AA Visiting School Ivrea Report 2012

The Architectural Association School of Architecture The Adriano Olivetti Foundation

Workshop Report 2012

Factory Futures AA Ivrea Visiting School 2012 ICO Factory - Ivrea, Turin 16.07.12 - 27.07.2012 For more information: http://ivrea.aaschool.ac.uk/ http://www.facebook.com/AAIvrea

Main Partner

FONDAZIONE ADRIANO OLIVETTI

Local Partner

Technical Partner

Technical Support

Media Partners

Intro From the 16th to the 27th of July 2012, the Architectural Association and the Adriano Olivetti Foundation - in partnership with the City of Ivrea and Gehry Technologies Europe – have boldly introduced the Factory Futures project to a global and local audience through a twelve days experimental design programme held entirely at the former Olivetti complex in Ivrea (Italy) as part of the worldwide AA Visiting School programme and the Foundation’s current cultural initiatives on the territory. This year’s workshop culminated in a public exhibition at the Salone dei 2000 – Olivetti ICO Factory - featuring the work of the students in presence of international guest critics, journalists and members of the local administration.

Twelve students coming from four different continents immerged themselves in the Olivettian culture and architectures with the objective of building a large scale architectural prototype responding to the emerging conditions of production of the site. A series of lectures and field trips critically introduced the students to the Olivettian social and architectural values, the reality of local call centres and the most recent studies focusing on the relation between modern subjectivity and the working environments of late capitalism.

In pursuing a very Olivettian intersection between social theory and advanced technological applications, students were introduced to the highly contemporary topic of integrated design.

In depth insights on digital technologies in the building industry and real architectural projects have been provided alongside intensive and hands-on workshops on associative and parametric modelling (Digital Project) as well as machine control and simulation (RobotStudio) for Robotic Fabrication.

Students focused on the design of a production cycle as a driver for the generation of architectural form: a given amount of twelve cubic meters of polystyrene was to be cut through the machines of a local factory – some large scale hot wire cutters - and assembled at the former Olivetti Factories on a strict timeline. Manufacturing possibilities, assembly logics, and production timelines have been the key ingredients of our architectural speculations. In the first week, a number of grid and component based systems were explored starting from an abstraction of the materials found during the Olivettian field trips. In the second phase, students focused on the systematization of the final prototype as a result of the discussions, the experiments and the collective decisions of week 1.

As we explored a cheap, elemental and collective building system derived from the systemic exploration of the production and assembly logics of one component, this methodology brought us closer to an Eskimo community and their igloos rather than a contemporary design practice. Instead of proposing a purely functional response to a problem, the final prototype has been conceived as an open – yet hyper specific – integrated system. Through drawings and collages, we imagined it as a micro-environment able to colonize the typical open plan of the factory and where – as a result of the ubiquitous presence of technology both work and life activities could find place on carpets under this self-contained and individualized space. Further explorations on the same component based system focused on the design of non-standardized elements through specific scripting and fabrication techniques.

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Final prototype: conceptual Isometricsrk.

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Final prototype installed in the Salone dei 2000 - Olivetti ICO Factory / Ivrea

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A growing network In its first edition, the project has been actively supported by the following local and global partnerships through which the programme intends to prolong and reinforce its cultural mission in the coming years: Main Partner: Adriano Olivetti Foundation.

Today, Ivrea is a laboratory of several initiatives and the Adriano Olivetti Foundation and the City of Ivrea are actively working together towards the valorisation of its modern architectural heritage.

The main role of the Foundation has been the one of facilitating the project at a local level. This has been coordinated with the programme director through regular meetings throughout the year preceding the school and during in its actual development in July 2012.

At a organizational level, the Foundation has facilitated: A dedicated press conference in the Ivrea City Hall.

The field trips to the Olivettian architectures in Ivrea, the Vodafone Call Centre, the Olivetti Historical Archives, and the museum Tecnologicamente in Ivrea The use of the Salone dei 2000 for the final review.

The logistics for the classrooms and the students/tutors accommodation.

At a scientific level the Foundation has supported the project through regular consultations in the preparation period with the expertise of Professor Bonifazio who has also lectured on the Olivetti architectural heritage during the first day of the school and participated as a guest critic at the final review.

At a communication level the Foundation has helped in the promotion of the course through its national network (mailing lists, Facebook page) and invited numerous local guests at the final exhibition. We also believe in the potential to capitalize on the FAO communication network in terms of publicity and publication of the work conducted in its first edition. Strong of this first experience, we believe in the potential to further expand the cultural and scientific collaboration with the Foundation towards a more original and in depth localization of the project.

Technical Partner: Gehry Technologies Europe GT has supported the project through the active participation of Edmondo Occhipinti and Pierre Cutellic in the preparation of programme throughout the year preceding the Visiting School. Several meetings have been held at the GT Europe headquarters in Paris and regular online meetings have been held in order to progress the didactic material of the course.

During the twelve days course in Ivrea, GT has provided the students with temporary Digital Project licences and the full time presence of Pierre Cutellic who has introduced the work of Gehry Technologies through a dedicated lecture and set up a two-days intensive Digital Project workshop. Pierre has also assisted the calibration of the ABB 120 Robot and fully supported the students work throughout the duration of the course.

Local Partner: City of Ivrea.

The City of Ivrea has welcomed the international and experimental character of the school and supported the programme by facilitating the access to the classrooms for the whole duration of the course.

Through a dedicated press conference, the project has been presented to the local institutions as a three year programme working in synergy with the other cultural initiatives promoted by the Adriano Olivetti Foundation and the local companies in the territory.

Throughout the duration of the course we have seen the active participation of the Mayor, the Vice-Mayor, and the Counsellors for Culture, Urbanism and Architecture.

Academic Partner: Archiwaste Archiwaste has provided the presence of Rupert Malczeck (PHD-Koge Innsbruck) for the whole duration of the course and of Guillaume Bounoure and Chloe Genevaux for the last phase of the programme. The project has immensely benefited of their expertise in fabrication projects and workshops coordination. Š AA IVREA VISITING SCHOOL 2012

Technical Support: ABB SpA IT - Discrete Automation & Motion Division ABB Italy has provided the presence of one ABB 120 Robot in Ivrea for the whole duration of the course plus the technical assistance of Ing. Gianluigi Moro for the calibration of the machine on Day 1.

The project is currently looking forward to strengthen this partnership for the future editions of the school including potential field trips and workshops at the ABB Italy headquarters in Milan.

Local Supporter: Alpea S.p.a. and Ivrea Imballi Alpea S.p.a. - a medium sized local company - provided twelve cubic meters of polystyrene, their cutting into shapes, and their delivery to site. Ivrea Imballi has provided three cubic meters of polystyrene for the initial tests and has given the possibility to the students to visit their factory in Ivrea including a full introduction to polystyrene manufacturing technologies.

Academic Support: University of Zagreb - Faculty of Architecture In light of the European Fund approached by the AA, the Adriano Olivetti Foundation and University of Zagreb and the project’s potential future in South-East Europe, several academic contacts have been fostered both in the preparation of the course and in its actual development. From the University of Zagreb, Ivo Covic has widely supported the scientific content of the ECF Fund application while Mladen Josic has welcomed the Factory Futures team in Zagreb and guaranteed the participation of three of his best students to the course.

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PARIS INNSBRUCK ARCHIWAST ASTE ZAGREB

MILAN IVREA

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Tutors and Participants Tutors A-Tommaso Franzolini E-Guillaume Bounoure

B-Pierre Cutellic C-Rupert Malczeck F-Benedetta Gargiulo

Guests G-Patrizia Bonifazio

H-Francisco Gonzales

Students 1-Alessandra di Leo 5-Aleksandar Celovic

2-Denim Pascucci 6-Mirka Skudar

10-Carlo Alberto Gasperini

D-Chloe Genevaux

I-Nuria Lombarderos

3-Bonaventura Visconti 4-Clemens Jenny 7-Nikolina Pavlovic 8-Antonio Moll 9-Sara Saghafi

11-Solana Costa del Rio

12-Stefano Pavone

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Director Tommaso Franzolini [AA Dip] is an architect. After graduating at the AA with George L. Legendre, he worked for a number of years at Foreign Office Architects, most notably as the Project Architect for Birmingham New Street Station and as the team leader in several international competitions. He currently directs the AA Visiting School in Ivrea and co-curates the AA Italy platform while being regularly invited as a guest critic at the AA and other design schools. In 2012 he founded Studio Franzolini, an architecture & design research practice dealing with retail and residential projects in Italy and the UK. Tutors Pierre Cutellic is a French architect. He holds a first Master of Architecture from E.N.S.A.T. (Toulouse, France) and graduated at E.N.S.A.P.M.(Paris,France) in 2007 where he started teaching and lecturing digital technologies and practices in 2006. Since then, he has been practicing in several architectural firms in the research and development of generic and automated systems from conception to construction design and management. He joined Gehry Technologies in Europe in 2008 as a Project Consultant and worked since on various and complex projects across Europe and the UAE. He is in parallel teaching several courses and workshops on Integrative Design at E.N.S.A.P.M. Rupert Maleczek received his Architectural diploma degree from the University of Innsbruck in 2007, and is now working on his PHDThesis about linear folded stripes.

He is co-founder of the architectural collective Archiwaste, that is active in various fields, from folded structures to cardboard as building material.

Guest Tutors Patrizia Bonifazio is the scientific advisor of the Adriano Olivetti Foundation Architectural Program Division and since 2008 is responsible for the Unesco nomination of Ivrea architectural industrial heritage promoted by the Foundation and the City ofIvrea. Professor Bonifazio teaches Urban and Planning History at the Politecnico of Milan -Leonardo Campus, focusing on the history of architecture and town planning of the latter half of the 20th century.

Francisco Gonzelez de Canales is AACP coordinator and Unit Master at the AA. He studied architecture at ETSA Seville, ETSA Barcelona and Harvard University, and worked for Foster + Partners and Rafael Moneo . An active architectural critic, he has previously lectured History and Theory in the MA program and diverses uiversities in England, Mexico, Spain and the USAHe completed his PhD on the radical domestic self-experimentations of the 1940s and 1950s that will be published soon by Actar.

Nuria Alvarez Lombardero is Unit Master at the Architectural Association, where she also co-directs the Visiting School Politics of Fabrication Laboratory. She studied Architecture in ETSA Madrid and Urbanism in the Architectural Association. Previously she worked for Boston based office Machado & Silvetti and Neutra magazine as part of the editorial board. After working as a researcher at Harvard University, the University of Cambridge and the AA, she is currently finalizing her PhD on the dissolution of boundaries traced by modern urban planning. Recently she has joined the urban web-publication Ciudad Viva correspondant team.

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Site and Technologies Today, Ivrea is a laboratory of several initiatives and the Adriano Olivetti Foundation and the City of Ivrea are actively working together towards the valorisation of its modern architectural heritage. Since 2001 they have launched several projects aimed to the valorisation of Olivettian architecture, or rather the architectural products and regional transformation projects derived from the industrial, cultural, and social policies backed by Adriano Olivetti. In this framework, the collaboration between the AA and the Fondazione Adriano Olivetti through the AA Visiting School in Ivrea aims to catalyse several and diverse opportunities: the possibility to confront ourselves with a high quality architectural and cultural context left from the Olivetti legacy to the city; a territory open to cultural debates and experimental design proposals; a sensibility towards the themes of higher education and advanced research.

The Visiting School took place at the “Polo Universitario Officine H” in the former Olivetti Nuova ICO Factory designed by Figini & Pollini in 60’s. In parallel the school has further interacted with the Olivettian heritage Ivrea through open air sessions, field trips and the final exhibition held at the Salone dei 2000.

“Polo Universitario Officine H”: Olivetti Nuova ICO Factory

The ABB 120 Robot installed in the classroom

Room 1: Lecture Hall

Room 2: Laboratory

Room 3: Computer Lab

Open-air classroom at Ostello Canoa

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Site and Technologies Final Exhibition Space The Final Exhibition and installation of the prototype took place in the Salone dei 2000, a large industrial space at the centre of the Olivetti industrial complex as part of the first ICO Factory built in 1952. As the pivotal space of the factories, the Salone was used by both Camillo and Adriano Olivetti to address the workers and it now occupies a special place in the collective memory of the city.

The statue of Camillo Olivetti (Founder of the company at the end of the XIX Century) became a focus of the student’s interest regarding the size and the careful placement of our prototype.

The temporary re-use of this space, once central to the life of the citizens of Ivrea, has been welcomed warmly and in itself has proved the power of this cultural initiative aimed at the revitalization of the under used, yet rich, urban spaces.

Salone dei 2000: Adriano Olivetti addresses the workers

Final Exhibition opening © Barbara Torra

Final Exhibition opening

Students measuring Camillo Olivetti statue © AA IVREA VISITING SCHOOL 2012

Final Exhibition opening

Site and Technologies Digital Project and ABB 120 Robot From the highly contemporary topic of integrated design , a short series of lectures on contemporary practices of digital technologies in building industry and architectural projects built or in construction has been provided to students along with intensive and hands-on workshops on associative and parametric modelling (Digital Project) as well as machine control and simulation (RobotStudio) for Robotic Fabrication. While key aspects of softwares and practices have been highlighted and demonstrated, experimentations and project developments have been spread through the students as a workshop assignment.

Digital Project workshop

First iterations on Concurrent Design Model of the Museum of Bilbao, Gehry Partners, 1992. (Lecture sample).

Exercises and experimentations on the toolpath and code generations for simulation and control of a six axis desktop robotic arm equipped with a hot wire toolhead to cut blocks of white polystyrene (Workshop Sample).

Digital project template and exercise on grid based modeling and component based assemblies (Workshop Sample).

Analog and Digital experimentations for the integration of material constraint (polystyrene foam), of physical fabrication processes (robotic hot wire cutter) and associative/ parametric modeling (digital Project) in a single loop of conception/production (Workshop Sample).

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Student exercise on component based assemblies and instantiations on grids (Workshop sample)

Student exercise on component based assemblies and Parametric developments (Workshop sample)

Student exercise on component based assemblies and instantiations on double curved surfaces (Workshop sample) Š AA IVREA VISITING SCHOOL 2012

Site and Technologies Polysterene Factories: Ivrea Imballi + Alpea S.p.A. Students have been introduced to polystyrene cutting technology through a visit to two local factories supporting the production of the final prototype. We believe in the importance to create strong links with the local productive forces through a process were both the students learn from these realities and at the same time can enrich the local technological knowledge through their skills.

This particular technology consisted in large hotwire cutters working in two dimensions and able to cut polystyrene blocks of given size (400x100x60cm) at a given speed: specific material, fabrication and time constraints were immediately introduced to the students as the main parameters for their architectural proposals.

Local companies have provided the material and the machines for the initial tests and supported the production of the final prototype through the provision, the cutting and the transport of 12 cubic meters of polystyrene.

Students visiting local polysterene company (Ivrea Imballi)

Students engaging with polystyrene

Large industrial EPS cutters (Alpea S.p.a.)

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Large industrial EPS cutters (Alpea S.p.a.)

Field Trips Olivetti Historical Archive

Students collecting materials at the Olivetti Archive

Students Samples: Analog mechanisms of typewriters

Students Samples: Abstract grids of building envelopes and early computer memories

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Field Trips Olivetti Industrial Architecture

Patrizia Bonifazio lecture: “the Architecture of Production”

Officine H - Eduardo Vittoria (1956)

ICO Factory - Figini & Pollini (1934)

ICO Factory South Side - Figini & Pollini (1949)

ICO Factory North Side - Figini & Pollini (1949) © AA IVREA VISITING SCHOOL 2012

Field Trips Olivetti residential and social architecture

Talponia - Gabetti Isola (1971)

Servizi Sociali - Figini & Pollini (1959)

Servizi Sociali - Figini & Pollini (1959)

Homes for employees - Figini & Pollini (1941)

Homes for employees - Figini & Pollini (1941)

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Field Trips Vodafone Call Centre at ICO Factories.

Students were introduced to contemporary modes of production through a field trip to the Vodafone Call Centre now occupying the former Olivetti ICO Factories.

Two architects from Benini and Partners (responsible for the conversion of the former Olivetti building) have guided the students throughout the building explaining the logics beyond the contemporary design of a call centre. Students were asked to critically examine and interrogate its current design.

Vodafone call centre: interiors

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Vodafone call centre: the architects explaining

Field Trips Museum Tecnologic@mente and seminar from Prof. Francesca Pregnolato Prof. Pregnolato is an expert in proxemics and during the 80’s worked at Olivetti importing advanced anthropological studies in the actual design of the first call centres in Ivrea.

The discussion focused specifically on the spatio-temporal implications of new technologies in the work environment and in current systems control applied through the open space typology.

Several key intersections between the work of Prof. Pregnolato and the concepts developed in the school have been discussed: - The undifferentiated dimension of working and living activities through knowledge workers.

- Studies on the psycho-physical repercussions of home-office.

- Spatial and anthropological qualities of micro-environments, niches and spatial containments.

- Hierarchical structures in the organization of call centres.

Students attending Prof. Pregnolato’s seminar

Prof. Pregnolato’s book: “Space of intellectual labour - a research on proxemics in an electronic village.”

Early studies on call centres spatial organization

Students attending Prof. Pregnolato’s seminar

Early studies on call centres spatial organization

Amazon and African huts

Students Work Week 1.

Groups of 2/3 people Tasks 1_Concept Elaborating on the material and the images collected through the seminars and the field trips students develop a concept for a spatial prototype investigating the integration of life and work activities.

2_Component By looping between digital and physical models elaborate an architectural component to be produced by the available material and fabrication constraints.

3_Systematization Integration of the spatial concept and the physical component in a Digital Project environment in order to create a fully systematized assembly to be developed and fabricated in the given production and time constraints.

Material and fabrication constraint 1_Material quantities 12 cubic meters of polysterene 2_Fabrication constraints Six blocks of polysterene [400X100X60cm] to be cut at a speed of 400mm per second.

The assembly logic must follow the bidimensional cutting machines and a two days production time-frame.

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Students Work - Week 1 Group 1 - Productive Landscape Aleksandar Celovic, Nikolina Pavlovic, Mirka Skudar [Croatia] The desire is to create an environment from a universal cubic element that enables different kind of activities defined by the user. We took Branzi “Non Stop City” and Olivetti’s universal grids we found in buildings and early computers parts as a starting point for our system: this system is not defined by a specific programme in order to extend the possibilities of the working space to manyfold life activities. Orthogonal in plan, this system is defined through sections to create various spatial conditions. Our system is not producing any waste of the given material and the cubes are connected using only simple linear joints.

Andrea Branzi - Non stop city

Group 1 - Plan of proposed landscape

Group 1 - Universal component

Group 1 - Prototype proposal

Group 1 - Universal component (mock up)

Group 1 - Universal component (mock up)

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Students Work - Week 1 Group 2. Interlocking Systems Solana Costa [Peru], Denim Pascucci [Canada] Inspired by the internal complexity of an Olivetti typewriter and how so many individual components come together in sophisticated fashion, we focused primary on the ways in which components can connect. Through the development of various prototypes, we eventually arrived at a system in which three planar components on different axes can interconnect in a precise way, creating a 3-dimensional lock-like system with strong stability. This stability utilizes the inherent friction that is produced when polystyrene surfaces connect. When this stable, 3-dimensional component is created, they can link together to make a network of components which can act as a very sophisticated and stable system for fabrication. The specifics of the component are what will determine the overall form and function. In the case of our final prototype, we were able to create a wall system that could filter light through the perforations in the component.

Group 2 - Olivetti typewriter mechanism

Group 2 - Olivetti patents drawings

Group 2 - Experiments in interlocking assemblies

Group 2 - Experiments in interlocking assemblies

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Group 2 - Production drawings

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Group 2 - Component mock ups

Students Work Group 3. Freeform Archives Ruben Carboni [Italy], Alessandra di Leo [Italy], Stefano Pavone [Italy], Buonaventura Visconti [Italy] In our case study we chose to create a responsive and flexible grid able to reflect the hybridization of different professionals in the working space. Inspired by the storage systems encountered in both the Olivetti Archive, our project focused on the contemporary need of memory storage as a new architectural type such as data centers and in the ways in which these can become an architectural feature.

By fully parametricizing an grid system in Digital Project we started deforming this grid in order to create different conditions such as seating spaces or working landscapes.

Our component consisted in a universal plate able to connect with similar elements in the three dimensions to be instantiated in the previously developed grids.

Group 3 - Physical storage in Olivetti Archive

Group 3 - Early Olivetti computers memory (Olivetti Archive)

Group 3 - First deformations of the initial orthogonal grid

Group 3 - Further deformations into working landscapes

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Group 3 - Universal component

Group 3 - Components mock up

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Polystire columns 8x1m. components maximum. optimum number of components. cells.

Group 3 - Production study

Students Work - Week 1 Group 4 - Lexicon Clemens Jenny (Austria), Sara Saghafi (Iran) By exploring the specific material properties of polystyrene we focused our exploration on compression resistance, the pure white colour, envelopes composed of discrete geometrical pieces, and patterned surfaces.

Looking at specific examples of Iranian architecture and weaving systems we investigated arrays of a single component made of rectangular pieces extending in 3 dimensions as a generator of spatial qualities.

Our proposal tends to a self-supporting structure where the specific material qualities and assembly techniques can produce effects of patterning, interstitial penetration of light, and sound insulation.

Group 4 - Iranian architecture - patterned envelopes

Group 4 - Patterning and weaving systems

Group 4 - Component mock up

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Group 4 - Component mock up

Students Work - Final prototype Mid Review and collective decision process At the end of week 1 students were introduced to a collective decision process in order to develop the work towards the final prototype. By experimenting with specific consultation techniques - and following a line of thought belonging to the Olivettian spirit - the aim was to introduce the students to a true collaborative process rather than a competition.

Between the three different typologies explored in week 1 - landscape, object, and envelope - students collectively chose to develop the latter with the desire to explore forms of spatial containment as a potential Factory Future. In order to develop this prototype, a single component was chosen for its consistency with the given material, its technical feasibility and its potential to generate the desired spatial qualities.

Collaborative decision-making processes

Group 4 - Component mock up

Basic component - assembly logics

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Conceptual model: formal qualities

Final Prototype - Design development Development through digital models, physical mock-ups and images.

The project has been developed by constantly looping between reference images, digital models, collages and physical mock-ups. The resulting form derives from the systemic exploration of the production and assembly logics of our component. By following this line of research we explored a cheap, elemental and collective construction system which brought us closer to an Eskimo community and their igloos rather than a contemporary design exercise.

We imagined a future live/work environment where thanks to the ubiquitous presence of technology space can be liberated specific functionalities and furniture further resembling the spatialities of a mosque where activities freely find place on carpets under ornate ceilings.

The Igloo: cheap, elemental collective construction

Prototype mock up Š AA IVREA VISITING SCHOOL 2012

The Mosque: live/work typology of the future?

Conceptual collage: insertion of prototype in data centres

Conceptual reversed isometric Š AA IVREA VISITING SCHOOL 2012

Final Prototype - Design development Further iterations of the systems through DP integration and scripting techniques

Knowledge Pattern Scripting sessions

Further iterations of the component’s assembly logics

Knowledge Pattern Scripting sessions

Student exercise on component based assemblies and instantiations on double curved surfaces Š AA IVREA VISITING SCHOOL 2012

Final Prototype - Design development Further iterations of the systems through DP integration and scripting techniques

Colonization of the former Olivetti ICO factory by developed prototypes

Further iterations of the component’s assembly logics Š AA IVREA VISITING SCHOOL 2012

Final Prototype - Design development Templates and Fabrication process The components were mass produced in the factory by optimizing the available quantities of material and EPS block sizes. No material waste has been produced out of the 156 components produced.

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area totale da incollare: 3.04 mq

Fabrication templates based on local technology capacity

Components production at Alpea S.p.a. Š AA IVREA VISITING SCHOOL 2012

Cutting template for one block of polystyrene

Final Prototype - Construction Assembly on site

Material on site

Components assembly

Transportation

Site logistics

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Final Prototype - Construction

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Final Prototype - Construction

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Final Prototype - Effects

Detail of outer surface

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Final Prototype - Effects

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Final Prototype - Exhibition & Projects Review Exhibition Opening at the Salone dei 2000 - Olivetti ICO Factory

Exhibition opening

Tommaso Franzolini and the local Counsellor for Urbanism and Architecture Giovanna Codato © Barbara Torra © AA IVREA VISITING SCHOOL 2012

Final Prototype - Exhibition & Projects Review Exhibition Opening

Exhibition continues at upper level © Barbara Torra

Exhibition continues at upper level © Barbara Torra

Exhibition continues at upper level © AA IVREA VISITING SCHOOL 2012

Students presenting their work to the public

Students dismantling the prototype currently stored in a safe place in Ivrea, waiting to be rebuilt in the open.

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