FRANCESCA MARRAS PORTFOLIO ARCHITECTURE AND LANDSCAPE DESIGN 2014-2018
EDUCATION March 2016- July 2018 Politecnico di Milano March 2015 Politecnico di Milano
Master degree in Sustainable Architecture and Landscape Design, with a score of 108/110. Bachelor degree in “Architettura Ambientale”, with a score of 103/110.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
FRANCESCA MARRAS Born on 29/05/1992, Ozieri (SS), Italy. via Bach 2, Montechiarugolo, 43022 PR, Italy Tel +3933479392659 e-mail francescamarras@outlook.com
February 2018
BMN Architets Parma, Architecture Studio. Internship, collaboration in designing at different levels: technical drawings, render and following several construction sites. (http://www.bmnarchitetti.it/)
Mrch-july 2015
Politecnico di Milano, Department of Architecture Representation strategies in the architectural and urban project. Tutor
February 2014
RECS Architects Parma, Architecture Studio. Internship, collaboration in designing: technical drawings. (https://www.recsarchitects.com/)
EXHIBITIONS/WORKSHOPS July 2017 October 2016 July 2014 January 2014
“Architecture against nature” Elective workshop at Politecnico di Milano “Community garden Matera 2019” workshop at the Architecture Studio Atelier delle Verdure “Mediterranean Style” workshop at Politecnico di Milano Exhibition “Città Relazionale” graphic design collaborator
COMPUTER SKILLS Drafting BIM Graphics 3D modeling Rendering Office suite
Autocad Archicad Adobe CC (Photoshop,Illustrator,InDesign) Rhinoceros, SketchUp Artlantis Word, PowerPoint, Excel
LANGUAGES Italian English
Mother tongue Level B2
ABOUT ME I choose the master degree in a Landscape Design because I am interested in design spaces which can increase the inhabitant empowerment. The interaction between people and spaces is a relevant theme for a contemporary society, that could be able to improve the qualities and the welfare of a community. During the past years, I have learned the importance of working in a multicultural context throughout the group composition, laboratories, and exams. I have a desire to improve myself in another country, that will provide me the possibility to communicate and compare myself with colleagues from different architectural backgrounds and ways of thinking. Furthermore, I want to investigate new skills, that can be added to my Italian architectural background. It is also significant for me to learn a third language, that could help me to work against many countries and moreover, reinforce my English skills. I am dedicated, detail-orientated, a communicative person that can work both in a group and alone, want to challenge myself to increase the skills and knowledge in a contemporary sustainable architecture, that the studio can provide for me.
ARCHITECTURE IS:
PEOPLE
EXPERIENCE
EMPOWERING KJOPSVIK
“THEN WE CAME OUT, AND SAW AGAIN THE STARS”
TRANSFORMING THE QUARRY WASTE ROCKS INTO THE NEW HARBOR
A CEMETERY FOR THE CITY OF BARCELONA
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CONTEXT
PROCESS
TEMPORARY
AUDITORIUM IN PIACENZA
PIXELATED TERRITORY
UNEXPECTED PROSPECTIVE LINES
A NODE IN A METROPOLITAN SCALE
TOWARDS A TAILORED URBANISM
A NEW FACADE FOR EXPO 2015
EMPOWERING KJOPSVIK
TRANSFORMING THE QUARRY WASTE ROCKS INTO THE NEW HARBOR Master Thesis Kjopsvik, Norway July 2018 Quarrying activities produce a huge amount of solid wastes which are most often thrown in open fields. More specifically Kjopsvik’s quarry annual production rate is 850 000 tons of calcite marble and 350 000 tons of waste rock. Norway is the second largest producer of waste in the European Union. How could quarry waste be reintroduced in the productive cycle and lose its negative environmental impact had until now? One way is by reusing the waste in an infrastructural project which will generate a new economy once the quarry will be exhausted. The final aim is to reduce environmental degradation and at the same time renovating the economy of the village which is based exclusively on the Norcem industry. Norcem is the most important cement company in Norway. Almost 150 inhabitants are employed in the quarry activities. What is going to happen to the Kjopsvik population once the quarry’s extraction will be exhausted? By studying Kjopsvik’s economic system and opportunities related to the context in which it is located, it is possible to understand and plan an alternative way of growth. It will develop starting from a fish trade system, and once the economy of the villages will start to grow the ferry terminal of Kjopsvik will be moved on the new port as the old one is not anymore in a safety position. Since the port will become the regional center of fish trade and maritime traffic, a research center which will be responsible for the Fjord in all its aspects will be built. The stated goal is a long-term project that takes into consideration local problems with global relevance. By designing a prototype that makes waste rocks productive, more precisely a step by stepbuilt harbor, which considers economies and growth of the village. Harbor project that can change the way to perceive the waste and can be evaluated as an eco-environment friendly project.
MASTER PLAN
WHY A PORT SYSTEM? World main country of fish production is Norway and about 80 % of fish are transported worldwide. The administration of the municipality of Tysfjord has plans to unite the districts of Ballangen, Drag, and Kjopsvik into one region. Tysfjord municipality in its current form is facing a crisis. The best solution should allow the inhabitants to live in his own house but have one unique center. The port project of Kjopsvik will deal with regional maritime traffic and trade fishing. Proposing Kjopsvik to be the center. That why harbor is playing a big role in local and regional scale. By developing as the first phase the fishing economy, Kjopsvik will have the chance for future economies.
STRATEGY The strategy follows the idea of giving to Kjopsvik a chance to develop a new economy cycle strong enough to keep the city alive when the quarry reaches its limits of extraction, in more or less 50 years. The raw materials are processed at the industry and the waste rocks of the extraction are brought to a deposit near to the coast. The deposit area is creating a lower level on the topography, allowing the connection from the road to the new port. The depth of the fjord allows the big ships to dock in the harbor. The position of the port compared to the city center is relatively distant. Thanks to a study on the expansion of the city from a historical and physical point of view, it is clear that the axis of expansion is directed towards the deposit. The starting point is the already existing topography created by the waste rocks. The first step is to provide the connection from the lower level road to the main road 827. Then modify the shoreline, allowing future connection along the coast. Once connections are solved, the waste rocks begin to build the new harbor platform.
MARKET DESIGN
SECTION A-A’
The fishing activity is introduced, by providing new docks and a place for the fish market. The cargo edge is also built in the same stage. The construction of the harbor platform develops in parallel with the fish trade system.
GRAVEL
SECTION B-B’
DREDGED SAND
GRAVEL FROM QUARRY
FUNCTIONAL DIAGRAM
DETAILS DRAWINGS
TEMPORARY MARKET
TERMINAL DESIGN
SECTION C-C’
The second stage gives place to the development of the commercial area and the ferry terminal. To allow the construction of the harbor there are two different level. Meanwhile, in upper level the buildings are in operation, the lower level will be used for construction.
SECTION D-D’
DETAILS DRAWINGS
VIEW FROM THE RESEARCH CENTER
ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY The first part of the harbor hosts the docks for fishing boats, a fish market and also a cargo dock. The cargo dock has a specific border which allows the creation of a wave power station. With the movement of water created by the ships, the air pressure inside the chamber increases and generates electricity through a propeller, giving energy to the harbor itself and to the city. This harbor would create a larger traffic on the water and could possibly increase the water pollution. To respond to this: the proposal is a parallel development of an oyster reef, which would grow on large waste rocks deposited along the coast. And why oysters? An adult oyster absorbs water pollutants and is able to filter around 40 gallons of water per day. By creating the oyster coast, is reached an environmental balance of the harbor. WAVE POWER STATION The system works creating a volume of air close by sea level; in this way, the movement of the water press the air that let work a propeller to generate electric energy. This system made from about 170 air chambers, can cover the amount of energy required by 400 houses. The goal is to produce the energy needed for the port. This is possible thank to: -The constant movement of the water, even if its low -The daily gap of the sea level between day and night of 3 meters - The waves created by the cargo ships that our dock hosts 2 times a day
OYSTER REEFS
“THEN WE CAME OUT, AND SAW AGAIN THE STARS” A CEMETERY FOR THE CITY OF BARCELONA Academic work Barcelona, Spain July 2017 The cemetery designed is not simply open to the city of Barcelona, it is inviting it in. The cemetery is part of the city – structurally and emotionally. It invites people in, so they can recognize and contemplate the emotions of distress and sadness. Translating this into architectural forms were taken advantage of several factors that the site provides. The generous existing flora and fauna give a good head start for creating a place rich with nature, which is a great mediator between the human consciousness and subconsciousness. The topography of the site provides two distinguishable opportunities. The first is more playful and dynamic design in section. That allows for speculating with the concepts of underground and life in layers. The second is the mountaintop North-Northwest from the site, which would be used as a focal point for two of the main axes. The proposal for master plan suggests the main outlines while staying aware that over time the context could change. So the boundaries, especially the less frequented ones to the north, are designed with a sense of flexibility. Internally the project could be understood in three parts: west side – private/ residential, middle – public/richly inhabited, east side – cemetery/personal. The middle functions as the main entrance, but the whole site is permeable. It is accessible through a number of openings which lure in the passers-by. And although the three parts have some very different functions, they stay connected through consistency of the architectural and landscape elements. The more architecturally creative part of the project, the one that offers more opportunity and freedom is the east side. It connects with the middle through the main axis that crosses the central public space. To the south, a series of service buildings (the tanaturium, the museum, the archive, and the library) create a semi-permeable façade to the boulevard. It opens up to the mostly nature-dominated middle of the site that is dedicated to the different ways of preserving the dead – graves, tombs, niches, ossuaries, and memorial. Each has a specific manifestation on the landscape.
MASTER PLAN
BURIAL PARK
TANATORIO The tanatorium is located on the edge between the social space and the cemetery space as it is the mediator between these two rather different atmospheres. On one hand, it has to be easily accessed and keep connected to the public, on the other hand, it has to provide personal space for reflection in the hardest of moments. This it is commercial wing is aligned with the boulevard, the spaces for the working personnel are towards the main pedestrian area, and the goodbye chambers face the cemetery gardens. Small courtyard with greenery provides a psychological outlet in every goodbye room. As previously mentioned this has a very beneficial impact on the human brain.
NORTH-EAST ELEVATION
CHAPEL It is located in the center of the east part of the project. It is half submerged into the ground to create a sense of seclusion and closeness to the origin. Its circular shape, a primal form, also emphasizes the sensation of spirituality. The actual ceremony hall is reached through a ramp that spirals down, again underlining the gravity of the space. On the outside concentric circles expand into the graveyard away from this initial gesture.
SECTION A-A’
VIEWS
AUDITORIUM IN PIACENZA A NODE IN A METROPOLITAN SCALE Academic work Piacenza, Italy July 2016 The starting point of the process was to relate a new project on a previous master plan given as a statement of fact. The main purpose of it was to create a new center of mobility in order to connect Piacenza on the metropolitan scale. Seeing Piacenza as a network of relation, the project started basing the overall concept to the directions created by some main elements: the Po, the green riverside, the infrastructure system with the new transportation hub, and the continuity of the cultural axis. The purpose of the project is divided into three steps for improving the connection between the city and the riverside. GREEN CONNECTIONS By improving the riverside along the Po, are connected the green spaces in the city by two green accesses. By interventions is creating continuity of green infrastructure. SOCIAL CONNECTIONS The second step is the creation of a city network that, thanks to the music events, will re-gain life to the abandoned buildings around Piacenza, by bringing the flow of people from Italy. Those buildings will act as satellite events that spread the music in the city. The core of this network will be the auditorium which is collecting and directing the experience of music already existing in Piacenza. INFRASTRUCTURE CONNECTIONS The access to the site will be guaranteed by the presence of the three major infrastructures. The hub is a strong presence close to the project site that allows a continuous flow of people from different transportation methods: trains, buses, tram-train, and highway. Thanks to the accesses the presence of the strong infrastructure of Piacenza will not affect the connection between the riverside and the city.
MASTER PLAN 1:2000
MORPHOLOGICAL DESIGN
ARCHITECTURE CONCEPT
MASTER PLAN
1:1000
UNDERGROUND PLAN
CIRCULATION AND INTERNAL ORGANIZATION
WEST ELEVATION
1:500
MIDDLE FLOOR + 5.00
1:500
CONFERENCE FLOOR + 13.60m SECTIONS 1:500
SECTION A-A’
SECTION B-B’
B
B’
DETAIL SECTION
NORTH-EAST VIEW
PIXELATED TERRITORY
TOWARDS A TAILORED URBANISM Academic work Piacenza, Italy January 2016 The main idea is to apply intervention tools on areas based on a multi-layered analysis that can be also applied to the iterations of the specified area that share similar aspects and conditions, in doing so the proposal presents a method that is divided into three phases through-which any item has to pass to reach the most suitable set of actions for its characteristics. Understanding that the reality is extremely complex and the frequency of change is rapid, the project proposes a unified spacial unit, which is the PIXEL of (1 Ha) to which all the aspects are attributed in an inter-scalar approach that includes the repetition of the pixel into multiples. Thus different scales of analysis can be applied. The three phases of the method are as follows: PHASE 1: analyzing three aspects;(population density, ground consumption,mixed-use presence) PHASE 2: attributing these types to a reference that consist of; 8accessibility, ecological value) PHASE 3: proposing a set of intervention tools that could be applied according to the type and reference The intervention tools are sets of actions that can be used solely or in a group to make an impact. The idea behind the actions was to make them as simple, economical, and minimal as possible to be effective but without jeopardizing the identity of the area.
MASTER PLAN
STEPS Phase 01: detecting three factors of interest( population density, land consumption, mixed-use presence) Phase 02: finding possibilities then sorting them according to two base references (accessibility, ecological mapping) than defecting deficiencies Phase 03: proposing solutions
POPULATION DENSITY Knowing the total housing surface occupied by residents in each municipality. Multiply the percentage of each building typology in each municipality by the total housing surface occupied by residents. Dividing the result over the number of floors of each typology. Translating these number into a sample of pixels that includes the percentage of services+ open/public space. Knowing the total population per typology. Dividing it over (equation 1) Resulting in the population density per typology.
UNEXPECTED PROSPECTIVE LINES A NEW FACADE FOR EXPO 2015 Academic work Piacenza, Italy July 2014 The worldwide event EXPO 2015, provides an opportunity of visibility for entire Italy as an attractor of flows. Thus in Piacenza was hypothesized the development of the Arata Campus, it is an example of industrial archeology built at the end of the 19th century. it was restored in 2008, allocating most of the pavilions to the Faculty of Architecture of the Milan Polytechnic. The project is placed on the entrance of the Arata Campus with the aim of channeling flows of people by modifying the perception of space, inviting them to cross the access arch. It can be divided into two phases, the first one is located on the lateral facades, and the second one is on the threshold. More precisely, the wooden strips are spaced 50 cm apart from each other on the edge of the façade, with a length that occupies the entire façade and shaped with a curvilinear line. Seen on the whole, they modify the perception of the elevations, which are no longer flat, but with a curvilinear trend up to the entrance where the strips disappear. The set of strips and their shape accompanies the visitor’s gaze up to the threshold, the entrance to the Campus. The façade, therefore, differs from the street front by enhancing the threshold, framing it, is free from the strips and this indicates the achievement of the point of interest. On the threshold there is the second phase of the installation, which is composed of six panels that occupy the entire entrance, starting from the actual size of the arch, becoming smaller and forming a straight line. The look of the observer is blocked by it and provokes on him the intention to want to go beyond to be able to look what’s behind it. It is supposed that the panels are made of chipboard, painted and then held together by a system of threaded bars and bolts. Finally, the project was developed in a coherent time frame, to demonstrate the real simplicity of assembly and disassembly and the possibility of realizing the project.
PLAN AND ELEVATION
MODEL PICTURE