Fiorenza Giometti Taught MPhil in Architecture and Urban Design Projective Cities
Index Academic projects - Thesis Project supervised by Marianne Mueller and Marco Lucchini
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- Scenography Studio supervised by Pierluigi Salvadeo
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- Object and Space Seminar supervised by Sean Griffiths, Charles Holland and Sam Jacobs
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- Kooperation Seminar supervised by Sebastian Klawiter and Hanna Noller
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- Interior Design Studio 2019 supervised by Roberto Rizzi
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- Architectural Design Workshop supervised by Antonio Carvalho
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- Final Design Workshop supervised by Fabrizio Zanni
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- Interior Design Studio 2017 supervised by Arnaldo Arnaldi
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Professional projects - International Ideas Competition in collaboration with Lorenzo Melandri and Marcello Cova
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- Photographic Exhibition Setting in collaboration with Lorenzo Melandri and Marcello Cova
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Competition - DOCEXDOCE Competition 2018 in collaboration with Giada Giovinazzi and Pierandrea Micale
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Thesis Project at Polytechnic of Milan and ABK Stuttgart Supervised by the professors Marianne Mueller and Marco Lucchini Individual work October 2020 - December 2020
The Economist Building, London 1959/64 by Alison and Peter Smithson
Project : The Design Process Axonometry 1:200
One Tower Option
The Hedonist Building, No-Context Winter semester, 2019/20
The thesis Project, Milan Summer semester, 2019/20
BASE BUILDINGS
Klasse fur Entwerfen, Architektur und Gebaudetypologie Prof. Marianne Mueller AA Dipl. AM David Brodbeck
Winter Semester 2019 / 2020 Fiorenza Giometti
The design process started with a deep analysis of the English Tower, subsequently, it was asked to select two base elements of the studied planimetry, and to experiment different compositions through the ensemble of them. The case study is not just a theoretical reference, but an active and practical tool. I developed a tall skyscraper, without any context restriction. I wanted to work on ideas such as density, different volumes height, and the possibility of living the facade as an active perimeter. The aim of the project was a Base Building, referred to as the “Open Building Manifesto”. In contrast to the concept of flexibility, Base buildings should allow changes and appropriations without physically changing themselves. Infill represents a relatively mutable part of the building. The infill may be determined or alternated for each individual household or tenant without affecting the support, or the “base”, consisting of structure, and plants. For this reason, I developed “infill” and “base” options at every stage of the design. Further analyses were made, and I choose the Milan context for the insertion and adaptation of the project. I selected a block in Isola, facing piazzale Archinto, and I worked on the typological hybridization of the tower and the “ballatoio” (distributional galleries) buildings. I kept the principal themes of the previous project: density, different volumes height, and the possibility of living the facade as an active perimeter. I particularly focus on the facade, and how it could interact with the surrounding. Its elements are searching dialogue with the preexistences, without abolishing the reference to the Economist Building.
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Milanese facades analysis examples
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Milanese block analysis examples
Masterplan with the insertion of the project into the Milanese context
Ground floor Base Plan
Ground floor Infill Plan
Concept: Private and wide balconies External facades
Typical floor Base Plan
Public distributional galleries Courtyard facades
Typical floor Infill Plan
Facade Model
Facade Model
Balcony Unit First Layer Light Tones
Section Video Link: https://youtu.be/9vm5_6t_wlQ “Moment” Video Link: https://youtu.be/y_JM4ARIz08 Detail Video Link: https://youtu.be/EtSGEAUWmlQ Openable Table Balustrade Video Link: https://youtu.be/LWKpd0kXgDE
Double Unit Balcony
Balcony Unit Second Layer Dark Tones
One Unit Balcony
Balcony Unit
Once I came back to Italy, with the project finished, as the conclusion of my design experience, I chose to compare my work with existing Milanese examples. This further analysis aims to verify the validity of my proposal, as well as its weaknesses. Thus, the methodology is verified too as a consequence. The project was born from the transplant of an imaginary building generated with the Economist Building base elements. The adaptation to the Milanese contest was then, in a certain way, a match between e redesigned Smithsonian building and the Italian Modernism. I will explain better: the deep immersion in the study of the Economist Building and the adoption of some of the architects’ statements made me develop a construction that explicitly refers to English Modernism. However, its insertion, and the operation of redesigning (for the second time), that I made on it, thinking about the Italian genius loci,have turned the project into a hybrid, a similar Anglo-Italian modernist building. I did not expect this result at the beginning of the project, but I am conscious of the historically circumscribed but flourishing debate that my project building can arouse. I selected four Milanese towers for studying some intriguing comparisons. Torre Breda, Torre Tirrena, Torre Velasca and Torre Turati. The first three mentioned towers represented the new Milan, rising after the war. Torre Turati is a bit younger and it is the only steel structure because the material became cheaper through the years. While Torre Breda is clearly aligned with the American skyscraper, Torre Velasca is the manifesto of Rogers’ ideas about ambiance. Torre Tirrena, which has two of the three Breda’s architects in common, is a harmonious example of a good tower design, less drastic than the Velasca though. I enjoyed this futher research aimed to prove the validity of my proposal. Thesis Dissertation Link: https://issuu.com/fioregiometti/docs/dissertation_giometti
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Scenography for “Le Baccanti” at the Greek Theatre of Syracuse Project for Scenography Studio at Polytechnic of Milan Supervised by the professor Luigi Salvadeo Individual work February 2020 - July 2020 I was thinking about the scenography as a theatrical machine, a device, a moving gear, which allows to create a series of different situations thanks to the rotation of the base platform. DEUS EX MACHINA. The elements of the metal structure have a chromatic variation which, with the changing of light due to the sunset, the succession of the tragedy, and the rotation of the platform, have a visual impact constantly different for the spectators. In Euripides’ drama, the theme of madness is preponderant. Represented by the mountain of fine powder that is apparently white and harmless. With the passage of time, the level of madness increases in the story and the fluorescent dust, also scattered on the stalls, begin to light up in the night, until it reaches the peak of revelation at the end of the performance, completely showing the mountain and revealing to the spectator that have become part of this contagious madness. Video Link: https://youtu.be/lx7X6fmsuh8
Joint axonometry
Detailed section of the steel structure
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Detailed axonometry
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Joint exploded axonometry
Painted steel modules
Detailed section of the rotating platform on sliding on rails
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WRONG ARCHITECTURE The first time I opened the door of my German bedroom, it was the 9th of October 2019. After a long journey by coach - I still don’t believe I conside- red that transport the best option for the route Bologna / Stuttgart - I finally arrived at my new home. The doorkeeper gave me the keys with shaggy speed, like who knows how to do something with the experience of years and finds it tedious too. A signature here an ID there, and done. By my side, I was quite narcoleptic after a night of Flixbus, which agglomerates the pure concept of bad and good of the all world. Or at least of the all Europe. I took smelly elevators and I walked throw an unquantifiable number of cor- ridors. The building was new, that kind of modern that is cheap, meant to be impersonal, functional, and quickly replaceable (as well as the inhabitants). The walkway in front of my flat was a pink fluo plaster painting situation, and I found it a good sign. “Maybe the place is generic, but at least I’m in the pinky ones”. I thought I couldn’t stand six months of a purple entrance, for example. Once opened the front door, that was massively weighty, I discovered again the theme of the corridor. It was my kitchen. And the corridor. A long and thin L shape space, with kitchen on one side and window to the other, between them, a greedy and gnawing gap just sufficient to be legal to walk through. No sofa. A two chairs table, facing the walls. At the extreme of the kitchen-corridor, finally my bedroom. I opened the door with the clumsiness of curiosity, and I saw it. And I saw him, to be exact because he was a cumbersome presence, defi- nable as an entity. Exactly in the middle of my bedroom, one meter from the door opening, there was a 35X40 cm concrete pillar. All the furniture, the covered in plastic laminate bedroom kit, were floating elements around the column, as a wo- oden solar system. The room was rectangular and white, laminate on the floor, and a huge PVC window with two openings on the right side. After a while, I discovered that if I was lying on the bed, facing the window side, in a certain perspective, in a certain hour, with my eyes slightly closed, the pillar just disappeared in the whiteness of the light. But I had to share the other 23 hours of the day with my new roommate. The first solution was to not stay at home, but I was new in the city and I didn’t know anyone. So one evening, coming back home, I felt lonely and I just said: Hallo Karl. At that moment, I realized that his name, the name of the pillar, was Karl. He had a name. I draw a smiley face on a sheet of paper and I stuck it on Karl with some paper tape. Sometimes I liked to move the face on different sides of the pillar so I could see it from the corridor, or that the neighborhood could see it from the building in front of us, through the windows. Because it happened to bump into Karl during the night, and sometimes it was painful, I rolled up Christmas lights around him, and then some decora- tion, and then some pictures. Karl was turning into a party guy. When I started to meet people and hang out with other Erasmus students, my friends met Karl, and we choose a second name and a surname. Karl Bo Solidwerkstatt, our first german friend, my flatmate. We were talking about Karl with new people, defining more and more his personality and his deeds. It
Visualizations and Text for Object and Space Seminar at ABK Stuttgart Supervised by FAT Architecture: professors Sean Griffiths, Charles Holland and Sam Jacobs. Individual work February 2020 - July 2020 Link to the Seminar Page: https://fat-seminar.tumblr.com/tagged/FiorenzaGiometti
KOOPERATION Ivana Sebastian Aleksandar
ProJenga Project for Kooperation Seminar at ABK Stuttgart Supervised by the professors Sebastian Klawiter and Hanna Noller Individual work October 2019 - February 2020
Claudia Peter Xinyu Solveig Marius Mark Nandan
FOR EVERYONE IN THE CENTER OF THE ABK
THE MAIN IDEA IS TO MAKE A DESIGN THAT COULD EASILY SOLVE A PROBLEM. I AM FIORENZA, ACTUALLY AN EXCHANGE STUDENT AT THE ABK STUTTGART. ONCE ARRIVED HERE I DISCOVERED THAT THE REALITY WAS DIFFERENT FROM THE EXPECTATION. THE PROMISE WAS ENGLISH COURSES, BUT EVERYTHING WAS IN GERMAN. THE LACK OF COMMUNICATION FOR A HUMAN BEING CAN BE TAUGHT, AS WELL AS THE BUREAUCRATIC SYSTEM IN ANOTHER LANGUAGE. WHAT BETTER OCCASION THAN A COOPERATION SEMINAR FOR FINDING A SOLUTION? LET’S GIANT JENGA THEN! WITH THIS CONCEPT I WANTED TO CREATE AN EASY WAY, NO LANGUAGE NEEDS, FOR COMMUNICATING WITH OTHER PEOPLE. IF YOU WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT Video Link: https://youtu.be/zL-4sx-f8i8 THE STORY OF THE PROCESS CHECK THE INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT AND STAY jengaTUNED. https://www.instagram.com/pro.jenga/?hl=it
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S.O.U.L. Project for Interior Design Studio at Polytechnic of Milan Supervised by the professor Roberto Rizzi in collaboration with Alessandro Di Marino February 2019 - July 2019
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S.O.U.L., SanSiro Open Unit Living, is a design proposal for the refurbishment of a Milanese public estate of the sixties’. The project was born from the reflection on the collective living patterns of the existent, we analyzed the actual potential and the critical issues. The intervention involves new interiors with a larger variety of dwellings and common spaces. The addition of distributional galleries and vertical connections to the preexistent facades gains new space for the flats. A layer of private loggias is hanged to the opposite side, working as additional living space.
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Functional scheme Common spaces Services
Commercial Bike park
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Refurbishment scheme Additions Demolition
As is visible in the following pages, we have defined a private nucleus of services in the center of the typical apartment. The interiors are gradually fragmented through the mediation of filter spaces. The pattern is therefore always constant: common space ( the semi-public distributional galleries) - filter (the modular entrance) - the social interiors ( the place of socialization of the apartment) - the private interiors ( the central nucleus of services and the bedroom) - the filter (the semi-private loggias) - outdoor space. The filter space of the loggias gives an additional room in-between exteriors and interiors, working as a winter garden during the cold season, and a balcony for the summer. It works as a termic regulator too. The filter between the collective space and the living room of the apartments has taken the form of an equipped entrance to the house, that we studied in detail.
Preexistent - Typical plan Only two types of flats, one for single, one for families
Project refurbishment - Typical plan Moving vertical and horizontal distribution outside gave as more space. The results are dwellings of different types and for different ranges of users. The distributional galleries are wide and semi-public, while the loggia’s layer is private. The galleries pavement is divided into a wooden line for the flow, and cement resin for the resting areas in front of the living spaces of the dwellings. The common space of the galleries is rhythmically marked by entrance modules.
Distributional galleries side - Elevation
Estate refurbishment - Section
Detailed section - Distributional galleries and entrance module
Details - Custom furniture of the entrance module. Four chairs and one openable table Video Link:
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Detailed Plan - Entrance module
Exploded axonometry - A light steel structure, covered by wood on the inside and steel sheet on the outside.
Study Model - Entrance module
SOCIAL HOUSING IN LAMBRATE
Project for Architectural Design Workshop Supervised by the professor Antonio Carvalho at Polytechnic of Milan October 2018 - February 2019 Individual work
The project started with the definition of the masterplan by teams, and later I studied in detail only in the southern building complex. The aim was to realize social housing in a site close to the railway. During the site inspection, I discovered a spontaneous wood that began the concept of the project. I choose to design the common spaces and the distribution as floating elements in the wood. Keeping the residential part on the back of this thin steel system, the project of the intern is based on the idea of slow privatization. One front is public and open, the other is close and private, between a distributive filtering space.
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Trees legend:
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First Floor
Second Floor
Trees Scheme:
Third Floor
Surroundong Alignments:
Roof
Pedestrian flows:
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Evergreens
Pre-existing Trees
Playground’s Trees Pre-existing Trees New Trees
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Longitudinal Section The ground floor is fragmented and permeable. It houses a concierge and two types of atelier-apartment, one simplex and one duplex. On the upper floors there is the gallery distributional system, various types of accommodation, for two, three or five persons. The tree houses are the common spaces, where the inhabitants can share activities. Groundfloor Plan
Elevation East
Elevation West
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Typical Floor Plan
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Axonometries of the Tree House
Cross Detailed Section 1:20
System of the steel structure
Moquette 1:100
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The two campings are developed in a circular pattern. The walkway follows the shape of the shore, turning into floating islands for hosting the campings. They have modular cells, fire places and facilities. The cells structure is in still covered with waterproof fabric. They were inspired by the floating lanterns, during the night time they will create an evocative game of lights. Video Link: https://youtu.be/NGyHYsHEYok
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KOMOREBI Project for Interior Design Studio at Polytechnic of Milan Supervised by the professor Arnaldo Arnaldi In collaboration with Giada Giovinazzi September 2016 – February 2017 The theme of the course was the redevelopment of an abandoned building in Milan. We started from a suggestion raised during the site inspection of the old skeleton of the construction. We were surprised by the luxuriant vegetation which was populating the building. We decided to preserve the flora that for years had given life to the structure. But how to turn infestation into architecture? Firstly we developed the space, and only later, we had given it a function. We imagined the single interiors and their atmospheres, from the small elements like furniture and detail to the bigger ones in the final overall result. We cataloged the various preexistent floral species into an abacus, and we designed the project using them and other additional plant species as architectural elements. We developed customized technological details for the vegetation’s needs. Then we figured the function. The building became a Botanical Museum, an urban jungle where people could walk in and admire a new type of environment. The concept is to enjoy and respect the space.
It is an architecture with vertical growth, such as vegetation, for this reason, we designed a ramp that runs across the building, from the first floor to the third floor, as the only territory allowed to humans.
Video Link: https://www.instagram.com/p/ BbH4FLaFYQI/