A PROJECT OF URBAN REGENERATION: THE AREA OF THE HOSPITAL UMBERTO I IN MESTRE-VENEZIA Nicolò Murianni Luca Zingaro
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THE IMAGE PROSPECTS FOR THE FUTURE
The project initially starts from some urban considerations of the city of Mestre and its potential. It is a proposal of urban regeneration for the area of the former hospital Umberto I, through the development of a new image and symbol for the area’s identity. Today Mestre shows a disordered urban texture, a result of a failure to urban plan during its rapid expansion, and a historical center of lesser quality, fragile, without a defined character. The Mestre of tomorrow will have to be an efficient city, in close contact with the realities of the lagoon of Venice and its change, designed for architectural and balanced urban systems with the actual society. The proposed project is an intervention of new entity that uses the principle of the continuity of the squares within the bifurcation of the river Marzenego, developing the design of residential buildings, offices, commercial and public use. Such complexes result in a multifunctional tower that wants to represent a new symbol of change of the city.
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THE ISLAND A SITE IN THE CENTRE
The area of the hospital Umberto I, as well is known by inhabitants is located in the island of the historical center of the city where the Marzenego river splits into two sections and then reunited in Cialdini area. The first settlement dates back to the Middle Ages on the site of the Castelvecchio, not to be confused with Castelnuovo instead was bounded by the still existing Clock Tower to Via Spalti. Today nothing remains of the walls of the medieval castle, except the abandoned bridge, once an important passage of access to the area. In 2008 after the demolition of some hospital pavilions the site became soon a huge “urban hole” and later a degraded area. The strategic and central area is halfway between the new hub of the tram station in Cialdini square and the SFMR train station in Via Olimpia, and not far away are the most significant public buildings of the city as the cinema and cultural center Candiani, the Toniolo Theater and the new museum of the ‘900 M9, connected with the three squares Barche, Ferretto and Candiani.
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THE PLAN
THE SQUARE BETWEEN THE GREEN
The 47,000 sqm irregular area is bordered by four different fronts: from the north by Marzenego river, from the south by via Antonio da Mestre, from the east by via Einaudi, from the west by via Circonvallazione. The Masterplan is born mainly by a system of existing paths, taken as guidelines for new buildings of the project; the latter provides the addition of four buildings, two of which are parallel to via Circonvallazione and houses residences, offices and public activities, where the north 7 floors high will define a head while the south 5 floors high ends with a pitch. More central are the other two residential buildings with 6 floors with irregular plan dictated by the different points of view turned to green areas. All are part of a continues sinuous line and reminiscent of a wall which then ends with a tower. The glass basement of the four buildings is very fragmented to remember the urban texture of the city and here are placed the various commercial and retail activities; going up instead become more linear and has four large public terraces where there are other commercial activities and work spaces. The main access to the site run along the north-south axis with the bridge of Castelvecchio (subject of restoration) and via Antonio da Mestre and from east-west axis, following the trend of the vast square of 8000 sqm. The ground floor is completed by a large garden of 11000 sqm -with various species of trees including Liquidambar, Robinia, Tiglio- that joined the park of Villa Querini and the garden of via Einaudi surround the entire intervention.
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VOLUMETRY The base where they develop the buildings is very fragmented to allow for visual and spatial permeability between the various environments, these glass blocks for commercial and public activities have a height of 5 meters. Above public terraces accessible by stairways provide a visual filter to all accommodation instead start from the height of +8.50 meters above the ground and have a storey height of 3.50 meters. The heights of the complex ranging from a maximum of +34.50 meters of the residential building of the head of 7 levels to +29.50 meters than 6 levels up to +26.00 meters of the public building to 5 levels.
STRUCTURE For all the buildings was used a structure with high-strength reinforced concrete C90/105 columns and slabs plate lightened type Uboot with two-way flow. The sections of the pillars -which star from level -2- vary according to the height of the buildings while the numerous stairblocks of reinforced concrete have also been required to stiffen the buildings in such a way as to bind possible displacements, translations and rotations provoked by horizontal forces (such as earthquake and wind). Every 35 meters have been inserted some expansion joints such as to be able to not double the pillars. The lodges are hung projecting the facade with the help of special steel structures located within the housing dividers that allow to transfer the load to the summit.
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THE TOWER
THE LANDMARK OF THE CITY
The inclusion of a tower takes us back to the first settlement area where the Castelvecchio of Mestre was characterized by lookout towers of masonry, it wants to emphasize the importance of this area for the inhabitants of the city. Within the Masterplan is presented as the starting point of this sinuous and broken line of buildings. The tower of 30 levels, placed at -6.25 meters compared to 0, is formed by two faceted polygon of 9 sides joined by a bridge and presents its highest point to +133.75 meters relative to the ground, for a total of 140 meters building. Initially stars with a “basement� and then taper to form a triangle. Inside the functional program is divided into: offices (from l-2 to l+10), restaurant and panoramic terrace (from l+11 to l+12), hotel (from l+13 to l+20) lofts (from l+21 to l+27), skydeck (from l+28 to l+29). With its height will be visible up to 50 kilometers away and will become the new landmark of the city of Mestre.
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FUNCTIONS
Skydeck Technical Lofts Hotel
CELLS FACADE The irregular facades of the tower are composed of already assembled modules and then arranged on various levels with the use of cranes. From inside the building rhythm and spacing of the mullions is 1 meter when the cell has only glass but instead varies when there is the module with the grid; for the angles have been used of particular profiles tailored to ensure that the individual external glazing did not touch, relieving them from view. Between each cell there is structural silicone to limit the shear stresses and those derived from the wind pressure and depression.
Terrace Restaurant Offices Hall hotel | lofts | restaurant | skydeck Hall offices
STRUCTURE The tower, 140 meters high has a reinforced concrete structure with pillars, beams and a central core that stabilizes the building with respect to fluctuations. The residential and hotel levels are made of thick reinforced concrete lightened plates 400mm, the directional levels are achieved with the same slab but because of the shape of the building, to fill the great distance between the core and the pillar in the corner it was added a perimeter height beam that limits the twisting and the arrow. The pillars have circular shape and their weight and section decreases going upward.
ENVELOPE The nine sides of the tower are completely covered by a reflective extra clear glazing double skin facade, but to break this rhythm were inserted some metal grids formed from perforated aluminum sheets painted of anthracite grey. They have a width of 1/3 of a meter and a height of 4 meters which occupies the interfloor; to the vary of the height of the building change also they arrangement, occupying two levels at the lowest plans, then four, and finally five. Seen from outside the tower present a coherent facade language with the entire complex.
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Top (+133.75m)
Livello +30 (+128.00m)
Livello +29 (+123.90m)
Livello +28 (+119.80m)
Livello +27 (+115.70m)
Livello +26 (+111.60m)
Livello +25 (+107.50m)
Livello +24 (+103.40m)
Livello +23 (+99.30m)
Livello +22 (+95.20m)
Livello +21 (+91.10m)
Livello +20 (+87.00m)
Livello +19 (+82.90m)
Livello +18 (+78.80m)
Livello +17 (+74.70m)
Livello +16 (+70.60m)
Livello +15 (+66.50m)
Livello +14 (+62.40m)
Livello +13 (+58.30m)
Livello +12 (+54.20m)
Livello +11 (+46.00m)
Livello +10 (+41.90m)
Livello +9 (+37.80m)
Livello +8 (+33.70m)
Livello +7 (+29.60m)
Livello +6 (+25.50m)
Livello +5 (+21.40m)
Livello +4 (+17.30m)
Livello +3 (+13.20m)
Livello +2 (+9.10m)
Livello +1 (+5.00m)
Livello 0 (+0.00m)
Livello -1 (-3.25m)
Livello -2 (-6.25m)
Livello -3 (-9.25m)
Livello -4 (-12.25m)
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Nicolò Murianni Venice, Italy 21 | 01 | 1991 Martellago, Venice, Italy nicolomurianni@gmail.com +39 3486276703
Education October 2013 - March 2016 Master’s Degree (Architecture) 102 | 110 University IUAV of Venice, Italy October 2010 - September 2013 Bachelor’s Degree (Architecture) 100 | 110 University IUAV of Venice, Italy September 2004 - June 2009 Diploma of Surveyor ITSCG “8 Marzo” Mirano, Venice, Italy Workshops July 2013 WAVE 2013 Sean Godsell Future Marghera “The new Biennale of Venice” University IUAV of Venice, Italy July 2012 WAVE 2012 Jean Michel Wilmotte Urban Regeneration 2 “Fluid space hotel” University IUAV of Venice, Italy July 2011 WAVE 2011 Costantino Patestos Urban Regeneration 1 “A green triangle for Venice” University IUAV of Venice, Italy Professional Experience July 2015 - August 2015
Collaboration and internship Carlana Mezzalira Pentimalli - Architects, Treviso, Italy + competitions, CAD drawer, 3D modeler, model maker
February 2013 - April 2013 Internship Curzio Pentimalli Architect, Treviso, Italy + competitions, CAD drawer, 3D modeler, model maker October 2009 - October 2011
Internship to practice the profession of Surveyor Riccardo Trevisan Architect, Martellago, Venice, Italy + CAD drawer, 3D modeler, model maker
Language Skills Italian mother tongue
English
B2 proficiency certificate CLA Ca’ Foscari, Venice, Italy
Other Skills OS Mac +++++ Windows +++++ Adobe Photoshop ++++ Illustrator ++++ Indesign ++++ Dreamweaver ++ Microsoft Office +++++ Google SketchUp +++ Autodesk AutoCAD +++++ Revit + Graphisoft ArchiCAD +++++ McNeel Rhinoceros ++ Next Limit Maxwell Render ++++
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