{"id":782,"date":"2026-10-14T11:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T11:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pacogarciamoro.com\/?p=782"},"modified":"2026-10-14T11:46:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T11:46:18","slug":"the-courtyard-of-eternal-bliss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pacogarciamoro.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/14\/the-courtyard-of-eternal-bliss\/","title":{"rendered":"The Courtyard of Eternal Bliss"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I graduated as an architect in 2010  at <a href=\"https:\/\/etsamadrid.aq.upm.es\/\">ETSAM <\/a>with a Thesis Project titled &#8220;Community Center in the Courtyard of Eternal Bliss&#8221;. I designed a mix-used complex located in the Macau Inner Harbor, a heritage Chinese neighborhood built on a maze of connected alleys and courtyards and dotted by an intricate network of temples and shrines that were my primary inspiration for this project. Standing next to it, a historic opium-smoking parlor called &#8220;Courtyard of Eternal Bliss&#8221; survived the merciless pressure of property developers; this rows of South China brick shophouses would serve as an entrance to the community center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are many people I should thank for This project. First of all, Macanese architecty <a href=\"https:\/\/ateliersarchitecture.wordpress.com\/\">Adalberto Tenreiro<\/a> who brought me first to this place during my short stay at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hku.hk\/en\">The University of Hong Kong<\/a> and gave me chance to wander and document the captivating streets of old Macau. Then, he introduced me to Luis Sales Marques, president of the <a href=\"https:\/\/ieem.org.mo\/\">Institute of European Studies of Macau<\/a>, who kindly welcome me there. The Sino-Spanish Cooperation Program by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upm.es\/\">Polytechnic University of Madrid<\/a>, lead by her International Affairs Vice-rector Dr. Angel \u00c1lvarez, granted support to his research work. Dario Gazapo supported my application and, of course, my thesis director Concha Lapayese.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-pdf-viewer-block-standard\" style=\"text-align:left\"><div class=\"uploaded-pdf\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pacogarciamoro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Community-Center-in-the-Courtyard-of-Aethernal-Bliss-1.pdf\" data-width=\"\" data-height=\"\"><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I graduated as an architect in 2010 at ETSAM with a Thesis Project titled &#8220;Community Center in the Courtyard of Eternal Bliss&#8221;. I designed a mix-used complex located in the Macau Inner Harbor, a heritage Chinese neighborhood built on a maze of connected alleys and courtyards and dotted by an intricate network of temples and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pacogarciamoro.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/14\/the-courtyard-of-eternal-bliss\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Courtyard of Eternal Bliss&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":796,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,48,8,49,50],"class_list":["post-782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-architecture","tag-macau","tag-paco-garcia-moro","tag-thesis-project","tag-universidad-politecnica-de-madrid","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacogarciamoro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacogarciamoro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacogarciamoro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacogarciamoro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacogarciamoro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=782"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/pacogarciamoro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":795,"href":"https:\/\/pacogarciamoro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions\/795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacogarciamoro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacogarciamoro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacogarciamoro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacogarciamoro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}