PORTFOLIO Federica Bonaccorsi
+44 7490674687 federicabon92@gmail.com
FEDERICA BONACCORSI
21 Abbotsbury Close, E152RR | London +44 7490 674687 federicabon92@gmail.com
EDUCATION
SKILLS MASTER’S DEGREE (MArch) Universita’ degli studi di Catania SDS Siracusa, School of Architecture Siracusa, Italy final mark : First class honours (1st)
2010 - 2017
ERASMUS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM Universidade de Evora Faculdade de Arquitectura Evora, Portugal
2012 - 2013
HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA Liceo Classico “Mario Cutelli” Catania, Italy final mark : 100/100
2005 - 2010
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE March - July 2016
BURRELL & MISTRY LTD Architecture and interior design studio Architect Intern London, United Kingdom
OTHER December 2015 March 2016
SDS SIRACUSA, SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE Building Recovery Technologies Course Students and Teacher Assistant Siracusa, Italy
September 2015
GAZEBOOK International festival of Photobook Staff Ragusa, Italy
February July 2014
PLAN B, VIRTUAL CREATIVITY Interactive Multimedia site specific installations workshop participant Siracusa, Italy
AUTOCAD SKETCH - UP V - RAY
software
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP INDESIGN ILLUSTRATOR LIGHTROOM MICROSOFT OFFICE Passionate and hard worker personal Strong graphic and presentation skills Inquisitive and easy learner Good photographic and model making skills Tenacious attention to details and quality Excellent organisational skills Good attitude for team work and cooperation
LANGUAGES ITALIAN ENGLISH PORTUGUESE
native work proficiency basic
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INTERESTS PHOTOGRAPHY TRAVELLING COOKING ART & CINEMA
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INDEX MASTER’S FINAL PROJECT The domestic character of urban space, Urban redevelopment’s project for Largo XVII Agosto in Catania
WORK EXPERIENCE A victorian house refurbishment
ACADEMIC WORKS
1 Tourism Units, a future from the past 2 Restoration project for San Giorgio’s Convent
PHOTOGRAPHY PROJECTS
WHAT ABOUT This portfolio documents my architectural and graphic design works produced in the last seven years. Beyond a summary of experiences, the following projects aim to show the attitude that drives my work. While informing the viewer about the content of the works, mostly produced during my academic courses, it offers evidence of the qualities valued, chief among which are attention to detail, precision, versatility and strong graphic skills.
MASTER’S FINAL PROJECT The domestic character of urban space, Urban redevelopment’s project for Largo XVII Agosto in Catania
Urban | Redevelopment | Residential | Public | Transformation
THE PROJECT My research was driven by the will to regain a forgotten part
SDS Siracusa | School of Architecture
Master’s final project
Year
2017
Tutors
V. Fiore
Location
Catania, Sicily, Italy
of my city, whose the current main use is an illegal car parking. So I’ve decided to design a redevelopment plan for Largo XVII Agosto, an urban void born after a second world bombing in 1943. In the last decades, it has been subject of constant maintenance’s lack, being affected by serious building transformations. Nevertheless this place is the only big square in the urban fabric of the working-class neighborhood to which it belongs. For this reason, it’s a site of social interaction: the kids play outdoors, the neighbors talk each other from the balconies and the elders sit in front of their doorsteps. The project’s purpose is to led a transforming action which change the ability to see and feel the space in the users, respecting its history and identity. Each site has a peculiar character, as a personality that suggests the unique, because places like human beings acquire unique signatures in the course of time. The square shows a “domestic” character, resulting from the local way to live this space that is “on the doorstep”, which means that it’s seen as a home extension and the people feel strictly belonging to the site. That’s why the project aims to establish a direct dialogue with the local citizens, while integrating itself with the environmental context.
single - celled
double - celled 1 facade module
double - celled 1 and 1/2 facade modules
double - celled 2 facade modules
Typology Evolution of Housing Unit
Site Section AA’
inhabitants
passer-by
Users Diagram
fast proceeding slow proceeding collection points
Design Genesis project layout
existing building guidelines demolished building guidelines
Firstly, I’ve made an analysis of the existing urban context in order to understand the spatial and architectonic characteristics of the area, how it’s used, its traffic and pedestrian routes, the events that happen within it. The proposal emphasizes in the reuse and activation of this empty urban spot, combining it with the creation of a dynamic public space, habitable both by locals and guests. I’ve defined different areas using free standing walls and applying new flooring patterns for each one, called “Urban Rooms” dedicated to specific public activities. The “Play Rooms” are the spaces for outdoor kids games, the “Garden Room” is a shared garden cooperatively owned and used by locals, “Home Theater” is the area for open-air shows. The walls avoid the car parking in the square, recalling meanwhile the original morphology and distinguishing symbolic exteriors and interiors, the passing areas and the urban rooms, respectively. The project also concerns about facilities and green, so I’ve included new green areas and vegetation, benches and a pergola.
building demolished layout
demolished buildings after 1943’s bombing
current layout
Site Section BB’
1832 main roads
1876
today
demolitions
secondary roads medieval road layout
Voids/Saturations Alternation
Building Analysis
streets and squares
special qualified
courtyards for private use
qualified
before
residential monumental specialized monumental modern residential
after bombing
A’
D’
C’
B’
Masterplan
E E’
F F’
G G’ H
A
B
C
D
H’
Secttion FF’
Flows Distribution Diagram
Functions Diagram
Secttion DD’
Secttion BB’
Another intervention’s section concerns the refurbishment of the abandoned house in S-W corner of the square, which was left alone after the destruction of its house block during the bombing. It has all the architectural characteristics of the original local residential type, that I wanted to preserve while transforming it in a coffe bar. The proposal consists in the renovation of several elememts such as the roof, the restoration of the original damaged plaster and the installation of new ones like the weathering steel fixtures and the sliding solar shading panel as entrance portal. The linear flowerbeds placed in front of the houses, interrupting the square’s flooring, are designed to bound a separate space for the house’s tenants, which can also raise their own plants.
Detail 1 sicilian tiles ventilated gap waterproog sheet wood fibre insulation panel vapor barrier wooden planks
timber joists
Detail 2
outflow strut
crown post
tie rod
skim lime-based plaster weathering steel soffit with lintel function
sliding solar shading panel
1
2
“Kubbu” is a stand, designed from the need to have a support structure for the close shared garden activity. So primarily it’s a collecting point for the shared gardening tools but also a recycling, bike’s fixing and wi-fi stand. To be easily recognisable and characterizing the square, the shape is perfectly square and it acts like a box, becouse it could be opened on three sides through piston and hinge openings becoming shelters or entrance slips. The structure is ecological and can be builded and dismantled in site.
West
East
North
South
Paneling timber beads fixed to the structure
Section
Structure welded steel hollow profiles of square section
WORK EXPERIENCE A victorian house refurbishment
Urban | Redevelopment | Residential | Public | Transformation
THE PROJECT During my internship period in the studio I’ve specially dealt
Burrell & Mistry LTD
Internship | Architect assistant
Year
March - July 2016
Tutors
James Burrell, Graham Modlen
Location
London, United Kingdom
with a refurbishment project of a victorian house in south London [Baskerville Road]. The clients, art and design lovers, asked for a modern style renovation, focusing on the basement and ground floor levels. I’ve been involved both in the planning and in the design steps of the project providing 2D and 3D drawings such as layouts, preliminary sketches, technical drawings and the building model. Afterwards I focused on interior design choices preparing moadboards, photomontages and early renders to show to the clients the different solutions about finishes and furniture during the meetings. Then I often liaised with suppliers to choose the right materials and furniture pieces and I’ve personally designed the bespoke bookshelf in the main living room.
Groundfloor plan
Basement plan
Sections B joint
Sections A joint
Basement Bathroom visualitasion
Kitchen visualitasion
1
ACADEMIC WORKS Tourism Units, a future from the past
Urban | Redevelopment | Residential | Public | Transformation
THE PROJECT The project is located in Aldeia de Estrela [a little Village
Universidade de Évora | Faculdade de Arquitectura
Project 3 | Architectonic composition and urban planning
Year
2012-2013
Tutors
J. Nasi Pereira, J. Matos
Location
Aldeia de Estrela, Portugal
in Alentejo, Portugal], now mostly abandoned and partly swamped after the construction of an artificial dam close to the site. With the purpose of reactivate the local economy, the intervention consists of tourism units, designed after a careful study of the location and analysis of alentejan housing tradition. The design develops different cell-types, based on the concept of “patio”, coming down from the hill to the waterfront, establishing an overall connection between the landscape and the water. The alternation of private and public courts, framing different points of view around the landscape, creates spaces usable by tourists but also by the local people.
Site Plan
Location
Project Plan
Section 1
Section 2
Cell-types Plans
Elevation on street
Section 4
Section 3
ACADEMIC WORKS
2
Restoration project for San Giorgio’s Convent
Urban | Redevelopment | Residential | Public | Transformation
THE PROJECT The old village of Randazzo [Sicily - Italy] arises on ancient
SDS Siracusa | School of Architecture
Project 4 | Architectonic composition and restoration
Year
2013 - 2014
Tutors
M. R. Vitale, E. Magnano di San Lio, E. Fidone
Location
Randazzo, Sicily, Italy
lava flows which go down to the Alcantera river, and it’s sorrounded by Nebrodi mountains and Etna volcano. On the top of the hill stands the ex San Giorgio’s Convent, a medieval factory, now abandoned. During the course, different student’s groups mapped the Convent through a site survey, to collect informations and study materials about its current condition. After a philological and storic-critic interpretation of the factory, we analyzed the problems connected to the materials deterioration and to structural instability, to reach a motivated restoration proposal to assure the conservation and the transmission of the building. My work specially focused on the convent’s first floor and on the reuse of ancient medieval walls, which sorround the convent. About the building’s interior, I’ve provided the longitudinal section and the roof’s plan illustrating all the degradation diseases and suggesting specific restoration interventions for each.
CONSTRUCTION DETAILS
Cloister Vault Roof
Window Frames Exterior
Interior
Stairway Tower plan
Section BB’ Masterplan
Detail 1 weathering steel plate
wall’s footway stairway tower exposition rooms offices stairs terrace
steel dowels concrete screed
Detail 2 1 lightweight concrete scred wooden plank wooden joists
galvanized steel columns
timber beam steel & neoprene pad steel set screw steel plate rod concrete curb
2
Section AA’
Tower North elevation
Footway Elevation
The masterplan’s design results from the relation between the convent’s history and its preexistences, exploiting the theme of the path. The project idea is to place a weathering steel footway on the medieval walls, using the existing old patrol path. The walkway allows the view of the surrounding landscape but aslo the connection with convent’s garden and with the building, when it becomes suspended and supported by pillars to the first floor entrance of the convent. The rest of the project is about the use of the natural slope, created by lava flows, that goes down from the walls ridge to the street level. Taking inspiration by the siege tower, a military element used in the past to conquer walled cities, it has been designed a stairway tower which allows to coming down and going up from the walkway on the top of the walls to the hill’s ground, and then connected to a ramp that reach the street level.
PHOTOGRAPHY PROJECTS
I’m really keen on photography, that I’ve experimented both digital and analog. I use it to review the life surrounding me, that’s why the projects evolved so far are specially about street scenes, landscapes and the relation between city’s spaces, architecture and human beings.
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