Technical design studio a.y. 2019/2020 - Prof. Arch. Gianluca Brunetti - PoliMi
Public Rooftop, Savona
Technical design studio a.y. 2017/2018 - Prof. Arch. Giovanni Paolo Rava - Unige
Dialogue with Genoa
Design studio a.y. 2017/2018 - Prof. Arch. Paolo Brescia - UniGe
Stolen Identity, Bergamo
Urban and design studio a.y. 2019/2020 - Prof. Arch. Andrea Gritti - PoliMi
Slaughterhouse factory reuse, Milan
Design studio a.y. 2020/2021 - Prof. Arch. Giovanni Bovati - PoliMi
Master Thesis a.y. 2021/2022 - Prof. Arch. Phd. Davide Del Curto - PoliMi 02 03 04 05 06 Index
Escuelas Nacionales de Arte, Cuba
01 Calimali Landfall, Varese
Design and costruction studio a.y. 2019/2020 - Prof. Arch. Gianluca Brunetti - PoliMi
The Calimali landing place, located in Fagnano Olona, in the province of Varese, is located in a natural park, with important environmental characteristics to be preserved. The project aims to enhance the site, intervening accurately, without overwhelming the ecosystem of the landing place.
From here, the idea of enhancing the earth and the products generated by the earth was born. Thus a laboratory space was born that hosts lectures, workshops and conferences on agriculture and bio-cultivation.
The project develops on 3 levels. The first, the ground floor, is public where gatherings take place. The first floor instead houses a conference room and a front room. Finally, the second is occupied by a practical laboratory space. The tree was an inspiration, which guided us both in the choice of material and in that of the shape. The project is entirely made of xlam wood for the horizontal and vertical curtain walls, and laminated wood for the load-bearing structure.
Internal view - educational area
02 Public Rooftop, Savona
Technical Design Studio
a.y. 2017/2018 - Prof. Arch. Giovanni Paolo Rava - UniGe
The inhabitants of a neighborhood in Savona want to give life to a space that is completely unused because condemned and unsafe: a roof at the top of a residential building. The project aims to the total refund of this kind of space, not only to the inhabitants of the building, but also to the community of the neighborhood.
The goal is to think and create an open, public, accessible enjoyable to all space.
The process is divided in two phases. In the first one, the preexistance is secured, making walkable the rooftop’s surface. To make that a mash has been used, made by beams on the market with standard measures in GFRP material, a reinforced polymer. The distribution of the spaces has been studied instead in the second phase. The surface has been divided into 3 recreational zones: the first one, an open library, the second one a playground area for kids, and eventually a botanical garden cured by the residents of the building.
Perspective section
The new structure lays on the preexisting residential building.
The first is a structural mesh of prefabricated and interlocked IPE and C-shaped beams in GFRP reinforced polymer. The library is the second part of the structure. Made entirely of wood it is made up of interlocking wooden beams.
Wooden structure
Rooftop plan
Library internal view
03 Dialogue with Genoa
Architectural Design Studio3a a.y. 2017/2018 - Prof. Arch. Paolo Brescia (OBR) - Unige
The laboratory purpose was to give a new face to the project at the Genoa Fair exhibition: the Blue Print. The idea is an attractive center which would host several functions, among them residential, public and commercial ones. Here comes a dynamic and polifunctional space. A new public square between the new building, composed by two semicirculars, and the preexisting S Pavillion. Public space is not restricted to +5 metres altitude on the sea level. Commercial function infact develops on an underground level that looks out of the canal, which adapts and follows the circular shape of the building. A ramp introduces at the first elevated floor, which hosts temporary exhibitions. There are apartements that are shaped by two modules in the last two floors: one for 2/3 people and the other one larger for wider family cores. The preexisting structures in the opposite area to the Jean Nouvel Pavillion are demolished and is thought as a green traversable pillow, a buffer that gives breath to the area between sea and the city.
Blue print Masterplan
Internal view - commercial
Internal view - exhibition hall
04 Stolen Identity, Bergamo
Architectural design studio 4 a.y. 2019/2020 - Prof. Arch. Andrea Gritti - PoliMi
The project aims to restore new spaces to the city and citizens of Dalmine. Thanks to an initial study of the productive processes of the Tenaris factory, which located the production areas to the east and west, it was possible to recognize storage environments, not used for a productive role, and therefore potentially recoverable. The emptying of these warehouses has opened a long public corridor that opens towards the city. The connection system with the existing urban system develops through systems of walkways, supported by a roof made of reticular beams, which reach suitable heights (4.5 and 9 meters) to allow alternative access to the sheds both at the head and at its sides without cutting the arteries of the factory. The sheds house exhibition spaces in the factory, university classrooms and offices, with a play of volumes that fit inside them. At the two heads of the system there are instead an outdoor park and a station that allows the connection with Verdello Dalmine, which are articulated through spaces and squares open to citizens.
Longitudinal section
Trasversal
05 Slaughterhouse factory reuse, Milan
Architectural Design Studio 5 a.y. 2020/2021 - Prof. Arch. Marco Bovati and Monica Lavagna - PoliMi
The area, located in the south-east of Milan, is the target of the C40 Reiventing Cities competition. The goal is to redevelop the former slaughterhouse by pursuing fundamental prerequisites: sustainability, resilience and adaptability. After a decontamination of the most polluted areas, through the use of plantations and urban gardens, a public building was conceived and designed to adapt to the presences. This redesigns the southern front of the site, generating permeability and hardness, through the curtain wall and perforations. The second phase focused on the realisation of a residential building for workers and families. The main characteristic is the flexibility that has allowed the design of spaces that can vary over time according to the needs of the users. The construction system is based on dry and mixed systems using steel and timber
Axonometric view - west residential and south commercial
Decontamination
Planting seeds
Volumes definition
Public building volume
Subtraction from the volume and new public spaces
Studio house
Lab house
South elevation
Trasversal section
Three-room flat
Two-room flat
External view from the court
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Escuelas Nacionales de Arte, Cuba
Master Thesis
a.y. 2021/2022 - Prof. Arch. Davide Del Curto - PoliMi
Master Thesis analyses the case study of the National Art Schools in Cuba, designed by Gottardi, Garatti and Porro. The schools, as well as representing the symbol of the Cuban revolution, served as a plastic example for making an analysis on the theme of authorship and the role of the 20th century architect. Specifically, the paradigm changes and the building begins to take on more importance: buildings live and work without an author and vice versa; the research unveiled all the design phases of the School of Dramatic Arts till its last stage of incompletion and abandonment, even if we can register a use by Cubans. In this case, the incompleteness of the work is not a limitation, but a stimulus for a search for design coherence and an opportunity for revitalisation. For this reason, some spaces of these ruins have been conceived as exhibition spaces, narrating, through an exhibition project, all the phases of the work’s life.
Master Thesis plastiline model - abandoned buildings of School of Dramatic Arts
3D modeling of the proposals for the completion of the School of Dramatic Arts designed by Arch. Roberto Gottardi / from 1961 to 2022
