architecture portfolio 2015

Architecture Portfolio

RITA ROCHA2015

RITA FORJAZ ROCHAPorto, Portugal

14.10.1992mobile: 00351 919 510 654 (PT) 0049 1623236828 (DE)

[email protected]

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Index

Cafeteriap.6

Teacher’s residence p.12

Collective Housingp.14

GO!V05p.18

Lab FAUPp.20

120 hoursp.24

Crastop.26

Garage Extruderp.28

Cultural Centerp.8

PERSONAL STATEMENT

I consider myself a sympathetic and open minded person who likes creative, encouraging and thrilling environments. Architecture design fascinates me because of its never ending possibilities and the idea of creating a building from sketch to 1:1 details.

Studing Architecture was a challenge that I took gladly and I am eager to contribute with my knowledge in an office.

Regarding working skills I can assure you that I am a hardworking person and that I am very passionate about every project I get involved in. I am always willing to improve myself as well as my skills. I also constantly look for new activities that can enrich me as a person.

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS

2010-current Master in ArchitectureFaculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto

Modules included:• Architectural and Urbanistic Design• Free Drawing• Architecture and Urbanistic Theory • Architecture and Urbanistic History 2014-2015 (Winter semestre) Master in Architecture Technische Universität Berlin

Modules included:• Architectural Design• Urbanistic History and Thinking• Architecture Theory 2007-2010 High School Diploma in Visual ArtsEscola Secundária de Alberto Sampaio

National Exams: • Mathematics (20)• Geometry (20)• Portuguese Language (18)• Free Drawing (16)

SKILLS

Languages• Portuguese mother tongue• English advanced• German upper intermediate • Spanish intermediate

Software• Autodesk AutoCAD advanced• Adobe Photoshop advanced• Adobe Illustrator advanced• Adobe InDesign advanced• Rhinoceros advanced• Office (Word, Excel and PowerPoint) advanced• Vray intermediate• ArchiCAD intermediate

Driver’s License • A1 • B

WORK EXPERIENCE

I worked as a lifegard in the summers of 2013 to 2015 which allowed me to improve my sense of responsability and communication.

INTERESTS AND ACHIEVEMENTS

• Sports: sailing, swimming, dancing, running

2012 participation in the UIM 2012 Partnership between Universidade do Porto, Universidade de Oviedo and Escola Navalwhich developed an high sense of teamwork

• Drawing, writing, reading

2007-2010 colaboration in the megazine “Defacto”2012 colaboration in the newspaper “El Comércio”where I improved my communication skills and working with short deadlines.

• Traveling

2009 organization of schooltrip to Madrid and ARCO where skills as leadership, organising and planning were essential

AWARDS

• Garage Extruder: BUCHPREIS in Concrete Design Competition 2014/15 STRUCTURE(www.concretedesigncompetition.de)

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curriculum

CV vitae

I’m honored to inform you that the applicant Rita Rocha was my student during the school year of 2013/2014 in the subject Projecto IV, in “Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto” (FAUP), Portugal. Besides her human skills, she proved to be remarkably efficient, adding a great amount of accuracy, sensitivity, effort and persistence in her developed work. Therefore, I’m strongly legitimated to affirm that she fulfills all the required skills to be successful at any work she challenges herself to accomplish. Accordingly, without hesitation, I recommend her acceptance. Porto, 29th of June 2015

Nuno Brandão Costa (Architect, teacher in “Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto (FAUP)” – Portugal)

Reccomendation letter Rita Rocha

recomendation letters

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Fakultät | Planen Bauen Umwelt School | Planning Building Environment Institut für Architektur Institute of Architecture Adip Architecture Design Innovation Program www.adip.tu-berlin.de Prof. Dr.sc. Rainer Hehl Sekretariat A61 Strasse des 17. Juni 135 10623 Berlin Fon +49 (0)30. 314 21893 [email protected]

TU Berlin | Straße des 17. Juni 135 | 10623 Berlin

www.tu-berlin.de

Berlin, June 30 2015

Letter of Recommendation To whom it might concern,

This is to state that Rita Forjaz Rocha successfully participated in the Master/Bachelor studio EXTRASPACECRAFT at the Architecture Design Innovation Program ADIP of the Institute for Architecture TU Berlin during the winter semester 2014/2015.

Her work shows excellent skills in research and design and her presentations and theoretical works are proof of great discipline and conceptual consistency. She can very well mediate between different scales and is equally strong in thinking architectural and urban design practice as part of a larger cultural, economic and political frameworks. Her design projects are intelligently developed with a strong emphasis on the concept and the adaptation of building typologies within the given context. As Rita Forjaz Rocha proved to be an excellent student I would like to recommend her for an internship.

Sincerely,

Prof.Dr.sc. Rainer Hehl

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The unique site of this project with no buildings in the surroundings and deeply inserted in the middle of the Oporto’s City Park was quite an

interesting challenge. The concept was to exalt the nature and to qualify the interior spaces through the relation that they establish with the

outside, a relation that is different from space to space.

academic work

cafeteria2011

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floor plan scale 1:100

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coffee shop

cooking zone

storage

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bar counter

7Oporto, Portugal

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sections . scale 1:150

academic work

cultural center2012

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cultural center

teacher’s residence

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The two volumes elevate themselves from the square valuing not only the relation with each other but also drawing the exterior space. The project tries to establish a strong relation with the site in which it implants and

also improve it. The articulation with the “Jardim das Virtudes” was also a very studied aspect.

9Oporto, Portugal

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1. entrance2. box office3. expositions room4. multifunctional room5. stage6. auditorium/conference room7. wc8. control room9. storage

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1. hall/foyer2. cafeteria3. expositions room4. multifunctional room5. stage6. auditorium/conference room7. female wc8. male wc9. administrative room10. storage11. pantry12. workshop13. dock loading and unloading

1. parking access2. emergency exit3. garbage room4. machine room5. dock loading and unloading6. people’s parking acess 7. staff room8. bathroom/dressing room

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teachers’residence

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This project was conceived at the same time as the Cultural Centre and their locations are nearby. The main characteristic of the site is the huge

difference between the heights of the two streets that form the boundaries of the residence. This difference was solved with the creation of two

volumes, distinguished in terms of room types and each one articulated with a different street, and including a public path that connects the two

streets.

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east facade . scale 1:500

west facade . scale 1:500

section + north facade . scale 1:500

1 2 3 4 5 6single room double room bathroom

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Oporto, Portugal

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academic work

collectivehausing2013

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ground floor plan . scale 1:500

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The shape and characteristics of the building find their meaning in the context in which it inserts itself. The ground floor works as a mediation

space between the metro station, north, and the square, south. The facades try to reveal discipline and coherence and not only the direct translation

of the inside necessities. The development of the constructive details of all this ideas also took a big part in defining a more concrete building.

15Oporto, Portugal

type A type B

module with:two bedrooms flat + three bedrooms flat

module with:three bedrooms flat (duplex) + four bedrooms flat (duplex)

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Legenda:1. laje de betão armado 2. betão leve 3.betão de alta resistência4. massame de betão armado c/ rede metálica 5. betonilha de cimento com pavimento radiante6. caixa de areia com pó de cimento 7.camada de seixo 8. brita9. terra 10. tijolo 11. reboco12. reboco hidrófogo 13. aro de madeira 14. rodapé de madeira15. painel de madeira 16. barrote de madeira 17. taveira de madeira18. soalho 19. painel cerâmico 20. cantoneira de aço21. barra chata soldada 22. prumo em aço 23. perfil ómega24. chapa de zinco lisa 25. chapa de zinco ondulada 26. tubular27. guarda em aço 28. caixilho de alumínio 29. vidro duplo30. tela pitonada impermeabilizante 31. manta geotêxtil 32. dreno33. isolamento térmico 34. isolamento acústico 35. fundação de betão armado36. betão de limpeza 37. micro cubo 38. betão à vista39. pintura impermeabilizante incolor 40. pladour 41. pilar de betão armado

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1. steel tubular 2. steel corner3. flat bar4.corrugated zinc plate5. zinc plate6. steel tube7. concrete pillar8. brick9. cork10. mineral wool11. drainage membrane12. plaster13. wood panel14. wood footer

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The proposal lives from the site – an intersection of paths and ways that materialize in the concept of the greek stoa. A space that works as

an attractive pole and also as a market that promotes the interaction and exchange of experiences and knowledge. The program creates self-

employment and enriches the public space. It is also intended for the proposal to take advantage of the characteristics

of the site and use it as a lookout over the city.

competition

GO!V052013

with Diogo Paixão and Sara Martins

floor plan . scale 1:500

19Oporto, Portugal

academic work

lab FAUP2014

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longitudinal section

east facade

The shape and characteristics of the building find their meaning in the context in which it inserts itself. The

ground floor works as a mediation space between the metro station, north, and the

square, south. The facades try to reveal discipline and coherence and not

only the direct translation of the inside necessities. The development of the

constructive details of all this ideas also took a big part

in defining a more concrete building.

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exploded axonometry of the different floors

possible configurations of the class rooms

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steel sheet

concrete

drainage membrane

extruded polystyrene

zinc plate

steel frameworkwindow blind

steel tubular180 x 80 mm

HE360M

concrete

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microcement

crushed stone

concreterigging

drainage membrane

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metal grid

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visualisation of a class room with one open wall

visualisation of a class room with two open walls

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view of the multipurpose room

view of the entrace and model making room

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The project operates in a double base: take the festival to the city and the people to the festival.

The interaction begins outside the the park: stools are scattered all over Oslo. The idea: bring them to the festival. The meeting point stands where

three paths come together and the intervention creates of a variety of chilling and partying spaces. The structure and also the stools are built

using square timber stakes and reused corrugated cardboard.

competition

120 hours2014

with Diogo Paixão

floor plan of the intervention in the festival’s area

25Oslo, Norway

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academic work

Crasto2014

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church in 1967 (right) and in 2013 (left)

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This investigation had as study object the monastery of S. Martinho do Crasto. From this building, whose traces are nowadays really scarce,

only the church subsists, although it had suffered a great number of interventions during the centuries. The goal is to understand how the

monastery and the church were in the Romanesque period. This analysis is made not only in the building scale but also in both a territorial scale

and of the church’s surroundings.

outside facade, inside facade and plas from three of the four nave’s doors . scale 1:100

section looking south . scale 1:200plan proposing the cloister’s location

church in 1967 (below) and in 2013 (above)

Ponte da Barca, Portugal

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academic work

Garage Extruder2015

with Max Rudolph

BRING LIFE TO THE SQUARE - BRING LIFE TO THE SURROUNDINGS

The intervention takes its program and characteristics from the context in which it inserts. The structure is also taken from the site – the generic

grid from the garage under the square. A compact building is constructed above, leaving the ground floor free to be crossed and to make the accesses

to the upper levels.

CONTEXT

GENERIC

existing situation extrude the underground parking for circulation

perforate the volume for light reasons and to plant trees

underground parking with its generic grid

defining three different flat types

creating an artificial topography

5 10 m0N

loor plan and landscape concept . scale 1:500ground f

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axonometric view of the context

Berlin, Germany

Concrete Design Competition 2014/15 STRUCTURE

BUCHPREISwww.concretedesigncompetition.de

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Bringing density and people to the area, creating housing and improving the landscape will create the conditions for the commercial function to work. At the ground floor the possibilities to beneficiate from the park are infinitive with alternated zones of vegetation and concrete associated with trees, benches, a

playground and a skating park. At the roof the neighbours have the possibility not only to profit from a terrace directly above their houses but also to share this space and interact with the others.

possible scenario for the diverse appropriation of the roof tops

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contacts00351 919 510 654 (PT) 0049 1623236828 (DE)

[email protected]

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