portfolio - joao filipe silva

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JOO FILIPE SILVAARCHITECTPORTFOLIO


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JOO FILIPE SILVA

JOO FILIPE SILVA

[email protected]

TIMELINE

born in aveiro, portugal 1981

college @ coimbra 1999

founds a media producer called bala perdida 2005

graduate as an architect 2007

works @ lisbon as junior architect @ VM-SA 2007/2008

returns to aveiro to develop independent work and competitions 2008

works @ barcelona as architect @ OPERA-PROJECTS 2009/2010

works @ barcelona as project leader @ OPERA-PROJECTS 2010/2011


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PROJECTS INDEX

PASSOS MANUEL HIGHSCHOOL REQUALIFICATION

HOUSE @ COIMBRA HOUSING

SONANGOL OFFICE BUILDING

DAR KENTARA HOUSING - VILLA

HOTEL LUANDA HOTEL

PORTO AMBOM URBAN PLANNING & HOUSING

IMOLAP OFFICE BUILDING


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PASSOS MANUEL

HIGHSCHOOLREQUALIFICATIONby VICTOR MESTRE E SOFIA ALEIXO, ARQUITECTOS

DETAIL DESIGNTEAM ARCHITECT

2007 LISBOA PORTUGAL

Passos Manuel is one of the oldest highschools in Portugal.In 2008 Victor Mestre and Sofia Aleixo Arquitectos had

the chance to modernize it in a profound way, under thegovernmental program Parque Escolar (a national programwhose goal was the restructure of all high schools aroundthe country). The challenge was to transform a building withover 100 years old on a teaching platform that answeredto todays educational paradigms. The survey of the entireprevious building, the proposed new sports equipment,the creation of a dining hall on the underground, amongother things, allowed the necessary time for the study andcreation of something manifestly beneficial to the building.

[dining hall access][one of the cortyards]


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[site plan][level 0][model]


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PORTFOLIO 7/28[dining hall - detail design][entrance of the new gym][dining hall interior]

The interventions main objective was to respect andpreserve the building elements that were consideredimportant and rare, for example, all the facades, theschools functional structure, designed around twocourtyards, and some centennial furniture.


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The house has emerged as an opportunity to challengethe street rigid logic - all houses were exactly alike, singlefamily homes of two floors, with 8 meter wide somewhat.To break the monothematic rhythm of the street, and tomaximize sun exposure and contact with the ground werethe starting points.Formally the idea was to build this elegant peace that

unfolds along the ground, placed above the garagevolume which had a double role here - the people andcars entrance and, more important, allowed to lift up andlevel the terrain to create ground privacy. With the contactwith the road set, the challenge was to draw the house - athree bedroom family house (175m2 target) with 4 meterswide.


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HOUSE @ COIMBRA

HOUSING

2008 COIMBRA PORTUGAL

by JOO FILIPE SILVA

SCHEMATIC DESIGNMAIN ARCHITECT


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[formal diagram][outside perspective]

Programmatically the distribution was made as follows:public spaces and kitchen below along with the mainbedroom that in this way would benefit the garden,dormitories and office above. On the outside a watermirror separates the public and private areas.The central living room is the most important point of thehouse - every horizontal and vertical circulations unfoldsaround it. It is divided into two zones, the central void ofthe house, that spatially is the aggregator of all surroundingareas, and a lower zone that recreates a different type ofenvironment, one with a more introspective nature.

Most of the materials that were used in the house itself -structural steel, sandwich panels, pladur - had the goal todistinguish it from the garage volume, made of concreteand apparently more robust, looking for a more delicateoutlook. The main objective though was to automate theconstructive process as far as possible, something thatwould allow a fast construction and minimize the costs.


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PORTFOLIO 11/28[levels -1, 0 and 1][longitudinal section]

public area private area


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Sonangol enterprise, one of the largest Angola petroleumsuppliers, wanted us to design a huge complex where allthe offices of the entire company would gather, along witha centre of conferences and semi-public events. The goalwas to do this in approximately 4000m2. The biggestchallenge was to create a building that formally had tobecome a symbol worthy to represent the brand.

The cylindrical shape that surrounds the entire complexwas dematerialized along the process, but remained asan idea that aggregated all the programs within itself -an abstract programmatic generator that has well-definedlimits.Inside, three main arms - administration, offices andconference centre - defining the 3 main programs. Thecircular shape also played the role of a generator whoorganized the area around it - the land had a key role inthe spatial display of the complex.


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SONANGOL

OFFICE BUILDING

by OPERA-PROJECTS BARCELONA

DESIGN DEVELOPMENTTEAM ARCHITECT

2009 LUANDA ANGOLA


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Dar Kentara was a very peculiar project, required by aLondon stock broker who wanted to build a little palace inMarrakech, where he had his origins. The most interestingpart of this project was the long conception process,which partially consisted on a deep investigation of thefunctional mechanisms of the large Arab houses - theirrelationship with the outer spaces, inner courtyards, water

and materiality.In addition, being the client fascinated by mathematics,particularly for analytical geometry, this was somethingthat influenced our process, transforming it into ametaphysical journey through the origins of some conceptssuch as Amman bars, the Penrose pattern, and the conceptof the elliptical.

[lobby model tests][desining process]

[main plan][birds eye view]

[lobby]


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DAR KENTARA

HOUSING - VILLA

2010 MARRAKESH MOROCCO


SCHEMATIC DESIGNTEAM ARCHITECT

[outside balcony][outside balcony][dining balcony]


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Hotel Luanda was an hotel competition where the goalwas to create an urban landmark. Considering the site, thedowntown of Luanda, the building would have to interactwith a series of urban conditions. We chose a verticalvolume stratification where every gesture were evidentthroughout the correspondent generator axis - including thealignments with the Church, the Street, and the SonangolBuilding - and each volume, a symbolic altimetric reference- historical, monumental, modern and landmark.


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HOTEL LUANDA

HOTEL


SCHEMATIC DESIGNTEAM ARCHITECT

2010 LUANDA ANGOLA


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[volumetric diagram][altimetric comparison]

[landscape impact]


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PORTFOLIO 19/28[level 0 - lobby][generic plan][room]

The lobby, the retail, and parking are in the lower volume,in the upper 3 volumes, the rooms.The rooms layout consists in a base structure that mutatesaccording the rotation of each volume, but retains thecentral vertical core and the horizontal distribution.The entire structure is in concrete and the facades are askin of aluminium blades with variable colour accordingto the sunlight, providing the building a chromatic mutableappearance.


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The Porto Ambom Masterplan, in the south of Angola,was divided into 5 main areas - marina, luxury villas, highend houses, mid range houses and low end houses. Thearea I developed was the last one. The main idea was tocreate a modular system which allowed the different types

of housing (one, two or tree bedrooms, simplex or duplex)to be aggregated and stacked in a way that matched theterritorial layout of the masterplan.These typologies would be much smaller than the houses inthe other zones, so the option was to reduce the circulationspace to a bare minimum. The vertical circulation andthe bathrooms would always be located in the centre ofthe house defining a central core that would serve as astructural element of the interior space layout.

T1 duplex105 m2

T3 duplex145 m2

[duplex layout type 1 - 1 bedroom][duplex layout type 3 - 3 bedrooms]


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PORTO AMBOM

URBAN PLANNING& HOUSINGby OPERA-PROJECTS BARCELONA

SCHEMATIC DESIGNPROJECT LEADER

2010 PORTO AMBOIM ANGOLA

T3143 m2

[masterplan layout][outside views][generic section][simplex layout type 3 - 3 bedrooms]

intervention area


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IMOLAP, an international American companycommissioned this project which consisted in a residentialarea (apartments) as well as the office area that wedeveloped.The big challenge was to find a model that could bemirrored but easily mutable (a skin mutation), that in onehand would integrate with the residential area and on the

other, stood out by their corporacional nature.Fulfilling with the clients premise to draw somethingextremely cheap and simple to built, along with an epicseries of legal parameters, the project materialized in twosymmetric boxes elevated of the ground, with a verticalcore in the volumes heart that distributes, according withthe level, to 3 or 5 fractions.


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IMOLAP

OFFICE BUILDINGS


DESIGN DEVELOPMENTPROJECT LEADER

2011 LUANDA ANGOLA


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[level 0][generic level]

[birds eye view]


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PORTFOLIO 25/28[transversal section]

The lobby is located in the level 0 along with the serviceand technical areas, making the contact with the ground a

special moment, lifting up the 6 office levels.The remaining six floors, are equipped with all theinfrastructure prepared to be occupied with 3 or 5fractions. The main structure is concrete, on the lobby, thatsustains the structural steel of the upper floors. The skin islacquered aluminium plate painted with different colours,set on an orthogonal structure of steel tubulars.


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The building that Wright designed 50 years early, finally lives. The promoters,when asked about the decision of building it in Manhattan, answered Agorilla may think of climbing it. The concrete mutant is taller than 1 mile high,intimidating anything that dares to challenge it.

In the opening day it should be served, in Victorian dishes, on the panoramicbalcony on the 224 floor, both sushi and Mirandela sausage [a portuguesespicy sausage], evidencing this way the building symbolic multiculturalism,legitimizing its own ideal: To Be a WorldWRIGHTS GIANT INVADES NEW YORK

[photomontage for the final graduation thesys New York, a Urban Fable]


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JOO FILIPE SILVA

ARCHITECTMEMBER OF THE PORTUGUESE

ARCHITECTS COLLEGE (ORDEM DOS ARQUITECTOS)

BEING AN ARCHITECT

Being an architect is something that allows us toplace ourselves between art and science at thesame distance. Its something that allows us toshape life and the quotidian of the human being.Being an architect is to be able to explore formalaspects without dogmatic limitations, and alongfinding answers to our ultimate challenge: theperfect programmatic layout based on cultural,social, economic and artistic assumptions.

And fortunately, architecture holds withinitself a multitude of artistic disciplines that canagglomerate to make the performance of thearchitect a more profound, more overarching, amore universal act.

SOFWAREKNOWLEDGE

autocadarchicad3ds maxsketchupphotoshopindesignillustratorflash (A.S. 2.0)premiere proafter effects

LANGUAGESenglish/spanish/portuguesebasic deutsch

BESIDESARCHITECTURE

cinemawww.vimeo.com/user4115316/videos

photographywww.flickr.com/photos/poemaurbano/

web-designwww.opera-projects.com

30 YEARS OLD

mail [email protected] 91 963 46 70

[hand drawing][personal info]


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