GIANMARIA SOCCI
ARCHITECT & URBAN DESIGNER OCTOBER 2012
note: The material, drawings, images, models shown here, is made by myself with the close collaboration of the People credited in each project’s headline. No copyright has been violated. Any use of the present visual material should clearly show the credits here stated. Gianmaria Socci, 2012.
I love my job and I work with pleasure in order to achieve the best results. I firmly believe that We never end up learning and this awareness brings about a passionate and unceasing work activity. I think that a strong theoretical belief is crucial to work out new solutions. I strongly believe that Architecture is a multydisciplinary topic and it always affects people: from this point of view it is an ethical issue and it has to be taken seriously. Besides, I believe that design should be developed playful, always questioning our certainties. After several experiences I can say I’m able to work within vast group of people, reaching remarkable results by taking the best from each one and keeping a good mood among them.
Gianmaria Socci
CURRICULUM VITAE
born in Recanati (ITALY), 02 January 1985 E-mail: gianmariasocci@gmail.com address: Via dei Tornei 13, Offagna (AN), 60020, ITALY; mobile: (ITA) +39 335 6915714;
Hopfenstrasse 19, Zürich, 8045, SWITZERLAND (SWI) +41 762 772878
EDUCATION August 2012: Completion of Master of Advanced Studies Degree in Urban Design (MAS UD ETH, ETH Zürich, Switzerland), chair of Marc Angélil, Research trough Design on developing territories, focusing on Brazil and its favelas. The studio developed projects from the urban scale to the architectural detail issuing drawings, models, videos and papers, collected in various exhibitions and publications.
November 2012: Field trip to Brazil for the Master of Advanced Studies in Urban Design, ETH Zürich. September 2010: Licensed Architect (Architects Register, Ancona, Italy). March 2010: Master Degree (Faculty of Architecture of Ferrara, Italy), with full marks (110/110). The thesis
project was about a theoretical development of an urban approach for the declining city of Detroit. Project displayed at the 2011 UPC AIA Detroit Exhibition “Detroit by Design”. Supervisors: Gabriele Lelli (www.lellieassociatiarchitettura.com), Alberto Francini from Metrogramma (www.metrogramma.com).
November 2009: Field trip in the USA at University of Detroit Mercy (MI), Cranbrook University (MI) and IIT Chicago (IL) for the Master Thesis Project.
April 2009: Practical Workshop on Landscape Architecture, with Landscape architect Andrea Bellodi (www.oqproject.com).
March 2009: Workshop on Digital Graphics, with designer Lorenzo Levrero (www.7thfold.tv). January/July 2009: Courses for the Master of Sustainable Development, within the Erasmus exchange program, at Chalmers University in Göteborg (Sweden).
March 2008: Participant at the International Meeting “PassiveHouse Norten” in Trondheim (Norway). June 2007: Workshop on Urban Design “Reggiane”, at Faculty of Architecture of Ferrara and UPC Barcelona, with architects Antonio Ravalli (www.antonioravalli.it) and Carlos Llop.
September 2004: Enrolment at the Faculty of Architecture of Ferrara. July 2004: High school diploma in “Scientific Studies” with full marks (100/100).
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE April 2011/ Freelance collaboration with ComeOnArchitects (www.comeonarchitects.com) for a September 2012: feasibility study on urban transformation for the municipality of Corinaldo (Italy). September 2010/ Junior Architect at Sardellini&Marasca Architetti (www.sardellinimarasca.com) in Ancona April 2011: (Italy), dealing with projects of diverse scales from concept to details and presentation. February 2011: Collaboration with the NGO LiveInSlums (www.liveinslums.org) for the realisation of an emergency cardboard house for the homeless young people of Bucharest, Romania.
April/June 2010: Design and realisation of a private naturalistic park in Offagna (Italy). with the collaboration of OQProject.
February/July 2010: Teacher Assistant to Gabriele Lelli, in the Architectural Design Studio 4 (Faculty of Architecture of Ferrara).
February/July 2009: Teacher Assistant to Alfonso Femia from 5+1 (www.cinquepiuuno.com), in the Architectural design Studio 2 (Faculty of Architecture of Ferrara)
AWARDS September 2011: Finalist in the International architecture competition “RuralCity” for innovative urban visions on the future of the Italian under designed rural suburbs (with Marco Jacomella).
August 2011: “Geisendorf Foundation for Architecture” 1 year merit scholarship for postprofessional degree studies in Switzerland. (www.geisendorf.org).
January 2009: Honourable Mention in the International student competition “Vizzion Awards” for a sustainable housing complex in Milan (with Nicole Passarella, Federico Orsini, Elisa Greco, Riccardo Russo).
May 2008: 1st Prize in the student competition for a sustainable Kindergarten in Trondheim (Norway) (with Eliodoro Bigi and Solveig Debrock).
December 2007: 3rd Prize in the National architecture competition for a sport centre and SPA in Vittorio Veneto (Italy) (with Simone Braschi, Filippo Dragoni Andrea Cucinotta).
June 2003: “Archimede Award” for excellence in Logic, Geometry and Mathematics at High School.
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PUBLICATIONS & EXHIBITIONS October 2012: “Cidade de Deus: Working with infomalized mass housing in Brazil”
Book published by RUBY Press (Berlin) and ETH. (expected issuing date).
June 2012: “Favela Exchange” Exhibition in Columbia University’s Studio X, Rio de Janeiro, with ETH
and SomethingFantastic (www.somethingfantastic.net). Showing the endproducts of the research carried on at ETH, it had a wide coverage on local media, specialized magazines and websites.
October 2011: “Rural City” Exhibition, SAIE 2011, Bologna. Selected projects and interviews from the competition. March/June 2011: “Hotel Costel” Project for a prototype cardboard house, displayed at “Salone del Mobile 2011” Milano, “Fest’Arch 2011” Perugia, “Abitare” architecture webzine.
December 2010: “Milano-Detroit” in “The Plan” architecture magazine n°47. Excerpts from the master thesis project. February 2009: “Vizzion Award 2009: European architecture competition” Book published by Archive d’Architecture Modern, collecting best proposals from the related competition.
LANGUAGE Mother Tongue: Italian. Other Languages: English (Fluent in written and spoken English-C1). Wide knowledge of the technical vocabulary. French (Elementary-B1). 3 years classes at high school. Spanish and Portuguese (Basic-A1). Basic understanding. German (Basic-A1). Currently attending language classes.
TECHNICAL SKILLS Model making: Excellent manual skills. Proficiency in engineered (laser cutter) model making. Software: AutoCad, Vectorworks, Rhinoceros3D, Cinema4d, SketchUp, Photoshop, Illustrator,
Premiere, AfterEffects and InDesign skills. Confident in both Mac and PC environments.
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Gianmaria Socci Index
PORTFOLIO 2012.
Rethi(n)ckening the Line. MAS final project...... pag. 8
2011.
Linha Metropolitana de Tijuca. MAS mid-term project...... pag. 16
2011.
Rural City. Competition...... pag. 18
2010.
ElectriCity of Detroit. Master Thesis...... pag. 20
2010.
Concrete Island. School Work...... pag. 26
2009.
Wet Parade. Competition...... pag. 30
2008.
Living Boundary. Competition...... pag. 34
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Rethi(n)ckening the Line.
Social Housing reconsidered, Rio de Janeiro, 2012 MAS ETH FINAL PROJECT
Published in “Cidade de Deus: Working with informalized mass housing in Brazil.”
with: Alkistis Thomidou. Established in the 1960’s with a modernistic masterplan, the popular neighbourhood of Cidade de Deus in Rio de Janeiro failed to accommodate the population needs both functionally and socially. The double slab buildings were mono functional residential units lacking any connection to the urban life. The space between them, an empty field. During the years the inhabitants struggled to make this space suitable for they lives, extending their houses to accommodate growing families, attacking the empty space with shops, workshops, verandas, tavernas and garages.
Reading the evolutionary process, we recognized the paradigm of the defective design in the sharp separation of private from public, built from void, defined from undefined. We translate the informal pattern of add-ons into a different scale, building a medievally formal framework that undoes the modernistic master plan. The ultimate goal is to thicken the boundary line, to turn it from separation into transition. The new elements acting between the urban and domestic realm, affect both of them reshuffling the apartments from the inside and creating a new public face to the outside, and eventually creating a new urban space.
PLAZAS
The intervention, while extending the existing buildings, also creates a new public face and, ultimately, new public spaces.
SHELVES
A non-invasive framework is set in place to stress and encourage the on-going process.
PROJECT LAYE
PLAZAS
The intervention, while the existing buildings, a a new pubblic face and, new public spaces.
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A non-invasive framewo place to stress and enc on-going process.
INFORMAL
The spontaneous informalization attacks the empty modernistic space and expands the interior spaces.
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The spontaneous inform attacks the empty mode space and expands the spaces.
MODERNISTIC Public and private are separated by a sharp boundary.
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public and private are s a sharp boundary.
Model (in brown the existing buildings)
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Masterplan axonometry (existing in black)
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TYPOLOGY CROSS SECTION The existing double-slab building is radically updated by the addition of an external, self-supporting shelf structure. The main structural system, including staircases, is preserved, but the added surface opens possibilities for a reshuffle of the internal organization. Keeping the position of the piping, an infrastructural ring of fixture runs trough the building, allowing flexibility, encouraging a wide variety of apartment types.
“Pockets� at the ground floor facing outward, create spaces for small enterprises, offices and bars.
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On the rooftop rainwater is being collected. running trough the infrastructural ring it eventually reaches the underground where it is stored for communal uses, such as watering plants, car wash and various outdoor activities.
The newly identified Plazas specialize according to specific ambiences and functions, gathering the sourrounding buildings into a common atmosphere.
The inner courtyard is rethought as the core of the apartment building. Here a new shading system organize the acces and the functional spaces, creating a double faรงade that mediates between common and private.
The fixture ring simplifies the technical implementation and organizes the internal plans of the flat, allowing extreme flexibility in time and the possibility for innumerable custom variations.
The intervention attacks the blind faรงades of the existing double slabs, introducing public amenities, turning blind spots into lively spaces.
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Typical Floor Plan
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implementation strategy relies on a flexible 3 BEDROOMS 90 m2 BATHROOMS and cheap prefabriTYPE “A” 2DUPLEX DOUBLE HEIGHT TERRACE construction. DUPLEX 3 BEDROOMS cated 2.5 meters tall con90BATHROOMS m2 3 Bedrooms 2 crete profiles act as 2 Bathrooms DOUBLE HEIGHT TERRACE in-place moulds and Double height wall elements, where 90 m2 terrace steel reinforcement can be put in place. 90 sqm On-site semi-standardized concrete slabs guarantee the necessary flexibility TYPE B on each floor. TYPE B
PATIO FLAT TYPE B 2 BEDROOMS 1 BATHROOMS PATIO PRIVATE FLAT TERRACE
TYPE “B” PATIO FLAT 255BEDROOMS m2
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1 Bedrooms 1 Bathrooms 1 BEDROOMS 60 m2 Flexible open space 1 BATHROOMS LOFT FLEXIBLE OPEN SPACE 60 sqm
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Linha Metropolitana de Tijuca.
Favelas and Real Estate, a negotiation, Rio de Janeiro, 2012 MAS ETH MID-TERM PROJECT Published in “Cidade de Deus: Working with informalized mass housing in Brazil.”
with: Alkistis Thomidou. How would you like to have a “favelado” as neighbour? What if the poor could afford a luxurious lifestyle? What if the rich could enjoy the favela street life? An empty space, claimed under the pressure of real estate developers of “Barra de Tijuca” on one side and by a growing popular city (Cidade de Deus) on the other, becomes the occasion to test a new hybrid city, negotiating the modern (and modernist) lifestyle of the “condominium feçado” (gated
high-rise) with the intense social life of the favela, and defining a strong physical border in order to preserve the existing void, considered an important asset in its own. Social behaviours are related to typologies, and the mix of types becomes mix of lifestyles as “islands” with peculiar characters interlock with each other. The informal modifications of formal buildings are used as a tool to develop usual types into a brand new urban fabric.
light rail main axis facilities green belt green belt big boxes boxes big
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food gardens food gardens
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Rural City.
A territorial Manifesto, Bologna, Italy, 2011 COMPETITION Finalist.
with: Marco Jacomella. The closed circuit that used to negotiate the relations between the city and the countryside nowadays is damaged causing a lost of balance between production and consumption, pollution and sustainability, land use and its preservation. As the cities are living way above their capacities, the surrounding territory is more and more degraded and abused. The Po Valley, what used to be the best example in Italian agriculture, turned out to be a huge environmental thread: intensive farming flattened all the biological diversities, it killed entire ecosystems and, maybe even more important, it is not economically affordable anymore. Most of the farmers survive thanks to European loans and every day many of them just give the land up, a land that is also losing its production capacity due to the big climatic change that is moving the
crops production northward. Two entities use to shape the Padano landscape- settlements and farms -they are now completely separated, both physically and socioeconomically: such a dichotomy is no longer sustainable. The constitution of a new cycle between the two entities is urgently needed, a cycle that being short and closed would eventually manage to compensate deficit and surplus into a new balance, a new ecosystem. Furthermore, social sustainability has to be taken into account in order to reverse the negative economical trend that is driving small scale farming to ruin and invent a new economical future based on the uprising of green economy.
VERTICAL FARMS
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A new pattern is superimposed on the existing plot division: as a roman “centuratio� the small farms divide the territory into small units, easy to manage and to garrison.
The scattered fragments are brought togheter by ecological corridors that by simple means create a new unity in the existing hetereogenous fabric.
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Back in time the Po Valley used to be a vast humid forest. The few surviving leftovers of the ancient ecosystem are preserved and implemented in order to recreate the biological diversity that is lacking in the area.
The territory structured upon the artificial pattern of the vertical farms and the natural one of the forests, is now ready to accomodate small scale farming that will reenstablish the lost relation between city and countryside.
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ElectriCity of Detroit.
Reinventing Urbanity trough Infrastructure, Detroit, 2010 MASTER THESIS with: Federigo Luzzi, Roberta Pari. Assumed that “The Infrastructure” is the power unit of the american city, the “sine-qua-non” condition, as one of the former leading city shrinks to a pre-urban state, the Project aims to maintain its main structure and to reshape it around the same structure. We stated to reveal the hidden meanings of the infratructure and to fiund new uses, by focusing our efforts on the service spaces, the left-overs, the scraps that the engineering work necessarily demands. Everything that sits inside the block (“isolato” in Italian, isolated in the litterary and metaphorical meaning of the word) will be shaped by uncontrollable, already on-going, processes (the return of “The Wild” somewhere, the birth of artificial
80% OF CONGESTED ROADS
worlds somewhere else) . The Project’s ambition is to show the natural evolution of a system creating urbanity trough pure connection, a system which carefully avoids congestion but which gives an open support to unpredictable spaces. If the actual demographic decline keeps going, the next Detroit will be a smaller, but not less broad, city, with a new relation with nature, no more opposed to its network but mingled with it. Detroit will be a city anyway if it maintains its back-bone in which the real urban life takes place: a Perimeter of Urbanity will garrison a wild territory and the Infrastructure will turn into the object of the city itself instead of a mere service.
BOUNDARY
A new infrastructure layout coagulates interest around a defined perimeter
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Although the metropolis appears formless, the statistics revealed that a peculiar “field” of activity is clearly concentrated around a recognizable area. Traffic shows where Life is.
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HIERARCHY
The inputs from analysis are taken as guide-lines to stimulate the on-going differentiation
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HIGH-SPEED RAIL Japan 127’333’000 inhabitants 377’944 Km2 surface 333 inhabitants/Km2
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RUHR BASIN Germany The inhabited territory
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surface 10135 Km Km superficie
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URBAN STRATEGY: DIFFERENTIATION The analysis focused on the existing infrastructure suggested us to develop just further three of the many existing roads. Reading the latent opportunities in the territory (respectevely an almost-urban condition in Woodward Ave., a rare clean countryside along the Hall Road and the proximity of Gratiot Ave. to the lake) the new transport facilities acts as an engine that makes each road to recognize its own character.
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Following Obama’s recent investments in electric vehicles development, the project tries to head the transport energies to a coherent urban organisation. Each “station” declines itself according to its sourrandings, becoming, first, an aggregation point for an ever moving society.
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One of the project’s main challenge is to generate an urban tranformation without modifying the urban texture itself. All the efforts are spent in the spaces in-between the proper living areas and the infrastructure, finally making them touch. This would eventually create a new network overlaying the old city’s fabric.
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Schools and Universities Entertainment Industrial Fields Parks and Cemeteries Hospitals and Clinics Shopping Malls
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Key Infrastructural Knots
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Grand Central Station, connecting the local and the national system
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CENTRAL STATION As the natural starting point for such an ambitious program, the new central station connecting local and global systems, serves as a paradigm for the architecture of the new urbanism. It is, definetely, un-architecture. Moving from the thesis’ paradoxical assumption that all the urbanity left in Detroit just lives in the road, the design voluntary put in place quality-less building: the commercial boxes which crowds the roads’ sides. Their role is to show that the american urban implementation shuold not start from the single objects, but from their relations. That margin between the sleepy neighborhood and the energetic road is here broken and the asphalt runs trough the different functions: mixing the livable-but-dead and the powerful-but-deadly shows a brand new landscape in which, maybe, the american urbanism could find its balance along with new (electrical) transport modes.
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The new Central Station explodes different functions across the plot. The surface becomes a field of relations instead of a no-man’s-land sourrounding a big building, as was in the old station.
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Concrete Island.
Experimental Vacation facility, New York City, 2010 SCHOOL PROJECT “Everywhere means Nowhere� Sececa.
AESTHETIC OF ISOLATION Holidays and Travels in contemporary culture are often linked to the concept of isolation. The latter is the basic component of a pleasure trip that, as Seneca stated, deals much more with a detachment rather than with movement itself. The need for a complete detachment is significantly stronger nowadays, due to the proliferation of the means of communication and, on the other hand, to the difficulty in finding a really isolated place in a more and more globalised world. Technology and Architecture give us the opportunity to make, at least, an isolated building. The project is developed trough three main concepts or ingredients, to create isolation.
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The first one is access: every truly private space has a secret and the only way to discover it is trough a (often hidden and difficult) path. The hosts of the Island are brought there by helicopter, no one can reach it alone, no one can escape. The second main concept is incomunicability. This could be seen as a physical barrier, but also as peculiar social condition: to be out of the society usually brings the human-being to a new kind of freedom which is basically, freedom from common social rules. The last idea treated is vastness. A castway feels deeply his condition in front of the vastness of the ocean which, by freeing the sight, reveals him his complete lonelyness.
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In the level below, the guest detaches himself from the sourroundings.
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Vertigo
In search for an invisible boundary, the surfaces blend together.
Reflection
The continuity between windows and mirrors creates a Magritte-like reality.
Absence
The sole “true� walls in the Island contain all the furniture and make them disappear.
Horizon
The basement englobe comfortble places as pools and sofas, leaving a flat, pure horizon.
Flat Iron
The Island is placed on the top of the stoic Fuller Building, facing the large void of Madison Square. Formally it replicates the extrusion process of the skyscraper it self.
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CASTAWAYS Aiming to reach (even to extreme consequences) the hidden and intimate meanings of a vacation, the project assumes some peculiar movie character as his proper guests. Each one of them used to live a different kind of isolation.
The writer Jack Torrence, lost his job as winter keeper after the trouble he caused during last winter...still he needs a quite place where no one could reach him, to write his book getting inspired by the vastness of spaces.
The colonel Kurtz has been taken away from the jungle but not to the reason yet. He keeps looking for a lost and horrible place where to watch at his heart of darkness, far away from the society’s moral.
Things have changed since 1942, when captain Lo Russo lost himself and his troop in the Egeo sea. In a more and more connected world He’s now looking for isolation, and thus freedom, no longer physical but mediatic.
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Wet Parade.
Mixed use Development in “Navigli”, Milan, 2009 COMPETITION Honorable mention.
with: Nicole Passarella, Riccardo Russo, Federico Orsini, Elisa Greco.
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Phytodepuration
abandoned areas: brownfields, vacuum spaces wich creep into the urban context. Since the ground is a primary source (as energy producer, as common space and last but not least as possibility), we should save it as much as possible and be aware of our buildings’ footprint: to build in an already corrupted soil is a possible answer. In this way we can densify and polarize activities, minimizing infrastructure, transport and energy consumption. A sustainable neighbourhood means a new way of living: it shares systems and facilities, it groups ducts, it makes the most of pubblic transport. It avoid wastes. It creates a community.
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This project was made for an international student competition asking for innovative solutions in new sustainable developments: the site and size were free. Our answer is that technology is not the only way for making sustainability. Nowadays, the cutting edge technologies in the field of sustainable architecture give us a broad and proved know-how to build low-energy buildings. Nevertheless we should rethink the matter and revolutionize our point of view: the crucial point of view, now, is strategy. The project tries to show that before designing any building we have to plan a coherent urban development. Modern Sprawl cities leave behind a huge amount of
The area intersect the main infrastructure, being a possible pubblic transport connector.
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An area which is able to connect a larger park belt system and to bring it directly in the core of the urban mass.
It is in a strategic position, exactly in-between the city and the countryside. Besides, it is in the growing fashion district.
SPA
Sport Fields
Milan is the ultimate Italian Sprawl-city, a polycentric, yet historic, modern metropolis expanding outwards in sight of expo 2015.
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ENERGY The phytodepuration system allows us to clean water without any energy demand. Combining it with separate ducts for grey and dark waters we minimize the need for artificiallycleaned water. The energy saving ( due to the enormous needs of a purification plant ) is 82137 KWh in one year ( calculated in comparison with a 15 L/s plant, for a daily consumption of 150 L per capita ). The phytodepuration field is 8 m2 per person adn it’s sized for 200/250 people. The main cleaning plants are Phragmites Australis and Typha Latifolia.
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1.Vertical System:
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-synthetic resin floor -lightened klinker concrete -fretted metal sheet -steel beam HEA 300 -soundproof plasterboard false ceiling 3cm
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Winter Green House effect
Summer Wind Chimney effect
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The double façade facing South is the key of the entire project. Working on the concept of “laminarity” the extremely thin building minimize his footprint and meanwhile grants to every flat both the views, to the city on the north side and to the wetland to the south. The vertical, in-between space is also a pubblic one: on the first level a pubblic catwalk distributes some fashion shops and cuts the building from side to side; on the upper levels semipubblic stairs lead to the apartments, creating meeting places on the landings. Besides, teh exterior “textile” screen shades the south windows and gives to the building his fashion look.
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Living Boundary.
Carbon Neutral Kindergarten in Trondheim, Norway, 2008 COMPETITION 1st Prize.
with: Eliodoro Bigi, Solveig Debrock. The project is a reflection on sustainability and on the relationship between the inhabitant’s behaviours and the building’s performance. To be more precise it investigates on what is “comfort” and how it can be achieved: in a high-end technologycal time, passive buildings may be perfect comfort machines requiring a ridicoulous amount of energy, but, nevertheless, they become more and more autonomous technical entities, negleting the inhabitant actions and its uncontrolled acts. That is, in fact, why you can’t open a window according to your will in a passive house. This kindergarten solves the question from another point of view. The main statement is that the human being is a wonderfully adaptable creature, much more than any hi-tech build-
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ing, so he can modify its behaviours according to changing external conditions (also, this comes to be a very direct lesson in a kindergarten). The school spaces are divided into compartments with different grades of insulation and they contain each other. There is an open, unheated “grey area” which collects many smaller heated cells where the normal lessons are held. This latters are further divided into smaller spaces for sleeping and working. Thus the children comfort is strictly connected to their activity: when they sleep they can chose a calm, warm place, when they feel like playing they can happily run trough the free space warming up them selves.
Plan
STRATEGY Boxes
Classes, Kitchen, Offices. The vital functions are held in minimized volumes.
Activating walls
Multifunctional, common furnitures. They also acts as extra insulation.
Grey space
Connecting plus common spaces. It gains heat from the boxes loses
Inner articulation
Same but different, the boxes are spread in the grey space to create the feeling of a little town.
cold area
temperated area 417mq 55%
heated area 289mq 45%
SITEPLAN
A provisor building was allready on site. During the site inspection an apparently unjustified behaviour really striked us: even if the site was very small, the children felt there were two different “territories�: the reassuring flat court paved in gravel, and the misterious hilly forest. In fact the differences were very small, but from a child point of view the scale grow enormously. We took this input as a very strong one and placed the building in-between the two territories, maximizing the differencies: the building itself becomes a living boundary.
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East elevation
PULP 25% all kinds of paper approx. lifetime 3years
paper
recycling
CELLULOSA FIBER
THE CARBON SINK CONCEPT Approximately lifetime 50 years.
sawdust
WASTE 15% pellets, packaging or dumped approx. lifetime 1years
cementification
chips bark panels
SAWN 60% construction materials, furnitures, fuel wood approx. lifetime 20years
WOODFIBER BOARD OSB
phenol resin PLYWOOD
TIMBER
The wooden building materials use all the parts of the original tree, ena. bling it to last for a long time and to store the carbon dioxide much longer than usual. A wooden external cladding has been discarded since his lifetime is relatively short.
Energy consumption for material transport (distance x unitarian energy according to transport system; road=1,2 train=0.5 ship=0,07) The largest used materials in the building are taken in a 70km radius. Far away made materials are chosen for their special feature only where an efficient transport system is available.
The “wild” garden
TRONDHEIM SLATE Sør-Trøndelag (road) 84 Mj/t
WOOD Sorroundings (road) 12 Mj/t
FOAMGLAS Oslo (train) 250 Mj/t CORK PANELS Portugal (ship) 245 Mj/t
Long section
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The “safe” court
Roof
-metal gutter / snow stopper -natural slate -wooden secondary frame -water tight bitumen sheet -plywood panel 24 mm -cellulose fiber 250 mm -vapour barrier -plywood panel 24 mm -cork panel (extra insulation) 80 mm -timber frame 50 x 100 mm -technical plant space -acoustic ceiling tiles
Wall
-natural slate -air gap -timber 40x40 mm -wind stopper -plywood board 24 mm -cellulose fiber 350 mm -vapour barrier -cemented eood fiber board 30 mm -OSB finish panel, coloured with water-based paint
Foundation
-extra insulation panel -dreinage
-wooden boards floor -cork panel (extra insulation) 80 mm -foamglas panel 50-200-50 mm -stabilisation sand -gravel
Cross section 1:20
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