IRENE ROSSI
Architecture Portfolio
Irene Rossi Date of birth 01- 24 -1988, Pavia, Italy. Nationality: Italian
Via Allende 3, Pavia 27100 (PV), Italy lairenerossi@gmail.com IT +39 339 1794504
EDUCATION 03 - ’11 04 - ‘13
09 - ’10 LANGUAGES
06 - ‘11
Italian: native
10 - ’07
English: fluent written and spoken (FCE level B2)
02 - ‘11
Spanish: fluent written and spoken (DELE level C1) Catalan: elementary written and spoken
MAIN INTERESTS
09 - ’02 06 - ‘07
B.Sc Architecture Science, 103/110 Politecnico di Milano, School of Architecture and Society, Milan, Italy. Thesis: Project for a guesthouse in Amsterdam. High School Diploma in Classical Studies Liceo Ginnasio Ugo Foscolo, Pavia, Italy
06 - ’15
Stage at Melchioni Light [Lighting design] (Garanzia Giovani)
Ongoing
Milano, Italiy. Main Task: lighting projects with LED technology for shops, museums, hotels, offices and factories.
08 - ’13
Internship at Studio Pietra [architecture design and urban planning] Pavia, Italiy. Main Task: project competition for a high school campus in Pavia, Italy.
10 - ‘13
Architecture 03 - ’11
Exhibit Design
06 - ‘11
for children Participatory Design
Erasmus Program Exchange Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (ETSAB), Barcelona, Spain.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCIES
Interior Design Architecture workshops
M.Sc Architecture, 110/110 Politecnico di Milano, School of Architecture and Society, Milan, Italy. Thesis: To Look Beyond: Architecture and Youth Participation in a context of poverty. Design Reflections for a Library in Villa 31 Buenos Aires
Journalism
04 - ’10
Photography
06 - ‘10
Internship at Arquikids [educational architecture organization] Barcelona, Spain. Main Task: Organization of educational architecture-based workshops in schools and cultural centers, both locally and internationally. Internship at AtelierFORTE [architecture, design and art studio] Milano, Italy. Main Task: Development of products of design and artistic installations in atelier, by wood and iron working. Among the installations: Sleipnir Trebuchet in Triennale Bovisa (may 2010).
SCHOLARSHIP AND AWARDS 03 - ’14 03 - ‘15
08 - ’12 10 - ‘12
CURRICULUM VITAE
Walter Barbero Master’s Thesis Award, 1st Prize. Promoted by Politecnico di Milano and NGO Movimento Africa 70. Supported one year field research in the slum Villa 31, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Politecnico di Milano Scholarship for Master’s Thesis Development In Foreign Countries. Promoted by Politecnico di Milano. Supported a two months field research in the slum Villa 31, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
OTHER EXPERIENCIES
EDUCATION 05- ’15
04 - ’15
09 - ’14 11 - ‘14
3D Studio Max (80 hours Training course) Promoted by ABEA S.r.l., Milano, Italia. Exhibit Design (80 hours Training course) Promoted by ABEA S.r.l., Milano, Italia. Journalism course Periodismo, Genero y Sociedad Promoted by Revista Anfibia, Buenos Aires Argentina. Professors: Mariana Carbajal and Eleonor Faur
03 - ’14
Workshop Vivienda y Urbanismo Social Promoted by FADU – UBA, Buenos Aires Argentina. Professors: Fermin Estrella and Beatriz Pedro
05 - ’12
International workshop The Heuristics of Mapping Urban Enviromental Change / Cairo: mapping informality Promoted by Development Planning Unit (UCL) in collaboration with Politecnico di Milano and the Cairo-based initiative Megawra WORK
10 - ’13 03 - ‘14 08 - ’12 12 - ‘14
Volunteering at Area de Desarrollo de Habitat , TECHO Argentina Buenos Aires, Argentina. Participatory Design Workshop in collaboration with TURBA Talleres de Urbanismo Barrial in the Buenos Aires Slum Villa 31, Argentina.
PERSONAL SKILLS
Creativity and proactive attitude Time managment and organization Radiant personality, predisposition to public relations and public speaking Active listening and teamwork
COMPUTER SKILLS
Office Autocad Illustrator Photoshop InDesign SketchUp Dialux 3D Studio Max
CONTENTS
#Academic Project
Milan (Italy)
Darsena and its double P. 1
#Academic Project
#Active Research
BCN - BsAs -MI
Children participation and Capability Approach in Architecture
Castelldefels (Catalunya)
Modular building for University Campus P. 25
P. 47
#Active Research
Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Cultural Centre in slum Villa 31 P. 35
SELECTED PROJECTS
#Academic Project
Rovereto (Italy)
Residential Center
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Projects developed in academic design studios
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Active research projects and workshops about INFORMALITY CHILDREN RIGHTS AND PARTICIPATION
P. 15
CAPABILITY APPROACH IN ARCHITECTURE PUBLIC INTEREST DESIGN
#Workshop
Cairo (Egypt)
The Heuristics of Mapping P. 31
The project aims to regenerate two central areas of Milan through one of the pattern’s peculiarity of the city: the waterways. On one hand, the project for a new museum and market on the historical Darsena aspires to emphasize the memory of the great ‘Port’ of Milan and to guide citizens and tourists to admire the ruins recently discovered, that dialogue with others precious elements of the historical heritage such as Porta Ticinese and Leonardo’s sluice for the Veneranda Fabbrica del Duomo. On the other hand, the creation of a new Darsena on the disused railway near Porta Genova and the construction of a cultural center, are expected to create a new port and to complete the conversion of the abandoned industrial area, that appears to be Milan’s new creative hub. This project appears as an ambitious work in section, that aims to offer a conceptual paradigm for the regeneration of the industrial pattern in the city centers.
Milan (Italy)
DARSENA AND ITS DOUBLE #Urban Regeneration #Museum #Market #Cultural Centre #Low-cost Hotel
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Design studio: Prof. G. Bertelli Academic Year 2011 - 2012 Teamwork with Giulia Borghi and Claudia De Flumeri
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MILAN, Italy
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Old Darsena_Market and Museum: masterplan and relationship with roman ruins
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MILAN, Italy
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Old Darsena_Market: south and north elevation
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Old Darsena_Market and Museum: model scale 1:200
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MILAN, Italy
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New Darsena_Urban regeneration, Cultural centre and Low-cost hotel: masterplan and project area
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New Darsena_Urban regeneration, Cultural centre and Low-cost Hotel: project area
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MILAN, Italy
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MILAN, Italy
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New Darsena_Urban regeneration, Cultural Center and Low-cost Hotel: model scale 1:200
#ACADEMIC PROJECT
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The project area is located in the small city of Rovereto, in the northern region of Trentino Alto Adige and lays on a disused vineyard next to the river Leno. The main goal of the project is to build a residential center and at the same time preserve the agricultural character of the area. Therefore the residential center is conceived as a platform placed beside the existing built pattern opposite to the river bed and connected to the green area through an open-air market that defines the residential platform’s base and sells KM-0 products from the ex-vineyard. The residential center has two main building types: terraced houses and courtyard buildings. One of the apartment building hosts a student house for the University of Trento’s department in Rovereto. The others courtyard buildings have commercial spaces on the ground floor and a big tree in the center that fosters the hygrothermal comfort of the building.
Rovereto (Italy)
RESIDENTIAL CENTER #Housing #Commercial units #Student house #Public Space #Market
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Design studio: Prof. C. Magni e Prof. B. De Carli Academic Year 2012 - 2013 Teamwork with Federica Zannini
#ACADEMIC PROJECT
Apartment building Inner courtyard: model scale 1:50
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ROVERETO, Italy
Built pattern Unbuilt spaces
spazio costruito spazio aperto Scala 1:5000
ViabilitĂ Mobility
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Project Area_Urban preliminary analysis
The railway and the Rapporto tra la built pattern ferrovia e il costruito
The project area is an unbuilt space between the built la nostra area rappresenta pattern andtra the il limite lo river spazioLeno costruito e lo spazio aperto
#ACADEMIC PROJECT
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Relationship between the Rapporto tra built pattern ilLeno fiumeand leno the e il costruito
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Project Area_Urban analysis: section model of Leno River scale 1:2000
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ROVERETO, Italy
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Residential Center_Apartment Buildings, House for students, and Market: general plan (+1,00m) and south elevation
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ROVERETO, Italy
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ROVERETO, Italy
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Residential Center_Apartment Buildings and commercial spaces: section and elevations
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This project’s idea is to complete the Campus of the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya at Castelldefels near Barcelona. In the design studio we were asked to focus on the composition and on the modular structure of the building, starting from a significant reference. In this case the selected project is the Mies Van Der Rohe’s Library for the IIT in Chicago, for its modularity and brightness. As the new building will host classrooms for workshops and researchers’ offices it’s supposed to be bright and to have common areas that mediate between work and study spaces. Therefore the building is characterized by a central patio and by a translucent envelope made of u-glass. The main front is also defined by coloured panels that stress the modularity of the structure and are inspired by another 20th Century master: Mondrian.
Castelldefels (Catalunya)
MODULAR BUILDING FOR UNIVESITY CAMPUS #University campus #Pubblic building
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Design studio: Prof. J. Sanmartì i Verdaguer Academic Year 2010 - 2011 Individual work
#ACADEMIC PROJECT
Modular building_Classrooms for workshop and research offices: model scale 1:100
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CASTELLDEFELS, Catalunya
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Modular building_Classrooms for workshop and research offices: model scale 1:100, masterplan and ground floor plan
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CASTELLDEFELS, Catalunya
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Modular building_Classrooms for workshop and research offices: ground floor plan and sections
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Concrete Panel ‘Trespa’ Ventilated Cavity Vopour Barrier External metal foil Steel warpage Insulation Interior plasterboard foil
U-glass profiled Silicone T Aluminuim perfiled Aluminuim perfiled Steel perfiled Column Slab
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The Heuristics of Mapping Urban Environmental Change is a research project started in 2011 by the Development Planning Unit (The Bartlett UCL). It involves an international network of researchers, activists and organizations who met in three workshops called ‘Dialogue on the Move’ in Milan, London and Cairo. The intensive three-day event in the Egyptian Capital was held in May 2012, in the politically and emotionally charged moment following the Arab Spring and just before the democratic elections. The workshop centered the discussions on the dichotomy established between the formal and informal in Cairo and the role of mapping in challenging such dichotomy through contemporary and historical practices of place-making in the city. The activities and lectures regarded the selected case studies related to different examples of informality in Cairo, including for example the areas of the inhabited historic cemeteries, the so called ‘City of the Dead’.
Cairo (Egypt)
THE HEURISTICS OF MAPPING #Mapping #Informality #Heritage
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26 - 29 May 2012 Workshop promoted by DPU (Adriana Allen and A. Apsan Frediani, Rita Lambert) In collaboration with Politecnico di Milano (Paola Bellaviti, Francesca Cognetti, Beatrice de Carli e Costanza La Mantia) and Megawra (May al-Ibrashy)
#WORKSHOP
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1. Historic Cemeteries of Al-Suyut (City of the Dead) 2. Map of case studies 3. Debate at Megawra 4. Slum Manshiyat Naser (Garbage City) 1.
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CAIRO, Egypt
"My aspiration is to find a Pharaoh that asks me to build a pyramid "
Carlo Scarpa
It is not easy to find your way among drivers’ daring maneuvers in the busy and noisy traffic of Cairo. Hence, once we got off the small van, I am surprised to find myself in a peaceful tree-lined alley neatly punctuated by low residential buildings that look all the same. Here we are. The Megawra Architectural Hub is located on the ground floor of one of these buildings. You can enter the structure through a small courtyard where the only distinguishing feature is a metal sign, hanging from the balcony situated on the first floor. The arabic characters on it stand for the english word “together”. This is in fact the meaning of the word Megawra and such a discovery strikes me deeply. That one word can describe all the energy that would have greeted me shortly after when I cross the home threshold, coloured by the smile of May al-Ibrashy and Nairy Hampikian. Parquet. An old living room equipped for projection, a bright room with a big table where a group of young students are working, a small kitchen where you can serve yourself after you wrote your name on a piece of paper. This is all. Yet, there is a special energy in this place. The house is alive, is "inhabited" by a family made up of people who have seen in the revolution the opportunity of a new democratic beginning. An opportunity that seemed to be frustrated by the prospect of the ballot between political forces that are probably going to vanish Tahrir Square’s hopes. Works start. I am enchanted by the charismatic figure of Nairy Hampikian, who is the first to speak with the warm refrain that accompanied us on our journey: welcome to Cairo! , she starts. 33
The Heuristic of Mapping_Cairo Mapping Informality: article in the report
#WORKSHOP
She is an energetic and passionate woman. The pathos she puts in her speech brings our attention on a core issue: the relationship between formal and informal in a city like the Egypt’s Capital. Everything that is not formal is informal. In Cairo, there is not such a distinction: everything is somehow informal, even if it is formal, she says. The words of Nairy Hampikian, supported by the valuable keynote of Khaled Abdel Halim, have not to be considered as an attempt to define the two terms. They want indeed to bring the debate over, deepening the roots of the issue: what is the role of an external researcher? What relationship should he/she have with other actors and with a context that he/she does not know?. These are the core questions. Among all the themes that emerged during the experience in Cairo, this was the one that influenced me the most. In fact, I'm about to face a thesis experience in an informal setting, Villa 31 in Buenos Aires and I am considering with my colleague Anna, also present at the workshop, how to develop the theme of the project and how to manage the field experience.
For an Architect, the reading of the context is instrumental to a project. Information are selected to bring out the critical issues the project itself aims to solve. The Heuristic experience and the dialogue with my peers have opened my eyes on the complexity and potential of a map as a platform. Here, the role of the researcher / planner is balanced by the importance of other actors, and especially by the local population. Now, I can see in my thesis a big challenge: the opportunity to rethink the role of the planner as a figure who should read the project as a point of arrival, and not as starting point. This way, he/she should be able to fully understand the context and to assist the community in the process of upgrading through a community-led mapping , to better reflect the real needs of the population, and not just the interpretation and the desire to make of the planner.
In this sense, Heuristics was a precious occasion: it appeared extremely challenging, and able to lift many questions. The complexity of the work of May Al-Ibrashy and Nairy Hampikian on the cemetery of Al-Qarafa, as well as the speech made by Federica Felisatti and Ahmed Mansour for UNESCO were inspirational. They highlighted another central point: what is the political role of the mapper? I would not dwell on such a topic because it has long been debated among the Milan group and during the final day of the workshop. I would rather emphasize the fact that this reflection has appeared to me even more complex and challenging because of my educational background. I’ve almost finished my Master Degree in Architectural Design and during the trip to Egypt I had the opportunity to compare myself with guys who are finishing their course of studies in Urban Policies. The rich exchange put out the difference of our approaches, stressing the different roles that each of us plays in the process.
The Heuristics of Mapping_Cairo Mapping Informality: article in the report
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The project was developed in two phases: Master’s Thesis and Post Degree field research. During the first phase we accompanied the collective TURBA Talleres de Urbanismo Barrial and together we organized participatory design workshops for a group of adolescents in order to redesign the Biblioteca ‘A Libro Abierto’, a small multifunctional library managed by the Centro de Acciòn Familiar n°6 Bichito de Luz. The process resulted in a proposal that consisted in the idea of rebuilding the ‘library’ by recycling shipping containers. In the second period the design concept was argued and replaced by the proposal of extending the original building with materials commonly used in South-American slums, such as concrete and bricks. The main goal of the new project is to solve the conflict about the use of the building by different targets and so flexibility is the main design topic. At the moment we are working on a fundrising phase in order to build the project.
Buenos Aires (Argentina)
CULTURAL CENTER IN SLUM VILLA 31 #Informality #Public Interest Design #Children Participation #Capability Approach #Popular Education #Library
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Master’s thesis / Post Degree Research August - October 2012 / March 2014 - March 2015 Teamwork with Anna Vadacca and Leticia Lupinacci In collaboration with TURBA (Talleres de Urbanismo Barrial) and CAF n°6 Bichito de Luz
#ACTIVE RESEARCH
Biblioteca A Libro Abierto_ Cultural Center: photo (may 2014) and covers of the research pubblications
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina
Biblioteca A Libro Abierto Pattern discontinuity Access
Soccer field
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Slum Villa 31: localization in the city of Buenos Aires (Capital Federal), aerial and satellite views
#ACTIVE RESEARCH SETTEMBRE 2012
SEPTEMBER 2012
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Biblioteca A Libro Abierto_ Cultural Center: localization in Villa 31 and survey of the building in September 2012
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina
Library “A Libro Abierto”
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- Much more than a Library: used by different organization for many tipes of activities (space for kindergarden, educational activities for kids, school for adults. - Space in between formal recognition and informal organizations.
Activities with kids: - Presentation - Analysis of the context on the map that they produced - Pictures of the building (what they like / what they don’t like)
Activities with kids: - Artistic activity on the concept of composition (from tangram to library plan) - Analysis of library plan - Proposals for the library: 2d and 3d
Topics emerged: need for more indoor public spaces Taller III
Activities with adults: - Rethink the library - Proposals
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Participatory process for the enlargement of the Biblioteca A Libro Abierto: workshops with a group of adolescents and a group of adults
#ACTIVE RESEARCH
Presentation
- Presentation to CAF and discussion of the two different proposals emerged from talleres and re-elaborated
Re-elaboration of design
Topics emerged: - Architecture solutions - Fundraising opportunities
Participatory process for the enlargement of the Biblioteca A Libro Abierto: models of the proposals and final discussion
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina
PHASE 1 ground floor
CONTAINER DONATION
ITINERANT CONTAINERS FOR WORKSHOPS IN THE ‘FORMAL’ CITY
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CONTAINER DONATION
ITINERANT CONTAINERS FOR WORKSHOPS IN THE ‘FORMAL’ CITY
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CONTAINER DONATION
ITINERANT CONTAINERS FOR WORKSHOPS IN THE ‘FORMAL’ CITY
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Cultural Center_1st project, result of the participatory prcess in 2012: phases of construction of the building with containers
#ACTIVE RESEARCH
Cultural Center_1st project after the participatory prcess in 2012: model scale 1:50
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina MAY 2014
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Biblioteca A Libro Abierto_ Cultural Center: survey of the building in May 2012, current schedule of the activities
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#ACTIVE RESEARCH
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Cultural Center_2nd project, result of the participatory prcess in 2014: plans, section and model with a detail of the flexible space
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina
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Cultural Center_2nd project, result of the participatory prcess in 2014: phases of construction
8 - Roof
#ACTIVE RESEARCH
Cultural Center_2nd project, result of the participatory prcess in 2014: model scale 1:50, detail of the mobile panels
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Barcelona - Buenos Aires - Milan
CHILDREN PARTICIPATION & CAPABILITY APPROACH IN ARCHITECTURE #Children Participation #Capability Approach #Mapping #Informality #Public Interest Design
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Internship / Fied research for Master’s thesis and Post Degree Research March - June 2011 / August 2012 - March 2015 Teamwork with Anna Vadacca and Leticia Lupinacci In collaboration with Arquikids (Barcelona), TURBA Talleres de Urbanismo Barrial and CAF n°6 Bichito de Luz (Buenos Aires)
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1. SELMAN R., The growth of interpersonal understanding: developmental and clinical analyse, Academic Press, Waltham 1980 2. ROSSI I. VADACCA A., Guardare Oltre. Architettura e partecipazione dei giovani in un contesto di povertà. Riflessioni progettuali per una biblioteca nella Villa 31 di Buenos Aires, Tesi Magistrale Politecnico di Milano 2013 3. NICOLIN P., L’approccio delle capabilities applicato all’architettura, Lotus 152 Editoriale Lotus 2013 pag.4 4. ROSSI I. VADACCA A. A Libro Abierto. Progetto per la costruzione di una biblioteca polifunzionale nella Villa 31 a Buenos Aires. Report Premio di Laurea Walter Barbero 2013
Meeting Solange Espoille and the internship at Arquikids introduced me to the world of Educational Architecture. I was fascinated by the potentialities of this approach in terms of children’s raising of consciousness about the environment and the possibility for the future citizens to intervene. The workshop target was between 4 and 12 years old and so I could observe the results on an age group previous to the phase called by Selman: ‘Societal Symbolic Perspective Taking’.1 Therefore I felt the need to continue my research and study the dynamics that characterize the age group of adolescents who are about to be active citizens with voting rights. I was also interested in studying the contexts of informality, so I started to look for organizations similar to Arquikids in Latin America. Then I found out about TURBA Talleres de Urbanismo Barrial, a collective that organizes architecture and mapping workshops for a group of adolescents in the slum Villa 31 in Buenos Aires. Together with Anna Vadacca, a colleague and friend of mine, I elaborated a proposal for the Master’s Thesis consisting of a period of field research in which we were supposed to accompany TURBA and possibly develop a participatory design project, whose main goal was to evaluate the cultural incitement generated by the work2 shops to Look Beyond, to improve their
environmental and social condition. We consider that this approach can fall within the examples of Capability 3 Approach in Architecture. Starting from the ongoing mapping process, we noticed the lack of spaces for young people to gather and also the need to expand the ‘Biblioteca A Libro Abierto’, a multifunctional library that hosts many activities including TURBA’s ones. Through workshops with the Biblioteca users – both adolescents and adults – a first design proposal was developed. The idea was to demolish the building and reconstruct it by recycling shipping containers, some of which itinerant in order to bring the workshops out of the villa. Before we came back for the second period of field research, the cooperative MOI built a small but significant enlargement of the Biblioteca a Libro Abierto. Therefore the first project was argued and instead of the demolition, we all agreed on the idea of preserving the original building, reinforcing the foundations and building two more floors with traditional materials such as concrete and bricks. The second participatory design process is described in 4 the publication ‘A Libro Abierto’ (and in this portfolio page 43), in which the reflections about Youth Participation, Capability Approach in Architecture and role of the Architect in contexts of informality are deepened in comparison with the ones in the Master’s Thesis and are open to further research.
In the previous page: Covers of the Master’s Thesis pubblication (2013) and Post Degree research pubblication (2015)
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arquikids
Arquikids is a platform that offers workshops and programs related to Educational Architecture and addressed to a target between 4 and 12 years old, set up by the Argentinian architect Solange Espoille in Barcelona. Learning about built environment helps the children comprehend that it’s something progressively defined by a process in which design plays a fundamental role. Thus the future citizens will be able to actively take part to the production of an high quality architecture, sustainable and respectful of the context. The activities are based on a collaboration between architects and professors, together with the families, institutions and educational centers. The workshops take place in a space specifically designed for the purpose or in schools and in the framework of cultural events both national and international. Solange Espoille is an UIA Architecture & Children group Invited Member. She took part to many International Conferences in the area of Educational Architecture and she also offers training courses for teachers.
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Arquikids (Barcelona) _Architecture workshops for children: some of the main goals of the activities
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turba
TURBA Talleres de Urbanismo Barrial is an organization established in 2009 by the architect Javier Samaniego Garcia and the sociologists Pablo Vitale and Julia Ramos. Initially the didactic proposal consisted in offering architecture and mapping workshops addressed to a group of adolescents (between 15 and 19 years old) living in the Slum Villa 31 in Buenos Aires. The main goal of the activities was to denounce the villa’s absence in the official maps of the city and relieve the teenagers of the idea that built environment is something given and unchangeable. TURBA project started in the framework of the law n°3343 that is supposed to provide for an urbanization process of Villa 31, based on the architect Javier Fernandez Castro’s master plan. In the latest years, the didactic proposal got richer and the organization managed to realize the first open map of the Villa 31 (‘Mapa Abierto’), an itinerant map designed by the workshop’s students and completed by groups of villa’s inhabitants. The students are no more adolescents and they are actual members of TURBA together with the founders.
TURBA Talleses de Urbanismo Barrial_Architecture and mapping workshops for adolescents: some of the activities
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YOUTH AND PARTICIPATION
THE DESIGN CONTEXT: VILLA 31, BUENOS AIRES
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
1.1
1.2
1.3
2.1
International community: regulatory framework and institutional programs
Participatory architecture of youth in a context of poverty
The case study of TURBA Talleres Urbanos BArriales
Formation of the metropolitan city of Buenos Aires
Case Studies
On-site experience
UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
Origins of the metropolitan city Birth of the villas miserias
Youth and Habitat: Child Friendly Cities and Habitat II Institutional programs: limits and collaboration with NGOs Best Practices: Growing Up in Cities Programme
Arquitectura + Niñ@s
Association Crecer Juntos/ Programa Vida
Renè Dierkx: design for school Mukuru-Kayaba
Escuela de arquitectura y diseño para Niños
Map Kibera
Seo Yun Yang: design school Nehemiah
Metropolitan city starting in the 1960s Deindustrialization and authoritarianism Return to democracy and economic crisis
Millennium Development Goals Youth Fund: a fund for urban youth (UN HABITAT)
EDUCATIONAL ARCHITECTURE
PARTICIPATORY MAPPING
PARTICIPATORY DESIGN
1990s: between polarization and fragmentation Public policies after 2001 Informal settlements
CULTURAL STIMULUS
Target: Youth
PARTICIPATION
Process / Product
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DESIGN IDEAS CHAPTER III
2.2
3.1
3.2
3.3
3.4
Villa 31: an “atypical” case
Library “A Libro Abierto”: State of Things
Design Talleres: On -site research
Meta-project
Design Reflection
Concept: To Look Beyond
‘Small Scale, Big Change’: the role of the architect
Territorial Framework
Overview: from talleres to meta-project
1st taller (Sept. 15h, 2012)
Birth and development
Actors: TURBA Talleres Urbanos BAires
2nd taller (Sept. 22nd, 2012)
Urban project “Barrio 31 Carlos Mugica” by J. F. Castro: process & outcomes
Actors: CAF, Bichito de Luz
3rd taller (Oct. 4th, 2012)
The building: The Library a Libro Abierto
Presentation of the project alternatives
The condition of ‘chico villero’. From a proposal: “the library needs a different look”
The Villa miseria: Reading the context Proximity to the PORT: presence of many USED SHIPPING CONTAINERS
The ‘enclosure’ Showing the experience of the talleres also outside the Villa 31, as a best practice
Design ideas for Library “A Libro Abierto” POSSIBLE APPLICATION FOR THE YOUTH FUND
AGREEMENT WITH SHIPPING CONTAINER COMPANIES
SUSTAINABLE RE-USE MULTI-PHASE CONSTRUCTION
‘TRAVELING’ PART OF THE BUILDING PARTIAL SELF-CONSTRUCTION
Role of the architect
Masterplan
Small Project
SCALE
Outcomes from 3 perspectives: Spatial / Istitutional / Socio-cultural
Children participation and Capability Approach_Master’s Thesis contents, also developed in the Post Degree Research pubblication
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