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TABLE OF CONTENTS
“NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE AND MARKET SQUARE”
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“CITY BECOMES RIVER, RIVER BECOMES CITY”
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“CREATIVITY FACTORY”
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“UNICREDIT OFFICE BUILDING” OTHER WORKS
“LE VALLETTE”
NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE AND MARKET SQUARE Building into the buildt Turin 2014 - 2015
The square shows a dense and functional geometric design expressed through small pedestrian paths that are generate from the grid road axiality. These straight paths that cross the square are located in functional points and mark the entrances also creating links with the context. This geometry game creates connections between the square and each pole of the “Vallette” neighborhood. All these paths meet in turn the nucleus of this square: the market space. Here, the presence of fixed box delimits the sqm dedicated to the merchant activity and the concept of continuity is accentuated thanks to the material too. In fact, shape and material’s box have been deeply
designed: the roofs come down through the sides joining the the road surface material becoming part of it. The project includes different types of green spaces: gardens and turf. In the first case the presence of benches and hedges create little entertainment areas. The turf hosts instead arboreal elements, peculiarities of the neighborhood. Tecnological and innovative ele-
ments are not excluded from the project: lighting and flooring. Light is the project key point: long, thin lighting systems, at ground level, accompanying the small paths signing the perimeter. As far as the flooring is concerned, the geometry design system is put in evidence another time thanks to the use of the stone, in the central space.The project respect the context picking up the church and old square material.
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second floor first floor
building design concept
ground floor
ground floor
first floor
The strength of the project is the neighborhood home. It will replace an old buildin which has infrastructural problems. The block and the location are conditioned by the square grid system, concept of the entire project. It looks like a compact construction as well as dynamic in its form, completely covered in white plaster, except for the roof and one of the façades made of copper. The use of copper derives from a reflection about technological quality and aesthetic aspects. The neighborhood house is a two-point broken block. It decrea-
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second floor
ses its height because on the lowest façade it is connected directly to an undergrounded space. Perfectly in harmony with its surroundings, the building is a real part of the square thanks also to the openings. The strip windows run through the building on its façades, underlining horizontality. The interior of the building is studied in order to recreate the same harmony of dialogue between every space, trying to keep alive the perception of the building volume by the rooms height.
copper coating wood planks waterproof sheath insulator slats vapor barrier concrete screed insulator beam concrete casting hollow flooring block plaster
floor planking screed insulator beam
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CITY BECOMES RIVER RIVER B ECOMES CIT Y
Riqualification of the river park Turin 2015 - 2016
The key to understand the project is to consider the land lines and the way they have warped, layerd, hidden and revealed many aspects of the territory. The project was bord by the study of both the historical and current land lines. Observing the progress of the city to the river, a big conflict has been revealed between the “disorderly city” and the river “channeled” because of the projectation of the new cadastral lines towards the river where the city asked the land and so the river has given it the space it needed. The result has been a concinnitas between the city and the river, the artificial and the natural, as if this relationship has always existed, and has been available for a long time before. So, just dusting the top layers is the action required by the project, in order to discover that beneath them an ancient dialogue between the city and the river was being hidden.
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concept design
water river pool
PANTONE #009F82 R=0 G=159 B=130 Sea Green
reection serenity stillness
ooring plastic material vegetation
PANTONE #FF421E R=255 G=066 B=030 emotion Dark Peach friendship action
restaurant 3d view grass lawn vegetation
PANTONE #004200 R=0 G=66 B=0 Dark Emerald
restaurant gym
auditorium hall library museum
nature balance relax
CREATIVITY
FACTORY
Riqualification of an old and dismissed factory New Office Building Carmagnola, Turin 2014 - 2015
Abandoned since 2004 , the building was redesigned as a creative factory, a modern architecture firm. Thanks to the new project, the old shell hosts now different areas and the layout is based on the “Smart Working” theory, whose key concepts are transparency, spatial continuity, coworking and the introduction of new spaces, such as dining and entertainment areas .
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concept design
Rounded Shapes = Entertainement
First Floor
Squared Shapes = Working time
Ground Floor
FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION
UNICREDIT OFFICE BUILDING
AREA: CENTRAL HALL
Riqualification of an old factory New Office Building Verona 2014 - 2015
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FURTHER WORKS
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FURTHER WORKS
FURTHER WORKS
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