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2050-02-21T04:23:00.000-08:00

xposed-en

2011-11-17T07:00:00.000-08:00

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[11-031_Xposed - open day]
Ephemeral project for the inauguration of a Photography Studio at LX-Factory's Open Day (Lisbon).
[XposedLxfactory]

ponte zezere

2011-10-12T04:35:00.000-07:00

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[11-028_ponte zêzere]
Footbridge over the Zêzere River. The development of the village of Constância is intimately linked with the two rivers that surround it. Due to the fast growth of pedestrian and cycling tourism and its impact in the local economy, it is more urgent than ever to build a footbridge that allows a fluid transition between the two margins of the Zêzere river. The existing connection is an old bridge which makes the connection between the village and nautical centre (in the opposit riverbank) long and time consuming, in addition to creating a detour in the Grande Rota do Tejo pedestrian route. The new pedestrian bridge should allow a smooth connection between the village, the nautical centre and the GR Tejo route.

One of the key factors of the project is the maximum flood level which is approximately 15m above the river bed. This defines the height of the footbridge, positioning it in a relatively high level when compared with the level of the village's centre. A spiraling ramp was placed on the left riverbank (Constância) to overcome this level difference. This ramp wanders in between the trees in order to refrain its visual impact and allowing views over the village and the river.

camping

2011-06-22T11:59:00.000-07:00

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[10-025_CAMPING DE ABRANTES]
Along the Tejo (Tagus) River and across from the city of Abrantes, the plot naturally establishes a border between the intricate layout of the surrounding houses and the river.
This project presents a footprint that takes advantage of the morphology of that frontier and becomes a unifying, continuous structure. This new building is capable of containing the whole functional program and involve all the pre-existing structures on the north front of the plot , creating a continuous, organic and smooth surface. Its structure, open and permeable, allows a direct and constant relation with the green surroundings throughout the whole extension of the building and all areas of the program.
The whole structure is walkable along a gallery that communicates with the outside and that allows access to all program areas on the inside. This gallery is marked by a façade composed of a repetition of vertical elements, a louvre that creates a physical barrier that is interrupted by openings that allow access to the camping site.

brevemente

2011-06-17T09:49:00.000-07:00

...brevemente
...coming soon

TESTE

2011-05-23T07:26:00.000-07:00

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[00-000_NOME DO PROJECTO]Texto

minde-home

2011-04-21T10:59:00.000-07:00

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[CO10-009_FÁBRICA DE CULTURA] competition - 3rd prize
In the village of Minde, Alcanena, this project aims for the redevelopment of the old Emídio da Silva Raposo Spinning Factory, of which a large industrial warehouse with a shed like roof is the most important remainder. This volume concentrates the most relevant symbolic constructive elements and is the motivation for a re-use that can convoke its dignity back into a renovated spatial experience.
The top level of this pre-existence is activated with a large open-space that accesses five autonomous cultural associations. This entrance hall that houses spaces of shared use by all the five cultural associations, accessed directly from the street by means of a simple ramp, is the moment that defines the concept of this proposal.
From the pavement of this level emerge the stairs that give access to the inferior level, distributing directly to each of the program nuclei.
Each nucleus (one per each of the five cultural associations) holds its specific program and expands to the outside of the footprint of the original building according to its needs. From the design of each of the nucleus (resulting of its specific needs) emerge interstitial spaces that can hold performances form each of the associations that surround it.

In collaboration with Rui Mendes.

cdi-home

2011-02-11T09:35:00.000-08:00

[CO010-009_CDI] Information and Documentation Center of the Alcântara Maritime Station - competition - 1st prize
The installation of a Documentation and Information Centre (CDI) in the Alcântara Maritime Station in Lisbon intends to give a new life to an historical but abandoned building.
In the interior of the pre-existing building, a void will house a new and contemporary volume, in a material contrasting with its environment, that moulds to the containing space but is detached from its limits, generating four levels. This allows an integral reading of its shape and to gather the light coming form the openings in the existing façades.
Its vitrified, shiny and reflecting material marks the building's transformation and points towards the Lisbon harbour's future. In the CDI we propose the creation of a unifying and guiding “line”, a “conducting wire” that simultaneously bears the technical and energy supply infrastructures, becoming an interface for the user to manipulate the multimedia exhibition and works as an architectural element like a railing or a lamp.

In collaboration with Nelson Magro

Project under development

quiosque-home

2011-02-11T08:46:00.000-08:00

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[10-024_quiosque tejo]
This is the first piece of a series that integrates the Médio Tejo project, that aims the touristic development of the banks of the river Tejo between Abrantes and Vila-Nova-da-Barquinha. This kiosk is a complement to the open-air amphitheatre that faces the river located in the Vila-Nova-da-Barquinha Urban Park.
These equipments are made out of geometrically simple modular pieces, repeatable throughout the whole Médio Tejo Route. The concrete prefab pieces are the stabilized elements that hold the steel accessories that convert them into different programs.

casaluanda-home

2010-09-28T09:44:00.000-07:00

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[CO010-005_CASA LUANDA] international competition

This was an ideas competition for low budget housing, with no defined site but with pre-established dimensions.
The plot is defined by a continuous wall along its perimeter, inducing the possibility of the occupation of the entire plot.
The construction of this containment element anchors the house's nuclei, that attached to the wall's four folds, reveal different interior-exterior relations possibilities, gathered around a central inner courtyard. The four nuclei, separated from each other, make evident a rationalization of all the infrastructural networks and equipments: the whole installation is visible, attached to the peripheral walls due to its constructive clarity and due to the simple execution of reparations or expansion. The nucleus that contains the water areas (kitchen/eating and toilet/hygiene) and the living nucleus extend in a porch towards the patio, crossing the plot.

In collaboration with Rui Mendes.

trienal-home

2010-01-28T10:45:00.000-08:00

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[CO09-005_TRIENAL 2010] international competition - 2nd prize
The Berardo Collection Museum will hold the exhibition of the Trienal de Arquitectura de Lisboa 2010 (Lisbon Architecture Triennale 2010). The concept for the exhibition space emerges from the reflection about the themes proposed by the Triennale – 5 nucleus along a path of dialogue between North (Scandinavia+Switzerland) and South (Africa+Brazil), with Portugal as a hinge articulating those two extremes. We conceived a platform which generates a unified space without frontiers or barriers, like a commune surface with no hierarchy as a starting point.
This PLATFORM-table is the main exhibition support and is built out of rigorously equal pieces set apart from each other to allow visitors to circulate between them, keeping the unity-PLATFORM intact, as density is the main idea behind the exhibition. This proposal is the invitation to a wandering path in a stabilized image without hierarchy in its program. The PLATFORM-concept is a device open to a completely individual experience that can go from the overall panorama, or the peripheral overlook, to a complete immersion.

In collaboration with Rui Mendes.

zeppelin-home

2009-04-20T09:23:00.000-07:00

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[08-019_zeppelin]
Remodeling of a vintage design furniture shop in Bairro Alto in Lisboa. [www.zeppelinvintage.com]

faro-home

2009-04-18T11:12:00.000-07:00

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[08-016_praia de faro] international competition - 3rd prize
In the Ancão Peninsula, in the Ria Formosa Natural Reserve, the project proposes three progressive stages of development which intend, in the short term, to answer the present day's need of improving its conditions, and in the medium and long terms, alert for the challenges and need of a gradual re-naturalization of the island.
In the first stage the intervention is surgical in the critical point, re-qualifying the circulation and creating a longitudinal axis that will organizes and equips the beach (inhabited wall). This wall like element will structure the public space and contains all the necessary infrastructure. On top of the wall, a path will cover the whole length of the island.
The second stage consists of the demolition of the private buildings of the island and maintaining the public spaces.
The third stage completes the re-naturalization process, leaving only the axis wall that by this stage should have been “swallowed” by the dune and only shows the path at the surface.

porto-salvo-home

2009-04-17T13:41:00.000-07:00

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[CO_07-003_porto salvo]
The site for this school is in Porto Salvo, in the Oeiras district, along the highway connecting Lisbon to Cascais. The goal for this project is to take advantage of sloped terrain, placing two volumes parallel to the adjacent streets that hold more traffic. Their position creates a protection barrier for the playground patios that emerge in the back of the complex.
The entrance is done through the back, at the level of the main playground which subsequently gives access to the secondary playground at a higher level.
Dividing the two playgrounds, a covered path gives access to the administration area, and to the covered side of the main playground, where the stairs to the classrooms are located. Each of these stairs is painted in a primary colour to help the children identify which of them they have to take.

Project under construction

sao-tome-home

2009-04-17T13:32:00.000-07:00

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[CO_07-004_são tomé] preliminary design
In the centre of the S. Tomé city the project for the country's Courthouse is organized in three volumes arranged in a star shaped building. Each of these volumes holds a different Court (Constitutional Court, Supreme Court and the Court of Auditors), interconnected but independent between them. The building is raised to create a covered public square.
Its organized around a central atrium that articulates the 3 courts. Galleries emerge from this atrium and go along the whole perimeter of the building, connecting the offices and work rooms. Along the galleries, the wooden skin that defines the façade of the building, allows for natural ventilation and permanent shading of the building as a response to climatic conditions of this tropical region.

badajoz-home

2009-04-17T13:22:00.000-07:00

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[CO_06-002_badajoz] international competition - 2nd prize
Inserted in a key location of the city of Badajoz - along the Guadiana River and next to one of the main accesses to the city - the design for the Headquarters of the Caja de Ahorros de Badajoz aims to be a building that mirrors the importance of the institution behind it, as well as a recognizable landmark.
A mass fills up the entire plot and is shaped to relate with the situation around it, both allowing pedestrians to access the roof landscape or raising up in a tower like structure at the corner with the best visibility.
Voids are subtracted to this mass to create public plazas/streets that provide the public access to the building and allow a connection between the city centre and the public buildings in the opposite margin of the river.

In collaboration with Mecanoo Architecten (Delft, The Netherlands) and Alonso y Balaguer arquitectes asociados (Barcelona, Spain).

prado-home

2009-04-17T13:11:00.000-07:00

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[08-014_prado rodrigues bulding] preliminary design
The building will be located in one of the main arteries of Luanda. The restrictions imposed by the municipality establish in general terms the footprint and the volume of the building. A prominent volume in the front will serve as a balcony as well as shading at the ground level, allowing a better use of the public space and clearly defining the building's entrance. The apartments are fitting each-other in split levels allowing an elevated view over the living areas. The building mirrors the modularity of its composition. The versatility of this modularity will allow the client to commercially evaluate which and how many typologies he will want to implement.

musseque-home

2009-04-17T12:58:00.000-07:00

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[08-014_musseque] preliminary design
This Urban Plan's goal is the easy integration of the informal neighbourhoods of Luanda called “musseque” in open grounds expecting new neighbourhoods. The plan is easily adaptable to different urban contexts or rough topographies. Green areas, open squares in different scales and a hierarchy of streets was established. Public and community buildings are located adjacent do the squares.
Due to repetition of the modular buildings, a system of colours in the façades helps guidance throughout the neighbourhood. Running along the main façade of the houses, a bench emerges as a living area in contact with the community. Each house is developed in a 11x11m plot. The structure is regular allowing the expansion of the house into the courtyard through self-construction as the family grows.

castelo-home

2009-04-17T12:45:00.000-07:00

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[07-011_castelo] under construction
Rehabilitation of an historical housing building in the Castelo neighbourhood in the center of Lisboa.

gatas-home

2009-04-17T12:20:00.000-07:00

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[07-010_casa das gatas] under construction
Inside the historical centre of Évora, the house is defined by two different areas. One of dense construction, with thick walls and several small compartments, and another with lighter construction and broader compartments but with a distribution of spaces little in sync with the contemporary way of living.
Outside, a surprisingly large patio gives the house a feeling of space that transforms its essence and becomes the main living space. The goal is to achieve generous spaces, specially the social ones, and a practical use of each division.
A light structure modular element that contains a working area and a small toilet separates the dining and living rooms, allowing a bigger permeability between these two spaces. The covered outside area is an extension of the kitchen that faces the patio, allowing an informal eating space.
On the roof terrace lays a new volume that marks a distinction between old and new.

serralharia-home

2009-04-17T11:59:00.000-07:00

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[08-013_serralharia] under construction
Project for the new steel workshop and locker-rooms in the S. José Hospital, Lisboa.
The building is located at the highest level of the of the hospital's premisses. It's footprint is the consequence of the site's pre-existences, namely the contention wall the longitudinally defines the plot, in almost all its extension. This wall also defines two levels: The entrance level, at the same height as the street that gives access to the plot; and the second level, 2,10m above the first one.
The building is composed of three parts: the workshop, the locker-rooms and an outside covered area. The ceiling heights of the workshop and the locker-rooms is respectively 4,60m and 2,50m. The roof is common to both these spaces as they are set at different levels, resulting in the outside covered space.

tasca tejo-home

2008-06-20T09:07:00.000-07:00

[08-012_tasca tejo] detail plan
Where the rivers Zêzere and Tejo (Tagus) meet, the goal is to create a bar with 100m2 that will be functioning for local festival of the town of Constância. The bar will have a kitchen, dining room and a counter that will sell snacks, facing the outside.
Being in a flood area, the project will have to be built with a low budget composed of six independent modules so it can be easily moved with a crane in case of flood alert.
The six steel structure modules, when placed next to each other, create a large and unified space. The modules are covered with a system of translucent green polycarbonate doors and windows that allow a complete openness to the outside. This system also allows a variety of compositions to give an adequate response to any given weather condition.

camoes-home

2008-06-19T08:54:00.000-07:00

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[07-009_espaço camões] detail plan
The goal of this project is the renovation of the old town hall of Constância, sited inside the Camões Garden perimeter and its transformation into a small museum. The building will also house a multifunctional room, an auditorium and a multimedia centre.
The lack of visibility from the street in a building with such a public program is a condition that needs attention. To solve this problem, the proposal is to redesign the limit wall of the garden in order to expose the building's entrance.
The project tries to create a balance between the imagery of contemporary architecture and the preservation of an historic heritage. This balance is achieved by preserving the main façades of the two existing buildings and the demolition and reconstruction of its remainders in a clear and minimal form, keeping however the plastic nature of the existing morphology. The two volumes work as a frame to a third new wooden one nested between them that will hold the auditorium.

sesmarias

2008-02-29T05:13:00.000-08:00

[06-001_sesmarias]
O projecto do Monte das Sesmarias, alguns quilómetros a Este de Castelo Branco, inicia-se com uma direcção já delineada pelo cliente: a sua ampliação será para Norte através da extensão da casa existente, um pequeno volume com cerca de 100 m2, em xisto, com cobertura de duas águas, plantado/inserido no local como se a ele pertencesse naturalmente. A sua ampliação a Norte parece óbvia pelas características do terreno e pela distribuição interior da casa existente.
A solução encontrada promove a independência da edificação tradicional existente, construindo uma nova área habitacional a norte, de 50 m2, que funciona como um prolongamento, fisicamente separado, materializado numa forma pura de cor branca, que contrasta com a construção tradicional em xisto.
No intervalo dos dois volumes, situa-se a entrada, num elemento neutro, de vidro, que unifica a casa.

equipa

2008-02-29T03:20:00.000-08:00

[team]

Francisco Garcia de Freitas (Lisboa, 1978), architect
Degree in Architecture from Lusíada University in Lisbon (2003).
Took his apprenticeship in the studio Herzog & De Meuron (Basel, Switzerland) (2004), where he remained as an architect (2005/2006).
In 2006 returns to Portugal as a founding member of atelier RUA, where he currently develops his work.

Luís Costa Valente (Castelo Branco, 1978), architect
Degree in Architecture from Lusíada University in Lisbon (2004).
Took his apprenticeship in the studio José Adrião Arquitectos (Lisbon, Portugal) (2005), where he remained as an architect (2006/2007).
In 2006 became a founding member of atelier RUA, where he currently develops his work.

Paulo Vieira Borralho (Lisboa, 1978), architect
Degree in Architecture from Lusíada University in Lisbon (2002).
His apprenticeship was shared between the studio Atelier PRO (The Hague, The Netherlands) and Mecanoo Architecten (Delft, The Netherlands) (2003), where he remained as an architect (2004/2006).
In 2006 returns to Portugal as a founding member of atelier RUA, where he currently develops his work.

Rui Velho Didier (Évora, 1978), architect
Degree in Architecture from Lusíada University in Lisbon (2004).
In 2004 worked for 6 months at Mecanoo Architecten (Delft, The Netherlands). Took his apprenticeship in the studio José Adrião Arquitectos (Lisbon, Portugal) (2005), where he remained as an architect (2006/2007).
In 2006 became a founding member atelier RUA, where he currently develops his work.

Filipe Vieira Borralho (Lisboa,1975), urban planner

Ana Cristina Tomé (Lisboa,1983), architect

costa nova-home

2008-02-29T03:06:00.000-08:00

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[07-007_costa nova] preliminary design
The project for the Costa-Nova Swimming pools comprises 2 water tanks - children and adults. The support building contains the reception area, locker-rooms, storage and archives, a bar, a first-aid room, surveillance room, staff room and installations room.
The design absorbs some of the local identity through its shape materials, creating a shaded area that cover several volumes containing the program, allowing circulation around them. All of this lays on top of a large deck that extends to the plot limit along the Ria de Aveiro, forming a plateau where the 2 swimming pools and green areas are cut out.

tejo-home

2008-02-21T10:17:00.000-08:00

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[06-003_medio tejo] international competition - 3rd prize
Along the banks of the Tejo (Tagus) River, the project comprises an area which gathers the counties of Vila Nova da Barquinha, Chamusca, Constância and Abrantes.
In order to make circulation simple and attractive a physical/graphic imagery is created - a “landmark” repeated throughout the site that can unify the whole intervention area. The “landmark” helps guidance through the territory both due to the strategic position of each module in the network of paths and the information they carry and due to the visual network generated between them, suggesting visual paths, aiming for directions to follow, thus approaching different interest points. This “landmark”, based on a modular system, can be a shelter, a resting place, an information point a landscape interpretation sign, etc. Its main purpose is to provide for better conditions to enjoy the landscape and nature. Three pre-cast concrete modules and several different metal accessories, when combined in different manners, result in a variety of programs, adaptable to different topographies.

contacto

2008-02-21T10:14:00.000-08:00

[contact]

atelier RUA
Av. Roma 34, R/C Dtº
1700-347 Lisboa
Portugal
info@atelierrua.com
(+351) 217 959 316

coruche-home

2008-02-21T10:12:00.000-08:00

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[07-008_coruche] preliminary design
This project located in the DAI Factory in the town of Coruche consists of an industrial pavilion for the storage of sugar cane that can double the factory's storage capacity.
The goal is to create a large volume with a pitched roof that can house the whole program and that can be seen as a massive monolith. It's shape is suggested by the way the sugar cane is deposited in the pavilion. A conveyor belt along the ridge of the roof will drop the sugar cane from the top, forming a «hill», inspiring the building's shape. The sloped roof and the vertical façade elements are both covered in metal sheet panels and the transition between them is done with a curved section of that same material which gives the building its formal approach.

noticias

2008-02-21T10:08:00.000-08:00

[notícias]

09/05/14
Conferência com a participação de Gonçalo Byrne, Atelier RUA e Albuquerque Designers, no auditório Cubo da Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade Técnica de Lisboa. A conferência terá lugar às 18h do dia 14 de Maio de 2009.

09/04/02
W.A.Y.D #2 - What are you doing? – Conferência onde foi apresentado o Concurso Público de Ideias para a Requalificação e Ordenamento da Praia de Faro. Sede da Ordem dos Arquitectos, Lisboa.

09/04/02 a 09/04/24
Exposição dos Projectos premiados no Concurso Público de Ideias para a Requalificação e Ordenamento da Praia de Faro. Atriumfaro, Faro.

09/02/17
Publicação no Jornal Expresso- Suplemento Espaços & Casas Edição nº1890

09/01/30 a 09/02/01
Exposição de Propostas de Intervenção nas Rotundas de Tomar. Conferência/Debate “À volta das rotundas” no dia da abertura da exposição. Casa dos Cubos, Tomar.

09/01/14
Aula/Conferencia sobre a proposta apresentada no Concurso Público de Ideias para a Requalificação e Ordenamento da Praia de Faro. Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa, Lisboa.

08/12/11
Publicação no Jornal Construir nº139, Jornal de Negócios da Indústria da Construção.

08/07/06 a 08/08/06
Exposição itinerante do Concurso Público Internacional para a dinamização do rio nas margens do Médio Tejo. Constância, Abrantes, Vila Nova da Barquinha e Chamusca.

08/01/14
Conferencia sobre a proposta apresentada no Concurso Público Internacional para a dinamização do rio nas margens do Médio Tejo 2ª fase. Ordem dos Arquitectos, Lisboa.

08/01/14 a 08/01/31
Exposição dos Projectos premiados da 2ª fase do Concurso Público Internacional para a dinamização do rio nas margens do Médio Tejo. Conferência sobre a proposta apresentada no dia de abertura da exposição. Ordem dos Arquitectos, Lisboa.

08/03/14
Publicação no Jornal Expresso – Suplemento Espaços & Casas Edição nº1843

08/02/07
Publicação no Jornal Construir nº118, Jornal de Negócios da Indústria da Construção - Foi publicada na edição de Fevereiro da revista Construir uma entrevista ao atelier RUA no âmbito da rubrica "atelier à lupa". A entrevista da a conhecr o atelier RUA, os seu últimos projectos e dá conta da sua opinião sobre como é ser um jovem atelier a trabalhar em Portugal.

08/02
Publicação na Revista + Arquitectura nº021 - Foi publicado na edição de Fevereiro da revista Mais Arquitectura o projecto do atelier RUA para o Concurso Internacional para a Dinamização das margens do Medio Tejo.

07/07/27
Conferência e apresentação do Concurso Público Internacional para a dinamização do rio nas margens do Médio Tejo. Trienal de Arquitectura de Lisboa – Cordoaria Nacional, Lisboa

07/06/22
Conferencia e entrega de prémios do Concurso Público Internacional para a dinamização do rio nas margens do Médio Tejo. Centro Náutico de Constância, Constância.