SELECTED WORKS
A .....................................Living and working in Addis Ababa B .........................................................................................A Hybrid Block C .........................................................................................................The Wall D ..........................................................................................................A House
Chiara Cirrone 1
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Education: september 2012 - june 2015 Master degree in architecture at TU Delft (Delft) september 2008- march 2012 Bachelor degree in architecture science at Iuav (Venice) september 2003 - june 2008 High- school diploma in classical studies at Tito Livio (Padova)
Chiara Cirrone
october 17th 1989, Padova, Italy
Workshops:
contacts:
july 2009 - Venice, Italy “Pavillion Rwanda” with arch. prof. G. Morpurgo
mobile: 0031 (0)686269818 email: chiaracirrone1@gmail.com address: crommelinlaan 12 2627ac Delft, The Netherlands
july 2010 - Venice, Italy “The Poetics of Ephemeral” with prof. Arch. R. Nicolini july 2011 - Venice, Italy “Social housing isola della Giudecca” with prof. arch. H. Kollhoff
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Work:
april 2013 - Delft, the Netherlands Real Time City Workshop with prof. arch. Winy Maas
march 2010 - september 2010 august 2011 - march 2012 Aldo Peressa Architetto, Padova, Italy Internship position. In charge of graphics, visualizations and model making for both competitions and private commisions.
july 2013 - Porto, Portugal Porto Academy “House in the pool” with prof. arch. Nuno Brandão Costa july 2013 - Lisbon, Portugal Meds design workshop
References:
Competitions:
Nelson Mota Teacher and researcher at TU Delft N.J.A.Mota@tudelft.nl
3rd LIXL International University Architectural Competition
Dick van Gameren Professor at TU Delft and partener at Mecanoo D.E.vanGameren@tudelft.nl
Skills: Computer Microsoft & Mac OS, Microsoft Office, InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Autocad, Rhino, Archicad, Artlantis
Klaske Havik Associate professor at TU Delft k.m.havik@tudelft.nl
Fabrication Laser cutting, model making Language Italian, English
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LIVING AND WORKING IN ADDIS ABABA
A proposal for an alternative pattern of inhabitation
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Thesis project Chairs of Dwelling, TU Delft
Tutors: T. Avermaete, D. Van Gameren, N. Mota, K. Havik
In his book “la città dei ricchi e la città dei poveri”, Bernardo Secchi makes one notices that every time the structure of economy and society abruptly changes the urban issue immediately comes to the fore. The city, according to him, overcame these critical moments by changing its spatial structure, its way of functioning, its relation between rich and poor and its image. The Addis Ababa’s case doesn’t make an exception. After the end of the communist regime in 1991 and specifically after 2000, Addis Ababa underwent to an impressive economical and demographical growth. The new urbanization imposes on the space and time of the old city an order more and more based on the relationship between urban space and
land value (1° device of exclusion). This market-driven approach to the city has been brought forward by the development of big infrastructure, mass housing and large real estate projects (2°-3°-4° devices of exclusion). The spatial outcome of this process is a change in the grain of the city and in the scale of the urban tissue. If on one hand these attempt of modernization have the credit to accommodate the growing population and to bring infrastructure in a city characterized by deep lack of them, on the other they failed to appropriate the city more productive aspects such as porosity coexistence and individual initiative. Within the informal settlement the slum dweller have the agency to quickly respond to the ever-changing economic demands: converting the
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(unfair) Relocation Informal settlements vs. condominiums: city center inhabitants are evicted and relocated in big mass housing development located at the edge of the city. a. Boundary of the old city area (city extention in 1975) 70% of the informal settlements are located here b. Renewal Area place in which the most part of the demolitions occurs c. Area of intervention
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Street Vendor
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Tend shop
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Metal sheet shop
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Recyclables collectors
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Delivery boy
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Wood collectors
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Metal sheet shop
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Craft activities (micro-industries)
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Taxonomy of the income generating activities Informal 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. mobile activities 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. semi-mobile activities
space at their disposal into improvised income generating activities. These qualities are not present in the new housing scheme in which people are relocated and it is very harmful especially for the poorest. E. Soja elaborated a fruitful reflection on the notion of exclusivity by giving
the definition of urban poor, which helped me to understand the social ambition of a housing project in this scenario. He says : “ Poor is that person who hasn’t at his disposal an adequate spatial capital and lives in those part of the city whose conditions do not facilitate his/her integration into 6
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Wheelbarrow vendors
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opportunistic door seller
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Informal house
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Basket stand vendors
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social, cultural and professional life.” So my question is “Is it possible to give to these people (the urban poor) an adequate spatial capital taking into account the massive urbanization, which the city is going through?” In lights of these words and keeping into consideration the impact
that the housing issue has in Addis the main goal of my design is to provide a spatial device that is simultaneously capable of accommodating a larger program with the ambition of creating a system of spaces in which form economy and dwelling converge. The urban 7
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current page a. Structural system b. Generic unit 1.support space which hosts the structure and infrastructures 2. actual space space necessary for the activity to be performed 3. mobility space which hosts staircase for vertical densification and a horizontal walkway c. Components from top to bottom: 1. concrete pannels wall (piping) 2. concrete blocks wall (external partitions) 3. hollow core slab 4. Prefab concrete beam 5. Prefab concrete wall 6. Prefab concrete foundation following page Repetition of the unit 8
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b. appropriation of the built environment a. income generating spaces [1] smallest unit to be built from scretch [2] workshop space with expantion space in front b. internal gallery: an opportunity to expand the house previous page view of the public space
settings which I am relating to are the one of the new masterplan that has been design for the city center. All these speculation have been translated into the elaboration of a generic unit that could host not only dwelling but also income generating activities. In order to conjugate the economic interest and the social aspiration of
the project I decided to use a limited range of prefab elements that have the twofold credit of guarantying the easy repetition of the cell and limiting the construction costs. The ground floor of the blocks is characterized by buffer zones that can be appropriated by the users and organized according to their 11
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appropriation of the built environment a. [1] smallest unit to be built from scretch b. [2] workshop space with expantion space in front c. [3] office space- two housing units can be converted into office space following page d. longitudial section in red: income generating activities e. typical plan 12
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particular necessities, in this way they can personalize the space at their disposal and expand over time. On a urban scale the benefit of using the unit repetition is the one of securing a rhythm that is based on human activities which can grow and evolve over time individually and characterize the public space collectively .
To conclude the project present a viable solution to the city centre renovation that on one hand is respectful of the upgrading process and the new scale the city and on the other of all those activities that are now endangered by the radical transformation of the cityscape.
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A HYBRID BLOCK
A proposal for the Parool triangle
Hong Kong, China, Master project, Chairs of public buildings, TU Delft
Tutors: O. Caso, R. Ritoe, Steven Steenbruggen, Hans Karsen
Parool Triangle plays an important role within Wibautstraat configuration. It’s one of the main public spaces of the area, it is characterized by the presence of a metro station and has a big potential in terms of connectivity because it can link the Amstel waterfront with the inner historical area. Unfortunately the fragmentation of the space causes the isolation of the buildings from the urban context. The current use of the public space (parking space) creates a lack of spatial coherence between the street the public spaces and the context. Moreover it is important to notice that this condition is also amplified by the fact that the architectonic and spatial language of the Triangle (modernist intervention) is totally unrelated to the morphology of the historical area. In respect of all
these considerations, my design aim to integrate the triangle within the surrounding urban fabric without completely renouncing to its different identity. My design process starts with the will of using the architectural grammar of the historical city (the typical urban block) and adapts it to the shape of the site. This hybrid urban block, that includes the Parool tower, tries to solve the fragmentation of the public space trough on one hand an increase of density on the southern side of the site and on the other trough the creation of a well defined public space on the northern side . The outcome is a new square that acts like an urban atrium for both the new intervention and the existing Gymnasium. The above-mentioned increase in density is not only physical but also
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Urban plan following page Former situation New urban strategy a. Gymnasium b. Trouw building c. Parool d. Social housing
programmatic. Previously, as Koolhaas has identified, the plan was king when it came to skyscraper. Now, with a greater focus on the section and three-dimensional modeling, the vertical separation is challenged in order to link spaces and cross pollinate program over several levels. These considerations helped me to
reflect on this new kind of typologies that are a celebration of the complexity and the diversity which characterized the urban fabric of our cities. Specifically my interest laid in the meeting of the public and private spheres. The all project has been articulated trough the study of the different interaction that could oc18
VALORIZATION --a. Thecnical school by De Geus & Ingwersen (1956) Currently in use. It has been declared by the municipality as a heritage building
RE-USE --b. Het Parool Tower Currently in use as office building. it was the former headqurter of Parool newspaper.
DEMOLITION --c. Trouw building Currently in use as temporary nightclub. it was the former headqurter of Trouw newspaper.
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PRESERVATION --d. Social housing Currently in use. To be preserved in order to mantain a hosuing mixity in the neighbourood.
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cur between these two spheres, represented by the different functions of the program (library, elementary school, student house, office space, gym and a restaurant. The ultimate achievement of the project is guaranteeing a constant flow of activities that is not controlled by private or
public rhythms but rather by their interaction. To conclude the project tries to assert itself within its context as a full-time building, in which the different parts of the program share some spaces and can shrink or expand according to the day of the week or their daily schedule. 21
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c. detail of the north facade. the cantilever part of the facade consists of a steel structure connected with the pre-existing concrete slab of the Parool tower. the former facade has been dismantled and the tower has been re-cladded with bricks. Previous page a. map of the esternal elevations b. cross section 25
THE WALL M+ Museum
Hong Kong, China, Master project, Chairs of public buildings, TU Delft
Tutors: M. Ridijk, S. Milani, N. Deboutte, A. Alkan
The design process of the m+ museum started with an analysis the urban dynamics that characterize Hong Kong. The city offers itself as a frenetic overlapping of stimuli, everything is shown in its immediacy: illuminated signs, transparent skyscraper, shopping windows and huge shopping malls. All these phenomena are the outcome of an extraordinary economical development that started to modify the city only a couple of decades ago. The Kowloon Cultural district is not an exception. All of a sudden 17 new visual culture and performing art facilities will be built. A cultural Las Vegas. A touristic citadel that does not interact with the urban fabric but is clearly separated from it, that
assert itself as a multitude of objects, whose primary quality is the quantity. Our concerns are expressed from the following questions: Has artistic expression have to be conveyed as a hysteric aggression to senses? does the city want to launch itself on the international cultural panorama with the same grammar used to promote its economic development? Within the metropolis the roar of the multiplicity stops to be stimulating and generates numbness and lethargy. The sensorial loudness produces imagines that disappear before being caught. Instead of adding noise to the city skyline we would like to design this museum as an architectural silence: a pause.
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current situation conceptual colage
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Literally it stands out like 4 bare walls, each of which is a section of the museum:moving image, visual art, design and the archive. By placing any additional museum program underground, the importance of the galleries is reinstated. The four walls are the only discernible part of the
museum from the ground floor. The entrance, which is the only means of communication with the exterior is a pit in the ground and faces the park. It links the exterior with the access to the gallery but also spreads itself underground for the all area deputed to this project, accom28
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c. sections of the four galleries from top to bottom: 1. archive 2. visual arts 3.design 4. moving image
modating the temporary exhibition space and all the service spaces that were required from the brief. The introvert character that we claim for this building generates at the same time intimacy and distance. Intimacy because of its closeness: the outer shell does not reveal the inside
and the visitor has to get in and find out by experiencing the space what the museum is about. Distance because of its intrinsic austerity, that makes the building to stand out as a representative of an institution: the Museum. 29
exterior views following page axonometric section 30
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Internal views of the galleries previous page exploded axonometry a. archive b. visual culture gallery c. design gallery d. moving immage e. temporary exibition space f. support spaces
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A HOUSE
Dealing with Le Crobusier
Paris, France, Bachelor project,
Tutors: M. Bosio, IUAV Venice
The two Maisons Jaoul has been built by Le Corbusier between 1951 and 1956 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, at the time one of the most chic parisian banlieue. The buildings were drawn in 1937 but were only built postwar for AndrĂŠ Jaoul and his son Michel. They are among his most important post-war buildings together with Chandigar and Ronchamp chapel and feature a rugged aesthestic of unpainted cast concrete and a rough brickwork. The design task was to design a house that had to confront with Le Corbusier architecture and rise at the place of one of its two buildings.
The house is designed for a couple and one of the required features was an atelier. The rythm of the building is determined by 5 structural walls positioned 3.66 meters away from each other, in which the rooms and the patios alternate. The house develops on one floor, with the exeption of the double-high atelier and allows to who is passing by to admire the Le corbusierian building on the background. The side that is facing the street presents few openings to preserve the privacy of its inhabitants. All the inner spaces face the system of patios from which they gain light.
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perspective sections
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Thanks for your kind attention!
Chiara Cirrone
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