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Could the territory function as a multicity?

Are the highways constraining the territory?

Can the territory became a regional attractor?

Which are the limits of Lombardy Region?

Is it possible to change the meaning of limit?

Can infrastructures create land instead of consuming it?

What is the possible future of Lombardy Region’s growth?

Is a green corridor a utopia?

HIGHWAYS

The actual highways’ system could be improved by following the project’s idea of roads integrated with cycle paths, linear parks and renewable energy sources. The existing roads are already part of the mediterranean corridor and they can be the generators of this new idea of European city.

ECOSYSTEM

The big and sustainable ecosystem that creates and holds up the entire “european city” can be considered as an improvement of the actual green areas It is also developed along the existing and new highways creating green connections and improving the quality of some ex-industrial areas

Are the highways constraining the territory?

Underpasses

a highway be an habitable space? Is a green corridor a utopia?

The Highway it possible

Is

The Cities

Can infrastructures be energy collectors?

Can the territory became a regional attractor?

The Nodes

These nodes are usually located in strategic spots of easy access. They can be transformed as point of interest, for gardening purposes or generating clean energy with solar panels and wind turbines.

1 km Legend Planned green Existing green Existing built Future built Obsolescent built Existing industrial site Obsolscent industrial site Highways

The Theater

The design laboratory has foreseen the construction of a new theater for the city of Naumburg, in Germany. The town, located in the region of Saxony, has seen over the years the progressive abandonment of a space of territory in the first periphery of the historic core, an ancient prison overlooking a historic building, the Royal Court, built in 18959, now used as a administrative building. The project saw the design of three main modules characterized by a closed, opaque, concrete facade. Only a few openings allow the view onto the square, elevated above street level. The entire theater is hidden below a raised square with respect to the level of the road, emphasizing the axis between the new city and the old city, and within the three main volumes, thus hosting the entire height of the stage tower and accessory functions. The theater thus develops two floors below ground level, placing the access hidden behind a fluid mass of white fabric, breaking the solidity of the landscape observed from the outside. The project was named Congruous Dichotomy.

Congruous Dichotomy

FREYTAG’S ANALYSIS OF DRAMA

Nach Pforta (1858) - Friedrich Nietzsche

Bei Naumburg im freundlichen Thale

Da lieget manch reizender Ort

Der schönste doch aber von Allen

Das ist mir die Pforte dort.

Ich stand einst auf grünender Höhe

Vergoldet vom sinkenden Strahl

Da wurde mir plötzlich so wehe

Als ‘runter ich schaute in’s Thal

Es tönte ein lieblich Geläute

Und mahnte sanft zur Ruh’

Die Wiese im grünenden Kleide

Deckt weißlicher Nebel still zu.

Die Sterne sie leuchten so helle

Sie ziehen in goldener Bahn

Wie himlische Wächter von

Und blicken friedlich uns an.

Er herrscher ’ne heilige Stille

Und Pforte liegt nebelumwallt

Beleuchtet vom düsteren Scheine

In geisterhafter Gestalt

Ich kann ihn nun nie vergessen

Den Eindruck so wunderbar

Es zieht mich an selbige Stätte Warum? Das wird mir nicht klar.

In the pleasant valleys near Naumburg There are some charming places But really the nicest of all Of them to me is Pforta.

I once stood upon verdant hills Gilded by the beams of sunset, As I looked down into the valley, The quiet meadow’s green dress

Blanketed with white mist, Suddenly a lovely Tolling sound wafted my way, A gentle reminder to rest.

The stars shine so bright They draw us into gilded orbit Like guards of heaven Watching us peacefully.

They rule in blessed silence And Pforta lies walled in by mist Illuminated by dim lights In spectral shapes

I can never forget The wonderful impression this made: Why am I drawn to the same place? That’s something I don’t understand.

CLIMAX

RISING ACTION

FALLING ACTION

EXPOSITION

DENOUNCEMENT

ACTOR 1 (YOUTH)

ACTOR 1 (OLD)

Two actors introduce themselves, making the difference in the personalitis apparent

Dialogue initiates leading up to the climax

The two actors clash in a harmonius climax

Tension dies down as the actors find ways to cooperate

The story ends in a display of a harmonious coexistence

Zinc sheet parapet wall covering, timber wedge

76mm rockwool rigid thermal insulation, C-channel sections wall frame support, 10mm plywood board, water proofing membrane, zinc sheet wall covering

Double chamber glazing unit with heat transfer coefficient Ug = 0.5 m2/K

SKYLIGHT DETAIL 1:5

Fakro multi chamber pvc profile screw to supporting timber batten

WINDOW

DETAIL 1:2

10mm plywood board, 76mm polyurethane rigid thermal insulation, C-channel sections wall frame support, water proofing membrane, 10mm cement board with sand blasted exposed concrete finishing composite structure thermal break polyurethane fittng groove for glazing open joint gasket for and doube seal rebate system

Triple glazing: 8mm laminated glass + 12mm cavity + 8mm float glass + 12mm cavity + 8mm laminated glass steel plate wall frame steel plate Internal & external rebate seal concrete window sill laid to fall housing for glazing hardware slot internal rebate seal

40mm x 40mm hollow square section to support window frame bolted to L-shape anchor bar

1mm double layer aluminum profile gutter FINAL PROJECT : CONGRUOUS DICHOTOMY M.SC ARCHITECTURE - BUILDING ARCHITECTURE - SEMESTER 2 THEATER DESIGN NAUMBURG, GERMANY

BUILDING 1 SECTION B-B 1:20

BUILDING - 1 SECTION -XX’

1. 25mm suspended cement board flooring to fall to stainless steel gutter, supported by cold rolled Z-channel sections @ 1m spacing, 2 layers of plastic sealing layer laid on 25mm plywood board, 90mm rockwool rigid thermal insulation with 100mm x 90mm timber batten at 1m interval, bituminous vapour barrier, 120mm reinforce concrete metal decking roof slab

2. IPE 400 secondary beam @ 2m interval bolted/ welded to IPE 600 primary beam to be bolted to 450x300 primary reinforced concrete columns

3. To refer to skylight detail

4. 80mm rockwool rigid thermal insulation suspended by continuous channel section bolted to angle section - bolted to primary beam

5. 1mm steel sheet boxed suspended false ceiling supported by C-channel section bolted to angle section

6. 35mm cement screed, 15mm rigid insulation, 120mm reinforce concrete metal decking floor slab

7. 80mm rockwool rigid thermal insulation suspended by continuous channel section bolted to angle section to support 1mm steel sheet boxed suspended false ceiling

8. To refer to window detail

9. Secondary enclosure:

9a. (ceiling) 1mm steel sheet wrap around C-channel section to create hollow void for piping and wiring

9b. (wall) 1mm steel sheet wrap around C-channel section wall framing bolted to concrete slab and primary beam

10. 300mm cantilevered reinforced concrete ramp with 1mm steel sheet hollow balusters

11. 400mm sand blasted exposed concrete, 10mm plywood board, 76mm rockwool rigid thermal insulation, C-channel sections wall frame support, water proofing membrane, 10mm cement board with sand blasted exposed concrete finishing

12. Floor construction: 50mm concrete screed, 15mm sound impact insulation, bituminous vapour barrier, 76mm rockwool rigid thermal insulation, 10mm mortal leveling layer, 200mm reinforce concrete floor

13. reinforce concrete footing and foundation to engineer's detail

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN FOR COMPLEX CONSTRUCTION STUDIO - 1 A.Y. 2018/79 PROF. MARIA GRAZIA FOLLI PROF. MARA PINARDI

POLITECNICO DI MILANO SCUOLA DI ARCHITETTURA URBANISTICA INGEGNERIA DELLE COSTRUZIONI LAUREA MAGISTRALE PROF. CORRADO PECORA PROF. MARCO IMPERADORI

• First step is to acknowledge Royal court plaza people reach before Then to analyse and act as magnets connecting site, and then the maximum permeability between the new and connecting different

• Second step is to streamline the various nodes between the furthest as a result of the movement as potential secondary can be seen as provide spaces.

• For the final step in further give a fractal create an amalgamation more character in an space. The public given a very directional flow toward the opposite

The Pavilion

Sedhiou, Senegal, 2019

The Kaira Looro International Competition requested the design of a Peace Pavilion in the territory of Sedhiou, in Senegal. The aim of the contest was to design a symbolic architecture for the memory of the victims of African wars, which can raise awareness in the local and international community by creating a commemorative and educational place, respecting the environment and local traditions. The pavilion is divided into three main spaces: a space for contemplation, one dedicated to exhibitions and displays, a space for the dissemination of memory. One of the founding concepts of the philosophy of the concept of African beauty says “Ife kwulu, ife akwudebeya”, i.e. beauty is the denial of individuality, beauty is mutual relationship, help, literally “if an individual stays, everyone stays with him”. This interpretation has led to the interpretation of the pavilion as an element containing the relational and spiritual spaces of the pavilion. The facade is made up of slender wooden elements which, together, support the roof designed to be able to bring rainwater into special tanks dedicated to the care of the mangroves as a community act.

Project selected among the 20 finalist projects.

Bamboo canopy

Baobab wool pillars 80x80 mm

Rammed earth walls

Clay pond for mangrooves

Gravel drainage layer

Bobab wood pavement

The Educational Center

Sedhiou, Senegal, 2019

The thesis project was developed as an extension of the pavilion proposed for the Kaira Looro competition. Some spontaneous reflections: what are the consequences of conflicts on the territory? Can education be an answer and an opportunity for redemption? Education in Senegal is a delicate subject, the data reveal a dramatic situation. The process methodology of the analysis of the territory and of the cultural values of Casamance has led us to a deep and necessary research on the compositional and architectural languages of the territory. The study of the urbanization of pre-colonial African cities has revealed elements that have become the foundation of the project, such as courtyards, walls, planks and hierarchies. The new school complex and the market are defined according to the fundamental need for flexibility. A 10x10m grid of thin steel pillars supports the roof, protecting the spaces below. The classrooms are defined by a hybrid system that exploits local resources such as clay, rice husks and wood, easily assembled through a studied hybrid system. The school therefore intends to be a new focal point for the local community and as a tool capable of intervening in the practices and in the development of the local potential.

Thesis selected for the New Graduates Award (Order of Architects of Milan)

Venice Biennale Workshop

Venice Biennale, 2019

The aim of the European Year of Cultural Heritage in 2018 was to encourage more people to discover and engage with Europe’s cultural heritage, and to reinforce a sense of belonging to a common European space. In a increasingly globalized world, our shared cultural heritage is a tool to promote intercultural understanding and create relations between identities, representations and performances of history. CRAFT is an Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership connecting higher educational institutions with cultural institutions and companies to work in interdisciplinary, new and innovative ways.At the workshop, the students were placed in different groups and asked to work interdisciplinary using the PBL methodology to develop their ideas. By combining research and study in the Venetian cultural heritage context, along with the Monobloc Chair as an artefact, the students were asked to develop a series of graphical posters combining a creative and innovative thinking and with this approach design posters to the subjects.

Six partners have come together with support from the EU Erasmus+ Programme. Leading the project is Aalborg University from Denmark, with partners Hans Thyge & Co from Denmark, Universidad de Oviedo from Spain, Universidade de Aveiro from Portugal, Associazione Marchigiana attivita’ Teatrali – AMAT from Italy and Universe V Ljubljani from Slovenia.