Climate Performance - Climate Change Side Effect by cristina morbi

CLIMATE

PERFORMANCE

https://www.facebook.com/climateperformance

2017-2019 Milan, Italy

CLIMATE PERFORMANCE

Interdisciplinary Wo r k s h o p

Climate Change is a global reality which will affect our planet and our daily lives. It is mainly communicated as a global threat, but it also offers a wide range of new opportunities to improve our lives and the way we use the planet in the future. The Landscape is seen as the performative interface between the transformation of time and space and the students must face the challenges of operating through a creative approach within the evolution that will affect our planet. There is an opportunity for a design which uses the tools of space and time, projection and prediction, questions and new answers. The design workshop â&#x20AC;&#x153;Climate Performanceâ&#x20AC;? attempts to communicate performative aspects of Climate Change through the impact of time on a public spatial design installation within the urban context of Milan. The workshop is in the tradition of Land Art, an art form which was established in the United States in the 1960s and which brought an awareness to the landscape as a cultural and artistic medium. Designers face the ability of using pressing issues of climate change in relation to the urban context, collecting objective data, and transferring them in a subjective experience of installation/ spatial design. The relationship between artificial and natural, contingent and ephemeral are some of the key points designers need to face in their work. Landscape will be understood as an artificial environment which is designed and created by humans. This understanding is a crucial basis for tackling climate change, a problem which humans created and, we believe, humans will also be able to solve.

Exhibition: Broken Nature - Triennale International 2019 - Milan Italy

https://www.instagram.com/climateperformance/ https://climateperformance.wordpress.com/

Team

Markus Jatsch - Martha Schwartz Partners Architect RIBA Partner and Design Director Martha Schwartz Partner

Lead Visiting Professor Interdisciplinary Workshop

Cristina Morbi - Design the Unpredictable Landscape and Architectural Designer Former Martha Schwartz Partners - Contract Professor Politecnico di Milano

Tutor Visiting Professor Interdisciplinary Workshop

Assistants: Gaia Brambilla, Alice Zingales, Daniele Mazzini, Kristina Miskute,

Exterior Critics: Giovanna Piccinno, Diego Pacheco, Luca Guerrini, Giulia Gerosa

Professors: Markus Jatsch, Cristina Morbi | Workshop coordinator: Giovanna Piccinno Assistants: Alice Zingales, Daniele Mazzinghi | Student assistants: Kristina Mickute, Gaia Brambilla

2017-2019 Milan

CLIMATE PERFORMANCE

Climate Change SIde Effect

Results

Climate Change SIde Effect

Professors: Markus Jatsch, Cristina Morbi | Workshop coordinator: Giovanna Piccinno Assistants: Alice Zingales, Daniele Mazzinghi | Student assistants: Kristina Mickute, Gaia Brambilla

2017-2019 Milan

CLIMATE PERFORMANCE

Contents

Ice Melting

Climate Change SIde Effect

Desalinization

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Humidity Pollution

Albedo Effect

Tar Sands

Wind Storms

Electrosmog

Wild Fires

Over Packaging

Desertification

Plancton Proliferation

Currents Fashion Pollution

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Climate Change SIde Effect

CLIMATE CHANGE

SIDE

EFFECTS

Professors: Markus Jatsch, Cristina Morbi | Workshop coordinator: Giovanna Piccinno Assistants: Daniele Mazzinghi , Jovana Vukoje

2018 Milan

SNOW CLOCK

Deforestation Snow Clock explores the possibilities of an interactive living passage, which connects human perception to the effect of Global Warming. The melting of ice, glacial retreat, affects our mountain peak: Monterosa, the second highest peak of the Alps, has been shrinking in the last decade, and could disappear entirely. The students worked on connecting the landscape peaks to a human scale perception. In Parco Semptione, where Monte Rosa used to be visible, a living passage is installed. Hundreds of transparent tubes recreate the upside-down shape of Monterosa glacial peak.

Ice Melting Monterosa Edge Climate Change SIde Effect

The optic fibers, through the tubes, connect to the Monterosa changes in the last decades and show the dramatic decreased ice, and invites visitor to explore scientific data through their poetic aspect. The melting, is felt by drops falling from the transparent tubes, through the reuse of water in Sempione Lake. Visitors crossing the passage walk on the ice in the shape of glass gravel, creating an immersive experience. Once crossed the bridge, the ultimate vision is completed: the reflection of the lake flip the installation showing the Mountain glacier profile, which slowly, is disappearing.

Abstract

Concept Generation

Z. Chen, Z. Jiaqi, Z. Jin, W. Jingxuan, Z. Junrong, Z. Junrui, R. Michele, M. Roman,

Ice Melting Monterosa Edge Climate Change SIde Effect

Group members names: S. Rui, W. Siyi

Professors: Markus Jatsch, Cristina Morbi | Workshop coordinator: Giovanna Piccinno Assistants: Daniele Mazzinghi , Jovana Vukoje

2018 Milan

SNOW CLOCK

Ice Melting Monterosa Edge Climate Change SIde Effect

Deforestation

Project Views

Maquette Photos

Z. Chen, Z. Jiaqi, Z. Jin, W. Jingxuan, Z. Junrong, Z. Junrui, R. Michele, M. Roman,

Ice Melting Monterosa Edge Climate Change SIde Effect

Group members names: S. Rui, W. Siyi

12 2019 Milan

GRANO SALIS

Desalinization What is behind desalinization? Is the potable water we obtain from it, something with no consequences? No. Desalinization produces a significant amount of brine, a solution where salt is mixed with toxic substances. Nowadays, in the standard process, this compound is usually thrown back into rivers and seas. The consequence is that the high concentration of salt alters the areas around the drains and, moreover, the polluting elements represent a big threaten for the environment. First of all, we wanted to stress the enormous quantity of salt and brine produced every day; then, the positive and negative scenarios. On one hand, there are the possibilities; indeed salt can become a construction material. Therefore, we designed four walls made of it. This quantity equals to the salt that would be produced daily in proportion with the water drunk by all the people that work or live in Gae Aulenti, the site selected for our installation. On the other hand, we wanted to increase the awareness of people around the problem of toxic substances. The narrow space through the walls aims to recreate the threatened ecosystem of seas. The use of fog transforms the path in an oppressive environment.

Desalinization Pollution Climate Change SIde Effect

BRACKISH TOWN

GFMA

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Professors: Markus Jatsch, Cristina Morbi | Workshop coordinator: Giovanna Piccinno Assistants: Alice Zingales, Daniele Mazzinghi | Student assistants: Kristina Mickute, Gaia Brambilla

Abstract

Grano Salis

What is behind desalinization? Is the potable water we obtain from it, something with no consequences? No. Desalinization produces a significant amount of brine, a solution where salt is mixed with toxic substances. Nowadays, in the standard process, this compound is usually thrown back into rivers and seas. The consequence is that the high concentration of salt alters the areas around the drains and, moreover, the polluting elements represent a big threaten for the environment. First of all, we wanted to stress the enormous quantity of salt and brine produced every day; then, the positive and negative scenarios. On the one hand, there are the possibilities; indeed salt can become a construction material. Therefore, we designed four walls made of it. This quantity equals to the salt that would be produced daily in proportion with the water drunk by all the people that work or live in Gae Aulenti, the site selected for our installation. On the other hand, we wanted to increase the awareness of people around the problem of toxic substances. The narrow space through the walls aims to recreate the threatened ecosystem of seas. The use of fog transforms the path in an oppressive environment.

Grano Salis

GFMA

GRANO SALIS

Desalinization Pollution Climate Change SIde Effect

Group members names: Federica Borrello. Flora Catellacci, Anna Dziedzic, Filippo Fagiani, Mariasole Groppi, Aleksandra Kotwis, Maria Emilia Novaira, Martina Parolini, Wojciech Sniegowski, Gianna Strianese, Giulia Turati.

1.719.000 L

Background Vision

potable water

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40% pure water

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150.412 KG

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Piazza Gae Aulenti, Milano

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17 KG each person every day

Design Process

1. Details of the wall: on the floor the noozles disposed to spread the fog. Then, the dotted lines represent the structure inside the wall. 2. Detail of the steel structure inside the wall. Every cube is disposed at the intersection of the grid.

Design Scheme 1.

Concept Generation

Professors: Markus Jatsch, Cristina Morbi | Workshop coordinator: Giovanna Piccinno Assistants: Alice Zingales, Daniele Mazzinghi | Student assistants: Kristina Mickute, Gaia Brambilla

2019 Milan

GRANO SALIS

Desalinization Pollution Climate Change SIde Effect

Desalinization

Project Views

Maquette Photos

Desalinization Pollution Climate Change SIde Effect

Professors: Markus Jatsch, Cristina Morbi | Workshop coordinator: Giovanna Piccinno Assistants: Alice Zingales, Daniele Mazzinghi | Student assistants: Kristina Mickute, Gaia Brambilla

2019 Milan

UNBELIEVABLE

Humidity

The surfacing of the humidity issue in the question of climate change emerged from the analysis of the greenhouse effect. Greenhouse effect is much more than just carbon dioxide affecting the atmosphere. 95% of the greenhouse gasses are, in fact, composed of what is commonly called water vapour. Water vapour might seem harmless, but it doubles the consequences that CO2 has on our environment and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a great contributor to the greenhouse effect. As the temperature of the atmosphere rises, originating from the increasing production of CO2, more water is evaporated from the ground storage which makes the air warmer and stimulates further water evaporation. This topic is highly related to the city of Milan because of the sun rays that are causing the evaporation of the underground rivers and, therefore, making Milan one of the most humid cities in Italy. The proposed site for this installation is Conca della Incoronata, a nowadays empty canal in the abandoned part of Navigli.

CO2 Humidity Pollution Climate Change SIde Effect

This installation is an accelerated demonstration of the outcome that humidity generates in our environment. Its aim is to raise the awareness on this critical issue which is inevitably progressing. The invisible is becoming visible through the gradually inflating membrane filled with humid air and water condensation, creating the surroundings from which people will be progressively pushed out until they can no longer access the membrane. The interaction begins at the point in which the membrane is completely deflated, and people can easily walk over. Gradually it starts to inflate, and walking becomes more complex due to the air cushions forming under the surface. Stepping close to one of the valves distributed on the membrane will cause releasing of the water vapour around the person standing over it. Through this action people will be able to experience a related physical sensation alongside the visual one. This aspect is extremely important in order to fully comprehend the severity of the humidity issue. The project shows the imminent future where humans wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have their place in.

Abstract

This topic is highly related to the city of Milan because of the sun rays that are causing the evaporation of the underground rivers and, therefore, making Milan one of the most humid cities in Italy. The proposed site for this installation is Conca della Incoronata, a nowadays empty canal in the abandoned part of Navigli.

Background Vision

Design Process

Time Frames

Surroundings

CO2 Humidity Pollution Climate Change SIde Effect

of the greenhouse gasses are, in fact, composed of what is commonly called water vapour. Water vapour might seem harmless, but it doubles the consequences that CO2 has on our environment and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a great contributor to the greenhouse effect. As the temperature of the atmosphere rises, originating from the increasing production of CO2, more water is evaporated from the ground storage which makes the air warmer and stimulates further water evaporation.

CliMATES

UNBELIVABLE

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Concept Generation

Professors: Markus Jatsch, Cristina Morbi | Workshop coordinator: Giovanna Piccinno Longitudinal Section | Student assistants: Kristina Mickute, Gaia Brambilla Assistants: Alice Zingales, Daniele Mazzinghi Membrane

2019 Milan

UNBELIEVABLE Valve

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Humidity

Plan

CO2 Humidity Pollution Climate Change SIde Effect

Infographic

Project Views

Maquette Photos

CO2 Humidity Pollution Climate Change SIde Effect

Professors: Markus Jatsch, Cristina Morbi | Workshop coordinator: Giovanna Piccinno Assistants: Alice Zingales, Daniele Mazzinghi | Student assistants: Kristina Mickute, Gaia Brambilla

2019 Milan

AMFRACTUS

Albedo Effect

The albedo effect is linked to the feeling of heat. In the last years in Milan the temperatures during summer have risen, and so have the numbers of air conditioners. One way, easy and inexpensive, to feel at ease in the city is achieved through colouring the buildings in a lighter colour. When entering the installation and following the possible paths, people will be able to feel the oppression of a black environment and perceive the heat caused by the absorption of the sunlight; on the opposite, to feel the brightness and refreshing athmosphere of the white. But, even though today cities are in need of more white surfaces, black surfaces are not demons to exorcise: albedo is about balance of the opposites: the central part is sharply divided so the perception can be obtained in at a very fast pace by stepping on one side or the other of it.

Albedo Effect Over Heating Climate Change SIde Effect

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Deep Sea

Soil

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AVERAGE ALBEDO OF EARTH

Grass

Sand

Glaciers

Sea Water

Snow

HALOGEN X

AMFRACTUS

Background Vision Abstract

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amfractus, ĹŤs, m., noun a breaking round; craggy and tortuous ditching of the ground; narrow and deep recess of rocky walls. The albedo effect is linked to the feeling of heat.

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Asphalt

Deep Sea

Soil

Roof

Forest

AVERAGE ALBEDO OF EARTH

Grass

Sand

Glaciers

Sea Water

Snow

Background Vision

Amfr ac tu s

amfractus, ĹŤs, m., noun a breaking round; craggy and tortuous ditching of the ground; narrow and deep recess of rocky walls. The albedo effect is linked to the feeling of heat. In the last years in Milan the temperatures during summer have risen, and so have the numbers of air conditioners. One way, easy and inexpensive, to feel at ease in the city is achieved through colouring the buildings in a lighter colour. When entering the installation and following the possible paths, people will be able to feel the oppression of a black environment and perceive the heat caused by the absorption of the sunlight; on the opposite, to feel the brightness and refreshing athmosphere of the white.

SITE

SUNLIGHT

TEMPERATURE

Prevalence of nature over building Less buildings = less shadows Place to collect sunlight

Position: West/Ovest axis During the day, the different position of the sun creates different shadows

Opposite heat perception between black&white Different metal absorb/reflect different amounts of sunlight

//Piazza Del Cannone, Milano

//Interaction with the sun

//Albedo heating process

But, even though today cities are in need of more white surfaces, black surfaces are not demons to exorcise: albedo is about balance of the opposites: the central part is sharply divided so the perception can be obtained in at a very fast pace by stepping on one side or the other of it.

Albedo Effect Over Heating Climate Change SIde Effect

Group members names: Luca Armellino, Erica Brusamolin, Laura Carugati, Elena Fortini, Valentina Gorla, Silvia Melli, Guendalina Omodei, Anastasia Paltseva, Giulia Quattrini, Erik Setoguchi

Design Process

6.30 a.m

Time Frames

9.30 a.m

12.30 p.m

3.30 p.m

6 p.m

Design Scheme

Concept Generation

Professors: Markus Jatsch, Cristina Morbi | Workshop coordinator: Giovanna Piccinno Assistants: Alice Zingales, Daniele Mazzinghi | Student assistants: Kristina Mickute, Gaia Brambilla

2019 Milan

AMFRACTUS

Albedo Effect

Albedo Effect Over Heating Climate Change SIde Effect

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Politecnico di Milano | Scuola del Design | MSc in Interior and Spatial Design Group members names: Luca Armellino, Erica Brusamolin, Laura Carugati, Elena Fortini, Valentina Gorla, Silvia Melli, Guendalina Omodei, Anastasia Paltseva, Giulia Quattrini, Erik Setoguchi Professors: Markus Jatsch, Cristina Morbi | Workshop coordinator: Giovanna Piccinno Assistants: Alice Zingales, Daniele Mazzinghi | Student assistants: Kristina Mickute, Gaia Brambilla

Project Views

Maquette Photos

Albedo Effect Over Heating Climate Change SIde Effect

Group members names: Luca Armellino, Erica Brusamolin, Laura Carugati, Elena Fortini, Valentina Gorla, Silvia Melli, Guendalina Omodei, Anastasia Paltseva, Giulia Quattrini, Erik Setoguchi

Professors: Markus Jatsch, Cristina Morbi | Workshop coordinator: Giovanna Piccinno Assistants: Alice Zingales, Daniele Mazzinghi | Student assistants: Kristina Mickute, Gaia Brambilla

2019 Milan

BARELAND

Tar Sands

Design Process

Tar Sands Toxic Climate Change SIde Effect

Background Vision

Therefore, the installation is aimed at enhancing the dualism of tar sands in respect of their natural feature and the polluting changeover caused by man. A big expanse of natural sand gets destroyed by people crossing the installation because of a black fluid that comes up from the grond as someone steps on it. This fluid will day by day transform the sand into a black muddy material, taking over the whole space. The metaphor is the idea that man is destroying himself his own paths. Moreover, who steps on the installation will take his footprints around the city, in this way creating pollution and dirtying the city. In this sense, the painting used to create this kind of oil extraction effect, coming from the ground, is a special material able to catch the pollution in the air like a real green area. The chosen location is via Luca Beltrami, between Largo Cairoli and Piazza Castello, which is a relevant pedestrian connection and represents the relation between the Earth’s surface used for tar sands excavation.

BARE LAND Tar sands are a mix of clay, sand, water and bitumen from which a viscous material is extracted. They have a major environmental impact compared to the most common hydrocarbon, both in the extraction phase and in the further stages of transportation and refining, since a huge quantity of energy and water is required and the waste produced by refining solvent emits toxic vapour. However, one of the most important elements of this process is that only the human action makes this material toxic. Therefore, the installation is aimed at enhancing the dualism of tar sands in respect of their natural feature and the polluting changeover caused by man. A big expanse of natural sand gets destroyed by people crossing the installation because of a black fluid that comes up from the grond as someone steps on it. This fluid will day by day transform the sand into a black muddy material, taking over the whole space. The metaphor is the idea that man is destroying himself his own paths. Moreover, who steps on the installation will take his footprints around the city, in this way creating pollution and dirtying the city. In this sense, the painting used to create this kind of oil extraction effect, coming from the ground, is a special material able to catch the pollution in the air like a real green area. The chosen location is via Luca Beltrami, between Largo Cairoli and Piazza Castello, which is a relevant pedestrian connection and represents the relation between the Earth’s surface used for tar sands excavation.

TOPIC

RESEARCH DATA

CONCEPT

PROCESS

MATERIAL

Tar sands are a natural element that have a major environmental impact, both in the extraction phase and in the further stages of transportation and refining.

0,00000005% of the Earth’s total surface is occupied by tar sands and just a part of it has already been digged.

The polluting changeover caused by man during the tar sand extraction is the starting point of the installation, which aims at putting in evidence the human passage and the consequently distruption.

During the excavation phase, petroleum is taken from the ground and the same process is reproduced in the installation. Through people walking on it, it becomes irreversibly totally black, representing the man devastation.

The main element of the structure is the sand, which have a double effect: on one hand it represents the destruption, because of the colour, and on the other hand it has a positive effect for the environment.

Abstract

P i a z z a C a s t e ll o

COLLETTIVO X

Tar sands are a mix of clay, sand, water and bitumen from which a viscous material is extracted. They have a major environmental impact compared to the most common hydrocarbon, both in the extraction phase and in the further stages of transportation and refining, since a huge quantity of energy and water is required and the waste produced by refining solvent emits toxic vapour. However, one of the most important elements of this process is that only the human action makes this material toxic.

BARE LAND

Background Vision

Group members names: Valerio Brusoni, Nicole Chmet, Alice Di Guardo, Termeh Doustdarsangari, Alessia Filippini, Giorgia Longagnani, Anna Marchi, Eleonora Merciai, Simone Pelizza, Chiara Sangermani

TOPIC

RESEARCH DATA

CONCEPT

PROCESS

Tar sands are a natural element that have a major environmental impact, both in the extraction phase and in the further stages of transportation and refining.

0,00000005% of the Earth’s total surface is occupied by tar sands and just a part of it has already been digged.

The polluting changeover caused by man during the tar sand extraction is the starting point of the installation, which aims at putting in evidence the human passage and the consequently distruption.

Tar Sands Toxic Climate Change SIde Effect

Tar sands are a mix of clay, sand, water and bitumen from which a viscou material is extracted. They have a major environmental impact compare to the most common hydrocarbon, both in the extraction phase and the further stages of transportation and refining, since a huge quantity energy and water is required and the waste produced by refining solve emits toxic vapour. However, one of the most important elements of th process is that only the human action makes this material toxi Therefore, the installation is aimed at enhancing the dualism of tar sand in respect of their natural feature and the polluting changeover caused b man. A big expanse of natural sand gets destroyed by people crossin the installation because of a black fluid that comes up from the grond a someone steps on it. This fluid will day by day transform the sand into MATERIAL black muddy material, taking over the whole space. The metaphor is th idea that man is destroying himself his own paths. Moreover, who step elementwill of the is the around the city, in this way creatin onThe themain installation takestructure his footprints sand, which have a double effect: on pollution and dirtying the city. In this sense, the painting used to create th one hand it represents the destruption, kind of oil extraction effect, coming from the ground, is a special mater because of the colour, and on the other able to effect catch for the the pollution in the air like a real green are hand it has a positive The chosen location is via Luca Beltrami, between Largo Cairoli and Piazz environment. Castello, which is a relevant pedestrian connection and represents th relation between the Earth’s surface used for tar sands excavatio

P i a z z a C a s t e ll o

STEP #1 // Big expanse of natural sand covers the square, people are free to step on it or just walk around

Natural sand High density sponge AirLite black painting

TOPIC

RESEARCH DATA

CONCEPT

PROCESS

Tar sands are a natural element that have a major environmental impact, both in the extraction phase and in the further stages of transportation and refining.

0,00000005% of the Earth’s total surface is occupied by tar sands and just a part of it has already been digged.

The polluting changeover caused by man during the tar sand extraction is the starting point of the installation, which aims at putting in evidence the human passage and the consequently distruption.

During the excavation phase, petroleum main element of the structure is the mirroredThe outside is taken from the ground and the sand, which have a double effect: on same process is reproduced in the one hand it represents the destruption, L xbecause W x H of the colour, and on the other installation. Through people walking Dimensions on m 20 x 20 x 0,2 it, it becomes irreversibly totally black, hand it has a positive effect for the representing the man devastation. environment.

MATERIAL Case of metal,

STEP #2 // As people start stepping on it they create some black spots on the sand because of the painting coming from the ground

AIRLITE A special kind of painting, Airlite, is located under a layer of sand. When they get mixed, they become a natural tool that is able to purify the environment, by absorbing polluting particles in the air as though it were a black lung in the city. P i a z z a C a s t e ll o

STEP #3 // Sand gets more and more dirty and footprints are spreading around the installation

STEP #1 // Big expanse of natural sand covers the square, people are free to step on it or just walk around

Design Scheme

Design Process

Background

black muddy material, taking over the whole space. The metaphor is the idea that man is destroying himself his own paths. Moreover, who steps on the installation will take his footprints around the city, in this way creating pollution and dirtying the city. In this sense, the painting used to create this kind of oil extraction effect, coming from the ground, is a special material able to catch the pollution in the air like a real green area. The chosen location is via Luca Beltrami, between Largo Cairoli and Piazza Castello, which is a relevant pedestrian connection and represents the relation between the Earth’s surface used for tar sands excavation.

STEP #4 // After the installation is removed, footprints recreate the original shape and black sand is recycled to build new urban furniture

Concept Generation

Dimensions L x W x H cm 200 x 50 x 50

Natural sand

High density sponge

AirLite black painting

Case of metal, mirrored outside Transformation of the black sand into concrete in order to create an air-cleaning urban furniture.

Dimensions L x W x H m 20 x 20 x 0,2

STEP #2 // As people start stepping on it they create some black spots on the sand because of the painting coming from the ground

People interact with the installation by walking on it: the passage of man modifies the ground, leaving it irreversibly dirty, because of the special paint that comes up from the sand.

STEP #2 // As people start stepping on it they create some black spots on the sand because of the painting coming from the ground

Professors: Markus Jatsch, Cristina Morbi | Workshop coordinator: Giovanna Piccinno Assistants: Alice Zingales, Daniele Mazzinghi | Student assistants: Kristina Mickute, Gaia Brambilla

2019 Milan

BARELAND

STEP #3 // Sand gets more and more dirty and footprints are spreading around the installation

Time Frames

Design Scheme

Tar Sands

STEP #4 // After the installation is removed, footprints recreate the original shape and black sand is recycled to build new urban furniture

People interact with the installation by walking on it: the passage of man modifies the ground, leaving it irreversibly dirty, because of the special paint that comes up from the sand.

Dimensions L x W x H cm 200 x 50 x 50

Transformation of the black sand into concrete in order to create an air-cleaning urban furniture.

Tar Sands Toxic Climate Change SIde Effect

Politecnico di Milano | Scuola del Design | MSc in Interior and Spatial Design Group members names: Valerio Brusoni, Nicole Chmet, Alice Di Guardo, Termeh Doustdarsangari, Alessia Filippini, Giorgia Longagnani, Anna Marchi, Eleonora Merciai, Simone Pelizza, Chiara Sangermani Professors: Markus Jatsch, Cristina Morbi | Workshop coordinator: Giovanna Piccinno Assistants: Alice Zingales, Daniele Mazzinghi | Student assistants: Kristina Mickute, Gaia Brambilla

Project Views

Maquette Photos

Tar Sands Toxic Climate Change SIde Effect

Group members names: Valerio Brusoni, Nicole Chmet, Alice Di Guardo, Termeh Doustdarsangari, Alessia Filippini, Giorgia Longagnani, Anna Marchi, Eleonora Merciai, Simone Pelizza, Chiara Sangermani

Professors: Markus Jatsch, Cristina Morbi | Workshop coordinator: Giovanna Piccinno Assistants: Alice Zingales, Daniele Mazzinghi | Student assistants: Kristina Mickute, Gaia Brambilla

2019 Milan

TILT

DEFORESTATION

UNBALANCED

SHROUDS

Interdisciplinary Workshop | Climate Performance | A.Y. 2018/2019

UNPREDICTABLE SUDDEN

DISAPPAREANCE

01. Climate change vision and performative approach

Politecnico di Milano | Scuola del Design | MSc in Interior and Spatial Design Professors: Markus Jatsch, Cristina Morbi | Workshop coordinator: Giovanna Piccinno Assistants: Alice Zingales, Daniele Mazzinghi | Student assistants: Kristina Mickute, Gaia Brambilla

The strong winds that uprooted over 1.5 million trees during the night of October 29th in Trentino have created an apocalyptic landscape. Those huge spaces occupied by dead trunks and branches create an image of tragic beauty that is moving to witnesses and is hard to forget.

Tar Sands Toxic Climate Change SIde Effect

There is a rhythm to the destruction: waves and hills have been drawn on the mountainside showing the force of nature. But why did these hundred-year-old trees, after withstanding many other storms, finally succumb to this one? The reason is simple: climate change. Because of pollution and rising air temperatures, the wind currents have been changing their direction and speed, sweeping forests as never before. Tilt tries to recreate the same feeling in an urban setting by abstracting the shapes and directions dictated by the wind and composing a land art installation occupying 7 hectares of Scalo Farini, one thousandth of the real disaster area. One main corridor leads into hundreds of smaller paths that guide the visitors inside a forest of tree trunks; some are straight, some are slightly leaning, and some are more slanted. They have no leaves or branches, offering neither shade nor shelter; their bark has been removed as well and their light skin contrasts against the ground. Walking through the space offers some impressive perspectives but also creates a sense of doom and anxiety that never leaves the visitors until they exit the site. The patches of trees that are straight are equipped with proximity sensors that emit a pulse-like noise every time a person comes near them; the closer they are, the louder and faster the sound. Abstract

Group members names: Francesca Carlone, Sofia Dalmonte, Dafne De Marchi, Luca Gennari, Anna Lazzari, Ilaria Odoli, Elena Salot, Elisabetta Tonoli, Sara Valassina Val di Fiemme 29/10/2018

Milano

Design Process

Chaos

Layer 1_60°

Observing the chaos generated by the natural catastrophe we noticed its sculptural quality and we decided to enhance it. Searching for patterns in this phenomenon we noticed the massive overlapping of anomalous and regular repetition of elements and we chose to show the abstraction of these motifs. The parameters we decided to work on are the density, orientation and inclination of the components.

Layer 2_45°

Layer 3_90°

Order

Tar Sands Toxic Climate Change SIde Effect

by abstracting the shapes and directions dictated by the wind and composing a land art installation occupying 7 hectares of Scalo Farini, one thousandth of the real disaster area. One main corridor leads into hundreds of smaller paths that guide the visitors inside a forest of tree trunks; some are straight, some are slightly leaning, and some are more slanted. They have no leaves or branches, offering neither shade nor shelter; their bark has been removed as well and their light skin contrasts against the ground. Walking through the space offers some impressive perspectives but also creates a sense of doom and anxiety that never leaves the visitors until they exit the site. The patches of trees that are straight are equipped with proximity sensors that emit a pulse-like noise every time a person comes near them; the closer they are, the louder and faster the sound

90° 60° 45°

2x2

Density

Orientation

Inclination

Side view

Trunk support detail

Scalo Farini's masterplan

Trunks' inclinations in the ares 90° 60° 45°

Isometric view of a standard pole The trunks are supported by stainless steel rods and pins, which follow a modular and continuous grid. The trunks can have four different orientations to which the pivot adjust.

Detail of how the stainless steel rods are fixed to the trunks and support them.

The vertical elements of the installation create a sound effect: when people get closer to them they produce a higher beat frequency. Users personificate the action of wind blowing among the trunks and identify themselves with the cause of tension and urgency.

Concept Generation

Detail of the grid joint

Professors: Markus Jatsch, Cristina Morbi | Workshop coordinator: Giovanna Piccinno Assistants: Alice Zingales, Daniele Mazzinghi | Student assistants: Kristina Mickute, Gaia Brambilla

2019 Milan

TILT

Tar Sands Toxic Climate Change SIde Effect

DEFORESTATION

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Tar Sands Toxic Climate Change SIde Effect

Group members names: Francesca Carlone, Sofia Dalmonte, Dafne De Marchi, Luca Gennari, Anna Lazzari, Ilaria Odoli, Elena Salot, Elisabetta Tonoli, Sara Valassina

Professors: Markus Jatsch, Cristina Morbi | Workshop coordinator: Giovanna Piccinno Assistants: Alice Zingales, Daniele Mazzinghi | Student assistants: Kristina Mickute, Gaia Brambilla

2019 Milan

ELECTROFLOOD

Electrosmog

Electromagnetic smog is an emerging issue that everyone needs to consider nowadays and it is linked to all the devices that generate electromagnetic fields. This pollution has often been the subject of discussion and scientific studies are still ongoing on the effects of excessive exposure to electromagnetic radiation on humans, animals and plants. The term refers to the non-ionizing radiations that in particular are divided in two types: low frequency electromagnetic fields and high frequency electromagnetic fields. The high ones are generated by wireless transmission or similar technologies and are particularly harmful. The electromagnetic waves are invisible, but this doesn’t mean that they don’t exist. The aim of the installation is to make them “perceivable”, thanks to the use of lights, sounds and mirrors that are activated when they detect the nearby presence of a smartphone and create a uncertain environment. Technology is usually associated to enormous advantages but without reflecting on the damages it causes. The goal is to make people aware and put they in front of a question:

CO2 Humidity Pollution Climate Change SIde Effect

Are they willing to risk their own health and that of the environment they live in, for a better connection?

Abstract

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ELECTROFLOOD

CO2 Humidity Pollution Climate Change SIde Effect

ELECTROFLOOD

ELECTROFL

Group members names: Elnaz Amiri, Giorgio Bonadei, Negin Farahmand, Zhou Huizi, Alice Lonardi, Atin Moridian,Samane Michael Qashqaei, Sabina Elena Quocchini, Elena Ronchi, Valentina Maria Vasile, Zhu Lin, Wang Xinyi

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CELL TOWERS

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Background Vision Vision Background

INVISIBILITY

Design Process

CONFUSION

INVISIBILITY

REFLECTION

CONFUSION

REFLE

Design Process

NO DEVICE

DECTION WAVES

MORE WAVES

DISORIENTATION

Storytelling

Design Scheme

NO DEVICE

DECTION WAVES

Storytelling

MORE WAVES

carbon fiber

DISORIEN

Design Scheme

ITY SPACE

Concept Generation

ceiling mirror

Professors: Markus Jatsch, Cristina Morbi | Workshop coordinator: Giovanna Piccinno Assistants: Alice Zingales, Daniele Mazzinghi | Student assistants: Kristina Mickute, Gaia Brambilla

2019 Milan

ELECTROFLOOD

Electrosmog NO DEVICE

DECTION WAVES

MORE WAVES

Storytelling

DISORIENTATION

Design Scheme

INFINITY SPACE

carbon fiber

ceiling mirror

mirror walls

light system

CO2 Humidity Pollution Climate Change SIde Effect

plan mirror

Politecnico di Milano | Scuola del Design | MSc in Interior and Spatial Design Group members names: Elnaz Amiri, Giorgio Bonadei, Negin Farahmand, Zhou Huizi, Alice Lonardi, Atin Moridian, Samane Michael Qashqaei, Sabina Elena Quocchini, Elena Ronchi, Valentina Maria Vasile, Zhu Lin, Wang Xinyi Professors: Markus Jatsch, Cristina Morbi | Workshop coordinator: Giovanna Piccinno Assistants: Alice Zingales, Daniele Mazzinghi | Student assistants: Kristina Mickute, Gaia Brambilla

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CO2 Humidity Pollution Climate Change SIde Effect

Professors: Markus Jatsch, Cristina Morbi | Workshop coordinator: Giovanna Piccinno Assistants: Alice Zingales, Daniele Mazzinghi | Student assistants: Kristina Mickute, Gaia Brambilla

2019 Milan

REBORN FROM THE ASHES REBORN FROM TH

Wild Fires

Background vision

CO2 emissions are responsible for the global warming phenomena and the increasing heat and drought facilitate the origin and growth of new wildfires, even in those areas where they weren’t particularly intesive, like in North Italy. Chosing the location of Porta Genova unused rail tracks, which symbolize a connection between Milan and the surroundings and a wound in the cityscape, the design of the installation brings together different aspects of a wildfire: the emotional sensations of fear and oppression, its process of origin and decay, as well as the idea that life that can born again from the remained ashes. The installation is an immersive experience created by a series of 12-big-mesh ‘wagons’ (one for each year that are left to keep the global temperature under 2°), containing charcoal and ashes. They create long paths running along the existing tracks and guide viewers into an experience which symbolizes the process of a wildfire, going from a completely full and very oppressing space to a gradually empty and more extensive one.

Scalo of Porta Genova

CO2 Wildfires Pollution Climate Change SIde Effect

The ashes will fall from the structures and will start fertilizing the soil, allowing the previously planted seeds to grow and to generate a colorful landscape of Parthenocissus Quinquefolia.

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Abstract

Background vision

Background vision Scalo of Porta Genova

Design scheme

Time frames

Scalo of Porta Genova

CO2 Wildfires Pollution Climate Change SIde Effect

REBORN FROM THE ASHES

TETI

Group Names: Syrine Ben Ayed, Berilsu Cambaz, Camilla Calicchia, Alessia Civetta, Gannah El-Sabbagh, Martina Gelmi, Giulia Golfieri, Aysu Küçüker, Maria Maramotti, iviana Motta, Lorena Palazzolo

Concept Generation

Design s

Professors: Markus Jatsch, Cristina Morbi | Workshop coordinator: Giovanna Piccinno Assistants: Alice Zingales, Daniele Mazzinghi | Student assistants: Kristina Mickute, Gaia Brambilla

Time frames

2019 Milan

REBORN FROM THE ASHES

CO2 Wildfires Pollution Climate Change SIde Effect

Wild Fires

Politecnico di Milano | Scuola del Design | MSc in Interior and Spatial Design Group members names: Syrine Ben Ayed, Berilsu Cambaz, Camilla Calicchia, Alessia Civetta, Gannah El-Sabbagh, Martina Gelmi, Giulia Golfieri, Aysu Küçüker, Maria Maramotti, Viviana Motta, Lorena Palazzolo Professors: Markus Jatsch, Cristina Morbi | Workshop coordinator: Giovanna Piccinno Assistants: Alice Zingales, Daniele Mazzinghi | Student assistants: Kristina Mickute, Gaia Brambilla

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CO2 Wildfires Pollution Climate Change SIde Effect

Group Names: Syrine Ben Ayed, Berilsu Cambaz, Camilla Calicchia, Alessia Civetta, Gannah El-Sabbagh, Martina Gelmi, Giulia Golfieri, Aysu Küçüker, Maria Maramotti, iviana Motta, Lorena Palazzolo

Professors: Markus Jatsch, Cristina Morbi | Workshop coordinator: Giovanna Piccinno Assistants: Alice Zingales, Daniele Mazzinghi | Student assistants: Kristina Mickute, Gaia Brambilla

2019 Milan

SOILLOSS

Desertification

The title itself present an existing problem: soil is ill. But this problem is underestimated. People forget that soil is non-renewable source. Intensification, cropping, pastures, urbanisation and global warming brings to erosion of soil, the soil just worn away. It is necessary to concern about the ground we live on. We would like to demonstrate the layers of the soil and its changing in Italian regions from rich soil to very dry one with the help of two high soil walls. At the beginning soil walls stand parallel to each other and at some point, the distance between them become more and more narrow. In this moment people can observe very dry soil and feel pressure of the walls. The walls consist of pure soil and metal mesh inside that helps to keep the structure straight.

Desertification SOil Climate Change SIde Effect

Via Vincenzo Cappelli that is attached to Corso Como was chosen as it is the epicentre of Milan`s most modern neighbourhood, it is surrounded by various buildings with surprising design and it could be ideal place for installation that demonstrates the consequences of climate change and people`s attitude to the nature. Artificial environment can make stronger impact on people who will pass through the installation.

Abstract

SOILL The title itself present an existing problem: soil is ill. But this problem is underestimated. People forget that soil is non renewable source. Intensification, cropping, pastures, urbanisation and global warming brings to erosion of soil, the soil just worn away. It is necessary to concern about the ground we live on. We would like to demonstrate the layers of the soil and its changing in Italian regions from rich soil to very dry one with the help of two high soil walls. At the beginning soil walls stand parallel to each other and at some point the distance between them become more and more narrow. In this moment people can observe very dry soil and feel pressure of the walls. The walls consist of pure soil and metal mesh inside that helps to keep the structure straight. Via Vincenzo Capelli that is attatched to Corso Como was chosen as it is the epicenter of Milan`s most modern neighborhood, it is surrounded by various buildings with surprising design and it could be ideal place for installation that demonstrates the consequences of climate change and people`s attitude to the nature. Artificial environment can make stronger impact on people who will pass through the installation.

Design Process

Desertification SOil Climate Change SIde Effect conTRUST

Group members names: Anqi Wang, Gilserena Mirashi, Hu Ran, Kang Zhou, Olga Nazarenko, Nguyen Ngoc Thanh Truc, Tong Zhao, Yaxian Zhou, Yingying Zhou, Yu Tong, Yueming Long, Zhiwen Feng

Background Vision soil extraction

soil conditions

Time Frames

soil block formation

adoption to site slope

Design Scheme soil conditions

narrowing effect

Concept Generation

Professors: Markus Jatsch, Cristina Morbi | Workshop coordinator: Giovanna Piccinno Assistants: Alice Zingales, Daniele Mazzinghi | Student assistants: Kristina Mickute, Gaia Brambilla

2019 Milan

SOILLOSS

Desertification SOil Climate Change SIde Effect

Desertification

Politecnico di Milano | Scuola del Design | MSc in Interior and Spatial Design Group members names: Anqi Wang, Gilserena Mirashi, Hu Ran, Kang Zhou, Olga Nazarenko, Nguyen Ngoc Thanh Truc, Tong Zhao, Yaxian Zhou, Yingying Zhou, Yu Tong, Yueming Long, Zhiwen Feng Professors: Markus Jatsch, Cristina Morbi | Workshop coordinator: Giovanna Piccinno Assistants: Alice Zingales, Daniele Mazzinghi | Student assistants: Kristina Mickute, Gaia Brambilla

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adoption to site slope

soil conditions

narrowing effect

Maquette Photos

Desertification SOil Climate Change SIde Effect

Group members names: Anqi Wang, Gilserena Mirashi, Hu Ran, Kang Zhou, Olga Nazarenko, Nguyen Ngoc Thanh Truc, Tong Zhao, Yaxian Zhou, Yingying Zhou, Yu Tong, Yueming Long, Zhiwen Feng

Professors: Markus Jatsch, Cristina Morbi | Workshop coordinator: Giovanna Piccinno Assistants: Daniele Mazzinghi , Jovana Vukoje

2018 Milan

CONSCIOUS FASHION

Ink Pollution

The clothing industry is the second largest polluter in the world, second only to oil.

CONSCIOUS FASHION

The clothing industry is the second largest polluter in the world, second only to oil. The pollution, combined with the inten-

Use of natural and synthetic fibers

Research

The pollution, combined with the intensive use of natural resources, damages specifically some areas of the Earth. Are we aware ofWSit when we buy clothes? Climate Performance sive use of natural resources, damages specificcally some areas of the Earth. Are we aware of it when we buy clothes?

Exploitation raw material

Ink Fashion Pollution Climate Change SIde Effect

Emissions of solid waste in water and air

Process of manufacture Raw material First production cycle Second production cycle

36 million euros in used clothes thrown away

Packaging Shop

Abstract

Concept Generation

Ink Fashion Pollution Climate Change SIde Effect

Group members names: Gaia Brambilla, Filippo da Prada, Veronica Camara

Professors: Markus Jatsch, Cristina Morbi | Workshop coordinator: Giovanna Piccinno Assistants: Daniele Mazzinghi , Jovana Vukoje

2018 Milan

CONSCIOUS FASHION

Ink Fashion Pollution Climate Change SIde Effect

Ink Pollution

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