PORTFOLIO
2015
JONATHAN LAZAR
Š 2015 Jonathan Lazar
PORTFOLIO
2015
JONATHAN LAZAR
Contents p. 6
Curriculum Vitae
graduation thesis p. 8
ÂżVale Todo?
selected works academic p. 18 p. 22 p. 26 p. 30 p. 34
M+ Museum The Treasury of Forgotten Vegetables Slab Rehab Dwell Transient! The Farmer’s House
professional p. 36 p. 38
Bologna Shoah Memorial Competition Concurso OPPTA
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Personal d e t a i l s Jonathan Lazar | Rome, 08.01.1984 nationality: Italian, Austrian address: via Antonio Cerasi, 5b - 00152 Roma tel.: 0039 3477632101 email: jonathanlazar.architect@gmail.com Dutch Architects Register: 1.141215.021
Education 2012-2014
Delft University of Technology Master of Science: Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences Graduated Cum Laude (final mark: 9.5/10) Delft, The Netherlands
2008-2012
Università degli Studi Roma Tre Bachelor Degree: Architecture (Scienze dell’Architettura) Graduated Cum Laude (final mark: 110/110) Rome, Italy
2003-2008
Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza” Bachelor Degree: Cultural Anthropology (Teorie e Pratiche dell’Antropologia) Graduated (final mark: 108/110) Rome, Italy (Erasmus exchange program - 1 semester at “Freie Univerität Berlin”)
Professional experience apr-jun 2015
feb-mar 2015
march-may 2012
Protocol Collective Professional collaboration (Europan 13 Competition) Delft, The Netherlands Lazar+Schiavone Professional collaboration (Bologna Shoah Memorial Competition) Delft, The Netherlands - Milan, Italy Stella Richter + Ochoa Architetti Internship Rome, Italy
Workshops and courses
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apr 2012
Real Time City Workshop The Why Factory - TU Delft Delft, The Netherlands
apr 2011
The Architecture of Sound Workshop Università degli Studi Roma Tre - Iowa State University Rome, Italy
25 hours 2011-2012
Graphics: 3d modeling, animation and rendering on 3ds Max Course UPTER Rome, Italy
300 hours 2007-2008
Analog Photography Course (basic+advanced level) Scuola Scienza e Tecnica Rome, Italy
22 hours 2007-2008
Education for Development Multidisciplinary University Course UNICEF - Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza” Rome, Italy
Skills_and competences softwares
languages
Autocad Rhinoceros Adobe Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Premiere) 3ds Max SketchUp Office (Word, Powerpoint, Excel) Italian (mother tongue) English (spoken: proficient - written: proficient) - IELTS score: 8 (June 2012) Spanish (spoken: competent - written: modest) German (spoken: modest - written: modest) French (spoken: modest - written: modest)
Publications 2013
“Tresury of Forgotten Vegetables” project published B NIEUWS Periodical of the Architecture Faculty - TU Delft #1, 02.09.2013
2011
“Research and Study Centre Lungotevere Gassman” project published La ricerca nella ditattica Author: Lorenzo Dall’Olio Publisher: Alinea
H o n o u r s and_awards 2012
Concurso OPPTA Winning Team Stella Richter + Ochoa Architetti
2012
The Architecture of Sound Workshop 3rd prize Università degli Studi Roma Tre - Iowa State University
2011
Storie di Cantiere Competition - short films on architectural costruction 1st prize Università degli Studi Roma Tre
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¿VALE TODO?
Forms, performances and realms of self-entrepreneurship in Havana Havana, Cuba TU Delft | 2013 Master Degree Graduation Project Tutors: Tom Avermaete, Francesco Marullo, Jorge Mejia Hernandez In collaboration with: Matteo Schiavone
The recent implementation of Cuba’s most ambitious plan for economic transformation since the Revolution of 1959, whether considered as a transitional phase towards capitalism - from an evolutionist, mainly ‘yankee’, perspective - or as a ‘new stage of the Revolution’ capable to reinvigorate the Antillean socialism, arouse great interest both on international media and between scholars worldwide. Several analyses focused on Raúl Castro’s plan of actualizacion del modelo economico from a political and economical perspective. This contribution has tackled this topic with the apparatus of another discipline, Architecture, in order to understand and unveil its spatial, urban, built and discoursive 8
implications. The research focused on the Cuban capital, although most of the considerations developed could provide a feasible perspective to read a reality that moves beyond Havana’s limits. The City can be seen as the product of conflicting sociopolitical forces, or the expression of the dialectics of hegemonic-subaltern relations, also readable as State-society relations. In response to the protocols that attempt to ‘channel everyday life’, inhabitants develop ‘tactics’, that resist hegemonic impositions. Among all the measures constituting the update of the Cuban socialist model, one in particular has been analysed using this theoretical framework: cuentapropismo (selfentrepreneurship). The recent
comparison of new entrepreneurial spaces, ranging from takeaway or seated restaurants (paladares) to casas particulares (private houses renting rooms), beauticians, record shops, aquarium shops and more, revitalised the urban landscape. The private house is the stage par excellence for these new forms of life, and until 2010 it was the only place where private entrepreneurial activities (demanding a place) could be practiced. Productive space has in fact entered the most particular (private) areas of the socialist island, conquering, through the years, amid entrepreneurial contestation and law adaptations, more and more space. The surface inhabited by the family is consequently reduced and reinvented in order to adapt the leftover spaces to the living traditions which in turn are reinvented in order to adapt to the new shrinkage of the domestic conditions. As the research shows, the colonising process of the dwellings performs differently according to the nature of the cuadras (blocks), and to the typologies resting on them. In order to analyze this process, three urban blocks (manzanas) have been chosen as case studies, according to the different urban configurations where they are located, generated by peculiar relations house-public space (Habana Vieja, Centro Habana, Vedado). A series of drawings constituted a taxonomic study of how the new forms of life generated by the implementation of selfentrepreneurship have conquered their stage of action. Different spatial contrivances, artifacts and architectural devices have been deployed. A collection of ‘tactics’, showing the formal articulations of these tools is supported by a collection of ‘scenarios’, revealing their performative implications. A demontage of the manzana of Habana Vieja has been elaborated to understand the different facets defining its non-domestic entity within the domestic realm.
Courtyards and air shafts
Shell
Dialectic of domains
Domain of cuentapropismo
Collective infrastructures
Domain of state-run activities
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Intervention For sure it is not ‘a building’ that Havana needs. Furthermore, in line with the research development, the proposal of intervention does not merely seek to respond to such needs. On the contrary it seeks to constitute a critical laboratory capable of challenging a series of dynamics, whilst redefining the role of the architect as an organiser and as an active actor of cultural and political thinking. The intervention strategy, far from merely proposing solutions, aims to reveal and criticise the actual idiosyncratic adjustment of the economic model in a proactive way. More specifically an organisational strategy is proposed in order to reconfigure the structure of cuentapropismo as an individual contribution to the collective. It is a model of reorganisation acting both at a legislative-monetary level, and at the spatial level. The strategy, projected within the built environment of Havana and implemented as a case study in the district of Habana Vieja, envisages a system operating on four scales: the house, the city block, the district and the State. In each of these levels, an infrastructural element -which performs differently according to the scale it acts in- has been inserted. The seminal intervention acts on the first two scales the system operates on: the house and the city block. It is in fact located in the manzana of Habana Vieja studied during the research. Using the same logics analysed, the shrinkage of the dwellings towards the spine is exacerbated in order to maximise the space dedicated to the production of wealth. The spine, backbone of the typologies present in the area, is transformed into an infrastructural element providing the block with new pipes, cables and structure. The spine is further articulated with servant elements containing circulation, kitchens and toilets and defining a shared space at 12
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the ground floor covered by slabs that will be occupied by the inhabitants, able to arrange their own bedrooms. The covered spaces at the ground floor extend into an inner street shared by clusters of units. Although the position and orientation of the servant elements maintains the memory of the walls of medianeria, fundamental elements of the colonial mansions, the very presence of this inner street overcomes the division of private plots. The infrastructural pivoting element of this sphere is a typological configuration which performs at the scale of the whole manzana: the open air street leads into a condenser of collective facilities. On a strategic level, these collective machines are occupying the urban voids created by the multiple collapses corroding the city, empowering one of the most unsettling heritages of the Revolution. The entire building and the ground floor in particular constitute a decompression space for the whole community.
As the ‘Condensador’ provides collective facilities at the level of the manzana, the ‘Centro de Trabajo’ works as a collective infrastructure at the level of the district, capable both of organizing self-entrepreneurship, sharing the means of productions, and providing a decompression space for sharing and interacting. On a strategic level the plots chosen to position these buildings are the abandoned spaces of production: factories, warehouses and power plants scattered across the city. The location chosen for the Centro of Habana Vieja has a further symbolic implication: it is the former workshop area of the monastery of Santa Clara. The religious buildings structured the city in ancient times both on a morphological and functional level, providing the primary services for the neighborhood such as education and healthcare. The building is conceived as a dynamic infrastructure placed on the perimeter of the block. Together with the preexisting, it constitutes the boundary defining an enclosed yard. A series of wooden movable elements has been developed both as a system to regulate the permeability of the continuous threshold of the building and as devices activating the frontal space to foster an extension to the outside of the interior activities. Even though the idea of a ‘ministry’ is usually associated with the image of a “stronghold of bureaucracy”, in this case such an entity must be seen as part of a model of organisation which overcomes the two categories of hegemony/ subalternity. The ‘Ministry of selfentrepreneurship and defense of community’ is positioned in one of the most emblematic places of the Cuban revolutionary power: Plaza de la Revolucion and embodies the engagement of the State in the reorganisation of cuentapropismo as an individual contribution to the collective, as well as the ideological de-stigmatisation of self-entrepreneurship. 15
M+ MUSEUM Hong Kong
TU Delft | 2013 Master Degree Project Tutors: Michiel Riedijk, Niklaas Deboutte, Stefano Milani In collaboration with: Nico Leferink, Marta Pabel
The project of a 60.000m2 museum focused on 20th-21st Century visual culture in Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Cultural District has been the very place where to challenge several conditions of both the local masterplan and Hong Kong’s spatial developments at large. In order to reconnect the central avenue, backbone of the district, with the waterfront overlooking Victoria Harbour, the volume hosting the galleries is lifted on top of a multidude of columns. This operation engenders a terraced covered space, to be lived as a shaded extension of the adjacent park also capable to provide a protected environment for temporary open-air exhibitions. Such an intervention would possibly 18
foster an increase of engagement in the virtuous production of non commercial publicized space. From an initial underground area - hosting entrance hall, cafè, shop, and offices - the lifted volume is vertically served by a straight element wich establishes a relation between flows and steadyness: the distribution cuts through the storage, shortly revealing the unexposed collection preserved there. The columns lifting the volume continue inside the galleries, conceived as flexible exhibition spaces constantly redefinable by movable partitions. Their presence, decreasing floor after floor, establishes a relation between the white box and building’s tectonics.
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TREASURY OF FO R G OT T E N VEGETABLES Hokkaido, Japan
TU Delft | 2013 3rd Lixil University Competition Tutors: Michiel Riedijk, Niklaas Deboutte, Stefano Milani In collaboration with: Ivan Thung, Roxanne van Hoof
The project tackles the theme proposed by the announcer, Retreat in nature, diverting the attention from the architectural object towards the kind of settlement that should be established. Hence, the main gesture of the operation is the proposal of a synergetic food forest where vegetation is interdependent, according to the principles of permaculture. The Ainu, indigenous people of Hokkaido, were gatherers of a whole range of fruits and vegetables that now are considered inedible. The architectural object becomes a tool to support the development of a food forest where most components of Ainu diet are recovered. The shed is designed in order to allow all the anthropic 22
practices connected to this diet, such as drying, storing, fermenting. The wooden structure accomodates cases which are differently designed and positioned throughout the house according to the specific needs regarding ventilation and temperature of the harvest they contain. The wooden structure is wrapped in a polycarbonate/PET insulation layer. The shed rests on a stabilised rammed earth plinth working as thermal mass. The settlement, a treasury of vegetable heritage, is experienced through the life rhythm of fruits and vegetables by a retraitee who is not just a passive recipient of nature, but an active grower opposing current methods of production and consumption of food.
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SLAB REHAB
Rotterdam, The Netherlands TU Delft | 2013 Master Degree Project Tutors: Pierijn van der Putt, Dick van Gameren
The intervention aims to rejuvenate the Visserijplein area, in Rotterdam’s B o s p o l d e r - Tu s s e n d i j k e n neighborhood, through a reflection on the role of architectural discipline in finding solutions to cope with challenges brought about by the concurrence of different life styles in the contemporary city. In particular, the effects of introducing the so called creative class in an area characterised by the presence of diverse social and ethnic groups has been considered. The initial masterplan proposed constitutes an act of resistance towards the utter demonization of a modernistic scheme such as the one of the Gijsingflats, a sequence of residential slabs. Through the introduction of a plinth hosting 26
different facilities and supporting a lifted park, their connection to the ground and the relation with the surroundings is complitelly reconceived, enhancing the qualities of the existing scheme. One of the slabs is then complitelly reinvented, attempting high divestification of the dwellings and providing some of them with workshops. Great effort has been deployed in the definition of several double and triple height serving zones, gathering common facilities and engendering places of encounter while distributing flows throughout the building, in a sort of lifted reconceptualization and hybridazion of the ground-bound dwelling relation with the street and of the local haags portiek.
DWELL TRANSIENT! Rome, Italy
Roma Tre | 2012 Bachelor Degree Project Tutor: Luca Montuori In collaboration with: Eva Thinius
New definitions of family units, new ways of inhabiting in terms of time, space-use and sharing, offered a fertile ground for the conception of an urban cluster comprising several living options tied to trancience. The program, including hotel rooms and facilities, studios, 50m2 apartments, and common/ commercial spaces has been scattered in five volumes. Their configuration within a plot adjacent to the Tuscolana train and metro station, along the consolar road of the same name, envisions the definition of two spatial entities: a wide and extroverted one, in direct relation with the urban fluxes, and an introverted one, enclosed by the convergence of the buidings’ masses. The height of the volumes 30
is initially set to give continuity to the skyline of the dense apartment blocks characterising via Tuscolana, while gradually decreased towards the rails. The different typologies have in common a preliminary hierarchisation of servant and served spaces. The 50m2 apartments are organised as simplex and duplex units around a courtyard where distribution takes place. The hotel rooms and the studios are developed in two short towers connected at the ground floor where a lobby and coliving facilities are shared. Northeast, a volume hosts a conference hall and constitutes the backdrop of the intervention, while a small island hosting a cafĂŠ defines the outdoor space towards the road.
THE FARMER’S HOUSE Sutri, Italy
Roma Tre | 2009 Bachelor Degree Project Tutors: Luigi Franciosini, Massimo Acito
The project envisions a family-run farm located in a bucolic site in the region of Latium, not far from the city of Viterbo. This territory is still strongly characterised by its agricultural vocation. Pastures, tidy hazeltree rows, and vegetable gardens describe, in a chromatic and geometrical succession, the gentle topography, dotted by ancient sheep-folds and decadent tool sheds. The compound, placed on the northeastern edge of a four hectares estate, is composed of the family house, an outbuilding where to keep work tools and store the harvest, and three autonomous agritourism units. The design process springs from 34
the will to engage in the use of local stone, tuff, leading to an architectural conception strictly connected with the genius loci, while inspired by the study of Portuguese masters’ work. Two main aspects are addressed: firstly the access, the entry, the portal, element whose articulation establishes clear hierarchical relations. Secondly the path, element of connection, lengthwise distributing the three polarities of the compound. The path both links and defines the introverse domestic realm and the more extroverted one of work and hospitality. Furthermore, the topography of the plot is exploited and exalted in order to strengthen the character of the two spheres.
BOLOGNA SHOAH MEMORIAL Bologna, Italy
Independent work | 2015 Group: Jonathan Lazar Matteo Schiavone
This proposal aims to resignify the intransitive Memorial embodying what Todorov calls exemplar memory: a tool to intervene on present. The uniqueness of the past event isn’t denied, rather reinforced by the actualization of its meaning. The intervention is based on the multiplication of a triangular fragment configuring a regular pattern substituting current cladding on all plot surfaces. The fragment is a colored concrete tile. The pattern of identical elements is broken by their aggregation in wider triangles, direct reference to the identification emblems in Nazi camps. This Shoah Memorial refers to all Nazi persecution victims: it is the very place where every discrimination is abolished 36
although every persecution had a singular character. The pattern combines yellow stars and triangles of seven colors plus one. The latter has been added to commemorate contemporary Bologna victims of xenophobic acts, establishing an intertemporal relation. Here lies the potential extensibility both in space and time of the centripetal Memorial. Wherever a racist act occurs a fragment can be placed: possible move istitutionally or grassroot driven. Moreover, a linear element is placed along the plot’s west edge. It includes a metal item composed of a text, a triangular mold to publicly cast artisanal fragments, and a small fountain providing a basic component of concrete.
CONCURSO OPPTA San Critobal, Colombia
StellaRichter+Ochoa Architetti | 2012 Professional collaboration Group: Antonio Luigi Stella Richter Daniel Gonzalez Ochoa Jonathan Lazar
The current condition of Canal de Dique (and consequently of San Cristobal area) is strongly affected by a lack in leveraging its potential. All the actions implemented so far, mainly focused on the improvident commercial exploitation of its navigability, have contributed to the engendering of a destructive vicious cycle. Other factors, such as climate chage, deforestation followed by the consequent soil vulnerablity, and abandonment of local agricultural practices have worsened the situation, provoking frequent natural disasters. The proposal of intervention rests on the will of inverting the current destructive cycle, through modification of the existing relations between inhabitants and natural 38
environmnet. These relations are tackled on several scales starting on the territorial one, where the connectivity of the water system and its functioning as an infrastucture both for transport and irrigation are managed and enhanced. Against this background reforestation and agriculture play a crucial role both as a strategy to contrast soil erosion and as an engine capable of fostering the autonomous development of the region, allowing for the transformation of an economy of dependence into a productive one. The mltifaceted entanglements of the intervention are further articulated through the urban organisation of San Cristobal, up to the definition of its typological components.
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