PORTFOLIO SELECTED WORKS
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Contacts: Lorenza Manfredi Mainzer Strasse 2, 10247 Berlin, Germany +49/1639403738 lore.manfredi@gmail.com • www.lorplay.weebly.com Languages : Italian (mother language), English and German fluent, basics of French
2015 WARSAW / POLAND organized by Fundacja Badań Przestrzeni Publicznej TU | Foundation for Public Space Research TU
The “Talkative Graffiti Project”
ARTIST IN RESIDENCY
TALKATIVE GRAFFITI PROJECT 1 - Collecting stories and places 2 - Workshop: Emotional and physical mapping of the neighborhood 3 – Ephemeral documentation The main goal of the project is to induce the participants to look at the chosen area with different eyes: places that usually remain unseen become the center of attention revealing their imaginary or material potential and get enriched with a new layers of values. I sit on the corner of a wall, is always sunny there. When I was a child I liked to believe there was a monster behind that wall. In the first part of the project stories and places around/about/in the chosen neighborhood are going to be collected and discussed, with a particular attention on left behind memories and leftover spaces (roadsides, shores,...). They can be daily life stories, memories, imaginary stories, utopian stories referring to past, present and future. In this way the neighborhood is represented in a composite participatory imaginary out of a real time. The second part of the project is a walking tour, where each participant shares his stories in front of the places that inspired them. The story-telling creates a common emotional background that help the formation of a small community or the creation of networks between the participants. Public spaces are what we share and what we have in common. It is a virtual mapping of the area that involve the participants emotionally and physically at the same time.
The flyer for the Tour
Small mirrors are placed in walls in front of the places that inspired the stories to trace the tour, with small labels “history of ..., n.1,2,..� . This directs the attention of passengers to the same spots, in the hope they could be able again to provoke some new stories and ideas. The objects are a temporary interventions and they will probably disappear with time, as stories that get forgotten.
THE BLOG OF THE RESIDENCY http://warszawatalkativegraffiti.tumblr.com/
Article to be published and presented in the IFLA International Federation of Landscape Architects 2016 - Extract
NARRATIVES IN THE PUBLIC SPACE. THE “TALKATIVE GRAFFITI PROJECT” GIVES A VOICE TO URBANITIES. THEORY
(...) The “Talkative graffiti project” uses methods of processual art in order to identify stories already present in the public space and to reveal them: two kind of narratives can be analyzed. Louder narratives are hardly not noticed. They can be understood through three different typologies. Street art uses writing or visual art as a method and facades of buildings as its media. This typology, originated as contestation by counterpublics, is now accessible to a wider group of agents and actors, also thanks to its acceptance and partial
legalization. Performance arts like street theater, dance and music use a more ephemeral approach and have a more defined receptors, through a precise choice of the place and the time where the performance will be on show. A third typology are the architectures, long-lasting elements that tell a story through their shape, material and constitution.
The silent narratives are personal stories not spoken out, harder to be identified and are a potential expression for the extra-weak publics4. As Arendt proposed, action (to take an initiative) and speech (to make the narration of a story) are what make a space public. The Talkative Graffiti Project wants to be a stimulus and the occasion for the agents (the potential “heroes”) of these silent narratives to share them in public. The project experiments story telling and walking practice as methods and offers a platform for such narration. Initiated by the author in the Summer 2015 and promoted by the foundation for public space research TU Warsaw, the project is organized in three parts: 1. Collecting stories and places: the exploration of the neighborhood to create connections and the realization of a workshop to identify stories already present on the territory. The discussion focused on neglected or “unattended” spaces and how each participant experience and interpret them. Those urban voids, thanks to their lack of a recognizable role, are a terrain able to produce and host stories for diverse (and sometimes conflictual) agents.5 2. Daily life stories, memories, imaginary stories, utopian stories represent the area as a shared vocabulary or create such convergence in a participatory process. During walking tours participants practice storytelling, as a way of physically and emotionally mapping the area. 3. Ephemeral Documentation. In the project the places that are able to inspire stories are marked by mounting small mirror elements that metaphorically reflect the stories and emphasize their importance. (...)
Ongoing research that is going to be presented as a PhD proposal at the UdK Berlin, with the support of Prof. Hauser and Prof. Sauerbruch
SPONTANEOUS INTERVENTIONS IN THE PUBLIC SPACE -
WITH A STUDY ON THE CASE OF ARTISTIC INTERVENTIONS ON THE BLIND FACADES OF BERLIN
This project developed out of the observation of the very unique impulse that the public space of Berlin receives through its blind walls. Artists and citizens interact with them in many different ways and, within years of artistic, spatial and material explorations, this process obtained relevant results, creating worldwide famous landmarks and generating new activities starting from the simple, empty, silent, Wall. The wall, this basic and pragmatic urban feature, is an essential part of all cities. A study on its communicative potential in the field of public art and performances could represent an important contribution for many disciplines: from art to architecture, from sociology to city planning. The numerous blind faรงades that characterise Berlin are treated in different ways and from diversified categories of city users, allowing an analysis that could focus on different points, such as the following: - What kind of interventions can we identify in Berlin? Which materials are used? - What kind of consequences does an intervention bring to its surrounding public space? Is it able to generate a new use or a new perception of the public space? How do the citizens, and generally the people experiencing the city, perceive it? - What kind of locations are chosen for the interventions? Are the architectural qualities of the wall,its position in the city and its relation with the city infrastructures important for the intervention conceiver? -Who are the active key A series of blind walls in the neighbourhood Berlin Mitte
players of the intervention and what are their aims? Who is the consumer and who is affected by the intervention? - How does the flow of time influence the work? Do permanence and lasting quality affect the successful result of the intervention, and how? - How is the city administration interpreting these events, and how does it react to them? Could those have a positive influence on the city´s economy (or do they already have it)? Is there any possible way to use them for a further development of the life quality in the city? The study process could be divided in three main parts: theoretical studies, observation of and direct research on the examined areas (photographic reports and interviews) research results, which will be represented through different methods, including non-conventional ones. This last part of artistic production of maps and investigative drawings is an important opportunity for the candidate to apply a very personal artistic approach developed during the master thesis work. As an Architecture graduate, the candidate is used to combining deep scientific analysis with artistic features and a personal style, alongside with a strong sense of context and territory. An experimental approach and the development of different research methods (including the use of new media) will allow to find new ways to interpret the public space and our interaction with and perception of it. Furthermore, it could visually help us to understand how modern city life could be positively influenced by the field of sociology, architecture and art studies. Historical informantions and advertisment spectularity one next to the other on the facades of Berlin’s buildings
Article published on the Architecture Magazine l’Arca issue 261 extract
INVISIBLE CITIZENS - SPONTANEOUS ARCHITECTURE AS A POSSIBLE STARTING POINT FOR HANDLING THE “DYSCRASIAS” RESULTING FROM FAILED URBAN ORGANISATION
Despite the fact that the figures published in the UnHabitat report would appear to be promising - allegedly 22 million people in developing countries have managed to improve their living conditions every year from 2000 to 2010 - the total number of people living in slums around the world is still on the increase: rising from 776.7 million in 2002 to 827.6 million in 2010. Unless there is an inversion in the current trend, the number of people living in slums will grow at a rate of 6 million-a-year, reaching a total of 899 million by 2020. Informal settlements derive from the violent process of urbanization. At the present time, 50.6% of the world’s population [3.49 billion people] live
in cities, and this figure is expected to reach 70% by 2050. Moreover, it is actually the urban gentrification processes in certain cities or, vice-versa, processes of urban deterioration, which are resulting in people being shifted into segregated areas. The laissez-faire attitude adopted by authorities in relation to the illegal occupation of urban locations should not be underestimated either, not to mention the inefficiency (if not total absence) of plans to meet the housing needs of low-income people. As Bauman claims (La sociologia di fronte a una condizione umana (Vita e Pensiero, 2003), in our age “the nation is doing nothing but abandon the regulatory tasks it used to take care of jealously, willingly handing them over to market forces”. So if it is now income which determines urban development, what is the role of those millions of illegal housing projects? It is tempting to say that the future is already written and that the time has come to just give in to it. Bidonvilles, favelas, barrio bajo, slums, shanty towns, pirate towns, chalis, mabanda, aashwa’i, mudun safi, cheris: in every corner of the world unplanned neighbourhoods are springing up, invisible districts which sometimes even escape mapping and are inevitably outside any kind of legal control. These informal neighbourhoods, which lie outside the world despite their notable physical stature, do not fall within conventional canons or standards. Since they do not exist, they have no services, no rules and no organization. According to the definition set down in the Global Report on Human Settlements by the United Nations in 2003, the indicators defining a slum are: less than 50% of the population having access to water and health services; settlements being located in hazardous areas, such as waste dumps or areas subject to flooding; low durability/resistance of housing structure. In addition, there are no contracts stipulating the ownership of the land by the people who inhabit it, and overcrowding resulting in a minimum average area of 5 m² per inhabitant. This inevitably means that anything happening in these settings is spontaneous, autonomous and serving a requirement, an immediate need of somebody living there. Contrasting with the web of carefully planned cityscape, informal neighbourhoods conscientiously set in motion a kind of spatial organization deriving from habits, which, in turn, come from traditions and social
Competition proposal for a temporary installation at The international Garden Festival Jardins de MĂŠtis 2016 (Canada)
WHO IS AFRAID OF J.ITTEN? in team with Michael Stopper
PRACTICE
Two proposals for temporary installations to be eventually built in Montpellier (France) for The Festival des Architectures Vives FAV 2016
MOVING REFLECTIONS in team with Elena Ferrari and Michael Stopper
Proposal for Shabbyshabby Apartments Competition – organized by Raumlabor Berlin, 2015
POP-UP!HOUSE in team with Danilo Chiesa, Javier Sanjurjo Sjanjurjo and Carme Serrano
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Competition at UnitedArchitektur Studio with Prof. Bernd Huckriede: Project for a “Sammlungund Forschungs Zentrum der tiroler Landesmuseen”
Umgebungsplan
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www.unitedarchitektur.com
Das Raumprogramm wird in einem kompakten Volumen untergebracht
Um dem Baukörper die Masse zu nehmen wird dieser mit seinen Depotflächen im Erdreich versenkt
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Durch Subtraktion entstehen im oberen Bereich innenliegende Höfe, welche der Belichtung dienen
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Die zuvor subtrahierten Flächen werden zur weiteren Belichtung auf den Baukörper addiert
BURORÄUME / ATELIERRÄUME
BURORÄUME / ATELIERRÄUME
DEPOTRÄUME
Entwurfskonzept
Obergeschoss
1:200
Collaboration with Superpool Office in Istanbul www.superpool.org
Collaboration on the production of the main map for the first Istanbul Architecture Biennale.
Study for a Fassade for a building in Yalova, Turkey.
First phase: elaboration of ideas, conceptual models and comparative collages, discussions about them. Second phase: complete drawings for the three selected proposals (fragmented-mirror, modulare frames and curved glass fassade). Discussion with the enterprises for a first cost-hypothesis. Research about the details. Third Phase: construction of the final model for the selected proposal, scale 1:200
Partecipation at the competition Mahalle BeyoğluOkmeydanı/şevket paşa mahallesi.
Analysis of the area through on-site visits, photographic reportages, graphic elaborations and poduction of a model. Proposal of a new layout of the area that would be able to replace the old buildings, in danger in case of earthquake, with new constructions, introducing also a maggioration of the inhabitable square meters of the 25%.
Audi Urban Future Award 2012 This initiative looks towards the future with the aim of establishing a dialogue on the sinergy of mobility, architecture and urban development, a dialogue with the “engineers of future cities”: architects, urban planners, researchers. Team taking part in this year competition: Höweler + Yoon (Boston/Washington), CRIT (Mumbai), NODE (Pearl River Delta), Superpool (Istanbul) and Urban Think Tank (Sao Paulo). Location of the exhibition: Hasköy Spinning Factory in Istanbul. Superpool Lantern Update: Speakers, Tables, Windows
Example screenshots from the introduction movies (on the left), plan of the exhibition space (up) and picture of the final exhibition in Istanbul (on the right page).
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Concept of Superpool’s team proposal: PARK is an online loyalty program of Istanbul’s transportation system that encourages people to reclaim their city by using intelligent driverless dolmuşes (shared taxis). Each dolmuş eliminates twenty vehicles from Istanbul traffic freeing up valuable space for new ideas in the city. At neighborhood scale, the process works like this: Points are gained for each trip made by dolmuş, and through PARK can be used to rent the no-longer-necessary parking spaces in front of one’s home, giving people more ownership and a sense of belonging to their streets. The future of democracy is in streets without parked cars. The team: Selva Gürdoğan, Gregers Tang Thomsen, Leopold Böhm, Nikitas Gkavogiannis, Irene Guzmán, Derya İyikul, Asbjørn Lund, Lorenza Manfredi, Matthias Poen, Talene Montgomery
ILLUSTRATIONS
“lorplay is an italian artist living in Berlin. She likes people, spaces and at most the two things getting together: cities. Her illustrations are inspired by all the small details that distinguish a culture and a way of life, making it unique and interesting.” The project “Hallo from Berlin” is a series of illustrations (fine liner and watercolours) about being an italian in Berlin. The postcards and cards, printed on 300 grams paper and coordinated with yellow envelops, got sell in the artist markets in Berlin and on ETSY at https://www.etsy.com/it/shop/lorplay
A PROJECT FOR THE ABANDONED AREAL OF THE EX-SANATORIUM OF BEELITZ-HEILSTĂ„TTEN MASTER THESIS
MASTERPLAN (mixed techniques): the areal is organized as a multifunctional park, with a broad offers of uses of the territory
LEGEND OF THE INTERVENTIONS: Wheat, corn, barleycorn fields grass hops cultured flowers perennial plants borders pumpkins field rhododendron poplars water orchard vegetable gardens
The inspiration for this thesis project comes from my interest in the geography of the abandoned, that brings me visiting and finding out several fantastic and surreal places, especially those which are mainly hidden or neglected. Beelitz-Heilstätten is a very particular example: sanatorium for tubercolosis sufferers in the beginning of the XX Century, afterwards it has been exploited as a army hospital, during the sovietic occupation in german’s territories. Lately it is bought by a privat investor, guested the sets of several shows, videoclips and movies, such as ‘The Pianist’ of Roman Polanski and ‘Valkyrie’ of Bryan Singer. The style of the buildings refers to the Jungendstil, characterized by a richness of details, as the decorations achieved through the combination of multicoloured bricks, and the delicate wrought-iron insertions. Planned mainly by the architects Heino Schmeiden and Julius Boethke, the complex consists of around sixty buildings, of which fifteen are of big dimensions. Beelitz-Heilstetten lies near Potsdam, and it’s reachable by train in less then two hours both from Berlin and Dessau, as well as easy accessible by car, through the major german highways (number 9), that connect Berlin to Munchen. All this factors, in addition to the state of complete abandonement of the area, gives to this environment the light of a remarkable source of inspiration for a thesis project. The work started from the research of a new actual function, able to attract here people from Berlin and Dessau, and the final result brought me to reflect upon the ways of the landscape representation. Consequently, in the last part of the work, different techniques have been used. Naturally starting from the actual device of Photoshop, a best way to communicate atmospheres has been found in the classical ‘ancient’ technique of watercoloured hand- sketches. Through this very personal way the capabilities of a new renovation are showned, denying the issue of demolition that from many persons has already been considered as the only possible solution.
On the left: Analysis of the area. Study of the needs and of the user categories of the sourrounding cities of Berlin and Dessau. Study of a case-study day in the park of Beelitz-Heilstätten.
Due to the big size of the buildings and their good conditions I decided not to intervene directly on the existing constructions, except from the intervention on the main building, that acquires its own visibility also thanks to the fact that it’s the only case of direct interaction between old and new. After organizing the space depending on several functions, that could attract as many different people as possible (vegetable gardens, didactic-farm, beer and bread production, environmental museum, restaurant and bad&breakfast, open-air auditorium, observation tower...), i concentrated my research on the landscape, trying to create a particular environment, able to give its own recognisable character to the area. Pictures taken during the several on-site visits, between december and march 2012. I managed to get in touch with the owner of the area (TERRA Projektentwicklung GmbH GF Torsten Schmitz), that supported me during the researches and allowed me to visit the site and the buildings. On the right side: example of the Abacus of the plants. The two pages represent plants, selected for their colour during the winter season. Sketch: atmosphere of one of the path during the summer period.
The abacus of the plants
During the planning I considered many factors, as the needs of animals and tourists as well, and i tried to realize something that doesn’t loose its beauty during the winter season (the longest in Germany). In fact i visited the botanic garden in Berlin during february, and selected all the plants that were still able to offer some emotions to the visitor, thanks to their colour, smell or structure. Afterwards I organised the pictures I collected (more than 100) in an Abacus, highlighting the main characteristics of every plant. Using this great tool, I organised the plantation, in a way to offer always new experiences to the visitor, both if he’s walking or riding a bike, or a horse (and consequently has different speed of perception), and both during the summer or the winter season (an area that in winter is very geometrical through white plants and red linear plants, transforms itselfs in a mixed, caotic and very colourful area during the blossoming).
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red
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black How to create an everchanging landscape? Using this selfmade tool, I organised the plantation to offer always new experiences to the visitor. Plants are choosen consequently to the different speed of perception, and to the change of the seasons.
Representation of the tree main paths unrolled, with the views both on the right and left side at the same time. Relinking the simble of the plants to the Abacus of the plants is possible to read the exact project of the plantations.
BER L I N / D E S S A U
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PERCORSO
PUNTO D’INCONTRO
ESPOSIZIONI
ELEMENTO D’INGRESSO
FILARI STORICI
EDIFICIO A-4
SEDUTE
FILARI STORICI
AUDITORIUM
SEDUTE
ROVINA EDIFICIO A-5
SEZIONE A-A SCALA 1:200
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VISTA LATERALE DELL’EDIFICIO A-4 SCALA 1:200
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PROSPETTO NORD DELL’EDIFICIO A-4 SCALA 1:200
A IMMAGINI DELLA TORRE DI OSSERVAZIONE Aussichtsturm am Cospudener See, Leipzig
CAMERE
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HALL HOTEL, RECEPTION
SALA RISTORANTE
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IL PASSAGGIO CENTRALE ATTRAVERSO L’EDIFICIO A-4 _Foto del 18/02/2012
CUCINE
ESPOSIZIONI
L’EDIFICIO IN ROVINA Foto del 18/02/2012
ESPOSIZIONI PIANTA DELL’EDIFICIO A-4 SCALA 1:200
VISTA A VOLO D’UCCELLO Cartolina storica del sanatorio di Beelitz-Heilstätten
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FOTO DEL LUOGO RISERVATO AI TRATTAMENTI ALL’APERTO Cartolina storica del sanatorio di Beelitz-Heilstätten
Politecnico di Milano Facoltà di Architettura e Società Corso di Laurea in Architecture Tesi di Lorenza Manfredi, matr.751073 Relatore Prof. Maurizio Vogliazzo Correlatore Arch.Dipl.Ing. Jens Brinkmann A.A. 2010-2011
BEELITZ-HEILSTÄTTEN
Schizzo di studio del rapporto tra le sedute, l’auditorium e l’edificio in rovina.
View on the wheat fields through the poplars lines with an underbrush of red poppys, that are seen through the colourful perennial plants borders View of the grass surfaces that are inserted in the wheat fields, creating cozy and intimate open spaces
What I wish: notes on different possible uses of the space
Lake that from the path I see/ I don’t see, but that I can reach through a surface of grass.
On the left and down: Studies on the different nuances of the plants during the winter and summer season
winter
View on the wood preceded from the view on a bright orange pumpkin’s field.
View and direct contact with the vegetable gardens and with the people working them. Cross the caotic and messy wood and, following a surface of grass, reach a organized and spacious orchard.
summer
On the left: studies for the open air theater that allow to look on the bombed building, where a wood grown up on the roof.
Preparation of the papers summering the Master Thesis for the 7th European Biennal of Landscape. The exhibition took place in Barcelona during the month of October 2012.
Section from south-west
Model 1:250 On the right: view of the hotel from the airport terminal
HOTEL FOR THE LEJ AIRPORT, LEIPZIG The project was elaborated during the sommersemester 2011 at the Bauhaus Universit채t of Weimar. The proposal for an Hotel in the airport of Leipzig is based on a concept of modular building. In this way the hotel can offer an high quantity of different quality rooms, toghether with a common public space, open also to the guests of the airport that are not using the services of the hotel. The project has been deeply studied from the urban to the technical scale, with an high attention for the user needs.
Up: sketches about the advantages of the prefabrication On the right: Section 1:200, Masterplan 1:2000
UNIVERSITY
GROWING THE CITY - Urban planning class with Prof. Stefano Boeri H Our research was for a concept that could allow the city and the countryside to find a new coherence, and a common existence. In fact if the actual growing of the city is not going to change, it will fill all the spaces traditionally occupied by the agriculture. Our idea was to bring the cultivations in the empty spaces of the city, mixing urban and country areas. We have studied a system, economically independent, where the squares of Milan are going to produce the fruits for all the use of the city itself, giving them a new role and quality. Map of the squares that we have identified as new gates of Milan, taking into consideration the expansion of the city and the area that has been chosen for the worldwide agricultural park of the EXPO 2015.
A previous research about the production of honey in the regional area helped us to understand the functioning of the coultivation industry.
combinable? historical close dark heavy self stending volume -
A DIFFICULT RELATION
- new - variable transparence - heavy&light - multi composed volume
We have to design a neutral building able to interact with this two opposites worlds. A building that can impose itself without disturbing the old and the new.
Info point
CULTURAL CENTRE FOR THE EXPO MILAN 2015 with Prof. Cino Zucchi cafeteria
restaurant
foyer
For hosting some pavilion and a multifunctional centre for the Expo Milan 2015 I chose a site near one of the old entrance gate of the city. Building between the historical ‘casello’ and the ecleptical pavilions created for us the necessity of using a language as light as a feather. I planned an invisible building, a box that can create the atmosphere for an art process (like in the auditorium), for a relaxing area (bookshop, cafeteria) and for a social chance of meeting (restaurant, foyer). A square is also planned where there was no possibilities of that, on the side of a street characterised from high level of traffic, as viale Crispi. The ‘patio’ has been protected by a fragmented wall, a skin that maintain the intimacy and at OF THE FIRST FLOOR thePLAN same time leave 1:200open an half one square view on the chaotic road.one multifunctional complex auditorium
PLAN OF THE GROUND FLOOR 1:200
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN STUDIO | cino zucchi lab LORENZA MANFREDI 751073
ALBERTO ROBLEDO LLORENTE 749765
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the spanish cultural centre
Localization of the site inside the main structure of the city.
CONTACTS Lorenza Manfredi Mainzer Str.2, 10247 Berlin, Germany lore.manfredi@gmail.com +49/1639403738 +39/3398582247 www.lorplay.weebly.com