* Monalisa Pavilion ŠRoberto Cortese
CURRICULUM VITAE Education and experiences
ARCHITECTURE, URBAN AND DESIGN PROJECTS Selected works 2011 | 2013
AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHY Analog and digital pictures 2011 | 2012
CV
Giulia MAZZA Personal data
Born on 05/07/1988 at Torino (Italy) Address
Via Cuneo 3, San Mauro Torinese (TO), Italy Phone number
+39 3389311220, +33 651044438 E-mail
giulia.mazza.to@gmail.com Web site
giuliamazza.wordpress.com
WORK EXPERIENCE 09/2013 - today
Architectural assistant MCA Matteo Cainer Architects | www.matteocainer.com | Paris Collaboration on: NCCA New National Center for Contemporary Arts in Moscow (competition) Renovation and interior design of a penthouse in the 16th district in Paris (stage E)
06/2013 - 07/2013
Collaborator Alessandro Ghislanzoni Architetto | Torino Editing of an executive project
04/2013 - 06/2013
Teaching assistant Politecnico di Torino | Workshop “Roofscaping the city. Urban regeneration with zero soil consumption. Experiences in Turin.”, organized by Profs. G. Ambrosini and G. Callegari | www.roofscapes.polito.it | Torino Student drawings revision, presentations for the workshop closing conference
10/2009 - 07/2010
Internship Torinoprogetti S.r.l. | www.gruppotorinoprogetti.it | Torino CAD drawings, architectural surveys, evacuation plans, health permits, safety in the workplace, ergonomic design
EDUCATION 09/2013
Politecnico di Torino Architectural licence for professional practice
12/2010 - 02/2013
Politecnico di Torino Laurea Magistrale (Master of Science) in Architecture Construction City | 110/110 cum laude with academic publication on internet | Torino Thesis: “From parasitism to urban metamorphosis. Regeneration strategies of a former district INA-Casa in Mirafiori Sud”. Tutors: Profs. G. Ambrosini, A. Armando, G. Callegari
09/2007 - 12/2010
Politecnico di Torino Laurea Triennale (Bachelor degree) in Science of Architecture | 106/110 | Torino Thesis: “Solar passive systems. A residential building project in Turin”. Tutor: Prof. G. Cavaglià
LANGUAGES Italiano
Native language
English
Speak fluently and read / write with high proficiency IELTS (International English Language Testing System) | 6.0
Français
Elementary proficiency
COURSES + WORKSHOPS 08/2013
Design to build W-Sound workshop. Temporary wooden architecture for entertainment. UniversitĂ degli studi di Napoli Federico II, CMMKM, Buro Happold, Cannata&Partners, MAR| Acireale (CT)
11/2012
Basic course on wooden buildings certification ARCA Casa Legno | Torino
10/2012
Training course for RSPP Module C (Manager of the prevention and protection service) Qualified | Foundation of the Engineers Order of the Province of Turin | Torino
05/2012 - 10/2012 02/2012
Woodlab: Monalisa wood digital pavilion workshop Politecnico di Torino | Winning project | Torino and Milano Rho Introductory course on sustainability in construction, LEED protocols and GBC Italia GBC Italia | Torino
TECNICAL SKILLS 2D/3D drawings
AutoCAD 2D AutoCAD 3D SketchUp Revit Rhinoceros Vectorworks
Graphic design
Photoshop InDesign Illustrator
Other
Vasari EnergyPlus
OTHER 09/2005 - 06/2006 Interests Driving licence
Volunteer activity Institute of Charity of Cottolengo of Turin | Sick people assistance Analog and digital photography, Study of vocal and gospel choir technique (sice 2008) travelling, tennis, running and scuba diving (FIAS patent, 20 meters depth, 2006) Italian driving licence, type B - Own car
A+U+D
During the MADEexpo 2012 our project was presented to the public: it won the Monalisa digital design workshop. The Pop.for.Pav. pavilion was designed with the aim of recreating a natural environment linked to the reality of a specific tree species, the poplar. As the ten years production in vivariums, it was decided to recreate the growth of trees during ten years, through the combination of poplar plywood panels. Each of them was shaped to assume increasing height. The pavilion follows two paths that develop in two opposite directions, according to which trees of the first track meet in the top those of the second; it generates a covered environment under which it is possible to relax and understand physical characteristics of the material. At last, we carried out the engineering project of individual components and the executive design that we provided to the stand construction company, which has built the pavilion. Web site | www.woodlab.polito.it
This thesis was carried out parallel to participation to Build-On Transforming Architecture thesis workshop, whose theme is “building on existing buildings” through elevations and additions of new volumes, proposed as a possible strategy for sustainable urban development with zero soil consumption. Specifically, the work we produced is focused on the suggestion of an action that concern social housing buildings and related urban regeneration processes. Thesis starting point was the development of a comprehensive analysis of the process that we followed from the beginning of the design steps, in order to make a complete survey of the case study characteristics, in which all informations we collected were used both as the “mover” of the design choices, and as a “target” to achieve to carry out the proposed process. The thesis developed supposing and studing some possible action strategies to put into practice in our case, and we projected them according to different scales of analysis (macroscopic and micro). We decided to propose three strategies of action, distinguished each others because they affect the area in accordance to different degrees, in a more or less extended way. This choice was due to the fact that we have to consider different degrees of involvement of private property; each owner can express different needs, and therefore strongly influence the project. “Parasitism”, “urban metamorphosis” and “combination by agreement” are the strategies proposed in the thesis. Website www.architesi.polito.it/dettaglio_tesi.asp?id_tesi=14398] Honorable mention | RI.U.SO 02 Contest www.concorsi.awn.it/riuso
New ground floor permeability and roof refunctionalization
New volumes and architectonic feature differentiation
Volumes addition on the ground floor: new features and services
New skin: architectural and energy redevelopment
New volumes and architectonic feature differentiation
Volumes addition on the ground floor: new features and services
This workshop aims to experiment the design of a building placed in an area with a different culture and urban context. The project area is located at Heyri, an artists village located near Seoul city. It is a place of Korean culture promotion, where artists can live, create and exhibit their art. This experience was characterized by video conferencings that were organized with local professionals in order to find material and informations about Korean culture and site project. The reference customer for the realization of our project was a craftsman and artist, maker of traditional Korean ceramics. Building includes both the customer private residence and the workshop production of handmade pottery, as well as the sales and exposition area of the products. This involves the design of a multifunctional building, in which it was necessary to study how these three different functions should relate and integrate themselves. The project is strongly characterized by the presence of two ramps (one ascending and one descending) that generate the paths through the architecture and emphasize accesses. The activity that occurs inside the building, at last, is made explicit through the use of a ceramic coating facade.
The workshop purpose was to realize some redevelopment projects of a traditional farmhouse into disuse in Alta Langa in the Lunetta hamlet. This experience was very interesting because our projects have been revised several times not only by clients but also by the architect who will carry out the executive project. We also applied protocol LEED Italia New Construction to our projects, that we placed in a specific class (basic, silver, gold, platinum). Te name of our project was Fil rouge which purpose is to include the farmhouse in the Art Residence international networks for the reason why, in this “tangle� of relationships, art will become a pulse generator that put Lunetta and the Langa territory in a new trading social opportunities at the local level and internationally. All this will promote traditions, culture, history and landscape of the Alta Langa. The residence is an experience of sharing, which interweaves the spaces of privacy with those of the collective interchange. The project aim is to restore a dialogue with both the environment in all its natural and architectonic elements, and with its history, through contemporary forms of interaction: we added new volumes imagined as boxes embedded in existing buildings that internally wrap the walls and isolate them energetically. This boxes come out visible but transparent from buildings in order to not disturb the harmony of the place.
This work is the result of a university course which purpose was to teach us to use the Revit parametric modeling software. It is, therefore, a project realized by the architectural firm Kanner Architects, built in Malibu, California. In this exercise we focused first of all our attention on parameterized components that we customized and included in the software, in order to be adapted to the project. Malibu 5 is a sustainable modern three floors home situated over a hill slope, built with recyclable materials and designed to minimize energy consumption. It is composed by two rectangular volumes, one characterized by two floors and the other one (above the basement) by only one. The house is oriented to the Pacific Ocean so it could take advantage of the maritime winds, of the solar energy, the natural light and the view. To enjoy these benefits they realized large glass walls in order to maximize natural lighting. Furthermore, they are shielded from sunlight thanks by floors overhangs and they isolate internal environment from the external one, because they are composed by reduced transmittance glasses.
“Basta che io veda qualcosa per saperla raggiungere ed afferrare […] Il mio movimento è il proseguimento naturale […] di una visione.” (Maurice Merleau-Ponty)
Project area is placed in the North of Turin, close to the Stura river, and it is characterized by various social and urban problems. In a city place where the natural component strongly characterizes landscape, it is interesting to understand why there is no dialogue between the city and the park. It is possible to perceive the presence of a net margin that limits perception of the district, both from the park to the city and from the city to the park. If you consider that the movement is not only encouraged by the presence of physical paths but also, and most importantly, by the visual, we can deduce the reason why this part of town is not very popular, despite surrounding areas are densely populated. The design intention was to open up the city to the river, through new low density residential settlements that is possible to consider as a filter zone between existing buildings and the river Stura. The most important characteristic of the new settlements was the management of water (gray water and rainwater), which is treated in order to create new landscapes that multiply the possibility of sharing, through furnished spaces and urban coltivable gardens. Web site | territoridellacondivisione.wordpress. com/2011/11/13/nuovi-supporti-per-labitare-condiviso/
This project was realized in order to participate at the architectural contest proposed by ArchMedium. It develops at the top of the hill placed at the west of South Cadbury village, where according to legend, stood the Camelot fortress. The project provide for the construction of a museum and a research center based on this myth. The project we proposed is composed of several volumes each of them is characterized by different functions. This buildings combination is designed so that the viewer gets the impression of walking into a true fortress featured by contemporary elements but made with traditional materials, as the stone. Buildings are connected each other and mutually flanked in order to form a continue wall and a small distribution court inside. From this internal space it develops a dual path: one ascendant generated by the development of the research volume, and one descendant that allows people to enter the underground rooms. Volumes are then characterized by large glass walls on the sides, which look to the surrounding hills, so that visitors can admire the landscapes linked to the legend of Camelot.
Photo
*Hoover Dam | Arizona (USA) | 2011 | Canon EOS 500D
*Wings | Valencia (ES) | 2012 | Canon EOS 500D
*City of Arts and Sciences | Valencia (ES) | 2012 | Canon EOS 500D
*”The autumn leaves” | Torino (IT) | 2011 | Fujica ST605N
*Do you know the secret?| Torino (IT) | 2010 | Fujica ST605N
*360째 panoramics | Torino (IT) | 2011 | Canon EOS 500D
Thank you
giulia.mazza.to@gmail.com giuliamazza.wordpress.com