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MARCO GALASSO Portfolio 2015

Aelbrechtskade 130 3023 jg Rotterdam ZH the Netherlands tel +31 (0)6 439 469 31

via Dalmazia 37 62019 Recanati MC Italy tel +39 340 98 61 457

marco.galax@gmail.com

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COMPETITIONS & AWARDS

I am currently an Architect working in Rotterdam. I attended the Berlage Institute (still in Rotterdam then) from 2008 to 2010, working on a series of urban project, dealing with the relationship between nature, infrastructure and the city. In the meanwhile I won with a colleague the 10th Europan competition in the Netherlands, in Emmen, that is currently under development. I also worked for MVRDV , mainly on competitions, with architecture and urban topic. After that experience, I worked on personal

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project, winning several competitions, and some of those are now in the design phase. During my career I was involved in different stages of the architectonic process, from the early design to the final drawings, working on different scale, from the urban development and masterplanning to the product design.

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In the Netherlands, I have experience in producing architectural drawings, and the Europan project I said before is going to start the construction phase. As an architect I developed the interest in urban transformations and urban repair, experiencing different techniques that can improve and enhance the quality of our urban environment. I have been working on project raging from the reconversion of industrial areas, transformation of chaotic and unstructured spaces in livable public space, to more punctual and soft intervention, trying to change the perception of infrastructure, for a better accessibility and

COLLABORATIONS The Cloud pg.31

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fruition of the city as a whole. Together with the design practice, I was involved in a wide range of research programs. Starting from my experience

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in the berlage, I was then involved in research groups involving Lund University (S) Ancona university dealing with the topic of public space accessibility, I have been a lecturer at the South East University in Nanijng, and lead an italian student team for a workshop at the same university. Recently I started a research about the possible intersection between the physical environment of the city and the information and data network, as an occasion for enhancing the urban experience. These active part of our cities, without being hidden, can contribute to the life and

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experiences in the urban environment.

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Environments of collectivity pg.57

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SUTURE

Repairing The Urban Fabric with Timur Shabaev COMPETITION EUROPAN 10

FIRST PRICE construction expected spring 2015

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The outskirts of Emmen is broken and fragmented. As the city expanded toward the countryside without organization. The city needs a suture, like in kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing pottery with gold, and it is a public space.

) (Japanese: golden joinery) is

the Japanese art of fixing broken pottery with a lacquer resin sprinkled with powdered gold.

INFORMAL PATHS

Reshuffle the property: The neighborhood has very fragmented land ownership, between developers and municipality. Reshuffling it, will improve the economic value of both the existing and the new housing suturing the fragmentation with a public space in the land owned and managed by the municipality. Optimize the informal: This small scale intervention will provide a better integration with the neighborhood now completely car-dependent, improving those path that are already designed by the spontaneous movement of people in the vacant area.

GOOD DEAL !

Natural linkage: Emmen is strongly linked with the natural environment that surround it. In holland water is at the same time a resource and a danger. According to the climate change problem, the relationship with the nature has to be reconsidered. No more only for leisure but in a way that is more functional to the security of the whole city. The suturing square is considered as a water reservoir that can be flooded in case of necessity, and at the same time will give a mutable public space to the neighborhood.

land ownership

municipality lefier (developers)

Reprogramming the space: We convert the existing church in disuse to office building by turning its envelope inside out. We build it up; its interior becomes a patio. It will attract workers and youngsters as it did for the believers. New housing configurations: The experience of living within a natural environment in which green and water are the main element and a constant presence in the daily life. The new housing is integrated in the urban fabric characterized by detached housings with very low density. To express in a very direct way the close relationship among houses and nature, these are divided in two spaces, the ground floor for living and a more intimate area protected by the familiar shape of the roof to have a more private and quiet life.

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KEY PRINCIPLES - ENHANCING URBAN CHARACTER

representation of collective character rather than emphasis on individual units

scale of facades responds to the orientation

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‘SUPERROOF’

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STREET COURTYARD

3 levels

1 level closed zone

‘COLLECTIVE VILLA’

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living

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4. SPECIAL WINDOWS

configuration of the block follows irregularities of the site

customization of units and special windows at building sides

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entrance

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FRONT GARDENS: INDIVIDUAL MANIFESTATION THROUGH GREENERY

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The project finds its fundament and power in the importance of the central public space that works not only as playground for children, water reservoir in case of flood and heavy rains, but also as a urban element able to virally spread in the whole city as a strategy to reconnect the fragmented and disperse city.

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SOTTO \ SOPRA

CHALLENGES

Beyond Infrastructure

1. The tight section of the trench of only 25 meter from road to road. 2. It is a strong cut, that brakes the area into two parts. 3. Mono functionality of the area, with the prevalence of residential use.

with

We accept the challenge to transform the site , through the rethinking of the metro line, in a dynamic and vibrant part of the city.

Timur Shabaev

GOALS

1. To reconnect parts of the city through a green public space. 2. To provide diverse “urban experiences” along the promenade. 3. To activate the Metro line, making it an integral part of the city experiences. 4. To give strong identity to the site.

1. ACTIVATE THE BOUNDARY!

Re-Introducing Infrastructure In Urban Public Space The site of the project is a narrow strip of 2,5 km length and 40 m width of the former railway trench that connected industrial areas on the North-east of the city to the main railway axis. This trench has been cutting the city for almost one century and the brief of the competition was asking to reconvert this railway trench into the metro-line giving its surface to the linear park that was intended to reconnect the broken urban fabric. With the project «Sotto Sopra» (Upside Down) we rethought the assignment and brought the project beyond landscape design. Our proposal is not just a park, but a vital urban space, that intertwines nature, infrastructure and public program.

We proposed to go beyond the idea of linear park as a pure landscape object. 2,5 km of tracks and greenery seems to us unbearably boring and probably it will hardly be so many people that will walk through this boulevard from the beginning till end. Our park suddenly becomes a ramp for skateboarding, then market, town square in the middle of which unexpectedly appears a swimming pool with a diving board, then shopping centre, then again park. For the park we did not use only the surface above the metro-line as it was required by the assignment but activated also the underground space. We mixed the park with underground lines, making the travel by train an exciting journey through the “cut” of the city. Instead, the dark walls of the tunnel – young girls, trying to shape their body in gym, fashion victims buying cuff-links in the shop of haute couture, jumping BMXers or sweet couples in bushes.

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2. GO BEYOND INFRASTRUCTURE!

Torino wants to become a “world city”. To achieve that, the city is investing in the infrastructural development, in a way to build the foundation for a new Torino. Construction of the new metroline will revitalize a huge part of the city boosting its development. We see the metroline as a vital public space a condenser of public program. The line crosses a wide section of the city, offering the chance to strengthen existing qualities of the surrounding “catching” diverse programs along its path. We make the metroline an integral part of the city bringing life to it. This will activate the boundary between parts of the city that are now isolated, reconnecting them We go beyond the traditional concept of “hidden infrastructure” and see the presence of the metroline as an added quality for the project. By integrating the metroline in the urban landscape we overcome the idea of infrastructure as an isolated layer in the city structure. We see this “reveled infrastructure” as a tool to enrich the palette of the urban experiences, giving new spaces and adding a new viewpoint to the city. We believe that “activated” metroline can become a catalyst of social life, will rase quality of life of inhabitants and attract tourists.

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Public program and infrastructure are integrated as the parts of one system. Metro stations are the places where interaction between this parts is maximal. Infrastructure adjusts to the needs of public program.

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1. ENVIRONMENT The distribution different environments, from natural to more urban also follows a gradient along the promenade.

2. SECTIONS The section is a chance to experiment with an urban landscape, that can combine and juxtapose different environments. We see the street level as a green corridor with underground levels exploring new possibilities.

tra M Vercelli e M Giulio Cesare

Piazza Donatori del Sangue M Giovanni Bosco

tra M Giovanni Bosco e M Cherubini

tra M Cherubini e M Bologna

tra M Bologna e M Cimarosa

gallleria e grande magazzino

SPA

mercato e parcheggii

skate park

parco "abbandonato"

3. PROMENADE The idea of the project is to expand and diversify experiences, along the promenade. This is not limited to the ground surface,but

We see the combination of infrastructure, nature and program, as an instrument to construct a vital and dynamic urban park

is expanded under it to the places usually occupied only by infrastructural systems, making underground spaces an integral part of the promenade.

Using infrastructure as a public stage will increase the diversification of experiences, contributing to the production of unexpected practices that are nowadays not common in the urban life.

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TAPPETO VOLANTE with Giovanni Marinelli

RESTRICTED COMPETITION

FIRST PRICE development phase

The project deals with the need to redevelop a central square of Ancona, which still lies in an advanced state of degrade,for the lack of a specific program, issue that interfere with the great potential of this place. The requalification project tries to give a response to this need, through the design of a cover, which would significantly broaden the potential of use of space, providing shelter, and at the same time defining a central space infrastuctured in a way to allow the creative exploitation of the square. Consists of a spatial structure in wood, is supported by a steel V of pillars, which rests on the pillars grid of the underground parking lot. The technological solution adopted, allows us to maintain the maximum transparency and permeability of the square, thus having an area of 25 x 100 m completely free from structure. Also the height of 7 meters, allows to accommodate even sports activities under the roof, which enhance the positive multi-functionality of the square. A series of large and unexpected events can be hosted by this new â&#x20AC;&#x153;living roomâ&#x20AC;? of Ancona; from open market, sports activities, up to public events, such as receptions or even weddings ... The cover, made from a lightweight wooden structure , supports a system of photovoltaic panels, which contribute to the sustainability of the intervention.

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DAMAREAMARE

City Of Waters With

Giovanni Marinelli, Davide Neri, Giovanbattista Padalino, Carla Lucarelli,Chiara Roccheggiani, Ambra Micheletti. COMPETITION ENTRY

FIRST PRICE feasibility study

The city of Ancona is strongly linked to its water system.

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Ancona è una città ricca di verde: parchi urbani ampi e nel cuore storico della città, aiuole fiorite nelle piazze, viali alberati e pinete. La criticità del verde non si può rilevare nella sua assenza, ma nel rapporto che la città istituisce con esso, nell’uso che ne fa. Il progetto intende ricucirne la presenza e lo fa attraverso quattro azioni diverse:

IL SISTEMA DEL VERDE le comete verdi e la struttura del verde urbano

a) lo spettacolarizza, mettendolo in vetrina ed esponendolo come un prodotto (PL1). b) lo rende dinamico ed attivo attraverso la fito depurazione e la depurazione dell’aria (PL2); c) lo potenzia nei luoghi dove è già presente, integrandolo con specie autoctone (PL3); d) lo utilizza per attivare percorsi didattici o dinamiche di interazione con bambini e anziani grazie ad alberi o piante che producono frutti e fiori e di cui ci si può prendere cura (PL4).

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VERDE

Starting from its historical Roman heritage, water always played a huge role on the urban formation. At first was the roman aqueduct, that like a labyrinth, or a city under the city, is spread under the historical center of Ancona, and constituted the basis upon which the existing city is organized. On the side of this layer , where water is visible in its infrastructural form, the natural formation of the site was considered optimal for the harbour development, that was the main engine for the sequent development of the city. During the renascence , the presence of underground water coming from the aqueduct was used as a resource for scenographic fountains, around which the system of the public spaces was designed. During the fascism, water was instead seen as recreational device, developing for the first time the East coast of the city, with the cliffs on the Adriatic sea used for the leisure of citizen coming from the city, but also from the larger region. Starting from the reading of the History, the presence of water on the side of all the historical periods of the city was always relevant, often used as a basis for the formation of the city in itself. Now Ancona is going to face a new urban period, where its economy and its role have to be redefined. Is no more sustainable a city that is based only in the industrial harbour and the flux of goods. The city have to move towards developing its Turistic potentials, basing it on the rediscovery of the past, but at the same time promoting a more sustainable future.

THE CLOUD yongsan - Korea

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The tower is part of a master plan, which will test new forms of housing of the future, involving various international Architects.

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“the cloud” is intended to offer the residents of a 60 storey high-rise, the possibility to experience a space that is more private and intimate, typical of the historical city where the units overlook large squares and where the presence of vegetation give the neighbourhood an high living quality. To combine the two apparently not compatible quality, the view and footprint of a skyscraper, with the small scale and privacy of a village,the thirtieth floor of the two towers “expands” to form the cloud. inside of it, there is a large open square accessible by all the inhabitants of the building. in this way, the building is seen as a true community square. Inside you will find a wider range of services, which make the complex a vibrant urban environment.

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YONGSAN DEVELOPMENT CO.,LTD. Gwanghwamun B/D 10F, #211 Sejongno, Jongno-Gu, Seoul 110-730, Korea Tel.82.2399.3900 Fax.82.2.399.3831 http://WWW.dreamhub21.com

YONGSAN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS DISTRICT PROJECT YONGSAN DEVELOPMENT DESIGN GROUP Gwanghwamun B/D 12F, #211 Sejongno, Jongno-Gu, Seoul 110-730, Korea Tel.82.2095.1300 Fax.82.2095.1399

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The competition ask for the design of an extension of Marie Curie University in Paris. The building program accomodate a series of workshops and spaces for startups in the field of scientific research. Its position in the university campus makes it a real nodal spot, a gate and the boundary between the city and the university. The project intends to stress this contrast that exists in a building at the same time is characterized as the gate, (so with a strong public interest par excellence), and at the same time place that requires a strong control of the inner space, given the necessary security that characterizes points of scientific research at the maximum level. This dualism, maximum security + maximum accessibility is conjugated in the skin of the building. The interior spce is characterized as a fortress, a treasure casket, temple of security, but at the same time the facade that insists on the campus green space is deformed, to accommodate a tribune, open to the public, where people can safely stop without interfering with the smooth running of internal practices of the labs.

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PRINCIPES

TOITURE VERTE - confort d’été - isolation phonique - rétention des eaux de pluies - biodiversité - protection de l’étanchéité

for MVRDV

VÉGÉTATION

Aménagement des espaces extérieurs de manière à limiter l'inconfort en période estivale : - végétalisation, - eau, - revêtements, -protections solaires

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traitement physique et chimique (DASS services)

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A masterplan project,designed to give guidelines for a comprehensive strategy for the conversion and reuse of a former industrial area, with an adjoining railway yard, on the east side of the Garonne, in the city of Bordeaux. Two main concepts are addressed in the project. 1. the need to intervene on the existing building trying to preserve as much as possible of their historic value as industrial buildings. 2. for an intervention of such a scale was important to work according to criteria of environmental sustainability, so as to ensure, if not the selfsufficiency, at least a high standard regarding the energy consumption. The preservation of the historical heritage is achieved by overlaying the existing warehouses with the new program, retaining as much as possible the existing buildings. The building extension then, are governed by the principles of sustainability, with the introduction of solar panels on the roofs, and adapting the roof inclination to minimize shadows, thus obtaining the maximum efficiency from the solar panel system that covers the entire neighbourhood.

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SERVICES

VOIE CIRCULABLE

SERVICES

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VARIABLE

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PIETON

VOIRIE

PIETON RCULABLE

STRUCTURES

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PIETON RCULABLE

PIETON

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USAGES

PIETON

1.5

VOIE TCSP

TCSP

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2.5

PIETON RCULABLE

USAGES

VOIRIE 10M + ENTRE-DEUX

SERVICES

VOIRIE 10M TCSP

STRUCTURES

COUPE GENERALE Proposition structurelle Enveloppe OPTION B: MUR RIDEAU TRANSPARENT A L’EXTERIEUR Façade Nord Ouest: marquise métallique détachée de la structure principale. Façade Sud Est: dans ce cas, le remplissage en brique sera éliminé. Importance rupture des ponts thermiques. La structure du mur rideau transparent suivra le rythme de la structure métallique existante.

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OPEN BRIDGE

or a data recycling strategy to bridge the city with its hidden backbones With Koen Hazemans

ROTTERDAM IS WORLD FAMOUS FOR THE HARBOUR THAT PROVIDE JOBS FOR 74%OF ITS INHABITANTS... FOR AN EFFICIENT OPERATION, A SERIES OF LIFTING BRIDGE ARE SPREAD IN THE CITY... THESE INFRASTRUCTURE ARE SEEN BY THE POPULATION JUST AS AN INCONVENIENCE, AND A DISRUPTION OF THE ACTIVITIES... IS IT POSSIBLE TO TRANSFORM SUCH A DISRUPTION IN AN OCCASION TO RAISE AWARENESS IN THE POPULATION ABOUT THE ECONOMIC BACKBONE THAT CONTRIBUTE TO THE PROSPERITY OF THE CITY??

7.547 vessels are moving across Dutch inland canals and rivers. Navigating through 5.046 km of narrow canals, sharp turns and no room for mistakes. The maritime world is full of challenges, goals and tight schedules to deliver the 8,8 million tons of products every year around the Netherlands. Would you like to “come out to play” with the Big Data? In the city of Rotterdam, one of the main hidden infrastructure that lays unnoticed and disconnected from urban integration is definitely represented by the port network. We are all dependent by goods being shipped across the water ways. The efficiency of this system, on its turn, is heavily dependant on the data infrastructure that makes it reactive, and more important, safe. The project tries to define a new territory of urban activism, that investigate the potential of this very interstice between the productive world and the citizen, in a way operating as a “data recycling” strategy, “metabolizing” the information already available in the system, to make it accessible to the population at large, eventually generating social interaction and, in this extent, the project “urbanizes” the data. We believe that the power of “Big Data” is such, that have to couple the production of knowledge with the enhancement of social relationships.

A GEOGRAPHICAL DIMENSION FOR THE ROTTERDAM SOCIAL STAGE

The network of waterways is a territorial infrastructure, that connect the city of Rotterdam with its territory. The activation of the interface between the urban network and the water network, will allow the insert a “geographical” dimension in the complex system of the Rotterdam public space. This new stage for social interaction will reduce if not eliminate the distance between the city and its backbone of productive environment.

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EXPAND AND AUGMENT THE PUBLIC SPACE OF THE CITY Enhancing the urban experience with the “unexpected”. The two network, the water and the road infrastructure, have precise overlapping points, where there is room for “staging” this social game. Among the others, one is particularly interesting, for its relevance as one of the last infrastructure that contribute to identify a city in strong symbiotic relationship with its harbour: the lifting Bridge. The project works with the very essence of it. When open, it creates a discontinuity, physical and visual, between the two side of the city road network. The reaction to this annoying disruption, is an overturn transforming a cut in a suture, the occasion where the “polder city” can meet the “Maas city”. During this “suspended” situation, a QR code allows citizens to access all the data about the ships passing by allowing people to see the maritime traffic not anymore as an impediment to their daily life. The collection of knowledge is linked with a game involving“collecting” boats to collect points, in a similar way to what already happen with more popular apps like foursquare, etc. This ”game” will allow the interaction of the population with the hidden and obscure part of the city metabolism. Finally this project can lead to an extremely interesting overturn. What was before seen as something to avoid, and to escape from (the bridge open) is now seen as an attraction, as an occasion of sociality.

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# THE METABOLISM OF BIG DATA DATA FLOW, AND THE PROCESS OF TRANSFORMING KNOWLEDGE IN SOCIAL INTERACTION

The Big Data need to be transformed, digested, to be part of the social life of the new urban population. The information are in this way “recycled” to transform a knowledge product in a social glue.

The information collected will be provided to the public at large in two ways. Through the website in itself, to fulfil the anger for informations of the “harbour fetishist” and generally who might be interested in the productive flow in the city. On the other hand, on site, the QR codes spread around the lifting bridges will allow the generic population to access the knowledge in a funny and social way, participating to the open bridge game.

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A great number of informations are already available to the public, through a series of websites and open databanks. The needed data will be provided by a series of stakeholders, and put into a dedicated website.

The result will finally be a city where the population is aware of the dynamics that lay hidden in the “backyard” of the city. (and so, be more understanding and sympathetic when the bridge is lifted....)

THE USE OF BIG DATA FOR A MORE INTEGRATED AND AWARE SOCIETY MULTIDISCIPLINARY NATURE The project tries to signify that the matter of urban planning is not only the built environment anymore, but can be enriched by the interaction between data and people. In terms of “data recycling”, the enormous quantity of information, needed for the security and the efficiency of the system, are “metabolized” and transformed in urban matter. Why not make it easy and fun for the 7 million people that have a smart-phone in the Netherlands to generate a new social interaction based on informations? IMPLEMENTATIONS The project will involve different institutions that manage our transportation flows and the cities. Logistics, technology and data from Rijkswaterstaat and MIM can be used for the game. Together with Gemeente Rotterdam, institutions raging from educational, such as the STC-Group to commercial as the Rotterdam Port can contribute receiving back visibility and be part of the developing of the game panels.

THE DATA

The data are the central element of the game. Recycling the data means that informations already available for the shipping company will be invested of an urban role, making possible the information to the public. The web is already obviously full of websites that give these information, even for free , or through a payment of a subscriptions. Those websites, and apps are nonetheless still very sectorial, targeting a very specific and limited nice of the population. The role of those very important informations are in this extend in our opinion very much underused. Our goal is to make those information part of the common background of the Rotterdamer, and with that, making them aware of the logics and the dynamics that make the harbour activities efficient.

THE STAGE

The main stage for the game will be the locations of the lifting bridge. This will allow the transformation of a situation generally considered as an obstacle, an unavoidable interruption of movement, in occasion of sociality. The farrier will be in a very easy way enhanced by providing a QR code image, that will allow the people to access the game while standing still, waiting the road to be free again.

THE TRIGGER OF THE GAME

The game will work in a similar way as a lot of other social game presented on the internet. The access to the website will automatically give points to the player, that in this case will increase his position. At the same time, as a complementary element to the game, the app will make available all the series of informations that in the limit of privacy and security, can be made public about the ship passing by and the harbour infrastructure at large.

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THE BY-PRODUCTS OF DATA RECYCLING The Big Data need to be transformed, digested, to be part of the social life of the new urban population. The information are in this way “recycled” to transform a knowledge product in a social glue.

A. REDUCE THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THE CITY AND THE WATER

THE RESULTS

Through the App, information already available, now accessible only by interested people,like ship industry “fetishists”, will be open to the public, working as a ultimate and efficient infrastructure able to connect the city to the harbour activity, leading to the mutual recognition and understanding. The harbour activities, will not anymore be an hidden monster, creating problem in the flow of people After the game is started, the playground will expand itself in the city \harbour at large. if the bridge will continue to be relevant spots for the game, the proximity of people to boat will generate new situation and new challenges in the game evolutions. The boat,using the usual localization devices following the issues of security and efficiency of the transport system, will be related to the population, that uses the geo-tagging as a more recreational element.

B. TRANSFORM AN INTERRUPTION IN OCCASION OF SOCIALITY

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Water Process Hypothesis

H2OBITAT

Water Purification And The City

Rain

Specific treatment for different qualities of water to enhance efficiency

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Natural Treatment (constructed wetland)

The systematic separation of the various

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water sources and wastewater streams

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can enable highly efficient processes, and

River Urban Distribution

open the way for reclamation and reuse

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of water of various qualities.

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Clean water discharge

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Natural Treatment (constructed wetland)

River Urban Distribution

Re-Introducing Water Diversity Into The City River

Disinfection

Water Process Hypothesis

The city has lost contact with natural systems such as water process. The Netherlands is built upon the urgency of maintaining the water in a non-changing, safe, static condition. What if we create a city organized according to the dynamic process of water resource? By re-introducing water diversity into the city, different modes of living with water emerges. Currently hidden infrastructural system becomes transparent, making visible the issue of water treatment through the urban morphology.

Natural Treatment (constructed wetland) Primary treatment

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Water Process Hypothesis

Making Hidden Process Visible Diverse water process that is currently driven out and hidden from the urban area merges back into the the city, exposing also the dark and secured part of the system that actually sustains our environment. The water is dynamic and in constant movement, making visible the origins and the paths of the natural resource. When the hidden process becomes visible, the water system will become an urban ritual.

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1. Drinking water = Continues to the wetland purification and proceed to Disinfection facility 2. Public Activity water = Furthur into the city, penetrating longer distance

1. River

Water Treatment Translating the capacity and the spatial organization of water treatment plant into urban morphology

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Secondary Sedimentation Application :

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Secondary treatment - 1&2

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Sewage water starts it process from the east : high dense area. The water starts from the highest point to the lowest point of the site. * Use: Irrigation , Public activity

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Clean water discharge

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Rain water is collected on the urban surface with various depth, providing public space in the low precipitation period. The public space transforms into the rainwater storage in the flooded seasons. Due to the relatively clean initial quality, the rainwater goes through relatively short treatment path and becomes drinking water supply. *Use: Drinking Water

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The introduction of biological water treatment in the city environment is not only a machine for the water management of the city. The by-product of this machine is an increase in complexity of the urban biodiversity. it creates rooms for an vibrant urban life

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ENVIRONMENTS OF COLLECTIVITY Mass Recreation, Nature, And The City with Timur Shabaev, Liu Fang

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Summary. This research has as its subject the architecture of mass recreation within a changing cultural framework. Acknowledging the tourism resort as maybe the most successful architectural model of contemporary mass recreation, the research is critically investigating the possibilities to update and validate the resort for the current period of post-industrial, post-colonial, and post-crisis conditions and raising the question which spatial alternatives may soon emerge for contemporary Western, urban societies where recreation is playing an increasingly dominant role.

The city and the resort. Industrialization has introduced the strictly regulated separation between places and times of work and those of non-work activities on the scale of the masses. The factory as architectural model of accommodating industrial production and in use since the beginnings of industrialization in the 18th century found in the 1930’s finally its delayed complement in the holiday resort – the architectural prototype for the industrial production of mass recreation. Like the Fordist factory, it is built on Taylorist principles of industrial spatial organization. If the factory was located in and driving the industrial city, then the resort has been opposing the city as remote urban outpost redefining the myth of nature; lending a spatial and territorial dimension to the concept of holiday as the state of exception from everyday work and life. Yet while the city has been transformed throughout the last few decades by the restructuring forces of Post-Fordism, what has happened to the holiday resort? And further: anticipating the accelerating decline of those constitutive oppositions upon which the resort has been built – such as city versus nature, work versus free time, mind versus body, etc. – thus anticipating that leisure and recreation will become ever more relevant in our urban life, how to rethink then mass recreation as a problem of the city?

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RESEARCH HYPOTHESIS

The tourism resort has been perceived for a long time as the city’s alter ego – an antidote of territory, lifestyle, economy, and ecology. To the degree that the manifold dichotomies it is based upon have begun to erode, the resort and the city will continue to increasingly inform, produce, and approximate each other rather than remain opposites. The resort can be defined as architectural model that articulates social collectivity by exuberant environmental design and engineering. It is an architecture that is based on strategic intersections between social and environmental realms; co-constructing both rather than considering them apart. The architecture of resorts does not articulate social “space” but strives for elaborating and institutionalizing the social dimension in the design of “environments”.

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The Club Mediterraneè Resort constitutes one of the key territorial development format it is necessary to addresses in order to understand what’s the issue of system control and management in a society which has progressively moved towards a post-fordist condition in which the management of production goes along with the management of consumption in order to permit a general growth. 2009 First Club Med Luxury Villa inauguration at La Plantation d’Albion 2008 development of congress and business facilities in the renovated resort 2007 Natural purification system is introduced in the landscape of Plantation d’Albion 2007 Opening of the first 5 Trident Village (Plantation d’Albion in Mauritius) 2004 All-Inclusive in the urban environment. Opening of the first “3 in 1” Village in Marrakech 2001 Acquisition of Gymnase Club, which later will become Club Med Gym 1992 Cruise liner Club Med 2 takes the sea 1987 Sahoro village in Japan - first discovery experience of the local culture is organized 1980 New resort in Maldives, with bungalows in direct contact with nature 1967 Now also kids have their own club: Mini club 1965 Agadir Club Med was founded: the first bungalow village 1956 The first snow village in Leysin Switzerland. First organized migration of GO from sun to snow resort in one season 1955 The first Club Med village outside the Mediterranean was opened in Tahiti 1951 Club Med opens a new village in Mallorca, with huts standing along the beach 1950 Gerard Blitz set up an association named Club Mediterranee 1950

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1950 Gerard Blitz says «This idea gave birth to a sprit… our purpose. in life is to be happy. The place to be happy is here. And the time to be happy is now». 1950 “...developing a taste for living outdoors and doing phisical training and sport ” 1976 groundbraking advertisement company “Love,Dream,Contemplate” 1997 "...from a holiday village company to a services company", Philippe Bourguignon, the former CEO of EuroDisney, aimed to change the Club 2006 Advertising slogan: "Discover the new Club Med, refined, exceptional, a la carte” 2008 Launching a new advertising campaign "Where Happiness Means the World"

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It is a kind of monument to pure consumption. But this also means such consumption must be controlled and fostered eventually: this implied, first of all, the very act of seclusion, which is the fundamental territorial operation that resorts imply and which operate through the segregation of a piece of land in the border among sea and land - but later with other environmental attractions too – in order to permit the free development of ad hoc possibility and methodology of control. Actually, the definition of a “finite” piece of land and therefore the creation of a border with a series of checkpoint permit the extensions of practices checking the income or outcome of any kind of matter and energy. And eventually permitting the real time adjustment of what’s going on within such resort.

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Club Mediterraneè represents such important paradigm for several reason, but mainly because it is also an institution, an association of tourist. Founded by Gerard Blitz, a former Olympic athlete with the memories of the Olympic village in his mind, in 1950 with the objective to give space to the experience of cohabitation without regard to the problem of money exchange, it operates with a fundamental law: “you pay once before to leave for your vacation and everything you do later is included”.

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Land area: 7 ha year visitors: 21.300

area: 65.700 ha year visitors: 192.200.000

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And this has permitted a form of growth in every form of its activity – economical too - which still today, in the middle of the world economy crisis, is keeping pace: Resorts are the unique forms of development in which the average size of inhabitable space per person is increasing. A couple of estimates have been conducted within the framework of this Berlage research to give an idea of what means this device which spurs growth and tries to control it: if we consider the amount of person which are passing through a medium sized Club Mediterraneè resort and we try to compare it with a global city paradigm like Paris, we can realize how the migratory power of a resort is normally higher than a city one (0,43 vs. 0,30 persons/sqm y). And such data must be seriously considered because in a globalized society like ours such migratory power constitute a form of economical power, and within particular terms even political.

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WATER cold hot

RENEWABLE / RECYCLED

3.538.748 m³

224.144 m³ desalinated water

19.953 m³

4.990 m² solar energy

drilled /pumped 2.871.857 m³

recycled water

711.589 m³

FOOD

CLUB MED GLOBAL ANNUAL FLOW OF MATTER

meat 76.750 t fruit 311.040 t vegetables 259.967 t fish 94.126 t weat 66.434 t

ENERGY

WASTE

0,704 m³ / person

electricity 219.651.352 kW∙h domestic fuel 5.533.738 l

56.250 m³ 30.000 m³ 19.800 m³ 27.000 m³ 128.040 t 1.268.320 t

WATER HDS

natural gas 2.340.348 kg gpl 3.480.474 m³

kW∙h / person TOTAL ENERGY CONSUMED / HDS

heat 1.893.853 kW∙h

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But what is most astonishing in respect of these capacities of resorts is that such migratory power doesn’t correspond with an increase in the energy and matter “metabolism” which the resort has: if we compare again the medium sized Club Mediterraneè resort to the city of Paris, we can realize how the resort metabolism is even less impacting than the city one (63 vs. 34 kWh/ sqm y in terms of energy consumption is the most relevant data). And this is astonishing because violates the common understanding of resort tourism which makes it a kind of anti-sustainability mecca. At a first insight, resorts ironically appear to be the only sustainable way for orchestrating our future, both in ecological terms as well as economical. And that’s why we addressed their constituent through an architectural approach, aiming to unveil the subjects they create and the structure of order they articulate to detach ecological consumption from human circulation. If economy/energy de-coupling should appear, resorts are the first one in which this will have an architectural forms, even if there is not a special knowledge about…

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The scenario for our design-based research acknowledges three challenges that Club Med is facing today:

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- To conceive of a resort prototype within a short – that is, a one-and-a-half hour – flight distance for its European clients;

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- To conceive of a resort prototype that nevertheless allows for all-year recreational operations; - A resort prototype based on current company standards for economic viability that hosts 800 guests plus service workers yet consumes considerable less land than the 20-25 ha required today.

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We found in Vrsar, Croatia, an exemplary location that could cope with those constraints. Further framework conditions we defined internally by methodological considerations:

- To choose a plot form that is un-typical for conventional resorts, cutting through a number of different yet exemplary territorial conditions in order to challenge and subvert a series of persistent principles in coastal tourism development; - To challenge the typically monofunctional and single-ownership-based ground exploitation of coastal tourism development by setting up a hybrid scenario of which 50% of the plot are operated as exclusive resort while the other 50% are managed by local actors stimulating programmatic extension and social diversification.

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All these constraints finally are setting up a scenario that has produced five different research projects with varying focus, as formulated in each of them by an individual project hypothesis:

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Resort Project 5: The Algae Resort. Recreation within Natures of Waste and Risk

Resort Project 4: The Wavemaker Resort. The Production of Energy as Recreational Space

Resort Project 3: The Back-Of-House Resort. Pleasure and the Loops of Industrial Logistics

Resort Project 2: The Greenhouse Resort. Recreation as Space of Production

Resort Project 1: The Golf Resort. Double Interiority and the Making of Green Nature

The conventional tourism resort suggests idyllic embedment in supposedly untouched nature, simply accessing pre-existing resources. Yet the resort is a clandestine production plant of nature by heavily engineering resources – visible in its various degrees of artificial natures for the enhancement of recreational activities, and invisible in its production of waste and pollution.

The conventional tourism resort suggests the mythic morality of some original, simple life in unity with “Nature” while offering and being based on modern, intensively energyconsuming urban lifestyle. As such, once more, it suggests the autonomy of an island while contesting the heavy dependency on its hinterland.

The conventional tourism resort is based on the ultimate dogma to separate consumption from work (service) space, defining its characteristic two-house setup (frontversus back-of-house). The artisanal look of the former hides the industrial operations of the latter – the notorious schizophrenia of the tourism resort formula.

The conventional tourism resort is a monofunctional space of consumption, opposing yet depending on remote spaces of production. This logic is mirrored in the resort’s narrow definition of nature: focusing on nature as picturesque and static scenery, not as productive resource.

The conventional tourism resort and the golf course are enclosed domains privatizing and consuming large territories. Inside however, both are not homogeneous yet gradient spaces of occupation and cultivation. Their various degrees of service intensity define a range of production zones of recreation and of nature.

Acknowledging the “nature” of such undesired matter flows and aspiring to deal with them within the resort’s boundaries means to conceive recycling-based processes that produce environments and resources of which their recreational potential still needs to be conceived and constructed. Such new type of resort is entirely consistent with the history of tourism as the ongoing invention of destinations and the appropriation of various forms of matter as resources for recreational practices.

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Integrating the production of energy within its proper boundaries calls for a setup where the technical becomes social and aesthetic; a generator not only of power but simultaneously a specific environment of collective recreation.

Conceiving the logistic setup of the resort as drive-thru rather than deadend organization allows for defining new spatial relationships within the two-house framework and calls for the formulation of a different interface between the resort’s (public) outside and (private) inside. The undesired regime of loading and storing facilitates the desired articulation of enclosure for the resort’s most secluded interiorities

Introducing the productive nature of agriculture in the holiday resort allows challenging a series of constitutive dichotomies upon which the resort has been built: consuming tourist versus producing service worker, timeless versus seasonal and cyclic nature, local versus global space. Packaged with greenhouse measures, such resort will be robust enough to extend holiday and food seasonality beyond typical vacation climate zones.

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Combining the resort and the golf course by reorganizing both according to their typical zonal logic of spatial use allows challenging their absolute borders towards new negotiations with their hosting territory without contesting their respective operations. And it allows stretching their gradient setup towards a wider spectrum of productions of nature.

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