7th Report

Thanks you for coming to our 7th OPEN WORKING DAY ! It was very helpfull. We are so glad to have so many people working with us ! 

OWD at InterContinental Hotel

For those who couldn’t make it, here you can find all the presentations, starting by our own,

Then Tiago’s presentation for NCREP,

Rita and Daniel’s for water supplies presentation,

Tiago’s for LogAcoustica,

And the Archeologist’s prensention for Dryas

The technicals projects are arriving one after another, and the big picture is getting more and more precise !

In the next post….the firsts photos of us destroying things !!! Be ready !

It's time for the 7th OWD !

-->The last push… we know that this expression has been over used for the last few weeks but we hope that this one is for real ! We are so close to start on site that we can already feel the dust and the pain in our arms... So come to our 7th Open Working Day on Wednesday 17th at 9.30 at InterContinental Hotel to show you what is happening!!

We will be presenting to you all the issues we have solved recently and also all the information we have collected so that the technical projects can be connected to the architectural design. We are all looking forward to have the information together..and for those who cannot come, don’t worry ; you will have a complete post with all the explanations !

Hope to see you on Wednesday !

Connecting the dots

 As you may have noticed, our 7th Open Working Day has been postponed. But don’t forget to come on the  new date, Wednesday the 17th of October, that one is for sure, the last one before we start the work on site!

Some things have also to be done before this : the archeologic research. Because we are in an historical center, the rule is to accomplish this research and let’s just cross our fingers to be unlucky with this task of finding some historic treasures! Even if it’s going to be interresting to work with the archeologists and their students, a good news for them will means delay for us… the basement will be analyse by excavation as a quick inspection of the building. For now the plans are in their hands and we’ll soon prepare this intervention.

The Architectural project,which is almost done, still has to have some fine details in some places: the entrance of the shop, some furniture, the CABA…and the roof. We are still waiting for a few of the technical projects to be completed, and are putting those we do have together, ensuring no issues with compatibility. So it’s all a case of finding the last pieces of the puzzle and putting them into place, focusing on the roof and getting the building watertight !

Archicad workshop

thinking game

On Thursday we have finally met the famous Professor Teresa Fonseca ! And as we could see, a project is never done, even more when we are talking about refurbisment ! Many issues has been underlined : draining for the basement, is the main one. The window details for the middle door of the shop….

The team looking at the tomatoes

Between this collect of information and detail improvement, we had the privilege of the hydroponic greenhouse visit on wednesday ! That was quick but amazing ! And Jose took part of a debate at Plan B « from Renaissance to Shrinkage : What future for the European city ? » Arrebita ! Porto always present in the best events !

Plan B Debate

A busy week is waiting for us, and for now we just enjoy our free day, it’s National Day in Portugal !!! 

Happy Day for everybody !

Next post you’ll know more about our 7th Open Working Day !

Beijo ;)

Team 3

Team 3 at the office, our new home

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Here we are ! Team 3 is in Porto city !!

We all arrived last weekend, to start this amazing adventure on Monday 24th !

The first one was Marco, the italian,  then Céline the french, Luis the mexican, Tatiana the portugese and David from Scotland.  The warm welcome from Jose, Pilar, Vitor and her friends who then brought us to the studio, the building for a first impression, and after to have some wine tasting.

Our mission : start the work on site. But before that, getting to know the project and thanks to Marta and Pedro from the previous team we were well mentored.

On Monday evening we met the architects, and had an overview of this part of team.

The second day we had the traditional  sidewalk in Porto organised by Pilar and Diana, which is always a good way to know a bit of the city, and even more of its weather since it was raining cats and dogs !!  After this i twas nice to meet the engineers in our dry and warm studio.

Visiting Alvaro Siza social housing

Our partner PIGMA had also prepared some brain food for us to know better the conservation work of old equipment.

David having fun scraping off the paint

And we are now well caught up with the (complex) BIM system since we had an interesting workshop.

Now it’s time to finish up the last drawings and to continue to improve the project which is already great thanks of the work for the previous teams ! We are all looking forward to going and working inside the building !