ANTONELLA FORMATO
PORTFOLIO
2020 elements of architecture
supervisor: Amirante, Pone, Cerreta, Ascione, De Martino, Lieto
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location: Scampia_Le Vele (NA)
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01. d e c o n s t r u c t i n g “v e l a” The project starts when we consider the Vela of Scampia - in italian Vela stands for sail - as the engine of a process of reinterpretation of the identity and the context itself, understood as an element that has an endogenous potential for modifying its own structures. It does not propose to erase the past, it does not deny the nature of things, it does not interfere in dead times, in times that do not belong to anyone, but it denounce the absence of an action. More than what has been done, we are looking for what has not been done. Every action goes through past experiences to create new ones and determine continuity. When abandonment translates into hope, we include a field of possibility, in which complex and different events serve a multiple configuration. Then we start from considering the rooted element that is resistant, but at the same time fleeting, weak, placed in the interstices of marginality, what Aldo Rossi defines “an architecture that is not made to be inhabited”: a wreck. It starts with a sort of cleaning of superfluous and bulky elements, and then the revelation underlines the beehive structure, a set of small tunnel cells, which participate in the complex to the deconstruction of the mass. The deconstruction operation is understood in the post-structuralist manner of Derrida, as a resolution of the differences in identity, through their multiplication, so that what previously appeared weak now takes on a meaning.
team: Antonella Formato, Kristel Barra, Grazia De Stefano, Francesco Marigliano, Antonio Vernillo, Francesco Gaito
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course: Synthesis Laboratory
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SQUARE “G. PAOLO II” collateral events
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SQUARE “SOCIALITA’” secondary center LOTTO M focal point
Urban Network | Masterplan
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Modularity
Vertical Connection | Common Spaces
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supervisor: Roy Emiliano Nash
location: Piacenza
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Ci ty | Peri pher y
C i t y | Per i pher y Permeability | Porosity
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agricoltural fields and abandoned farmstead The first one is between the last signs of the urban suburb and the first fragments of the spread city. In a very controlled and precise plot, it’s widening up to cover a gap which is, still today, identifiable with agricultural signs. This section is working in a double scale, both urban and territorial, establishing itself in the soil, along the double plot of rural elements and urban designs, in a sector of the territory which is still active and in the meantime resistant. The area, which is strongly intertwined with the tradition, but opened to innovation (logistic and consume functions are also present and newsworthy), can be today the ideal site for research and production, intended as a significant operation oriented to an anthropogeographic transformation of the territory, and so able to operate in a dynamic and contemporary way. In this line, it can be seen as a multiple threshold, able to overpass the fix, traditional and clear agricultural limit, offering itself as a multi-layer and complex labyrinth, marking a new and recovered passage among interfering regions in the space.
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team: Antonella Formato, Francesco Biral, Julian Bustamante, Andrea Calcaterra, Francesco Cappelletti, Andrea Di Liddo, Caterina Dicorato, Lisa Handerson, Leonardo Lella Anna Linnik, Marilisa Lino,
Ngoc Ban Tra, Igor Villares de Carvalho, Heba El Hanary, Elisabetta Magenes, Dina El Mazahi, Roberta Mirella, Dario Gaetano Napolitano, Giorgio Pernasilici, Federica Sommella, Francesca Vardaro, Silvia Zanardi, Mario Trabucchi, Yufeng Jiang, Huimin Jiao, Jingwen Shan, Nazila Salehnia, Melanie Aichinger, Gkogka Chrysa, Hristiyan Stoyanov, Wanru Chu, Shanshan Zhou, Liying Zhao
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URBAN SECTION_SURFACES
URBAN R B A N S ESECTIONS CTIONS
historical city centre
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FEEDING THE LANDSCAPE
urban wall and its abandoned buildings The second section is among the stable city and the first suburbs. Along the ancient trace of the Farnesianan walls – that are still existing in some parts – it’s developing in a sequence of public space, which can be interpreted as artificial rooms. Some of them are inhabited and used some other are instead in a dismissal phase. Following interfering paths, the section is impacting in a double level, local and urban, following simultaneously directions of ancient walls and 19th century blocks and proposing a building section strongly recognizable by the morphological point of view, as well by the social and typological ones. The area is seen as the ideal site for food distribution and for a retail shopping, linked with local crafts and agricultural products, opening the traditional uses of the space to important innovative functions. In this line the area can be seen as an intermediate threshold, overpassing the traditional and fix gate spreading itself as a large gap marking the new link among different environments and building conditions.
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THE CITY
URB AN VOI DS
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City as an ecological system
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STRATEGY | flooding areas
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barracks genio pontieri and the river THE RIVER
The third section is between the northern limit of the dense city and the park along the Po river coastal line, which is today strongly impacted by the infrastructural system composed by motorways and railway lines, marking a decay which is physical and environmental. It’s a condition which is further stressed by important industrial and productive infrastructures. Along the dense plot, trace of the Roman tissue (in the southern border), and the large scale of infrastructures (in the northern), this section is working in different scales of interaction, from the local to the intermediate one (urban connections), up to the territorial one. The section can propose itself as the ideal site for a cohabitation of spaces oriented to culture and exhibition, because of the presence of abandoned and dismissed structures and, in the meantime, to spaces for representation and cataloguing of art. In this line the section can be seen as an external threshold, able to become a complex device, summarizing the density of the new urban design, the multiple interfering systems, both natural and artificial, and marking the passage among different spatial conditions and multiple collective functions.
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THE RIVER
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location: Historic Center of Naples
supervisor: Paola Scala
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interference The thesis research project involves the city of Naples: an attempt is made to define an option for a student residence, designed to accommodate 300 students with related complementary services, within the historic center of the city, ancient Neapolis (470 b.C.) The objective offers the possibility of searching for new interpretative models of housing, and allows us to interpret the phenomenon underlying the settlement forms inside and outside the historic city. The project area coincides with the one belonging to the insula of the First Polyclinic of Naples, near Piazza Miraglia, inside the ancient Greek plant, with a drop of about 5 meters. The project wants to fit into the folds of the existing, placing itself in direct continuity with the characteristics of this and adhering to the genealogy of the place. Experimentation, suggested by the very peculiarities of the place, allows us to work on a fundamental theme: the crisis of perfection, and to go and subvert the common idea of “beauty” as ordered, which is only possible through the renunciation of a totalizing project . The ‘Non-perfection‘ in this case is linked precisely to the need for continuous adaptation to conditions (internal or external) that constantly change; It is opportune to dwell on the typology of development of the city, which is of an incremental type: a growth carried out in small increments, close to the existing, from which a dense sedimentation derives. In this way two different entities are configured: on the one hand we have the ordering principle, on the other what Antony Vidler calls “disturbing element”. Naples is a city that does not develop “on the basis of a logocentric ‘ratio’, which does not reduce the complex of tensions, conflicts, which does not tend to annul them, but rather to assimilate them and, almost, feed on them”. Everywhere the living space is preserved, capable of accommodating the new. The definitive is refused; normal and housing construction is permeable, articulated, allows a perpetual movement. Architecture is made of joints, contaminations, stratification; it is a coexistence of times, often unfinished. It is fundamental to consider that in Naples the role of building stratification is predominant, so that much of the historic center is the result of continuous changes that have occurred over time, which have ensured that the building types that result have reached their own set-up for overlap on front types.
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team: Antonella Formato
REGULAR STRUCTURE
LOWER DECUMAN
STREET “BENEDETTO CROCE” STREET “SAN BIAGIO DEI LIBRAI” STREET “GIUDECCA VECCHIA”
HIGHER DECUMAN STREET “SAPIENZA” STREET “ANTICAGLIA” STREET “SANTI APOSTOLI”
LARGER DECUMAN
STREET “SAN PIETRO A MAJELLA” STREET “TRIBUNALI”
URBAN PATTERN
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COURTYARD - UNCOVERED SPACE
CELLULAR STRUCTURE RECURRING BRING’S WAY
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INSULA “FIRST POLYCLINIC”
HISTORIC CENTER
NEAPOLIS (470 b.C.)
MUNICIPALITY 4 SAN LORENZO VICARIA POGGIOREALE ZONA INDUSTRIALE
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Elements | Points of view
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THE FORMAL STRUCTURING PROCESS ADDS THE ELEMENTS OF THE HORIZONTAL CONNECTION - THE “GRAFT” OF EISENMAN, THAT EMPHASIZE THE INTERNAL EMPTY AND CONFIGURE THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE MOVEMENT, AS A PROSTHETIC SPACE, WHICH CONNECTS ALL THE MODULES. THE INTERLOCK IS AS AN EVOCATION OF THE ABSENCE OF SOLID. ENGAGEMENT ELEMENTS HAVE AN INFORMAL CHARACTER: THEY DO NOT FOLLOW A STANDARD LOGIC, BUT CONFIGURE THEM WITH A DIFFERENT LOGIC, DEFINING A CHANGEABLE PROJECT SETTING. THEY ARE OVERLAPPING WITH THE RIGID STRUCTURE, DERIVATIVE OF THE GRID, FRAGMENTS AND MINIMUM ELEMENTS, WHICH, ACCOMPANIED, ASSUME THE VALUE OF WASTE.
2# ADDITION_DENSIFICATION
THE PROJECT IS CONFIGURED AS A SYNTHETIC STRUCTURE OF DIFFERENT INFORMATION, A SEQUENCE OF SPACES FOR VARIABLE USES. THE CLUSTER GENERALLY REFERS TO A GROUP, EQUIPPED WITH A SPECIFIC IDENTITY, WHICH DERIVES FROM THE INDIVIDUAL SPECIFICITY OF THE COMPONENTS; IT IS A MODULATION OF SPACES THAT REFUSES THE SEPARATION, THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THE PUBLIC AND THE PRIVATE, TO OFFER DIFFERENT ARTICULATED SEQUENCES IN RELATION TO THE SCALE. IT IS A INFORMAL SEQUENCE OF PLACES, A COMPACT, COMPLEX AND DENSE ARTICULATION; AN OPEN AND CLEAR STRUCTURE. THERE ARE NO MORE FRONTIERS BETWEEN CONTAINERS BUT A CONTINUOUS SPACE BETWEEN PLACES.
LAYER 3_ STRIPS REVEALER PRINCIPLE
THE LINEAR AND CONTINUOUS SPACE IS ONE OF THE FUNDAMENTAL THEMES FOUND BY URBAN READING. IT IS A DECLINATION OF THE EMPTY IN THE FABRIC, WHICH ASSUMES DIFFERENT SPATIAL CONFIGURATIONS. ON THE BASIS OF THIS, A NEW SYSTEM OF ROUTES IS MATCHED BY HISTORIC PATHS (CARDINI AND DECUMANI), IN THE LOGIC OF RECONNECTING, IN A GREAT SCALE, THE INVASION WITH THE MAJOR SURROUNDING ARTERIES AND INTERPRETING THE NATURE OF THE ELEMENTS WHICH, AT THE CURRENT STATE , DEFINE THE AREA. IT IS SO INTRODUCED THE DISTURBING ELEMENT. THE CARTESIAN GEOMETRY OF THE MESH IS BREACK BY A DIAGONAL LINE THAT INTRODUCES IN THE URBAN PROJECT THE POSSIBILITY OF TRANSFORMING THE SCHEME.
LAYER 1_ GRID ORDERING PRINCIPLE
THE URBAN DIMENSION IS DESIGNED AS A MULTI-LAYER: A DESIGN OF PATHS AND BANDS IS OVERLAPPED TO A PRINCIPLE OF THE INDIVIDUAL ORDER WHICH, AT THE NEGATIVE, DEFINES THE BUILDING. THE LAYERS OVERLAY AND THE SUBSEQUENT FRAGMENTATION ALLOW A REFLECTION ON THE GENERATIVE MECHANISMS OF SHAPE. IN THIS WAY THE PROJECT COMES INTO A SYSTEM THAT CONSIDERS THE VARIOUS EXISTING FACTORS.
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3# GRAFT_MODIFICATION
THE OVERLAY IS DONE IN THIS WAY: ON THE GROUND LEVEL, BUILT AND EXTERNAL COMMON SPACES ARE ALTERNATED. THE BUILDING PROVIDES PUBLIC AND SEMIPUBLIC FUNCTIONS, WITH THE INTERPOSITION OF VERTICAL CONNECTION SYSTEM THAT LEADS TO THE UPPER PLANS, IN WHICH THE SCENE IS DOMINATED BY PRIVATE FUNCTIONS, CONNECTED AMONG THEM BY A SINGLE LARGE COMMON SPACE, INTERRUPTED TO SEMIPUBLIC FUNCTIONS. IT WORKS FOR DIFFERENT SCALE INTERVALS, WHICH, IN TIME, CAN BE FURTHER MODIFIED, UNTIL THE SURFACE IS COVERED.
DEFINATION CLUSTER
THE SITE IS DIVIDED INTO A SERIES OF PARALLEL BANDS ON THE BASIS OF THE GEOMETRICAL SYSTEM, DISTRIBUTED IN ORDER TO ALLOW A DIFFERENTIATED ORGANIZATION OF THE SITE, AND MAKE IT POROUS AND CROSSABLE, IN A NEW OPEN CONFIGURATION, WITHOUT FENCES OR LIMITS, THAT THE MONASTIC AND HOSPITAL INSULATION HAD. FROM THE SCANNING OF THE BANDS, WHICH CORRESPOND TO INTERNAL CROSSINGS, THE SOLIDS ARE BASED ON A MODULAR SCHEME.
LAYER 2_ ROUTES DISTURBING ELEMENT
TO THE MODERN IDEA OF INDEPENDENT BUILDINGS, THE IDEA OF FABRIC -OF A TOTAL SYSTEM IN WHICH THE ELEMENTS INTERFER BY THE GRID, BY A SYSTEM OF RELATIONSHIP IN WHICH THE SPACES FIND ORDER AND CONFIGURATION- WAS OPPOSED. THE ORDERING GRID IS NOT A SYSTEM CHOSEN TO PRIORS ACCORDING TO IDEAL GEOMETRICS, BUT FIND ITS FOUNDATION AND JUSTIFICATION FROM THE SITE: IT IS BORN FROM THE OVERLAY OF DIRECTORIES, HISTORICAL TRACKS, ALIGNMENTS, EXISTING DISTANCES, THAT MODEL AND ORDER THE EXISTING FABRIC.
1# MULTILAYERED
FOURTH FLOOR FLOOR AREA: 2.115 mq
DISTRIBUTION SPACES: 315 mq RESIDENCE: 630 mq SUPPORT SERVICES : 129 mq CULTURAL SERVICES: 105 mq RECREATIONAL FACILITIESI: 936 mq
THIRD FLOOR FLOOR AREA: 2.228 mq
DISTRIBUTION SPACES: 412 mq RESIDENCE: 1.075 mq SUPPORT SERVICES : 326 mq CULTURAL SERVICES: 311 mq RECREATIONAL FACILITIES: 104 mq
SECOND FLOOR FLOOR AREA: 2.358 mq
DISTRIBUTION SPACES: 412 mq RESIDENCE: 1.032 mq SUPPORT SERVICES : 422 mq CULTURAL SERVICES: 315 mq RECREATIONAL FACILITIES: 177 mq
FIRST FLOOR FLOOR AREA: 2.494 mq
DISTRIBUTION SPACES: 436 mq RESIDENCE: 1.080 mq SUPPORT SERVICES : 473 mq CULTURAL SERVICES: 328 mq RECREATIONAL FACILITIES: 177 mq
GROUND FLOOR FLOOR AREA: 2.956 mq
RECREATION GROUNDS AND NEIGHBOURHOOD SERVICES
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J. Derrida had described a “theory”, with the title “subverting writing”, in which the biological paradigm is incorporated into processes, and it is expressed through their degree of unpredictability and uncertainty, their “natural” tendency to evolve. Imperfection is vital and viral: in the beginning, the introduction of a new body represents an exceptional event that activates a transformation through a destabilization of the system, making it necessary to search for a new balance, blending into the idea of urban contamination. Acting on the city by accelerating the crisis, moving from the need to order (territory as the establishment of a law) to the intervention of a perturbation that invalidates the norm. The research involves the need to re-signify public space and the concept of the common good. Aesthetic research is started, able to put together “beautiful” as a search for quality of places and “good”, as a product of a project not subordinated exclusively to economic growth. Individual and collective needs are considered; for this reason the work assimilates public spaces of the city, through an operation of overturning of the same and social densification. the principle is ‘flexibility’, expressed in the articulation by elementary units, which follow a logic “in-between”, with the insertion of spaces of relationship between the different residential units, a process that allows a natural multiplication of the traditional internal courtyard in more spaces, distributed on different levels. It is a connection project, in which the border becomes a dialogical place and the idea of containment is denied; a project that claims belonging to a pre-existing whole, and is the measure of the modification that it induces. 210 70
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