Valentina Cella Portfolio
VALENTINA CELLA birth 3-03-1991 Italian valent.cella@gmail.com +39 3334150399
EDUCATION 2005/2010
- Secondary school diploma in artistic studies
2011/2017
- Master degree in Architecture, scuola Politecnica di Genova. WORKSHOP
2014
-Barcellona workshop with IAAC WORK EXPERIENCES
2017
- realisation of a new university residence throughout the recovery of the San Bernardo Baston within the monumental complex of the Priamar of Savona.
2017
- setting of the exhibition spaces dedicated to Francesco Garolfo’s works for the event: “ What ever happened to italian architecture”; Benvenuto Lecture, Scuola Politecnica of Genova.
2017/2018
- one year work experience at NAUTA Architecture end Reserch (Rotterdam)
COPUTER SKILLS Autocad Adobe photoshop Adobe Indesign Adobe Illustrator Rhinoceros ARTISTIC SKILLS Hand-drawing Graphic Design Illustrations Digital-Drawing Model making Photography Photo Editing LANGUAGES Italian english INTERESTS & HOBBIES Photografy Draw Paint Botanic Vintage Nature Recycling Eco friendly healthy lifestyle Sport
CONTENTS
Marocco, Fez-Bab Jdid - CARPARK USA, New York State - CANAL SYSTEM Cina, Shanghai - MAX TRANSFORMER Bulgaria, Veliko Tarnovo - MASTERPLAN & NEW URBAN CENTRE Roma, Via dei Fori Imperiali - ARCHEOLOGY VERSUS INFRASTRUCTURE
FEZ-BAB JDID-CARPARK
Restricted Competition Status: THIRD PRIZE Program: Parking hub, public park and amenities Total area: 8.4 Ha Budget: 5,2M € Client: ADER Location: Fez, Morocco Design: 2017/2018 Team: NAUTA architecture & research Cabinet d’ Architecture et de Design Najiba el Alami Malt
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How can we design a parking area capable to be transformed in time, adapting to the future of urban mobility, in which cars will be banned, especially from historical contexts? How can we dignify such an important part of the urban landscape, while supplying a
necessary facility to supportTaxisthe access to the Medina and improve the local mobility? How can we design a car centered space, P4 while focusing on sustainable principles that can enhance the environmental quality of the city? P7 Cargos, triporteurs et autres moyens de transport de marchandises légers
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Based on these questions, we thought of a rational structure of parking lots as a structuring pattern for both, the design of the parking, as well as the adjacent park. The area will be very visible from the upper hill of the Medina, making it an important visual scenario from the historical center. This makes its perception very important and delicate. The typology of the Sahara camp tend is reinterpreted to create a landscape of canopies, capable to simultaneously shade the public space as well collect the rain water
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the terrace distribution of the parking lots, combined with the rain harvesting canopies, create a cascading system of collection and storage of water that can be used for gardening, maintenance and public toilet Borj sud
Fez el Bali
The site has a high landscaping value, becoming an important panoramic point from Fez el Bali and Borj South hill; it becomes important to foster its visual potential as land-art object
We structure a pattern of funnel shaped canopies, based on the use of two modules. The canopies contribute to shade the parking lots, especially during the warm seasons. At the same time, being distributed on different terraces, they articulate a sculptural landscape. The canopies, as well as the parking lots, are distributed following a color code according to each parking sector, facilitating the orientation. The tridimensional landscape is integrated to the design of the landscape: the patterns of the canopies and of the trees dissolve into each other, connecting artificial and natural landscape in a unique composition. From the upper Medina, the colorful area assumes the visual power of a land-art composition, where nature and technology create a powerful visual symbol, memory of local traditions, such as the ceramics and the leather tannery. The canopies are as well integral part of the sustainability strategy; The funnel shape contributes to canalize the rain water into underground collectors, which are connected following the inclination of the terraces. The topography helps to canalize the water to the lower site, where tanks redistribute the water to the park and use it for gardening and public toilets. The flow of water between terraces contributes as well to lower the temperature of the spaces under the canopies during warm seasons, working as a natural cooling system. Every canopy is equipped with a solar panel, capable to supply energy to the led lights illuminating the canopy; Every canopy becomes energetically autonomous, reducing maintenance costs and promoting a sustainable model to run the parking. Fez tradition of Andalusian influence is the base of the park design. Following the linearity of the parking terraces and the regular pattern of the canopies, we create a unique composition between parking and green area, echoing the Andalusian influence. The resulting composition makes nature and artifice a unique gesture, broken by the irregular geometry of the archeological ruins crossing the site. The project envisages a parking complex capable of adapting in time to the new mobility innovations. This is the key starting point to design a space that can host in time different social and commercial functions. For this reason we imagine the linear structure of the parking terraces as capable to host a market or public spaces, a sort of contemporary Medina that can extend the program of the Fes El Bal.
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Shuttle service Cargos, scooters and other means of transport of light goods
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Salle de priére Local pour Poste de sécurité + local d’ ablutions sapeurs-pompiers P 1-2-3
Canopy structure, composed of steel structure and Teflon coating
parking system P3
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Tourist bus Two-wheeled area drop off area
NEW YORK STATE- CANAL SYSTEM Program: Spatial and economic regeneration of the New York State canal system, comprised of the Erie Canal, the Oswego Canal, the Cayuga-Seneca Canal and the Champlain Canal. Size: 524-mile water network Budget: N/A Client: New York State, Canal Corporation Location: New York State, USA State of NY
Design: 2017-2018 Team: NAUTA architecture & research, ARCADIS New York As a first stage of the competition, publicly available data have been collected to gather a broad understanding existing conditions along the Canal. The collected data includes: infrastructure, existing paths and trails, harbors and ports, population, ecological networks, locations of touristic activities and energy resources. A Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats analysis (SWOT) was carried out to identify areas of opportunity. Some of the findings include an abundance of spaces for tourism and recreational activities, an initiated shift towards renewable energies and a fair national and local infrastructure. The project goals can be accomplished by building upon these strengths and opportunities, as well as mitigation or preventive actions can be undertaken by analyzing threats and weaknesses. During the implementation phase, additional information will be collected such as land use, flood risk maps, topography, surplus properties, historical sites, ecological networks, existing paths and trails. This information will be layered in an interactive map which Counties Canal System
will be used as a tool that helps in decision making. The data will be consolidated in an opportunity index along the Canal, generated upon diverse characteristics and assets along it. Specific areas of opportunity for development and project implementation will be identified and carefully evaluated through this methodology.
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mapping problems and opportunities, our analytical methodology allows us to proceed identifying focused areas of interventions, in which multiple phenomena occur simultaneously or singularly, making clear which actions could better enhance the specific local condition. This operation allows as well to control both scales, regional and local, in order to address different solutions and allocate them into proper planning instruments (whether regional or local). This process results into Macro and Micro strategies along the Canal, in order to achieve the project’s goals on long and short terms. Each strategy is described below as they relate to the project goals.
Promoting the Canal System as a tourist destination and recreational asset Bringing people to the waterfront. New ways of interacting with the river can be implemented by taking advantage of existing conditions of the Canal. Specific examples include densifying along the river edge with sustainable and well proportioned residential and commercial developments. Nature trails will be completed to allow for recreational activities along the Canal. Increasing access points to the Canal will promote its use for aquatic activities. The development of infrastructure can include parks and outdoor theaters providing spaces to interact and engage in leisure activities. The new developments and infrastructure along the river shall observe impacts to current topography, nature, flood risk, storm water redirectioning, etc. to ensure a long term project life cycle. Focus of the tourism strategy will be the careful monitoring and avoidance of negative gentrification and the promotion of a healthy commercial development based on the real resources along the canal. This implies a continuous cooperation with locals and a constant evaluation of positive and negative effects of each change, with the purpose of promoting and informing wise investments. Promoting the heritage and historic values of the Canal System Efficient decision making through community engagement. To abide by the interests of different jurisdictions administrating the same area and the combination of national, county and local governance, a participated planning process will be implemented. It will be focused on inclusive involvement and active communication on all steps. Including all governances and collaborating with historians, will allow the development projects to be aligned to the historic values, preserve and promote the heritage of the Canal System. Participated planning and inclusive design help to ease decision making, informing all political, social and commercial parties involved. It preserves transparency in the process, budget control; it enhances team work and facilitates proactivity in the implementation of smaller projects. It helps as well to reduce the governance complexity by promoting self initiated projects and low budget implementations, either for the long term or for provisionary actions. It is proved from international examples that participated design is worldwide becoming a practical tool to make things happen, avoiding bottleneck effects in decision making. Other aspect to address concerning heritage preservation, is related to the rich stock of vacant buildings along the canal, most of which presenting relevant industrial quality. This becomes an important opportunity to preserve historical values, as well as reducing building costs by retrofitting and reuse operations. The volume of this phenomena is important enough to become a real chapter of our strategic framework, because it implies as well a requalification of very decadent public spaces. Promoting the long-term financial sustainability of the Canal System and sustainable economic development along the canals and beyond Shift to a circular economy. By promoting local engagement Sport map
and employment in the cultural, tourism, agriculture, commercial markets. This strategy encourages the inclusion of the most socially fragile layer of the community, unemployed or in complex familiar situations. Promoting local employment contributes to fostering social health, wellbeing and safety. Enhance residential densification. Urbanization and densification are positive actions for a sustainable development, when density is adapted to the real local conditions. This means that, in order to pursue a sustainable development, it is necessary to spill program on the canal, as well as adding a reasonable stock of residential opportunities (living, lodging, health assistance, student residences), that can improve the human frequentation of the spaces, their social control, safety and livability. Specific areas will be identified where the natural context and the presence of human settlements coexist in a healthy balance. (It means that keeping communities too small is not sustainable for a long term development. It is proved that all world populations are attracted by metropolitan areas, for all the opportunities that they offer, for work, culture and lifestyle. This means that promoting a rural model is a failure and that in order to promote a sustainable long term realistic economic development of the region, it is necessary to transform the current fragile pattern of shrinking centers into a constellation of micro cities, possibly complementary in economic specialty. This is associated with a sustainable mobility system that allows those cities to work as a metropolitan network. This concept is quite wide and complex, I am aware of that, but it is key to solve any contemporary urban development. Therefore we need to explain this with practical reference to the actions to promote it, such as the addition of new inhabitants and work opportunities that can bring a reasonable demographic volume for a long term economic success and avoid possible future migrations). Enhance sustainable mobility Complete the network of all mobility layers by adding a soft layer of sustainable mobility (bikes, walking paths, electric mobility, bus or shuttle etc.). Integrated to this, implement a sustainable temporary strategy for parking areas/buildings, leading to the progressive elimination of cars and switch to a TOD (traffic oriented development) on the long term. Parking facilities will be progressively transformed to new uses. Promote the culture of waste recycling in all scales and forms. Waste is proved not only to enhance the culture of environmental preservation (global warming fight and all related matters) but most importantly to activate an upcycle of economic development that can generate new entrepreneurial opportunities and technological innovations. It is a true opportunity for economic differentiation and growth. (Waste is not only meant anymore in the conventional cycle of lower use – from paper to toilet paper for example- but in a new cycle that generates higher quality products. Think for instance about the Nike shoes produced with plastic bags found in the ocean and similar cases. This is a true future economic field of investment and leadership.
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MACRO STRATEGIES
PROMOTE LOCAL ENGAGEMENT AND EMPLOYMENT In the cultural, tourism, agriculture, commercial markets. This strategy is willing to encourage the inclusion of the most fragile layer of the community, unemployed or in problematic situations. Promoting local employment contributes to foster the social health, fight crime and illegality, educates to gender equality. This is one of the main actions to activate a real effective shift to circular economy
PLAN CROSS GENERATIONAL COMMUNITIES In light of the extention of life expectancy, it is desirable to include the extended elderly generations into the living/tourism/cultural program. Furtheremore, it is already proved as successful the possibility to integrate young generations with the oldest, into a reciprocal teaching/help process ( for example the combination of student housing with elderly houses). Retired members of the community are as well the most reliable source of low seasonal tourism process, helping to foster the sector through the whole year. EFFICIENT DECISION MAKING THROUGH PARTICIPATED DESIGN To solve the problem of different jurisdictions administrating the same area and the combination of national, county and local governance, it’s important to propose a participated planning process, focused on inclusive involvement and active communication on all levels and through all planning steps. Once approved the major framework steps, the further local implementation ones would as well follow a local participated process that could facilitate the participation of the community (local associations, neighborhood associations, etc), aiming at facilitating as well local initiatives for low budget funding and project implementations.
MISSING LINK MOBILITY Complete the network of all mobility layers by adding a layer of light sustainable mobility ( bikes, walking paths, electric mobility, bus or shuttle, etc). This would provide solutions for a new sustainable mobility strategy. Integrated to this, we propose a temporary strategy for parking areas/buildings, that can bring to the progressive elimination of cars from the mobility list and a switch to TOD (traffic oriented development). This implies progressive replacement of parkings, reusing their dedicated areas for other purposes. EFFICIENT DECISION MAKING THROUGH PARTICIPATED DESIGN To solve the problem of different jurisdictions administrating the same area and the combination of national, county and local governance, it’s important to propose a participated planning process, focused on inclusive involvement and active communication on all levels and through all planning steps. Once approved the major framework steps, the further local implementation ones would as well follow a local participated process that could facilitate the participation of the community (local associations, neighborhood associations, etc), aiming at facilitating as well local initiatives for low budget funding and project implementations. IDENTITY FRAMEWORK Unique communication framework (Branding strategy) on the regional level, that can be implemented autonomously by every county. Aim of the strategy would be promoting uniqueness of local identities within a ‘ National identity’. The strategy would provide freedom from a too rigid centrified governance, in order to facilitate easy and fast implementable projects
MICRO STRATEGIES Ket project area
ECONOMY DEACAY AND VACANCY
WATER QUALITY AND FLOADING
TURISM AND SERVICES
INFRASTRUCTURE AND GREEN
1 Buffalo
5 Cayuga Lake
9 Macedon
13 Great Embankment Park
2 Rochester,
6 Onondaga lake park
10 Warkins glen
14 Port Byron
3 Seneca Falls
7 Syracuse
11 Baldwinsville
15 Herkimer home
4 Amsterdam
8 Verona beach state park
12 Lock 19
16 Waterfort
Economy and vacancy
Tourism and services
Water manager
Infrastructure and green
SHANGHAI – MAX TRANSFORMER
ELAB Future Living Prototype Space Status: Delivered patent, design development Program: Flexible housing units for urban dwellers in China Total area: Type A – 97 sqm + 50 sqm terrace; Type B – 77 sqm + 14 sqm terrace Client: Shanghai Ding Zhuo Network Technology Co. Location: Shanghai, Beijing, Chongqing. China Design: 2017/2018 Team: NAUTA architecture & research: Valentina Cella, Anastasia Celli, Maurizio Scarciglia, Francesca Vanelli,Tianyi Xue, Nur Zayat Watch me: https://vimeo.com/271650915
Type A +Type B
TYPE A The Max Transformer Cities are becoming very big. Thy are so enormous that living in a metropolis means today living in a constellation of cities, where we might live in one and work in another, basing our lifestyle on traditional commuting patterns. Cities are a good invention, many say. They bring together smart minds, they boost the economic power of a region, they generate opportunities. Cities cluster immense numbers of people in one single spot, emptying the countryside from its human power and micro economy. Nevertheless, everybody is attracted to the city and all trends predict massive growth in urban population, with an exponent need for sustainable housing, for new complex and extended family patterns. Nowadays spend the biggest chuck of our existence in between production and consumption activities. We wake up in the morning and move to our office where we spend almost the whole day, till the time we grab some grocery and go back home to spend the few left hours of the day with our beloved ones. This lifestyle has generated a vast opinion on the need to reduce our housing to minimum space, where we can satisfy the essential needs of privacy and rest, while externalizing all social activities outside, in a square, a bar, a restaurant, a club. Cities like Tokyo or Hong Kong are the perfect example of this lifestyle. Because of the insane costs for housing, here people can live into units as small as 15sqm, spending most of their time outside and reducing their belongings to the very essential.
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These housing models offer very little space to kitchen and living, making sure that the inhabitants have the truly essential base for living: a shelter to rest and sleep. When looking at the latest trends though, we discover a multitude of lifestyles blossoming in our society. The evolution of the employment market, the switch from traditional long term employment to a more dynamic work environment, according to which youngsters are very encouraged to embrace entrepreneurial activities or multiple employment, consultancy and freelancing, are all factors that will deeply transform how we live. It is not new the possibility to combine living and working in the same place, extending the brief of the architect when designing a house. Remote working and easy web communication make even more sustainable working at home, since people can drastically cut commuting time and maximize their time working and living in one place. This model brings as well the benefit of reinforcing so far threatened familiar relationships; it improves the quality of life of people otherwise forced to spend hours in public transport every
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day, while cutting the number of cars moving in our cities, thus reducing pollution. So what will the future of urban dwelling look like? Will it shrink to minimum size living, or will it host all necessary spaces that a human being needs during the day? Will it externalize social activities or embed work and entertainment in one single place? Perhaps the answer to this doubt will translate in a system capable to absorb different wishes and therefore the housing market will gradually offer the flexibility to customize every dwelling according to the specific needs of its inhabitants. From hyper fragmented dwellings we move to loft models, where the wishes of the buyer can potentially customize the same units into very different solutions. How to accommodate this flexibility, how to make it technologically smart, economically sustainable, are design tasks for the coming future. One more issue to consider is the multi-functionality of the residential clusters, in order to offer all necessary amenities to the local inhabitants.
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These functions space from office spaces to retail and entertainment facilities, such as shops, restaurants, gym, spa, as well as cultural venues, transforming the new real estate developments into complex leasable machines. The multifunctional developments can benefit from the flexible program, in order to absorb possible shifts of market and therefore become buffers for the developers’ investments. The mix of functions cuts as well on distances, favouring the sustainable mobility in the city. In this perspective, mixed use developments, combined with housing, are to be incentivized.
– Climate change and the impact of fossil fuel will affect tremendously new lifestyles, drove by the urgency for new sustainable forms of transportation and mobility. – The virtual world will blur the strict separation between working and living spaces, improving remote working. – Dynamic lifestyles will transform the concept of property, favouring the concepts of ‘sharing’ and ‘temporary’. Emblematic is the case of Airbnb, Uber, Couch Surfing, apps that support the modern nomadic lifestyle. – Housing prices in the city centres are growing exponentially worldwide. This will either bring to the exclusivity of city centres, accessible only to high social classes, or to the shrink of housing size. In light of this, the new housing will bring to compact developments of micro apartments, developed within multifunctional clusters, micro cities within the metropolitan magma.
We could summarize the key arguments driving the future urban dwelling as being: – exponential growth of urban population, which will increase the need of housing stock – the transformation of familiar patterns, with a growing number of families composed by one or two persons.
Suspended floor This project is an exploration on flexibility, based of the internal height of the apartment. The requested prototype should have an internal height of 3.0 m. This makes us think that, beside working on traditional sliding walls, we could take advantage of extra space located under an added floating floor. We provide the dwelling with a suspended, partially movable floor, that in its normal position is lifted 60 cm from the actual structural floor, reducing the standard internal height to 2.40m . When the portions of movable floor are lowered, the dwelling presents internal pits, reaching 3.0 m height. The hollow space below the suspended floor accommodates beds, couches, chairs, provided with wheels for their easy manual sliding. This system offers the the maximal flexibility when the floor is lifted and all furniture are stored underground. We propose three pits that can be used as 3 bedrooms or 2 bedrooms and one living room. In order to divide the spaces into private rooms, we engineered a system of sliding/rotating closets that can parcel the spaces, while lodging closets, TV, as well as the necessary sound proof partitions between rooms. To materialize the prototype the market offers sophisticated hydraulic movable systems, as well as simple pulling-ropes systems, adapting to the different budgets from the investors purchasing the patent. Combined with a completely foldable glass faรงade, the plan allows the maximal flexibility of the apartment, offering an internal open space of approximately 80 sqm. This can additionally be summed to the terrace, reaching a total open space of approximately 130 sqm. Our goal is to offer the possibility to have simultaneously the maximal open space, as well as a normal 3 rooms apartment with kitchen and two bathrooms. Kitchen and bathrooms are packed on one side of the apartment, providing space for all movable furniture in a unique efficient block.
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main bathroom with natural ventilation kitchen, inclusive of refrigerator, dish washer lodging for washing machine movable cabinet, used as working surface when combined with the kitchen and mini bar when moved in the living area TV and home theatre closet desk
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MASTERPLAN NEW URBAN CENTRE MASTERPLAN NEW URBAN CENTRE
EXPOSITION CENTER
Program: multifunctional
Program: cultural building with 6 events/ exhibition halls, flexible to be combines into one auditorium of 1200 seats.
Total NUC area: 18,9 Ha Total built area: 146274 m2
Total Floor Area: 9674 m2 (excluding underground parking);
Client: Municipality of Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria Location: Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria The proposal for the new city center of Veliko Tarnovo finds its foundations on a balanced density, proportioned to the existing city center. By analyzing the center of the city and the surrounding districts, Veliko presents the urban fabric of a medium size town, which does have the ambition to find a role in the national and international market but that preserves its authenticity in a powerful relationship with nature and history. The plan is based on the application of sustainable forms of energy, smart mobility, resources saving and circular economy. Veliko will be too a pioneer city in fighting climate change, preserving the environment for its own community.
MIXED FUNCTIONS
The masterplan is characterized by an homogeneous mixed use distribution, with a vast use of vertical mixed functions. This strategy
wills to facilitate the human frequentation of the public space all the time, fighting periodic building vacancy. It increases the participation of private and public stakeholders in the development of the different blocks. The districts are designed with a functional predominance, from north to south, from administrative-commercial to residentialcommercial, till the southern cluster dedicated to the hotel wellness center. The residential stock is distributed in every district, adapting typologies: in the north, lofts and apartments will fit the work commercial environment. In the south terrace apartments and family houses will define a living district with a more domestic character. The abundance of green-permeable areas improves the bioclimatic performance of the masterplan and facilitates rain water collection and discharge. The use of water collectors and wind corridors contributes to fight the Urban Heat Island effect.
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DENSITY When comparing the maximal density allowed by the brief (FAR 3) and the maximal m2 allowed, with the requested built up area, we believe that such a density would not be appropriate for a city like Veliko. Aware of the needs for new services and functions to support the whole city, we propose a FAR of 1.9, giving maximal precedence to residential and productive functions. We believe that a city, to be sustainable on the long term, needs primarily enough residents, who will guarantee its economic growth and stable wealth. This is why we propose to realize the maximal residential and administrative program, rebalancing the other functions to achieve a lower density.
GREEN AND BLUE STRATEGY
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Beside preserving the existing buffer green along the river, we propose to create a network of green and open spaces that crosses the whole masterplan and that allows every district to benefit of a constant relationship with nature. The connection with the surrounding green system (including the Marno Pole) is granted by boulevards, alleys, gardens and parks. The almost 70% of permeable surface is achieved by the extensive use of green roofs, that together with the public green will grant optimal climatic conditions throughout the year. Sun energy and rain water storages will contribute to enhance the sustainable performance of the district.
SUSTAINABLE MOBILITY The masterplan provides enough underground parking areas to cover the need for local workers, tourists and residents. This is achieved by splitting the parking system on a peripheral network that will work as transfer hub, forcing everybody (including residents) to leave their car before accessing the very core of the masterplan. This leaves the vehicles traffic within the central area only reserved to logistics and emergency, making the heart of the city center focused on pedestrians and bicycles. We envisage a system that can easily absorb the future innovations in the fields of sustainable urban mobility.
Transport and sustainable mobility system PHASING The development is articulated is such a way that every phase of realization can offer functions and interventions useful to activate the area since the beginning. This means that every phase offers a mix of functions that wills to make each realized portion autonomous from the rest of the masterplan. Given the fact that the functional distribution in the proposal is quite homogeneous, the masterplan will never suffer mono-functionality, thus allowing the frequentation of the realized public spaces at all times. The administrative district (including its residential stock) will start up the process, favoring the private-public participation. Similarly, every phase is inclusive of green and public space portions, as well as commercial and leisure activities.
BUILDING FUNCTIONS: A- Administrative R- Resitential C- commercial/bar/restaurants E- educational S- sports U- culture MIXED USE BUILDINGS (see detailed design) M0- commercial, administration M1- Residential, sports, commercial M2- commercial, residential M3- commercial, cultural, educational M4- commercial, residential M5- commercial, residential M6- commercial, residential, sports, educational
SPECIAL BUILDINGS: B1- Hotel B2- Spa- Wellness center B3- National military history archives B4- New Military museum B5- Tourist and Youth art center B6- Sports club B7- Hostel B8-Library and school B9- Hotel B10- Museum of History of photography B11- Former flour factory Belyanka – incubator and art center B12- school-cultural centre B13- The general Arch B14- building 5 of VTU B15- district administration B16- Administrative Court B17- New exposition Center B18- Pedestrian connection to train station B19- Cultural tower
PUBLIC SPACES: ps1- Hotel/welness center water square ps2- Culture, sports, events park ps3- Flour factory Betyanka square ps4- Periodical market boulevard ps5- Administrative district commercial square ps6- Retail square ps7-Administrative residential square ps8- Administrative Court gardens ps9- Linear park, entrance to Exposition Centre ps10- Platform to river ps11- Arrivals from the city center ps12- semi public squares ps13- Arrival from Marno Pole park ps14- Public roof garden
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Market Boulevard The axis connecting the north to the south of the plan is designed as a wide green boulevard, capable to host a market. By closing the street to the car traffic, it becomes periodically a completely pedestrian market area. This functional flexibility is achieved through the use of permanent and removable stalls that can host market points, playgrounds, sports equipment, exhibitions. The strategy wills to maximize the street for public use, anticipating future scenarios of total removal of car traffic from the city centre.
Administrative district square This very active portion of the masterplan is animated by a lively commercial square that, with coffee shops and restaurants.
Hotel wellness center water square Covering an underground parking area for the hotel district, the square is animated by water games and a minimalist design
Culture, sports, events park. This public square lies on a topographic depression of the site. In order to preserve the existing topography and make the best use of it, we propose to make the lowest part of the square Floodable during extreme rain events. The water can be stored and discharged at the use of the park or the community as needed.
Culture, sports, events park This public space collects the main public buildings within the masterplan, as well as sports facilities and a huge open square, suitable for all kinds of events and activities. During the week it is at the use of the surrounding educational facilities, making it always alive and used by the young community.
Flour factory Batyanka square
The Batyanka factory is refurbished and reused as incubator and art center. The ground f loor is connected with the network of shops, restaurants and bars, animating the whole masterplan. The space around the factory is thus redesigned as public square.
BUILDING TYPS
Commercial gf, 1f occupied by gym on north side and a nursery to south; residential top with collective upper terrace
Hotel and wellness centre
Commercial gf, two levels of gym, residential on top
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Commercial gf, upper cultural and educational program
Commercial gf, communal 1f with open terrace, residential on top
Commercial plinth, administrative funtions on top, collective terraces for internal canteen
Commercial gf, residential with collective terraces for every level
THE EXPO-CENTRE The area designated for the Expo Centre is very limited, making necessary to compose the building as a compact and efficient machine. The terrain slope between south and north side of the plot, requires attention on how to solve technically and functionally the site depression. For this reason we imagine a centric system in which the main hall becomes the starting point of the Floor plan. The T shaped halls host spaces for different performances and events: a cinema, a black box/podium, a theatre with possible orchestra pit, an auditorium and 2 exhibition halls. All these spaces can benefit of the site height difference, being supported by a lower efficient system of logistic and parking areas. In fact, the lower levels provide a dedicated logistic entrance from east, the access to the basement of the podium/stage, as well as all support and technical
Building flexibility
spaces below the theatres, making the centralized position of the podium accessible from every side. A system of sliding walls allows the partial or unified use of the spaces, transforming the center into a forum capable to host up to a maximum of 1725 seats (when even exhibition halls are integrated to the auditoria), 1220 seats with the three auditoria united, as well as 6 separate rooms. The center can thus host concerts, musicals, theatre pieces, cinema, music events, fashion catwalks, commercial fairs. The terrain slope allows to concentrate 3 underground parking levels with a total 210 parking places only within the building boundary. For this reason we free the north side of the building from additional parking use, maximizing the green surface and giving back this public space to the adjacent north district.
STEEL STRUCTURE supporting the lighting and sound system for the lower open air theatre, as well as supporting the sky terrace. The lower square hosts an audience suitable for rock and pop concerts, as well as theatre pieces and open air cinema
Sky terrace
Semicovered open air square theatre
Cinema lobby entrance
Main lobby entrance
IN OUT
Public parking Retractile walls guarantee maximal flexibility to achieve open configuration for 1220 seats forum Cinema lobby entrance Logistics
-1 Level -3,70 m
-2 Level -7,20 m
GF Level 0,00 m
+1 Level +6,00 m
+2 Level +8,77 m
+3 Level +12,00 m
+4 Level +15,00 m
+5 Level +18.10 m
ARCHEOLOGY VERSUS INFRASTRUCTURE Program: Degree thesis aimed embracing the present by involving rhe past Location: Roma, Fori Imperiali Design: 2017 Team: Valentina Cella, Giorgia Less This thesis is an in-depth study of a study conducted for participation in the Piranesi Prix de Rome competition, under the supervision of architect Carmen Andriani and the architecture faculty of Genoa
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( http://ordine.architettiroma.it/ultime-notizie/vincitori-piranesi-prix-de-rome-2016/ ) Via dei Fori Imperiali, as a “bipolar linear road”, reveals a dual nature: in fact. The segment between Piazza Venezia and the intersection with Via Cavour, as a result of the excavations and subtractive actions from the second half of the XX century,reveals itself as a rising viaduct; in contrast, the second section, that runs from Via Cavour to the Coliseum, resembles the cut in the trenches of the ancient Hill of Velia. The project chooses to take into account the transition that is revealed by cutting the stratification, in order to reach the final goal: a drop towards the hypogeal level. Once more, this is the field for the conflict between archaeology and infrastructure, history and geology on the one hand, the void produced by the metro line on the other. Memory versus oblivion. The project, understood as “interpretation, translation and narrative”, aims at turning the whole area in an outdoor museum,
whilst rearranging the whole archaeological system on one level, and redesigning Via dei Fori Imperiali road-cut. The key actions for the achievement of the vision are several: the articulation of the current roadway section in different areas, that are autonomous longitudinal linear systems, connected with each other from time to time; the minimisation of the existing two-ways section of road accessible to vehicles, from the Trajan Forum to the intersection with Via Cavour; the intensification and ramification of cycling and pedestrian paths; the creation of pedestrian ramps to connect the different levels between road and archaeological site; the landscape design, as an equally valuable element for both architecture and archaeology, coherently with the general criteria of the green system at territorial scale: the modelled terrain should ensure the presence of usable area to sit, stop and enjoy the view over the site and Rome.
Foro di Cesare Foro di Augusto Tempio della Pace Foro di Nerva Foro di Traiano
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THE NATURE OF THE PROJECT
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The aim of the project is to partially and temporarily cover specific points of the Archaeological Area, in view of the new excavation campaigns or in situ works that have already been mentioned. A mild coverage system acts as a provisional shelter without compromising the status and features of the archaeological evidence, following the inconclusive course of the excavations and distributing a diaphanous light of different intensity on the covered parts. The coverage is part of a modular system of steel frames which can vary in configuration, sustained by a point system of supports: the same system also supports a weave of intermediate decks used as walkways, also variable for a targeted flow of visitors. The essential and metallic structures are the result of a technology that exploits and implements the temporary scaffolding, modifiable and reversible by nature, and also aims at suggesting criteria of design behavior, as basic linguistic elements define different ways of association and result. A fundamental part of the project is the development of an abacus of structural and functional elements, indicating the technology, the assembly, and the configuration with variable structures. The aim of this study is therefore to design a structure able to adapt to different conditions and contexts, serving as infrastructure able to reconnect the past with the present, reconnecting the visitability with the suggestion of the place, and placing all archaeological areas of the Roman territory under a single architectural language. CASE STUDY_FORUM OF NERVA In order to study in detail a structure able to fulfill the tasks just discussed - non invasive compared to a historically characterized soil, lightweight and therefore easily removable as well as reversible in a controlled and flexible manner compared to the specific area - the case study of the area of the Forum of Nerva was chosen, considering the perimeter of the old forensic system as the project outline. The area of the Forum of Nerva is a site particularly dense with history: its second name, “Transitory Forum” suggests its original connective character, its intrinsic function of connection between the popular district and the forum, before and after the imperial phase. The historical phases, reconstructed from the patient work of archaeologists, describe the transformations not only of the site in question but also of the adjacent forums and, in general, of the appearance of the Central Archaeological Area. After the construction of the Via dei Fori Imperiali, its position is crucial even today as it is located, together with the Templum Pacis, coinciding with the modern intersection between Via dei Fori Imperiali, Via Alessandrina and Via Cavour: the central part of the Forum of Nerva is, therefore, today obliterated under the Via dei Fori Imperiali and Via Alessandrina in the exact point of their intersection. Furthermore, it is also located in the exact point where the main road axis changes its “nature”, as Piazza Venezia to Via Cavour is built as a viaduct, while from Via Cavour to the Colosseum it appears as a trench excavation due to the demolition operations of the ancient hill of the Velia. As a result, the Forum of Nerva presents some particularities from the historical, topographical and geographical points of view: the project wants to integrate itself in the particular story of this site, highlighting the noteworthy portions, and using it as a case study to verify the feasibility and utility also for all areas and sites of the Roman territory, in order to acquire guidelines for a design proposal that aims to protect and enhance the archaeological areas of the Roman territory.
LOAD ANALYSIS Buildability in an area subject to archaeological restrictions.
1_permanent loads
2_covering with warping transversal 2 kg/m 3_covering with warping longitudinal 2 kg/m
4_module cover
187 Kg each
5_ORSOGRIL grating 50 kg / m
6_module walkways 187 Kg each
7_pillar
The archaeological constraint placed on an area does not entail the absolute inedability, but the obligation to verify, by the Administration in charge, the compatibility of the building intervention with the reasons of protection. The question of the foundation in the archaeological area represents a challenge from a design and technological point of view. During the provisional phase, a comparative analysis was carried out of different types of foundations in order to recreate the favorable and unfavorable points in relation to: - invasiveness towards the ground: the analysis of the topographic documentation and of the available reliefs shows both the emerging archaeological evidence, and the hypothetical layout of the archaeological evidences not in sight, delimiting in a preliminary phase the potentially buildable area; - resistance to stresses in relation to dimensions: the total load capacity (permanent loads and accidental loads) represents an additional discriminating element, as it directly affects the dimensioning of the foundation and therefore on the invasive index. - use for archaeological purposes: in relation to the necessary foundation intervention, we consider a reuse of the excavation produced for cognitive purposes (study and cataloging of stratigraphic deposits)
120 kg each
Plinth foundations _ compact crowd: 400 kg / m _earthquake _snow: 92 kg /m
_wind: upwind 95 kg / m downwind 45kg / m
invasiveness resistance to stress utility for archaeological purposes
Screw foundations invasiveness resistance to stress utility for archaeological purposes
Foundations in Gewi piles invasiveness resistance to stress utility for archaeological purposes
path to archaeological altitude
path at the footbridge level
ABACUS OF THE ELEMENTS
1_box computer
2_beam Virendeel
3_grid ORSOGRILL
4_railing
5_ transverse covering
6_ longitudinal cover
7_Module
8_submodule
9_ supporting pillar
10_ no supporting pillar
11_ no supporting pillar
12_supporting pillar
13_beam Irrigation
14_star Irrigation
15_these exhibits
16_outdistance
17_ join
18_join to 3
19_join to 2
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PARAMETRIC As a result, the Forum of Nerva presents some particularities from the historical, topographical and geographical points of view: the project wants to integrate itself in the particular story of this site, highlighting the noteworthy portions, and using it as a case study to verify the feasibility and utility also for all areas and sites of the Roman territory, in order to acquire guidelines for a design proposal that aims to protect and enhance the archaeological areas of the Roman territory.The grid is the general system that guides the project. The grid is an infra-structural device able to relate heterogeneous historical and material contexts, to combine the visitability with the archaeological survey, to create a single structural language in a vast area, marked by decades of fragmentation in terms of managing the site.The potentials of this system have already been listed: reversible controllable limited invasiveness lightweight adaptive and parametric modular These values translate into a project. LIMITED INVASIVENESS the problem of foundations is linked to the characterization of the soil. We choose to favor pole or screw foundations because they allow limited impact on the surface, exploit the friction of the ground and do not exceed 2 meters of depth; moreover, they are not very heavy and are REVERSIBLE, ensuring CONTROL of the operation and a good degree of reuse for archaeological, educational and scientific purposes. Both foundation types must, of course, be verified with in-depth geotechnical and geognostic surveys. LIGHTWEIGHT in order to facilitate the disassembly process of the structure and to adapt it to new configurations, simple and light elements are preferred, opting for a bolted joint system so to avoid onerous and complex welding operations on site. In the preliminary phase, this system allows, with just a few elements, to obtain a first structural configuration of considerable size. MODULAR standard measures 4.80 x 2.40 meters establish a module that create a grid: a unique element in S355 JR steel, composed of welded UPN 120 beams. This element is designed to bolt onto the pillars through a system of pre-welded plates. The same module is used both as a support system for the walkways and for the roofing, allowing different solutions for the railings and sun breakers by means of a perforated plank placed in the gap between the modules. The bolted connection to the structure takes place through appropriate metal spacers positioned along the core of the UPN elements that make up the module, which connect at the same time to the perforated plank. The module is therefore connected by means of bolting with four pillars made of S355 JR stell, measuring 6.50 m in height, with a square hollow section of 120 x 120 mm. A plate system is welded to the pillars which, as previously indicated, allows the bolted connection with the module.
we must also consider the complex aspect linked to the position of the pillars: it is not always possible to obtain a regular layout due to the impracticability of the ground, therefore some modules are not supported on the four sides, creating many difficulties from a structural point of view. Therefore, the layout of the structure in the area has been dealt with from a parametric point of view: firstly, the “untouchable” areas with respect to the possibility of foundation were delimited, and we proceeded with positioning the pillars to fit with the new design; later it was possible to recalculate a planimetric arrangement to different possible configurations of development of the walkways with respect to a higher “availability” of pillars. From a structural point of view, two possible parallel solutions were developed to tackle this problem: on one hand, a girder beam, supported by a central pillar, was welded at the center of the starting module; the second possibility consists in the installation at critical points of a Vierendeel truss with two parallel ties and perpendicular struts to the rigidly connected structure, which has a dual static function: on one side cover long distances without the need for intermediate supports (thus carrying the static task of a reticular beam with triangular links), and on the other side acting as bracing and stiffening for the structure. To optimize this task, we choose to place the Vierendeel beam in the points where the structure tends more to produce angular sliding, therefore coinciding with the walkways and, in the absence of these, coinciding with the covering modules. These solutions have been verified in the provisional phase and certainly require more accurate investigations. ADAPTIVE the structure of the walkways is organized following two factors: the highest availability of pillars and the findings obtained on the archaeological soil. In this configuration, the path is established on the basis of the possibility of setting foundations and of the fragments of value, which are displayed in suspension cases, in contact with the surroundings in which they were found, which act as valuable references of information about the context. For example, in the Forum of Nerva, the finding of a keystone depicting Erote in the Domitian foundation, next to the Templum Pacis, is a sign of the existence of one or more porticoes on the eastern front of the first Vespasian project. The itinerary of the walkway wants to capture the opportunities of this story. A slipresistant metallic grid of 40 x 20 mm was chosen for these antique fragments, as it allows a safe transit of visitors and formal transparency. The railings that accompany the entire path of the walkways consist of an essential bundle of tubes welded to metal uprighted struts screwed to the perforated plank. The coverage also follows its own horizontal or vertical arrangement logic, playing on the degree of variability of the light: in correspondence with specific points, usually coinciding with the points in which the display cases are suspended over other artifacts, therefore for visitors, there is an overlap of metallic drapery that creates greater shading, while the itinerary normally is distinguished by the presence of a single row of sheets made of metallic fabrics formed by a weft of thin stainless steel wires that allow partial screening of specific points of the walkway and the site in general, creating plays of lights and shadows of varying intensity depending on the warping and overlapping while still being essential, transparent and chromatically neutral. Thin rods are screwed to the planks constituting the coverage, which are then used to set up the hanging cases with the artifacts, special containers that slide along the tracks of the upright struts. The choice of simple elements, as lightweight and cheap as possible, is linked to a framework that takes into account not only the Forum of Nerva and the Central Archaeological Area but also all areas and archaeological sites in the Roman territory.
Tipologie di combinazione degli elementi SUM OF THE ELEMENTS
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Schema di assemblaggio
ASSEMBLY SCHEME
Transversal coverage (5) Longitudinal coverage (6) Module (7) Perforated bar (13) Coupling (21)
Grilled (3)
Pilot (9)
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Disposizione dei pilastri
Foro di Nerva_ Nuovi percorsi
quota archeologica +16,05 m slm scala 1:200
pillar layout, height +16 m msl
Disposizione de +18,95 m slm
catwalk layout, height +18 m msl
ella passerella scala 1:200
Disposizione della copertura
Possibili configurazioni future della passerella
+21,85 m slm scala 1:200
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coverage layout, height +22 m msl
longitudinal section
cross section
Sezione Trasversa scala
ale -vista Colosseo a 1:200
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