Portfolio 2021 by annacatoserio

ANNA SERIO

PORTFOLIO 6 PROJECTS

ANNA SERIO

EDUCATION

arch. dipl. EPFL - AAM

2019 - 2021 Master in Architecture - École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

italian 09.10.1996

Msc 2 ss - Diploma R. Gargiani, E. Lapierre Msc 2 aw - Superstudio R. Gargiani Msc 1 ss - Atelier J. Floris (MONADNOCK) Msc 1 aw - Atelier K. Geers (OFFICE KGDVS)

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2015 - 2019 Bachelor in Architecture - Accademia di Architettura, AAM USI, Mendrisio, Switzerland Bac 3 ss - Atelier J. Sergison Bac 3 aw - Atelier Durisch + Nolli Bac 2 Atelier Collomb-Molteni Bac 1 Atelier M. Botta

CONTACT

WORK EXPERIENCES

serio.anna@icloud.com

03.18 - 09.18 Internship at Raam-werk Associates Gent, Belgium

skype: anna.c.serio Rue Pichard, 5 Lausanne, Switzerland 1003 +(39) 348 897 41 68

09.17 - 03.18 Intership at Monoblock Arquitectos Buenos Aires, Argentina

LANGUAGES

COMPETENCES

italian_native english_advanced C2 spanish_advanced C1 french_fluent B2

softwares

autocad, archicad, vectorworks, sketch-up, adobe photoshop, illustrator, indesign and premier

skills

team-working, public speaking, hand drawing, model making 02

CURRICULUM VITAE

PROJECTS :

EX - COTONIFICIO MILANO diploma project 2021, EPFL - Roberto Gargiani, Eric Lapierre

THE INAVSION OF PARIS - SUPERSTUDIO Msc2 2020, EPFL - Roberto Gargiani w/ Clea Di Martino, Sébastien Friess, Solène Hoffmann, Andrea Hiroki Ishii and Fabrizio Rocché

THE EXTENSION OF THE ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL OF LAUSANNE Msc1 2019, EPFL - Kersten Geers

HOUSING IN LONDON Msc1 2020, EPFL - Job Floris w/ Mariona Blanch Vernet

HOUSING IN ZURICH Bac3 2019, AAM - Johnatan Sergison w/ Ilaria Giacomini

NEW ROOMS FOR THE VATICANS MUSUEM Bac3 2018, AAM - Pia Durisch, Aldo Nolli w/ Lara Giorla

INDEX

EX-COTONIFICIO MILANO Ex-cotonificio is a project that questions the opulence of contemporary metropolitan cities, which are now entirely devoted to consumption and are getting increasingly exclusive, pushing less wealthy social classes and material production respectively into the urban peripheries and the undeveloped countries.

The plinth of the tower is a platform, fully accessible, that fits squarely into the irregular urban fabric of the area. At the center of the platform, we can find the ruin, rehabilitated as a cultural center, and the circular patio surrounding it, a tribute to Milan’s public space par excellence: the hidden cloister.

The lot features the ruins of a late 19th-century cotton mill: a symbol of Lombardy’s past industrial bourgeoisie and at the same time of the fashion industry, a pillar of the economy and a source of fame for the city. It is this very presence that acts as the trigger for the project: a platform and a tower come together around the former cotton mill, creating a new urban space that confronts both the pedestrian scale of the neighborhood and the city’s skyline, adding a new tower building for the city of the Pirelli skyscraper.

To crown the building, LED screens act as a cornice and serve as a communication tool with the city of Milan.

This unusual tower takes on the function of a public research center for the production of textiles from recycled materials, thus standing in stark contrast to the current capitalist culture of fast fashion and becoming a vibrating and active center, a symbol for a new Milan.

GRAND DESSEIN V I D E O

a glimpse of the life in the ex cotonificio: the axonometric view of the platform, the section of the tower and the view of the short side of the tower.

EX-COTONIFICIO MILANO. DIPLOMA PROJECT - EPFL. PROFESSORS: R. GARGIANI, E.LAPIERRE

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

COLLECTION AROUND THE CITY

TRANSPORTATION TO THE SITE

RE-USE PRODUCTION PRODUCED BY ANBY AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION PRODUCED AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

FABRIC WASTE

NT VERSION PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

section of the tower, the covered piazza and the patio

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

EX-COTONIFICIO MILANO. DIPLOMA PROJECT - EPFL. PROFESSORS: R. GARGIANI, E.LAPIERRE

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groundfloor plan and elevation of the surroundings

scenes from the video, views of the inside and the outside

EX-COTONIFICIO MILANO. DIPLOMA PROJECT - EPFL. PROFESSORS: R. GARGIANI, E.LAPIERRE

THE INVASION OF PARIS MANIFESTO A proposal for a parallel antagonism within the contemporary city. To challenge the city-countryside dichotomy by conciliating agriculture and nature with the metropolitan density. The laboratory for this experience is the suburbia, the undefined territory that connects and separates the city and the countryside. PLN =HABITATVARIABLE

VILLE VERTE

The site is located in the north-east of the Grand Paris, an area where a high number of transport infrastructures intersect, fragmenting its surface while connecting it to a broader scale. The platform captures these fluxes and reconnects the site with the surroundings, reproducing the intensity of the urban fabric of Paris. The 2 km by 2 km structure develops itself on a pelouse technologique that distributes energy all over the surface and allows the HABITATvariable and the public activities on it. The agriculture, located on the underground floors, becomes part of the hidden infrastructure that supports the metropolitan life.

Located in the south of the city, Paris-Barres challenges the idea of the Ville Verte. The long bar buildings are interrupted by four big squares that serve as a new social condenser. The densification inside the compact bars frees the space in between them, allowing room for wild nature to grow. The places, the circulation inside the bars and the roofs are conceived as a continuous public space, with main promenades and shortcuts allowing the Parisian experience of the urban flanerie to take place. Along this promenade, all the main activities unfold : public programs, as well as the processing of the raw materials produced underground.

V I D E O scenes from the video, views of the inside and the outside

THE INVASION OF PARIS. Msc2 - EPFL. PROFESSOR: R. GARGIANI

THE PLATFORM a glimpse of the life in the platform the living together and the mechanized agriculture production

zoom of the groundfloor of the platform

grand dessein of the platform 0

10m

THE INVASION OF PARIS. Msc2 - EPFL. PROFESSOR: R. GARGIANI

THE VILLE VERTE a glimpse of the life in the barres of the ville verte the living together and the mechanized agriculture production

zoom of the typologycal plan of the ville verte

grand dessein of the ville verte

THE INVASION OF PARIS. Msc2 - EPFL. PROFESSOR: R. GARGIANI

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

THE EXTENTION OF THE ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL Architecture as a screen: the project is presented as a huge screen that serves as scenography and theatre for the new school of architecture in Lausanne.

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION the back

plans and arragments of the building

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

the front

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

The screen-building is positioned on a semi-circular base that becomes a courtyard and a large open space for students to gather. The depth of the building is minimal, the game is to develop a school of architecture in a space only 9 meters deep. It presents two facades: one entirely transparent looking towards the lake and the other one that is caratherized by extruded volumes, additions of rooms that allow to have differences in the plants and spaces of the school and a figurative facade towards the city.

THE EXTENTION OF THE ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL. Msc1. PROFESSOR: K. GEERS

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

north façade

south façade

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

THE EXTENTION OF THE ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL. Msc1. PROFESSOR: K. GEERS

HOUSING IN LONDON The project develops around the idea of creating a modern version of the typical London Mansion Block, consisting of three bar buildings attached together. Each of these buildings creates its own small skyline and silhouette, the plan presents a checkerboard layout so that each building can offer the maximum possible light so that all together they create a small urban block. Each bar offers a different type of housing in order to provide a wide range of housing possibilities and meet multiple needs. The collective-common space and the distribution spaces act as moments of connection and union in between the three bars and allow to create moments of social interaction, the very protagonist of collective space is a light passerelles that is bounding the buildings together, defining spaces and creating playfull moments.

bird’s eye view

volumetric model

photomaquette of the collective\entrace space

views of the façades

HOUSING IN LONDON. Msc1 - EPFL. PROFESSOR: J. FLORIS

typological plan

axonometric view of the collective space

views from the outside and inside

HOUSING IN LONDON. Msc1 - EPFL. PROFESSOR: J. FLORIS

HOUSING IN ZURICH The central theme of the studio was DENSITY; the project aims to respond to the increasing number of people coming to Zurich, proposing a type of housing that could be suitable for young families and students that at the moment cannot afford to live in the center due to the high prices of rents. The project aims at the realization of a social idea of housing by creating a mixed social environment that includes public spaces, ateliers, and offices. The project presents two buildings, one facing the railway that serves as a filter building used as a workshop and office and the other that houses the living part; the space created between the two serves as a communal outdoor space for the neighborhood’s inhabitants.

typological plan

photo maquettes

HOUSING IN ZURICH. Bsc3 - AAM. PROFESSOR: J. SERGISON

NEW ROOMS FOR THE VATICAN MUSEUMS “New rooms for the Vatican museums” is a project that aims to create a new building that could host exhibitions of all kinds. The project is presented as a very light construction that stands in contrast to the mighty Vatican palaces; however, this style allows the building to fully adapt to presences and to enhance its materiality. The building is divided into two floors: the first one, the entrance, presents a fully museum program using two spaces: one is a sort of gallery that is very related to the part of the garden and the other one more flexible and independent; the second floor, on the other hand, is entirely public; offers a multifunctional space with a restaurant area, relaxation area, bookshop, study room and conference room.

The strong point of the project is certainly the garden; this, designed as an active and accessible exhibition space, brings light and atmosphere to the interior. Moreover, occupying the corner that from Rome, it looks like a new green façade overlooking the city.

bird’s eye view

views, collages and photo maquette

NEW ROOMS FOR THE VATICAN’S MUSUEM. Bsc 3 - AAM. PROFESSOR: DURISCH-NOLLI

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