SERENA SCALIA
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HI ! I’m Serena Scalia, a truly passionate architect from Italy. I’m looking for an exciting environment, where i can meet new enthusiastic people, improve my skills and grow up.
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PERSONAL INFORMATION
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SERENA SCALIA SEVASTOPOLSKÁ 339/9, 101 00 PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC +420 776970219 +39 392 4102040 sere.scalia@gmail.com ITALIAN
My name is Serena Scalia and I graduated from the University of Catania, Italy with a Master’s degree in Architecture. Since I started, at university, my path in the world of architecture, I always tried to approach the study and the first professional experiences with passion and curiosity, constantly putting in relation the academic world with other educational and cultural activities (workshops and seminars). By the university studies and then the professional experience, but also through my hobbies (among all graphic design and photography), I had the opportunity to develop the ability to work in ”team”, and achieve collective objectives originated by the exchange of different ideas. My professional experience has been gained working in researches and projects on behalf of “MJÖLK architekti” Prague, Czech Republic (www.mjolk.cz), where I had the opportunity to collaborated in architectural design for international competitions, developed design ideas for different scale architectural project; “ STUDIO NOWA | Navarra Office Walking Architecture, Caltagirone, Italy (www.studionowa.com). Their research activity is aimed to develop some design tools and strategies in order to manage “indeterminate and unresolved situations”. These concepts brought me to understand architectural design (like my growth) as an process which is always incomplete, which acquires greater force in proportion to its opening. My experience abroad includes also a recent professional internship in England with NUDGEGroup (www.nudgegroup.com) and many workshop: in all these occa-
CONTENT 1. CREDITS/COLLABORATIONS 10
NOVY PAVIL GORILLA, behalf of Mjölk office, (Prague, Czech Republic).
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WONDERLAD, behalf of Mjölk office, (Prague, Czech Republic).
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LA PUTIKA, YATKA 78, behalf of Mjölk office, (Prague, Czech Republic).
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ROOM H2O: Passaggi a grado zero. behalf of NOWA office, (Caltagirone, Italy)
2. ACADEMY WORK 20
LAYERS: Progetto per il Museo Riso di Palermo, Sicilia. LAPAU 5. Dispositivi per l’arte contemporanea. Prof. M. Navarra
3. RESEARCH 26
MADE IN SICILY: Piccolo Manuale sulle architetture incompiute” Thesis. Mentor: Marco Navarra. Assistant Supervisor: Paolo Tringali.
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COMPETITION (III Price) MJÖLK ARCHITEKTI PRAGUE IDER A. GIANCANI, D. BAUDIS, D. ROHAN, S. SCALIA, E.CARBAJO, L. HORKAVÁ,
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In 2013 the current gorilla pavilion, was flooded for the second time. Therefore if we do not want to abandon breeding our most popular animals in Prague Zoo, the only way is to built a new pavilion out of the flood zone. We choose the most suitable space at the edge of the existing enclosures. A new pathway from the Africa House, offering unexpected views of the giraffes´ enclosure, and a footbridge from the western edge of Elephant Valley will lead to the new pavilion. The building is placed according to the orientation of the present road and the topography of the landscape, using its own shape and the surrounding ground as a way to hide itself. The separation between the road and the pavilion allows to have a previous space in front of the building and a public space outside of the zoo. According to the idea of the simplicity, the pavilion is organized in two clare areas: one for visitors and the other one for the service spaces of the Zoo. The relation between interior and exterior spaces is based not only on a visual connection but also in the configuration of the environments (use of vegetation, topography on the interior ground…).
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COMPETITION (honorable mention) MJÖLK ARCHITEKTI PRAGUE IDER DANIEL BAUDIS, ALBERTO GIANCANI, DANIEL ROHAN, SERENA SCALIA
GREEN PUBLIC/ PRIVATE PATHS
Wonderlad will be a place where seriously ill children and their families can engage in activities of daily life. The result is that WonderLAD is their temporary home during the clinical treatment in local hospitals. The design seeks to create a non-hospital environment, which provides a pleasant backdrop to small patients during the difficult period of their lives. The main motive of the proposal is to view the Sicilian countryside. In this landscape are built villages and farms, small structures that complements its character. Instead of one large mass therefore we propose a series of smaller buildings in traditional and classical intelligible form “house”. This structure is organized around a courtyard, which will be the heart of the center. Technically, the building is designed with the aim of creating a “selfsufficient house” so as to minimize its environmental impact. Construction of the building is designed from the micro-laminated beech wood panels. This material is chosen because of its gentle properties of the environment and resistance to seismic activity. spazio autonomia
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WonderLad [village]
Ground Floor Plan
nursery
PARKING spazio polifunzionale
BUILDING
biblioteca ingresso Ventilazione naturale Utilizzo energia solare
Schermature Verdi
Soggiorno/sala da pranzo laboratorio uffici H2O
alloggi
Raccolta acqua piovana
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CIRKUSOVÁ ŠKOLA
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The multifunctional space called Jatka 78 has opened some of its spaces this November. At the moment it works conceptually training room and a theater for 350 spectators. This space is not only a theater, but there is a more ambitious project divided into five steps. The project is constantly evolving in accordance with the team’s Putyka. The next step should be created the circus school and a pub. Circus School is a functional unit with a separate entrance and a possible connection to the rest of the complex. It is primarily intended for running workshops, training halls for rent. It includes a reception and kitchen, locker rooms, showers and toilets. Part of the lower floor is a cloakroom resident cirque La Putyka. Also included are the offices, the resting zone, massage room and sauna. Supplying all three zones is handled through a corridor across all three parts. Foyer is the aggregate name for the mixing zone entrance area theaters and restaurants. We see there is a leakage area between service bar and restaurant, each creates a completely different atmosphere.
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ROOM H20
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COMMISION NOWA SICILY COMPLETED D. FELICE, F. ROCCASALVA, S. SCALIA, P. SCRAVAGLIERI
The main goal was to build a mobile 100 sq.m. architecture, suitable as a working/living space for young artists. The small building is able to be moved to various island’s cites to promote contemporary art workshop opened to local community. The design strategy was basically dened by contingent conditions: the plastic boxes for harvesting citrus become a new building material. The Room H2O pavilion was designed as a prototype installation with the aim of experiment a temporary and mobile architecture: the Farm Cultural Pavillion. The small structure could be inserted in some urban intersticial spaces, suitables for reuse. The pavilion, assembled by ourselves in just a working day stitching nine modules of two plastic boxes each, can be disassembled in a few hours and then reassembled everywhere. The pavilion deals with water theme, an important theme for Sicily, showing its dierent states. In the living space water is nebulized to give a surreal atmosphere while outside some showers let you feeling the weight and consistence of water.
1 water system off
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plastic boxses modules...
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LAYERS. Progetto per il Museo Riso di Palermo
FOYER EXHIBITION
EXHIBITION
LIBRARY
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LAB V SICILY IDER Prof. M. Navarra
AUDITORIUM
Layers prefigure levels that are independent of one another and, ones superimposed produce unexpected congurations. The concept of this project leads to identify two dierent and autonomous surface: urban surface, that adhere to the ground and art surface, that appears suspended . Squares and empty courtyards, shape the urban area : the existing thresholds are reversed. The buildings’s openings on the ground oor, a private time, become free access, daytime and nighttime . The pass through urban space is made possible thanks to the opening of old routes and thanks to design of new building: a library whose roof is a staircase that allows to ride gap out between domestic courtyards and square Cancellieri. The result is a large accessible area, fragmented by public functions that don’t close within their perimeter, but are poured in the urban open spaces. The museum is located on the upper oors. The main entrance takes possession of the little street, that ank the building. A tunnel from the urban level, growing up until one of the side wings of the building, become the new foyer. The museum expansion includes design of two new building.
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MADE IN SICILY. Piccolo manuale sulle architetture incompiute
SICILIA 105 INCOMPIUTE 5 FAMIGLIE
VUOTI INFORMALI ISOLATI FONDALI CRATERI VEGETALI
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USARE TRASPORRE DISSOLVERE COLONIZZARE
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THESIS SICILY IDEN MENTOR: Marco Navarra ASSISTANT SUPERVISOr: Paolo Tringali.
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10 Palazzetto dello Sport
Bambinopoli C. Mendes
10 Piscina Comunale Palazzo di Cemento INFRASTRUTTURE
STRUTTURE RICETTIVE
IMPIANTI SPORTIVI
CARCERI
STRUTTURE SANITARIE
ED. CULTURA
OPERE IDRAULICHE
ED. SCOLASTICA
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EDILIZIA VARIA “STADI SENZA SPETTATORI, DIGHE SENZA ACQUA, OSPEDALI SENZA PAZIENTI E GARAGE SENZA USCITA CONSEGNATI ALL’ETERNO INCOMPIUTO”
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12220 m³
19077 m³ 14756 m³
30760 m³
44458 m³
48420 m³
69114 m³
da Benoit Felici, Unfinisched Italy, 2011
90113 m³
“Stadiums without audiences, hospitals without patients, theatres that after 50 years have not yet seen their premiere” The unnished buildings dot Italy, telling about a wild ride toward a necessary modernity. It was put in place since World War II until today, reecting dierent policies orientations and public state intervention. Buildings in a limbo between perfection and nothingness, given up on halfway through their construction, fallen into ruin before they were ever used, are an integral part of the Italian architectural landscape. This is a study of the potential value of unnished buildings and of man’s ability to adapt them to his everyday needs. These ruins, whose future has already passed and whose present carries the taste of an eternal wait, act as an invitation to meditate about time. The aim of my thesis design is to point out its latent potentiality, thinking about new forms of cities and landscapes. It is a survey about Sicilian territory that put together observation and action plans. The work is composed of two parts, collected and juxtaposed together in a research. The rst, tell about unnished buildings in Italy like a “phenomenon”, in retrospect and descriptive way, to understand the reasons which have produced it. The second part is a survey about Sicilian territory. Because, Sicily is the heart of this phenomenon, it becomes the appropriate eld of research, observation and experimentation. Through the use of observation with dierent looks and lenses, I’ve pinpointed: 5 families of unnished buildings with dierent quality and dierent weak point; 4 action of appropriation and potential transformation of architectural space, connected to 8 operations that summarize the principles of composition. Through a reection about “how can make prots in a collective design these residues”, arise this small instruction manual about unnished buildings.
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250000 m³
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Messina Palermo Trapani
Enna Catania Agrigento
Costruito:
576952 m³
Caltanissetta
Siracusa Ragusa
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