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• PhD – Reconstruction of a Stereotomy

  In June 2020 I defended my PhD thesis entitled “Reconstruction of a Stereotomy – for a multi-semantic stereotomic approach”. The PDF document has Open Access and can be download in Universidade do Porto website here. https://sigarra.up.pt/faup/pt/NOTICIAS_GERAL.VER_NOTICIA?p_nr=69842 Abstract: Stereotomy is the classic body of knowledge which deals with stonecutting for building arch like structures. The interest […]

• Plaster tri-arch

  Recent developments in digital design and fabrication tools have led architects and researchers to renew the interest in stereotomy. This interest converges with a growing ecological and economical conscience that matches classic stereotomy raw material needs: compression resistance materials. However, material resources or prefabrication time are still major counterparts for the adoption of this construction […]

• Baby bed

  This is a design I’ve developed together with Joana Fraga for Pearl Cork. The bed itself is made of  cork, and was routed from a single block of cork agglomerate with a multiple axis robotic arm.

• CorkVault – Aarhus

  The School of Architecture of Aarhus organized this year 2014 its second edition of HARD CO(u)R(s)E DIGITAL, a set of workshops focused in digital technologies in a pre-holiday format. The key factors in the CorkVault workshop were the use of ICB (Insulation Cork Board), a 5-axis waterjet cutter and Kangaroo along with Grasshopper, so that a full-scale […]

• Rural Hyperbolic Paraboloid Roof

  Architecture project by Pedro de Azambuja Varela A carport was in demand. The connection between the polygonal line of the garage roof and the horizontal site wall created this subtle yet obivous solution. The use of a “half-pipe” roof tile was key in this strangely shaped roof.

• Geometrias XIII – Informar a Curvatura de Gauss

  Lecture in the APROGED annual encounter about the Gauss Curvature and new ways of communicating it through Grasshoppper visualization. Lecture in April 2013

• Genetic Algorithms in Architecture – History and Relevance

  Publication and communication of article “Genetic Algorithms in Architecture – History and Relevance”. Lecture in April 2013

• Eliptical spaces in religious architecture – Igreja dos Clérigos at Porto

  Final thesis of the Architecture course at Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto.  

• Nexus 2010 – Rural Hyperboloid Paraboloid Roof

      Poster presented in the Nexus 2012 – Relationships Between Architecture and Mathematics. This presentation was about the relation of a complex geometry with constructive constraints.

• CorkVault research at CEAAD

  This work was the result of my studies at CEAAD – Curso de Estudos Avançados em Arquitectura Digital – organized by ISCTE-IUL and FAUP, and hosted in ISCTE-IUL and VFABLAB in Lisbon in 2013-2013. When approached with a raw material such as expanded cork agglomerate, materiality is a concept that is present from the very […]