Samuel Iuri Architecture portfolio
CONTENTS Winery. A concrete project. The biggest splash. A retroactive manifesto for Giglio. Life in Airports. Exploring futures for our cities. Wine centre. Historical building restoration. de-central Park. Urban planning. Vlora Waterfront. International competition. North by Northeast. Scenarios for a large scale transformation plan. Modelling. Models and prototypes.
Winery. Architectural design studio 3 – 2013
Wine is one of the most important products in our area: consequently wineries are a really common typology. Despite this, the architectural side of this buildings is too frequently a mere result of the functional requirements coloured accordingly a supposed vernacular tradition. The key to successfully solve this task was in finding the right balance among a thoroughly defined programme, the landscape relations with a context subject to strict restrictions, handiness in wine production workflow and last – but not least – a peculiar experience to guests of the facility, that could perfectly match the tasting of a unique wine. Since the first steps a kind of dichotomy between a simply-shaped, compact, solid exterior volume and a structured, complex content has emerged as a main theme. This aspect has proven to be really helpful in solving some problems [internal distribution, stacking of steps of the prduction workflow] on one hand, but has caused some issues on the other. The principal of these issues has been with no doubt the relationship to establish with sorroundings: how can a perfect solid fit in such a remarkable natural context? This and other questions alike raised the occasion to start a research on different combinations of materials and textures that has ended up in the design here shown.
Gravity. The best wine production process is only based on gravity, at least in the first steps—the most delicate ones. This is the reason for the complex stacking of rooms of the main “core”.
Light. The picture clearly shows the big skylights that provide with natural lighting both the main room and surrounding ambiences. The blades visibile constitute the system that helps diffusing light and avoiding direct sunlight to hit the wine beneath.
The biggest splash.* A retroactive manifesto for Giglio.
«The unconscious, i.e. the ‘repressed’ material, offers no resistance whatever to the curative efforts; indeed it has no other aim than to force its way through the pressure weighing on it, either to consciousness or to discharge by means of some real action.» S. Freud, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, 1920.
* Orignally: “Un buco nell’acqua. Mainfesto retroattivo per l’Isola del Giglio.” Bachelor thesis’ project –2013
Problem? Is repression [removal, cancellation] of the ruins of disaster the only relevant solution? Couldn’t then the event emerge from the unconscious where it has been confined? Is it possible to adopt strategies able to face with no worry the Costa Concordia wreck?
Result. After determining the structure, a defined set of orizontal planes intersects the output of the previous action.
Result. At this stage, the hypotesis states its calling: if the cruise liner is in itself a great metaphor of contemporary society, which better place to meditate on its failure?
Capital. ÂŤYet the whole history of modern industry shows that capital, if not checked, will recklessly and ruthlessly work to cast down the whole working class to this utmost state of degradation.Âť K. Marx, Value, Price, Profit, 1865.
Life in airports. Master thesis project – 2017 Developed with: Valentina Rodani Supervisors: prof. Giovanni Fraziano, prof. Luca Merlini, prof. Franco Purini.
Airports, for several reasons, can be considered as small urban enviroments; themes like infrastructure, megastructuralism, correlations of interdepent parts as well as layering of history and the connection of global and local scales are recurrent while analysing both our cities and airports. An element which the latters lack while constituting the essence of cities are houses, places where people actually live. The question this work aims to explore thus is: what this small cities we call airports would be like if we gave people the chance to actually live in them? Prior to developing the scenario that as just been mentioned it is essential to analise the original distinction on which airports are founded on. A thin membrane separates the so called airside from its counterpart, the landside. The first one is a restricted area whose rules are set by an international community and are sheerly omogeneous across all the airports of the world. The second one, by contrast, is closely linked to its surroundings. The housing can thus be placed in either the air- or landside or in both at the same time; on this distinction based on its position three possible scenarios have been explored: the first, which sees all the houses placed in the landside, is the Utter City, the second, in which the dwellings are confined to the airside, takes the name ########, the last, what has been named the Third City, is the coexistence of the element in both the zones named above.
1. The Utter City Or, the cheapest way to dwell in Manhattan. The ancients built their villages in favourable sites along rivers or next to the sea: they well understood that the key for their villages to become the cities we all know lay in an efficient access to the rest of the World. It’s high time that our generations – just like our ancestors’ did – begin to capitalise on the most effective transport means of this time: airports. The Utter City is the project and the plan of an higher-ground metropolis, a theatre permanently staging the drama of everything and the comedy of the whole, a physical condenser of matter and thought, of stories and lives and objects. This is the tale of the complexity mankind has built so far, and one of many possible roadmaps leading to its sublimation. This is the shortest bridge from anywhere to the rest of the World – or, the cheapest way to live in Manhattan.
Originally part of Architectural Design Studio 5 with Valentina Rodani
This page: final presentation’s installation; laser-cut models/layers, posters and introduction.
Top: a spread from the book. Bottom: drawing vs. projection, the third dimension is found in the moving image.
Restoration: a wine centre. Architectural restoration project. Group project: contributions in building survey, functional and development planning, interventions and material definitions, drafting.
A sixteenth-century villa, located in the city centre has remained vacant for about fifteen years. Its present conditions are very poor, due to the wet and rainy climate of this area. The first step in the restoration process of this building was finding a new set of function to host: as a result of the analysis of factors such as history of the building and urban enviroment, natural and cultural context, public facilities in the surroundings, we found out that a wine centre consisting of exhibition spaces, meeting rooms, wine bars and shops, offices, could perfectly suit both the needs that emerged from the analysis and the shape of the villa, avoiding heavy or destructive trasfromations, considering the restrictions imposed on an heritage listed building. Moreover, the joint presence of public- and private-management functions enables to partially fund the restoration and mantaining costs of the project. In the first phase we carried out a complete building survey consisting of structural integrity analysis and general inspection regarding systems and cosmetic conditions. On the results of this survey we’ve based the second phase – the restoration planning – defining all the needed actions of demolition, new construction and trasformation according to both the general development project and the regulation.
Gradisca2025: [de]central park. Urban planning project. Group project: contributions in urban analysis, concepts, plan development, graphic design.
Probably, one of the leading activities in an average 6’000-people town in the italian countryside is agriculture. In imagining the urban morphology of this town in ten, fifteen years time the role of this activity should be not only taken in account, but also considered as a resource able to foster and lead the shaping of the town in its future. As a result of the analysis and study of the history, the past and present development of Gradisca, we found that, starting from the 1980s, it has undergone a sprawl process, mainly made up of detached and terraced houses, that – despite the great number of vacant dwellings – hasn’t stopped yet, consuming large amounts of farmland. To control this expansion, we focused on an area that previous regulations have defended from the massive house-building activity: the «[de]central-park», which, along with the farmaland north of the motorway, the riverside and the «green links» – a system of linear parks – is the main target of a set of rules and policies we’ve defined to guide the development of the town towards a self-promoting use of its natural heritage.
Plan structure. [left to right, top to bottom] The elements on which the plan is based are: The main farmland area. The streets network. The “Green links” [a system of linear parks departing from the agricultural park and connecting the different parts of the town]. The “Decentral Park” [what should become a new central pole]. The riverside park [subject to frequent floods, thus an area in permanent transofrmation]. Rete stradale
Green link
Parco dell'Isonzo
Edi cato Rete ferroviaria ViabilitĂ Aree agricole per eccellenza
Proposed infrastructure network. The plan aim to involve and develop the existing road network as a main component of its strategy.
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Rete ferroviaria Viabilità autostradale Viabilità di rilevanza regionale Viabilità di rilevanza locale Viabilità comunale
Survey of green networks. Moraro
Borgnano
[top to bottom] The town is located at the meeting point of three main green systems: the farmland landscape on the North, the vineyards on the East and the riverside protected zone on the South. Some inner clusters can also be found.
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S. Lorenzo Isontino
Corona
Mariano del Friuli Fratta
Farra d'Isonzo
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Romans d'Isonzo
Gradisca d'Isonzo
S. Martino del Carso
Sagrado
Villesse
Fogliano
Redipuglia S. Pier d'Isonzo
Link verdi Parco dell'IsonzoDoberdò del Lago
Regulated development. As part of the plan some new building interventions were defined: according to their position and surroundings some areas were kept back for future development of two possible kinds: the first one aims to fill the gaps in existing urban fabric, the other one allows the creation of high-density housing to face a possible growth in dwelling demand.
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A.R.I.A. Parco dell'Isonzo Zone H Alberghi Zone HC-HCV Commerciale Zone P Caserme Zone P Servizi e strutture collettive Zone E6 Area agricola per eccellenza Zone E4 Aree agricole di pregio paesaggistico Zone C3 Trasformazione - Nuova edificazione Zone C2 Trasformazione - Ristrutturazione Zone B1-2-3 Borghi antichi Zone B Abitato Zone A Centro storico
Vlora waterfront: Piers Vlora [AL] Waterfront international competiton entry. First internship project a Giovanni Damiani Architetto.
In the last few years, all over the world, has begun spreading the misconception that, regardless of conditions and environment, colossal masterpieces, somehow super-imposed, prove themselves to be the key to raise the conditions of a territory or a city, of its economy and its inhabitants. It has been certainly true for the first one setting new rules in a old game. But the peddle of novelty does not last too long; indeed, urban development could be a powerful driving force able to boost economic growth as well as being the ticket granting access to the worldclass circles of tourism, trade, culture. A clearly-planned, tidy, neat environment can be peculiar and attractive, and it’s an almost necessary condition nowadays, but a single, brandish work rarely is the right solution to face urban issues. Nowadays, with the current crisis and opportunities, a strong approach to the issue is necessary, a strategy able to deal with the themes of present modernity, of 2014 and forthcoming years, certainly not a nostalgic glance to the postmodernist
myths, but something able to induce growth of a city and its territory, yet grounded on strong, plausible basis. What we’re urging is the definition of a rule: a rule taking the form of Piers. We need a strategy, a step by step intervention able to CONNECT the entire city, a project able to systematize the strengths and become its communication brand by fulfilling in a logical simple way the city’s main needs. Our proposal therefore consists of a network of punctual, discrete elements – the Piers – that act like the graduation of a ruler to subdivide and allocate autonomy to different segments of the Waterfront; the Piers condensers of programs and activities able to create the critical mass necessary to be sustainable; the Piers are flexible elements, easily replaceable over the years, that can be built either with public resources, by private investments or with private-public partnerships; they can be really simple structures or articulated and complex interventions.
NNE Mapping. Research project and exhibition design
Since the very beginning, this research project went hand in hand with the design of the exhibition that should have shown the results of this reaserch. The idea was to capture some images and visualise the products and traces of human action as well as natural and environmental landmarks in a 200Ă—200km area around the northern part of Adriatic Sea. Different tools had been explored: large scale mapping and prints, machined three-dimensional models, graphical video mapping.
Left: map of the main powerlines.
Modelling and prototyping
Large scale terrain model for an exhibition: data survey and editing, files preparation, laser cutting, assembly and video apping.
Small scare waterfront and historical buildings laser cut model.
A–R2.2018