Pedro Augusto de Azambuja Varela

Pedro de Azambuja Varela graduates in Architecture at FAUP in 2006 with the thesis "Elliptical spaces in religious architecture: the case of Igreja dos Clérigos in Porto". In 2013 finishes the Advanced Studies Course in Digital Architecture organized by ISCTE/FAUP, having won a grant by Amorim Isolamentos S.A. He is invited et al. to design and build a cork pavilion, becoming the first vault made purely of this material, with no extra reinforcement. In 2014 he teaches in Arkitektskolen Aarhus the summer course HARD CO(u)R(s)E DIGITAL Corkvault, building another full-size cork vault with waterjet cut conoid voussoirs. In the same year, Pedro wins a Research Scholarship to work in the DFL (Digital Fabrication Laboratory at FAUP), developing models and approaches for the FCT funded project Robotic Technologies for a Non-Standard Architecture. Following, he is awarded a PhD Research Scholarship from FCT, initiating his studies in the PDA in FAUP. During this time, his personal research on stereotomy is accompanied by activity in the DFL, developing algorithms and programming an industrial robot for digital fabrication, resulting in various constructions such as the GFRC Corkcrete Arch. In 2015 he teaches CAD in FAUP (filling a sabbatical), and in 2016 he starts teaching ArchiCAD in the newly created Continuing Training Course. While developing a system of reconfigurable moulds for bespoke vault building, he is invited to develop the same fabrication system for a vault in Italy, where is also an invited speaker in Politecnico di Bari and Ordine Architetti BAT. In 2020 Pedro presents and defends his PhD entitled "Reconstruction of a Stereotomy - for a multi-semantic stereotomic approach", approved with distinction. This thesis explores an updated contemporary augmentation of stereotomy, creating a detailed taxonomy of current possibilities, and developing a system of reconfigurable moulds which allows for the fabrication of custom geometries in blocks for the successful building of three experimental vaults. During this time, Pedro tutored several workshops, published several papers in international conferences, international journals and is a prolific reviewer of papers for international conferences and journals. In 2023 Pedro was teaching in the Constructive Geometry course, and in 2024 teaches in the CAAD course. Currently, he is developing his research project on Constructive Stereotomy, which already allowed for a rammed earth stereotomic vault built in Istambul.

Identification

Degree: PhD
Category: Integrated Member
Join Year: 2013
Citation Names: Azambuja Varela, Pedro

Varela, Pedro

de Azambuja Varela, Pedro
Ciência ID: F91A-DFB0-11D6
Ciência Vitae ID: F91A-DFB0-11D6
Orcid ID: 0000-0002-7319-5019
Activity Domains: Humanities - Arts - Architectural design
Research Groups: Digital Fabrication Laboratory (100%)
Dedication (Research): 70%

Education

2014 09 01 –
2020 06 09

Concluded

Programa de Doutoramento em Arquitectura

Doutoramento

"Reconstrução de uma Estereotomia - para uma abordagem estereotómica multi-semântica [Reconstruction of a Stereotomy - for a multi-semantic stereotomic approach]"

Approved with praise and distinction by unanimity

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal

Curso de Estudos Avançados em Arquitectura Digital

Pós-Graduação

"CorkVault - Performance based design"

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal

2011 11 13 –
2012 03 06

Concluded

CCP (CAP) - Pedagogical Aptitude Certificate / Certificado de Competências Pedagógicas

Título de especialista

Approved

Instituto do Emprego e Formação Profissional, Portugal

PDA - Programa de Doutoramento em Arquitectura

Curso de doutoramento (conclusão de unidades curriculares)

n/a

Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Arquitectura

Licenciatura

"Espaços de planta elíptica na arquitectura religiosa: o caso da Igreja dos Clérigos do Porto (18)"

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal

2004 09 15 –
2005 06 15

Concluded

Erasmus Programme

Bachelor

Università degli Studi di Firenze Dipartimento di Architettura, Italy

Professional Career

Science

2022 02 14 –
2028 02 13

Contracted Researcher

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura

Universidade do Porto Centro de Estudos de Arquitectura e Urbanismo, Portugal

2013 12 01 –
2021 12 30

Researcher

Universidade do Porto Centro de Estudos de Arquitectura e Urbanismo

Teaching in Higher Education

2015 09 01 –
2016 02 01

Invited Assistant Professor

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal

Others

2021 01 03 –
2022 01 02

Arquitecto

Centro de Estudos da Faculdade de Arquitectura

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal

2018 10 01 –
2021 12 30

Architect

AZVAvisuals Lda.

AZVAvisuals Lda., Portugal

2018 01 02 –
2020 12 30

Architect

Studio Toggle Architects

Studio Toggle Architects, Kuwait

2011 01 02 –
2014 08 30

Architect

Pedro de Azambuja Varela - Unipessoal, Lda.

Pedro de Azambuja Varela - Unipessoal, Lda., Portugal

2008 10 01 –
2010 03 01

Architect

EA - Engenheiros Associados

EA - Engenheiros Associados, Portugal

2008 01 02 –
2008 09 15

Lead Architect

Habiserve SGPS S.A.

Habiserve SGPS S.A., Portugal

2007 10 01 –
2007 12 20

Architect

Architecture in Formation (AiF)

Architecture in Formation (AiF), United States

2006 09 15 –
2007 09 30

Architect

Henke Schreieck Architekten ZT GmbH

Henke Schreieck Architekten ZT GmbH, Austria

Projects

Contract

CoVHer - Computer-based Visualization of Architectural Cultural Heritage

Researcher

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal

2021-1-IT02-KA220-HED-000031190

R2U Technologies | modular system

Researcher

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal

02/C05-i01/2022

2014 01 01 –
2015 12 01

Concluded

MDFachada MDCobertura

Researcher

Universidade do Porto Centro de Estudos de Arquitectura e Urbanismo, Portugal

Amorim Isolamentos SA, Portugal

DFL-MDFACHADA

2013 07 01 –
2015 11 30

Concluded

Tecnologia Robótica para um Projecto e Construção Não-Standard em Arquitectura

Researcher

Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Portugal ; Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal ; Universidade do Porto Centro de Estudos de Arquitectura e Urbanismo, Portugal

Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal

PTDC/ATP-AQI/5124/2012

Outputs

Book

Symmetry: Art and Science | 12th SIS-Symmetry Congress [Special Issue

{International Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry

Pedro de Azambuja Varela

Book chapter

O Porto de Vilanova. Experiências Didáticas à volta do Desenho.

Graphic Horizons, Springer, 2: 21-28

Castro, Alexandra; Marques, João Luís; Sousa, Jose Pedro; de Azambuja Varela, Pedro; Lopes, José

Flying Earth

Emerging voices on new architectural ecologies. Trienal de Arquitectura de Lisboa, Circo de Ideias: 83-90

José Pedro Marques Ovelheiro Sousa; de Azambuja Varela, Pedro; Güzelci, Orkan Zeynel; Lacroix, Igor; Krezlik, Adrian; Mateus Pimenta

https://www.circodeideias.pt/en/produto/emerging-voices-on-new-architectural-ecologies/

isbn: 978-989-53836-2-7

Smiling yellow storage

Small Homes Grand Living, Gestalten, n/a, 1: 162-162

Azambuja Varela, Pedro

isbn: 978-3-89955-698-8

Book review

Physical Models: Their Historical and Current Use in Civil and Building Engineering Design

Nexus Network Journal: 1-6

Azambuja Varela, Pedro

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00004-021-00571-y

doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00004-021-00571-y

Conference abstract

Permanência(s) no tempo longo. Terreiro, Cerca e Paço Episcopal de Lamego: evolução e transformação.
Colóqui dedicado a José Horta Correia 'Arquitectura, Urbanismo e Património da Época Moderna

Lisboa , Portugal

Marques, João Luís; Azambuja Varela, Pedro

Conference paper

Creating the Vault in IFC: IfcVault as one more step towards Stereotomy in BIM
SIGraDi 2025

Barcelona , Spain

Azambuja Varela, Pedro

isbn: 978-9915-9635-2-5

Stereotomic BIM – a plugin for designing low carbon architecture
XXVII Congress of the Sociedad Iberoamericana de Gráfica Digital (SIGraDI) 2023 "Accelerated Landscapes"

Punta del Este , Uruguay

Varela, Pedro; José Pedro Marques Ovelheiro Sousa

Democratizing Stereotomic Construction through AR Technologies - A reusable mold methodology to the production of customized voussoirs using HoloLens

Pedro de Azambuja Varela; Igor Lacroix; Orkan Guzelci; José Pedro Sousa

issn: 2684-1843
doi: 10.52842/conf.ecaade.2022.1.225

Drawing-to-factory process - Using freehand drawing to drive robotic assembly of brick walls
eCAADe 2021 - Towards a new, configurable architecture

Novi Sad , Serbia

Azambuja Varela, Pedro; Sousa, JP

Liquid Stereotomy - the Tamandua Vault
38th eCAADe Conference - Anthropologic: Architecture and Fabrication in the cognitive age

Berlin , Germany

Varela, Pedro; Sousa, JP

Reinforced, Reusable, Reconfigurable Molds for Cast Voussoirs
36th eCAADe Conference

Lodz , Poland

de Azambuja Varela, Pedro; Sousa, José Pedro

issn: 2684-1843
doi: 10.52842/conf.ecaade.2018.1.771
doi: https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2018.1.771

Conference poster

Holographic art applications in new architectural practices

Practical Holography XXXVI: Displays, Materials, and Applications

Azambuja Varela, Pedro; Joana Pinho Costa

doi: 10.1117/12.2626625

Expanding stereotomy with digital technologies

Encontro CIÊNCIA '18

Azambuja Varela, Pedro

Rural Hyperbolic Paraboloid Roof

Nexus 2010 Relationships Between Architecture and Mathematics

Azambuja Varela, Pedro

doi: 10.1007/s00004-011-0065-5

Edited book

Symmetry: Art and Science | 12th SIS-Symmetry Congress - Proceedings

International Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry.

Neiva, Ana; Ginoulhiac, Marco; Azambuja Varela, Pedro; Viana, Vera; Mateus, Luís; Xavier, João Pedro

https://hdl.handle.net/10216/142586

Invention

Reusable mould with variable geometry. This technology was invented within the PhD development. This mould is capable of accommodating an infinite number of geometries within the design space comprised of planar parallel intrados and extrados, and planar contact faces.

Construction of vaults

Azambuja Varela, Pedro

isbn: 978-94-91207-16-7

Vault made of cork voussoirs fabricated with 3-axis CNC mill. Within a bounding box of 12.0 x 6.0 x 3.0 m it was the first structure made of cork capable of spanning spaces with no added reinforcement, resorting only to compression resistance. Funded by Amorim Isolamentos SA

Trade fair

Azambuja Varela, Pedro

isbn: 978-0-9923835-1-0

Vault made of cork voussoirs fabricated with 5-axis water jet. Within a bounding box of 6.0 x 2.5 x 2.0 m it was the first realization of its kind. Funded by the Arkitektskolen Aarhus.

Architecture Masters students Summer course

Azambuja Varela, Pedro

isbn: 978-988-19026-7-2

Journal article

Stereotomic vaults - Using digital tools to customize artificial stone blocks

MD Journal, 12, 12: 118-127

Azambuja Varela, Pedro

Acesso Aberto

http://mdj.materialdesign.it/index.php/mdj/issue/view/14

issn: 2531-9477

Variable Casting of Voussoirs for a Stereotomic Shell

Nexus Network Journal

Varela, Pedro; Sousa, JP

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00004-018-0382-z

issn: 1590-5896
issn: 1522-4600
doi: 10.1007/s00004-018-0382-z

The Cork Vault Pavilion. A Design Research through Practice

Architectural Research through Practice: 48th International Conference of the Architectural Science Association 2014: 395-404

Pedro de Azambuja Varela; Azambuja Varela, Pedro; PAIO, A

isbn: 978-0-9923835-1-0
doi: https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2016.767
isbn: 099238351X

Bragança, cidade-fortaleza "setuada no estremo de portugall e Castela"

Monumentos, 1, 32: 24-41

Casanova, Maria José

http://www.monumentos.gov.pt/site/app_pagesuser/SitePageContents.aspx?id=eb4234f6-edde-4265-a057-64cd50d5ab9d

issn: 0872-8747

Licensing patent rights

House in Rio Mau, Vila do Conde

Azambuja Varela, Pedro

Yellow Renovation, Porto

Azambuja Varela, Pedro

Physical object

Stereotomic Marble Slab

Functional prototype of a square marble low vault.

Azambuja Varela, Pedro

Flying Earth three legged vault

Rammed earth voussoirs full-scale vault built in Istanbul.

Azambuja Varela, Pedro

Website

Website of the DFL - Digital Fabrication Laboratory

This large website contains all the scientific production, dissemination actions, and designs produced, as well as organic information related to the researchers.

https://dfl.arq.up.pt/

Activities

Ad Hoc journal article review

ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage

Association for Computing Machinery

2023 01 15 –
2033 02 15

Construction Innovation: Information, Process, Management

Emerald Publishing

Committee member

2023 06 16 –
2023 09 29

Comissão CERT – Concursos Especiais e Regimes de Transferências – 2023.2024

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal

Conference scientific committee

2024 08 27 –
2024 10 01

CAADRIA 2025 - ¿Architectural Informatics

Tokyo

2023 07 05 –
2023 07 07

CAAD Futures 2023

TU Delft

2022 11 07 –
2022 11 11

International Scientific Committee for the XXVI SIG~aDi 2022

Lima

2022 09 14 –
2022 09 16

eCAADe 2022 - Co-creating the Future: Inclusion in and through Design

Leuven

2022 01 22 –
2022 05 27

2022 Symmetry: Art and Science | 12th SIS-Symmetry Congress

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura

Course / Discipline taught

2024 09 20 –
2025 02 07

CAAD 1 - Computer Aided Architectural Design

Mestrado Integrado em Arquitectura

Mestrado integrado

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal

2024 09 16 –
2024 09 16

Aula sobre técnicas digitais para levantamento em arquitectura e introdução ao GIS para análise gepgráfica

História e Ucronia

Mestrado integrado

Universidade do Minho Escola de Arquitetura, Portugal

2024 02 05 –
2024 07 31

Geometria Construtiva 2

Mestrado integrado

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal

2024 07 17 –
2024 07 21

Flying Earth - The 5-day workshop organized by ArfLab, led by Dr. Pedro de Azambuja Varela from the Digital Fabrication Laboratory of the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP-DFL); and attended by Prof. Dr. Bilge Isik, Assoc. Dr. Ömer Dabanli, Serafettin Derin, Yunus Can and Kadir Sahin as invited speakers, aims to perform computational modeling of stereotomic structures in the Rhino Grasshopper environment and to physically produce these structures using compressed soil blocks to be produced during the workshop.

Istanbul Teknik Üniversitesi Mimarlik Fakültesi, Turkey

2024 04 08 –
2024 04 24

Mais do que Casas: Liberdade, Pluralidade, Prospetiva

Mestrado Integrado em Arquitectura

Mestrado integrado

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal

2023 09 15 –
2024 02 02

Geometria Construtiva 1

Mestrado integrado

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal

2023 01 04 –
2023 01 04

Práticas digitais em projecto e investigação de arquitectura

Cultura Digital

Mestrado integrado

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal

2022 11 15 –
2022 11 15

Geometria Construtiva - Aula sobre fotogrametria e análise de nuvens de pontos para aferição de rigor de modelos produzidos manualmente comparados com modelo digital.

MIArq

Mestrado integrado

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal

2022 10 14 –
2022 10 14

Digital tools for surveying - Photographic perspective correction; Spherical photo projection; Photogrammetry. "Complementary session of HAP-OT dedicated to survey strategies, within the scope of the fieldwork in progress."

História da Arquitectura Portuguesa (Mestrado integrado)

Mestrado integrado

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal

2021 02 15 –
2021 02 15

Tutorial support in class - History of Portuguese Architecture

Mestrado Integrado em Arquitectura

Mestrado integrado

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal

2020 12 01 –
2021 01 15

BIM implementation in context - consultancy and teaching ArchiCAD in the architecture office Paula Santos Arquitectura

ArchiCAD as BIM tool

Outros

Paula Santos | Arquitectura, Portugal

2018 03 26 –
2019 11 04

Curso de Formação em ArchiCAD

Outros

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal

2019 10 23 –
2019 10 23

Digital tools for surveying. "Complementary session of HAP-OT dedicated to survey strategies, within the scope of the fieldwork in progress."

História da Arquitectura Portuguesa

Mestrado integrado

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal

2017 06 30 –
2018 07 14

Grasshopper - Three dimensional interactive visualization digital methods applied to the Teaching of Descriptive Geometry. Two editions of 18 hours each year.

Using Grasshopper as a visualization tool for the Teaching of Descriptive Geometry

Diploma de especialização

APROGED - Associação portuguesa dos Professores de Geometria e de Desenho, Portugal

2016 11 15 –
2016 11 15

Métodos de Investigação em Design e Desenvolvimento do Produto

Mestrado em Design e Desenvolvimento de Produto

Mestrado

Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave Escola Superior de Design, Portugal

2015 09 01 –
2016 02 01

Desenho Assistido por Computador

Mestrado Integrado em Arquitectura

Mestrado integrado

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal

2016 01 25 –
2016 01 29

Workshop Bau - Digital Tools And Robotics In Architecture

WORKSHOP BAU – DIGITAL TOOLS AND ROBOTICS IN ARCHITECTURE

Outros

Universidade do Porto Centro de Estudos de Arquitectura e Urbanismo, Portugal

2014 11 28 –
2014 11 28

Genetic Algorithms - Within the CEAAD, a class of Parametric and Algorithmic Design dedicated to the history and mechanics of genetic algorithms and with a simples application in Grasshopper.

CEAAD - Curso de Estudos Avançados em Arquitectura Digital

Pós-Graduação

ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Escola de Tecnologias e Arquitectura, Portugal

2013 07 08 –
2013 07 12

International Summer School course on Social Design and Fabrication: STTF | Sustainable Technologies and Transdisciplinary Futures – from collaborative design to digital fabrication

STTF | Sustainable Technologies and Transdisciplinary Futures – from collaborative design to digital fabrication

Outros

ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal

2013 02 11 –
2013 02 12

Two classes entitled to introduce the Grasshopper visual programming language to 3rd year architecture course students

Design Studio - Grasshopper

Mestrado integrado

ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Escola de Tecnologias e Arquitectura, Portugal

2011 12 11 –
2012 05 01

BIM implementation in architecture office using ArchiCAD - 50 hours

ArchiCAD course

Outros

J. Bragança, M. Marqees, Arquitectos Lda., Portugal

2012 04 28 –
2012 04 29

ArchiCAD intensive course

Intensive ArchiCAD course

Outros

Espaço2D, Portugal

2011 11 22 –
2011 11 22

Geometria Construtiva - Apoio aos trabalhos sobre fotogrametria e análise de nuvens de pontos para aferição de rigor de modelos produzidos manualmente comparados com modelo digital.

MIArq

Mestrado integrado

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal

Event organisation

2023 04 14 –
2023 04 14

IA? - Workshop sobre inteligência artificial

Co-organisor, Workshop

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal

2020 07 11 –
2022 07 16

Organising Committee of the conference: 2022 Symmetry: Art and Science | 12th SIS-Symmetry Congress

Member of the Organising Committee, Conference

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal

2019 11 21 –
2019 11 24

Architecture 4.0 Square by DFL at Concreta 2019

Co-organisor, Exhibition

Exponor - Porto International Fair, Portugal

2018 01 01 –
2019 09 13

The 37th eCAADe Conference and the XXIII SIGraDi Conference (Joint Event) - Architecture in the Age of the 4th Industrial Revolution - Organizing Committee

Member of the Organising Committee, Conference

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal

2019 05 16 –
2019 05 18

Technology exhibition at 360 TECH INDUSTRY – International Trade Fair of Industry 4.0, Robotics, Automation and Composites

Co-organisor, Exhibition

Exponor - Porto International Fair, Portugal

2014 05 15 –
2014 05 15

Geometry as a language of design and materialization - Four hour workshop on generative design with Grasshopper and fabrication of bi-dimensional voussoirs in cork for catenary arches constructions.

President of the Organising Committee, Workshop

ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Escola de Tecnologias e Arquitectura, Portugal

2006 10 24 –
2006 10 28

Organization of exhibition [porto+arquitectura] featuring photographic and architecture works of final year students of architecture within the CONCRETA fair at Exponor.

President of the Organising Committee, Exhibition

Exponor - Porto International Fair, Portugal

Event participation

2014 09 19 –
2014 09 21

Mini Maker Faire - Lisbon

Participation in Mini Maker Faire – Lisbon with project “Robotic Technologies for a Non-Standard Design and Construction in Architecture”

Pavilhão do Conhecimento-Centro Ciência Viva, Portugal ; Ciência Viva, Portugal

2010 03 10 –
2010 03 10

Metamorphose

Metamorphose - Workshop by Rinus Roelofs on using Rhino3D and Grasshopper as means for mathematical and geometrical art

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal

2009 04 06 –
2009 04 10

Out of the Box

Out of the Box - Workshop organized by José Pedro Sousa as an introduction on using Rhino3D for digital fabrication

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

Publication in italian design web magazine Domus of architectural design of house in Rio Mau. "Inspired by local architecture, architect Pedro de Azambuja turns a stable into a single-family house."

Domus Web

Domus

https://www.domusweb.it/en/architecture/2018/06/26/portugal-renovation-of-a-layered-rural-architecture.html

Publication in portuguese newspaper P3 of architectural design of house in Rio Mau. "Fazer algo simples, directo, óbvio, na linha do que seria uma habitação rural, mas com o conforto de uma casa contemporânea":

P3 - cultural edition of newspaper Público

Mariana Durães

https://www.publico.pt/2018/05/09/p3/fotogaleria/uma-casa-em-rio-mau-entre-o-douro-e-o-minho-388084

Publication on italian magazine web Domus of Cork vault Aarhus. "Conceived by Pedro de Azambuja Varela and Tim Merritt, and built in a 2-week course in Aarhus, CorkVault uses three-dimensional stereotomic blocks of cork for creating a vault."

Domus Web

Domus

https://www.domusweb.it/en/news/2014/11/07/corkvault_aarhus.html

Publication on italian magazine web Domus of Cork vault Aarhus. "Three Portuguese architects built a pavilion to demonstrate the properties of cork as building material at Concreta 2013, a biennial building fair in Porto."

Domus Web

Domus

https://www.domusweb.it/en/news/2013/12/04/vaulted_cork_pavillion.html

Publication in the italian monthly magazine DCASA of the architecture project "Yellow Renovation" co-authored with Renata Pinho. "In Portogallo, un appartamento banale diventa super organizzato. Complice una parete gialla."

DCASA - GEDI Gruppo Editoriale S.p.A.

Eva Grippa

https://d.repubblica.it/casa/

Journal scientific committee

2023 04 01 –
2023 05 23

Construction Innovation: Information, Process, Management

Emerald Publishing

2022 09 21 –
2022 09 21

Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage

ACM

2020 01 01 –
2020 12 31

Thinking, Drawing, Modelling

Springer

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-46804-0

Jury of academic degree

Memória (do) Martyrium de Dom Gonçalo da Silveira O Monóptero de Penas Róias, Mogadouro

Mestrado Integrado em Arquitectura - Master

Pedro Augusto de Azambuja Varela - (Thesis) Main arguer

Catarina Lopes Capitão - Candidate

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal

Oral presentation

Stereotomic BIM – a tool for designing low carbon architecture.

XXVII SIGraDi Congress - Accelerated landscapes

Centro Universitario Regional Este

Machine Learning in Predicting Section Drawings - Case of Anatolian Seljuk Kümbets

40th eCAADe Conference - Co-creating the Future: Inclusion in and through Design

KU Leuven

Democratizing Stereotomic Construction through AR Technologies - A reusable mold methodology to the production of customized voussoirs using HoloLens

40th eCAADe Conference - Co-creating the Future: Inclusion in and through Design

KU Leuven

Liquid Stereotomy - the Tamandua Vault

38th eCAADe Conference - Anthropologic: Architecture and Fabrication in the cognitive age

TU Berlin

[INVITED] Architettura tra sughero e colore - Invited keynote to present own architectural production

RICERCA, SPERIMENTAZIONE E PROGETTO

Ordini degli Architetti Pianificatori Paesaggisti e Conservatori della provincia Barletta-Andria-Trani

Other jury / evaluation

2021 11 17 –
2021 11 17

Midterm Review of MEGAVIZ design studio at i.sd - Structure and Design, University Innsbruck

Universität Innsbruck, Austria

2010 06 01 –
2011 06 30

Product Design course (12th grade) jury member of Final Work at Escola Artística Soares dos Reis

Escola Artística de Soares dos Reis, Portugal

Supervision

O Capítulo Incompleto de Tomar: Ferramentas Digitais ao Serviço da Reconstituição Arquitetónica da Abóbada Desaparecida.

Master

Pedro Augusto de Azambuja Varela - Co-supervisor

Rui Miguel Oliveira Cardoso Mendes - Candidate

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal

Modelação 3D de um projeto abandonado. O Santuário de São Torcato a partir dos desenhos de Luís Inácio Barros Lima

Master

Pedro Augusto de Azambuja Varela - Supervisor

Afonso de Matos Silva - Candidate

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal

Neuroarquitetura. Experienciar e reconhecer a cinestesia humana nos espaços

Master

Pedro Augusto de Azambuja Varela - Supervisor

Camila Alves de Paulo - Candidate

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal

Espetáculos de Parametrização: Parametrização acústica em espaços de Espetáculo

Master

Pedro Augusto de Azambuja Varela - Supervisor

Ricardo Ribeiro Faria - Candidate

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal

Fotogrametria e Arquitetura

Master

Pedro Augusto de Azambuja Varela - Supervisor

Francisco Scotti Campos Belo Afonso - Candidate

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal

2022 05 02 –
2033 11 09

Arquitetura Fotorrealista: A imagem de arquitetura como projeto

Master

Pedro Augusto de Azambuja Varela - Supervisor

Mateus Santana Pimenta - Candidate

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal

2023 05 24 –
2024 05 21

Projectar para o Mundo Virtual. Uma Experiência para o Metaverso

Mestrado Integrado em Arquitectura - Master

Pedro Augusto de Azambuja Varela - Supervisor

Maria João Henriques Marques - Candidate

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal

Distinctions

Other distinction

Concurso Estímulo ao Emprego Científico Individual - 5.ª Edição 2022.07367.CEECIND

Título do Plano de InvestigaçãoStereotomic Architecture - Expanding theory, design and construction in stereotomy for a more sustainable construction sector Candidatura aprovada (resultados provisórios)

Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., Portugal

PhD approved with distinction

PhD thesis in Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto are either rejected, approved, or approved with distinction.

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal

PhD Studentship (SFRH/BD/93438/2013)

Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., Portugal

Research Fellow - FCT Project "Robotic Technologies for a Non Standard Architecture"

Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., Portugal

Award

"House in Mishref" wins the MEA Residential Project of the Year

This is an Architectural award for outstanding design. The design of the Mishref House was co-authored with Gijo Paul George, Hend Almatrouk and Rui Gonçalves.

Middle East Architect Awards, United Arab Emirates

"Bean to Bar" wins Interior Design of the Year

This is an Architectural award for outstanding design. The design of the Bean to Bar Chocolatier was co-authored with Studio Toggle. Pedro de Azambuja Varela was specifically responsible for the parametrically designed metallic chandelier.

Commercial Interior Design, United Arab Emirates