Maria Giulia Contarino Architecture Portfolio 2019
INDEX
Architecture
Contacts & Bio Hi! 2
Curriculum Vitae What I do 4
Portuense Elementary School Academic project 6
Paesaggi Paralleli : L’Irpinia attraverso l‘Avellino - Rocchetta Master’s Degree in Urban Design - Graduation Project 14
Livin’ Populus
ProtoHouse proposal 28
Vivaio Didattico
Master BIM - Graduation Project 36
Casa P.
Interior renovation project 48
Photography
Policromie Irpine
Landscape photography project 52
Sulla Via d’Ercole
Architecture photography project 56
Humans in Frame
Architecture photography project 58
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Maria Giulia Contarino
I have two passions in my life: Architecture and Photography. Both of them lead me through years until now and influence most of my personal experiences and works. I graduated in Architecture & Urban Design at Roma Tre University and right after it I come back to my own town, Avellino, where I currently work as a freelance architect. Linearity and dynamism are two keywords for my project: from the minimal sign it is possible to draw the most complex of the forms. And this is what I try to do both in my architecture and my photography projects. I also believe that architecture is the best way to synthesize society and its own changes, which is why I try to keep inspiration from multiply aspects: from design to music, to cinema and political issues.
EDUCATION Mar. 2019 Oct. 2018 - Mar. 2019
Graduation to Professional Architect Università degli Studi “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Aversa Master of BIM Project “NIB New Italian Blood”, Salerno
2014 - 2017
Master’s Degree in Urban Project Roma Tre University, Roma Votazione 110 | 110
2010 - 2014
Bachelor in Science of Architecture Roma Tre University, Roma Votazione 109 | 110
2005 - 2010
Classic High School Degree High School Classico Pietro Colletta, Avellino Votazione 95 | 100
WORK EXPERIENCE Apr. 2019 - on going
Freelance Architect Avellino
Jan. 2018 - Nov. 2018
Internship at Tuccia Engineering Studio Atripalda (AV)
Jan. 2018 - Jun. 2018
Internship at Comune di Avellino Avellino, Italia
Sep. 2017 - Nov. 2018
Collaboration with Comune di Avellino Avellino
WORKSHOPS Mar. 2015
Competition Si.Re.Ne. “Sinergie per riappropriarci di Nerano” Nerano (NA), Italia
Mar. 2015
Competition Laguna Landscape - Chioggia Plus Chioggia (VE), Italia
May 2014
International Workshop Habitat el acuìfero Guaranì Aislados, Rosario, Argentina
Apr. 2012
International Workshop Architecture, Archeology and the City Rome, Italia
PUBLISHINGS May. 2019
Biennale dello Spazio Pubblico - Beni Confiscati Roma, Italia V Biennale dello Spazio Pubblico
Sep. 2018
Rileggere un territorio attraverso la ferrovia: il caso dell’Irpinia e dell’Avellino - Rocchetta Sant’Antonio Bolzano, Italia XXXIX International Conference of Regional Science - A.I.S.Re.
May 2018
Biennale di Venezia - Collettivo Arcipelago Italia Laboratorio Basento. Due nodi curativi per la collina Materana. Venezia, Italia XVI International Architecture Exhibition 2018 - Italian Padillion.
Nov. 2017
Avellino - Rocchetta: un treno tra passato e futuro. Pietrarsa (NA), Italia
EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS Mar. 2019 - on going
Irpinia Mood Ecorural Street Food ed. 2019 Avellino, Italia
Mar. 2019 - on going
Paesaggi Paralleli Torella dei Lombardi (AV), Italia
SOFTWARE & LANGUAGES AutoCad Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Adobe Indesign Qgis Rhinoceros Sketchup Microsoft Office Revit Cinema 4D 3D Studio Max V-Ray Lumion Italiano | Mother tongue Inglese | Cambridge English: First (FCE)
PORTUENSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Academic project Course: Architecture & Urban Project University of Roma Tre Location: Rome, Italy Year: 2016 In collaboration with Arch. Alessandra Pusceddu
The school complex is located in the Portuense district of Rome, a district currently lacking a functional and well equipped elementary school. The design idea is inspired by what is the architectural and urban composition of the area that is predominantly residential, with buildings that are not too high and that have almost all a basic part where some commercial services are located. For this reason, to restore a space that was as much as possible in continuity with the context, we decided to recreate a sort of“small city” where children could live not only the interior space of the classroom, but above all the interconnection between them, in a continuous reference between internal and external. This choice was then followed by the functional one of having to support in a certain way the great difference in level of the area. For this reason, dividing the school into more “buildings” helped us to shape the connection space between the classrooms following the inclination of the ground. From here we come to create a series of ramps spaced by stairs, which become both functional elements of play and rest area for children.
From the lower level to the upper one, you can access to the various levels and school activities as you go along the great “agorà,” which connects the various activities: the classrooms of the smaller children, the offices, the gym, the classrooms of older children and, finally, the classrooms of out-of-school activities. The latter are placed at a higher level than the whole complex, so as to be slightly detached and not influence the daily teaching. Both the classrooms of the first cycle and those of the second overlook a small court, both functional and recreational, so that you can give, especially to the youngest, a visual contact between the interior and the exterior of the classroom as well as with the other surrounding classrooms. In this way we try to somehow break the isolation of a single class, stimulating the child with continuous visual and environmental interconnections.
Software used: AutoCad, Illustrator, Photoshop, Sketchup
Axonometric view
1. Aule 2° ciclo 2. Aule 1° ciclo
3. Aula polivalente / Biblioteca 4. Aule speciali 5. Palestra
6. Uffici / segreteria / aula professori 7. Alloggio del custode
Functional System
Ground Floor Plan and Trasversal Section
Second Floor Plan and Longitudinal Section
Axonometric view
Interior views
Detail of a classroom: plan and section
PAESAGGI IN MOVIMENTO: L’Irpinia attraverso l’Avellino-Rocchetta Graduation Project Subject: Landscape Architecture University of Roma Tre Location: Irpinia, Italy Year: 2017 Thesis advisor: Arch. Emanuele Von Normann
With its 118km, the Avellino-Rocchetta Sant’Antonio railway line gives a precise and thorough idea of how diverse and heterogeneous Irpinia is. It is a landscape, cultural and social diversity that perfectly depicts a land whose isolation, despite standing as a strong disadvantage, has allowed the preservation of the value of traditions and uncontaminated landscapes. Along its route, which accurately follows the path of two of the most important rivers in the area, the Calore Irpino and the Ofanto, the railway line makes it possible, for those who visit Irpinia for the first time, to seize all the elements that have shaped the area historically and morphologically. It is a context in which the man and the nature have reciprocally adapted to one another; a context in which the analysis of the territory and landscape become a key tool to acquire, through numerous characterisations, a revalued image. The DOCG vineyards that progressively make way for chestnut trees on the steep mountainsides of the Monti Picentini; the hills along the Ofanto that stand side by side with hardwood forests; the villages entrenched on the high ground that perfectly
articulate the alternation between mountains and valleys; these are only a few of the landscapes that it is possible to admire from the window while on the train. What makes the landscape so heterogeneous is also the territory itself, as it is strictly connected to the river basin of the Calore Irpino, the Ofanto and the respective tributaries. The numerous realities the railway line displays can either be evident or, occasionally, hidden. Nevertheless, they undoubtedly represent Irpinia’s “visiting card”. This also stands as the ultimate goal of this thesis: not only to analyse, decrypt and restore Irpinia’s core values, but also to reintroduce them as a key element to a project that aims at the landscape and cultural exploitation. By working mainly on the “characters” and on the scenery framed by the windows on the train, it is possible to identify and rebuild some of these natural elements, enhancing the traces, the systems and the morphology of the territory. This will eventually make them the main characters of what the visitor will cherish while experiencing Irpinia.
Software used: QGIS, AutoCad, Illustrator, Photoshop, Rhinoceros, Hand Drawn
Landscape across the railway
Synopsis: The geographical context
Land Use of the two main water catchment areas
Territorial sections: the relationship bewteen the land use and the geomorphological areas
Synopsis: the Railway and its components
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Perspective analysis
Rotazione Tracciato
Pale Eoliche
Ponte in muratura Ponte Principe
Ponte in muratura
Zone Boschive
Zone Zone Colture Urbanizzate Permanenti
Zone Seminativi
Frange Ripariali
Centro Abitato
Landmark
Ricostruzione delle fasce ripariali
Traslazione Apparente
Perspective analysis
Inserimento di alberature lineari
Synpsos: from the diagram to the masterplan
Avellino Rocchetta
Sistemi di Vegetazione Ripariale
Sistemi di Alberature Lineari
Aree Vigneti
Masterplan AREA I
Aree Frutteti
Boschi
IdrograďŹ a
Masterplan AREA VI
Hand drawings views
Hand drawings views
LIVIN’ POPULUS BIM Master Project Subject: Competition for a Tiny Bedroom Master in Progettazione BIM - N.I.B. New Italian Blood Location: Mondragone, Italy Year: 2018 In collaboration with Arch. Giacomo Attardi
The project proposal for the Tourist ProtoHouse of the foof comes from a very simple question: how to build in harmony with the context without excluding and/or incorporating it? The desire of the client to place the structures inside the young poplar of the museum prompted us to investigate what the possible connections and blends between nature and architecture might be. Why break the harmony of the poplar by inserting a structure when the tree itself can lend itself to this function? This is where the LivingPopulus proposal comes from. As represented in the name, the design effort was to give the ProtoHouse an aesthetics and an operation that turned its eye to the complex structure of the trees themselves. All this happens through various elements: the structure, the coating, the technology. The structure is placed in place of one of the poplar trees and it is structured with a vertical central element which supports the housing cell placed at about 7m of height from the ground. This height, obviously variable, allows us to hide the ProtoHouse from the overall view of the forest, blending perfectly with the context, almost as if it were a real tree.
The internal structure of the cell responds perfectly to the idea of “connection” between the architecture and the natural context: the original cubic volume is divided into a series of vertical planes that, by rotating, free the view from the interior of the room towards the outside, almost as if to incorporate the surrounding vegetation inside. In this sequence of rotated floors are articulated the central room (the bedroom) and the bathroom and two small terraces in correspondence of the room. The formal minimalism of the structure is also found in the interior furnitures and finishes, presumably in birch: a clear but warm wood that can standardize sky/earth to the whole environment. As for the choice of furniture, here too, clean and simple shapes make up the bed with drawers, a bench to support clothes and/or other and a steel hanger suspended from the ceiling. The same care is taken in the lines in the bathroom, which is articulated with a series of simple white porcelain stoneware toilets and a shower whose surface is slightly inclined to facilitate the discharge of the water. Complete all, brushed steel mixers for sanitary.
The glazed surfaces are vertical-ball openings, a solution that perfectly meets the concept of “rotation” vertical septa of volumetric genesis. The technology used for the entire structure is xlam, supporting structure in glulam wood that allows not only realizations in very short times but also all the optimization of costs and eco-sustainability. We chose to surround the housing with a“cloud”. It is an element that dematerializes the volume and amplifying the mixture between the architecture and the vegetative element and, at the same time, has an energetic function. This cloud is in fact composed of a series of semicircular blades (obtained from recycled pvc tubes) attached to a dynamo: the concave/convex shape of the element, driven by the driving force of the wind, is able to generate enough energy to satisfy ProtoHouse, which would support itself. An element therefore not only functional to the eco-sustainability but also to the ideological aesthetics of the project: actually these blades, colored in the typical tones of the foliage, would favor the neutrality of volume inside the poplar. In this way, the effect of“mass” is accentuated and rendered three-dimensionally.
Software used: AutoCad, Revit, Illustrator, Photoshop, Rhinoceros, Cinema 4D, Vray
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Main Floor Plan
Main Front
Longitudinal Section
View from the wood
Internal View
VIVAIO
DIDATTICO
BIM Master Graduation Project Subject: Re-use of Confiscated Assets Master in Progettazione BIM - N.I.b. Location: Santa Maria La Fossa (CE), Italy Year: 2019 In collaboration with Arch. Giacomo Attardi
The project proposal for the nursery of Santa Maria La Fossa was born from a very simple will: to create an opportunity for encounter and rediscovered in a territory too often and too violently tormented. Following the suggestions and wishes of the client, we have therefore tried to investigate the possible solutions for the nursery, keeping in mind the difficulties and the incentives to move in a design context of this kind. Working for a confiscated property is in fact a unique experience, as it hinges in a delicate balance between symbolism and the need for reality, in a continuous reference to what has been while concretely seeking new declinations for the future. And how can we try to write a future in a context where the Camorra has been the undisputed protagonist for years? With a desire for transparency, freedom and dynamism. And this is where the idea of our nursery was born: an open, fluid, dynamic space.
A space where the hierarchies can be somewhat nullified. A space where the precise and desired absence of a rigid and predefined directionality can occur and materialize.From these multiple intentions a structure is born that if in the wrapping refers to the archetype of the greenhouse (clean lines and simple geometries), in the interior it leaves room for biomorphic and dynamic forms that, by combining them, create a fluid space, without a solution of continuity, that involves the entire nursery. The activities of laboratory, exhibition nurseries, and retail are therefore articulated within this space, enveloping the two central organic forms which, in turn, they represent the supporting frame of the whole structure. Reinforced concrete panels covered by a continuous series of wooden shelves that with their various sinuosity will always host different functions: now seated, now counters, now exhibitors. In this way, at every height,a different approach will
correspond for shapes and composition: especially from the point of view of children all this we imagine for them can represent a unique experience and from time to time original. The two forms also, if on the outside they celebrate the possible declinations of a tormented territory, inside they host a point of view that aims at the awareness of the past. The two rooms, in antithesis with the external, are presented as closed, dark, dark spaces, inside which are hosted video projections and installations with the aim of raising awareness on the camorristic phenomenon, the impact of their business on the territory and specifically on our soil. Finally, the exterior, completely made of polycarbonate, envelops the entire project, giving a glimpse of the activities inside, in the continuous search for a clear and transparent vision, with the intent to break with the closures of the past.
Software used: AutoCad, Revit, Illustrator, Photoshop, Rhinoceros, Cinema 4D, VRay
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01_ COPERTURA
in acciaio e calcestruzzo
02_ STRUTTURA
in acciaio con IPE 200 e controventatura
03_ STRUTTURA
in acciaio con IPE 200 e controventatura
05_ SETTI PORTANTI
in calcestruzzo armato gettato in opera
04_ RIVESTIMENTO
in policarbonato alveolare doppia pelle
06_ MENSOLE
in MDF tagliato a laser
07_ SETTI PORTANTI
08_ PORTAFINESTRE ESTERNE A PACCHETTO
in calcestruzzo armato gettato in opera
in policarbonato alveolare
Exploded axonometric view
Interior view
Ground floor plan
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Internal views
Functional Diagrams
External view
CASA P. Project Proposal Subject: Interior Restoration Maria Giulia Contarino architect Location: Avellino, Italy Year: 2019
The interior project is about the restoration of an apartment in Largo Scoca (Avellino) with the clear intention of renovating the functionality of the house. Initially the project focused on one of the two existing bathroom: it has to become a private one and have the opportunity to give light to the next new room. This one is the main subject of the project because it has to become the main bathroom of the entire apartment. With a set of small demolitions i also create a new entrance of the house wich comunicate directly with the kitchen, that has to remain to same, according to the client wish. The new main bathroom has to be created from nothing and due to that we decided to place it in continuity with one of the two current bath. Natural light it will provided by using a fanlight above the shower. In both bathrooms we choose a new minimal design forniture, in order to regain a continuity with the other rooms, either with the floor or with the colours and the materials.
Software used: AutoCad, Revit, Illustrator, Photoshop, Sketchup, Vray
Internal view
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1.34 1.50
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0.77 1.50
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0.77 1.50
WC
LETTO
7.0 m²
15.3 m²
Demolitions
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1.34 1.50
Reconstructions
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2.9 m² Scalino di h 13/15 cm circa per pendenza bagno. Distanza scarichi 3,25m circa.
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DISIMPEGNO 11.8 m²
SOGGIORNO 36.7 m²
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WC 3.6 m²
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RIPOSTIGLIO
Struttura in cartongesso.
22.6 m²
2.27
LETTO
6.17 1.34 1.50
CUCINA
Main Bathroom
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3.9
11.3 m²
Private Bathroom
INGRESSO
1.34 2.10
1.34 2.10
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24 m²
Apartment Plan: Before and After
Projects Renderings From left to right: the main and the private bathroom
P O L I C R O M I E
I R P I NE
Landscape Photography Project
SULLA
VIA
d’ERCOLE
Architecture Photography Project
HUMANS
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FRAME
Architecture Photography Project
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