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PERSONAL INFORMATION

Name Rui Filipe Alves Ferreira Date of Birth 18 de Abril, 1986 Nationality Portuguesa Telephone +351 918933222 E-mail rui�lipeaf@gmail.com

EDUCATION

2012 German course (Initiation) - TECNISIGN, Coimbra (32h)

2012 Master’s Degree in Architecture at the Faculty of Science and Tecnhnology of the University of Coimbra

2011 Photoshop 5 course - FLAG, Coimbra (25h)

2011 Adobe InDesign 5 course- FLAG, Coimbra (25h)

2009-2010 Exchange at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of São Paulo (FAU-USP) (2 semesters)

2008 Revit Architecture 2009 course - EdiCAD, Coimbra (30h)

2007 3D Studio Max workshop - 45 Graus, Coimbra (25h)

WORK EXPERIENCE

2010 Colaboration with A�alo & Gasperini Arquitetos, São Paulo, Brazil

2003 Volunteer work organized by the Portuguese Youth Institute (IPJ), at the Social Centre of S. João, Coimbra

2002 Volunteer work organized by the Portuguese Youth Institute (IPJ), at the National Forest of Choupal, Coimbra

LANGUAGES

Portuguese Mother tongue

English Pro�cient user Spanish Independent user

French Basic user

German Basic user

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Autodesk Advanced user AutoCAD

Revit Intermediate user Architecture

Gra�soft Basic user ArchiCAD

Adobe Intermediate user Photoshop

Adobe Intermediate user Illustrator

Adobe Basic user InDesing

Microsoft Basic user Word Excel PowerPoint

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Autodesk Advanced user AutoCAD

Revit Intermediate user Architecture

Gra�soft Basic user ArchiCAD

Adobe Intermediate user Photoshop

Adobe Intermediate user Illustrator

Adobe Basic user InDesing

Microsoft Basic user Word Excel PowerPoint

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Dwelling + Workshop

Apartment Building

Faculty of Architecture

Vertical Public Equipment

New Lisboa Square

Dwelling + Workshop 01

The exercise is to develop a dwelling with a workshop for a painter, in an irregular urban grid residential area. The slope levels between the upper road and the bottom of the lot differ in about 10 meters.

The project is a single compact volume, that isolates itself from the road, and opens up to the slope. The dwelling area is separated from the workshop outwardly by the entrance, and inwardly by the stairs. That allows an independent exterior acess to each of the areas, while they are still connected in the interior.

Dwelling + Workshop | Coimbra

The lobby is the most peculiar area of the house: the outer wall blocks the view when you enter the house, stimulating curiosity, pulling the viewer to the level bellow and to the outside, where the landscape can be contemplated.

1st �oor plan

Ground �oor plan

Apartment Building 02

The exercise is to develop an apartment building with a shopping area. The building integrates 36 apartments, of which half are two-bedroom and the other half are three-bedroom. The building is situated in the Solum district in Coimbra, an urban area with mainly residential buildings. The solution is to integrate the whole program into a single volume, with an underground parking, shops on the ground �oor and the dwellings above.

Apartment Building | Coimbra

The interior of the building is organized according to a modular measure that transposes itself to the facade. It was also created a central core that contains all the service areas (bath, laundry and storage rooms) and the vertical accesses to the dwellings. This leaves the facade free to get the maximum sunlight possible. In order to control that sunlight exposure every opening has its own exterior shading system.

Standard level plan

Longitudinal section

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Glass�ber Reinforced Concrete panel

Sliding frame

Double glassThreshold stone

Detail S1

Black-out shade

Pladur board

Concrete slab

Slope

Cobble

Zync frill

Insulation

Wooden �oorRail

UPNSteel pro�le

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Cross section

Glass�ber Reinforced Concrete panel

Concrete pillar

Double glassSliding frame

Brick wall

Steel tubular

Shading panel

Interior �nishing - plaster

Insulation

UPNSteel pro�le

Detail P1

Architecture Faculty 03

Architecture Faculty | Coimbra

The exercise is to design a building for the Architecture Faculty of the University of Coimbra, connected to the Design Department located in

the Arts College. The lot is a slope limited by the Padre António Vieira street to the east

and by the Arts College to the west.

The project

consists of a horizontal body opposed by 3 vertical volumes. The 2 larger volumes stand out as the main entrance points, and there is where the vertical accesses and the Project rooms are located. The smaller volume contains the teachers rooms and the administration. This building is directly connected to the cloister above, where the Design Department is located, in order to facilitate and encourage collaboration between these two schools.

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Entrance �oor plan, level 99

Cross section, through the auditorium

Between the two main volumes is the large auditorium and the bar. These two �exible spaces are designed so they can be merged into one: the folding panels can retract, extending the auditorium area till the balcony. It is also at this level that the connection between the new building and the Design Departments building is made.

Bar and auditorium �oor plan, level 94

Theoretical and models room �oor plan, level 89

Besides the main entrances at level 99, there is also a secundary one at level 89. This entrance is accessible through a stairway that starts at the building below (Casa das Caldeiras), thereby connecting the Faculty to the Padre António Vieira street. In this level, between the two main volumes, there are located the theoretical rooms, the models room, a small auditorium and a lounge for the students.

Longitudinal section

Vertical Public Equipment 04

The exercise is to develop a set of public services verticaly concentrated in a single building, for the inhabitants of the Luz disctrict, in São Paulo, Brazil. The “L” shaped lot has 3 street fronts and is framed between an of�ce building to the north and a parking silo to the south. The project consists of 2 volumes - one horizontal and one vertical - separated by a central area where the entrance and the acesses to the diferent programs are located.

Vertical Public Equipment | São Paulo

*designed in collaboration with Márcio Ballmann and Diana Noronha Feio

Ground �oor

The east volume concentrates all the sports facilities - a swimming pool (ground level), 2 multi-sports �elds (levels 1/2 and 3/4) and a gymnasium (level 5) - and the pre-school outdoor patio.

On the west volume there is a restaurant (ground �oor), a day nursery (�oors 1 to 3), a pre-school (�oors 4 to 6), a library (8th and 9th �oors) and a technical area (�oor 7). There are also 3 underground movie theatres, with an independent access and functioning.

Swimming pool

Restaurant

Multi-sports �elds

Day nursery

Pre-school

Gymnasium

Technical �oor

Library

Green rooftop

1st �oor 2nd �oor

Each program has its own independent access, so that the different circulations do not intersect: two elevators give access to the sports facilities, another two go to the pre-school and day nursery, and two more reach the library, the tecnhical �oor and the rooftop. The facade has double glass: the outside glass works like a “skin” that controls the sunlight exposure through a combination of transparent and opaque glasses.

5th �oor 9th �oor

Separated from the main volumes are the emergency stairways for the sports facilities and the elevators that give access to the top �oors, with punctual connections. These elements are covered with zinc creating a contrast with the building’s glass facade.

New Lisboa Square 05

New Lisboa Square | Oporto The Lisboa Square is a fundamental space of Oporto, located in the transition between the small scale of the medieval city and the big scale of the XVIII/XIX centuries’ public projects of the bourgeois city (such as the Clérigos tower, the prison of Relação, and the Rectory of Porto’s University).

It’s an essential meeting point of the city, not only for the areas and buildings that it relates to, but also by the distinct groups of people that gather there. The permanent �ow of people, during day and night comes from the recent awakening of the new bohemian culture from Galeria de Paris and Cândido dos Reis street.

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No Rules, Great Spot, besides being the competition motto, is the denial and the resistance to the bureaucratic process that has been devoting Lisboa square to its impersonal relationship with Oporto city. On this premise, the new project appears permeable to its surroundings, by “talking” to its distinguished neighbours:

Clérigo’s tower Rectory of Porto’s University Cordoaria’s garden Prison of Relação

NO RULES, GREAT SPOT - the phrase written in Lisboa square’s demolished walls is the motto of this international competition. Crossing the square from Galeria de Paris to

the Cordoaria’s garden

*designed in collaboration with Ana Amaral, João Jesus and Rui Baltazar

Clérigos Tower

Rectory of Porto’sUniversity

Lisboa Square

Cordoaria‘sGarden

Prison of Relação(Portuguese Institute of Photography)

Its program forges links with the city: the open-air auditorium with its background scenery (the Clérigos tower); the exten-

sion of the Galeria de Paris street invading the new square; the gradual transition to the green space

nearby; the functional de�ection of the tramway; and the setup of various leisure facilities.

De�ection of the tramway and creation of a tramstation on the southeast side of the

square

+Gradual transition of the green

space from the Cordoaria’s garden

Creation of an open-air auditorium with the Clérigos tower as

backgroundSkatepark on the north side

Its new urban character focuses on the negative space: the square as a mass of magma in formation, shaped by its surroundings, celebrating the free useful space.

Thus arises, liquid and in�u-enceable, distancing itself from the Aliados Avenue and from its ascetic condition of the formal Europena square.

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