PC Architecture Portfolio
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I n t r o d u c t i o n
This Architecture Portfolio shows selected works from the university and early professional experiences. Through the years I have focused my attention on the relationship between architecture and society, getting interested on how urban space ought to be shaped in current complex cities and how people use it. Moreover, clear representation and design are elements I always take care of when a project has to be explained, that also because I find interesting the word of exhibitions, art and photography. Finally, what I really like is sharing experiences and knowledge, being an active member in planning and designing teams, and continuing in learning, taking part in workshops, lessons and events.
Paola Caselli 27/02/1992 Birth place: Modena, Italy Actual working city: Barcelona, Spain E-mail: pola.caselli@gmail.com Latest experiences (‘16-’17) Internship Rizoma Architetture, Bologna Taking part of UN-HABITAT Barcelona Master Degree 110/110 Ferrara Internship AV62 Arquitectos Barcelona
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SELECTED WORKS 2013-2017
U n i v e r s i t y Thesis in Urban and Architectural design
Habitabilidad Bàsica
2016, Marseilles
2015, M’ Hamid Nuevo
Prof. Romeo Farinella, Prof. Angelo Bertoni, Sara Maldina
Arch. Prof. Felipe Colavidas
PLUS BELLE DE MAI Regeneration program in the third arrondissement of Marseilles
urban strategy for the rehabilitation of M’Hamid Nuevo
Proyecto 5.
2014, Ferrara
2015, Don Benito
Arch. Prof. Marco Zuppiroli
Arch. Prof. Emilio Tuñon
New stairs block in Palazzo Tassoni
regional center of digiital and musical culture
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Monument renovation Workshop 1.
W o r k s h o p s
C o l l a b o r a t i o n s
Limiti Urbani / Informal.mente
New Camping Verneda
2015, DA Ferrara Universud association
2017, Catalunya
Lab. Mexico / Lab. Argentina
AV62 Arquitectos
Centro de Dia Apnabi
OC. Summer School PoliMi
2017, Bilbao
2014, Piacenza
AV62 Arquitectos
Air pavillon, mention prize Competition: regeneration of Santa Colòma. Housing and public spaces 2017, Barcelona
AV62 Arquitectos
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UNIVERSITY mobility analysis
Thesis in Urban and Architectural design november 2016 Prof. R. Farinella, Prof. A. Bertoni, S. Maldina
social analysis
migrants percentual Martigues A55 Vitrolles
A7
Aix en Provence Avignon Lyon
Marseilles, France
A50 Aubagne Toulon Nice
plus belle de mai
medium income
TGV boulevard urbano strade primarie autostrada verde naturale verde pubblico
unemployment percentual
Plus Belle de Mai analyses the third arrondissement, one of the most marginalized districts in Marseille. Although it has been involved in some renovation projects, it is still cut out of the city by both phisical and social barriers and marked by high unemployment and poverty rates. The project enquires into a model to reactivate an area by increasing its attacctiveness without triggering a gentrification process. In which way urban and architectural planning are contribuing to improve life and evirormental quality in socially damaged context? 6
social housing
more information here: https://issuu.com/paolacaselli/docs/plus_belle_de_mai
territorial analisys analisys of urban fabric
low density
hystorical fabric
port-industrial fabric
grands ensemble
IX sec extention
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T H E S T R AT E GY
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The stratgey is developed by following two main purpose. The firts aims to create new links between the different realities which are part of the area by reactivating the
public space, rethinking inner mobility and redesigning abandoned buildings. The second focuses on enhancing the connections between the area and the rest of
the city: specific gloals to achieve this purpose include facilitating the accessibility, developing the smart mobility and creating a new green urban infrastructure.
MACRO-ACTIONS
Legend of strategical actions Requalify the tunnel in Blv National as a new connection with the center Create new access for the station
New T4 line of tram on Blv National Link existing cycleway with new path and entroduce bike-sharing stops
Connective spaces The first macro-action provides the area with a cyclo-pedestrian networks, so as to bring together the moltitude of tiny public spaces which are daily used by the population and to reduce the vehicular traffic. The network will spread across the arrondissement’s border, connecting it with other important social spaces and pushing the inhabitants to explore thier own city.
Convert the old trin line a new tramtreno route Requialify the empty green areas around the old train line New central park in the barrak area New ceNew centralities with better urban furniture and services
New parking area in order to make pedestrian path free from cars Intervention on sections’ streets
Increase the existing systems like Frische La Belle de Mai, the University Aix-Marseille and parks all around
Linear park The second macro-action concerns the reconversion of the railway path that crosses the area into a tram-train system, which will connect the old town with the new districts planned in the northern part of Marseille. Along the tram-train a linear park, provided with sports and leisure equipments, will foster social interacions and cyclo-pedestrian mobility.
Convert the Muy Barrrak area in a new services Pole for inhabitants and students.
The Muy Barrack The last action involves rethinking the abandoned area, once occupied by military barracks. The new project aims to create new community spaces complying with the population’s need of services, like schools, libraries and sport facilities. The conecpt of social “mixitè” is really important for this part, as this action means to create new bounds between people with different social backgrounds. 9
Connective spaces
The cyclo-pedestrian way connects different spaces requalified thanks to: 1. re-activation of social relations and differenciated uses of the squares. 2. new section for the main roads giving more importance to the slow mobility and using vegetation as a fondamental instrument to requalify spaces. 3. Create synergy between already existed systems changing functional programs open to the people of the arrondissement first of all.
A different use of Cadenat Square
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new street’s section Blv. National
Linear park
The linear park uses an abandones railway path in order to give the people a new park; it is characterised of being different in the functions it offers, and fisically open to the arrondissement. Thanks to that, it won’t be anymore a break but a shared space.
Two case sections in the park Focus 1
Focus 2
Planimetry and functions of the park
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The Muy Barrack Concept
D ensif y and reactivate
1. Static planning and orthogonal axis
2. Not symmetrical maze
1. Functions for the citizens’ use
2. Functions for the connections with polarities
3. O p e n a n d c l o s e facades
4. Densification of blocks and planning of green spaces 12
3. G r e e n a s a n e w element of connection
4. FiĂŹunctions in new block and green spaces
Program
planimetry 13
UNIVERSITY
Projecto 2015 Arch.
Prof.
three main new squares
5. E.
Tuñon
Don Benito, Spain
new flow crossing the square
regional center of digiital and musical culture The project takes place in Don Benito’s main square, a Spanish village in Estremadura. Part of Europan 2012 , this square is currently covered in concrete and used as a parking lot – right next to the local cathedral. The project aims first and foremost to valorise the square and the church and therefore the whole historical context behind them, while connecting the square itself to the surrounding roads and alleyways. Road access is therefore paramount and new paving has been thought out for each of the aforementioned roads and alleyways. Whi14
principal road and car flow
le the multimedia library has been inserted in the site as a means of revitalising activity within the town centre, through conferences, reading rooms, recording suites and music rehearsals.
current situation
strategy
limit
void
overlooking
withdrawal
planimetry 15
ground floor 16
secciòn longitudinal
trasversal section
secciòn trasversal
longitudinal section
n o r t h e l e v a t i o n 17
The three squares take a fundamental role in the project. They have a front to each street in order to be accessible in every 18
part. Public spaces are quite free and not too much organized in order to keep the place open to everyone and ready for every use.
view fron the church 19
UNIVERSITY
Habitabilidad bàsica 2015 Arch. Prof. F. Colavidas M’Hamid Nuevo, Marocco
time
urban strategy for the rehabilitation of M’Hamid Nuevo
This project concerns M’Hamid Nuova, a town in the Southern region of Drâa in Morocco. The project aims to improve the agricultural and tourist economy of the villages surrounding M’Hamid Nuova, where the sand advancement and the drop in tourism, lead the local oasis to being forgotten and abandoned by those who worked in it, as they now emigrate North in search for work. In the town of M’Hamid Nuova itself, the project focused more on urban planning. 20
streets’ dimension
Comparative analisys of M’Hamid Nuevo
influence area
territorial strategy
urban strategy 0
objectives
actions
Requalify the principale connections beetween villages
1. Contain the sand progress with specific local plants 2. project stops (bus and selling) along the path
Integrate the artisan commerce in the local economy
3. Give specific characteristics to different turistic paths in order to have the turists’ interest
Increase turism and trade between the 10 little village
4. Find other market place in the new andold village and give to women possibility to take care to their own businness.
3.750
In the urban strategy, take a very important role both the main paths and the pedestrian ones, just because for real they’re the only way to pass through the village and the desert. Along the river was necessary a green line composed of vegetable gardens and sand walls in order to contain the river’s growth. At last, on the east part, near the historical city often due to be drowned, there’s the craft market owned especially by women.
7.500
15.000
legend principal route urben green hygienic system sand stop system blocks connection
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URBAN
PROJECT
It’s true that streets are mainly crossed and lived by pedestrian. Thus, the urban project also consist in an furnitures able to protect people from the high sun during the day.
trasversal section
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longitudinal section
HOUSES’ PROJECT The first intervention wants to densify and fill the urban fabric with that kind of rethink buildings. The second one wants to elect three main sectors in M’ Hamid Nuova in which a new disposition and planning has to be done.
first intervention New disposition of the housing typology in the urban contest which previously had voids and imperfections
floor 0
floor 1
floor 2
second intervention New houging typology: ground and first floor
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UNIVERSITY Monument Renovation Workshop 1. 2015 Arch. Prof. M. Zuppitoli Ferrara, Italy
New stairs block in Palazzo Tassoni The restoration project concerns the ancient mansion belonging to the noble Tassoni family in Ferrara. Part of this building was recently refurbished to host the Department of Architecture. Another part of the building is still heavily in decay and thus unused. The renovation project sees a restoration of the walls (both interior and exterior) through coating and whitening, leaving the staircase the only new addition to the structure, which has been placed in a strategic point fit to the needs of the Department of Architecture. 24
WORKING EXTERNAL
ON
THE FRONT
Firsty it was necessary to make the most similar existant front in orter to understand problems and limits of the wall. Secondly we propose the nearest solution to the tradition.
ground floor 25
detail of the stais
section
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axonometric explotion of the stair’s detail
view from the court 27
WORKSHOP
Universud workshop 2015 Prof R. Farinella, Prof A. Alietti, Visiting Professor Marcello Balbo, Camillo Boano Ferrara, Italy
U N I V E R S U D UNIVERSUD is an italian association of young architects and students based in Ferrara promoting events and research on urban informality and urbanisation processes. We work with professors, Universities, students, researches and citiziens. Our main interest is to make people informed and conscious about how cities are changing so far and how they can be part active and not passive of it. We are currently working on “INFORMAL.MENTE“, an expo project about informality and citymaking which includeS photography, physical installations, audiovisual projects, urban performances and much more. 28
First edition LIMITI URBANI The first real experience was a four-day workshop with the theme of URBAN INFORMALITY named “Limiti Urbani” (urban bourders). The aim was to make students from different part of Italy meeting together and talk about what border mean today, especially in informal contest like in Mexico or Argentina. Participated important teachers like Camillo Boano (Bartlett university, London), ASF Veneto and Marcello Balbo (IUAV, Venice).
Collaborators: Lorenzo Balugani, Dario Caruso, Matilde Mozzi, Simona Basile, Simone Cardullo, Giulia Malesani, Giuliana Liscio, Andrea Bit, Margherita Miani, Nicolò Preghiera, Chiara Ferioli.
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WORKSHOP OC. Summer School 2014 Politecnico
di
Milano
Piacenza, Italy
air
pavillion
Mention prize. The urban site is one of the numerous military barracks that characterize Piacenza’s territory. The aim of the intervention is to connect this not-used barrack in the first periphery with the city center. This area borders with an important street, an ancient pilgrimage route. Thus, it’s crossed both by cars and by pedestrian directed to the center of the Roman-foundation city. The ancient military barrack became a new place linked to the city with adaptable function for all the type of users. The keywords are: territory, sustainability, low impact. 30
The project of the air pavilion starts from three main concept: lightness, permeability, air. AIR is the concept; the building stands upon thin white pillars, there are quite no lateral walls in order to make the building crossable by the air and by trees’ branches.
planimetry
underearth floor
ground floor
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C O L L A B O R AT I O N
AV62
Arquitectos
jenuary-june 2017 Arq. ToĂąo Foraster Barcelona, Spain
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V E R N E D A C A M P I N G
The project in the Camping of Verneda, a mountain resort in the Valley of Aran in the Pyrenees, is an addition of about twelve wooden cottage. The idea is to provide the Camping of other three different typologies of rural housing in the middle of the forest. The cottage can be for two, three or four people, has a view from the outside and in a little space can satisfied all client’s requests. Talking about the construction system, it is made basically by wood , in order to be cheap, sustainable and reversible. 32
Model studies of one of the three typologies of wood cottage. 1. frontal 2. lateral
2.
Ground floor
Fist floor
Planimetry 33
C O L L A B O R AT I O N
AV62
Arquitectos
jenuary-june 2017 Arq. ToĂąo Foraster Barcelona, Spain
CENTRO DE DĂŹa apnabi derio, bilbao
The project of the Apnabi Center takes care firstly about the position, near the highway and in an anonymous recent housing contest, and secondly it has been shaped thinking about the person how will occupy the building. In fact, it is going to be a center for limited movements and deficiency in hearing and seeing. So, the project wants to give relevance to vegetation and gardens because they both can help people in learning and curing. 34
ground floor
longitudinal section
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C O L L A B O R AT I O N
AV62
Arquitectos
Bruc street and new urban space
jenuary-june 2017 Arq. Toño Foraster Barcelona, Spain
S A N T A CO L ò M A housing and Public Spaces The project is the result of a series of reflections about the posibility to be part of a urban transformation already started. As a result, the project wants to give priority to a green and public system , housing of quality generating a new district which can give the people all the goos they need. What’s is more important is to generate the real urban conditions able to increate an effetive potencial in the district and connect it with the other strong elements the area has. 36
New VS old
Variety
Different public space
Energetic production
Homogeneity
Categoric public space
Singular production
axonometrical view 37
Distribution of functions
-1.50
+13.20
0
+18.20
+4.70
Legend parking services common space public service tallers housing public space private space
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pedestrian
Type floor 39
CONTACT Paola Caselli tel. (it) +393331738592 tel. (es) +34600372603 E-mail: pola.caselli@gmail.com Skype: Paola Caselli IT
ABOUT Thesis PLUS BELLE DE MAI: https://issuu.com/paolacaselli/docs/plus_belle_de_mai Association UNIVERSUD: http://universud.weebly.com/ Panphlet LIMITI URBANI: https://issuu.com/universud/docs/pamphlet_1105_165x240 Manifesto INFORMAL.MENTE: http://universud.weebly.com/manifestoita.html Past collaborations: http://www.rizoma.me http://www.av62arquitectos.com
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