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EXPOSILO, reuse and extension of a former cement storage in Reykjavìk click here for full english version
What is architecture for me?
Me and my background
In it’s many interpretations, architecture is not a static entity but it adapts to different scales of intervention and subjects involved. The architect is the coordinator of this scenography. My architecture vision is grounded on the responsibility for project society towards the future in a conscious way, without the fear of what will come. My vision of that can be summed up in the following Oscar Wilde quote:
Since my childhood I’ve always defined myself by the need to fill my curiosities. I am a detail-oriented person always looking for precise and neat drawing. The interest in construction was passed down to me by my father who is a bricklayer. Over the years I took with enthusiasm every design challenge trying to meld the technical to the creative discipline, innovation to tradition. I participate to new debates with interest, but I like to defend my ideas especially if I verified my theories. The will to change, revolutionise and the way of seeing things from different perspectives have always characterized me. My social sense has brought me to join the NGO Amnesty International.
“Tradition is a successful innovation”. 06_ container spaces competition
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Who is architect for me?
regeneration of the former military fridge of Cuneo
09_ spaces for transition atelier
Nowadays, architects are mostly called for knowledge coordination and synthesis production, therefore to synthesize the complexity. With their socio-technical and technical-professional skills they should be the directors of the development. 20 20
FEEL ROUGE, new urban complex for short term housing in the Molinette’s developing area
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OASIS, new urban scenario for a peculiar area located in southern Turin
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U-HOUSE COMPLEX, new horizontal neighbourhood composed of terraced house
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EXPOSILO, reuse and extension of a former cement storage in Reykjavìk
EXPOSILO The plot is located in the new Bryggjuhverfi Vestur district that is part of the transformation of Reykjavík´s brownfield area of Elliðaárvogur. The Björgun company has produced construction aggregates since the silos were build in 1967. The 34 meter tall concrete cylinders kept inside them the cement arrived by ships. The detailed plan allows to increment the existing 1156m2 with other 2040m2, by the addition of new volumes. The intervention has taken into account the difficulty of coexistence with such an arrogant building.
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The new layout is devided in two main future functions: the existing volumes converted in an exposition path and the new ones intended for a new indoor agriculture research centre called Urban FarmLab. The layout breaks the regularity of the surrounding urban scheme and emphasizes in this way the peculiarity and the social role of the project within the neighborhood.
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Thesis “EXPOSILO”
The new and the existing volumes are linked and that allows the movement of products from the storage to the new research and testing part located on the first floor. The ascent is guaranteed by stairwell placed in correspondence of the slat buildings’ overlapping area. Thanks to the truss girder construction technology, the linear development has an open plan conformation. This characteristic gives a high level of flexibility for a future scenario reconversion.
1. prominent external paths
2. prominent internal paths
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regeneration of the former military fridge of Cuneo
REGENERATION OF THE FORMER MILITARY FRIDGE OF CUNEO
(in collaboration with Walter Nicolino Architects) Cuneo is a city of walls. Walls that over time have protected with mastery religious orders and witnessed numerous military maneuvers in different barracks. They are the ones to define the former Military Fridge along it’s perimeter. The proposal’s intent is to preserve and enhance them through a delicate structural adjustment and the insertion of a metal frame. The new structure will host the following functions: underground parking, auditorium, conference room, exhibition gallery and a lounge bar.
GENESIS
ROMANESQUE PERIOD
GOTHIC PERIOD
At each half pilaster corresponds the insertion of a metallic frame with dual structural function: support for the existing walls and for the new slabs. The cavity formed between existing walls and the new metal skeleton becomes an atmospheric vehicle for light and air from outside.
context of the intervention site
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Competition “regeneration of former Military Fridge”
SPECIFIC CHOICES
Scaffolding work for support existenting walls and execution of metal piling
Excavation in two diachronic phases
exhibition gallery on the second floor
Execution of the structure of the underground parking
Cutting of the central piling and assembly of the new metal structure
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spaces for transition
FEEL ROUGE, new urban complex for short term housing in the Molinette’s developing area
FEEL ROUGE The initiative aims to repurpose the actual hospital complex “Le Molinette” , in a new social and aggregative vector. The project is based on the contemporary reinterpretation of the twentieth-century layout which is characterized by pavilions intersected by a corridor. In presence of the intersection points between corridor and wings news public spaces are generated.
GENESIS Existing layout
Perpendicular intersections: comb layout
DEMOLITION
Atelier Low Carbon,“Feel Rouge”
BLUEPRINT
POSITIONING
CONCAVITY
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Reinterpretation: twisted intersections
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SPECIFIC CHOICES Roof slab Embodied Carbon= -69 KgCO2/m2 Embodied Energy= +864 MJ/m2
1 Raised flooring
4 Sound dampening insulation
2 Waterproofing membrane
5 Loadbearin slab panel: Crosslam 7 layers THK.26 cm
3 Recycled textile insulation THK.20 cm
6 False ceiling THK.30cm
Slab type I EC= -67 KgCO2/m2 EE= +945 MJ/m2
1 Paving 2 Light concrete THK.4cm 3 Screed THK.8cm
5 Loadbearin slab panel: Crosslam 5 layers THK.21,7cm 6 False ceiling THK.30cm
4 Sound dampening insulation
Slab type II EC= +114 KgCO2/m2 EE= +933 MJ/m2
1 Paving
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2 Light concrete THK.4cm
5 Loadbearin slab: Reinforced concrete in disposable formwork THK.18cm
3 Screed THK.8cm
6 False ceiling THK.30cm
4 Sound dampening insulation
urban spaces
OASIS, new urban scenario for a peculiar area located in southern Turin
OASIS The studied area presents a strong residential connotation, mostly characterized by individual medium-sized buildings, in turn parcelled out in other residential units. Every owner has the chance to realize their own private reality by physically isolating themselves from external relations.
READING OF THE STATUS QUO Through the surveys it has been drawn up an abacus of the different present genealogies and their relation with neighbours around.
actual scenario
Atelier No Home Turin, “Oasis”
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GENESIS
EROSION
The project consists of the addition of new equipment obtained through new interpretation of the existing isolation system. If their role was originally of separation between private and public, in the proposed scenario they turn into sharing tools. These new elements are designed to be used for recreation, interaction, break, pastime and plantation. This helps to make those unused spaces into integral part of the social interaction system correlated with the city connections. The treatment of the horizontal surfaces creates meteoropathic places able to change themselves in relation to the weather. This allows people to feel the presence of a mutable environment with psychological advantages.
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DEVELOPMENT
CONNECTION
SPECIFIC CHOICES
Recovery of water resources
Fast drainage - Porous asphalt
Medium drainage - Gravel
Slow drainage - Green surfaces
Temporary body of water
project scenario
Natural filtering
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private spaces
U-HOUSE COMPLEX, new horizontal neighbourhood composed of terraced house
U HOUSE COMPLEX The newly designed masterplan has provided the redesign of the north area of the Pellerina Park, near the banks of the river Dora Riparia, North of Turin. The building typology of the terraced house has made it possible to create a horizontal neighbourhood. The concept which moved lines consisted in “machine à habiter” with no facing on the rear side. The unilateral exposure doesen’t affect the need of privacy through an individual strip of garden for every housing unit.
Atelier Sustain-Ability, “U House Complex”
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Microperforated sheet metal
Lightweight frame in alluminum
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Internal layout of the program in relation to the balance of the light sources.
SPECIFIC CHOICES
Internal layout of the interior circular path. It can be noted the central position of the living arranged on the ground floor.
During the summer period, with the sun up the mobile solar shading system results closed to repeal the sunlight. The sunlight is conducted in depth by way of a skylight which in the situation of sun up has a conspicuous solar gain.
Distribution of isolux arranged on the ground floor: atrium, living room and kitchen. Daylight factor: 3.5%.
Distribution of isolux arranged on upstairs floor: bedroom, studio and aisle. Daylight factor: 5%.
During the winter period, with the low sun the mobile solar shading system results open to catch as much light as possible. The sunlight is conducted in depth by way of the main glazed façade which in the situation of low sun can penetrate in depth.
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