Margherita Miani Academic porfolio 2013-2016
Margherita Miani
Curaรงaostraat 60-1 1058BX, Amsterdam (NL) margherita.miani@gmail.com (+31) 06 29322856 (NL) (+39) 3343961144 (IT)
About:
I recently completed my master in Architecture by the University of Ferrara (Italy). During my studies I had the opportunity to live for a semester in Germany and to develop my thesis research in France. I am currently working as an intern in Amsterdam. At the moment I am looking for a new team to cooperate with, preferably as a junior architect. This portfolio features a selection of projects which I hope will show my academical beckground, my graphic rapresentation skills and my interest towards architecture and public space.
Academical experience
Extracurricular activities
2011-2016 | Università degli studi di Ferrara | Ferrara, Italy Master degree in Architecture
2014-2016 | Founder of Universud Student association enquiring archiecture and urban develpment in emerging countries
2015 | HFT Stuttgart | Stuttgart, Germany Erasmus+ exchange program (spring semester) 2006-2011 | Liceo scientifico “Giovanni Marinelli” | Udine, Italy Scientific high school diploma (PNI curricola)
2017 | MEDS Accepted for the 2017 Meds workshop in Gent
Exhibitions
Working experience
2013 | CondiVivere San Donato | Bologna, Italy
2017 | Erasmus+ trainee, Skets architectuurstudio | Amsterdam
2014 | Ferrara città che cambia | Ferrara, Italy 2016 | Presentation with Stuttgart 21 managers | Stuttgart, Germany
Languages Italian Native speaker
French Good user
Technical skills English Proficient
German Intermediate
Autocad
Photoshop
Illustrator
Indesign
Sketch up
Revit
Cinema 4D
Vectorworks
Rhinoceros
Archicad
Project
Scale
Location
Plus Belle de Mai
Urban planning
Marseille (F)
12-13
Stรถckach
Urban planning
Stuttgart (D)
14-17
Green Loading
Urban planning
Ferrara (IT)
18-21
Schaustelle 2.0
Architecture
Stuttgart (D)
22-25
Pixel5!
Architecture
Bologna (IT)
26-29
Palazzo Tassoni
Restauration
Ferrara (IT)
6-11
Plus Belle de Mai
Urban renovation project in the third arrondissement of Marseilles During the last decades the city of Marseille has been characterized by deep internal rifts: on one side an increasing interest in developing tourism and service industries led to EuromĂŠditerranĂŠe, a project aiming to redesign the forsaken old harbour area. On the other the city still struggles with inequality and integration issues. Plus Belle de Mai analyses the third arrondissement, one of the most marginalized districts in Marseille: although it has been involved in some renovation projects, it is still cut out from the city by both physical and social barriers and marked by high unemployment and poverty rates. The project enquires into a model to reactivate an area by increasing its attractiveness without triggering a gentrification process.
Scale Urban planning
Year 2016
Team Paola Caselli | Alessia Gregorio
Mentors Romeo Farinella | Angelo Bertoni | Sara Maldina
The strategy is developed by following two main purpose. The first aims to create new links between the different realities which are part of the area by reactivating the public space, rethinking inner mobility and redesigning abandoned buildings. The second focuses on enhancing the connections between the area and the rest of the city: specific goals to achieve this purpose include facilitating the accessibility, developing the smart mobility and creating a new green urban infrastructure.
Purpose 1: reactivating the neighbourhood
Foster connections with existing attraction hubs
Reactivate existing public spaces
Redesign forsaken buildings
Rethink internal mobility
Purpose 2: reconnectig to the city
Develop public mobility
Improve accessibility
Create a public green infrastructure
Three macro-actions were planned in order to accomplish the mentioned purposes. The first one provides the area with a cycle-pedestrian networks, so as to bring together the multitude of tiny public spaces which are daily used by the population and to reduce the vehicular traffic. The network will spread across the arrondissement’s border, connecting it with other important social spaces and pushing the inhabitants to explore their own city.
The second macro-action concerns the reconversion of the railway path that crosses the area into a tram-train system, which will connect the old town with the new districts planned in the northern part of Marseille. Along the tram-train a linear park, provided with sports and leisure equipment, will foster social interactions and cycle-pedestrian mobility.
The last action involves rethinking the abandoned area, once occupied by military barracks. The new project aims to create new community spaces complying with the population’s need of services, like schools, libraries and sport facilities. The concept of social “mixitè” is really important for this part, as this action means to create new bounds between people with different social backgrounds.
Stöckach
Urban renovation idea for a old industrial complex in Stuttgart
Stöckach is a district located in the eastern part of Stuttgart: despite its industrial past, it is becoming more attractive due to its central position. The project aims to develop an ex-industrial complex, which needs to be converted into a residential area. The idea starts from the “court” typology, the predominant block type in the surroundings, and then start playing with it, creating more dynamic shapes. Some of the existing builidings are maintained in order to preserve the memory of the industrial past. Each new courtyard includes a semi-public green area, which will serve as a connection with the Schlossgarten and Villa Berg parks situated in the immediate vicinity.
Type Urban planning
Year 2015
Team Annika Heise | Melanie Schlanser
Green Loading
Transforming an old distillery complex in the suburb of Ferrara Ferrara during the ‘60s develped an important industrial area focused on the chemical production. Then, strarting from the ‘90s, as many companies decided to displace production factories in foreing countries, the area was progressively rebuilt into a cahotic suburb. Green Loading reconnects the area with its original function: agricultural production. The existing fields are reorganised and converted to the production of typical products, which are transformed directly into the laboratories located next to the fields. Moreover, field’s texture invades the ex-industrial area, creating a texture that designs each green space in the project. A second part of the project is dedicated to research and education.
Regional analysis
Urban analysis
Type Urban planning
Year 2014
Team Sara Panesiti | Chiara Silveri
The central square reconnects the building of the leisure area: a restaurant/cafeteria, a kindergarten, a workshop area and the big theme park. This green tip of the area works as the first step to the redesign of the Boicelli/ Burana riverside, together with the development of a ferry line. Thanks to its strategical position Green Loading is also an opportunity to improve Ferrara’s mobility system and reconnect with the city centre using public transportation networks: for example, the old industrial railway might be reused for public purpose or the bicycle paths, now fragmented and disconnected, might be fixed together in the area, providing cyclists with a new, safe and pleasant route.
Schaustelle 2.0
Temporary builing for the Hauptbahnhof construction site in Stuttgart Stuttgart’s main station is currently involved in the Stuttgart 21 project, which plans to lay the whole railway system underground: for this reason, the whole area surrounding the historical station building is now a big working site, perceived by the citizens as a hostile element. The project creates a temporary building which is a new interface between the population and the changing area and a new part of the city, where people may carry out everyday activities. Schaustelle 2.0 is based on the continuous flow of changes that characterizes a working site: by adding and removing scaffold modules the project moves following site’s displacement and creating a system of stairs and bridges, which allows users to have a more complete perception of changes involving the station.
Type Architecture
Year 2015
Team Sebastian Baier | Regina Dietrich
Another crucial topic was helping people winning back their space in the city: the structure features a large variety of actievities for citizens, such as an open air stage, a workshop area and sport facilities. The project is thought to be self-financing, thanks to leasing system that, by a website or an app, allows both local companies and citizens to rent some blocks for commercial or leisure purpose. Schaustelle 2.0 means to transform a limit into an active membrane, which should be able to connect the population with the most crucial and important urban renewal project in Stuttgart’s area.
Development process
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Pixel5!
Mixed use builing in San Donato district in Bologna The atelier task was then to design a new building in San Donato, a peripheral area of Bologna, including different functions: residential units for new categories of city users (students, temporary workers, visitors connected to particular events) and commercial activities/services, in order to establish a new social vitality and develop creative and smart activities in the whole area. The project is based on the three-dimensional replication of a 5 mt cube: all areas in the project are designed by juxtaposing this module, which grows into two big parts: the first contains the commercial space, the second a student housing complex. The ground floor hosts a big variety of collective and commercial activities, all placed in glass pavilions in order to be more eye-catching.
Type Architecture
Year 2013
Team Matilde Mozzi | Niccolò Preghiera
On the front side, following the path of via San Donato, a small market sells fresh Km0 products, while in the back are located a cafeteria, a bike sharing spot and an exhibition space featuring artworks produced by the local community. But the real project’s core is the central court, where the space is actually shaped by its users thanks to the mobile colourful blocks provided, which can be used for multiple purposes: chatting with friends, reading a book or even to throw a spontaneous concert. The project does not include any structure connected with cars, in order to encourage other ecological and socially active means of transport.
Palazzo Tassoni
Architectural restauration project for a XIV century building in Ferrara
The project focuses on the restoration of Palazzo Tassoni-Estense, which nowadays is part of the architecture faculty of Ferrara. Originally built in XVI century. the building went through several manipulations, especially in the XX century when it was converted into a mental hospital. The final work is divided in two parts: the first one, concerns the analysis and the hypothesis of restoration interventions, following the “critical-conservative� methodology. Meanwhile the second task deals with the design of the whole complex’s plan, figuring out how the needs of a modern educational facility can fit into a building with a certain historical and cultural relevance
Type Restoration
Year 2015
Team Alessia Gregorio | Elena Guidetti
Orthophoto
Degradation analysis
Degradation analysis
Final project