CHIARA VINCI academic portfolio
selected academic works
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R ED IS CO V ER IN G UR B A N WAT ER S Master Thesis, Kyoto
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4X Market square covering
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TOK YO R OJI PAV ILION TTT Workshop - Kengo Kuma Lab
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X CELL B o b Tr a c k R e - u s e , C e s a n a P a r i o l P i e d m o n t
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INTENSIF YING PERIPHERIES M i r a f i o r i s u d , Tu r i n
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CENTR AL LIBR ARY DESIGN COMPETITION Helsinki
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GUGGHENHEIM MUSEUM DESIGN WORKSHOP Helsinki
REDISCOVERING URBAN WATERS MASTER THESIS, KYOTO
The thesis work is part of a new line of research on the urban form of contemporary Japan. The passage that is being carried out recently is the one from a static to a dynamic order of the city. By means of individual small-scale interventions, the attempt is to reconnect an urban environment fragmented into many micro static units, extremely compact but paradoxically isolated from each other. The aim of the thesis is focusing on social regeneration, proposing a way out of high density that prohibits the revenue of spaces for the community. The intent is therefore to investigate an alternative to the road as a place of interaction, the river. The thesis project then fits into a high-density residential district, Kamigyo, and traces the banks of the Tenjin River, inserting spaces for the community between urban voids and the river itself. Following a dual theme, water and the community, it recalls ancient places of sharing in the neighborhood andalong river. The work insists on the reciprocity between form and society, this time imposing a form on which social life will be reshaped, giving expression to a clear intention of communities.
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PUBLIC GREEN AREA
SENTO
PUBLIC GREEN AREA SHARED KITCHEN + URBAN GARDEN
京 都 西 部 の コ ミ ュ ニ テ ィ の た め の プ ロ ジ ェ ク ト
都 市 の 水 辺 を 再 発 見 す る
URBAN VOID RIVERSIDE R EG ENER ATION
VACANT HOUSE NEIGHBORHOOD HEADQUARTER
VACANT HOUSE RE-USE
exhisting roof and walls
radio station
community room
services
floating arena stage
RIVERSIDE REGENER ATION
SHARED KITCHEN + URBAN GARDEN
SENTO
4X MARKET SQUARE COVERING
4X si the representation of a will to veil Piazza Barcellona (TO) with a covering able to support the market activities that take place within it. Taking advantage of the weakness of the actual situation of the site, the purpose has always been to create a place capable of host people also after market hours without having a too strong impact for the neighborhood life and uses. Detaching ourselves from the possibility to bring an heavy one-body vault to life , we opted for a system of four linear and elegant structures instead. These ones work as staples capable to hold the revolution of the site paths generated by a "square in the square" ideally rotating on itself. Their definition was driven by the hard challenge purposed by the course that brought us to aim for the perfect equilibrium between two of the main topics of architectural design: shape and structure, limiting and guiding us to the utilization of Compressed Only Structure.
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UP
DOWN
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1 scaffolfding
2
3
bricks
2nd layer
4 ďŹ nal result
MARKET
PUBLIC GARDEN
CAFETERIA
VANS
LOUNGE BAR
SKATE PARK
PUBLIC GARDEN
CAR PARKING OPEN AIR STAGE
TOK YO ROJI PAVILION KENGO KUMA LAB WORKSHOP
Tokyo used to have many small streets called "ROJI" and it creates traditional Tokyo'scity scape. In East part of Tokyo such as Nezu, Yanaka or Asakusa etc. are traditionalcultural district where attempt many foreign visitors with local town scape, howeverthey are faced a crisis of disapperance since further development towards 2020. The aim of the workshop was to think around a solution inserting in the small alleys a 'roji pavillion' that could be also proposal tothink about preservation of Tokyo Scape. The proposal made by my team is a restoration of the old uses of the alleys not only in terms of activities but also in terms of propotions and narrowness.
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Analysis of Site
yanaka site
3 1
private space
semi-private
public space
private space
The idea of the team is rediscovering the fashinating traditional architecture. The filter interior/exterior is one of the key elements in traditional japanese architecture. Living the street, without loosing privacy is now hard to obtain expecially in the biggest cities of Japan. The solution proposed for the Roji Pavillion is a light and movable system of curtains acting an interactive way to live the outdoor space for pedestruans and locals.
X CELL BOB TRACK RE-USE
The challenge is to reconcile two opposing areas: the almost despotic regularity of mathematics and the singular fabric of the project site that constitutes its variable. The most elementary figure, the square, constitutes the unity from which a self-governing design project is created by multiplication. Unit, housing cell, cell system, micro system organism and finally the macro system.
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cell
cell division
system
public parking restaurant bar
hotel staff residence
C
power station
technical rooms covered parking archeological farm
HOTEL
0
10 m
50 m
ST
3c
PUBLIC AREA
ARRIVALS
100 m
ST
ST
ST
dhw
dhw
dhw
el
el
el
3b
system 3 - accomodations
PV
ST
urban power grid
el
electricity production
3a
system 2 - dwelling
system 1 - food service
MACROmacrosystem SYSTEM AL L- all E L Eelectric CT R I C
covered connection
hotel
EXPO
archeological farm
TRAC
hotel staff residence
PV panels platform
K
exposition gallery
public space
water containant
hall
restaurant
cell
unit
spa
services
x25
type 1
24 m2 2 cells 2 people each cell tot 4 people
30 m2
type 2
x25
30 m2
2 cells 2 people 4 people tot 6 people
type 3
38 m2
x25
38 m2
2 cells 2 people 4 people tot 6 people
type 4
23 m2
19 m2
x25 23 m2
3 cells 2 people each cell tot 6 people
23 m2
x25
type 5
32 m2
2 cells 4 people each cell tot 8 people
TOT
125 unit
275 cells
800 beds 9900 m2
50 m2 0
1m
3m
6m
12 m
14% transparent
1 slab
2 walls
3 covering
4 grid
86% opaque
5 windows
frame per schermature mobili e fisse
concrete roof slab
concrete walls
triple glazed window
solaio a terra in cls
all concrete
INTENSIFYING PERIPHERIES MIR AFIORI SUD, TURIN
This project has been created on a detailed study
about the sensations and curiosity that it would create in the guests, especially on ground level, aiming to provoke the will to live and to experience the space created. Starting this study with a research on Steven Holl’s values and methods, has been of great inspiration as he has guided the whole process, one step at a time. Our concept is based on the experience that this neighborhood creates on the inhabitants. A new grid is created. From the intersections of this new grid with that already existent, our new volumes are created. The new meets the old.
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SPORT
NE W
OL O H SC
CO M M UN IT Y
ART
COMMERCIAL
ART YARD
block
theatre
art academy demolition
intersection
library
art academy
art gallery
restaurant
art gallery
theatre
restaurant
HELSINKI CENTRAL LIBRARY DESIGN COMPETITION
This proposal is developed in the context of the Central Library Competition of Helsinki (2012). It tries to capture the challenge of the position of the site, becoming a means of dialogue between city and nature, a filter between living spaces in the built and in the green. A material passage, or simply visual, between these two parts of the city. A set of functions that take place in the natural development of the formal design. A simple concept accompanied by the use of simple materials that lend lightness even to the most bulky and heavy structures.
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s t e am r o o m
l i b r ar y
au di t o r i u m
r e s t aur an t
l i b r ar y
m u l t i p ur p o s e ar e a
GUGGHENHEIM DESIGN WORKSHOP HELSINKI
This work is the individual result reached during the one week workshop based on Helsinki Guggenheim design. The theme was “Metamorphosis Art | Architecture”, starting from the selection of one piece of Guggenheim collection. My choice is László Moholy-Nagy and his “Construction 6”. He was highly inspired and influenced by the constructivism philosophy. Approaching the resolution of painting, it’s clear how the third dimension had been explicated in the bidimensional reality of the works by this artist. The colors, the geometries and the transparencies represent an overlap of elements and their hierarchical order. In conclusion, the formal character of the building offers an easy organization of the internal spaces. Everything seems to refer to an exasperation of the perspective. The purity of the colors and the forms remains faithful to this “Bauhausian” idiom and the architecture tries not to betray this kind of expression while being contextualized in a contemporary context.
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cafeteria f lexible per formance
museum shop multipurpose area
main entrance
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