SARA GIORGI A r c h i t e c t u r e P o r t f o l i o
CURRICULUM VITAE PERSONAL INFORMATION
Name Nationality Date of birth Address E-mail Mobile Phone
Languages
Sara Giorgi Italian 13 July 1991 Località Colombì 1 , 24060, Torre dé Roveri saraagiorgi@gmail.com +39 333 1713396
Italian (native speaker) English (fluent) German (basic)
WORK EXPERIENCE
SMV COSTRUZIONI S.R.L. Family owned construction company (Bergamo, IT) Feb 2016 - Jan 2017 Summer 2014-13-12
SAUERBRUCH HUTTON Architecture Office in Berlin (DE) Sept 2012 - Jul 2013
MARIO CASSINELLI ARCHITECT Architecture office in Bergmao (IT) Summer 2009 Summer 2013
EDUCATION
ACCADEMIA DI ARCHITETTURA DI MENDRISO Università della Svizzera Italiana (CH) Master of Science in Architecture Sept 2014 - Dec 2015 Feb 2017 - Jul 2017
ACCADEMIA DI ARCHITETTURA DI MENDRISO Università della Svizzera Italiana (CH) Bachelor of Science in Architecture Sept 2010 - Jul 2014
SCIENTIFIC HIGH SCHOOL I.S.LORENZO FEDERICI Trescore Balnearioo, Bergamo (IT) High School Diploma Sept 2005- Jul 2010
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
DIPLOMA Auerspergstrasse 7 in Salzburg
2017
Prof. Walter Angonese MASTER 2 Winery in Sulcis
2015
Prof. Francisco Aires Mateus Prof. Manuel Aires Mateus MASTER 1 Voronoi Pavillion
2015
Prof. Jean-Lucien Gay Prof. Silvan Oesterle New Parliament House in Ouagadougou
2015
Prof. Francis Kèrè Architecture of Light in Lugano
2014
Prof. Riccardo Blumer BACHELOR 3 Architecture of Life in Procida Prof. Go Haswgawa
2014
Wellness Center in Piotta Prof. Antonio Citterio
2013
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
INTERNSHIP Sauerbruch Hutton
2012-13
BACHELOR 2 Housing in Copenhagen
2012
Prof. Walter Angonese Space composition in Mendrisio
2011
Prof. Walter Angonese BACHELOR 1 Introduction to Architecture and firsts projects Prof. Mario Botta Prof. Francesco Bardelli
PROGRAMS ADOBE FAMILY Acrobat, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop CAD Autocad, Microstation 3D MODEL AND RENDER Grasshopper, Maxwell, Rhinoceros, SketchUp OFFICE FAMILY Excell, Outlook, Power Point, Word
2010-11
AUERSPERGSTRASSE 7 PROF. WALTER ANGONESE
SALZBURG, AUSTRIA
The project site is in the Neustadt district of Salzburg. A purely residential area characterized by low buildings of five floors with a few exceptions that are strictly related to the heart of the city, Altstadt, where all the social functions are focused and characterized by historical buildings. The main intent is to create a reference point for this area. A recognizable and representative urban element that is in dialogue with the context. Hence the idea of a building without function that develops in its height, a tower house, a punctual element that on one hand can catalyze and revitalize the neighborhood. Whilst on the other one can give a new life to the villa, creating contrast and dialogue at the same time. For these reasons the new building, in its square plot, is positioned on an axis with the villa that is in the corner on Auerspergstrasse. In this way, the new tower creates two external spaces: the one that is in front of the villa is related to the Schwarzstrasse. Creating a new green urban space that can be considered as the conclusion of the Mirabell Park; the other one is related to the size of the neighborhood creating an intimate garden used by the villa and the tower house. Because of these relationships with the context, the building responds in different ways on each front, and it seems to crumble up. Plans, both shrinking and expanding, create various spaces on the eight levels. The ground floor, a composition of octagons, has a unique exception that is the volume of the entrance that reaches out to the one of the villas. Moving to the top the facade it starts to gradually recede, creating big terraces that disappear and wane on the last levels, as if the building is imploding. Acting as a “crown” on the top floor there is a double-height space, a belvedere and romantic place that has a 360° view on the city. Because of its structure, composed by a solid core in concrete that supports the whole building and with its facade in prefabricated elements of concrete, it becomes a strong and colossal building. In the inside the open spaces are versatile and ready to respond to the requests of Salzburg.
Urban Plan
Ground Floor Plan
1st to Roof Floor Plan
Elevation and Sections
Detail Section
Facade
Ground Floor Internal View
Last Floor Internal View
Perspective Section
WINERY IN SULCIS
PROF. FRANCISCO AND MANUEL AIRES MATEUS
SARDINIA, ITALY
The best conditions for producing wine have always been underground. This because the hypogeum space allows to have optimal temperatures and humidity for wine production. The driving concept was to have a succession of spaces that always maintained a view of the exterior landscape, the pond of Maestrale. The spaces are galleries of different sizes, depending on the function they need to accommodate. These spaces penetrate the mountain up to a maximum of 125 meters. Except for the first and last volumes, the remaining eight are all connected one to each other through a multitude of openings. The openings allow both a path and visual connection. From the right to the left, you can walk through the entire cellar, from the production space to the degustation and sales area, with the ability to see all the spaces through the visual thresholds. The end part of each gallery is not a ‘wall’ but a “live rock” a barrier that follows the natural ground line: this solution creates direct contact with the Sardinian soil and makes the entire structure an unfinished building, ready to be continued whenever needed. For all these reasons, all spaces are created using the road tunnel construction method, whose internal structure resembles the shape of the barrel vault, typical of the oldest cellars, and the space between them is used as the technical spaces.
Territorial Model
Territorial Model
Concept “Cartolina della nonna”
Plan
Longitudinal Section
Section Detail
Internal view
External View
VORONOI PAVILLION PROF. J. L. GAY & S. OESTERLE
The exercise consists in designing a 50 sqm pavilion using Grasshopper’s parametric modeling program.  Starting from the study of the vegetal elements and then deepen deepen that of the leaves cells, a texture has been obtained. This texture becomes itself the supporting structure of the entire pavilion. Combining the simplicity of the geometric elements such as the cube to the variety and complexity of the plant world, it becomes a unique, open and minimal space in its plant that, thanks to the design, creates an effect of light and shadows both inside and outside the structure. Designed in modular metal elements, this pavilion can be conceived both as a space enclosed by glass elements, both open and transparent, ready to confuse itself with the surrounding nature.
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Concept
3D Model
View
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NEW PARLIAMENT HOUSE PROF. FRANCIS KÉRÉ
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO
In October 2014, the parliament of Ouagadougou, capital of the African state of Burkina Faso, was burned by a group of protesters. The intent was to create a new parliament, a new building that represents the local population and its ideals, a new symbol for the city and the whole country. This concept led to the idea of working with the geometric shape of the circle, a symbolic element that in the collective imagination carries a sense of totality and unity. The innovative element consists of the fact that the whole system is raised and covered by a large common square, whose pavement consists of typical decorations of Burkina Faso culture. This is the starting point for the elevated structure containing plates placed at different levels that support the various cylindrical elements. Each one of them holds the various public and administrative functions of the parliament. All access is on the ground floor, while a staircase system connects the plates each other. In this approach, it becomes an innovative structure that gives attention to the symbol of local culture, but still allows for transparency of the spaces, compared to the closure of the previous system.
Ground Floor Plan
Level 1 Plan
Level 2 Plan
Level 3 Plan
North Elevation and Section AA
Section BB and Section CC
Section Detail
Facade Detail
View of the Ground Floor
Frontal View
ARCHITECTURE OF LIGHT PROF. RICCARDO BLUMER
EX MACELLO DI LUGANO, SWITZERLAND
“L’alta luce che da se è vera.” (vv. 54, chant XXXIII, Dante’s Paradise) This tercet was the starting point for the installation that fuses poetry, sound and material into the ex-Slaughterhouse of Lugano, in Switzerland. Starting from the study of the songs of the Paradise of Divine Comedy by Dante, the objective is to represent though the luminaries, a paradise that is made of light and geometry. A key first step was to recreate, using the 3D printing, a complete representation at 1:10, of the last book of the Divine Comedy, giving it a personal interpretation from a tercet. I chose to represent the allegory of paradise as a tree (Chant XXVII), thus creating a suspended object in the space, composed of modular elements of three different dimensions. These could then be created as such and would recreate the roots of the tree. The second step was the creation of the true luminaire, always starting from the allegory of the tree. Through the extrusion of the idea of roots they came to the final shape of the 4x2m luminaire. This was created entirely using timber and 366 light bulbs.
Concept
3D Printing Model
Plan
Light
Luminaria 4x2 m
Complete view of the installation
ARCHITECTURE OF LIFE PROF. GO HASEGAWA
MARINA CHIAIOLELLA, PROCIDA, ITALY
The project is situated in Marina di Chiaiolella, an old fishermen’s village in the South-West zone of the Neapolitan island of Procida. The theme of the project is to envision the remaking of four of the rowhouses that face the port. After a careful analysis of the site and an in-depth study of the island’s architectures and construction methods, I decided to work with a modern reinterpretation of the existing architectural theme:the arch. The facades present themselves as a sequence of four elliptic arches in which the dimensions vary according to the internal spaces. The function of each space, like their heights, varies in the four blocks. The ground floor is a public space, a portico where the typical homemade activities of the island take place. At the first floor there are the living areas of the apartments and the portico becomes a more intimate loggia, which completely disappear at the second floor where the end of the arch becomes the window of the sleeping area. Therefore, the arch becomes the fundamental theme of the whole project and the only opening on the port of Chiaiolella.
Siteplan Procida, Chiaiolella
Ground Floor Plan
First Floor Plan
Second Floor Plan
South Facade and Trasversal Section
“Architecture of Life”
External View
External View
WELLNESS CENTER PROF. ANTONIO CITTERIO
EX-SANATORIO DEL GOTTARDO, PIOTTA, SWITZERLAND
The Ex-Sanatorium of Gottardo designed by the Italian architect Diego Brioschi in 1962 rises on the side of the mountain that limits the Piotta Valley, in canton Ticini, Switzerland. The project exists within the current complex, creating a new building that could hold a new wellness centre used by the hosts of the hotel. The main intention was to create an object, a recognizable element that gives the impression of something that is born directly from the mountain itself. From here the idea of a threestory building with a square plant, in which the service spaces are arranged in the rear of the building. The multiple functions of the centre are arranged in such way to be allow each space at least one view of the surrounding landscape. In addition, the internal spaces consist of volumes that playfully interact with each other. This interaction creates a versatile series of spaces and always containing different visual views. The building has an external extension that holds the swimming pool and allows for a picturesque view of the valley below. Both for the interior and for traditional local vernacular has been used as a coating building to be highlighted by move and give character to
the exterior, regarding the architecture. Local stone material, which allows the light and dark grains that an otherwise flat facade.
Ground Floor Plan
First Floor Plan
South-East Section
South-West Section
Detail Section
External View
Internal View
Internal View
HOUSING IN COPENHAGEN PROF. WALTER ANGONESE
COPENHAGEN, DENMARK
The project site is located in the city of Copenhagen, close to the Black Diamond Library. The projects purpose was to work with the typologies of the surrounding blocks that interact with the site, which contained two other buildings: a tower and another block. My decision was to create a building of four floors, with a central courtyard, characterized by a modest external facade and a livelier, expressive interior. The ground floor contains the commercial activities and the two openings on the corners lets people enter the covering square that connect the two external spaces. The other three floors are characterized by different typologies of apartments, each one of them has a unique look onto the external city and one on the internal court. Besides the internal spaces move back gradually from the first to the third floor creating a series of balconies with planters. This creates an intimate green space, which allows one to take a break from the everyday life of Copenhagen.
Ground Floor Plan
First Floor Plan
Third Floor Plan
Simplex Apartment and Duplex Apartment
Sections
Detail Section
SPACE COMPOSITION PROF. WALTER ANGONESE
MENDRISIO, SWITZERLAND
After an initial in-depth study, redrawing and rebuilding the projects and experiences of the architect Adolf Loos during the first semester. My intention was to imagine and create a space on a domestic scale, working with the concept of “Raumplan”. The project site is located in Mendrisio, a Swiss common in canton Ticino, on the south-eastern border of Villa Argentina park, bordering the Academy of Architecture park. The area is delimited by old walls in stone that with their height, create a physical and visual limit with the context. The project research is orientated itself to the development of the spatial quality according to a compositional process that goes from the inside to the outside, revealing the charm of an intimate and protected habitat. The use of the light regulates the atmosphere and the communicative value of the materials. The project, designed for a small family with a maximum surface of 250 square meters, is based on the concept of “cubism”. The composition takes its origin from the continuous and harmonious comparison with the central space being the living room. From there derives a composition of cubic volumes in which the dimensions change according to the function of the space itself. Externally the building had a “surprise-effect” in the form of the main facade that began towering on Mensrisio city and hides the apparent chaos of the other volumes.
Ground Floor Plan
First Floor Plan
Second Floor Plan
Section A-A
Section B-B
Detail Section
Internal view
External View
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