Tales of Architecture ◦ Interior Architecture Portfolio

"There is no easy way from the earth to the stars" ...and to the Moon?

TALES OF ARCHITECTURE

Giulia Curti

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CONTENTS

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CURRICULUM VITAE ET STUDIORUM

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CONTEMPORARY BOULEVARD A MOSAIC OF VIRAL EPISODES

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A HOME IS NOT A HOUSE CONTEMPORARY LIFE PAVILION

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RIP-A-RTE CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY

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HAIKU MOBILE SCENOGRAPHY

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ELEMENTARY SURREALISM EXHIBITION

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GIULIA CURTI CONTACT ME giulia.curti.gc@gmail.com +39 339 43 38 280

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orn in Reggio Emilia, in 1990. A recent graduate in Interior Architecture.

Undertook experiences from which I gained confidence with different architecture approaches and solutions, working with people of a variety of backgrounds.

I’m interested in Interior Exhibition Design, the relationship between spaces and forms of contemporary life. I experimented interior design and scenography at the Faculty of Architecture and Society, with an interest in contemporary art.

I’m going to investigate the relationships between objects, life and space.

Due to academic efforts and capabilities I was asked to collaborate in two courses during the last two years, developing advanced skills in graphics, increasing my interest in contemporary art, gaining experience in interior design and creating public space through storytelling.

Looking for a stimulating position in order to my idea of architecture, made for people: not made of concrete but made of emotions.

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EDUCATION Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy Master’s Degree - Interior Architecture 110/110

2013-2016

Università degli studi di Parma Bachelor’s Degree - Architecture 107/110

2010-2013

Liceo Scientifico “Aldo Moro”, Reggio Emilia, Italy High school diploma

2005-2010

EXIBITIONS Surrealismo elementare 2.0 Paullo Young Art Exibibition, Milano, Italy

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Surrealismo Elementare- Elementary Surrealism European photography festival FE15, Reggio Emilia, Italy

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Negativo -Positivo (video and book) Sala mostre, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

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“Se la forma scompare la sua radice è eterna” Atmospheres, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

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LabP3 BoulevArt, Parma, Italy

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LESSIONS AND PERFORMANCES Digital Scenography lecture Politecnico di milano, Milano, Italia

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100 years of Dada Performance at City art, Milano, Italy Borderlight- NonRiservato Fuorisalone 2016, Milano, Italy FAST / digiuno performance for Sasha Meret at Amy-D gallery, Milano, Italy Via Lattea 4.0 project and lecture Jacqueline Ceresoli, contemporary art course, Politecnico di milano, Milano, Italia “Negative-Positive”lecture about a rielaboration of Bruno Munari exposition at Museo del 900.

Jacqueline Ceresoli, contemporary art course, Politecnico di milano, Milano, Italia

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STAGE AND EXPERIENCES 2017

Ente Fiera Milano Project departement Graphic Contests Arancia Rossa di Sicilia Novellara Zip Project Styling project for interior architecture contest Into the wood: play the nature

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Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy Reserch for digital scenography- interior architecture department

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Kia Motors Company project exibition in Bormio Clerici Palace and Isimbardi Palace guide for two exibitions curated by Vittorio Sgarbi Mobile Scenograpy Workshop at Arsenale Theatre, Milano, Italy

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Lourdes Monastery, France Workshop of conservation and restoration of religious and cultural works

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M2R Studio www.emmedueerre.com/M2R project intership

SKILLS PROGRAMS

Adobe suite: InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop Office: Word, Excel, Power Point Autodesk: Autocad 3D programs: Sketchup, Rhinoceros, V-ray, Maxwell video: Imovie

LANGUAGES

Italian mother tongue English B2 Toeic certification French basic

ARTISTIC

photography performance INTERESTS Styling design, Interior architecture Exhibition, Contemporary art Editorial, Materials Graphic, Fashion Photography, Travels

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01 CONTEMPORARY BOULEVARD A MOSAIC OF VIRAL EPISODES

MASTER’S DEGREE THESIS PROJECT Year | 2015-2016 Location |Porta Venezia, Milano Professor| Pierluigi Salvadeo * www.tumblr.com/blog/curtigiulia * work in progress for a book publication LetteraVentidue

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PORTA VENEZIA

CENTRAL STATION

INDRO MONTANELLI PARK

REPUBBLICA SQUARE

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he public gardens of Porta Venezia represent the oldest park in Milan and a very important part of the town's collective memory.

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The city maintains physical appearance but it's the people who live there and their activities which make it so.

The project want to tell of a city of activities and not one made of concrete.

The thesis, as a directing project, proposes possible imaginary, around an architecture: a former deposit for gardening tools used when there was a zoo in the city.

URBAN THERAPY FOR VIRAL ACTIONS

The intent of a social re-activation is an inductive approach, from the specific to general: starting from an analysis of the users who live in the spaces, physically or virtually with social networks, studying the history of the place, plan-

ning a landmark in the city and proposing a possible viral action.

The project is presented as a narration: in time and space, stimulating the viewer looking for possibilities of use of the elements that compose it.

“The designer becomes an intermediary: a maker of open schemes, rather than deterministic forms.

The idea is not to take a bit 'of space, but to spark relationships and social networks, stimulating new patterns and new situations of urban movement in the city.�

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A MOSAIC OF SITUATIONS

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The “Contemporary Boulevard" doesn’t break strongly in the context, as the "Historical Boulevard" did, it doesn’t impose a prospective view on

the existing, but supports the existent without theoretical suppositions, responding to a real situation.

A public space that can be left to "tame" itself: if necessary can be considered private, a place of meeting and exchange, information and reception, where personal experience works for a collective history.

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the orchestrated city

lunatic point of view

TIME AS DIRECTOR SPACE AS A STAGE

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The projects can be considered ”time specific”: there is interaction between time and physical space, the hours mark the succession of activities and users who animate the space.

The “Park-front” becomes a continuous set, as we were in a

different theatre-scene in every moment of the day.

The Contemporary Boulevard has to be considered as a “creativity-gym” : it offers a "spectrum of possibilities", in order to respect the historical character of the place.

OPEN INTERIORS The project can be considered as a sum of "open interior� and looks forward to a greater sense of belonging, making people responsible and making them take care of public space as if it was domestic.

the continuous show

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Not a prospective Boulevard, made of monuments and for representation...

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... But a Boulevard made of multiple crossings and intangible networks, that could create connection between the “viral-urban-pills� for a social regeneration, able to attract users, engage them and give the possibility to get on set in the continuous show of the contemporary city.

lights map microclimatic map

Mapping the lighting system as if it was a constellation, and the microclimate-system like a swarm of insects in the air, I want to show the intangible and stratified character of the project.

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A LANDMARK IN THE CITY

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WHAT YOU IMAGINE ABOUT THIS PLACE?

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WHAT CAN I DO IN THE "MUSEUM OF EVERYTHING"?

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In the “Museum of Everything” some devices can be rented and than used in the equipped areas of the Boulevard, setting up internal-external-spaces.

Technological elements, called “urban acupuncture”, makes the space equipped as a stage, in which you can set up multiple activities in relation with time: exhibitions, markets, workplaces and study, charging electronic devices, parties, video events, and more.

In the museum you can be booked a space, people can use it to exchange objects or create something new.

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FOUND OBJECTS form follows function Like a modern artist like Duchamp or Magritte I free forms from a function to follow imagination.

As Ugo la Pietra I made a census of the found objects, and as the first user, I give a possible “re-conversion" and interpretation.

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“Living, and not just use the city, means to expand the personality of people who live there, connote and give identity to a place, possess it mentally,and sometimes physically�

Ugo la Pietra

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“…the potential of a technology capable to give substance and concreteness to the imagination, a technology extension of human imagination”

natural poems

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“Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears”

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nature beats

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02 A HOME IS NOT A HOUSE CONTEMPORARY LIFE PAVILION

a home is not a house

INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE DESIGN STUDIO 2 Year | 2013-2014 Professors | Pierluigi Salvadeo - Chiara Rabbiosi - Andrea Rolando

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iving is welcome, respect and security, you must be conscious of the necessity of living, understanding what makes a space capable to be called "home", before of its formalities.

Starting from the distribution of "standard" furnitures, for a person, it was demonstrated that 15 square meters of soil are occupied by the objects and 20 square meters are the “empty” between them.

life space

compartimentalized space

The project "A home is not a house" puts the user in a condition of internity, there is a limit between inside and outside, the project makes a continuous, an infinite interior space, made of transformation and changing configurations from private to relational space.

The Cube 10 x 10 x 10 meters, it’s today, the city as "one computer for every 15 square meters" this is my wish to “free space", a creative space, not high density and not made of obstructions, this is a research for spatial and existential freedom, an architecture project as a reflection of a social desire.

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ducts space

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GET AND SHARE anytime you want, or simply give a look through. It’s not important to find an entrance, you can enter from anywhere. No doors, entrance halls, queues or guardians: it's up to you how to use it.

Look around, take an elevator or go to whatever appear interesting for you.

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CHOOSE what you want to do - or watch someone else doing it. Try to manipulate objects, any instrument, or simply listen to your favorite song. Dance, talk, sit in a living room, setting up or taking down in space, move, look others how they use things.

Sit down with a drink, look what happens around you.

WHY ALL THIS? A pavilion where you can experience and realize the pleasures of a living space of the twenty-first century. It must be flexible, be ready to changes and transformations. A stage to be lived, stimulating mental and physical abilities of participants, in a flow of time and space that arouses pleasure.

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HOW? Show spaces moves and the contents change, house transform its appearance.

There is no more a time or a space strictly composed by the artist, the mechanical systems are reconfigured in any possible way in order to circumstances.

A house structured as a kit, and its parts are completely interchangeable.

Not formalistic, but porous, not closed, and especially not permanent.

A dynamic and highly interactive project.

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HOMES ARE NOT HOUSES

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COMPARTIMENTALIZED

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LIFE SPACE Many individual projecting in one single space, this is the reflection of the many singularities in a global project.

01.00 PM

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08.00 PM

05.00 PM

As a theater stage,"life space", is experimentation and a gym for individual creativity, in relation with objects and with the dynamic flow of stimuli, from the relationship with other "actors."

The time and the case are the two variables-directors of the scene: you can not predict what will happen, there will be a continuous transformation and space redesign.

It becomes a continuous exhibition.

A house without context, a house for a “mobile life”: it’s a constantly evolving project, in time and in space.

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03 RIP-A-RTE CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY

INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE DESIGN STUDIO 1 Year | 2012-2013 Location | Ripa di Porta Ticinese, Milano, Italy Professors | Luca Basso Peressut

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he project consist of the reconvension of an abandoned building on Ripa di Porta Ticinese: a contemporary art gallery with artists' studios and spaces for art-co-working, spaces for the community for the neighbourhood, in relation with the park.

Naviglio Grande

The theme I chose for the exhibition is the reflection and water, in relation with the context near the “Naviglio Grande�.

I chose sixteen artists and I select forty-nine works.

In addition to the graphic project I realised the exhibition catalog, the graphics of the ticket, and the flyer of an event.

It has been a complete curatorial project, a very interestingchallenge which developed my interest in contemporary art and exhibition of it.

Baden Powell Park

Ripa di Porta Ticinese, 82

Framing, at the side, Gallery Prospects

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The library and the bar are designed as a part of the gallery: the exposition continues, but may have different schedules and entrances.

The project wants to produce an "internal" to be lived in also outside the building, the works are set up also in the park, and the ground floor design is continuous between indoor and outdoor.

The existing building is respected and maintained, with its typical court and walkway on the front facing the park.

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Ground floor, at the side, Outfitted Sections

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Carlo Bernardini Loris Cecchini Don Cooper Olafur Eliasson Luka Fineisen Jeppe Hein Roni Horn Anish Kapoor Roy Lichtenstein Carsten Nicolai Gabby O’ Connor Finnbogi PÊtursson Fabrizio Plessi William Pye Lee Ufan Bill Viola

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Second Floor

Basement

View from the park, to the court

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View of the entrance from the courtyard

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04 HAIKU MOBILE SCENOGRAPY

WORKSHOP Year | 2014 Location | Arsenale Theatre, Milano, Italy

Professors |Marina Spreafico (Regista e docente Teatro Arsenale di Milano) | Pierluigi Salvadeo (Scuola

di Architettura e Società del Politecnico di Milano) | Arnaldo Arnaldi (Scuola di Architettura e Società del Politecnico di Milano) | Vittorio Fiore (Struttura Didattica Speciale Architettura, Siracusa - Università degli studi di Catania) Experts in materials |Claudio Cerra|Daniele Bagatti|Renato Aiminio |Antonella Madau Diaz

* http://www.teatroarsenale.it * Arnaldo Arnaldi, Vittorio Fiore, Pierluigi Salvadeo, Marina Spreafico,Scenografie portatili, 2016, Siracusa, Letteraventidue

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Working in group we realised 3 Mobile Scenographies: - a fighter instrument - a sensitive box - tailor door

The old pond; a frog jumps in; the sound of the water.

Matsuo Basho

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he “haiku” is a form of Japanese verse, from XVII, it is usually written in 17 syllables divided into 3 lines, and employing highly evocative allusions and comparisons, often the subject is the nature.

It is extremely simple and short but intense.

The reader could interpret the poem and get inspired from it.

The project inspirations are Oskar Schlemmer and Riccardo Blumer.

The first was a German painter, sculptor, designer and choreographer associated with the Bauhaus school. His most famous work is “Triadisches Ballett” in which the actors are transfigured from the normal to geometrical shapes.

The second one is a living professor of the Mendrisio, he conducts research, lectures and workshops in methodologies focused on creative design and cognitive training through physical exercises. During the workshop we collaborated with some actors, a costume designer, experts in material, professors and the theatre director.

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Doing physical exercises we learned about the importance of the relationship between bodies and the space in the scene.

In the workshop we designed and built scenic-portable-structures with spatial and physical experiments.

The scenography as a continuation or extension of the body, it is in relation to the performer and with the space.

We concluded the workshop with a theatre- performance in which we used the scenography created.

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Working with Marina Spreafico, the director, and some actors, we procuced a performance.

We had the first exibition in Arsenale Theatre and the second one in Patio of Politecnico of Milan.

The construction and the presentation of the project has been very formative, working in a team with people from other faculties and with experts of materials, and at the end made a performance.

The project was appreciated and published.

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05 ELEMENTARY SURREALISM EXHIBITION

FOTOGRAFIA EUROPEA 2015 Year | 2015 Location | Piazzetta Navona, Via Farini, Reggio Nell’Emilia,Italy * http://www.fotografiaeuropea.it

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n 2006, the Municipality of Reggio Emilia launched the first "Fotografia Europea" international festival.

Photography took centre stage as a privileged tool for reflecting upon the complexity of contemporary living.The

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starting point is the teaching of Luigi Ghirri: the possibility, through the image, to look at the world as one has never done before.

For the edition 2015 the theme was Earth Effect. In the year of Expo in Milan, they invites us

to reflect upon the planet, from the land to food, from the roots to the energy.

I asked a friend, Valentina Chiesa, for some photos about “surreal” natural details. I decided to set up the window of a shop in a pedestrian street in

the historic city center in Reggio Emilia. Eyes must be captured in a few seconds, passing in front of the windows, seduced and enticed into entering and discovering the exhibition and the shop. Photos are hanging by a nylon thread, images con

rotate and seem to float in the air. When there are a lot of people in the shop the images seem to come alive and move: the passer-by is involved as the rear of the photograph is reflective and so they become part of the exhibition.

From the ceiling descend white mesh clouds, hand sewn, and photos are hanging from them.

On the floor a “meadow of hands� made of inflated white gloves, and between fingers are placed some accessories chosen for the showcase.

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“Architecture is in exile now on the moon or at the north pole while people are building�

THANK YOU! Please feel free to contact me with any questions and comments.

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