P O R T F O L I O May 2020
Quassolo Miriam
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DESIGN AND BUILD
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Exploring theory through material practices. p.6 p.12 p.20
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Ripercorrere le tracce Des débris aux ressources Kaira Looro | Nomadic Dome
INTERIORS AND EXHIBITIONS Beyond of walls: rooms to live in, places to imagine.
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Secluded cabin Path Yerebatan Dega Urban Lab: opening party Turin Graphic Days | Trasformazioni Urbane
CITIES FROM THE OUTSIDE INWARDS From greener town borders to grey central factories.
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Ricucire le sponde, un filo di storia Agri_Cultura 2000 W Society is a lifestyle Ex fabbrica Pastore
DISCONNECTED PROJECTS Snuffit a tutto Tondo House for afterlife Views of major projects in protected landscapes
CURRICULUM VITAE
SUMMARY
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Exploring theory through material practices.
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In order to not have a chaotic approach to the site and consequent planning, it is better in this kind of design to fix some rules and criteria. That is the role of the project manager, who can be a single person or a small group of people. In the following projects, the central rule was to annoy private car-drivers in order to gradually and spontaneously reduce traffic jams in favour of soft mobility and public transportation. On a practical level, the architectural object is built on an area that was a former parking lot. This does not affect the traffic directly, yet the consequences on the neighbourhood are reduced private car circulation. Ideally, the site selected is within a range of possibly polluted and car-appropriated sites that are a problem for the local community. The bottom-up characteristic and the limitation of privatecar use are two paradigms of sustainable design. Other elements that are taken into account include employing local resources, recycled materials and technologies from artisans, in order to set up an economically, socially and environmentally acceptable project.
DESIGN AND BUILD
The following section focuses on self-construction processes. This kind of planning method has a bottom-up characteristic, as local communities usually actively participate during all the design phases in different groups. A quite fascinating aspect is to see how the structures change and evolve over time from the planning stages, based on the on-site materials, community needs, skills and ideas. The final object is the fruit of the efforts of different minds and abilities, so it has a special meaning for the community. Since the community is more connected to the architectural object, it is more likely to be preserved and become part of their everyday life.
RIPERCORRERE LE TRACCE Urban regeneration proposal for Psyrri district in Athens About PERIOD: PLACE: TYPE: WORK: TEAM:
06/2017- 02/2018 Athens (GR) urban planning, public spaces MArch thesis + Project de Fin Étude Quassolo M.
The building density, the limited environmental policies, the low awareness of themes about global warming, the unstable economy and the social marginalization and segregation in Athens inspired this thesis work.
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The project is situated in the Psyrri district, on the northern slopes of the Athenian Acropolis. The aim is to trigger a process of social awareness concerning sustainability, and to spread, through material means, respectful attitudes. This empowered autonomy could be reached through the systematization of existing activities, in order to produce more stable and local micro-economies. The current urban layout of Psyrri is the result of development over time. Comparing the historical and contemporary layout through a historical schematization of the neighbourhood, it turns out that Psyrri has developed through an additive process. The transformation takes place through the restructuring of the oldest historical axes, identifying three nodes (in Leokoriou, Pallados, and Adrianou) which can generate a new local dynamism, reorganizing the urban environment both through artefacts of interest and public use and through strategies for the improvement of the microclimate. The project employs a variety of elements/technologies (greenery, infill, furniture, comfort) which are deployed across the axes. The design methodology utilizes the theory of developing a city in the city to enhance the two historical traces, generating other renovations that would benefit the entire district.
Design proposal: valorisation of historical axes as an eco-sustainable approach. The four subjects are highlighted with icons and different colours. Major sites are signaled. The diagrams represent the two main built projecs without community appropriation.
Self-construction and cooperation between various operators
Enhancement of urban comfort
Urban mobility
Pathway through agorĂ ruins
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The main actions of the project in the neighbourhood of Psyrri. Under the assumption of the success of the project, plan, elevation and illustration represent the final appropriation of public spaces by inhabitants in (1) the Wall in Leokoriou and (1) the Parking in Pallados.
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(3) The smaller specific actions throughout the historic axes are only suggestions of the consequent appropriation of public spaces by self-construction actions. The same matrix used for Leokoriou and Pallados is repeated and sized according to the specific street activity (market, relax, craftmanship...).
Une passerelle au dessus des ruines
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Walkers’ street appropriation with urban furnitures built starting from the project matrix (5) (4) Hypothesis and scenario for the northern Agora, with emphasis on the ruins of the ancient Leokoriou; (5) Walkers squeezed by traffic jam, roadworks and walkers-size street. To disclose the ancient connection between the Agora and the two historical axes, the street in Ermou would be equalised with sidewalks to ensure the fluidity of walkers from and towards Psyrri.
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DES DÉBRIS AUX RESSOURCES
Parking metamorphosis by natural bridges About 09/2016- 12/2016 PLACE: Correns, Var (FR) TYPE: public spaces WORK: micro-project and self-construction TEAM: Quassolo M., Scoarnec C. (for Seuil entre ville et nature); Group 1 of Construire autrement workshop (for La place de l’Avenir). PERIOD:
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Correns is a small rural centre and is called a bio-village due to its remarkable amount of organic certified agricultural fields. Despite the label, its inhabitants’ lifestyle depends on the resources and activities of nearby urban centres reached by private cars, and there is an average of two vehicles per person. As a consequence, this engendered a detachment from the milieu and a wild-parking situation that is a discomfort to pedestrians and cyclists, as public spaces have become a transit and car-drivers private property. Therefore, this project aims to reduce distances between inhabitants and their natural surroundings, to raise awareness of proximal natural resources and to re-connect them with the environment, re-establishing the bond nature and people. Set in the forecourt of the village’s fort, Seuil entre ville et nature is a symbolic bridge between town and forest. Substantially, the structure is a slope embedded between two walls that frame the natural surrounding landscape. Between the school, the canteen and the communal garden is the associated wild-parking, that is mostly used by parents who wait for children in their running cars. A circular bench is built by a self-construction program to limit the cars’ pollution and children’s discomfort. La place de l’Avenir is not limited to its practical use, as it also represents the idea of togetherness, recycling, gardening, farming and learning by doing.
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Communal garden Natural landscape designed to build on-site
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wild parking zone
(6) Axonometry of Correns with projects sites and interactions within the urban and natural context; (7) Section of the hill to emphasise the relationship between the environment and the village; references to sources of materials employed.
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charred woods recycled materials Correns’ wood
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(12) (10) Plan of the Seuil; (11) A-A’ section; (12) East Elevation.
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greenery built-in pots
charred woods from neighbourhood (cross-beam)
wooden planks from pallet (sitting)
charred woods from neighbourhood (log)
16 leftover stones from present debris (foundations)
sitting and pots (15)
sitting and bower existing wall sitting and pots
compost
kids area
(13) Material composition (14) System structure diagram; (15) Sketch plan.
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parking access
cars sitting
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parking lot
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parking access
school’s entrance sitting and pots kids area
sitting and bower compost
(16) the parking square before the urban intervention; (17) Sketch representing the on-site design phase and the assembled main sitting system; (18) La Place de l’Avenir (the parking square after the urban intervention).
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(19) Detail of the final sitting structure with logs painted by children from the school; (20) 180° shot of the entire urban intervention (from left: compost bin with instructions, sitting and bower, sittings with built-in pots, children drawing decorations, existing wall; on the background: car parking lots, parking access, school’s entrance).
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(21) children planting the seedling; (22) the built-in pots with seedling.
KAIRA LOORO | NOMADIC DOME Ready-to-build Emercengy Operations Center Foundation for Geodetic dome Special mention About 05/2020 PLACE: sub-saharan africa TYPE: emergency architecture WORK: competition TEAM: Rio G. (PM), Molina J., Musiari M., Quassolo o M., Villalba M. L. PERIOD:
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From ancient times to nowadays, nomads tribess of Subsaharan Africa build their shelters with local al materials and technological system to build effortlesslyy and quickly dismantle huts. Huts are mainly sphere-like shape, and materials are light and easily workable. e. Nomadic Dome is an EOC inspired by these traditional al forms combined with contemporary dry construction n approaches. The EOC keeps the transitional property, yet the local material adaptation embeds a sense of familiarity to o the community and might give the strength for restart. t. The building-system is a single light canopy from m woven coverage materials (e.g. palm leaves, hay, y, bamboo), depending on the local availability. Thee design philosophy is to reduce the blueprint and thee ability to be adaptable not just in spaces, but also in n material components.
Foundation for bamboo floo ooring
Bamboo grid to support the floor
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Geodesic dome structure
Geodesic dome’s skin
Participation in all the building phases is suitable, ass the aim is to make the community feel a sense off belonging. In particular, for the dismantling phase, e, it would be important that inhabitants appropriatee structures after the emergency. Flexibility and adaptation are the main points off the project. It is, therefore, possible to employ three different diameters of 3V geodesic domes (6 m, 9 m, 12 m). Domes composition can be adapted to the emergency context. In case it is necessary to increase the area, it is possible to add easily volume to the existing domes, as joint knots are designed to frame newer bamboo culms.
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(23) Detail of geodesic dome construction; (24) Design concept: nomad circular huts to nomad EOC adaptive domes; (25) Representation from the interior skydome.
Circle as union
Involvement of the community
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Storage Assistance Management (24)
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(28) Ilustration of the work-in-progress domes.
In this second part of the work samples, the main thread is the perception and feelings within closed rooms. Interior spaces could build bridges to connect physical spaces (outside landscape, other rooms), but also to leave room for imagination and go beyond walls.
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With different solutions by budget, characteristics and functions, the following works aim to show flexible and modular design in tiny places, temporary settings planned according to the present situation and specific compositions to trigger emotions. Finally, these cases are designed by taking into account elements of surprise and users’ emotions.
INTERIORS AND EXHIBITIONS
Beyond of walls: rooms to live in, places to imagine.
SECLUDED CABIN
Antropic escape in dramatic landscape
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06/2015 Glen Shiel, Kyle (UK) private residence project Quassolo M. (1)
The dramatic scenery of Glen Shiel is the background of this all-year retreat with its series of simple, flexible living spaces. Perched on piles, the building is gently placed on a plain facing hills. The dwelling was commissioned by a couple who wanted a simple space to relax and enjoy the natural views. It measures 47 square metres and is designed to look like a single wood prism sliced by openings which let the light come in. Deep windows provide intimate spaces to enjoy views of the hillside’s vegetation. Rooms are divided by modular mobile screens, which gives users the freedom to design the single-storey. More space is created by the attic, where the height of the roof gives the possibility for extra beds or storage rooms. Hidden closets are built-in, in order to minimize space, and are delineated by materials of different tones adopted for the walls, roof, and floors. The cabin offers a warm natural shelter, from which the couple can go hiking and spend time outdoors. The site offers an ideal place to rest, due to its seclusion and scenic beauty.
(1) The kitchen view from the Bedroom; (2) View of the interior from the Living room
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PATH YEREBATAN Smooth artistic waves
About 04/11/2014 - 08/11/2014 Turin (IT) TYPE: exhibition WORK: project and preparation TEAM: Polytechnic University students selected by artist Sandro Martini. PERIOD:
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Yerebatan Saray, also known as the Basilica Cistern, in Istanbul, is considered the most suggestive place on Earth by the artist Sandro Martini. The theme of suggestions was the guiding principle of the Path Yerebatan exhibition at Castle of Valentino in November 2014. Sandro Martini designed canvases that compose the artwork, and they are hung by guy ropes in order to create a dialogue with the architectural space. The exhibition lasted one week. At first, we studied the possible shapes of painted tissues with the support of maquettes as well as spur-of-the-moment sketches and drawings. Later, we set up the exhibition, watching painstakingly from all angles to stimulate feelings of astonishment and curiosity. The relation with light was essential, so canvases were placed to produce different shapes both during the day and the evening.
Photo of the interior of Sala delle Colonne with the final composition of canvases.
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(8-9) Planning the exhibition with the Artist Sandro Martini; (10-11) Exhibition set-up;
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DEGA URBAN LAB: OPENING PARTY Introducing the concept to the community (12)
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08/03/2019 Settimo T.se, Turin (IT) exhibition project and preparation Space Tortilla for Dega Urban Lab, Quassolo M.
Transformation may represent a fluid reality, where spaces become empty spaces as public demands decline. In this case, the empty space is located in the town of Settimo Torinese, in a peripheral urban park. It has been an urban void since 2008 when a cafeteria was opened. In 2018, local associations Tavolo Giovani and Space Tortilla in collaboration with the municipality begin the project of regenerating the space. Space Tortilla contributed from an artistic and architectural point of view. The organization is composed of young designers specialized in visual art, graphics, screen printing, and street art. Together we planned and designed spaces for the opening party.
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At this event, the project of DEGA Urban Lab was presented for the first time to the town community. Because the site was still a work-in-progress, and neither demolition nor building was possible, we decided to emphasize this status of transition, covering the ceiling and gallery walls with painted plastic sheets. In the gallery, we built a pillar where a projector played abstract videos to produce different lighting effects. The main hall’s function was to welcome people and to entertain them with debates, music and a live painting. The last room was a small space conceived to entertain people through colourful ropes hanging from the ceiling.
(12-13) Sketches for the installations in the corridor (left) and main room (right); (14) Front view of the building.
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(15) The corridor while the exhibition was active. The pillar projected a psychedelic video on the painting plastic sheeting with dynamic and fuzzy effects; (16) Ironic postcard produced to sponsor the place.
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(17) The ceiling of the main room with sheeting outlining fonctional spaces; (18) The show-space with the performer.
TRASFORMAZIONI URBANE In The City | Graphic DaysTM Torino About PERIOD: PLACE: TYPE: WORK: TEAM:
21/09/2019 - 24/09/2019 Settimo T.se, Turin (IT) exhibition project and preparation Space Tortilla for Dega Urban Lab, Quassolo M., Graphic Days Torino
From the 21st to the 23rd of September 2019, the DEGA Urban Lab hosted Trasformazioni Urbane, an event whose theme was Settimo’s urban transformation process. The whole event was part of the Graphic DaysTM Torino visual design festival.
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Settimo Torinese has a strong industrial identity, although most of the factories are now in an abandoned state. However, the large neglected surfaces present the perfect scene for illegal street art and wall paintings, enhancing the perception of urban spaces. Therefore, this was the topic of the main exhibition, Mutazioni, where Stefano Greco (from Arte Totale Association), Space Tortilla and Lorenzo Saracino displayed their photo shoots of Settimo’s street art. Together with Space Tortilla, we designed and set up the interior spaces. Steel cables were attached to scaffolding elements, whose main purpose was to sustain prints and posters, which composed a path from illegal to legal wall painting photo shoots. In the centre of the hall, the steel cables sustained a piece of canvas to generate a room-like space, in which an augmented reality activity took place. For the exterior, we set up and personally managed two main spaces, the first was for the Urban common goods talk, while the second was for the Planning for Real activity. This activity consisted of a brief game, where people had to place the correct photo of a blighted wall, and after a discussion about the urban aspects of street art, people were called to propose their own walls and to draw, together, a possible urban street art walk.
(19) Logo of Graphic DaysTM Torino; (20) Planning for Real interactive map.
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(22-23) Illegal and legal art photos exhibition set up detail; (24) Users interactions.
The third and last section is focused on urban and landscape planning theories. The projects shown are set between urban and rural border areas, in brownfield or mono-functional neighbourhoods. The limited period of the workshop and the large scale of the design surfaces restricted the projects to a general mass proposal of volume concentrations and related functions (not sure what you mean by this last part of the sentence).
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Technical drawing and environment constraints have been deeply analysed in the latter projects, where energy efficiency has a strong role. Sustainable design is the fundamental element of each project, but here there is a more technical approach through the application of technology-specific solutions and functional formal changes that take into account the time component. In each case, the proposal is a balance between environmental and techno-economic parameters while looking for specific solutions that could solve local problems and positively influence social elements.
CITIES FROM THE OUTSIDE INWARDS
From greener town borders to grey central factories.
RICUCIRE LE SPONDE, UN FILO DI STOR Putting the Po river first
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Academic year 2014-2015 Nizza-Millefonti, Turin (IT) class on green urban borders project Mino F., Periquet M.-F. A., Natta F., Quassolo M.
After careful analysis of the relation between the Po river and the city of Turin, based on historical and contemporary evidence, it is clear that water here has an important role. The first action that focused on the river is the simultaneous building of the Vittorio Veneto square and the Gran Madre di Dio church, which are strictly connected. (2)
Drawing inspiration from Point and Line to Plane by W. Kandinsky, we were able to design a masterplan concept, in which the Gran Madre di Dio church represents the Point, the Vittorio Emanuele I bridge represents the Line, Vittorio Veneto square represents the Plane. The system Point-Line-Plane were repeated to connect the north and south Po’s banks, in some cases with physical construction, in others with a perspective link. Therefore, on each bank, there is either a small building or a square, whichever is applicable. Looking further into the second system, we designed a small building where people could contemplate and unwind on the northern bank. While on the southern bank, a square sliding toward the river hosts a museum, a conference room, a cafeteria, and other facilities. Perspective views and materials - concrete and water link buildings, enabling the river to be the protagonist.
(1) Masterplan of the entire project; (2) Illustration of the confluence of Sangone river into Po river with new buildings.
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(3) Elevation, Section and Plan of the new place with the museum and conference hall.
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(4) Elevation, Section and Plan of the temple.
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AGRI_CULTURA
From steel mill to residential crops About Academic year 2015-2016 PLACE: Lucento, Turin (IT) TYPE: class on industrial urban areas WORK: project TEAM: Quassolo M., Sanchez Lucas A., Tosco C., Trimboli F. PERIOD:
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A very dramatic event is the origin of this brownfield area: an explosion resulted in eight victims at the Turin ThyssenKrupp steel mill. The site is located between a heavily trafficked road and two workingclass districts. The northern side, is the starting point for the agricultural areas of Turin.
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The concept is based on an orthophoto from 1943, where the crop fields are perpendicular to the Dora river. On that basis, we diagonally split the steel mill, keeping only the northern part, while the remaining area was allocated to a new neighbourhood, which follows the tools of the ITACA protocol. The residential space was designed with a courtyard in the middle, which has functions like playground, community garden, and tiny parks. They are all connected by paths so that people might easily walkthrough. The remains of the steel mill were adapted and renovated to place one of the agricultural research centres of Turin’s University, a hotel facing the Pellerina park and Alps, and a storage warehouse, on the northern area, which is a central point to collect and deliver agricultural goods to the city. The existing tower of the ThyssenKrupp steel mill is the new landmark, and it hosts offices, co-working spaces, and a panoramic restaurant. At the bottom, there is the Memoria square, honouring the victims of the explosion. The whole project was thought of as a mostly car-free area. Residential parking lots are located underground, public parking lots are in a building near the busy road to have useful access. Furthermore, behind the former industrial building, a free shuttle would connect the neighbourhood to the nearest bus stations of the city.
(5) aerial photo of 1943 situation; (6) Masterplan with ITACA protocol elements and mass volume view.
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Building volumes of the new neighbourhood Red Ex-ThyssenKrupp Yellow: Residential buildings and facilities Orange: ThyssenKrupp Tower (cf. Section below)
Road network
Mapping of the building (or portion) to demolish
Definition of footprint and hierarchies
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Currently status
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Research Centre for agricultural studies and land reclamation (7) Diagram of the new urban settlement process; (8) Section of the renovated Thyssenkrupp. (3) East Elevation.
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(11) (9-10) View and detail of the main square; (11) Section of Thyssenkrupp renovated landmark.
2 000 W SOCIETY IS A LIFESTYLE
An environmental vision for a traditional cooperaAbout 30.11.2019 - 07.12.2019 Zurich (CH) TYPE: workshop WORK: project TEAM: Bielokopytov N., Dzhurliak U., Moldovan C., Oslamovskii A., Quassolo M., Rosh D., Mentor: Kostourou F. PERIOD: PLACE:
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The 2000-watt society is an environmental vision, first introduced in 1998 by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in ZĂźrich (ETH Zurich). Bearing in mind the Swiss local lifestyle, ETH researchers set the goal for each citizen to consume on average 2000 W (or 2 kWh per hour) of primary energy by 2050. The calculations took into account not only the consumption of individuals and households but also that of the entire population, including the embodied energy. (13)
Replacing old factories with new, high-tech buildings and systems does not necessarily lead to lower energy consumption levels, even when passive solutions are adopted. Instead, a radical restructuring of the current Swiss lifestyle and spatial modus operandi is needed, in order to achieve the goal of a 2000-watt society. For this, we followed the principles of adapting and densifying the existing built environment while hybridizing its functions. The testbed for trying these principles out is a working-class settlement in Friesenberg, owned by Familienheim-Genossenschaft ZĂźrich. The current plan of the cooperative is to transform the neighbourhood according to the Zurich sustainable roadmap, investing in solutions that deal with energy efficiency, the ageing of the building stock, the increase of building density and compactness, and a mix of uses in order to make the neighbourhood sustainable for the long-term. Our proposal responded to these concerns by suggesting a series of actions that span from the restructuring and cross-financing of the existing FGZ operation to strategic architectural and urban interventions that extend the lifespan of the existing building stock of the city.
(12) Possible adaptions per plot and block; (13) Diagram of the neighborhood..
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(14) Hybridization of functions with time efficiency components in former kindergarten (daytime) and dwellings(average family lifecycle).
Area per occupant 35 m2 Heat Lost CoeďŹƒcient 150 KWh/m2 Annum Energy requirement 620 W (31%) Average commuting energy per occupant 3 000 KW/h (18% of 2000 W)
(15) Area per occupant 30 m2 Heat Lost CoeďŹƒcient 100 KWh/m2 Annum Energy requirement 120 W (6%) Average commuting energy per occupant 1 400 KW/h (8% of 2000 W)
Operable blinds Co-working space
Sharing
Single/double flats
Sharing
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Waste heat Central heat pump
Heat recovery Mixed-used basement
Mixed-used basement
Electric car sharing
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Consumption per occupant: Energy per dish: Energy requirement:
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2 800 KWh/Annum 1 400 W 340 W (17%)
1 700 KWh/Annum 500 W 200 W (10%)
(17) (15) Current situation; (16) Clustered situation; (17) Energy consumption per household.
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EX FABBRICA PASTORE Living in a brand new factory (18)
About PERIOD: PLACE: TYPE: WORK: TEAM:
Academic year 2015-2016 Regio Parco, Turin (IT) class on abandoned buildings project Natta F., Quassolo M., Tonti I., Torricelli E.
Variante 2000 is an urban program on a neighbourhood scale. It is about urban regeneration of Regio Parco district in the city of Turin. The subject of the workshop is within the program, focusing on a former factory of lock systems that is now abandoned.
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The main idea is to maintain the original aspects of the solid parallelepiped exterior, while the sheds inside the block are pulled out.
PIANTA PIANO TERRA_MASTERPLAN
Scala 1:200
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Following a S.W.O.T. analysis, we elaborated the concept, and we decided to open the ground floor to the citizens, since the neighbourhood is deficient in public spaces and activities - such as laboratories and workshops.
Servizi terziario
Servizi terziario
The courtyard is transformed into a public garden with four different entrances. The first and second floor are semi-private, and their entrances are on the edges of the building. There is co-housing on the western side, a student residence on the southern one, and a residential sector in the higher building on the north-eastern edge. A rooftop garden is accessible both for residents of the co-housing and for students. The form of sheds was repeated in the design of the parking building on the northern side, where a winter garden breaks the sequence of parking lots. The aim is that vegetation improves the air through direct ventilation. The entire technology and composition choices of the building were guided by a Physical-Technical analysis and calculations in order to design a energy efficient building.
Atrio cohousing
(18) Pedestrian and driveway access, environmental acoustic, equpiments diagrams; (19) Solar radiation and ventilation (winter and summer); (20) Ground floor and SouthEast elevation; (21) Functions diagrams.
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Lavanderia Parcheggio bici
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Servizi terziario Locale Amiat
Magazzino
Access and buffering Public spaces Private spaces Public Garden Bioclimatic Greenhouse
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PIANO PRIMO Scala 1:200
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Locale Tecnico
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(22) lengthwise sections and first plan.
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STUDIO 37,5 mq
THREE ROOM FLAT 70 mq
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THREE ROOM FLAT 80 mq
STUDIO 37,5 mq 1
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THREE ROOM FLAT 70 mq
parking 3
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(23) Flat typologies (blue = student residence; brown = co-housing); (24) Cross section and main elevation (north-east).
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(24) Elevation detail and related technical section.
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Camera Doppia Su 15,4 mq Sf 4,7 mq RAI 0,31
Camera Doppia Su 15,6 mq Sf 4,7 mq RAI 0,30
Camera Doppia Su 16,8 mq Sf 4,7 mq RAI 0,28
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(25) Composition diagram; (26-27) Technical section and plan.
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An architect’s work is a particular composition of art and science, theory and practice, hierarchies and nonlinear routes. The following three works are not strictly architectural, though some elements of the projects are.
DISCONNECTED PROJECTS
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An architect’s education takes into account different theoretical and practical subjects and gives tools within fields of design, graphic, illustration, craftsmanship but also planning, management, organisation.
SNUFFIT A TUTTO TONDO
About work in progress PLACE: Northern Italy TYPE: Circular Economy project WORK: Project Manager TEAM: Nygren U. (CEO) for SNUFFIT, Ambrosiani J., Castellano F. (president), Rusci E., Quassolo M. for TONDO APS. PERIOD:
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Snuffit
Snuffit a Tutto Tondo is a project that aims to reduce littering within the model of a circular economy. Cigarette butts are 40% of global litter, and it is one of the most polluting elements in the world due to its toxic and microplastic components. Due to negative habits, an enormous amount of cigarette butts are thrown each day in inappropriate places. The association Tondo is collaborating with the startup Snuffit to inform and provide smokers with a more sustainable option: throwing cigarette butts in pocket-size ashtrays. To encourage positive habits, each time smokers return a full ashtray, they may win a prize from their favourite pub. The ashtrays are then cleaned and given back to smokers, while the cigarette butts are delivered to a laboratory to be processed into a new material to produce goods. The circularity of the process limits the production of waste material, especially since both the ashtrays and cigarette butts are recycled. The whole system, which is in a prototype phase at the moment, is analysed and studied alongside with scientists, economists and technicians to be applied on a larger urban scale.
Ironic illustrations about the project themes [top]. Illustration of the typologies of ashtrays with Tondo branding package [bottom].
Snuffit a tutto Tondo un progetto circolare
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Cleaning an of cigare
Delivery to SnuďŹƒt Lab
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Cigarette Bu
Release of dispen ashtrays, pocket-s
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Production of secondary materials
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utts challenge
nsers. fixed size ashtrays
Cigarette butts circular supply chain.
HOUSE FOR AFTERLIFE
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About PERIOD: PLACE: TYPE: WORK: TEAM:
work in progress Poirino (IT) Religious architecture Restauration of decorations Quassolo M., Tosco C. (PM), Trimboli F.
The contribution to this project is focused on the theme of craftsmanship. The original tomb of the Rietto family had decorations which were in a state of advanced deterioration. The new design hoped to maintain the ancient decorations, therefore, by cleaning, smoothing and grinding, we restored them. We then applied a protective enamel to preserve the elements from further deterioration. The restored decorations will be placed in the new tomb in the last phase.
Pictures of the restoration phases, from original deterioration to protection layer. The decorations have been personally restored.
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VIEWS OF MAJOR PROJECTS IN PROTEC
1.1A
About PERIOD:
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PLACE: TYPE: WORK: TEAM:
12/2018 -07/2019 Metropolitan area of Turin (IT) Planning of green areas and buildings Design and graphic processing Anselmo S., RegulArc, Quassolo M, several
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experts. In this section, there are some extracts of works in collaboration with RegulArc and Arch. Anselmo Sabrina. The leitmotiv of the following images is a proposal, as the client and landscape supervisors asked for illustrations representing the building and edited photos.
x.ny y=A, existing scenario, y=B, proposed scenario sequence’s number image project
Every project selected here is in a protected natural area, thus projects have to be authorized by the Superintendence of Landscape. As a result the vegetation, colours, and materials must respect the norms. With the aid of experts, we mostly planned office buildings and greenery, employing trees such as Populus nigra, Acer campestre, Betula alba, Carpinus betulus, Crataegus monogyna or shrubs as Euonymus alatus, Cornus mas, Ligustrum volgare and Cytisus scoparius. We worked on pre-existing structures, both inactive and active industrial areas and residential buildings. Personally managed the graphic processing.
(1) Axonometry of Correns with projects sites and interactions within the urban and natural context; (2) Section of the hill to emphasise the relationship between the environment and the village; references to sources of materials employed.
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1.2A
1.3A
1.2B
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QUASSOLO MIRIAM A
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born in Moncalieri (Turin - IT)
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SKILLS
EXPERIENCES
LANGUAGES Italian mother tongue English (ielts certification) B2 French C1 German (Göthe-Zertifikat B2) B2
SUSTAINABILTY PROJECT MANAGER at Tondo APS (Milan - IT)
CRAFTMANSHIP SKILLS Hand-drawing Watercolor Handmade modeling Book Binding SOFTWARE SKILLS O.S.: Windows MacOS Adobe Creative Suite: Indesign Illustrator Photoshop Cad: Autodesk AutoCAD B.I.M.: Autodesk Revit Graphisoft ArchiCAD 3D Modeling: McNeel Rhinoceros + Grasshopper Google SketchUp Autodesk AutoCAD Rendering system: Chaos Group V-Ray Microsoft Office
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EXHIBIT DESIGNER with Space Tortillia at Dega Urban Lab (Turin - IT)
SINCE
SINCE
2019 2018
ARCHITECTURAL AND GRAPHIC DESIGNER 2018 - 2019 in collaboration with RegulArc (Turin - IT) ARCHITECTURAL AND GRAPHIC DESIGNER in collaboration with Arch. Guido Olocco (Turin - IT)
2018
SELF-CONSTRUCTION PROJECT Marseille workshop at Correns (Brignoles - FR)
2016
ARCHITECTURE INTERNSHIP at Arch. Antonio Ravarino (Turin - IT)
2015
EXHIBIT DESIGNER designed and built with Sandro Martini (Turin - IT)
2015
ENSA
PUBLICATIONS AND AWARDS KAIRA LOORO ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION | Special Mention Emergency Operations Center for the resolution of humanitarian emergencies in Africa, organized by non-profit organization Balouo Salo in the year 2020. The project was evaluated by the organization and an international jury. GRAPHIC PROCESSING Tosco C., Tutte le strade portano a Torino. Una lettura della rete tranviaria extraurbana a partire dalle sue permanenze materiali, in: Atti & Rassegna Tecnica, n.s. a. LXXIII, n.1 (2019). ISSN: 0004-72877 PUBLISHING GRAPHIC AND EDITING Tondo APS, AA.VV., Circular Ocean Forum, Genova, 2019
[re-think.today/pdf/Report_Genova_Re-think_Circular_Ocean_Forum.pdf]
VOLUNTEERING 2018 OPEN HOUSE TORINO A free event to visit significant buldings. 2019 TORINOSTRATOSFERICA International festival about urban utopies.
NEWSPAPER ARTICLE Fusaro F., “Il Dega Urban Lab incontra Graphic Days Torino”, in La Nuova Periferia Settimo, 24 September 2019.
DIDACTIC ACTIVITY MATH AND PHYSICS TEACHER at I.I.S.S. Baldessano-Roccati (Carmagnola - IT)
2019
EDUCATION 2019 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2012 2010
Educational program Creating homes for tomorrow by CANactions School, Zurich, Helsinki, Kiev Anthropology, psychology, pedagogy, educational Art methodologies and technologies 24 ECTS at University of Turin, Italy MArch | Master of Architecture - Architecture for Sustainability Design at Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy MArch | Master of Architecture - Diplôme d’état d’Architecture at ÉNSA Marseille, France Erasmus+ Double Degree Programme in Marseille, France BArchSc | Bachelor of Architectural Science at Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy High School Diploma in Foreign Languages at I.I.S. A. Spinelli, Turin, Italy Year abroad in Stolberg, Aachen, Germany
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