PORTFOLIO Vittoria Marelli
Personal Information Vittoria Marelli 31.10.1989 Via Mascari 55, 23900 Lecco (Lc), Italy +39 347 4476526 vittoriamarelli.vm@gmail.com
CURRICULUM VITAE Education 2014 July | Architecture Master Degree 105/110, Politecnico di Milano, Scuola di Architettura e Società, Milan, Italy 2012 January | Exchange program at NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway 2011 September | Architecture Bachelor Degree, Politecnico di Milano, Scuola di Architettura e Società, Milan, Italy 2008 June | Scientific High School “G.B. Grassi”, Lecco, Italy
Work Experience 2014 | YAC - Young Architects International Competition 2013 | Internship at Yellowoffice Landscape Design Studio, Milan, Italy 2013 | Concours International Parc Agro-Urbain Espaces publics et espaces ouvert de Bernex-Confignon, collaboration with Yellowoffice Landscape Design Studio 2013 | kidroomZOOM event for the Design Week at Spazio Clorofilla, Via Cesare da Sesto, Milan, Italy 2011 | Internship at Guidarini - Salvadeo Architecture Office, Milan, Italy
Languages Italian | Mother tongue English | Reading, writing, speaking good - certified by TOEIC
Computer Skills Good knowledge both with software Mac OSX and Windows Graphic design and layout: Autodesk Autocad, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Indesign, Adobe Photoshop, Sketchup
Workshops 2011 | Architectural design workshop “Milano, nuovi spazi per il riuso temporaneo” supported by Temporiuso, Milano www.temporiuso.org 2012 | Architectural design workshop “St.Olav Hospital” supported by NTNU and St.Olav Hospital, Trondheim, Norway 2012 | Architectural design workshop “Light and Tectonic Workshop” supported by NTNU and Aarhus School of Architecture, Aarhus, Denmark 2012 | Architectural design workshop “Wood Pavillion” supported by NTNU and the city of Selbu, Norway
2013 | Landscape design Workshop “Mines Landscape Design” supported by Politecnico di Milano with Alessandro Rocca, Lorenzo Bini, Gianmaria Sforza Fogliani, Nina Bassoli, Giovanni Corbellini, Matteo Poli Sardegna and Milan 2014 | Architectural design workshop “On abandoned urban landscape” supported by Conversion + and Small - Soft Metropolitan Architecture & Landscape Lab with Marco Navarra, NOWA Studio, Giacomo Borella, Studio Albori and Francesco Librizzi, Francesco Librizzi Studio Teatro Margherita, Bari, Italy www.conversionplus.it
Abilities and competences Good model making experience Good hand drawing skills Predisposition to teamwork Attitude to work with deadlines Good organization skills Good comunication skills
Other interests Digital and analog photography Hand drawings and illustration Piano
SELECTED WORKS
Architecture 1. Workshop 1:1 scale Design process and construction on site in Trondheim and Selbu NTNU University, Trondheim, Norway 2. Architectural Design Studio 2 New architectonic and landscape intervention on the Afsluitdijk, Holland Politecnico di Milano, Architecture course 3. YAC - Young Architects Competition Design of a new Space to Culture in Bologna, Italy Participants: Vittoria Marelli, Andrea Ferreri, Stefano Marongiu
Books 1. Laboratorio Brindisi Town Planning Design Course, Politecnico di Milano, Italy 2. Wadi al Salam Master Thesis with the support of Pier Paolo Tamburelli, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Photography 1. Citylife Project Sequence of 20 photos about the development of the Expo Area of Citylife in Milan with the support of the photographer and editor of Lotus Magazine Michele Nastasi Milan
Architecture
1. WORKSHOP 1:1 St’Olav Hospital Master Course NTNU, Trondheim
Design and architectural construction workshop divided in two phases within a period of several months at the NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. The first phase focused on giving new furniture for the rooms of children with cancer in the St. Olav Hospital of Trondheim; they would have be designed and produced in one month. In order to reach the kids needs it was built a simple structure, flexible, easy to produce because of the little time available, but also funny and original. The furniture was made by panels joined together in different ways creating various and more complex spaces. The shape of the triangle was used to express the desire to build a mobile but also interchangeable structure. The first action was to made 1:10 little models trying to understand how a structure could work and making some 1:1 test on wood material for the most difficult parts such as hookings and other constructive details.
First models 1:10 scale
Testing with 1:10 scale
The final structure at St.Olav Hospital
1. WORKSHOP 1:1 Wood Pavilion
Master Course NTNU, Trondheim
The second phase of the workshop focused on constructing a wood pavilion on a top of a hill in the little town of Selbu, 70 kilometres far from Trondheim, a new view point for the city that would have be designed and realized in two months. The goal would have be to create a place to see the beautiful landscape around but also useful in itself, making several points in which something could happen. The pavilion was like a forest of wood sticks placed with different density inside, related to the space. In the interior part was built also a little closed box with only one opening to the sky. Every parts was made with pieces of natural norwegian wood, only the foundations were painted in black. The total amount of sticks for the forest was six hundred, the floor and the roof were made by wood beams. The sticks were useful also to create some feances at the edge of the pavilion making windows to frame the view from the hill and to create some empty spaces where to put swings to enjoy the landscape.
Supporting structure
Inside box
Wood sticks forest
The Pavilion in the city of Selbu
2. ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN STUDIO 2 Afsluitdijk, Holland Master Course Politecnico di Milano
Design studio master course focused on the Afsluitdijk dam located in Friesland, a province in the northwest of the Netherlands and running from Den Oever to the villlage of Zurich over a lenght of 32 kilometres and a width of 90 metres, 7.25 metres above sea level. It is damming off the Zuiderzee, a salt water on the North Sea, and turning it into the fresh water lake of the IJsselmeer. The project comes up against the climate changes and the consequent sea level rise that is causing the shrinkage of most of the Dutch soil. The most important key points are so the flood defense, the water management, the spatial planning, the urban development but also the harbors development and the environmental protection. The base of the project is enclosed in the phrase: building with nature and living with water: -great water expanses along the coast, along the major river, in residential areas -dikes are no longer lonely but broad super dikes on which people can live -more flexibility in urban and natural settings The project provides the use of the Sand Motor system to create a natural dunes and beach putting a large amount of sand in a single operation. With this technique the coast will be broader and safer. The IJsselmeer side is equipped with new harbors, bridges and pedestrian and bicycle paths. Strategy
Infrastructures Schemes
Holland
Friesland
Vehicles
Boat Waddenzee
to Holland...
...to Friesland
Ijsselmeer
Pedestrian and Bicycle circulation
The creation of the dunes using the Sand Motor
Sand Movement
Soil Salinity
Saltsprays
Soil Humidity
Elements Study
Rhus
Achillea Moschata Mirto Carex arenaria Prunus Maritima
Myrica
SECONDARY DUNE BEHIND THE DUNES PRIMARY DUNE SEA
BEACH
BAY COAST
SUBSIDENCE
BAY
Vegetation Study
The raft on the Sea
The Raft
Closed space with outdoor terrace
Closed space
Spaces
Opened space equipped with forniture for outdoor activities Passages
Open Spaces Meeting
Ensamble
Final Project
Plan
Section
On the beach
On the IJsselmeer side
3. YAC-Young Architects Competitions Space to culture
International Competition Quarto Inferiore, Bologna
International competition organized by YAC Association and Nute Partecipazione, owner of an important fabric located in Quarto Inferiore, a suburb of the city of Bologna. The project goal is to transform the old productive sites into cultural and artistic spaces opened to the citizens and to the tourists like the new modern entertainment centres. The intervention, keeping the industrial vocation of the former factory, focuses primarly on the production and sale of artworks, rather than exclusively on their fruibility. The old laboratories for cutting the fabric become habitat for temporary-resident artists and materials of any kind for all type of art are available to them in a storage area. The project set the groundwork for a system in which gravitates cycles of art production: from the storage of raw materials to production of artwork, up to the trade showroom. It meets the new concepts in the world of art, where the importance of an artist is first decreed by the commercial value that captures his work, and only after by the institutions. The new arts center is designed as a large workshop open to all, it host inside space for manipulation, leisure center and, a new garden and a sports field for the citizens of Quarto Inferiore and Bologna.
Axonometric view of the all area
Plants of the four floors + 4.20 m
+ 0.00 m
+ 9.30 m
+ 6.80 m
Sections
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bb
Artworks in progress
Artworks market
Books
1. LABORATORIO BRINDISI Brindisi, Italy
Master Course Politecnico di Milano
This book is the result of the Town Planning Design Workshop held by professors Isabella Inti, Pier Paolo Tamburelli and Vittorio Pizzigoni in the Architecture Faculty of Politecnico di Milano. This course has been part of a broader investigation project on Italian industrial realities characterized by a higly compromised environment, declared by the government as S.I.N. - Sites of National Interest. Laboratoriobrindisi constitutes the second step of a deeper investigation on the SIN reality in Italy and afterwards concretize this research in the proposal of a future scenario for the Brindisi area. The book recollects the students work and it aims to constitute an useful tool for the actors who might be involved in the future of the area. The book is composed of three main sections. A first part recollects a broad work of analysis and cataloguing made at the beginning of the investigation process. A second chapter presents the case study of Brindisi SIN area with a descriptive and photographical overview of the reality of Brindisi that introduces to a proposal for a sustainable scenario for the future of the area: an industrial park, a natural park to protect the existing environmental peculiarities and a remediation park. A third section contains then a glossary which recollects the main key-words explored through the book. Laboratoriobrindisi is the result of an intriguing and formative experience of research and design which objective has already been achieved with the publishing of this book.
Eni Power B 1 Plant
Eni Power B 2Plant
Enel Power H 5 Plant
2. WADI AL SALAM Najaf, Iraq
Master Thesis Politecnico di Milano
This book is my master thesis study about the biggest islamic cemetery in the world, the Wadi al Salam cemetery, developed under the supervision of the professor Pier Paolo Tamburelli during the last semester of the Master Course in the Architecture Faculty of Politecnico di Milano. I began the thesis with the study of the Entwurff einer historischen architektur by the Austrian architect Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach. This book is a project of an historic architecture in which it is illustrated the Egyptian, Chinese, Syrian, Persian, Greek, Roman, Arab, Japanese and Turkish real and monumental architecture always populated by an animated and anonymous multitude. All the architectures represented have one common feature, they have the same relation with the human figures inside. Starting from here I asked myself if still nowadays there are places with these peculiarity and I found the Wadi al Salam cemetery that literally means The Valley of Peace. Wadi al Salam is six square kilometres big and it contains five million bodies. With the help of another book, Crowd and Power, by Elias Canetti, I could better understand the mass theme in general and also in the islamic culture that has the highest mass religion of the world. The book shows all the cemetery story with photos and drawings of the entire area, the Arba’een pilgrimage from the city of Najaf to Karbala, the second Iraqi holy city and a short project about the funeral ritual. This is enclosed into a big external wall with a monumental aspect as a landmark for the faithful spiritual life and for being stable and long-lasting. Everything is bound to the place reality and in this way human gestures are translated into architecture.
The Religious Mass Static mass in the lowland of Arafat Mountain
Double mass of faithful and infidels
Double mass of living and dead
The Arba’een
Project Plan
Studio Tecnico: Arch. Giuseppe Conte
Tecnico: Studio
Giuseppe Arch.
Conte
Studio Tecnico: Arch. Giuseppe Conte
Project View
Photography
1. PHOTOGRAPHIC PROJECT Citylife
Master Course Politecnico di Milano
A photographic project of 20 photos about Citylife in Milan, one of the next Expo 2015 main stage. The reason why I chose to photograph that area was not due to the fact that I was fascinated, but on the contrary because, from what I had seen in magazines and newspapers, I do not find anything good. My challenge was to be able to photograph a place that it do not broadcast anything except a feeling of emptiness, desolation, not belonging to the city around it. I wanted to write a story of this area of Milan, a think and imagine that it do not paralyzed in the contempt of what it is around. The examinated area is a large fenced and hidden yard, with some numbered passages that sometimes provide a glimpse of what goes on inside. It is always the same: asphalt, parking lots, street lights, road junctions, tangles and fences repeating in a formless space. What photography can do is to make this a little unique moments through changes of light, objects lines, evidence of a color and spaces created by accident. I was so able to create a visual itinerary to be followed by discovering, representing and understanding the reality of this place without trying to hide anything. Almost contradictory, in this emptiness, in the end, everything for me has become visible.
Thank you
vittoriamarelli.vm@gmail.com
+39 3474476526