portfolio alice ghizzoni
ALICE GHIZZONI 30|04|90 alice.ghizzoni@gmail.com linkedin issuu pinterest +39 334 2737591
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via Principe Eugenio 15, 20155 Milano
| “Work in progress�, view from the High Line, photo taken by me in New York (2015)
intro I’m a young architect, recently graduated at Politecnico di Milano with a thesis on the new urban campus of Columbia University in New York. I always face with enthusiasm every design challenge: from furniture design, which I have always been interested in, to town planning, which I’m involved in as a teaching assistant in the Urban Design Lab at Politecnico di Milano. Aesthetic and compositional sensibility gradually led me to be keen on photography and graphic design, passions which increase my skills, providing a useful support to the communicative aspects of the project. Therefore, through this portfolio I intend to show a full spectrum of my abilities with a selection of the most significant projects I have dealt with so far. I really hope you’ll enjoy it.
RÉSUMÉ
education
working experience
learning experience
2012-2015
Master Degree in Architecture Politecnico di Milano 110/110 e lode
2009-2012
Bachelor Degree in Architecture Politecnico di Milano 110/110
2004-2009
Classic High School Diploma Liceo D. Manin | Cremona 100/100
Dec 2015 - present
M a r c o P o l o S r l s | Milano Project Manager Assistant - Expo China Pavilion dismantling management, dealing with Chinese contractors, site managers/supervisors, dismantling firm and suppliers, verifying the time schedule - Visual identity design
Nov 2015 - Dec 2015
Politecnico_Interior design and preservation studio English (prof. Marta Averna) | Milano Teaching assistant - Weekly review of students work in English
May 2013 - Dec 2015
P o l i t e c n i c o _ U r b a n D e s i g n L a b (prof. Laura Montedoro) | Milano Teaching assistant - Weekly review of students work,workshops, exhibitions
Jul - Oct 2014
S t u d i o N D B D G A | Milano Internship - “Gong” fusion restaurant, Milano: construction site assistant. Dealing with customers and suppliers
Sep - Dec 2011
A r c h . W a l t e r G i l i b e r t o | Bergamo Internship - Architecture competition: a new covered market for Forte dei Marmi Team working, Designing, Drawing, Model making
20/24 Feb 2014
27 Nov 2013
Feb - Mar 2007
publications exhibitions
Workshop - Responsive Buildings Charrette 2O14 | Institute without Boundaries, George Brown College - Toronto (CAN) First Prize P u b l i c s p e e c h - C o n s i g l i o d i Z o n a 3 | Milano “Città Università Architettura”- report on the abandoned Lambrate rail yard reclamation project S t u d e n t E x c h a n g e P r o g r a m | Nambour State High School - Nambour Queensland (AUS)
Oct 2012
Prove di rigenerazione urbana. Tre temi e sei progetti p e r B a r a n z a t e | edited by Laura Montedoro, Alinea Editrice Published project
Nov 2012
Prove di rigenerazione urbana. Tre temi e sei progetti p e r B a r a n z a t e | Baranzate, Milano Exhibited project
SKILLS
computer skills
Autodesk Autocad 2D-3D Autodesk 3D Studio Max Google SketchUp Pro Adobe Illustrator Adobe Photoshop Adobe Indesign
Microsoft Power Point Apple iPhoto
Apple iMovie Microsoft Excel Microsoft Word Arc Gis gvSig QGis
Adina 900 nodes Matlab
manual skills
Architectural models Freehand drawing
languages
English French Spanish
INTERESTS photography / graphic design / travel / handcraft / art / dance / music
reference letter Dipartimento di Architettura e Studi Urbani
Laura Montedoro Researcher, Urban Design and Landscape Architecture
Ho avuto modo di conoscere Alice Ghizzoni in occasione della sua frequentazione del Laboratorio di Progettazione Urbanistica del terzo anno (annuale, 12 CFU), da me tenuto presso la facoltà di Architettura Civile del Politecnico di Milano, nell’anno accademico 2011-2012. Durante l’esperienza didattica, Alice si è distinta per una notevole disponibilità a “mettersi in gioco” e per alcune rare qualità: -
Partecipazione attiva alle occasioni seminariali del laboratorio Spirito di iniziativa e autonomia Capacità di coordinamento delle attività di gruppo e di scambio continuo Curiosità culturale e apertura verso la molteplicità degli approcci al tema della città Spiccata attitudine al progetto
Inoltre, durante l’impegnativa esercitazione progettuale, ha dimostrato capacità di coniugare autonomia e tensione all’apprendimento, ponendosi in una adeguata posizione dialettica rispetto alla docenza. Abilità di rappresentazione e determinazione le hanno consentito di raggiungere i migliori obiettivi possibili nei tempi dati, anche in riferimento alla restituzione del prodotto finale - un progetto urbano per Baranzate (Milano). Ciò consente di affermare che Alice è dotata anche di un’ottima capacità organizzativa e di planning del proprio lavoro. Dopo l’ottenimento del titolo di laurea Triennale e di laurea Magistrale, Alice ha poi collaborato come tutor al Laboratorio di Progettazione urbanistica, a cui collabora a tutt’oggi. Nell’ambito di questa esperienza, ha confermato le preziose qualità già dimostrate come studentessa e ha maturato ulteriori competenze, sia disciplinari (con particolare riferimento al disegno urbano e all’architettura del paesaggio, alle abilitá nella rappresentazione e alle soluzioni progettuali alla scala dell’architettura) che generali (affidabilità rispetto agli impegni presi, puntualità, tensione alla crescita, disponibilità). Alice è tra i miei migliori collaboratori, e sono sicura che sarà un elemento di rilievo anche in altri contesti. Pertanto, la raccomando vivamente per la posizione a cui aspira. Milano, 17 dicembre 2015
Laura Montedoro
Politecnico di Milano Dipartimento di Architettura e Studi Urbani Piazza Leonrado, 26 20133 Milano Tel: + 39.02.23.99.56.85 Fax: + 39.02.23.99.58.01 e_mail: laura.montedoro@polimi.it
projects 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
| selection
Columbia Manhattanville Campus _ New York | A R C H I T E C T U R E Wiring (bis)sides _ Milano | A R C H I T E C T U R E Rushing to a local macrocity _ Northern Italy | U R B A N P L A N N I N G Ri-membra-re _ Rho, Milano | U R B A N P L A N N I N G Clockwise _ Lancetti station, Milano | P U B L I C S P A C E D E S I G N Space+furniture=living_ Politecnico, Milano | I N T E R I O R D E S I G N Autoproduzione _ Cascina Cuccagna, Milano | H A N D C R A F T (E)scapes _ New York, Rotterdam, Toronto, Valencia, Yale | P H O T O G R A P H Y Overexposure_Rho, Milano | P H O T O G R A P H Y
2015
columbia manhattanville campus | a new concept of urban campus in New York
lab | progettazione e costruzione dell’architettura 2
prof | Emilio Battisti | Francesca Battisti
MANHATTANVILLE CAMPUS a new urban campus for Columbia University
The project proposal responds to the expansion needs of Columbia University in New York through the design of a new urban campus for scientific research and education in Manhattanville, West Harlem. The masterplan, in fact, develops the idea of a university which is different from the traditional American urban campus, because it’s open to the city, the neighborhood and their flows, too. This is the reason why a key role is played by the “urban layer”: the public level in which paths and open spaces are mixed with university facilities placed on the ground floor of the buildings. This basement, a single solid element, sometimes carved, sometimes emerging from the ground to link up with its natural course, is set from the height and orientation of 125th Street, a rare exception in the regular Manhattan Grid, caused by the presence of a depression in the ground. It is precisely the physical completion of this street and its extension from Broadway to the Hudson that are the strongest gestures of the general plan.
new york
| Harlem, Manhattanville
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reading the city Manhattan / Harlem / Manhattanville
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1. School of International and Public Affair 2. Business School 3. Academic Conference Center 4. Pier / Boat departure 5. Gerome L.Greene Science Center 6. Vivarium 7. School of Art 8. Recreation Center 9. Multidisciplinary center 10. Expo Center /art gallery 11. Administration off ices, theatre 12. Studebaker caf è / Administration off ices 13. Administration off ices 14. Hudson River Caf è 15. Market, Caf è
Columbia Business School
The volumes
The Business School is the “gateway� to the campus from 125th Street. This happens through the space between the public basement, dug in the ground, and the volumes hosting the didactic activities, suspended above it. These elements are connected by a double height central path, whose features are similar to those ones of the elevated highways overpassing the Manhattanville hollow: not just a connection path, but a living space from where you can observe the city and the university microcosm. The path
The soil
the promenade / the volumes the central promenade and the didactic volumes reproduce urban dynamics
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entrance hall
Administrative Offices Conference halls Auditorium
BUSINESS SCHOOL
lounge
Faculty of Management
exhibition spaces
Faculty of Financial economics
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Faculty of Marketing
end of the common path
School of international and Public Affairs/ Earth Institute
SIPA BUILDING
exhibition space
hall/lounge
lounge
reception/waiting room
auditorium
central path
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relaxation area
Sezione Cross section trasversale AA BB
central path
terrace/cafĂŠ
study room
hall/waiting room
multipurpose hall
vertical distribution
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Central path plan, level + 5.50/10.70 m
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university microcosm communication / exchange / cooperation
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2013
wiring (bis)sides | university spaces to go beyond...
lab | progettazione e costruzione dell’architettura 1
prof | Emilio Battisti | Francesca Battisti
SUSTAINABLE CAMPUS a university facilities mega-structure to sew up two parts of the city
The project, developed in the disused Lambrate rail yard in Milan, aims at creating spaces for teaching and research activities related to the campus nearby (Città Studi). At the same time it would involve local people in a common social and cultural system. The project has been developed on three main scales: that one of the railway, which it faces with through a massive sculptural building and where it places a new stop of the “circle railway line”; that one of the city, for which it becomes both a reference point and a view point; that one of the man, where the public space design succeeds in linking public facilities, deeply rooted in the soil, with different local realities. The project consists of two basic elements: the building, whose off-scale size intend to confront the imposing presence of the railway embankment; the soil, that is to say the modulation of the terrain through which the building is linked with the ground level and led back to the human scale.
milano
| Lambrate, disused rail yard
FUNCTIONAL LAYOUT
residences
music center
campus center
station recreation center auditorium
piscina
SECOND FLOOR exhibition gallery / creative workshops media library/ classrooms
FIRST FLOOR associations room/ projection room classrooms, spin off / library, study area
GROUND FLOOR multimedia workstations hall/ bookstore lobby, admin. offices/ conference rooms, cafĂŠ
auditorium exterior workspace/ terrace
Railway station
Auditorium
Outdoor plaza/Hub
Lounge/Study room
the
CAMPUS CENTER
an artif icial canyon connecting city and infrastructure levels
The part of the mega-structure used as a campus center is divided into two converging arms, in which a public path makes its way leading from the level of the city to that one of the railway embankment. The path starts in the great entrance hall, where visitors are brought to the interiors by a giant cantilever placed at the end of the building. At the entrance of the campus center there are many common facilities, such as administrative offices, info points and wi-fi areas open 24 hours. At an intermediate level, instead, it’s possible to enter classrooms, associations rooms and other spaces hosting didactic activities. Finally, at the upper level, the path reach an outdoor plaza overlooking the tracks and directly linked with the new station: a massive structure which overpass the railway.
Lobby/Forum
Indoor plaza/Administrative offices/ 24h open study rooms
Exhibition space
the
RECREATION CENTER a microcosm emerging from underground
The part of the building housing the recreation center lies on a swelling artificial soil, below which there’s a small universe for sports and wellness, accessible not only to students, but also to external users. In fact, the project purpose is to host the semi-private spaces within the mega-structure, and place, instead, public facilities in the emerging artificial soil. Along with the railway station and at the campus center, the recreation center consists in the core of the building: the system that allows to overcome the physical limits of the track bed.
Stairway to the station
Gym
Swimming pool
Running track
FIRST FLOOR running track
climbing / fitness and weightlifting
GROUND FLOOR station waiting room
BASEMENT swimming pool
rugby field
indoor soccer/basket/ volley/tennis
Running track
Swimming pool
Gym
Indoor sports
The semi-public “soil� Apparently a grassy hill, the auditorium unfolds gradually, revealing its cavernous interior from different angles while moving along the paths that twist around it and connect the different levels of public spaces.
The “mega-structure� The cladding of the mega-structure consists of modular panels of GRC which give the building a strong materic expressiveness aimed to emphasize its volume. The building thus acquires an almost monumental appearance, like an archeological find lying on the ground.
2014
rushing to a local macrocity | imagine a scenario for the future of northern Italy
lab | progettazione urbana e territoriale 2
prof | Alessandro Mingolo
TOWARDS A NEW SPRAWL preserve local identity enhancing existing connections
In a region characterized by a continuous and increasing exchange, we must take advantage of the power of communications to create urban entities which operate on a European scale and contain the cities expansion, recognizing and preserving local identities that have governed land development throughout history. Imposing a rule to the sprawl it is possible to maintain the principle of identity and apply it to the whole territory. The main purpose is to create a system based on the positive aspects of urban sprawl, with a series of small interventions controlled on a wide scale.
italia
| northern area
CENTRO STORICO PROSSEMICA D E G L I E D I F I C I
Z O N E PRODUTTIVE N O D I D E L C O N N E T T I VO
P R I M A PERIFERIA C A R AT T E R E U R B A N O DIFFUSO
A R E E L O I S I R PRINCIPIO DEBOLE/ DIFFUSO
in
BUILT UP AREA
1. [in]: used to indicate inclusion within space, a place, or limits
DENSITY
between/through 1. [bih-tween]: in the space separating (two points, objects, etc.)
1. [throo]: in at one end, side, or surface and out at the other
CONNECTIONS
LIMITS
PROXEMICS
GATEWAY
INTERACTION
artificial infrastructure
park_production
infrastructure_nature
old town_park
nature
urban sprawl_old town
natural infrastructure
park_urban sprawl
urban sprawl_industrial area
Considering northern Italy a wide region whose specific areas are joined by the ground importance, took to imagine a future in which it will be possible to preserve the potential of each place, thanks to precise and targeted interventions. The specification of each intervention intend to define a METHOD for future projects.
CONNECTIONS
REVELATION
SYNERGIES
island town
MOSES_the crack
perched town
HERON_the gangway
1. [uh-muhng] in or through the midst of;
SURFACES
UPLAND
HILL
cellular town
TIGHTROPE WALKER_the rope
PADDIES
docks town
FRAME_the dock
SWAMP
framework town
CORRIDOR_the row
PLAIN
2013
ri-MEMBRA-re | urban plan after Expo 2015
lab | progettazione urbana e territoriale 1
prof | Cesare Macchi Cassia | Michele De Lucchi
RI-MEMBRA-RE new energy for Post Expo 2015 life
The project aim is to highlight the theme of Expo 2015, “Feeding the Planet. Energy for Life”, by strengthening its own link with nutrition, agriculture, sustainability, and the concrete presence of green spaces. The Expo site thus becomes a hinge between different types of green areas: the core of a system in which open spaces and nature play the most important role as valuable resources. The system includes: the few green spaces in Northern Milan, gradually invaded by the city and linked by a path that reach Groane Park and Monza Park, too; the so-called “green ray” that allows to connect the Expo area with the city center of Milan, following Sempione axis; the connection with Parco Agricolo Sud by strengthening the structured system of farms. The installation of the new fruit and vegetable market, the expansion of the Faculty of Agriculture and the awareness of self, make it a new resource for the city of Milan.
rho
| Expo 2015 site
CASCINA TRIULZA
CASCINA MERLATA CASCINA TORCHIERA
CASCINA BOLDINASCO CASCINA RIZZARDI CASCINA TRENNO
PORTELLO CASCINA SAN ROMANO
CASCINA BELLARIA CITY LIFE CASCINA BRUSADA CASCINA CALDERA CASCINA MADONNA DELLA PROVVIDENZA
CASCINA CASE NUOVE OVEST
CASCINA LINTERNO
CASCINA TORRETTE DI TRENNO
CASCINA MONASTERO
CASCINA MOLINELLO
CASCINA SELLA NUOVA
CASCINA CASSINAZZA
PARCO AGRICOLO SUD
Area urbanizzata
Verde nel 1954
Verde attuale
Parco agricolo
Parco urbano
Nuovo edificato
Verde di collegamento
Percorso ciclo-pedonale
COURTYARD + GARDENS the public dimension of space
1.Block
4.Semi-public courtyards
2.Street connections
5.Typologies variation
3.Green connections
6.Facades variation
2013
clockwise
| temporary urban set-up for Lancetti station
lab | allestimento e museografia
prof | Mara Servetto
CHOOSE YOUR BREAKS a “smart” waiting area to wisely spend time
“Clock” as the instrument measuring time; “wise” as sage, sensible; “clockwise” as the clock hands right direction; “Clockwise: choose your breaks” as the right way to spend time. The purpose of the project is to create an iconic place, where the theme “Time” is interpreted according to the site specifics. Lancetti station, which has been developed only underground, has, however, lot of outdoor space full of potential, especially if redesigned as a place where to optimize waiting time. This the reason why this area has been designed introducing several protagonists: an info gate, a series of seatings, a relaxation area with Book Crossing, a huge sundial, each one interpreting the main theme according to the different ways, fast or slow, in which the space is used.
milano
| Lancetti station
CLOCK WISE
M LANO LANCETTI
Break areas and slow flows A belt made of corten steel covers the existing parapet and characterizes the entrance to the underground station. It represents a kind of information gate, which can display train waiting times outside, thanks to the surface drilling and the LED backlighting. Some wooden seatings integrate with the sloped lawn in front of the gate, matching their section with the different grades of the soil and allowing various ways of sitting according to time availability. An integrated system of floorings, chairs, tables, vending machines and bookcrossing facilities, creates a rhythmically structured landscape and interacts with the cafè under the arcades. A sundial surrounded by a long half-round seat represents the slow passing of time linked with natural rhythm and ecourage people to stop and take part in it.
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3. waiting / options
4. leisure / reading
5. slowness / light
2010
space+furniture=living | basic furniture for space saving
lab | progettazione dell’architettura d’interni
prof | Michele Ugolini
STUDY/STUDENT UNION AREA adaptable pieces of furniture to recover wasted space
The project aims at recovering wasted and pass-through spaces thanks to adaptable furnishings, which works as an highly visible point and an information desk for the students unions, but they can also become a study area when necessary. Different pieces of furniture have been designed using cheap materials and simple assembly techniques, which allow a fast and easy replacement of worn elements. The pillars of the corridor are totally incorporated inside cabinets of different shapes and sizes, which eliminate modularity and extend themselves towards the pass-through space to invite people to stop in the redesigned area. Coloured adhesive rugs signal the main entrances to the student union area, attracting attention to the central patio framed by some massive red portals.
milano
| Politecnico Bovisa
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2015
autoproduzione | build a chair designed by Enzo Mari
lab | falegnameria Cuccagna
con | collettivo Breadtree
AUTOPRODUZIONE read, think, understand, do, watch, sit
The workshop “Autoproduzione: chairs by Enzo Mari” was held at the carpenter’s shop of Cascina Cuccagna by a collective of professionals fond of handcraft and engaged in social projects in urban areas. It allowed each participant to build one of the chairs designed by the Italian designer. Under the supervision of handcraft production experts, usable pieces of furniture have been shaped starting from raw material. The participants were given tools and support needed to complete the project with their own hands.
milano
| cascina Cuccagna
2012 - 2015
(e)scape
| escape from everyday life: city/street/interior scapes photos
personal work
(E)SCAPE interpret landscapes through the lens: see, compose, learn
Escaping more or less far from everyday life, to capture a landscape, considered as an environment marked by particular characteristics, do not simply stand for documenting it, but, rather, creating it through a frame, by selecting the subjects and relating them to each other within a defined field of view. In fact, to take pictures is not only a cognitive process, but also a composition of plans, volumes and lines in a balanced relation. In this case, I choose black and white photography to simplify the reading of geometries and depths, thanks only to light. The two examples of ‘City scapes’ consist in a dimensional flattening of realistic elements, as for the first one, and a three-dimensional perspective of abstract textures, as for the second one. In the ‘Interior scapes’ I tried to grasp, in addition to the strong geometric components, the predominant feature of the space: a picture within a picture, an endless ascent, a fractal. Finally the ‘Street Scapes’, constantly framing the central perspective of a road bordered by continuous facades, allow the immediate comparison of different spatial qualities characterizing each photographed place.
travelling
| New York, Rotterdam, Toronto, Valencia, Yale
City scapes | New York, Toronto
Interior scapes |Yale Center for British Art (L. Kahn), Guggenheim Museum (F. L. Wright), Yale University Art Gallery (L.Kahn)
Street scapes |Toronto, Rotterdam, New York, Valencia, Toronto
2016
overexposure
| a photo feature on China Pavilion dismantling
personal work
OVEREXPOSURE China Pavilion dismantling: breathing dust, feeling melancholy, report reality
I never forget my interests and passions either when I'm doing something else, indeed, they drive me to conceive new ideas and to create over and over again. While managing dismantling activities and verifying the time schedule in the dismantling site, I decided to take some photos to record works progression: it should be not merely a distant photo feature, but rather an attempt to capture the silence, the loneliness, the melancholic beauty pervading this place, once so crowded and dynamic as it was during the last Universal Exposition, now undressed, overexposed by the photografic lens of my camera.
rho
| Expo 2015 site
Taking a look inside...
Straight and curved lines
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