LAURA LA MENDOLA ARCHITECT
ARCHITECT
PORTFOLIO
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SOUTH SALENTO’S NEW HOSPITAL #Hospital complex
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CAMPUS KID #School complex #Public space regeneration
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EKSPOZITA BUILDING #Residential #Retail #Offices #Services
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RE-FORMING ROME #Strategic plan #Urban regeneration
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BOLOGNINA SHARED FUTURE #Strategic plan #Urban regeneration #Retrofit #Public facilites
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MTHUNZI CENTRE RENOVATION #Strategic plan #Retrofit #Expansion #Children hosting centre
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REFLEACTION #Installation
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THE BOX AND THE SEA #Itinerant installation
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IL RONDÒ DEI TALENTI #Learning centre #Retrofit #Restyling
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LANTERNA A TEATRO #Requalification #Municipal theatre
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SOUTH SALENTO’S NEW HOSPITAL Tag: #Hospital complex Team: MCA Where: Maglie (LE), Italy Year: 2019 / on going Area: 58.000 sqm Type: Competition Award: Winner Client: ASL Lecce
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The vision behind the concept of the new hospital comes from the combination between the functional need of a high standards public building with the ambition of realizing an architecture sensitive to the instrinsic characteristic of the site, sustainable and human. The project aims to combine the efficacy and rigor of the technique with the crativity and warmth of a “human-driven” design. The project considered the two aspects of a patient’s life, “zoé” (the vital condition related to health and the physical body) and “bios” (the individual existence) as equally important; all the spaces are treated with the maximum care since the quality itself of the hospital environment is therapeutic. The concept is a unitarian and iconic design, interacting with the long and tight morphology of the area, constricted between two road infastructures. The architecture unfolds in three main volumes, developed on three floors, which like a living entity flexes and receds to protect the most sensitive areas such as the patients’ rooms. These setbacks allow to realize some hills which further protect against noise and offer quality landscape views to the patients’ space. The southern part of the building contains the hospitalization areas (more than 400 beds) and the related diagnostic support activities (emergency area too). In the northern part there are out-patient functions (clinics, whitdrawals, dialysis, pre-receipt, etc.). The complex also houses the care area for mothers and children, which maintains its own spatial indipendence and specificity thanks to the appropriate circulation system.
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CAMPUS KID Tag: #School complex #Public space regeneration Team: MCA Where: San Lazzaro di Savena (BO), Italy Year: 2018 / on going Type: Competition Award: Winner Client: San Lazzaro di Savena Municipality
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The new Campus KID school complex is located at the eastern border of the Municipality of San Lazzaro di Savena, where it creates an important connection between the city and the surronding area. The project gives an answer to the fragmentation of the area characterized by the presence of different kinds of services and structures. The school building aims to create a unitary complex (schools, gym, auditorium) embraced by a single “wave-roof� that recalls the image of a butterfly. Lights, colors, dynamic spaces, courtyards and gardens, the contact with nature are the ingredients for an ideal comfortable environment where kids can grow both intellectually and physically. The spatial distribution generates spaces where interior and exterior, built and nature, solid and void are integrated and balanced. The two school buildings are educational spaces where the child is guided on his personal path of growth from primary to middle school. The distribution system does not include the traditional corridors, but inclusive and flexible spaces integrated with learning areas.
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EKSPOZITA BUILDING Tag: #Residential #Retail #Office #Services Team: MCA Where: Tirana, Albania Year: 2020 / on going Type: Private commission Ekspozita Building is a new 93 m tall mixed-use building in the centre of Tirana which includes retail, residential and public amentities spaces. The building’s particular form encircle a generous new green space that has a great value in the busy capital where open areas are few and far between. Planting on the terraces of residential floors enhances the sense of a green oasis, while the inward-facing balconies give a feeling of enclosure and protection from the busy city. The corners of the rectangular plot have been cut off to create more public space at the ground floor, so the building stands at the centre of the plot and occupies only the 44% of the area. Its square footprint breaks on one vertex, creating a courtyard south-oriented, opened to public realm and facing Blv Gergi Fishta, one of Tirana’s most important roads. The highest point of the building rises to 24 stories, peaking at the rear in a way that refers to the nearby Mount Dajti and Balkan Mountains. A “notch” in the rear of the peaking corner divides into two the commercial floors at the base of the building and making the inner court permeable and traversable. The design of the building pays close attention to the locale humid temperate climate, which in summer reaches 30°C. The building is highly insulated, preventing from the need of heating and cooling. The terraces on south side act as a passive solar regulation system. Thanks to these strategies, the building will use 30% less energy than other comparable developments.
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FIRST MASSING
SHAPING + OPENING
CONSTRAINTS
CONNECTIONS
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XL HOUSING 1.000 SQM
S/M/L HOUSING 31.496 SQM
OFFICES / RETAIL / SCHOOL 9.500 SQM
HEALTCARE 3.600 SQM
PARKING 20.000 SQM
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RE-FORMING ROME Tag: #Strategic plan #Urban regeneration Team: UNIPA, Re-Cycle Italy Year: 2015 Area: 100 sqkm Type: Workshop Promoter: Municipality of Rome, MAXXI Museum Exhibition: 18-12-2015 / 17-01-2016 @ MAXXI Roma 2025 - New life cycles for the metropolis is an international workshop which called 25 research groups from universities from all the world to design the future of Rome, with the support of the international research program on urban regenration Re-Cycle Italy. The urban territory has been devided into 25 squares, one for each team. The square n. 12 designed by UNIPA group is a highly marginalized suburb outside the urban centre. It is crossed by big road infrastructures (G.R.A.), by the railway and by the river Tevere, that characterize and shape the landscape. The area concentrates important centralities, identitary neighborhoods and pieces of landscape without any relationship. The result is a fragmented identity accentuated by infrastructural boundaries. The project on this area, named “Re-Forming Rome - The Agri/Fab Metropolis”, aims to referom the physical, reational and productive space, to recompose a rur/urban archipelago and to establish a circular metabolism fueled by agriculutral resources and the related manufacturing production. The project has been developed through the Cityforming © method which acts by incremental and adaptive steps necessary to produce partial results that become the generative basis of the next step. The masterprogramming is developed through a period of 10 years in three phases: “colonization”, “consolidation” and “development”. In the colonization, the ex Caserma Donato is opened to temporary functions, hosting some first activites related to the urban / rural manufacturing district. The edible park, Edible Cucco, fuels the district and provides the raw material for local start-up of the agricultural sector. The linear square of Trullo neighborhood trasforms into a social platform that links the district to Monte Cucco and the ex Caserma. The Agri/Fab District develops also in Trullo courtayrds and provides hydroponic cultivations, community composting, photovoltaic and micro-wind energy, recovery of rainwater, phyto-purification.
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In the phase of consolidation the new functions are fixed thanks to the settlement of a new makers and farmers community in the manufacturing district in the ex Caserma, which becomes a food farming business incubator where urban agriculture meets the new digital manufacturing. Finally the development aims to obtain a Fluid Metabolism that links all the urban islands in a liquid archipelago. The area in close contact with Tevere will become a watergate, with a green promenade, camping area, lakes for organic acquaculture activites, hydroponic agriculture and phyto-purification. The floodplain of Tevere becomes a Water Arena, where flood water becomes a resource. The Bosco Grande tranforms the G.R.A. in a linear forest, with the aim to improve the quality of the air and to connect the green system of the landscape.
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Quadrante 12 (elaborato originale in scala 1:10.000). Dispositivi. Re-Forming Rome. The Agri/Fab Metropolis. Il progetto si propone come un’azione che ri-forma lo spazio fisico, relazionale e produttivo e che ambisce a ricomporre un arcipelago rur/urbano in cui anche le connessioni paesaggistiche e le armature infrastrutturali fungano da componenti del nuovo metabolismo dell’area. / Macro 12 (originally in scale 1:10,000). Devices. Re-Forming Rome. The Agri/Fab Metropolis. The project aims to be an action that re-form4the physical, relational and productive space and aspire to recompose a rur/urban archipelago in which even the landscape connections and the infrastructural network act as components of the new metabolism of the area.
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BOLOGNINA SHARED FUTURES Tag: #Strategic plan #Urban regeneration #Retrofit #Public facilites Team: School of Sustainability, MCA Where: Bologna, Italy Year: 2017 Type: Commission + Participatory workshop Client: Fondazione Innovazione Urbana (Bologna Urban Center)
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The regenration project of DLF park is part of a co-design participatory process that included the stakeholders in the definition of the strategies of intervention. The DLF, social space active in the post-war period, had a decline in the last years, because of management troubles that led to degradation and loss in social appeal. Localised in Bolognina district, north outside Bologna historical centre, the DLF is affected by the marginality which characterizes the whole district. The project indeed aims not just to regenerate the DLF space but also to expand the perspective to the entire Bolognina, inscribing the park in a wider urban relations system. The project is expressed in three aspects - environment, society and economy - fixing for each one a macro-strategy: improving the public space, boosting the social appeal and optimizing the management. The public space improves through the care of the green spaces, the allocation of new urban furniture and the retrofit of existing buildings. The social appeal is obtained by the installation of new leisure, sport, learning, food & beverage facilities oriented to a wide range of users in the different hours of the day. The optimization of management comes from the partial transfer of the ownership to the local operators of all about common area mantainance, events organization and activity implementation, while the public administration will maintain just the managament of the main urban infrastructures. The key elements of the DLF 2.0 are the new Club House, attached to sport facilites opened to inclusive social events, the retrofit of the cultural space that sill host permanent and temporary initiatives, playgrounds and outdoor sport facilites, the “eat & meet” square and the terraces as iconic and flexible gathering spaces. Widening the “environmente - society - economy” strategies to the whole Bolognina district, the DLF is included in three macro-systems: the linear park, the economic axis and the cultural network. The linear park links the existing parks with abandoned degraded spaces transforming them into a green system crossed by a pedestrian-bycicle ring. The economic axis is an ideal connection between the hostorical centre and the Caserme Rosse park which will become a business incubator and a new economic polarity. The cultural network is a concentration of cultural and social gathering activities which takes place in an area between the DLF and Pensilina Nervi that will become an arts and leisure space.
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2.0
SOCIAL GATHERING ACTIVITIES + FACILITIES
GREEN AREAS , PLAYGROUNDS AND PUBLIC EQUIPMENTS
NEW MANAGEMENT MODEL
DLF Park Pilot Project
DLF Park Pilot Project
‘EAT AND MEET’ SQUARE
26.07.2018 • BSF presentation • Final Critic
DLF Park Pilot Project NEW CLUB HOUSE
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GREEN PLAYGROUNDS
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CULTURAL SPACE RETROFIT
NEW SPORT FACILITIES
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IDENTITY
Bring the urban strategies INTEGRATION into DLF Park STRATEGY
BUSINESS INCUBATOR
Urban Strategies
Caserma Sani Casaralta
Cultural centre
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Caserme Rosse
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Albani Market ECONOMIC AXIS
BUSINESS > NEWACCELERATOR BUSINESS
New dorm
Intercultural New > LOCAL hubENTERPRENEURSHIP dorm Cinematheatre DLF
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ENVIRONMENT
26.07.2018 • BSF • SPACE Final Project Presentation VALUABLE LINEAR PARK
Caserme Rosse Villa Angeletti Park
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Intercultur hub
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ENERGY EFFICIENCY
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PERSONAL WELLBEING Caserme Rosse COMMUNITY
Albani Market
SPACES ACTIVATIN
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Cultural centre
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MTHUNZI CENTRE RENOVATION Tag: #Strategic plan #Retrofit #Expansion #Children hosting centre Team: School of Sustainability, MCA, ArCò, LAP Where: Lusaka, Zambia Year: 2018 Area: 400.000 mq Type: Workshop Client: Amani The workshop for the renovation of the hosting community for children Mthunzi Centre in Lusaka is an initiative of NGO Amani, which is its manager. The idea aims to improve the strategic organisational setup of the community in a social-economic sustainable development perspective and at the same time to enlarge and renovate the existing structures. The strategic plan is founded on 5 pillars / resources: people, soil, water, energy, waste. In the strategies the resources interwine and foster each others, showing how in a sustainable community each element is useful to another one. The centre is located on a 40 hectares wide area, whose just a little part is inhabited and only 3 hectares is cultivated, while the remaining part is unused. The key element of the project is to recovery the productivity of the land, using the rainy season and the slight slope of the soil. Since the energy supply isn’t continous, the agricultural system has to be omptimized in a passive way: a system of tanks stocks the rainwater and spread it through a network of channels branching on all the cultivable soil, using just the gravity to irrigate wide plots. In order to engage the resident community and to spread the know-how a School of Agriculture, a Market and a Seed Bank are installed. The growing community, hosting every year more kids and more volunteers, needs also new structures for the accomodation. Part of the intervention is to renovate the extisting building, installing a new roof which improves the shading and the harvest of water. The new buildings are the new Guest House for the volunteers and a settlement for the Moba, the boys who grew up in the community and when become adult leave the centre but keep on living in the community, working and giving a contribution to the development. The new buildings are made of locally sourced rammed earth, bamboo and waste material, respecting the principles of vernacular architecture of thermal mass and natural ventilation.
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RESOURCE
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THRIVEABILITY PEOPLE Young Community Traditional Know How
INNOVATION SELF-SUFFICIENCY
SOIL Uncultivated Fertil Land Orography
PRODUCTIVE LAND
WATER Rainy Season
WATER AVAILABILITY
ENERGY High Solar Radiation Wind Speed
ENERGY SELF-SUFFICIENCY
WASTE Garbage Waste management system
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BETTER MANAGEMENT
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STRATEGY
ACTION
SEED BANK MARKET SCHOOL OF AGRICOLTURE
BOOSTING ECONOMY
ASSISTANCE AND EXCHANGE CENTER
IMPROVE COMMUNITY
NEW EXPANSION
IMPROVE EDUCATION
OUTDOOR COMFORT SPACES TERRACING SYSTEM AGROFORESTATION
IRRIGATION FERTILIZATION
CROP ROTATION FLOOD PLAIN FIREBREAK STRIP
MORPHOOGICAL ZONIG TANK SYSTEM
HARVESTING WATER
COMMUNITY COLLECTION PLUMBING DESIGN
SAVING WATER
DRIP FALLING SYSTEM
WATER DISTRIBUTION SOLAR PANEL SOLAR THERMAL PANEL
MINIMISE ENERGY REQUIREMENT PRODUCE OFF GRID ENERGY
WIND TUNNEL BIOMASS SOLAR COOKING BUILDING PASSIVE STRATEGIES
REDUCE REUSE UPCYCLE
RESOUCES AWARENESS COMPOST PLASTIC PIPE SECOND LIFE FOR RECICLED MATERIALS
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WATER DISTRIBUTION REDUCE REQUIREMENT REUSE UPCYCLE
HARVESTING WATER PRODUCE OFF GRID ENERGY MINIMISE ENERGY REUSE UPCYCLE REQUIREMENT SAVING WATER MINIMISE ENERGY UPCYCLE PRODUCE OFF GRID ENERGY REQUIREMENT WATER DISTRIBUTION REDUCE PRODUCE OFF GRID ENERGY
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PLASTIC PIPE > ACTIONS > ACTIONS
COMPOST SOLAR THERMAL PANEL COMMUNITY COLLECTION BIOMASS AWARENESS SOLARRESOUCES PANEL SECOND LIFE FOR RECICLED WIND TUNNEL PLASTIC PIPE MATERIALS PLUMBING DESIGN SOLAR COOKING COMPOST SOLAR THERMAL PANEL SECOND LIFE FOR RECICLED BUILDING BIOMASS DRIP FALLING SYSTEM PASSIVE MATERIALS WIND TUNNEL PLASTIC PIPE STRATEGIES SOLARSECOND COOKING LIFE FOR RECICLED BIOMASS MATERIALS BUILDING PASSIVE RESOUCES SOLAR PANEL AWARENESS STRATEGIES SOLAR COOKING
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COMPOST SOLAR THERMAL PANEL BUILDING PASSIVE STRATEGIES RESOUCES AWARENESS WIND TUNNEL PLASTIC PIPE
COMPOST SECOND LIFE FOR RECICLED BIOMASS RESOUCES AWARENESS MATERIALS PLASTIC PIPE SOLAR COOKING COMPOST SECOND LIFE FOR RECICLED BUILDING PASSIVE MATERIALS PLASTIC PIPE STRATEGIES
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SECOND LIFE FOR RECICLED MATERIALS RESOUCES AWARENESS
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FUNCTIONAL AXIS
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THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPS ON AN AXIS THAT CROSSES THE AREA AND CONNECTS THE MAIN POLARITIES.
WATER NETWORK THE WATER SUPPLY IS SOLVED THROUGH A WATER COLLECTION SYSTEM AND PUMP-FREE DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM BY MEANS OF GRAVITY.
AGRICULTURAL SYSTEM THE SOIL PRODUCTIVITY IS POWERED BY THE TERRACED CONFIGURATION, COMBINED WITH THE WATER COLLECTION.
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MOBA HOUSING
metal sheet
metal structure
recycled oil drum bamboo
rammed earth
low tech
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thermal mass + natural ventilation
water collection
REFLEACTION Tag: #Installation Team: School of Sustainability, MCA Where: Piazza Santo Stefano, Bologna, Italy When: 23/28-09-2018, Bologna Design Week Type: Private commission Client: Iris Ceramica Group In 1972 Fondazione Iris presents the artistic installation Pollution, a revolutionary artistic performance to think about pollution as a political, social and environmental denunciation, in a time when the idea itself of ecology was just beginning to exist. The event took place in Piazza Santo Stefano in Bologna, that has been coverd by a platform paved with ceramic tiles printed with the image of a clod of earth, upon which 26 artists have expressed the theme of contamination through their own works. On this “artificial soil” a debate started about the consequences of the capitalistic model, aimed to generate awareness, to propose a development paradigm shift, to invoke an anthropological, social and environmental revolution. In 2018, 46 years later, the event has been proposed again in the same square, shaping the theme in a contemporary way and becoming “RefleAction”. After this time, a wood was symbllically born from the clods of earth in Piazza Santo Stefano, breaking the hard boundaries of the city represented by the geometry of a triangular platform. Nature comes back wild to take back its spaces. The platform itself leads to a “reflection” - metaphorically represented by the mirror - which make people aware to be part of a greater ecosystem. The installation wants to be a provocation, where the hierarchies dominating the anthropic space of the square are erased and the ordinary use is transformed, leading to a reflection about urban ecosystem.
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THE MIRROR
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DENUNCIATION
AWARENESS
ACTION
NATURE IS DOMINATED BY PEOPLE
REFLECTION
NATURE TAKES BACK ITS SPACES
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RETICULAR STRUCTURE
POTS + TREES
WOODEN DECK + MIRROR COVERING SURFACE
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THE BOX AND THE SEA Tag: #Itinerant installation Team: Laura La Mendola, Carlo Maria D’Amico Where: Worlwide / Itinerant Year: 2019 Type: Design competition Result: Finalist Promoter: National Geographic The 70% of waste in the oceans is made of plastic: packagings, single-use products, common objects in everyday life, useful and sometimes even essential. Once thrown away, these products contaminate the oceans, while recycled objects keep on live and be useful. Plastic is not the ennemy: it’s the way we use it. Recycled plastic and bio-polymers can be an opportunity for everyone and for environment. Let’s turn risks into opportunities! Shifting from our lifestyle to a new consumption paradigm is a hard and long process. We can foster it spreading awareness about present risks and opening our minds to new future opportunities. For this reason the installation has two main goals: to tell people about the dangers for our planet caused by plastic pollution and at the same time to show them the possible solutions and opportunities. “The Box and the Sea” doesn’t aims to just tell people about pollution, but also to share a proactive vision of a possible change. The installation is made essentialy by an accessible open-top container. The container suggests the idea of trade and consumption and in the collective imaginary it is often linked to the image of the sea. However in the last years it also became a symbol of creative reuse and recycle.
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IL RONDÒ DEI TALENTI Tag: #Learning Centre #Retrofit #Restyling Team: Laura La Mendola, Carlo Maria D’Amico, Elisabetta Fiorenza, Lorenzo Porcelli, Lori Zillante Where: Cuneo, Italy Year: 2019 Type: Competition Award: Special mention Promoter: Fondazione CRC Rondò dei Talenti is a new learning, artistic and exhibition space dedicated to children, conceived by Fondazione CRC. The architectural project consists of a retrofit of an existing building, previously hosting a bank, and in particular a restyling of the facade. The project aims to renovate the image of the building, making recognizible the change of use, communicating the idea of innovation, but also of learning and a sort of playfulness that can amuse and increase children’s curiosity. The concept of the new facade takes inspiration from the image of an open book, metaphor of knowledge, creativity and openness. The curve facade transforms into a series of wooden wavy lamellae, while the main facade, transparent and bright, acts as a background for the public stairway which invites to get to the roof. The building takes the shape and the symbolism of an open book, in which the lamellae indicate the pages and the main facades represent the cover, where there are writing (the title of the book) and the entrance (the beginning of the story). The new facade answers to the need of better energetic performances: the lamellae on the curve facade (the most exposed to the direct radiation) act as a good shading device, while the north facades made of translucent polycarbonate, light and bright, allow the diffuse light to naturally illuminate the building, saving energy. The roof is the extension of the public space, accessible by the external stair, that is configured as a playground, an agorà for events and social gathering space, as well as an extraordinary panoramic point.
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PREVIOUS FACADE
NEW IDENTITY: CULTURE
URBAN CONNECTIONS
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LANTERN AT THE THEATRE Tag: #Requalification #Municipal Theatre Team: Laura La Mendola, Carlo Maria D’Amico, Elisabetta Fiorenza, Lorenzo Porcelli, Lori Zillante Where: Bologna, Italy Year: 2019 Type: Competition Award: Third prize Promoter: Comune di Bologna, Fondazione per il Teatro Comunale, Fondazione Innovazione Urbana, Fondazione Rusconi The project comes from the need to regenerate some spaces annexed to the Municipal Theatre, undermined over the years by additions built up, and its urban context subject to degradation. The project renovates the building with a recognizible but discreet combination between historical and contemporary. The added volume acts as a “lantern” on the city, which illuminates, attracts and make place in the night hours. The idea of the lantern is the answer to the need to “illuminate” in a broad sense an urban space that is victim of negligence and degradation. The theatre develops saving and at the same time renewing its social function: a place for social gathering which stimulates creativity and exchange. The new reharsal room becomes an attractive place, acting not just as a service to the theatre but as a urban device. It host indeed open events and allow everybody to see a preview of artistic performances, while other times it becomes an open and accessible space for everyone who wants to make informal performaces or to reserve it for some activites. The lantern increase the visibility of this area, already fostered by its cultural activity, creating a space accessibile by everybody, made of opportunities, exchange and art.
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LIVING IN THE OPEN AND NETWORKED CITY
PROMOTING ART IN ALL ITS EXPRESSIONS
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