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LONDON CHECK-POINT Towards a new public-logistic park Master thesis project, London, Uk
Bringing the Greenwich Docklands again to their past logistic role means to understand and re-discuss what such function represents for the spaces of a city nowadays. The logistic poles, however economically convenient, produce private grounds by their nature: neglect inaccesible spaces, isolated from the rest of the city. Such places, because of the difficulties in locating them within the city fabric, require interaction with a public ground to activate new relationships with the urban immediate surrounding. To us, the graft of a commercial program, relentlessly and invisibly fed through a logistic layer, means to introduce a public space, as it offers the possibility to spend free time and shop despite being juridically and economically of private interest. This is considered a right and a primary need of the western society, thus it produces public space. Examining the relationship between these types of ground, private-public and logistic-commercial, their dichotomy generates a new type of space both in formal and functional terms. The final objective is to produce a hybrid model obtaining the maximum public surface by using trade as a socially attractive device, in connection to a private logistic ground, of which the economical interest makes this operation not only sustainable but also able to activate the transformation.
People and goods journey to Greenwich Docklands area
The task of designing a new system of public spaces requires an investigation about what can be intended as public good in contemporary cities. In Malindi, uncontrolled urbanization, mainly boosted by the tourism economy and its side-effects, favoured dynamics of privatization of the coastline, with a concurrent rapid growth of formal and informal settlements lacking proper infrastructure and collective spaces, as well as a hazardous pressure on the fragile ecosystem of the region. In this situation, the project site sets the challenge to reclaim to the waterfront its role: not limited to its public space vocation, but extended to its public good dimension. The project aims at designing Malindi waterfront as a socio-ecological infrastructure, able to answer to the environmental challenges related to climate-change and natural hazard and, at the same time, to provide an interactive platform for social inclusivity, economical enhancement and cultural empowerment. The project proposes a general environmental and infrastructural strategy for the Malindi waterfront from the river estuary to the southward tip of Casuarina beach- and then investigates in detail the design of the area facing Shella and the town center as main metropolitan interface.
THE IMPLICIT CITY Mercanti barrack masterplan development Milano, IT
The invisible structures of a city represent the connections that take shape between the morphology of the territory and his own social and functional structure. The methodical lecture of the territory, that we want to show with this project, meditate on different scale of analisys, conscious of the inability to understand fully a place without the relationship of more point of views.
PLAN SCALE: 1:2000
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EXPLOFED ISOMETRIC AND AXONOMETRY
ELEVATION AND SECTIONS
VIEWS
MODEL PHOTOS
HYPOGEUM CULTURAL CENTER Alessandria,IT This project was born by the need to take back Piazza Garibaldi, colonized by a parking , to the original social value. To center this goal and hand back this space to the collectivity, in addiction to create a new parking close to the train station, it was essential to enrich the program of the area with new public and commercial spaces, in a new ipogeum building, that insert itself in a determined but careful way in the background, not going to compromise the symmetries of Garibaldi square.
MASTERPLAN SCALE 1:8000
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LIBRARY AND EXPOSITION PLAN LEVEL -5.00 m LONGITUDINAL SECTION SCALE 1:1600
SECTIONS SCALE 1:1600
MODEL IMMAGES
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CHILE PAVILLION PROPOSAL Expo 2015 Milano, It
The pavillion is organized with a longitudinal layout, with the main facade facing the Expo 2015 exibition itinerary. The structure is dismantled in eight modules from 10 to 15 meters long, with different inclinations between them. This disconnected elevation profile is directly attributable to the fragmentary nature of the chilean territory tectonics. The interior exibition path become then a sequence of compressed and distended spaces.
Longitudinal section
East elevation
Composition diagram
Ground floor plan
First floor plan
Costruction details
Cross section
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