its Taiwan Tower Design

TAIWAN CONCEPTUAL TOWER INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION TAICHUNG, TAIWAN 2010 Team: OODA + OOIIO Diogo Brito, Rodrigo Vilas-Boas, Francisco Rugeroni, Pedro Maciel Joaquín Millán VIllamuelas, Alfredo Muñoz Herrero, Juan José Ortega López, Sandra Sainz Vicente Result: Merit Award The competition intention was to create a pioneering and innovative design concept which will stand as a new-age landmark … Continue reading

its books.

The area in which architecture acts always was guided by an explicit rhetorical shipment and of dense reflection about several parallel themes to his exercise. One that, while synergies established by the disciplinary diversity , it become important in the converging trial of information fixed in the conception of artistic manifestations or architecture buildings/features. Especially … Continue reading

its context.

Its Bizness time! OODA® ” Strongly inspired on a similar text on Seeking Alpha I decided to adapt and adjust this text for the Portuguese reality as I am convinced Portugal has at least 10 top of mind reasons for BAs to invest here. Portugal has a population of 10.7 million. The GDP is estimated to … Continue reading

its talks.

OODA was invited to give a lecture at ULP some weeks ago. The aim was to talk about the ´City, Territory and Design´ and so we gave an hectic ride through our universe as a drifting point of view about architecture and all its circumstances. “(…) Architecture is, beforehand, a will. Expressed through/by all organs and entities … Continue reading

its place.

OODA is upgrading its web page. For now we have an ´onhold´ feature in our place. Permanent version available next Fall. Stay tuned. http://www.ood-a.com powered by Pacifica™

its Tram Museum design.

OODA + Lencastre Arquitectos Design competition for the Tram Museum in Porto Team: Diogo Brito, Rodrigo Vilas-Boas, Francisco Lencastre e Tiago Souto Castro As a generic surface of placement, the city of Porto has special identifying characteristics at the same time capable of creating architectural difficulties. Such as transportation. The tram is one of the … Continue reading

its downtown.

For centuries, Portugal had a maritime empire spread throughout four continents that was never able to organize. After the 25th of April of 1974, Portugal found itself with its current continental size and the adjacent islands, and still was incapable of a structured vision of its territory that could contradict the attraction for Porto and … Continue reading

its way.

OODA designs and proposals embrace the advent of a new era. These designs assumed as its own pragmatic utopian experiments, intend to pursue a new direction in the architectural practice by creating unprecedented ambiences ,exploring uncharted geometries, developing the use of new languages and applying current building methods, as well as rethinking the prevailing discourses … Continue reading

its process.

OODA loop. Coronel John R. Boyd retired from the U.S. Air Force in 1975. He spent a lot of that time thinking. He devoured the writings of Heisenberg, Newton, and Sun Tzu and read thousands of books, journal articles, and newspapers. During that period, he came to his idea of the OODA loop and, beyond … Continue reading

it´s own blog.

Hey stranger. Welcome. This is OODA. Now available on blog mode.