claudia zucca
architecture portfolio
2020 December
CLAUDIA ZUCCA Architecture Academic Portfolio Master’s Degree in Building Engineering Architecture cz.zucca@gmail.com +39 3471528692 March 29th, 1994 Rome, Italy Currently living in: 1, Meadow Place SW8 1XZ - London, UK linkedin.com/in/claudiazucca issuu.com/claudiazucca94
ARCHITECTURAL PORTFOLIO Academic works
“Parque Minhocão” and Santa Cecilia Cultural Centre
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Final thesis project 2020, July @ São Paulo - Brasil
Flaminio Project and Residences
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Architectural Planning III 2019, July @ Rome - Italy
San Lorenzo Theatre
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Architectural Planning II 2016, July @ Rome - Italy
Marseille Social Housing
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Archicontest Ideas Competition 2018, January @ Marseille - France
S. Nicola’s Church Restoration
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Architectural Restoration 2018, July @ Rome - Italy
Sommati Post-Earthquake Reconstruction Technical Architecture II 2017, July @ Sommati - Italy
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“PARQUE MINHOCÃO” AND SANTA CECILIA CULTURAL CENTER Final thesis project 2020, July @ S o Paulo - Brasil The project is located in São Paulo, Brasil, where I spent 5 months for thesis research at the EP-USP, Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo. The final thesis project involves a masterplan for the Minhocão, a skyway which is lifted from the streets’ altitude and whose destiny is to become a linear park, and the urban regeneration of the neighbourhood of Santa Cecilia underground station through the design of a new cultural centre. Regarding the latter, at the street level (0.00) you can find the museum’s complex, that consists of many buildings pulled together in a paratactic way. Inside, they create a play of light and shadow, contraction and expansion of space. The lifted volume, instead, goes over the Minhocão without touching it. It is characterized by abstraction, lightness, vertical dynamism and a play of open and closed spaces. It hosts a public library. 2
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GREEN AREAS 25% of the surface of the highway is covered by green “PISO PAULISTANO” The lines along the park reproduce the shape of the typical floor in Sao Paulo STAIRCASES The park is now provided with 14 stairs with elevator, one each 150-200 m SURFACE AREA The emptying operation over the surface gave it a 26% reduction
“FAST PATH” The skyway hosts a high-speed path for running, biking, jogging and other sports
PERFORMING AREA Stands made of wood can host an audience for street artists or for seating and relaxing
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NEW RE + RETAIL
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ESIDENTIAL L BUILDING
PREEXISTING RESIDENTIAL BUILDING
LIBRARY & MEDIA LIBRARY
MUSEUM EXHIBITION PATH
SANTA CECILIA UNDERGROUND STATION
PREARRANGED MARKET AREA
“GALPÃO DO FOLIAS” THEATRE
COFFEE SHOP
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The museum building. In these two pages you can find some analysis of the paratactic museum complex. The interior space is characterized by a play of lights and shadows, contraction and expansion which aims at offering the same experience of an underground exploration of the topical reality. The spasmodic urban growth of cities like SĂŁo Paulo left behind all those populations who were at the very beginning of their cultural growth and have been catapulted to the industrial era. The museum path strives for giving these populations their own voice esploring their history and traditional culture. The library building. The upper building, that you can see in the next two pages, continues to follow the ideals of the museum, lifting itself up as a reference point for the whole neighbourhood: its translucence also makes it enlighten the new public space at night as a lighthouse. The interior space is continuous and dynamic, respecting the typically brazilian ideal of public spaces, which encourage very strong social concepts such as sharing and inclusion.
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SOLARIUM
READING AREA ON TERRACED SEATS
MULTIMEDIA AREA
CHILDREN AREA
SCREENING/ LECTURES ROOM ARCHIVE
MAIN READING AREA
“TAKE A BOOK, LEAVE A BOOK” AREA PUBLIC COMMON SPACE
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SNAKS - BAR
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THE COURT THEME
FLAMINIO PROJECT AND RESIDENCES Architectural Planning III 2019, July @ Rome - Italy “Progetto Flaminio” is an international design competition. The area has an extension of 5,1 hectares. The brief demands to locate among these hectares a City of Sciences, housing and social housing, retail, accomodation facilities and green public spaces. In the area there’s an old market’s building in disuse that could be repurposed for improving the renovation. Reuse. The warehouses’ walls show an old industrial beauty: that’s why I thought about mantaining some of them in the project and locating the City of Sciences and the retail inside them. Visual and physical permeability. The lot is characterized by visual permeability and emphasizes, through pedestrian ways, connections with the neighbourhood and the other important attractions it has: Zaha Hadid’s MAXXI, Renzo Piano’s Auditorium and the various sports’ stadiums. 12
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GENERAL INTERVENTION SITEPLAN 04
City of Sciences (inside the old warehouse) 01 Retail basement 02 Residential linear buildings 03 The patio tower house 04
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THE LINEAR BUILDING Duplication and rotation. Beyond the repetition of some apartments’ “blocks”, every plan can be divided in two equal parts, where one of them goes through a 180° rotation around the central axis and completes the scheme. The final shape looks like a combination among three overlapped squares.
Typical floor plan. The walls move freely among the structural grid that emerges from the building, while everything is all involved in the metallic outer shell. The shell. The perforated metallic covering is meant to create an open-air but shaded space, where people can stay in a different kind of outer atmosphere, which mediates between internal and external space. 14
EDUCATION RETAIL
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LOWER LEVEL UPPER LEVEL
THE PATIO TOWER HOUSE Modular structure. A regular 4.2 metres grid defines the whole scheme and the different residential blocks, whose composition composition looks like a tetris where the parts perfectly fit with one another. 16
Private open-air space. The patio houses try to give the tall buildings’ apartments a different shape. The ‘courtyard’ brings light to most of the rooms and consists in the core, the heart of the house. It’s wide enough to host many different functions an open-air living or dining room, a relax area, a roof garden.
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OPEN-AIR THEATRE
SAN LORENZO THEATRE Architectural Planning II 2016, July @ Rome - Italy C. Zucca, P. Travaglini San Lorenzo is a part of the city that needs requalification and reactivation: it suffers an intense traffic and an undisciplined nightlife. The project is meant to transform the degraded area in a public space with a theatre, two exposition areas, a bar, a restaurant and a library-reading room for students. A respectful architecture. Its aim is not to impose itself as an awe-inspiring block all along the lot, but to give San Lorenzo a huge open-air space with many little squares at different heights.
DRE PRACTI
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EXHIBITION AREA
ESSING, ICE ROOMS
MAIN THEATRE
ADMINISTRATION OFFICES
RESTAURANT SNAKS
ARCHIVE PAPERS
LIBRARY SCREENING ROOM
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A dynamic public space. Many different paths, through staircases or ramps, connect every part of the lot with the preexisting sidewalk. Each itinerary suggests a different view of the main volume. One landmark. The only volume that sticks out is the one that contains all the theatrical scenery and the stalls area, that’s meant to be the reference point and destination of any itinerary inside the lot.
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Box in the box. The main theatre is like a closed colored shell inside the huge parallelepiped outer container, and it seems to levitate in the foyer. A linear, continuous skylight emphasizes the separation between the two shells. Suspension and rooting. The sections highlights the theme of suspension that characterizes the inner shell and the paths that reach it. The inclination of the main volume, instead, makes it look like it’s stuck in the ground and its public spaces. An auditory parabola. The shape of the inner room is meant to improve and amplificate the sound from the scene, both in the ceiling and in the whole room plan. 22
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MARSEILLE SOCIAL HOUSING Archicontest Ideas Competition 2018, January @ Marseille - France The design contest’s requirements were to locate, within a 720m2 area, retail, social housing, an auditorium and a green openair space. A carved stone. Considering the constraints, it was necessary to use all the available area. The complex looks like a huge mass where the itineraries where rifts created inside it. To gain some more space, the staircases lead to the apartments with suspended paths that cross the empty rifts and link the buildings among each other.
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S. NICOLA’S CHURCH RESTORATION Architectural Restoration 2018, July @ Rome - Italy C. Zucca, M. Sansica Saint Nicola’s Church was built in 1302 on via Appia Antica, called “regina viarum”, “the queen of routes”. It has its beginning in Rome and reaches the south of Italy along its over 500 kilometers. The church is situated next to the Mausoleum of Cecilia Metella. The aim of the project is to restore the church damage and to realize something to improve its use and future maintenance. A transparent roof. The church is one of the few examples of cistercian gothic in Rome, but it has no roof at the moment and it’s not valorized at all. The damage reparation won’t undermine its original appearance, neither the innovative intervention would compromise the fascination it has because of the absence of the roof - the same attractiveness that ruins have.
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SOMMATI POST-EARTHQUAKE RECONSTRUCTION Technical Architecture II 2017, July @ Sommati, Rieti - Italy C. Zucca, M. Sansica, G. Lorusso, P. Travaglini In August 2016 a 6.0 magnitudo earthquake hit the old towns in central Italy, razing some of them, like Amatrice, Accumoli and some smaller ones, like Sommati. The project’s aim was to come up with some economic, fast, anti-seismic constructions for the evacuated families. X-LAM technology. The X-LAM structure is highly earthquake-proof, thanks to its elasticity and lightness. Eco-friendly. The use of structural wood is a sustainable choice, thanks to the reduction of CO2 emissions and the natural material itself, that naturally helps the thermohygrometric well-being inside the house.
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