PAr. Plataforma de Arquitectura

Profile

Founded in 2006 by Joana Carmo Simões, Susana dos Santos Rodrigues e Vânia Brito Fernandes, PAr is a platform of knowledge, materials and people that induce, inspire and concretize architecture.

PAr is interested in the reinterpretation of the local vernacular architectural cultures by contemporary logic, using natural and traditional materials, to improve the economic, social and aesthetic everyday life.

From the plain things we create the house, with the architectural culture and traditional construction knowledge, the materials and the people of a place. At the CASA CHÃ ® concept we reinterpret the ancestral legacy through contemporary logic, creating and nurturing social and economic dynamics linked to local crafts. PAr consolidated the CASA CHÃ ® concept in the prototype Casa Modesta.

PAr has been frequently selected at offical architecture prizes, such as the National Association of Arquitects Habitar Portugal 2015 and 2012 selections, and the National Wood Architecture Prize 2009 selection.

Biography

Joana Carmo Simões (Lisbon,1980) 
Graduated in Classical Ballet - Major Examination by Ceccheti Society Faculty (1999)
Graduated in Architecture – Lisbon University Lusíada (2003)
Studies in Sustainable Constrution – Lisbon Technical University Instituto Superior Técnico (2008)
Partner at LACECAL habitar . madeira (since 1998)
Collaborator at AAs Arquitectos Associados (2003)
Collaborator at Aires Mateus e Associados (since 2004)
Founder at Par Plataforma de Arquitectura (since 2006)

Susana Dos Santos Rodrigues (Lisboa, 1978)
Studies in Architecture – Paris Belleville Faculty of Architecture (1999)
Graduated in Architecture – Oporto University Faculty of Architecture (2001)
Publication Albino Mendo – Idealismo e Compromisso - coordination and introduction by Manuel Graça Dias (Arq)
Post Graduation in Built Heritage Renovation – Lisbon Technical University Instituto Superior Técnico (2007)
Collaborator at Aires Mateus e Associados (since 2001)
Founder at Par Plataforma de Arquitectura (since 2006)

Vânia Brito Fernandes (Faro, 1984)
Studies in Architecture – Swiss Italian University Mendrisio Architecture Academy (2007)
Diploma project – exhibition IBA meets IBA (Internationale Bauaustellung) and publication “Bauen am Rhein – Projekte für dasKlybeck-Hafenareal, Lehrstuhl Peter Zumthor (2008)
Graduated in Architecture – Lisbon University Lusíada (2008)
Collaborator at Aires Mateus e Associados (2008-2015)
Partner at Par Plataforma de Arquitectura (since 2009)
Founder at Casa Modesta (since 2012)