Architecture Portfolio

Polyfunctional Centre

Second Bachelor’s Studio Project

Polyfunctional Centre a .a. 2022/2023

Professor: Arch. Riccarda Cantarelli, Arch. MariaAntonia Barucco

Team Members : Tommaso Todeschini, Paula Calderon, Alberto Galvani

Location: Merlengo, Italy

The design process started with a specific question: how to contribute in a sustainable way to social, civil and cultural dynamics by reassigning value to a disused area.

This allowed us to investigate the management of spaces, with respect to organisational, functional and formal models, but also to the working, recreational and social level.

The connection with the new redeveloped area includes a cycle/pedestrian path immersed in the local agricultural fields: a route that conforms to the lots, and then reaches the lake area following a morphological axis, delimited by two existing wooded areas.

This alignment pattern led to the idea of a linear architectural design, allowing communication between two distinct areas: the existing agricultural-civil territory and the lake.

This axiality is also emphasised by a system of pergolas characterised by a precise modular organisation (equal to 3.75 metres) that also affects the buildings.

This creates a strong link between served and servant spaces.

The latter, arranged to follow a dynamic idea of ‘courtyard’ space, connote the proposed objective of a multifunctional-cultural centre.

In fact, the work plan includes:

• Direct connection between production areas and logistics spaces

• Open-air areas, delimited by the pergola, for recreational activities (individual or collective) but also for the sale of local agricultural goods (produced from the numerous neighbouring fields) in order to promote typical local consumption (thanks to a market)

• Areas dedicated to the valorisation of production also in social terms of food education through appropriate public halls or auditoriums

• Multi-purpose research and functional environments

• Study spaces also accessible to students supported by the public library

Lastly, the building structures follow a linear evolution that leads to a tapering towards the lake: from a more concentrated area of buildings to a freer area, which allows the appreciation of the natural environment, thanks also to the presence of a belvedere.

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Glulam planks, cross-section 20x90 mm Self-levelling concrete screed, 30 mm DPM, Water-repellent polyethylene membrane, 2 mm Cellular glass insulation layer, 100 mm Reinforced concrete screed, 50 mm Aerated crawl space, 250 mm Sand, 100 mm Certified waterproof plaster layer for wood fibre boards, 20 mm VPM, Vapour membrane, 2 mm Wood fibre panel, 30 mm Ecococon model Column panel, 1000x700 mm section Open diffusion vapour membrane (Sd < 0.2) Wood fibre panel, 30 mm Certified waterproof plaster layer for wood fibre panel, thickness 20 mm Corrugated metal sheet Ventilation battens, section 50x100 mm Board layer, 2 mm thick Open diffusion hermetic membrane (Sd < 0.2) Ecococon panel model Column, section 1000x700 mm Certified waterproof plaster layer for fibreboard legno, 20 mm 1 2 3 2 1 3 9

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Workshop W.A.V.E: Venice Future Campus

Workshop Bachelor’s Studio Project Workshop a.y. 2021/2022

Professor: Arch. Andrea Bertassi

Team Members: Giulia Bonoldi, Arianna Smiderle, Giacomo Todeschini, Alberto Galvani

Location: IUAV University, Venice, Italy

Space has no defined characteristics or dimensions, it can be contained by a line, measured by the objects in it, segmented into its components.

Included in the idea of space is the concept of continuum, which presupposes the possibility of proceeding by partial addition.

A rationally organised environment allows greater utilisation of every cubic centimetre of space. In this sense, modularity explores significant design territories.

This control allows for a design strategy based on a system of separate elements that can be connected, adding or replacing elements without ever compromising the functioning of the system.

The design concept envisages a modular steel structure that can be extended especially horizontally.

The compositional grid is based on a 3.5x3.5m module, a size that allows the insertion of different functions; in this way it is possible to range between different architectural types, but above all activities and functions.

Flexibility is, therefore, a focal point of the design, allowing the structure to be adapted to different needs and situations, making it compatible with various design cases.

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The Dean’s House

First Bachelor’s Studio Project

Design Studio a.y. 2021/2022

Professor: Arch. Mauro Galantino

Team Members: Michele Boninsegna, Davide Dal Farra, Alberto Galvani

Location: Venice, Italy

Our project, developed in the portion adjacent to the entrance of the Cotonificio and leaning against the canal, has the objective of creating a studio-residence for the Rector of the Faculty, which, starting from the peculiarities of the area, allows for the enhancement of the space. The protagonist from a conceptual point of view is in fact the bell tower on the opposite bank of the canal.

By taking up its orientation we have established a strong connection with the surrounding area. Starting from a cognitive campaign and the awareness of materiality, we then studied the project and established a solution for the distribution of interior spaces dictated by a precise decomposition of space that proposes a sequence of views, not only between the various levels but also with the outside and a precise path for the future resident. Initial indications that established the evolution of the compositional process are: realisation of a suspended residential space that constructs the entrance signal to the campiello, internal decomposition of the cube so as to deprive the surface area of each floor of a quarter, and finally imagining a vertical relationship between roof-terrace entrance as a space for an architectural promenade.

Just as Wright structures the entire living area around the importance of the fireplace, the central focus of the project is the Rector’s study. This emphasises the evolution of the interior space around a common element that constitutes the social function of the project as well as the initial intent of the design proposal ritorio.

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Ground floor Foreground Second floor

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Roof-terrace

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Urban Design & Planning Scenarios to Respond to Climate Change Risks

Urbanistic Bachelor’s Studio Project

Urbanistic Design Studio a.y. 2022/2023

Professor: Arch Lorenzo Fabian

Team Members: Lorenzo Piredda, Michele Boninsegna, Mattia Rizzotto, Alessandro Cutolo, Alberto Galvani

Location: Mas Thibert, France

Starting from actual datas related to the natural drainage system, land-use, topography and ventilation, the study firstly took into consideration the risks that the area will face in the coming decades: the interruption of city connections, the submergence of cultivated fields and the consequent lack of a primary form of subsistence, pollution, the displacement of inhabitants, the loss of cultural heritage and the disruption of the park’s biodiversity balance.

Thus, possible strategies and solutions to these topics generated the project concept, which was conceived as modular operations for each type of area: urban areas, extra-urban areas and a wetland nearby Mas Thibert (which constitutes the prototype of the project model town).

- In the first type the interventions are conceived as a centuriazione that is not, however, configured as a barrier that alienates the city from its context, but rather as a filter space that extends from the urban boundaries.

- The new city embankments would then allow the connection to the second type-area, the extraurban ones, through an elevated road system. The new suburban areas would be the buildings readapted to the new condition.

In the adaptation scenario, we found tools to address the new urban issues in a green way: stormwater drainage systems, addressed with drainage channels; the improvement of soil compactness through tree cover and the increase of green areas.

The resist scenario, on the other hand, consists of various types of multifunctional and infrastructural embankments like footbridges, fishing areas, water-sheds, belvederes, pedestrian and bicycle paths that keep the relationship with the water alive. In this case, the means of transport between these amphibious cities would be overcrafts.

Finally, we studied how to achieve energy self-sufficiency on our area, which sees the presence of strong winds for long periods of the year and thus could even become an energy hub of capital importance. This way we can identify some possible areas where offshore (but floodable) wind farms could be built.

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Expansion of embankment intervention in neighbouring countries

Project intervention: marshland bonification

Project intervention areas

Project intervention: insertion of wind turbines

new mobility on water

Sea Level Rise

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Adaptation Scenario Strategies Resist Scenario Strategies

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Social Housing

Erasmus Bachelor’s Studio Project

Design Studio a.y. 2021/2022

Professor: Arch. DerekHill

Team Members: Alberto Galvani

Location: Glasgow, Scotland

The project site is located in the centre of Glasgow near George Square in an area so rich in territorial and historical distinctiveness.

The project is mainly characterised by a steel infrastructure that repeats itself in a straight line and recalls Glasgow’s dynamic relationship with its shipbuilding, maritime and industrial heritage. The structure itself and, more precisely, the two main entrances, are aligned to the stairs that connects the street with the residential area.

The final result can be defined as a long linear path in a different public space, facing South in order to obtain as much natural light as possible.

This in fact develops vertically on various levels, while maintaining the main route that allows not only to cross the site but also to reach the residential buildings using part of the steel structure.

Three types of access can be identified: the main stairs within the public metal structure, positioned according to a precise rhythm and linearity; the same rhythm is followed by the lifts that make the structure accessible to all needs, and finally the stairs in the private area.

The entire project follows a precise module (3.5 m x 3.5 m) that is repeated both on the outside and on the inside and especially from the lowest to the highest level.

This modular sequence allowed the creation of very coherent floor plans (compositionally but also materially speaking).

The volumes can change over time, so the structure is completely independent. It is also flexible, so you can have volumes of different lengths and heights. In this way, a volume can always have different functions, mainly due to the organisation of the internal walls.

The aspiration derives directly from Le Corbusier’s Architectural Promenade, thus an ascent, but not exclusively physical: it is above all an emotional experience, characterised by a series of different experiences regarding space and functions.

The residential area of the project is mainly, but not exclusively, addressed to students (international or local) but also to people working as university stuff, professors

We can therefore speak of a user group mainly concerning the university world, the site being on campus.

The management of the spaces is very simple, in fact it follows a tripartition, an area for public activities, an architectural route and finally a more private route area for residents.

The first part is characterised by a succession of internal walls that mark and divide the spaces.