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BEATRICE ORLANDI portfolio 2011- 2013 -MASTER-
1YEAR MASTER ACCADEMIA DI ARCHITETTURA MENDRISIO Fall semester 2011 KERSTEN GEERS STUDIO
Kersten Geers, Carola Daldoss, Andrea Zanderigo
BIG BOX More and more architecture is conceived as a luxury product. Architecture is marginal. Developing a group of big non-institutional building in Paris, the atelier wants to discuss the border of today’s architecture alienation. The projects are made where architecture competence is not required anymore, where the process is held by mysterious entity, commonly called commercial.
TGB, Oma, Perspective
A big box is an architectural object without content. The design of what stays inside the skin of the building is a product of the specific techniques and production system that the box hosts. Warehouses, factories, data centre, logistic centre are big boxes. We studied different exemplar of Big Box in Paris. TGB, OMA´s project for the trés grand bibliotéque in Paris in one of them.
The big box is placed in Sevran, a residential area of Paris outside the Periferique, included in the Grand Paris project. Placed in such marginal area that´s becoming more and more part of the city, the big box has also an urban attempt: to mutely organise, with his presence, the city’s growth.
My Big Box is a logistic centre, placed along the canal de l´Ourq in order to take advantage of both the water system and the motorway, and in the same time try to give a continuity to the waterside and an horizon to the sprawl.
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section+ facade
The building is simply a metal structure made to host a crane. The structure is 700m long and contains two water basins, one temporary deposit, two buffering zone, one truck-boat and one boat-truck shipping area. The shell is made by a thin, cheap, waterproof and resistant fabric. The building is not heated. The fabric layer can be opened to let a boat in or to loading unloading, or just to ventilate the space. The bigger opening are also placed so to frame part of the city when you pass by train and to connect the two part of the area by giving some common axes.
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The roof is leaning towards the canal in order to take the rainwater easily to the water source. The faรงade becomes shorter when it deal with the closer waterside and the first houses, and higher when it face the train tracks. In this difference of high can find place the machinery that opens the faรงade. It works in a mechanic way, brought in action by the human force. A rope connect the two extremity of the fabric to a wheal that, when spinning, make both the rope shorter and make an breach in the faรงade. More of this machine works together in a system, where one movement activates all of them and where the shape of the opening is controlled by the different diameters of the wheals.
axonometry, detail
3 perspectives in sequence
OPEN INTERNATIONAL URBAN DESIGN COMPETITION KLAKSVIK CITY CENTER Faroe Island Spring 2012
TEAM: Beatrice Orlandi David Eliasson status: late delivery
CULTUR HOUSE Containing music & art school and museum
PLAN / AXENOMETRY, SCALE !:500:
private HOUSE business / sho cofee / servic
Hotel overlooking the bay, and the new city center
Courtyards facing south towards the new water front prevent wind and serves the apartement houses as well as the city with spaces for shopping / relaxing and playing
Auditorium
The enlarged canal extends the seaside and brings the waterfront in to the city. The direction of the space prevents the effect of the strong wind (the Isthmus). and along the north side it’s created protected spaces with perfect sun conditions
Boat facilities that also blocks the wind
Old buildings refurbished for shops and apartments Old boat launch-rails preserved and a small walk path passes by the shore
The position of the brewery opens up for a wider use within a new context. For example: exibitions, food-fair, bar and restaurants Activites / business. The typology is developing and re-using the existing structures
Parking Terass / Stage / Restaurant / meating-point
Outdoor Summer regattas
Existing street is d new buildings and that gives it a city
DENSITY- FRAGMENTATION
Preserved area in connection with the old fishermans house
E’s + op / office / ce / activity
Adition to the existing library
Sailing Sea Museum in green historical context
New connecions
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Bus staion
In our proposal Klaksvik becomes a dense and lively city without needs for big blocks and solid grid and avoiding alienating and bad integrated spaces: the same density of an established city is given by a wall structure that set the relationship with the street, gives room to houses and services and that create small public spaces, gardens and playroom in an intimate and wind protected environment. The built space is fragmented and talks in a small scale in order to guarantee a high liveliness of his public spaces and streets and to defend both identity and intimacy in the new centre. The houses, both open to the streets and to their private garden, are thought as mixed- use space. Here takes places a strategy of workhome, where the owner of the house, or a rental guest, can have is own activityin the bottom floor. This particular strategy will bring people from outside and at the same time provides an economical growth and interesting and independent commercial movement.
DIVERSITY- COOPERATION Very important is to preserve, even in a young city centre, diversity in form and identity and to build time layer without regretting or deleting anything. We call then another kind of building, belonging to a different logic, to cooperate with the first structure. They are bigger and taller building that in the future could host offices, institution, big shops, educational spaces and other services. They are placed so to protected, with their volume, the smaller scale built pattern from the strong, unidirectional wind. In the same way they can also create bigger protected public spaces and larger streets.
WALLS AND STREETS A system of walls set the smallscale pattern of houses and public space and helps to connect old and new addition. It protects the public space from the wind and tries to connect different elements in a long-term perspective. It has also a strong relationship with the street. We think that is fundamental for the street to become an organic part of the city itself, without physical borders and car- pedestrian segregation. The wall the run along the building become fluidly the pavement of street and set proportions and dimensions. Both car and pedestrian would feel like crossing not an empty space between two point but an important public space that cut trough the city, where the traffic is self regulated and the coexistence of car and humans is harmonic and positive.
1YEAR MASTER ACCADEMIA DI ARCHITETTURA MENDRISIO Spring semester 2011 FREEK PERSYN STUDIO
Freek Persyn, Giovanni Piovene, Ambra Fabi
THE VENETO CASE We often refer to the Veneto region as part a bigger metropolis which links Venice to Turin, covering the whole Po Valley. It´s often called diffuse city. 1st January 2011 eleven small municipalities situated north of Padua decided to confederate into a bigger entity in order to share services and management. A new city has been juridically created, with 100.000 inhabitants and a surface of 226 Km2 – therefore with the very low density of 418 inhabitants/Km2. The constantly growing population and the increasing share of 1 enterprise every 8 inhabitants forces the administrators to take a position on future development of the built environment. The new city isn’t hierarchical; it does not have a center – the houses and factories spread all over the territory in a loose configuration. Some denser agglomerations correspond to the actual municipalities. The old Roman grid (I BC) still organizes the lower part of the city in squares 710 m X 710 m.
site plan, mobility
MAPPING 2# SUBJECTIVE GEOGRAPHY (PROCESS) RESEARCH How is the federation from the inhabitant’s point of view? 4 characters are experiencing the territory every day. I choose four significant characters and followed them during one day of their everyday life trough the federation. Listen to their stories and combining personal maps, point of view, use, time and space perception will give 4 new reading of the same territory and might lead to a common solution. (METHOD) INTERVIEW Interviewing and listening is an instrument to understand what are the habits of the characters and what are their perception and their use of the space in the time. MAPPING It means to track paths, to record by taking picture and to draw maps based on the actor’s subjective point of view. The map underlines characters of the territory not just merely related with position, which can give a new way of reading the problems. What’s the territory’s personality? What’s the relation between things? Is there any hierarchy? Why some places is not recorded on the map? How this effects the perception of space and time in the region? How can it changes?
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WHO? A# Commuter type Someone whom job position is strictly related with a production process. Someone who’s working in an industrial zone that lays far from services and living spaces. He is a commuter between work and home and the only time when he gets to deal with the territory is passing trough it going from A to B. His job is both really isolated from the surrounding and really connected with places that geographically aren’t close to each other. B# Parent Type Someone that has to take care of displacements and horary of someone else, who’s not yet independent in moving by his own. Someone who has to deal a lot with public space, whose day is made by flipping between market, school, shops, church following a long list of things to do. Personal transport, a good organization and knowledge of the territory is the only think that can help to get at the bottom of that list.
B# Parent Type Someone that has to take care of displacements and horary of someone else, who’s not yet independent in moving by his own. Someone who has to deal a lot with public space, whose day is made by flipping between market, school, shops, church following a long list of things to do. Personal transport, a good organization and knowledge of the territory is the only think that can help to get at the bottom of that list. C# student/underage- type Someone that is underage is someone that by law cannot use the car. This character, maybe a high school student, has a limited mobility and is often forced to use public transports or personal transport like bike or motorcycle. Is use of the city is also different, since public space in this case is not a question of business but mere gathering.
NAME: Lorena Saggionetto AGE: 45? PROFESSION: Housewife since two years ago. Before she owned a shop with her sister. WHERE HE LIVES? Villanova, center. WITH WHO: The husband and 3 sons. The older, Anna, is 21 and is studying architecture in Venice. She use to go to school by train. Marco, the one in the middle, is 16 and attend the high school in Arcella, Padova. The youngest is Pietro, 10 years old. Since last year he use to go to school alone by walking. The husband is working in campodarsego. TRANSPORT: Car, when is available. She use to walk really often.
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primary school gym, college
Lorena´s house
LAGO FACTORY SQUIZZATO, VILLA DEL CONTE
BAR, via dell´Artigianato, Squizzato
VIA ARCELLA, PDDALL
NAME: Diego Paccagnella AGE: 30? PROFESSION: Art Director for LAGO, a design brand. WHERE HE LIVES? Arcella, Padova. He use to live also in Milano and London. WHERE HE WORKS? In an industrial area close to Villa del Conte, PD. TRANSPORT: Car.
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HIGH SCHOOL ARCELLA, PD
NAME: Matteo and Camilla Patron. Siblings. AGE: 19 him and 14 her. PROFESSION: Liceo scientifico´s student, first and last year. WHERE DO THEY LIVE? Fiumicello, PD WITH WHO: The parents. The father is major in Campodarsego. TRANSPORT: She: bus, car driven by the brother, sometimes bike. He: car, since 6 months ago.
NAME: Marco Mantovan AGE: 60 PROFESSION: “Donna Gnorra”´s company director, farmer in the project “ORTO IN CASSETTA” (box garden). WHERE HE LIVES? Noale, VE WITH WHO: With the wife Paola, artist, and Giovanna, the youngest of 4 siblings, since the others left home during the last 2 years. WHERE HE WORKS? In Noale, between the vegetables garden and the food warehouse.Before he was working in Mestre, in a law firm. TRANSPORT: Feet, bike, car, small red truck for vegetable’s transportation.
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CHURCH
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CITY
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INSTITUTION
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SMALL CITY- BIG CITY
SMALL CITY´S BIG CITY
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(ACTION) ANLYSIS Looking at the results of the research and the tracked maps one it clearly appear how all the actors tends to move far from the federation to reach a bigger city, where their work, studies or house are placed. This happens everyday in fixed moment of the day and comport a trip of medium- long distances to reach the city. Opposite to this pattern it appears another one, shorter and in a radius of not more than 2 km around everyone living spots. This speaks about small movement made using a secondary transport system, maybe walking or by bike, that brings one from his home to closer services or to public transport station. It’s then clear how there is almost no connection between the small centers in the map. All the points tend to go far out away leaving the territory empty of connections.
D I F F U S E C I T Y’ S
THE MARKET SQUARE A group of stands selling food and cloths move from town to town following a fixed schedule and occupying squares and parking.
THE CHURCH’S SQUARE It’s a space that gives a distance from the street to entrance of the church. It’s always empty but in they days when some celebration occurs. Then it becomes a lively meeting place.
PARENTS SHARING It’s a common spontaneous organization between parents where, following a schedule, one parent at time pick up the others kids with the car and bring them to the far away sport centre.
THE MOBILE LIBRARY The main library sends out a library- bus that reaches different towns in different time of the week. This bus is a way to loan and give back book also if you live outside the main village.
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AGRICOLTURE AND ABANDONED SPACES The agriculture is a fundamental component of Veneto’s territory. The way of dealing with it change during the year, leaving in the land spaces and buildings abandoned from their function, following a logic that is not existing anymore.
THE AMBULANT SHOP Different shops move trough the territory selling their product and their services. They move during the day and they announce their arrival trough speakers. They often stops in parking spots or along the street.
THE TEMPORARY OUTLET In certain days of the year some factories open showrooms in some warehouse in the industrial area and sells products at a cheaper price. This brings a lot of people in places otherwise empty.
GAS STATION In a car minded territory the place where you tank the car is really important. It provides the driver that stops there with gas but also with different services like shop and bar. The same concept, in a bigger scale, is taken by AUTOGRILL in the motorways.
LIBRARIES Libraries works as a buffering zone, archives of books and newspaper, organized to help the delivery system. There is room for trucks to come and load books and magazine that will be brought to other structures and spaces.
SCHOOLS Every school gets an addition that work as a filter between the traditional school space and the mobile school’s devices. Trucks are able to plug in this structure and create a new room that can host different kind of classes, lectures and laboratories. In the same way the pupils can be pick up and brought around to reach the other activities.
FACTORIES Industrial areas are central on the process and production’s education. Every factory can host different activities that bring this branch closer to the citizen. New addition will expand some factory to give spaces to common spaces like kitchens, bar, together with exhibition and laboratories space related to the local production.
MARKET SQUARES The market settled in the market squares is not hosting just commercial temporary shops but become a part of the educative system. In market and squares some mobile spaces are opening up displaying and presenting the laboratories production and researches to the citizen. This event will create new relation and new contact between different parts of the territory. Also library, classes and laboratvories follow the market, to give the one that doesn’t just want to be an alternative.
TRUCKS/ MOBILE SPACES Trucks are thought as mobile spaces: they contain, in their small proportions, real rooms with computers, photo labs, kitchens…All this elements doesn’t have to be repeated in all the cities. They are created just once and drive to one town to another providing them with their services. the trucks themselves are conceived in a way that can fold down or open up and create different spaces.
ABANDONED FARMS AND WAREHOUSES In the abandoned structures there’s room for different kind of specialized laboratories and production spaces. Classes of pupils, older students and other people can go there and work on their own projects or follow this process together. Mobile spaces will be pug in the structure to create t environments always different.
OFFICE/BAR For every small community there is a bar. This is the place that everyone in the surrounding can have as a reference point. One bar for every community will have an atelier-office space for everyone who wants to study or to run his small activities in a real office. This place becomes also socially really fundamental. Here is where the first business and ideas will starts.
D I F F U S E E D U C A T I O N T O O L S
STRATEGY The aim of this project is to intensify the movements and the connections inside the region and in between the small villages. The goal is also to change the time structure of the everyday life, trying to make the everyday schedule more various and different, trough adding smaller and more frequent episodes. The strategy should keep in mind and respect the identity of the region as a real city, a diffuse city, with its real personal characters. EDUCATION Education, in a more wide sense, comprehensive of culture, work and social activities, is what comes as as solution. Education, in the city we are used to, means school, and especially school thought as a building, an institution, a traditional organization. The identity of the diffuse city doesn’t speak about steady form and continuity, but about fragmented reality and smart way of connection. In this project education is acting as a tool that creates links and relation between things. Education is thought as a way of getting and exchange knowledge and know-how by being in the territory. Education as a fragmented structure that tries to touch every point of the pattern and, both by it’s mobile and it’s parasite nature, move, in a perceptive level, things closer, to give a new view of the territory.
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EDUCATION Education, in a more wide sense, comprehensive of culture, work and social activities, is what will try to solve this question. Education, in the city we are used, means school, and especially school thought as a building, an institution, a traditional organization. The identity of the diffuse city doesn’t speak about steady form and continuity, but about fragmented reality and its way of connecting it. In this project education is acting as a tool that creates links and relation between things. Education thought as a way of getting to know more things and exchange knowledge and know how by being in the territory. Education as a fragmented structure that tries to touch every point of the pattern and, both by it’s mobile and it’s parasite nature, move, in a perceptive level, things closer, reshaping the territory.
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ONE FAMILY VILLA 180SQM TÄBY, STOCKHOLM FALL 2012 COLLABORATION FOR DAVID ELIASSON ARCHITECT EGNAHUS
2 YEAR MASTER KTH STOCKHOLM Fall semester 2012 PRACTICE BASED STUDIO Ori Merom, Charlie Gulstrรถm
POSTORY: THE UN-FACTORY OF THE END OF THE WORLD This project is a speculative project about the future of work. Work understood as a concept, a menmade structure that sensitivly change with changing of social and economical paradigms.
PREHISTORY Is the span of time before any recorded History. It refers to the human existence before the invention of the written word. POST-STORY Is the span of time when the history, not anymore recorded, begun to be archived and erased. It refers to a period of humanity and chronology is counting a limited and decreasing quantity of time, therefore appears in form of a digressive calculation process. The shift from Prehistory to History is due to evolution; the one from History to Postory is pure will. The end of the world is a really accurate human project.
WORK Decreasing values are the ruling values of the system. All work is addressed towards consumption. Money doesn’t exist anymore if not as a residue object empty of value. Life is the wage for the workers. Life is labour. The one who’s not able to work doesn’t have the right to live. Less work is left to do, less worker are kept alive. In this context the work mainly is divided in 2 spheres: consumption of the material and consumption of the immaterial. The consumption of material is dedicated to the demolishment of unanimated objects and substances till a minimal status that can be traced back to a natural appearance. The consumption of immaterial has to do with archiving, cataloguing and vanishing of knowledge and information. KNOWLEDGE Progress always leads to knowledge. Knowledge is the biggest construction made by human. In a context where Human history has to be an irreversible process, knowledge becomes a threat and a temptation to reproducibility. Therefore, history and knowledge must be reduced to memory and, as a memory, step by step forgotten. Knowledge is the biggest danger on earth.
PROGRESS/CONSUMPTION Progress leads to production. Production leads to growth. Growth leads to accumulation. Extreme progress, extreme production, extreme growth leads to extreme accumulation. Progress that relies on raw materials and goods. Exploitation until the exhaustion. The progress reaches the limit of its expansion, and at the same time the bottom of its sources. Consumption, the only creative process left, became the driving force to the system. Consumption, in a new economical and social system, replaces Production. Around it, all the efforts gather. The end coincides with the end itself.
UN-FACTORY Before starting to destroy, a last creative effort is made: the most efficient consumption system. A system that would work systematically and dynamically over the years, without asking the humanity to think once again. The inhabited word will be divided in influences zone, stripe of land of a certain width, running around the globe like meridians. Each of these zones is served by a Un-Factory: a stripe of deposits and factories dedicate to the consumption of different material to their minimum format. This process considers an important aspect, time. As in the prehistoric succession of events, also the post- historic one will follow different stages. This will define 8 Ages, each one caused by the extinction of one particular material. As more and more material are extinct, the life see some changes. At the beginning of the process, people will continue to live at home and will take personally care of dismantle and catalogue they owning by the material they are made of.
Once the houses are clear the population will move in special residences, the towers of bed, that take the place of the tower of gold-melting when this material is gone. Fundamental is the moment after the metal consumption is completed: the humanity become nomad. Every factory that finishes is task is destroyed, leaving an empty space in the stripe. At a certain point the empty space it’s such that the stripe’s structure get loose and the whole settlement left, pushed by its inhabitants, start to move, sliding over is rail. Fundamental is the moment after the metal consumption is completed: the humanity become nomad. The communities start to walk in their meridian from place to place cleaning away the last things left. The reduced materials are given back to their source. The consumptions hashes are poured over the last traces of passage of the un-factory. The very last material to be consumed is crystal. Just crystal can destroy crystal. The last inhabitants of the earth have to run for miles and miles transporting a cylinder full of crystal. Crushing into each other through the movements, crystals will finally turn into dust.

TERRORISM An opposition to the system is inevitable. The main goal of subversion in these conditions will be to make the evolution process reversible. Leave the forbidden key to rewind the civilization on earth, in a better way. The terrorists of the end of times are going to extrapolate information and pictures that are normally destroyed in the common forgetting project. This material will be collected into a cabinet of curiosity. This wonder box will be dig in the ground and will reveal, when the time seams to have stopped to run, and just to the one that will be so clever to find it, all the secret of a civilization that tried to carefully erase itself.
VILLA IN THE ARCHIPELAGO ORRÖN 150SQM PROJECT LEADER: BEATRICE ORLANDI DAVID ELIASSON ARCHITECT
STATUS: BUILDING ON PROCESS COMPLETATION PREWIEWED SUMMER 2013
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