Index
2. Workshops representing creative aspect of crafts Centro dell’artigianato
1. Museum representing national and geographical aspects of handicrafts
3. Learning section representing the communicational aspet of crafts
01 C U L T U R A L
ArtiZone Craft Center, Craft Museum and workshops Craft Center is a project designed for an old shopping passage close to the central train station and a business district of Milan. After several detailed surveys and assessments of the neighborhood, and observing lack of facilities for the everyday life of the permanent residents of the adjacent streets, I chose to develop a social center in which ordinary people of the neighborhood who (compared to the temporary users of the area ,tourists and business people,) were ignored and taken for granted, could spend time, communicate with each other, be productive and express their skills and competencies as well as make money. Considering all the necessary characteristics of the potential business, a «Craft Center» would perfectly match all the requirements. Craft has always been known as «art of the folk» , a branch of design which has been associated with tradition and manual work at the same time has had strong ties with the location and geography and also has always struggled to form new reciprocalrelationships between material and form.
From private to very public:
Concept
Hierarchical systems of communal spaces (in general): from the living room to the city’s town “hall square� the establishment of a social structure and corresponding physical structure with communal spaces at various levels permits movements from small groups and spaces toward larger ones and transform the more private to the gradually mire public spaces, giving a greater feeling of security and a stronger sense of belonging to the areas outside the private residence.
From very public to private:
Hierarchical systems of communal spaces (in our case): Inviting the public to visit us in our private/ living room space (as the space is to show the individual skills demonstrated in handicrafts which are typically made at home.)
General layout
General layout 1. Museum
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2. Permanent workshops
3. Public Area 3.
4. Temporary work space
5. Heavy tools
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and kiln
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ale Elaborato di tesi Laboratorio di sintesi finale Rodia Banaei 746395 Relatrice Prof.ssa Claudia Baldi
Tavola 1: Pianta Scala 1:100
Centro dell’Artigianato
Technical drawings
Politecnico di Milano FacoltĂ del Design Corso di Laurea in
Museum:
Crafts in the street National and geographical aspects of crafts
Workshops:
Crafts in the living room Creative and expressive aspects of crafts
Free space:
Temporary workshops Educational and communicational aspects of crafts
una grande superficie riflettente tinta di bianco
Il pannello metallico intrecciato di fili
metallici
02 H O S P I T A L I T Y
Oficina Mind Art Hotel To design a hotel near the new emerging Milan›s artistic area and near the Milan›s Design Week zones, we mixed two concepts of «Hotel Gallery» + «Hotel Factory» in which accommodation and «relax» are promoted with the ideas of art production + art display. the core intention of the project would be encouraging the spirit of socializing and sharing common interests through occasional sharing of space. Inspired by the notion of flexibility and temporality, the space is supposed to change based on the necessities of its occupants.
Suites Convertable Rooms
Hotel rooms in the «privacy» mode, closed with sliding panels. The red units in the middle of each pair of rooms are bathroom and shower that remains fixed in either state of the room.
The «display» or public mode, in which sliding panels open up to convert the former sleeping and relax areas into a public space. Mixing the private area with public space, symbolizes sharing intimate and inner feelings of the artist by display of art to the public.
The location of this hotel, is theoretically one of the Milan›s Rationalists styles designed by Lingeri and Terragni and as the potential sponsor for the project, FABRICA the communications research and design center of United of colors of Benetton was chosen as a compatible organization with the multicultural and
03 R E S I D E N T I A L
PAeSSAGGIO Roof garden
A space for yoga
As a design theme for a 1 week workshop with the goal of designing a roof top “interior space�, we chose the concept of Yin and Yang symbolizing two contrasting elements which in this case are the interior space associated with privacy and peace, confronting the outer space which is public, chaotic and limitless. As a consequense, the form of the symbol was chosen to form the genral layout which was coherent with the intersts of the potential client who was interested in practicing yaga nad also collecting Japanese liquor objects.
Casa Riccio
Casa Riccio Artist’s loft To remodel a former industrial building in order to accommodate a young photographer, we chose the concept of “hedgehog”. To develop the concept, we considered the physical properties of a hedgehog including the soft body of the animal which could represent the personal and fragile part of the artist’s life and the spikes of the hedgehog which would symbolize the public aspect of an artist’s life in which she communicates via her artwork. In this project, the cube is the core of the loft which is the personal space and the rest of the space is flexible according to her needs.
04 C O M M E R C I A L
Sant’acqua spa Casa bottega
This project is specifically designed for interior of an apartment building as part of a bigger project to develop a marginal district in Milan. The goal of my individual project was to creat living space as well as working space for a young couple and thier 3 year-old child in the 5th and 6th floor of an aprtment building. The 5th floor would be the living space of the family as well as the recption of the spa and the upper floor is dedicated to the business and also the bar which can also be used as the kitchen for the family. The concept of the Spa is based on the sanctity of water in some cultures and the healing and relaxing characteristics of water.
Spaces and activities
3. 2.
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1. Koochy
by Karim Rashid
05 P R O D U C T D E S I G N
ThisCover B A G A bag for Milan
We were assigned to design a bag for Expo 2015 which would represent the city of Milan. The story of Milan is difficult to understand if one does not live there. To tell the intangible story, the bag design employs a “fog� element realized by a semi-opaque PVC mask, covering the patterns of the city best.
Analysis of
Casa Azuma by Tadao Ando
06 A N A L Y S I S Analysis of
Casa Azuma by Tadao Ando
Azuma house is a small house which is built by the famous Japanese architect, Tadao Ando in Osaka, Japan in 1976. The project of analysis of this house included recreating several 2D plans and sections of the house and analyzing different features of the architecture such as the flow of natural light, space planning as well as movements and the possibility of activities in the house. The detailed analysis included also mood boards, boards of the materials used in the interiors and furniture which considering the careful division of the limited spaces, played a crucial role in the general design of it. In the end, the 3D detailed model of the house was made and professionally photographed.
Graphic Design
Some examples
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