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Rui de Carvalho

Rui de Carvalho

Lisbon, PT

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Roofing UHLT (workshop skin)

This intervention resulted of the program 'Workshop Skin (programmable surfaces)', which proposes an intervention at the entrance of the Lusophone University of Humanities and Technology in Campo Grande, Lisbon.


The project is based on a skin that works as a cover, with the aim of expanding by the way that is meant as the principal university entrance. This is between its entry and the two tunnels that pass over by two buildings and limiting the 'stop' of the school.


Being a building of an academic institution is closely linked to students. The concept is to use the cover of academic dress as a starting point.


The intervention will lead to a cover that comes from within the university, welcoming the students who belong to it. In view of the volume along its path until the entrance of the university, this demonstrates a need to break free, like a frantic search to hosting his namesake

 
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Status: School Project
Location: Lisbon, PT