2019
selected works
Giulia Ciuffoletti
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01 Claustrum
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02 Walchaerts
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03 Le Città di Roma
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04 Tiber River Reinassance
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05 Re—Cycle
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06 Egeria’s Nympheum
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07 Lisbon Nautical Center
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Curriculum Vitae
Giulia Ciuffoletti Nationality — Italian Date of birth — 6 Feb. 1992
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Av. de la Couronne, 125 1050, Brussels, BE +39 335 622 10 77 giulia.ciuffoletti@gmail.com
01 / Experience
03 / Workshops
OUEST Architecture Intern Architect Brussels, Belgium [ Apr. — Nov. 2018 ]
Production Camp for Urban Earth Blocks BC Architects & Studies, Brussels [ Apr. 2019 ]
Architectural Design Studio I ( Prof. Arch. Andrea Bruschi ) Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Rome, Italy [ Feb. — Jul. 2016 ]
Yona Friedman. Mobile Architecture, People’s Architecture MAXXI, Rome [ Jun. 2017 ]
Central Library of the Faculty of Architecture Front Office Librarian Rome, Italy [ Sept. 2013 — Jun. 2014 ] 02 / Education Università La Sapienza Master Degree in Architecture 110/110 with honour Rome, Italy [ Sept. 2011 — Jan. 2018 ] TU/e — Technische Universiteit Atelier ‘Le città di Roma’ Eindhoven, The Netherlands [ Oct. 2015 — Jul. 2016 ] IST — Instituto Superior Técnico Erasmus Exchange Programme Lisbon, Portugal [ Sept. 2014 — Jul. 2015 ] Vito Volterra High School Scientific Studies Diploma 94/100 Ciampino, Italy [ Sept. 2006 — Jul. 2011 ]
Porto Academy 16 Cecilia Puga Studio FAUP, Porto [ Jul. 2016 ] 04 / Publications ‘Atlas: Le Città di Roma’ Università La Sapienza TU/e Eindhoven Politecnico di Torino [ 2016 — Ongoing ] 05 / Softwares Autodesk Autocad 2D Rhinoceros 5.0 Vray (Rhinoceros) Adobe Photoshop CC Adobe Illustrator CC Adobe InDesign CC 06 / Languages Italian (native) English (fluent) Portuguese (intermediate) French (intermediate)
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Claustrum OUEST Architecture Les Ateliers Claus PETMAT Prague
professional
Brussels, 2018
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A claustrum is a thin, irregular sheet of neurons that is attached to the underside of the cortex in the center of the brain playing a strong role in the communication between the two hemispheres, specifically between the regions controlling attention. Claustrum is a new enclosed sound and concert space, in the shape of a dome, which function as an ambisonic and spatial sound system. Built up with recycled/used materials, the pavilion/musical structure is designed for temporary events and can shelter approximately 50 people. This 2.0 “folie� revisits codes and forms of classical and ancient architecture language, in a mountable and removable logic and system. It is made of used PET bottles and laser cut recycled plastic boards, overlapped in order to form exagonal rings that constitute the structure and support for the disposition of two concentric rows of bottles. Three different types of bottles were used, the basement is made with 2016 Culligans, the core with 2400 Chaudfontain and the crowning is made with 408 Schweppes bottles. The 12 plastic boards, produced in standard size, where cut on site to make the rings.
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CLAUSTRUM
Architecte: OUEST ARCHITECTURE Avenue ClĂŠmentine, 19 - 1190 Bruxelles +32 2 850 73 82 info@ouest-archi.org
BOARDS_CUT
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standard boards cutting scheme partial elevation
boards overlapping system
superposition mechanism
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Walschaerts OUEST Architecture
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Brussels, 2018
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Renovation and transformation of a small apartment with old barn and courtyard. The apartment is composed of two parts, the main building with ground floor and cave, and a one floor construction in the back, separated by a courtyard with several small additions. The main focus of the project is to recover the back part of the house transforming it into a big living area with a large interior-exterior space. The entrance is moved in order to access directly from the courtyard to the fulcrum of the house where a concrete slab gives the space continuity. An L shaped glass wall separates the interior from the court, with a system of open-corner sliding doors. A service space between the kitchen area and the master bedroom gives access to the cave, while the upper level of the old barn is reached through a spiral staircase and hosts other two bedrooms and service.
01 / model
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02 / pictures of the existing situation
03 / plan groundfloor - existing and proposal
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04 / new volume in the courtyard
05 / forniture study
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06 / longitudinal cut & front facade
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07 / transversal cut
08 / view of the courtyard
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Le Città di Roma Graduation Studio Prof. Dipl. -Ing. Christian Rapp
academic
Eindhoven, 2016
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“Le Città di Roma” is a graduation studio of the academic year 2015/2016 jointly initiated by the chair of Rational Architecture at Eindhoven University of Technology, held by Prof. Dipl. -Ing. Christian Rapp, Dipartimento di Architettura e Design at Politecnico di Torino held by Prof. Dr. Arch. Silvia Malcovati and Prof. Dr. Arch. Paola Gregory and Dipartimento di Architettura e Progetto at Università La Sapienza di Roma held by Prof. Dr. Arch. Rosalba Belibani and Prof. Dr. Arch. Giuseppe Strappa. The Atlas “Rome. Le Città di Roma” is the result of a collective effort, from selected students of the above mentioned universities, to undertake the study of the city of Rome, trying to understand, elaborate and synthesize the main characteristics of its evolution. It is structured in two parts, the first one retraces the expansion of the city in terms of growth, showing it through maps and dedicated essays for each era analysed, the second one focuses on the street as a key element to analyze the city and its layering. The streets selected are, in fact, strictly linked to the morphology and developement of Rome.
01 / Atlas cover
Ancient Rome
Baroque
Postwar
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Medieval
Reinassance
XIX Century
Fascism
The Seventies
Contemporary
02 / growth maps
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01. Via del Corso 02. Via Giulia 03. Via della Lungara 04. Via di San Giovanni in Laterano
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05. Via Flaminia 06. Via dello Scalo di San Lorenzo 07. Via Ostiense 08. Via Leone IV
02 / streets overview
01. Ancient Rome
02. Medieval
03. Reinassance
04. Baroque
05. XIX Century
06. Fascism
07. Postwar
08. Contamporary
03 / street analysis of Via del Corso
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04 / elevations of Via del Corso
05 / plan of the ‘Tridente’
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Tiber River Reinassance Master Thesis Project Prof. Arch. Rosalba Belibani
academic
Rome, 2018
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The Tiber, in its incessant and millennial flow, represents the first deep root of the forma urbis of Rome and the physical margin for its growth. No Roman monument has been preserved as intact as the Tiber. As the city kept growing, the river bed remained unchanged, despite the massive work of the embankments. This defensive-urbanistic system, implemented at the end of the nineteenth century, radically changed the river appearance and relation to the city. The walls are in facts the premise for the modernisations of Rome and its infrastructures, making the city safe from floods, but sanction at the same time the definitive separation from its waters. The river landscape, once animated by an intense and laborious life, no longer exists, the city rose its fortifications against the water, forcing the river into a canal and interrupting a symbiotic link established through millennials. The research carried out in this thesis arises as a corollary of the work “Le CittĂ di Romaâ€?, aimed at investigating and understanding the development of the city, and attempts to respond to the need to re-establish a dialogue between the city and its river, working on broken and deaf relationships.
01 / View of the River Tiber, Kaspar Van Wittel, 1690
The bond between Rome and the Tiber is ancient and vital, the banks of the river were extremely alive and near the ports it was a noisy and excited swarm of boatmen, beggars, carpenters, a rich and picturesque world immortalized by the watercolors of Ettore Roesler Frantz, Van Wittel and others, who portrayed the Tiber landscape in its vitality and melancholy. The Tiber has always played a central role in the city’s economy due to the commercial traffic, with the supplies of goods reaching the two main river
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ports of Ripa Grande and Ripetta, there was also an articulated naval industry, as well as a flourishing milling industry, which occupied a very important place in the city’s economy, constituting an impressive corporate system. At the same time, the river represented an extremely dangerouse threath because of its frequent and devastating floods. Romans tried to cope with it for millennials but no political will arised before the XIX century with the construction of the embankments.
02 / Castel Sant’Angelo, Kaspar Van Wittel, 1690
03 / Tiber, Nolli Map, 1748
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The relation between Rome and the Tiber is that between an “above” and a “below”, the autonomy of the river and its character of empty space, crossing the city but remaining away from its congestion and noise, constitutes itself a great potential. The project aims at rebuilding the rift between the city and its waters by envisaging the once lively and productive environment of the river as a linear space dedicated to culture, leisure and escape. The planning strategy acts through specific and widespread interventions in strategic
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junctions in order to establish new connections, enhance accessibility and add attractive functions from which a redevelopment project can be started. Interventions are therefore divided into three categories, requalification of portions of the boulevards that run along both sides of the Tiber on the level of the city, new accessibility to the docks through downhill structures (stairs and elevators) leaning against the embankments and floating structures that act as attractors adding new function in the space of the river.
04 / view of Sant’Angelo Theatre
05 / map of interventions
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1/6 Swimming Pool
2/6 Theatre
3/6 Garden
4/6 Wheel
5/6 Mill
6/6 Acquapark
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swimming pool water filtering wall
possible combinations
floating phytodepuration system
modular x-lam panels
watermill mechanism
floating elements and paving
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The main intervention consists of a large open-air Theater at Castel Sant’Angelo, along one of the most symbolic and characteristic stretches of the Tiber. It’s part of the new descents to the riverbanks and it’s conceived as a transitional space between the level of the city and the one of the water, providing both accessibility and services. Always a favorite spot for landscape painters for its symbolic charge, it is also the main point on the urban stretch where a public space directly overlooks the Tiber. No trees or
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street are infact separating the square from the river, the only obstacle being represented by the embankments. The intervention is envisaged as a second skin, running longitudinally along the stiff walls, the in-between vertical space hosts a system of stairs, elevators and walkways that culminates in a big escalade, new monumental descent to the river. This artificial cavea becames the main attraction point of the whole system, constituting a space where people can experiment and enjoy a new relation to the water in the city.
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09 / plans
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11 / longitudinal cut
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12 / view of the stairs
13 / transversal cuts & details
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Re—Cycle Final Project Prof. Arch. Piero Ostilio Rossi
academic
Rome, 2016
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Isola Sacra is an area between Fiumicino airport and Ostia Antica which took its name of ‘island’ in Ancient Rome by the creation of an artificial canal, the Fossa Traiana or ‘Fiumicino’, to control the river Tiber flows and to connect it to the Traian harbour, still present in its original esagonal shape. Since the ancient times this area was very fertile and suitable for agricolture, it become malarial during the Middle Age but was reclaimed in the XX century in a vast operation that lead to the discovery of many archeological sites , including the Necropoli of Portus, and contributed at conforming the agricoltural landscape we can still observe today, based on an orthogonal grid of irrigation canals. The intervention is articulated on two different scales, a landscape project for an archeological park and an architectural project of adaptive reuse of a XX century farm (Ex ONC, Opera Nazionale Combattenti). The park is organized along an axis of soft mobility that crosses Isola Sacra to connect Ostia Antica to the Fiumcino airport, while the former ONC is converted into a Cultural Center serving the park and hosting a Museum of Agricolture.
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The organization of the archeological park is based on the restoration of the irrigation grid and the definition of the main axis of the project connecting Ostia Antica to Fiumicino Airport, linking all the archeological sites and the excavations along the way, above all the Necropolis of Portus, having the Ex ONC farm as the main element of distribution and service center. The program forsees the equipements of the area with playgrounds and sport facilities, as well as a manege and community gardens and the restoration of the agricoltural areas. All functions are organized within the grid in proximity to the main axis. According to the overall strategy that qualifies the intervention on a territorial scale, the agricultural-vegetational system is based on two main arboreal structures, the rows and the masses. The rows are composed by hornbeams and the masses are cultivations of poplars (populus tremula) a spieces that well adapts to the Ostia environment and represents an advantageous raw material.
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The architectural intervention consists in the adaptive reuse of the Ex ONC farm and its convertion into a Cultural Center that works as an hub for the northern part of the archaeological-naturalistic system as well as an important equipment for the neighborhood. The program includes a Museum of Agricolture, a library, an auditorium and a multifunctional hall, as well as a bike station, a bio market and a restaurant. The fragmented implant of the farm, composed by 4 buildings, is transformed in a more compact system by the insertion of new volumes among the voids created by the pre existent structures. The closed perimeter outlined by those volumes bends in corrispondence to the main access routes from the archeological park and the neighborhood creating three entrances to the system. The three openings, showing the tension between old and new, lead to the main court that works as a point of gathering and distribution through the park and the whole archeological-naturalistic system.
04 / views of the entrances
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Egeria’s Nympheum Restoration Prof. Arch. Maria Grazia Turco
academic
Rome, 2016
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Egeria was a nymph attributed the role of divine consort and counselor of Numa Pompilius. According to the legend the king used to meet the nymph by a water spring which was identified in the XVI century with the nympheum located in the archeological park of the Caffarella. It was originally a natural grotto formalized as an arched interior with an apsidal end by Erode Attico in the II century as a “specus aestivus� for his enormous villa. The interior was richly covered with marbles, the niches hosted precius sculptures and the water and vegetation provided for a very fresh and suggestive environment. The nympheum became a favourite spot for XIX century romans and explorers visiting during the Grand Tours as documented by the numerous drawings and engravings. After a preliminary phase of historical research and analysis of the artefact, the project of restoration is articulated in a conservative intervention and an architectural project that enhances the fruition and the accessibility of the monument as well as its relation to the surrounding natural landscape.
01 / engraving from Piranesi
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A roman wall delimiting the north site of the nympheum, which preserved it from the deposits of the river Almone, constitutes a visual obstacle from the monument towards the park and viceversa. The project foresees the construction of a walkway along the wall on the side of the nympheum which incorporates a small podium, a structure that serves as rest area and panoramic viewpoint towards the park. The seats invite people to stop by the monument and enjoy such a pleasant spot, at the same time, the
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podium highlights the presence of the nympheum from the other side of the wall, acting as an attraction element. The materials chosen for the structure are weathering steel and iroko wood (for the seats). To restrain the proliferation of the vegetation in the nympheum, the water coming from the central niche was directed to the pool trough a metal conduict, allowing to reveal the rests of the roman pavement. The project as a whole is fully reversible and inspired by the principle of minimal intervention.
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Lisbon Nautical Center Project IV Prof. Arch. Ricardo Bak Gordon
academic
Lisbon, 2015
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The Nautical Center in the district of Santos represents a new landmark for the Lisbon riverfront, invested by a series of intervention aimed at reconnecting the city with its coastline, redeeming dismissed industrial areas and properties. The building operates as an intermediary between the city and the river, the artificial and the natural element, according to a principle of maximum permeability towards the water environment. A strategy which is materialized by the structure of the building consisting in a succession of concrete arched beams based on an hortogonal grid. Such grid articulates the distribution of the functions of the Nautical Center, framing the spaces for sport activities, leisure and services. The density of the grid reflects the degrees of privacy of the different areas in a building which is completely open in all directions without a clear distinction between interior and exterior but where the natural elements are carefully controlled.
01 / site plan & view from the deck
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03 / ground floor
04 / exploded axonometry
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05 / facades
06 / view of the ‘Dome’
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07 / longitudinal cut
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08 / concrete beams
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+39 335 622 10 77 giulia.ciuffoletti@gmail.com
Giulia Ciuffoletti
selected works
2019