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P . A t h Valorisation project of the Acropolis Athens
category Architecture Interior design Exhibition design location Acropolis Athens, Greece course
Master’s program Thesis Itinerant Master in Musegraphy, Architecture and Archaeology.
with Chiara Girolami
T ARGET S The main target of the master’s program thesis is based on a competition about the valorisation of The Acropolis of Athens and the design of a new museum. In my project I emphasize the idea that I don’t want to create another museum of Acropolis, because It already exists, designed by Archt. Bernard Tschumi. So, my Project wants to create a large route that could join the existing museum with the main polarities of the Acropolis and physically reconnect the Holy Area, the Acropolis Museum and the City. In addition, the will to show the several archaeological layers and the stratigraphy that characterize the Acropolis, lead me to use an innovative type of museum. In fact, an excavation in the area of Perserschutt, creates an “Archeological promenade” that reveals the hidden ruins belonging to the Archaic and Mycenaean ages. The museum is composed by several pavilions located in the excavation area and not visible from the city. This new museum wants to give to visitors a new point of view of the Acropolis, showing the stratigraphy and creating new attractions, such as the austere and majestic foundations of the Parthenon. Moreover they could feel new experiences thanks to a temporary exhibition about the themes of ancient Greek such as the myth, the ritual and the tragedy.
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P a u s i l y p o n Valorisation project of the Imperial Villa of Publius Vedius Pollio. Archaeological Park of Pausilypon and Gaiola
category Architecture Interior design Exhibition design location Archaeological Park of Pausilypon and Gaiola Naples, Italy course
Master Thesis Prof. Pier Federico Caliari Politecnico di Milano with Chiara Girolami
T ARGET S The Campania coast, caracterized by healthy climate and beautiful landscape, since Roman times, it’s a perfect place to host Otium Villae, placed in strategic sites. The Roman knight Vedius Publius Pollio’s Villa, built in the I century BC on the cape of Posillipo,it’s an important example. The extended villa - from Bay Trentaremi to Islands of Gaiola - the panoramic views of the area, the proximity to financial centers and thermal baths of Naples, Pozzuoli and Baia, persuaded the princeps Augustus to turn the villa into an Imperial residence. The fall of the Roman Empire, the partial collapse of Grotta di Seiano, that’s the access of the Villa, and the Gaiola ‘s malediction, have gradually consigning the rich domus to oblivion. Only in the XIX century it was rediscovered. Because of the bradyseism phenomenon and the realization of a tuff quarry, now the site is divided in two entities: The Archaeological Park of Pausilypon and the one of Gaiola. The main target of the thesis, it’s the valorisation of the archaeological site through the design of new services, that could be promoters of economy and maintenance of the Archaeological Park. The Project wants to create a large route that can join the main polarity of the ancient villa and physically reconnect the two parks. In addition, the will to redefine the identity of the parties that characterized the imperial villa, and the constant dialogue with the pre-existence and panorama, leds us to an architectural language research, related to the reinterpretation of Mediterranean and archaic archetypes, without renouncing to contemporary language.
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S y n t h e s i s Michelangelo and the Great Beauty Basilica Palladiana, Vicenza
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location Basilica Palldiana Vicenza, Italy course
Museography class Academic year 2013-2014 Prof. Pier Federico Caliari Politecnico di Milano
with Serena Dolci
T ARGET S The aim of the course is to project a set-up for the 450th Anniversary of Michelangelo’s death. The exhibition is placed in the historical spaces of Basilica Palladiana in Vicenza and it also concerns corporate design and finger food design. Moreover, the theme of the exhibition is the celebration of the Great Beauty, just as Michelangelo give us through his works. According to us, the Great Beauty is not only symbolized by his complete masterpieces but also it resides in his ideas and in his sketches. So the concept of our set-up is the realization - through the tecnique of overlapping layers, like Mario Botta does for the rapresentation of the San Carlino alle Quattro Fontane’s scale model (Lugano) - of volums that come from the extrusion of the plans - unique element passed down to us - of three never built projects: St. Peter, St. Giovanni dei Fiorentini and a very intricate stair, designed by Andrea Palladio. The choice to introduce Palladio’s project in this composition is like a praise for the architect of the Basilica. By doing so, we recreate never existed spaces that ‘synthesize’ the Great Beauty. Moreover through the tecnique of overlapping layers, made of transparent plexiglass, we create a connection between the exhibition and the beautiful inner space of the Basilica. The disposition of the statues is born from the study of dimensional relationships between architectural spaces and the works that have to be on show. So copies of statues designed by Michelangelo mark the main axis of walking, while copies of Canova and Bernini’s works are placed in a centrifugal and centripetal way according to the center of the rooms that contain them. Finally, the exhibition ends with the reinterpretation of Palladio’s project, that become the symbol of the exhibition.
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T e n d e r _ C C Nautic Design
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course Interior Architecture Design Academic year 2013-2014 Prof. Pier Federico Caliari Politecnico di Milano
with Chiara Binda
T ARGET S The project’s aim is the creation of a tender of maximum 9 meters lenght of which we have to propose two versions: open and cab, used for short trips. First of all, project required a depht analysis of naval construction techniques and of inner space design, for that reason we studied sveral examples of Italian historical boats such as vessel designed by Renato Sonny Levi, by Paolo Caliari and by Riva Yacht. Moreover we visited Azimut-Benetti’s boatyard. The result of this phase of study was the modeling of the hull, that was inspired by different prototypes of Riva Yacht and the interesting model of runabout. Infact, our hull is characterized by elegant and refined lines without renouncing to an innovative design. The concept is based on the idea of living by the sea: ‘Inside’, ‘Outside’ and ‘Between’. The ‘Inside’ way of life is synthesized by the cab version, while the open one explains the way of life in the open air, surrounding by the sea and finally we introduced a new version that is a model ‘between’ the cab and the open version, because it’s intended for the transport of goods and people, and can also be used for very short trips. These yachts are chracterized by wooden structure, whose coating is made with the technique of cold molding - diagonal overlap of several layers of planking. Finally, the course required a careful design of the furnishings; in particular, we have reread a type of anchor and drawn it to a scale of 1:1 with the realization of a model to true.
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Twin(be)tween Robin Hood Gardens London
category Interior Architecture Design location East London, UK
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The aim of the project is the re-qualification of Robin Hood Gardens, a social residential housing designed in the 60’s by Alison & Peter Smithson, and it represents the most popular architecture of British Brutalism. course Interior Architecture Design By now the buildings need maintenan-ce and are degraded, Academic year 2012-2013 overpopulated and isolated by the city. So we’ve to create more http://issuu.com/lablogpublica comfortable public spaces, to enlarge and re-qualificate the exhisting apartments and finally we’ve to project new houses to host 40 families. tions/docs/rhg_research_ book The main ideas of our project come from our first impression of RHG. Prof. Gennaro Postiglione When we first saw it from the street, we had the sensation that the ex Politecnico di Milano tremity of two building seem to be towers, infact just coming closer we started to perceive their length.So we decided to stress this impression transforming the head of the buildings in two real towers, creating a new with F. Ambrosio, S. Dolci strong landmark able to interact with the developing landscapes of Canary Wharf. The towers host residential and common functions. About the RHG, we decided to maintain the existing decks and to improve their social function by adding new public spaces connected with decks. By doing so, we created a new visual connection between the city and the garden and we simplify the ‘heavy’ facades. We also redesigned the existing dwellings in order to improve their quality and to create new typologies like small two-room and flat for couple and big flat for 6/8 people.
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WS|Building Babel Itinerant Master in Museography, Architecture and Archaeology. Prof. Pier Federico Caliari (Politecnico di Milano) Arch. Francesco Leoni (Politecnico di Milano) Pratt Institute
category Architecture, Exhibition design location New York, USA course Itinerant Master 30th-10th january 2016 http://www.museografia.it/ with C.Girolami, A. Pislaru, V. Tria, N. Turotti
T ARGET S The workshop required to a new vertical museum in Manhattan, closer to the MoMa, in order to contain the archaeologies of all different cultures of the World. Inspired by the story of the Turris Babel, the concept of the project is the idea of a construction site always in progress. The museum is a dynamic building, a “machine à exposer” always able to attract and amaze the visitors: the aim of the exhibition is to show the paralelism between the different cultures through a series of cubes called moving rooms, expositive machines that lift and connect different tematic floors. Each visitor could choose the dynamic route and the connections that interest him the most, and he could define in advance his route inside the museum. The skyscraper is 200 meters high and in addition to the museum, it hosts also a restaurant, a lounge bar with terrace and ten floor of residences
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WS|Museuminsel Itinerant Master in Museography, Architecture and Archaeology. Arch.Alexander Schwarz (David Chipperfield Architects) Archaeol. Friederike Seyfried (Neues Museum) Prof. Pier Federico Caliari (Politecnico di Milano) Arch. Francesco Leoni
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course Itinerant Master 18th-24th april 2015 http://www.museografia.it/ with C.Girolami, N. Avanzini, L. Simoni, A.Besana, A.Bassani H. Yildiz, B.Bilekli
T ARGET S The workshop required both the design of a new expositive pavillion related to the area characterized by traces of the ancient Kaiser Wilhelm I’s Monument, located near the Berlin Schloss, in the Museuminsel; and the set-up for an exhibition inside the Neues Museum titled ‘ Forming Civilisation in Egypt and China’ whose target is the comparison between these ancient cultures. The concept of the pavillion’s project is based on the will of reconnect this final part of Museuminsel with the other one distinguished by the presence of Museums, the Berliner Dome and Lustgarten; and on the reconfiguration of the existent waterfront, like David Chipperfield does in front of Neues Museum. So, after a deep analisys of the context we understood that waterfront is characterized by a series of columns: which ones of Bode Museum,Pergamonmuseum, Neues Museum, and the trees of Lustgarten, for that reason we decided to emphasize this particular sign, designind a long stoa. In this case function is secondary: the forms and the sign, that it create in the masterplan, are more important. Infact, the long stoa could be a place to relax, to walk through it and to reach the base of Kaiser Wilhelm I’s Monument, intended as the interesting conclusion of waterfront on Spree. So we converted the underground spaces of monument in an exhibition space. About the exhibition inside Neues we wanted to show the parallelism between these culture, so different but at the same time so similar. For that reason we designed a second skin that riconfigure the underground spaces of Neues and at times hold existing showcases according to works that have to be on show; at others, it create new showcases. Moreover we’ve chosen five themes of comparison that are marked by gates. Finally in the Greek Courtyard two culture join up, exhibiting their masterpieces.
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WS|Selinus Itinerant Master in Museography, Architecture and Archaeology. Arch.Sergio Aguglia (Commission for the Architectural and Landscape Heritage) Arch. Francesco Leoni (Politecnico di Milano) Arch. Sergio Savini (Politecnico di Milano)
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course Itinerant Master 7th-13th june 2015 http://www.museografia.it/ with A.Andreani C.Caldonazzi F. Parma, A.Besana, A.Bassani
T ARGET S The workshop required the design of the Acropolis Museum in the archaeological site of Selinunte and the landscaping of the park. The concept is based on the desire to give a new interpretation to the archaeological park and to show it to visitors just as it was in the past. At present, in fact the perception of the park is falsified: the entrance is not located in axis with the Holy Way, for that reason visitors can’t understand the real configuration of the park, as Ancient Greeks designed. The project is based on three main themes. The will is to create a continuous route that starts from the Entrance- Belvedere, it arrives at the Acropolis Museum - Antiquarium, that is the center of the composition; and it terminates with a path along the ancient walls and some miradors and the theater. The idea of Belvedere is based on the desire to recreate the ancient themenos that marked the insulae whose the Ancient City of Selinunte was characterized. Moreover, at the same time they stress the Access to the Archaelogical Park. The Acropolis Museum is located in a central point of the route and it balances the composition of the plan. It underlines the traces of an ancient structure as documented in historical sources. The museum also symbolizes the archaic architecture, the tradition and the materiality of the place. Finally, the path along the ancient walls allows the access to this latest part of the archaeological park and at the same time it creates panoramic point of observation Moreover the idea of a new theater was based on the will of supporting the new park’s activities, infact it isn’t only an archaeological park but also a place were visitors could relax themselves. The architectural and construction technique used in this project isn’t invasive. The idea to recreate volumes using wooden slats, give to visitor a complete vision of the ancient structure and at the same time it preserves the ruins. Moreover thanks to a layer of sacrifice the project became reversible.
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Premio Piranesi Premio Piranesi - Prix de Rome International Competition, XII edition Villa Adriana, Tivoli (Rome) WINNER OF THE 1st PRIZE
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Architecture, Exhibition design Villa Adriana, Tivoli (Rome)
course International Competition 25th August-6th september 2014 www.premiopiranesi.net Accademia Adrianea di Architettura e Archeologia
with C.Girolami, Y. Ardizzone, S. Dolci, S. Axel
T ARGET S The competition required the design of a new museum with a library, conference space and related services within the archaeological area of the Domus Imperiale Villa Adriana. The goal of the project is to recreate the sequence of architectures, the succession of full and empty spaces, that are the basis of the composition of the entire Hadrian’s Villa. The draft of the new flooring allows to re-read the configuration space of the courts, distinguishing the internal spaces from one of the galleries of the buildings in ruins. The volumetric addiction is concentrated in the central part of the complex. Here the insertion of small buildings recreate the original boundaries between the courts The new fits on the site in order to suggest the spaciousness of the old buildings, never overpowering or hiding the ruins. The museum, focused in the central part of the domus, is located both inside and outside, and it is made by two new galleries. The auditorium is located at a higher level; from its coverage it has a privileged view of the entire domus and in particular of the symmetry that runs down the middle of the rooms. An important phase of the project was the graphic design of the new museum. After studying the new logo of the archaeological site of Hadrian’s Villa, a website has been created . Beyond that were produced gadgets, flyers and totem signs for the park.
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Interior design of a Villa In Naples
category Architecture Interior design Furniture design location Naples Italy in collaboration with
Studio Silvano&Associates
T ARGET S The project shown in these pages concerns a work experience in the field of architecture designing. Starting from a customer’s request, I transformed a rustic building into a villa. I designed the façade and the garden and I gave lots of importance to the design of interior spaces. The accurate choice of materials, detail and color identify the spaces of this villa. Moreover I reconfigured the interior layout of the villa and I designed some pieces of furniture.
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M I . B A Design Competition “Ex Manifattura Tabacchi, Bari” T ARGET S
category Architecture Interior design Landscape design location Bari Italy in collaboration with
Studio Gnosis Architettura
The competition required both the valorisation of an ancient building called “Ex Manifattura Tabacchi Bari” (a Tobacco factory fallen into disuse); and the design of a new market, the re-organization of CNR’s spaces with special care to sustainability and the connection of the building with the city and the urban context. The concept is based on the idea of “Architecture inside architecture”. A special attention is given to the spatial organization of the new volumes to be realized within existing building. By doing so, the inaccessible urban areas became walkable urban spaces. Moreover with maximum respect for the historical building we designed a “system of architecture inside architecture”. This intervention strategy adds to the quality of the historical building an original approach to conte mporary architecture.New volumes, characterized by different heights, they are put inside the historical building and thanks to “streets in the sky” they link different part of the building. The reversibility, the respect of the pre-existing building and the use of a sostenible energy are the main themes of the project. Moreover the use of assembled modules guarantee the creation of different levels that host workpalces and also places to stay and socialize.The new modular volumes are multifunctional boxes and they are made by phase change materials (PCM) that is a very innovative material because it works as accumulators, using physical phenomenon of phase transition and store a lot of energy. Moreover thanks to this, it mantains its temperature constant. For that reason it’s an eco-saving solution. The concept of the market is based on permeability, multifuntioinal spaces and a visual communication. Moreover we want to stress the idea of a big square linked to the city.Because of the vitality of the traditional market, that took place in streets near the Tobacco Factory, it’s disappeared , in our project we want to stress the will of recreating relationships with the other parts of the city. For that reason we design a very particular showcases’ system. It’s based on a pantograph mechanism that transforms the security system to create shady places.The new market is concentrated in the block in Via Nicolai, it is no longer conceived as a place of passage and only for selling product, but in international way, in fact, it becomes a new gastronomical center which guarantees sociability. Finally, the reorganization of the sales desk, characterized by a contemporary design, it makes this market very innovative. .There you could buy Apulian products or taste them thanks to specif areas inside market. The design of the building complex is based on eco-save system such as passive and active solar system. Moreover, building and plant are a unique organism, and for that reason the Tobacco Factory it could be classified as Zero Energy Building.
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