PortfolioMarta Valadas Rodrigues

CVPersonal information

Full nameMarta Sofia Valadas Rodrigues

Mobile(+1) 973-368-7424(+351) 967493102

E-mailmartarodrigues.arq@gmail.com

NationalityPortuguese

Birth Date18.04.1987

Curriculum Vitae

Occupational FieldArchitecture

Education training2009-2010 LLP/Erasmus Program at Architecture School of Roma Tre University, Italy2005-2012 Master degree in Architecture School of Minho Univer-ity, Guimarães2002-2005 Natural-science in Monção High School, Monção

Personal SkillsLanguagesPortuguese: mother languageItalian: fluentEnglish: fluent Spanish: beginnerFrench: beginner

Software SkillsAutocadArchicadAdobe (Photoshop, InDesign)Google SketchupMicrosoft Office (Word, Powerpoint, Excel)Rhinoceros: beginner

Work ExperienceApril 2013 - Present Architectural Intern at NOArchitecture, New York2012 Architectural study for restoration project of a residential building in Lisbon - Sousa Viterbo Street, Nº50, Lisbon (under construction)

Others2012 Volunteer at Pecha Kucha Night, Guimarães #3, European Capital of Culture 20122012 Volunteer at Pecha Kucha Night, Guimarães #2, European Capital of Culture 20122012 Co-writer of the article “Tell me a story...” in J.A (Architects newspaper) #243 “Being junk” 2011 Volunteer at Pecha Kucha Night, Guimarães #12011 International Workshop “Filtration Processes” Minho Univer-sity/ Western Institute of Technology and Higher Education in Architecture School of Minho University, Guimarães 2010 International workshop Roma Tre/Pratt Institute in Architec-ture School of Roma Tre University, Rome 2009 Co-organization of the lecture “Two realities” in Architec-ture School of Minho University, Guimarães 2007 Guide in the Engeneiring School’s open day in Minho Univer-sity, Guimarães

01 II Cross-Cultural Ministry Center, BragaTeacher: Arch. Carlos MaiaArchitecture School of Minho Univerity, 2008 w/Ricardo Oliveira

02 II Kindergarten,GuimarãesTeacher: Arch. Bruno FigueiredoArchitecture School of Minho Univerity, 2009

03 II Testaccio Library,RomeTeacher: Arch. Stefano CordeschiRoma Tre University, 2011 w/ Leire Apellaniz

00 II Contents

04 II Emerging Programs: Shopping Center, GuimarãesTeacher: Arch. Pedro Vieira

Architecture School of Minho Univerity, 2011 w/ Ana Menino

05 II Master Thesis: “The Extended Mouraria, in favor of Babel” Maria Manuel Oliveira, Professor Ph. D.

Architecture School of Minho Univerity , 2012

06 II Drawing

01 II Cross-Cultural Ministry Center, BragaOn Braga city, in the middle of a controversial urban context, integrated in the Gualtar University Campus’ rigid urban grid and flanked by disjointed mesh housing, stands a transitory figure.The Cross-cultural Ministry Center acquires, in this urban context, a unifying character capable of abolish the physical and moral “walls” of the University Campus allowing an approximation between students and city. Thus, this approach is formalized by the creation of two main paths that comprise an introspective void.The design of this central void, the lowest point of the whole project, aims the individualization of the reflection space from the circumstance that surrounds it – as in a hermitage is necessary to make a path of reflection to get into this place of detachment.

2m 4m 10mEast Elevation

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Study roomLiving room

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The concentric paths are a figurative representation of a journey into the innermost. On the other hand, this is the brighter space in the whole project causing the impression of a background light in the tunnel.Major paths are also associated to the program division. The North Path merges with the street, linking the mesh housing with the campus and, at the same time, unplugging the dorm from the community area. On the other hand, the West Path shape a direct connection between the campus and the community area.This project intends to explore architecture as an emotional support, with strong shapes but stripping the ornaments.

Program

Multifunctional room 102m2

Living room 84m2

Study room 184m2

Cloistral space 74m2

Toilets 56m2

Dorms 82m2

Main North Path Main West Path South PathNorth Path

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02 II Kindergarten, Guimarães

The lot of small dimensions proposed to build a Kindergarten emerges as a mediator element between the shock of two disparate temporal realities that flank it. If on one hand it has the Guimarães’ traditional lot/house, on the other hand is marked by the presence of a newer and larger residential building.The project is, therefore, a reinterpretation of the traditional house – the façade’s width is one third of the depth – which is associated to a tough drawing and materiality, in allusion to the remaining buildings.Thereby is intended to maintain the traditional facades metric, without falling into imitations, through the spaces created between the two main plans, perpendicular to the South facade.

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Program1.Secretariat 19m2

2.Administration 20m2

3.Playground 30m2

4.Storage room 25m2

5.Toilets 28m2 (total)6.Nursery 40m2

7.Classroom 100m2 (each)8.Small playgrounds 166m2 (total)

9.Kitchen 42m2

10.Employes canteen 50m2

11.Living room 50m2

12.Multifunctional room 170m2

The asymmetric arrangement of these plans results in the shape of three longitudinal spaces/wings, articulated by ramps, along which the architectural program is distributed. In this sense, and with the exception of the ground floor, the auxiliary services (eg. Canteen) are concentrated on the left wing, a darker area and without direct contact with the outside. On the other hand the classrooms are located on the right wing, receiving the spring sunlight through a large glass facade.Finally, the central wing is conformed by two large voids. An inner void that, simultaneously, visually connects the several floors and allows the diffusion of spring sunlight inside the building, still serving as a connector element between the left and right wings. And an exterior void that allows the perception, from the outside, of the three interior wings – respecting the South elevation metric.

Scale2m 4m 10m

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The main plans are, thus, elements of paramount importance of the building structure, besides bearing the ramps and stairs that connect the different floors, they are a key element to support the slabs. Therefore its presence is assumed with a strong materiality, opting for a double wall of concrete made in situ, and ventilated by an air cavity. The materiality of these plans is also taken to the facades, unifying the building presence.More than enhance the new building, this project seeks to humanize its rigid materiality and form giving to a public service a scale that the children are able to recognize and be familiar.

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Constructive detail1.Double wall of in situ concrete

2.Vinyl flooring3.Extruded polystyren

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8.Metal frame w/ double glass9.Ledge of zinc

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03 II Testaccio Library

When in 1870 was initiated the urban reorganization of the twentieth district of Rome – Testaccio – the “mattatoio comunale” (municipal slaughterhouse) was built in the middle of an important example of programmed industrial ur-banization. The complex, which is still considered one of the most significant architectural objects of roman industrial archeology, was closed a century later and reopened in 1992 as the headquarters of the “Facoltà di Architettura di Roma Tre”.This functional redefinition process led to the occupation of some pavilions of the ex-slaughterhouse, which began to work as classrooms and administrative offices. A few years later other pavilions were occupied by the MACRO museum and the social center “Villagio Globale”.Despite the restoration works and the functional redefinition the complex remains, till today, with the original image: a grid composed by an orthogonal set of parallelepiped volumes, coated by big walls of bricks where is associated iron structures originally used to transport the animals. The exercise proposed aimed to reuse the space of one of the not recovered pavilions to construct the university library.

East Elevation 32m 64m 160m

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BookstoreSecretariat

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Since the pre-existing building did not had the necessary conditions to its recovery, and be-cause this space marks one of the complex facades, was understood that the project should promote a new approach. In this sense the design proposed retains the pre-existent rectangu-lar perimeter through four facades of glass, supported by a metallic structure. This structure not only allows to ease the building image, but also to transpose to the new volume one of the old slaughterhouse marks.The idea of create a permeable object also intend to integrate visually the reticulated plan and grooves of the faculty in the surrounding reality. For this propose the program was de-constructed resulting in the design of a set of parallelepipeds volumes with different sizes and individually willing. Thus, the smaller volumes gravitate around the main volume where the library works. This programmatic division allowed not only to reinforce the idea of permeability, but also, because of the creation of a set of ramps and platforms, to provide more versatility to the space occupation. These platforms and ramps, scaled with the aim of a more plural occupation beyond its initial function, allow users to transpose their work/acts to open space, occupying the transition areas.

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ProgramLibrary 840m2

Investigation room 70m2 Boardroom 264m2

Cafeteria 105m2

Showroom 148m2

Study room 150m2

Secretariat 123m2

Toilets 17m2 (each)Reception 110m2

Bookstore 511m2

Archive 280m2

Parking 854m2

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04 II Emerging Programs: Shopping Center, GuimarãesThe Shopping can exceed its commercial premise linking his concept to a project, which by its versatility is able to promote the city, products and people of Guimarães: Your people is your brand!

What if the shopping was an experimental laboratory, capable of reinventing a process already worn?What if the creation of a new shopping arouses the participation of new actors?What if the main companies and large-scale trade lobbies were associated to local business? Or even to the Uni-versities?How can a shopping reinvent itself?

This proposal is based on a collaborative process, with the accountability of all actors (companies, industries, universities, public administration and workers) in order to optimize and humanize the interaction between shopping and city.

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Respond to such a vast audience has implied standardized solutions, not really innovative. Is, therefore, proposed a new template of occupation able to transmute itself. By setting a linear metal structure, which is associated to rails allowing the containers’ movement (originally shipping containers). These can add up horizontally and vertically, like an infinite Tetris game. This game is only possible by the fact there’s no permanent slab, which was replaced by a grid of removable rigid floor.The containers’ association or dissociation allows the stores/brands to grow or decrease anytime, depending on their needs which could be good to smaller enterprises that don’t have the same space needs then the biggest brands. On the other hand, the biggest brands are able to expand his stores through several floors, increasing his marketing’s capacity.In a world where needs changes every second, anticipate changes is, above all, a rational demand. Ultimately the metal structure is wrapped in their own containers, being born in a new place with new actors.

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ProgramCommercial area 33470m2

Supermarket 9360m2 Food court 7734m2 Bus Station 1650m2

Museum 1000m2

Auditorium 1170m2

Playground 2045m2

Parking 19350m2Section perspective

05 II Master Thesis: “The Extended Mouraria, in favor of Babel”

“The Extended Mouraria, in favor of Babel”, consists in a reflexion about urban and contemporary transforma-tions, arising from ownership, overcrowding and multi-ethnic personification phenomenas. Looking for an extended agreement from architecture’s complementary subjects (such as anthropology, sociology, geography and history), this dissertation focuses on the public space as context and consequence from different forms of cultural space.From the analysis of Mouraria neighborhood and its surroundings, in Lisbon, the task was to understand the po-tential of these urban landscapes as physical support from a mixed cohabitation. Being this site a genuine example of the acculturation process enforced by hyper modernity, it was possible, through the in situ analysis, to build a cartographic map showing the social, economic and cultural dynamics present on a daily basis. The analysis of this “etno-landscape”, heterogeneous and heterodox (and the consequent marginaliza-tion of the context and the inhabitants), allowed to understand how does a group represent their cultural heritage when they settle in a different civilization: appropriating (and letting themselves being appropriated) the indigenous reality throw a composition, more or less, consented. However, this multicultural landscape does not create a coher-ent space. However this interaction does not constitute a coherent spatialization, it generates, frequently, fragile socio-economic situations, that results in its marginalization, making this a vicious cycle that is hard to break.In the limits of his action, the responsibility of the architect is to understand and re-think the extended ways of the man in the city; therefore, the action should find paths of intercession between the formalization of his work and the society dynamics, promoting a libertarian perspective without prejudices.The goal of this work is to build a strategy that allows the architect, as space producer, to do an intervention in new urban environments in favor of a contemporary Babel.

1.Negative 3.Main buildings 4.Institucional occupation2.Main streets, squares, transports

Aproachment - Cartography, power and imaginary borders

Fieldwork:1. Representation of the mass built and its surrounding, which allows a clearer reading of the urban fabric and its variations along the study area. Since the irregular Moorish mesh that draws the neighborhood streets of Mouraria until the orthogonality of the “Pombalina” mesh, divided by the “urban crease” created by the Almirante Reis Avenue, which defines the “Extended Mouraria”.2. Throughout the fieldwork some circulation channels and seating areas were identified as “meeting points” occupied by the most varied dynamics and identities. These spots are coincident with major rode axes, shopping areas and public transports stops.3. The enhancement of the urban study area through ongoing processes of adaptation, rehabilitation and reuse of some of its buildings, reflects the importance of this historical and social space. Therefore was essential to the workprocess developmet to identify and study the most emblematic buildings.4. Alongside the social mosaic that guides the “Extended Mouraria” were born a set of governmental and non-governmental associations, distributed around the main axis (Almirante Reis Avenue), that support the integration of the various social and cultural identities present here.

5.Worhip sites 6.Lodging 7.Food court 8.Trading

5. On the map are located some sites dedicated to different worships, his proliferation can be divided into two stages: a first moment that marked the dominance of the Catholic religion and a second moment who represents the multicultural occupation that currently punctuates the study area. It is noteworthy that the worship sites created in the second moment do not present themselves as spaces dedicated exclusively to worship, but also as spaces of cultural revival and reunion.6. The marked spaces refer to accommodation for short or long term: rented apartments, hotels, hostels, guesthouses and pensions. These are distributed throughout the study area, including secondary streets. It is believed that there are more spaces dedicated to this activity, but because of its marginal character was not possible to mark them.7. Alongside the arrival of a growing number of immigrants in recent years, was created a business opportunity for those who were already installed, multiplying the spaces dedicated to gastronomy of ethnics installed here.8. Throughout the fieldwork several ethnic centers were identified, often linked to the commercial distribution. In this sense was essential to identify the diversity of the business presents in here, as well as its organization, which led to a better understanding of the occupational dynamics that convert this space in a Worldtown.

Object of studyPortughese Comunity

Chinese ComunityIndian Comunity

African ComunityBengali Comunity

Brasilian Comunity“Pombalina” mesh

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A.Martim Moniz Square, Lisbon 2011 B.Cavaleiros Street, Lisbon 2011 C.Severa Street, Lisbon 2011

9. Acculturation of the dynamics and approach of the territoryReconstructing the dynamics of “life-worlds” present in the “Extended Mouraria” led to the perception of a mosaic full of social contours and quite disparate ethnic groups among themselves. For the understanding of this space was necessary to deconstruct this intricate world, which resulted in the identification of a set of groups, where each group acts as an individual part, with specific footprints, but simultaneously as permanent anchoring to the others. This mosaic gives to the public space of the “Extended Mouraria” a mediator character, historically recognized as a physical support which hosts cultural identities and social outcasts. In this sense the character of this space comes as a condition and is conditioned by these practices, keeping apart people and habits from the city but simultaneously approaching the city to the world.

Study objectsPortughese Comunity

Chinese ComunityIndian Comunity

African ComunityBengali Comunity

Brasilian ComunityHomeless Comunity

ProstitutionCriminality

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Close up to Martim Moniz Square

Ponte Rotto, Rome 2010 Martim Moniz Square, Lisbon 2011

06 II Drawing

Guimarães, 2007 Guimarães, 2007

Marta Valadas RodriguesGuimarães, 2012