GIORGIO PERNASILICI Architecture & Urbanism 2018
Giorgio Pernasilici
PORTFOLIO Architecture & Urbanism 2018
email: giorgio_pernasilici@libero.it pec: giorgio.pernasilici@archiworldpec.it cell.: +39 3421370404
Contents 1
ABOUT ME
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CURRICULUM VITAE
RESEARCH THESIS
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Shaping cities, shaping people.
MIXED USE
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I) The Unfinished Grid. II) Invisible Skyscraper. I)
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HOUSING & INTERIOR DESIGN
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I) Building Sustainability. II) Coach House. III) a_ Re-Born, b_ Doctor’s Apartment. LANDSCAPE
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Fragmented Worm.
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Campolaterium’s Watch
HERITAGE
KAIRA LOORO COMPETITION
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In ‘n’ Out Cultural Centre
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About me Giorgio Pernasilici Italian Architect (n. 1054 @ OAPPC of Frosinone)
Date of Birth: 27-06-1991 I am a 27 year old Italian & English Architect enrolled in the “Ordine degli Architetti, Pianificatori, Paesaggisti e Conservatori” of Frosinone (Italy). Due to my double citizenship I have had the oppurtunity to work for international firms and work for short periods abroad. I started to be interested in Architecture, many years ago, while I was at Middle school when the art teacher assigned my class the task of finishing an empty room drawing. The enthusiasm with which I carried out my work was so intense that I started reading and buying interior-design magazines. The result was a warm and enchanting living room. Thanks to this task I became interested in art and architecture. My passion grew and without a doubt I undertook architectural studies. During my career, I have understood that Architecture is about making SPACES. These spaces are different in forms and shapes but they all represent a shelter for human activities, activities which are present in cities. Therefore, architecture has the role of creating a city and its meeting spaces, such as public squares, green areas, roads and buildings. These places have both cultural and social functions; cities, in fact, become places of aggregation and socialisation. Architecture has the aim to create, ameliorate and change the world. My role, as an architect, is to find better solutions for people’s life conditions. 1
Place of Birth: Frosinone, Italy Nationality: Italian & English (dual citizenship) Address C/O: 12 Scott Road, Grosvnor Cottage, Walsall, WS53JN West Midlands, UK. Email: giorgio_pernasilici@libero.it Skype: giorgio_pernasilici@libero.it Pec email: giorgio.pernasilici@archiworldpec.it Phone number: +39 3421370404
Languages: - Italian (mother tongue) - English (Ielts, First Certificate, Trinity) - Spanish (on-going) - French
Curriculum Vitae PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2017 - 2018: 2016 - 2017: 2014: 2013:
Architectural designer at Studio Associato Progest, Frosinone (IT). Architectural designer at P-U-R-A Architecture, Milan & London (IT / UK). Internship at CAV - Studio di Architettura ed Ingegneria, Rome (IT). Internship at TSG Architecture, Birmigham (UK).
EDUCATION 2014 - 2017: 2011 - 2014:
Politecnico di Milano, MSc in Architecture: Sustainable Architecture of Multi-scale project - English course. (First Class Honours - 110 e lode/110). Universtià degli Studi “La Sapienza” of Rome, BS in Architecture: Scienze dell’ Architettura e della Città.
RESEARCH 2017:
Shaping cities, shaping people. The Urban and Architectural trasformation of a city to become Smart. MSc Thesis
WORKSHOPS & COMPETITIONS/AWARDS 2018: 2018: 2018: 2016: 2016: 2015: 2014:
Competion_ Design for a new School Complex in Livorno, Italy. Competion_ Design for 9 apartments and 15 parking spaces in Bressanone, Italy. Competion (Kaira Looro international Architecture Competition)_ Cultural center in Senegal, Africa. Competition_ The New Fiemme and Fassa Hospital in Cavalese, Italy, 1stWinner (Collaborating with Studio Ravegnani Morosini) Wooven Wood Workshop, parametric structure for Milan Fuori Salone. Piacenza summer school OC, Politecnico of Milan, 2nd prize Winner. Loo(c)up Workshop, wooden structure in Parco del Tuscolo in Rome.
SOFTWARE & SKILLS - Autocad
- Rhinoceros
- Revit
- 3D Studio Max
- A.Photoshop
- Physical Modelling
- A. InDesign
- Hand Drawing
- A. Illustrator
- Team work
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Selected Projects
- Academic work (MSc thesis, MSc works & bS thesis), - professional practice.
research_ Academic work
Shaping cities, Shaping people. THE URBAN AND ARCHITECTURAL TRANSFORMATION OF A CITY TO BECOME SMART. lOCATION: mILAN (IT) PROF.: rOY eMILIANO nASH TEAM : giorgio pernasilici, ELENA sACCAPERNI
During the growth process, a city models its expansion according to the inhabitants’ needs because their daily life and lifestyle has changed throughout the centuries. From a mono-centric typology, the city has become poly-centric. The city is expanding and more and more people are getting involved in it searching for work supplies, multiple life opportunities and various other facilities. It inevitably grows rapidly out of control taking pieces of green areas and surrounding lands without improving the existing abandoned areas. Thus, the city occupies a bigger surface than the past and as a matter of fact it becomes a city inside the city with a lost identity. The new polycentric layout ensures a dense infrastructure system capable of connecting all the different neighbourhoods. However, even if the different neighbourhoods offer a wide variety of services the city is not always capable of integrating all the facilities in order to improve the daily life of its citizens. In fact, therefore the services are not reachable by all the different users. The infrastructure net allows only cars to move everywhere while bikes and pedestrians are circumscribed to a small and less supplied service area. Thus, the city is becoming less liveable, chaotic and unsafe. As a consequence, cities are moving towards a smart idea of living. The “smart” approach is used to improve the life style of people and the 5
general management of a city. The improvement is guaranteed by an intelligent services net connected to other facilities around the cities through a diverse infrastructure system that provides public transportation lanes, cycling routes and pedestrian paths. The smart mobility, indeed, is for everyone and can be achieved only with an efficient urban planning. Therefore people become active and collaborative partners of the development. Due to the smart governance which makes the decision making steps more transparent and easier, citizens can actively participate suggesting improvements for the city coming from their direct daily experience. Architecture has an essential role in the development of a smart city. It is not just a technological city which uses smartphone apps and devices to help the citizens life, but it is a more complex urban planning system. Starting from the organization and the design of services, mobility system, green areas and public spaces the city can change its chaotic look into a more liveable and planned environment. The architectural approach affects also the social and cultural aspects in order to reduce the discrepancy between people and neighborhoods. Even economy adapts itself to the new system, moving from industrial to local production – giving the small local firms more opportunities.
PLANNER’S GUIDE
spiral of Decay
spiral of Development
walking & cycling distance
Zoned Neighbourhood
Mixed-use Neighbourhood
Inefficient Services Distribution
Efficient Services Distribution
contemporaneity Planning
Smart city planning
developing a smart city
A Smart City is an urban development vision that integrates multiple information and communication technology (ICT) and urban solutions to manage, ameliorate and organise the general operation of the city. However a Smart City is a city well performing in six aspects: living, people, environment, mobility, governance and economy.
Smart Living Smart Environment
Smart Governance
smart city Smart Mobility Smart People Smart Economy
moving towards smart urban planning
Each city is different, thus the project for a smart city has to be tailor-made considering the state of art of the place, its geography, its culture, its needs and capability. It is a matter of fact that an universal model for designing a smart city does not exist but planners can follow some features in order to create a smart urban planning. 7
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City Safety
Green & Public Space Sustainable Trasportation
smart urban planning Mixed Use Neighbourhood
Reuse
Data Sensor
Participation of Citizen
Barcelona
Amsterdam
Bogota’
Columbus
San Diego
portland
Milton Keynes
Helsinki
Rotterdam
Wein
Stockholm
copenhagen
smart urban planning
City Safety Green & Public Space Data Sensor Sustainable Transportation Mixed Used Neighbourhood Participation of citizens Reuse Reduce C02
The matrix shows some smart projects applied in different cities around the world. The usage of technological devices will not make the city smarter, but smartness depends on a welldesigned urban plan, thus architects have an important role in the design of the urban and architectural plan. An efficient, liveable, sustainable and smart city will be the one that offers a smart infrastructure grid capable of organizing slow and fast mobility, a variety of public spaces that guarantee the accessibility and permeabiliy to different areas allowing people to discover the neighbourhood and the city.
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how can a well consolidated city, as milan, turn into a smart city through urban planning and architecture?
policentric metropolitan layout
Milan, which represents the largest Metropolitan area in Italy, is expanding year by year at an uncontrolled rate. This growth brings problems that cannot be solved only with the use of technology and devices, but the expansions should be planned and integrated with the rest of the metropolitan area and the other small towns involved in it. The Metropolitan territory has a population of 7 milion people in an area of 12 km². The metropolis extends from Orio ak Serio to Malpensa airport, from Adda to Ticino river, from Como to Lecco and up to the fields of Parco Sud. The whole area is structured by different urban settlements: large and small residential areas, commercial system, industrial districts, historical centres, mixed use areas, parks, agricultural fields... Thus, the citizens’ lifestyle is organised around complex mobility: people, in fact, move with private and public vehicles for work, live, study and shopping.
All the infrastructures, from different directions converge with a centric model to Milan centre and its main attractive points. This system penalises East to West and North to South connections, causing traffic congenstions into and out of Milan. While the metropolitan area is becoming a multicentric city due to all the growing towns around Milan, the territorial organisation system, instead, still acts in response to the radial city plan. The necessity of integrating this radial plan with transversal and tangential flows is clear, since they already define the multicentric system, is. It is necessary, in fact, to implement the mobility, overlapping the policentric model on the radial one, for a future city that does not follow the monocentric system. Adopting the new model it will be possible to transform generic suburbs in new and different identity centres which could complement the structure of the Milan Metropolis.
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Cascina merlata neighbourhood
Existing Mall A’ hybrid building project focus
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MASTERPLAN_ Smart Urban Planning applied to Cascina Merlata Neighbourhood
public realm DIFFERENTIATION
Today
- Boundaries are closed to public - No variety of green spaces
in 2020
- Boundaries start to open - Differentiation of public spaces
in 2050
- Boundaries are eliminated - Public green into private courtyard
The neighbourhood has to offer a resilient green and public space able to adapt to the changes of the site throughout the years until the entire area is completed. The scenario expected in future shows a differentiation in public spaces and the opening of the boundaries of the residential lots. The private courtyards become firstly semi-private and finally public. The Masterplan proposed intends to improve and ameliorate the different spaces of the site, giving it the identity that now is missing. The mixed use settlement guarantees an active and lively place 24h a day, a variety of attractions and events for all types of users.
Section A-A’ Section B-B’
Section C-C’
Section D-D’ Section E-E’ Territorial Sections 14
functions offered and users
1) services and facilities
Eating
Shopping
Connecting
Cleaning
Healing
Reapering
2) Culture and entertainement
Learning
Working
Reading
Watching
Talking
3) hubs and workshops
Creating
Discovering
Cooking
Recycling
4) LEiSURE and SPORTS
Dancing
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Playing Music
Relaxing
Meeting
Cultivating
Training
Playing Sport
functions’ distribution
The goal is to activate the entire site also from the citizens point of view because without their participation that make the place lively, the area would be adandoned. To activate the neighbourhood it is important to offer facilities for all the inhabitants. 16
hybrid building
Residence
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Actual Building Basement
Smart Building Basement
To break the boundaries and make the building permeable to the city, the Ground Floor is fundamental. It Should be integrated into the urban tissue and linked with the neighbourhood’s public realm system. The Building basement becomes a hinge capable of reversing the horizontal system of a city in the vertical one of the building. This Verticality allows some floors to be more public with a variety of facilities and functions for all the different users. Thus, the floors of the new constructions are new levels of the city.
a_ Expo Bridge end point
e_ Level connection
b_ Building creation
c_ Expo path
d_ Public square extrution
f_ Semi-public platforms
g_ Students house belt
h_ Residential units
Legend 1_ Services and Facilities; 2_ Culture and Entertainment; 3_ Hubs and Workshops; 4_ Leisure and Sports 17
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- 1 Floor Plan_ Public Realm
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6th Floor Plan_ Residential
Perspective Section B-B’
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mixed use_ Academic work
The Unfinished Grid. a new multifunctional centrality for redeveloping the periphery of badalona. lOCATION: badalona (es) PROFf.: vives sanfeliu lluis, chen jun ho, vecchi giancarlo TEAM : giorgio pernasilici, chan hiu fung, tung lam nguyen
The site is an industrial area surrounded by old abandoned buildings. The chimneys were formely used for thermal power for the area but are no longer in use. The aim of the project is to keep the three chimneys as a symbol for heritage which will be used for a cultural function, a museum. Thus, an ideal masterplan has been created to suite his new intervention. Through the urban planning, nodes were firstly established as a point of interest and then connected to each other. The connections are triangulated, thus allowing the visitors to explore and offering them the possibility of choosing which way to go before arriving at the cultural museum. Another important feature is the introduction of a green park, which is suitable for all ages, young and old permitting them to enjoy the open space
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and fresh air. This brings the site back to life as it is being transformed into a new cultural centrality for Badalona. The major problem of the site is the railway, which runs through it obstructing the connection of the chimneys to the other part of the site. A platform bridge designed in alliance with node which not only serves as a connector and plays an active role in the enhancement of movement to and from it, also offers a range of activities such as commercial to complement it. The aim of the project is to revitalize the area and make it more feasible for the people’s requests. In fact, the masterplan has a complex mixed use area where people can find offices, shopping malls, green parks, plazas, residential buildings and a variety of community services.
fABRIC ANALOGY
SITE
Urban fabric is an enormous architectural complexity, made up of different fabrics which perform differently but still together in order to create a whole. The different fabrics of Barcelona and Badalona are the products of historical, geographical and urban influence and planning. Designing a new area, with little previous conditions as few historical buildings and narrow streets out of proportion, it is necessary to obtain an urban form that facilitates the creation and union of new different programs.
Centralised Green Space
Transitional Green Space
Ifiltrated Green Space
Buffered Green Space
Green Space
Monumentation of a Node
Nodes
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Disposition & Direction
Placing at a Distance
URBAN NETWORK
new Order
Points of interests are reorganised, evenly redestributed with 150-200 meter intervals. The triangular juxtaposition carries intimacy within a more compact network.
nodes
Exiating buildings preserved for their architectural merits and new buildings conserving the industrial vibe.
Lines
Redefining the area as part of the sorrounding fabric.
Surfaces
The latent network derived from the existing vacant ground surfaces, creating possible open spaces network.
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FILLING IN THE EMPTY SPACES
Preservation & Revitalization
proximity
placing at a distance
Radiation
Sub-plaza & Direction
Monumentality
Disposition
Fabric Deformation
Transition & Activation
Ritmic Verticality
Complexity of the Unfinished grid
The idea of rising the unfinished grid as the proposal of the masterplan was intended to be sustained by people. To allow the inhabitants and visitors to “FILL IN THE BLANKS�, the borders of consideration has to be pushed into multiple dimentions: from the perception of a single block to the perception of a cross-site axis, from visiting a facility to the sequence of land uses, from visible to latent. The strategies are not mere layering of separate networks but are generated one after another and all at the same time.
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BADALONA’S MULTIFUNCTIONAL CENTRALITY
MASTERPLAN
ground Floor Plan_ Cultural Center
1 floor Plan
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2 floor Plan
Roof Plan
Urban Garden
Exhibition Square
Large Events Space
section 1-1
section 2-2
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Original Node
Preserved structure and Extention
Urban Interaction
Connection Surfaces
New Structure
Programming
mixed use_ Academic work
Invisible Skyscraper striking a city skyline with a light, levelled and layered contemporary building. lOCATION: paris (FR) PROFf.: herve’ dubois, roy nash, giancarlo vita TEAM : giorgio pernasilici, chan hiu fung, yim siu, saccaperni elena
The aim of the project is the design of a Skyscraper in the urban tissue of Paris. How does a skycraper effect the urban morphology of a contemporary city with a strong historical heritage as Paris? The provocation was to make a building that appears and stands out on the layout of a city as something integrated and coherent with the surroundings. The new skycraper, in fact, merges with the urban tissue and becomes part of it. Through an analysis of the Parisian landmarks it appears that they are all linked by the 400 m walking distance, by the visual connection and the presence zone area. Using these criteria the choice of the project site was established i.e. the city center. The skyscraper is hidden in the urban pattern while it is still plainly visible. In the landmark net there is a missing node. The connection of the nodes will be enhanced by the
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introduction of the new skyscraper. Looking closer at the population and building density, it was possible to determine the accurate project site. Having taken these hypothesis for granted, the design process develops a new concept for the existing neighbourhood. This is possible adding the skyscraper, unblocking the site, improving the viability, creating a huge walking plaza, optimizing the liveable space and levelling the site. What makes the skyscraper invisible? The presence zone of the skyscraper is not extended further than the existing tall landmarks. An observer looking from the plaza will perceive it for its entirety but this impressive height is mitigated by the floating levels of the building. The skyscaper transforms the skyline of the city: the level zero of the city is elevated to the rooftop levels of the nearest buildings. In fact, to an observer, standing in the metro station, the skyscraper will appear integrated in the surrounding buildings tissue.
presence of landmarks
An analysis of the abundant landmarks of Paris focuses on the presence of the structure projected to city strollers. Every landmark was marked with a 400 meter walking distance. Structures with a height over 35 metres were considered as having a larger presence zone of 600 metre. While super structures as the Eiffel Tour and the Montparnasse skyscraper project their presence zone of over 1 kilometer. People approaching can feel the presence of the landscape much earlier, implying the probability of exploring the surrounding area on foot.
Landmarks connected with a 400m walking distance
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Landmarks connected by visual axis
Landmarks that fall into the visual zones of taller landmarks
finding the site default leftover_ Triangulating the leftover space
Territorial Landmarks
Presence zone of Landmarks
leftovers & unactivated areas
Urban hardware_ Mapping all the areas’ potentials
dispertial points ( Metro exits and Bus stops) local open space distribution of eating places distribution of retail activities
Latent tissue_ Studying the roads popularity
High Speed / More Popular low Speed / Less Popular Unactivated & Potential roads 36
creating invisibility
Masterplan_ Invisible Skyscraper
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longitudinal Section
existing Buildings
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INVISIBLE SKYSCRAPER
Communal Plaza
Communal Plaza
Covered Market
existing Buildings
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residential block
Stepped - farming block Communal Plaza
Sports ground & Event spaces Neighbourhood block Rebuilt & Internal Viewing Deck
Exploded View
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Residential _ Academic work
Building Sustainability. urban regeneration through a new sustainable building design in ponticelli (it). lOCATION: naples (it) PROFf.: mattia federico leone, alex lambruschi, alessio broggini TEAM : giorgio pernasilici, saccaperni elena, varani simone, mohamed mahmoud
The goal of the project is the design of a social housing building in a peripherical area of Naples, Ponticelli. The neighbourhood presents the negative features of a typical big Italian city’s periphery. The area, in fact, is far from the city centre and it lacks social and cultural facilities. Inhabitants generally seclude themselves into the physical borders of Ponticelli. This isolation is equivalent to a cultural, social and urban ghettoisation. Thus people don’t feel they belong to the main city but their sense of place is limited to their smaller reality. The urban critical aspects mainly include bad connection with the city centre and insufficient public transportation, abandoned areas and crumbling buildings, neglected facilities and roads used just for fast mobility. This means that there are no bike lanes and just a few sidewalks for pedestrians. Therefore pollution is a major issue.
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To ameliorate the quality of life the project tends to reactivate the disused nodes and point of interests with the realisation of sustainable design. It concerns aesthetical, functional and technological solution with a special attention to energy and water transportation issues. The Masterplan wants to reconnect Ponticelli to the city centre through the activation of the metro station and the creation of a bike lane. The focus of the building, instead, is related to a new concept of housing which collects people from different social and cultural backgrounds. The residential unit boasts an assortment of apartments addressed to both large families and single residens. For the building design process, it was fundamental to study the best orientation, the sun path, the wind flow direction and the water collecting system.
building process
urban relation & morphology integration The simple form of the building is obtained considering and taking into account the surrounding buildings and the main gates of access to tha area.
dynamic grounf floor The parallelepiped ground floor shapes into a more complex scattered volume system. The new volumes shapes are influenced by the presence of the nearest buildings.
vertical and horizontal connection The connection between ground floor and the upper levels is guaranteed by a private connection system to access only at the housing units and by a public connection system which serves public facilities, the semi-public platform and the offices.
natural ventilation system The upper block of the building uses the ventilation chimney concept for allowing a continous air flow and air exchange. This system is usefull also for having constant fresh air in the building courtyards.
light, shade and water system Finally some volumes are subtracted from the upper block and some facades and roofs become inclinated. This guarantees sun light and natural shading system to all the apartaments and makes it possible to collect and reuse rainwater.
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developing sustainability
Natural ventilation holes
Sun light improvement
Creating roof gardens
Rainwater collectors
The volume design process mainly followed four steps which have their reason in the sustainable approach. In fact, firstly from the closed shape were subtracted some volumes with the pupose of creating two ventilation chimneys. The chimney’s sides facing the best sun exposure were shaped and inclinated in order to guarantee direct sun light lo the lowest apartaments. Big roof gardens were placed on the top of the building thus to collect the rainwater and make the building cooler. Finally roofs were inclinated due to the rainwater collecting system. The sustainable building approach is linked to a territorial one. In fact, to transform the hot sea wind into cool air the building has to be placed behind a forest and a lake. The goal of the biolake is to lower the wind temperature, whereas the forest will cool down and direct the air into the chimneys. Once the air comes out from the ventilation system it will be cool and fresh.
Ventilation Chimneys
territorial section_ Wind Flow System
cooling & Directing air forest
refreshing Bio-Lake
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building Sustainability
Masterplan_ Grounf Floor Car Parking
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Commercial
Office
Restaurant
platform_ Second Floor Bike Parking 40 sqm Ap.
residential unit_ Third Floor Office 130 sqm Ap.
Restaurant
residential unit_ Fifth Floor Kindergarden
150 sqm Ap.
Gym 200 sqm Ap.
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making Sustainability possible!
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domestic water system
photovoltaic system
dark & grey water system
draining water system
detail section_ Scale 1.50
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Residential _ Professional Practice
The Coach House. merging a contemporary extension with the historical character of an english house. lOCATION: london (uk) design stage: preliminary design office: p-u-r-a Architecture
The goal of the project is to extend and renovate an old typical english Coach House on Kidderpore Avenue (LDN). A coach house is generally best described as a home that is situated above a row of garages or carports, and the owner of the home is usually also the freeholder for the entire building. The concept originates from a design that allowed horses and their carriages to be securely kept under a property at night, when this was the only means of transport available. The freeholder that lives within the property will generally have the use of one of the garages, with the others being leased to the surrounding properties on long-term leases with peppercorn rents. These properties have recently seen a surge in popularity, with more and more of this construction type appearing on new building estates due to their space-saving design and competitive pricing. The house, in fact, seats next to a bigger home, supposed to be where the property holder lived. The project refers only to the Choach house which was bought by a different family.
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The home is characterised by the typical red brick walls, a small drive way, and two housing levels. As the family is growing the client’s request is to extend the house in order to have more living space and extra bedrooms. The impossibility of extending the house in the backside and the will of having extra bedrooms on the upper floor, permitted to design a four level house with abundand living space for the family. One level of the house goes underground because it was not possible to raise the coach house roofe more than the adiacent one. The plan of the new house permits to have two floor ( -1 and ground floor) for the daily linving spaces and the two upper floors for the sleeping area. The facades have been rethinked in order to preserve the original texture and materials of the building towards Kidderpore Avenue, in accordance with the surroundings. The side elevations are totally changed and can be considered as a white film that wraps and shapes the new building.
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building process
STATE OF ART Typical Coach House with red bricked facades, bow window and small drive way.
ESCAVATING A NEW FLOOR The house extention was possible only escavating in order to have an extra floor.
raisING FOR A NEW FLOOR the height of the home was raised up due to have more extra bedrooms.
embrasING film Once the extention process was finished, the house was shaped and wraped up by a white embrasing film.
THE new house shape Finally the house deisgn and shape was succesfully found.
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current situation
foot print _ Obtained by Survey
The house is adiacent to a bigger home, supposed to be where the property holder lived. The project refers only to the Choach house which was bought by a different family. The home is characterised by the typical red brick walls, bow windows, a small drive way, and two housing levels.
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how is it going to be!
Bathroom Bathroom Kitchen Kids playroom
En suite WC
Garden Sitting & Living room
Laundry
Guests Room
Carlift
underground floor
En suite WC
walking closet
Master Bedroom studio
first floor
walking closet
Bathroom
Bedroom n. 1
Bedroom n. 2
walking closet
second floor _ Mansard
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ground floor
front elevation
rightside elevation
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Residential / Interior Design _ Professional Practice
THINKING TO INTERIORS. two DIFFENT old italian apartments renovatED and furnishED WITH SEMPLICITY AND LUXURY. lOCATION: a) ARCE (IT) ; b) CATANIA (IT) design stage: a) REALISED project ; b) SITE FASE DESIGN office: a) OWN PRACTICE -arch. Giorgio Pernasilici ; b) p-u-r-a Architecture
a) RE-BORN APARTMENT OF 36 SQ METRE. The small apartments is sited in the rural area of Arce (FR), a small town between Rome and Naples characterised by the huge presence of rural neighbourhoods. The goal of the project is to renovate the small apartment in order to make it modern and liveable. The apartment is only 36 sq metre and the challenge has been to feet in that limited area a kitchen, a living & dining room, a master bedroom, a studio and a bathroom. In order to make this possible the plan has been well studied and the furniture position is not random. The materials used for the furniture re-invoke the old farming ones as wood, steel and ceramic. In fact, all the furniture and finishes are carried out with these materials. As the original apartment was in darkness most of the day, all the wall colours have been studied in order to have a feeling of a warm, relaxing and bright house.
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b) DOCTOR’S APARTMENT OF 200 SQ METRE. The big apartment is located in a recent constructed building (‘70s) in Catania’s city center, one of the biggest city of Sicily. The aim of the design is to completely change the feeling of the apartment. In fact, it has very old and dated furniture and the rooms distribution has not been well thought. Firstly, a new distribution plan was designed in order to have a more comfortable apartment where to live and work in. The owner, in fact, is a doctor and wanted to keep one part of the house as his private studio . The studio has been placed near the entrance in a more private area of the apartment. The living area is separated from the studio by a doorway. The 200 sq metre floor guarantees big and comfortable apartment suitable for a growing family. In fact, the plan hosts a big living space, a liveable kithcen, 3 bathrooms, 4 bedrooms, one family studio and a private doctor’s studio.
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a) re-born _ Photos of the realised project
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b) Doctor’s apartment _ drawings for the client project floor plan_ Particular attention to the bathrooms
Doctor’s office
OTHER PROPERTY
Doorway
Living room
Kitchen
hallway Bathroom 1
studio
Bedroom n. 2
Bathroom 2
Guests Room
Bedroom n. 1
Bathroom 3
Master Bedroom walking closet
The new distribution plan allows to have a more confortable apartment where to live and work in. There is, in fact, a doctor’s private studio. This room has been placed near the entrance in a more private area of the apartment. The living area, instead, is separated from the studio by a doorway. The 200 sq metre floor guarantees big and comfortable apartment suitable for a growing family. In fact, the plan hosts a big living space, a liveable kithcen, 3 bathrooms - which have been designed in detail for the site design stage - , 4 bedrooms, one family studio and a private doctor’s studio. 65
Landscape _ Academic Work
FRAGMENTED WORM. REACTIVATION and rehabilitation OF THE 3 KM LONG minhocao HIGHWAY infrastructure. lOCATION: sao paulo (br) PROF.: pessoa pereira alves henrique TEAM : giorgio pernasilici, saccaperni elena, Sara simoska, antonio giungo
The aim of the project is to reactivate and rehabilitate the Minhocao highway sited in Sao Paulo.
jams and creates a lot of air and acoustic pollution. This creates many problems for the people who live in the buildings just next to the highway.
The urban analysis underlines the bad impact that this infrastrucutre system has on the surroundings. The highway, in fact, actually divides the city, it breaks the urban layout. The main issue is that the infrastructure has a negative impact on people’s cultural and social life. Under the highway many homeless people find a shelter, drug addicts find drug dealers and people consider it the urban rubbish bin.
The project proposal has to deal with all these problems and gives a solution for making the highway part of the city. The long infrastructure will be preserved and will become a long public park.
These negative aspects ensure that citizens do not feel sefe and do not want to leave the down area of the highway. In fact, all the nearby shops and commercial activities are closing. What about the Upper part of the highway? The infrastructure is often congested by traffic
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The idea of having a park crossing the city is a strategy for reducing the air and noise pollution of the area. However the main goal of the reactivation is also to connect the infrastructure with the city. The merging process will be achieved due to the creation of some new volumes and platforms in order to connect the highway public park with some important nodes of the neighbourhood. It is important to connect also the upper and bottom part of the infrastructure creating new openings in the highway slab and placing come ramps which will link the two levels.
tHE long WORM Actual Situation
3 km Long Infrastructure
Breaking the Infrastructure
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FRAGMENTING THE WORM the breaking Map
connecting with Surroundings
new Volumes
platforms
slab Openings
ramps
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processING THE idea
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free Hand Sketches 72
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1) Beginning Bridge
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2) Up-down garden
3) Square for all Ages
5) sport Playground
6) Eternal Rhythm
4) Tower Purifier
7) Museum Extention
CONNECTIng THE 3 KM WORM with the city
8) Second Hand Market
9) City Tunnels
10) Old People Activities
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11) suspended Pools
12) Workshops & Orchards
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13) Sloping Forest
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urban furniture
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materials
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The worm gate
The Up-down garden
The eternal rhytm
workshops & orchards
HERITAGE _ Academic Work / Bachelor Thesis
CAMPOLATERIUM’S WATCH. bringing back to life a medieval watch tower left to deteriorate. lOCATION: arce (it) PROF.: lia barelli TEAM : giorgio pernasilici, simone marchetti, micaela migliozzi
The Campolaterium watch tower is located in a small Italian town, Arce, situated between Rome and Naples.
summited of bracklets and merlons where boiling oil and stones were thrown through wood hatches on the aggressors.
The aim of the project is to restorate and rehabilitate the monument in order to make it practicable for Arce’s citizens and tourists.
After the medieval period the building became a tavern where travellers could eat and sleep in and the owner of the tavern used to live in the tower. It is easy to understand all the elements that characterise this transformation, from the holes of the wood beams, the fireplaces that used to warm up the rooms, the introduction of a new wall and finally the drainage system of the tower latrine.
The ancient tower is standing on the cliff-side of the Liri river. The river is a natural boundary which used to separate two enemy kingdoms: the Stato Pontificio and the Kingdom of Naples where the ancient building belonged to. The reason why the watch tower is located on the cliff-side of the river is because it had to control the borders of the kingdom and eventually report any enemy intrutions to the Castle of Arce. The fortress, in fact, stands in front of the tower and dominates the top of Arce’s Hill. The watch tower complex is enclosed in some big walls which protect the tower from eventual attacks. The defensive character of the tower is highlighted also by the entrance door which is located on the first floor and it is not easy to reach. The perimetral walls and the top of the tower are
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The restoration and rehabilitaion project started after making a detailed survey - triangulation method - and study of the buiding, its history, its trasformation, its materials and finally its conditions. The analysis underlined the degrading state of the building. The project, in fact, wants to improve the historical monument through the creation and arrangement of a green and public park around it, the restoration of the ancient walls in order to give it back its past splendour and the introduction of a glass box and staircase to preserve and re-invoke the ancient functions of the complex.
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tHE survey
ground floor plan_ It shows also the triangulation system used for the survey
second floor plan
third floor plan
The survey revealed that the watch tower was surrounded by defensive fortress characterised by a quadrangular floor plan, whose boundary cannot be retraced due to a collapse of the North-West corner, caused by a landslife. The tower consists of four levels, the first of which is occupied by a water tank. The second level has the entrance door to the tower, while the upper floors present arrowloops. 81
The front elevation presents in vertical three gothic shields. The top one, bigger than the others, is divided in two parts: the right division is filled up with the five pendant liliums, while the left part has the big cross billeted by four little ones. This herald of the D’Angiò family is represented as the one of the D’Angiò Antico which ruled during the 1282-1381 a.d. not the D’AngiòDurazzo one of the 1381-1496. It can be stated that the tower has been raised before or during a time interval included between the 1282 and 1381 a.d.
front elevation_ Obtained by metric pole and image rectification
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back to life!
ground Floor Plan
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1. State of Art
2. insertion of glass box
3. Covered exhibition area
Section_ Self Supporting Steel Structure of the Glass Box
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Competition _ Kaira Looro Cultural Centre / Professional Practice
In ‘n’ Out Cultural Centre. enhancing local culture and avoiding the loss of memory of the small village of sedhiou. lOCATION: sedhiou (sen) type: design competition TEAM: Arch. GIORGIO PERNASILICI, Arch. MARGHERITA BECECCO, ELENA SACCAPERNI
The goal of the project is to give shelter to culture in a rural and poor village, Sedhiou, of Senegal. Designing a cultural centre means enhancing local culture and avoiding the loss of memory. The best way to preserve culture is to create a place where story telling would take place: a place disigned for aggregation and common life. Traditionally, common life takes place in open air under the shade of trees. In order to promote collective open air life, the aim of the project is to create an architectural organism without a defined boundary between external and internal place, achieved by flexible and openable walls made out of bamboo shutter. To provide three distinct functions such as Education, Exhibitions and Performances the architectural design establishes to separate the functions in the different and aesthetically recognizable buildings. However, the functional unity is guaranteed since each facility looks out on a common court where open air performances take place. Educational building maintains a certain
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autonomy due to protecting children games. Besides, in order to achieve economic sustainability the project entails simple architectural structure, easy to realize even by non specialised workers. In fact, local building materials are chosen in order to avoid too expensive transport and realization costs. the main construction material chosen is the local clay brick whose dimention are 30 x 20 x 15 cm. Despite the planimetric simplicity the elevations are designed with particular and aesthetically defined clay brick texture. each building has a specific texture in order to achieve recognisability and to create a different type of natural illumination according to its function. in addition, the texture provides a natural ventilation system because the opnenings are located in the two opposite walls. Finally, in order to preserve water supplying, some water collectors made of clay and positioned at the end of the inclinated roof will stock rain water.
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A BETTER PLACE!
Dispersive place
In-door
Out-door
Common life, gathering, dancing and chatting take place in oper air under the shade of lush trees. In order to promote collective open air life, the aim of the project is to create an architectural organism without a defined boundary between external and internal space: without spatial interruption the closed spaces dedicated to school, performance or exhibition become outdoor learning, dance performance or story telling places. Flexibility
Closed Spaces
Opened Spaces
warming System
water Collection
Educational rooms performance theatre exhibition Area
Sustainability
Flexibility Devices_ Bamboo Shutter
water Collector
recognisability a)
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the cultural centre! 1) Classroom 2) Bureau 3) Rest room 4) Playground 5) Outdoor Classroom 6) Theatre 7) Outdoor Stage & Square 8) Exhibition room 9) Path 10) Water collector 11) Beam 12) Inclinated roof (1%) 13) Roof finishing
c) exhibition Area
b) performance theatre
a) Educational rooms
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Front Elevation
exibition Area
performance Theat
educational Rooms
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Retro Elevation
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Theatre
educational Rooms
exibition Area
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references: - arch. Roy emiliano nash (r.nash@p-u-r-a.com) / P-U-R-A architecture - arch. carlo valletta (valletta.carlo@gmail.com) / CAV-studio