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ELEVATION WEST Scale 1:500 07 08 09 pág. 4 Design Studio 1st Semester (December 2018) Student Residence pág. 16 Construction Studio 2nd Semester (July 2019) Aquatic Center pág. 26 Interior Design Studio 2nd Semester (July 2019) Medical Center Beautiful Corner Elemental Heritage Rehabilitation Índice

10 11 12 pág. 40 Thematic Studio 3rd Semester (December 2019) Sustainable Regeneration pág. 58 Final Thesis Studio 4th Semester (July 2020) Motorway Service Area Reactivation pág. 70 Master Degree Thesis (September 2021) Motorway Service Area Reactivation Into the Green Landscape Interconnection Rest and Walk

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Beautiful Corner

Located between the old and new Mi lan, the project takes the cultural po sition of respecting the heritage archi tecture of the site. The development of the project was mainly focused on the design of the corner and managing its acute angle. For this reason, the buil ding develops a continuous portico on both facades intersecting the corner. The design of the facade answers to main framework, double laered, whe re the main grid responds to the urban scale arounf the project, meanwhile a smaller grid answers to the interior scale of the student residence.

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An opac pigment is mixed with the concrete of the building so its charac ter responds to a refresching atmos phere realted to the young users of the

Theproject.building is located in a very inte resting urban context, as it is where ancient and contemporary Milan meet. Therefore the building was designed mainly for its urban image rather than for its functional program. Since in a city like Milan, the function will be able to change according to the needs. That said, the character of the building res ponds to the classic regularity of an cient Milan and in turn the simplicity and geometry of modern Milan.

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6 CORNERS Architectural Design Studio - WS 2018 - Politecnico di Milano Giancarlo Floridi, Angelo Lunati, Zachary Mark Jones - with Marta Bertani, Stefano Casula, Dalmasso, Emilio Ellena, Gianmario Pandozzi, Stefano Passamonti Altamirano, Ayda Khayyami Reference - Casa Economica Ground Floor. Building character model. Rome, Italy

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Redraw by the author Made by the author SofiaCORNERSProf.Carla

0 8 16 24 40m Facades. Redraw

From the corner towards the back of the building, the floors grow upwards, generating a terraced building. But above all, avoiding the sharp angle of the corner to protrude strongly and instead, the building manages to be that element that allows a smooth dia logue between the scales of the two floor residential houses and the ten floor buildings. A B D A C E B D EC

As a reference for the project, Casa Economica, located on Via della Lega Lombarda street in Rome was taken. A residential building within a triangular lot, where the sharpest corner is the corner for the city. The building is totally symmetrical. However, the access does not follow the symmetry, being located on only one side of the building, thus respon ding to functionality, rather than a mere architectural whim.

7 Elevation development - scale 1:500 Casa Economica by Innocenzo Sabbatini

CORNERS Architectural Design Studio - WS 2018 - Politecnico di Milano Prof. Giancarlo Floridi, Angelo Lunati, Zachary Mark Jones - with Marta Bertani, Stefano Casula, Sofia Dalmasso, Emilio Ellena, Gianmario Pandozzi, Stefano Passamonti Carla Altamirano, Ayda Khayyami by the author

8 0 20 40 60 100m Student Residence Ground Floor Building character model

9 0 10 20 30 50m Facades A A F B E C D C B E D F

0 20 40 60 100m Student Residence Roof Plan

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0 10 20 30 50m Ground Floor Type Floor Second Floor Sixth Floor Student Residence

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14 Galery interior space model Foyer interior space model Student Residence

15 0 1 2 3 5m Facade Detail

VIEW OF THE POOL 0 30 60 90 150m

BUILDING CONNECTIONS Internal and external passages

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Facades Diagram

BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS Stepping down in height and complexity

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Elemental Water is a healing and calming ele ment; a part of the human body that is essential for our wellbeing. Sports, and in a particular way water sports, are beneficial for our health, both on a physical and a mental level. Because of this, the project aims to move away from the dynamic architecture often found in Olympic sports centres to work with more pure forms that would allow both athletes and other users to benefit from this aquatic experience. In keeping with the idea of purity, the project places a strong emphasis on the sensory experience created in the Theusers.aquatics centre is subdivided into three independent buildings, defined by the elements of water, earth and air. The main building - water - is dedi cated to the experience of swimming and houses the main Olympic pools. The second building - earth - is dedi cated to the sports activities that take place on land, housing the athletes gyms and dry land diving room, toge ther with additional spaces for physical activities. The smallest of the buildings - air - houses spa activities such as sau nas and Turkish baths and is the space where users can retreat for relaxation and wellness.

The pure geometries incorporated in the design can be found in histori cal examples of aquatic centres, such as the Roman baths built extensively in Italy and Britain. The Terme di Ca racalla, with their use of arches and symmetrical balance, are an example of such purity. The ancient Romans recognised the advantages of the arch and exploited its full potential for their monumental buildings. This thousand-year old architectural ele ment has managed to seamlessly in corporate itself into countless modern projects. Modern reinterpretations of these forms can be seen in the works of Felix Candela, Eduardo Torroja and Oscar Niemeyer, who explored the po tential of the arch geometry to design incredible shell structures.

AirEarthWater

18 STRUCTURAL DIAGRAM KEY LAYERS METAL COMPOSITEMESHCRUCIFORM STEEL 200 MM POST TENSIONED COLUMNS 600 X 600 MM CONCRETE BARREL VAULTS CONCRETE COVER 100 MM USING HEB 400 PROFILE Aquatic CenterPools - Metal mesh - Composite cruciform steel columns 600x600 mm - Concrete cover 100 mm - Using HEB profile - 200 mm post tensioned - Concrete barrel vaults Structural Diagram

19 500 MM SHEAR CONCRETE WALLS 400R.C.WINDOWSARCHSMMHOLLOWCORE CONCRETE SLAB R.C. WITHARCHSSTRUCTURAL TOPPING 300 X 300 400 MM HOLLOWCORE CONCRETE SLAB WITH STRUCTURAL TOPPING 300 X 300 400 MM HOLLOWCORE CONCRETE SLAB WITH STRUCTURAL TOPPING 500 MM SHEAR CONCRETE WALLS 400R.C.WINDOWSARCHSMMHOLLOWCORE CONCRETE SLAB R.C. WITHARCHSSTRUCTURAL TOPPING 300 X 300 400 MM HOLLOWCORE CONCRETE SLAB WITH STRUCTURAL TOPPING 300 X 300 400 MM HOLLOWCORE CONCRETE SLAB WITH STRUCTURAL TOPPING - 400 mm hollowcore concrete slab with structural topping - R.C. archs 300x300 mm - 400 mm hollowcore concrete slab with structural topping - R.C. archs 300x300 mm - 400 mm hollow core concrete slab with concrete-toppingstructural500mmshearwalls - Windows Gym Spa

20 Ground Floor Aquatic Center

21 ELEVATION SOUTH Scale 1:500 ELEVATION NORTH Scale 1:500 ELEVATION WEST Scale 1:500 ELEVATION EAST Scale 1:500 ELEVATION WEST Scale 1:500 ELEVATION EAST Scale 1:500 ELEVATION SOUTH Scale 1:500 ELEVATION NORTH Scale 1:500 0 15 30 45 60m Northwest Facade Southeast Facade Southwest Facade Northeast Facade

22 First Floor Aquatic Center A C´C D D´ B A´B´

23 SECTION CC’ Scale 1:500 SECTION BB’ Scale 1:500 SECTION CC’ 1:500 SECTION BB’ 1:500 SECTION DD’ 1:500 SECTION DD’ 1:500 DD’ 1:500 DD’ 1:500 0 15 30 45 60m Section A - A´ Section B - B´ Section C - C´ Section D - D´

Constructive Section Aquatic Center WATER SECTION SCALE 1:200 13.00 4.50 0.35 17.85 0.30 6.50 9.30 2.50 WD-1 Water section 1:200 13.00 4.50 0.35 17.85 0.30 6.50 9.30 2.50 WD-1 Water section 1:200

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Inside the doctors´offices the furniture continues as an envelop that separates the office area (wood) from the consul ting area (concrete).

RehabilitationHeritage

The old building of Municipality is com pletely abandoned and surrounded by medical equipment. In order to inte grate the building to its surroundings, a masterplan is designed to create an entire medical complex in the hole par Oncel. the interior of the abandoned buil ding, most of the walls are preserved and then a functional furniture systen is used to divide the new spaces. This furniture system worked also as wall, seats for the patients waititng their appointment, and for hiding the tech nical installations of the building.

Masterplan Medical Center

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Into the Green

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Located between agricultural fields, the area of Gratosoglio works as an obstacle from east to west and from north to south the situation is mainly the same. To generate connectivity along the neighborhood, a green corridor is de signed between the area available for pedestrian and bike use. Along its way to sport activities, leisure spots, re creative areas and community gardens are Twolocated.strategic points. Piana and Pias tra, block the gren corridor with huge parking areas (abandoned and dange rous). So the parking is redesigned into roofed green areas, maximizing the permeability of the design.

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Green Corridor La Piana: Actual Situation La Piastra: Actual Situation PIANA PIASTRA

43 VERSIONSTUDENTAUTODESKANBYPRODUCED VERSIONSTUDENTAUTODESKANBYPRODUCED VERSIONSTUDENTAUTODESKANBYPRODUCED PRODUCEDBYANAUTODESKSTUDENTVERSION VERSIONSTUDENTAUTODESKANBYPRODUCED VERSIONSTUDENTAUTODESKANBYPRODUCEDPRODUCEDBYANAUTODESKSTUDENTVERSION PRODUCEDBYANAUTODESKSTUDENTVERSION La Piana: Proposal -Green30.9 m2 per family -Green7.75 m2 per family Children activities - 30.9 m2 per family Children activities - 7.75 m2 per family Community activities - 30.9 m2 per family Community activities - 23.25 m2 per family La Piastra:EnlargingProposalthegreen grid around La ContinuousPianapedestrian and cycling path Refreshment points for the visistors and bikers passing by Direct floorbetweenrelationshipgoundandfirstfloor Green corridor passes under La Piana activating the ground floor and creating a big clima te shelter Green corridor passes under La Piana activating the ground floor and creating a big clima te shelter Multifunctional pa villion. Also balances the scale of buildings of the “courtyard” Refreshment points for the visitors and bikers passing by Direct relations hip andgroundbetweenfloorfirstfloorContinuous pedes trian andpathcycling Enlarging the green grid around La Piastra

Plans PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK INTO THE G R E E N LA PIANA Sections PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION Typologies and functions in La Piastra Actual Situation Cluster 1 1 2 3 5 7 4 6 SCHOOL - ELDERLY CENTER VERSIONSTUDENTAUTODESKANBYPRODUCED La Piana Underground Floor Plan Section A - A1: Actual Situation Section A - A1: Proposal A C C1 B B1A1

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Proposal Transparent Facades RelationshipVisualBy changing to transparent facades, C.A.M. will relate more directly with La Piastra. VERSIONSTUDENT 1 2 3 5 La Piastra 4 7 6 1 2 3 5 7 4 6 Current Situation Proposal Current Situation PublicPermeabilityActivationTerracesReactivating ground floor and first floor for the use of the school and residence.SCHOOLEMPTYEMPTYCENTERCENTERSCRIGNO PRODUCEDBYANAUTODESKSTUDENTVERSION PRODUCEDBYANAUTODESKSTUDENT 0 3 6 9 15m

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Plans PRODUCEDVERSION 1 2 3 5 4 7 6 1 2 3 5 7 4 6 Current Situation Proposal Current Situation Activation RelationshipTransparentVisualPublicPermeabilityTerracesReactivating ground floor and first floor for the use of the school and residence. PRODUCEDBYANAUTODESKSTUDENTVERSION Typologies and functions in La Actual ProposalSituation BoxChurchTower(Ground Floor)352 Cluster 1 6 4 7 BoxChurchTower 352 Cluster 1 6 4 7 SCHOOL - ELDERLY CENTER LORELIGIOUSC.A.MSCRIGNO EMPTYEMPTYSCHOOLVETERINARY-ELDERLY CENTER RELIGIOUSC.A.M LO SCRIGNO SCHOOL SCHOOL SCHOOL VERSIONSTUDENTAUTODESKANBYPRODUCEDLa Piastra Underground Floor Plan A B B1 A1 Section A - A1: Actual Situation

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59 Landscape Interconnection

A first approach to the intervention ca rried out for the master’s thesis. In the territory of the Vocemola service area on the A7 highway. The historic town has been displaced by the presence of the road. This first proposal wants to take advantage of the existing natural context in order to promote tourism to the site through a peculiar architecture that attracts attention. As a first strategy, the service area is in vaded with the green of the mountain. Circulation is then generated from the service area to the top of the moun tain. Finally, the buildings end up being a kind of embedding in the topogra phy, giving the idea that the user en ters the interior of the mountain when entering the building.

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60 Highway Service Area Highway Service Area Vocemola Town Vocemola TownGas station Gas station Shopping Center Existing Proposed Landscape Interconnection Current StrategySituation|Masterplan

61 Top of the Mountain Top of the Mountain Integration between the road and the natural context provided by the orography Camping Area Spa ResortCable Car 0 50 100 150 250m

62 Parking Lots CableCafeteriaShopsShopsCar Access Vertical Circulation Exterior Access Shopping Center

AmphitheaterSpaPoolRoomsArea / Restaurant Foyer / Cable Car Access Spa Resort

N. +15.00 N. +7.50N. +0.0 N. -4.0 0 20 40 60 100m Roof Floor Plan Section B - B´ Section C - C´ Shoping Center

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The town of Vocemola is part of Ar quata Scrivia, a town in the province of Alessandria. “Appartata” which means isolated in English, is the first word used by the municipality of Arquata Scrivia when describing Vocemola. “Appartata”, due to its distance from the capital of the municipality to which it “Appartata”,belongs. for its complicated access. “Appartata”, due to its separation from the landscape due to the highway. When passing through the service area of the A7 motorway in the Scrivia Va lley, the eastern part of Vocemola can be slightly perceived, while the rest of the town is hidden by the lower level of the topography with respect to the motorway. The presence of the hi ghway has made Vocemola an isolated and dead-end destination. The people who will drive to it are currently only residents, as there is no other event that attracts external users to visit or just pass through the town of Vocemo la.The obstruction of the highway, to gether with the migration, has exposed the fragility of the territory. Unders tanding this fragility as “the quality of being easy to break” (Cambridge Dic tionary), this project intends to rein force the activity of the territory, thus combating a possible “breakdown” of the place.In order to achieve the goal, the strengths and weaknesses of the site were analyzed to determine the appropriate tools that would generate a positive transformation in the site. In the first place, Vocemola Service Area, along with the highway it ser ves, are determined as a weakness for its monotony and monodirectionality. Furthermore, the service area which can just exist as a wider extension of the motorway in form of platform, con tributes to territorial fragility as it is a space without any identity that can be compared to a non-place, where tra velers only stop momentarily to refill Ongasoline.theother hand, the natural context that surrounds the highway represents an opportunity factor for the reacti vation of these fragile territories, ta king into account the preference that many people currently have towards visiting nature in the face of significant urban growth. In the case of the A7 motorway, the natural context around it offers a landscape sequence, as the road climbs, descends and crosses di fferent valleys. In the closest area next to the highway the natural context is flatter and mostly used for agricultural purposes, as it moves away from the hi ghway the topography rises, becoming a potential natural area to explore but currently underused for recreational purposes due to its difficult access.

Rest and Walk over the A7 Motorway around the Vocemola Service Area

“Appartata, su un poggio oltre lo Scrivia, Vocemola conserva più di altre località aspetti e sapori di paese, con il borgo compatto attorno alla chiesa, le vecchie case ridipinte, i vicoletti, e, a brevissima distanza, monti e boschi.”

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Based on the above, this project pro poses to use the weaknesses as oppor tunities and take advantage of the exis ting strengths. In order to do this, the service area platform will be used, as the articulator between Vocemola, the highway and the orography, transfor ming the non-place into a place to visit and stay, attractive and accessible to external users (travelers of the A7 Mo torway) and internal users (residents from Vocemola and Arquata Scrivia), taking the great potential of the natural context as a possible role of landscape tourism in the reactivation of the town of Vocemola and its surroundings.

To achieve this, the built footpath will be used as the dynamic connector be tween Vocemola, the service area and the landscape, facilitating access to the user and offering an experience by wal king. Starting from Vocemola the built footpath which gives continuity to the existing path, now blocked by the hi ghway. Then, by crossing transversally the motorway, will connect Vocemola with the lanscape. And finally, will go into the mountain in order to explore it. Additionally, through open space ar chitecture, different type of interven tions are proposed in form of terraces and platforms providing more identity to the site and designed for resting, allowing the user greater proximity to

72 1 2 3 4 5 VERSIONSTUDENTAUTODESKANBYPRODUCED PRODUCEDBYANAUTODESKSTUDENTVERSION VERSIONSTUDENTAUTODESKANBYPRODUCED PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION Footbridge over A7 Motorway VERSIONSTUDENTAUTODESKANBYPRODUCED PRODUCEDBYANAUTODESKSTUDENTVERSION VERSIONSTUDENTAUTODESKANBYPRODUCED PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION VERSIONSTUDENTAUTODESKANBYPRODUCED PRODUCEDBYANAUTODESKSTUDENTVERSION VERSIONSTUDENTAUTODESKANBYPRODUCED PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION VERSION AUTODESK Gas Station Roof (Milan-Genoa) Gas Station Roof (Genoa-Milan) Masterplan1.Vocemola Bridge 2. Vocemola Town 3. Highway Service Area 4. Scrivia Torrent

73 0 50 100 150 250m 7 6 8 Torrent 5. A7 Motorway 6. Cable Car 7. Mountain Rest Area 8. Watchtower VERSIONSTUDENTAUTODESKANBYPRODUCED PRODUCEDBYANAUTODESKSTUDENTVERSION VERSIONSTUDENTAUTODESKANBYPRODUCED PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION VERSIONSTUDENTAUTODESKANBYPRODUCED PRODUCEDBYANAUTODESKSTUDENTVERSION VERSIONSTUDENTAUTODESKANBYPRODUCED PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION VERSIONSTUDENTAUTODESKANBYPRODUCED PRODUCEDBYANAUTODESKSTUDENTVERSION VERSIONSTUDENTAUTODESKANBYPRODUCED PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION STUDENT AN

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Motorway Service Area Isometry

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80 CONSTRUCTIVE COMPOSITION FOOTPATH [2] - Metallic structure with a thin layer of concrete covering on the top layer FACADE AND GAS STATION STRUCTURE -[3][4]PPC Aluminium lined metal structure with fixed glazing - Perforated PPC aluminum panels for TERRACEhandrails FLOOR [1] - Reinforced concrete slab with steel FIRSTbeamsFLOOR AND INTERIOR WALLS [1] - Reinforced concrete slab with steel -beamsSolid walls made with precast concrete GROUNDpanels FLOOR SLAB AND INTERIOR WALLS [1][3] - Reinforced concrete slab - Solid walls made with precast concrete panels and glass walls with aluminium MAINprofilesSTRUCTURAL ELEMENTS [1] - Reinforced concrete retaining wall towards topography - Steel and concrete composite colum ns on the main building - Reinforced concrete support points for pedestrian bridge VERSIONSTUDENTAUTODESKANBYPRODUCEDVERSIONSTUDENTAUTODESKANBYPRODUCED VERSION PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION Exploded Isometry 5 10 20m Motorway Service Area [2] Raw Concrete (Red pigmentation) [1] Raw Concrete [3] PPC (LightAluminiumpinktone) Perforated[4] (LightAluminiumPPCpinktone)

81 The Path into the Building VERSIONSTUDENTAUTODESKANBYPRODUCED PRODUCEDBYANAUTODESKSTUDENTVERSION VERSIONSTUDENTAUTODESKANBYPRODUCED

82 Triangular Courtyard Shopping Center InteriorVERSIONSTUDENTAUTODESKANBYPRODUCED PRODUCEDBYANAUTODESKSTUDENTVERSION

83 Circulation on ground floor VERSIONSTUDENTAUTODESKANBYPRODUCED PRODUCEDBYANAUTODESKSTUDENTVERSION

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