Eleonora Valle
architectural portfolio 2019
About me ELEONORA VALLE 27.06.1994 Milan ITALY | Via A. Martignoni 14, Milan 20124 eleonora.valle@fastwebnet.it Inst. elevll fb eleonoravalle +39 3460213122
Education April 2019 October 2016
Master’s degree of Architecture, Politecnico di Milano, 110 L Milan | English courses, Thesis: Sulla fragilità potenziale.La via del Graveglia in tre progetti. Supervisor: Cino Zucchi Advisor: Stefano Tropea and Marco Voltini
February 2019 February 2017
ASP (Alta Scuola Politecnica) program, developing FlexHab project https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm5YcO-6lV0&feature=youtu.be Milan | Master’s parallel international programme by PoliMi and PoliTo
Sept 2017 July 2018
Exchange Program UAL (Universidade Autonoma de Lisboa) Lisboa | Postgraduated courses, Architectural Design professor : Francisco Aires Mateus
July 2016 October 2013
Bachelor of Architecture, Politecnico di Milano, 110 L Milan | Architectural Design professors: Franco Tagliabue, Stefano Boeri, Angelo Bianco, M. Pilar Vettori, Irené Scalbert
October 2016
Workshop Disaster City, DAAD programme: TU Berlin - PoliMi - Uni Cam Ascoli Piceno | Emergency resilience and reconstraction after earthquakes catastrophes: Arquata del Tronto
June 2016 March 2016 May 2015
Workshop Revit BIM, PoliDigiSkills Milan | Revit course: from design to layout of an architectural project Workshop Taccuini di Viaggio tra Italia e Spagna Valencia | The architectural urban (live) drawing in the context of Spain. Professor: Silvie Durvenoy.
June 2013 September 2008
Artistic High School, Istituto Sacro Cuore Milan | Diploma 100/100
July 2012 September 2011
Exchange Program St. Joan of Arc London High School London | Academic year abroad, Cambridge English Exam CAE: Advanced
Skills Italian English Portuguese French
Native Excellent (IELTS C1) Good (B2) Basic
AutoCAD, Rhinoceros, Sketchup, Suite Adobe (Ps, Ai, Id, Pr), Cinema 4D, Revit BIM, Microsoft Office, QGis. iOS, Windows Drawing, painting and modelling, always experimenting new materials and techniques for art representation and project communication (wood, MDF, cardboard, gypsum, concrete, foam,laser). Good attitude towards teamworks and project management. I used to play in a theatre company. Also passionate in photography and postproduction.
Work May 2018 February 2018 March 2017
Intership at aspa Arquitectos, Rua do Salitre 175 Lisbon | Apartments restoration, residential buildings and studio exhibition with maquette production Collaboration with ifdesign studio Milan | Design and production of models for Cino Zucchi firm in the project “Sette Broli” Milan Yards
November 2016 October 2016
Exhibition “Ampelio Tettamanti e Milano, paesaggi umani”, Palazzo Morando. Focus Bovisa Context Milan | Research, design and drawings for the contemporary context of Bovisa, Professor: Daniele Villa
on going February 2016 October 2015
Assistant at the courses “Design Studio I” by Emanuele Tanzi and “Progettazione e rappresentazione urbanistica” by Daniele Villa Milan | University assistant: organization and support of lessons and students’ revisions
September 2015
Internship at Studio3 architetti associati, via San Vittore 16 Milan | Design assistance, Graphic design, in collaboration with Studio Chipperfield
May 2016
Temporary employee at Valeria Belle Stampe, art gallery, via San Cecilia 2 Milan | Creation of layout systems for photos and prints
Awards May 2018
1st Prize YAC Competition - Art Prison Santa Caterina Favignana | Project done with my team Simposio (award and publication)
August 2017
Finalist project at the Architectural Competition and Exhibition Demanio Marittimo KM-278 Ancona | Demanio Marittimo KM-278 contest with title “ Habitable Community”
May 2015
3rd Prize International Competition - Berlin over the wall Berlin | Start for talents contest, prize and publication of the project “Bonjour Bonheur”
Selected projects
Sulla fragilitĂ potenziale | Graveglia, 2019
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Venus | Milan, 2017
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ResidĂŞncia em Almirante Reis | Lisbon, 2018
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A Hostel in Porta Genova
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| Milan , 2017
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A library in Zamora | Zamora, 2016
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Sette bellissimi broli | Milan, 2017
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Na Loja Do Mestre Andre | Lisbon, 2018
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Via Filippetti 1 | Milan, 2016
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Art Prison Santa Caterina | Favignana, 2018
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competition
Taccuini di viaggio | Valencia, 2015
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workshop
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Momento II: Oil mill view
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Sulla fragilità potenziale Master Thesis C. Zucchi, S. Tropea, M. Voltini April 2019 Val Graveglia, Liguria, Italy With Francesca Venini
Stories of increasingly fragile territory in Italy’s hinterlands have become central to contemporary debate. The thesis work focuses on the critical and synthetic reading of a specific area in Liguria, in the Levante hinterland. It considers fragility as a potential for future development through three “site specific” projects, characterized by the relationship of the soil to the element of water. Utilising a macro-micro methodology, an attempt is made to propose an alternative view, and to develop a new system that connects different realities across the territory. The first point at low altitude in the hamlet of Graveglia, on the banks of the Entella and Graveglia torrents, with a park plan with a greenhouse; the second at intermediate altitude in the small village of Zerli, with the proposal of a new oil-mill; and finally the third on higher elevation, on the crest of Mount Chiappozzo, which is identified as a weather monitoring point and a Belvedere. Agriculture and environmental management are seen as tools for maintenance and regeneration of the hinterland. Following the programmatic choice, a reflection on the architectural language to be adopted emerged: the contemporary project cannot be reduced to a mere functional response, but must express a formal independence, introducing an integral and fundamental aesthetic in the general quality of the proposal. The aim is to find equilibrium points between instances of representation on the one hand and reasons for building on the other, as in the case of the mill project. By connecting to a pre-existing system of dry stone walls and topographic trends, the mill redesigns the boundary of a hairpin bend through a wall and the insertion of a light metal structure, with sloping piched roof to collect water and light.
University
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Monte Azzarino 763m
Monte Breccalupo 937m
Monte Pazzone 578m
Monte Vailera 1041m
Monte Spallera 1055m
Aveto
Monte Pinello 1058m
Monte Castello 574m Monte Stuggiassi 596m
Poggio della Marchesina 977m
Monte Zatta di Levante 1355m
Monte Zatta di Ponente 1355m Monte Riso 1011m Monte Cian 1108m
Prati di Mezzanego
Monte Riso 1011m MOMENTO III
Monte Camilla 1001m Monte Carmona 724m
Monte Chiappozzo 1126m
Case Soprane
Prato di Reppia
Monte Carnetta 712m
Monte dei Preti 712m
Monte Comarella 799m
Monte delle Artue 505m
MOMENTO I
Graveglia
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Monte Ricasola 776m
Aveto
MOMENTO II
glia Monte Acuto 533m
Coscenti Rivarola
Zerli Nascio Cassagna
T. G ra veg lia
Monte Bianco 876m
San Salvatore
Sanpierdicanne
Cogorno
Monte Le Rocchette 701m
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Monte Domenico 529m
Monte Vallai 576m
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Monte Capra 1058m
Monte Capenardo 693m
Lavagna
Monte Tregin 870m
Monte Bomba Monte Costello 498m
Mar Ligure Cavi
Cardini
Monte Brana 426m Sestri Levante
Monte Caddio 389m Casarza Ligure
Territorial framework with the three Moments
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Riva Trigoso
Monte
Momento I
Park and greenhouse
Momento II Oil Mill
Momento III
Stop and Monitoring
University
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Oil Mill and pre-existence plan
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Oil Mill maquette 1:200. Cardboard and metal University
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Pre-existence section detail 1:33
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Momento II: Pre-existence hall and shop view University
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Momento I: masterplan
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Momento I: greenhouse internal view University
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Momento III: masterplan
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Momento III: Monitoring station internal view University
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Image
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Venus: the aesthetic of architecture in the capitalistic market. History and theory of Architecture Irénée Scalbert I sem 2016-2017 Individual theoretical project
The essay, through the analysis of Braudel’s concept of market and the work of Luis Sullivan, tries to investigate how the Capitalistic system allowed the born of new architecture’s typologies and the development of an ornamental language generated by the flow of capital. The theme aroused by a personal interest in investigating specific aspects of two major issues dealt during professor’s lectures: Market and Ornaments. The Paper is structured in five brief chapters, starting from an introduction on Braudel’s vision of economic life and the born of the Palazzo buildings in the Italian middle Age context, together with Houellebecq’s metaphor of market systems described as a masculine-dominant one, Mars, together with Venus, a seductive feminine one. The Latin goddess of love, beauty and fertility, is more seen as a source of temptation and corruption, embodying the aesthetic of market life: it is provocative and charming but at the same time it alienates and cheats you. Secondly there is a Theory section, which deals with Sullivan’s article called “the tall building artistically considered” written in 1896 with the advent of industrial revolution. Sullivan set the discourse on a logical and natural plan in order to investigate what were the chief characteristics of this new typology: the tripartition followed a natural and spontaneous rule, an adequate disposition from which the famous quote ‘Form ever follows function’. Even contemporary architects, as A.Caruso, keep on studying Sullivan’s theory, underlying how the problem of tall building is not a technical one but an artistic one. Follow a section on The Practice, analyzing the Wainwright building design, and a specific chapter on Ornaments, which opens the question on its function. Sullivan was elevating the purpose of commercial building to that of monumental architecture. The final reflections deal with a contemporary vision of these so called “empty box”. University
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External view from the library public passage
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Residência em Almirante Reis Design studio V F. Aires Mateus II sem 2018 Lisbon, Portugal Individual project
Uma residência em Almirante Reis proposes an original way of living taking advantage of the steep topography, the preexisting paths and “escadas” and the incredible view on a “layered” city. In fact a sequence of stone walls is newly connecting Rua dos Lagares and the Igreja da Graça, as well as the park. A new relationship between public path and private spaces is generated: it is a very common and traditional situation to be found in city like Lisbon or Porto, in which every upper corner shows a different visual approach on private houses. Up to every stair there is a terraces that acts as the house entrance, the private garden and the public transversal path, a ‘miradouro’ on the park and the city. There are three main typologies of housing: two mainly for students/young workers, with individual rooms or mini/duplex and connom areas,facing a courtyard behind the walls. The last one more for families, developed in the plastered volumes attached to the context. The first volume on Rua dos Lagares street and the basement below the church welcome public services: a library with laboratory and offices and a bar with info point. Most of the walls, in Lioz stone, present a sequence of frames to hide and to show.
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Transversal Section
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Next page: Masterplan 1:2000
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View from the private garden
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Next page: general axonometry
Public bar and services Housing tipology 3
Housing tipology 1
Housing tipology 3 Housing tipology 2
Housing tipology 1
Housing tipology 3
Housing tipology 2
Housing tipology 1
Public library and labs
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Library ground floor and Housing typology 1,3
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Concrete maquette 1:50 of the middle part University
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External view of the hostel and part of the plaza
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A hostel in Porta Genova Design studio IV Cino Zucchi, Stefano Tropea, Matilde Cassani, Paola Sturla II sem 2016-2017 Milan, Italy with B. Cappuccilli and C. Fignon
The project call for an hostel, with gym, swimming-pool and restaurant, a multiporpose space and a public outdoor space, to give back an identity to the abandoned Porta Genova yard. From an urban point of view, the complex is structured in two poles, the multipurpose space close to the station and the hostel in the opposite corner, accentuating the alongated morphology of the site, leaving a greater accessible square with integrated green. The tension between the two poles is accentuated by the morphology of the buildings: the pavillon, low, flat and ground-accessible, integrated with the landscape, and the hostel-tower, which stands out as an obelisk in the horizon. Its complex section host all the functions, with different floors’ hights according to the bedroom typologies and the services. The simple rectangular plan bends on one side to better integrate the street and the entrance. The pillar structure and slabs are external and draw the facades: it finds inspiration by the Liverani-Molteni Onsite studio pavillon, which uses trilateration to set the inclined pillars. The green areas’s reference are the projects by MVVA studio, which integrate a mineral urban plaza with organic flowery shapes.
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Ground floor masterplan
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11th FLOOR _ Swimming Pool
3rd 7th FLOOR _ Typology
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4th 5th FLOOR _ Typology
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4th FLOOR _ Typology
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Multipurpose pavillon view
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Green areas and fontain view
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Longitudinal section through the entire plot
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Hostel cells typology C view
Swimming pool view
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University
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Facade detail
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Facade detail maquette: wood, cardboard, plexiglass University
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Maquette external view (from South)
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A library in Zamora Design studio III F. Tagliabue, N. Bassoli I sem 2015-2016 Zamora, Spain Individual project
The library project in the little village of Zamora in Spain tries to recreate a microcity inside the town: not only a place where to read, but a multifunctional hub both private and public. The concept derives principally from a plan study: the urban tissue has been redrawn in a intrelace of neighborough’s directrixes. Rotated squared modules, which contain the main functions, are hold together by a “tender” space, a space for connections and free use. The entire complex create a new public courtyard in the urban tissue. The main entrance to the complex is from a narrow alley: in a sudden the space becomes wider and the curvy courtyard frames a piece of sky. A tought shell in the outside cointains a soft and tender interior: visible from the material as well: concrete outside and wood inside. One can either enter the library or keep on walking towards the river and the book-shoop/ restaurant. The study-rooms and the archives are kept insiede the moduls, with skylights facing north. All around the courtyard peolple are free to move and stop, thanks to a facade’s detail. The rythm of wood struts and beams generates some seats and tables in the wider areas. The auditorium occupy the wide space of the courtyard underground. The modules are extruded on the roof plan, in order to recreate the complexity of the village roof view.
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AXES
Context plan and diagrams
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GRID
MODULS
PUBLIC PATH
COURTYARD TRIALS
FINAL THE “TENDER SPACE”
Ground floor plan and I floor plan University
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Section CC’ and South prospect
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North-South view from the maquette University
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Porta Romana. Il brolo di MezzodĂŹ. Gypsum maquette
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Sette bellissimi broli CZ Call Competition If Design, Onsite studio, Baukuh April 2017 Milan, Italy
Cino Zucchi Architetti, together with Michelle Desvigne and Piovenefabi, were called by Sistemi Urbani for a competition to imagine possible future scenarios for the seven disused rail yards in Milan. Inside the urban project , the singular building’s design was assigned to If deisgn studio, Onsite studio and Baukuh. I worked with If design team developping three buildings projects, especially through the use of colored gypsum maquettes. The urban configurations CZ proposes create places with a different vocation, scale and character within a polycentric urban landscape. Farini Rail Yard becomes a great park with sinuous paths and pedestrian runways overpassing the railway, Porta Romana Rail Yard becomes a great sloping lawn, open towards Prada Foundation and a market-square which interchanges between the new railway station and buses terminus, Lambrate Rail Yard becomes a great green «crescent». Beside its specific forms, the proposal represents a contribution to reflect about future Milan’s challenges and the method to engage with them. It is ideally connected to Carlo Cattaneo’s «Idea of Civil Magnificence», where the beauty of the city is expression of the collective values and conquests of a forward looking society.
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Lambrate. Il Brolo delle Rimembranze. Gypsum maquette
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Farini. Il Brolo della Simonetta. Gypsum maquette
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EPAR project maquette: polystyrene, paint, plaster
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Na Loja Do Mestre Andre Studio exhibition event aspa Arquitectos February 2018 Lisbon
During the event called “Na Loja Do Mestre Andre”, students from the Coimbra University were coming to Lisbon to visit some architectural studios for getting closer to their most recent works and design attitude. Therefore the best way to show aspa potential was developing a brief exhibition of the studio’s last projects. I realized some big scale maquettes (1:20 scale) experimenting different materials and representation, developing then an idea of set up in the studio with both maquette and drawings of three chosen projects (EPAR: a new internal facade for a residential building. ECAB: two floors roof extension on a preexistance. EGES: a new residential building.) The maquette concept was to underline the key points of the three different buildings, such as symmetry, opposition of clear voids and sequnces of geometrical extrusions. After the exhibition, first I post-produced images/photos and documents concerning the work done. Then I supported some of my colleagues in the development of the executive projects they were dealing with, through drawings from scale 1:50 to 1:10. Moreover I participate to metric and status surveys for an executive project that was about to start.
Work
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ECAB project maquette: polystyrene, paint, plaster
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EGES project maquette: polystyrene, paint, plaster Work
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Details photos of the two bathrooms
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Via Filippetti 1 Interior restoration Isabella Calzolari architect Sept-Dec 2016 Milan, Italy with Isabella Calzolari
The interiors project, in collaboration with M. I. Calzolari architect, is about the restoration of an apartment in Via Filippetti 1, with no demolitions allowed. The project focused on the bathrooms and kitchen spaces: they had to regain a continuity with the other rooms, either with the floors or with the colours and materials and to wipe away a patina of time. The guest bathroom works on section: the client asked for lots of different elements to insert in the space (a shower, a bath, a washer-drier a big shoe rack...). The section creates a continous volume which contains a wardrobe, a basin, right in front the entrance, and the bath-shower. The wardrone has mirrors to enlarge the narrow space. Floor, volumes and walls have an industrial grey gress cladding, the washbasin stationing is highlight by a glass pearl hexagonal mosaic, shelves are in light oak and other elements in colour black, recalling the original doors. Lightings are displaced along the ceiling lowering. A similar thing happen in the main bathroom, where the sand cerim colours remind the bedrooms tone. The washbasin placement, with a designed suspended wood-stonework furniture, is framed by the wall and the lighting, and creates continuity with the shower, with mixed Mutina’s decorated tiles, tone-on-tone. The kitchen floor has been replaced by the living room parquet in order to extend the space. It has been used a Phenix opaque white finishing for the furniture, a kerlite marble effect topping, and a oak snack table with shelves behind. The previous light has been kept.
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Main Bathroom
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Up: how it was and project axonometry
Bottom: photo of the actual configuration
Guest Bathroom
Up: how it was and project axonometry
Bottom: photo of the actual configuration
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External view from the theatre
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Art Prison Santa Caterina 1st Prize YAC Competition May 2018 Favignana, Sicily with team Simposio (Federico Bettazzi, Chiara Davino, Davide Natarelli and Tommaso Seveso)
The tectonic nature of the new cultural hub illustrates the insertion of the project in the landscape and the topography of the naturalistic context of the Favignana fortress, as its main peculiarity. The new design highlights and articulates the way the fortress grafts into the rock. The spatial narration of the project, on a wider scale, holds together natural and architectonic elements; it elects the stronghold as a fulcrum and turns the landscape from a simple background into the key player. The marked trace of the preexisting path is a fundamental inspiration for the morphology of the new one. The preexisting path works as a furrow, which structures a big cultural and panoramic basin connecting different spots of the landscape. New points of view are generated in the surroundings: starting from the site’s orography, the path is organized in a sequence of visually connected spaces. The exhibition itinerary ties together the ancient and the new in a unique design; the journey, in a climax, leads up to the great open-air theatre oriented towards the fortress, allowing for a perspective on the ancient existence. In the fortress interiors the intervention is organized in three main interlinking thematic cores: the permanent exhibition and the houseateliers for artists, the suites and the wellness area, the lounge bar. The internal paths guarantee both levels of privacy and the complete use of the structure. The new platform of contemporary art is a continuous gallery that crosses ancient and novel spaces in a unitary drawing at a landscape’s scale, allowing an all-absorbing fruition of the area, regarding as well aspects for the collectivity.
Competition
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Entrance Ticket office Bookshop Exposition
Exposition
Workshops Exposition Cafeteria Restroom
Exploded axonometric
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Multipurpose space Techincal rooms
Exposition Ateliers Artists apartments Lounge Bar Vernissage Suites
Restaurant Rooms Swimming Pool Reception
Up: the platforms’ grafting
Middle: the new exhibition path
Bottom: enclosed museum Competition
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Middle: Landscape section
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Botton: Aerial view on the fortress
General layout: Museum plan focus Competition
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Sketches and drawings with different techniques
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Taccuini di viaggio Architectural still-life drawings S. Duvernoy, G. Mele II sem 2014-2015 Valencia Individual
The workshop was centered on the drawings of public spaces and architecture in Valencia, in order to study them and to understand the volumes, the proportions and the lightings which make them real. The technique of sketches was free but the timing to do them was fixed. The spaces represented were different: the tipycal historic spanish squares such as Plaza de Napoli i Sicilia and Plaza de l’Arquebisbe, the port with the contemporary building by D. Chipperfield Vels i Vent and the cathedral. Moreover all the Calatrava complex with the science museum and the greenhouse. The different techniques adopted underlines some peculliarity of the architectures: the cinchona highlights the silhouettes and the facades, the watercolor the tint under lighting and the charcoal the chiaroscuro.
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ELEONORA VALLE eleonora.valle@fastwebnet.it Via A. Martignoni 14, 20124 Milan +39 3460213122