Valentina ciccotosto Portfolio by Valentina Ciccotosto

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Valentina Ciccotosto

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CURRICULUM RESEARCH WORKS

De Terminus. Infratructural nodes: the building complex (2016-17) Room(s). Dwelling Valle Borghesiana (2015) Project Walls. Inhabiting the border between U.S.A. and Mexico (2014)

DESIGN COMPETITIONS

quattroquarti. A new concept for a food point (2017) [THE M!ND’S BOX] A new school of arts (early 2017) Autogenous. A passive transformation device for alternative sport facilities (late 2016) Behind the Wall. Spaces for creative minds (early 2016)

NAME

Valentina Ciccotosto (Italy)

BIRTH

01|01|1989

CONTACT

Microbeach. Electronic Structure of the Seaside (2015)

SELECTED ACADEMIC WORKS

E: valentina.ciccotosto@gmail.com A(it): via celeste 267, Sant’Elpidio a Mare A (nl): Julianalaan 23, Delft T: (ita) +39 3289635223 (nl) +31 6 82 61 56 14 Skype: valentina-ciccotosto

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C.A.C.G. Center for the Contemporary Arts Gresleri (2011)

JOB HISTORY

GUEST RESEARCHER | TU Delft, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Netherlands Nov 2015 - on going FREELANCE ARCHITECT Sept 2016 - on going (DROM -Rotterdam- March 2017) TEACHING ASSISTANT | TU Delft, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Netherlands Apr 2017 - July 2017, MSc2 Architecture & Urban Design _ Prof. Roberto Cavallo TEACHING ASSISTANT | TU Delft, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Netherlands Apr 2016 - July 2016, MSc2 Architecture & Urban Design _ Prof. Roberto Cavallo TEACHING ASSISTANT | School of Architecture and Design, “E. Vittoria” (UNICAM), Italy March 2015 - July 2015, Laboratorio di Fondamenti della Progettazione _ Prof. Gabriele Mastrigli PROJECT TRAINEE | COOLSTOODIO associati, Italy March 2015 - Jun 2015 Entitled to pursue the Profession of Architect Jan 2015 TEACHING ASSISTANT | School of Architecture and Design, “E. Vittoria” (UNICAM), Italy March 2014 - July 2014, Laboratorio di Fondamenti della Progettazione _ Prof. Gabriele Mastrigli TEACHING ASSISTANT | School of Architecture and Design, “E. Vittoria” (UNICAM), Italy March 2013 - July 2013, Laboratorio di Fondamenti della Progettazione _ Prof. Gabriele Mastrigli PROJECT TRAINEE | COOLSTOODIO associati, Italy July 2011 - Sept 2011, Redevelopment of the water tower of Sant ‘Elpidio a Mare

EDUCATION

School of Architecture and Design, “E. Vittoria” (UNICAM), Ascoli Piceno, Italy Oct 2011 – July 2014, Master in Architecture, 110 cum Laude California Polytechnic State University (CalPoly), San Luis Obispo, California, United States Sept 2013 - Jan 2014, Thesis research School of Architecture and Design, “E. Vittoria” (UNICAM), Ascoli Piceno, Italy Oct 2008 – Dec 2011, Bachelor of Science of Architecture, 110 cum Laude

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

The Highway and The City (TU Delft Team) April 2016 - February 2017 ROMA 20-25 New life cycles for the METROPOLIS (PRIN Re-cycle Research Team) Jan 2015 - Dec 2015

PUBLICATIONS

Snelweg x Stad / Highway x City _ BNA Onderzoek / Public Space Publications Feb 2017 Room(s) _ Humboldt Dec 2015

EXTRA CURRICULA ACTIVITIES

ATHENS Programme _ The Highway and the city (as tutor), TU Delft Facutly of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft (Netherlands), March 2016 ATHENS Programme _ Readings - Extra Moenia (as tutor), TU Delft Facutly of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft (Netherlands), March 2016 ATHENS Programme _ Readings - Extra Moenia (as tutor), TU Delft Facutly of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft (Netherlands), Nov 2015 Workshop INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL of ARCHITECTURE SCHOOLS, Loutraki (Greece), May 2013 - June 2013 Workshop PUBLICITY with Ohio State University, Ascoli Piceno (Italy), April 2011 Workshop URBAN PROMO, Venice (Italy), Oct 2010

HONOURS AND AWARDS

Finalist project periferica project _ 10m2 micro-architecture competition: The Food Point Finalist project Non architecture competitions _ Training - Alternative Designs for port facilities, Dec 2016 Special Mention Demanio Marittimo km 278 Competition 2012 _ International Call for Projects for the Design of the Temporary Space, July 2012 1st prize in the photo contest ELLEdiCI2010.jpeg and publication in the book Technology and environmental regeneration of residential industrializzata_Imparare from Selva Cafaro, March 2012 Personal photography exhibition, MayDay, Sant ‘Elpidio a Mare, Italy, May 2011 1st prize UrbanPromo Competition, Oct 2010 Personal photography exhibition, MayDay, Sant ‘Elpidio a Mare, Italy, May 2010

SKILLS

Photoshop

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Illustrator

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InDesign

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Sketchup

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Autocad

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Italian

mother language

English

fluent

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Office

REFERENCES

LANGUAGES

KeyShot

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Artlantis

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Blender

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3dStudio Max

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Tartuferi Andrea (Coolstoodio) Mastrigli Gabriele (Unicam)

info@coolstoodio.it

Cavallo Roberto (TU Delft)

R.Cavallo@tudelft.nl

gabriele.mastrigli@unicam.it

Ciorra Giuseppe (Unicam)

giuseppe.ciorra@unicam.it

Jonathan Reich (Cal Poly)

jreich@calpoly.edu

De Terminus Infrastructural nodes: the building complex

Nowadays, the issue of how to solve the

Supervisor: prof. Roberto Cavallo Research Team: Valentina Ciccotosto, Manuela Triggianese The Highway and The City - Snelweg xen Stad byBNA

infrastructural nodes in the contemporary city is becoming more relevant and hard to ignore. In fact, if it is true that at the evolution of technology and at the introduction of new transport vehicles (such as electric trains, driverless cars etc.) correspond the change of the highways, then the urban device, intended as an intermodal hub, has to change to adapt itself to the new conditions, otherwise it becomes useless and obsolete. To explain as best as possible the trend of this evolution and the strict relationship between the elements of the highway, the mobility and the building, a complex timeline has been designed to collect all

the paradigms, with the aims to be a theoretical tool for the design of the future architectural interchange models. The timeline contains the mapping of a large group of case studies organized by different categories: from the beginning of the XX century to 2020, the chosen paradigms are divided in relevant publications, visionary projects, and realized projects. All these elements distributed along the course of the history are placed in a continuous and parallel dialogue with waves of innovation and social changes (like the construction of the first highway in the world or the first driverless car), showing the tangible interaction between them and a precise path of evolution.

VISIONARY PROJECTS

REALIZED PROJECTS

PUBLICATIONS

WAVES OF INNOVATION AND SOCIAL CHANGES

1923-25. El Lissitzky, Wolkenbügel

1915-22 Mattè-Trucco G. Stabilimento Fiat Lingotto, Torino

1910 Chambless E. Roadtown

1855 Joseph Paxton J. Great Victorian Way, London

1927 Palanti M. Palacio Alcorta or Palacio Chrysler, Palermo Chico, Buenos Aires

1903 Reed and Stem & Warren and Wetmore, Grand Central Terminal, New York

1900 1863 Opening of the Metropolitan Railway, the first world’s underground railway, London

1914 Sant’Elia A. La città nuova, stazione d’aeroplani e treni

1910

1920

1880 Opening of the world’s first electric tram line in Sestroretsk, near Saint Petersburg

1924 Opening of the Autostrada dei Laghi (Italy): the first highway of the world

1957 Debord G. The Naked City

1941-61 Moses R. Lower Manhattan Expressway, New York

1929 Ferriss, H. The Metropolis of Tomorrow

1930 1935 Developing of the first scaled remote piloted vehicle by Reginald Denny

1914 Birth of the ride-sharing phenomenon

1959-2 Friedma Ville Sp

1956-57 Kahn L. Cutaway perspective of parking tower

1930-31 William–Olsson T. Slussen, Stockholm

1940

1950

1940 Opening of the Arroyo Seco Parkway or Pasadena Freeway, the first freeway in the western United States

1908 Ford T- the first mass car 1889 Sitte C. Der Städte-Bau nach seinen künstlerischen Grundsätzen 1860s (end of) The first velocipede in France

1915 Geddes P. Cities in Evolution

1935 Frankfurt-Darmstadt Autobahn: the first system of high-speed roads with controlled access of the world

1953 Mumfo The Hig and the

1938 Mumford L. The Culture of Cities 1951 Opening of the first driverless parking garage, Washington, D.C.

2004 an Y. patial

ord L. ghway e City

1962 Rossi A., Polesello G. and Meda L. Locomotiva 2, Torino

1988 O.M.A. Zeebrugge Sea Terminal, Zeebrugge

1964 Archigram, The Walking City

1965 Graves M. and Eisenman P. The Jersey Corridor Project

1961 Jellicoe G. A. Motopia

1950s. High-speed rail service, Japan

1995 Benthem Crouwel Architects, De Malietoren, Den Haag

2001. WHAT_architecture & Mecanoo Architecten, Flyover House

1989-92 Arriola & Fiol Arquitects, Plaça de les Glòries, Barcelona

1970 1971 Banham R. Los Angeles. The Architecture of four ecologies

1980 1970s Introduction of the Highoccupancy vehicle lane in the United States

1990

2000

1982-91/07 The big Dig, Boston

2004-2016 Koen Van Velsen, New Station Breda Centraal, Breda

2009-2014 James Corner Field Operations, Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Piet Oudolf, High Line, New York

2010 2003 Bosma K. Schiphol megastructuur

1989 Casabella n.553-554, Sulla strada

2014 Jiakun L. People Mountain People Sea, a celebration of daily life

2008-10 VVKH Architecten, The Wall, Utrecht

2008 Baukuh, Laocoon, Helsinki

1989-94 OMA, Euralille masterplan, Lille

1969 Archizoom Associati, No-Stop City

1960

2004-07 Atelier Jean Nouvel, Kilometro Rosso, Bergamo

2000-08 Atelier Jean Nouvel, Minimetro, Perugia

2019 Kuma & Associates Europe, Susa International Station, Val di Susa

2020 2012 Ferlenga, A., Biraghi, M. and Albrecht B. L’architettura del Mondo

2014 Google launches the first scratch-built driverless car

1976 Banham R. Megastructure 1985 Fenton J. Hybrid Buildings

1964 Appleyard D., Lynch K. And Myer J.R. The view from the Road

1989 Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist at CERN, invented the World Wide Web

1961 Gottmann J. Megalopolis 1974 Altair 8800, the first personal computer put on the market

1988 Hall P. Cities of Tomorrow

1989 Design and production of the first Pedelec prototype

2010 Shannon K. and Smets M. The Landscape Of Contemporary Infrastructure 2002 Opening of the first American robotic parking garage in Hoboken

2010 Opening of the Sugiyama Park Subway Bicycle Parking

2012 Frampton A., Wong C. and Solomon J. D. Cities Without Ground

2016 France opens first Solar panel road

VISIONARY PROJECTS

REALIZED PROJECTS

PUBLICATIONS

2 WAVE OF INNOVATION (approx. 1845 - approx. 1900) Steam power, Railroad, Steel and Cotton nd

1830. Stephenson G. Crown Street railway station, Liverpool 1840. Lenné P. J. Schmuck- und Grenzzüge von Berlin mit nächster Umgebung, Berlin 1855. Joseph Paxton J. Great Victorian Way, London 1860s (end of). The first velocipede in France 1862. Soria y Mata A. La Ciudad Lineal a Madrid, Madrid 1863. Opening of the Metropolitan Railway, the first world’s underground railway, London 1870. The first assembly line slaughterhouse 1879. Thomas Edison invents the electric bulb 1880. Opening of the world’s first electric tram line in Sestroretsk, near Saint Petersburg 1881. Opening of the European’s first electric tram line in Lichterfelde, near Berlin 1885. Opening of The Ringbahn, a circular railwayline of the Berlin S-Bahn network, Germany 1889. Sitte C. Der StädteBau nach seinen künstlerischen Grundsätzen. Wien 1893. Wagner O. Stadtbahn, Wien 1898. Beginning of the works for the Wien ring road ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------3rd WAVE OF INNOVATION (approx. 1900 - approx. 1950) Electricity, Chemicals and International combustion engine 1900. Laloux V., Magne L. & Bénard E. Gare d’Orsay railway station, Paris 1903. Reed and Stem & Warren and Wetmore, Grand Central Terminal, New York 1905. Henard E. La Cite du Future, Rue Future 1908. Ford T: the first mass car 1910. Chambless E. Roadtown 1910. Pennsylvania Railroad, Pennsylvania Railway Station, New York 1911. Rummel R. Future New York 1911. Wagner O. Die Großstadt, eine Studie über diese. Vienna 1913. Lincoln Highway: first transcontinental highway for automobiles across the United States of America 1914. Birth of the ride-sharing phenomenon 1914. Sant’Elia A. La città nuova, stazione d’aeroplani e treni 1914. Sant’Elia A. Manifesto dell’architettura futurista 1915-22 / 24-26. Mattè-Trucco G. Stabilimento Fiat Lingotto, Torino 1915. Geddes P. Cities in Evolution, Williams & Norgate, London 1916. A. M. Low’s “Aerial Target”: the earliest attempt at a powered Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) 1917. Garnier T. Cite industrielle 1917. Garnier T. Une cité industrielle: étude pour la construction des villes, Massin, Paris 1921. The first closed circuit in Germany (Automobil Verkehrs und Übungs-Straße -AVUS-) 1921. The first working remote controlled car 1922. Le Corbusier, Contemporary City for three million people 1923-25. El Lissitzky, Wolkenbügel 1923. Le Corbusier, Vers une Architecture, Les Editions G. Crès et Cie, Paris 1924. Le Corbusier, Urbanisme (translated in English in 1929 as The city of tomorrow and it’s planning), Les Editions G. Crès et Cie, Paris 1924. Hilberseimer L. K. Vertical City 1924. Opening of the Autostrada dei Laghi (Italy): the first highway of the world 1925. Melnikov K. Garage over the river Seine, Paris 1925. Wright F. L. Sugarloaf Mountain 1926. Aa.Vv. Amazing Stories, the first American magazine devoted entirely to science fiction 1926. Beginning of the works for the A10 motorway, Amsterdam ring road 1926. First French highway, Puy de Dome 1927. Palanti M. Palacio Alcorta or Palacio Chrysler, Palermo Chico, Buenos Aires 1927. Rijkswegenplan: the firts Dutch national highway structure plan for the century 1929-30. Le Corbusier Urban projects for Montevideo and São Paulo, Brazil 1929. Ferriss, H. The Metropolis of Tomorrow 1929. Ferriss, Hugh. The Metropolis of Tomorrow, Princeton Architectural Press, New York 1929. Hood R. Skyscraper Bridge Apartments Across the Rivers, New York 1929. Picasso R. XX Settembre - Super vie di Genova 1930-31. William–Olsson T. Slussen, Stockholm 1930-39. Hood R. Rockefeller Center, New York 1930. Leonidov Magnitogorsk

WAVES OF INNOVATION AND SOCIAL CHANGES

1932. The first autobahn in Germany between Cologne and Bonn 1933. Adolf Hitler approves the first system of high-speed roads and controlled access of the world 1933. Beginning of the works of the A12 motorway (the first section of the Utrech ring road) 1933. Le Corbusier, Plan Obus, Algeri 1934-59. Frank Lloyd W rig ht F. L. Broadacre City 1934. Marinetti F.T., Mazzoni A. and Somenzi M. La città unica a linee continue from Manifesto dell’architettura aerea 1935. Developing of the first scaled remote piloted vehicle by Reginald Denny 1935. Frankfurt-Darmstadt Autobahnen: the first system of high-speed roads with controlled access of the world 1936. The first motorway in Netherlands between Voorburg and Zoetermeer, near The Hague, A12, the first one in the world equipped with emergency lanes 1938. Mumford L. The Culture of Cities, Harcourt Brace, New York 1940. Opening of the Arroyo Seco Parkway or Pasadena Freeway, the first freeway in the western United States 1941 Giedion S. Time space and architecture, Harvard UniversityPress, Cambridge 1941-61. Moses R. Lower Manhattan Expressway, New York 1942. Opening of the M-8 Michigan highway, the first urban depressed freeway (USA) 1946. The first modern highway in France (west of Paris) 1947-62. Kahn L. Philadelphia Urban Design 1947. Opening of the Highway 401, Ontario, the busiest highway in the world (Canada) 1948-2011. G.R.A, Grande Raccordo Anulare, Rome ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------4th WAVE OF INNOVATION (approx. 1950 - approx. 1990) Petrochemicals, Electronics, Aviation and Space 1950. Barman C. An introduction to railway architecture, London (Art and Technics) 1950s. High-speed rail service, Japan 1951. Opening of the first driverless parking garage, Washington, D.C. 1952-63. Henry Bernard H. Maison de la Radio, Paris 1952-53. Smithson A. & P. Cluster City 1953. Mumford L. The highway and the city, Harcourt, Brace & World, New York 1956. Victor Gruen Associates, Downtown Fort Worth project 1956-57. Kahn L. Cutaway Perspective of Parking Tower 1957. Debord G. The Naked City 1957. Malcomson R. Metro-linear City project 1957. Opening of the first section of the A4 motorway, the Rotterdam ring road 1958. Walter Jonas W. Intrapolis 1959-2004. Friedman Y. Ville Spatial 1959. Friedman Y. Mobile Architecture: 10 principles of spatial urbanism, Paris 1960-62. Isozaki A. Clusters in the air 1960. Banham R. Theory and design of the first machine age, Praeger Publishers, New York-Washington 1960s.Development of the first major mobile robot named Shakey 1961. Gottmann J. Megalopolis: the urbanized northeastern seaboard of the United States, The Twentieth Century Fund, New York 1961. Jacobs J. The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Random House, New York 1961. Jellicoe G. A. Motopia 1961. Jellicoe G. A. Motopia: a study in the evolution of urban landscape, Studio, London 1961. Kurokawa K. Helicoids 1961. Tange K. Tokyo Bay Masterplan 1962-64. Maymont P. Paris sous la Seine 1962. Cedric P., Newby F. and Pask G. Fun Palace 1962. Kikutake K. Ocean City project 1962. Rossi A., Polesello G. and Meda L. Locomotiva 2, Torino 1963. Aa.Vv. Casabella Continuità n. 278, Concorso per il Centro direzionale di Torino, Editoriale Domus, Milano 1963. Archigram, City Interchange project 1963. Buchanan C. Traffic in towns, HMSO, London 1963. Opening of the Meishin Expressway: the first expressway in Japan 1963. Tafuri M. and Studio AU, Quartiere Direzionale, Torino 1964. Appleyard D., Lynch K. And Myer J.R. The view from the Road, MIT Press, Cambridge 1964. Archigram, The Walking City 1964. Douma C. Het stationsgebouw. Utrecht (Ned.Spoowegen afd. Voorlichting)

1964. Ekuan K. Dwelling City 1964. Gruen V. The Heart Of Our Cities, The Urban Crises: Diagnosis And Cure, Simon and Schuster, New York 1964. Maki, F. Investigations In Collective From, Washington University School Of Architecture, St. Louis 1964. Opening of the Autostrada del Sole (Italy’s longest highway) 1964. Opening of the Leeds Inner ring road 1965. Choay F. L’Urbanisme, utopies et réalités: Une anthologie, Seuil, coll. « Points », Paris 1965. Graves M. and Eisenman P. The Jersey Corridor Project 1965. Opening of the Sopraelevata Aldo Moro, Genova 1965. Stirling J. Dorman Long Headquarters 1966. Hall P. The World Cities, World University Library, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 1966. Rossi A. L’Architettura della Città, Marsilio Editori, Venezia 1966. Ungers O.M. Schnellstrasse und Gebäude, Veröffentlichungen zur Architectur, TU Berlin, Heft nr. 4 1967-1970. Zevi B. and Studio Asse, Asse Attrezzato, Roma 1967. Arcop, Place Bonaventure, Montreal 1967. Bacon E. N. Design of Cities, Thames & Hudson, London 1967. Debord G. La société du spectacle (translated in english as The society of the spectacle), Buchet-Chastel, Paris 1967. Rudolph P. Lower Manhattan Expressway 1968. Zziggurat, Linear City 1969. Alan Boutwell A. & Mitchell M. Continuous city for 1.000.000 human beings, NY -SF 1969. Archizoom Associati, No-Stop City 1969. Beginning of the work for the R1, Antwerp ring road 1969. Choay F., Reyner B. and Baird G. Le Sens de la ville, Seuil, Paris 1969. First programmable logic controller 1969. Superstudio, Monumento Continuo 1970. Beginning of the work for the M-30, Madrid ring road 1970. Boutwell A. Bridge city 1970. Woodhouse lane car park, Leeds 1970s. Introduction of the High-occupancy vehicle lane (or HOV lane / carpool lane) in the United States following the increase of the ridesharing phenomenon 1971. 37 Banham R. Los Angeles. The Architecture of four ecologies, The Penguin Press, London 1972. Calvino I. Le città invisibili, Einaudi, Milano 1972. Koolhaas R. & Zenghelis E. Exodus or the voluntary prisoners of architecture 1972. Venturi R. and Scott Brown D. Learning from Las Vegas, The MIT Press, Cambridge 1973. Completion of the Boulevard Périphérique, Paris 1974. Franzen U. Rudolph P. and Wolf P. M. The evolving city: urban design proposals, Whitney Library of Design for American Federation of Arts, New York 1974. Altair 8800, the first personal computer put on the market 1974. Andreu P. Charles de Gualle Airport, Paris 1974. Ballard J. G. Concrete Island, Jonathan Cape, London 1975. Giurgola R. and Mehta J. Louis I. Kahn, Verlag für Architektur, Zürich 1975. Opening of M-25, London ring road 1975. Pozzetto M. La Fiat-Lingotto: un’architettura torinese d’avanguardia, Centro Studi Piemontesi, Torino 1976. Banham R. Megastructure: Urban Features of the Recent Past, Harper & Row, New York 1977. El Lissitzky, Proun Und Wolkenbügel. Schriften, Briefe, Dokumente, Veb Verlag Der Kunst, Dresden 1978. Koolhaas R. Delirious New York: a retroactive manifesto for Manhattan, Oxford University Press, New York 1978. Rowe C. Collage city, The MIT press, Cambridge 1978. Stanford A. On Streets, The MIT Press, Cambridge 1979. Bundesautobahn 10, Berlin ring road 1979. The first traffic control center opened in Delft, where the A13 can be controlled with dynamic road signalization 1982 McCall B. Zany Afternoons, Alfred A. Knopf, New York 1982-91/07. The big Dig, Boston 1983. Zeidler E.H. Multi-use architecture in the urban context, Karl Kramer Verlag, Stuttgart 1985. Fenton J. Hybrid Buildings. Princeton Architectural Press, New York 1985. Trench R. and Hillman E. London under London, Murray, London 1986-2020. Benthem Crouwel Architects, Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam 1986. Neutelings Riedijk Architects, Ring Road Development Study: “Ringculture”, Antwerp 1987-2000. Vergely J. & Mathieux P. Promenade Plantée, Paris

1987. Solá-Morales, M. de La segunda historia del proyecto urbbano – otra tradición moderna: The Second Story of the Urban Project – Another Modern Tradition, Urbanismo Revista, No. 5, Barcelona. This article was also published under the title: Another Modern Tradition – From the Break of 1930 to the Modern Urban Project, Lotus Intentional, No. 64, Milano (1989) 1988. Hall P. Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century, Blackwell Publishing, Oxford 1988. Neutelings, W.J. De Ringcultuur: Een Studie Naar Het Ringmechanisme, Vlees En Beton, Mechelen 1988. O.M.A. Zeebrugge Sea Terminal, Zeebrugge 1988. Picon A. Architectes et ingénieurs au siècle des Lumières, Éditions Parenthèses, Marseille 1989-92. Arriola & Fiol Arquitects, Plaça de les Glòries, Barcelona 1989-94 OMA, Euralille masterplan, Lille 1989-98. Flora Ruchat-Roncati F. & Salvi R. Transjurane, Switzerland 1989. Aa.Vv. Casabella n.553-554, Sulla strada-About road, Editoriale Domus, Milano 1989. Design and production of the first Pedelec prototype (from pedal electric cycle , i.e. e-bike) 1989. Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist at CERN, invented the World Wide Web 1989. Tschumi B. Architects, Metropont, Losanna 1989/1994-99. Mc Cormac, Jamieson, Prichard Architects, Southwark Station, London ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------5th WAVE OF INNOVATION (approx. 1990 - approx. 2010) Digital Networks, Biotechnology and Software Information technology 1990. Patrick Berger Architect, Viaduc Des Arts, Paris 1990. Pawley M. Theory and design of the secod machine age, Basil Blackwell, Oxford 1991-01. AREP & SNCF, TGV Méditerranée Stations, France 1991. Dupuy, G. L’urbanisme Des Réseaux, Armand Colin, Paris 1991. Sassen S. The global city: New York, London, Tokyo, Princeton University Press, New York 1992 O.M.A. Kunsthal, Rotterdam 1992-97 Henrich J. & Tarrasó O. Ronda del mig, Barcelona 1992-97. Piano P. NEMO, Amsterdam 1992. Augè M. Non-lieux, Seuil, Paris 1992. Batlle E. & Roig J. Parque de la Trinidad, Barcellona 1993. Calvino, I. Lezioni Americane. Sei proposte per il nuovo millennio, Arnorldo Mondadori Editore, Milano 1994. Crompton D., Johnston P. and Wien K. A guide to Archigram 1961-74, Academy Editions, Berlin; Ernst & Sohn, London; St. Martin’s Press, New York 1995. .NL Architects, Parkhouse/Carstadt 1995. Benthem Crouwel Architects, De Malietoren, Den Haag 1995. O.M.A., Koolhaas R. and Mau B. S, M, L, XL, Monacelli, New York 1995. Pucci P. I Nodi infrastrutturali: luoghi e non luoghi metropolitani, Franco Angeli, Milano 1996-06. gmp, von Gerkan, Marg und Partner Architects, Central Station, Berlin 1996-98. UN Studio, Masterplan Arnhem central, Arnhem 1996. Castells M. The Rise of the Network Society, The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture Vol. I. Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford 1996. Decq O. Motorway bridge and control center, Nanterre 1996. O.M.A. Hyperbuilding, Bangkok 1997-98. Monolab, Infrabodies, Rotterdam A20 1997-98. West 8, Carrascoplein, Amsterdam 1997. Simmel G. Bridge and door. In: Rethinking Architecture, A reader in Cultural Theory, Routledge, London 1998-2009. Maxwan, Landtunnel, Utrecht 1998. Cervero R. The transit metropolis, Island Press, Washington, D.C. 1998. Hall P. Cities in Civilization: Culture, Technology, and Urban Order, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 1998. Monolab, Delft South Station, Delft 1998. Neutelings Riedijk Architects, Masterplan Zeeburger Eiland, Amsterdam 1999. Allen. S. Points and Lines: Diagrams and Projects for the City, Princeton Architectural Press, New York 1999. Benthem Crouwel Architects, IBM-Autoliv, Amsterdam 1999. Monolab, Compressor, Overschie 1999. Monolab, Infrascape-Breda Sands, Breda

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Room(s) Dwelling Valle Borghesiana

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Supervisor: prof. Gabriele Mastrigli Research Team: Valentina Ciccotosto, Mauro Forlini, Alessandro Toti Roma 20-25 New life cycles for the Metropolis

and lies between Via Tiburtina and the Rome-Naples motorway; the territory has a pretty residential character, and it is largely made up of a sprawling fabric of illegal houses. Both the vastness of those settlements – mainly located between Via Casilina and Via Prenestina – and their temporal stratification show how this kind of urbanisation represents one of the most solid and compelling matrices of the Roman metropolis. The project focused on a 500x500 meters area in Valle Borghesiana, filling some unbuilt lots with thirty examples of 20th-century villas – a catalogue of

canonical modern buildings, from Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye to Robert Venturi’s Vanna House, from Peter Eisenman’s House XI to Rem Koolhaas’ Villa Dall’Ava. As opposed to the existing ones, the new villas are not only focused on the interior space of dwelling, but projected towards the city, showing how architecture is recyclable, collective and essentially urban device.

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Villas, case-studies. Selection from the thirty XXth century canonical buildings utilised in the project. Frank Lloyd Wright, Robie House; Adolf Loos, Haus für Josephine Baker; Le Corbusier, Villa Savoye; Oswald Mathias Ungers, Haus Belvederestraße; Robert Venturi, Vanna House; Superstudio, Villa suburbana A6; Peter Eisenman, House 11; Adalberto Libera, Villa Malaparte; Mies van der Rohe, Farnsworth House; OMA/Rem Koolhaas, Villa dall’Ava.

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Buckminster Fuller, Dymaxion House, 1930-45; 8 Mies van der Rohe,

House with patio and garage, 1934; 9 Walter Gropius, Gropius House, 1937; 10 Adalberto Libera, Villa Malaparte, 1938-42; 11 Charles and Ray

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1949; 13 Mies van der Rohe, Farnsworth House, 1951; 14 Luigi Moretti, Villa “La Saracena”, 1954; 15 Louis Kahn, DeVore House, 1954; 16 John Hejduk, Texas House 3, 1954-63; 17 Alvaro Siza, Boa Nova Tea

House, 1956; 18 Alison and Peter Smithson, House of the Future, 1956; 19 Oswald Mathias Ungers, Haus Belvederestraße, 1958-90; 20 Louis Kahn, Goldenberg House, 1959; 21 Alison and Peter Smithson,

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Solar Pavilion, 1959-61; 22 Robert Venturi, Vanna House, 1962; 23 Archizoom, Villa Woogs, 1969; 24 Superstudio, Villa suburbana A6, 1970; 25 Aldo Rossi, Casa unifamiliare, 1973; 26 Toyo Ito, U-House, 1976; 27 Peter Eisenman, House 11, 1978; 28 Tadao Ando, Horiuschi House, 1978-79; 29 OMA/Rem Koolhaas, Villa dall’Ava, 1988; 30 OMA/ Rem Koolhaas, Maison à Bordeaux, 1998.

The axonometry frames a 500x500 m area, where thirty modern villas define a catalogue of possible relationships between houses and the city.

Project Walls. Inhabiting the border between U.S.A and Mexico

The border between two identities is never a

Supervisor: prof. Gabriele Mastrigli Assistant Supervisor: prof. Jonathan Reich Site: San Diego - Tijuana Master Thesis 2014

simple line - be it a sign on the ground or be it a real fence - since it has in itself the duality of being simultaneously encounter-clash and division. This thesis intends to investigate the complex nature of the border and the problematic relations within the neighboring territories. The starting point is the border between San Diego and Tijuana, the most emblematic case because of its double fence. Hence the discussion will extend to a much larger scale, to the relationship between the United States and Mexico. Analyzed the situation and its problems,

the aim of the study is not to propose solutions, but to raise issues and questions by designing a linear city. The border maintains its crossing-point nature, but it expands and becomes thick enough to contain a city, whose purpose is to keep the two cultures distinct, to educate about a different one and to re-educate passengers about their own culture. The city becomes a device of cultural transformation and it is organized in a sequence of fragments of Mexican and American cities, held together by the coercive action of two walls.

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The various activities contained in the Strip are collected in functional districts, whose succession makes that anyone may come, follows a precise path: Entry, Residential District, University District, Buffer Zone, Monument District, Freetime District, Working District and Exit. In this way it is possible to implement the process of Americanization and Mexicanization.

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The parallel development of the American and Mexican areas create a continuous dialogue both from the architectural point of view, both from the cultural point of view. So we have reached the goal we set at the beginning: make it possible for the instances of physical and symbolic to coexist that is the explanation of the paradox of architecture.

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The walls have the function of containing and keeping together the different districts that follow from east to west. Their design is nothing more than the design of the infrastructure system that dictates the development of the city in east-west direction. In the walls are contained six levels of public transportation: the tram on the ground floor, the trains on the upper floors. To ensure that the walls will develop in height, each floor (13 m high) is equipped with 00

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The points of access to the infrastructure are located in the Buffer Zone and are made from simple elevators flanked by ramps. Hovewer the driveways transport are moved completely to the level -1, through ramps at the entrance and the exit of Strip: they develop in four highways (two in coincidence of the walls and two in the middle line) that, in correspondence of the Buffer Zone, meet the parking and lift points. In this way, the entire surface of the city can be fully pedestrian.

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quattroquarti A new concept for a food poin

Quattroquarti is the union of four modules that

Team: Valentina Ciccotosto, Elena Catinari, Tania della Valle, Sara Marsili periferica project 10m2 _ micro-architecture competition - The Food Point Finalist Project

host the functions required for the realization of a food point. Each of them is thought to be autonomous in structure and form as well as in function. In the meeting of four elements the compositional idea is created. The modules are held together by the union of the vertical structures. This union creates a cross, the hub of the settlement, which holds together and at the same time divides the elements in order to maintain their own autonomy. The regeneration of the space inside the quarry

is therefore entrusted to the positioning of the fourquarters base: their regularity generates spaces and scenarios each time different. Quattroquarti does not have vertical perimeter closures and allows the visitor a complete usability of space by placing it in continuous connection with the outside. The different openings allow the user of the quarry to reach visual goals that link him to the others.

[THE M!ND’S BOX] A new School of Arts

Team: Valentina Ciccotosto, Elena Catinari, Tania della Valle, Sara Marsili ARCHICONTEST - Architectural ideas contest 2016-2017 VeniceContest

mitation and contrast: these are the two purposes behind the project of “The M!ind’s box”, because the intervention in a city like Venice can not be reduced only to the imitation of its forma urbis and its historical architectural elements. The urban planning of the city of Venice is a traditional sequence of full (buildings) and empty (courtyards) spaces, in which the shapes and volumes of the Lagoon tradition (and more in general Italian tradition) are harmoniously repeated. Looking at this context, the project aims to propose again the traditional element, with one major difference: to overturn this logic. The empty becomes the container of all the functions and the full becomes just the connections. A light white theca made by polycarbonate occupies all the empty allotment, leaning just behind the existing border wall. Inside, a big black volume stands in the middle of the area, as a mysterious object that does not reveal its content. Between the container and the content, a continuous ramp runs all around

the box, serving all the rooms and becoming itself a continuous space for exhibitions. The dark monolith aims to become the new center for all Artisans: a space for confrontation, a catalyst of ideas for Venice and for all the world.

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Autogenous A passive transformation device for alternative sport facilities

Team: Valentina Ciccotosto, Elisa CiucciovĂ¨, Lucia Calvigioni, Maria Marani, Sara Marsili YAC - Young Architects Competitions 2016 Lighthouse Sea Hotel

030 AD. In an unspecified city of the world, which for simplicity will be New York City, because the project aims to be an autonomous object that has general and universal value. The way of doing traditional sports is outdated and the space and the tools devoted to the physical activity change as well: they become passive transformation devices. A new motto takes place in the future: the sport is the experience of the viewer. You just need to sit, choose a sport, relax and enjoy the show. That is how elementary volumes, as mysterious objects, appear spread out within the city -in public spaces or in private houses- with the aim to be places in which stop and take a break from the hectic and chaotic everyday life. The existenz minimum of the indoor space (and consequently the minimal dimensions of the external shape), combined together with the Ganzfeld

Effect, creates a perfect environment for anyone who wants to use this room for training. At this point in the evolution, the development of technology allows the processing of video at a frequency so high that it can activate the neurons in the userâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s brain and, consequently in their turn, stimulate the muscles. The only basic activity of watching yourself doing any kind of sports -that you can choose thanks to a panel control placed on the seat- starts an auto-suggestion process which gives you the experience of the training: the sport is not a matter of physical movements anymore, but it is only limited to the psychological level. The focus, finally, gets back on the human being and the architecture returns to be just a neutral and elemental object to its service.

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Behind the Wall Spaces for creative minds

Team: Valentina Ciccotosto, Elisa Ciucciovè, Lucia Calvigioni, Maria Marani, Sara Marsili YAC - Young Architects Competitions 2016 Lighthouse Sea Hotel

n Behind the wall the duplicity of the wall is hidden. Indeed it is both a boundary maker and a device through which to observe the surrounding landscape and what happens inside the structure. The topic of the house with a low fence is not so far from the Sicilian reality: in fact examples can be found not only in the houses near the natural reserve of Capo Murro di Porco, but the Lighthouse itself is a striking example. The wall, and consequently the development of the project, is an extreme version of this concept: the high wall replaces the low wall and the functional blocks, placed along the perimeter, try to break this “barrier”. The wall is not continuous, but is interrupted at the existing buildings: it allows, not only to make the old visible from

the new, but it does nothing but emphasize the existing buildings. The poetry of the landscape has meant that the choice of the type of hotel fall back on the lighthouse art hotel: in a very different reality from the urban chaos, here the artist can nourish his soul and can better express his creativity, surrounded by a striking landscape and a surreal quietness. The creation of a room without a roof, placed on the fulcrum toward which all the blocks look and natural projection of the lighthouse toward the sea, offers an additional place, much more intimate, in which to reflect, find themselves, think and alienate themselves, this time away from the creative ferment that is inside the structure.

It is not time to pretend Water - earth - air. The new construction inserts itself in this ecosystem and it does not claim to pretend to be the fourth natural element. It declares its artificial being through the compactness and solidity, creating with the existing Lighthouse a new landmark.

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A. auditorium B. snack point C. temporary exhibitions D. bookshop E. box office F. hall G. restaurant H. utility room I. room 1 L. room 2 M. room 3 N. chill-out area O. atĂŠliers P. permanent ehibitions Q. labs R. open air auditorium S. fulcrum

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The wall hides, does not steal Behind the walls, inside the structure, everything is an open-air public space. Every surface between the blocks becomes a place for meeting, talking and enjoying the life. Cuts on the floor frame and give breath to the large variety of autochthonous plants.

Room 1

1. bedroom + studio 2. bathroom

Room 2

1. bedroom 2. studio 3. bathroom

Room 3 1. bedroom + studio 2. bathroom

Restaurant

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1. bar + dining area 2. kitchen 3. storage 4. employee changing room + employee restroom 5. gentlemenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s restroom 6. easily accessible restroom 7. ladiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; restroom

Chill-out area

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Utility room 1. laundry room + storage room 2. changing room + WC

The Room as a blank canvas The eleven total, white rooms will be assigned to eleven young Italian street artists to make them an exclusive and particular experience.

Box office

Hall

2 1

3 4

AtĂŠliers 1. sculpture + cooking room 2. restoration 3. painting 4. photography + dark room

Permanent exhibitions

Fulcrum 0 1

The sky in a Room Three walls, three frames, three points of view. Placed in the fulcrum and at the end of the cut, this space without a roof is the natural projection of the Lighthouse: a place for thinking and observing the landscape.

Microbeach Electronic Structure of the Seaside

The project idea takes its origins from the

Team: Valentina Ciccotosto, Elena Catinari Tania Della Valle, Sara Marsili Demanio Marittimo km 278 Competition 2015 International Call for Projects for the Design of the Temporary Space

functioning of the microchip, the technology that accompanies us every day. As the different elements of the microchip are activated at passage of the electric current, so the set-up areas are lit thanks to the flow of visitors who will live km278 in an unusual way for a night. The system extends along the beach and the Madonnina del Pescatore is its starting point. The wood is used for the structure of the stages and the benches, tnt and welded to the external finish and the TNT and the welded mesh are used for the external finish. The connections between the areas are made

by U metallic profiles, the vertical elements for the exhibition of the selected projects and the division of the spaces are made by construction fences. All the materials correspond to the criteria of traceability on the territory, easy assembly and complete reversibility, once the event is over.

video area

bookshop merchandising

web area

exhibitions area

talks area

accesses

dj set

melting point

tasting area

ACCESSES AND PATHS

TOTEM

TNT_external finishing

welded mesh_internal structure GROUND PATHS U metal profiles 60mmx60mm, 5 mm thick overlaid with fluorescent white scotch tape

lighting fixture

scotch tape

VERTICAL ELEMENTS modules of yard fences 3000mmx2000mm lighting fixture connected at the fence by cable ties straps

lighting fixture

STAGE TALKS AREA

OSB panel 350mm

welded mesh with 200mm x 200mm square mesh rigid support for video projection structure in wood profiles square section 500mmx500mm TNT tarp connected to the bearing structure through metal staples lighting fixture welded mesh for external finishing

WEB AREA

welded mesh with 200mm x 200mm square mesh

polycarbonate panels 100mm 200mmx400mm -tops for charging smartphones and tablets

OSB panel 100mm

seats -metal pipes d.315 mm -polycarbonate top 100mm 450mmx450mm

C.A.C.G. Center for the Contemporary Arts Gresleri

The Study Centre for the Passionist Fathers, in

Supervisor: prof. Pippo Ciorra Site: Casalecchio del Reno (Bologna) Bachelor Thesis 2011

Ceretolo of Reno (BO) was designed by architect Glauco Gresleri in 1971 and over the years has undergone many vicissitudes: by the slowness of the work, until the total indifference and the total abandonment of the building site. The project aims to recover, recycle, redevelop this wreck, (that now is called by youths “the monster of Casalecchio”, both for its size and for the state of degradation and the visual impact it has towards the hills around Bologna). The intervention is minimal: destroy as little as possible, trying to redevelop the spaces with the least

possible intervention. The action is “pierce” the wreck with overhanging blocks, which contain laboratories, housing, a library and a restaurant. It is a real parasite architecture: a practice that here in Italy is little known, but that is often adopted from countries of Northern Europe, (as in the Netherlands and Germany), to redevelop the old structures.

Connections

Temporary expositions

Restroom

Library / Study room Conference room

Labs

Hall

Bookshop

Exposition space for the works of the artist

Snack point Housing

Relaxing area

Ground floor

TEMPORARY EXPOSITIONS 1

1 - Temporary expositions 2 - Restroom

Trasversal Section

Northwest Front