PORTFOLIO Agnese Grigis
CHAMANGA Post-Earthquake Recostruction
What: Design the recostruction and small built intervention - II MAster workshop When:February 2017 Where: Chamanga, Ecuador Team group: M.Naveed ,E.Pasquini,R.Mansfield, S.Ye, Atsuki Ryokawa In April 2016 Ecuador was hit by a strong earthqauke which caused severe problems in particular on the coast. 90% of the houses in the village of Chamanga collpased. In this workshop, different groups of students have been assigned with an areas of Chamanga with the idea to start from public spaces to give a new life to the village.The “staircases group”studied in detail the axis that conncects the bottom part of the village, the sea, to the upper part of the village, the church and the plaza.The idea was to convert this essential passage way in a vibrant and safe public space, where a series of events could occur. A design strategy based on the ‘exploitation’ of local materials and manpower. The first small action of cleaning and restoring the staircases, beautifying them with colored seashells, has been realizeb by the students with the entire community.
SANT COSME La Diversidad como Oportunidad
What: Co-analysis and Co-designing with the community- II MAster workshop When: December 2016 Where: Sant Cosme, El Prat, Spain Team group: C. Oggioni, M.Petteni, S.Viteri, C.Collignon Sant Cosme is a neighborhood characterized by a strong stigmatization due mainly to the high percentage of the gipsy community which has adquired through the years a negative connotations, the low presence of young population and the high level of unemployment. Co-existence of Sant Cosme inhabitants is not always easy. Neverthless, Sant Cosme has its opportunities and strenghts, starting from the multi-cultural environment. The main aim of the workshop was to analysis the situation of Sant Cosme, considering all the aspects that shape a community, from its physical features to its inhabitants. In particular, the teamwork focused on the analysis of the area and its dynamics through a series of activities which involved the participation of its inhabitants: mapping, interviews, performance...After this accurate analysis, some suggestions have been delivered to enhance the strenghs of the neighborhood.
KAYMANTA|DesdeAqui Global Strategies for Local Sinergies
What: Realized Built Project-Master thesis When:April-Octuber 2015 Where: San Pablo Lake(Otavalo-Ecuador) Team Group: Chiara Oggioni, Marta Petteni “Kaymanta”is a kiwcha word that means “from here” and it is the title of my master thesis project,realized in collaboration with two collegues. A project that came to born thanks to a constant dialogue with the indigenous community we worked with. In fact, after a first step of analysis in which we individuated the strategy for a general masterplan regarding the entire surrounding of the lake, we organized participatory workshops that helped us to set out the necessities of people and to define the design of a little project in the community of San Rafael. Its aim is to give value to the beautiful context and to allow an upgrading of the local community. This project has been built thanks to the “mingas” conception (auto-construction) and represents my(our) first realized project.
POTENTIAL FIELDS
What: Academic project-Design Studio2 Professors: Marc Visser, Elisa Cattaneo When:Octuber 2014-February 2015 Where: Leeuwarden- Netherlands Team Group: Chiara Oggioni, Marta Petteni Within the context of the elected city of culture 2018 we developed a strategic masterplan constituted by “potential fields” inside and outside the city of Leeuwarden. Following the principles of Andrea Branzi’s “no Stop City”, we proposed a network of devices composed by pyzoeletric poles and structural elements according to a geometrical and functional grid. A strategy not only thought for 2018 but also related to the future: as a matter of fact, these devices can potentially trasform or disappear leaving just their energetic “trace”. They are all conceived as hybrid, reversable and multi-functional “objects”. Basically, the strenght of that strategy is the weakness of its devices, in terms of adaptability and versatility.
LIFE UNDER TANGENZIALE EST
What: Academic project-Building Technology Studio Professors: Joseph di Pascuale When:Octuber 2014-February 2015 Where: Via RUbattino - Milan - Italia Team Group: Marta Petteni This project is set in the unused under-spaces bypass infrastructures in particular the ones on Tangenziale Est, famous highway that crosses the city of Milan. The pillars that support it became the pivot around which we designed our project. A pre-fabricated housing system composed by scalable flexible and modular containers easy to assemble and aggregate thanks to the possibility of a 360° organisation. The modules are designed giving particular attention to the choice of materials and technologies according to their physic properties and static behaviours. The project is thought from the online order to the construciton on site. This project was also published in the book “Scalable Modular Architecture - a dynamic housing for a changing society” by Joseph di Pascuale.
CMR|4Seasons Refuge
What: International Archtitectural Contest When: August 2015 Where: Carpineto Mountains-Lazio-Italia Team Group: Chiara Oggioni, Marta Petteni For this contest we designed a Refuge set in the “Appennini� mountains that should host a minimum of 4 persons. For that project we opted for a piched-roof shape, typical of traditional mountain refuges. Neverthless it is redesigned in a contemporary way in particular in terms of technologies and spatial organisation. It is included the use of active and passive technologies such as photovoltaic panels, recollection and reuse of rain water and natural ventilation. But the most interesting aspect of this porject is related to its perimetral walls composed by modular gabiones. They are made of natural materials that we can find on site such as stones, earth, plants... for that reason, the external appearance of the refuge changes with the changing of seasons following the rythm of Nature.
AL BORDE
Working experiences
What: Internship When: April-August 2015 Where: Quito-Ecuador During my experience in South America I had the opportunity to collaborate with the architectural studio Al Borde. Here we designed and built up some little projects experimenting the creative use of recycled materials for “Casa en Construccion�, their project proposal at the Chicago Architectural Biennale 2016. In detail, we realized: 1)ORDEM E PROGRESSO, a wall wardrobe for technical tools enforcing the workers to put each tool in its place once finished the work. Realized with recycled wood and glass. 2)BICICLETERO VOLADOR, a flying bike rack due to the lack of a parking for bikes. Realized with steel dropes, concrete weights and recycled plastic elements. 3)TENDERO VOLADOR, a flying drying rack due to the lack of a space where to put wet clothes. Inside this context I also had the possibility to better know the theme of participatory design and auto-construction.
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BLIZINY LIVE BUILD Workshop
What: International Workshop When: March 2014 Where: Gdansk, Poland During the one week “Bliziny Live Build� workshop I had the chance to build up a project in scale 1:1 wanted by a young polish couple. The project included three pavillions designed by the professor Ghery Johnson who was also our supervisor during the works on site. They should host a welcoming space, a workshop space and a coffe area. It was a nice experience because for the first time I had the opportunity to build what was drawn on papers. These pavillions are composed by a wooden structure laying on a concrete slab and covered by wooden brunches.
Site preparation and foundations: The soil was prepared and the concrete base foundations were made according to the drawings in a leaf shape. We let the concrete dry for 3-4 days before starting to build up the wooden strcuture of each pavillion.
Wall structure: In the factory the wooden beams were sized and cut, assembled as a frame and later varnished and let dry on open air. By truck we brought them on side and we screwed them on the concrete foundations and between each others shaping the wall strucuture. Wooden branches were used to fill in the space of each frame.
Roof structure: The last step was the realization of the roof structure composed by horizontal beams distant 80cm from each other. Everything was lately covered with a water proof membrane to protect it from rain.