Vanessa Lastrucci architect portfolio 2014
Landscape .Mallorca gardens .Urban park .Barcelona ZOO
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Urban design .Mugnone springs
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.Postquake vision of Crevalcore
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.New York future space and time .Housing in Massarosa .Urban nature
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Bio p 04
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Architecture .Tatlin’s tower built
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.SIEDITRI
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Professional experience University of Florence, School of Architecture detail oriented curious
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landscape design lab. “Design of green systems” pf. Enrico Falqui, pf. Vallerini Florence, Italy
teaching assistant
landscape & urban design lab. “Architecture & the city river” pf. Enrico Falqui, pf. arch. Antonio Capestro, arch. Mauro Marinelli Florence, Italy
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Vanessa Lastrucci
teaching assistant
10/2013 06/2014
B’ arquitectes intern
04/2013 06/2013
landscape architecture design, competition, graphic design www.jordibellmunt.com Barcelona, Spain
Network in Progress magazine
01/2013
social media manager, editorial staff member
photography, editing and graphic design. Bimonthly magazine about landscape, cities, architecture and urban creativity. www.nipmagazine.it Florence, Italy
Francesca Privitera architect intern
housing refurbishment design, construction site inspections http://francescaprivitera.com Florence, Italy
05/2011 10/2011
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Education Licenced to practice in Italy
Professional activities 01/2014
Florence, Italy
University of Florence, School of Architecture Master degree of Architecture
Riverside Living
Skills 08/2014
contributor
field trip exploring new developments along River Thames Academy of Urbanism London, UK 12/2012
thesis “The Mugnone stream from «éspace délaissé» to infrastructure for urban relation”. Project of landscape and architecture for the rejected spaces of the city. supervisor: pf. Enrico Falqui correlators: pf. arch. Antonio Capestro, arch. Stella Verin Maximum final grade (110|100 cum laude).
Languages Italian English
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French Spanish
MoTo Lab
05/2014
attendee
workshop on do-it-yourself and recycled materials architecture Roma 3 University Rome, Italy
Sofwares ArchiCad AutoCad
Publications Articles
2014 2013
Illustrator InDesign
guided students through the themes of Venice Architecture Biennale University of Florence Venice, Italy
Off-grid Academy
Lightroom SketchUp Cinema 4d 10/2012
attendee
4= earth, water, air, fire. Terraproject+Wu Ming 2 in NIP blog New friendly lifestyles. Peter Blundell Jones’ talk to “Humanize and Civilize urban space“ in NIP blog SAIE3: Talking cities. Between urban landscapes and communication. in NIP blog New dwelling landscapes. Lecture with Cino Zucchi, Johannes Tovatt and Fritz van Dongen. in NIP blog
Contraddiction of urban renovation. Regeneration or gentrification? in NIPmagazine °#16 Border lands. Landscapes of Lampedusa island. in NIPmagazine °#10
11/2012
instructor
Florence changes. in NIPmagazine °#19 The lost identity and the informal city. Report from the Italian Slums. Interview to ZaLab in NIPmagazine °#17 Apocalypse town. Book review in NIPmagazine °#13 ‘Architecture we like’. Point of view in NIPmagazine °#12
Photography projects
Photoshop
Common Ground workshop
2013 2012
workshop on energy and environment sustainability www.offgridacademy.it Capraia island, Italy
Geometrie di Pietra Stone’s geometry exhibition
References 09/2010
architecture students’ works for the village of Montalcino Montalcino, Italy
Stella Verin
Editor in chief, NIP magazine
stellaverin@nipmagazine.it
Enrico Falqui
professor, DIDA, University of Florence
enrico.falqui@tin.it
Agata Buscemi
B’ arquitectes
admin@jordibellmunt.com
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Mallorca gardens 2013 Competition In collaboration with B’Arquitectes Bendinat is a town on the Mallorca island (Balearic islands). Today tourism is the main economy and it influenced the urban fabric development. The site is part of this fast urban growth: the structures are residential holiday houses. The buildings are very common traditional mediterranean houses without any particular architectural design. The competition asked the landscaping of the common area using the plants of the mediterranean environment for a natural garden forming an uninterrupted habitat with the public park and the close naturalistic area. The private gardens hide the walls of the terraces to provide a soft visual transition from private to common open areas. The gardens are the only quality elements of the complex.
vegetation
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topography .common gardens
walkways paving N
vegetation masterplan trees species
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location Mallorca, Bendinat
pool area view
private gardens section and plan
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New urban park 2011
Student work
In collaboration with Valerio Massaro, Ieva BaranauskaitÄ—
The urban park is located in a modern area of Florence. This part of the city is filled with ‘60s and ‘70s residential buildings with no strong architectural neither urban design. In the latter years the area has been the center of a massive renovation: university campus, cinemas, shops and institutional buildings have taken the place of a former factory. The park works as the connection for all these new features. In the park there is a university dedicated area designed to be a piazza and a kids playground. All the other spaces are suited to accommodate multiple uses. Two massive woods areas work as a visual and acoustic protection from the main traffic roads. The hills offer a variety of views and ways to live the park.
purpose 1 playground in the woods
purpose 2 campus open-air area masterplan
purpose 3 connecting the squares
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Program .walkways .promenade
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.main axis linear garden
.activities .woods
. water garden .piazza
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.campus area
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Species
woods quercus ilex quercus pubescens acer campestre
grass stripes of wild flowers
tree rows tilia
linear garden cupressus sempervirens
promenade cherry tree
water garden cytisus scoparius
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ZOO Barcelona 2013
Consultancy work
In collaboration with B’Arquitectes The Barcelona zoo is antique. It was founded around 1850, then modified during the whole 1900. So the zoo is based on old living standards for the animals: they have a minimum dedicated space and a minimum freedom to move while visitors walking on concrete footbridges and alleyways can watch them. The project operates a refurbishment of the Savannah area of the animals spaces involving lions, giraffes and elephants in the first phase; warthogs and zebras in the second. A wider area, with a pond, is provided for each animal. The landscape recreates the african original habitat of the species using vegetation and concrete rocks shaped to appear as savannah rocks. The concrete rocks are also used as protection fences. It provides a better stay of the animals and a more involving experience for visitors.
vegetation masterplan trees species
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lions giraffes visit walk path elephants
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Mugnone springs regeneration of the banks urban landscape 2012 The project aims to start an urban regeneration of Florence districts along the Mugnone water stream re-using the existing urban voids and structures. The stream was diverted multiple times during its history and now, in the urban area, it is considered a canal not perceived as relevant for its natural habitat and environment. The stream flows from the hills and runs in the suburban part of the city reaching many secondary city centers and community centers. Further in its flow it reaches smaller towns. For these reasons the small river can be a new connection route in a car-free way, effective on multiple scales. It is naturally a green network, but it can also be a walkway, a bicycle and horses corridor and a waterway. Creating a green network is not a sufficient condition to drive a urban regeneration. New connections are needed to operate between areas of interests along the stream and they have to be fast, safe, very accessible and easy to use. It has to be a urban network. Several urban strategies are studied in order to trace this connection with the city parts. Each
Thesis project strategy modifies the relations intercurring between each district and the water canal (consequentially with the rest of the city) creating a new urban landscape and a new living condition involving communities. One of the main issues is the social aspect of the regeneration: the suburban areas are lacking of facilities and public spaces and this implies a lack of identity. To increase the number and improve the quality of public facilities and spaces I mapped all the empty areas, brown-fields and unused buildings to find existing sites sustaining the space request of facilities needed by each community. The open areas offer their space for new features to perform several activities. They are all included in the urban network. The stream can now be lived as a route and in the leisure time. The river-community system is not an urban park, neither an integration of the city parts with the local communities and landscape. It is an hybrid urban-landscape system where the stream needs to be integrated in the city to become a livable and usable part of it.
Analysis phase 1
Territorial analysis any relevant environmetal qualities
Historic analysis multiple diversions due to subsequent expansions railways motorways pedestrian axis active local centers inactive local centers enclosed districts lack of landmarks stream as a border stream as unexisting
Perception of urban strucutures
Urban environment along the banks
Social analysis extract urban life of inhabitants along the stream
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URFACES
blic spaces, unused dings, brownfields, empty as -local scale
LOOPS
Urban strategies walking
public spaces network districts identity
dog walking
reused buildings for community facilieties new community facilities
sports existing control points
main town centers etwork
maller town centers etwork istricts identity
anks connections mprovements
nal connections to continuity of the work along the
.loops and lines
meet up gardening
new control points
SURFACES
urban connections, ections, banks ns -urban scale
phase 2
activities dedicated paths -different scales
public spaces, unused buildings, brownfields, empty areas -local scale
LOOPS activities dedicated paths -different scales walking
public spaces network districts identity
dog walking
reused buildings for community facilieties new community facilities
sports existing control points
RODS
green network ecological touristic walks thematic walks walk lanes bike lanes waterways
gardening
new control points
SURFACES
actions for urban connections, local connections, banks connections -urban scale
al scale
meet up
public spaces, unused buildings, brownfields, empty areas -local scale
activities dedicated paths -different scales walking
main town centers network
public spaces network districts identity
dog walking
smaller town centers network districts identity
reused buildings for community facilieties new community facilities
sports existing control points
banks connections improvements
actions to overcome path outages
.surfaces and rods
LOOPS
LINES
RODS
longitudinal connections to establish continuity of the paths network along the sream - territorial scale green network ecological touristic walks thematic walks walk lanes bike lanes waterways actions to overcome path outages
meet up gardening
new control points
SURFACES
actions for urban connections, local connections, banks connections -urban scale
.superposition of the systems
public spaces, unused buildings, brownfields, empty areas -local scale
case-study areas LOOPS activities dedicated paths -different scales walking
main town centers network
public spaces network districts identity
dog walking
smaller town centers network districts identity
reused buildings for community facilieties new community facilities
sports existing control points
banks connections improvements
meet up gardening
new control points
Relation types in the case-study areas
borders connections continuos spaces joined to spaces stream strip
Strategies for the design of the new banks phase 3
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the spoon bank
the liveable bank
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the basin bank
the spyglass bank
Improving facilities phase 4 water games view
confluence garden view
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Post-quake
vision of Crevalcore 2013
Competition
In collaboration with Valerio Massaro, Matteo Scamporrino, Nora Annesi, Mariano Gesualdi, Irene Conti, Luca di Figlia
Crevalcore is one of the town hit by the earthquakes sequence in the Emilia region in 2012. The town was not roughly destroyed but most of its center buildings were completely unusable. The idea for the competition is to introduce provocative and contemporary intervention in the whole town center to make it racy again. We think that most important is to give locals back their area for social and city life that they miss the most after the earthquake. At the same time we designed new open spaces for temporary activity and exhibition. This spaces are pointed out with small and cheap but outstanding devices: tents, landmark balloons, pavilions. All the devices are temporary because the reconstruction times are quite long and all the projects have to be adaptable.
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via Matteotti original
post-quake
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via Roma original
post-quake
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via Roma view
masrterplan Crevalcore, Bologna
new “monumental� doors view
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New York
future space and time 2012
Competition
In collaboration with Valerio Massaro The competition wants to imagine New York in its future if the manipulation of the urban context and its architectural objects, joined with its inhabitants, will be influenced by space and time. Our idea of time is that our present is the addition of all the possible pasts: every different choice in history would have led to this exact present moment. In NY this is especially true, where moving or demolishing a building doesn’t make the city change: skyscrapers can be built, demolished, replaced, modified, imagined or incomplete but the image of the city remains the same. Contrary, today something is changing in NY vision. The city is starting to consider some buildings as monuments, they cannot be modified or adjusted in any way. This situation will slowly lead to live the city as a museum: focused on the past pushing back new things. To avoid this possible future we believe that the best idea is to let the city grow exactly as it did up to this moment. That is why we provide a set of NEW SIMPLE RULES to include in the urban system of NY. The new rules state a new kind of urban development. This is the best way to keep the city alive and vibrant, fascinating as it is today.
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NEW YORK PERSONALITY
Subtraction
The sculptural shape of the city is made by subtraction (shift back, zoning law). The voids of the city are made by privation (Central Park).
What does it make the image of New York as it is
“New York is hard, cynical, ruthless, even beyond other cities. From their early repression its children emerge sophisticated, both stunted and overdeveloped, perverted, premature, forced by the artificiality of their environment.“ Ernest Gruening “There is no place like it, no place with an atom of its glory, pride, and exultancy. It lays its hand upon a man's bowels; he grows drunk with ecstasy; he grows young and full of glory, he feels that he can never die”. Walt Whitman
NEW YORK EVER AFTER
Present as a vision
Our present was one of the futures in the past. Our present is the addiction of all the pasts. New York present is the addiction of all the possible pasts. Every different choice in history would have led to this present.
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What does it make New York city-life as it is
Flows Every day millions of people come in and out of the Manhattan island in the form of overlapped flows of mobility and informations. That flows design the inner structure of the city and the neighbourhoods, like the flow of water design the soil. “New York remains what it has always been: a city of ebb and flow, a city of constant shifts of population and economics, a city of virtually no rest. It is harsh, dirty, and dangerous, it is whimsical and fanciful, it is beautiful and soaring - it is not one or another of these things but all of them, all at once, and to fail to accept this paradox is to deny the reality of city existence”. Paul Goldberger
Cities within the city
New York is not a multi-ethnic city, it’s a city of multiple ethnic communities. “New York is the biggest collection of villages in the world”. Alistair Cooke
Commutative law of addition Moving or deleting New York buildings doesn’t make the city change.Skyscrapers can be built, demolished, replaced, modified, imagined or incomplete.The image of the city remains the same. The skyscrapers began to rise again, frailly massive, elegantly utilitarian, images in their grace, audacity and inconclusiveness, of the whole character of the people who produces them”. Malcolm Muggeridge
Shores As a river flowing generates its shores the main arteries of the city creates an archipelago where everybody feels safe in his cummunity island. Like in nature, the boundaries collect the highest grade of complexity and regenerative creativity. “Situated on an island which I think it will one day cover, it rises like Venice from the sea, and like that fairest of cities in the days of her glory, receives into its lap tribute of all the riches of the earth”. Francis Trollope (1827)
Magma of possibilities
New York is the city of potentialities. All the never-built totalizing projects feed the “magma of possibilities” that New York is. The failure of that projects is necessary to keep the city adaptable to the contemporary: New York refuses formal crystallization. “It'll be a great place if they ever finish it”.
Grid Only following few stricted rules it’s achievable the higest
form of liberty. There is no planning; only one enviroment for architecture. Everything is possible inside your own site. “A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times: It is a beautiful catastrophe”. Le Corbusier
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Plugged City Manhattan dares its island nature: it is a metropolis due to the horizontal and vertical infrastructural system (bridges, subway, streets, lifts).
O. Henry
Gain the future Change the image of NY implies change its meaning. The only way to have a future is to preserve its essence. New York can gain its own future only radicalizing its features. “Manhattan. Sometimes from beyond the skyscrapers, across thousands of high walls, the fearful cry of a too-well-known voice finds you in your insomnia in the middle of the night, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an island of un-reality”. Albert Camus (1978) “The image of the Manhattan skykine may stand for vitality, power, decadence, mystery, congestion, greatness or wath you will, but in each case that sharp picture cistallizes and reinforce the meaning”. Kevin Lynch
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Housing in Massarosa 2010
Student work
In collaboration with Valerio Massaro, Ludovica Marinaro
New district in the town of Massarosa. In the project area we found some pre-existing components: one old dismissed bricks’ factory and two ponds. The old factory is restored as public facilities building and the ponds area is designed as urban park enclosed by a parkway road. The buildings are mostly residential but many facilities are provided: local shops in the mixed-use buildings, a market in the core area, schools, offices and others. About 1000 people could live here, in a 10 minutes walking distance from any facility. The residential buildings are designed to offer several house types to fit the lifestyle of any kind of people and families.
the new district program public facilities schools market offices
location Massarosa, Tuscany
residencial mixed-use
the house types
studio
1/2 unit house
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simplex
1 unit house
douplex
penthouse
1+1/2 units house
2 units house
1+1/2 units aptm
2 units aptm
penthouses lofts
ground level plan
mixed used building case study top view N
cross section sample level plan
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Urban nature 2010
Student work
In collaboration with Valerio Massaro, Ludovica Marinaro, Francesco Listi New urban features for the district “Venice� in Livorno. The features are an open air theatre, bars and shops, a new exhibition space and a green house. As the name says, the district is called Venice for its canals, so the water is a relevant part of the project. The canals are at a lower level than the city; the project is sited at this level to allow direct access to water and to the old fortress. This offers the chance to create an artificial beach with water games near the greenhouse. The complex is a relaxing and safe place to spend some spare time.
urban features aerial view
.Alfred Hitchcock is surprised by the beauty of the place
Program greenhouses
urban beaches recreation & commercial cafeteria open-air theatre
masterplan
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open-air theatre plan and cross sections
greenhouse plan and view
urban beaches plan and view
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Tatlin’s tower built 2011
Student work
In collaboration with Valerio Massaro What if the Tatlin tower was built? The construction of an architecture meant to be a monument is history-changing: the examples stand tall as the Eiffel tower. If an unbuilt architecture like Tatlin monument to Russia was built it would have change history. So we imagined different scenarios and different events that would have possibly be related to the tower. The tower itself was about 400 m high, designed for S. Petersburg. The perfect solid glass volumes caged in the steel structure had representative (law and administration) and cultural (information and cinema) functions. They were designed to rotate on themselves following the speed of hour, day, month and year.
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SIEDITRI
always a different seat 2012
Competition
In collaboration with Valerio Massaro The seat is made in wooden waste materials cut into triangles and glued together. The idea is to reuse as much wood as possible and minimize the waste for the producers. The particularity of it lies in the aesthetic of waste: different kinds of wood create triangles patterns in natural or colored tones. It makes any seat different from one another. They are all single pieces. The shape of triangle can describe any other shape: everything can be partitioned in triangles, everything can be assembled in modular triangles. Wooden wastes do not exist, they can be cut in little triangles. SIEDITRI is a seat designed in a common shape but with a complex pattern geometry. SIEDITRI is a monument to reuse. SIEDITRI is always unique.
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Credits .All the photos in the book are Vanessa Lastrucci’s, except for NY and Crevalcore photos by Valerio Massaro .Editing and graphic Vanessa Lastrucci 2014 Š Vanessa Lastrucci
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