Fabrizio Introini Portfolio
A collection of works
TABLE OF CONT small size architecture
Textile Structure Design
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The design of a small and easy to install textile structure to be used as a studying and reading spot.
urban scale architecture
Public Housing in Milan
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The masterplanning and design for a large public housing project in the south west of Milan, along a road, a railway and a canal. urban planning strategies
Working with a RE Company
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A workshop to study the behaviour of a real estate company and to propose plausible alternatives.
public building architecture
Cultural Center in Porta Volta
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An auditorium, a restaurant, a book shoop and a cafeteria to design and lay out over an area once occupied by the city walls. representation
History of Brivio
Telling the history and the changements of the palace being studied and its sorroundings.
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landscape architecture
Observatory for the Changing Landscape
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The assignment to design a landscape project without a given program turns out into an instrument to show a dystopia. pavilion design
India Pavilion at Expo
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Indian holidays become the means to show the great diversity of its society and its agriculture for the pavilion at Expo 2015. landscape architecture
Lake Karla Labyrinth
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A labyrinth is the way to express the lost identity of this greek lake that had been drained in the 60’s before being re-flooded recently. regional planning and small scale interventions
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TENTS Eco-Archaeological Park of Urkesh
An elaborate work of programming, masterplanning and designing of small devices around an archaeological excavation. curriculum
About
Education, skills, working experience and interests to present myself.
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Fabrizio Introini Portfolio
Textile Structure Design @ nowhere, for Architectural design studio, held by Matteo Poli, Alessandra Zanelli, Gianluca Lugli, in 2007
Within a standard course of architectural design there was this small workshop about textile structures. The request was for a covered surface of about 18sqm meant to be a reading spot. Plus it had to be easy to mount in different places. So the proposal had only the three poles stucked into the ground, while the rest of the structure is just layed down to the ground. The textile surface is hung to the three poles and attached to the three arches. The lateral surfaces are optional and easily removable. Prior to the final design it was necessary to define the shape of the textile surface using iron wire and soap bubbles.
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Section AA - 1:100
Section BB - 1:100
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Public Housing in Milan @ Milan, for Bachelor thesis, supervised by Luisa Nava, in 2008
The idea for the bachelor thesis came from a design competition for a public housing project in Milan. It required 14700sqm of housing, 1450sqm of services and 23500sqm of public space on an area of 18600sqm. Plus it asked to face the features of the area. These features are the problematic sorroundings of the plot and the polarization of the street from a middel class north-east and a popular south-west. The sorroundings are: a busy street, a parish recreational center, apartment blocks, sports ground owned by the national railway service, a railway and the canal, a parking lot of the public transportation society. The aim was to charac-
terize the project starting from those borders, so there is a different approach towards each side. However the feature that orders the whole plot is the system infrastructure running from north-east to south-west: the street, the railway and the canal. As these are both strong elements and obstacles, the design presents a series of strips parallel to the infratructures that are crossed by a straight path. The strips make up the park and the secondary paths, plus they order the layout of the buildings.
Location
Population
Infrastructures
Location - 1:50000 4
Unveil a hidden order
canal
railway
Lay a crossing path
buses private parking lot sports grounds
Create two poles
apartment blocks
parish recreational center
Define an Area
via Giambellino
apartment blocks
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The courtyard works as a protection from the road
The trees are a visual filter towards the parking lot
The wall facing the railway invites to a lateral view
A hopefully temporal wall towards the sport fields
A playground that completes the one of the parish
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Masterplan - 1:250
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Courtyard - Plan - 1:1000
Blocks - Plan - 1:1000
Tower - Plan - 1:1000
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Working with a RE Company @ Ho Chi Minh City, for Urban design studio, held by Giovanni La Varra, Luigi Zanfi, Roberta Cucca, in 2008
This course focused on the activity of the Real Estate companies. The aim was to analyze the way in which a given RE company works and to propose an alternative yet plausible behaviour. The chosen company was Phu My Hung, a joint venture formed by a taiwanese private developer and the vietnamese government. It had just completed a huge development in the southern part of Ho Chi Minh City, consisting of office highrises, malls, houses, luxury villas, etc. The future plan is to contnue on this kind of projects, but, given that the government is a shareholder of the joint venture, it should have
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the burden to find a solution that meets the needs of all the people. Indeed, while the mid income house offer is redundant, there aren’t enough houses for the low incomes. However the tax on property that is going to be introduced would discourage to keep vacant houses and the companies will have to focus on another target. Another difficulty of the low income people is to survive. The majority of the city’s inhabitants have a low income and manage get enough money through temporary jobs, like porters, taxi bikers, gardeners, security guards and through a little commerce of agricultural
products or home made manufacts or repairings. It would be important for them to have better spaces where to work, separated from the house and more fit to meet the demand. As already said, the company intend to go on in its way in other areas of the city. This work proposes a different approach, focusing on the area between the colonial city center and Phu My Hung. It includes many living types, for each of them a brief analisys has been made that tries to find an investment opportunity that could satisfy both the company and the people.
Colonial city center
Area of analysis
Phu My Hung
Government plan - the red areas will undergo a typical mixed use
human resources fresh products
highrise developement; the green areas will be transformed into parks.
clothes
salaries
taxi bikers
construction workers garbage porters collectors seasonal food
social services
payments
entertainment religion
daily services food shops
repairs
small trading
fresh products
barber shop
human resources
money salaries trading opportunities
security agents
gardeners construction workers
supplies
Land value -
the areas in red are cheaper, like in the informal districts, the areas in green are more expansive and more desirable.
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biking
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HOUSES ALONG WIDE ROADS
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This is where the middle class lives.The houses are in good conditions and the plot ratio is completely exploited, therefore there’s no opportunity for any developement.
houses shops or workshops
CURRENTLY URBANIZED AREAS This middle class houses are located between regular streets and have proper urbanization works. These areas have become expansive, plus there’s no need to intervene, that means non public endowment, so there’s no room for investments. wide roads with sidewalks and trees
PORT AND WAREHOUSES
ca.15m
according to the plan of the government the port facilities will be romoved making room for new projects
the company would try to maximiza the revenue
the government would try to have services and social housing
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BLOCKS BETWEEN NARROW LANES
The removal of the shipyard is a rare occasion for the company to build a very profitable development in a cheap and free area. For the government it is an occasion to discuss with the company and negotiate other less profitable yet needed projects.
Such a developement is seen with favour by the government, and could also have little revenues for a company. Despite the high number of current owners the number of buyers is potentially larger and there’s the possibility of government endowment. 25-30m
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mezzanine for sleeping
2-3m
10-12m - proposal
more floors to separate living and working
living and working at the ground floor
present dwellers could have subsidies to buy a house in the same place
arcades courtyard used for workshops or open spaces
buying government working
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AROUND PUBLIC BUILDINGS
living and working at the ground floor - now
mezzanine for sleeping
12-15m
Averagely 60 families in 70x70m
lack of light, air and open spaces
2-3m
attractive potential of the building
these public buildings are tightly surrounded by the blocks commercial spaces at the ground floor - proposal
ca. 70 families (+16%) on the same soil with larger floor surface; plus commercial spaces
10-12m 3-4m
the other blocks stand aside
squares around the public building
the square rises the value of the houses
UNHEALTHY SLUMS
Scattered around the messy blocks and narrow lanes there are some public buildings like temples, markets, schools, etc. The population is the same of the sorroundings. The potential attractiveness of those buildings could make it profitable for a developer to intervene and build houses for the current dwellers and other buyers, making room for commercial space as well.
These shacks are illegaly built near canals, where the waste are unloaded due to the lack of any sewer system. The people living here are the poorest of the city. It is a public interest to eliminate this situation and find a better house for these people and meanwhile improve the commercial potential of the canals. restrained potential of the canal as an infrastructure
unhealthy conditions
- now
canal used to carry goods
exploit the commercial potential of the canal
- proposal
The dwellers of the demolished houses could find a new home in the new subsidized houses
the new blocks protects the sqaure
HOUSES ALONG CANALS
Averagely 80 families low class with family in 70x70m based commercial lack of light, air activities and open spaces
mixed activities at the ground floor
living at the upper floors
lots are ca.5m wide - now
wider units to better organize the space
100 families (+20%) on the same soil with larger floor surface
The houses along the canal house a lower middle class involved in commerce and small activities based in the house itself. The revenues from an investment her could be good. It is possible to raise the height and enlarge the commercial space. Again the government could endow the development and subsidize the current dwellers.
one family per floor first floors for commercial spaces
- proposal
stairs will serve more units
duobled width of the units
5m
additional commerce space
canals used to carry goods
8-10m
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<30000p/sqkm
Current situation - most of the houses serves also as workshops and shops, the streets ar narrow and the canals are blocked by slums. This is true for most of the area with few exceptions and is bad for the living conditions and the commerce possibilities.
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30000 - 40000p/sqkm
40000 - 75000p/sqkm
Current trend - as it has been done in Phu My Hung, the companies would concentrate their projects in the more profitable districts, like the ex shipyard, building highrises, retail districts and shopping malls, leaving the rest unchanged.
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The solution uses the economic advantages of a type of investment to carry on a less profitable yet need development. It is a plan wider than a single property, in which the city government dialogues with the private developer. All in all it creates new work spaces, new homes, new public spaces and new commercial spaces in order to make the small traders meet a wider demand, creates better living conditions without sacrifying the local habits. In detail, a project on the dismissed portyard is a very remunerative investment for the compnay that could be used in other necessary projects, giving people better living conditions and the possibility to buy work spaces or commerce spaces. By doing so the trading activity of the city is improved also in the lower level. The surplus of houses could, with a state aid, house the people now living in slums, that must be removed in order to make the canals accessible and be used to bring fresh products from the country to the city. It is a give and take between the government and the company, in which the government permits remunerative investments while requiring other projects that meet the people needs. 15
Cultural Center in Porta Volta @ Milan, for Architectural design studio, held by Cino Zucchi, Silvia Beretta, Beatrice Borasi, Paolo Citterio, Ivica Covic, Laura Quatela, Matteo Vischioni, Leonardo Zuccaro, in 2009
On a surface once occupied by the spanish walls of Milan, it was asked to design a cultural center. It was constituted of a park, an auditorium, a restaurant, a cafeteria and a bookshop, plus a strip of national or regional pavilions, whose design was independent from this one. So, given that the plot would encompass a series of diverse cultural center and a common one, the design works on the idea of unity and diversity. The history, and its meaning, behind this very plot is also interesting. As it was one of the gates of the milanese walls it followed the evolutio of the walls itself. At first the walls
represented a defensive element against enemies, then the gate was used to collect tolls from the goods entering the city, due to the mercantilistic and protectionist economy of the period between XVIII and XIX century. Finally the walls lost all their functions with the free market and the open economy. At the end of this development the project wants to be an attractive spot that summarizes the ideas of unity and diversity into a single design. The plot is ideally enclosed by a wall that recalls the idea of unity. This wall is formed by the toll house, transformed into an info point and the buildings of the auditorium, the restaurant,
the cafeteria and the bookshop. These buildings are detached and the voids in between them are filled by bunches of trees that continue the wall. The design of the buildings is compelled by that of the general masterplan, so they are as much as possible long and narrow, placed along the border of the plot. Inside this ideal, unifying wall, one would feel the variety of the park and of the national pavilions. The park has a series of paths that link the different buildings of the cultural center and contains many elements that strengthen its meaning of diversity. These elements are concrete strips, grass surfaces, stone pavements, gravel, water PORTA VOLTA
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HISTORY 1600
Absolute
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2010
Adaptable
Attractive Common Compromised
pools, flower beds, benches and sprawled trees. To enhance the feeling of unity, the outer surface of the buildings are covered with green walls, made by modular elements that contain earth on which the plants grow. In this way thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no solution of continuity from the trees to the buildings. Plus, the plants growing on the walls could be changed according to the seasons, in order to match the changing colours of the trees. So there can be paler colours in the winter, warmer colours in the autumn, brighter colours in the spring and greener colours in the summer.
WALLS
TOLL GATE
OPEN WALL
MEMORY ILLUSION
Communicative Contradictory Different
Embracing Equal
IDENTITY
Good old things
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Harmonious Inward-looking Illusion of the old walls Meaningful
DEFENSIVE
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OPENESS ATTRACTION
Non-discriminating Offering different points of view Old memories Open Permeable
CULTURE
Toll gate Public Pure
Protecting Respectful DIVERSITY
UNITY
MUTUAL BENEFIT
FAIRNESS IMPARTIALITY
Stimulating Spanish walls
United
EQUAL WALL UNITY
DIVERSITY
MUTUAL BENEFIT
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EQUAL SPACE
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info point
auditorium
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Outer facade - Spring - 1:1000
Outer facade - Summer - 1:1000
Outer facade - Autumn - 1:1000
Outer facade - Winter - 1:1000
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Pittsburgh Ivy
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Algerian Ivy
Glacier Ivy
Blackeyed Susan
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Winter Jasmine
Carolina Jasmine
Apple Blossom
Snowdrift
Blue Passionflower
Boston Ivy
Coral Honeysuckle
Climbing Fig
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History of Brivio @ Brivio, province of Lecco, Italy, for Restoration studio, held by Antonella Saisi, Lorenzo Cantini, Laura Valsasnini, in 2009
- XIX century Within the conservation class, it was required to focus on the history of the town where the class took place, Brivio, and the building under analisys, Palazzo Carozzi. It was the palace of a rich family, the Carozzi, that gained more importance with the construction of a silk factory. The shape of the riverfront and of the palace follows the economy of the history and the economy of the town. A nonexistent riverfront as the river was a border between two states. A riverfront with docks during the industrialization. Today the riverfront is a busy road and the Carozzi family doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t own the palace anymore.
Passage between the palces
Servants wing Carozzi living rooms
Carozzi official palace
Dock XVII century palace
Left-over of the passage
Apartment building
- XX century
Apartment building with commercial activities at the ground floor
Parking lot Apartment building Road
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- Before 1859
Carozzi official palace
Carozzi living rooms
Castle Piazza Carozzi Original Waterfront
Carozzi official palace Carozzi living rooms
- After 1859 Carozzi silk factory built 1875
Castle Piazza Carozzi Dock Waterfront enlargement
Apartment building Apartment building
- Today Ex Carozzi silk factory
Castle Piazza Carozzi
Road New concrete bridge
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Observatory for the Changing Landscape @ Brivio, province of Lecco, Italy; but potentially everywhere, for Landscape design studio, held by Matteo Aimini, in 2009
The assignment for the class was completely free and had to be inspired by the feelings of the place. It sure is a beautiful place: a small yet historic town on the bank of the river Adda that just befor crossing the town draws an bend which defines a wide grove of reeds, with gentle hills all around the valley. On the other hand the towns grow fast and chaotically, without a plan, risking to compromise this landscape. The general sensation is still that of a natural landscape, but villas and sheds are sprawled on the valley. What if this condition is pushed further? The will is to find a way to push this sensation to the extreme. To do so a
plausible dystopia has been invented. It fallows the story of a municipality who canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t balance its budget and calls on construction permits and urbanization burdens. As this rush to the break even goes on, the city grows without an administration able to direct the growth. The population rises, as the traffic does. The costs for services goes the same path and the municipality is at the starting point. Meanwhile the town has grown dramatically, the landscape is compromised, the hydrogeological risk is high and the air polluted. The storyteller of this dystopia is what looks like a normal observatory. It is placed on a
high hill on the left side of the river that is ripid enough to permit a wide view of the whole valley. The observatroy is long and narrow and obliges the observer to walk straight. When he enters he sees the valley, but as he walks on, the glass turns into a screen that displays the montage of the dystopic landscape. Once the observer is in front of the screen, a trap door opens underneath his feet, revealing a window that faces the wild hillside under the observatory. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a succession of feelings, from wonder to awareness to schock, that mean to strongly impress to visitor. Obviously, this story fits everywhere in the world.
OBSERVATORY FOR THE CHANGING LANDSCAPE Will you be prepared when you will face the hard, cold truth?
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Today - reduced money transfers from the central government reduced tax collecting capacity - dependance on bank loans - reduced possibility of long term planning Im
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2010/2015 - dependance on bank loans - relying upon urbanization burdens - increasing congestion - more traffic - increasing costs for services and maintenance Im
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2015/2020 - increasing population - new settlement areas inside the municipality - new industrial districts - services for the new areas needed - texes from construction rpojects - extraordinary costs Im p
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Plan - 1:200
Elevation - 1:200 Wondering - the visitor thinks heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about to approach an observatory where he would be able to gaze the river and the valley around it.
Awareness - as the visitor walks on, the window turns into a screen that displays the distopia of the valley. He is put in front of the dramatic consequences of its own actions.
Shock - while the visitor is in front of that terrifying scenario, a trap door opens underneath his feet, making him face the ripid cliff. He is now in front of the real, inhospitable nature.
Changement - when finally the visitor walks away, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s expected to have undergone a changement due to the fright he just faced.
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Pizzo Sella, Palermo
La Magdeleine, Val dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Aosta
Cielo Drive, Los Angeles
Athens
IT COULD ALSO HAPPEN IN YOUR HOMETOWN
India Pavilion at Expo @ Expo 2015, Milan, for Architectural design studio, held by Remo Dorigati, Giancarlo Floridi, Salvatore Porcaro, in 2010
The decision to design the pavilion of India for the Expo came by observing some maps showing the high amount of cereal production and the equally high amount of people starving in this country. The large population is not a sufficient answer, in fact India has reached grain self sufficiency. To understand this datas it was necessary to study the farming system, the agriculture policies, the ownership of the land, the dimension of the farms, the living conditions of the farmer and the most diffused crops. It came out that most of the land is owned by small farmers who own a farm that is averagely
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slightly larger than 1ha. With this dimension the farmer meets several difficulties. It is hard to imrpove the technology and the quality of the instruments. It is hard to have a variety of products in order to face sudden price changes. It is hard to face the powerful middlemen who are able to impose the prices. It is hard to find a shortcut in the distribution chain in order to sell at higher prices. However it can be noticed that these small farms have a higher diversity of crops and a higher crop yield. So it can be said that the fragmentation is a problem, but it is a potential resource as well. To represent this idea of
diversity it was necessary a means that would encompass some aspects of the indian inner diversity. This means was found in the holidays, since they are related with both the religion and the agriculture. The plot of 18x150m was treated as a series of calendar, one for each of the five most popular indian religions: Hinduism, Islam, Sikhism, Christianism and Buddhism. The calendar was divided according to the indian cropping seasons: Kharif, during the rainy season, Rabi, during the dry season, Zaid, the short warm and dry spring. Along the plot the crops related to the season are planted, every
Religious diversity crop with a surface proportional to its importance in the diet. Between one season and the another there are squares which represent the harvesting, the exchange of products and the sowing for the following season. These are the periods when, or the places where, the holidays are concentrated. It is a fact that many religions (with the exception of Islam which follows a lunar calendar, but is too popular in India to be excluded) have their holidays during seasonal change or specific periods of the agricultural calendar.
Agricultural diversity
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Holidays
30 Cultivations
- Buddha Jayanti
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handmade iron and gypsum frames for the walls and the covering, yellow fabric hanging from the covering, concrete foundation and stone pavement.
rammed earth walls with bamboo reinforcement, seeds pasted to the walls, wooden beams and earth cover, concrete foun dation and stone pavement. 1:50
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Vaisakhi
Easter Buddha Jayanti
Navatri
Bakrid Diwali
Vaisakhi / sikhism / mid april. It celebrates the harvest of the rabi crops. It is an agricultural feast and the pavilion uses the first products of the harvest. These are the fascines and the jute f a b r i c .
Navatri / hinduism / late september. As the monsoons end and the kharif crops are harvested, this festival celebrates the victory of good over evil and prays for the rabi crops. Tradition says to put a seed in a bunch of mud.
Easter / christianism / april. The most important christian holiday celebrates the resurrection of Christ. Its elements are light and fire. Like Buddha Jayanti it concours with the beginning of spring and the rebirth is both spiritual and seasonal.
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Lohri
Vasant Panchami
Buddha Jayanti / buddhism / april. The birthday of Buddha means rebirth and regeneration as the spring begins. The water element and the colour white represent the purity of the rebirth.
Holi
Diwali / hinduism / mid november. It is celebrated at the beginning of winter and the rabi crop. This holiday serves to face the incoming period of darkness with lights. Candles are kept lit inside dark rooms.
Lohri / sikhism, hinduism / mid January. This festivals is mainly celebrated in Punjab and nearbies states. People pray for a good rabi harvest while dancing and chanting around a bonfire and throwing food at it.
Bakrid / islam / varies. This holiday remembers the episode of Abraham and Isac. Muslims celebrate it sacrifying a goat, a sheep or a cow. Like the biblical episode it calls for peace and reconciliation.
Va sant Panchami / hinduism / february. Holi / hinduism / March. It is the liveliest holiday in India and celebrates the end of winter, the rabi harvest and the next kahrif seeding. People throw coloured powders to each other in a very joyous atmosphere.
It is celebrated just after the mustard harvest and is dedicated to the avatar of Ganesh that represents knowledge. Mustard and other yellow spices are used.
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Lake Karla Labyrinth @ Lake Karla, prefecture of Magnesia , Greece, for Changing landscapes workshop, Mediterranean sensitive areas design, supervised by Matteo Aimini, Javier Boned Purkiss, Robert de Paaw, Ozan Avci, Kostas Manolidis, Aspasia Kouzoupi, Spiros Papadopoulos, in 2011
Lake Karla is a lake drained in 1962 to gain agricultural land, however the saline soil never made possible a successful agriculture, so in recent years a project for the restoration of the lake has been carried out with the support of the European Union. So far 50 of the 180sqkm have been re-flooded. The project was a part of an international workshop on mediterranean sensitive areas. The program was up to each work group. Given that the groups were formed by seven students from different schools it required a hard group work to put everybody in accordance with the ideas.
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However we menaged to find a satisfying idea. It was to build a labyrinth made of reeds and other plants inside the lake. As the lake was drained and lost its unique fishing culture, and as it was flooded again and the farmers had to change their occupation, it can be said that the lake canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t find its identity. So the labyrinth provides the experiance of losing yourself. There is a sequence of experiences as one approaches the lake. The starting point could be any of the towns west of the lake. As walking or biking eastwards, one first crosses the agricultural fields gained reclaimed from the former lake. Then one has to climb upe the
dam, from that position thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a view down to the lake and the labyrinth. After going down to the shore, there are some small docks, each with a small boat docked to them. It will be used to sail into the labyrinth and getting lost. After finding the way out, one orients himself in the open width of the lake. The labyrinth is made with helophytes vegetation with phytodepuration capacities, like Phragmites Australis, Iris Pseudocorus, Scirpus Lacustris, Carex sp, Spargarlum Erectum, Typha Angustifolia, Juncus sp. The difference between the norhern and the southern parts follows the relative difference in the agricultural pattern.
- Crossing the agricultural fields Lake Karla lost its identity
The labyrinth provides the experience to lose yourself
The labyrinth cleans the water
- Looking at the labyrinth from above
- Getting lost inside the labyrinth
- Orienting yourself in the lake
The labyrinth is lake Karlaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new identity
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Eco-Archaeological Park of Urkesh @ district of Al Qamishli, Syria, for Master thesis, supervised by Matteo Aimini, in 2011
The idea behind this project is to use the archaeological excavation in Mozan as a starting point of an eco-archaeological park. Mozan is a village that lays in the same place of an ancient city, Urkesh, founded at the beginning of the fourth millennium AC. The city was abondoned at the end of the secon millennium and it became a tell. This geo-archaeological formation is caused by the layering of demolished building under the newer ones, then, as the city was abondoned, the formation takes the look of a natural hill, covered by earth and shaped by the elements. It is an eco-archaeological park Urkesh, ca. 2000AC
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since it exploits the results and the attractivenessof the excavations in order to start a developing process that would affect the society, the economy and the landscape. The strategy is to propose a program and imagine a project as its avatar. The improvement of the socio-economic conditions passes through the diversification of the economy, the gathering of capitals for the improvement of the agricultural and craftsmanship techniques, the creation of a network of villages to enlarge the market areas, the attraction of tourism. The project works on a â&#x20AC;&#x153;urbanâ&#x20AC;? scale, inserting functions into the villeges in order to sparkle
diverse developments, and on a regional scale, spreading some devices for the perception of the landscape that ideally unite the whole region. All the proposals try to be light sensible to the landscape. The buildings inserted to the village are built according to the traditional techniques. They are put at the borders of the village and have a conventional inward facade, while the outward side ĂŹs a slope that camouflages with the ground. The devices are arranged throughout the whole region and have different functions, but all of them ideally keep the region unite, creating a network of villages connected by the landscape. Mozan, today
Village
Countryside
private enterprises and trading
Phase 3
Developments triggered in the villages
panoramic spots
landscape monitoring local gastronomy
maintenance of the park
nightscape
Functions inserted into the village tourism diversified crops crafts workshop
perception of the large spaces
public spaces
agricultural workshop
accomodations
Phase 2
horticulture and arboriculture
virtual models of Urkesh
classrooms
microcredit staring at the sky
Phase 1
zoom agricultural depot micromuseum
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classrooms
agricultural workshop
microcredit
accomodations
micromuseum
public spaces
crafts workshop
agricultural depot
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- Construction of a new building
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Functions and Developments in Mozan and nearbies villages The functions are public infrastructures built in the villages, while the developments are the expected consequences of the insertion of the fucntions, so they are result of private enterprise, So the accomodations and micromuseums could improve tourism, while increasing the customers for the local products whose manufacturing methods could be improved by the presence of a crafts workshop and so on.
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Tell and village
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Telescopes that connect the village one to the other, both ideally and visually
Large spaces
staring at the sky
Oasis that offer shady repairs and put the night sky into a frame with a circle of trees
Tell and village
virtual models of Urkesh
Tell and village
A system of boxes that overlap the present sight of the tell with the reconstructed view of the ancient Urkesh
Tell and village
The Devices and the landscape keep the region unite The villages of the region are averagely 2km far from thenext one and are sorrounded by cultivated fields. As Mozan and the nearby villages would make up a network, the connective tissue must be provided by the landscape, because of the distance from one village to another. So these devices, along with the landscape give unity to the region.
perception of the large spaces
The trees hide the objects on the horizon to the observer, who loses all its reference points
nightscape
d Villages
Lighting systems that make the villages and the tells visible from long distances
panoramic spots
Tell and village
Light, austere and martial looking towers that offer new points of view over the landscape
Taurus mountains
Crops fabric
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About Fabrizio Introini - frz.ntr@gmail.com
Education - 2008/2011: Master degree in Architecture, Politecnico di Milano. - 2004/2008: Bachelor degree in Environmental Architecture, Politecnico di Milano. - 1999/2004: Diploma, High school specializing in science education “E. Alessandrini”, Vittuone, Italy.
Work Experience - 2010: LAND - landscape architecture design - 3 months - As an assistant designer I took part in several projects, like the exteriors of a musem’s proposal, the garden of a country mansion and a project for a competition that, starting form the strategic masterplan of a town close to Turin, tried to propose a metropolitan scale plan. - 2009: arch. Laura Quatela - architectural design - 1 month - Within a team specifically made up for a competition about a housing project, I fully participated in the design process from the developement of the idea to the layout of the competition panels. - 2007: arch. Roberto Altini - architectural design - 3 months - I participated in the drawing of a few residential projects and of the renovation of a parish recreational center.
Languages - Italian native speaker. - English C2 level - according to TOEFL.
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Softwares Autocad, Rhinoceros, Sketchup, 3DSMax, Ecotect, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, Acrobat, Office.
Skills Competent in the design process for both landscape and architecture. Having participated in some competitions or workshops that had short deadlines, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m prepared to work at different rithms and under pressure, being able to focus on the solution or on the final result, without giving up precision. I attended a english language master degree in which many of the students were foreigners, so I developed a grasp in both everyday and technical english; furthermore I had the opportunity to work and study with people from different countries and to experience different cultures and different kinds of approach to architecture. Since most of the works Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve took part so far were group based, I grew a good team work attitude and organization ability, being naturally sociable as well.
Interests Music, from trip-hop to punk, from classical to dnb. Literature, especially the decades across XIX and XX century, plus other more recent writers like Hesse, Calvino or Ballard. As for architecture related literature I would list some classical such as Mumford, Schultz or Koolhaas. History books, of politics, society, economy, arts and the links between these aspects; recently Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been focusing on the age of enlightenment and on the rise of romanticism. Cinema, but here it is hard to pick out a few preferences. Then I may list travels, architecture blogs like bldgblog or cityofsound, running, skying and biking.
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Credits - Giovanni Forte, Michele Gemmi, Le Huy Binh, Hieu Tran Quang, Yibo Xu, Xanya Xu, Jelena Crnogorcic, Vera Djurdjevic, Caio Smolarek Dias, Luca Gobbetti, Beatrice Azzola, Martha Clifford, Aranzazu Caravantes Garcia, Lilia Mitsiou, Staurula Psomiadi, Maria Concepcion Ruiz Terradillos
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