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SPA-CLINIC
The chaotic existing space had no chance of being recovered. The program was ambiguous as it should be simultaneously a clinic for medical treatments, with all the hygiene and safety requirements, and also a spa, with zen spaces capable of providing relaxing moments of massages and natural treatments. Two antagonistic spatial sensations. With the design we tried to organize and regulate the geometry of the rough, always searching for the maximum spatial profitability and with total budget constraints. During the preliminary visits on the construction field it was found a basement empty space that quickly ...
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KTM CONCEPT STORE
Combining elegance and energy was the theme for the creation of what may be the image of KTM bike industries in the market: the brand advocates the best quality in this field of action, being distinguished by a superb technique, refining the taste of the consumer. Simultaneously, these consumer constantly crave action, adrenaline, and speed; making pure dynamism a state of mind. Searching for a synergy between these two poles stood the reflection of the program, space and matter available, manageable and above all able to be systamatized. It became evident that the bicycle is ...
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CAMPEÃ RESIDENCE
The concept idea of this project born from an approach to the understanding and respect for the existing topography, which is intended to add value through the new architectural object insertion. Thus, the house recovers that knowledge that has been constructed on our common memory of the act to deploy. It has been in this precise knowledge that it founds the deepest formal, perennial, permanent and territorial values, through the handling of scale and size, meaning itself as an object on the landscape, pointing out as an unique building. It was adopted two volumes of ...
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TRUTH IN ARCHITECTURE
This work is a kind of reflection on what is learnt, perceived and desired. A scientific but also passionate look on the architecture and its memory, mainly, on the genesis of knowledge. It concerns, above all, with the search for the most essential values, the most noble ones, emerging from the need to think about the human condition through the light of architecture. A search for coherence among values, technique and the work produced. Thus, it intrudes objectively in a constant search for truth, for the essence of architecture, already intended by some, whose levels ...
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ACADEMIC PAVILLION AEFAUP 09
The Aefaup bar aspires to be the center of the most diverse experiences of the students in an intense week specially devoted to them. Adding to the light, the music and the alcohol, whichEs have always been the mains elements of the atmosphere of this space, we pretend to combine a strong spatial concept, with architectural stamp. It has been developed the handmade visible face of the architectural artifact, by the creation of a skin objectified by establishment of a construction rule that justifies and qualifies that space. Comparing with a body, anatomy and skin, ...
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LUXURY HOTEL IN SIRACUSA
The place is exciting, worn by time, calls for an intervention, an anchor that trigges any development that lackes on the forgotten south of Italy. Luxury Hotel. Citing a friend: “Luxury is I want to hear at three in the morning [4 of the violin concerto in D major of the] Mozart and have a full orchestra to play for me.” Luxury Hotel means to provide and project spaces for the most unthinkable whims of billionaires who will want to make thousands of miles to spend a few nights of “relax” in Syracuse. But the ...
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CINEMA PALACE IN LOCARNO
The film festival of Locarno has gained prestige over the years so their turnout rises. With the need to construct a building for its unique achievement in a small field located near to the Castle Square, comes the challenge of responding functionally to the 10 cinema rooms and at the same time not compromising the flow inside. As also an intrinsic challenge the building would have to respond to standard Minergie-P, it means having an energy expenditure below 40 MJ/m2. The building is built in the shape of a tower creating a ground floor at ...
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VERTICAL CITY
The reflection about what is or could be a vertical city was the starting point of this project. Its main body was the research and development of ideas but not as an end goal but as a methodology of reasoning. Programme, scale and location are considered by each self. In all “brainstorming” that was set up the final result that appeared is a building that was born in the ruins of the sunk of Vilarinho das Furnas, in northern Portugal. The verticality is the basic concept with the premise that the natural environment was found ...
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ACADEMIC PAVILLION AEFAUP 07
It is intended that bar Aefaup for the diploma students party of 2007 overcomes itself, both as architectural object, as an integral reference subject of a place designed for students. The experience of this construction will be made, mainly at night, so the basic idea of the design emerged from the clear distinction of what is opaque and translucent, the interior and exterior, the interior projected on the exterior. Assuming the area of influence of the counter as the most important, as the main creator of the spaces and experiences, materialized in the form of ...
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SWIMMING POOL AND GYM COMPLEX
The city takes up almost entirely by the program of housing, though the exceptional programs or equipments are along with public spaces that reference it, giving it unity and consequent identity. We asked a sports complex for the area of Carcereira in Oporto, including an indoor pool and a gym. The land is located in the margin of one of the new doors of the city, marked by the average population density and converging accessibility of fast speed with more interior streets and therefore more protected. The moments of waiting of the city marks presence ...
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RESIDENTIAL BUILDING IN BOAVISTA
In an area marked by the confluence of different realities, the urban network is not yet fully consolidated, and there are empty waiting spaces because of the strength of Boavista Avenue in the city. In this context, this project aims to provide direction and bring these various pieces, with the stimulus of the spot, the preexistence and new cultural references. In a plan that included the construction of three major housing buildings, the creation of a new street and the creation of a new square, consistent flow of people generated by the enterprise of Burgo, ...