Alessandro Danesi / Portfolio via Bertelli 13, 26015 Soresina (CR), Italy + 39 333 38 22 429 alessandro.dns@gmail.com
Curriculum Vitae
Alessandro Danesi
Education
Born Address Mobile Mail skype
September 2010 / April 2013
Master degree in architecture
March 2012 / July 2012
Erasmus Exchange Program
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Workshops
September 2007 / September 2010
Bachelor degree in environmental architecture
September 2012
September 2002 / July 2007
Diploma di geometra (Italian High school diplome)
02/09/1988 in Soresina (CR), Italy via Bertelli n. 13, 26015 Soresina (+39) 333 3822429 alessandro.dns@gmail.com alessandro_danesi
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Exhibitions
Politecnico di Milano Thesis: Horizons in sequences With the professor Juan Carlos Dall’Asta Gutierrez (MEX) Final grade: 110/110
Politecnico di Milano Thesis: House in a natural context With the professor Barbara Croce (IT) Final grade: 104/110
14 April 2010 / 19 April 2010
RC 2015
Exibition of Architectural Academic works (papers and models) Via Poma 2, Milano Promoted by professors Matteo Poli, Patrizia Buzzi, Gergely Agoston, Stefano Maderna
OC - Open City
Piacenza International summer school, III edition Landscapes in sequence - dwelling the wall Promoted by Politecnico di Milano Direction by Guya Bertelli, Luca Molinari Result: first prize
September 2011
Work experiences February 2010 / June 2013
June 2012 / July 2012
February 2011 / June 2011
Working team : Giulia Borghi, Alberto Brezigia, Alessandro Danesi, Claudia de Flumeri, Ho Phuong Thanh, Behrooz Saffarian, Yifeng Shi, Ningling Wang, Yimeng Wang
ITCG Alfredo Ponzini, Soresina (CR) Final grade: 84/100
The mind productive garden Promoted by Politecnico di Milano Direction: Luca Maria Francesco Fabris Invited tutor: Andre Dekker, Observatorium (NL)
Argot
Via Guido d’Arezzo 15, Milano. Italy Collaboration: - Headquarter Cassa Padana, Leno - Renovation of the restaurant “Motta”, main station, Milano Competition: - Europan 2013, Milano. - Yoox Headquarter, Milano - Restaurant ”Antica focacceria San Francesco”, Milano - Housing in Vescia, Perugia (Concept design, model, 3d modeling, presentation materials) www.studioargot.eu
Label Architecture
Rue d’Andenne 1, Bruxelles. Belgium Internship - Ursulinen Mechelen (Internal layout, model, 3d modeling ) www.labelarchitecture.be
Milano International Workshop, II edition
Languages Native Others
Italian English . TOEIC certification B2, grade 750 French . Beginner
Skills Architectural model
Excellent experience in realizations of physical models using different materials like wood, paper, cardboard and glass.
Certification
ECDL (European Computer Driving License)
Software
Operative system: Windows Drawing and modelling: Autocad 2D/3D, Sketchup, Rhino, 3D Max Adobe: Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign Office: Word, Excel, Powerpoint
Project Care
Via Vincenzo Monti 36, Milano. Italy Collaboration - Gallerie d’Italia, Piazza della Scala. Milano (Monitoring the construction site progress) www.project-care.it
Table of contents
01_ Horizons in sequence
02_ Ursulinen
The new museum of the river becomes both the opportunity to rethink the relationship between the city and the landscape, and the possibility to investigate the “soil architecture”. The museum is built in the thickness of the XVI century fortified wall.
A new school complex that will be the starting point to begin the recovery of the entire neighborhood in which it is located. The void becomes the structure that supports precise architectural interventions.
Type of project Master degree graduation project Stage Discussed in April 2013
Type of project Professional project with Label architecture (internship) Stage Ongoing
03_Water architectures in Milano
04_House in a natural context
Two projects in order to redevelop the area of Porta Genova (Milano) through a museum, an indoor market and a landscape promenade. The new architecture both interacts with the structure of the city and defines the shape of the water.
A new housing unit to be built in an area of outstanding landscape value close to Lake Como. The project also includes the requalification of four stone shelters (now abandoned) and the adjacent terraces.
Type of project University project Stage Discussed in February 2012
Type of project Bachelor degree graduation project Stage Discussed in September 2010
05_YOOX Headquarter
06_RC . 2015
The new headquarter for the YOOX company is a simple volume opened to the city through courtyards that mediate the relations between the public space and the private areas. The building alternates offices and services for employees and customers.
An exhibition for the “Salone del mobile 2010” shows the projects realized by the students during the winter semester. The minimum budget has oriented the outfitting choices to cheap or recycled materials.
Type of project Professional project with studio Argot Stage Competition . 2nd prize
Type of project Exhibit Stage Completed
07_Survival kit for cityuser birds
08_Chaise longue
A tool to provide the cityuser birds with food and scraps becomes at the same time a reclining work table that the owner of the windowsill could use for his everyday activities. “Survival kit” is made of natural materials.
“Chaise longue” is an installation realized during a one week workshop. Redeveloping a blighted part of a garden close to the university we obtained a place for the students to study and relax, enjoying the sun.
Type of project Wooden tool Stage Completed
Type of project Workshop Stage Completed
09_Mikado
10_OC Summer School ‘12
“Mikado” is an installation made of 8 beams put in place around three existing trees in order to create a sequence of shadowed seats at different heights. The disposition of the wooden elements reminds the traditional Chinese game.
The title of the workshop, living the wall, is declined in an underground architecture that restores the measure of the ancient fortified walls that once surrounded the city and now are missing. A museum qualifies the new space.
Type of project Workshop Stage Completed
Type of project Workshop Stage Discussed in September 2012 . 1st prize
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Horizons in sequence The project for the new River Museum becomes the chance to recover and involve inside the urban dynamics of the town one of its most characterizing component: the ruins, the tracks of the ancient fortified wall. The concept of “dwelling the wall” is translated in a “soil architecture”: following the idea of an excavation which, removing the solid mass of the earth, defines a new void dimension suitable to live, the new architecture is resolved in a hidden underground space. The threshold between the level zero and the underground dimension is a big circular atrium. This element marks the access point to the entire structure and refers, in negative, to the circular buildings -that originally had military meaning- still present on the top of every bastion. From the big atrium, the underground space is organized in a sequence of voids that lodge functions related to the museum (conference room, library..), while the permanent space for exposition is located inside the ancient bastion and from this derives its shape.
View of the museum
Location Piacenza (PC) . Italy Size 13’000 m2 Stage Master thesis project Team Alberto Brezigia . Alessandro Danesi Work done Concept design, model, 3d modeling, presentation material Notes Discussed in April 2013
1 City of Piacenza – schematic view
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Piacenza is located close to the river Po but historically wants to keep it distant. The 16th century fortification surrounds the old town (in light grey) while the modern city has expanded in the radial directions along the agricultural land in the south, confirming once again the natural limit of the river.
2 General view of the project Minimum changes in height bring the landscape from the level of the river to that of the city. The promenade is fluid, slow and indirect.
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3 Cross section The new volume of the museum is entirely contained within the thickness of the ancient fortified walls. It relates dimensionally with the monumentality of Palazzo Farnese.
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4 Longitudinal section from the Po River A sequence of three major points, connected by minimum changes in height, accompanies the landscape from the level of the river to the one of the city.
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5 Model of the museum_Scale 1:500 The space of the museum is created by the compenetration of the irregular shape of the bastion with the square of the new intervention. The interior space is organized by four equipped walls originated from the central atrium.
6 Model of the landscape_Scale1:2000 From Palazzo Farnese, a slightly downward slope brings back to light the measure of the old fortified wall and at the same time creates a new square in front of the palace. Going forward, the visitor reaches the big circular atrium from which is possible to enter the museum. Thus, a drawing of the landscape slowly culminates with a dock on the river.
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7 Model of the landscape_Scale 1:500 The public space between the Palazzo Farnese and the new museum. A sequence of spaces with distinct atmospheres constitutes a terracing that connects the difference in height between these two major points.
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10 Internal view of the museum From the circular atrium a double slope descends until the level of the museum. Here you can see the library, the accommodation spaces, the permanent exposition and the theatre.
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11 Physical model 12 Axonometric scheme A_Entrance The circular atrium qualified by the water and the double ramp. A public space with the ticket office for the expositions and the services is placed at the museum level. B_Library / reading area It is organized on two levels. The space below is a unique space with double height, while the perimetral corridor on the upper floor gives access to the individual study rooms. C_Auditorium / conference room It is a flexible room of around 1000 places and it has an independent entrance. The hall can also be rent from the municipality or third parties for cultural activities.
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D_Museum of the River Occupying the space inside the old bastion, what historically was the solid space of the ground now becomes the place for expositions. The museum is organized by a promenade on multiple levels along which works related to the Po River are exhibited.
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E_Cafè / recreation area It is the only space that overlooks the landscape and the river. It is designed as a space of decompression between the concentration of the visit and the city rhythms.
13 Cross section Detailed section of the library, the central atrium and a part of the museum.
14 Unfolded longitudinal section The spaces that compose the museum complex are designed in sequence in order to be continuous and referable to a unique design input.
A-A’ . Auditorium
B-B’ . Library
C-C’ . Entrance
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Ursulinen Located in an area within the historic inner city of Mechelen, a Belgian town exactly halfway between Brussels and Antwerp, the project involves the construction of a school complex including a primary school, a secondary school, the common area between these two institutes and the service buildings. In this context the design focuses not only on individual buildings but to the area in its entirety, in a progressive requalification to be carried out in stages. The first intervention is the realization of the two schools and the common area between their volumes. In this juncture the void is the structure around which the entire project revolves: it has the task to activate and to systematize the many courts and residual spaces proper of this historical block. At a smaller scale it becomes also the principle that shapes the buildings themselves, arranged in order to maximize the quality of the public spaces. Accurate openings in the volume of the school link together the courts of the block, creating at the same time covered areas that work as a filter between the inside of the building and the outdoor spaces. Physical model of the neighborhood
Location Mechelen . Belgium Size 600 m2 Stage Ongoing Team Label architecture Work done Internal layout, model, 3d modeling Notes Internship project
1 Keyplan
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First stage_ 2015 Second stage_ 2030
Second stage_ 2030 First stage_ 2015
2 Progressive phases of the project Current situation First stage_2015 Second stage_ 2030 Third stage_2050 3 Overall view of the neighborhood
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4 Exploded axonometry 5 working sketch Perspective of the building from the first court. 6/7 Ground floor plan / First floor plan Scale 1:200 8/9 Cross sections Scale 1:200
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Water architectures in Milano The aim of the project is to recover both the “Darsena”, the old canaldock of Milan, defining a new “Bankmuseum”, and the nearby space of the railway tracks that is going to be abandoned in few years. The idea is to create two water architectures that communicate with each other redefining the shape of this new public spaces. In the refurbishment of the old Darsena, the new architecture builds a waterfront that can be enjoyed and perceived on two different levels: the first one, the ground-level, becomes a new promenade that fixes together the area of Dazi with the monumental square of Porta Ticinese; the second level is the underground space for the museum exhibitions. In the new Darsena a landscape promenade connects the existing bicycle path next to the canal together with the Solari Park and the city center. At the same time the project provides with a dock for small boats in order to re-activate the use of the old canal which is still navigable. The borders of this new “soil”, of this double Darsena, follow the configuration of the urban structure, working with the shape of the existing voids in order to define a new urban dimension deeply rooted with the rest of the city.
Location Milano . Italy Size 40’000 m2 Stage University project Team Alberto Brezigia, Alessia Castelluzzo, Alessandro Danesi Work done Concept design, model, 3d modeling, presentation material Notes /
View of the historical dock
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1 General view The new configuration of the historic dock (A) is seen on the right, while on the left the dismantling of the railway line makes the creation of a second basin possible (B), fed by the waters of the canal next to it. The city axes, intercepting the borders of the projects, shape directly the two architectures by defining the new profile of the water.
2 Plan of the new “Darsena”_Level -2.00 m
3 Plan of the historic “Darsena”_Level -2.00 m
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4 Physical model Studies for the new dock.
5 Cross section The section shows the two levels of the historic Darsena. The roof will be a new public space at the same height of the city, while the museum will be located on the lower level, where is possible to find the ruins of the ancient fortified walls of the city of Milano.
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House in a natural context The project site is located along a “mulattiera� (ancient route used by farmers and local breeders) that linked together, at high altitude, the main villages on the western side of Lake Como. A sequence of small stone shelters, with very simple stereometry, was historically attested along this path. Now these buildings are abandoned also because of many structural problems. The project on the one hand involves the rehabilitation and the safety of these buildings and the terrace on which they are based, on the other hand it presupposes the construction of a new housing unit in wood, designed for short stays of tourists and travelers. A burst terrace next to one of these recovered shelters defines the precise location where the new volume will be inserted. Respecting the proportion of the existing buildings, the dimension of the new unit is simple and compact but, at the same time, acts as a counterpoint to the accidentality of the landscape. A reduced range of materials, studied in detail, stresses the elementary nature of the intervention.
View of the new housing unit
Location Torno (CO) . Italy Size 40 m 2 Stage Bachelor thesis project Team Individual project Work done Concept design, model, 3d modeling, presentation material Notes Discussed in September 2010
Keyplan Lake Como
1 Municipality of Torno (Como) Located on the western side of Lake Como, Torno is a small village of about 1.200 inhabitants. From the inner city an ancient path (mulattiera) goes along the wooded slopes up to the project areas (on the left side of the map).
2 Site plan The project involves on the one hand the renovation of four stone shelters (now abandoned), on the other hand the realization of a new housing unit, in wood, thought for short stays of tourists and travelers. The new building is located between two existing refuges, in correspondence of a broken terrace.
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A_Reception/ Guestroom The only existing building that is still in good conditions. The interventions in this case will be minimal and oriented to integrate the new services for the guests. B_Creative Laboratory The recovery of these two adjacent buildings, seriously compromised, will allow to obtain the spaces for workshops and educational activities organized by the local associations. In order to use the building again, it will be necessary to consolidate the foundations, to put in place the thermal coating and to realize a new roof. C_The new building . housing unit A house organized on two levels, located next to the traditional path, which is inserted partially into the ground behind it in order to consolidate the terracing. The access is placed on the first floor, through a large opening that enlightens the living area. On the opposite side a wooden staircase leads to the lower level floor where there are two bedrooms and a bathroom. D_Warehouse/ Dormitory
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3 Axonometric view of the new volume
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4 First floor plan 5 Cross section _ Foundations . Foundation plinth in reinforced concrete . Steel frame, 200 x 200 mm . Wall on the ground in reinforced concrete _ First floor . OSB panels, thick 30 mm . Frame in wood, 60 x 200 mm with rockwool panels insulation . OSB panels, thick 30 mm . Screed, thick 50 mm . Superficial maple strip, thick 10 mm _ Roof . Internal finish made of OSB panels, thick 20 mm . Thermal insulation made of ERACLIT panels, thick 50 mm . OSB panels, thick 20 mm . Structural frame in wood, 60 x 200 mm with thermal insulation between the beams . Thermal insulation made of ERACLIT panels, thick 50 mm . Vapour barrier, thick 40 mm . Fir-tree planking, thick 20 mm . External finish made of metal sheet, thick 2 mm _ Vertical enclosure . Internal finish made of OSB panels, thick 20 mm . Thermal insulation made of ERACLIT panels, thick 30 mm . OSB panels, thick 20 mm . Structural frame in wood, 60 x 200 mm with thermal insulation between the beams . OSB panels, thick 30 mm . Mullions in wood, 30 x 30 mm . Vapour barrier, thick 40 mm . External finish made of horizontal wooden strips, thick 20 mm with metallic frame, 20 x 70 mm
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YOOX Headquarter The characteristics of YOOX, dynamic reality and leader of online sale in fashion, led to think the new head office in Milan under a different view. Not only a place for working, but also an exchanging and opening one for the clients-customers, improved by the strategic position next to the new fashion district of via Tortona. In this regards the project links the ordinary directional functions with conference and relax spaces for the firm and the private citizens. So the building is opened to the city through yards of different characterizations; public ones towards the street and private- directional ones towards the inner part of the structure itself. This relation between public and private is pointed up also in the treatment of the faรงade where a sequence of vertical metallic elements manages the transparency between the work places and the common areas. On the top of the building a terrace allows to organize events in order to promote the image and the identity of the company.
View of the building and a courtyard
Location Milano . Italy Size 1200 m 2 Stage Competition Team Studio Argot Work done Concept design, 3d modeling, presentation material Notes 2 nd prize
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1 Ground floor plan The building is organized around three courtyards. The first one, public, acts as a filter between the city and the private space of the company. The second one is contiguous to the first one; it is the most extensive and enlightens the offices and the common spaces of the upper floor. The last one is the most sheltered and is reserved for the employees.
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office of photography/ video production
workplace canteen - relax - fitness
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indoor swimming pool
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Exposition . RC_2015 A long and narrow volume defines the space for a temporary exibithion of maquettes and drawings made by the students of a design course at the Politecnico di Milano. It is an unusual space, much higher than the average, probably a former laundry now completely empty. The idea was to use the two existing long walls in order to put in place two sequences of works. On one side the sentences (poems, disjointed words, description not necessarily about architecture) from which each student has started his small project. Although the dimension are restricted the program is future oriented. More precisely it will take place in 2015, the year Milan will host the World Exposition. The topics addressed are the most varied and consequently the works could be very heterogeneous from student to student. The results are arranged along the other long wall, counterpointing to the first. In the center a strip made up by old rolled magazines becomes the basement for the maquettes of the students. Above them dowels fixed in the ceiling support wires in black tissue that bind the starting sentences with the final results. From April 14th to April 19th 2010.
Location Milano . Italy Size 45 m2 Stage Completed Team 10 Students, prof. Matteo Poli (IT) Work done Concept design, outfitting Notes From April 14 th to April 19 th 2010
View of the exhibit
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2 Plan 3 Longitudinal section On the wall are placed the final projects of each students.
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4 Axonometric view On the floor a strip made up by old rolled magazines becomes the basement for the maquettes of the students. On the walls, the works done during the semester, linked by wires in black tissue.
5>9 Stages of implementation 10 Opening party
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Survival Kit for cityuser birds The “Survival Kit” is a small wooden object that has to be fixed to a windowsill. It is a tool thought for the metropolitan birds that live in the city and have sizes, habits and characteristics very different from one to another. The task of the project is thus to support the urban life of these kinds of birds and, at the same time, to take care of the window’s owner. The “Survival kit” indeed, once open, becomes a work surface exploitable for the daily domestic jobs. The scraps arising from the everyday activities can be collected in the external hollow, that is dimensioned in a way that plastic trays (economical and easily available in every supermarket) can be fixed in it. Once the work surface is lowered it is possible to close the window; The “Survival Kit” will remain fixed externally, giving the possibility to the birds to get closer in order to find food and scraps for their nests. The materials used are natural and cheap: an interchangeable plywood board for the work surface, cherry wood for the part exposed to the weather.
Opening phases
Location / Size 0,45 m2 Stage Completed Team Individual project Work done Concept design, model 1:1 Notes video: http://vimeo.com/39898176
1>4 Survival Kit
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Photos of the project during the construction and after the installation on the windowsill.
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Chaise longue As part of the 2 nd edition of the Milano International Architectural Workshop a group of twenty students, with the assistance of Andre Dekker (Observatorium, NL) and Federico Zanfi (Politecnico di Milano, IT), was asked to look at a small garden next to a University Campus in a different way. The task was to “observe” the garden and its rhythm in order to realize a winter site and a summer site for contemplation. “Chaise longue” was realized for the cold season and it was located in an isolated part of the garden that always receives sun during the day. It consists of a wooden plan made by construction boards next to a wall covered by white paint. The design and the verticality of the new pattern of the wall reminds of the trees of the garden around and gives light to the old wall that was originally unpainted and covered by graffiti. The wooden structure consists of a dry surface that the students can use for relaxing or reading and it is provided with tables that can be placed on the platform and, putting the support in the void between one board and the other, be stacked on each other. Front view from the garden
Location Milano . Italy Size 30 m2 Stage Completed Team 10 students, tutor Andre Dekker (NL) Work done Concept design, realization Notes /
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1 Current situation 2 -3 Stages of implementation The first step required was to create a level. Once it was obtained, we proceeded with the construction of a wooden frame on which the planks were nailed. At the same time another group of students has painted the adjacent wall with white water-resistant paint.
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Mikado As part of the 2 nd edition of the Milano International Architectural Workshop a group of twenty students, with the assistance of Andre Dekker (Observatorium, NL) and Federico Zanfi (Politecnico di Milano), was asked to look at a small garden next to a University Campus in a different way. The task was to “observe” the garden and its rhythm in order to realize a winter site and a summer site for contemplation. “Mikado” was created for the warm season and it was located around three big trees close to each other. Eight beams, arranged in circle in order to create a void in the center, were positioned on each other like the traditional Chinese game. This arrangement allows us to create a space to sit, talk and relax enjoing the shadow of the trees. The wooden structure can resist almost without any support. In fact, we needed only 12 screws to fix the pieces together and to prevent the installation from being stolen. At the presentation party almost 30 people were sitting on the beams and the following days several group of students from the nearby University really used Mikado like it had always been there. Mikado during the construction
Location Milano . Italy Size 25 m2 Stage Completed Team 10 students, tutor Andre Dekker (NL) Work done Concept design, realization Notes /
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OC Summer School ‘12 Living the wall The 2 nd edition of the Piacenza Open City International Workshop has been the occasion to re-think the meaning of the historical fortification of the city of Piacenza and the role that these ruins has now for the city itself. Our answer was to look at this manufact as a threshold for the city, included in an empty space that connects and divides simultaneously different parts of the city with different identities. The real potential is consequently to create both a continuous system along the fortification, connecting the monumental buildings located on the belt, and to activate a network of activities between the identities now divided by the wall. Two of these parts historically divided are the inner city of Piacenza and the Po River. The new museum of the river works as a hinge to link the city with the landscape in front of it. It can be lived and enjoyed on two different levels. On the ground level a sequence of landscape promenades restores the dimension of the fortification now missing in this area. The second level is the underground space for exhibitions. A new square in front of the main entrance qualifies both the museum and the monumental Palazzo Farnese next to it.
Location Piacenza (PC) . Italy Size 35’000 m2 Stage Workshop Team 9 students, prof. Juan Carlos Dall’Asta (MEX) Work done Concept design, model, 3d modeling, presentation material Notes 1st prize
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1 Physical model of the concept Swivel model made of black and white cardboard, hinged in two points to the frame in varnished wood. The sequence illustrates the correspondence between the ground floor and the underground floor, where the architecture is located.
2 View of the inhabited wall The square obtained from the redevelopment of the space in front of Palazzo Farnese becomes both a meeting point and an access to the new museum of the river.
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