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GIULIA
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Sono una giovane architetto con sede a Milano. Mi sono recentemente laureata al Politecnico di Milano con una tesi riguardante il progetto per il nuovo Campus della Columbia University a New York. Al di là dei miei studi in architettura non ho mai dimenticato la mia passione per l’arte (specialmente per artigianato, fotografia e graphic design), sviluppando un background multidisciplinare che mi rende capace di rispondere a diverse necessità. Con questo mio portfolio vorrei provare a raccontare qualcosa di me stessa, attraverso i miei lavori e la mia architettura.
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I’m a young architect based in Milan. I recently graduated at Politecnico di Milano with a thesis about the Columbia University Campus project in New York. Beyond my studies in Architecture, I have never forgotten my passion for art (espetially for handcraft, photography and graphic design), and I developed a cross disciplinary background that enables me to answer to different needs. With my portfolio, I would try to say something about myself through my works and my architecture.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ARCHITECTURE p.06 MANHATTANVILLE URBAN CAMPUS (New York City) Master Thesis Project p.20 LAMBRATE UNIVERSITY CAMPUS (Milano)
URBAN PLANNING p.30 NO STOP PARK (Milano, Expo area) Urban project with Michele de Lucchi p.36 RUSHING TO A LOCAL MACROCITY (Nord Italia planning) INTERIOR p.40 UNE PETITE MAISON (Corseaux, Lac Leman) p.46 ORBIT Copper suspended lamp PHOTOGRAPHY p.50 INNESTO Milano architectural photo project
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UNIVERSITY PROJECT professor: Emilio Battisti Master degree thesis
MANHATTANVILLE
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URBAN CAMPUS
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY EXPANSION
The project theme meets the requirements of New York Columbia University for the expansion of a new urban campus for scientific research and teaching at Manhattanville in West Harlem. The project idea arises from the interpretation of the area history: the value of 125th street, a rare exception in the regularity of the urban grid of Manhattan, caused by the presence of a subterranean fault line, which create a strong soil depression. The masterplan developed an idea of an urban campus that opens itself to the city and its flows. Therefore urban public layer plays a fundamental role in which paths and open spaces interwave with university functions. This public basement link up itself with the natural course of the soil, sometimes digging under the ground, sometimes emerging from it. The designed building is the one setting on 125th Street. It’s just the physical completion of that road system and its extension from Broadway to the Hudson River to be the strongest gesture of the general plan. p.11
Manhattanville harlem, new york
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. urban campus Columbia University Program
The block on 125th street (the new Business School) and the macro-block placed at the opposite side of the campus represent the limits of the entire basement and emphasize the flows of open space system from the heart of Harlem to the waterfront. They also form at the center of campus a meeting and representation space, a real hub for the University and for Harlem community. The Business School is the gateway to the campus from the 125th Street through the permeable
transparent space between the public basement dug into the ground and the university volumes suspended above it. These volumes are interconnected by a central full-height path, like a real infrastructure. It sneaks through the different schools and faculty, through offices and conference rooms, and it’s not a mere connection path, but it’s a great living space where people can observe the city and the university microcosm.
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Auditorium/Conference center
routes
Business School/Sipa School Columbia
built
fault
Harlem urban built
project
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ELEMENTS
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SOIL_ lived layer zero ARTERY_ public promenade BODIES _ university hanging volumes
STRUCTURE
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MAQUETTE
. promenade
main hall convention center
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Elements: distribution artery / educational cores
. open campus The Business School is conceived as a sequence of different communicating spaces, that convey a sense of community so that students, professors, alumni and external partners can gather and exchange ideas and knowledge in a less formal and structured way. To facilitate this interaction the building is organized according to different levels of transparency and permeability starting from the casing to the central space: more
lounge area
exposition spaces
promenade access
Earth institute / Planetary
S.I.P.A School of International Affairs
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closed towards the exterior elevations, where take place offices, classrooms and laboratories, and gradually open inward, in which are arranged alternately large tiers classrooms with glass walls and big lounge directly overlooking the central path (promenade). Also vertically, spaces are assembled together to face each other continuously, thanks to level changes, skylights, views, walkways and suspended stairs, who regularly underline the power of the common area as the centerpiece of the university community and as a bridge between the latter and the outside world that animates the urban layer.
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UNIVERSITY PROJECT professor: Emilio Battisti
WIRING BE-SIDES p.20
LAMBRATE SUSTAINABLE CAMPUS
The first impression arising from this area is a sharp division between the two areas separated from the railroad. Despite this caesura, the challenge is to welcome the strong presence of the infrastructure within the project to exploit its potential, and convert an unresolved matter into a resource for the context in which it is inserted. The proposal is a unique building containing all functions, that compare themselves with the railroad, surpassing it with a bridge building (railway station), digging it creating a reconnection between the two parts of the city, and admiring it, providing elevated squares at trains level.
Lambrate Milan
This new hub is really close to university campus Polimi, Unimi, and includes the main building, CAMPUS CENTER, with conference classrooms, classrooms for university spin-offs, creative workshops and an auditorium. A SPORT CENTER open to the neighborhood, with olympic swimming pool, gym, fitness, climbing wall. And finally student HOUSING.
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The project works on three different levels: the building, following the logic of the infrastructure (it works as path, as sculpture, as material element), the soil, following the logic of the lived city, and the functions into the ground (auditorium, pool). The urban experienced layer is, necessarily, the ground level. For this reason the ground floor becomes the most heavily inhabited place of the project .
re-connecting the city
1 campus center
2 recreation center p.23
3 auditorium
. campus center The main body of the building consists in CAMPUS CENTER, the university including classrooms, laboratories, libraries, open spaces for students and professors. The structure comes from a concept: the idea of a university where space is not just for students and teachers, but it is open to the public. The result is a sculptural and material building, inside which penetrates the public space, the path/staircase that lead to the classrooms and also to the railway station and the square/meeting point at the top.
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. recreation center The building, almost abstract, materic, rooted to the ground in specific points where the soil model itself and goes to wrinkle hosting, underground, the most important public functions (including RECREATION CENTER). In these points the structure changes, as well, to give more importance, emphasizing the specific function.
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In the auditorium volume roll up the paths from the layer zero lead up to the altitude of the railway, along a promenade made ​​of views and rest stops. The structural system in steel frame is coated with a particular technology facade. It is constituted by grc panels that make even the idea of a materic and solid building rooted to the ground.
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. auditorium tecnology
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The panels are designed in a modular way, and they are developed in order to alternate closed modules to open ones, depending on the points where there are windows, almost slits which open occasionally in the casing of the sculptural object.
UNIVERSITY PROJECT professors: Michele de Lucchi (AMDL), Cesare Macchi cassia
NO STOP PA R K p.30
Rho fiera Expo Milan
POST EXPO 2015 PROPOSAL
This work born to imagine in an unconventional way the future of Expo 2015. It is a new city idea antithetical to the ARCHIZOOM proposal “No Stop City“, where the park, instead of the buldings, occupies the entire area. The project focus on the soil consumption that is threatening our planet, proposing a new method where life will be given to the old industries and pavillions surrouding the area. The area will be populated from the ruins of the remaining Expo pavillions (transformed into public and commercial spaces), and it will be topped by a big modular structure, residential courtyards in possible expansion. The relationship between the land (agricultural, commercial, natural) and the hanging space (housing) occurs through the study of the courtyards. Three different layers (park, housing, terraces) are in constant communication, and therefore the feeling within the courts is to be truly inside the nature and at the same time connected to the city by public transports and facilities. p.11
Le Corbusier
PLAN VOISIN (1922)
Yona Friedman
Archizoom
Giulia Costa
SPATIAL CITY (1958)
NO-STOP CITY (1970)
NO-STOP PARK (2013)
Le Corbusier
Yona Friedman
Archizoom
Giulia Costa
PLAN VOISIN (1922)
SPATIAL CITY (1958)
NO-STOP CITY (1970)
NO-STOP PARK (2013)
La corte: proporzioni e dimensioni della corte milanse. Maquette in scala 1_500
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The COURTYARD becomes a space welcomes inside and bounds from outside. Intoèthese La CORTE diventa unothat spazio che raccoglie e delimita, in cuithe la sensazione quellacouryards di trovarsithe feeling is to be truly immersed in nature, and at the same time connected to the dynamic city: facilities, trade, efficient public transport, crops at a0km km,0,aashort distance. ti, coltivazioni pochissima distanza. I PADIGLIONI di Expo vengono riutilizzati e riprogetExpo PAVILLIONS are redesigned and reused to create stone shape buildings that create a filter space between the perimeter and the old building. Inside them there are public spaces, shops and commercial facilities. Old factories become schools or warehouses for crops. STAIRCASES and lobbies with the accesses are separate elements that diventano scuole, magazzini di raccolta per le coltivazioni. I corpi scala con gli accessi sono lead directly from the ground to the residential complex above. elementi separati che portano direttamente dal terreno al complesso residenziale soprastante.
industrie strade padiglioni asse expo blob
parco acqua
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RELATIONSHIPS Not only a park / Not only houses
UNIVERSITY PROJECT professor: Alessandro Mingolo
RUSHING TO A LOCAL
MACROCITY p.36
NORTH
ITALY
CITY
Imagine a future scenario for the Northern Italy, with the conditions of the present, it means thinking in a city where the characters of the specific places come less in favor of a principle of globality which denies individual identities. On the contrary, this project is a challenge to a possible scenario. In a space which evolves towards a continuous exchange, we suggest to exploit the power of communication to create urban entities who operate in European scale and which contain the expansion the city, recognizing and preserving local identities that have governed the development throughout history. The project proposes to impose a rule to the dispersion, in order to maintain the identity principle. With a series of small interventions, controlled in large scale, we want to create a system based on the positive aspects of the widespread city.
Northern Italy
Italy
The denition of the MACROCITY is given by the space ‘between’, a limit, a place where the development prospects fall out. The purpose is the creation of an integrated system of spaces and the value of a ‘NO-LIMITS space. A Europe globally meaned as “fluid city“ formed by integrating several principles of identity.
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connections
THROUGH boundary
BETWEEN
density
THROUGH
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UNIVERSITY PROJECT professor: Stefania Varvaro
UNE PETITE MAISON p.40
JOIE DE VIVRE SUR LE LAC LEMAN
The key element of ‘Une Petite Maison’ was the presence of a small house on Geneva Lake built by Le Corbusier for his parents. Around this pre-existence it has rotated the design process. A project in which are enclosed several themes: the relationship with the built, the design of small spaces, interior design and flexible design. The multifunctional space is intended to temporary residences and study spaces for students and scholars of architecture, and is divided according to a sequence of spaces going to create a bright, congenials, welcoming habitat, to allow the close contact with the unspoilt nature (represented by the green, the original area and by lake water), concentration, study and collective living. p.11
Corseaux Lausanne, Switzerland
LAC LEMAN
As a focal point of gaze, the lake is the natural element onto which the several openings overlook. Benches, paths at water’s edge, study tables overlooking the lake ensure wellness, relax, concentration.
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FRAME
From Le Corbusier’s house (Petite Maison) you can see the lake through a window framing the landscape like in a real painting.
HOLE
The only door that connects Petite Maison to the new study center, has a little hole in the middle. It is another small detail that allows you to focus and to seize a small particular in the whole complex.
BOATHOUSE
The boathouse represent the new area of intervention, a long and narrow cutout which compares itself with the lake and it’s situated directly on the water, providing a spectacular view.
VIEW
Inside the area you get the impression of being able to sight endlessly to the horizon. Every corner of the project will be designed to guide the eyes of the viewer to special focal points.
WALL
The little wall, made of original stones, remains as a memory of the place, as a link between land and water.
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fil rouge The red sheet element crosses in length the entire project, giving particular uniqueness. It takes several functions depending on the arrangement in which it is placed. Starting from the East, with its folds, becomes sitting, table, countertop, and it frames the landscape at the gate entrance. Even on the upper floor it forms a series of shelves and allows to modulate and differentiate the scanning of the openings.
furniture combinations
minimal spaces: first floor/ forestery
open libraries: division into areas kitchen, studi hall
close libraries: room become a circular, open space One of the primary requirements of space, also dictated by smallness of the latter, is their ability to change and adapt to the various needs of people who use them. Were thus designed special equipment that can move around to open and close new spaces in search of more congenial combinations.
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PERSONAL WORK
ORBIT p.46
PRODUCT DESIGN / PROTOTYPE
Pendant lamp, designed to fit in a spacious room both in an private interior or in a public place. It is designed to maximize the yeld of single bulb, thanks to the reflective material of which it is composed, copper. Copper is a great material to use for a lighting element, as it allows to create special light effects, reflections, radiations, rays. It’s suitable in places where you need to shed a strong light in specific points of the room.
Saronno Varese, Italy
It is structured in copper compressed discs, to obtain a minimum thickness of the slab. Light, starting from upper and lower ends of the lamp, passes through the holes drilled in the metal disks, obtaining an original effect of irradiation of rays of light, which illuminates the room with a strong light that propagates in all directions.
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ORBIT
PROTOTYPE
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UNIVERSITY PROJECT professor: Marco Introini
INNESTO
ARCHITECTURAL PHOTOGRAPHY SEQUENCE
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The goal of INNESTO is to investigate how the modern compares with the history. The focus of the photo sequence is placed on 900 milanese architects who have been able, with their projects, to fit into a consolidated reality, giving added value to existing buildings. The theme can be read with a sequential tripartite horizontal bands. The first band, MONOLITHS, is dedicated to the graft of buildings in the city of Milan, the second, PARASITES, is dedicated to the additions on existing structures, and the last band is dedicated to the architectural added details, almost sculptures, GEMS.
Milan
The photographic technique is subordinate to the project concept: the absence of color less distracts the viewer’s attention from the message, facilitates the reading of the architectural volumes. Finally, subjects represented are not ‘posed’, but told through a dialogue with the background elements, passing over to photography as a mere scientific instrument, but giving a personal interpretation.
nella pagina precedente: Torre Littoria di Palazzo Castani, Piero Portaluppi, 1938
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Palazzo Montecatini, Gio Ponti, 1936
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giulia benedetta costa
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birth 05.09.1990 phone +39 3489278388 address via B.Luini, 6 Turate (Como)
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