Visit of Roteiro de Empreendedorismo Social

Hello everybody, 

in our last days we were very busy but we found the time for some of our bravest followers. 

Today we had our “speech” in front of the participants of “Roteiro de Empreendedorismo Social”, organised by one of our partners - IES. They are involved in a project that is going to spread all kinds of social entrepreneur initiatives beyond the city centre of Porto, through out the metropolitan area like Santo Tirso ou Santa Maria da Feira. 

After Rita explained what Arrebita is and Team 6 members talked about their amazing experiences, we visited the building and had the opportunity to see the beginning of the construction. Demolitions started yesterday and they already removed the tiles from the roof so... Team 7 bring an umbrella! ROTFL

A!FAÇADE by ARREBITA TEAM6 ft. DESLEMBRADOS

Our time is running out but we couldn't leave you without what we have promised! Here are the result of our collaboration with Deslembrados Keep in touch, more surprises are coming!

SIGNED, SEALED AND SOON TO BE DELIVERED

We’re back on the track!

Very productive last few days resulted in singed contract with TOPDOMUS and finally we see a very bright future ahead of us. TOPDOMUS gave us a very competitive prize for the demolition of the old structure, roof renovation and hopefully new floor structure. This price however, takes into account our involvement in works on-site.  

Constructors on site!

Bruno and Greg beating Reboleira Olympic Record

In the while we are taking archaeologist classes and making surveys of the walls. We will leave our cosy office and get some fresh air activity while unloading trucks and assisting workers.

Architects vs Archaeologists

The plan of action is as following:

We also have a surprise for you! If everything goes as planned we will be broadcasting the progress of works from Rua Reboleira online. While we try to obtain the permission to film in public premises  try out our current broadcast. LIVE from ARREBITA! office you can now witness the never ending meetings and feel like part of the TEAM.

Our time had almost passed! As we told you : The Best is yet to come but now at least it is sooner than later. We signed and sealed, TEAM7 will deliver!

Something in the way we move...

Something in the way Arrebita moves...

The social mission of Arrebita made us concentrate in another possible parallel project...We like to call it A!Space and it concentrates on the social and physical rehabilitation of the exterior space of our office!

Submitted Proposal

The aim is to give a distinction and identity to our exterior space. The project was sent last week and we are only waiting for city’s approval and comments to start the works.

How we imagine it...

...and while we wait take a moment and listen to some good THE BEATLES.

You know we believe and how...

New Project + Partner To Come

Hi Guys,

This week started with great news: we established a new partnership with Filipe Ganja (Deslembrados), a Stencil Artist / Graphic Designer and we sealed the deal… with what??? First with style and then with a Stencil in the office façade of course!

Deslembrados Logo

Bruno Preparing the Stencil

Arrebita!Porto Stencil

In the first meeting with Filipe we talked about how could we use this partnership in an unusual way and not only in the most direct application in Reboleira Building interiors and so we start developing some new ideas about energizing the whole façade of our office with a big project that will identify Arrebita!Porto and the great place where we work in ! We hope to bring people here, and to make our message arrive everywhere!

Filipe Ganja and Cláudia talking about the new Projects

First Meeting With Filipe

But we went further and start to develop a campaign to people continue to get in touch with the project, and we hope to organize an Open Office day where you can see the painting of the wall and you could talk with us to understand the project and to get involved with the project if you want. Take all your doubts!

And the least but not the last… be aware and in alert to Oporto’s walls. We will deliver some messages!

Greg Says Cheers!

Cheers! TEAM 6

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. 

Lots of visits (III)

Our last visit of the round was planned to be to Marta Campos’ building, but she thought that it could be interesting for us (and it was) to see before the building beside which is being refurbished by the architect Inês Pimentel.
This building is  nowadays in the framework, so we could see the real structure and the composition of the structural walls, the Portuguese  typical “tabique”, the  slabs, etc. 

Was very nice to discover a new view of the building and see how beautiful can be it only cleaning every covering in the walls and the ceilings.

Inês Pimentel telling us the concept and the develop of her project

Looking the composition of the structural walls

We discovered also very nice gardens behind the buildings!

Then we went to see the other building, where Marta explained us the concept of the project and how the building process is at present.

In this case the building was almost finished so we could see it in a different way.

Marta Campos explaining us the details of her project

One of the flats in the building

The same week we also had  a conference in the “Universidade Católica Portuguesa” in the event of the “Dia Mundial do Ambiente” where José, Rita Ferreira, and the team explained the project from the ideas in the beginning that created Arrebita!Porto to our last designings during our stage.

After we had a discussion with the audience about the concepts we talked about.

The conference