Architecture Achitecture Portfolio Portfolio Costanza Costanza Botti Botti
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about CV
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MIGRATION BORDERS REACTION
8in)FORMAL REVITALIZATION
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The N’YOU Market
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ENTRE LOS MUROS pg. 41
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DEVELOPMENT & COOPERATION S.L. pg. 65
URBAN RIVER
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OPPOSITE
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REFLECTIONS & SOLITUDE pg. 75
Architecture as: A continuous exploration of several typologies of interventions, diverse both on a matter of scale, process and achievement; during these different practices, regardless of the scale on which they should belong, I have always focused on the comprehension of every dimension, architectural, landscape and urban, believing in how interlocked are the consequences and the relations between them. Directed towards the collectivity; within several projects and researches, the main achievement has been represented by the enhancement of the social components of each territory, generating programmatic or/and spatial interventions directed towards them. The research and investigation attitude, as a pillar of the concept of Sustainability; to start from the consideration and the investigation of the existing context and its historical background, while defining the right scope to be pursued and the tools to be used. Nonetheless, the independent research attitude and investigation as a powerful motor to enhance new processes and actualizations, to harvest new possibilities.
Costanza Botti Roma, Italia 12/21/1993
cos.botti@gmail.com
EDUCATION: • Graduated with a Bachelor Degree in Scienze dell’Architettura at Università degli
Studi Roma Tre, Facoltà di Architettura 2014-2017
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International exchange program at Iowa State University, College of Design Spring 2017
• Graduated with a Master Degree in Science of Architecture: Sustainable and Resilient
Strategies at KU Leuven, Faculty of Architecture 2017-2019
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Erasmus program at Escola Tecnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona, UPC Autumn 2018
PROGRAMS & SOFTWARES: • AutoCAD: Excellent knowledge • Rhinoceros: Excellent knowledge • Adobe Photoshop CC: Excellent knowledge • Adobe Illustrator: Excellent knowledge • Adobe InDesign: Excellent knowledge • V-Ray: Good knowledge • ArchiCAD: Elementary knowledge • Revit: Elementary knowledge • Lumion: Elementary knowledge
EXPERIENCE: • Volunteer as building constructor for the expansion of an orphanage in Singburi, Thailand
July-August 2011
• Participation as interviewer and writer for the architecture journal Architetture al Cubo,
Edizione 2015, F. Finucci, Edizioni ETS, 2017 April-October 2016
• Participation into the seminar Complexity and Urbanism, College of Design, ISU
February-May 2017
• Participation into the workshops:
_A Brave New World Disrupted, Ku Leuven Faculty of Architecture November 2017 _Ruralizing the rural, urbanizing the urban, ETSAB w. Tsinghua University w. Technsiche Universitat de Berlin, in Barcelona, Spain December 2018
• Finalists awarded for the YAC competition Art Prison, BAAM Team
February-April 2018
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• Development and Cooperation Program + Summer School in Colombo, Sri Lanka
July-August 2018
• Participation into OPEN HOUSE BARCELONA 2018
October 2018
LANGUAGES: • Italian: Mother tongue • English: Excellent knowledge • Spanish: Very good knowledge • French: Good knowledge • Dutch: Elementary knowledge
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MIGRATION BORDERS REACTION Multicultural and integrative streetscapes among the architectural and institutional delirium 2019
Master Thesis 2018-2019 United Streetscapes | Streetscape Territories KU Leuven Faculty of Architecture Promotors: Dr. Kris Scheerlinck, Arch. Martine De Maeseneer, Drs. Gitte Schreurs
Site location: United Nations Headquarters, New York, USA 9
The main triggering factor that leaded this project was the seeking of an alternative solution to an urgent matter that the society is facing nowadays: among the migration movements that have always been describing and generating the evolutionary process of our world, today we are facing a strong closure acting from the most common hosting parties, the western capitals of the world; a process that is happening on a multitude of levels: institutionally, politically, socially and territorially. As architects and urban planners, we might conceive on how our profession might play a relevant role on these factors, having the possibility to address them or consider them through an integrative planning. Consequently, this design has been a testing strategy based on one of the endlessly possible case studies and focused on the several possible impacts -territorial, social, institutional- that might get achieved. The site of this work is the supranational territory and organism of the United Nations Headquarters in New York City, a unique reality: aiming to represent the integral ensemble of every nationality, its action certainly struggles to provide an actual territorial impact on the environment where it is located; instead it is suggesting a complete detachment from both the local and the humanitarian dimension. Counter wise, the reality of New York City and its borough -as the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens- it is in need of a shifted approach: the territorial enclaves on which the city has been organized are representing the exact consequence of a misconduct operated through the last century and that was oriented against a cultural integrative attitude.
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As an answer to these topics, “Migrants, borders, reaction� has been directed towards the generation of a space capable of answering the necessity of a multicultural embracement, allowing the newcomers to be welcomed in an existing context, and the receiving society to have an open dialogue. Moreover, the site on which it has been implemented wants to trigger the political/institutional responsibilities towards the same needs; so on, part of the UN territory has been regenerate in order to host an integrative, supportive and multicultural reality. To start this process, a research have been conducted on some of the most multicultural environments and on their most lively streetscapes and collective spaces, willing to understand how their cultural aspect is reshaping the physical environment. The conclusion leaded to the consideration that more often these particular territories are expressing their cultural value through spontaneous, sometimes unorganized, actions or behaviors. Attitude that is spatially reflected on wide physical contexts capable of hosting diversities. These first factors have been shaping the design and partially the programmatic attitude, considering that this project relied on an interdisciplinary approach combining programmatic, landscape and architectural scales. The programming side has been based on the studies of the current activities based in NYC which are working towards a social cohesion and first aid, understanding what is already provided and what should be enhanced;
The landscape has been the tool to manifest the connection with the existing, creating a space capable of hosting the new attitude; assuming the shape of an open platform degrading into the river, it is using the embracing value of the water, leading it inside the park according to the rising level of the water and in the fixed shape of the pools. In the meantime, its openness enhances its value as a land of cultural and spatial encounters -manifested from the series of platforms and surfaces overlapping on each other, but always border less. The inclined shape of the platform creates the connection with the architecture: starting with an opposite slope, a series of inclined slabs is creating a vertical structure that embeds the value of a continuous streetscapes. The vertical placement of the activities has been following a criterion of degree of “privacy” sought by its users, with the purpose of vertically combine them within each other in order to avoid a fragmentation between more and less accessible areas; while the priority is left to the free circulation, the activities are either placed in organic shapes that are acting as boxes contained in the overall “landscape”, or they are contained into textile’s frames. A curtain wall has been used as envelope, in order to allow a visual connection with the surroundings, the water and the landscape, and instead to grant a visual permeability of the building from the surroundings.
The Alien #1
The Alien #2 The overall project is available at: https://issuu.com/costanzabotti/docs/mt_online_publishing 11
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Borders: counter reaction
In the context of the streetscapes of the western world capitals, which are now resenting their role as the main sceneries of a permanent and massive income of migration’s flows, how Architecture can provide new territorial strategies that would support and embrace the ethnic, social and economic diversities while reshaping the tangible and intangible borders of the political landmarks towards an integrative attitude? 13
NYC and the enclaves
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Territorial enclaves Cultural enclaves
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Cultural Mapping | Case study 1/5 Mott Haven @: Bronx
Heketi Community Charter School | St. Mary’s Park | 149th St. community based population: 55,080 Hispanic/Latino 71.8% Black or African American 25.2% White alone 1.5% Asian 0.6% 0-19: 34.4% language other than English 66.4% English less than“very well” 34.8% Foreign born ppl: 15,099 naturalized U. S. citizen 37.8% entered 2000 or later 44.8% ¶ educational, leisure & commercial spatial linear connection
Mott Haven | Masterplan - 1.8000 16
St. Mary’s Park 115.000 sqm
• Community based • Direct and open access on every front • Fenced borders allowing visual permeability • Height differences determining spatial subdivision • Pebble paths as soft edges between different zones • Grass or rubber floors as soft pavements • Scattered dense vegetation allows visual permeability • Presence of original nature environment thanks to the emerging rocks
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UN HQ | Borders, access, permeability | Zoom 1-2 | 1.15000
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library & conference center
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open ground exhibition’s spaces workshop area
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circulation | degree of “invitation” low medium high vertical
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The Building | Plans: career center + school | 1.400 | Section CC’ | 1.300 25
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(in) FORMAL REVITALIZATION Engagement | Elementary | Superposition Rehabilitation of the urban landscape through a series of narrowed interventions 2017
KU Leuven Faculty of Architecture Prof.: Bart Van Gassen
Site location: Ledeberg, Gent, Belgium 27
Ledeberg [Gent, Belgium] has a strategic position, working as a connection between the center and the outside of the city, one of its main Door. The flyover, one of the subject of this project, it’s the current responsible for this relation, but its verlapping presence is determining a big detachment from the surroundings and a barrier, physical and abstract. Moreover, the passage of the train rails and the wavy shape of the river are strongly designing the borders of the neighborhood and all together they are determining its fragmentation and its internal configuration. (Fig. 1-2) Looking at the main functions present in the area, the residential one is prevailing, determining the need of social devices and services that could be asserted from the inhabitants while connecting them, but the physical marginalized situation is often obstructing the process. (Fig. 3) The main concept of this project started with the two ideas of creating new gathering spots, able to host different activities to satisfy the needs of the several communities, and a unified urban fabric. The vast spread of wastelands and the fly over -already experimented as a temporary pedestrian pathway- are seen as a resource to
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exploit with the intention of convert the surfaces thanks to a series of devices. Meanwhile, Ledeberg would be connected through the same objects that nowadays are fragmenting the area: the fly over, the train rails and the river are activated territories, exploitable lands: this new process would be guaranteed thanks to a series of vertical and horizontal connections -a tunnel, a bridge and a series of stairs- that would transform the area in a territory of spatial and cultural dialogue. (Fig. 4) In a wider perspective, the project is seen as an evolutionary process, defined by a temporary nature, where the citizens are the actual agents of its development and are determining its path: after the creation of the connections, three fixed platforms would be placed, shaping and interacting with the landscape; the citizen’s engagement with the site is granted thanks to the settlement of self-constructing boxes; those elements, according to the convertible reality of the devices, and following what could be mainly needed at a certain time, are guaranteeing the capacity of hosting every kind of motions, physical and functional. The background and the aim of this concept is to give the opportunity to the community to determine in every occasion what, where, how, when and why something is going to be realized.
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THE N’YOU MARKET towards a cohesive neighbourhood Scaled Transformation of Nuovo Mercato Esquilino 2018
KU Leuven Faculty of Architecture Prof.: Vincent Chukwuemeka
Site location: Esquilino, Roma, Italia 41
N’YOU Market is a project based on the doctoral thesis studies of Vincent Chukwumeka; since this premise, it is focused on the role of the Esquilino market within the urban context, accounting the architectonic/social/economic role it is playing within the community. Since 2001, the market of Piazza Vittorio Emanuele has been moved few blocks away, in the enclosed reality of Nuovo Mercato Esquilino. This relocation altered equilibrium existing since centuries, two of the many are the loss of relevance the square is suffering, and the threat of eviction that the remaining street vendors, previously obtaining source of livelihood from the flow, are now continuously facing. A less tangible dynamic, but the most urgent attribute of the place, is the cultural melting pot of the area. The proximity of the central railway station has contributed to the transformation of the neighborhood into one of the main landing points for foreigners and migrants, thereby activating different kinds of economy and characterizing the market as the most international of the city. Consequently, the daily city life in this part of the Esquilino district is currently witnessing a flight of most members of the local community, citing negative feelings about this phenomenon and associated security concerns.
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The aim of this proposal was to introduce an architectural intervention based on two steps and acting on several scales, capable of addressing the identified challenges and with a strong sensibility towards a social integrative strategy. So on, the project proposes a revitalization of the market by transforming it into a more open location, and thanks to the provision of new spaces for cross cultural dialogues in the neighborhood. To obtain this effect, the edges of the market are redesigned, creating different degrees of permeability, place’s identity and seamless way finding between the market premises and the square. The reorganization and refurnishing of the open areas of the buildings would provide a collective space for multiplicity of uses and users, counting also on the University’s students based on the upper floors; several new units for the street vendors would be provided, respecting a rotating license’s strategy; a cultural crossing would be also be encouraged by the implementation of multicultural cuisine’s units while the flexibility of the space would be suitable for gatherings and events. The nexus formed between these different units of public space in the neighborhood will encourage a re-introduction of weekend markets in Piazza Vittorio and other place making initiatives towards a resilient and sustainable neighborhood.
Stazione Termini
Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II
Nuovo Mercato Esquilino
Stazione Tiburtina
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tech-items market food market fixed stall - 1 yr daily stall - on rotation fixed kiosk fixed stall - with truck beverage truck
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Problems
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° enclave dimension ° eviction of the street vendors ° cultural shock ° fugue from the neighborhood ° crime & perception of safety
° central position ° biggest square of Rome ° covered/uncovered/green public spaces ° selling of goods ° presence of youngs (--> University)
° central”hub” for citizens & tourists ° re-activation of the neighborhood ° cultural exchange ° sample of integration vs. racial prejudices ° interactive space
pedestrian access free circulation zebra crossing permeable surfaces
parking tram lines elevated green areas kiosk / monuments
Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II: access, edges and barriers | Plan 1:3000 | Elevation | 1:2000 45
pedestrian entrances pedestrian edges car entrances green furnitures truck unloading area
entrances ground floor windows | permeable ground floor windows | semi-permeable first floor windows | low permeable second floor windows | not permeable | closed entrances
Nuovo Mercato Esquilino: access, edges and barriers | Plan 1:3000 | Elevation | 1:3000 46
food market items market Roma 3 University University front desk WC cafeteria market offices
Nuovo Mercato Esquilino: axonometry of functions | 1:3000 47
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Nuovo Mercato Esquilino: intervention focus plan | 1:500 | Collages 49
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Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II: intervention plan | 1:3000 | Collages 51
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ENTRE LOS MUROS Polifunctional center between the forest and the city 2018
Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona Visiting Studi | Prof.: Alberto Campo Baeza, Antoni Barcelo
Site location: Viladecans, Barcelona, España 53
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Always according to the aim of accentuating the connection between the urban and the natural fabrics, a mineral pathway and an open hallway have been created towards the front of the city, substituting the natural barriers. The pavement then continues between the septa, entering the forest irregularly and reflecting the same principle of the architectural volumes.
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“Entre los Muros� started from the analysis of the actual site, constituted by a Mediterranean forest, further becoming the park of Riera Viladecans towards North-East, and surrounded by the city of Viladecans, rising from South-West. The aim to preserve the precious biodiversity and to accentuate the relation with the Parque Lineal that starts from the further North-Eastern block, took shape into an architectural intervention that acts as a connecting tool between the city and the forest, while solving organically the difference in height of eighteen meters that is characterizing the site. Those physical connotations determined the primary directionality of the architecture, developed on the SW-NE ax. A series of septa constitute the system that cuts transversely the park in order to activate the relation between the surroundings, and that would establish the structure of five different boxes, destined to host the mixed program required by the city council: a cultural center and a sporting hall. While the solidity of the walls is vanishing into the permeability of the curtain walls of the opposite facades, a transversal element is placed between the enclosed spaces, a glazed linear circulation that contemporaneously respects the criteria of a free ground circulation: for this reason it gets partially modeled into a bridge or a tunnel, according to the level of the terrain and the floors.
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URBAN RIVER Waterfront revitalization through cultural and residential interventions 2015
FacoltĂ di Architettura Roma Tre Prof.: Michele Beccu
Site location: Portuense, Roma, Italia 59
Urban River is based on the aim of reactivate an abandoned area on the banks of the Tevere. The particular shape of the sites and its natural connotation generated the concept of a longitudinal ax, responding to the linearity of the river and proposing a new pedestrian flow. The surrounding area is characterized by a prevalence of residential units, commercial activities and a University complex; exploiting this last characteristic and answering to the need of public areas, the architectural program is providing new open spaces, a residential component in the form of co-housing, and a public/semi-public mixed program: museum and conference center, public library, and research offices, destined either to the citizens or to the faculty staff whom would at the same inhabiting time the co-house. The two northern complexes are hosting the public reality, enhancing the relation between the urban fabric and the river thanks to the creation of an open platform in between, opening to the natural landscape. The third volumes, placed longitudinally, is aiming to reach a more private conditions since the residential functions placed in. The circulation through the complex is differentiated on different levels: a more private connection is granted on the basement level, between the co-house and the offices, while the upper level is providing the most open degree of circulation.
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Longitudinal section | Ground plan | Basement plan | 1:1000 61
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Co-Housing: Roof garden + sleeping units plan | Public buildings: 1^ + 2^ floor plan | Section A-A’ | Section B-B’ | 1:700 62
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OPPOSITE Sustainable housing project 2016
FacoltĂ di Architettura Roma Tre With: Chiara Cappelluti, Flavia Sinibaldi Prof.: Gabriele Bellingeri
Site location: european territory 65
Opposite is a single unit housing module based on the Solar Decathlon Europe regulation. The goal proposed was to design a unit based on a passive energetic system for a Mediterranean climate, while respecting the maximum surface of forty-five square meters; moreover, it has to been designed considering the necessity of been built in 72 hours. Starting from opposing different volumes, the geometry of the project is symbolized by four squares, which orientation, dimension and inter relation are based on obtaining the climate certification. The materiality respects the need of a quicklightcheap project, choosing crosslam for the interior and metal frames and panels for the exterior. The first step is represented by the two closed units, hosting the living and the sleeping area; their intersection is generating the service unit, modeled according to the maximum dimensions granted for compact transport. The other volumes are the green court and the greenhouse, elements responsible for the passive system; the green court shields the house from the northwestern winds during winter, while in summer the vegetation has a cooling effect
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The greenhouse is based on a double enclosing system: a first layer is made up of glasses, while the second one is realized with canvas curtains. During the winter the curtains are removed, allowing the transparent surface to warm up the space; moreover, its pavement is realized with a thermal mass material that is releasing the heat during the night. Throughout the summer the glasses are removed in order to let the air flow cooling the unit together with the greenhouse effect and a series of skylights, while the canvas elements are working as shading devices.
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STUDENTI: Costanza Botti, Chiara Cappelluti, Flavia Sinibaldi
STUDENTI: Costanza Botti, Chiara Cappelluti, Flavia Sinibaldi
Schema della rete elettrica Scala 1.100
Schema del sistema di raccolta delle acque e degli scarichi Scala 1.100
Cisterna di raccolta delle acque piovane
electric switch board tank heat pump inverter Pannello elettrico Serbatoio (Pompa di calore) Pompa di calore Invertitore
Pannello elettrico Serbatoio (Pompa di calore) Pompa di calore Invertitore
heat recovery Per soddisfare il fabbisogno energetico si è scelto di utilizzare dei pannelli fotovoltaici monocristallini con un KWp di 3. Con un consumo medio di 3500 KWh/anno, ipotizzando un'inclinazione di 15° in direzione sud, si è calcolato che la superficie da ricoprire è di 18.8 mq. I dodici pannelli di 165cmx98cm posti sulla copertura della zona giono sono in grado di coprire interamente la richiesta di energia, comprensiva della percentuale dispersa in autoconsumo.
Caldaia
Recuperatore di calore
Per soddisfare il fabbisogno energetico si è scelto di utilizzare dei pannelli fotovoltaici monocristallini con un KWp di 3. Con un consumo medio di 3500 KWh/anno, ipotizzando un'inclinazione di 15° in direzione sud, si è calcolato che la superficie da ricoprire è di 18.8 mq. I dodici pannelli di 165cmx98cm posti sulla copertura della zona giono sono in grado di coprire interamente la richiesta di energia, comprensiva della percentuale dispersa in autoconsumo.
Schema degli impianti previsti Scala 1.100 del sistema di raccolta e scolo delle acque Schema Scala 1.100
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black and grey water tank
Caldaia
Schema del posizionamento dei pannelli radianti Schema degli impianti previsti Scala 1.100 Scala 1.100
rain water tank
Cisterna di raccolta delle acque piovane
Cisterna di raccolta delle acque piovane
Costruzione dell'architettura - laboratorio 3 A Università degli Studi Roma Tre
tank (heat pump) Serbatoio (Pompa di calore)
prof. Gabriele Bellingeri | collaboratori: Valerio Faraglia, Mario Grimaudo, Silvia Pinci, Giuliano Valeri Serbatoio (Pompa di calore)
drinkable water tank
Serbatoio delle acque potabili
Serbatoio delle acque potabili
Schema della rete elettrica Schema del sistema di raccolta delle acque e degli scarichi Scala 1.100 Scala 1.100
Schema del sistema di raccolta delle acque e degli scarichi Schema della rete elettrica Scala 1.100 Scala 1.100
Power system | Photovoltaic panels | Water collection system | Electrical system Cisterna di raccolta delle acque piovane
Cisterna di raccolta delle acque piovane
Pompa di calore
scolo delle acque
Per soddisfare il fabbisogno pannelli fotovoltaici monoc consumo medio di 3500 KW di 15° in direzione sud, si è è di 18.8 mq. I dodici panne copertura della zona giono la richiesta di energia, com autoconsumo.
Cisterna di raccolta delle acque grigie e nere
Cisterna di raccolta delle acque grigie e nere
ella rete elettrica
Pannello elettrico Serbatoio (Pompa di calore) Pompa di calore Invertitore
Recuperatore di calore
Recuperatore di calore
Caldaia
Pompa di calore
Schema del posizionamento dei pannelli radianti Schema del sistema di raccolta e scolo delle acque Scala 1.100 Scala 1.100
Cisterna di raccolta delle acque piovane
Pompa di calore
Schema del posizionamento dei pannelli radianti Scala 1.100 Schema del sistema di raccolta e scolo delle acque Scala 1.100
1. Folded corrugated metal panel, 3mm, max. h. 200mm 2. Horizontal canvas textiles 3. Skylight, 30° inclined for the outflow of rain water 4. Squared metal profile, 100x100mm 5. Aluminum double sliding frame 6. Canvas curtains 7. Thermal mass pavement in dark serene stone, 700x900x50mm 8. Breathable waterproof layer 9. HD wood fiber panel, 180mm 10. Cross Lam 5 layers, 125mm 11. Fiber cement panels 900x900x20mm 12. External pavement support system 13. Squared wooden joist, 160x160mm 14. Wooden beam, 350x200mm 15. Wooden foundation element, 1500x400mm
16. Corrugated metal panel, 3mm, max. h. 30mm 17. Micro-ventilated system, 3% inclined 18. HD wood fiber panel 60mm 19. HD density wood fiber panel 120mm 20. Fiber cement panels 120x120x20mm 21. Air cavity 80mm + ventilated facade substructure: IPE 100 22. Fiber reinforced gypsum panel 15mm + non-ventilated air cavity 23. Aluminum frame 24. Double glazing 25. Photovoltaic panels 26. Metal structure for dropped false ceiling 27. Squared metal profile 5x5mm 28. Wooden floating floor 29. Fibreboard implant panels 60mm
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DEVELOPMENT AND COOPERATION PROJECT SRI LANKA 2018 Slave Island: local communities and urban transformation 2018
KU Leuven Faculty of Architecture | University of Moratuwa With: Agathe de Coninck Promotors.: Dr. K. De Wandeler, Dr. A. Demeulemeester, Dr.. J. Wijesundara
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The KUL-UoM Development and Cooperation program is a partnership started in 2013 between Dr. Koen De Wandeler and Dr. Janaka Wijesundara, as a consequence of the ICCPP conference organized yearly. The aim of the project of 2018 was to enhance the methodology of an in-situ research, conducted together with the Master Urban Design students of UoM, and followed later by a joined Summer School. The selected location for 2018 was Slave Island, a district in Colombo, capital of Sri Lanka. The city is currently going through a process of strong urbanization, focused on densification strategies. With these premises, the authorities are planning to redesign the central area of Colombo in order to transform it into the main International Hub of South East Asia; to achieve this result, three main directions are being pursued: redesign and refurnish the city accordingly to the concept of “beautification”; provide new lands for private international investments; resettle the local communities who are currently defined as “underserved settlements”. The final result sees the central Colombo as a mixed function area that would host the main commercial, international and touristic activities.
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Slave Island is constituting a central part of the district of “Colombo 02”, and it has been defined by the Urban Development Authority as an “underserved settlement” while its future design has been addressed towards the responsibilities of the NHDA. The 2018 D&C project started from these premises, and it has been focused towards a research-by-design fieldwork based on participatory, community-led urban development. Its conduction reflected the aim of activating a ‘living’ lab, conducted in close collaboration with inhabitants, community leaders and local authorities in charge of the revitalization; the main themes analyzed during this phase have been both the social patterns that are characterizing the communities living the area, the architectural features of these settlements and the relations between these two premises. Following an introduction from the National Housing Development Authority of Colombo, this research has been switching from an architectural to an urban scale, with the aim to cover all of the relevant aspects that have been lately used to firstly conduct the joined Workshop and, secondly, in the case of the UoM students, to design an urban intervention for the area.
Block M -commercial front & housing units-
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YAC Competition 2018: Art Prison Finalists Awarded BAAM Team With: Baraa Alani, Giulia Azaria, Francesco Mino
Site location: Forte di Santa Caterina, Favignana, Italia 75
The pilgrimage (from the Latin word “peregrinus�) is a particular type of journey, a finalized campaign, accomplished by devotion, spiritual search or penance, through spaces considered holy or intimately and religiously relevant. In the Mediterranean basin, the island of Favignana emerges from the sea as a symbol of serenity; and in time and space it has incessantly continued to reflect itself in the water below. Here, the journey to reach the fortress, the arrival point of this route and, at the same time, the journey itself, translates into a particular time condition where the individual entity abstracts himself from the continuity of the ordinary, generating a condition of momentary isolation, and enstablishing a privileged connection with his inner soul. The spatial and mental reflection provoked in this context, already and autonomously for its naturalistic environment, is the concept that has guided this research. Responding to the call of creating a space for meditation and isolation, the mirror, as an object and as a process, becomes a privileged device that intervenes and helps in acquiring this interior and architectural disposition. The progressive confinement of the individual is built, at first, through the creation of a path articulated through different platforms;
those elemente are hosting a mirroring system, which aim is to reflect and fragment the reality with an incremental process, proposing different views and pieces of the surroundings according to the viewing angles. The journey continues through the culture center, which creates a clear link between art and souls, emphasizing the inner research of the individual. The building, set in the ground, is harmonized with the natural and historical environment, integrating into the facade the remains of the original walls of the fortress that has been visually transformed into the substructure on which stands the fortress above. The fortress itself is then hosting the exhibition rooms on one side, opposed to the ateliers. The artist’s space has a private access and an autonomous organization that let the composer to live and work in complete solitude, but possibly always connected to the exhibition area inside the fortress and its visitors. The hotels born from the search for a faithful restitution of the complex; starting from the geometries evolved over the time, in order to generate a minimum impact, their analysis and remodeling gave rise to the re-proposal of the rear face of the fortress, still interpreted according to the criterion of reflection and harmonization with the context.
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August 2019