fabiola mele Architecture Portfolio
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contents 4 Curriculum Vitae 6 projects 8 Peeping Tom: Seduction Pavilion, YAC International Competiton
8 Master Thesis: Interstices. Regenaration Program for the spaces un 18 LAP4 Malpasso Netwalks 22 AMB Hestia 26 free time 28 Artwort: sci-fi Architecture – Taralis' new showroom in Shanghai 30 glamarchgram
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nder the elevated highway A7 in Marseille
(published on the 12th June 2015)
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curriculum vitae
fabiola mele Napoli 21·09·1991 melefabiola@gmail.com +39 342 07 62 057 via S.Maria delle Grazie a Capodimonte 8, 80131 Napoli, Italy
Profile I graduated in architecture at the Department of Architecture and Design of the University of Ferrara with a master thesis in urban design focused on the themes of townscape and urban intertices. When I work on a project I usually employ a multidisciplinary approach: my interests encompass art, design, fashion, cinema, sociology, philosophy, technology, news and I enjoy being inspired by various fields. In my spare time I write articles, take pictures, work on multimedia projects, visit galleries, art shows, cities and international biennales. I enjoy testing myself and also working in team, as there is always something I can learn from others. mother tongue Italian Languages English C1 · CAE January 2014 French C1
Education October 2018 - January 2019 · Post-Graduate Course in Architecture for Fashion at Fondazione Fashion Research Italy, Bologna September 2010 - June 2018 · Master Degree in Architecture Dipartment of Architecture and Design, Università degli Studi di Ferrara February 2016 - June 2016 · Erasmus Traineeship and master thesis research in Marseille, France September 2014 - June 2015 · Erasmus at École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture, Nancy, Francia July 2010 · High School Diplom (classical studies) at Liceo Classico Statale Antonio Genovesi, Napoli
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Softwares
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Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere; Autocad (2D-3D); Rhinoceros; Sketch-Up; V-ray; Archicad; Cinema 4D
Meaningful Experiences
12 September 2018 · Seduction Pavilion Competition, Gold Mention The international competition, organised by the association YAC, consisted in a call for ideas for an exhibition installation to be realised inside Fondazione Fashion Research Italy. The theme was very akin with my interests, but also very different from any project I had previously made, so it was an extremely pleasuring challenge to take solo and as a freshly graduate 25 July - 5 August 2018 · Workshop The Open Museum, festival Periferica, Mazara del Vallo, Sicily I collaborated as part of the staff to the organization of the workshop and the realisation of what is going to be Evocava, the future museum evoking the characteristic tuff quarries of Mazara del Vallo February 2016 - June 2016 · Internship at Rémy Marciano Architecture, Marsiglia, Francia The practice deals with architecture and urban design. I mainly worked on interior projects and on different types of project drawings, meant for competitions as well as for final proposals Mars 2014 - Mars 2016 · Editor for Artwort, webzine concerning Art, Architecture, Design, Photography, Fashion I collaborated with weekly articles, mainly for the architecture, art, and design sections of the webzine. Between Mars 2015 and October 2015 I was also in charge of the facebook account February 2013 - February 2014 · Member of the research group about alternative education systems Cluster Theory, University of Ferrara The activity of the research group, coordinated by professors Elisa Poli and Giovanni Avosani, consisted mainly in the organisation of workshops, round tables and conferences, among which: the round table Architecture’s Default at [im]possible living at Milan Fuorisalone 2013; the workshop Passenger in a Landscape, that took place in Ferrara in May 2013 in the framework of the project Michelangelo Antonioni: The Quest for a Place in the Landscape; the conference concerning the role of architecture in the wake of natural disasters “Un terremoto ci salverà” at Palazzo Medici-Ricciardi in Florence, may 2013
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Project · seduction pavilion competition · peeping tom
peeping tom Seduction Pavilion International Competition/Gold Mention The project wants to celebrate the uttermost essence of femininity by staging a game of conceiling-reveiling acheived organizing the space of the exhibition through the means of curtains. What better than clothes allowes women to play with their identity, embodying or reinterpreting each time one of the many personas that shape their personality? It’s in this ambiguity of what is shown vs what it is that relies Seduction: the visitor is invited to wander through the installation as a voyeur that progressively unveils the content of the exhibition. The shape of the pavilion is generated by a module. This module creates a lightweight stainless steel frame within which the 30 pictures shown in the exhibition are placed according to a grid. Each module hosts three photographs. The pictures and their descriptions are displayed by lightboxes hung on the main structure, while voile curtains drape from wires stretched across the steel frame. The glow generated by the lightboxes dialogates with the transparency of the tissue, reveiling maliciously the body of the exhibition.
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Fabiola Mele · Portfolio ISTITUTION: YAC JURY: Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli, Patricia Urquiola, Fabio Novembre, Claudio Silvestrin, Alberto Masotti, Gian Luca Farinelli, Flaviano Celaschi, Carlotta Zucchini
Project Site and Project Plan
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Project · seduction pavilion competition · peeping tom
“Seduction removes something from the order of the visible, while production constructs everything in full view.” (J. Baudrillard, On Seduction)
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Project · master thesis · interstices
interstices Regeneration Program for the Spaces under the Elevated Highway A7 in Marseille Ro no
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Set in the problematic context of the III arrondissement, Interstices stems from an investigation of townscape that examines the relationship between the elevated highway Autoroute du Soleil and its surrounding urban fabric. This investigation is led in the first instance through the definition of “interstice”, both as a term and as a spatial entity. As these fragmented, neglected places, born as negative space of the “Generic City” – what Situationists would have called the “unconscious of the city” – barely fall into the same set of rules and categories as its standardised counterparts, a mere data analysis wouldn’t have fully described the essence of these spaces. The project is then developed on the basis of more conventional instruments as well as perceptive analysis that investigate the potential of these spaces and of the townscape they describe through the means of media such as photography and video. Conceived in the framework of a larger masterplan developed by a group of six students and involving the entire III arrondissement, the project is meant to reactivate the site transforming an infrastructural barrier into an element of reconnection between the areas separated by its own presence. The program is structured according to a timeline and aims to create new functions as well as to reintroduce the observed spontaneous urban practices, all the while reclaiming the narrative sense of the place.
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l’Autoroute du Soleil
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A7 Lione-Parigi 4h32m
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bacino ovest
Marsiglia-Parigi 7h37m
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Lione
(TGV Marsiglia-Parigi 3h12m)
Marsiglia-Lione 3h5m
A7
(TGV Marsiglia-Lione 1h49m)
Marsiglia 70 K m
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the project site and its context
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500 m Euroméditerranée 2 Area di Progetto
500 m 3° Arrondissement
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MASTER THESIS, June 2018 ISTITUTION: University of Ferrara THESIS ADVISORS: Romeo Farinella, Walter Nicolino, Angelo Bertoni
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Project Site Analysis
barriers
green
parkings
roads hierarchy
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Marseille Correspondances: video analysis of the relationship between project site and Euroméditerranée
Marseille - correspondances is a short video I realized in the framework of my master thesis project. Inspired by the genre of the "city symphony", the video consitutes part of the urban perceptive analysis led on the project site, highlighting similarities and contrasts between the neglected third arrondissement of Marseille and the nearby, glamorous interventions of the massive regeneration project Euroméditerranée. video avaliable on Vimeo (link in QR code, password: correspondances) or on my facebook profile
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Project · master thesis · interstices
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ENLARGEMENT/BARRIER/CLOSURE
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VIEW FROM THE ABOVE/FRAME
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MISTERY
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Analysis in Sequences (after Gordon Cullen's The Concise Townscape)
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FRAME/CLOSURE/CONTINUITY
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CONTINUITY/SCREEN/ENCLAVE/BARRIER
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INTIMACY/BARRIER
ANTICIPATION/BARRIER
FRAME/DEVIATION
CLOSURE/ANTICIPATION
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GRANDIOSITY
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OUTDOOR ROOM
ENCLAVE/BARRIER
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ENLARGEMENT/FRAME/INTIMACY/CLOSURE
DISTRICT/CLOSURE
DISTRICT/ANTICIPATION
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FRAME/GRAND GESTURE
BUILDING AS SCULPTURE/FOCAL POINT
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INTIMACY
Project · master thesis · interstices
masterplan
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aims
targets make infrastructure more permeable
reactivate
reconnect
regenerate interstices reactivate abandoned buildings
improve green network
reduce street parkings
enhanche alternative mobility
actions eliminating barriers
Reactivating abandoned buildings
POP-UP interventions
urban art
creating bike infrastructure
improving public green parc Bougainville
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parc Longchamp
temporary interventions
Iinterventions on the deck
alternative parkings widespreak system
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permanent interventions
multifunctional underpasses
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improving public transportation
Project · master thesis · interstices
Project's zooms: micro-interventions
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Project · iv year · malpasso netwalks
An Innovative Retailing System for a Despar Supermarket in Ferrara
malpasso netwalks
This project is the outcome of the 4° year design studio. The course required to design proposals for a new retailing system for a Despar supermarket set in the Malpasso area, on the outskirts of Ferrara. Malpasso Netwalks consists of a habitable wall embracing the perimeter of the site. The supermarket space is reduced to an elongated block working be means of a fully automated system, whereas the rest of the "wall" hosts other functions such as mixed use blocks on the north side and high-tech didactic green-houses on the east side. By condensing all the built program on the perimeter, we freed the center of the site, where we were able to provide a sensory "urban jungle"/didactic garden and the space for a temporary market. The supermarket is designed so as to give costumers the possibility to experience their shopping according to 3 different modes: the drive-in lane, where they can order online and stop by to collect their purchase on the way home; the fast-lane, coinciding wih the supermarket itself, where each product is distributed and paid through automatic devices; the slow-lane, which invites costumers to have a stroll around the temporary market, the pop-up stores, the garden and the green-houses that complete the program of the project.
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Fabiola Mele · Portfolio with Deyana Stareva LAP4, aa 2013/2014 ISTITUTION: University of Ferrara PROFESSOR: Walter Nicolino b
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pick up / drive lane
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fast lane shopping storyboard
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Project · III year · hestia
hestia Sustainable Housing Project This project is the outcome of a technical and sustainable design studio carried out during the third year. The course requested us to place two bars of housing buildings onto a parcel of land on the outskirts of Bologna according to their relationship with the environmental conditions of the surroundings. We were then asked to design one standard unit of the building, detailing its technological and performative characteristics. I was inspired by the concept of "hearth and home", which I reinterpreted through the creation of a functional terrace that exploits sun and natural ventilation according to the season. AMB, aa 2012/2013 ISTITUTION: University of Ferrara PROFESSORS: Simona Cinti, Sante Mazzacane
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natural ventilation analysis section
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SUMMER: south-west orientation, 21st june h13:16 sunrays inclination at 68°
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Fabiola Mele · Portfolio Electrical System Plan
Section Detail
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free time
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free time
artwort sci-fi Architecture – Taralis' new showroom in Shanghai (publoshed on the 12th June 2015)
The existence of a somewhat incestuous relationship between architecture and fashion is a truth universally acknowledged. Nicolas Andreas Taralis, 39 years old, born in Toronto from a German mother and a Greek father, is one of those young designers whose names will quite realistically make headlines among the next big things in fashion. For his new Shanghai showroom he chose the equally young Belgian architect Bernard Dubois, who curated, along with Judith Wielander, Sebastian Martinez Barat and Sarah Levy, the last Venice architectural biennale Belgian pavilion, set up as a totally white space, with few wireframe elements portraying an abstract image of the average Belgian house. For the project in Shanghai, Dubois employs a similarly essential and materic language, coherently with Taralis’ style: clean, achromatic, based on the wearability of the cut. The ground floor of the building hosts the showroom, defined by the two designers as “the heart of the design”. The lightboxes applied to the ceiling are meant as an homage to sci-fi movie THX 1138. Produced in 1971 by Francis Ford Coppola and directed by a 26-year-old George Lucas, the movie represents the Star Wars director’s feature-length directorial debut. Taking inspiration from some scenes of the movie filmed in an entirely white giant room, this space is defined by concrete, metal and mirrors that create a greyscale environment, aseptic as an operating room or neutral as a contemporary art gallery. According to Dubois, all vertical lines on the walls and in the composition of the plan meet the lines of the ceiling. The glowing ceiling and the mirror walls, reverberating endlessly the perspective of the room, throw the visitor in a sci-fi scenario, doomed by the impression of being suspended between the physical emptiness of extraterrestrial space and the immaterial location of virtual systems.
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free time
Curiously, popular imagination usually associates the idea of future with somewhat dystopian hypothesis, usually depicting societies rigidly determined by computer and mathematical calculations, devoid of any interference of feelings and of that more instinctual side that still relies humans to the animal universe. Would the architect be inspired by a futuristic imagery based on the integration between new technologies and the traditional, sustainable ones – soft high-tech, that is – he would have probably developed a totally different project. The imagery embraced by Dubois is instead representative of a formal and somewhat martial rigour, as well as Taralis’ collections seem themselves the uniforms of an extremely elegant alien army. Weren’t for this aesthetic coherence, observing the images of the showroom – portrayed, as the majority of architectural projects, untouched and right after its completion, devoid of any element suggesting its life and function – it’s almost estranging to imagine a similar space filled with clothes, sales assistants and buyers. Right in the middle of the room, a double high volume pierces the ceiling and distributes, on each side, the metallic guides employed to hang last season items. On axis with this void – allowing natural light to penetrate from the first floor to the windowless showroom – a straight staircase leads to the upper floor, employed as offices. Here we find the same materials and composition rules applied on the ground floor: the concrete working tables seem just like folded flaps of the concrete floor. The tables are positioned in rows and separated by large black monoliths (probably a hint at Kubrick) that work both as dividers and as storage space. In the back, an equally black wall hides a private staircase, leading towards working spaces on the ground floor that are not accessible from the showroom.
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free time
glamarchgram
Glamarchgram is an Instagram account I update in my spare time with collages displaying how much architecture and fashion share in terms of aesthetics, reflecting the zeitgeist and the technologies of the time they belong to. This visual research was first inspired by the outcome of the exhibition Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture, curated by Brooke Hodge at Los Angeles’ MOCA in 2005 and published in the namesake catalogue.
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