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Giulia Fagni Born in Fiesole (Italy) 28/11/1986 Nationality: french / italian
fagni.giulia@gmail.com Weichselstrasse 57 , 12045 Berlin +49 17659078048
EDUCATION / WORKSHOPS October 2015 Workshop « Objet libre » about open source design. Drawing and design of an object from the “Bouctje” of M.Gabiot. Supervised by M.Gabiot and M.Leveque June 2014 Master’s degree in Architecture from The University of Brussels La Cambre-Horta. End Studies Project on the topic of “Pornotopies”, Faculty of Architecture La Cambre-Horta. Master’s laboratories: « HTC » Critical Theory and History Workshop option Idem. March 2013 Workshop “Archizines” production of a publication on the theme of “banal” in the journal A +, framed by Manuela Deschamps-Otamendi, Brussels. November 2011 / May 2012 Workshop “Urban edge lands and agriculture”, study and proposal for urban agricultural production in the Berlin area, framed by C. Morandi, Berlin.
Worshop “Donana- Out of the city”, proposal for a study and revitalization of the national park « Donana » in Andalusia framed by D. Contin, Seville. 2011-2012 Erasmus at Politecnico di Milano option design and writing workshop. June 2011 Bachelor’s degree in Architecture, La Cambre, Brussels February - June 2010 Typography La Cambre Visual Arts as part of complementary activities in the second year of Bachelor, Brussels. September - June 2004-2005 ERG (Graphic Desing Research School) painting, photography and graphics, Brussels. June 2004 Literary Baccalaureate at Lycée Français Jean Monnet, Brussels.
CURRICULUM VITAE PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES February - May2012 Four-month internship at the office “M.Fraschini”, Milan. Competitions for an amplificationof a Communal Cemetery in Prato, Italy. October - May 2010 Construction site supervision with the architectural firm Lhoas & Lhoas, Brussels.
COMPUTER SOFTWARE: - Office suite Photoshop, Illustrator and Indesign - Proficiency in Autocad - Archicad & Archicad 3D software - 3Ds MAX Familiarisation with the modeling software - Common use of Internet - Work on PC and Macintosh
August 2009 Restoration work / Rehabilitation of a Second World War’s bunker in Britain, Hoëdic.
LANGUAGES: -French-Italian -Bilingual -English: Read, written and spoken -Spanish: Fluent
MULTIMEDIA CAFE’ & BUSINESS INCUBATOR
PORNOTOPIA, EGOPORNOTOPIA
VENISE BIENNALE: ORNAMENTA
ARCHIZINES: COMMONZINE
MULTIMEDIA CAFE AND BUSINESS INCUBATOR IN UCCLE The project takes place in Brussels periphery in Uccle’s residential area in the south of the city. Two restaurants, a café, a public square - that hosts a weekly market - are in the direct connection with the site. It’s a perfect situation for creating a small scale activity center. The program for this front street plot goes along this idea of dynamisation of the area which combines a multimedia café and business incubator. The proposal is to extend the activity to both public places: the square on one hand and the small wooded park at the rear of the plot on the other. Two different volumes are positioned so that they have visual connection and accompany the visitors in the (re) discovery of this abandoned area of the neighborhood. The aim is to invite the walkers to take ownership of the inside block.
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RELAXATION AREA
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PEDESTRIAN/CYCLIST PATHWAY
CAFETERIA OFFICES 1m
RECEPTION / ENTRANCE
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PERSPECTIVE FROM THE STREET TO THE PARK
P O R N O T O P I A « What characterizes Pornotopia is its singular ability to establish relationships between space, sexuality, pleasure and technology (audiovisual, biochemical, etc.), altering sexual conventions and genres while producing sexual subjectivity as a derivative of these spatial operations (...) a place able to build a theatrical fiction of the sexuality » -Beatriz Preciado, Pornotopia p.118-119 « Pornotopia: An Essay on Playboy’s Architecture and Biopolitics » dissects, using tools borrowed from gender and architecture, Playboy’s modus operandi. Preciado describes the contents forefront of the magazine, its role in the testimony of modernity in architecture and vision of the 1950s man and his interior with the emergence of the “bachelor pad”. Playboy is also an empire in which Hugh Hefner plays with different emblems such as his mansion, the hotels, the « bunnies” ...
EGOPORNOTOPIA. The manifesto of Egopornotopia I suggest for this project is intended as the extreme category of Pornotopia. In this dimension, the environment, space, technology, sexuality and pleasure have a purpose of self-centered gratification. The character of Hugh Hefner would draw a sufficient reflection on its own enjoyment. The example par excellence, the “pharmacopornographic” circular bed of H.Hefner is a multimedia platform (as Preciado explains) from which Hefner controls its daily activities; he eats there, works there, he sleeps, plays... This is a place of real concentration of power and domination but also it participates in the stimulation of his ego.
PROJECT FOR THE END OF HH’s LIFE
« the interesting thing is how one guy, through living his own fantasies, is living out the fantasies of so many other people » -H.Hefner These images are the allegorical representations of Hefner’s egopornotopia. As a static representation the story represents a layout of elements recovered in his history, imagery, catalog etc. It’s a composition of a room where Hugh Hefner is represented as his own circular bed. He sees and reaches the elements and events that are directly or indirectly referenced and which support the survival of this auto sufficient universe.
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1. THE PLAYBOY BED-Playboy , April 1965
10. MANOIR PLAYBOY depuis 1972
2. DISPOSITIF VIDEO SURVEILLANCE SALLE ARRIERE
11. TRÔNE NAPOLEON- 1804
3. HARRY BERTOIA-Diamond chair-Playboy 1961
12. PEAU DE VERITABLE LAPIN
12 4. HERMAN MILLER EAMES-Plywood chair- Playboy 1961
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5. TRAVAILLEUR ACHARNE 6. LUSTRE EN CRISTAL DE BOHEME 7.DEBBY HARRY- Playboy Bunny 1954
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13. PISCINE D’APPARAT 14. ELECTROPHONIC Speaker 15. HERMAN MILLER EAMES- Lounge chair 16. EERO SAARINEN –Womb Chair –Playboy 1961 17. LE LUXE DU CONFORT EN CHARANTAISES
9. “ROBE DE CHAMBRE” 100% pure soie 10. MANOIR PLAYBOY depuis 1972 11. TRÔNE NAPOLEON- 1804 12. PEAU DE VERITABLE LAPIN 13. PISCINE D’APPARAT 14. ELECTROPHONIC Speaker 15. HERMAN MILLER EAMES- Lounge chair 16. EERO SAARINEN –Womb Chair –Playboy 1961
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ÂŤ In the pharmacopornographic age, architecture dreams of becoming body-sized condom for total immunity and at the same time a multimedia vibrator providing a porn-communicating experience. Âť Beatriz Preciado
A R C H I T E C T U R E BIENNALE.BELGIAN PAVILION : ORNAMENTA “Interest in ornament, which was claimed then denounced describes a kind of sine wave, never interrupted or broken. Alternately considered an important marker of a culture of force and demonized as fetish and anachronistic, an easy link with a meaningless past� -Alina Payne 2010/2011 PERSPECTIVE A white room. The visitor is facing a unit, bright, carved from the inside. The apparent uniformity of space is parasitized by a relief, an abstract image superimposed. The location is occupied by a set of depths, amplified by the movement of shadows depending on the changing light. Between smooth surfaces and moldings, contrast produces the effect of a continuous element that proliferates along the walls, floor and ceiling. In front of this body, resulting in an assembly of disparate elements, the visitor composes his own reading of the space .
ARCHIZINE WORKSHOP: COMMONZINE “Archizines” is primarily a collection of alternative architecture and independent publications. It’s also a traveling exhibition that brings together 60 architectural magazines fanzines and papers from over twenty countries. The exposition explores these archizines as platforms for the exchange of critical comments in the field of international architecture. The workshop covers these reflections and proposes to produce a small publication according to different themes. As regards, the disposal data base, the Belgian magazine « A + », which incidentally celebrates its 40th anniversary. The group working with the graphic designer Manuela Deschamps-Otamendi is particularly interested in the theme of “ordinary”and harvests images, recurring phrases and juxtaposes them to create a critical reflection of architecture magazines.