Elena.Cattani portfolio

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Elena Cattani M.Arch, Eng’er

selected works 2011 I 2012

EC CURRICULUM VITAE _ In brief... architecture I research I design I technology I digital DESIGN WORKSHOP _ Social housing housing I technology I architecture I modular

Architec & Reseac

Architecture & Reseacrh

MASTER THESIS _ Rethinking Kanaleneiland retrofitting I landscape I architecture I social I research

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COMPETITION _ Matera Monastery restoration I urban I architecture I sustainability COMPETITION _ San Lazzaro Bracci square urban I public architecture I landscape PROJECT MKWAJIUNI _ Comunity Center educational I archiAfrica I partecipation I materials

Architecture & Reseacrh

Architecture & Reseacrh

RESEARCH LAB _ Digital Fabrication Architecture parametrics I digital fabrication I design I research &

Architecture & Reseacrh

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LEARNING FROM CASABLANCA _ Design exhibition Design I installation I conference I research

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Elena Cattani Rhinoceros

via Eduardo de Filippo 4, Canali, Grasshopper EcotechE., 42123, Italy Reggio Termo Vray

+39 393 33 17 251 Office

elena.cattani@hotmail.it LANGUAGES LANGUAGES

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EDUCATION High School Aldo Moro, Reggio Emilia, [100/100] University of Bologna, Faculty of Architecture and Construction Engineering [110/110 cum laude] Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia [1 year overseas, Master student] Workshop and Conferences

WORK Felicetti Eng., Melbourne, position: trainee FBW ARCHITECKTEN, Utrecht, position: internship UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA, position: junior researcher BOIARDI STUDIO, Reggio Emilia, position: junior architect

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LANGUAGES

WHAT DO I DO, WHEN IS NOT ARCHITECTURE English

Capoeira, cook, read, go to theater, art works, build furniture with recycled materials, pencil drawings, photography German Spanish

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Design Workshop_ MODular Solution for Social Housing

Year........................ May, 2011 Place...................... Bologna, Italy Collaboration.......... M.Arch, Phd Arch, Assistant Professor Annarita Ferrante One of the most crucial research project developed at the Department of Architecture, University of Bologna, consists in the search of new processes and methods for the energy retrofitting and rehabilitation in the recent built environment by means of innovative techniques to improve energy efficiency standards and performances, which may vary from technologies and techniques to be applied at the scale of the building envelope until higher trasformation of existing building through the increase in volume of the building itself and addiction or substruction.

The design studio on Modular Solution for Social Housing, for the specific energy retrofitting programme geared to provide tools and methods for operational planners and others involved in the redevelopment of the architectural heritage building with the use of eco-friendly solutions for improved energy performance envelopes with a volumetric increase. The goal is to achieve the management of ‘whole process with computer systems design CAD-CAM and detection geometry.

The primary issues raised from the adjustment of housing stock to the energy standards with a particular focus on the passive strategies and the development of the surroundings urban area. From a deep look into the PEEP social housing neighborhoods of the city the studio led to new possibilities for the housing and dwelling design of the future.

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Master Thesis _ Rethinking Kanaleneiland

Year........................ March, 2011 Place...................... Kanaleneiland, Utrecht, The Netherlands Collaboration.......... FBW Architeckten, Belinda van Buiten, Annarita Ferrante I came to Casablanca in October 2010 and I visited most of the neighbourhoods built in the colonial period in order to understand their development and social/architectural problems. The appropriation engaged by inhabitants and the self-made architectural additions that we analysed there turned into an incredible treasure and research subject. While I was working with FBW to develop my master Thesis in Architecture, I started looking at Casablanca as a benchmark to understand the real needs of people and how they expressed their needs in the area, by becoming architects themselves. In the same period the Dutch government set a requalification national plan for a list of districts considered as ‘difficult’ neighbourhoods.

Among these quarters, Kanaleneiland is one of the most affected by problems regarding security, architectural condition of the buildings, integration, services and urban layout. Consequently, a comparison between the Dutch city developments and the Moroccan neighbourhoods – with a special reference to the Casablanca urban setting, for its specific planning and appropriation processes- naturally came out.

Since initials analysis, two elements surfaced: K. is today inhabited by different people in respect to the one the neighbourhood was designed for; moreover, the structure and plan of the buildings in the district is too strict and rigid to allow any changes or modifications. Possible

solutions and theories here presented, mainly focus on an improvement of the district conditions with a particular attention to sustainability issues, especially to the ‘social sustainability’ of the intervention - considering that K. is inhabited for the 80% by Moroccan.

Technologies and strategies presented in this work try to find a possible architectural solution and suggest a multi-fold approach that could stimulate the process of renewal according to a socio-oriented use of technology in urban environments.

By doing this, Architecture can therefore play a new important role within the process of integration, restoring our suburbs and turning them into a lively organism, adaptable and flexible. The project presented doesn’t seek for one solution but proposes a methods for multiple solutions and combinations, abacus and matrix are instruments to generate a system that can be metabolist and open. According to this, principles presented here might be applicable to other districts and other cities as well.

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Competition _ Matera Monastery

Year .......................January, 2012 Place...................... Miglionico, Matera, Basilicata Collaboration.......... M.Arch. Giacomo Pebe Fabbi The call for the design competition required a new look and a new function for the Matera convent; given the importance of both landscape and the historical value of the site, we decided to suggest a typological and functional transformation of the convent that would make reference to the regional level. Considering the recent guidelines and regional development plans, and is therefore suggested to redevelop the Franciscan convent of Miglionico as the site for the development of the Regional Elaioteca (oil distribution and taste) Lucana. The architectural design thus becomes a tool for the development of the territory not only considering the small scale, but also in terms of incentives for tourism and food and wine.

The main idea was to combine all these functions into a single, cohesive organization that can offer visitors many possibilities of use and interrelationship, this was translated into one singular architectural component that was designed and conceived to dialogue with the existing without compromising the typological and formal readability of the landscape. The architectural snake path that outlines this process, maintain its shape and section along the entire lenght, folding back on itself and wrapping the existing building, passing through and running aside it, up to re-evaluate the possibility of the top terrace, with a new scenic lookout facing the Miglionico village.

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Competition San Lazzaro Bracci square

Year........................ June, 2012 Place...................... San Lazzaro di Savena, Bologna, Italy Collaboration.......... Marco Sint Ruggieri Walking along the areas of intervention, it is clear the close connection between Piazza Bracci and the Park next to it. This is due not only to their neighborhood but also to the shape and the size of the two urban ‘entities’. In both cases, in fact, the surrounding buildings leave space for entering the square and the park from the vertices of the rectangulars, this generates preferential paths along the diagonals. We decided to look for a design that could generate a new space without adding new elements but giving an unitary and functional value to the existing. It ‘was then taken as a guide line the diagonal that connects the north-east corner of the square and the park. Thisline has been extended to the green zone generating a strong sign of connection between the two systems. The next step was to pave the portion of the park from the City Hall up to this diagonal and then treat it as an extension of the main square. The ​green area that was subtracted from the park was re-placed in the middle of the square overlooking the church. It was considered appropriate to treat the portion of the green square in the southeast, with benches and shade of the trees, generates an appropriate resting place in the warmer months of the year. Secondly, the interested portion of the park currently has no special features and is badly kept, moreover, we wanted to create a unified space for the famous Saturday market that is now fragmented into multiple unorganised and unclear portions.

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La nuova organizzazione delle piazzole qui presentata dalSATURDAY punto di vista logistico e non comporta la var MARKET La fontana è attualmente presenti.

BEFORE il quale sc incanalata lu la diagonale piazza. Tale s accompagna piazza al La diagonale prospettica attualmente utilizzata come principale percorso di contrassegna attraversamento da e per la piazza rappresenta pertanto il tema centrale dell’intervento anche all’inte dal punto di vista della riorganizzazione del disegno della piazza e del parco. del parco. elemento di della piazza questo interv sola. La font partenza e d’

La nuova organizzazione delle piazzole qui presentata non richiede notevoli modifiche SATURDAY MARKET dal punto di vista logistico e non comporta la AFTER variazione in numero delle unità attualmente presenti.

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La fontana è costituita da un muro lungo il quale scorre l’acqua che viene incanalata lungo un percorso che segue la diagonale principale che attraversa la piazza. Tale segno sulla pavimentazione

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Mkwajuni Project _ Comunity Centre

Year........................ April, 2012 Place.......................Mkwajuni, Mbeya Region, Tanzania Collaboration.......... Hakuna Matata Fundation, Jeroen van der Drift Since December 2010, Hakuna Matata Fundation is working on interpreting the wishes and needs of the people of Mkwajuni, Mbeya region, Tanzania. In the Board meeting of February 2011, the idea came out of setting up a COMMUNITY CENTER Mkwajuni.

The proposal is to build in Mkwajuni a community center, to be built by volunteers of the foundation, where different activities can be undertaken.

The Community Center will initially start small and as time progresses there will be more and more elements to be added to end up as a farm / small orphanage / information space which will be largely self-supporting. The proposal was approved by the local committee in Mkwajuni discussed and completed. Me and another architect from the Netheraland, Jeroen van der Drift, left to Mkwajuni for a 2 month reserach among the inhabitants of the village.

After several discussions, workshops and researches on the available materials we came up with a first draft design proposal that has been presented and further discussed with the people there and the politian parties of the village. Currently we have gained a grant from the ING Bank and planning of going back in summer to set up the construction site. [more infos at http://www.stichtinghakunamatatatz.nl/]

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Research Lab _ Digital Modelling&Fabrication

Year ........................July, 2012 Place ......................Turin Collaboration.......... Co-de-it and FabLab Turin The space in which we live is made up of a gradient of information in continuous evolution and change. One of the biggest advantages of parametric tools is being able to inform planning processes with accurate data flows and variations across time and space. “data-track_to_fabrication� was a 2 part workshop that took place in Turin: The first part was devoted to the Grasshopper plug-in Rhino3D and focused on its primary nature of being an information processor and how it can be used to manipulate data streams from various sources and use them to inform the logical processes that generate our geometries. The objective is to provide an understanding of the value of information and of the articulation of the data, and how they are already in itself an operation planning, architectural design. The results may therefore vary from pure data communication protocols-to- DataViz-to data-driven geometries.

The second part was indeed dedicated to provide the fundamentals of manufacturing with CNC machines– production strategies, techniques and opportunities to creatively enrich the digital models during the production phase by controlling parameters of the CAD / CAM. Here follows a design sperimentation for analisis of strong winds effect, design modelling exercise on the conception of a bridge considering mono directional wind flows.

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Learning from Casablanca _ Exhibition Design

Year ........................November, 2011 Place ...................... Casablanca, Maroc Collaboration........... SFA NL, African Architecture Matters, Ecole Architecture Casablanca, TU Delft An exhibition taking place in The Sacré Coeur cathedral of Casablanca from November 4 – November 26 - 2011, Learning from Casablanca is a representation of the result of an architectural comparative research in the field of housing and urbanism. In the context of the 5th African Perspective Conference, AAMatters in collaboration with Casamemoire has initiated this exposition with hopes that looking again at Casablanca might open new perspectives to the complex problems of modernist neighborhoods being demolished to make way for new development projects. Casablanca served as modernist laboratory for European architects to experiment with new concepts for dwelling environments. The original plan of the neighbourhoods was to create dwellings on a grid of 8 times 8 meter. During the past fifty years inhabitants took over the role of architects and built themselves extensions to the original plan within this grid. The local saying ‘Every Moroccan is an architect’ is practiced here to the fullest. These processes of appropriation and user initiated dwelling transformation have inspired the design of the exposition aiming to recreate a suggestive landscape installation. Through the use of recycled pallets, the structure is based on a modular grid that recalls the grid that Ecochard, the architect of the neighborhood, had built for his project. This pallet system led to the possibility of producing different heights and paths, in a way that mirrors the different evolution stages of the original plan. [more infos at http://www.archdaily.com/187413/learning-from-casablanca-exposition/]

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FLOOR PLAN OF THE SACRE COUR CATHEDRAL FOR THE EXHIBITION

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