Architectural portfolio _ Sara Russo

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SARA RUSSO

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SARA RUSSO Date of birth 14/10/1992 Mobile phone +4407720386653 Email sararusso.arch@gmail.com Address Flat 7, 1 Earl’s Court square - SW5 9BY London, United Kingdom

‘Since I was a child I was attracted by art and drawings, infact I choose the artistic high school whit focus in architecture, in Salerno. Then I moved to Naples to study architecture at the University. In these years I made several experiences while collaborating with private architecture firms, the university itself and the municipality of Naples. That gave me the opportunity to approach architectural work from different points of view. I gratuated in June 2018 with a master’s degree thesis regarding the problem of depopulation of italian internal areas, in contrast to overcrowding of big cities and touristic regions. I love architecture, from the small scale to the big one, from pure volumes to details. I like to play with shapes and graphic to better represent every idea and every project. Currently, I’m looking for new exciting and creative experiences to work and grow as an Architect.’

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 1

Assistant. DIARC for Arch. Miguel Arruda - Naples, Italy

07.09.18 - 09.11.18

ORGANIZATION OF PHD LECTURES AT DIARC (DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE, NAPLES) GIVEN BY MIGUEL ARRUDA 2

Architectural assistant. DIARC, Municupality of Naples and Soprintendenza - Naples, Italy

20.06.17 - 22.11.17

DESIGN OF PUBLIC EXTERNAL SPACES FOR THE HISTORICAL CENTER OF NAPLES (IT)

data gathering and classification of existent public external spaces zoning of the historical centre of Naples detailed site survey, accurate scale drawing and public space design of Miraglia square 3

Internship at Di Girolamo Engineer - Naples, Italy

15.03.16 - 15.04.16

GRAPHIC WORK FOR THE PROJECT OF GALLERIA PRINCIPE’S ART GALLERY

graphic work for the project of Galleria Principe’s art gallery: texturing of the plants and elevations in Photoshop for the final presentation 4

Internship at Sossio De Vita Architect - Naples, Italy

06.02.15 - 25.09.15

COMPETITION FOR A NEW SCIENCE CENTRE IN NAPLES

data collection and analysis of contemporary science centre with a particular focus on the relation between expositive areas and public space graphic design, axonometries and diagram of the concept idea concept design of sustainability solutions of the building envelope and external spaces design of technical drawings of the building envelope 5

Internship at Eduardo Bassolino Architect - Naples, Italy

09.03.14 - 17.06.14

COMPETITION FOR A NEW LIBRARY IN BRIOSCO

data collection, research and analysis of the project site concept design of the masterplan architectural design of the library: plants, elevations and sections patterns and textures insertion in photoshop and image editing for final presentation 6

Organizer and web social manager for DIARC and ASIA - Naples, Italy

02.05.13 - 07.10.13

ORGANIZATION OF A CONTEST “LA CARTA VINCENTE” FOR A NEW INTERACTIVE TRASH CONTAINER FOR DIARC

collaboration in the drafting of competition criteria, rules and requests design and realization of scenography for a competition promotional video

AWARDS International competition for a New Science Centre in Naples (IT)

25.09.15

IN COLLABORATION WITH SOSSIO DE VITA ARCHITECT

Fifth place, honorable mention and partecipation in the final exhibition and press conference

WORKSHOP 1

Partecipation to “Grande progetto centro storico UNESCO”

2013

MUNICIPALITY OF NAPLES AND DIARC (DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE, NAPLES)

project for a new reconfiguration of the Historical Centre of Naples.

I’ve designed, in collaboration with Camilla Russo, a project about Via Duomo. The project was approved and currently being built (2018) 2

Partecipation to “Cantieri di Architettura”

2014

DIARC (DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE, NAPLES) AND FASSABORTOLO

workshop on construction techniques - theoretical lectures and site visit experience

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2015

Partecipation to “MOBILEarch” DIARC (DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE, NAPLES)

design workshop on a project for a new street food stall prototype 4

Partecipation to International Workshop “Connecting worlds.

Sustainable building the strengths of mediterranean sea”

2016

DIARC AND DicDEA IN COLLABORATION WITH BELGIUM FRANCE AND LEBANON

international workshop on the urban requalification on the Historical Center on Naples (IT) with a particular focus on the waterfront - itinerant Lectures

TEACHING EXPERIENCE Lecture assistant for Master’s classes of ‘Housing Recovery’ at DIARC

20.09.17 - 21.12.17

LABORATORY ABOUT PUBLIC SPACES DESIGN HELD BY PROF. VALERIA D’AMBROSIO

EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATION Qualified architect : Italian Architect board (part 3 equivalent)

11.2018 - 31.2019

Master of Architecture (Hons) - Degree class of Architecture and Construction Engineering. University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy

10.2011 - 06.2018

110/110 SUMMA CUM LAUDE (HONOURS) Final project: “SENSITIVE CONTEX: CENTOLA”

High school diploma - “Liceo artistico A. Sabatini”, Salerno (IT)

10.2006 - 07.2011

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SKILLS Architectural Design Graphic Design Urban Planning Landscape Design Sustainable Design Interior Design Technical details Able to work both in group or alone Attention, focus, curiosity and passion Able to work under pressure

Creative problem solving, flexible and proactive AutoCAD Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign Rhinoceros 3D and Sketchup Vectorworks Keyshot Revit Suite office iWork Hand drawing and modelling

LANGUAGES Italian : native speaker English : good spoken and written French : basic _ scholastic DRIVING LICENCE Italian driving licence type B (auto)

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CONTENTS Resume

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Contents

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Sensitive Contexs: Centola academic work _ thesis project

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Becoming an Utopia: The Othurtz academic work _ project class

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A new Science Centre work as architectural assistant _ competition

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Italian suburbs: retrofit academic work _ project class

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A new library for Briosco work as architectural assistant _ competition

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SENSITIVE CONTEXTS:

CENTOLA

Medieval village of San Severino di Centola Thesis, supervisor Prof. M. Losasso My thesis project focused on the problem of depopulation of the internal areas. I worked on a case study about the medieval village of San Severino di Centola. This wonderful little village was completely abandoned by his inhabitants in the middle of '900.

Now is almost completely in ruins, needing an important and expensive work of restoration. My project is about the intervention needed before the restoration of its buildings, in order to permit access and safe fruibility of the village. This places offers an incredible rural and authentic experience, immersed in nature anenriched by beautiful landscapes. My work focuses on two different areas: the Basilica's area

(heart of the village) and the path from the brick bridge (originally composed by two big truss) to the village, with its natural area beneath. The idea is to generate a naturalistic promenade from the bridge to the village, configurating an a new acces to the disabitated village, making it alive again. The approach was the same for both areas: the preservation of the natural environment and the historical context were the main goals. To obtain that, every integration and every intervent were designed to be completely reversible and removable. The materials used, mainly steel and wood, are compatible with those of the preexistences, with the latter completely a Km 0.

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Collage _ Gentrification

To propose new shapes of sustainable tourism is a really important issue, in this moment. Italy is the second nation in Europe for number of tourist (after Spain), with most of them concentrating in only fifty cities. Therefore, cities are overcrowded by tourists and are unable to manage them. Services (transport, energy forniture and garbage) are saturated, generating disruptions for both citizens and tourists. An extreme example of such phaenomenon is Venice, where there is one citizen every 40 tourists. Venice population is now lower than it was after the big plague in the '600. Decongesting the flow of tourism from the "art cities" to the smaller, but equally interesting, cultural and historical sites, will improve the liveability of cities like Rome, Florence and Venice, while enhancing the immense anthropological, cultural, historical and natural heritage of internal areas.

Planimetry: Extracted from a 3D model reconstructed in photoscan, using aerial photos made with a drone.

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Village’s project

Bridge’s project

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A new promenade around ruins, designed to recover the old paths and integrated using a removable structures in steel and wood

Project Axonometry

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Lateral elevation

Front elevation

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External view: detail of the path to the Basilica

External view: from the Basilica's square towards the landscape

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The new truss bridge gives direct access to the riverside from the old brick bridge, to which it is connected by a panoramic square.

Bridge project plan

Section - detail of bridge

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External view: the new riverside equipped with seats,pedestrian wood paths and culverts

External view: retrained old brick bridge connected with the new pedestrian truss bridge

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BECOMING AN UTOPIA:

OTHURTZ

City of Scampia (NA) In collaboration with Ciro Priore e Orazio Nicodemo The Othurtz is a requalification project of Franz Di Salvo's Vele (sails), the symbol of Scampia (a district in the northern side of Naples), famous for its crime and degradation problems, which testifies the failure of modern mega structures and commuter district. The debate between those who puts the Vele in the center of the neighborhood problems and those who recognize a certain architectural value in them, resolved in the choice by the municipality of Naples of demolishing three out of four Vele.

Leaving only one of the Vele, the currently empty lot, amplifies its features: the recognized imprint on the landscape, the clear identity that it raises on who lives in it,

potential of being a public resource, arise obvious parallels with a mountain. Transform the Vela into a true mountain, bend the paper to create a third dimension: this is the main goal. The mountain will be build using debris resulting from the demolition of the other three Vele, not only to achieve a considerable economic saving but, above all, to give a strong symbolic act: we do not want to demolish and forget the Vele, but rather to make it a fundamental and essential part of the new face of Scampia. The new volumetric capacity is a prerequisite to disclose the Vela to new and more public functions, making it a basin of attraction for the neighborhood.

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Suggestion _ The ‘Vela’ IS a Mountain! photo manipulation

Phases to make a ‘Vela’ into a Mountain

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“Bend the paper to make a Vela into a true mountain�

Concept

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Perspective section of the "mountain"

An important role is played by the choice of the functions of the mountain: auditorium, library, cinema, gym and disco.

Placed into large volumes made of reinforced concrete, connected to the Vela via truss tunnels, such spaces achieve a structural function while being hidden under the mountain itself.

The truss system is inspired by mega-structures, such as bridges or dams, and it provides an evocative volumetric play, shifting from narrow and elongated spaces to wide environments. Such volumes are inspired by natural designs, like cave trails or anthills. Starting from this natural suggestion and to create a contrast with the organic shape of the outside mountain, we used geometric abstraction to restore pure forms and lines.

Our project aims to return the Vela to the inhabitants of Scampia, not by constructing a new symbol to bond with, but by re-evaluating what already exists, making it accessible and public.

And nothing is more public than a mountain!

Thecnical section

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Sezione tecnologica tunnel trave

TRAVATURA PRATT Travatura reticolare con montanti compressi e diagonali tese.

In questa configurazione i montanti compressi presentano una minore lunghezza rispetto ai diagonali compressi della Travatura Howe, ragion per cui sono meno soggetti allo svergolamento.

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Swimming pool Auditorium foyer Auditorium, theatre Cinema

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TRAVATURA HOWE Travatura reticolare con montanti tesi e diagonali compressi.

E' una tipologia strutturale in cui gli elementi compressi, ovvero i diagonali, presentano una lunghezza tale da essere soggetti maggiormente a fenomeni di svergolamento.

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Axonometric view of the truss tunnel connected to the Vela

View in the truss tunnel

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Axonometric layout of the Othurtz

External bird's eye view of the building

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Planimetry

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A NEW SCIENCE

CENTRE

City of Naples In collaboration with Arch. Sossio de Vita The 3 March 2013 an arson destroyed the Science Centre of Naples. One years later it was issued an international competition to give back the Science Centre to the city. The project had two main goals, which aimed to create a space both connected to the recent past and the landscape, in particular with the sea. We designed a big garden that could maintain what was left of the old science centre and we proposed a big volume that is complementary to the two old destroyed shed. The idea is therefore to establish a "hollow memory" and a "full memory" of what was the Science Centre. The visual continuity towards the sea has been preserved by avoiding volumes on

ground, with the exception of structural pylons, emergency stairwells, services and halls.

What strongly characterizes the ground level is the desire to preserve the memory of the old centre which survived the fire, constituting the "Park of Memory". To increase the memory of the old centre, the skin of the new building is composed with the post-fire debris. Pieces of tiles, brick, wood, concrete and yellow tuff was combined to create a vibrant e porose facade. The internal exposition areas are divided in two levels and are integrated by a variouses interactive functions: laboratories, Fab Lab, agora and a children's workshop area.

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PRESENT

Preexistent sheds

Planetary Degraded beach

Preexistent pillars Debris due to the fire

Pedestrian bridge

Fire leaved many debris, some of big value like brick pillars, few sheds and the suggestive exposed brickwork arches in front of the sea.

“Corporea� museum

FUTURE

Ticket and info point near the bouvette Ramble next to the sea who integrates the old structure (before fire) in bricks with arches

New volume of the science centre, it develops on two levels Chimney square Facade made by debris Arbustive garden of mediterranean essences, divided in thematic areas

Preexistent pillars

Bridge

Four pool of seawater, eight of freshwater and pool of phytodepuration

The design of the new science centre uses and integrates the debris of the old one, to reinforce the memory of the fire and the concept of rebirth.

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Genesis of the volume shape: The new volume was designed as the complementary shape of the old sheds

Volume of project

Negative of the old volume

Volume before fire

Empties

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Plan of ground floor

Section

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South elevation

Section

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Roofing: steel trusses

Second floor: IPE steel beams

First floor: IPE steel beams

Supporting structure: big concrete beams on eight pillars

Complementary structure: steel trusses

Facade skin: made by recovery materials

Axonometric Exploded View

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4 mm steel drip edge sheet

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3 mm waterproof sheath

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1000 x 1150 x 6 mm polycrystalline photovoltaic panel

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rainwater harvesting channel

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45/900/0,8 sheets

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60 mm roof structure

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IPE 900 beam

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20 x 80 mm insulation boards in stone wool

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3,5 mm barrier

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11. 25 mm skylight 12. steel reticular beam 13. 100 mm insulation boards in mineral wool 14. 40 mm inner tube 15. concrete mortar 16. recovery bricks

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External view: towards the sea and the island of Nisida

Internal view: last floor with patio and window to the sea

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ITALIAN SUBURBS:

RETROFIT

City of Ponticelli (NA) In collaboration with Camilla Russo The district of Ponticelli, in the province of Naples, is the result of building speculation occurred after the earthquake of 1980. The need to build a lot and quickly produced a series of residential buildings, built with poor material and located in an area far from services: the so-called commuter area. The living conditions of the inhabitants are poor: houses are cold and wet, open spaces are degraded and dirty with the presence of rats, they are isolated from the city and the principal services. The project aims to restore a good living condition inside and outside the buildings, making the neighborhood alive by integrating new services on the ground floor (shops, activity like

bar and restaurants, kindergartens etc), like a social housing.

The new open spaces, mixed with the new social functions on the ground floor, aim to generate a new social mixitè, trying to resolve the current social problems. The work of retrofit is inspired to the “green” principles for making sustainable new buildings. To this purpose, we designed a ventilated facade which increases the thermo hygrometric comfort inside, integrated systems for rainwater collection and its reuse for sanitation, sistems of phytodepuration, the use of rinnovable energy and the integration of green on the rooftops.

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Facade before retrofit

the facade was composed only by big concrete panels (300 x 400 mm). There were not any systems of isolation systems, neither thermique nor acoustic.

Facade after retrofit

a ventilated facade has been added, composed by four different panels which, mixed together, generate dynamism

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green rooftops

new floor added to create a duplex

new ventilated facade

preexistent panels in concrete

reticular structures in steel

new inclined balconies

Axonometric Exploded View

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slope screed (1,5%)

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3,2 mm waterproof anti-root fiber

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rainwater catch basins

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3 mm waterproof sheath

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soil and grass

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railing

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1 mm plaster

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4 mm double panel of drywall

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200 mm preexistent panel in concrete

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10. 250 - 60 mm insulation boards in EPS

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11. 40 mm cavity natural ventilation

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12. Fassabortolo's ventilated facade in ceramic tiles

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External view: pedestrian street, between buildings, with green areas and seats

External view: facade with inclined balconies overlooking on the driveway

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A NEW LIBRARY FOR

BRIOSCO

City of Monza Brianza In collaboration with Arch. Eduardo Bassolino Brisco's new library is the result of a competition of ideas: the request was to design a library for the city which integrates with the complex orograpy of the territory.

The library had to be semi underground to not remove too much soil and it aimed to be a pleasant meeting space, rather than a singular building separated from its environment. The project is located in a strategic area near the historic city center and aims to be a social meeting point, as well as a new cultural landmark of the city of Briosco. The project is characterized by three different volumes. The first contains the two-storey library, the second contains activities for children and the third includes recreational

activities for the community. The shape has been elaborated with reference to the typical local houses, characterized by a rectangular base and a sloped roof.

Starting from those simple shapes, we divided it in three parts and we rotated every part in a different way following the directions of the lot. We thought of a library profoundly connected with the outside, that almost blends with nature. The buildings are held together by a vast green terrace which strenghten the symbolic relationship between what’s built and nature, concept at the heart of our project.

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Project planimetry

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Project plan

three's volumes layout of the project, containing: [1] the library with reading room,[2] an activities room for children and [3] media room for the community

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Front section

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External view: entrance to the library with appurtenant garden

Internal view: semi underground library with bookshop

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SARA RUSSO +4407720386653 +393483415063 sararusso.arch@gmail.com