PORTFOLIO
Anna Beatrice Bonfigli 2016-2021
Anna Beatrice Bonfigli ita: +393663885305 mex: +524424670490 annabonfigli@hotmail.it Via Mascheroni 17, Milan, Italy
Education Madrid, Spain September 2016 - July 2021
IE University - School of Architecture and Design Bachelor in Architecture (BAR) GPA: 7.62/10.00
Boston, USA January 2020 - April 2020
Northeastern University - School of Architecture Exchange Semester GPA: 3.5/4.0
Queretaro, Mexico August 2009 - May 2016
John F. Kennedy American School of Queretato Middle and High School years Grade: 95/100
Oxford, United Kingdom June 2015
Oxford Royale Academy University Preparation Course Grade: 9.0/10.0
Professional Experience Milan, Italy May 2019 - June 2019
Milan, Italy March 2018 - June 2018
CaberlonCaroppi ItalianTouch Architectural Intern When I overtook this internship at first I assisted in the development of a Hotel project in Italy. Then I worked on photoshop images that were planned to be put as decoration elements throught the lobby of a hotel in Milan.
Paolo Mantero Architects Architectural Intern In this experience as an intern I assisted in an office project development, that consisted in designing acoustic modular pods for co-working spaces.
Courses Milan, Italy May 2020 Segovia, Spain Sept. 2018 -Dec. 2018
Domestika Branding - Design of Stationary IE University Applied Color Principles for Designers and Entrepreneurs
Honors and Awards Madrid, Spain December 2020 Madrid, Spain February 2020 Queretaro, Mexico June 2016
IE University - School of Architecture and Design Alternative Practices- Management and Entrepreneurship Best Final Project IE University - School of Architecture and Design Organizational Management Business Challenge Finalist John F. Kennedy American School of Queretaro Top 5 students of the 2016 JFK’s class Honors Mention
Capabilities Modelling Advanced: Rhinoceros, Autocad, 3D Printing, Lasercutting Beginner: Archicad Design and Visualization Advanced: Adobe Creative Suite ( Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign) Beginner: Unreal Engine Other Windows Office (Excel, Word, Powerpoint)
Languages English Full professional proficiency Italian Native/bilingual proficiency Spanish Native/bilingual proficiency Portuguese Elementary proficiency
Interests Sports Horse Back Riding at a professional level Volonteering Volonteering experiences in underdeveloped areas in Mexico Travelling A passion for travelling to keep learning about different cultures around the world
PROJECTS 01. Mi- Rifiuto
Alternative Practice - Design
02. L’arcata
Alternative Practice - Digital Studies
03. Modular
Dsign Studio in Boston - Urban Studies
04. Cocheras
Design Studio V - Urban Studies
05. Storytelling Pavilion
Design Studio III - Wood Workshop
06. Area Vinival PFG 2021
01. Mi-Rifiuto Academic year: 5th Class: Alternative Practice - Design Location: Milan, 2020
Mi-Rifiuto is a brand that was born because of the major concern for food waste in Italy. It comes into play by educating, creating awarness, and also entertaining the young generation which is responsible for our planet in the future. The interest is to transform the negative connotation of “waste” or “trash” into a positive one. This is done by creating a pop identity that not only educates young citizens in being more conscious with the food they consume, but also allows them to interact, in an entertained way, around the strong problematic.
Goal “We use an electric bicycle to transport 300 kg of food while saving money and CO2.” How ?
Design of the brand’s items The brand is thought to achieve visibility by pop items that enhance the identity while tackling the problematic.
Mi- Rifiuto will posses a electric bikes that will go around the neighborhood of Brera (Milan) and collaborate with the local restaurants in order to transport the unused but good food to the clients.
Marketing the Brand A series of propaganda posters were designed in order to support the marketing campaign of the brand.
Pavilion Sections
Pop - Up Pavilion Visualization
02. L’arcata Academic year: 5th Class: Alternative Practice - Digital Studies using Unreal Engine + Rhino Location: Imaginary, 2020
Testing Unreal Engine by creating an open exhibition space that is embraced by a different ambients. The goal is to move away from the traditional in order to trigger emotions.
Exterior Ambient The use of unreal engine gave the possibility to test different elements such as light, fog and materiality.
Interior Details A
Interior Details B
Care for the details by clearly defining the distinction between interior and exterior.
Fusioning the use of different elements to suggest the importance of mixing colors, cultures and ambients.
As an introduction to Unreal Engine, we were able to create architecture that tested our level of imagination. This resulted in the urge of creating something magnificent in ambients that went far beyond a traditional context for a brutalist building. We wanted something beautiful that joined the italian classical taste with the modern use of light, material and space.
03. Modular Academic year: 4th Class: Design Studio - Urban Studies Location: Boston, 2020
Modular is a housing project developed in Reed St. in Boston. The original conditions of the site consisted in a huge parcking lot that disrupted the pedestrian circulation around the area. The area also lacks outdoor communal spaces and overall vegetation. Therefore the strategy is to achieve an ideal condition where the housing complexes enhance a sense of community while perforating the site in order to allow pedestrians and bike users to penetrate the space in a more comfortable way.
Existing Conditions
Site Medical Green space Education Sports Residential - Coarse Grain Residential - Fine Grain
Desired Conditions
Ideal Circulation Ideal circulation for bicycles Existing rigid circulation Ideal circulation within site Area #1 Area #2
Ideal Vegetation Patterns Conversation between 2 green sites Area #1 Area #2
Ideal Urban Dimention An area with a single conversation
The New Urban Condition The result of the housing units in the urban scale results in complexes that perforates the site with a central pedestrian road that then branches out in secondary streets that give access to the ground floor ADA units that were compulsory according to the state’s regulation. The north western space of the site is equiped with a public green space that is opened for the neighborhood as a whole. Ground Floor Plan Circulation ADA units Topography
Development of the Housing Units The exterior logic as well as the interior one, follow the idea that “Housing means Community”. The elimination process of the volumes allow the positioning of strategical open spaces that are always in communication with each other.
Interior Organization of the Units A Spine: Defines the difference between public and private realm
Circulation Armature The circulation armature is designed behind the safety distances according to Massachusset’s building regulations. In fact it was chosen to use exterior public staircases as a way to enhance the idea of community while complying with the necessary distance.
Private VS Public Green Spaces The public spaces are logically thought to be comprised in the middle of the modular complex. This way the community of each complex has it’s own public space that then grows in scale in the urban dimension. Also, each unit has it’s own private outdoor space. These areas always face the public realm as a way to enhance a sense of community living.
04. Cocheras Academic year: 4th Class: Design Studio - Urban Studies Location: Madrid, 2019
This project is located in Cuatro Caminos, in the Chamberi area of Madrid. Specifically the site is an abandonded industrial area dedicated for the maintainance of the metro trains. It is an area of approximatly 34,000 m2 that disrupts the urban fabric of the neighborhood. This plot is surrounded by relatively dense urban tissue, with an important trafiic congestion that pollutes the area with excessive noise. The area is populated mainly by young workers that commute within the center of the city. In order to design the area, important points of interest were taken into consideration such as the proximitiy to Ciudada Universitaria, that suggested that the progect should be designed to target the existing demographics but also repopulate it with students that change also the nationality index making it more international and student friendly; all this without disregarding the existing population dominance. Therefore the main strategic moves are to build within the site in order to balance out the demographic data while improving connectivity by implementing a more reasonable circulation route for pedestrians. The site is populated with longitudinal volumes that follow the density patterns of the existing urban dimension.
Location
Connectivity
Sound Congestion
Densities
Demographic Data
Strategy
Masterplan
Sector A
Sector B
Sector C
Sector D
Sector E
Total Residents in Plot: 3035 ppl Number of Buildings: 16 Number of Parks: 5 The organization of the ground floor plan is determined by the linearity of the volumes and the position of te cores. The choice of where to locate the public spaces are determined by the light accessibility that each dwelling receives. Sector A
Sector B
Sector C
B1
A2
B2 A1
Sector D
Sector E E2
C2 C1
B3
D3 B4
D1
E1
D2
C3
C4
Student Facilities
Mix Use - Commercial/residential
Mix use - Residential /Commercial/Sports
Mix use - Residential /Commercial/Offices
Residential
General Section
Constructionspecifications Specifications Construction Façade: Interior tent (textile material), Float Glass panels (0.5m x 1.5m x 10mm),exterior enclosing finish (stainless steel). Connection of façade and floor slab: Non structual stainless steel horizontal beam poured in concrete, thermal barrier (mineral wool). Floor Slab: Interior 5mm finish of water based stain concrete,floor wooden joists 10mm, mineral wool sound and thermal insulation 10mm,structural reinforced concrete, Ceiling finish ; smooth white painted plaster.
Development of the Units
Services
Services
X
X Intimate
Type A : 30-60 m2
Thickness wall: 1m
Intimate
Type B : 70-200 m2 Thickness wall: 1.3m
The Grid
Type A Unit - 30-60m2
Type B Unit - 70-200m2
Type A dwelling is a unit dedicated to students and single users wanting to live in a maximized small space, where the aesthetics and the functionality of the walls could be chosen by the users themselves. Light and ventilation are only provided by one façade. Type B dwelling is a unit dedicated to families and young workers looking for a flat to share with other users. The units is maximized again by providing function walls. This time ventilation and sunlight are provided by the intimate wall, where three areas are opened to 3m high glass panels. The functional walls can again be chosen by the users according to the possibilities of the catalogue. Functional Walls - Catalogue
Environmental Collage
05. Storytelling Pavilion Academic year: 3th Class: Design Studio III Location: Segovia, 2018
Segovia is full of events during the year that have the purpose to educate and to implement culture within society. The events which interested us the most were the ones considering stories. After an inmense research on how we could reinvent this occasion, we came up with a storytelling pavilion. It is a structure that enables storytellers of the Festival de Narradores Orales to tell their story by moving around the city, and in the same time reviving specific locations of Segovia. Without disturbing the natural circulation of the city, line 8 of the bus will move the pavilion from one station to the other, making it possible for the stories to move around the city, inviting every type of spectator and therefore creating a huge community that is connected with the same purpose; listening to different stories. Chosen stations around the city Plaza del Centro Mirador de San Marcos
Iglesia Santa Cruz
Testing the Design
Problems - Too centralized program and structure due to the shape of the base (circle). This created a restrained space to experience, but at the same time an overwhelming design. It would also include an unavoidable column in the middle for it to open and close.
A.
Problems - Again this shape centralizes the program due to the shape of the base. The columns are too much in a cantiliver resulting in a problematic and week structure. An unavoidable column in the middle for the structure to open and close is also compulsory.
B.
Problems - The base is rounded creating again a centralized program. The column in the middle is eliminated, but the new vaulting ones take up too much space.
C.
Problems - Too much load on the lower end, that is not compensated with more structural members.Excessively big top half of the structure.
D.
Final Solution This final solution is better because it has an ellipse base that decentralizes the program. It allows a focus point on the edge of the shape, this way the storyteller is not in the center so that the shape can allow the framing of different views to the exterior. The number of columns depended on how the loads were distributed. Because the structure tends to lean on one side, the columns works against buckling. The roof is designed smater for it to have a smoother rotation.
Sound Transmition
Circulation
Transparency vs Opacity
Detail of Joints
Roof:
Top cover 5mm Plywood Railing: M5 Bolt and nut Horizontal pulley 3mm steel cable Roofing bottom layer 15 mm CLT
Column with base
Column with Roof Connection:
3x 3mm bearing M7 ( top, between and bottom) M7 Bolt and nutx2
Column and Brassing Connection:
3x 3mm bearing M7 (top, betwenn and bottom) M7 bolt and nutx2
Bottom Members: Column with Column
Steel plate connection 50 mm pine wood 50 mm bracing of pine wood 50 mm pine wood
Bottom Column and Floor Connection:
3 x 3mm bearing M10 (top, between and bottom) M7 Bolt and nutx2
Floor:
Column with Roof
20cm CLT Steel grame structure 15cm 40 cm industrial trialor wheels Connection to the bus 10-5 cm
Building a 1:1 Model
PFG 2021
Project Boards June 2021
Title : Reconstructing the Public Life of La Patacona
The Density
Area Vinival
The density data in the municipality of Alboraya indicates that the value of inhabitants / km2 in the last decade has been growing. It is also clear that the density is a low one even compared to Valencia.
Reconstructing the Public Life of La Patacona. Professors: Prof. Matan Mayer Prof. Fernando Rodriguez Prof. Rafael Iñiguez Prof. Monica Garcia Prof. Juan Elvira
IE University - PFG 2021 by Anna Beatrice Bonfigli
Valencia
Row Housing
Alboraya
Pedestrian Axis 5,800 inh./km2
The sea
2,900 inh./km2
Population Rate
01. Patacona’s Urban Study
Looking at the population rate, it also has been growing at a relative moderate pace in the last decade. It is clear that for the territory extension the population is not numerous.
The first scale of the project started as a collective research where we investigated the existing conditions of the city. Th relevant recolection of situations reguard the infrastructural, the economic and the morphological analysis. The conclusion is that La Patacona has 4 main infrastructural barriers (the beach, the highway, La Huerta and the urban tissue of Valencia touching the immediate political bounderies of the city. This condition controls the expansion of it’s urban tissue. In fact it limits it completly. The current condition is that the urban land available within the bounderies is the maximum land availability that Patacona can have. A deep study on the socioeconomic condition was also done, in order to understand the present circumstances. A series of risk indicators established whether the demographic statistics were putting at risk the future of La Patacona. In fact the numbers show that it is a city that is in high risk of depopulating in the longterm.
Valencia Alboraya
791,41 Inhabitants
The sea
24,741 inhabitants
Depopulation Rate The depopulation rate is important to understand, in the long term to predict the future of the municipality of Alboraya. The rate is established with six demographic indicators and is measured in four different risk levels. Valencia Alboraya
353 people
The sea
There is a very big problem in terms of the distribution of ages in the city. Data show that younger generations are lacking, and the age group that dominates is between 40-50 y/o. Statistics also show that the age group between 20-30 usually migrates to work in bigger cities, where they can find better opportunities.
75-79 70-74 65-69 60-64 55-59 50-54 45-49 40-44 35-39 30-34 25-29 20-24 15-19 10-14 5-9 0-4
Unused Industrial Land
In the plan , the urban tissue is seen not be exploited at its maximum potential. There is also a very important gap in between the buildings that are of residential use, and the rest of the necessary facilities that are needed to make a city design successfull. In fact there are very few public areas that are not even equiped properly, which is why the project is decided to be located in all the unused industrial land around Bodegas Vinival in order to boost the exploition of urban soil.
1280
Analysis of the Infrastructure
Aging Index
85+ 80-84
Summary on the Site Selection
90 people
Female Male
640
640
1280
Urban vs Rural Land The data also shows that because the large surface area of La Huerta is protected, that the urban soil has a much smaller percentage. This number can’t overtake the agricultural number, but it can for sure be developed and exploited in a better way.
88.74% 4.19%
87.91%
20.99%
16.50%
94.03%
Summary on the Programatic Solution An urban development
1. Essential function of citizens
Province
Programatic Solution An urban development
Mobility : Great connection between public areas and important social landmarks within the urban fabric.
Mobility Economic
Safety : Use urban elements that provide safe public environments in order to have a community that lives and socializes within a safe context.
Safety
Social : public facilities and services in order to improve community living and create an integrated society. Economic : Defend the well being of the community. Investment in diversifying residential facilities and creating social infrastructure to provide a high quality of urban life.
Community Region
Social
As a response to the analyzed conditions. Area Vinival includes all the programs that are missing in today’s city, in order to eliminate the usage gap, and balance out the programs that the city has to offer. Before doing so, a research was done on the essencial functions that citizens must have within the urban realm. Consequently the programs are unwrapped from these functions, and also four dimensions that ensures the success of an urban design.
Municipality
64.01%
57.27%
Caffès
Restaurants
Community center
Library
Outdoor Playgrounds
Shops
Health clinics
Schools
Sport facilities
Housing
Pedestrian infrastructure
Cycling infrastructure
Public transportation stops
Parks
Comfort
2. Four Basic Dimensions
Amenities
Accessability
Position of the program in the intervention
Green Spaces
Bodegas Vinival
Section of the Context Row Housing Pedestrian Axis
The Beach
Bodegas Vinival - Industrial Land
Urban soil
Public facilities
Highway
Streets
Green spaces
La Huerta Railway
Collective Research - Anna Beatrice Bonfigli
1:50
Water canal disruption
Municipality division
Road circulation disruption
Hydrographic lines
Hydrographic collisions
Energy source
000
Bodegas Vinival - Industrial Land
La Huerta
Highway
Analysis of the Economy
60m 0m
120m
Transportation to Valencia V-21 Autopista mediterranea RENFE train tracks
1:5000
Collective Research - Ignacio Mejia
PGE Int. areas
Railway
Analysis of the Morphology
60m 0m
Permeable limit
Agricultural land
Public spaces
Urban land
Train line
Power line
Education areas
Industrial land
Rural land
Important road
River - Canal
Service areas
Commercial land
“Invasive” land
60m
1:5000
Collective Research - Borja Colom
120m
0m
120m
Irregular urban tissue
Dense building area
Industrial tissue
Planned extended tissue
Isolated buildings
Agricultural tissue
Planned urban tissue
Sectorial building area
Man-made landscape barriers
Use: Unused industrial land. Area: 84080 m2 Conditions: 1. Interrupted transversal circulation 2. Proximity to Valencia 3.Vast urban land; possibility of urban development.
Uses Map + Site Selection 1:2500
30m 0m
60m
Sports
Educational
Green spaces
Residential
Industrial
Commercial
Tourism
Protected
03. Development of the Cluster Description of the Intervention
The cluster being developed is detailed until arriving at the smallest scale. The decision to dive into this specific area of the intervention was based on the multidisciplinary identity that it has. It contains three blocks that host different programs each. There is the public block, the residential block and the commercial block. The idea is to test whether the new notion of the superblock is appropriate in order to host the assigned programs. How this is done, is by creating differences between spaces using the progressive differenciation of the grid (which provides the dimensions of the used spaces), that then results in the diversification of the conditions of each block. There is a solution for every condition -block-, so that when the whole cluster is unpacked and seen as individual spaces, every solution can stand on it’s own. It is important to pay attention on the public realm. It is treated with sensibility and with an important hierarchy, which challenges the street level by proposing programs and solutions that can work beyong this level in order to activate even further the public life. Additionally, it is also key to understand that the positioning of the programs is a direct response to the condition of the public realm. In conclusion, the aim is to set the rules that need to be applied all over the intervention. Not only this, but the overall goal, is to create the ideal prototype so that these conditions and rules can be not only repeated, but a general example on how to construct our cities.
The Different Blocks Public Block
Residential Block
Commercial Block
General Axonometric 1:500
Basement Level
3m 0m
6m
Ground Level
First Level
Vertical Section D-D’
Vertical Section A-A’
3m 0m
6m
Image of the Public Block’s Plaza
Image of the Residential Block’s Plaza
Image of the Public Block’s Plaza Elements
Second Level
Roof Level
Summary of the Planimetry
3m 0m
6m
In the basement level the commercial and the public block activities such as restaurants, cinemas and sport facilities are found. Here it is important to pay attention at the hierarchy of the public network, that is found below street level to create different level of importances. Moving on the ground level, the third block which is residential also appears. In this level programs such as shops, restaurants and galleries are found in the case of the residential block, while in the public block the education facility takes place. Here it is important to notice how the rules of the block are applied and how they interfere in the positioning of the programs. Next is the development of the residential spaces. They are organized in order to locate the public realm of the unit, facing the public realm of the block itself. In this block there are 4 units per floor. There are three typologies of units. One that includes terraces but smaller square footage, another that include bigger square footage but no terrace, and on the second floor there are 2 duplex units, that lead to a usable green roof. All this has the aim to achieve a diversity in price and therefore users.
05. Technical Approach The Behavior of the Façade, Materiality and Structure The structural grid of the proposal is based on the grid of Bodegas Vinival (8.20mX8.20m). Nevertheless, this grid only follows the dimension vertically. Horizontally this grid is altered with dimensions of 6m, 5m, and 8.20m in order to have more flexibility in terms of the programs that are hosted inside. - Type of Construction System: The intervention’s construction system is based on two parts and therefore hybrid: A. In situ: The intervention’s structure is based on cast-in-place concrete technique undertaken in situ. This is the preffered choice to construct the concrete slabs, foundations, columns and walls. The concrete is transported in site in an unhardened state using a concrete truck, that will pour the material in the required location. This will allow greater flexibility and adaptability and it also requires few joints in the structural system. B. Prefab: The terracotta rainscreen cladding façade is prefabricated in a factory where the terracotta batterns are produced going through the different production process steps including the form work and the firing process to achieve the desired color. The pieces arrive to the intervention and are finally assembled on site with aluminium fixing clippings. - Solid Construction: The hybrid construction process allows the buildings in the project to be strong but at the same time flexible in design and finish. The terracotta cladding is bonded to the concrete wall through the aluminium support system, so from the outside il looks like a terracotta mass but from the inside it is a solid concrete wall.
Structural Grid Plan 1:300
4.10m 0m
8.20m 1
- Façades and openings: In the ground floor the masses have a transparent façade composed of laminated glass. It aims to achieve transparency as most as possible, to allow the ground floor to appear as part of the public realm, providing an open air scheme where users use the space with an intentional blur between what is exterior and what is interior space. In the upper floors the solid structural concrete walls has a terracotta rainscreen cladding system that is bolded with an aluminium support structure. The terracotta batterns are then clipped to the structure with aluminium joints.
4
2
Façade Detail
3
1:20
1. Interior floor finish 2. Mineral wool insulation 3. Concrete support slab 4. Mineral wool insulation 5. Terracotta battern 6. Extruded steel carrier track 7. Air/vapor barrier 7 6
5
Structural Strategy
Foundation Detail 1:20
A B J C
K
G H I
D
E
A. 3mm waterproof membrane (x2 layers) B. 10 mm filter sheet C. 150 mm coarse sand D. 150 mm crushed hardcore E. Gravel F. Perforated drainage pipe G. Floor finish H. Sound absorbing matting cell foam I. 5mm mastic asphalt J. Concrete eccentric footing K. 15 mm steel mesh cage
F
Balcony Detail
Terracotta Rainscreen Cladding System
1:20
A. Interior finish B. Mineral wool insulation C. Concrete wall D. Extruded steel carrier track E. Rigid Insulation F. Breathable water barrier G. Air chamber H. Terracotta battern 60x60
Material for Clipping - Aluminium
J
I
K
I. Plant vase/support J. Steel capping K. Underlay insulation L. Balcony floor finish M. Matting cell foam N. Floor support O. Leveling layer P. Concrete floor slab
Fixing Clipper
A B C
D E Battern Section
H
Terracotta Battern
60mm
“x” m
Shade of Batterns - Color becomes durable and non fading because it is fired at a high temperature between 1100 and 1300 Cº.
60mm
Work Measurments - Work size : 60mm x 60mm - Weight : 4,49 kg / l m - Maximum length of 3000mm
F G
L
M
300
N
P O
Ground F
Window C
1. St 2. Lam
Axonometric of the composition of the Envelope Layers of the Envelop: a. Concrete structural wall b. Aluminium structural support c. Terracotta batterns d. Aluminium window frames e. Laminated glass
a b
c
Sustainability Strategy Façade Typologies Requirements for the Residential Block
d
e Requirements for the Commercial Block - Light - Privacy - Ventilation - Greenery
Requirements for the Public Block - Light - Privacy - Ventilation - Greenery
Floor System
Composition:
teel Frame minated Glass
North-East Elevation 1:500
165
3m 6m
0m
South-West Elevation 1:500
3m 0m
6m
Anna Beatrice Bonfigli mx: +52 442 467 04 90 it: +39 3663885305 annabonfigli@hotmail.it