Studio 3: Madalina Podgoreanu

Inhabiting Thinking Making

Portfolio 2020/2021

Madalina Alexandra Podgoreanu studio 3 - AR6001/2 Sandra Denicke-Polcher, Jane McAllister 17010518

Belmonte Old Town living and working

Belmonte Marina site location

Accommodation, Bar Dello Sport , Casa Belmondo Belmote old town and Belmonte Marina

Street connection between Old Town and Marina Foot path connection between Old Town and Marina

The aim of the studio this year is to interrogate how this changes affect the way we inhabit, think and make as part of a local community rather than institutional. Exploring new ways of teaching and learning in contrast to single Campus method.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the restrictions placed upon the infrastructures such as transportation and the University, a group of 9 students, have decided to join the South Learning programme organised by Rita Adamo with La Rivoluzione delle Seppie, in collaboration with the municipality of Belmonte Calabro, Ex Convento and Orizzontale.

The co-working space allowed us to work and study among yang practitioners, with various background, but also enabled us to work as a group, creating strong connections between the projects and learning from each-other. This would usually be possible in the university studios, before the pandemic. On top of this becoming temporary residents of Belmonte Calabro, allowed us to get a deeper understanding on the site. Living among the local community, experiencing the local culture, habits and their traditions, give us the opportunity to approach our design in a more informed manner.

Brief 1 - Narrow house - a forensic study of habits and site Public Corridors

Brief 2 - Courtyard building - a forensic stufy of industry and site Civic Rivellino Yard

The aim for the projects this year were to interrogate the site through strategies and understand what existing potential the site has and can be improved, in order to create tackle the economic and demographic issues of the area.

Glimpses of tangible inhabitation of the partially abandoned Rivellino.

Prospective overview of the site divided in strips identifiing the main buildings of the area The area in red will be asigned for the design ploacement.

Investigative section of the considered stripe

From East to West the section desplays the shouth elevation of the Rivellino and cuts thrugh inhabeted builidings, an unused enclosed courtyard adiacent to the Rivellino, the SS-18 Tirrena inferiore road, Calabria Ralwya line and the costal shore of the Tyrenian sea.

Brief 1 - Narrow house - a forensic study of habits and site Public Corridors

Exploring the idea of a mix neighbourhood, where living and working is connected in a natural way and allows the potential formation of a strong community based on collectivism, respecting the privacy of the residents the projectl explores a way of working within and around the partially abandoned and disused Rivellino, a prominent historical building of Belmonte Marina.

The project intent is to alow a public corridor on the ground floor of the building and opening the Rivellino south east area, creating a civic space that hosts workshops for the local craftsman.

The building supports the south east corner and part of the south elevation of the Rivellino

stripe of intrest Placement of the case study on site

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5 1. Passage opening to the existing cortyard of the Rivellino 2. Market hall 3. Workshop spaces 4. Public toilets 5. Existing cortyard of the Rivellino 3 6. Public corridor throughout the building

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7. Summer garden for Franco P.

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8. Private residencial areas

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Proposed plan and section

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Brief 2 - Courtyard building - a forensic study of industry and site Rivellino civic yard The project proposes a mixt use space, divided between the wood production, workshop spaces, houses and a civic courtyard.

The project responds to the current necessities of using green materials in the construc-tion industry, identifying the site potential for harvesting wood which could then be used in construction. Such will help the local economy and provide materials for the local de-velopments.

The project is divided in two Phases: The bigger scheme is the harvesting of Silver Fire woodlands working closely with Neils’ Bamboo plantation, having part of the production along the plantation, such will also help with the rewilding of the area, creating pockets of wild foresting.

The Rivellino Civic Yard is the end part of the production, processing the wood in con-struction materials, which will then be brought into Lukas’ manufacturing workshop that will create prefabricated house, exposing them around the Rivellino, where they can be bought and transported by Myles’ transport industry.

The design of the Rivellino Civic Yard is developed on grid; placing manholes that allows a flexibility to the space and its development, according to what is needed.

Zinc roof sheets

Roof structure

Curtein facade

First floor

Ground floor

Site axo

Luka Morris Readaptation of the GF of exiting residential building

Foundation grid

Curtain louvers system facade

The columns are made on a mix of solid-sawn well seasoned Silver Fir wood assuring a good streinght to the structure and with the help of prefabricated metal ties are fixed a series of spaced columnes which allow a beams to be placed in both directions, providing bracing in order to resist lateral movement.

The columns are placed on pad system fundation.

Construction sequence

Phase 3 prefabricated (by Lukas’ industry) workshops

Phase 2 the offices and staff room

Phase 3 workshops space for local craftsman and second floor above the staff room open for public use

Phase 1 the wood industry

The construction of the building happens over a phased period of time

Phase 1 wood industry with sliding doors this allow the space to be used for market space.

Proposal sectional prospective

Prospective view from the street of the west elevation

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Vi ewf r om t hewoodi ndust r yhal lonamar ketday

View from the courtyard on a Sunday morning