Architectural portfolio Selected works. 2019-2021
Camilla Vertua 02.12.1996, Italy (+39) 3336708732 (+45) 50654290 camilla.vertua@gmail.com camilla.vertua@mail.polimi.it
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Camilla Vertua Architect
Architect | concept, development, research 02.12.96, Italy (+39) 3336708732 (+45) 50654290 camilla.vertua@gmail.com camilla.vertua@mail.polimi.it Issuu LinkedIn
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About Education 2021
Master degree in Architecture and Urban Design, Politecnico di Milano / Grade: 110L/110
2018
Bachelor degree in Progettazione dell’Architettura, (Architectural Design project), Politecnico di Milano / Grade: 110/110
2015
Graduation in classical studies at Liceo Classico Statale A. Manzoni of Milan / 98/100
Publications and workshop
On going
Sguardi all’intorno. Una rassegna di esperienze per il recupero di edifici collettivi e complessi residenziali in Andrea Di Giovanni and Jacopo Leveratto (ed. by), M.O.S.T. of Pioltello – Migration Over the Satellite Town of Pioltello. Sperimentare politiche innovative d’integrazione dei minori immigrati tra casa e scuola, gioco e lavoro: un progetto pilota per la periferia metropolitana di Pioltello, Quodlibet studio. Città e paesaggio. Album
2021
Partecipation, as part of the team of Superworld, to Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven with the project of Our Common Guide, developed by Alba Concepts, Alkondor, Avance-impact, Breedid, Cepezed, DGMR, Heddes, Metabolic, ModuleMakers, OMRT, RE:BORN, Superworld.
2021
Collaboration with Nebojsa Jakica, Roberto Naboni and Hugo Mulder for the organisation of the Spearhead project Cyber-physical studio. Developing a cyber-physical environment for augmented studio-based learning, Design Studio 2 / Structurel Tectonics, SDU-University of Southern Denmark
2020
Presentation at Triennale of Milan and related book publication of the project of design and research Milano-Cortina 2027-Strategies and guidelines for post event sustainable living
2020
Partecipation to Milan International Architectural Workshop (MIAW) with Ash Cany, from AshSakula Architects, London
Work experiences Sep. 2021 - March 2022 Feb. - Aug. 2021
Internship at the architectural office of Superworld in Rotterdam, The Netherlands Research Assistant in Design Studie 2 / Strukturel Tektonic and research activity with Assistant Professor Nebojsa Jakica at SDU- Southern Denmark University in Odense, Denmark
Sep. - Dec. 2020
Research Assistant in Design Studie 1 / Analysis and Representation of the Built Environment with Assistant Professor Hugo Mulder at SDU- Southern Denmark University in Odense, Denmark
Sep. - Dec. 2020
Internship at the architectural office of Arcgency in Copenhagen, Denmark
Feb. - May 2018
Internship at the architectural office of Fondazione Housing Sociale in Milan, Italy
Achieved awards May - Aug. 2021 Sep. 2020 - Apr. 2021
Erasmus+ traineeship at SDU- Southern Denmark University in Odense, Denmark Recipient of the scholarship Bando Tesi Estero delivered by Politecnico of Milan for the completion of the Master thesis at SDU-Southern Denmark University, in Odense
2020
Selected design project for the temporary renovation of La Piana Square in Milan, during the public initiative of Piazze Aperte, in the framework of Milan Arch Week 2020
2019
Design project developed over the course of Urban Design Studio by Prof. Grazia Concilio selected and exhibited for Ri-formare Periferie 2018-2019
Sep. 2017- Feb. 2018
Erasmus of six months at CEU San Pablo University, in Madrid
Languages Italian Mothertongue
English C1
Spanish B1
French
Scholastic
Softwares’ skills Autocad Advanced
Sketchup Advanced
VRay Basic
Adobe Illustrator Advanced
Rhinoceros Intermediate
Revit Basic
Adobe InDesign Advanced
Excel Intermediate
Adobe After Effect Basic
Adobe Photoshop Advanced
QGis Basic 3
Projects Superworld
2021
Een huuis voor iederen: competition, idea, office, 400 m2, Harleem, (NL)
2021
Zonnejurk: competition (2nd price), facade retrofitting, 555 m2, Breda, (NL)
2021
Our Common Guide: research, project development, exhibition, 55 m2, Eindhoven (NL)
Arcgency
2020
Project on Tunnelfabrikken: project development, public space, 70.000 m2, Copenhagen, (DK)
SDU
2021
Augmented studio-based learning: research and education, Odense (DK)
2021
Facade and circular architecture: research, circular economy and architecture, building technology, Odense (DK)
2020-2021
Home as a service: thesis, project development, housing, economic strategy, Milan (IT)
PoliMi
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2020
Dynamic threshold: landscape, urban strategy, 3.000.000 m2, Piacenza (IT)
2020
Ar.Kit: street furniture, public space, competition (selected work), 5 m2, Milan (IT)
2020
Project on Parco Solari, landscape, urban strategy, 73.200 m2, Milan (IT)
2019
TAM: Temporary Alpine Modules: masterplan, temporary housing, interior, 215.000 m2, Livigno (IT)
2019
The coherence of structure: masterplan, project development, cultural, mass housing, 71.925 m2, Yazd (IR)
2018
The Dome: project development, education, dismantling architecture for emergency, Ingall (NE)
2018
Bricks: research, urban strategy of regeneration in Europe, Pioltello (IT)
2018
Project on Parco Forlanini: urban strategy, urban planning, 2.000.000 m 2, Milan (IT)
2018
The fifth dimension: competition, cultural, 500 m2, Baghdad (IQ)
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Copenhagen 02.02.2021
Letter of recommendation To whom it may concern Camilla Vertua has been a intern at the office from 01.09.2020 until 01.12.2020. Camilla was engaged in making an overall concept for the landscape and outside areas at The Tunnel Factory. A transformation of an old factory in to a house of culture and 460 student accommodations. The primary work has been on make analyses of the exciting space and sketch proposals and materiel for the future. Specially the common outside space I the yard of the youth housing have been a subject to a lot of good work and relictions form Camilla. • Tunnel Factory 70.000 m2 transformation from old factory to modern culture house, offices and youth housing. Camilla is very hard-working, loyal and reliable, with a strong approach to the field of architecture as well as a talent for reading and understanding programmatic parameters. She has a fine sense for detail and good understanding of building construction. This enables Camilla to produce very promising and interesting designs with a strong understanding of the context she Is working in. Camilla has a mature attitude and works well independently. Camilla is experienced in digital drafting and presentation. Furthermore, uses hand drawing to do quick sketching and to communicate here ideas in an elaborated way. Camilla has demonstrated a refreshing curiosity towards all parts of the architectural field, both theoretical as well as practical. Her professional involvement has positively characterized her efforts at work. Furthermore, Camilla has an open and friendly personality, making her popular among all colleagues. I have personally been working very close to Camilla and it has been nothing but at brilliant and giving experience. We highly recommend Camilla Vertua for employment, and hope to see her back in Copenhagen in the future. If you have any further questions regarding the above, please feel free to contact me.. With kind regards Simon Vinzent Architect & Partner
Arcgency Skudehavnsvej 1 - DK-2150 Copenhagen 6
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Delftsestraat 9 3013 AB Rotterdam The Netherlands
5th of January 2022
+31 (0) 6 27 226 048 info@superworld.nl www.superworld.nl
Recommendation letter of behalf of Camilla Vertua
To whom it may concern, I am delighted to write this letter of recommendation in support of Camilla Vertua. I am a Co-Founder and Architect/Strategic Designer at Superworld based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Camilla worked at Superworld from 1st of September 2021 to the 28th of February 2022, on a full time Intern position. Ms. Vertua is a talented designer and researcher, able to adapt to new situations quickly and with aplomb. She arrived at our studio after recently completing her graduate degree in Architecture in Milano, Italy. She embraced the culture of the studio quickly and was able to learn on her own diverse tools and process we use and develop in the office. She is personally driven by a desire to learn and to be autonomous in her tasks, which she realizes by being genuinely open to criticism. She assisted us in the Creative Direction and the on-site delivery of an exhibition for the Dutch Design Week. It required an ability to deliver material in a short and intense fashion, while being extremely exigent on representation and design quality, and readiness to put the required hands-on work to deliver the exhibition space in a clean and clear way. All of which she delivered surpassing our expectations. Also, part of an on-going project, she developed a comprehensive mapping of the real estate development system in the Netherlands. While not being from the country, she researched and graphically displayed a very complex set of actors and processes, which aimed to see how architecture can be delivered by the very same people that will inhabit it. The quality of Ms. Vertua is to aim for relevance by expending her scope of thinking towards areas of the architecture profession which are usually not facing with. These are only a couple of examples, but it will demonstrate her ability to think, design, synthesize and represent architectural production in a strategic sense, between objectual and systemic aspects. In our team, Ms. Vertua continuously presented herself as a joyful personality with a positive mindset. She really is an “up-bringer” and is able to respond to stressful situations and tight deadlines with organization and calm, always seeing what is important for a project as a team-player. I recommend Ms. Vertua for any design or research related position, involving different levels of thinking and commitment – she would be terrific asset to any organization.
Maxime Cunin Co-founder / Strategic Designer
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Hello! I’m Camilla...
... and I am a young architect from Milan. I’m passionate, hard-working, always on the move and ready to face new challenges and to learn new things. Working with other people is definitely what I mostly enjoy of the architectural practice. It’s crucial to me and impacts the way I work. I do believe that having inputs from different perspecives and points of view is essential, not just for the project sake but also for our personal growth and creativity. My main interests into the architectural field are urbanism and construction. Even though scales are totally different, what I like is the possibility of finding a logic into complexity: the beginning of the single strand into the skein. In this regard, my work experience both in didactic and in the practice gave me a complete overview of how architecture can be differentely approached, of its complexity and of the touchable connections between theoretical research and construction. This made me realise of the real possibility of making changes, especially when people gather all their energies for something they strongly believe in. Moreover, the fact of have been living and working in three very different societies as Italy, Denmark and finally The Netherlands is opening my mind, showing me alternative working practices and hierarchies, and making me personally more positive, prompt to grasp opportunities and less afraid of changes. Although Architecture has a big part of my life, I also have other passions. Climbing, hiking, looking for new music and receipes to cook for friends are those activities helping me to clear my mind and then think better. Thus, this is me just in a few words. Here below my projects.
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... e sono una giovane architetta di Milano. Se dovessi descrivermi in poche parole, mi definirei entusiasta precisa e tenace, sempre in movimento, pronta ad affrontare nuove sfide ed imparare cose nuove. Quel che più mi appassiona del fare architettura è sicuramente la possibilità di conoscere altre persone. Sono convinta che quando più idee, più visioni e prospettive confluiscono in modo sistemico in un unico progetto, questo non può che guadagnarne in complessità e bellezza, offrendo allo stesso tempo nuovi motivi d’ispirazione alla crescita creativa di ciascuno. I miei principali campi di interesse in ambito architettonico sono urbanistica e tecnologia delle costruzioni. Scale totalmente diverse, accomunate però dalla possibilità di trovare una logica semplice nella complessità delle cose: il bandolo della matassa. A tal proposito, la mia esperienza lavorativa sia nel campo della didattica che della pratica mi ha dato la possibilità di maturare un pensiero a 360° di cosa significhi architettura, dei modi diversi in cui possa essere approcciata, della sua complessità e della reale possibilità di trasformare la ricerca teoretica in prodotto di cambiamento tangibile attraverso le forze di più parti pronti ad investire tempo ed energie in cui credono. Il fatto di aver inoltre vissuto e lavorato in tre società cosi’ diverse come l’Italia, la Danimarca e l’Olanda mi sta aprendo la mente, mostrandomi diversi metodi di lavoro e confronto, rendendomi più positiva, più pronta a cogliere opportunità e meno impaurita da possibili cambiamenti. Anche se l’Architettura occupa gran parte della mia vita, ho anche altre passioni. Arrampicare, fare trekking, scoprire nuova musica e nuove ricette da cucinare ad amici sono quelle piccole attività che mi aiutano a liberare la mente e pensare lucidamente. Quindi, questa sono io in poche parole. Di seguito i miei progetti.
Contents
Een huis voor iederen Superworld. Rotterdam, 2021
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Zonnejurk Superworld. Rotterdam, 2021
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Our Common Guide Superworld. Rotterdam, 2021
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Home as a service Master thesis. Odense/Milan, 2021
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Dynamic threshold Academic project. Politecnico of Milan, 2020
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Ar.kit Academic project. Politecnico of Milan, 2020
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The coherence of structure Academic project. Politecnico of Milan, 2019
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Een huis voor iederen Harleem, The Netherlands
Program | Floating Office Size | 400 m2 Status | Concept Work by | Superworld (Maxime Cunin, Thomas Krall, Camilla Vertua)
In 2021 the Municipality of Harleem, Amsterdam, launches a public competition for the construction of a floating Office for the Port Authority on the banks of river Spaarne. The call especially asks for concepts: any type of design should be presented. The main requirements mentioned by the call are for the new office to be: permeable to its context, recognisable, green and sustainable, open both to the river and the urbanity, incrementing eventually over time and circular by means of materials used and energy. Starting from this initial statement, the proposal has the aim to create an iconic building that brings together the entire ecosystem of its location - including people, animals and plants. We see the project as an enhancer for the natural ecosystem around it, including humans. This reinforcement is not just about creating habitats for animals, but also about the application of sustainable materials, green energy production and the clear legibility of all these principles in a remarkable, playful and interactive project, that both the Port Authority and the Municipality of Haarlem can be proud of. Looking at the project from a wider scale, Een huis voor iederen, intersection of land, water and sky, is located in an area of Haarlem that will undergo large-scale developments, becoming a more densified and central location of the city. The vision is thus for the project to add extra public value to the area, by merging the main function of the Port Office with an attractive and
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unique public space for the neighbourhood. In this concern, in addition to visually connecting the two banks of river Spaarne, by fusing the natural features of the east side with the urban character of the west side, we also want to think about how the floating Port Office could possibly expand in the future. In our vision, Een huis voor iederen can only be the starting point of creating a small, floating neighborhood, with various public functions that can be added over time. A remarkable biotope that could become an example of innovative water urban development far beyond Haarlem. Finally, in the view of a pragmatic idealism, trying to translate big principles into feasible and pleasant design, we analyze preconditions for transportability and circular and modular solutions, so that components can be easily reused and exchanged. We aim to prefabricate the building from a combination of recycled and bio-based materials.
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Human perspective: urban principles
Connect coastlines We propose to visually bring the two banks of the Spaarne closer together. By bringing nature from the east side to the urbanity of the west side and vice versa, we diversify the coastlines and create a strong connection between both sides.
Attractors By interweaving the natural and mineral features of each side, we create points of attraction in each of the public spaces. These points will invite passers-by to explore and pause for a while, before continuing their journey along the coastline.
Water routes Interaction with water is a primary aspect of the project. In addition to integrating the functional needs of the boats used by port authorities, we also strive to enable pleasure craft to moor and enjoy the public space.
Potential expansion We want to design a project that can grow over time. The harbor office can be eventually combined with floating public functions, such as a cafe, sauna and other floating landscapes.
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Bird perspective: future vision
Fish perspective: building principles
Current conditions
Overlapping programs
Circularity
Plug-and-play building
Aquatic facade: a new ecosystem
360° building
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Zonnejurk
Breda, The Netherlands
Program | Facade retrofitting Size | 555 m2 Status | Concept, design development,technical design Work by | Superworld (Maxime Cunin, Thomas Krall, Camilla Vertua) Consortium Spoorzone Breda launches this competition for the redevelopment of four buildings located in the former industrial area of Klavers Jansen – in the Havenkwartier in Breda – to enter into a special relationship with public space. Important conditions for the Klavers Jansen redevelopment include to embed the heritage of the area; to reach high-quality design of the public space; to strenghten the identity of Klavers Jansen as a whole; to realize innovative architecture, while preserving the atmosphere of a cultural breeding ground. Moreover, the call asks for robust, urban, sturdy, tough, honest, industrial and bold buildings (https://www. consortiumspoorzonebreda.nl/projecten/). Starting from this statement, the work has especially focused on building D, in need of the design of a new skin. The project enhances the narrative of sustainable design by investigating the aesthetic and the environmental and economic benefits of solar architecture. Solar panels wrapping the building, with an inclination of 8°, are placed on each elevation depending on their insolation, so that the building becomes an interactive part of its own environment. Moreover, their rhytm, following and adding complexity to the existing openings on facade, confers dinamicity and recognisability to the building. Public functions on the ground floor, visually permeable and lighter in terms of materials, connects the block to the surrounding public
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space. Economically speaking, even though the use of solar panels implies necessarily higher construction costs compared to other construction materials as bricks or timber, the possibility of being paid off in an average period of around 6 years, providing at the same time and for the rest of the operative life of the building important energy savings, still makes them an attractive choice. For all of the above concept and design decisions, the project won the 2nd prize.
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Steps to the project
The monolith The existing building is approached as a unique system, made of two main blocks: the low-rise and the high-rise
Openings and standardisation Eventhough openings have standard sizes to avoid additional building costs, their rhytm makes the building dynamic and recognisable.
Insolation analysis Solar analysis throughout the day and seasons make us aware of the solar possible gain of each building facade. This is the starting point for solar panels’ positioning.
Solar dress Given the previous analysis, we place solar panels. They define the charcter of the new redevelopment and suggest an innovative aesthetic of solar architecture.
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Solar panels are located where they can mostly operate according to the insolation of the building. In this way, the miminum cost for the amount of solar panels is combined to their higher yeld and they can pay off in a shorter period. Unfolded elevations: the location of solar panels.
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The proposal
Elevation SW-facade North-East elevation, 1:200
South-West elevation, 1:200
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Elevation and section, 1:50
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Our Common Guide Worldwide
Program | Dismantling architecture Size | 55 m2 Status | Concept, design development, technical design, construction Work by | Superworld (Maxime Cunin, Thomas Krall, Camilla Vertua) Our Common Guide is a collective of construction leaders that strives to connect idealism and practice in order to realise a multidisciplinary innovation project for a more affordable and sustainable built environment. The Collective has the aim to provide and test building solutions combining new and reused components, demounted from older buildings. Starting from the construction of Building Kit Generation 1, a simple assembly building, editable depending on programs, the Collective envisions this building system to grow and to be adaptable to several typologies, till Generation 4, envisioning high-rise solutions. In October 2021, Our Common Guide had the chance to exhibit its work at the Dutch Design Week of Eindhoven. During the exhibition all the building components needed for the construction of Generation 1 were finally collected and gathered into a unique location, where they were divided by building layers. Panels concerning the construction system and the interconnections between different parties involved informed the public about the evolution of the project and its future developments, showing an alternative for a better building environment. The legacy of this stepping-stone experience was then collected into the website of the collective: https://ourcommon.guide/. There you can find more informations and updated news.
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The 4 pillars of the building kit
Remountable Based on shearing layers model.
Evolutionary As a living organism, function dynamic.
Industrialized For affordability and sustainability.
Impact firts Decision making through measuring societal impact.
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Explanatory diagram of the movement and of the exhibition
Sistemic change
Collective
Building kit Our Common Guide Re-locate
1. Create a kit of parts for future design Include reused and new bio-based materials
2. Find a location that suits the mission
3.Design with stakeholders from the location
What problem can we solve at what location, and for who?
Include the needs of people (and nature)
4. Measure the impact from start We start with an impact measurement and regularly measure
5. Change functions + place for innovation
6. Change location after 3 years, to make more impact
To accelerate innovation and to adapt to the needs of the location and users
The Building Kit as an impact machine, traveling everywhere
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Changing the way we build
Skin
Services Stuff
Space plan
Structure
Site
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Demountable building system
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Future visions
From Generation 1 to Generation 4
Generation 3: the town. The system is integrated into the urban context. 26
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Home as a service Worldwide
Program | Circular building and financial system Size | / Status | Concept, design development, technical design
make it easier to live sustainably and affordably, and ensure more fulfilling ways of living together. It envisions: . A modular concrete building system designed for disassembly, that can be prefabricated, flat-packed and assembled on site, ensuring a Work by | Camilla Vertua CO2-reducing construction method, high degree Supervision | Prof. Alessandra Zanelli of space adaptability over time and a circular Ass. Prof. Nebojsa Jakica approach to the management and life cycle of buildings combined to durability. . A liveable double skin facade being the strategic element that characterises the overall Cities all around the world are facing major challenges when it comes to rapid urbanisation, building system. It provides space flexibility and adaptability for the user, while proposing each ageing populations, loneliness, climate change time a renovation of the aesthetic of design for and lack of affordable housing. disassembly. The construction sector has a great impact on . A new financial model based on the concept of the environment, as just in Europe up to 30Building in Leasing that lowers the entry point 40% of urban solid waste is construction and to the housing market, making high quality demolition waste. Moreover, a third of urban dwellers could struggle to secure decent housing housing affordable for users of all income classes, while re-establishing the connection by 2025. between producers, developers and consumers. Thinking about an alternative affordable and The model is finally tested over three different sustainable construction method becomes housing typologies fostering a different idea of crucial. social housing each. In this concern, over recent decades the concept of sustainability and Circular Economy strongly enter the industrial sector as well as the architectural one. Thus the thesis focuses on the theme of Circular Economy and of Design for Disassembling, in order to propose an innovative model for developing sustainable, affordable and liveable homes and cities. The work faces the concept of circular architecture from different perspectives and scales through an inter-disciplinary and comprehensive approach, combining urbanism, architecture, technology and business, with the potential to tackle some of the biggest challenges of the global housing crisis. Then, it proposes a model to rethink how we design, build, finance and share our future homes, neighbourhoods and cities, in order to allow for cheaper homes to enter the market,
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The DNA of the system...
Public Material Bank
. Circularity of resources in terms of components and materials with economic savings; . Stronger connection between private and public sector. . Constant upgrade and certification of components
The model envisions a new financial system for public housing procurement proccess based on the business model of leasing. The housing unit is conceived as a customisable area filled with components providing a certain service. The user pays what he “access”, with a consequent lower to the entry point to the housing market. Once components have been used, the user can return them.
Business model of Sharing Accessibility Business model of Leasing
New circular financial model
Home as a s
Circularity of resources
Affordability Public procurement process
. Knowledge about the amount of resources of each city . Fast reply to the housing demand of the city
Our future sustai . Avoidance of vacant spaces
. Compactness . Context-based
. Aware its resourc
... and its goals
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Demand adaptability
Replicability
Reuse
. Adaptation to whatever type of urban context; . A new aesthetic for Design for disassembly . Qualitative housing . Better indoor comfort
New circular building model
service
Adaptable and flexible
Independent Building
Design for Disassembly
Different systems’ life expectancy
Replicability
The project envisions a new construction system based on the indipendency of each of the 6 systems the building is made of in order to provide flexibility, adaptability and still durability when needed, without compromising the principles of Design for Disassembly.
. Extention of the so called existenzminimum. Especially today when homes also become workspaces, a space “plus” shall be a right
Liveable Double Skin Facade
Prefab Bolted Concrete Structure
. Affordable and fast construction system
Modularity
. Flexible space plan Prefabbrication Components
. Space adaptability over the entire operative life of the building
Materials
. Durability in view of the system’s life expectancy . Reusability due to its material and bolted connections
inable cities
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. Affordable and inclusive
. Policentric
Non-intrusive maintenance
Space sharing
Urban branding
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The building system
First step Setting a design grid and an external perimeter. The chosen grid is 1.5m x 1.5m.
Second step Positioning of structural segments and of the core of accessibility.
Third step Definition of indoor spaces.
Fourth step Definition of the inner skin.
Fifth step The external skin wraps the building.
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Structural shear walls Pipes pass through them, enabling more adaptability over the operative life of the building.
Bolted connection between two slabs and slab and beam. The metallic box is firmly anchored due to tensioned rebars.
Peikko Sumo Wall Shoe Technology Anchor bars are connected through a nut to the anchor bolt below.
Peikko Hidden Corbel and connection to Delta Beam 33
From components... The structure
The double skin facade
30-300 years
5-50 years
Beams
Shear walls
2-ramp stairs
Slabs
3-ramp stairs
Interior facade
... to internal space plan...
Double bedrooms
Single bedrooms
... and liveable double skin facade
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Deep liveable double skin facade
Space plan and services 3-30 years
Exterior facade
Pipes
Insulation panels
Metallic U-profiles
Timber cladding
Kitchens
Linear liveable double skin facade
Bathrooms
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The financial system The financial system envision by this new social housing mechanism permits to its users, once subscribed, to lease not just spaces, but also components they need over time. Those components, depending on their function and on their degree of technology, can be either reused by entering a public library of components, or upgraded by private companies that take care of both their delivery and maintenance over time. In fact, the system enables a tighter connection between private and public sector.
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CYCLE OF ADAPTATION
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BUILDING LIFE CYCLE
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Design structure
Units’ customisation
Assembling design
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City governments
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The courtyard (1 of 2 samples)
19.6 m
18.1 m
Social housing:design applications. The tower (1 of 3 samples)
27 m
Structural diagram
19.6 m Structural diagram
Plumbing diagram
First variation, plan, South and West elevations, 1: 100
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First variation, plan and South elevation, 1:100
The first variation foresees four different housing units.
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Units have different sizes and thus diverse users: young or old couples, family or extended families or even single over 30 and divorced parents, in need of additional space to eventually host guests.
Units are different, users. From small fa students sharing a
Each apartment has access to the space of Liveable Facade, proportionally to its area.
Each unit is access courtyard and has a of Liveable Facade.
9.7 m
umbing diagram
The student house (1 of 2 samples)
31.8 m
Structural diagram
Plumbing diagram
First variation, plan and South elevations, 1:100
foresees four units.
The first variation foresees two different housing units.
, hosting several amilies, to even an apartment.
The two units differ in terms of number of rooms, and therefore of students, that they respectively host.
sible from the a private space .
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The tower
The courtyard
The social housing in row
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Dynamic threshold Piacenza, Italy
Program | Urban strategy, landscape, public space Size | 3.000.000 m2 Status | Concept, design development
canals surrounding the city: Canale Diversivo. Due to violent storm it generally overflows putting at risk a relevant area of the city. Moreover, we discovered an important problem of pollution affecting its water, probably caused by the discharge of some industries along it. Work by | Shannon Leigh Tribe, Ekin Olcay Therefore, taking advantage of the natural areas running along the canal, we decided to shape Ilaria Pugliese, Camilla Vertua it as a green threshold between the city and the Supervision | Prof. Laura Cipriani, Prof. surrounding agriculture, providing a better water Mina Akhavan, Prof. Alisia Tognon management and reconnection between the city and its natural system. A new front for the city and not a backyard, where the course of the Piacenza is a city surrounded by several water systems. The natural one comprises the Po river water becomes the way to provide a new linear infrastructure of sociality. towards the North, Trebbia on the West and It especially comprises the redefinition of three Nure on the East side. Moreover, artificial canals affected over time the main sites, working in different ways. Following territory: they were built in the ‘30s as a tool to the flow of the water: the park of Galleana, becoming a retention park for water entering the reclaim land for agriculture purposes. Over time, Piacenza has also acquired a strategic city; the park of Montecucco, where water, now cleaned, is used for agriculture; the abandoned nodal role of exchange for Italy, as, on one military site of Pertite, that, once renewed, side, it is located on the banks of river Po becomes a cultural center involving the whole and, on the other, it is bridge of connection community, starting or ending point of this between the North and the Middle of Italy. linear infratructure. This last factor especially made it a national military headquarter, (the city still presents some significant built traces of its military past), leading to the construction of a system of infrastructure that totally neglected the surrounding natural context. Nowadays urbanity is thus totally detached from the surrounding natural water system. They coexist without any sort of reciprocal dialogue. Moreover, in the recent past the city was hit by floods and is in need of an efficient strategy for flood protection. With this in mind, we wanted our project to propose at the same time an urban strategy of protection from flooding and reconciliation between the urban and the water system. According to our findings, we decided to propose first a few interventions for flood prevention along Trebbia river, in order to stop floodings from the start. Then, we focused on one of the main artificial
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The strategic plan for the city of Piacenza
Flood prevention renaturalization of soil reforestation systems of retention
Reconnection water purification redefinition of an urban system regional park extention
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Strategic plan, 1:20000 reuse of the quarries + basin for retention along Diversivo A Wetland
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Riparian Forestry
continuation of the existing bikelane + waterfront becoming a protected area water treatment plant + constructed surface wetland system military site’s redefinition + two parks’ redefinition + waterfront’s redefinition + reconversion of the hydroelectric power plant 1:20.000
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Principles of the urban project
Canale Diversivo
Water management Galleana park becomes a site for retention and for the purification of water. It can be used for agriculture into the Montecucco park and in the former military site.
Former military site 281.487 mq
Montecucco park
Reconnection
232.952 mq
Galleana park 277.840 mq
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the canal becomes an inhabitable and dynamic threshold between the territory of the city and that of the agricultural landscape and it provides the reconnection between fragmented territories.
The masterplan
Dynamic threshold Water management becomes the main tool for the redevelopment and reconnection of the whole area. The canal becomes an inhabitable and dynamic threshold between the territory of the city and that of the agricultural landscape and it provides the reconnection between fragmented territories. Water: from threat to resource
parks crops trees
agriculture sports grass
bikelane canal (minor) canal
From barrier to threshold
Definition of an urban system
Masterplan, 1:10.000
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The retention park Galleana park becomes a site for retention and for the purification of water.
The canal as a threshold
The canal as part of the park
The wetland
Landmarks
Section of the basins
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Plan of the intervention on Galleana park, 1:2.000
The urban park Clean water arrives to the park of Montecucco, where it is used for agricultural purposes. The park becomes the urban gate toward surrounding agricultural fields.
Integrated landscape
Plan of intervention on Montecucco, 1:2.000
Resiliance through time
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The didactic park The former military site becomes a node between the linear park along Canale Diversivo, the turistic flows of Via Francigena, the city of Piacenza and existing schools of the premises. Water of Canale Diversivo is here deviated and used for didactic purposes.
What remains
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Via Emilia / Via Francigena
Urban forest
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Permeability
Cafè Cycle repair
Skatepark
Info point
Herbs gar Research Laboratory
Plant n Didactic greenhouse
Connections
Existing vegetation
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Agricultural fields
Hostel
Slow mobility station
Market
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Cafeteria
Museum
Social node
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Public crops
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km0 restaurant Library
Post-production
nursery
Wineyard
Workspace Auditorium
Sensory park
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Ar.kit Milan, Italy
Program | Street furniture, public space Size | 5 m2 Status | Concept, design development, technical development Work by | Francesca Prini, Selene Rini, Camilla Vertua Supervision | Prof. Alessandra Zanelli
The project has been developed over the course of Lightweight structures in the contextual framework of Piazze Aperte (Open Squares) initiative, during Milan Arch Week 2020. The initiative has the aim to collect temporary architectural solutions for the renovations of urban peripheral spaces. Our project is specifically developed for La Piana square, in the South of Milan, but it could be adapted to different locations and functions. We design it with in mind three main principles: . Natural processes as base for our research on form findings. Organic forms are structurally complex but they suceed in ensuring stability, load management and balance just with a few components. . Transformability and trasportability to get a flexible and light system, adaptable to several and diverse needs all over the world. . Simplicity in terms of construction, to grant fast assembling and disassembling processes. . Incremental design, in order to avoid the duality between capsular component and entire structure. Every design you can obtain assembling singular capsular components becomes stronger as soon as you add more pieces. . Partecipative design, to give the possibility to temporary projects to have a permanent impact on community. Starting from the deployable scissor structure we therefore design a timber structure based on the adaptation of a deployable scissor
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system. Depending on its way of assembling and rotation it can be customised as serpentine expositions and temporary installations, or as small enclosed gathering areas for children and adults.
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Kit of design
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Rings x 16 x16 Hinge to Ring connection
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Hook for the membrane
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Wood sticks
Colored PTFE membrane for the roof
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Rigid support of the floor 54 membrane
Tensioned colored PTFE membrane for the floor
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Ar.Kit
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The coherence of structure Yazd, Iran
Program | Urban design, cultural, mass housing Size | 71.925 m2 Status | Concept, design development,
and remaining Event, in a state of constant incompleteness. According to this interpretation, we define for each of them specific design approaches, with the aim to enlarge the structure, joining to the existing one also those territories that are instead perceived today as waste Work by | Rachel Lee Jia Yi, Chen Tianqin, lands. Ontologically they own a strong potential Ilaria Pugliese, Camilla Vertua Supervision | Prof. Marco Bovati, Prof. Arian for the redevelopment of the entire urbanity. Heidari Asfhari, Prof. Mauro Nicoletti
The project consists in the design of a cultural center and of a housing complex in the Iranian city of Yazd. Yazd is a city that was listed by Unesco in 2015 as part of the World heritage: it is in fact an outstanding example of a traditional human settlement which is representative of the interaction of man and nature in a desert environment (unesco.org). The project is located in the buffer area of the city, a sort of belt surrounding the city centre, on which the city expanded randomly through the phenomenon of urban sprawl. In this regard it’s peculiar its allignment to the historical garden of Bagh-e Dolat Abad, but it still has to face a fragmented territory that surrounds it. From some historical researches, we discover that our plot is the only piece left of a wider agricultural territory historically developed along a linear axis passing through the city from the South to the North. Differently from the other agricultural territories, progressively occupied by urban sprawl, it has resisted over time, shaping in turn the city around it. Thus, we identify a hierarchy of vacant territories, of voids, historically belonging to our plot, that becomes in this view their structure, as their formation depended on it. We especially defined these voids as either Events, (in-between spaces, transitional landscapes, terrain vagues), or as Conjunctures, characterized by a constant fluctuation between beeing part of the structure
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The city of Yazd
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Identification of an urban structure
The plot
The masterplan
Hierarchies of territories as a system made of weft and warp.
The warp become with time weft of new systems.
Agriculture shapes the coherence of the structure.
The cultural center
The social housing
Masterplan, 1:2.000
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The cultural center
Basement
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First floor (section cut at 3.2 m from the ground)
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Section A-A’, the two auditoria
The cultural center is made of interconnected spaces hosting different functions. The linear promenade on its North-East side characterises it and provides a free visual access to the entire building. The building can therefore be enjoyed from inside and outside at the same time. The monolith
Permeability and accessibility
Interconnection of functions
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The social housing complex B
B’ Ground floor plan, 1:500
Section A-A’
Section B-B’
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South elevation, 1:200 second typology
Section A-A’, 1:200 second typology
Ground floor, 1:200 second typology
First floor, 1:200 second typology
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View of the public space between the blocks and the common services.
The social housing complex is made of different typologies of independent housing units sharing a series of common services. The wall on the North-East of the plot, that relates to the rest of the urbanity, becomes the main gate of accessibility to the complex. Services are located instead into a
unique block facing the agricultural park on the West side of the plot. They are accessible from balconies through a series of passages.
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Thank you!
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