We are Team 4. And we are here to rock!!!

Team 4 is in Porto! 

This time the international team comprises architects Madalena Madeira [Portugal], Sarah Louati [France], Flavio Carniel [Italy], Ruth Kennivé [Belgium] and Antonio Sánchez [Spain]. Beginning the fourth phase of the Arrebita! Reboleira project, spanning from January to March 2013, the five architects will showcase their design expertise in sensitive areas. As you already know, the historical building is in fact enclosed in the UNESCO Porto area. 

Let's hear what Team 4 has to tell us!

Team 4 in the studio. From left: architects Flavio C., Sarah L., Ruth K., Madalena M., Antonio S.

Our first day was awe-inspiring. We got to meet Tatiana -from Team 3- who helped us getting familiar with the project. She showed us the building and explained everything there was to know about the conservation project we were going to learn about.

Right after that we met another partner, quite unusual if you wish: the Bicycle Bank, "Banco das bicicletas" in Portuguese. After work we went to pick up our bikes, at ”Banco das bicicletas” and thanks to them we are now able to explore this amazing city. Porto has many ups-and-downs and we think it might be good to keep fit and learn about the "hidden treasures" of such a city.

José is keeping us pretty busy, which is great! From day one we begun meeting with some of the architects and engineers that are going to work with us. The effort they are sharing with us is remarkable: we couldn’t be in better hands. Other partners and consultants came to our studio to update the project status, so to ensure the construction project is moving. 

Being this a collaborative project, we are using a complex 3D model of the building. This choice was made so that the diverse detailed projects could merge into an organised model. The BIM technology ensures such a work can be delivered. For this reason, we had an intense ArchiCAD workshop to get familiar with the software technology we are using. Well, thanks to our Infor partner: Ricardo, from Infor, explained us every tool we will need to work with on the model. We are taking the BIM model Team 3 left us, and we are excited to get started.

ArchiCAD workshop. Team 4 with ArchiCAD expert Ricardo Garim Dias, from Infor.

Next days will be quite busy so we will have plenty of new good posts … Now we can´t wait to get inside the building and finally get the conservation project started!

Até já, Team 4.

One more for the end

Something we forget to show you ! We made some new Artlantis views of the project. With the new 3D model next team will be able to create some more! Check out those one for now !

Até já !

Team 3 is about to leave Porto ! The last 3 months were a wonderfull experience for all of us.

Our stay in Exponor was very productive ! We want to share with you the pictures.

We also want to show some pictures we mansion on a previous post from the termographic camera. A great thank you again to Rita and Daniel's collegues for these document.

Finally we want to thank all the people we worked with:

The architects Pilar, Rita, Teresa, Victor, Pedro S, Pedro C, Natalia, Magia, Leonor

The Engineers Rita and Daniel,

Artur and David from Dimscale,

Nuno from IQ Energy,

Tiago from LogAcoustica,

David and Teresa from Pigma

Tiago, Bernadino, João  from NCREP,

Profesor Teresa Fonseca,

Araujo Gomes and Ricardo Dias from Infor,

Maria, Susana from Dryas

Jose Barbosa from Idade do Ferro,

All the Cobert and Secil team for their greats visits

And José to making this real !

Best wishes to everyone and keep us informed !

Marco, Tatiana, David, Luis and Céline from Team 3.

Projecto Casa at EXPONOR

 We have some exciting days ahead of us ! The Arrebita! stand is set up at Projecto Casa in EXPONOR ! Yesterday, a few of the team did a mini restoration on a shipping container, which for the next four days will become our office ! It already feels like home ! After painting, moving in our furniture and connecting our network, we are ready to work and receive interested visitors. 

 

It’s also a pleasure to invite you around our table, this Saturday at 3pm for a discussion between our team and the partners in EXPONOR !

Join us !

Fine tuning the roof

November is already behind us. There is just two weeks before the end of our stage, and what a better end than taking part of an exhibition ! EXPONOR will be our studio from the 6th to the 9th of december, so come and join us in our container !

Last Friday we were lucky to visit Cobert’s tile factory in Torres Vedras.  We were very impressed with their mechanical systems to make tiles. The coordination is amazing and the precision that these intelligent robots have and the quality of the tiles is guaranteed by a final rigurous examination. 

On this same day, we visited Secil’s concrete factory which is near Leiria. Dimscale team join us for this visit and we had an overview of all the products we can use in our building, and probably try some of their new products too, like a composit material made with cork and concrete. Let’s see if it can be used for the basement ground insulation…

expanded cork and concete mix

On Thursday, after studying what we learned in Cobert tile factory, we had a meeting with 2 Cobert Technicians to ask more questions! The objective was to ensure that the materials were used properly and to know all the technical details of how to mount their systems.

The technicians brought samples of all the materials that could be useful to use in the roof and showed us some very useful videos to explain how they work and how they are applied.  After analyzing how they work and following their advice, we came up with the right solutions.

And we want to share with you our last drawings. Finding more partners allowed us to go further in the detailling of the project. Your opinion is important, let us know what do you think !