Tiago Mendes Silva Azambuja Farinha

tiago.sorriso.farinha@gmail.com

00351 916169204

Driving license category B (light vehicles)

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Education and Training

September 2004 - Present: Architectural project for five years, and three years of constructions. I'veconsidered these two modules the most important ones, due to the closeness that they both, hadbrought me to the first direct contact with construction sites, and the development of the proper skillsto draw and read executional projects.CCP

December 2016: Certificate of Pedagogical Competencies that gives me qualification to train people inthe fields I have knowledge.

Communication Skills

Good communication skills gained from the wide range of experiences that I've acquire during mytravels, during the two workshops that I've done with people from multiple countries and also all theteam work experiences at work

Mother tongue Portuguese

Other languages

French and Spanish: Very Good level English: Good level Italian: Basic/ Independent level

Computer Skills

Good command of AutoCAD and Photoshop, Microsoft Word and PowerPoint.

Starter of Google SketchUp and Windows Movie Maker.

Other Interests

Travelling Knowledge of several cultures and people, dealing with these at multiple environments: cities,countryside, and "nature". Constant search of different landscapes. Experimenting most kind of living.

Nature Walks, including hiking and mountain climbing. Interest for the study of various types of plants.

Arts Drawing and trumpet playing. Constant research of Music, Literature and Cinema. Regularexhibition visits.

Until 2015, I was in France regularly for long periods of time, because it was where I could find betterinformation about the architect Le Corbusier and, where the opportunity to see some of the architect'sworks was.

During those years it was when I started to be involved with earth construction by collaborating as avoluntary in various works.

In 2015 I made a trip to the South of Italy (from Livorno to Sicilia) with the aim of exposing and sellinghandcraft jewellery designed and created by me and my partner with the idea of reusing tetra packmaterial.

In 2016 I went to Cape Verde, where I meet a lot of African people, who changed my way ofunderstanding life and friendship. I spent a lot of time in nature, living in another world.Born on the 14th of July 1986, in Oeiras, near Lisbon, Portugal.

I started studying Arts in high school, when the interest in history of art grew in me, moment that Idecided to begin my architectural studies. Along these 3 years of high school I have accompanied theconstruction of my family’s farm house, which became an important matter to my decision of becomingan architect.

In 2004 I started my studies in architecture at the University Lusiada of Lisbon.

During the course of architecture, I valued especially the conceptual development of ideas, turningthem into images and then projecting them into concrete proposals. This evolutionary process was theone that I took more pleasure in. Due to my interest in handcrafts, sketches and scale models were themost important tools I used during the projects’ development. As well as those tools, the modules ofconstructions, history of art and history of architecture also meant a lot to me.

In 2008 I completed the Bachelor in sciences of architecture (Bologna process).

In the same year I took a brief trip through the Balkans, which made me acquire a vaster taste fortraveling. This has spiked my curiosity in meeting different people and learn with them and from themtheir culture.

In 2010 I completed the final project module (project III) achieving the final mark of 18 values, on a scalefrom 0 to 20.

In the same year I also participated in the workshop "Changing Landscapes _ Mediterranean SensitiveAreas Design", about landscaping, held in Lisbon, Portugal. In 2011 I participated in the same workshopin the new edition, this time held in Volos, Greece. These workshops’ main aim was to developinterdisciplinarity between architects and landscapers, which helped me to develop team work skills, aswell as the ability to make public presentation of projects and to discuss them. In Volos I led the groupbecause of my involvement with the project, which made me acquire leader skills.

That year I travelled to France, where I did some agricultural work as a way to keep traveling. The tripwas very rich from the landscape and territory’s perspective. Moment that I decided the theme of mydissertation, which is still ongoing: “Architect’s Travels: The Construction of an Identity”. I am studyingtraveling as a way of learning what originates a critical line of thinking, as well as a personal architecturallanguage. My study cases are the following architects: Le Corbusier and Luis Barragán.

Work Experience

Architect Experience

April 2011 - 22 June 2011 Architecture competition. “Changing theFace – Moscow 2011”, Moscow (Russia). Everything needed to solve the project proposal. Managing theproject team with four members.

May 2007 - July 2007 Receiving and escorting Triennial’s visitors. Lisbon ArchitectureTriennial 2007 "Urban Voids", Lisbon. Explain all the assets about all the different sites of the exhibition.

July 2006 - September 2006 Designer at Ideias do Futuro studio, "Ideas of The Future", Lisbon (Portugal).Designing and development of licensing project

Work ExperienceConstructor Experience1999 - Present

Design and construction of my house kitchen, transforming one small hangar into a house and workstudio. The process was based in the furniture recuperation and restoration and the wood palletsreusing.

Design and construction of a small home inside my van.

Volunteer participation on the construction of a room with bathroom in an ecological tourist villa,including learning some electrician and plumber basic works.

Construction of a YURT with earth and straws, common kitchen function. Construction of a few ovens,with earth materials. Construction of a cave rehabilitation. Interior and exterior.

Preparation of a site to make outdoor Workshops.

Design and construction of several small structures and goods. Shelters, rafts, furniture. When facing aconstruction problem, I easily do a research, an adaptation and a resolution to my problem.

Other Works

2011 - 2015 Execution of several harvest works. Various land owners, Bordeaux, Corse, Gard,Champagne (France). Hard physical work, through all weatherproof.

2013 - Present Design and executions of handcraft jewellery. Selling them at several markets andfestivals, that help me acquires communication skills, and also to a better languages level

Portfolio Tiago Farinha

This work introduces geographically the following two exercises. All of them completed in the moduleProject III.

Program: Create a generator system of an Urban Nexus in the Historic Centre of Lisbon, precisely in theSão Jorge Castle hill (where the other two exercises of the year took place).

Objective: Knowledge and interpretation of the territory at an urban scale.

Morphologically, Lisbon is a city with a very rugged landscape, known as the Seven Hills City.

The castle, for strategic reasons, is located at the top of one hill, acting as a city landmark due to itsvisibility from various points of the city. Despite its visibility when you start climbing the hill, you willwalk into a maze of streets and alleys which will make you lose track of the castle.

The idea was to choose four squares at the bottom of the hill, daily experienced by many people.Leaving from those squares, select four walking routes that would all meet at the castle's door, tracingin each of them a rich and interesting path through the city. These walking routes are marked on thepavement with a slit, built with a tramway rail. During the night the slit draws a line of light. Each squareannounces the slit through a vertical volume with the same language. The slit has a guide function andalso works as a reference for the city users.

The four ways culminate in a pyramidal structure, oblique to the floor, which intercepts the castle walland points to the sky. Its interior, dark during the day and lightened by night just like the slit, is crossedby a stairway culminating in a seat from which it is possible to contemplate the Lisbon sky.

Program: Coverage for the ruins of the Roman theatre of Lisbon + Pedestrian path to the ruins andmuseum visit.

The idea is to design a building that, despite its public and cultural character, does not overlap throughits drawing, in an ego war, to the exposed ruins through the archaeological excavations, but dialoguingwith the morphology of the modern city.

The need to engage a path in a sensorial function came, helping the visitor to spatially interpret thepresumed orientation of the theatre in its original form; because the ruins left hardly speak forthemselves.

Lisbon is known for its hills and its roofs' landscape converging to the river Tejo. On the other hand, therelationship between the excavation and the system of the existing streets and a blind wall of theadjacent building create a sensitive point about the proposal drawing. Then, the shape of the buildingresulted like this, creating an intermediate point between the various scales it deals with.

The concept for the spatial development of the interior resulted from the need to differentiate twoeras: Roman time and Contemporary time. Thus the entire path is dark, travelled in the penumbra, like abridge looking into the lightening ruins, jumping to see the whitish stones of the ruins. This walking pathis assumed as a neutral space between the two eras, offering the minimum spatial reference of itsconstruction.

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Program: Residence halls for the students of the circus arts school “Chapitô” in Lisbon + Alternativestage.

The intervention site is an old building with the function of municipal market, which is well preserved. Itsdesign dialogues with the territory morphology in which it operates, with a very interesting facadedesign with a lot of potential. Unfortunately, the interior does not take advantage of all these qualitiesneither adapts itself to the new functions.

My intervention departed from this assumption, demolishing only the interior and the coverage toredesigning it.

The spatial concept consists in designing a space supported by a lookout and pillars metric that have asimilar image regardless of the user's position; whether the user is lying, standing vertically or upsidedown, the references will always be identical to any student while practicing stunts. This metric systemis created from the reading of the facade.

All space left between the residence halls and the building facade serves as a potential stage, dependingon the students' needs.

The idea for this project was thought by me during the Workshop:"Changing Landscapes _ Mediterranean Sensitive Areas Design" held in Vólos, in which I was quiteinterventionist and that is why I decided to present it.

I expose it as was done in a group exhibiting.

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One of the workshops’ study objectives was to think about the waterfronts’ landscape.

The place that we happened to think of was the landscape view of an old quarry and cement factory,separated from the sea by a road. Which had a disproportionate scale for human achievement due tothe buildings and the impressively large crater. On the other hand, all the terraces created by the stoneextraction are reforested, trying to hide impact against nature made by men hand.

Two ideas came to me:

The first one was to make a public garden in the quarry base, where the cement factory was based,transplanting all the trees from the its centre, leaving at sight the image of what was done there inother times. It is a critical position that aims to expose the wound that was made to nature, so it is notforgotten or goes unnoticed because it is a part of this place’s history.

The second one was, because the topography allowed it, to make a hole in the water and dig it, like astone, in order to let it enter the garden through a conduit.

This way at the top we can feel the mountain and contemplate the sea, and at the bottom we can feelthe sea and contemplate the mountain.