WORK PROJECTS
NUEVE SCHILLERPARK LINZ Competition for urban development - Linz, Austria Junior Design Architect - CZA - Cino Zucchi Architetti
In the heart of Linz, the area around Schillerpark is undergoing an urban transformation. Working in partnership with an Austrian studio, our goal was to reimagine a famous hotel/casino adjacent to the park, a new landmark for the city with both private and public functions. While the on-site studio worked on general plans and functions, we focused on the public basement and the elevations of the skyscraper.
FACADE SYSTEM AND DETAIL
THE BUILDING
PIAZZA FILANDA Requalification of a former textile Mill - Chiampo, Vicenza Junior Design Architect - CZA - Cino Zucchi Architetti CZA’s proposal for the renovation of this historical Mill complex in Chiampo aims to give the city and its territory new spaces, capable of hosting a contemporary life, while still striving for environmental quality. The project points to simplicity in the attempt of retracing the original architecture lines, long absorber by the industrial additions to the building. Another objective was to donate the city a new square, protected from trafic and sound, identified by few contemporary architecture landmarks that resonates in material and color with the industrial vibe of the site. The original core of the Mill is therefore freed from the numerous past intervention and given back to its citizens by the working towards an emphatisation of its architectural character.
CUTAWAY PERSPECTIVE AND DETAILS NOCTURNAL VIEW
ALMINI BOUTIQUE Expansion of the pre-existing boutique and new portal - Via Bagutta 24, Milan Assistant Project Manager - CZA - Cino Zucchi Architetti
The expansion of the already existing Almini boutique (CZA 2015) involved the incorporation of the adjacent shop and the consequent moving of the entrance door in correspondence of a portal on the left. The new addition works in juxtaposition with the previous intervention, finding an harmonic balance between details, colors and materials, through old and new. The new portal dimension and its position in axis with a passing gallery determine a long perspective from Via Montenapoleone. The metallic element is therefore thought as a reinterpretation of the historical arched architecture of Milan.
CONNECTING THE ROOMS
NEW ELEMENTS
ENTRANCE AND WALLBOARD
NEW AREA
WALL SYSTEM DETAIL
ENTRANCE AND WALLBOARD
SPAZIO PONTE An interactive and multimedia exhibition in Genoa’s “Porto Antico” - Porta Siberia, Genoa Exhibit Coordinator - Junior Exhibit Designer - Musealization project in collaboration with Leftloft Studio
Located in the old heart of Genoa, at Porta Siberia, Spazio Ponte is a meeting and information point dedicated to the new bridge, where it is possible to learn the technical characteristics of the work, admire the model tested in the wind tunnel, measure oneself against digital reconstructions of the infrastructure, practice in the laboratories, immerse oneself in the construction site following the images taken from the drones, discover how to build a bridge. The Spazio Ponte is a place open to the public and to anyone who wants to learn more about the work, another door to enter the site, but also a space for collaboration between citizens and the administration, for the exchange of ideas in meetings where it is possible to share the future of sustainable infrastructure and mobility. With free entry to the public, it also hosts school and university visits, which allow students to know more about infrastructure. PERGENOVA technical staff, during visits, accompanied the students in their discovery of the new bridge that is being built, by explaining the project, the materials used and its va-
ENTRANCE AND WALLBOARD
MODEL 1:500
MODEL 1:40 GALLERIA DEL VENTO - POLIMI
MATERIALS AND THE SMART BRIDGE SYSTEM
A WINDOW ON THE WORKS
SIMULATED FLIGHT ON THE CONSTRUCTION SITE
PAONAZZO LIBRARY AND FAKE PAONAZZO LIBRARY MATERICA Marble Edition - Design Week 2020 | Later developpement International design competition for young professionals under 40 (Cancelled) The concept behind the project here presented revolves around the will to create a double-faced design element that best exploits the properties of the marble. By working with modular marble panels framed into a metallic structure, the idea is to obtain a piece of furniture that works as an etagere on one side and a marble partition wall on the other, creating an architectural feature in the space it is placed. As far as this double feature is concerned, this marble wall effect is obtained by cutting such panels so that they overgrow the steel embedding them, still serving as the background for it on the opposite side, where the etagere is then completed with shelves obtained by elongating some of the element, both vertical and horizontal, composing it. The marble chosen to fit the piece is a levigated Paonazzetto that with its light warm color scheme enhances the contrast with the dark structure plus shelves, yet recalls it through its dark grey veins. Using such light marble allows the panels to shine when it comes to direct light, emphasizing the wonderful texture of the marble and its warm nuances. When the Design week was cancelled due to Covid-19 and the competition got cancelled, my thought moved onto how I might have been able to realize the library without the help of the marble company. The most reasonable way to do that would be to switch the Paonazzetto with a different material. It was a chance for me to extrapolate what I’ve done and rethink it without any competitional constraints. “If the marble isn’t necessary anymore, what kind of material could take its place aesthetically and maybe be an even better fit? Could it be cheaper, lighter, sustainable? Could it be recycled?” That’s when I found my solution in recycled plastic panels realized by Smile Plastics Here I present you the initial concept for the Paonazzetto Library and its alternate recycled plastic version.
ALTERNATIVE RECYCLED PLASTIC VERSIONS: 1. ABSTRACT 2. SUNSHINE 3. SAND ASSEMBLY AXONOMETRY AND ELEVATIONS
ACADEMIC PROJECTS
PROCESS LIBRARY A new concept of library - Pantin, Paris Making something of time in time / through structure - w/ Elin Sundvall, Professor Paul Gresham and Luis Burriel Bielza In Pantin, Paris between different structures/times/uses and spaces is our site. The site is a product of different objectives of different times, indirect defined. Each addition as a part of the co-creation of the site. Today a site in transformation, where buildings are being replaced, reprogrammed and reused. To understand the relations of our site in the area we studied different spatial layers of the site. This gave us the insight that this space is a continuous space with multiple possible already existing spaces, transitions and limits. The site is defined by different parameters that give limits to the spaces in between. Searching for parameters that can provide us with the logic of the space, we realized he site holds hidden spaces within, created by the materials, surrounding rhythms, the accessibility of the site, activities, movements, heights, darkness and light, important views and different times. These parameters co-create various spaces in this public place and lead the watcher to(reveal) its spatial logic. The public space is changing depending on which limit/parameter we are looking at: materials, light, activities, accessibility, views from site, views of site, visuals spaces, theese were the colors through which we watched our space, until they baceme solid to us and solid we drew them. After defining and drawing all limits we mixed all of them in order to verify their co-existence, but more importantly how the spatial logic looks like in this public space. We chose four points related to our different layers that we had created in order to investigate further how the relation of the different limits creates spaces. Form given by the limits. While extracting and abstracting the most present elements that are creating the spaces to reveal a logic and the spatial relationships on the site. These elements generate a structure of spaces related one to each other that can serve different meanings. Continuing translating them into a model to see how this structure can be experienced and used. Always one space leading into another, blurred a continuous transition, on space defining and creating another by its relation to it. Hidden spaces where you have to search, where you are guided by views, light, materials, memory and intuition, not by a grid or a rational superior order. Spaces created in a span between points and surfaces, always continuous and infinite, leading you into a new space depending on where you come from. A structure that is ever changing making you remember where you are and how you got there, multiple perspectives and movements, spaces changing in every step, never repeated with an endless variety of readings.
SITE - PANTIN, PARIS
PARAMETERS TO READ THE SITE
ASTRAZIONE DEL SITO ABSTRACTING THE SITE SEARCHING FOR A SPATIAL LOGIC
3D TRANSLATION OF ELEMENTS
IPOTESI STRUTTURALI
SEARCHING FOR STRUCTURE
STRUCTURE TEST N. 7 WALLS AND NEGATIVE MASS
RELATIONS ELEVATIONS, SECTIONS AND PLANS
RELATIONS - PLAN 3
CUTAWAY PERSPECTIVE
PUBLIC AREA / AUDITORIUM MEDIA MOVEMENT
PRIVATE AREA / SILENT READING PUBLIC AREA / STUDY
WEST ENTRANCE EAST ENTRANCE
NEIGHBORHOOD GALLERY Contemporary arts musem project - 2016 Prof. Carlo Moccia e Anna Bruna Menghini
The Neighborhood Gallery, as the name immediately states, is a museum for contemporary arts meant to host functions, events and daily gatherings of the neighborhood. It is located on a wooded acclive area, which gets embraced into the building in the two inner courts. The lower ground floor features the exhibition main functions, to which are connected the amministrative areas and a a gift shop. The plan is completed south by a wing destined to an auditorium, which can be benefited independently from the main building. The great hall is characterized by a system of walls that allows to open the slab in between them, letting beams of light in the exhibition space. The middle floor traces the dimension of the external galleries defined inferiorly by the walls. It holds the restoration area west and a workshop hub east. These functions are completed by the two green squares at the same level, where the visitors can enjoy the products of the café or have open-air readings, meetings and workshops. Finally, the projecting galleries on the last floor are thought as panoramic points from where the panorama can be enjoyed at its fullest and, at the same time, as occasional locations for temporary exhibitions or neighborhood cultural events.
ROOF PLAN EAST FACADE
UNDERGROUND LEVEL PLAN LONGITUDINAL SECTION
CUTAWAY PERSPECTIVE
2ND PLAN SOUTH FACADE / CROSS SECTION
INTERIOR VIEW
SICUREZZA E IDENTITÀ Experimental study on mitigating seismic risk and securing historic centres through formal and structural strategies Mater thesis with rapporteurs Francesco Defilippis and Carlo Moccia Grad students: Fabio D’Alicandro, Piernunzio De Sario, Luca Gargano, Fabrizia Milillo, Mariangela Papangelo, Ilaria Scaramuzzi
After the recent seismic events that hit inner italian appennine regions, a renewed attention to the critic conditions some minor urban settlements verge into has risen. These settlements, defined as inner areas, are regions with great environmental, artistic and historical potential, but are threatened by recurrent phenomenons of depopulation that cause a lack of general maintenance regarding both the physical territory and the towns. To all that, a high degree of seismic and hydrological risk must be taken in account. Our work focuses on a territory consisting of 29 municipalities, regionally defined as Subappennino Dauno. The following work is an extract of the analysis developed in a year aimed to seek for geo-morphological features, to identify morphological characters defying urban settlements and lastly to study how these characters reacts with the orography during a seismic event. At the design stage, our intent was to define how to combine the works of consolidation, its shape, materials and engineering techniques, with a desire to integrate these factors in a coesive way of doing architecture.
REGIONAL FRAMEWORK
“IL SUBAPPENINO DAUNO”
THE STRUCTURE OF THE CITIES LINEAR STRUCTURE (1-2) VS CLUSTER STRUCTURE (3-4)
TERRITORIAL ANALYSIS
URBAN SETTLEMENTS SHAPES RIDGE, PLATEAU, HILL AND VALLEY
HILLSIDE SETTLEMENTS CASE STUDIES: DELICETO AND SANT’AGATA DI PUGLIA
AGGREGATE BUILDING SHAPES UPSTREAM CURVE, DOWNSTREAM CURVE, LINEAR AND PARALLEL
AGGREGATE BUILDING SHAPES LINEAR AND PERPENDICULAR, L SHAPED, LUMP SHAPED
SICUREZZA E IDENTITÀ Case study n1 - Deliceto Mater thesis with rapporteurs Francesco Defilippis and Carlo Moccia Grad students: Fabio D’Alicandro, Piernunzio De Sario, Luca Gargano, Fabrizia Milillo, Mariangela Papangelo, Ilaria Scaramuzzi
The challenge on this first study case was conjugating the attention to the current settlement structure and shape with the securing and consolidation of the pre-existing historical settlement. We proceeded working on a project based on the principles we deduced from the analysis of the aggregate mechanic. From the geologica analysis, we detected the town had been prone to both seismic and landslide events that deteriorated the continuity of the urban structure. Therefore, the first step was determining the damaged units on both hillsides. On both the areas, the project regarded not only buildings, but also urban landforms such as podiums, terraces and walls, aim ing to contain the hillside concerned by the project. As far as the north hillside is concerned, we felt with a “strigas” settlement, characterized by linear aggregate buildings perpendicular to the contours. We proceeded substituting the downstream endings, the most fragile and damaged buildings, creating a new housing complex meant to contrast the solicitations on the slope. As regards the south area, we found an opposite situation: the buildings were arranged parallel to the contours, forming a settlement defined by small groups of building supporting each other. Our project connects this aggregates in between them both longitudinally and transversely, aiming to create a stronger seismic resistance, further amplified by a system of terraces.
COPERTINA
FRAMEWORK 1:2000
PROJECT CONCEPT
PLANIVOLUMETRIC
PLAN 1:500
SICUREZZA E IDENTITÀ Case study n2 - Sant’Agata di Puglia Mater thesis with rapporteurs Francesco Defilippis and Carlo Moccia Grad students: Fabio D’Alicandro, Piernunzio De Sario, Luca Gargano, Fabrizia Milillo, Mariangela Papangelo, Ilaria Scaramuzzi
As for the second case, the approach chosen didn’t involve the enhancement of the buildings of the original settlement, which showed almost complete integrity after the seismic events. Therefore, the securing of the hillsides from landslides required a study on different techniques. We had to deal with how to incorporate in an architectural language the technical shapes already deployed in hydrological securing. The main element deployed in the project is the wall, omnipresent in this town built on large basements following the contours. The project involves three at risk areas of the town. Starting west, the replacement of an old non-working retaining wall required the use of three staggered walls, meant to secure a previously collapsed spot, now taken back by the community for urban gardening. The cape project solves an unfinished part of the city: by specularly tracing the contours, a new terrace system revalues a panoramic point of view. In third east area the project revolved around the securing of a street and part of the hillside, with a complex of walls and stairs, that replaced a previous bulkhead meant to fight hydrological risky events. The renewed stability allowed us to redesign an unfinished school. The three actions required the use of reinforced concrete bulkheads with micropiles anchored 30 meters underground as foundation.
COPERTINA
FRAMEWORK 1:2000
PROJECT CONCEPT
PLANIVOLUMETRIC
PLAN 1:500
RE:STANIC Urban design project of a former industrial neighborhood in a suburban area With F. Milillo, A. Musaio, M. Papangelo, S. Troccoli, I. Scaramuzzi, A. Venditti, G. Volpe
RE:STANIC was born with the intention to promote the rebirth of a historically important industrial area, dismissed and left prey of the toxic substances formerly used. The goals of this project can be summarized in three macro categories. 1. The creation of an ecological network, formed by an urban park, agricultural pole and green corridor, in order to preserve the landscape and connect it all together in a green belt. 2. The regeneration of the urban settlement system obtained through completing the lowest density residential fabric so that it can be reconnected with the city. 3. The enhancement of the major axis Via Bruno Buozzi via the increment of commercial and public functions, the improving and standardization of the fronts on both sides of the axis and the addition of slow mobility.
PROJECT IDEOGRAM
DEFINING INTENTIONS
RE:STANIC - THE GREEN GAIN Urban park and green areas for the new Stanic neighborhood - Bari with Fabrizia Milillo e Antonella Musaio - personal project: urban gardens
The Green Gain project aims to reclaim those parts of the Stanic area that nowadays are completely inaccessible and toxic for whoever lives around it. Through phytoremediation techniques, we plan on achieve both a landscape and aesthetic rehabilitation from dioxins and heavy metals, allowing the citizens to “gain” a vast green park for equipped areas, new plantations, urban gardens and more. The urban park is meant to fill out a gap in the ecological network, connecting the Lama Lamasinata with the surrounding countryside in a single green belt. The GG is structured in three main projects: the urban park, with a sports center and a belvedere, the creation of a new pole of urban gardens, and the reorganization of the structure of the countryside. The urban gardens complex is located at the end of one the main park axis, to which it is connected through slow mobility, in a entry point for the countryside. It aims to promote peri-urban agricolture, with a sustem of gardens for the citizens to cultivate and a former abbandoned building, now requalificated as a susteinable naeighborhood market.
MASTERPLAN THE GREEN GAIN
URBAN GARDENS PLAN
URBAN GARDENS: RELATIONS
GREEN SYSTEM
CHIESA DEL CARMINE Operations of redrawing of the baroque Chiesa del Carmine - Lecce With F. Milillo, A. Musaio, M. Papangelo, S. Troccoli, I. Scaramuzzi, A. Venditti, G. Viventi, G. Volpe
The church “Chiesa del Carmine” (1711) is one of the most representative baroque religious building in the old city of Lecce. The redrawing operations of the church body and its 13 altars took six months, allowing us students to learn ours teacher professional method. The first step was working with total stations to obtain a point cloud, later used along with traditional and manual redrawing techniques. The redesign project belongs to a larger scale research and mapping of the whole baroque old Lecce. The result of this work, was donated to and exhibited in the city hall. The illustration below are some of the most significant drawings of the church.
COPERTINA
ALTAR “SAN FRANCESCO DA PAOLA”
PIANTA
GENERAL PLAN
MAIN FACADE
SECTION A|A
SECTION C|C