Scuplting the void | The House of Wine in Oia

My graduation project was about the design of “The house of wine” in Santorini. The project consists in designing a winery on the exact same location where old quarries once were placed on the outskirts of the village Oia, situated north of the Greek island Santorini. The quarries, a cultural landscape, are positioned right next to the town Oia...

Bridging Paraisópolis: Perverting Modernism

PARAISÓPOLIS To understand the history of Paraisópolis it is needed to go back to 1921. The area where the favela is located today was part of Fazenda do Morumbi which was divided in 2200 plots by União Mútua Companhia Construtora e Crédito Popular S.A. The infrastructure of the allotment has not been fully implemented and many of those which...

The Polysemous Mosque: Architecture Mediating the Multicultural City

The Polysemous mosque negotiates the dichotomy between the sacred realm and the secular multicultural city. The project positions itself in Amsterdam’s Bijlmer neighbourhood. Once a Modernist suburb, the Bijlmer has undergone generations of decay and more recently grand gentrification schemes. Acknowledging this, the project activates the...