Portfolio Francesca Braglia
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Index
Curriculum Vitae
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Hybrid
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Ludoteca y Escola Bressol
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CeNous
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Make nature Public
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Tarsia
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Inserto
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Other Works
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Curriculum Vitae
Personal Informations
Francesca Braglia 07/05/1994 Reggio Emilia Italy Contacts braglia.franci@gmail.com IT +39 348 3778917 ES +34 645568205
Academic Details 10/2016 - 12/2018 Master Degree in ARCHITECTURE POLITECNICO di MILANO 110/110 02/2017 - 06/2017 Erasmus Program UPC-ETSAV in Barcelona, Spain 10/2013 - 07/2016 Bachelor in ARCHITETTURA AMBIENTALE POLITECNICO di MILANO 110/110 2013 High school Diploma LICEO SCIENTIFICO ARIOSTO SPALLANZANI 90/100 Software Knowledge Office Programs : Word, Excel, Power Point I believe my education and the experiences I lived in CAD Systems: Autocad, Rhinoceros the community had strongly influenced my growth. Adobe Programs: I’ve been a scout since I was 8 years old. Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign; After many years within my local group, I ended Premier, After Effects, Lightroom up being a scout master: this means being in charge of children’s health and wellbeing during the scout Sketchup, Dialux, QGIS actives as well as taking care of their personal growth. My roles requires a strong motivation, creativity and patience. I also worked for two years as a Language Skills volunteer for an organization in my city which offers Italian - Mother tongue English - 2016 IELTS B2 social support to children admitted to the hospital. Spanish - 2016 DELE A2, Erasmus Certification B2 These experiences had made me capable to handle 07/2018 - now role like team leader, which to me means most of all showing respect and interest for the people around me. During the last years I actively improved my communication skills quite a lot because I strongly believe willing to work as a team is what really makes the difference in our job. About me
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Work Experience
Work at LAMPANTI STUDIO REGGIO NELL’EMILIA, ITALY 01/2019 Stage at Onsitestudio MILANO, ITALY 01/2018 - 06/2018 Stage at A2BC architects MILANO, ITALY 06/2017 - 08/2017 Intership at BASE A_ARQUITECTURA I COOPERACIÓ BARCELONA, SPAIN 09/2015 - 11/2015 Internship at LABORATORIO DI ARCHITETTURA REGGIO NELL’EMILIA , ITALY
Workshops
2018 Porto Academy, professor NP2F Oporto. “Contemporary Cities and Urban Regeneration” prof Sarayut Supsook, prof Maurizio Carones Politecnico di Milano, Chulalongkorn University Bangkok, Thailand 2017 “Arquitectura i coperaciò” prof Toni Tribò, Arquitetura sin Fronteras BCN ETSAV, UPC, Barcelona 2016 “Labyrinth, Fragments, Scriptures” prof F. A. Fusco, prof M. Brizzi, prof P. Giaconia California State University, Florence CanPo#02 Prof P. Mestriner, prof E. Caravatti, arch Alessandro Bellini Politecnico di Milano, Rovigo
Competitions and pubblications
2017 Opengap Competition “A HOUSE FOR . . .” Third Price 2017 ‘Njonica. Ghost Town Laboratory - Town Planning design Workshop A.Y. 2016-2017. Professors: Isabella Inti. With Filippo Romano Issuu 2016 CanPo#02 AB/A, P. Mestriner, E. Caravatti, G. Wegher Divisare 2014 Guya Bertelli “Sulle tracce della via Francigena : punti di vista sullo spazio pubblico” Maggioli Editore
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Hybrid Architectural Design Studio II Prof Giancarlo Floridi 2018 Project Site: Milan
The aim of the project is to define an enclosed and protected space, within a scattered and open urban form between the compactness of via Calatafimi and the openess of via Santa Croce. To do so, the boundary becomes concretized into a wall, being the tool that allows to articulate both the urban environment and the Kindergarten space. The relationship between a central object and an outer limit is introduced by the examples of Fortified Churches in Romania, using the wall, with its movement and thickness, to circumscribe a place to live. Like Isola Bella, where the wall is the only and architectonical sign that brutally divides what is water from what is ground, our concrete wall separates the public from a private dimension, the chilhood sphere from a commercial acitvity. The gestuality in the project solves a dichotomy between public and private, a dense builted urbanity and a permeable open space, a fast mobility and a pedestrian path, a center and its perimeter. The display is the design object that chatacterizes the Flowershop. It defines the interior athmosphere and rules the relationship with the street and the clients. The display is interpretated as a Bow Window, a window appeared in XVIII century designed to create a space by projecting beyond the exterior wall building. Here it assumes a precise mission: it becomes the main expositive tool, provided with a shelves structure and a continuos flowerpot. The articulation of the space is simple and the colours are flat, grey linoleum, wood, white plaster. All this helps to enhance the role of life elements combine with the natural light.
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Flowershop and Kindergarten Plan
8 Architectural Design Studio 2 - WS 2017 - Politecnico di Milano Prof. Giancarlo Floridi, Giuseppe Agata Giannoccari, Alessandro Rocca with Marta Bertani, Filippo Cattapan, Davide Macchi, Gianmario Pandozzi, Stefano Passamonti
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Via Santa Croce
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Via Calatafimi
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Kindergarten Section Gym and Flowershop Section
Main Access Elevation Flowershop Elevation
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Legend 1. Entrance 2. Classroom 3. Canteen and comunal activities 4. Atelier 5. Media room 6. Nursery 7. Reading room 8. Gym 9. Service 10.Flower shop
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Flowershop Material
Warm Concrete_ Cast in place concrete is the material with which the most different expression can be obtained. In continuity with the project theme, it recalls the tone of the context through pigmentation. We declare the materiality of the structure leaving exposed the shuttering signs. The colour of concrete will be the dominant colour of the addition to the Arrighetti kindergarten. Between two buildings by Caccia Dominioni and surrounding the kindergarten, the wall becomes the recognizable but calm sign of the new spaces and the flower shop.
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Kindergarten Material
Aluminium_ The Arrighetti kindergarten roof structure is an eccentric element different both from the residential context and from the church of Sant’Eustorgio. This object is underlined by the level of the new enclosure wall, covering the view up to the lowest part of the roof level. The same principle is used for the other object, the flower shop. Galvanized sheet metal is the material that combines together these elements, making them recognizable and comparable. Smooth and homogeneous, it reflects the light evenly and the joints become evident casting defined shadow tracts.
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Ludoteca y Escola Bressol PTEe prof Joan Curós, Toni Tribó 2017 Project Site: Barcelona
The “Mercat del Ninot” block and the Hospital Clinico one represent two exceptions in the urban pattern, in Barcelona. With the whole Eixample based on a square form with cutted corner, an empty plot near a double block results even more visible. Between these two blocks there is a lack of communication and transition. The project’s aim is to establish a pedestrian path that leads people from the Cerdà grid inside the block, within a guarded garden. Two volumes, characterized by different hights, host a Kindergarten and a Rec Center dedicated to children from various ages. The project gives firstly safe and close spaces, where children can spend time freely and, and secondly an open and obvious entrance, to reach library and classrooms for the Rec Centre. The external façades are almost blind towards the city, while the inner ones, which generate two patios and the pedestrian street, are completely transparent, in order to build up a continuity and a dialogue between two opposite subjects. The activities are divided into different floors, connected by a strong element, the ramp. 14
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Groundfloor plan
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Axonometry
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CE NouS Architectural Design Studio Prof Andrea Gritti 2016 Project Site: Marseille
Masterplan Relier les vides - from discontinuity to integration
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CE - NouS is a project on a territorial scale that takes shape in the salt pans of Marignane and Vitrolles with a linear superstructure that leads physically and visually from the Etang de Berre to the hinterland. It was born as a place where sports and nautical activities become means for social integration, a meeting opportunity in which architecture serves the territory with a largescale infrastructure, governed by a generating section, simultaneously serving as a collector of different Euro-Mediterranean cultures. It is designed as a synthesis of tracing, sighting, connecting, actions identified following the analysis phase and the elaboration of a design strategy; for this purpose a one kilometer log structure has been created that culminates in Etang De Berre with a nautical center “Navire”, ending with a nautical jetty. Tracing: the intervention concretizes an important sign for the area, and at the same time is generated by the natural and anthropic context in which it stands out, the reticulum of the salt pans, the orientation of the Perret Hangar lend references to the design lines of the building and the surrounding open space. Sighting: the whole structure is designed not only as a walk, and support to the sports center, but as a device that guarantees visual choices, the Hangar, the Etang, the salt pans, the fields and the dissolution of the grand ensemble and urban density towards the extended area of the airport. Connect: the project is first of all a great walk that combines the Perret Hangar to the monumental disused swimming pool on multiple levels, from the porch space of the ground floor, more permeable, at the height of the structure, on which it is possible to cover all of its length.
RELIER LES VIDES DA DISCONTINUITÀ A INTEGRAZIONE
Recognizing
RELIER LES VIDES DA DISCONTINUITÀ A INTEGRAZIONE
Tracing
Sighting
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The sport center, CeNous on the Étang de Berre, Marignane lake
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Navir in section
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Make Nature Public Town Planning Studio prof Isabella Inti 2017 Project Site: Ionic Coast
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Regional Scale Analisys
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In a region where the cultivated fields and forests occupy 89% of the territory, the landscape can be an active factor to improve the cohesion of the double countries system. The rivers system, seasonal rivers, connects the Regional Park of the Calabrian Serre and the coast that goes from Badolato to Riace, allowing you to bypass the infrastucture barrier created by the Statale 106 and the railway. They represent the only transversal element, that if exploited, provides permeability to a landscape fragmented by abandonment and torn by the infrastructure. The project consists of two strategies: the definition of an Ecological Corridor defined by the Gallipari fiumara and the Fluvial Park on the Vodà fiumara. The first aim is to preserve the species of fauna and flora present in the region. The Corridor, in fact, is an area for animals and plants, where man is the intruder and, by intervening in some places, he can observe what nature produces. The Fluvial Park of the fiumara Vodà connects Badolato Superiore and Badolato Marina, through a path equipped with microarchitecture in wood and a development intervention of the river bank. Bridges, viewpoints, info points are moments of stasis of the man who captures the landscape collage of the rural area of Calabria. The development of the embankment allows to avoid flooding the agricultural fields in the autumn and spring months and to slow down the dangerous process of degradation that afflicts this type of landscape. These two interventions are connected to each other by a knitted agricultural territory and represent two pilot projects that can be reiterated all along the coast where the rivers represent the supporting connections.
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Masterplan
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The reading of the landscape took place through the understanding of the elements LINES, SURFACES and POINTS, which overlapped, well describe the complexity of the landscape from Badolato to Riace. The projects appropriated these terms to convert them into intervention tools. The lines are represented by the pedestrian paths, designed ex novo or traced on existing ones. The surfaces are represented by the multitude of cultivated fields and the homogeneous forest that extends from the Parco delle Serre to embrace the Gallipari river. The Points are micro architectures: objects of attraction along the rivers, a quarry, a waterfall or the ancient ruins.
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VodĂ River Park
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Gallipari Ecological Corridor
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Tarsia Bachelor’s Thesys prof Fabio Alessandro Fusco 2016 Project Site: Taranto
Tarsia is a manifesto project that benefits from the establishment of the “Magna Grecia” Scientific Technological Pole in the Paolo VI district, as a occasion for implementing a project to upgrade an industrial cluster at the Research Scientific Hub for the Reclamation of the ILVA Territories, in the Tamburi district. The scientific center will be located in the industrial compound of the ex “Gruppo Oleario Italiano”: the complex, currently abandoned, is composed of typologically different buildings and is strongly linked to the waterfront and with the Old City of Taranto. The entire Campus hosts various scientific functions, from research laboratories for land reclamation, to university classrooms. The area next to the railway is more connected to the city, where the public and social functions open to the spontaneous urban flows that are located: the Auditorium, the Library, an Exhibition Space. The architectural strategy adopted for each pavilion starts reading through the survey of the elements of industrial architecture the “palinsesto” and then redesigning the spaces, without obscuring the richness of signs that such a site exposes. The architectures are composed by a closed and functionally diversified space and an open public space. The latter dialogues with the completely practicable public space, made up by a series of squares and gardens to form a single parterre, differentiated at critical points by the ground design. The pre-existing soil presents differences in quotas that have been exploited to define hypogeum sites, terraced squares, gardens with stairs.
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Territorial Strategy
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Ground Plan
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Plans
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The ramp and the public space
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Concrete Model
Cardboard Model
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Inserto Thesis project Prof Giancarlo Floridi 2018 Project Site: Rome
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The research focuses on the possibilities of architectural intervention in the marginal urban edges in Rome: the Roman historical periphery, born with the popular housing and illegal constructions, clashes with the lack of an urban vision for the city. The landscape is hybrid, a landscape of differences, where large natural and agricultural areas are dotted with traces of the past, infrastructures, ruins and archeology, absorbed by the unstoppable expansion of the city. The former SNIA Viscosa factory, in Rome, forms the border between the Prenestino and the large railway ring. The factory, abandoned in 1955, was purchased in 1990 for the illegal construction of a shopping center: during the construction of the multilevel structure, the foundation intercepted the groundwater. We have therefore witnessed the birth of a natural lake, which led to the blocking of the construction works and massive protests by citizens to make the area a public park. The factory itself belongs to a vast catalog of modern heritage architecture, which increasingly raises the question: is it possible to preserve them as monuments? Given the deteriorated condition of the architectures, the project chooses to consider these architectures as part of a continuous historical time: therefore, it does not act as a mere recovery or restoration intervention, but makes the functionalist elements of the factory the ordering principle of a new urbanity. The outer limit of the forma urbis is the historical wall of the factory, while a collage of residential and service typologies are ordered by the former industrial constructions: the functional agglomerations become urban agglomeration. The historical wall, an element that defines the marginal nature of the area, is the limit of the urban fragment. It does not follow
The Insert in the city
the scale of the city in front: the project is inserted in the space re-establishing urban relations and bringing the density of the city into the enclosure, on a smaller scale. The industrial compound houses sports equipment that react morphologically with pre-existences
and topography. The sports machina and the domestic scale coexist with the environment of the natural reserve of the lake, where the structure of the speculative building, as a contemporary ruin, is an element of a romantic and picturesque landscape. 37
Permanences
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The Groundfloor and the Open Space
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The Gymnasium
The gymnasium is inserted into the buildings that housed the chemical laboratories of the factory. The block occupies the entire length of the central road and its facade is the result of a functional aggregation of volumes resulting in a true urban elevation. The gym combines the three buildings in one space, maintaining the central shed roofing. At the entrances, the building detaches itself from the level of the original faรงade, forming a urban scenery of six different but connected buildings.
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The Service Building
The service building is the limit between the central enclosure, the athletics track, and the other sports fields. The longitudinal element is fragmented into three blocks which are treated uniformly to emphasize its uniqueness. The shed roofing represents the archetype of the building dedicated to production and is linked with the original morphology of the Snia. The building houses changing rooms, squash courts and a deposit. The fields define the space adapting to the topography, forming a dense space thanks to the light volumes of the rope net.
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Terraced House and Patio House
To adapt the inhospitable space of the factory to the domestic dimension, the strategy is to reinforce the limit with the road, grafting buildings clearly detached from the external context, thanks to a logic of density and introversion. The two typologies, terraced house and patio house, face each other on an internal private road. The patio houses articulate the limit with the external boundary, while the higher terraced ones form the buffer zone between the public and the private. Every house guarantees a private garden thanks to an articulation of three housing types.
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Other Works
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A Scala Minore La Nuova Uscita Del Museo Delle Cappelle Medicee Stage at A2BC architects, Milan 2018
The main purpose of the project is to unveil and complete the existing, trying to improve its quality. The proposal is based on the integration of fundamental elements of the place, both tangible and intangible, such as the monumental presence of the historic walls with the sacred atmosphere. A secular space that - through lights and shadows - guides the visitor to the end of a path of great consistency and atmospheric quality.
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CanPO#02 Prof P. Mestriner, prof E. Caravatti, arch Alessandro Bellini Politecnico di Milano, Rovigo CanPo is a workshop where the landscape architecture is combined with the challange of the autoconctruction. Working in big equipe was a foundamental tool of designing. The object is a micro-architecture that tries to underlie the main features of the surrounding, in this case the Delta of the Po’ river. Here people are used to walk fast without stop, to understand the character of the landscape they live. So we have created this longitudinal passage, suggesting a little break in the quotidianity, an opportunity to change the path and to observe in few second the peculiar nature of the river bank.
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“Labyrinth, Fragments, Scriptures” “Labyrinth, Fragments, Scriptures” prof F. A. Fusco, prof M. Brizzi, prof P. Giaconia California State University, Florence 2016
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Over-Come Contemporary Cities and Urban Regeneration prof Sarayut Supsook, prof Maurizio Carones Politecnico di Milano, Chulalongkorn University Bangkok, Thailand
The aim of the regeneration of Bangkok’s canal, near the central and monumental area of the city, is to give back to the city a certain kind of natural environment in accordance with the Thai inhabitants traditions. At a first sight the project area is a labyrinth of cultures and features, as Chinese and Indians, as temples and markets, as abandoned buildings and overcrowded passages. The project uses wood walkway all along the canal that merge the new car-free area to the river park in the end. The wooden path evolves in private terraces where householder can have their own private space, and in commercial unformal street. This project is called OVERCOM, which means Overlapping Communities, exactly to explain this new way of physical and social interaction between people from different origin. 50
Geography Of Places “That periphery cut in all identical lots, absorbed by the sun...”
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Developed during the course of “Photography for Architecture” at Politecnico di Milano, held by Giovanni Hanninen, Geography of Places is a photographic project, which aim is to investigate the nature of perifery of Milan. An initial survey from above confirms the impression contained in Pasolini’s aphorism; the Mazzini neighbourhood captures the attention due to its peculiar shape. Often the term periphery is used with negative and judging meaning, particularly referring to the social and ethnographic conditions of the context. A linear urbanization formed by a series of social houses, regularly arranged in a triangular lot, draws a modernist space completely enclosed by gates. The latter are the architectural elements that distinguish the public space, shared by the inhabitants, from the residents gardens, divided into private streets and green area. In this mechanism the series of apartment blocks becomes islands surrounded by streets used only as parking lots. In this scenario, the focus is on the linearity that distinguishes the urban elements: the public and pedestrian infrastructures, the elongated residential facades, the access road to the highway, the gates. The project intends to describe the geometry of the block, emphasizing its essential characteristics observed by a neutral eye. Following the thought of Luigi Ghirri, the geography was described by the recording of places that build this peripheral reality. Often the importance of the structure and design of urban spaces is forgotten, focusing on the actors, on the characters, and projecting a subjective judgment in the photographs, ignoring the fact that the environment has its own rules and dynamics. The photos illustrate the will to describe the physical characteristics without proposing a critique or an easy denunciation without roots. 51
Informal Net
Porto Academy, FAUP Workshop leaders: NP2F 2018 Informal Net is a urban project located near Douro’s shores. The surrounded area is a dense city with monumental buildings. Our equipement is shaped by a metal net structure, a ductile material that is able to adapt itself to the topography of the site. It designs urban rooms, grafted on stepped basements, offering a parterre for informal sports.
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Contacts braglia.franci@gmail.com IT +39 348 3778917
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