carolina niero architecture portfolio 2017
A TENT ON THE CLIFF lighthouse sea hotel
The lighthouse of Murro di Porco is located in the fascinating landscape of rocks and sea of the natural reserve Capo Murro di Porco, near to many underwater caves and diving spots. Inspired by this natural features, we have chosen to convert the lighthouse spaces into a holiday center focused on diving activities. It is a space meant to be lived with a free and casual mind, a structure that gives minumum formal service in order to live the experience of a holiday in touch with nature. The new building is light and soft: the wooden structure has been chosen for its slight impact on the soil and its reversibility, and it also pledges the easiest building site. The warm climate of this region allows to have a quite open structure made of wood and textile, ideal to provide shadow and ventilation. The curved lines create a defined space between the lightouse and another existing pavilion, in order to concentrate all the buildings and preserve the landscape as wild and natural as possibile. Starting from a circular homogeneous shape, we have opened it towards the view on the lightouse and the extremity of the cliff, and then given thickness to it according to the interior activities. In this new building there are the tourists’ dwellings, while the existing rooms of the lighthouse host the diving center: it is a place open to both tourists spending time in the holiday center and to locals, coming there just to enjoy the water sport. Also the restaurant is both for the center’s guests and the locals who want to have a meal over the sea. Syracuse, Italy Architectural Competition, 2016 w/ Gianluca Malvestio, Bartolomeo Zanotti
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LA REMIERA requalification of Galeazze at Arsenale
The project of requalification of tese delle Galeazze is part of a wider plan of interventions, conceived in order to give new life to the buildings of Arsenale of Venice. The project’s aim is to restore accessibility and functionality of the northern part of Arsenale, introducing new activities that can be useful and interesting for Venetian residents. The site, surrounded by the perimetral wall of Arsenale, is distinguished by a spatial duality determined by different typology and placement of the existing buildings: tese delle Galeazze show a wide space framing the view on the water basin, while on the back the shacks feature a different scale and a different character, a more introvert and narrow space. We have chosen to restore the original configuration of spaces and to protect the ruins through architectural elements. The archs of Galeazze have been brought back to their original open form and the old closures of tese have been replaced by transparent façades. In the shacks, unstable walls have been stabilised with a steel structure and a new roof. Architectural features and the traditional use of these spaces have suggested the choice of the new functions: productive activities and leisure activities are associated to an exhibition space to show the traditional Venetian crafts to the public. In the tesa sud a modular steel structure harbours the boats and a workshop, as in a traditional remiera (rowing club); the same modular independent structure extends in the other tese, adjusting to the pre-existent building. In the central tesa and in tesa nord, intended as multi-purpose event and exhibition space, the intervention is more discreet in order to enhance the original spatial dimension of the building. The steel structure continues towards the shacks in the back, where there is a mediatheque, a restaurant and commercial functions, creating a connection between the two different settings. Venice, Italy Atelier Heritage, 2015, master II w/ Gianluca Malvestio, Bartolomeo Zanotti tutor: proff. Roberta Albiero, Francesco Doglioni, Maurizio Milan
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tese - remiera
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COMPLETING BRASILIA new urban spaces for a superquadra
Living in Brasilia’s superquadras today: the projects reflects about this theme, rethinking the urban spaces inside a quadra unity of Lucio Costa’s Plano Piloto. Brasilia’s urban structure consists of many independent and quite introverted residential units, quadras, organized in two wings along the eixo rodoviario, the main urban highway. The project’s purpose is introducing in this context a permeable and continuous urban space: a large-scale linear park provides a transversal connectivity between quadras, overcoming the highway’s split sign. For this end a pedestrian infrastructure passes over the highway and pledges the itinerary’s continuity, connecting residential areas and existing services on the two sides. New mixed-use buildings overlook this structure, introducing in the quadra, traditionally a residential area only, also public functions such as a library, a cinema, offices and commercial activities. Residential buildings, designed according to Brasilia’s building code, present a concrete structure on pilotis and feature weathering steel panels on façades; inside, they host different typologies of apartments. The new dynamism of this urban space guides the design of ground: most permeability is accorded to pedestrian and cycle mobility, and different purpose of spaces is indicated by the use of materials, by varying heights and vegetation masses, creating a variety of different environments at human scale. Brasilia, Brazil Atelier City and Landscape, 2014, master I w/ Francesca Baldi, Sara Pace tutor: proff. Aldo Aymonino, Agostino Cappelli, Enrico Fontanari, Laura Zampieri
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WATERING HOLE a strategy for a Sub-Saharan city’s development
Two-milliards population in 2050, with an urbanisation rate higher than in Europe: this forecast datum is the starting point for reflections and project developments about a new urban vision for Subsaharan cities. Among them N’Djamena, capital city of Chad, is chosen as case study; another significant datum for the city is the augmentation, forecast of 10% in 2050, of annual rainfalls in the region. With these premise, the morphology of the region has been taken into account while rethinking the urban shape and the new strategy for urban development. In the Lake Chad region hydrography is an element of connexion: the presence of water courses, both superficial and underground, is quite relevant. Even middle-depth phreatic lines mark the territory, with most urban centres developed nearby. Where there is water, the city grows, densifies, develops connections. The urban strategy conceived for N’Djamena’s growth starts from the design of empty spaces, always considering the presence of water. New N’Djamena design is determined by means of an urban device that generates densification, gives order to the city and introduces a hierarchy: the place of rain and subterranean water collection, an urban object that digs the ground to set in as a permanent sign. This public space becomes a catalyst of densification in the area nearby, producing the gathering of inhabited spaces around itself. For the residential building we have looked for a system that gives a stable grid in which then we can act in a free sequential way. The will to fix some guidelines, in which each inhabitant can choose with a certain freedom, has led to the choice of a modular structural system. Inside this frame each residence is dynamic and reproduces the traditional African living in the succession of open and closed spaces, built volumes and courtyards. N’Djamena, Chad Atelier Sustainability, 2014, master I w/ Silvia Dessenibus tutor: proff. Benno Albrecht, Giovanni Mucelli
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bibliotecahe
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fabbisogno idrico 40 lt quotidiano pro capite
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school library mail commercial scuole servizi bibliotecahe scuole bibliotecahe commercio commercio servizi scuole
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water collection - the underground public space
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HIDDEN/BALANCE building a pavilion
The project, built in full scale during a three-weeks workshop, originates from the request of representing through architecture some concepts derived from the analysis of Porto Marghera’s spaces. So the pavilion is a prototype and a chance to reflect on Venice’s industrial area’s future development and requalification. It’s an architectural object representing Porto Marghera’s hidden potentials: a mass of materials, an urban disorder that could reach balance through small gestures, without additions nor substractions. An industrial area hiding in its frames possible change for the future. The pavilion expresses through its construction the concepts of hidden and balance: the outer clean volume disguises an inner soft space that envelops the visitor as a shell, a place to stop and contemplate the landscape. Balancing on a structure of orthogonal wooden beams, varied by projections and recesses, the pavilion plays on the idea of an apparent precariousness. Porto Marghera, Venice, Italy IUAV W.A.Ve workshop, 2013, bachelor III w/ Silvia Dessenibus, Isotta Lercari, Gianluca Malvestio tutor: TYIN Architects - Andreas Grontvedt Gjertsen and Yashar Hanstad
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