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CAN RIC-ART, Barcelona (2019) - (pp. 02-05)
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CHAMBORD NEURONAL CITY, Chambord Castle, France (2018) - (pp. 06- 08)
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FOOD GALLERY, Rome (2018) - (pp. 09-12)
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ESQUILINO, Rome (2017) - (pp. 13-15)
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LIFE CYCLE, Castelluccio di Norcia, Norcia (2019) - (pp. 16-19)
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CAN RIC-ART
Year: 2019 City: Barcelona (Spain)
Teacher: Luciano Cupelloni, Tutor: Cossima Cornadò
Can Ricart ha been one of the symbolic buildings of the industrial development of Barcelona city. The spearhead of textile production, which then fell into disuse, is still waiting for its rebirth today. The building was built around the mid-1800s with Catalan brick and cast iron pillars with elegant shapes still visible today. Most of the floors present the local technique of the Catalan vault, once lowered also used by Gaudi ‘in some of his works. Despite the good technique in its construction, the building presents itself, due to the abandonment, in a poor state of conservation: the roof is completely absent in a large part of the complex, as well as the plaster and fixtures. Despite this, the stylistic unity of the project with neoclassical forms is still appreciable. After an in-depth study of the building and urban plans of the area it was decided to give new life to the complex, installing a New Media Art
school. The choice is justified by the vocation of the neighborhood activities in which it is located, the Poblenou district, which thanks to the 22@ project saw the city of barcelona rise to the European heights of technological innovation, and from its history in the 80s and 90s, when many artists settled there with their workshops and laboratories. The interventions on the building aim to create hybrid spaces (external / internal) ensuring in some places the permeability. For this reason, it was not always chosen to rebuild the roof. It was decided to insert suspended volumes made with modern techniques and with energy-efficient solutions. All the interventions start from the idea that Architecture must be able to adapt to the needs of the time. As the needs change rapidly today, therefore architecture must be able to transform itself and be versatile.
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Urban planning strategies
Can Ric-art
Plan - Ground Floor
Section A-A’
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Can Ric-art
Plan - First Floor
Section B-B’
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utopian architecture
CHAMBORD NEURONAL CITY
Year: 2018 City: Chambord (France)
Teacher: Gustau Gili, Ignacio Martinez, Team: Leonardo Minni, Laura Vericat
How will the idea of “Monument” change in the future? The competition called by Dominique Perrault “Chambord 15192019: Utopia at work” is based on this question. The castle of Chambord, part of the circuit of the castles of Renaissance France is revealed today, although incomplete, in all its omnipotent magnificence. Perhaps attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, it is one of the most beautiful in the whole circuit. Once it has been a royal residence while today is one of the most visited monuments in France. What will it be in the near future? Will the idea of “Monument” be the same we have today? In a world, when overcrowding is increasingly proving to be a problem, we could think of a future in which monuments will be places to live and no longer to visit, utopically. Chamord Castle therefore becomes in the design idea the fulcrum of an imaginary futuri-
stic city. From its center, the Leonardo Da Vinci staircase, energy is propagated and then distributed through underground pipes to the towers that surround it, which reproduce the cylindrical shape of the castle towers. In this way, new paths and new open spaces are created, with excavated circular squares where the social life of the city of the future will take place. For this reason, the monument was opened because it loose its defensive function and the typical introversion of the castle to become part of a wider and more articulated system.
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Chambord Neuronal City
Energy distribution system
Territorial section
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Chambord Neuronal City
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architecture
FOOD GAL L ERY
Year: 2018 City: Roma (Italy) Teacher: Luciano Cupelloni, Massimo Locci,Team:Daniela Licciardello,Leonardo Minni, EsterLetizia Pompeo, Giuseppe Serranò
Food is one of the most important topics of the present debate on sustainability, health and the environment. Even more so when we talk about it in relation to the metropolis. Is it possible to combine direct cultivation with the hectic life of the city, and maybe consume the same product? The project starts from the need to give new life to a disused industrial building. The building is not of particular value but has spaces easily convertible and versatile and is located on the side of the station Tiburtina, an important railway junction for the city of Rome. It was therefore decided to install a vertical farm for the production of vegetables, with spaces dedicated to the sale and processing of the raw material. The food is then declined in all its aspects, through educational paths, show cooking and dining where the product is cooked harvested. At an urban level, it was thought of a reorganization of the routes, creating a direct access with the station Tiburtina, and the elimination of the barrier given by the presence of the ring road, which effectively isolates two neighborhoods.
This happens with the insertion of a pedestrian and bicycle bridge that joins the two parts of city’. As for the paths, they continue inside the park attached to the building, winding through the new species of fruit trees and not that it was decided to insert. Finally, we tried to improve the energy performance of the building.
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Food Gallery
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Food Gallery
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Food Gallery
Plan - First Floor
West elevation
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architecture
ESQUIL INO
Year: 2017 City: Roma (Italy) Teacher: Dina Nencini
The Galileo Galilei Institute tells a part of the history of Rome in the 1900s. Designed by the rationalist architect Marcello Piacentini, it has hosted thousands of students who still choose technical training today. Inside their laboratories there are still large industrial machines used for teaching and not only. The building, which has a rationalist facade in the Italian style of the 1920s and 1930s, faces with a theme of urban renewal, as well as architectural. Through its transformation, it is possible to aim at the renewal of the entire urban structure of the Esquilino district of Rome. For this reason, it was decided to include a mix of functions within the project aimed at revitalizing the area and making it accessible to a greater number of people: a civic center, commercial, sport spaces and a new square. The new forms, characterized by a highly emphasized
plasticity aim to underline this transformation, giving the complex of buildings a sculptural structure. New forms that seem to grow from the old school, modifying it and giving new accesses, transforming a decidedly introverted urban area into one open to the city of the future, dynamic and cosmopolitan.
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Esquilino
Plan - First Floor
South elevation
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Esquilino
Plan - First Floor
North elevation
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LIFE CYCL E
Year: 2019 City: Castelluccio di Norcia (Italy) Teacher: Pepa Moran
Casteluccio di Norcia is a medieval village located on a top hill facing a huge valley, on the side of the Sibillini Mountains, in central Italy. Destroyed almost completely by the earthquake of 2016, it continues to attract thousands of tourists for the spectacular nature of its landscape, especially during the flowering that colors the valley with thousand of colors in the late spring months. The place shows to the viewer the transformations given by the change of seasons, from the cold colors of the winter months (given by the abundant snowfalls), to the warmer and colorful ones of spring (flowering), up to the monotonous colors of summer, where yellow tones dominate due to the crop just happened in the legume fields. Thus the landscape becomes a story itself of the life cycle of nature. By combining respect for nature
vities, also intended as an educational experience, it was decided to create a circuit, taking advantage of already existing paths for pedestrians and bikes and to allow to witness the flowering without damaging the crops. Furthermore, the creation of a guided experience has the perspective of reactivating tourist experiences even outside the flowering period and to sensitize the viewer to the collection and processing of Castelluccio legumes, which are widely sold and consumed throughout Italy and beyond. The circuit ends in the village square where the village harvest festival once took place. The physical path then becomes metaphorically a temporal path that tells the cycle of lentil, the main legume of this land, from sowing to harvest.
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Connections
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Life cycle
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Life cycle
invierno
primavera
verano
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