flávio branco - portfolio
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Flávio A. Branco is a Degree Graduate
in Architecture and Urban Planning since 2003, by the
Architecture Faculty of the Technical University of
Lisbon. He took part of an academic exchange, under
the Erasmus Programme in 2002 for the duration of
a semester at the École d' Architecture et Paysage de
Bordeaux.
In 2003 he started his professional practice as an
intern at Sítios&Formas in Coimbra, where remained for
four years participating mainly in the development of
Land use planning and Urbanism programmes for the
central and northern regions of Portugal.
In 2007 he returned to Lisbon to work at
Entreplanos Architecture Urbanism and
Design, coordinating and developing two Detailed
Urban Plans for the Council of Mafra
and also participating in design projects of Schools.
Personal information
Date of birth: 13/06/1980
Nationality: Portuguese
Architects' No: 13254
Address: Rua Ferreira Borges, No. 183, 5 F, 1350-131 Lisbon
Mobile: +351964573922
E-mail: [email protected]
2011presentation / index / urbanism / architecture
Urbanism
2010. Safeguard Plan of Olhao‟s Historic Centre (competition)
2010. Urban Re-qualification Plan of the Vasco da Gama Avenue, Sines,
Portugal (competition)
2009. Urban Detail Plan of the Faro‟s Beach (competition)
2008. Urban Re-qualification of Alcácer do Sal Fairgoung (competition)
2008. Urban Detail Plan of Vila Nova de Mafra
2007. Urban Detail Plan of Venda do Pinheiro
2006. Revision of Fornos de Algodres‟s Master Plan
2006. Urban re-qualification of Robinson‟s Factory – Portalegre
(competition)
2005. Safeguard Plan of Chaves‟s Historic Centre
2005. Urban Detail Plan of Coimbra Street, Lousã
2004. Oliveira de Azeméis‟s Master Plan
Architecture
2009. João Meira‟s Elementary and High School –
Guimarães
2008. Velas‟s Elementary and High School – S.
Miguel, Azores
2007. Évora Resort – Plot D4
2007. Évora Resort – Plot E20
2007. Vila Franca do Campo‟s High School – S.
Miguel, Azores
2006. Coimbra‟s New Interactive Science Centre
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Public CompetitionLocation: Olhão
For: Olhao‟s City Council
In collaboration with: Entreplanos
The design proposal seeks to create the conditions to
endow the historical centre with a set of features that can
stimulate and boost the area.
This is an urban area of great heritage value for its
aesthetic originality (traditionally referred to as "Cubist"
architecture).
The intervention in existing buildings is of particular
relevance, given the seriousness of problems and
pathologies encountered (bad state of conservation,
poor sanitation and inadequate infrastructures).
The morphological characteristics of the urban grid
(originally designed for a smaller scale use by pedestrians)
require undertaking special measures to control
accessibility, including a new transport policy and mobility.
Safeguard Plan of Olhao’s
Historic Center
Photomontage
2010
Proposal
scheme
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Public CompetitionLocation: Sines
For: Sines‟s City Council
In collaboration with: Entreplanos
The design proposal for the rehabilitation and urban re-
qualification of Vasco da Gama Avenue, seeks to have
an influence in the experience and comprehension of
the city in general. It produces the answer to a problem,
resulting of its natural constraints and its
development, for an area that is currently disconnected
from the urban grid, wasting part of its enormous
potential.
With a privileged natural setting and features it is
imperative to make this area a part of the city and of its
inhabitants, giving it new uses, new urban readings
and promoting strong relationships with the urban
centre. And also by qualifying it ecologically and
granting it with attributes that will enable it to adapt to
different urban experiences (festivals, fairs, sports etc.).
The connection of the intervention area with its urban
surroundings is one of the key points of design
proposal. It reinforces and reinterprets existing
connections and focuses on developing new
routes with full access for the use of disabled people.
.
Urban re-qualification of
Vasco da Gama Avenue
Mobility
scheme
Photomontage
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Public competitionLocation: Faro
For: Faro‟s City Coucil
In collaboration with: Entreplanos
The Urban Detailed Plan of Faro Beach is part in
a strategic plan of broader action. The Coastline
Development Plan of Vilamoura - Vila Real
de Santo António seeks to establish strategies for a
sustainable development of this territory.
The design presented seeks to promote the
improvement of urban life, tourism offer and all
activities related to leisure, by improving
infrastructures and establishing a focal point that, for
its innovation and quality, allows boosting progress in
all economic activities connected to the “Ria Formosa”.
It aims for the preservation of the intrinsic local
characteristics such as the fishing activities and the
social system involved.
.
Urban Detail Plan of Faro’s
Beach
2009
Mobility
scheme
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Public competitionLocation: Alcácer do Sal
For: Alcácer do Sal‟s City Council
In collaboration with: Entreplanos
With the need to rehabilitate the exhibition grounds,
this project aims to have an influence on the city itself.
The design proposal seeks to have an influence in the
city, seeking to integrate an urban area, which as
a result of its development and constraints, is currently
detached of the urban fabric, wasting the
huge potential it possesses.
Clearly urban, this area contains a set of buildings
which is structuring for the population's every day
life, such as the Market, the Court, the Bullring and the
City Park.
However, its physical and visual relationship with the
agricultural and natural landscape gives a distinctive
appearance. In this way, both objective and
motivational aspects of the proposal can be defined.
Firstly its urban features and the necessity of
integration in the urban fabric and on the other
hand its relationship with the surrounding landscape, a
necessary element increasingly valued for the human
condition.
.
Urban Re-qualification of
Alcácer do Sal Fairground
3D simulation
Occupation
scenarios
2008 Back to indexpresentation / index / urbanism / architecture
Location: Mafra
For: Mafra‟s City Council
Current SItuation: Final version for publication
In collaboration with: Entreplanos
The natural expansion area of the Town of Mafra,
whose nearest surroundings, reveals strong signals
of urban dynamics and of strong and carefully thought
trough urban design.
Despite being a low density occupation area, it appears
that the urban design environment is a determinant
factor for the tracing for the expansion of the built
area on the north side of the plateau zone.
The proposal is of continuity of the radial-concentric
structure existing within the boundaries of the Plan,
which is basically an extension of certain lanes in arch.
Urban Detail Plan of Vila
Nova de Mafra
Road
hierarchy
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Location: Venda do Pinheiro - Mafra
For: Mafra‟s City Council
Current situation: In public inquiry
In collaboration with: Entreplanos
The urban pressure which is confirmed in site, mainly
associated to well planed accessibility of the area,
produced negative practical outcomes, resulting
in fragmented urban fabric and obvious shortcomings.
It is important to seize the dynamics installed
establishing an effective urban control, which can
lead to a prudent manner of changing the landscape, in
expressive ways of life resulting from such expansion.
The site has an amount of significant expansion area to
the rear of the occupation zone which occurred allong
the main roads.
It is proposed a merger of the various fragments of
this territorial unit, based on a central unifying element:
A linear green space that accompanies the existing
waterline.
Urban Detail Plan of
Venda do Pinheiro
Site PlanGreen
structure plan
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Location: Fornos de Algodres
For: Fornos de Algodres‟s City Council
Current situation: In review
In collaboration with:: Sítios&Formas
This revision updates the model of spatial structure of
the territorial municipal area. Due to the
construction of new roads, Fornos de Algodres has
been drawing close to becoming like the main cities of
Portugal and Spain.
It has, therefore, become viable and necessary to
enhance its natural resources and cultural heritage as
important factors of development. It is also necessary
to reinforce the inter-territorial relations within tourism
and other economic activities.
The diverse clusters will be equipped according to the
demographic and socio-economic needs of residents,
adding it value, focusing on revitalizing the economy of
the rural areas on a reciprocal basis, through the
establishment of urban-rural partnerships which
envisage the strengthening of territorial cohesion.
Revision of Fornos de
Algodres Master Plan
2006
Hypsometry planUrban areas plan
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Public competitionLocation: Portalegre
For: Robinson‟s Foundation
In collaboration with:: Sítios&Formas
The relocation of the Robinson factory for the Industrial
Area of Portalegre releases grounds located in an
important area of the city. The site is mostly composed
of hangars, warehouses and workshops in addition to
the main building, which define the Square Jardim
Operário (garden) main elevation.
This design proposal is a response to the initiative of
the launching of a rehabilitation programme of the
former factory premises. It intends
to recover its historical connection to the city and to
redefine the roles of
the different buildings which constituted their premises,
using the existing buildings for housing
urban equipment of which the city is in need of.
Urban Re-qualification of
Robinson’s Factory
Site plan
2006
3D simulation
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Location: Chaves,
For: ChavesPolis
Current situation: Published
In collaboration with:: Sítios&Formas
The Safeguard Plan is developed under the form of a
detailed plan with the intent to increase the
effectiveness of the dispositions regarding the
conservation and enhancement of architectural
heritage (structure, materials, composition, decorative
elements, and colours) and other urban
elements of interest:
a) The urban configuration, the model of
the traditional quarter and the reticular road network;
b) The relationship of proportion and scale between the
public space, the buildings and their backyards;
c) The connections between the river and its banks;
The urban model offered aims at reducing the use of
the car, promoting pedestrian movement and
focusing on public transport. This model is based on the
concept of proximity between the different centres of
attraction of public interest, having as a
backdrop the presence of trade and services,
predominantly in the Historic Centre of Chaves.
Safeguard Plan of Chaves’s
Historic Center
Intervention
2005
Floors analysisSite plan
Existing street
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Location Lousã
Fot: Lousã‟s City Council
Situação actual: In review
In collaboration with:: Sítios&Formas
With 30 acres, this plan consists of the programming of
the new expansion area of Lousã.
As goals, we seek to enhance the entry into the urban
cluster, to create a multifunctional area and to provide
infrastructural support.
As the grounds are plane, the proposed design follows
a reticulated model which fully integrates the existing
road structure. And also presents a new Avenue as a
primary urban support and a privileged planned grid.
Urban Detail Plan of
Coimbra Street
2005
3D simulation
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Location: Oliveira de Azeméis
For: Oliveira de Azeméis„sCity Council
Current situatuin: Published
In collaboration with:: Sítios&Formas
The drafting of Oliveira de Azeméis „s Master Plan had
as key issues the importance of networks, of public
space and of public facilities as functional elements
and symbolic languages which identify a given period of
the life of the city with its needs and the response to
such needs.
With 695 hectares of intervention area, this plan aims
to consolidate the city as a central driving force of
unity in the district.
It is translated into ratios, an idealized volumetric
scenario of the city. It consists of a decrease in the
density of the built environment as one travels from the
city centre to the periphery.
To this end, the boundaries of several of several
areas, of predominantly residential use, of the city
(neighbourhoods) were grouped according to some of
their common features, with reference to the work of
Kevin Lynch.
Oliveira de Azeméis’s
Master Plan
2004
Hypsometry
schemePlanning
proposal
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Construction stageLocation: Guimarães
For: Guimarães‟s City Council
Current situation: Built
In collaboration with: Entreplanos
The concept which led to the building's design was
based on the principle of distributing the functional
areas of more public and social character and the
school management areas on the ground floor and the
positioning the classrooms on the upper floor.
To this premise was associated the condition of which it
was mandatory to keep Block C (an existing
building) in the new functional structure of the School.
The new design proposal for the school is based on the
construction of two new volumes of different in shapes
and plan configuration. This mimetism will be claimed
and highlighted in terms of treatment of the facade.
Building
photos
2009
João Meira’s Elementary
and High School
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Construction stageLocation: Velas – S. Jorge Island, Azores
For: Regional Government
Current situation: Under construction
In collaboration with: Entreplanos
De acordo com o caderno de encargos e atendendo ao
mau estado de conservação dos edifícios existentes, a
sua demolição é condição na elaboração da proposta
apresentada.
O conceito que orientou a concepção da Escola,
prende-se com a necessidade de criar, atendendo a
diversidade da faixa etária dos alunos e o vasto e
ambicioso programa preliminar definido para a escola,
zonas perfeitamente diferenciadas ao nível dos grupos
funcionais da escola, recreios cobertos e descobertos e
parque desportivo.
Assim, assume-se claramente a sectorização espacial
dos níveis de ensino do pré-escolar, 1º ciclo,
relativamente aos do 2º,3º Ciclos e Secundário.
Optou-se por construir o edifício parcialmente com três
pisos (cércea permitida pelo PDM de Velas), libertando
desta forma área de recreio suficiente para albergar o
programa preliminar para ocupação de espaços
exteriores.
Velas’s Elementary and
High School
Model
photos
Alçado
2008
Planta da
cobertura
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CompetitionLocation: Évora
For: Évora Resort
In collaboration with: Entreplanos
We propose to build two-bedroom row houses on
two levels, with private garden and swimming pool.
We seek a certain indefinition of limits between the lots
and the golf course green, allowing unrestricted views
overlooking waterfront.
Évora Resort –Plot D43D simulation
Elevation
2007 Back to indexpresentation / index / urbanism / architecture
3D simulation
2007
CompetitionLocation: Évora
For: Évora Resort
In collaboration with: Entreplanos
The organic shaped block volume varies between 1 and
2 levels, allowing views of the surrounding landscape
and its inner courtyard. This space is intended to be the
"meeting point" of the neighbourhood.
We propose to create a semi-private "buffer zone" in
front of all ground floors (which have their living rooms
facing the courtyard), made of green areas, decks and
swimming pool.
We sought to diversify the housing typologies ranging
from flats with private patios to duplex apartments.
Évora Resort – Plot E20
Elevation
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Construction stageLocation:Vila Franca do Campo, S. Miguel - Azores
For: Regional Government
Current situation: Built
In collaboration with:: Sítios&Formas
The EBS of Vila Franca do Campo, is located on
a land of 22000 m².
The school configures a rectangular enclosure with grea
ter development in the north-south direction and
showing a slight incline towards the south.
This is a fragmented composition, with canopies and ou
tdoor spaces which seek to qualify the new school in its
functional and plastic aspects.
The placement of the various buildings as well as the
landscaping take into account the need to phase the
construction works, maintaining the operation, although
it may be conditioning to the school activities.
Vila Franca do Campo’s
High School
Building
photo
2007
3D simulation
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Construction stageLocation: Coimbra
For: Coimbra‟s Interactive Science Center
Current situation: Built
In collaboration with:: Sítios&Formas
The project fits with the broad objective set by Polis
Programme for the Detailed Plan prepared for the site -
the urban regeneration of the waterfront of the
Mondego River - and, more specifically, with the aim of
expanding of the network of public buildings.
The shape designed consists of two bodies, based
on a square, joined by a gallery.
It meets the maximum area of placement envisaged in
the Plan of Detail (2 x 470m2), the maximum height
(6m) and floor height (21m).
The polygon is oriented according to elements of the
urban structure, outlined by the surroundings.
Coimbra’s New Interactive
Science Center
Building
photo
2006
3D simulation
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