Irene Manera | Architecture Portfolio

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Who am I? I like to define myself “a synergic union between an architect, a designer and a city planner�.

My architecture background leads me to conceive spaces that are people-oriented. Experience gained in the last years allows me to broaden the boundaries of these spaces to the city.

My range of interests spans from architecture to various aspects of our society and different cultures. I always keep a curious approach about everything I don’t know. Most importantly, on the human side, my experiences and travels around the world helped me to developed an attitude for adaptation to different and unexpected situations.

Find out more about me! www.irenemanera.wixsite.com/architecture

CONTENTS

ACADEMIC PROJECTS

PRIMARY SCHOOL Isole nel verde. Una scuola all’aria aperta K Plot, West Bengal, India Master thesis Politecnico di Milano 2014

STUDENT RESIDENCES AND UNIVERSITY Cidade Fragmentos. Dualidade construçao-natureza Lisbon, Portugal Design studio V Universidade Técnica de Lisboa 2013

EXHIBITION CENTER, AUDITORIUM, GUESTHOUSE Linee visuali. Collegamento tra la via del ferro e dell’acqua Nera Montoro, Terni, Italy Design studio IV Politecnico di Milano 2012

REDEVELOPMENT OF A NEIGHBORHOOD Divercity. Un quartiere multiculturale ed ecosostenibile Milan, Italy Urban design Politecnico di Milano 2011-2012

MULTIFUNCTIONAL AND INTERACTIVE SPACES Binomio antitetico. Incontrando Mies van der Rohe Berlin, Germany Bachelor thesis Politecnico di Milano 2011

COMPETITIONS

SHOAH MEMORIAL Bologna a testimony for all time Bologna, Italy Open Planning Competition 2015

PRIMARY SCHOOL Isole nel verde. Una scuola all’aria aperta K Plot, West Bengal, India

Master thesis Politecnico di Milano 2014 The project area is located in an island formed by branches of Ganges River and the Bay of Bengal, which, during the monsoon season, transforms the area into a vast alluvial plain. Cereals and vegetables fields, palms jungles, dirt roads and greenish ponds are located in a completely random way. The goal is to get a single project design in harmony with the place, maintaining an adequate proportion and offering suitable spaces for learning.

Native technologies and materials are adopted, in order to involve the local population and manpower. The covered areas must be usable throughout the year and at any time of day. The bioclimatic design produces a school campus divided into small pavilions, repeated for the purposes of economy and simplicity, raised one meter above the ground with a bamboo stilts structure and connected together by platforms. The classrooms are plunged as islands in a large green space, useful for games and sports.

NATURAL VENTILATION

exposure north-south

roof raised

big openings north-south

NATURAL ILLUMINATION

summer solstice

winter solstice

RAINWATER

kantha walls

STUDENTS RESIDENCES AND UNIVERSITY Cidade Fragmentos. Dualidade construรงao-natureza Lisbon, Portugal

Design studio V Universidade TĂŠcnica de Lisboa 2013 The project is focused on Alto da Ajuda area, near Monsanto Park with a panoramic view of Tejo River. The architectural proposal includes the Architecture Faculty development and the relevant student residence design. Both projects share the intervention methodology taking into account the place, the program, the idea and the constructability. First an actual university campus model is found, then a campus is created, where people from different faculties have the opportunity to meet and share experiences. This campus is articulated in order to get in addition a technological centre. The strategy consists in creating different levels that follow the soil morphology and connected to each others with ramps, creating a unique system working as a whole.

ARCHITECTURE UNIVERSITY CAMPUS

ARCHITECTURE FACULTY ENTRANCE

ARCHITECTURE FACULTY

STUDENTS RESIDENCES

UNIVERSITY CANTEEN

RESEARCHERS RESIDENCES

KITCHEN LIVING ROOM

FOYER MULTIFUNCTIONAL ROOM BAR

GROUND FLOOR

S COMMON AREAS

FOYER LIVING ROOM RESTAURANT KITCHEN TERRACE SOLARIUM

EXHIBITION CENTER, AUDITORIUM, GUESTHOUSE Linee visuali. Collegamento tra la via del ferro e dell’acqua Nera Montoro, Terni, Italy

Design studio IV Politecnico di Milano 2012 The aim of this project is to create a building which represents the surrounding industrial area. The main goal is to create a link among the steel infrastructure, the railway and the water infrastructure, the river. The concept is based on four lines that enclose the public space and on two lines that burst into this one and gives character to the space. Three buildings define the main square that is the starting point of the pedestrian thematic walk along the river and next to the industries.

The central building is a bridge that overcomes the railway, connecting the main square with the elevated street north to the site. It is made of glass and steel, inspired to the surrounding factories. The west side square border is a concrete wall that includes the semi-underground auditorium. The east side border is a wooden wall that contains the guesthouse that works as a scenery of the square and gives the way to arrive at the beginning of the walk. The promenade ends with a suggestive terrace on the river.

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winter

REDEVELOPMENT OF A NEIGHBORHOOD Divercity. Un quartiere multiculturale ed ecosostenibile Milan, Italy

Urban design Politecnico di Milano 2011-2012 The problem to solve is upgrading the district of Lorenteggio, a degraded area in the south-west side of Milan. The first step is to analyze the area, listing the main activities all around in order to know lacks and strengths. Object of the study are facilities, infrastructures, green areas, community services, education and sport centers. The new masterplan is based on diversity. The height increases more and more going on the east part where the new park is connected with the old one. Greenery is one of the goals: urban farming is diffused all around and the main street finally becomes a pedestrian boulevard with commercial and public activities that are around the pedestrian ring. In the middle of the area there is a square with bars and restaurants, connected to the new metro stop.

The two roads are one way with parking on one side. The design is intended for pedestrians and bikes with introduction of bicycle paths connected with the city.

greenway

avenue of trees public green private green fallow green project green cycle path public area dogs area pic-nic area kids area urban allotments urban furniture

mattoncorte pedestrian ring petranova pedestrian avenue rough stone pedestrian path self-blocking blocks pedestrian private way dirt road pedestrian street driveway marseilles tiles pitched roof exposed concrete flat roof green roof glass galery roof public park sports field playground urban farming concrete events space water pool and lake

MULTIFUNCTIONAL AND INTERACTIVE SPACES Binomio antitetico. Incontrando Mies van der Rohe Berlin, Germany

Bachelor thesis Politecnico di Milano 2011 The project area is situated in the Kulturforum between the National Gallery and the Philharmonic. The main goal is to relate the new contemporary building with the modern ones. The project organizes the public space through three squares surrounded by the greenery and arranged at different levels. The functions are divided into two buildings. One is a multifunctional space that contains a multimedia library, a bookshop and a coffee shop. The other is an interactive-expositive space with ateliers. Their volume is the same, but materials and construction techniques are different. The expositive space is glazed with a point-like steel structure. The interactive space’s structure consists of two portals and structural walls and beams made of cement. The central square is accessible by the “square of the ruins”, so called because the space inside is organized by pillars. The “green square” in the north is connected to the “cement garden” by a system of baffles, which forms an outdoor exhibition.

KULTURFORUM

ST. MATTHÄUS CHURCH

NATIONAL GALLERY

PROJECT AREA

PHILARMONIC

STATE LIBRARY

SHOAH MEMORIAL Bologna a testimony for all time Bologna, Italy

Open Planning Competition Two fases 2015 The project wouldn’t represent the Shoah antithesis with a simple monument to contemplate or to pass near by regardlessness. The work must capture passersby imagination and curiosity. It becomes a place to live in as a “memento� of what happened and it would generate questions and all kind of feelings.

First, it is decided to use a strong and durable material as concrete but crumpling a portion, using a rift effect, to suggest a sense of precariousness. The space is composed by two levels: the first one is plane, easily walkable and boundless and the second one, enclosed by walls, is sloping. A deep fissure splits but at the same time it holds together the two levels and it clearly cleaves the surface, living a path. During the night the path becomes the only illuminated and visible element, while in the square the night is dark. The memorial aims to arouse an everlasting emotion in people, running between comprehensibility and incomprehensibility, as it was Shoah for humankind.

sloping level plain level

SYMBOL TO CONTEMPLATE PLACE TO LIVE

boundless area fenced area

MONUMENT act of immortalizing

clear mark unusable path

act of deleting

SHOAH

smooth surface rough area

LONG LASTING MATERIAL FRAIL EFFECT

lighted rut dark ground

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