Gonçalo Assis Lopes

Gonçalo Assis Lopes

Curriculum

Selected WorksPortfolio

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CONTACTS

Address: Av. Patrão Joaquim Lopes n.º 12, r/c esquerdo, 1770-134 Paço de Arcos, Portugal

Phone: +(351) 93 243 51 75

Mail: [email protected]

Skype: goncalo.assis.lopes

BIOGRAPHY

Born in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1976.

Studied architecture at Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade Técnica de Lisboa,

graduating in 2004.

Has collaborated with Architect José Nuno Cabral Beirão between 1996 and 1998, with Architect

Gonçalo Byrne between 1998 and 2000, with Atelier Bugio (Architects João Favila, Teresa Goes

Ferreira and Luís Filipe Rosário) between 2000 and 2005, and with Architect João Pedro Falcão de

Campos between 2004 and 2005.

In these structures he assumed di#erent positions that went from collaborator

to project co-ordinator.

Establishes his own o$ce in 2005.

Establishes Atelier de Alcântara together with Architect Rui Gouveia Vinagre in 2008.

Joined Consulgal in 2011 as Supervisor Architect for Construction Supervision, Design and Docu-

ment Review for 3300 housing units and service buildings in Al Zentan, Libya

His activity as an architect has approached a diversified number of areas such as facilities (hotel/

commercial/learning), restoration/rehabilitation/monuments, housing, inspection and technical

support to projects in construction and design, with the continuous goal of developing his practice

as a multi-disciplined activity with various scales.

CURRICULUM

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AD. TRAINING

Workshops promoted by CONSULGAL

Risk Management

Project Management with PRIMAVERA P6

Quality, Health and Safety Integrated Systems

Archicad Course by INFOR

UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE ESOL EXAMINATIONS

Certificate of Proficiency in English (CPE)

First Certificate in English (FCE)

COMP. SKILLS

MAC OS X, Windows, iWork (Pages, Numbers, Keynote),

Microsoft O$ce (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Project), Archicad, Autocad,

Photoshop, InDesign, Dreamweaver

LANGUAGES

Portuguese

Fluent (first language)

English

Fluent

First Certificate in English (FCE)

Certificate of Proficiency in English (CPE)

Spanish

Basic

French

Basic

CURRICULUM

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CURRICULUM

PROJECTS

AS CO-PARTNER

2008 - 2011

Atelier De Alcântara . Arquitectos (Gonçalo Assis Lopes and Rui Gouveia Vinagre)

2010

Paredes Cooperative Competition - 8th PLACE in 40 PROPOSALS

2010

A House in Luanda Competition:

Patio and Pavilion for Trienal de Arquitectura de Lisboa - PRE-SELECTION

2010

Exhibit Design Competition for Trienal de Arquitectura de Lisboa

in the Electricity Museum - 3rd PLACE

2009

Beach support equipment

2008

João Abrantes apartment remodelling, Lisbon

PROJECTS

SOLO PROJECTS

2000 - 2010

Own O!ce

2007

Program for a Business School in Yichang, China

2007

Apartment refurbishment in Outeiro, Oeiras

2006

Layout for the Stockmarket fair, Loulé

Layout for the Stockmarket fair, Porto

Layout for the Stockmarket fair, Leiria

Layout for the Stockmarket fair, Lisbon

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2001

Margarida Castro Neves house, Oeiras

2000 – 2008

Assis Lopes house, Sintra

2000

Miguel Crespo house, Lisbon

PROJECTS

IN COLLABORATION

2004 – 2005

Architect João Pedro Falcão de Campos

2004 – 2005

Manuel Byrne house, Lisbon

2000 – 2005

Atelier Bugio (Architects João Favila, Teresa Goes Ferreira e Luís Filipe Rosário)

2005

3 housing buildings, Estoril

2004

António Calisto house, Pavia

2003 – 2004

Expansion of Porto Santo Hotel, Porto Santo

2003

Public competition for the rehabilitation of Santa Maria Fort and Lighthouse, Cascais

João Andrade house, Funchal

Quinta da Alegria Hotel, Funchal

2002

Pedro Tavares house, Funchal

Quinta da Casa Branca Hotel (2ª phase), Funchal

2001

Milles house, Funchal

Restaurants and support facilities in Praia do Carvalhal, Comporta

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CURRICULUM

2000 - 2004

Conversion of apartment into a lawyer’s o$ce, Lisbon

2000

Rua do Carmo building, Funchal

1998 – 2000

Architect Gonçalo Byrne, GB Architects

1999

Public competition for the remodelling and expansion of Machado

de Castro National Museum, Coimbra (1º prize)

1999

Public competition for the Tecnicrédito head o$ce building, Lisbon (1º prize)

1998 -2000

Project revision and technical assistance to the construction

of the Aveiro University Rectorate, Aveiro

1998

New wing for Quinta das Lágrimas Hotel, Coimbra

1996 - 1998

Architect José Nuno Beirão

1998

Violeta ll shoe store, Lisbon

Andrew’s Ties store, Lisbon

1997

Ratinho shoe store, Lisbon

Violeta shoe store, Lisbon

1996

Helius shoe store, Braga

Bandarra lll shoe store, Lisbon

Bessone Basto house, Alenquer

Public contest for municipal library, Chamusca

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CURRICULUM

TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE | SUPERVISION | INSPECTION

AS CO-PARTNER

2008 - 2011


2010

Inspection report on the conservation state of a building situated

in Praça Duque de Saldanha, Lisbon


SOLO PROJECTS

2000 - 2010

Own O!ce

2008 - 2010

Technical Assistance and Construction Supervision of A.L. house in Banzão, Sintra

2006 - 2007

Technical Assistance and Construction Supervision for an apartment refurbishment

in Arco do Cego, Lisbon (Project by Architect Pedro Castro Neves)

2005

Technical Assistance and Construction Supervision for the roofing

of a building in Arco do Cego, Lisbon (Project by Architect Pedro Castro Neves)


IN COLLABORATION

2011 – Present day

Consulgal

2011 - Ongoing

Construction Supervision, Design and Document review as Supervisor Architect

for 3300 housing units and Service Buildings in Al Zentan, Libya

2004 – 2005

Architect João Pedro Falcão de Campos

2005

Technical Assistance and Construction Supervision of M.B. house, Lisbon


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2000 – 2005


2003 - 2005

Technical Assistance and Construction Supervision for the conversion

of an apartment into a lawyer’s o$ce, Lisbon

1998 – 2000

Architect Gonçalo Byrne, GB Architects

1998 - 2000

Technical Assistance to the construction of the Aveiro University Rectorate Building, Aveiro

1996 - 1998

Architect José Nuno Beirão

1998

Technical Assistance and Construction Supervision for the construction

of Violeta ll Shoe Store, Lisbon

1998


of Andrew’s Ties Store, Lisbon

1997


of Ratinho Shoe Store, Lisbon

1997


of Violeta Shoe Store, Lisbon

1996


of Bandarra Shoe Store lll, Lisbon

1996


of B.B. house, Alenquer


DESIGN

AS CO-PARTNER

2008 - 2011


2010

Pharmacy reception desk modules

2009

Alcântara table

DESIGN

SOLO PROJECTS

2000 - 2010

Own O!ce

2007

Banzão bed

Banzão drawer unit

2007

Sofa 3x

Sofa 1x

2005

Drawer unit

2005

Sideboard

Library/working desk stand

2003

70x70 bed


DESIGN

IN COLLABORATION

2000 – 2005


2004

Furniture design for a lawyer’s o$ce consisting on reception desk, working desks,

conference tables and sideboards

2004

Furniture design for the expansion on Porto Santo Hotel consisting of tables, closets, benches,

reception desks, exhibition stands and lockers.

2004

Furniture design for António Calisto house consisting on free-standing closets,

working desks and sideboards.

Selected Works

PORTFOLIO

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CONTEXT

Situated next to an anchor public space such as Alameda Dr. José Cabral, the plot for the pro-

posal represents a border element to a public space system of expressive scale for the centre of

Paredes. Defined by relatively steep fronts on the southwest and northeast, the plot has only two

leveled fronts on the northwest and southeast, a fact that has decisively contributed to the proj-

ect’s definition. Within the quarter, although with a regular shape, exists a private building which

inevitably assigns a scale that the proposal has to deal with regardless of the extensive program it

has to answer.

INTERVENTION PHILOSOPHY

The proposal consists on five key elements: Cooperative’s Services, Earth Market, Design Incuba-

tor, Creative Residencies, Restaurant/Café Area and Car Parking that supports not only all the build-

ing but also functions as a public car parking silo. Taking into account the program, the topography

as well as the surrounding context, the proposal is defined by three distinct elements.

The first building serves as a concrete podium which occupies the totality of the plot and be-

comes an elevated public square on its roof, establishing a clear relationship with the surrounding

tree tops as well as the Alameda Dr. José Cabral public space. This is the building that manages

all accesses and houses the programs related to the Cooperative’s Services, Earth Market and

parking facilities, since their functioning depends on a deep and close physical proximity and ef-

fective communication. It also establishes a direct relationship with the street and promotes the

public character and nature this proposal has, simultaneously managing the access to the other

proposal’s elements as well as “sowing” the volume and scale set by the adjacent private building.

The second building houses the Restaurant/Café, resting over the square generated by the Podium

Building and acts as a front to the Infante D. Henrique Street while the third building contains the

Creative Residencies and the Design Incubator.

The Restaurant/Café and Creative Residencies/Design Incubator buildings function in contrast to

the Podium Building’s solid appearance, with apparent nervorated concrete slabs and pillars en-

closed by transparent elements and lined from the outside by white micro-perforated steel sheets

that serve as mediator element between the exterior and the interior worlds on both buildings, as

a translucent veil that covers their apparent constructive and structural honesty.

PROJECT BY: Atelier de Alcântara . Arquitectos [Gonçalo Assis Lopes + Rui Gouveia Vinagre] with Pedro PedrosoROLE: Co-Author

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1. Infante D. Henrique Street View

2. Dr. José Cabral Street View

3. GNR Street Elevation

4. Alameda Dr. José Cabral Elevation

5. Market View

6. D. Afonso Henriques Elevation

7. Cross Section

8. Cooperative’s Patio

10. Model

9. Proposal’s Axonometry

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THEME

The main goal for the current competition was to design a single family dwelling that is radically

cheap to build for Luanda aimed at severely deprived families and capable of generating urban fabric.

Such a program shouldn’t instantaneously lead to an idea of lesser quality but rather a need to find

a way of rationally building a platform of wellbeing with the available resources. This also implies

not only a physical architectural solution but also one that tries to understand its social, cultural

and economical dimensions for it to have some kind of positive result.

PROPOSAL’S PRINCIPLES

–Flexibility and dialog between dwelling and urban fabric

First and foremost it has been understood that dwellings of this nature in Luanda have a dimen-

sion that surpasses the single function of sheltering a family. It has a far richer set of variables that

include physical space as a currency or a very important role in socialisation. Therefore, flexibility of

use is a precious asset as well as the capacity of the proposed dwelling unit to produce and stimu-

late productive relationships with the far wider urban fabric, be it economical, social or cultural.

–Economical stimulation, self-construction and sustainability

Instead of considering the economical restraints of the competition program as a barrier we

choose to use it as a vehicle to stimulate Luanda’s economy through the use of its own raw ma-

terials (such as the extensive use of Adobe and Lime), avoiding any kind of imported materials that

could greatly increase construction costs.

Our proposal is thought out to encourage self-construction, developing the use of simple known

and common construction techniques with building materials that have practically no production

costs, are environmentally friendly and provide proven habitability and comfort. It also has another

advantage to this process as it is a way of giving specific training to people who can profit from

this fact in the future.

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–Creating urban fabric through a dwelling unit

The proposed dwelling unit can automatically create two hierarchies that could extend to the

urban fabric. The East-West axis generated by the blocks become public galleries o#ered by each

house as mediator spaces between what is private and what is public, stimulating economical and

social interaction, where a single cell of a house can become a shop, a shaded space or a place

to just simply be and the car tra$c less intense. The South-North axis can have two di#erent con-

figurations: one narrower to easily cross through blocks and one wider to provide a heavier tra$c

solution in order to link to main arteries.

–Phased construction

Although the competition regulation specifies a gross building area of 100 m2 we believe that such

a proposal should foresee a phased construction of the dwelling units so that it could accom-

modate a progressive solution to multiple situations. Although the proposal as presented has the

stipulated 100 m2 it has the possibility of beginning at 50 m2 and expand up to 150 m2 of gross

building area. It is our belief that by providing this kind of possibilities the more probability it has to

answer to the multiple needs of an ever growing fabric of a metropolis such as Luanda.

THE DWELLING UNIT

Given a lot of 10x25m, our proposal is structured by five di#erent programatic transverse strips

generated by two pavilions (Social Pavilion and Private Pavilion), a patio between the two pavilions

and two wings (Urban Wing and Ventilation Wing) at each top. The lot is structured by modular

cells dimensioned for an optimal span for an adobe construction and by this fact it is easy for it to

be phased and controlled as an evolving organism without losing its unity.

Fronting the lot the Urban Wing, a shaded gallery, promotes the relationship between the private realm

and the public urban reality. It is where all kinds of social interactions could take place: a commercial

stand, an entrance to a shopping cell, to a house or just a place in the shade where you can be.

The Social Pavilion gathers two multipurpose cell that could be a living room, room or shop and

the services (a kitchen and the bathroom).

The patio becomes the functioning heart of the house by assuming its central position in the lot.

It’s not just a circulation space but one that promotes gathering (a social space) or even self sus-

tainability (such as the possibility of having, for example, a vegetable garden), also allowing cross

ventilation and light for both pavilions. The patio also allows the construction of a future third pavil-

ion based on its structural modulation so that further uses can be attributed to the house.

The Private Pavilion is made of three cells which can be divided or make up a full open space so

that a room can also become a living and social space.

At the back top of the lot a ventilation wing is created so that cross ventilation and generous light-

ing can come from both sides of the Private Pavilion.

PROJECT BY: Atelier de Alcântara . Arquitectos [Gonçalo Assis Lopes + Rui Gouveia Vinagre] with Pedro Pedroso + Ricardo Alves

ROLE: Co-Author

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1. Urban Fabric

2. Street Block Elevation

3. Floor Plan

4. Longitudinal Section

5. Cross Section

7. Social Pavilion

6. Street View

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9. Private Pavilion

8. Multipurpose Patio

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CONTEXT

Being part of Lisbon’s Architecture Triennale in 2010, the exhibition design competition for the Elec-

tricity Museum (formerly named Central Tejo) bears the particularity of being located in a building of

significant importance in Lisbon’s 20th century history, being somewhat a testament to technological

and energetic evolution which makes it an important object in portuguese industrial history.

The fact that the proposal is located in the old low pressure boiler room ended up dictating the

proposal’s philosophy. This room was originally modulated bearing in mind the specific boilers it

would house, resulting in a regular island grid (boilers) limited by a structural metallic set around

the machines. The machine dictated the structural grid.

PROPOSAL

Three modular illuminated vitreous blocks serve as support for the exhibitions’ information. A first

one, standing and framed by the existing structure and situated at the entrance’s axis, contains the

common information to the two running exhibitions. The other two, lying down, precede each of

the exhibitions. The Merchandizing cell, as an object, is framed by the information blocks.

Given the identical material and number of works to be exhibited, each one of the exhibitions is

supported by a black MDF monolith whose location is established by the rules set by the existing

steel structure, much in the same way the boilers that once occupied the same space. Each black

monolith integrates a set of internally lighted cells that match the number of works to be exhibited,

being that each one has its own space even if they are a part of a set. The dimensioning of each

cell takes into account the location of physical models on its base and information panels on the

back wall, as well as the necessary space for the identification of each presented work.

Both monolithic elements rest over a black MDF plateau covered in black linoleum with a text line

referring to their exhibition and identifying the participant of each competition, thus defining their

limit and reenforcing the direction of each exhibition path.

Through this modular construction, as well as the nature of the materials used, the proposal aims

at low construction costs and acknowledge the industrial character with an ever increasing pre-

sence in our day to day lives, having the actual Electricity Museum Building as one of the most

representative elements in its origin in this city.

PROJECT BY: Atelier de Alcântara . Arquitectos [Gonçalo Assis Lopes + Rui Gouveia Vinagre] with Sílvia PrudêncioPHOTOGRAPHY: Nuno Sousa Monteiro and João AbrantesROLE: Co-Author

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2. General Floor Plan

1. Existing Boilers

3. Axonometry

4. General View

5. Exhibition Spaces Defined by Existing Structure

6. Entrance

7. Foyer

8. Information Monoliths for Both Exhibitions

9. Exhibition Spaces

10. Entrance to Both Exhibitions

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Located in the Alvalade neighborhood, a challenge was set to remodel an apartment with a strict low

budget. The program consisted on the transformation of a 70m2 apartment made up by minimal com-

partments into a space for a single person with the possibility of becoming a first house for a couple.

Given the available budget and the advanced state of degradation of the walls and ceiling, as well as

the fact of it being the top floor without any kind of thermal insulation, the proposal consisted in min-

imal demolition works as to gain a bigger living room, new windows, kitchen and bathroom, while

restoring all wall and ceiling surfaces and ensuring an e#ective thermal insulation through the ceiling.

The heart of the house is made by a permeable wall paneling grouping all the house’s accesses,

becoming a set of bookshelves in the living room and a storage cabinet as a mediator element

between public and private space allowing to create a private circulation without compromising

the already small areas.

PROJECT BY: Atelier de Alcântara . Arquitectos [Gonçalo Assis Lopes + Rui Gouveia Vinagre]ROLE: Co-Author

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1. Floor Plan

3. Wall Panelling Details

2. Axonometry

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4. Wall Panelling

5. Living Room Window

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The proposal consisted in the conversion of a summer row house into one that had the capacity

to be inhabited all year round.

The demolition of the preexistent house was dictated not only by the degraded state due to poor

construction quality, making it unable to face the region’s characteristic climate, but also by the

succession of spaces without any kind of logical structure or appropriate scale as well as the will

to add additional area the former construction couldn’t handle.

Since the intervention was in a single row house unit, the housing set’s common elements were

used to solve the volume and openings as to make the proposal as silent as possible.

The proposal kept the existing structure made by frontal garden, house with full plot’s width and back

garden. Both fronts were extended and, instead of the preexistent multiple roof planes, the highest

roof ridge was extended resulting in just two roof planes as well as doubling the first floor’s area.

The house was organized through three functional strips that correspond at ground level to ser-

vices, common areas and private areas. However, these relationships can be altered as they’re

separated through two big sliding doors that allow multiple relations between the strips, from cells

to open space. On the upper level, with the ability to function autonomously and structured by

the house’s functional strips, are situated two rooms, a small living room/study and a bathroom.

The proposed materials characterize the functions they serve. Painted or waxed wood floors give

temperature to living and private spaces, white marble and handmade tiles for service and wet spaces.

Systematically resorting to handmade work regarding woodworks, stoneworks and metalworks

was probably the project’s greatest challenge. But there was still space for good surprises...

PROJECT BY: Own O!cePHOTOGRAPHY: António NascimentoROLE: Author

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1. Ground Floor Plan

2. First Floor Plan

3. Section

4. Street View

5. Entrance View

6. Back Garden | Swimming Pool

8. Suite Living Room | Dinning Room | Kitchen

7. Entrance Living Room

9. Staircase | First Floor Living Room

10. Kitchen

12. Bathroom

11. Bedroom

Built in its first version during the 50’s, the Porto Santo Hotel extends perpendicularly towards the

beach as a contained volume, not exceeding two storeys as to accentuate the surrounding con-

text and its green areas.

The part of the building where the extension takes place, as well as the area where the original

Hotel is located, has an orientation towards the South with a gentle topography.

This plot portion, once of agricultural nature, presented a certain aridity due to a strong south

exposure, its proximity to the sea and the sand nature of the soil. The extension project is located

in a plot strip situated at the eastern side of the preexistent hotel, with the main goal of equipping

the hotel of a better infrastructure regarding sun and sand thalassotherapy while articulating it with

the existent hotel structure.

The proposal’s landscape integration was achieved through matter and volume. Its skin is made

by sand and lime mortar, covering simple volumes in memory of Porto Santo Island’s popular and

vernacular constructions.

Integrating itself within the philosophy/atmosphere of the preexistent hotel, the proposal develops

through an outer wall as protection and limit to the palm plantation, accentuating the hotel’s green

area oasis character. The new building is structured through a succession of patios and gardens

that generate inward spaces that enhance its silent and serene character.

All built areas are developed through one walled storey as if it were a single volume. Inside exists

a thalassotherapy unit with four distinct areas comprising Car Parking, Bungalows/Gardens, SPA

and Outer Pool.

A lot of e#ort was put into maintaining this place’s natural, historical and built character, creating

a close relationship with the preexistent elements as well as complementing its hotel capacities.

The proposal is intended to have a discrete and friendly presence, a vernacular architecture where

a modern concept doesn’t collide with ancestral building knowledge.

by João Favila

PROJECT BY: Atelier Bugio [João Favila]PHOTOGRAPHY: Leonardo FinottiROLE: Chief Architect for Detailed Design [Execution Project]

.6PORTO SANTO HOTELEXTENSION

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1. Site Plan

4. Reception Area II

3. Reception Area I

2. Outer Pool

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The intervention philosophy kept the main principles adopted through the initial project where

special attention was given to the preservation of consolidated green areas and large sized trees,

the conservation of the farm’s main old dwelling as a way to preserve its intimate character and

close relationship with the surrounding area.

The extension is made up by two volumes. The first volume is a building structured in two floors

where the ground floor has five rooms and a suite, as well as a reading room, and the first floor

houses seven rooms and a suite.

Through the ground floor is articulated its connection to the preexistent building through a funnel

shaped arm, while the new body sets a new frame to the garden area.

The rooms in this new body have more generous areas and benefit from an even more intimate

garden. On the first floor a wide living room provides a relaxing area and attached to the main body

two volumes house the public toilets and floor pantry.

The second volume is a supporting facility to the swimming pool, with a bar, terrace and services.

by João Favila

PROJECT BY: Atelier Bugio [João Favila]PHOTOGRAPHY: Leonardo FinottiROLE: Collaborator during Detailed Design [Execution Project]

.7QUINTA DA CASA BRANCAEXTENSION

2. Garden View

1. Access Path View

It’s as desperating as it is fascinating to see two thousand years of history before the eyes con-

densed in an urban/architectonic set to which we are called to intervene.

The dive into time (what is architecture if not the impression in time of the built artifice) is obsessive

and eager to find the seam of successive transformations and reasons which led them to be produced.

The architect absolutely needs history because he steps into preexistent territories, but mainly

because the project leads the transformation that leaves by and in time.

The direct verification of time objectified through the successive layers brings close the archeolo-

gist to the architect to the point they almost can be confused.

The mastering of the concrete, of things, brings them closer. Aren’t things built nowadays by us

just another layer in the several preceding contemporaneities? What values, sensibilities or uses are

there going to be imprinted?

During two millenniums site’s history accumulates the crossing of many histories and an archeo-

logical site shows us not only one but several buildings that extended or overlapped or crossed,

destroying or fragmenting themselves, generating residues, hesitations, firmness, abuse, rudeness

or fantastic revelations, fascinating, beautiful.

After the path we’ve taken through the historic readings summoned by archeological reports,

through the architectures we crossed from dawn till dusk, if something appears as touchingly beau-

tiful in this uptown Coimbra, it’s the extraordinary symbiosis between built shapes and the hill’s ge-

ography, where tectonics acquire a topographic value, in a global crystalline system made of voids

and emergencies in which the Aeminium cryptoporticum’s immanence is decisively in its origin.

by Gonçalo Byrne

PROJECT BY: Gonçalo ByrnePHOTOGRAPHY: Rui Morais de SousaROLE: Collaborator during Competition

.8MACHADO DE CASTRO N. MUSEMCOMPETITION

! PAGE 45 "MACHADO DE CASTRO N. MUSEUM COMPETITION

1. Competition Model

The Aveiro University Central Building spacialy and functionally represents the construction con-

clusion of the University Campus.

The “Rectory House’s” and “Aula Magna’s” strong programatic contents in its institutional values,

and the place, simultaneously at the centre and axis of the University Campus, provide this inter-

vention of a referential character that’s important to respect.

This complex space, as complex and complementary are the activities from the University Commu-

nity it will house must symbolize the presence of the University’s “Casa Mater”. It internally articulates

as a “microcosmos” the diversity of competencies and activities, however, having a common direc-

tion and complementary logic that must be apparent in the building and its diverse spaces.

A “Casa Mater” that contains several houses or perfectly identifiable spaces within the building, that

represents in contemporaneity what was once, in example, the convent typology. We are clearly

before a mixed situation that reflected the typological choice, herself also being of a mixed char-

acter, crossing an elongated block typology with a closed square one which will allow with a clear,

continuous and simple distributive scheme to articulate a set of spaces with di#erent characters.

The serving spaces (monumental atrium, “impluvium” atrium, street, corridors and galleries, or

even the Rectorate’s elevated garden) are understood in continuity of the exterior spaces, bringing

into the building the same urban sense of internalized “micro-city”, where the diversity of atmo-

spheres has a fundamental role.

by Gonçalo Byrne

PROJECT BY: Gonçalo ByrnePHOTOGRAPHY: Rui Morais de SousaROLE: Collaborator for the Detailed Design Review and Technical Assistance

.9AVEIRO UNIVERSITYRECTORATE

! PAGE 47 "AVEIRO UNIVERSITY RECTORATE

2. Main Hall

1. Main Entrance View

! PAGE 49 "BANZÃO BED

Structure: Afizélia Wood

Finishing: Shellac

Dims: 1580 x 2080 x 260mm

PROJECT BY: Own O!cePHOTOGRAPHY: António NascimentoPRODUCED BY: Filipe de Sousa

.10BANZÃO BED

! PAGE 51 "SOFA 3X

Structure: Afizélia Wood

Finishing: Shellac

Dims: 1966 x 682 x 600mm

PROJECT BY: Own O!cePHOTOGRAPHY: António NascimentoPRODUCED BY: Filipe de Sousa

.11SOFA 3X

Reference Letters

JOÃO PEDRO FALCÃO DE CAMPOSJOÃO FAVILA %ATELIER BUGIO&

GONÇALO BYRNEJOSÉ NUNO CABRAL BEIRÃO

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Gonçalo Assis LopesAddress: Av. Patrão Joaquim Lopes n.º 12, r/c esquerdo, 1770-134 Paço de Arcos, PortugalPhone: +(351) 93 243 51 75Mail: [email protected]

Skype: goncalo.assis.lopes

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