GENOVA FALL 2011

GENOVA FALL 2011

CAF - Clemson University

GENOVA FALL 2011

Charles E. Daniel Center for Building, Research and Urban Studies Students inside the Siena Baptistry

Students Undergraduate: Nico Critelli Marissa DiLoreto Wendy Escobar Samantha Funke Carol Goforth Gregory Lane Sarah Smith Amanda Spice Tiantian Ren Dihua Yan

Landscape Architecture: Gary Collins Eric Giberson Graduate: Joshua Atria Elise Little Ke Huang “Aro” Laura Lynn Hutton Christopher Strang Ryan Woods

Faculty Henrique Houayek* Professor in Residence Luca Rocco Alessandro Rocca Giuditta Poletti Saverio Fera Administrator Silvia Siboldi Staff: Cristina Lagomarsino Lucia Ruggiero * Spouse Kelly Houayek

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Students, faculty and staff at the Villa Party February 25th 2011 3

This book is dedicated to the Daniel family and all the donors for their generous support over the years.

Mr. William H. Pelham (Pelham Architects, LLC) Mrs. Anne Landsman Isenburger Mrs. Jeanne G. Fowler Mr. J. Kendall Gallaugher (Little and Associates Architects) Mr. Charles C. Mickel Mrs. Minor H. Mickel Mr. Raymond Stainback (Thompson, Ventullett & Stainback Associates) Mr. Charles M. McGee Jr. Mrs. Olivia Jackson McGee Mr. & Mrs. Harrison Forrester Mr. Frederick George “Fritz� Roth Mrs. Eva L. Holmes Mr. David S. Spell Mrs. Minor M. Shaw

Students Sketching Villa Rotonda, Vicenza 7

Vienna; Secession

Rome; St. Angelo Bridge

Vienna; Hundertwasser Kunst Hauss

Pompeii

Venice; Negozio Olivetti

Florence at the top of the Duommo

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Piazza San Matteo; Genova

Palazzo Grimaldi Doria Tursi, Via Garibaldi; Genova

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Laura Lynn Hutton Architecture Graduate

An opportunity of a lifetime is not just a clichĂŠ when I think back on my time at the Villa and abroad. I came to Italy with the determination to not let a minute slip by without taking full advantage of what Italy and Europe had to offer. I can write in full confidence that every minute was filled. I am amazed at how much I have learned, seen and experienced. Truly, it was more than I ever expected.

People have asked me what the best thing I saw or did was, and honestly there is nothing that stands out from the others.

It was all wonderful. The answer I do give is that one of the most exciting and satisfying experiences I had was a personal one. It was listening to my professors while traveling in Genoa and abroad and finally being able to understand the lessons taught in a classroom back in Clemson. Understanding urban development, or the development of architectural styles, or of European living and how it influenced architecture became more than just textbook readings. It was as if the final piece of a puzzle was put in place, and I began to finally “get� it. The lessons we learned here were more than architectural. We learned sociology, urban planning, economics, politics, history, anthropology. It was an all-encompassing classroom applying what lessons have come before. I am excited to look back in a year or more and recognize how my time here continues to influence me architecturally and personally. It already has.

Lastly, the Villa. It is a remarkable place that makes this program home and why those who have studied here come back to visit- even thirty years after they graduate. You become a family. Living, working and studying together is not always easy, but it is what makes you become a Villa family.

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Elise Little Architecture Undergraduate

Living in the villa in Genoa, Italy has been a great experience. The villa itself is made up of three floors; the ground floor is for dining and socializing, the first floor is studio space, and the second floor is our living space. Our bedrooms have beautiful views of the harbor as well as the city of Genoa as a whole. Some of the bedroom have balconies, which are wonderful to sit out on to see the sunset! Like I said above, we have the opportunity to enjoy a space that is used for both living and working. We live on the second floor of the villa and have our studio space on the first floor, which is great because I feel like we are able to focus more on our projects this way. We also get to have a sense of family while living here; we have to work together, whether it is in studio or in the kitchen. The villa also has a garden that is quite big for Genoa and we have the opportunity to enjoy cooking out there and getting a great view of the city.

Living at the Villa

Student experiences in Genova

Elise Little Architecture Graduate

The highlight of the Genoa program was, by far, the two class trips that we took. It was wonderful to see, in person, the buildings and cities I had studied in class or seen in books. If I had to pick two places that inspired me the most, I would choose Pompeii and Venice. Pompeii really moved me since, as a pre-Roman city, it broke from many of the Roman traditions and developed some interesting cultural differences as well. Venice was thriving atop the beautiful natural lagoon that fluxed and flowed beneath it. The Venetian architecture creatively responded to its environment and many architectural and construction advances were made to combat earthquakes and moisture damage. This style of learning allows you to remember things forever because you have seen, heard and touched it. That is something that you cannot get from a book. Genoa, May the grand tour live on.

Sam Funke Architecture Undergraduate

Living in the villa in Genoa, Italy has been a great experience. The villa itself is made up of three floors; the ground floor is for dining and socializing, the first floor is studio space, and the second floor is our living space. Our bedrooms have beautiful views of the harbor as well as the city of Genoa as a whole. Some of the bedroom have balconies, which are wonderful to sit out on to see the sunset! Like I said above, we have the opportunity to enjoy a space that is used for both living and working. We live on the second floor of the villa and have our studio space on the first floor, which is great because I feel like we are able to focus more on our projects this way.

We also get to have a sense of family while living here; we have to work together, whether it is in studio or in the kitchen. The villa also has a garden that is quite big for Genoa and we have the opportunity to enjoy cooking out there and getting a great view of the city.

Gregory Lane Architecture Undergraduate

Living at the Villa has been a real enjoyable experience. Over the duration of the semester you become really close with the seventeen other students. You eat, sleep, work, and travel together so it’s hard not to become sort of like a family. It is also advantageous having architecture roommates, because they know what you’re going through and can relate to the stress and work that come along with being an architecture student. If I found myself having questions about a design problem or technology program there was always five or more people around to help me solve it. If I have any regrets about the past four months it would be that I did not go out and explore Genova enough. It is a beautiful city with a lot to offer. Unlike Florence and Rome, it is not congested with tourists so you get really a good understanding and appreciation for the Italian culture. You learn and are exposed to so much over these fifteen weeks and I believe this is an experience all architecture students need to go through.

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Genova Piazza The structure of the Piazza Piazzas are among the most spectacular architecture works of the medieval city; its trace and position of its buildings represent principle functions of communal life and civic unity. In this drawing exercise students are encourage to experience Genova’s medieval city piazzas and understand its architectural structure, scale, orientation and architecture.

The proposed exercise requires students to choose and investigate, on site, a medieval piazza dimension and scale - its form is reproduced in plan with its building’s facades.

The following Piazzas were reproduced:

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1 Piazza della Meridiana 2 Piazza San Lorenzo 3 Piazza della Anunziatta 4 Piazza San Matteo 5 Piazza Fontane Marose 6 Piazza del Ferro 7 Piazza Luccoli 8 Piazza Banchi 9 Piazza di San Donato

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Piazza Banchi Ryan Woods 12

Piazza San lorenzo Sarah Smith 13

Piazza San Matteo Joshua Atria 14

Piazza di Carignano Wendy Escobar 15

Piazza di Carignano Eric Giberson 16

Piazza Giacomo Matteotti Ke Huang 17

Piazza San Matteo Laura Lynn Hutton 18

Piazza Banchi Dihua Yan 19

Field Studies: Sketches

On Drawing: Design as an aesthetic practice

The process of graphic transformation of the environment onto a two dimensional page, acts for architecture students as an explicit and remarkable analytical tool. The focus of the Field Studies/Sketch course in Genova is to sharpen the student’s ability to see, understand, and record, through drawing their experiences while studying abroad. Traveling, walking and discovering new environments becomes an aesthetic practice.

As for an architecture student there is no better learning experience than to train his or her visual sensibility - the capacity to explain it graphically is to reach control over architectural forms.

The unique character and advantage of the “field sketch� is to allow a concentrated amount of time to focus attention onto a specific place or building in order to discover, analyze and record its complexities. Such analytical inquiry may have a reciprocal effect of interpreting the subject and, through the drawing itself, illustrates the process of how the subject is revealed, providing insightful information and reveals otherwise hidden information about the subject rather than only depicting stenography.

This class procedure is very simple: students must draw nearly every day, a process which builds confidence and skill in observation and graphic presentations. Most important these drawings should help students in their own design process.

Design becomes the conclusion of the chain of associations, analysis, observation and connections to existing architecture and their exploratory experiences.

The following pages bring a sample of the variety of sketches and drawings done throughout the semester. Divided by city and theme, these pages present visions and discoveries while in Genova and traveling around Europe.

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Dihua Yan 22

The Villa

Visions of the Genovese home

Laura Lynn Hutton

Eric Giberson

Christopher Strang

Laura Lynn Hutton

Amanda Spice

Amanda Spice

Sam Funke

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Ke Huang “Aro”

Elise Little

Huang “Aro”

The Villa

Visions of the Genovese home

Josh Atria

Tiantian Ren

Ryan Hunt

Carol Goforth

Gegory Lane

Gary Collins

Sarah Smith

Ryan Woods

Wendy Escobar

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Top Left - Chiesa di San Pietro in Banchi: Joshua Atria Bottom Left - Chiesa di San Matteo: Dihua Yan Top Right - Convento di Sant’Agostino: Laura Lynn Hutton Bottom Right -Chiesa di San Pietro in Banchi: Eric Giberson 26

Genova

Top Left -Chiesa di San Pietro in Banchi: Ke Huang Bottom Left; Castello Bruzzo: Ryan Woods Top Right; Cattedrale di San Lorenzo: Laura Lynn Hutton Bottom Right; Teatro Carlo Felice: Christopher Strang

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Left - Chiesa Santa Maria Assunta: Chris Strang Top Right - Porta Soprana: Ke Huang Bottom Right - Via Garibaldi details: Greg Lane 28

Genova

Right - Porta Soprana: Ke Huang Top Left - Palazzo San Giorgio: Ryan Woods Middle Left - Teatro Carlo Felice: Ke Huang Bottom Left - Galeria Giuseppe Garibaldi: Marissa DiLoreto

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Top - Bigo : Carrie Goforth Bottom - Genova Aquarium: Ryan Woods 30

Genova and Pisa

Pisa Tower and Cathedralt: Chris Strang

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Torino buildings: Tiantian Ren 32

Top Right - Galeria Vittorio Emanuele II: Dihua Yan Middle Right - Museu del Novecento: Carrie Goforth Bottom Right - Chiesa di Sant’Ambrogio: Amanda Spice Top Left - Duomo di Milano: Josh Atria Top Left - Museu Del Novecento: Greg Lane Bottom Left - Fiera di Milano canopy: Ryan Woods

Torino and Milan

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Top left - Secession: Nico Critteli Top right- Secession: Dihua Yan Bottom Left - Looshaus: Ke Huang Bottom Right - : Laura Lynn Hutton 34

Vienna

Group Trip 1

Top - Karl Marx Hof: Ke Huang Bottom left - Secession: Laura Lynn Hutton Bottom right - T-Mobile Center: Dihua Yan 33

Top left - Basilica di San Marco: Dihua Yan Bottom Left - Shiesa de La Salute: Chris Strang Top right- Venice Canal: Sarah Smith Bottom Right - Canal House: Dihua Yan

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Group Trip 1 Venice

Chiesa de la Salute: Ryan Woods 35

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Top Left - Chiesa Del Redentore: Josh Atria Bottom Left - Villa Rotonda: Ke Huang Top Right - Teatro Olimpico: Dihua Yan Bottom Right - Villa Rotonda: Dihua Yan

Group Trip 1 Hommage to Palladio

Villa Rotonda: Dihua Yan

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Barcelona Pavillion Top: Sarah Smith Bottom: Josh Atria

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Independent Travel Barcelona

Right - Sagrada Familia: Greg Lane Left - Casa MilĂ details: Tiantian Ren

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Blue Mosque - Sarah Smith 42

Independent Travel Istanbul

Hagia Sophia Top Right: Josh Atria Bottom Right: Sarah Smith Top Left: Gregory Lane Bottom Left - Sarah Smith

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Top - ErechthĂŠion and Cariatides: Josh Atria Bottom Right - Parthenon: Marisa DiLoreto Bottom Left- Acropolis Entrance: Sarah Smith

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Independent Travel Athens

Parthenon Top: Laura Lynn Hutton Bottom Left: Josh Atria Bottom Right: Greg Lane 43

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Top Left; Delos, Mykonos : Wendy Escobar Bottom Left - Mykonos Windmill: Marisa DiLoreto Top Right; Mykonos Church: Greg Lane Bottom Right; Mykonos Church: Carrie Goforth

Independent Travel

Greek Islands

Top Left; Apollo Temple : Wendy Escobar Bottom Left - Mykonos Windmill: Josh Atria Top Right; Santorini Church: Wendy Escobar Bottom Right; Santorini Church: Marissa DiLoreto Bottom Right - Mykonos Church: Greg Lane

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Villa Savoye: Ke Huang “Aro:

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Independent Travel

Homage to Le Corbusier

Unite de Habitacion, Marselle: Ke Huang “Aro�

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Top Left - Fernsehturm Pavilion: Dihua Yan Bottom Left - Altes Museum Facade: Ryan Woods Top Right - DG Bank: Tiantian Ren Bottom Right - Jewish Museum: Tiantian Ren 50

Independend Travel Berlin

Top Right - Humbolt Box: Nico Critelli Bottom Right - Holocaust Memorial: Gary Collins Top Left - Berlin Cathedral: Ryan Woods Bottom Left; Pergamon: Dihua Yan 49

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Top - Landscape : Dihua Yan Bottom Left - Duomo: Ke Huang Bottom Right - Duomo: Tiantian Ren

Group Trip 2 Florence

Right - Pazzi Chapel: Josh Atria Top Left - David: Wendy Escobar Bottom Left - Palazzo Vechio: Ryan Woods

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Piazza Del Campo: Ke Huang 54

Group Trip 2 Siena

Right Palazzo Pubblico e Torre del Mangia: Wendy Escobar Left Palazzo Pubblico Detail - Villa Rotonda: Laura Hutton 53

Pantheon Left: Josh Atria Top Right: Sarah Smith Bottom Right Amanda Spice 56

Group Trip 2 Rome

Right - Chiesa di Sant’Ivo alla Sapienza : Wendy Escobar Top Left - St. Peters Baldacchino: Ryan Woods Top Left - St. Peters Baldacchino detail: Greg Lane Bottom Left - St. Peters Basilica: Carrie Goforth

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Top Left - Auditorium Parco della Musica: Ke Huang Bottom right: Jim Graham Bottom left Ryan Hunt

Group Trip 2 Rome

Right - Eur Colosseo: Sarah Smith Top Left - Ara Pacis: Josh Atria Bottom Left - Ara Pacis: Nico Critelli

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Top: Laura Hutton Bottom Left : Greg Lane Top Right: Nico Critelli 60

Group Trip 2

Pompeii

Top: Ke Huang Bottom Right: Wendy Escobar Bottom Middle: Wendy Escobar Bottom Left: Carrie Goforth

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Contemporary European Architecture

The CEA (Contemporary European Architecture) seminar focused on a selected number of relevant personalities, projects and theories of the European architectural culture. Through the critical examination of some architectural samples, we have explored the different ideas and theories about space, technology, and lifestyle.

The period of observation is fragmented through the last ninety years. The course will treat the works of some European masters of the Twenties and Thirties of the last century; architects, theories and works of the second half of the last century; and buildings, projects and new topics of the first years of this century.

A part of the course was dedicated to the thinking, designing, writing and editing of an architectural book - a personal production where the students were asked to fix and discuss ideas, concepts and critical observations suggested from the topics treated in class. The books show a clearly organized collection of illustrations, texts, drawings and any kind of architectural material. They also report about other topics experienced during the trips and visits made throughout the semester.

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Studio Projects

Designing at the edge of the medieval city One of the most important considerations for the semester studies at Genova is to understand the city’s urban context and its architecture. Exceptional characteristics of the medieval city and its growth over the centuries create interesting and unaccustomed situations. This semester’s design studio proposal will focus on the design of a specific area at the Genoa Harbor. The project proposes to replace the existing Hennebique Building - used as a corn deposit dating about one hundred years ago and today left abandoned in this important city area – by a new residential and commercial area in the city.

The site where the building is should be replaced by a new design which must include the following program: Residential buildings, hotel, commercial and the public areas surroundings.

Along the buildings an important aspect of this project is to design the public space that connects the city into this new area. The most significant aspect of the design is how to connect these new programs to the existing city life.

Such conditions in the mix of different urban generations is very “Genovese”, representing the opportunity to design in an area where the main forces are not traditional. The movement of pedestrians happens in a vertical sense.

The pedestrian circulation occurs from the top to the bottom - a high speed road blocks redefines any possibility of a traditional façade. The challenge to students is to design a structure that should accommodate more than just the program; it should help create a positive wholeness in this city area.

The following pages present the students design and their response to such urban conditions.

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Joshua Atria Ryan Woods Sarah Smith

The project RE-Face aims to give life and a new face to this abandoned section of the port of Genova by reconnecting it to the city and giving it a new identity through an improved configuration of the site with the addition of a residential complex and hotel that is deigned to fit within the undulating topographical context of the surrounding area. The new site stimulates circulation, drawing in tourist and local traffic from the densely traversed areas of the city through ramped connections that guide these users into a new urban development with shopping, dinning, activities and new green spaces along the water front.

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Laura Lynn Hutton Marissa DiLoreto Sam Funke

Porta Terrazza was a project developed based on the natural site of the Genova, Italy harbor and on sight lines. A glass encompassed hotel lobby and commercial space on the ground floor allowed for pedestrian views to the harbor to remain entirely uninhibited wile raising the mass of the development off the ground.

Terraces were developed in order to maximize the views of those inhabiting the hotel and apartment spaces. The roof top gardens and the restaurant bridge maintain 360 degree views of the port and the city. A boardwalk connects the whole site through materiality while inviting pedestrians to moves through the site along the harbor edge.

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Aro Ke Huang Amanda Spice Wendy Escobar

URBAN CANOPY

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So the main issue for us is how to create publicity and ensure the privacy for the program.

We propose the concept of “Urban Canopy�.

We create a public architectural volume for the public functions for the hotel and the apartment, and lift it up, as a canopy hanging above the ground, so that it can provide a sheltered space underneath it and also offer a relatively private space above.

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Chris Strang Greg Lane Nico Critelli

Revitalizing the Port

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Our project is about creating a symbiotic relationship between the given site and Genova community.

Through the gestures and spaces inherent within our design, we hope to encourage social interaction and draw people back into the port area.

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Carrie Goforth Elise Little

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microCity

Our main objective for this project was to provide an interactive area for both residents of Genoa and tourists in the area to gather, shop, play, and relax. It became a self-sufficient area we called the “microcity� which allows people to get away from the hustle of city-life, while still connecting popular existing aspects of Genoa with the site. We did this in a way that incorporated traditional influences of the city fused with modern style and sustainable design practices.

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Tiantian Ren Dihua Ho

GENOVA RIBBON

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We start from thinking the user of the hotel and residential.

Since there is neither hotel or residential environment on site and the site is just behind the university, we decided to create new type of hotel and residential which is a mix of function for youth and family and business. So both residential and hotel have two parts based on the type of user but still vision connected at the main circulation area.

And aiming to create a convenient circulation between building, we rise up a ribbon which have commercial under and continuous pass way on the top.

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Eric Giberson Gary Collins

The main goal of the Genova Ribbon is to link more of the town fabric to the historic port. The concept behind the ribbon is being able to provide access onto the project site and having a connecting element tie the design together while providing an easy path to follow.

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http://genovafall2011.wordpress.com/

This book has been produced by Henrique Houayek, professor in residence during the Fall 2011 semester.

It is a sample of the students experiences and their work produced while living at the villa .

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The Charles E. Daniel Center for Building, Research and Urban Studies was founded in 1972 by Harlan Ewart McLure and Cesare Fera as one of the first architecture programs in the US to establish a satellite program in Europe. Since its creation the Genova program has serve as home for Clemson University, captivating and inspiring countless architecture students. The program balances studio experience with studies of Italian architecture, contemporary design, urban practices, culture and field sketching. Students spend about a third of the 15-week semester traveling around Italy and Europe. A resident professor from Clemson is assisted by Italian professors who also practice architecture in Genoa. Visiting critics and lecturers from Italy and Europe come to the center on a regular basis to lecture and critique student work.

This book presents the work produced during the Fall semester of 2011 with particular emphasis on student’s sketches and field studies.