Architectural Portfolio

diana noronha feio *

architecture

*selected works & cv

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architectural work

In BeTween in Hackney, London, 2013

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Rocking Tree Lisbon, 2013

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academic work

Anonymous Architecture in Belém, Lisbon, 2012

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Vertical Cities in Luz, São Paulo, 2010

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competitions

House ItCompetition, 2013

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Diana Noronha Feio . MArch

United Kingdom | Portugal+44 (0) 7572 021 489 | +351 91 [email protected] b Ainsworth Road, London , E9 7LP, UK

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I was born in October 1988, in Lisbon. I have grown up in an artistic and cultural environ-ment that led me to the National Conserva-tory Dance School and after that to an Artistic

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The beauty of space as always attracted me. I still remember as if it was yesterday how the morning light crossed through the great win-dows in my dance studio at the Conservatory and how that touched me. This fascination led me in 2006 to Faculty of Architecture (FA) of Lisbon’s Technical University from where I have recently graduated with a master de-gree, with a final project and thesis entitled “Anonymous Architecture (re-thinking the sur-rounding area of the new Coach Museum)”.

In 2009 I embrace an exchange program and moved to São Paulo, Brazil, where I have studied in Architecture and Urbanism College of University of São Paulo. During this period I had my first professional experience in Ar-chitecture at BFS Architects, where I focused

mainly on residential projects.

Between classes, conferences, workshops (in architecture and architectural photogra-phy) I managed to keep practicing dance, as I consider it marked my way of thinking the

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In March 2013 I decided to move to London, where I am working as a freelancer and also looking for an international professional expe-

rience to dedicate and give my best to.

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Experience

Freelancer DesignerLondon, United KingdomWorking in several small scale projects and competitions

Volunteer Architect at Architects Without Borders Portugal (ASF-P)Lisbon, PortugalHousing repairs

Dancer at DLWorksLisbon, PortugalContemporary Dancer in a professional dance company based in Dança Livre Dance School

Intern at Bracher Filisetti e Solmo ArquitectosSão Paulo, BrazilDealing with architectural survey, technical drawing in CAD Software and modeling in SketchUpTrusted with the development of a project in its initial stage

Education

Master in Architecture (MArch) at Faculdade de Arquitectura UTLLisbon, PortugalFinal grade 17/20 (very good)Final Project and Theoretical Thesis: Build on the Built. Anonymous Architecture (or think the surrounding of the new Coach Museum)

Exchange at Faculdade de Arquitectura e Urbanismo USPSão Paulo, Brazil

Bachelors in Architecture (BArch) at Faculdade de Arquitectura UTLLisbon, Portugal

Awards

Honorable Mention at Urban Challenges’12 CompetitionWhit Inês Martins, Rita Medina & Susana Ayres Stos

Further Activities

Architectural Photography Worshop, organized by OARS & ARCO

AICO - Architecture International Congress at Oporto

IN SITU - Le Corbusier field trip to France and Switzerland

CIAUD - VI Architecture International Seminar | Architecture and Cosmology

Skills & Competences

Portuguese (Mother Tong) English (Fluent) Spanish (Oral and written understanding) French (Oral and written understanding)

Mac OSX and WindowsGrafishopt Archicad Autodesk AutoCAD VectorWorksAdobe CS Suite SketchUp Pro Rhino

Strong team memberResponsible and positive attitudeStrong capacity to multi-task and to work under pressurePractice in model working and hand drawing

|since 01.2013|

|10.2012 - 02.2013|

|01.2011 - 12.2012|

|02.2010 - 07.2010|

|2010 - 2012|

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In BeTween* SHED, private houseIndependent project for N.Feio Design, London, 2013

This was my very first independent project. It was supposed to be a stu-dio for a couple and the main idea was to be build by ourselves - me and them. With limited resources it should be built with second hand materials, like some bricks from ear-lier construction or recycled woods.and it had to be entirely dismantled. Besides that it is an experiment for me to put my hands on the construc-tion.

Conceptually we are talking about an archetype shelter that deals with the preexistent context and how that relationship creates an in-between space. A space in-between nature and it’s context and a shelter. This relationship eventually developed into two distinct working areas.

This was a studio for a couple who lived in Hackney.

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* day&night view for the garden

* conceptual schemes

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* interior view

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* axonometric view

> a pine wood structure is covered with a thick skin of wood. the skin is maid of 20 detachable ‘sandwich’ panels of tropical wood boards (offered to us) plus thermal isolation and plywood.

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RockingTree*

*CHEST OF DRAWERSIndependent design for

N.Feio Design, London, 2013

This is a project about the memories of a rocking tree...

It all began when the old Chestnut tree on Mrs. Rosário propriety grew too old. On our first conversation didn’t took me long to understand that this was a meaningful tree and that the family wanted to do some-thing special with its wood. They ask me straight to draw a chest of drawers that would go to the main living room of their cottage. My gift to them was a frame of ‘that’ imaged described to me in such nostalgic way of the trunk and the swing on the left side - and on that special sit I placed a secret compartment to contain their old memories.

* conceptual schemes

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* section through drawers, front view, lateral view

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AnonymousArchitecture

* REQUALIFICATION Project for master degree, FA-UTL, 2012

From the construction of the Na-tional Coach Museum’s new building comes the pretext for the discussion of Lisbon’s popular’s constructions rin it’s value and image. On behalf of Anonymous Architecture is pre-sented a study that addresses the urbanity and typological construc-tion remarkable by its topography and characterized by its history. The anonymous architecture reveals itself as a study of the ‘building on built’ that seeks solutions to this city. Solutions of transformation and adaptation to the needs of contem-porary society, but also continuity solutions, continuity of the forms, memory, identity and all that that provides the landscape of Lisbon.

* anonymous architecture in lisbon’s landscape

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“(...) it has always overwhelmed me in Lisbon, the contrast between the fragmented and almost cubist urban structure, influenced by the Arabic culture, and the great constructions, the palaces. This duo determinates the intensity of the architectonic expression. There is no monument in this city without the anonymous continuity of multiple constructions: it’s about

of complementary qualitative aspects. And however, in the city’s evolution, this construc-tion’s role is being lost under the eyes of everybody. The generalized ambition for protago-

nism makes therefore impossible any kind of protagonism. (...)”

Álvaro Siza about Chiado’s Recovery Plan, 1988, “A VERDADE IMPERCEPTIVEL DA BAIXA” A

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* anonymous architecture the new coach museum

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* generic 1st floor plan

* generic ground floor plan

* semi basements plan

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* transversal sections - proposal and museum relationship

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* model - view of the interior street facing the museum

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* elevation south - rua cais da alfandega velha

* section facing north - rua cais da alfandega velha

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* model - general proposal

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307A 317 323 325/327/329 331 333 335 339 341.........................................................Street numbers

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* axonometry of material layers

In each type of operation was created a procedure method. For the housing rehabilitation only the outside shell should remain. After a reinforcement of concrete and a new back facade a ‘core’ would be in-troduced generating new and more flexible spaces more adequate for nowadays life-style.

* section & plans (from left to right) basement room&backyard, entrance floor&kitchen, 1st floor room&mezzanine

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307A 317 323 325/327/329 331 333 335 339 341.........................................................Street numbers

* elevation north - rua da junqueira

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For the new constructed houses there would be a concrete shell. In line with the previous houses a ‘core’ will be place (in I or T positions) in order to define and create space, always trying to maximize the living areas.The goal is to give high quality houses inside the city where so few live.

* sections & plans (from left to right) basement rooms&backyard, entrance floor&kitchen, 1st floor rooms, top balcony for river view

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V e r t i c a l C i t i e s

*PUBLIC EQUIPMENT IN LUZ-SP academic work, FAU-USP, 2010

Vertical cities is a project cov-ering the historical area of São Paulo, Luz. For a freshly arrived foreigner, this place seems dark, dirty and chaotic at daylight and horribly silent during the night. Concerning the normative proj-ects discipline, this proposal at-tempted to give itself to the city with a vast and uniform volume. Taking special attention to the fa-cade, Vertical Cities was treated as it would be a lamp.

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* impressions from the street

tremendous crossover

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chaotic traffic light!

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light!pollution

concrete jungle

chaotic traffic

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8th floor - library

7th floor - library and bookstore

6th floor - preschool



3th floor - kindergarten

2nd floor - kindergarten

1st floor - kindergarten

ground floor - atrium and restaurant

underground floor - cinema

5th floor -gym

3th floor - sports court

1st floor - sports court

ground floor - swimming pool

underground floor - auditorium

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* circulation system

the middle volume houses all vertical accesses and stands as back bone of a living body.

* program scheme

* plans* longitudinal section

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* front & east elevation

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H o u s e I t * INDUSTRY BUILDING REHABILITATION Project for competition, DESAFIOS URBANOS’12, 2013in colaboration with Inês Martins, Rita Medina and Susana Ayres Stos

Responding to Guimarães nomination for European Capital of Culture several culture spots were created in the city: Arts Platform, ASA Factory, Memory House, among others. Those infrastructures will certainly attract new population groups for different periods of time: artists, students, professionals and their families.

The proposal is called HOUSE IT and begins with the skeleton of a Tissue Factory (now deactivated) and fills it with houses that can be assembled and dissembled to answer the needs of this new population. The origin of the project is the maxim ‘easy building and by your own hands’.

The existent buildings were maintained and the proposal only indicates small demolitions in order to clarify form and volume. The inter-vention would be flexible and mutable. Each floor of the antique factory would function as an appropriable open space in which the in-tervention only occurs in the interior facade and with the aperture of four skylights to il-lumination. Therefor the public would appro-priate the building for all kind of activities and would progressively occupy it with the house containers. Industry turns obsolete. Obsolete turns Public. Public turns House.The main proposed program is housing al-though it is complemented by fixed functions: parking, storehouse, workshop, canteen, cof-fees and an extensive external public area that remains in all phases of construction.

* interior facade

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* interior view

maximum capacityworkshop occupying space progressive densification

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cultural spots networking people accommodation for an indefinite time


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unidade dehabitaçãoadicionável

unidades parahabitação +atelier/oficina

usos fixospúblicos ecomunitários

saguão: distribuição,ventilação e luz

acesso pedonal

acesso porelevador

acesso porescadas

acesso automóvel

primeira unidadede habitação

legenda

percurso público

percurso privado

percurso automóvel

unidade dehabitaçãoadicionável

unidades parahabitação +atelier/oficina

usos fixospúblicos ecomunitários

saguão: distribuição,ventilação e luz

acesso pedonal

acesso porelevador

acesso porescadas

acesso automóvel

primeira unidadede habitação

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percurso público

percurso privado

percurso automóvel

additional housing unit

main unit

housing + workplace unit

community area

lighting and ventilation shafts

pedestrian access

lifts

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car access

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* section - unit detail

‘Easy building and by your own hands’

That is the motto for this proposal, aside you have a grid with prefabri-cated pieces of the proposal - room, facilities, shower, kitchen, extra rooms - and an example of the mul-tiple possible combinations you can make with them. This combinations were developed in order to fit in the existing structure of the factory.


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“ I love architecture; I love surrounding buildings; and I suppose I love it when other people love them too (...) it would make me

very happy to have made things which other people love.”

Peter Zumthor

Portfolio as of July 2013 © Diana Noronha Feio

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