Centro de Estudos de Arquitectura e Urbanismo

CEAU

Centro de Estudos
de Arquitectura e Urbanismo

Pedro Augusto de Azambuja Varela

Pedro de Azambuja Varela graduates in Architecture at FAUP in 2016 with the thesis ¿Elliptical spaces in religious architecture: the case of Igreja dos Clérigos in Porto¿ graded 18. In 2013 finishes (17) 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, Fallacara invites him to develop the same fabrication system for a vault in Italy. He is 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 12 papers in international conferences, 3 articles in international journals and reviewed papers for 5 international conferences and 1 journal. He also created an online database to manage CEAU scientific production and automatically generate reports, and develops advanced geometries through computation in his architectural practice.

Identificação

Grau
Doutoramento
Categoria
Membro Integrado
Ano de Integração
2013
Nomes de Citação
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
Domínios de Atuação
Humanidades - Artes - Arquitetura e Design
Grupos de Investigação
Laboratório de Fabricação Digital (100%)
Dedicação (Investigação)
70%

Formação

Concluído

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


Concluído

Curso de Estudos Avançados em Arquitectura Digital

Pós-Graduação

"CorkVault - Performance based design"

19

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal


Concluído

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

Título de especialista

Approved

Instituto do Emprego e Formação Profissional, Portugal


Frequentou

PDA - Programa de Doutoramento em Arquitectura

Curso de doutoramento (conclusão de unidades curriculares)

n/a

Universidade do Porto, Portugal


Concluído

Arquitectura

Licenciatura

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

15

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal


Concluído

Erasmus Programme

Bachelor

28

Università degli Studi di Firenze Dipartimento di Architettura, Itália

Percurso Profissional

Ciência

Investigador Contratado

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura

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


Investigador

Universidade do Porto Centro de Estudos de Arquitectura e Urbanismo


Docência no Ensino Superior

Professor Auxiliar Convidado

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal


Outros

Arquitecto

Centro de Estudos da Faculdade de Arquitectura

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal


Architect

AZVAvisuals Lda.

AZVAvisuals Lda., Portugal


Architect

Studio Toggle Architects

Studio Toggle Architects, Kuwait


Architect

Pedro de Azambuja Varela - Unipessoal, Lda.

Pedro de Azambuja Varela - Unipessoal, Lda., Portugal


Architect

EA - Engenheiros Associados

EA - Engenheiros Associados, Portugal


Lead Architect

Habiserve SGPS S.A.

Habiserve SGPS S.A., Portugal


Architect

Architecture in Formation (AiF)

Architecture in Formation (AiF), Estados Unidos


Architect

Henke Schreieck Architekten ZT GmbH

Henke Schreieck Architekten ZT GmbH, Áustria

Projetos

Projeto

Em curso

CoVHer - Computer-based Visualization of Architectural Cultural Heritage

Investigador

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal

2021-1-IT02-KA220-HED-000031190


Em curso

R2U Technologies | modular system

Investigador

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal

02/C05-i01/2022


Concluído

MDFachada MDCobertura

Investigador

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

Amorim Isolamentos SA, Portugal

DFL-MDFACHADA


Concluído

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

Investigador

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

Produções

Artigo em conferência

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 , Uruguai

Varela, Pedro; José Pedro Marques Ovelheiro Sousa


Publicado

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


Publicado

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

Novi Sad , Sérvia

Azambuja Varela, Pedro; Sousa, JP


Publicado

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

Berlin , Alemanha

Varela, Pedro; Sousa, JP


Publicado

Digital Expansion of Stereotomy - A semantic classification
37th eCAADe and 23rd SIGraDi Conference - Architecture in the Age of the 4th Industrial Revolution

Porto , Portugal

Varela, Pedro; Sousa, JP


Artigo em revista

Publicado

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


Publicado

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


Capítulo de livro

Publicado

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


Publicado

Smiling yellow storage

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

Azambuja Varela, Pedro

isbn: 978-3-89955-698-8


Edição de livro

Publicado

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


Invenção

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


Licenciamento

Atribuída

House in Rio Mau, Vila do Conde

Azambuja Varela, Pedro


Atribuída

Yellow Renovation, Porto

Azambuja Varela, Pedro


Poster em conferência

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


Revisão de livro

Publicado

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


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/

Atividades

Apresentação oral de trabalho

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


Arbitragem científica em conferência

CAAD Futures 2023

TU Delft


International Scientific Committee for the XXVI SIG~aDi 2022

Lima


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

Leuven


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

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura


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

Gent


Arbitragem científica em revista

Construction Innovation: Information, Process, Management

Emerald Publishing


Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage

ACM


Thinking, Drawing, Modelling

Springer

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

Curso / Disciplina lecionado

Geometria Construtiva 2

Geometria Construtiva 2

Mestrado integrado

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal


Geometria Construtiva 1

Geometria Construtiva 1

Mestrado integrado

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal


Práticas digitais em projecto e investigação de arquitectura

Cultura Digital

Mestrado integrado

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal


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


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


Entrevista (jornal / revista)

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/

Júri de grau académico

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

Mestrado Integrado em Arquitectura - Mestrado

Pedro Augusto de Azambuja Varela - Arguente principal

Catarina Lopes Capitão - Candidato

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal


Membro de comissão

Comissão CERT – Concursos Especiais e Regimes de Transferências – 2023.2024

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal


Organização de evento

IA? - Workshop sobre inteligência artificial

Coorganizador, Oficina (workshop)

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal


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

Membro da Comissão Organizadora, Conferência

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal


Architecture 4.0 Square by DFL at Concreta 2019

Coorganizador, Exposição

Exponor - Porto International Fair, Portugal


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

Membro da Comissão Organizadora, Conferência

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal


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

Coorganizador, Exposição

Exponor - Porto International Fair, Portugal


Orientação

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

Mestrado

Pedro Augusto de Azambuja Varela - Coorientador

Rui Miguel Oliveira Cardoso Mendes - Candidato

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

Mestrado

Pedro Augusto de Azambuja Varela - Orientador

Afonso de Matos Silva - Candidato

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal


Neuroarquitetura. Experienciar e reconhecer a cinestesia humana nos espaços

Mestrado

Pedro Augusto de Azambuja Varela - Orientador

Camila Alves de Paulo - Candidato

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal


Projectar para o Mundo Virtual. Uma Experiência para o Metaverso

Mestrado

Pedro Augusto de Azambuja Varela - Orientador

Maria João Henriques Marques - Candidato

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal


Espetáculos de Parametrização: Parametrização acústica em espaços de Espetáculo

Mestrado

Pedro Augusto de Azambuja Varela - Orientador

Ricardo Ribeiro Faria - Candidato

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal


Outro júri / avaliação

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

Universität Innsbruck, Áustria


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

Escola Artística de Soares dos Reis, Portugal


Participação em evento

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


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


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


Revisão ad hoc de artigos em revista

ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage

Association for Computing Machinery


Construction Innovation: Information, Process, Management

Emerald Publishing

Distinções

Outra distinção

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


Prémio

"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, Emiratos Árabes Unidos


"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, Emiratos Árabes Unidos