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THESIS project MD Parametric Dublin

PROJECTS master degree

Isole Scossicci (Scossicci Islands) PFP (Potenza River Park) Fractal System

exhibitions

competitions

THESIS project BD U_10 I SPA

PROJECTS bachelor degree

work whit Studio Thot, Macerata, Marche, Italy

work as freelance

experiments

my kitchen

Nieuwe ruimte voor de stad, Amsterdam 2011 Dal Porto al Passetto, Ancona 2011 PFP, San Severino Marche 2010 Scossicci Ludocity & Hyperalicante, Porto Recanati 2010 Meditative Portable Gardens, happening, Recanati 2010 Meditative Portable Gardens, happening, Ascoli Piceno 2010 Meditative Garden, Ascoli Piceno 2010

Europan 2011, Amsterdam Amstel III Dal Porto al Passetto, Ancona Detaching from Architecture, Bilbao

Detached house Students dormitory, Tiburtina Station, Rome Teachers dwellings, Ascoli Piceno New Railway Station Ascoli Piceno

Francesca Foresi francesca.foresi(at)studenti.unicam.it student at UNICAM School of Architecture and Design blog http://francescaforesi.blogspot.com/

THESIS master degree

parametric dublin

algorithm

lots: buildings boundaries

curves: 5 rhino splines

S.A.D. School of Architecture and Design â&#x20AC;&#x153;Eduardo Vittoriaâ&#x20AC;? Master degree thesis in architectural & landscape design a. y. 2010/11 Parametric Dublin_ Generative algorithms for a new urban development_generative modeling

Thesis director

Cristiano Toraldo di Francia

Supervisor

Daniele Rossi

student Andrea Pieretti

extrusions

attractors

the value of extrusion (y) is exactly equal to the distance between the centroid of the rectangle and the center of the grid.

y=x 2.

extrusion value (y) is reduced by a coefficient B

y = Bx 3.

All values greater than 1 will become equal to 1. This operation is meant to give a border to the algorithm. indeed, when you apply the cosine, all values are canceled out.

y = Bx (max1) 4.

I apply p to prepare the algorithm to the cosine.

y = Bx p 5.

I apply the cosine.

y = cosBx p 6.

the equation becomes positve with the addition of +1.

y = (cosBx p) + 1 7.

I apply a multiplier that allows further control of the height of the extrusion.

y = a [(cosBx p) + 1] 8.

this logic operation can be applied more times in the same algorithm

Thesis director

Cristiano Toraldo di Francia

Supervisor

Daniele Rossi

student Andrea Pieretti

equation which affects the extrusion

dublin analysis Density

a view from space

Average Age

year-old

Ireland

northwall

walled city

year-old

georgian 1756 medieval city

Italy

Ireland population

the liberties

irishtown

pre 1860

4’500’000 ireland is Dublin? Dublin population

City

Urban

Metro

urban

35%

dublin historical growth

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This scheme shows the historical growth of Dublin, from the inner walled city toward the pre 1860 part. It’s clear that Dublin is a small city, living in the city centre allows you to letteraly get rid of using a car. Walking is the best way to discover this city and if you are living there, there’s a bike sharing service in many places. Dublin has always been divided between two cathegories: Vikings and Celtics, Irish and English and between Catholics and Anglicans. Actually the city has two name, Dublin is after a Viking name (An Dubh Linn) and the other one (Baile Átha Cliath) is coming from Celtics. About history, Dublin was an English colony for the most of her time. England left an important footprint which was hideous to Irish people. During the sixties some English symbols were removed, for istance Colonell Nelson’s column replaced by the Spire. Georgian Dublin is also an important and large English heritage. Several houses were broken down and replaced by new builndings.

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Nowadays problems & potential

1’600’000

metro

sandy mount

Of Ireland population

Dublin is ireland?

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Dublin was for decades a city of emigrants and just in the last two decades this process was reversed. However the outskirt of Dublin kept growing, without any planification, so without any service of any kind. They soon became unsafe places, where criminality could easily grow. In the meantime many areas more or less close to the city centre have to be redeveloped due to change of destination. The closer areas have more chance to become the extention of the city core, they should become high density residential areas and attract new people, preferably young couple with children.

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How can Dublin City Core be an attractor of new families? what are the project’s tools?

beckett’s bridge

U2 tower

guinnes storehouse

saint patrick’s cathedral

S.A.D. School of Architecture and Design “Eduardo Vittoria” Master degree thesis in architectural & landscape design a. y. 2010/11 Parametric Dublin_ Generative algorithms for a new urban development_Parametricism

lansdowne

grand canal theatre Thesis director

Cristiano Toraldo di Francia

Supervisor

Daniele Rossi

student Francesca Foresi

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park

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system of parks

eless Dublin is near the shore, it is so detached by it that people, while they are strolling rafton Street, aren’t aware to be so close to the sea. This is due to Dublin’s growth tost, due to the presence of the port and due to the fight against tides. Liffey is the main river. It was firstly used as a dump and lately as a waterway, to get to in harbour. Looking at urban scale of the city it’s possible to notice that this river is the the city. Many of the public attractions lay along it. It divides the city in Dublin North, the poorest and Dublin south, the richest. The Grand canal and the Royal canal take om river Shannon, they were used as waterways from west to east Ireland. The former is uth side and the latter in the north side. River Dodder and River Tolka lay between Dubnd the twin canals. They have waving courses and sometimes river Tolka had given s. Generally floods are a threat coming from the sea. Walls facing the shore were built to them. Now they laying in the Docklands between the city and the harbour.

Dublin hasn’t actually squares, covered with limestone to gather people in summertime. However there are many parks spread all over the city called squares. People use to enjoy going there in sunshine for a bief lunch, among nature. Therefore The presence of public parks are really important. St’ Stephen Green Park is the most famous, it is adjacent to one of Dublin’s main shopping streets, Grafton Street, and to a shopping centre named for it, while on its surrounding streets are the offices of a number of public bodies. It is the largest among Georgian squares (Marrion’s square Park and Fitzwilliam square). The largest urban park is Phoenix Park. It so huge to have been reckoned as the largest European Park. It includes large areas of grassland and tree-lined avenues, and since the seventeenth century has been home to a herd of wild Fallow deer. Amog many sports facilities this park hosts the Dublin zoo, the Wellington Monument and the Papal Cross, built in occasion of the visit of Pope John Paul II in 1979.

tool_water

2th tool_cultural importance of green

blin’s plan missed any regularity and a coherent planning, it’s a natural consequence waterways to get an orientation. In this vision river Liffey is really the spine of the city. ays what is missing is an adeguate ending of the Liffey’s spine. Our mission is to create a y, a urban structure which is in between the river and the bay. From thr urban spine to t bay. It would be possible aslo collect into the bay the path along river Dodder. Waterould carry bike routes and foot paths.

erbodies can be strenghtened ?

Ireland and Dublin are famous for green lawns. Thank to humidity growing a perfect lawn is easy. Due to weather changings it’s possible to have at least a sunny half an hour in a day. Dubliners like to enjoy sun laying on the grass in public parks. The presence of trees can esily stop strong winds and be a shelter from rain. Green is palced along rivers and canals, not only in parks. How green can be used to redisign the city ?

DDP

The Dublin Development Plan regulate the development of the city through 6 points: 1_shaping the city 2_boosting infrastructures 3_greening the city 4_fostering culture 5_providing quality homes in a compact city core strategy 6_create good neighbourhoods

DDP

DDda

DDDA

PPS

The Dublin Docklands Development Authority regulates the re-development of the docklands. Once this are was just an industrial area with factories and plants, due to the presence of the port. Now this area is going to be re-urbanized because factories have been closed and broken down. There are 5 priorities: 1_speeding up physical transformations 2_create an Architectural identity 3_exploiting docklands potential 4_quality of life

main cultural quarters Zone 1: To protect, provide and improve residential ameni ties Zone 2: To protect and/or improve the amenities of residential conservation areas Zone 3: To provide for and improve neighbourhood facilities Zone 4: To provide for and improve mixed services facilities Zone 5: To consolidate and facilitate the development of the central area and to identify, reinforce and strengthen its civic design character and dignity Zone 6: To provide for the creation and protection of enterprise and facilitate opportunities for employment creation Zone 7: To provide for the protection and creation of industrial uses and facilitate opportunities for employment creation Zone 7A: To provide for the protection and creation of industrial uses and facilitate opportunities for employment creation Zone 8: To protect the existing architectural and civic design character, and to allow for limited expansion consistent with the conservation objective. To allow primarily residential and compatible office and institutional uses Zone 9: To preserve, provide and improve recreational amenity, and open space Zone 10: To consolidate and facilitate the development of inner suburban sites for mixed use development of which office, retail and residential would be predominant uses Zone 11: To protect and improve canal, coastal and river amenities Zone 14: To seek the social, economic and physical development or rejuvenation of an area with mixed use, of which residential and Zone 6 would be the predominant uses Zone 15: To provide for institutional and community uses

5_create an image

DDP

pps

DDDA PPS

The Poolbeg Planning Scheme regulates the re-development of this artificial peninsula on the south side of river Liffey’s mouth. One of the principles is to extend the city toward east, taking advantage from the empty lot of the former glass bottle factory. 5

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Public & private transportations

Tram Luas + minimetro

bike’s routes

2 Thesis director

Cristiano Toraldo di Francia

Supervisor

Daniele Rossi

student Francesca Foresi

attractors

scale 1 : 5000

extrusions in according with a series of equations

y = a [(cosBx p) + 1]

lots: buildings boundaries

curves: 5 rhino splines

affected by the position of control points

contextâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bonds 5 transversal axes

roads for cars & parking

7 11

subdivision into cells

minimum 45 sq m

vertical aggregation

one cell

Thesis director

Cristiano Toraldo di Francia

orizontal aggregation

Supervisor

Daniele Rossi

student Francesca Foresi

orizontal or vertical aggregation

spot of cells

no sectionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s zoning

mixing use

housing off ice retail

mmm... I don’t know & I don’t care

Hey, Is she Bono’s daugther?

PROJECTS master degree

STP / scossicci tourist park

System of hotels and services The hotels are spread in all the islands and can accommodate up to 10,000 people. Services in some cases follow the perimeter of the hotel because they are inside buildings, multipurpose containers. Each island has all the primary services, featuring more services. System of the green and built The two systems were designed simultaneously and follow the pattern of the logo-concept Islands Scossicci. The buildings are as green with lines connected. Deliberately designed buildings were very different according to the island of belonging, with the intention of creating a very varied skyline. Ferry System A public service of water mobility onthe links ensure a longer journey. The service links all the islands and the amusement park located in the barrier breakwater / wind farm. Car System The carriage system in the islands is sovrapone pedestrian system, but is secondary. In fact the islands are just a pedestrian and cars must be parked in appropriate parking lots located to the three entrances. The system runs in the carriage and enhance existing routes. Pedestrian System The pedestrian system follows the lines of projectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s grid that merges the fields of the existing grid. The network of paths allows you can walk across the area, the islands are the main paths, while paths are in the secondary agricultural. Batch system The islandsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; division into plots resulted from the overlap of the grid to the project designed from scratch. The first regular grid has been due to the deformation of the surrounding lines. Some batches of the project are to contaminate the countryside, as well as some fields are incorporated in the islands.

every age shows itself through architectural shapes watching the architecture of one age allows you to recognize the own features of his society this is the age of regionalism and globalization | of youtube and of state censorship | of biological and artificial flavors | of plastic and cardboard 3D graphics and graphite are our tools architects may draw inspiration from contradictions of our age and then they may mold it into new objects through the creativity tool

Water System As the area Scossicci a slight depression, were made canals which divide the area into 16 separate islands and three basins. One of the three basins hosting the harbor under municipal administration, while the two others are in relationship with the sea and the countryside behind.

ground floor hall and storage rooms

_3rd floor nursery

_9th floor gym

_1rst floor staff rooms

_4rth floor cafeteria with views on nursery

_10th floor spa

_21rst floor hotel suites with green balconies

_23rd floor four kitchens and storage rooms

_24th floor restaurant with views on cookers below

_25th floor lounge bar with roof garden

_26th floor roof garden with changings room

_27th floor roof garden with swimming pool

Site

Scossicci is a flat location along the Adriatic shore in the municipality of Porto Recanati (Macerata, Italy). Once, this area was a wetland. There were two mouths’ rivers (Musone and Aspio) and much vegetation. During the 15th century the population deforested it, looking for new ground to farm. It was a huge work because they managed to merge river Musone’s mouth with river Aspio’s one. Nowadays this area is almost completely empty. There are just fields, some old houses in the countryside, some old chalets along the shore and camp sites.

Concept

The research design assumes that Loreto, the biggest tourist attraction in the Marches, is the most important point of view toward this area. Thus, working in plan rather than in the classic waterfront was an immediate consequence. The construction of the Basilica of Loreto began in 1468. This structure fits into the landscape of the Marches as something abnormal, alien, off scale. We propose a similar operation in 2010: a major new event which is completely different from what is around, then that is immediately recognizable as the fruit of our time. The new event will work in synergy with the older one, becoming a tourist attraction with the symbiotic Loreto.

Masterplan

We planned a grid distorted by the presence of roads, the banks of the river Musone and the coastline. Subtracting grid modules, we created a marina and water basins, in order to increase the line of bathing. The grid elements were organized into a system of islands. The entrance of private vehicles is forbidden. A public transportation system of electric boats allows to move among islands and among islands and outer marinas along the Adriatic shore.

Eco-schedule Urban Sustainability

Isole Scossicci is feature by islands, sorrounded by artificial canals. They are pedestrian islands. Only vans for up and down loading and rescue are admitted. there are big parking lots for cars, just outside. Public transportation is made by electric boats, they allow people to move quickly from an island to another one, whitout pullution, noise and vibrations. There are 4 tracks: 1 mid-speed circular track, 2 fast track toward te beach, 3 slow track, 4 long distance tracks, to connect this harbour with next cities.

Production of energy

A farm wind has been placed on the barriers against waves. Adriatic shore is subjected to be wore by the strong action of waves. This area has more chance than others to be interested by land and sea breeze.

The Sunflower Hotel

This building has predominantly receptive function. The four-curves amoeboid morphology (ground floor, top floor and silhouette profiles) comes from hand-drawn. They had been treated with a three-dimensional modeling software, which allowed to develop its final form. The structure blends with the skin. The alternation of full and empty draws the outer surface. The interiors are designed in a fluid: rooms are independent organic casings. Like a cruise ship entertainment services, the building offers a cafeteria, nursery, shops, gym, spa, restaurant, lounge bar and outdoor swimming pool and park. The artificial park on the roof is characterized by mixture of natural and artificial green, represented by the extension of the front pillars and floating sculptural objects.

Sustainable Architecture

Sunflower hotel is a landmark and this doesn’t mean that there isn’t any attention on enviroment. Heating is on the floor, this means that there’s no need to have high temperatures to warm the building. Between rooms there’s a buffer space: closed in the winter and opened in the summer to help refreshing the building through air flows from the bottom to the top. Vegetation on balconies stops direct sunlight, this prevents overheating. Public floors have higher ceilings, this allows winter sunlight to better light the space, without using electic lights

exhibition at Castello Svevo, Porto Recanati, (MC) Marche, Italy from 18 to 25 June 2010

exhibition at Chiostro di San Domenico, San Severino MArche, (MC) Marche, Italy from 13 to 23 July 2010

Reference

then

fountain

+ basket court

square

+ market

sport

+ bar

playground

+ nursery

this is not a project this is not only architecture or a park it is a system design repeatable to infinity it will be placed into residual spaces of the city it will defend them from the threat of property speculation a space without an identity and quality itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the prey of speculators

objective

fractal to reach this aim we used fractal concept a fractal is a geometrical shape watched at different scales it keeps its formal stucture immutable

Fractal fills urban voids bringing quality empowering existing functions and creating new ones; it can be linked at abandoned or never finished buildings to bring them a new life.

strategy

before

structure Fractal is made by a path and tridimensional elements with different dimensions due to the function. Fractal is connected with various elements, they bring new functions.

energy

slate

summer lighting

tiresâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; rubber

winter lighting

spruce pine

winter lighting

larch

reusing rain water

annexes

south market

lead stone

north market

compound resin + mould

summer lighting

fractal

bar

materials fotovoltaic panels 87739kWh per year of which

fraxinus ornus

17331kWh used to light the park 70408kWh per year uploaded on the net 30400 euro per year

gained by selling energy

energy study Since Italian town councils have economic difficulties, the installation of fotovoltaic panels, which follow fractal path not only creates the possibility to produce green energy, but it allows to sink costs for the plant.

green

560 sq m

cercis siliquastrum

material study

juniperus oxycedrus nerium oleander pistacia lentiscus spartium junceum

Fractal The flooring is made by a compound of resin binder and local mould, adding with red colouring. Tridimensional elements are made by reinforced concrete, covered by grey stone.

Annexes Small wooden buldings are connected with fractal, bearing structure is made by soruce pine wood, curtain wall are mabe by larch wood, which has a good resistance at bad weather. (these woods are reccomended by Greenpeace). A part of the flooring is made by rubber which comes from recycled tires. To light the park , we chose led lamps produced by the near Guzzini factory.

tamarix gallica

plants chosen belong to Mediterranean vegetation, they are suitable to shore climate and they can stand saltiness.

green study

exhibitions

NIEUWE RUIMTE VOOR DE STAD_NEW SPACES FOR THE CITY exhibition at ARCAM, Amsterdam, Netherlands from 11 May to 5 July 2011 making of a decoration making of a photo report

SCOSSICCI LUDOCITY TOURIST PARK HYPERALICANTE exhibition at Castello Svevo, Porto Recanati, (MC) Marche, Italy from 18 to 25 June 2010

GIARDINI PENSIEROSI PORTATILI_MEDITATIVE PORTABLE GARDENS happening from Piazza Giacomo Leopardi to Giacomo Leopardiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s house, Recanati (MC) Marche, Italy_11 May 2010

CONCORSO DI IDEE

RIQUALIFICAZIONE E VALORIZZAZIONE DELLA DIRETTRICE URBANA PORTO-PASSETTO_

COMPETITIONS OF IDEAS

REDEVELOPMENT AND ENHANCEMENT OF URBAN GUIDELINE PORTO-PASSETTO

exhibition at Mole Vanvitelliana, Ancona (AN) Marche, Italy from 25 March to 10 April 2011

PFP_PARCO SUL FIUME POTENZA PARK ALONG RIVER POTENZA exhibition at Chiostro di San Domenico, San Severino MArche, (MC) Marche, Italy from 13 to 23 July 2010

GIARDINI PENSIEROSI PORTATILI MEDITATIVE PORTABLE GARDENS

GIARDINO PENSIEROSO MEDITATIVE GARDEN n°5

happening at Piazza del Popolo, Ascoli Piceno (AP) Marche, Italy 11 May 2010

exhibition at Convento dell’Annunziata, Ascoli Piceno, (AP) Marche, Italy from 4 may 2010

competitions

EUROPAN 2011 AMSTERDAM AMSTEL III with

Temp.architectureurbanism

a cooperative between Tom Bergevoet Architecture and Na-Ma Architecture

TEAM

Tom Bergevoet Maarten van Tuijl Pim Schachtschabel Charlotte Trip Rita Martins Francesca Foresi

COMPETITIONS OF IDEAS REDEVELOPMENT AND ENHANCEMENT OF URBAN GUIDELINE PORTOPASSETTO 2011 ANCONA (AN) MARCHE, ITALY

TEAM

Cristiano Toraldo di Francia, Timothy Daniel Brownlee, Sara Trebeschi, Paola Tassetti, Dayla Riera, Arianna Piermartiri, Andrea Pieretti, Francesca Foresi, Luca Tappatà, Simone Pirro, Roberto Turtù, Angela Magionami.

DETACHING FROM ARCHITECTURE 2009 PORTO RECANATI (MC) MARCHE, ITALY TEAM Francesca Foresi Andrea Pieretti

ADRIAtiscape4 I U_10 I SPA

PESARO WATERFRONT

The redesign of the waterfront is a necessity for the city of Pesaro. The municipality has already outlined a plan with which they want to work on this part of town which is little appreciated and was for years in an embarrassing decline. Italians technical officesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; tool little can do: restore old hotel, built during the boom of the sixties, or connect the facilities nearby which have in common dining services and meeting rooms. This Laboratory of Architectural Design in collaboration with Calpoly, tried to pursue the path less likely in Italy: the almost total demolition of hotels and beach resorts. During the week of Coast to Coast program the town of Pesaro really changed its face. The old face of the typical Italian seaside city grown too fast has been supplanted by a most futuristic and a lot more interesting reality. The main work was done by American students who have achieved a functional master plan which provided for inclusion on the coastal strip of activities and functions related not only to the summer, but throughout the year. In this regard, both the American boys engaged in the design of Hotels, both the Italians who took care of the bathing establishments, have given functions and possibly more compatible with their neighbors to their buildings. My American colleague has created a resort and spa, so my building has also incorporated this feature to a lesser extent as if it were an extension Hotel on the beach. The idea of the U stemmed from the observation of several factors: the master plan of our team was characterized by four sinusoidal bands that traveled around the waterfront and were harbingers of many specific functions; the stretch of waterfront in my area had already a particular conformation made by elements of various shapes that are detached from the hard axis of Trieste avenue to reach out to the beach and the sea. In more practical terms these â&#x20AC;&#x153;pedestrian areasâ&#x20AC;? were the entrances to the beach, given the presence of a gradient of 3 m, they also acted as the terminal for two major roads which departed from the historic center, reproducing the situation of decuman and square. The first idea was to create a unique surface that clings to Via Trieste and then reach out to the sea. Later the surface was split into five bands that come off Viale Trieste all close together and then fall off at the beginning of the curvature of the end. The entirely walkable roof not only gives you the opportunity to go for walks but also expansion of the beach where people can stay for sunbathing. Under the roof there are two platforms that host: a bar and restaurant and the other with the Spa massage rooms, swimming pools and a terrace for sunbathing. The decision to break three of the five bands, with three ramps at different angles placed on the ends towards the sea, it allows to connect the roof and everything which is contained under it. Despite the large size of the project, as much space on the beach was preserved to ensure the attendance of the same number of bathers, number of cabins was maintained , but were properly hidden by bands, avoiding the effect of encampment.

Project for Bachelor Degree, teacher Cristiano Toraldo di Francia, the 3th of April 2008. 110/110 cum laude

THESIS bachelor degree

PROJECTS

bachelor degree

work

with

Studio Thot

work

with

Studio Thot

work

freelance

defiant experiments

my kitchen

& my cat Neo

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