ILARIA LU - Architecture Portfolio (2018-2021- Full Version)

ILARIA LU

selected works 2018 - 2021 SCI-Arc M.Arch POLITO B.Arch FULL VERSION

PERSONAL DETAILS EDUCATION 2015-2019

Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy Bachelor degree in Architecture and Design 2019-2021

Southern California Institute of Architecture, USA Master in Architecture II program DATE/PLACE OF BIRTH 30th DIC. 1994, Florence

WORK EXPERIENCE

NATIONALITY Italian

March-April 2018

CONTACT ilarialujob@gmail.com ilaria_lu@sciarc.edu +1 3235187005 +39 3806922070

INTERN Studio R3 architetti Via Baretti, 46, TURIN July-September 2020

INTERIOR DESIGNER Palapa Poké&More Corso V. Emanuele, 112, CAGLIARI EXHIBITION 15 AUG - 3 NOV 2019

LANGUAGES

Architectural concepts for the future of the “Japanisches Palais” - DRESDEN, Germany 22 May 2021

Italian Chinese English

VENICE BIENNALE 2021 CITY X China seminar: INVISIBLE 16 September 2021

SEOUL BIENNALE of architecture and urbanism 2021 SKILLS Autocad Rhinoceros Grasshopper Maya ZBrush Unreal Engine Photoshop Illustrator Indesign After Effects 3D printing

CROSSROADS, Building the resilient city seminar: RETHINKING HEIGHT WORKSHOP July 08-21 2018

“Save the traditional village” International workshop SJTU Global engagement program, SHANGHAI Outstanding Award | 2018 “Knowledge Bank Cup” College Students’ social practice competition, SHANGHAI March 13 - April 05 2018

“Japanisches Palais” AAC workshop gmp Foundation, HAMBURG Full scholarship winner

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Interior design project ‘PALAPA poké&more‘ 2020

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DS Vertical Studio ‘RETHINKING HEIGHT‘ Fall 2020

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AS Design Doc GR Fall 2020

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2GBX Design Studio II ‘LE MUSÉE IMAGINAIRE‘ Spring 2020

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VS4201 Visual Studies II ‘inVisible‘ Spring 2020

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2GAX Design Studio I ‘AFTER IMAGE‘ Fall 2019

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VS4200 Visual Studies I ‘SLICE IT!‘ Fall 2019

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AAC workshop ‘Japanisches Plais‘ March 13 - April 05 2019

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Design Atelier - POLITO ‘PLUS PLUS‘ Fall 2018

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2020 PALAPA poké & more

Location: Cagliari, Italy Client: Private Program: Restaurant Area: 90m2 Status: Realized Year: 2020 Theme: Interior design, branding design

PALAPA is a poké restaurant located in the heart of the city Cagliari. The street was renovated to a pedestrian-only area thanks to a recent urban plan; it has become one of most visited spots for food and drink. On this street most buildings were built before 17th century, in a most respectful way PALAPA has preserved all the rural parts of the place. PALAPA’s business model is based on creating a semi self-service environment, where the clients get to choose the seat, they are responsible for getting the food and managing the waste. In order to incorporate all the information, the project sets its goal in creating a relaxing and welcoming environment by embracing colors, lights, tropical elements, etc.

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PALAPA poké & more

project context

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entrance - instagrammable area

bathroom with anteroom

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PALAPA poké & more process

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plan scale 1.100

The restaurant has such a long and lean shape, in order to adapt to it all the service area such as bathrooms, kitchen, and poké bar are gathered in one place. Moreover, the tables are moved against the walls leaving a continuous centered path that connects the poké bar and the entrance. Different seating areas are distributed in the dining hall. Bar seats are placed close to the narrow entrance area, while the plan enlarges the seats change to the regular one.

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The project also includes the design of furniture, in particular the desk that has multiple function - poké bar, bar, cashier. The L-shaped desk has its short side dedicated to a refrigerated table for poké preparation, and on the long side dedicated to cashier activity. Each shelf and drawer is thoughtfully designed to maximize the functionality and fluidity for the future workers.

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PALAPA poké & more 2020

2020 PALAPA poké & more photo credit: publikendi

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2020 DS Vertical Studio

RE-URBS

Southern California Institute of Architecture 3GAX DS Vertical Studio ‘RETHINKING HEIGHT‘ Fall 2020 Instructor: Elena Manferdini

Living in a city today incorporates three ‘high’ concepts - high pressure; high density; high-rise. As the population sees a dense concentration in it, the city needs to adapt its shape by growing vertically instead of horizontally. By taking in consideration of the living condition in cities, the project is constructed on the base of providing an alternative life and at the same time, finding a way to better adapt the building to Covid-19 pandemic emergency, as the social-distancing is one of most demanded prevention.

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drape riproduction

The El Anatsui’s artworks are the precedents for the facade. The workshop encourages to reproduce the drapes through a grasshopper script.

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VEGETATION DS Vertical Studio

PROGRAM

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SAFETY

DS Vertical Studio

MOBILITY

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typical plan

Firstly, the project’s intent is to dissolve the density, by reducing floor number from 73 to 42, open up the enclosure and increase green areas. It includes private residences, retail and offices. The multi-functionality of the building is also interpreted through an explicit expression of form, meaning to be read, it is outturning the cold and mysterious appearance that skyscrapers usually have. Thanks to the new height and spatial possibility, floors are able to host from four to six single - family houses and green areas at the two sides. The structural core is developed along the building, its shape allows the elevators to be distributed linearly. The elevators operate as two integrated groups, in order to minimize the contact with the neighbours. Another important element of the concept is the vegetation, together with the facade system, it creates an intimate and greener environment for the inhabitants.

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2020 DS Vertical Studio

US Bank tower,

What the project brings to the discussion is how skyscrapers can continue their life cycle, and it challenges the combination of two different realities - city and village, and making the American dream achievable again.

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2020 AS Design Doc GR

Design DOCUMENTATION Southern California Institute of Architecture AS Design Doc GR Fall 2020 Instructor: Herwig Baumgartner, Brian Zamora Structural Consultant: Matthew Melnyk Environmental Consultant: Jamey Lyzun AI Consultant: Casey Rehm Team: Burak Celik, Peter Kluzak, Abdullah Tahseen, David Seo, Hannah Mann, Jasper Gregory, Kovarthini Sekar, Melody chu, Ivan Chen, Yixuan Cai, Wenxi Zhang

This course investigates issues related to the implementation of design: technology, the use of materials, systems integration, and the archetypal analytical strategies of force, order and character. The course includes a review of basic and advanced construction methods, analysis of building codes, the design of Structural and Mechanical systems, Environmental systems, Buildings service systems, the development of building materials and the integration of building components and systems. The intent of this course is to develop a cohesive understanding of how architects communicate complex building systems for the built environment and to demonstrate the ability to document a comprehensive architectural project and Stewardship of the Environment.

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One of the student projects from the previous semester was chosen as the case study for our group. The early stage of the course consists in reviewing carefully all the characteristics of the building, and according to those observations being able to identify the closest method to construct.

The studies helped to understand the technical and physical aspects of the project. It is very clear that the building is featured with different chunks, by noticing that it comes with a conclusion of a system that includes a single concrete core and a ‘truss table’ to support all the chunks above.

Due to the pixelated nature of the facade, elements like tile or shingle are most likely to reproduce the effect, from both formal and chromatic points of view. Each metal tile is folded with a different angulation, and tinted with a color within a selected palette. Later the metal tiles are anchored to a steel pipe through bolts.

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facade chunk tectonic

AS Design Doc GR

pixelated texture (18 colors)

assigned 18 penels in angles and dimensions

facade chunck front view

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facade chunck back view

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steel pipe steel channel decorative formed metal GFC cementitious panels

metal suspension systems non-structural metal stud framing gypsum board

AS Design Doc GR

terrazzo floor tile

non-structural metal stud framing

back view

termal insulation gypsum sheathing weather barrier connection system

front view

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facade details

shingle attachment

suspended building evelope

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roof details

AS Design Doc GR

parapet details

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environmental analysis

LOS ANGELES Climate Zone of the project: 9 According to Building Energy Efficiency Standards - Title 24

Climate Analysis & Summery Although the city of Los Angeles is in Mediterranean climate, percipitation is usually low resulting in hot-dry summers and cooler winters.

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fire simulation

suspended mesh metal lath rib type steel roof deck

AS Design Doc GR

1” wood-fiber insulation

steel studs

gyosum board

wooded wire fabric metal deck

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Simulation shows how the exhaust fans and ventilation works if there is a fire in the Lobby space. Pyrosim was used to make physical simulation.

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egress simulation

population: 1800 time: 00:18:17

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Occupancy Load Egress Animation using Oasys MassMotion

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2020 2GBX Le Musée Imaginaire

Parnassus

Southern California Institute of Architecture 2GBX studio ‘LE MUSÉE IMAGINAIRE‘ Spring 2020 Instructor: Jackilin Bloom https://vimeo.com/showcase/6988124/video/409673468

In the proposal for the new LACMA, the architecture is seen as a bioproduct, it is placed in a bigger scenario that has different figures performing at the same time, and the museum is the conceptual space where everything took place. The project has its concentration on constructing different atmospheric moments where artifacts and nature converge into an immersive spatial and visual experience. So, the controversial treatment of landscape, in this case, has diminished the role of architecture, and it is operating in a way that questioned the aggressivity among the two concepts - the artifact and nature.

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The landscape, at times real and at times unreal, permeates every surface of the museum, allowing for fluidity between what is inside and outside and between what is materially hard to soft.

On the other side, the perception of landscape is not only an argument of aesthetics, but it is also achieved through the design of accessibility and the compositional thinking of artworks. Multiple entrances around the complex are expected in the project, in order to reinforce the permeability and the publicity.

The museum is a complex of 7 pavilions that act as retail, exhibition space and storage. Ramps and bridges are performing as connectors between buildings and the underground plaza, which aspect includes both gathering and distributing. In the first place, the architectural forms derive from the art objects of LACMA permanent collection through extracting their outlines. The further development of forms is to emphasize the quality of artificial landscape through assimilating and elaborating the natural one. So the idea of the pavilion system represents an integrated experience between outdoor and indoor, while the landscape elements soften the edges between them.

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the naturalistic language is common for all typology of elements, while different cromatic choices aim to implicate functions. what emphasizes the sense of landscape is the sinuous form of massing.

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roof modeling

As all the elements are attributed with multi-role or non-role in such context, as well as the art objects are call to perform diversely. The way how the art objects are exhibited creates a conversation involving architecture and landscape. Somehow the art is not only limiting from being only exhibited, but it is operating in many different ways. By taking advantage of art objects’ quality, and through a particular distribution and organization, it is able to acquire the architectural qualities or suggests an environmental context.

From the massing to the plants, from the texture to the art objects, the language that is dominating the project it is the result of a continuous calibrating of the artifact and nature, it is certainly a combination of two, thus it demonstrates moments of familiarity and strangeness, one cannot distinguish from the other. Indeed, the project aims to search the balance without taking advantage of one element and discharge the other, without separate the human from nature.

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2GBX Le Musée Imaginaire

ground floor plan

section A’A’’

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roof plan

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underground plaza

bridge-connection

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walkable roof

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sculpture rgalelry

2GBX Le Musée Imaginaire

art projection

sculpture rgallery

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VS4201 Visual Studies II ‘inVisible‘ Spring 2020 Instructor: Elena Manferdini, Andrea Cadioli https://vimeo.com/showcase/7007243/video/407893452 https://www.artsteps.com/view/5e7cf161c83356183b3807e5 In the deepest night, the energy is been purified and regenerated in preparation for the arrival of a new busy day. Life creations are wondering around the landscape before all the activities are back to operation. While in the complete quietness, the world seems paused, everything is here to restore the power in order to re-start. The project has its concentration on developing a future scene, which is characterized by the elements that the current society is used to. Somehow, the defamiliarization is achieved through the composition and the re-elaboration of the aesthetic language, instead of design. Such as the building with glowing neon lights and the energy reproduce system, also by positioning these two elements close to each other, it creates a sense of ambiguity and strangeness.

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https://vimeo.com/showcase/7007243

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lighting model

Indeed, the picture of the future is oftentimes projected toward a more so-called ‘futuristic’ approach: flying cars, modern skyscrapers, innovative technologies. The project aims to bring the discussion of the aesthetic of the future, or in other words what does the future-like world means. From the same perspective, as well as the dystopic world is constructed with similar ordinary objects. But the scenario is changing to a more paranoiac perception, through massive industrialization, and repetitive windmill farm. In this controversial understanding, the landscape is no more homogeneously consisting with man-made creations, it is invading it， dominating it.

The future has become obsessive, while waiting for it, little does people now that the future is already here.

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2020 InVisible energy center

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lighting model - solar panels in the utopia scene

lighting model - wind mill farm in the utopia scene

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solar panels in the utopia scene

InVisible

wind mill farm in the utopia scene

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utopia print

both utopia and dystopia prints are illuminated with UV lights

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2020 For the dystopia scene instead, the landscape is violently fill with massive wind mill fields. According how one object is treated, it can suggest different results. While a careful placement with limited amount can address a positive energy purification and reproduction, the extreme proliferation can bring to the discussion the vulnerability of nature.

The figure of butterfly represents the unprotected, vulnerable lives, that are exposed to precariousness. But its return in the end of the animation simbolizes the unexpected strength of nature.

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Between inbetween Southern California Institute of Architecture 2GAX Design Studio I ‘AFTER IMAGE‘ Fall 2019 Instructor: Ferda Kolatan, Rachael McCall Team: Di Liang

Based on the subject of the image, the design studio questions the meaning of visual representation, its derivation and the transformation during the process. Around the area of Chinatown in Los Angeles, is the location where the studio took place.

At the first stage of the project, the process that elaborates a series of photographs taken in Chinatown are resulting as scanned 3D objects. In this stage, the image is the result of processing that elaborates lights and colors through digital advice. Based on which result, the second stage stepped in - the creation of a more complex object by combining, cutting, twisting and repeating. Here, the objects start to lose the scale, context, and hierarchy. It’s the stage of familiarization.

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scanned object

Between architecture and environment Our architecture and the surrounding environment are two different systems in term of formal language. What we first concerned about is how the architecture can be connected to the environment. Through a particular organization of volumes, the perception of the architecture can be achieved directly from the street.

It is exposed to people’s wander, observation and curiosity. From the other side, we try to make this relation reciprocal, the building also allows people to approach the outer space due to its porosity. One physical connection would be the public stair, from which people are invited from the plaza to access the building.

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Compare to the conventional world, the formal language is now reversed. What we consider strange is now the normality, and what we used to is now weird. The glassed corridor that we bring in as an abstract form turns to a piece that unfamiliarized the 3D scanning world. It is critical whether it cuts the building into two parts, or unify the two sides. However, the approach happens differently to the two parts. On the right side, the corridor is merged to the volume. The public stair and plaza introduce a more open area, indeed is where co-working office and service facilities take place. On the left, instead, the volume is in a lower level, and the gap in between is providing the nature illumination.

So we take this abstracted form as a tool, to emphasize the different atmosphere and function of the building.

2GAX After Image

Between reality form and abstracted form

Between different time fragment The building is formed by various units, in terms of volume, form, and language. We started to recognize and extract their quality individually. Based on which result we designed the texture through using points, lines, curvatures, and ornaments from China town. an here futuristic lines are giving a interprete a curved facade.

The texture is composed by fragments of time floating in a non-linear storyline, where different moments are sometimes married, and sometimes rejecting each other.

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Between exterior and interior The black and white color is creating confusions, and the sensation of losing the distance. It is tend to camouflage and expose the building at the same time. For the interior, every single elements operates as a whole. The particular formal language is giving the scale-less perception of it. The pink fury texture instead, is an exploration of more possibility that an image can offer - the sense of touch.

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midterm exhibition

VS4200 Visual Studies I ‘SLICE IT!‘ Fall 2019 Instructor: Andrea Cadioli, Batliner Curime Team: Di Liang https://vimeo.com/362918482

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Fiberboard mdf 1/2 in.

SLICE IT!

CNC cut base layer

Heavy bond paper

ink-printed base color layer

NC-Acrylic black spray paint

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Zinc stee

Robber-coated gloves

Laser cutting

plastic acrylic panel 0.236 in. plastic acrylic panel black 0.060

Aluminum twist-resistant hex-shaped inserts

3M Dual Cartridge Respirator for spray paint

Sandpaper

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Cotton canvas fabric

Inkjet-printed color layer

Black-oxide alloy steel hex drive flat head screw 12mm

SLICE IT!

c-plated el tee nut

SAE Hex keys

Blue painters tape Electric screwdriver

Hammer

3D printed attachment

Blow Off air duster

panel workflow

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finished prototype

The course of Visual Studies aims to explore new ways to see and represent the world. Both technical and artistical thinking are required, they construct the principle features in a diverse and dynamic process. The project has its concentration on the design of architectural facade, it is not only read as a space or a surface, but as well as a pattern.

In the first place, the figure is the result of a series of line and curve projected on a multi-geometry organization. A parametric-based code generates thereafter a cinematic movement by transforming curves, stroke weights, and colors. The visual perception of outcome shape.

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result of pattern tracing

Based on the work result mentioned above, a figure is selected as a module, which multiplication will sourt out a colored pattern.

The protype is the risult of design of every single element that is forming the panel, such as canvas, fiberboard, acrylic panel.

To ultimately fabricate the panel, the complex process involves a manual interaction with machines and tools.

Through the utilization of codes that distorts a base grids, designing a custom panelized facade system. The panel is thereafter secured on Stäubli TX40 robot through a 3D-printed joint. The robot follows a pre-defined pattern that is strongly related to the panel geometry properties.

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final exhibition

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Japanisches Palais

Japanisches Plais aac Wokshop

aac Workshop March 13 - April 05 2019 Tutor: Sona Kazemi, Anja Meding Team: Verena Felicitas Jehle, Zhao Pengyu

In order to underline the historical value of the building, the planning process was initiated with careful research.

Today, the “Japanisches Palais” can be read in layers, each telling its own rhythm and development over time. The highly symmetrical structure of the building is evident; it can be seen both in the ground plan and in the façade design and enables the building to enter into a constant dialogue with itself and its surroundings. The now introverted building has increasingly privatised the public space through its architectural development over the course of history. As a museum of the future, however, the Palais is intended to offer citizens and visitors of Dresden a public platform that is developing on various levels.

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site plan

Visitors can enter the building from two sides, the city side and the park side. They meet in the middle of the building, where the former inner courtyard was located, in the newly created foyer on the garden level. This was achieved by raising the inner courtyard by one floor to the level of the first floor. This resulted in new spatial references in the vertical. The relation to the level of the garden is strengthened by the accommodation of public workshops in the old vaults.

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floor plan - garden level

The spacious foyer serves as a public living room and event platform at the same time. Through the visual connections, the visitor becomes part of the exhibition and interacts with the building.

The new architecture develops through the translation of existing rhythms and reflections, creating a new expression of space.

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section A’A’’

section B’B’’ elevation garden side

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The newly created sculpture courtyard

Cafe in the old vault with view to the river Elbe

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Polytechnic University of Turin Design Atelier - Eco Sustainability ‘PLUS PLUS‘ Fall 2018 Instructor: Ambrosini Gustavo Team: Francesca Merico, Roman Stamborski

PLUS PLUS

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north section

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north elevation

third floor

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1. Layer of sand gravel 2. Waterproof coating 3. Layer of lean concrete 4. Grading slab foundation with reinforced concrete 5. Lightweight concrete subfloor 6. Concrete finishing layer 7. Indoor plaster 8. Stone wool insulation 9. Stone sheet 10. Stone windowsill 11. Foamglas blocks 12. Window frame 13. Casing (window system) 14. Double glass pane 15. Head (window system) 16. Waffle slab system 17. Pipesulation Board 18. Porcelain tile flooring 19. Outdoor plaster 20. Aquapanel sheet 21. Moisture barrier 22. Steel beam 23. Attachment element 24. Plasterboard 25. Indoor plaster 26. Sound insulation 27. Layer of concrete 28. Corrugated sheet 29. Primary beam HEA 300 30. Secondary beam UPN 200 31. Suspended plasterboard ceiling 32. Cantilever beam HEA 300 33. Waterproofing membrane 34. Z type profile 35. Fixing element 36. Titanium roof 37. Shading panel with expanded metal 38. Joint plate 39. Track 40. Nylon wheel 41. Steel tube

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