Lorenzo Ciccu
Architecture, urbanism, landscape Portfolio 2011 - 2014
Lorenzo Ciccu Architecture, urbanism, landscape portfolio 2014
Current address: Via Corelli 2 09045, Quartu sant’Elena, Cagliari, Italy (+39) 3404688412 lorenzociccu@gmail.com
CONTENTS
00 Dialectical status
Natural museum, Berlin
01 Museum der bayerischen geschicte Bavarian History Museum, Regensburg
02 More with less Castelo de Maia, Portugal
03 Strategic project for the Cardener river Regional deisgn, Barcelona
04 Strategic project for the T11 highroad Regional deisgn and conceptual masterplan, Barcelona
05 New “La Verneda� masterplan Definitive masterplan, Barcelona
06 Urbs in Horto Recycling city 03, Treviso/Venice
07 Living bridge International summer school, Cagliari
08 In between space Chess club Baku, Kassel
09 Selected photographs
Cover page: photo courtesy_Federico Mullanu, Post editing by the author.
Bio / about / profile / resumĂŠ Born in Cagliari on the 31th of May 1988. He started studying architecture in 2007 at the University of Cagliari. After 4 years in 2011 he won a one year scolarship to study at the University of Kassel, Germany. At the same period he worked in the studio Loma Architecture, Urbanism and landscape. In 2012 he moved to Berlin, where he lived till June 2013 developing his master thesis and joining various international competitions. He graduated in 2013 at the University of Cagliari, where he won a 18 months scolarship to attend the Postgraduate Master in Urbanism at the university of Barcelona where he is currently developing his thesis about urban trasformation and policies in the city bounderies. Living abroad allowed him to meet people from all over the world, making him feel confident in a complex and international environment, and developing excellent ability in the team work. He is currently looking for a position as architect and urban designer.
EDUCATION 2013/09 - 2015
Postgraduate Master in Urbanism
Polytechnic University of Catalunya, Barcelona
2007/09 - 2013/04
Master degree in Architecture
University of Cagliari, Italy | School of Architecture 2011/10 - 2012/07
Exchange student
Architecture University of Kassel, Germany
WORKSHOP
2014 /06
Recycling city 03
IUAV, Architecture University of Venice
2012/09
Summer school of architecture
University of Cagliari, Italy | School of Architecture
TEACHING 2014 /09
Tutor Summer school of architecture
University of Cagliari, Italy | School of Architecture
HONORS AND AWARDS 2013 - current Research grant Master and Back program Sardinia Region - University of Cagliari
2012 - 2013
Erasmus scolarship
University of Cagliari - School of Architecture 2007 - 2012
Grant for excellence in architecture study University of Cagliari - School of Architecture
TRAINING 2012/04 - 2013/01
LOMA - Architecture, urbanism and landscape Kassel, Germany
TECHNICAL SKILLS Autodesk_Autocad Adobe creative suit_Illustrator, Indesign, Photoshop Rhino and Vray Craft and model making.
LANGUAGE Italian (Mother language) English (Proficient) Spanish (Proficient) French (Good) German (Limited)
Neue Nationalgalerie 52°30’24.5’’N 13°22’04.5’’E
Kunsthochschule, TU 52°50’ 8.60’’N 13°3’ 2.73’’E
Natural Science Museum 52°50’9.58’’N 13°3’ 2.81’’E
00 DIALECTICAL STATUS
Natural museum Berlin Berlin, 2013
International ideas competition With : Simone Langiu
The urban crisis, following the destruction of the Second World War, brings Berlin into the most particular condition that the urban history has ever seen. The partition into two cities, two opposing block. The east Berlin as the capital of the Democratic Republic of Germany, and the West Berlin as a state of the Federal Republic. West Berlin, due to its condition of island, a city-state enclosed by a perimiter wall and surrounded by a hostile territory, in the 1970s still contained empty spaces in which buildings seemed being isolated, such islands. In 1977 this radical urban status will be the reflection above which set up a rescue project - led by Oswald Mathias Ungers with his students, along with Rem Koolhaas which brought this fragmented reality to its most extreme consequences, Berlin as a green archipelago. Most than a century before, Friedrich Shinkel said that Berlin is a city made by single architecture and he made it clear on his project for the so-called Havellendshaft, and particularly on the design for Klein Glienicke. He proposed a garden with single architecture which constitute an archipelago of formal events. What is in common in this two projects it is the same approach to a particular urban condition. Rather then to impose a spefic vision, and to work against the city forces, they decided to emphasize them, tying them together to their extreme consequences Starting the study of the project site we use the same approach. The project area represents a crucial point whithin the urban structure of the city of Berlin. It is the point where the Straße des 17Juni, which connects the Brandenburger Tor to the district of Charlottenburg, is crossed by the S-Bahn and moreover its potential on a large scale grows due to its proximity to the Zoolosischer Garten Banhohf and the parking area, which represent the arrival point of all the turists traffc from the city center. Furthermore, on a urban scale it represents the boarderline in between the dense tissue of Charlottenburg and the landscape dimension of the Tiergarten area and the Zoolosischer Garten. This reading brought us to formulate the idea of a dialectical status of the site. Rather then complete the block with a finite architecture we decided to work with the urban forces in a different way, radicalizing this dual condition of the site. We saw the opportunity to use this concept to set up a project able to emphasize this condition creating two opposite interacting spaces.
52° 50’ 9.58’’ N 13° 3’ 2.81’’E
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01 MUSEUM DER BAYERISCHEN GESCHICTE
Bavarian history museum Regensburg 2013
MA architecture thesis
Tutors: Gianmarco Chiri and Ilija Vukorep
“Architecture is bound to situation. Unlike music, painting, sculpture, film, and literature, a construction ( non-mobile ) is intertwined with the experience of a place. The site of a building is more than a mere ingredient in its conception. It is its physical and metaphysical foundation. ” Steven Holl The site of the new history museum in Regensburg has a crucial role in the city transformation. Its position inside of the historical center, which is enterly heritage of the Unesco, requires a scrupulous and carful research on the existing space relations and on the perception created by the gothique urban tissue. I decided to work with long and narrow volumes perpendicular to the river, in order to create a fragmented and irregular front, which is the main feature of the river side. The second fundamental aspect was the formal language to use. I developed it especially working with physical model, looking for the relation with the museum and the surrounded buldings and how to tide them together. The museum exhibition is organized as a loop through continuous rooms. Crossing all the bavarian history, from the traditional bavarian history to the XVIII century, till contemporary history. The loop ends on the Bayerhimmel.
A - Ground floor plan B - Level 2
49° 01’ 12.63’’N 12° 06’ 10.63’’E
View from the Danau river bridge.
North faรงade and entrance from the river path
Cross section through the atrium and the exhibition rooms
South faรงade and second entrance from the Ostengasse Strasse
Section through the Bayerhimmel
Perspective of the entra
ance from the riverside
Level 2
Main exhibition rooms and Bayerhimmel
Level 1
Offices and laboratories
Level 0
Atrium, restaurant, bookshop and conference hall
Level -1
Parking and technical rooms
A - Atrium_View to the main
entrance. On the left side the tickets office and the stairs to start the exhibition.
B - Exhibition room_View from one of the exhibition rooms. Natural light studing of the exhibition from the pitched roof.
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Interior view of the renovate block D : the new CO-working and temporary exhibition area
Cross section A -A A-A
Interior view of the renovate block E : retail plan nursery
Cross section B-B
03 STRATEGIC PROJECT FOR THE CARDENER RIVER
Regional design
Barcellona 2014
Master in urban deisgn (EMU) European postgraduate master in urbanism/ MPU
Tutors: Joaquin Sabaté, Julian Galindo, Alvaro Cuellar
This study proposes a regional strategy for the area along the river Cardener in the Bages valley, in Catalunya. The strategy aims to exploit the heritage of the post industrial landscape and create endogenous economy at a local scale. In order to build a multydisciplinary view we started reading the 3 layers which compose the territory: the natural support, the infrastructure system, and urban settlements. This reading reveals a territory where clearly appear six distinct units with their own identities. They build, per summa, or complementarity, a unique system where the common thread that tides this complex organism is the Cardener river and its natural corridor. This approach to the design process, often accompanied by a multiscale vision has identified those areas that work as nerve system activation points and the lines that connect them. According to the current economic dynamics , the construction of the territory should start from minimal operations, meaning that they are not finalist projects, but flexible interventions that could generate different opportunities or scenarios. Furthermore, we state that the potential of this area comes from its diversity and ability to create interrelationship of the parts, giving particular attention to the natural landscape as an important piece for the balance and functioning of the entire system.
41° 43’ 49.13’’ N 1° 48’ 49.76’’E
Duality between natural and anthropic space:
Human work and natural environment
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Cardona_ Salt Mountain
Suria
Callus
San Joan de Vilatorrada
Manresa
1 - Catalunya region: The “Comarca del Bages” 2 - Topographic map of the “Bages” 3 - The “Comarca del Bages” as a differentiated unity
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Recongnize the diversity of the territory and the opportunities that it us to offer. Strengthening the the different urban tening the distances and generating new territory.
relations between settlements shorin between them guidelines on the
Generating flexible spaces and not monothematic interventions. Creating new public transport lines and improving the existing mobilty system. Determining the new conditions to attract economic activity related with the territory.
Territorial radiography 1 - Cardona 2 - Cardener valley 3 - Suria 4 - Callus 5 - San joan de vilatorrada 6 - Manresa 5
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Existing condition plan
Free and green spaces plan
04 STRATEGIC PROJECT FOR THE T11 HIGHROAD
Regional design and conceptual masterplan
Barcellona 2014
Master in urban deisgn (EMU) European postgraduate master in urbanism/ MPU
Tutors: Isabel Castineira, Antonio Font Arellano With : Géraldine de Neuville
This study proposes a regional strategy for the area along the T11 highroad in a central area of Catalunya (Spain). The road connects the city of Tarragona with Reus creating a long linear element which brutally cuts the landscape in two part. At the regional scale we proposes some criteria to re-establish the green connectors between the two part and identifying new areas to be protected. Aware of the potential of the linear axis as a structural element of the area we studied the new activity that it could host. This meant to convert some existing use, to propose a new image and to accommodate public functions and spaces. This possible scenario could start just from the change of the street section, encouraging the public transport and improving the connection between the urban settlments. In 2017 Tarragona will host the Mediterranean sports game. It allows the municipality to imagine a new portion of the citya and transform part of the existing one. The exercise was to create a district for 2000 new inhabitants with large public equipments on the T11 axis and small equipment and public space serving the new community. We have been asked also to convert the area with the sports facilities in a central urban park for the entire region.
41° 07’ 41.57’’ N 1° 12’ 03.96’’E
Masterplan prosposal 2017 After the mediterranean game
Regional scale study
Masterplan new proposal criteria
Transport system study
Site plan
Site plan
Section A- A
Section B - B
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tot. 24.256 mq
2 Ikea
Visual arts center + offices
Commerce and business Congress center
School Library
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tot. 22.438 mq
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Green area and public space
tot. 105.893 mq
Residential Type block: 71x 50 m
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7:00 pm 12:00 am
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4 - Residential 5 - Work on the type block to improve the sunlight and the wind protection 6 - Uses distribution
1 - School and equipments 2 - Offices and commerce distribution 3 - Green areas and public spaces
Building rules
Area tot. 154.517 mq
Vertical grid 50 x (520 + n) m
Manhattan grid 60 x 277 m
Horizontal grid 45 x 120 m
Barcelona grid 113 x 113 m
Final grid 75 x 115 m
05 NEW “LA VERNEDA” MASTERPLAN
Definitive masterplan
Barcellona 2014
Master in urban deisgn
(EMU) European postgraduate master in urbanism, MPU
Tutors: Miquel Corominas, Tonet Font
The curre situation in the study site is characterized by the lack of accessibility and integration between the two existing linear element. On the est side two of the longest residential building in Barcelona and on the west side a linear park and the old railway. I started studying different tissues typologies in order to understand the size of the area and to imagine how the tissue could create differente relations between the existing elements and how it could solve the integration problem. I finally elect a block of 75 x 115 creating after some exeption starting from some geometric rules that i developed to increase the usable surface and assigning building criteria and type of uses for each block. I finally devoloped 3 type block with a primarly residential use leaving the big public equipments and the productive area on the boader of the site along the main road. The other small equipments as school or nurseries ar integrated on the blocks The four central block create a linear public system of squares and commercial spaces that work as vertebral column of the entire intervention, offering public spaces and activity.
41° 25’ 57.10’ N 2° 12’ 19.28’’E
Library
Cultural center
School
Theatre
Market hall
Public square
Model sc. 1:2000
EXISTING CONDITION
VEGETATION SYSTEM
WATER NETWORK
AREA SUBDIVISION
MOBILTY
LOW - MID -HIGH RISE
OFFICE DISTRIBUTION
COMMERCE
SCHOOL AND EQUIPMENTS
Three type block
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Commercial Residential Productive space
1 - Type plan (block A) 2 - Ground floor 3 - Undergound plan 4 - Type plan (block B) 5 - Ground floor 6 - Undergound plan
A - View from the “porticato� to the public square. B -View from to peatonal streeet at the entrance of the tower C - Block connections and passages. D - Underground parking and vertical connections to the public space.
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Section A - A (block B)
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Section B - B (block B) D
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Impermeable surfaces 2
Water system and orography 3
Water risk 4
Water risk scenario
06 URBS IN HORTO
Recycling city 03
Treviso, Venice 2014
Academic work 06: IUAV, Istituto Universitario Architettura Venezia
Tutors: Bernardo Secchi, Paola Viganò
Camposampiero is a municipality of the province of Padova and part of the Camposampierese confederation, meaningfully representing the spatial and productive logics of the territory of the città diffusa. Among these, the distinction between small and big enterprises in Veneto Region is very subtle and rarely related to the dimensions of the shed or number of workers: the 48% of the sheds in the Padua area occupies less than 3.000 sq m and the 63% has less than 25 workers. The territorial organization depicts the capillarity of the productive system, working in synergy with infrastructures – water and asphalt - and the residential needs: a cultural landscape reflecting the local entrepreneurial spirit. In the current economical situation this consolidated rationality is challenged by the need to reduce costs as well as energetic dispersion, both human and combustible. The need to have a more efficient accessibility to the main infrastructures of transportation, to develop synergies among resources, different phases and devices of production is determining the progressive coagulation of productive platforms, encouraged also at the level of territorial planning. In this framework, in 2011 the Confederation of Camposampiero, made of 11 municipalities, having an average ratio of 1 enterprise each 10 habitants, has been founded having as one of the main objectives the development of a new territorial logic, able to maintain and improve the current level of competitiveness.
45° 38’ 42.68’ N 12° 17’ 46.92’’E
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1 - Site area 3,5 x 3,5 km 2 - Productive landscape 3 - Productive landscape + water system
Images 1,2,3,4,6,7 from Extreme City_L. Fabian, P. Viganò eds.
Water system
Green and vegetation system
Public space and bike line Urban settlments
Overlapping layers
Model sc. 1:1000
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Model SW to NE view
Model N to S view
Model E to W view
A - The living bridge will mark the transition between open sea and close sea (the lagoon). It hosts officies and residential spaces while the tower will host all the public facilities. B - The public pathway along the sea promenade. A simple blade of concrete will cut the sky creating different landscape frames.
08 IN BETWEEN SPACE
Chess club Baku
Baku, Azerbaijan 2012
Academic work : University of Kassel, Germany
Tutors: Frank Stepper and Benjamin Jourdan
On the supersurface two white boxes rest in a stillness state. Within each aseptic boxes the pieces of two opposing factions resid. The spheres rotate around their king with a perpetual motion. Their positions are absolut , undefined and nothing could upset them. They float on a neutral grid, a grid of energy flows and informations. Nothing could ruin that oasis of happiness. Just a innate necessity of dispair and aggression. It resides in each of us. A collective excitement pervades the spheres. As guided by an instinctive consciounsness they glide on the battlefield.
Nowadays the city of Baku is object of several international competitionn with the goal to make the capital of Azerbaijan a new world attractive center. The project is sited between the “house of Government” on the north side and the Caspian sea waterfront on the south side. The concept comes from a precise study of the chess game, its rules, role of pieces and players relation. We have been invited to deisgn a personal chessboard starting from our game’s perception and its meaning. My design took ispiration from the italian radical avanguardia “SUPERSTUDIO” and their project of the supersurface. An utopian vision where all the earth surface is invadade by a non-compositional architecture made homogeneus by the political and cultural process of the second capitalism. Two wall, 240 meters long and 10 meters height along the seaside promenade are pointed such a strong physical division between the city and sea. The north wall marks a net separation with the city, meanwhile the south one with a number of different size windows build a dialogue with the sea. They built together a space in between. A space with floating architecture monuments. Their position is defined by them shadows calculated during the summer and winter sulstice, allowing them to get as more as possible light along the year Spatial definition is ordered by angles of perception. 40° 22’ 20.71’ N 49° 51’ 11.73’’E
45° 26’ 21.21’ N 12° 17’ 47.49’’E
Island, Venice 2014
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SELECTED PHOTOGRAPHS Travel pictures
52° 28’ 24.07’ N 13° 24’ 03.77’’E
Tempelhof park, Berlin 2012
45° 26’ 28.88’ N 12° 19’ 17.81’’E
Venice 2014
42° 19’ 48.60’ N 3° 15’ 00.41’’E
Cap De Creus, Catalunya 2014
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