PORTFOLIO
GIULIA URAS
PERSONAL INFORMATIONS AND MAIN EXPERIENCES
GIULIA URAS Address: Mobile: E-mail: Nationality: Date of birth: Gender:
7, via Prunas, 08013, Bosa, Italy 0039.340.9402261 giuliau.87@gmail.com Italian 16-11-1987 female
DESSAU - post graduate Master Environmental Design (first part) 2012/2013 LONDON - Internship under post graduate Master program 2013 (3 months)
MADRID - Internship under Erasmus placement program 2009 (3 months) ALGHERO/SASSARI- Architecture Master graduation 2006-2012 SASSARI - Internship 2012 (1 month) SASSARI - post graduate Master Environmental Design (second part) 2012/2013
PROFESSOR _ JORGE LOBOS
PROJECT _ INTERVENTO DI RECUPERO A CASTELSARDO _ SCUOLA DI VELA _ A.A. 2009/2010
The project site is located in Castelsardo a small town in Sardinia on the sea. The aim for this project is to recover an old building over the cliff, now in disuse and with accessibility problems, allowing to all people to use this space for different activities in a special way for the activities linked to the sea like sailing school. So has been designed a new structure that complete the existing one improving connections between the two levels through lift and ramps.
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RECOVERING AN EXISTING BUILDING
INTERVENTO SU EDIFICIO ESISTENTE
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PROFESSOR _ JORGE LOBOS
PROJECT _ INTERVENTO DI RECUPERO A CASTELSARDO _ SCUOLA DI VELA _ A.A. 2009/2010
Part of the new building has been dedicated to sailing theoretical lesson. The existing structure has been redesigned in the interior, in order to create an auditotirum space that could be used from all citizens for several activities.
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PROFESSORS _ STEFAN TISCHER _ THOMAS AUER
PROJECT _ LANDSCAPE URBANISM _ A.A. 2010/2011
LANDSCAPE URBANISM #2
The project site is located in Calabona Area in Alghero (Sardinia), in a particular complicated area between city and rural area. The project in territorial scale has the aim to solve in between areas problems and to put in evidence landscape resources like cultivated fields, olives trees, historical roads and also historical buildings. The interventions are located on the coast and in the countryside
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PROFESSORS _ STEFAN TISCHER _ THOMAS AUER
PROJECT _ LANDSCAPE URBANISM _ A.A. 2010/2011
Sant’Anna new neighborhood evolved in the last decade and it presents an indefinite urbanization where there are abandoned olive fields, grove and mediterranean scrub. The intervention proposes to realize a path that through the views theme of the historical bunker buildings can connect them crossing the countryside till the coast. The focus of the project is the productive countryside marked from the typical sprawl phenomenum. In this context born little semiprivate impregnable neighborhoods characterized by villas but also by illegal buildings.
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PROFESSORS _ STEFAN TISCHER _ THOMAS AUER
PROJECT _ LANDSCAPE URBANISM _ A.A. 2010/2011
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Considering this situation, the project wants to change this reality increasing the permeability of this zone and transforming this neighborhood in a “soustainable neighborhood” that could be energetically autonomous.In order to do that the project wants to give a rules to this neighborhood. Infact new houses are more near as is possible to the streets to preserve the olives, both new and existing houses has a system to collect rain water and to produce electricity through PV panels. The pedestrian path give more permeability to the existing neighborhood, and the phytodepuration pools, that purify houses gray water, are located along the pedestrian path. New paths’ walls are formed by stone cages, sometimes walls disposition creates public space for the inhabitants.
PROFESSORS _ STEFAN TISCHER _ THOMAS AUER
PROJECT _ LANDSCAPE URBANISM _ A.A. 2010/2011
New houses are characterized by walls that from the exterior go in the interior of the building and by the roof that allow to collect rain water and to place pv panels. In this project walls have different functions: they define limits, they can bring water permitting to collect it, and they have termical mass function. This kind of irregoular roof can be integrated also in the existing houses.
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SUPERVISOR _ GIOVANNI MACIOCCO _ ASSISTANT SUPERVISOR _ ERIKA BONACUCINA
THESIS PROJECT : RICONVERSIONE DI UN VECCHIO STABILIMENTO INDUSTRIALE NEL PARCO FLUVIALE DEL TEMO
THESIS PROJECT #3
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The project is based on the realization of a river park that can improve the left side of Temo river, that actually is disconnected from the urban centre, including cultural and recreational services but in expecial way encluding sport activities. The park will develop through several paths that from rural areas will run the left side of the river, reusing several abandoned areas and sometimes following the disused railway; it is connected with different industrial buildings such as old “concerie” . In particular way has been developed the reuse project of an ancient industrial building that, during the years, has been a brick factory as well as a structure for olive pomace processing, these buildings will offer a structure for the existing rowing activity.
SUPERVISOR _ GIOVANNI MACIOCCO _ ASSISTANT SUPERVISOR _ ERIKA BONACUCINA
THESIS PROJECT : RICONVERSIONE DI UN VECCHIO STABILIMENTO INDUSTRIALE NEL PARCO FLUVIALE DEL TEMO
The river landscape, presents different situations that were analyzed considering several cross river section. It has been possible to find in different quantity abandon areas, building areas, productive fields, spontaneus vegetation and man made infrastructures.
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SUPERVISOR _ GIOVANNI MACIOCCO _ ASSISTANT SUPERVISOR _ ERIKA BONACUCINA
THESIS PROJECT : RICONVERSIONE DI UN VECCHIO STABILIMENTO INDUSTRIALE NEL PARCO FLUVIALE DEL TEMO
The main old structures of the industrial building, date back to XIX sec. but during the years it was added other buildings according to different functions underneath. At first construction building are a soap factory, then it became a place where olive pomaces were burned. Recently it become a brick factory and a riding stables. Now these structures were used by rowing club, but they are not so adapted to do this kind of specific activity.
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SUPERVISOR _ GIOVANNI MACIOCCO _ ASSISTANT SUPERVISOR _ ERIKA BONACUCINA
THESIS PROJECT : RICONVERSIONE DI UN VECCHIO STABILIMENTO INDUSTRIALE NEL PARCO FLUVIALE DEL TEMO
Project includes a new realization part for rowing activity. New buildings are added to the existing volumes to complete them in a functional way and connecting them to the river pedestrian path. New and existing volumes disposition creates two squares, the first one facing on the river and the second one facing on the main street. The river plaza is constituted from bleachers for the spectators and it can be flooded according to the level of the river during the periods of the year.
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SUPERVISOR _ GIOVANNI MACIOCCO _ ASSISTANT SUPERVISOR _ ERIKA BONACUCINA
THESIS PROJECT : RICONVERSIONE DI UN VECCHIO STABILIMENTO INDUSTRIALE NEL PARCO FLUVIALE DEL TEMO
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New volumes are two: the “wall building”, and the structure dedicated to locker rooms and to the accomodations. The wall is intended as a case of functions and vertical connection systems, the building is developed in two levels. The ground floor is structurated for rowing boats storage, and the part hang out on the river simplify boats access to the water. The second level connects the pedestrian path of the river park to the big square level. The near perpendicular structure is also formed from two floors: in the ground level there are spaces for the rowing center, and in the first level there are ten rooms for rowing athletes .
SUPERVISOR _ GIOVANNI MACIOCCO _ ASSISTANT SUPERVISOR _ ERIKA BONACUCINA
THESIS PROJECT : RICONVERSIONE DI UN VECCHIO STABILIMENTO INDUSTRIALE NEL PARCO FLUVIALE DEL TEMO
The wall building has a self-bearing wall skin realized with trachite red stone plates “ trachite rossa”. These plates are staggered to allow light enter in the structure. To improve skin stability were introduced steel boards.
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Thesis Model 90 cm x 180 cm scale 1:50
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SUPERVISOR _ GIOVANNI MACIOCCO _ ASSISTANT SUPERVISOR _ ERIKA BONACUCINA
THESIS PROJECT : RICONVERSIONE DI UN VECCHIO STABILIMENTO INDUSTRIALE NEL PARCO FLUVIALE DEL TEMO
Thesis Model 120 cm X 100 cm scale 1:500
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SUPERVISOR _ GIOVANNI MACIOCCO _ ASSISTANT SUPERVISOR _ ERIKA BONACUCINA
THESIS PROJECT : RICONVERSIONE DI UN VECCHIO STABILIMENTO INDUSTRIALE NEL PARCO FLUVIALE DEL TEMO
PROFESSORS _ JORIS FACH _ GUNNAR HARTMANN
DIA _ POST MASTER PROJECT _ THE PRODUCTIVE LANDSCAPE _ 2013
THE PRODUCTIVE LANDSCAPE #4
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This design studio had the aim to develop a future urban scenario in order to design a wide array of potential design strategies that integrate local energy sources with local life and an autarchic sense of place. By the productive landscape studio we created the grid of energy connections between different kind of functions. The aim of this project was to combine different architectural programs, Mixed Housing and Super Market, in order to exchange energy and to reduce the consumpions.. The project was placed in Dessau (Germany) in the middle landscape, in the future 2050, in a partially unihabited area where there are some existing office buildings, industrial structures and a lot of “schreber garten�.
DIA _ POST MASTER PROJECT _ THE PRODUCTIVE LANDSCAPE _ 2013
PROFESSORS _ JORIS FACH _ GUNNAR HARTMANN
SUPER MARKET + MIXED HOUSING
Super Market and Mixed Housing work energetically together throught the CHP plant. This is a combined system that take biogas from the pipeline and produce heat to warm water for the houses and electricity for the supermarket. The last one produces heat from the steam derived from the cooling food process. Electricity was produced also by PV panels and this energy can be stored in batteries that recharge cars and trucks. We also have a system of collecting rain water that could be used for heating houses or simply used to water gardens.
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PROFESSORS _ JORIS FACH _ GUNNAR HARTMANN
DIA _ POST MASTER PROJECT _ THE PRODUCTIVE LANDSCAPE _ 2013
Different functions and the houses are splitted in the site, but in the central area is possible to recognize the big plaza where the main activities take place. The section above shows at the same time the public spaces where people lived and enjoied the agora spaces, the farming market and the other commercial spaces, and it shows houses private spaces.
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PROFESSORS _ JORIS FACH _ GUNNAR HARTMANN
DIA _ POST MASTER PROJECT _ THE PRODUCTIVE LANDSCAPE _ 2013
The project is developed in two principal levels that are connected each other. In the ground level is possible to see the system of houses located principally on the first and third strips. In the underground level there are: the energy block (first streep) the parkings, and storages and in the central streep there is the main plaza and part of the supermarket. On the right there’s a zoom of houses typoligies where is possible to see a vertical connection that from the underground where ther’s parking, goes up in a little more reserved square and goes upstair in the first floor. Here ther’s a part of the connection of the firts floor that run on the roofs of the ground level houses, were there are also gardening area.
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PROFESSORS _ LUCIO ROSSI _ MARYSOL KRAVIEZ
DIA _ POST MASTER PROJECT _ POP ARCHITECTURE _ 2013
POP ARCHITECTURE #5
S _ KINK _ is designed as a public area dedicated to several programs. Now is used in different ways according to the seasons.
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Starting from this concept the project has beenconceived as a flexible structure covered by a pierced skin that envelopes the whole project site. It has been designed working on two layers at the same time: the roof layer and the landscape layer.The structure and the skin have been realized using a surface for the grid and moving its vertex along the Z axes, according to the programs underneeth. Moreover the skin can be removed or changed when more protection from the sun or the winter cold is necessery. It can also become a vertical surface that splits the spaces underneeth.
PROFESSORS _ LUCIO ROSSI _ MARYSOL KRAVIEZ
DIA _ POST MASTER PROJECT _ POP ARCHITECTURE _ 2013
The landscape-layer has been generated by the movement of 4 strips of polygons from the original surface. This generated its slef the two entrances that lead the visitors from the city to the river. The lanscape layer and the roof layer meet themselves in several strips that are actually the points where the two structure are connected. They also exchange their roles when the roof and the floor becomes seats for the open-air arena.
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PROFESSORS _ LUCIO ROSSI _ MARYSOL KRAVIEZ
DIA _ POST MASTER PROJECT _ POP ARCHITECTURE _ MARCH 2013
There are two main stages for the most important events: one can be closed and the second one is completly open. Between the two areas there is a strip dedicated to services and can be constantly changed using the vertical temporary walls that can be connected to the steel structure.
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PROFESSORS _ LUCIO ROSSI _ MARYSOL KRAVIEZ
DIA _ POST MASTER PROJECT _ POP ARCHITECTURE _ MARCH 2013
The old function has been integrated with a seasonal chaging: sand for summer and ice-skating during the winter. Moreover during the day, prject, can houses several performances and events.
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PROFESSORS _ EOCSISTEMA URBANO : BELINDA TATO _ JOSE’ LOUIS VALLEJO
DADU _ POST MASTER PROJECT _ MEET IN MARCHA’_ JUNE 2013
MEET-IN MARCHA’ Meet-in Marchà is the result of research based on economy, social life and resources in Nurra. It tried to involve people from Nurra in a new way of thinking about their land, promoting a new value for their own resources, with regard to both goods and skills, and establish a place where people could meet to create social connections of exchanges and new business. Thus its name summarizes the aim of the project through a combination of the English and Sardinian languages, it is derived from the meaning of “Meet in Market“, where “meeting” becomes “Meet-in” and “market” becomes “Marchaddu”, then shortened as “Marchà”. Due to the recent hard times of the economy, people started to join different trade systems, with strong consequences in social terms. A research project has been led in order to find out which alternative systems are in use as well as which project are produced all over the world. First suggestions were “barter” and virtual currency systems 1 . Contextually many artistic and cultural active groups 2 are trying to promote new forms of sharing in order to avoid money trade, encouraging the social aspect of these activities. One of the most used systems of connection between cities and hamlets is G.A.S. 3 , voluntary groups that try to connect local small producers with people from big cities, avoiding the large scale distribution, and promoting ethical consumption. Thus the team started to check out the real situation by asking for specific data, supplying questionnaires to people and making video-interviews about their personal ambitions, their skills and resources, and their needs. All interviewed people said they need a place to meet friends, each of them can be a potencial farmer, and most of them think about a local food market. “Barter, in this perspective, as one kind of exchange which creates relations in its own mode. Goods tend to be exchanged with known people at particular times and places.” 4 Nowadays in Nurra, 72% of land consists of empty fields and 50% of young people in an area are unemployed, but 60% of them have farming skills at least to produce food for themselves 5. This starting point suggested a concept for the project where people’s needs interact in 1 http://www.sardex.net/ http://www.associazionenazionalebdt.it/ 2 Farmingthecity.net Fernando Garcia Dory 3 gruppi di acquisto solidale( ethical purchase groups) http://www.retegas.org/ http://www.sardegnaconsumatore.it/articolo/cosa-sono-i-gruppi-di-acquisto-solidale-gas 4 Caroline Humphrey,Stephen Hugh-Jones, Barter Exchange and Value: An Anthropological Approach. 5 ISTAT datas, Census 2011
an active way. Inspired by several project 6 , Meet-in Marchà is conceived as an itinerant food market that could also become an important meeting point, where they could exchange products and skills. It has been planned a three step long-term strategy for a social exchange process to develop a new rural economy. Starting from hobby farmers, their empty fields and their skills, they could activate a small free-exchange market in order to attract visitors. The network of people would increase in order to have a consortium, introducing also a direct purchase, an enlargement of the market with some associations who can connect them to the big cities. Finding some funding 7 , they could turn into professional farmers with bigger production and a bigger network of people trading with other companies. Tottubella has been chosen as a starting hamlet with social, logistic and economic problems, resulting from a lack of services. Since key people have got involved, a Facebook page with a proper identity has been created together to share the project more with others, involving voluntary associations and local people. Thus Meet-in Marchà started to be more focused on an online platform by designing a web site which works as a social network where people can meet others who are offering what they’re looking for and exchange it in the way they prefer. It acts as a database where you can look for products or skills, and different ways of trading, such as free exchange or money trade, involving local groups of G.A.S.8. Thinking long term, this could be very valuable for different reasons; they can increase their network, they can create teams of producers and realize a new market, and in this way they can be aware of what their amount of production, without the need of a big investment.
6 Mario Boschetti, Marianna Zani, Guida alla gestione dei mercati contadini una tradizione ricca di futuro , ed. “ i manuali del consorzio agrituristico mantovano” -Mercato contadino http://www.mercatidelcontadino.it 7 Misura 112 “Insediamento di giovani agricoltori” 2° bando pubblico per l’ammissione ai finanziamenti. (regione Sardegna) http://ec.europa.eu/agriculture/calls-for-tender/2012-237995e_ n.htm (UE) 8 “Lumaca Felice” - Alghero http://www.lalumacafelice.it/
“Environmental sustainability as well as economical one can’t proceed without social sustainability.” In a local dimension through integrated and participated planning is possible to activate some social process inside local collectivities, that making them aware about their own resources, could help to give the right direction for an economical and sustainable development in the future.
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MEET IN MARCHA’
PUBLICATION ARTICLE
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Partecipated planning : meeting young people and associations in Tottubella
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DADU _ POST MASTER PROJECT _ MEET IN MARCHA’_ JUNE 2013 PROFESSORS _ EOCSISTEMA URBANO : BELINDA TATO _ JOSE’ LOUIS VALLEJO
PROFESSORS _ EOCSISTEMA URBANO : BELINDA TATO _ JOSE’ LOUIS VALLEJO
DADU _ POST MASTER PROJECT _ MEET IN MARCHA’_ JUNE 2013
The approach for this project is based on the improvement local resources use, trying to solve economical problems, through local people involment it has been possible to create a long term strategy in order to start a process in this “Social organism”.
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First step focus strategy in Tottubella.
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DADU _ POST MASTER PROJECT _ MEET IN MARCHA’_ JUNE 2013 PROFESSORS _ EOCSISTEMA URBANO : BELINDA TATO _ JOSE’ LOUIS VALLEJO
PROFESSORS _ EOCSISTEMA URBANO : BELINDA TATO _ JOSE’ LOUIS VALLEJO
DADU _ POST MASTER PROJECT _ MEET IN MARCHA’_ JUNE 2013
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbknnPlL7uo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbknnPlL7uo
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Meet-in-March%C3%A0/116038528604048?fref=ts Meet-in Marchà is getting real! Firs step has been to interview local guys in Nurra, specifically in Tottubella, in order to understand better the reality over there. We investigated about products, activities and market. They have been friendly and they cooperate with us.
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PROFESSORS _ EOCSISTEMA URBANO : BELINDA TATO _ JOSE’ LOUIS VALLEJO
DADU _ POST MASTER PROJECT _ MEET IN MARCHA’_ JUNE 2013
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbknnPlL7uo Finally it has been designed an on-line platform which works as a social network where people can meet others who are offering what they’re looking for and exchange it in the way they prefer. At the end has been realized a video that shows all the team process during the project.
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DM- ARCHITECTS STUDIO _ LONDON
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INTERNSHIP PROJECT _ COMPETITION ALDGATE PLACE PLAY SPACE 2013
ALDGATE PLACE
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Rubber base and furniture Steel columns Hanging coloured nets Metal canopy
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Aldgate Place
Play Space
Design Approach
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There seems to be diverging opinions as to how to provide adequate spaces for teenagers
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There be diverging opinions ascase to how to spaces provide adequate spaces for teenagers within public and semi-public urban spaces. After an initial analysis it became apparent that there were two within seems public and to semi-public urban spaces. It is often the that such emerge spontaneously and they either get consolidated or removed depending on the situation and possible routes for a project like this: to create a generic flexible space that could allow for a significant level of adaptation, appropriation and use over time; or a very specific, instantly recognizable social components. Providing a new ‘play space’ in a rich context such as Aldgate and within a development that does not exist yetto is always goingatofocal be challenging. and object-like presence create point within the new development. After an initial for analysis apparent that there were two for a project We opted theit became second option as we feltpossible that routes a strong presence would open interesting opportunities of interaction not only with the age group in question, but with the rest of the residents. The schelike this: to create a generic flexible space that could allow for a significant level of adaptation, meappropriation thus works guiding principles: to create a strong and usealong over time;two or a very specific, instantly recognizable and object-like pres- visual impact both at urban and human scale and to engage with a wide range of users by minimizing visual and physical segregation. ence to create a focal point within the new development.
DM- ARCHITECTS STUDIO _ LONDON
INTERNSHIP PROJECT _ COMPETITION ALDGATE PLACE PLAY SPACE 2013
This is achieved by creating two rectangular planes that follow the area of the site, one forming a canopy made of semi-reflective metal hovering approximately 5.5 meters from the ground, and the other one made of a soft rubber forming a landscaped base with fixed furniture and areas for specific activities. A series of sculptural coloured ‘lanterns’ sit in between the two planes as supports, beacons and spaces in themselves for specific play activities. The structure supporting the canopy is integrated as part of the lanterns to avoid physical barriers at the perimeter of the area.
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DM- ARCHITECTS STUDIO _ LONDON
INTERNSHIP PROJECT _ OFFICE BUILDING IN HAMMERSMITH KING STREET 2013
The work is actually in progress. The project explored the potential of increasing the area of an existing cluster of buildings by infilling the gaps left in between by piecemeal development over time. So context has a complex character, its buildings are very different for age, materials and way of realization.
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KING STREET
EXISTING BUILDING
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INTERNSHIP PROJECT _ OFFICE BUILDING IN HAMMERSMITH KING STREET 2013
DM- ARCHITECTS STUDIO _ LONDON
MODELING ROOF SHAPE
Project site cross the entire block and faces the two streets. Work started with photographic survey, with the aim to produce elevations and sections both the building in question and the existing. After has been necessary to make a physical model in order to understand buildings different levels and to have a clear idea about the nearest buildings heigh.
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DM- ARCHITECTS STUDIO _ LONDON
INTERNSHIP PROJECT _ OFFICE BUILDING IN HAMMERSMITH KING STREET 2013
Then after a first research phase about existing projects, have been proposed different options for the facades and the roof of new volume. All these solutions are studied in a way that light could come inside the offices through big lanterns that at the same time resemble the chimneys of the older near buildings. After various tests, project changed direction: the roof following the existing facades from a gabled roof became a flat roof, creating a tension between both elevations.
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INTERNSHIP PROJECT _ OFFICE BUILDING IN HAMMERSMITH KING STREET 2013
DM- ARCHITECTS STUDIO _ LONDON
INTERIOR VIEW
At this point work finished with 3d modeling production and with views render production, testing several materials.
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FAB LAB SASSARI
DESIGN PROJECT _ WORKSHOP “DESIGN AND DIGITAL FABRICATION” 2014
PECTABLE #9
Workshop “ Design and digital fabrication ” In collaboration with Fab Lab Sassari Through the workshop it has been possible to produce three design object through the use of numeric control machine The wood table “Pectable” has been realized with a numerical control milling machine
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The project has been presented on Maker faire exhibition in Rome
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DESIGN PROJECT _ WORKSHOP “DESIGN AND DIGITAL FABRICATION” 2013 FAB LAB SASSARI
WITH ARCHITETENDE STUDIO _ SASSARI
DESIGN PROJECT _ ORIGAMI DRESS 2014
#10 ORIGAMI DRESS
- “Origami dress” is a parametric dress made with photographic reused paper, realized with a cutting plotter (presented on Maker faire exhibition in Rome, and on fashion show in Stintino)
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DESIGN PROJECT _ ORIGAMI DRESS 2014 WITH ARCHITETENDE STUDIO _ SASSARI
WITH ARCHITETENDE STUDIO _ SASSARI
DESIGN PROJECT _ PARAMETRIC CEILING 2014
#11 PARAMETRIC CEILING
“Parametric false ceiling” realized with photographic reused paper made with a cutting plotter (presented on Maker faire exhibition in Rome)
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DESIGN PROJECT _ PARAMETRIC CEILING 2014 WITH ARCHITETENDE STUDIO _ SASSARI
HAND DRAWINGS Auditorial Park, Forum Barcelona 2004 Alejandro Zaera - Polo, Farshid Moussavi
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Manegement & Design school, Essen 2006 Studio Sanaa
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Museo Ara Pacis, Roma 2006 Richard Meyer
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Casa di pietra, Tavole Italia, 1985/1988 Herzog & De Meuron
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