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01 Istituto Einaudi 02 Renovation of Van der Ploeg House 03 Geomarket 04 Earth For All Professor: Diébédo Francis Kéré 05 Varna’s Cultural Center Master Thesis
Istituto einaudi
Secondary technical school
2021, Academic / Group Work Course: Design and Construction Studio
Location: Lodi, Italy
Colaborators: Andrea Foscaro, Gabriela Bacchi, Simone Totino
Designed in a residential and industrial neighborhood, the Secondary School Istituto Einaudi is composed by different functional blocks interconnected by an open space receiving light from two different courtyards. The ground floor works not only for the students but as a civic center, with services open to the public. Aiming to attract not just people coming from the city center through public transportations but also the residents nearby, a series of connected paths lead the users to the different entrances, with different degrees of privacy related to its functions.
Two main courtyards create gathering points inside the school, creating a connection between the classrooms and the terraces, maximizing light in all classrooms and its connection with the outdoors. The clay ventilated facade by Sannini surrounds the entire school, as well as with a shading system addition at the south, east and west facades, controlling and optimizing the sun incidence and heating of the building.
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Axis
Entrances
Open spaces
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Conference
Laboratory
Canteen Gym Classrooms Library Canteen Classrooms Library Ground
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room Food and wine laboratory
Office
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Floor Second Floor
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Ventilated Facade - North elevation 1.
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South elevation
Gravel
Separation membrane
Reinforced slope screed
Extruded polystyrene
Vapor barrier 6. Brick | concrete floor 7. Plaster
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Terracotta panels
Ventilation chamber
Extruded polystyrene
Ventilation chamber
Extruded polystyrene
Perforated bricks
XPS Insulation layer 15. Gypsum board 16. Flooring 17. Screed heating system 18. XPS insulation 19. Vapor barrier 20. Screed 21. Brick | concrete floor 22. Plaster 8 9 11 12 13 14 15 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 17 18 19 20 21 26 27 28 29 23. Flooring 24. Screed - heating system 25. Technical screed 26. Reinforced concrete 27. XPS insulation 28. Reinforced concrete 29. Igloo 30. Reinforced lean concrete 31. Compact and rolled foundations 3o 31 10
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Renovation of van der ploeg house
Family residence
2021, Academic / Group Work
Course: Architecture of Interiors Design Studio
Location: Laax, Switzerland
Colaborators: Pietro Groppi
The renovation of Rudolf Olgiati’s Van der Ploeg House was realized considering three main concepts: fluidity, flexibility, and connectivity.
The ground floor hosts day areas such as a the kitchen and the living room, separated by a central bookshelf which, aligned to the main entrance of the house, creates an unexpected space, allowing the user to decide where to go - dividing the room without enclosing it. A guest bedroom with a bathroom is present on the ground floor.
Furthermore, the first floor is composed by the bedrooms and a cinema room - a fixed furniture space which can be entirely closed to create a different and enjoyable meeting space.
The furniture was chosen and designed to enhance the existing views and windows of the house, connecting the user with the surroundings and allowing different possibilities of using the space.
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Ground Floor 14 A’ A B’ B F C E D F’ C’ E’ D’
First Floor 15 A’ A B’ B F C E D F’ C’ E’ D’
Existing plans
Ground Floor
First Floor
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Fluidity Views enhancement Proposal 17
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First Floor - Cinema Room
Geomarket
Coworking and street market pavilion
2018, Academic / Group Work Course: Building Technology Studio
Location: Milan, Italy
Colaborators: Francesca Bianchi, Gabriela Bacchi
GeoMarket is a pavillion designed to host a weekly market and a coworking space under the idea of “Welcome City: Designing for Inclusion and Resilience”. The longitudinal light ETFE covering hosts the functions and allows free movement and connection within the square space, connected also to the adjacent street and contributing to the strengthening of the neighborhood identity.
Besides having a positive impact on the area, the market ordinary activities generate a considerable amount of waste, which makes the square almost unaccessible during the following cleaning operations. Therefore, following the “Sustainable, Replicable and Enjoyable” moto, a waste collecting system was integrated to the steel pillars, at the underground level, so the square can keep operating and welcoming users during the times it would be used only for collecting the market waste. The ETFE covering is generated from a hexagonal grid, divided into smaller units inclined towards the steel pillars, creating a dynamic covering, whose movement gradually transits from exterior to interior.
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1. Site Extension
2. Positioning the grid
4. Adding the coworking
5. Lifting the covering
6. Creating the pavilion
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3. Placing the street market
Street market Coworking 29
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Earth for all
Professor: Diébédo Francis Kéré
Urban furniture
2022, Academic / Group Work Course: Advanced Studio
Location: Milan, Italy
Colaborators: Chiara Micheli, Elisabetta Filauri, Gabriela Bacchi, Saurajeeta Bose Paul
Earth for all is the proposal of a bench design linked to the Unknown Unkowns exhibition by Francis Kéré at Triennale Milano. Under the theme of using the knowledge of yesterday to create previsions for our tomorrow, the furniture consists of trapezoidal modules made with traditional rammed earth techniques that not only respect the past but creates possibilities for a human driven future. The materiality was chosen to allow the complete cycle of the furniture - since it is made of a biodegradable material, the bench is prepared to the future unknowns of its reuse and decay.
The modules created adapt to hybrid functions and to different generation of users: children, adults and elderly, inviting the participation of users in the multiplicity of its layouts and encouraging the interaction between the people and the materiality of the bench. The proposal becomes a part of the Triennale urbanscape, activating its entrances and inviting people to enter by arousing their curiosity.
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Ferrocement
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Gravel | water absorption
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Wooden framework Bench
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Kéré’s Unknown Unknowns 40
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Unknowns exhibition tower
Varna’s cultural center
Public square and cultural center
2022, Master Thesis
Urban regeneration of sensitive historical areas: the case study of Varna
Location: Varna, Bulgaria
Colaborators: Milena Raeva
Dealing with a historical city center presenting archeological remains is a crucial yet delicate matter in architecture and urbanism. The city of Varna, at the east coast of Bulgaria, is the focus of this research, where an urban regeneration project was proposed after an extensive study on all the features that compose its urban fabric, history, identity and public spaces. The focus of the project was on the pedestrianization Varna’s city center, the need to reinforce its historical identity and to strengthen the connection between its open pubic spaces, aiming to regenerate a site currently known as “the Hole”.
The site nowadays fragments a key area of the city, located within a walking distance not only to the main service and touristic attractions of Varna, but also to its main archeological sites. This urban regeneration project – proposing interventions from an urban to an architectural scale, aims to reconnect Varna’s city center through a series of open spaces, while the proposed building, which blends into these spaces, will host a new exhibition center for the city’s archeological assets.
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Bulgaria
Region Varna
Municipality Varna
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District Odessos
Odessos Archeological Reserve
Protection Zones
Special regime of preservation - archeological reserve
Security zone of the architectural and archeological reserve
Zone of cultural value
Project site
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Odessos Archeological Reserve
Fragmented existing pedestrian network
Pedestrian streets
Primary traffic arteries
Secondary streets
Underpass
Odessos Archeological Reserve
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Roman street
Odessos Archeological Reserve
Archeological finds
Late antiquity building
Hellenistic Fortress Wall
Early Christian Basilica
Roman Baths
Small Roman Baths
The archeological assets found on site belong to a part of an ancient Hellenistic fortress wall, dating from the middle to the first half of IV century B.C.
Odessos archeological reserve
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A central site
Proposal for extension of pedestrian network
Existing pedestrian street
Proposed pedestrian street
Proposed pedestrian area
Green areas
Public building
Archeological site
Ancient fortified walls
Archeological reserve Odessos
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Goals
Strenghten the pedestrian flow
Highlight and protect the cultural heritage
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A new cultural center for Varna as a reconnection point
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Urban reconnection
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Highlighting
of ruins on site
Urban reconnection above and below street level 52
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Level -5
Archeological findings
Project Proposal
Underpass
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Level -2
Archeological findings
Project Proposal
Underpass
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