Arrebita! Logbook, 4th Working Week

Hi crew! After one week we are glad to inform you that we have another partner! Ricardo Silva is a civil engineer helping us with the gas project.

DID YOU KNOW (creating large open plan spaces with kitchen in the middle makes entire room to be considered as a kitchen, in other words from the gas engineer perspective our building is just 2 massive kitchens, which need to be sufficiently ventilated – yey! lets drill some holes!)

We are working on the architectural design to adjust the building design to the gas safety necessities.

José and Ricardo sealing the deal

Talking with architects Natalia Solano and Rita Saturnino we choose colors and dimensions of the CABA and we will soon surprise you with our next “publication” of A!Booklet…

Meeting with Natalia and Rita S.

Discussing the A!Booklet

This week we finally opened the gates of hell and went to the Rua da Reboleira. Inspection of the building and fighting the massive blood sucking spiders was a lovely gateway from ArchiCAD and office work.

Fighting Massive Spiders

After the fight with the spider, Greg continued relaxing by creating A!Library and organizing all books and catalogs, while the others came back to real work.

Last but not least some great news. We have now gained some international fame (blink, blink J). One of the Brazilian newspapers have interviewed one of TEAM 6 members Yuri and described his adventure with Arrebita! and Portugal here (Portal G1). Ever since this event we spend most of our time hiding from paparazzis and crowds of teenage fans....

A week of enterprises need an happy ending so we decided to organize a meeting/dinner in A!headquarter (our house)  with the engineers Daniel Barbosa e Rita Ferreira talking about our next adventures!

Eating Tany's Italian Food and Greg's Tzatziki

Stay tuned and see you next week ;)

Kisses and beijinhos!

Team 6 @ Porto Vivo

The Meeting in Porto Vivo

Today we had a meeting with Ana and José from Porto Vivo SRU Society of Urban Rehabilitation that is involved in a refurbishment process of historical centre of Porto.

Discovering "Morro da Sé"

After a conversation about the work of Porto Vivo in the city context we were invited for a tour around one of the projects regarding interventions in Morro da Sé zone.

Discution in a Sightseeing near Sé

We have learned how such a great project as city refurbishment can come to life. Although, it is not always a bed of roses and there is still a lot of things to be done, but hey! that’s what we’re here for.

Interior of a block

S. Sebastião Market

Talk near "Torre dos 24"

Team 6 - The Best Is Yet To Come

Hi guys! We are Team 6 and we are glad to inform you that we are arrived to Porto, ready to do our best for Arrebita!Porto Pilot Project. We are Bruno Costa (Portugal), Yuri Piffer (Brazil), Claudia Ribeiro (Portugal) , Tany Vazzana (Italy), Grzegorz Maria Wabik aka Greg Wasabi  (Poland).

Tany, Bruno and Greg getting familiar with the project

We spent our first days becoming familiar with the project and meeting the people involved in Arrebita! whom we have to thank for the help given!

Greg and Yuri thinking about our tasks!

Our tasks (following the steps of the previous teams) are to develop the A!BOX and proceed the growth of Rua da Reboleira Pilot Project until we put our hands on the construction, hopefully soon! We will update you with more news!

See you soon!

Até logo!

That was some farewell celebration Porto, thank you São João.

Team5 say goodbye L and pass the turn to the next team. We hope Team6 will enjoy the experience as we have done it.

Yesterday we had a dinner to welcome the new team and also to say farewell to Jose, and we could finally enjoy the good weather during the night: we did it in our terraço!

We hope we will come back in a few to see the building done!

Douro Valley

Taking advantage of the long weekend we went to explore the Duoro Valley and Jose’s grandparents' town Carrazeda.
The best way to travel there is definitely by train, at some points you feel like you are travelling along in the river you are so close to it, and also the view of all the valley does the rest: it is an amazing place!

We had a lovely welcome by all of Jose's family and after a delicious lunch we went to explore the countryside. We had to walk by the train tracks and cross winding paths to find cave paintings from prehistoric times. Absolutely worth it!

Taking a short cut through the long grass

Team 5! on the train tracks

In the evening we went to the local fire station to watch an ethnic theatre performance, which was interesting...

On Sunday we went to some small villages a short distance from Carrazeda. Once again we had a great lunch with Jose and his family and after we went to Festa da Cereja in Alfandega da Fe where we had the opportunity to sample some cherry food and drink and of course lots and lots of cherries.

Tasting some cherries

Before dinner we went for a walk around the village where Jose's Grandparents live.

Going for a walk in the village

The Monday morning we went to see a sculptor’s atelier were we could try some welding.

Trying welding (we are very good!)

Back on the train to Porto we had a picnic. A great weekend was had exploring the smaller villages in the Duoro Valley and thanks to Jose and his family for welcoming us and showing us the area.