Personel Information

Contacts

Name: Kahina M. Q. Ferreira

Cel: +244 916 043 489

I.D: 000520671LA033

Email: ferreirakmq@gmail.com

Nacionality: Angolana

Address: 61-65 Av. Lenine, Maculusso, Ingombotas, Luanda - AO

O.A.A. N OA- 0836

Languages: Portuguese, English, Spanish and French

Profile
Serious, disciplined, organized,
pontual,
likes
challenges,
hardworking, trustworthy, honest,
sensible, optimistic and humorous.
Likes demanding challenges in
order to keep on growing.
Likes to understand to the depth
the objective of the task in order
ro propose the best viable solution
versus due date.

Academic Project Architectural recovery of the Grand Hotel of Luanda

Academic project Architectural recovery

Background
The Grand Hotel of Luanda was the first luxury hotel of the city with 10 years old. It symbolizes the beguining
of the 21st century modernization and optimist in the age where the mysteries of the world were being
unveiled. Its a colonial building located in the old town center and each important city had its own Grand
Hotel, representing the value of the town. The building is part of the 220 classified monumentos and sites of
Angola cultural heritage.

Education
Methodist University of Angola
Architecture
and
Urbanism
(2014);
University of South Africa Civil
Engeneering , 1st year (2007)

Work Experience

It is an eclectic architecture. The mixture of neoclassical and modern elements, the pursue for symmetry,
grandeur, strict hierarchization of internal spaces and decorative richness, all make this building an icon of its
time.
The Grand Hotel of Luanda is a two-story building, built in 1920. It has three patios, 2 external and 1 internal.
It was made out of noble construction material such as stone, wood, iron and glass.
The ceilings are 3m, the internal courtyard gives continuity to the external patios, making a good exteriorinterior relationship, whose combination of high windows allows a strong air circulation.
Raised to the category of historical heritage in light of Order No. 47 of 6 July 1982 by the Secretary of State for
Culture, the Grand Hotel of Luanda occupies the 4th place in the schedule of the Reviver campaign, being
built with specificities adapted for warm and tropical climates, facilitating this way the ventilation and
providing airy rooms, balconies decorated with tiles of the time and a plate of stucco mass with its name. The
main entrance is marked by a triangular pediment at the top of the main faade, consisting of two essential
parts: the entablement and gable. Nowadays the building is being altered and its going under function
transformation in order to become the Brazil- Angola Cultural House.

Location
Detail

Luanda Urban Planning and

Management Institute, 2015 Current Project analysis and
inspection;
Engexpor, 2015 3D Modeling ;
Master Plan Angola, 2015
Project
manager,
Team
coordinator, Architecture and
execution project developer
Aresta Viva, 2013 Concept,
search,
project
developer,
specialties and execution.

Images

General 3-D

Survey State of conservation of existing building

Competition

Floor plan - Existing

Kubikuz 2015, Angola Social

rural and urban innovative
housing project
A-Z Awards 2015, Canada
Technical schoolof handicrafts

External courtyard

Skills
Auto-CAD, Revit Architecture, MS
Project, Public works construction
supervision, Cype Archimedes and
budgets
and
pre-dimensioners
measurements,
Corporate
Sustainability , Project Manager

Pathologies
Drafts

Interests
Culture, search, travel, technology,
photography and music.

No specific instrument was used to make na analytical

intervention. The diagnosis was conducted from the
combination of an empirical and a scientific way, using
the knowledge that was passed to me by colleagues in
the field and by research done in the book Tcnicas de
Diagnstico de Patologias em Edifcios where I made
connections with what I verified from the photographic
survey of the building and its pathologies before,
interior and exterior visits and aid form the teacher.

Restaurant
Floor plan - Demolish

Constructive system

Arts State

Left Elevation- Existing

Left Elevation- Proposal

Section C-C

Section D-D

Kahina
Ferreira

Ixi Technical Handicrafts School

Its an architectural future project developed for the developing Zango
centrality in the Luanda Province, which lacks this kind of service. The
design was based on the resources and the environment that the site
provides such as clay soil and 2 lakes. The recycling symbol was the
concept form since its a school that will teach about sustainable
development and recycling, becoming a green building icon not only
for the region but also for the country. The building grows from the
earth in an elliptical way, staying strongly connected to the ground and
under. The green roof reaches the ground level making it accessible to
grow crops and as a recreational space. The program include classes
on sewing, painting, drawing, pottery and weaving. It also provides a
parking space, a multi-sport court, composting area and a technical
area with the generator and biofilters. The project promotes the
approach between communities, creativity and an alternative income,
reducing unemployment and poverty.

Cantee: Electrical floor plan

Canteen: Front elevation

Site

Section 1- Biofilter

Planta baixa

Draft

Canteen

Presentation model

Amphitheater

Painting class

Pottery and weaving class

Kahina
Ferreira
Perfil

General Elevation

Residential kitchen
Its a projecto of interior decoration for a 10,24 m kitchen, which is intended to be carried out in the Camama district in the Luanda Province, order by Mrs. Cruz, with the following program: preparation and cooking area, dish washer cabinet, deep freezer, storage and a mini
wine house.
Materials: wood duly painted in white, lacquered and waterproofed and natural stone of Luabngo. The floor surface will be finished with non-slip ceramic mosaic of champagne color 60x60 or 80x80. The floor will have a minimum slope for water drainage to a central drain, to
be checked by the contractor.
The interior walls will be covered in vetrified ceramic tiles of purple shades in a running pattern with mirrors as indicated in the technical drawings. Its recommended two-handed white hydrophobic latex paints where the cabinets will be placed. The walls will have a 5cm wall
skirting board made of ceramic tile in champagne color.
The ceiling is at 2,35m height form the finished floor level and its made of smooth gypsum carbonate finished with two-handed white plastic paint.

Survey

3-D

Technical Drawing

Section 1

Moodboard 1

Moodboard 2

Base Floor plan

Search and suppliers

Section 2

Custom furniture table

Case-study perpective

Final Proposal

Kahina
Ferreira

Unifamiliar T5 House
In this residencial project, the main objective is to build a one-story 5 bedroom house, having 356 m construction area in Quibala-Cuanza-Sul Province, on a 1000 m lot, because its in the owners culture to live more outside the house then inside.
The conception aimed to take advantage of the natural potentialities, emphasizing the functionality of the space in which the form will follow the function and a convenient harmony with its environment, so as not to de-characterize the area. The common spaces have been
designed to provide greater flexibility and adaptability in the future, seeking to create a harmonious set with some formal dynamics.
The complex is formed by a central building with common space open for greater circulation and connection between the internal spaces making distribution to the various housing compartments, namely kitchen, laundry, office and suites, all on a single raised ground floor with a
concrete base, masonry walls of concrete block and a roofing of Marseilles tiles. Materials used: Concrete:B25
In general Steels: A235NR
In connections subject to welding A400NR
In general
Survey

Site

Planta: guas limpas

Base floor plan

Kahina
Ferreira

3-D

Comercial Building
Its an architectural building
project which is intended to be
carried out in the Province of
Bengo, Municipality of Dande
communal headquarters of Caxito.
The objective is the develop a onestory mixed commercial building
with an accessible terrace for
recreational events.
In the design of the project, the
work was conceived in a way to
achieve a better functional and
distributive organization of the
spaces, with a view to creating
better
interior
and
exterior
environmental comfort limited by
the size of the site, flexibility for
future evolution and execution As
well as the financial sustainability
of the work, in accordance with the
program presented by the Owner of
the project.
The materials used were:
Concrete:
B25
In general
Steels:
A235NR
In connections
subject to welding
A400NR
In general
The exterior walls to be raised shall
be mortar block of cement mortar
and sand of 40x20x15, with 0.20m
thickness in the clean, laid with
cement mortar and sand with trace
1: 3; While the interior walls to be
erected will be 30x9x15 hollow
brick or 40x20x15 sand and cement
mortar block, 0.15m thick in the
clean, laid with cement mortar and
1: 3 sand; While the walls will be
well executed, as shown in the
drawings.

General view

Restaurant
Floor plan: Site

Floor plans: Fundation

Base Floor plan: Furnitured

Floor plan: Illumination

Front elevation

Floor plan: Dark waters

Construction site: Top view,

hallway

Left elevation

Construction site: Top

view, Restaurant

Kahina
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Rural
Social
Housing
Kubikuz 2015 Competition

The basic program is proposed

according to the intention of a
sustainable
environmental
and
economic plan, where the designated
use will promote, with the population,
indoor and outdoor environmental
comfort limited by the dimensions of
the 162.5 m plot, flexibility for future
evolution and Phased implementation,
improvement and functionality, as
regards the way of life of the rural
area. The selection of the location was
made based on the Metropolitan
General Director Plan of Luanda
(PDGML) that provides for the use of
the soil for agriculture.
This selection was further reinforced
by the fact that the soil is fertile for
agriculture and there is the Kabunga
Bunga canal, a tributary of the Kwanza
river. It is a riverside village with less
than 250 inhabitants among peasants
and fishermen in which each family has
on average seven members between
the ages of 3 and 70. These families
rely
on
livestock,
fishing
and
agriculture
where
they
collect
products such as corn, mangoes, sugar
cane, potatoes, reindeer, tomato,
Kabunga Bunga canal fish and cattle,
goats, chicken and pigs . The baobab
tree is the predominant tree in that
region, and the largest of them is used
as a space for religious worship on
Sundays, since there is no church. The
land is limited to the North and the
West by a dirt track, to the East and
the South by vegetation.
The fence wall is made of wood and
has a height of 1.2 m throughout the
terrain, as well as the fence to the
corral.
The exterior masonry consists of single
walls in masonry of compressed earth
block 20 x 20 x 40cm, available in loco,
forming walls of 20 cm and can be
coated with cactus juice or resin if you
do not wish to be exposed.

Survey and research

Floor plan: rainwater

Intervention area

Floor plan and the composting process

Floor plan: dark water

Floor plan: Illumination

Floor plan: Clear water

Solutions
Opposite spans were positioned at each other and at different heights to improve the renewal and circulation of the air naturally by
getting a cross-circulation. The clear-buoys have been placed and positioned strategically so that not only help in climate cooling
naturally but also allow natural zenith lighting. The tall leg also helps in the circulation of air; It is possible to reduce the action of
water by building good foundations, raising them to a safe height, so as to protect the building with a good covering and to protect
the walls with a uniform coating like a talking membrane; Some methods of stabilizing the adobe to obtain greater mechanical
resistance consist of densification of the earth by compression, inclusion of fiber reinforcement and addition of cement, lime or
bitumen. And still from the machine of confection of earth blocks "hydraform" that compresses the raw earth in a form, resulting the
block of earth; The creation of a composting area allows to give a better destination to the food remains, in spite of being reused as
fertilizer, enriching the soil for vegetation and the bioorganic liquid to be used to water the plants; Developing a system of biofilters, it is achieved without addition of chemicals, clean the dark waters and store this water in systems to return to the network of
clean water.

3-D

Section 1

Section 2

Northwest Elevation

Kahina
Ferreira

Unitel/Movicel Store
Its na interior design project for a comercial space at the Shoprite shopping center, located in the Nova Vida Project, Luanda Angola with a area of 114,60 m.
The design was based on eclipse because its for the two major competitive mobile brands in the telecommunication market in Angola, selling their products in the same store at the same time. That raised a big obstacle in the design, because i had to
make sure both designs were equaly attractive for their clients. And establish a common ground. I developed a custom screen to seperate the two brands and created different entrances for each. This way i manage to optimize the use of the space and its
functionality. The products are strategically layed out in order to persuade the clients to explore the whole store. A guide line on the floor painted in the brands color makes sure that happens. Materials used: white lacquered wood for the whole furniture,
painted in the each brands color, a plywood sheet for the screen and glass.

Survey

3-D

Desenho tcnico

General Section

Research
Base floor plan

Planta Baixa
Custom reception furniture
for Unitel

Unitel Store

Drafts

Longitudinal Section

Custom reception furniture

for Movicel

Decoration design studies

Decoration design studies

Movicel Store

Kahina
Ferreira