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PORTFOLIORODRIGO DESSA

PORTFOLIO

2_ C.V.4_ ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN26_ CONSTRUCTION WORK

32_ MASTER THESIS34_ MISC.

RODRIGO RIBEIRO DE OLIVEIRA DESSAPORTO, PORTUGAL(+351) 916022506

[email protected]

CURRICULUM VITAE

EDUCATION2005, 2012_ Master of Architecture (m. arch)_ Porto’s University Architecture Faculty (FAUP)_ Porto, Portugal.

2009, 2010_ Architecture Exchange Program_ School of Design and Architecture of

Valparaíso’s Catholic University (PUCV)_ Valparaíso, Chile.

2011, 2012_ Master’s Thesis: Game and Function in the Urban Environment_ Guided by professor/architect Manuel Graça Dias (FAUP)_ Porto, Portugal.

EXPERIENCE2005_ Atelier José Paulo dos Santos (modeling)_ Porto, Portugal.

2009_ Architectural Travesía: Public Plaza in Local Neighborhood (building, translating

and team organization)_ São Francisco do Sul, Brasil.

2010_ Un Techo Para Chile: 2010’s Earthquake Reconstruction Voluntary Work (team organization and shelter construction)_ Cauquenes, Chile.

2010_ Festival Internacional de Fotografia de Valparaíso (FIFV): Punto Ciego Brigade (planning and construction of a human sized Pinhole Box for a photography festival)_ Valparaíso, Chile.

2011_ Wake 2 Read, Lda. (publisher’s graphic line design)_ Porto, Portugal.

2011, 2012_ Wake 2 Read, Lda: 8 Issues for APOGER’s Associates Monthly Comic Book João Sucatas (character design, script, illustration and editing)_ Porto, Portugal.

2012_ 3D Studio Max & V-Ray (3D modeling course)_ Porto, Portugal.

2012_ Ruptura Silenciosa: 1st prize in a Cinema/Architecture’s Project Script Competition, FAUP_ Porto, Portugal.

SKILLSWord_ Excel_ Power Point_ Archicad_ 3D Studio Max_ V-Ray_ Photoshop_ InDesign_ Illustrator_ Driving License Category B.

LANGUAGESPortuguese (mother tongue)Spanish (advanced writing and speaking)English (advanced writing and speaking)French (basic writing and speaking)

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PUBLIC LIBRARY

Academic Project, FAUPVila Nova de Gaia, Portugal (2008)

ARCHITECTURE

The aim of this exercise was to follow a post-modern language, by making a structure with a significant urban impact, and with an interior openness that communicates the public essence of the building. This openness lays out in four comunicating floors, connecting an

active urban front to the withdrawn garden in the lower level through the same main public room. This room develops itself through different areas/steps, that go from the entrance bar to the reading areas, and is featured with a big natural light source in a form of a spyglass.

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Urban Insertion.

Plan 1.

Plan 0.

Plan -1.

Plan -2.

ARCHITECTURE

Elevation 2.

Elevation 3.

Elevation 4.

Elevation 1.

ARCHITECTURE

Longitudinal Section.

Transversal Section.

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Details.

E[AD]’S STUDY CENTER

Academic Project, PUCV’s Architecture SchoolOpen City, Ritoque, Chile (2009)

ARCHITECTURE

The Open City is a piece of land with a big bio-diversity, hosting many of the Valparaíso’s architecture school built experiments. Looking forward to reinforce the site’s own ‘movements’, I’ve located this Study Center in the middle of an existing trail, between the tree line that gives access to the road and the giant dunes that lead to the coast line, making use of the visual impact of these dunes through the experience of arriving at the main

building, thus giving the path another element: a man-made one. Hidden by the trees, the building then opens itself to the sand in the form of a plaza, defined by the second volume (an exhibition space), that supports the student’s working area, while invites them to explore the dunes as well. The curved lines that feature the two buildings aim to inspire the students this notion of ‘openness‘ and ‘possibility’ that exists in the surrounding natural environment.

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Cardboard Model.

Landscape Plan.

Plan Upper Floor.

Plan Ground Floor.

ARCHITECTURE

Elevation 1.

Section 1.

Elevation 2.

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Section 2.

Elevation 3.

Section 3.

AEFAUP’S TEMPORARY BAR/CAFE

FAUP’s Student Association, “Queima das Fitas” (University Festivities) Porto, Portugal (2012)

ARCHITECTURE

Inspired by the mediatic economic crisis, this low budget project seeks to make use of materials considered ‘poor’, ennobling them through the light. A dark airtight box, covered with corrugated metal zinc, which encloses a light and radiant interior. The front facade that contains the counter is made of a sheet of translucent

glass fiber, where the light projected and diluted by ten fluorescent lamps is placed within a composition that plays with the box’s structure. At the top of the volume, the symbol of AEFAUP torns the opaque lateral facades, drawing the publics attention by the contrast created with the light.

http://www.aefaup.pt/

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Section.

Plan.

ARCHITECTURE

3D Model.

Assembly Scheme.

Elevations.

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3D Model.

Details.

PIN-HOLE BOXFIFV: Valparaíso’s International Photography Festival

Plaza Victoria, Valparaíso, Chile (November/ December, 2010)

ARCHITECTURE

For this festival’s edition I integrated a ‘brigade’ called Punto Ciego (Blind Dot) composed by four local artists and photographers. Our intervention aimed to open the experience of photography to the general public, demonstrating with a human scaled Pin-Hole box, the visual fenomenom that occurs in our eyes and in our camera lenses. Placed in a central plaza, this low budget temporary structure

was made interely out of pre-fabricated wood, forming two spaces: the dark closed room (projecting the inverted image of a following avenue) and another one, backlighted and opened for the daily exhibitions of the artists envolved.The work was then selected to integrate a retrospective of the festival in the National Council of Culture in the city of Valparaíso.

http://www.fifv.cl/2012/

http://www.imagenesvisibles.blogspot.pt/

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Pin-Hole’s Closed Structure.

Plan 1.

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Elevation 2. Section 1.

Section 2.

Section 3.

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Elevation 1.

ARCHITECTURE

3D Modeling.

Construction.

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Details.

CONSTRUCTION

Festival’s Opening.

Exibition 1(Paz Olivares-Drogett).

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Exhibition 2(Daniela Parra).

Pin-Hole’s reflected Image.

PUBLIC PLAZA AND BANDSTANDAcademic Project, PUCV

São Francisco do Sul, Curitiba, Brasil (November, 2009)

CONSTRUCTION

During my stay in the Catholic School of Valparaíso I had the opportunity to travel in what they call the Travesías: a journey that combines poetry, art, architecture and life. This trip took me to an island in Brasil, where the planning and construction of a

small public plaza with a bandstand took place. This somewhat improvised exercise of architecture, mostly made out of brick and wood, aimed to stimulate the social boundings in the community, by allowing the locals to participate in the plaza’s development.

http://travesias.ead.pucv.cl/

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Bandstand’s Structure.Carved Wooden Stakes ‘fill’ the Plaza’s Minimal Intervention.

EMERGENCY SHELTERS (MEDIAGUA)Voluntary Work, “Un Techo Para Chile”

Cauquenes, Chile (April, 2010)

CONSTRUCTION

Reacting to the Earthquake of February 27/ 2010, the project Un Techo Para Chile (a roof for Chile) sent out the construction of more than 10.000 emergency shelters (the Mediaguas), to house the people

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affected by the Earth’s movement. I was sent to Cauquenes for a week to build three of these pile based shelters, made out of pre-fabricated wood and zinc roofing.

http://www.techo.org/

Construction Details.

GAME & FUNCTION IN THE URBAN ENVIRONMENTMaster Thesis, guided by architect/professor Manuel Graça Dias (18/20)

Porto, Portugal (2011/2012)

MASTER THESIS

Valparaíso City (center/suburb).

Directly related with the evolution of urban science, functional planning became a powerful instrument of control, sometimes far from individual impulses and opinions. Nevertheless, the absolute “consensus” of rational urbanism springs new forms of life (and construction), whose informal character escapes the most generalist planned solutions. It was the aim of this investigation to study these alternatives and the way they relate themselves (or not) with the formal city. The game (here associated with the concept of liberty) would be stronger within the informal neighborhoods, in the sense that the process of their formation implies a more direct and interactive approach with the urban environment, creating

“self-organized” spaces in permanent renovation – a “sub-city”, more dynamic and participative, living together with the “official” city.This antagonism was placed in Latin America, being that each urban approach would find its extreme either in the traditional Latin American City (a functional approach) or the utopian experiment that is the Open City (a free and playful ground). In this sense, the study of the City of Valparaíso, in Chile, due to its close relationship between the formal and informal neighborhoods, works as a foothold for a final balance about the necessary “complementarity” of these concepts (game and function, flexibility and determination).

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Spanish Colonial Urbanism. Open City’s “Urban” Culture.

FURNITUREPrivate Commission

Porto, Portugal (2012)

MISCELLANEOUS

Piece of furniture for clothing storage, made with cheap and recycled materials such as a prefabricated wood chipboard (for the structure), iron eaves (for the “legs”) and plastic fruit cases (to be used as drawers). This approach seeks to make use of the

contrast between the white wooden shell and the plastic perfurated texture of the colored boxes that go inside of it. The order of the shelves can be altered, allowing one to change the equipment’s composition by playing with colors and sizes at their own will.

Sections and Elevations.

Playful Composition.

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SHORT FILM (SANTA BARBARA LODGE)Cinema/Architecture Script Competition, Ruptura Silenciosa (selected proposition)


MISCELLANEOUS

Ruptura Silenciosa is a project running in the Porto’s Architecture Faculty, that aims to cross the fields of Cinema and Architecture, by creating a series of short fiction films that take place in modern portuguese buildings of the 60’s and 70’s. The objectives of this competition were to create a script for a story that plays in the Santa Barbara Lodge, made in the region of Oliveira do Hospital in 1962, by the portuguese architect Manuel Tainha.

Our proposition is to create a fiction inspired by the building’s modern interpretation of local traditions and natural materials. This duality (modernity/tradition; man/nature; rationalism/imagination) serves as a foothold for a story about the relation of a modern couple, while they spend a night in this rural (and sometimes misterious) lodge... Shootings should begin in the beggining of May, 2013.

http://www.rupturasilenciosa.com/

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Movie Scenes.

JHONNY SCRAPS COMICSWake2Read, Lda. Comic Book Character


MISCELLANEOUS

Creation of the Comic Book character João Sucatas (Jhonny Scraps) for the APOGER’s subscribers (portuguese association of Waste Management Operators). In these editions (published by Wake2Read, Lda.), my assignment was to interpretate APOGER’s messages and critiques to their members with humor, by exagerating a ‘portuguese’ character type that they

themselves could identify with. The eight issues that followed were then based on national events concerning the waste business, parodying this reality through this witty round farmer/scrapsman and his pet pig.

http://www.apoger.com/

http://www.facebook.com/joao.sucatas

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Covers for Issue 6 and 8.

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