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inês vieira da costa pires15.04.1986Oporto, Portugal

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work experience2010 | preliminary study of a rehabilitation project for a family house2009 february to 2010 january | architectural collaboration, António Moreira dos Santos2009 june | architectural collaboration, Carlos Prata2007 september | architectural collaboration, FASE2003 july | architectural collaboration, Bernardo Távora

education2010 | completed integrated master degree in architecture, FAUPmaster thesis: “The Garage in Collective housing” oriented by architect Luis Soares Carneiro2006 to 2010 | Faculty of Architecture, University of Oporto2004 to 2006 | Department of Architecture, University of Coimbra 2004 | completed high school in Externato Ribadouro, Oporto

competitions and workshops2010 march | ‘Tokyo fashion museum’ promoted by arquitectum.com 2010 january | Workshop ‘Manobras’ promoted by FAUP2009 april | ‘Temporary Bar Queima Fitas’ promoted by AEFAUP Honorable Mention1995 to 1998 | oil painting workshops

software skillsarchiCAD, autoCADartlantis, sketch up 3D, 3ds MAXphotoshop, inDesign, illustratorMS Officemacintosh OS X, windows XP

linguistic skillsmother tongue: portuguese

english

FCE Level, 1996 to 2003 Oporto British Council, Oporto

spanishA2 Level, 2009/2010 Faculty of Letters, University of Oporto

The project consists in the development of a residential building (T3 + T1) complemented with a commercial space on the ground floor. The plot encounters on its right side a consolidated grid of low density housing, and on its left side a public space outside a sports pavilion. In this sense, the commercial space is developed for the public space, while the entries for the two apartments face the main street. The concept evolves around the fragmentation, in which the two apartments are complemented and organized among the three floors. The T3, arranged between the first and second floor, reveals a more intimate character, while the T1, more exposed, results in a more strong relationship with its surroundings.

two houses, coimbraacademic project I 2004/05 Darq

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theater, montemor-o-velhoacademic project II 2005/06 Darq

Starting from the requalification of a building in Montemor-o-Velho, the proposal is intended to create a space for a small theater and its facilities for the actors. As it was necessary the expansion of the existing building, were developed two lateral volumes to help balancing the difference in fees between the anterior and posterior facade. Not imposing on the plot, the two volumes respect the main building, maintaining its relationship with the surroundings, mainly to the upper level where the entrance of the building is maintained as the primary. The project is centered around the backyard, around which are turned the main activities, emerging as an intimate space of connection between the three volumes.

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collective housing, oportoacademic project III 2006/07 Faup

Integrated in a housing development that encloses an abandoned lot in Rotunda da Boavista, the building is designed in continuity with the urban grid, defining the gathering of Avenida de França and the square opened to the existing metro station. The housing program is complemented with trade spaces at ground floor, allowing a permeability of Rotunda da Boavista’s daily urban living to these surrounding streets.

With a T2 and T3 typology, the building is designed with access type left/right, and each apartment is organized according to a longitudinal axis that separates the most private spaces of the most public spaces. In this sense, the main facade announces a more candid opening for the inside of the building through the large balconies, contrasting with the rear façade with a more closed language, exposing the most intimate areas of each apartment.

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city museum, matosinhosacademic project IV 2007/08 Faup

The Museum for the city of Matosinhos is located in an area of old factories that is in expansion and urban renewal. Conforming the block sides, the museum culminates in an open space that announces its entry, breaking the rhythm of the consolidated grid of the main street. The block, crowned by a residential building, opens to the city as a vast public space allowing its use as a place of passage or pause. The garden area marks the memory of a diagonal, a former railway line, and helps to create a boundary between the ‘back’ of the museum and the square.

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The museum is assumed as a single volume in which the sloped roof allows for a sense of continuity to the upper floor, creating in the interior diverse spatial sensations depending on the different heights. With an intimate and introverted character, the museum opens onto a central courtyard around which its developed the exhibition route, as well as the coffee shop, the bookstore and the auditorium, allowing a strong visual and spatial continuity between all programs of public nature.

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central técnicaárea|250m2

pé direito livre|5m

IS/vestiáriosárea|25m2


sala de pessoalárea|27m2


secretariaárea|20m2


ISárea|25m2


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workshopsárea|70m2


apoioárea|23m2


trabalhos de grupoárea|90m2


informáticaárea|45m2


secretariaárea|24m2


produtoresárea|20m2


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administraçãoárea|28m2


conservadoresárea|20m2


sala reuniõesárea|40m2


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urban project, oportoacademic project V 2008/09 Faup

The project is developed around a pedestrian route from Alameda Eça Queiros to the sports equipment ‘Monte Aventino’, punctuated by elements such as playing fields, capable of activating these urban spaces used mostly by children.

At the Velasquez square, the introduction of an office building finishes off this route and relates to the garden, at the ground floor, through a coffee in a more quiet and intimate moment. The lower trade building, complements the plaza, linking it to the ‘Fernão Magalhães’ avenue at a smaller scale, and functions as the conclusion of the low density housing set. The garden, now restored and with a smaller area, emerges as a crossing space in the square, but mainly as a place for everyday use, with an internal route more intimate and sheltered from the road chaos of ‘Fernão Magalhães’ Avenue.

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The competition was established to create a temporary bar for the Students Association of FAUP, to be built in the grounds of ‘Queima das Fitas’, a known student party held every year during one week at night. In an environment where there are many other bars, all with the same structure and dimensions, it was important to highlight the bar through the material and lighting.

The starting point and reference were both the text about Ersilia by Italo Calvino (nvisible Cities 1974), as the ‘Tubism’ movement developed by the French painter Fernand Léger, that emphasized the tubular/cylindrical forms in an attempt to decompose and particularize the form. Thus, the proposal develops an organic form where the use of the corrugated tube allows the creation of niches where you can put down your glass or where a leaned or seated body appears evolved by the structure. Dematerialising and removing the tubes its almost industrial character, we introduce light inside of some, just seemingly random choice, achieving a controlled lighting inside the bar. Metaphorically it could be thought of as vein, an image that brings us back to the use of this material as a driver and a container of other material or non-matter, thus maintaining some of its original function.

temporary bar aefaup, oportocompetition promoted by aefaup 2009 - horonable mention

colaboração com: Catarina Freitas Machado, Inês Lencastre e Vera Martinho

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tokyo fashion museumcompetition promoted by arquitectum.com 2010

collaboration with: Cassandra Carvas, Catarina Ribeiro, Francisco Castelo Branco, Tiago Atalaia

For this ideas competition it was claimed a Fashion Museum at one of Tokyo streets with more international fashion stores, such as Prada. The concept tries to understand what ‘fashion’ is and what its museum could represent, more than a mere display of outfits. Starting from the idea that fashion is always a vicious cycle between the catwalk ‘haute couture’ and the individual styles, created by common people who wear and walk the clothes in the city, we came to the conclusion that the street itself is a fashion museum. Thus, the building is a ‘vertical street’ where people walk on ramps as on a catwalk for a fashion show. Along the way the pieces, rather than simply exposed, can be experienced in innovative ways. You can see yourself wearing different clothes reflected in a mirror, feeling the decades and being part of each one. At the same time, who crosses this ‘runway-street’ from decade to decade also show the contemporary fashion.

the garage in the collective housingintegrated master thesis 2009/10 Faup

The garage is a space created for the car. Associated with housing, gains a new dimension, capable of overcoming the mere function of storage.

This essay has as starting point the understanding of the garage in Portugal. Usually built on a basement floor, completely closed and with no relation with the rest of the building, ends up being an improper place to the car maneuvers and the pedestrian mobility, forgetting that it is a space intended both to cars and pedestrians. The constant devaluation at an aesthetic and spatial level, gives the residents a sense of insecurity and discomfort that compels him to get through this space as soon as possible.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, with the car driven by a chauffeur, the garage was introduced in the collective housing building as a service space. With the increasing use of the car, it became an entry and a common space for the residents. It is the place where we get out of our car, leaving behind the ‘chaos’ of the city, beginning the journey to the privacy of our apartment. Leaving behind the concept of underground garage, this thesis starts the (re)discovery of other ways of designing this space. High on the first floor or in the roof, open or closed, inside or outside of the private space of each dwelling, the garage can take many features that are analyzed in this essay, in order to understand the effects they produce in the building, concerning its internal organization and expression to the outside.

With this analysis was “opened a path” to a different understanding of the garage, re-evaluating its position in the building of collective housing. Regardless of its location, it should be thought in a assumed way, in order to project the building as a whole and not as an association of isolated parts and closed to each other, thereby enhancing the characteristics that give it the collective character. Similarly, the idea of single entry should be maintained in order to enhance this collectivity. Thus, understanding the garage as a secondary space is necessary to take it as an attachment and not as an entry. Eliminating the direct connection between the garage and housing floors, the lobby presents itself as the only entry and distribution point, and accordingly the value of the garage can be kept minimal.

But on the contrary, if we assume the garage as an important space within the building it’s necessary to strengthen its entrance character and rethink the function of the entry hall. In this sense perhaps the solution may pass by separating the functions that the entry hall represents. Thus the garage would be assumed as the common entry space to all motilities, as the transitional space between the city and building interior. The lobby, inserted inside the garage, loses the entry function but gains importance as an area of reception and distribution to the rest of the building, connecting, in a smaller and more appropriate scale, the garage and the housing floors. The garage is then assumed as a neutral space of city and building extension, representing a more democratic entrance and suitable for all forms of mobility in a collective space of encounter between all the residents. In this way, there are created different entry moments, with a scale appropriate to each one, but related to another and with the rest of the building.

But for these models to be developed it’s necessary to question the garage as an underground and enclosed space. Just as at the beginning of the twentieth century perhaps it was unthinkable to increase the cost of building to project a garage, it eventually found its place within it. Maybe it’s time to rethink the garage as a space capable of enhancing the collective housing and introducing a new dynamic between the city and the building at the moment of transition between the public city and the private space of each dwelling.

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