Architecture Portfolio 2021 - Technical Version

Architecture Portfolio “Salt” Luca Parlangeli 31 March 1995 Arezzo, Italy Politecnico di Milano 2014 - 2017 TU Delft 2018 - 2020

2014 - 2015 2015 - 2016 2016 - 2017 2017 - 2018 2018 - 2019 2019 - 2020 2016 - 2020

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_Intro _Resume _Cover Letter _Augmented Nature _AMC Revisited _Gluacus _Future Relics

AUGMENTED NATURE

TYPEACADEMIC RESIDENTIAL

45°40’38.3”N

10°05’10.5”E

Exploring the architectural value of CLT technology

Year: 2016

SCALE: M

TEAM: w/ L.Pastore and T. Pacassoni

The main goal was to design a single-family housing type with X-LAM system, considering that the technical constructive components should play a decisive role in the achievement of the formal quality.

The identified area for the project was an extra-urban context located in Sulzano (BS), a site of sailing but also mountain tradition, recently known for the Floating Piers installation by Christo. From the very starting point, the project has evolved through given constraints which have driven the compositional, technological and functional choices. The legislative and environmental limits were therefore crucial tools to mold the architecture in a less arbitrary way from the overall scale to the detailed design.

Constraints: • The user is a family of 4 people • Maximum GFA: 150 sqm.

• Maximum Height: 7.50 mt.

• Minimum 10 mt. of distance from other buildings, from the boundaries of the lot and from the road.

• Porches and lodges: up to 5 sqm of GFA / 100 cubic meters of the residential volume only.

• It is forbidden to delete or modify orographical signs, slopes or terracings.

• It is forbidden to cut down or damage trees with environmental or scientific value (“Pinus pinaster”).

• It is possible to relocate the olive trees (“Olea europaea”).

• Every existing tree must be integrated in the design process.

• The building must be built on two not-repeatitive floors above ground.

• A road will represent the only pedestrian and driveway access to the house.

• The panoramic position and the relationship with the trees and the landscape is fundamental.

• The project must not involve excavation operations except for the technical systems or the foundations.

The project developed from an environmental analysis (1:2000 scale) down to the architectural detail (1:10 scale), mostly focusing on the aspects of feasibility and sustainability and adapting on the characteristics of every member of the client family. In this regard, the 1:10 scale model really allowed a full understanding of the technical and architectural quality of the villa as well as its constructability.

However, the final purpose was to create an architecture that could somehow strenghten the sense of immersion inside the nature. For this reason, great attention was paid to the use of trees: as architectural devices, sunshade or wind-screen, or cultivated in the private garden. As the X-lam technology is not yet largely diffuse in the italian context, every stratigraphy has been studied in a very detailed way being aware that this construction system is really beneficial for reaching certain standards of quality and sustainability. Moreover, this construction dry system is made up to be really easy and fast to build.

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Ground Floor Living Area

Ground Floor Sleeping Area

Ground Floor Garden

First Floor Sleeping Area

Technical Room

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Plan View: ground floor

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ARCHITECTURE CONCEPT Client: Family Profiles

Name: Royal Surname: Tenenbaum Role: Father Age: 45 Job: Lawyer Hobby: Sailing

Name: Etheline Surname: Tenenbaum Role: Mother Age: 46 Job: School Teacher Hobby: Hiking

Name: Margot Surname: Tenenbaum Role: Daughter Age: 16 Job: Student Hobby: Singing

Name: Chas Surname: Tenenbaum Role: Son Age: 12 Job: Student Hobby: Swimming

Design Evolution

Expansion: Max. Volume Occupation

Subtraction: Emptying of the Courtyards

Sculpting: Shaping of the Volume

Refining: Height adjustment to the Sun

LIVING AREA

SLEEPING AREA

Empathy: Eye-contact with the Context

Privacy: Emancipation of Functions

Symbiosis: Emptying/Adaptation to Nature

Ventilation: Orientation to the Winds

Environmental Design Solutions Shading 1: Trees as Sunshade

Shading 2: Trees as Sunshade

NORD

SUD

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LAKE

MOUNTAIN

NORD

SUN

SUN

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Planting: Trees as Wind’s Screen/Filter

606 168

429

438

526

190 210

438

220 150

298

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70 220

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Detailed Plan View: ground floor

Foundation detail: bottom-up 1 - “Iglù” system foundation (h. 350 mm) 2 - Cast and welded wire mesh φ20 3 - Bituminous waterproof coating d. 4 mm 4 - Rockwool insulation d. 100 mm 5 - Concrete cast substratum d. 60 mm 6 - Eps panels for technical systems d. 60 mm 7 - Mortar bed d. 30 mm 8 - Parquet floor d. 30 mm

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Roof detail: up-bottom 1 - Draining gravel 2 - Non-woven fabric 3 - Slope screed d. Max 50 mm 4 - Bituminous waterproof coating d. 2 Mm 5 - Insulation in rockwool d. 120 Mm 6 - X-lam 5 layers d. 160 Mm 7 - Rockwool insulation panel 8 - Gypsum-fibre countertop d. 20 Mm

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Linear Thermal Transmittance (U): 0,13 Periodic Thermal Transmittance (Yie): 0,00002 W/(mq*K)

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Linear Thermal Transmittance (U): 0,13 Periodic Thermal Transmittance (Yie): 0,0045 W/(mq*K)

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Cross Sections: details 1:5, section 1:20

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Elevation: south

View: outdoor life

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PROTOTYPING

Mockups: final architecture 1:50, wall prototype 1:10

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AMC REVISITED

TYPEACADEMIC HEALTHCARE

52°17’37.6”N

4°57’30.4”E

Design for a green and sustainable evolution of Amsterdam’s hospital

Year: 2019

SCALE: L

INDIVIDUAL PROJECT

This project of modernization of the AMC hospital in Amsterdam was the occasion to reflect on a circular approach for the renovation of existing buildings and their environment. As the Netherlands aims to meet the Paris climate deal of total circularity and energy neutrality by 2050, the AMC too strives to be independent from fossil fuels by 2035 and transform into a more effective and pleasant healing environment: the key technical issue was therefore how to convert a building designed in the 70s into a “productive city” (of food and energy) but also a flexible, green and iconic therapeutic building that performs according to future climate objectives and user requirements, while considering the everincreasing power need and energy consumption of a 24/7 running organisation that must remain in full use also during the renovation process.

The AMC in Amsterdam is the largest academic hospital in the Netherlands spreading for about half a million square meters of floor space. The various programme (hospital, bed towers and researcheducation) is differently distributed in the overall building ensemble, each one with a tailor-made façade and structure: high-rise buildings are accommodating the patients, while low rise ones contain the hospital and the academic functions. Each storey is then supported by a lower technical storey for the transport of data, water, air and energy. At last, the spaces in between the programmatic volumes create a wide and spread network of public space.

The energy agenda of the AMC is rather ambitious: from the current Utility Center (on site power plant) which produces the required 75 GWh (from gas), the complex aims at a state-of-the-art climatic performance achieving (individually controlled) comfort without forgetting reliability.

Starting from the concepts of “biophilia”, photosynthesis and monolith, the project addresses the issues related to energy supply, facade and structure through the implementation of a textile “second skin” which works either as second facade or canopy over the public spaces. Through this fabric layer the updated building can exploit natural climate sources such as heat (chimney effect) and light (diffuse, avoid glare) but also collect rainwater and deflect wind. The facade becomes “photosynthetic” thanks to micro-algae liquid which runs inside hoses interwoven within the fabric; the circuit becomes a relevant energy source of biogas considering the extensive surface available and what is more creates a “warm” layer which protects the interior environment. The complex will also produce energy onsite through the installation of other renewable energy systems (solar panels) plugged into the existing plant. The reduced facade load will benefit the structure and will be more suited to the time/usage of each area of the building. Few, new long-lasting materials are inserted (textile), the others are either recycled into new panels and reused onsite, or redistributed according to the diverse programme.

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+ 36,95 m

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View: scene from green roof

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+ 41,05 m + 41,05 m

ARCHITECTURE DETAILS

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1. Roof detail from interior to exterior:

+ 41,05 m

1 - Pre-existing concrete slab 2 - Screed (10 mm) 3 - Vapor barrier 4 - Insulation (5 cm) 5 - Waterproof membrane (7 mm) 6 - Raised floor 7 - Metal flashing and gutter

3. Floor detail Storey 3-8 (EIFS System)

4. High Rises detail Horizontal Section

from exterior to interior:

from exterior to interior:

1 - Cement finishing (1 cm) 2 - Support metal profile (7 cm) 3 - Rockwool insulation (10 cm) 4 - Anchoring profile

1 - Plastic coating layer (1 mm) 2 - Plastic hoses for algae circulation (2 mm d.)

3 - PTFE membrane (2 mm) 4 - Tensioning metal profile (22 x 22 cm) 5 - Cement finishing (1 cm) 6 - Aquapanel “Outdoor” (2 cm) 7 - Supporting metal profile 8 - Microventilation layer (5 cm) 9 - Knauf “Rockwool” insulation (10 cm) 10 - Anchoring profile 11 - Pre-existing wall 12 - Finishing plasterboards panels

3. Wall detail Storey 0 - 3

2. Window detail

from interior to exterior:

from interior to exterior: 1 - Dripping metal profile 2 - Wood joists + Aluminium profile 3 - Sill insulation (5 + 5 cm) 4 - Finishing plasterboards panels

1 - “Butong” panel for green wall (10 cm) 2 - Void gap 3 - Supporting metal profile 4 - Pre-existing concrete panel

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ARCHITECTURE CONCEPT

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+ 20,70 m + 20,70 m

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+ 20,70 m

Indoor Public Space

Outdoor Green Public Space

ALGAE FEED TANK

+ 17,00 m

ALGAE FEED TANK

Facade

Bed-Tower

+ 17,00 m

Second Facade Textile

ALGAE FEED TANK

University

WATER TANK

+ 17,00 m

Hospital Programme

WATER TANK

Energy Programme Photosynthesis WATER TANK

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+ 14,45 m + 14,45 m

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Cross Sections: section fragments 1:20 + 14,45 m

AMC

AMC revisited

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CLIMATE CONCEPT

GENERAL HOSPITAL RESEARCH/TREATMENT

NURSING

STAFF

PATIENT LABS

NON-MEDICAL

Total energy need: for lighting, heating, cooling source: 2016 Management rapport Laagbouw

EDUCATION

LABS EDUCATION

Heat: “Chimney Effect” at interstitial public spaces N N N W W W

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Deflection of the wind, partial permeability to cool down glazed rooms

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Wind:

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Sun:

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Transform direct light into diffuse light

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Rain: Exploiting extensive roof surfaces for rain-water collection

Air

Exhausted Air Energy Storage

Heat Exchanger

Exhausted Air

Hot Water Ventilation/heating

Wind

Technical Storeys

to CHP unit

Biofuel Heat Pump

Cooling Tower

to thermal storage Climate Diagram: winter

Pharmafilter System to/from lake

Pump

CONSTRUCTION OVERVIEW

Green Balconies

Extra Storey

Solar Panels PTFE Panels

New structure: - Pillars and beams to span over public space - Concrete slabs for plants accomodation - Stability: provided by existing volumes

Beams

Border Steel Frame 23,0 17,0 m

New Hanging Facade

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New structure

m 9,8

Summit New Technical Space

Steel sub-structure: - Skeleton: mullions and transoms - Rib: tubular tensioning profiles - Anchhoring profiles to the facade Stability: provided by elevator shafts Joint: steel plate on concrete plinth

No Scaffolding

Exploded Diagrams: construction overview and details

Hanging Facade

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4

+ 18,70 m

ALGAE FEED TANK

WATER TANK

View: scene from green roof at night when algae liquid glows + 14,40 m

C Pre-existin Screed (10 Vapor barr Waterproo Raised floo LEGEND Metal flash C -C Pre-existin(f Cement fin Screed (10 Support Me Vapor barr Rockwool WaterprooI Anchoring Raised floo Window d Metal flash Dripping m C Wood joist(f Sill insulati Cement fin Interior Supportfinis Me CI Rockwool Anchoring(f "Butong" p Window d Void gapm Dripping Pre-existin Wood joist C Sill- insulati Pre-existin Interior finis Antiroots W C Drainpipe(ff Protective "Butong" p Filtering Void gapsu Cultivated Pre-existin H C REGNAHCXE TA-EH Plastic Coa BIOMASSPre-existin Plastic hos Antiroots W BIOFUELS PTFE Memf Drainpipe Tensioning Protective Cement fin Filtering su S Aquapanel e Cultivated Supporting H Microventil Plastic Coa Knauf Roc Plastic hos Anchoring PTFE Mem Pre-existin Tensioning Interior Cementfinis fin

+ 44,20 m

PTFE Coated Membrane with Algae Layer + 44,20 m

Heat reflects up to 75% incident solar radiation Rain 100% waterproof Air interstitial microaeration + ventilation Light prevents from glare creates diffuse inner lighting SF = 0,2

+ 40,90 m

Customisable It can be parametrically print or woven according to orientation or function

CMA

HEAT EXCHANGER

+ 40,90 m

Durable & Recyclable It is guaranteed 30 years life span

+ 39,15 m

CO2

Easy And Economic To Build/ Maintain It is light but yet very resistant and noncombustible

Translucent Gives privacy and shade without occluding outside view

CO2

C M A

+ 39,15 m

2OC

CHP SYSTEM

CMA

Aquapanel 2O Supporting Microventil Knauf Roc Anchoring Pre-existin Interior finis

PMUP TAEH

GEOTHERMAL STORAGE SYSTEM

Abacus Facade Panels Existing Panels Aluminium Re-paint

Concrete Recycle

“Butong” Green Wall

PTFE Coated + Algae

Glazing Reuse

New Panels

+ 19,10 m

+ 19,10 m functioning 1:20 Elevation & Cross Section: algae facade

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“Aquapanel”

TITLE GLAUCUS

TYPEACADEMIC BRIDGE

52°00’06.8”N

4°33’12.5”E

Study for a Metamorphic Bridge on the Rottemeren basin

Year: 2019

SCALE: L

TEAM:

w/ A. Scho and F. Fortich

The Rottemeren is a containment high basin for the river Rotte, located north of Rotterdam in between Bleiswijk and Zevenhuizen. It was created after the surrounding polders were drained and subsequently sunk due to urban settlements and peat bogging. A row of windmills on the east side of the Rottemeren was responsible for draining the polders until 1952, although today only few of them are left. Before being dammed off at both ends, the river originally flowed directly into the Nieuwe Maas in Rotterdam, now only does so via several man-made canals. The site was recently transformed into an easily accessible recreational area of 900 hectares, where various activities take place: water sports, walking, cycling, climbing, camping, fishing and even sunbathing.

The attentive mapping process of the national dutch cycling routes revealed the area as a crucial junction in the national bike path from Rotterdam to Amsterdam. This analysis was fundamental towards the final design as the bike infrastructural connection between the two main cities was upgraded, for starters, through the implementation of the bridge and the realization of a more direct and straighter route.

Furthermore, taking into account that the area is mostly leisure-oriented and (especially during summer) heavily exploited for water activities, the project had to consider a constant water clearance of 2 meters and the possibility to raise it to 6 m for higher masts as fundamental constraints for the design.

The proposed bridge consists of a seven-pieces truss structure, which is bolted on site and fixed to the sunk-in-place concrete foundations, a floating deck composed of hinged modular elements, and one void concrete “pocket” at the opposite side, which allows the deck to slide (up to 2 meters) back and forth over the water. The last panel is specially shaped to fit this pocket thus preventing the deck to be adrift, while a steel flap covers the small gap between the bank and the deck in order to make the surface easy and continuous. When the bridge is “resting”, sunbathing is possible on the deck thanks to the gentle slope on both sides of each panel.

The bridge implemented is not just reinforcing and refining the national cycling route but also paying tribute to the heritage of mechanisms and machines of the cultivated Dutch landscape. In fact, on one hand the proposal tries to blend the bridge silhouette with the plain landscape through a continuous floating deck, on the other hand to establish a visual, volumetric and semantic relationship with the landmarks (Eendrachtsmolen 1727) through the introduction of a self-balanced rolling-basculade mechanism.

In Greek mythology, Glaucus was a prophetic sea-god - protector of sailors and fishermen - who used to be a fisherman but was transformed into an immortal merman and forced to live forever in the sea for having eaten a magical herb.

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Amsterdam Camping

Blijswijk

Camping

Zevenhuizen

Wilhelm-Alexander Rowing Line

Rotterdam

Map: Rottemeren Basin - traffic, activities, leisure facilities

ARCHITECTURE CONCEPT pier

floating cantilever

floating

pier

Bridge new direct connection

windmill view

Flows water traffic

old connection

Eendrachtsmolen (1727) yacht port & boat rentals

Mockups + 3d: concept development

Site conditions

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View: Bridge as public space

1. Public space: beach, leisure

2. Infrastructure: cycle-path, “street”

3. Floating platform: water activities

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1. truss structure 2. secondary structural frame 3. corrugated steel sheet 4. light spot

Structure dary Structural Frame ated Steel sheet Cable tunnel

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Counterweight 4 3

4

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Tension Cables

Concrete Roller Base

Cantilever Steel Structure

Extruded FRP Floating Modules

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Rubber finish Rubber spring FRP Panel Rubber compressor Galvanized Steel Hinge; glued

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1. rubber finish 2. rubber spring 3. FRP panel 4. rubber compressor 5. galvanized steel hinged (glued)

FRP panels crafting process

e to center by half the edge o slope the side

heet ontop to seal

Repeat on the other side

Cut the edges

Connect panels by hinges Rubber pieces to fill the gaps

Seal the edges

Seal the edges

Connect with hinges

Fill the gap with rubber “cushions”

BRIDGE DYNAMISM counterweight

self-balanced rolling basculade

Structural Schemes

6m

Lifted Position

Balanced Rotation

Rest Position

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FUTURE* RELICS

TYPEACADEMIC RESEARCH

51°19’32.3”N

4°15’43.3”E

About Doel’s Eventual Destruction in the Post-Anthropocene

Year: 2020

SCALE: XL

INDIVIDUAL PROJECT

Within the main geographical contexts of the North Sea and the Scheldt estuary, the Doelpolder area stands out for the conflictual relationships between human settlements, environmental crisis, and man-made infrastructures, which are all paradigms of the so-called Anthropocene era. The site comprises the village of Doel, the natural reserve of Saeftinghe, the nuclear power plant of Doel and the largest dock of the Port of Antwerp in a 2 km long prone-to-flooding area, which is currently facing some anthropic phenomena such as pollution, infrastructural expansion of the harbor and dismantlement of the nuclear power plant. In its process of northbound expansion at the expense of the estuarine territory and the polder-land, the Port of Antwerp has turned Doel into a ghost town by means of expropriation and economic pressure, while the flora and fauna of Saeftinghe are endangered by the alteration of their brackish habitat caused by pollution and water level rise due to both infrastructural growth and climate change.

This everlasting dichotomy between natural and anthropized processes poses here the dualistic problem of extinction/preservation and if/how can architecture depict a self-healing survival scenario for this specific site in the Post-Anthropocene, attempting at climate change mitigation and nature metabolism at the same time. The project first addresses the aforementioned issues within a regional strategic and energetic plan which foresees the “de-polderization” and “de-nuclearization” of the area, its transformation into a controlled tidal zone for soil and water recovery and the simultaneous expansion of the natural reserve.

On the architectural scale, the building here implemented is a “knowledge ark” with laboratories and academic-related spaces, a facility which can exploit not only the world-level Port infrastructure for an optimized logistic (coldchain) but also the proximity of the natural reserve and the former agricultural vocation of the area. This repository building consists of a seed vault and a frozen zoo for the conservation of species through cryopreservation technique, but most importantly is an architectural object designed to resist or accommodate time and territorial transformations, for guaranteeing a possible rebirth of both nature and culture. In order to do so, the building is physically linked to the water-level-rise process: when/if the level of the Scheldt rises above 2 meters (storm surge scenario), the whole area will be flooded and any human survival unlikely. In these circumstances, the water will trigger the self-destruction of the facility, spreading the seeds contained in the vault all over the area and thus favouring the rebirth of nature in unpredictable climatic conditions. In the end, the Seed Vault/ Frozen Zoo constitutes, like Doel, the nemesis of the Port but, also like Doel, will eventually evolve into a ruin in case of defeat of humans in the fight against, pollution and climate change.

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Global Mean Sea Level (cm)

Delta Committee, 2008

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200 100

Rahmstorf, 2007

1953 - Storm Surge Level

60% Seaports impacted

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WBGU, 2006

Doel Dike Level

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Diagram: from global sea level rise to Doel’s

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Scheldt River

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Natural Reserve of Saeftinghe

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Nuclear Power Plant

Doelpolder

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Doel

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Port of Antwerp

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2019

2020

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2022

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Antwerp

Map: Scheldt estuary anthropization

TERRITORIAL CONCEPT

Series of containers

De-nuclearisation

Seed vault installation

Lab-scape / Facility

“Ground Zero”

“Eclipsed solar pool”

Promenade

Diagrams: architecture as territorialization

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Liquid Nitrogen Production Seed Vault

Panoramic Tower

Promenade Lab-Scape

Public Building

Solar Pool

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ARCHITECTURE CONCEPT Privacy

(Need for) Natural Lighting

Industrial Remnants

Users

materials

people

passers-by

Efficient Material Flow & Users Circulation

Human

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Cross Section: intersection point of all circulations and volumes

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View: Anthropocene scenario

THE SEED VAULT

Sciaphile plants Ground Floor

GERMINATION TEST every 10 years (60%humidity, 45C°)

Conservation chambers

Seed Vault

STORAGE - Conventional storage (20% humidity, −20C°) - Cryogenic storage - Field gene bank (in-situ): Arboretum, Greenhouses, Reserve

Circulation and work spaces

Ground Floor

FREEZING

THAWING - 37C° Water bath

TREATMENT - Cleaning - Counting - X-Ray

Circular balcony

-2 Floor

SCAN

- Concrete shear walls

PROCESSING - Analysis - Cross-breeding

- Reinforced tridimensional steel trusses

-1 Floor

CLEANING - Dry Room (15%humidity, 15C°)

Vertical load-bearing elements:

CULTIVATION IN SITU - Greenhouses - Arboretum - Natural Reserve

DISTRIBUTION - Conventional - Cold chain

Diagram: seed vault’s cryogenic process

WASTE DISPOSAL - In-situ - Ex-situ

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Mixed foundation: concrete bed on piles

View: post-Anthropocene scenario

THE TOWER

Concrete box filled with debris and coated with marble plates

Equilibrium State: standard water level Steel staircase

Steel mesh facade Dynamic State: rising water level

Concrete box foundation with embedded water tank

Disruption State: max. water level Diagrams: tower’s self-destruction process

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View: Anthropocene scenario - the facility continues to freeze and store samples

View: post-Anthropocene scenario - new “nature” born from stored samples

Elevation & Cross Section: equipped wall and greenhouse roof 1:20

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1. Augmented Nature 2. AMC Revisited 3. Glaucus 4. Future Relics*

Luca Parlangeli