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Liceu Dr. Francisco Machado

Liceu Dr. Francisco Machado is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Liceu Dr. Francisco Machado rather than just read about it. In short: The Liceu Dr. Francisco Machado is a neoclassical Portuguese colonial school building in the Colmera suco of Dili, capital city of Timor-Leste.

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Reference excerpt

The Liceu Dr. Francisco Machado is a neoclassical Portuguese colonial school building in the Colmera suco of Dili, capital city of Timor-Leste. It is located one block west of the National Parliament of East Timor, and faces Rua de Moçambique (formerly Rua Dom Fernando). Today, it houses the Faculty of Education, Arts and Humanities of the Universidade Nacional Timor Lorosa'e.

History The school building was constructed between 1922 and 1924, and was originally occupied by the Dili Municipal School (Escola Municipal de Díli). By governmental decree of 22 January 1938, a new high school was founded to provide indigenous Timorese with sufficient education to allow them to enter the lower level of the public administration. It was installed in the school building, and named after Francisco Vieira Machado, the Portuguese Minister for the Colonies (1936–1944) who was responsible for its foundation. However, high school education could not be established at that time, because of the upheavals associated with World War II, during which Japanese forces invaded Timor, and the school building was one of the many buildings destroyed in the conflict. In 1952, after the restoration of the building, the school opened its doors to its first high school pupils. In 1955 and 1956, the building was expanded according to a 1953 design by Eurico Pinto Lopes. Upon the opening of the high school, secondary education became available to the local population for the first time. However, the school was available primarily to mestiço (mixed-race people), despite a legal prohibition of discrimination. Attendees of the high school included the later freedom fighter and first Prime Minister of Timor-Leste, Nicolau Lobato, and the later Minister of Social Solidarity, Maria Domingas Alves. In 1961, the school building was enlarged on the basis of plans drawn up by Eurico Pinto Lopes and António Sousa Mendes. However, those plans were not fully implemented, as only the wing facing the Avenida Cidade de Lisboa (now Rua Formosa) and a new elementary school were built. After the Indonesian invasion of East Timor, the building was no longer used for teaching purposes until 1979, when it started to house the Public School of Middle Education (in Indonesian: Sekolah Pendidikan Guru Negeri; SPGN). In 1986, on the verge of the creation of a university in Timor Timur, the technical teaching section of the SPGN merged with several other isolated teaching courses to give rise to the Faculty of Education of Universitas Timor Timur (now Universidade Nacional Timor Lorosa'e (UNTL)). The historic Liceu Dr. Francisco Machado building was donated to the new university, and the school previously housed in that building was transferred to the Becora neighborhood of Dili; it is now called the 28 de Novembro Secondary School. During the 1999 East Timorese crisis, the building was destroyed by Aitarak, one of the pro-Indonesian militias. In 2001, the Lisbon city council financed its reconstruction. The building's exterior was rebuilt along the lines of the original design, but its interior was substantially modernised to house the Faculty of Education, Arts and Humanities of UNTL. As of 2019, the faculty was still located in the building.

Architecture In its original form, the building was classically Goan in style. It had whitewashed exterior walls and unframed windows, except those facing the interior gallery, which were framed in tones of dark wood. Its main entrance was surmounted by a flamboyant oriental-style pediment; a wide, pyramidal-shaped staircase led up to it. Flanking the original building was an arcaded exterior gallery protected by a balustrade. The exterior gallery had pillars separated by circular arches, with capitals at the base of each arch; the peripheral pillars were topped with Corinthian capitals supporting a frieze under a high entablature. When the building was restored in the aftermath of World War II, it retained its basic architectonic structure. However, whitewash was not reapplied, and the decorations were radically altered to conform to a more Portuguese compositional style, with Macauan chromatic influences. Decorations were added to the door and window frames, entablature and pillars, and the socles and capitals were coloured. The reconstruction in 2001 again maintained the architectonic features of the façade. Exterior alterations included replacement of the entablature by Portuguese-style eaves. Also removed were the balustrade and the capitals at the base of the arches, which were replaced by a dark base with inset pillars, and parallelepiped capitals supporting the frieze, respectively. Inside the building, more profound changes were made to clear the way for the restored function of the interior as a teaching space.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Liceu Dr. Francisco Machado

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Liceu Dr. Francisco Machado claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In engineering, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Liceu Dr. Francisco Machado before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Liceu Dr. Francisco Machado ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Liceu Dr. Francisco Machado

In research: Liceu Dr. Francisco Machado appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Liceu Dr. Francisco Machado in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Liceu Dr. Francisco Machado is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Buildings and structures completed in 1924, Educational institutions established in 1952, Government buildings in Timor-Leste, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Liceu Dr. Francisco Machado outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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Frequently asked questions

What is Liceu Dr. Francisco Machado in simple terms?

The Liceu Dr. Francisco Machado is a neoclassical Portuguese colonial school building in the Colmera suco of Dili, capital city of Timor-Leste.

Why does Liceu Dr. Francisco Machado matter?

Because it connects several engineering ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

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Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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