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Making the most of
the sun we made a tour of Porto and did a small photo shoot.
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We are Giulia Zanforlin (Italy), Catarina Gonçalves(Portugal), Deirbhile Doddy (Ireland), Alicia Gómez Quirantes (Spain),Jonas Roux-Briffaud (France). We are looking forward to getting our hands dirty and transforming the previous team’s work into reality!
On our first day we
met with Madalena from Team 4 who showed us around the project and took us to
the house we will be working on in Reboleira. On arrival we found a water fall
down the upper levels of the stairs. We can´t wait to get started on the roof!
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| View down stairs of Rua da Reboleria 42 |
Day
2 was spent with Ricardo at the “Infor” headquarters participating in an
intense but informative ArchiCAD workshop. After a tiring day learning the
program which is new for most of us we collected our bikes from “Banco das Bicicletas”
which is a partner of Arrebita! supplying the international teams with transport.
Cycling will be a challenge with the hills of Porto but we will be fit at the
end of 3 months. However, for the first trip we took them on the metro J
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| Team 5 and Ricardo Garim Dias, from Infor |
On Wednesday we presented some visiting students from France studying in
Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris-Vol de Seine. They are doinga
similar project to Arrebita! in an area of Paris as part of their studies and
were interested in what we are doing here in Porto.
We concluded
the day with our first meeting with the engineers where we discussed the any outstanding
issues left to us from Team 4 and the new A!Box structure.
To conclude our first week
we made our first factory visit to CINCA , where we were given a tour around
the showrooms. We saw many types of tiles from typical Azulejo designs to modern bright coloured tiles and everything in
between. CINCA gave us a few parting gifts (sample tiles) to play with and to
help us in our choice of tiles for the A!Box . We look forward to adding them
to the design.
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| Jose studying some typical tiles |
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| Discussing the tiles |
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| Team 5 with our tile samples |
Today
we had a presentation from Porto Vivo, they told us a bit about the history of
Porto and the work they are doing in the city. We had a tour of two buildings in
Morro da Sé which gave us faith that these works can restore the city. We also
received some informative publications about the centre of Porto and the work
of Porto Vivo.
Finally we’re looking forward to getting messy in the
building, we’ll keep you updated on the progress we’re making with the
building. Previous teams and all followers we hope you like the new name A!Box J
