Jewelry & Fashion Design Institute Vicenza 3.0
Undergraduate Final Year August 2015 - December 2015 Vicenza, Italy Partner: Isabela Guzman Critic: Albertus Wang The proposed project is derived from the halcyonic gold and lucrative jewelry market that has shaped Vicenza into the gem that we see today. The dual programs of jewelry and fashion design will be the home to 2000 students and the temporal reaction to the influx of students and trade will continue to respond to the historic narrative that endures. The lifetime of a gem is a two sided coin, the production side and the glamorous exhibition side. The program separates itself into two categories, the production masses, where the work will be produced, and the exhibition mass, where the final products are showcased. The labor masses intersect, shear, and effect the exhibition mass, not only shaping this main mass but shaping and curating the public spaces, entrances, and water adjacencies.
Jewelry & Fashion Design Institute
Vicenza 3.0
Undergraduate Final Year August 2015 - December 2015 Vicenza, Italy Partner: Isabela Guzman Critic: Albertus Wang
The proposed project is derived from the halcyonic gold and lucrative jewelry market that has shaped Vicenza into the gem that we see today. The dual programs of jewelry and fashion design will be the home to 2000 students and the temporal reaction to the influx of students and trade will continue to respond to the historic narrative that endures. The lifetime of a gem is a two sided coin, the production side and the glamorous exhibition side. The program separates itself into two categories, the production masses, where the work will be produced, and the exhibition mass, where the final products are showcased. The labor masses intersect, shear, and effect the exhibition mass, not only shaping this main mass but shaping and curating the public spaces, entrances, and water adjacencies.
Parks Surrounding parks offer residents of Vicenza a place to relax and free themselves from the bustle of market life
Residential Vicenza’s real estate forms itself from the main corridor of the city then expanding north of Corso Palladio.
Public Squares Public meeting squares are not just a weekend get together space, the squares are home to daily trading and retail business.
Retail Surrounding retail locations offer great spaces for potential student to bring fashion and designs to the people.
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Form organization is pulled from the site shape. Allowing Via Carmini to shape the exposition space gives opportunity for the dorms, fashion studios, and design studios to interject and give definition to public spaces and water adjacencies.
The North entry site and dormitory entrance offer an easy transition from the Vicenza city fabric into a free flowing intervention. The raised floor plate create a circulatory space that transitions occupants into Piazza di Golleria.
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For the first time in 20 years, the Vicenza Institute of Architecture was able to present their work in front of the city of Vicenza. Refocusing on the rivers of Vicenza and using architecture to re-purpose the rivers edge has given the students and citizens of a Vicenza a way to interact face to face. Vicenza 3.0 was a unique exhibition that showcased VIA’s work for 3 days to the city with a round table discussion. The discussion brought to light the real life issues that the Vicentine people have with public space and the river connections, issues of abandonment and loitering.
Vicenza 3.0: Refocusing the Rivers On View: 17/11/2015 – 19/11/2015 Vicenza 3.0: Refocusing the Rivers extends the conversation on the raise of water-levels that was put forward by Florida 3.0: Reinventing Our Future exhibition in Miami by the School of Architecture, University of Florida. The issues raised by the Vicenza Institute of Architectue’s Vicenza 3.0 design investigations, exhibition and discussion recount the importance to refocus on Vicenza’s rivers’ potential. The exploration regards three moments: Vicenza 1.0 – From Roman, Medieval and Renaissance times, Vicenza relied on its rivers, Bacchiglione and Retrone, for its livelihood and transportation means. Vicenza 2.0 – In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries following industrialization and the development of modern transportation, rivers became superfluous in their former uses, and resulted in the means to dispose impure water. As a source of hazards, the population precluded them from direct contacts. Vicenza 3.0 – In our environmentally conscious contemporaneity, Vicenza’s rivers were revisited in an effort to reintroduce healthy environments, enjoyable contacts with nature, new sustainable transportation options, and the reuse of underutilized sites. In the design proposals, the opportunities offered by beautiful available sites were explored to develop meaningful programs providing innovative civic and educational venues, accessible natural settings, and sustainable and generative buildings.
Exhibition Opening Tuesday November 17th @ 18:00 Round-Table Discussion Wednesday November 18th @ 18:00 Exhibition open to the public until November 19th
Palazzo Cordellina, Contrà Riale 12, Vicenza, Italy Curator Prof.
Arch. Sotirios Papadopoulos
Academic Curators
Prof. Arch Martha Kohen Prof. Arch Albertus Wang
Administration
Franca Stocco, VIA Director
Assistant Curators
Graham Oakley; Jesse Mantohac Zhizhou Wang
Vicenza Institute of Architecture
Sponsorships
• Comune di Vicenza, Promoter and Main Sponsor • Vicenza Institute of Architecture, the University of Florida, VIA, UF • The Graduate School of Architecture; College of Design, Construction and Planning; The University of Florida, G|SoA, UF • The Consortium for Hydro-generated Urbanism, CHU Special Thanks to
Mayor Achille Variati Deputy Mayor Jacopo Bulgarini
Program Voice Violin Percussions/Didgeridoo Dance Video Mapping Online Communication Photographic Service
Franca Grimaldi LaxMan Martin Florio Pozza Thierry Parmentier Zebra Mapping Davide Dal Maso Alexander Isaac Photography
Student Participants Graduate Students: Di Hu Melissa Jones Jesse Mantohac Jessica Philips Zhizhou Wang Xuancheng Zhu Timothy Beecken Amanda Byars Robert Riggio
Undergraduate Students: Gibson Bastar Andrew Bawtinhimer Sierra Eades Kirsten Evans Philip Goodbread Isabela Guzman James Jackson Keshen Liu Shannon Mallon Eduardo Meneses Kaitlen Miers Graham Oakley Brittany Perez Junjie Zhao