys-tão

One may say that Coimbra, by its multiplicity, is perfect for this. Its old

university, rich history and young habitants, has true drawing potential.

herefore, ater assembling an organization composed by group of talented

designers, ilustrators and architects we started our events in April 2012.

ScopePersonal projects // comissions

DateFrom September 2011 to January 2013

Project

Master’s dissertation in architecture studies:“Travel Drawing. Notebooks of enduring demand”

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he truth is made possible only through an inner dialogue, where the architect

debates with his own concerns.

To ramble or travel through the natural or built space and perceiving it, is a

professional duty that artists generally accept on behalf of the inspiration and

eloquence, of their beautiful Calíope.

Individually we explore drawing as a form of meditation, of necessity, addiction and

pleasure; we are drawn by the desire for the cathartic journey of Le Corbusier, as

agent of miscegenation as Alvar Aalto, or the result of that overlowing emotion of

Siza’s drawings. And that is why we can say that the architect inds legitimacy travel

drawing in its enjoyable and useful gain.

Parting from the personal concern about the role of drawing as a way of rethink

architecture, was sought through diferent means and examples to justify this

assumption.

Names like Le Corbusier, Gunnar Asplund and Louis Kahn (among others), arise

spontaneously as examples in which their drawing abilities emerged as means of

explaining their architectures. Architects, aware of their initude and inability to

absorb all constructive feedback, oten used their drawing skills in order to register/

search for new architectural images, or revisit old ones.

Travel drawing appears to the architect as an essential tool made by personal

experience. Away from the constraints of its professional activity, the journey is

assumed as a moment of revelation in what we call the paradigm of the confessional.

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Pursuing this permises I travelled, for the dissertation purposes, between March 2009

and September 2010, through a rout starting in Portugal with the study of various

Romanesque monuments (Coimbra, Resende, Lisbon, Evora, etc..) and extending to some

other european countries with Route Le Corbusier (Switzerland and France), followed by

Italy (Rome).

In these records the will to deepen the exercise of drawing is underlined while

continuously discovering the importance of visiting ‘in situ’ all those buildings and cities

in order to feel, even tangentially, the phenomenology landscape of architecture.

Abstract of the master’s dissertation in architecurestudies “Travel Drawing. Notebooks of enduring demand”

Other projects:

1. Attendance at the International Symposium of the UrbanSketchers

2 Member of the Urbansketchers Portugal-Beiras and Salão 40’s group.

3. Drawing-assistant at the University of Coimbra

4. Founder-member of the SketchCrawl Coimbra group

5. Founder of the BED events (Drawing Bussaco Events)

6. Member of the Figure Drawing Group (Dublin)

7. Member of the Dublin Sketchers (Dublin)

8. Exhibition for Guimarães Capital da Cultura and Salão 40’s.

9. Private commission

10. Graphic reporter for the Saira’s Landscape Art Festival

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5 6 7

8 9 10

ScopeStreetstyle blog “Streetlights.pt”

Date2012 / 2013

Project

Illustrations

Vogue Fashion’s Night Out 2013

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In their blog, Tiago and Antonio express their views about streetstyle

and tendencies, having in mind the portuguese culture and context.

hrough those same eyes it is oten asked of me to illustrate a certain

event or theme with a special connection to the fashion industry.

http://streetlights-pt.blogspot.ie/

he illustrations for the streetstyle blog managed by Tiago Loureiro

(fashion designer) and António Palma (photography) were always a

tough challenge through a new art subject - fashion illustration.

ModaLisboa Freedom

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