1. Tiago Mendes Silva Azambuja Farinha
tiago.sorriso.farinha@gmail.com
00351 916169204
Driving license category B (light vehicles)
More information at:
https://pt.linkedin.com/in/tiago-farinha-651550129
Education and Training
September 2004 - Present: Architectural project for five years, and three years of constructions. I've
considered these two modules the most important ones, due to the closeness that they both, had
brought me to the first direct contact with construction sites, and the development of the proper skills
to draw and read executional projects.
CCP
December 2016: Certificate of Pedagogical Competencies that gives me qualification to train people in
the fields I have knowledge.
Communication Skills
Good communication skills gained from the wide range of experiences that I've acquire during my
travels, during the two workshops that I've done with people from multiple countries and also all the
team work experiences at work
Mother tonguePortuguese
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. Regular
exhibition visits.
Until 2015, I was in France regularly for long periods of time, because it was where I could find better
information about the architect Le Corbusier and, where the opportunity to see some of the architect's
works was.
During those years it was when I started to be involved with earth construction by collaborating as a
voluntary in various works.
In 2015 I made a trip to the South of Italy (from Livorno to Sicilia) with the aim of exposing and selling
handcraft jewellery designed and created by me and my partner with the idea of reusing tetra pack
material.
In 2016 I went to Cape Verde, where I meet a lot of African people, who changed my way of
understanding 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 I
decided to begin my architectural studies. Along these 3 years of high school I have accompanied the
construction of my family’s farm house, which became an important matter to my decision of becoming
an 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, turning
them into images and then projecting them into concrete proposals. This evolutionary process was the
one that I took more pleasure in. Due to my interest in handcrafts, sketches and scale models were the
most important tools I used during the projects’ development. As well as those tools, the modules of
constructions, 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 for
traveling. This has spiked my curiosity in meeting different people and learn with them and from them
their culture.
In 2010 I completed the final project module (project III) achieving the final mark of 18 values, on a scale
from 0 to 20.
In the same year I also participated in the workshop "Changing Landscapes _ Mediterranean Sensitive
Areas Design", about landscaping, held in Lisbon, Portugal. In 2011 I participated in the same workshop
in the new edition, this time held in Volos, Greece. These workshops’ main aim was to develop
interdisciplinarity between architects and landscapers, which helped me to develop team work skills, as
well as the ability to make public presentation of projects and to discuss them. In Volos I led the group
because 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 trip
was very rich from the landscape and territory’s perspective. Moment that I decided the theme of my
dissertation, which is still ongoing: “Architect’s Travels: The Construction of an Identity”. I am studying
traveling as a way of learning what originates a critical line of thinking, as well as a personal architectural
language. My study cases are the following architects: Le Corbusier and Luis Barragán.

2. Work Experience
Architect Experience
April 2011 - 22 June 2011 Architecture competition. “Changing the
Face – Moscow 2011”, Moscow (Russia). Everything needed to solve the project proposal. Managing the
project team with four members.
May 2007 - July 2007 Receiving and escorting Triennial’s visitors. Lisbon Architecture
Triennial 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 Experience
Constructor Experience
1999 - Present
Design and construction of my house kitchen, transforming one small hangar into a house and work
studio. The process was based in the furniture recuperation and restoration and the wood pallets
reusing.
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 a
construction 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 and
festivals, that help me acquires communication skills, and also to a better languages level

3. Portfolio Tiago Farinha

4. This work introduces geographically the following two exercises. All of them completed in the module
Project III.
Program: Create a generator system of an Urban Nexus in the Historic Centre of Lisbon, precisely in the
São 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 its
visibility from various points of the city. Despite its visibility when you start climbing the hill, you will
walk 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, tracing
in each of them a rich and interesting path through the city. These walking routes are marked on the
pavement with a slit, built with a tramway rail. During the night the slit draws a line of light. Each square
announces the slit through a vertical volume with the same language. The slit has a guide function and
also works as a reference for the city users.
The four ways culminate in a pyramidal structure, oblique to the floor, which intercepts the castle wall
and points to the sky. Its interior, dark during the day and lightened by night just like the slit, is crossed
by a stairway culminating in a seat from which it is possible to contemplate the Lisbon sky.

8. Program: Coverage for the ruins of the Roman theatre of Lisbon + Pedestrian path to the ruins and
museum visit.
The idea is to design a building that, despite its public and cultural character, does not overlap through
its drawing, in an ego war, to the exposed ruins through the archaeological excavations, but dialoguing
with the morphology of the modern city.
The need to engage a path in a sensorial function came, helping the visitor to spatially interpret the
presumed orientation of the theatre in its original form; because the ruins left hardly speak for
themselves.
Lisbon is known for its hills and its roofs' landscape converging to the river Tejo. On the other hand, the
relationship between the excavation and the system of the existing streets and a blind wall of the
adjacent building create a sensitive point about the proposal drawing. Then, the shape of the building
resulted 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 two
eras: Roman time and Contemporary time. Thus the entire path is dark, travelled in the penumbra, like a
bridge looking into the lightening ruins, jumping to see the whitish stones of the ruins. This walking path
is assumed as a neutral space between the two eras, offering the minimum spatial reference of its
construction.

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15. Program: Residence halls for the students of the circus arts school “Chapitô” in Lisbon + Alternative
stage.
The intervention site is an old building with the function of municipal market, which is well preserved. Its
design dialogues with the territory morphology in which it operates, with a very interesting facade
design with a lot of potential. Unfortunately, the interior does not take advantage of all these qualities
neither adapts itself to the new functions.
My intervention departed from this assumption, demolishing only the interior and the coverage to
redesigning it.
The spatial concept consists in designing a space supported by a lookout and pillars metric that have a
similar image regardless of the user's position; whether the user is lying, standing vertically or upside
down, the references will always be identical to any student while practicing stunts. This metric system
is created from the reading of the facade.
All space left between the residence halls and the building facade serves as a potential stage, depending
on the students' needs.

23. 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 quite
interventionist and that is why I decided to present it.
I expose it as was done in a group exhibiting.
Same introductory notes:
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 to
the buildings and the impressively large crater. On the other hand, all the terraces created by the stone
extraction 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 in
other times. It is a critical position that aims to expose the wound that was made to nature, so it is not
forgotten 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 a
stone, 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 feel
the sea and contemplate the mountain.