Architectural design portfolio - 2022 - Facundo Ceretta

ACADEMIC PORTFOLIO FACUNDO CERETTA

FACUNDO CERETTA Graduated from Facultad de Arquitectura, Diseño y Urbanismo - UdelaR, March 2020.

Date of birth: March 16th 1993 Tel: (+43) 660 2303 601 Mail: facundo.arq16@gmail.com

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Urban planning competition Potsdam am Schlaatz Thesis - 1997: A sensitive structure Re-Activate

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Illustrations

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URBAN PLANNING COMPETITION, POTSDAM AM SCHLAATZ - 2022 Programme:

Masterplan development competition

Location:

Schlaatz, Potsdam, Germany.

The competition called for the design of a development plan for the schlaatz to be applied in a 30 years timeframe from now. The main objectives where to densify the neighborhood with the addition of at least 800 new housing units, while renaturalizing the zone and tackling the lack of orientation, ultimately to transform the neighborhood from a “sleeping city” to a exciting place to live.

Out approach placed the focus on the definition of the public spaces for the future city, bringing together spatial, ecological and social approaches in order to endow the Schlaatz with the greatest possible resilience and thus future

security. We called this mixture of inputs the “Schaatz mix” and it was built on the following master plan layers: • Landscape layer: The historical main road called Lange Linie will be developed into an eco-social backbone.

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• Urban planning Layer: Adding built area in a delicate manner that provides orientation and conciseness without negatively affecting the existing buildings.

• Residential and commercial layer: New forms of living, production and working will complement the Schlaatz.

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1-3. The main focus is on building a robust open space structure, comprised of a green backbone and a network urban qualified spaces .

4. The project adresses the problematic of the lack of orientation with the creation of highly specific open spaces and by strenghtening the identity of the quartiers.

General plan

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• Mobility layer: In a gradual process, a future-oriented mobility turnaround will be implemented in Schlaatz, opening up new possibilities for residents.

By basing the design on a carefull transformation of the existing situation we also ensure that functional requirements such as delivery and emergency access routes are preserved.

The Lange Linie becomes the eco-social backbone that possibilitates the future development of the Schlaatz. Becoming a large scale retention area, it ties in with the historic alluvial land along the Nuthe, and at the same time ensures the viability of the proposal by retaining all surface water and a large part of the roof water.

The design develops from the existing on-site situation, so that interventions are minimized but their effects maximized in terms of sustainability.

The first layer of transformation consists of a large scale unsealing of the Lange linie: Parking spaces and double pathways are gradually removed in favor of areas open to infiltration. The Lange Linie will be equipped with retention areas and a water management system that will secure the visual as well as technical connection of the open space to the Nuthe floodplain and can also cushion future extreme weather events.

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Magnus Zeller platz perspective 9

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5. Magnus Zeller platz is redesigned to create an Urban Entrée that is networked into a promenade called “Schlaatzer diagonale”. This promenade also extends beyond the Schlaatz linking it with the neighboor Kathe Kollwitz Quartier.

6. The creation of new buildings is concentrated on hotspots to create new densified areas with a mixture of uses that can also provide a sense of identity and orientation within the Schlaatz.

7. We designed a system of for the public spaces and the mobility that achieves a maximum of diversity by combining only three tyoplogies: The Lange Linie, the spielgasse and the loopstrasse.

8. Lange linie schematic section.

9. Spielstrasse schematic section 10. Loopstrasse schematic section.

Magnus Zeller platz detail plan

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From another point of view, this transformation creates a highly specific and attractive open space, one that will become a central piece for the future Identity of the Schlaatz. The excavation of the topographically deepened retention areas serves a double purpose, as it provides barrier-free connection in the form of meadow ramps to all the elevated stairwells along the central open space.

The Lange Linie will be further qualified into an urban promenade. A social key-point where cross-generational open space needs are addressed. The definition of the programming for the Lange Linie will be done in a participatory process, where spatial offers such as tree-covered meadows and squares, sloping embankments, deepened hollows, etc. are programmed into the individual sections in a manner similar to a specific DNA of social requirements and building blocks.

In the end, a unique open space element is created by networking the uniform open spaces of the Schlaatz, with high sociological as well as ecological benefits, a connection to the Nuthe with an Important, superordinate leisure and natural space function. This central, green-blue open space element is surrounded by further qualified Urban public spaces. Together, they form the basis for a lively neighborhood with a high proportion of qualified greenery.

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Lange Linie detail plan

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Lange Linie section

Lange Linie perspective

12. Axonometric representation of the layers that code the design for the lange linie, from top to bottom: Social backbone Blue-green backbone Use of topography to make existing housing accesible Unsealing

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The dimensions and proportions of the existing courtyards where used as a design input for the placement of the buildings that will conform the new Schlaatzer Forum.

The public promenade of the Schlaatzer diagonale concludes in the schlaatzer forum and connects citizens with the Campus and the forest, the civic and natural centers of the Schlaatz.

Schlaatzer Forum axonometric view

The Schlaatzer forum can be read simultaneously as one big open space and as a system of smaller squares, each one of them with their unique atmosphere and main uses.

Schlaatzer Forum detail plan

Schlaatzer Forum section

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1997: A SENSITIVE STRUCTURE - 2020 Programme:

Collective social housing

Location:

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Zelmar Michelini y José María Roo, Barrio Sur, Montevideo Uruguay.

This work is the conclusion of my graduate studies as an Architect; therefore, it aims to communicate a double intention: one, that of correctly interpreting the project per se; the other, that of synthesizing all the knowledge gathered through these years of learning. It intends to conduct a research in the field of domestic Architecture: this was stimulated by the vital and direct relationship that we as users establish with the spaces that we inhabit.

Freedom of use was established as the value that should define contemporary habitats, and with these premises, the concept of threshold in its wider sense was considered a key architectural element.

able to establish multiple and subtle relationships with its users and the landscape.

At a programmatic level, five residential floors are combined with three floors for public use within the neighborhood, taking maximum advantage of the possibilities offered by the free plan and section generated by the prefab concrete structure.

Freedom of use has its utter architectural manifestation in the layout of the Duplex housing typologies, and its association with two different expressions of the in-between or threshold space, one private facing north (the winter garden) and one public to the south (corridor).

This study of a collective housing block was therefore developed through geometric and structural orders composing spaces, which are

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1. Perspective of the south facade.

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2. Perspective of the shared access space to the units.

3. Perspective of a housing unit on the garden floor.

4. Sketch of the treshhold theme, one of the leitmotivs of the project.

5. Volumetry study sketch.

6. Sketch of the open ground floor, the urban roof concept extends to the outside of the building by continuing the roof plane with the trees canopy plane.

7. Typology scheme. Duplex units.

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The project seeks to move the language of housing architecture from specificity of use towards freedom of use, to imagine a space where we could live like we live when we are camping. A place capable of evolving with our needs, where limits are replaced by a series of tresholds that grow lighter as they grow in specificity.

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Groundfloor +0.00 : Mix use Programme

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the first treshold is defined by the prefabricated concrete structure that defines spaces of two heighs and 15m span enclosed by a greenhouse skin. It defines a first inhabitable space where the more public funktions take place. The second level is the compartmentalisation of this to create spaces with a higher degree of both termal comfort and privacy. This is made with dry construction to emphasize the flexibility, and to create a contrast between the different systems that comform the building.

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The 15 meter free span between columns made possible by the prefabricated concrete outer structure allows a variety of different uses .

Plan level +6.46 : Public programme, multi-use workshops and leisure area

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Plan level +12.92 : Public Sports hall

8. Groundfloor is intended as a large “urban roof”, as in Lina Bo Bardi’s Museum of contemporary art, capable of hosting activities of neighborhood interest such as exhibitions, markets, meetings, etc.

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9-10. Multi purpose workshops for collective uses such as day care, teaching, fitness, etc.

11. Public Sports Hall.

12. Axonometric view of a housing unit. The access level is connected to a large elevated street while the lower level is connected to a 2 heights winter garden. All the technical requirements are grouped in the nuclei allowing maximum flexibility, including the possibility of upper and lower floors working independently.

Plan level +22.61 : Housing units, access floor

Transversal section

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Plan level +22.61 : Housing units, access floor

Examples of appropiation by the users:

EXAMPLE 1 - YOUNG FAMILY WITH WORK SPACE On the garden level there is a complete dwelling for three persons. The private area is divided to make room for the first kid of the family, resulting in two bedrooms with open their views towards the promenade.

The top floor is transformed into a work space.

The aim is the incorporation of the productive functions of a family into the domestic space, so the plus space takes the form of a productive annexe to the dwelling, with an independent access that guarantees the privacy of the family environment; allowing the generation of income, without the need of resorting to renting or leasing premises outside. When the kid grows older this studio could be transformed into a private studio apartment, showing the effective posibility of the dwelling to grow along with the users..

EXAMPLE 2 - YOUNG COUPLE + GUEST ROOM: The plus spaec is transformed into a self-sufficient studio apartment. The provisions in the the sanitary facilities of the wet nucleus, allow for the easy instalation of a standard kitchen, and a complete accessible bathroom. The duplex typology takes on the character of a shared house, in a kind of co-ownership or leasehold that is in tune with the socio-cultural dynamics of our times. Allowing the use of the web as a platform outside the official market in which to rent or lease space for periods of time spaces in the range of days or weeks, generating an extra income and social exchanges between hosts and guests.

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Direct solar radiation on point “P” on groundfloor

Direct solar radiation on point “P” on mezzanine.

Solar gain study - Winter, June 22.

Solar gain study - Summer, December 22.

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Re-Activate - 2017 Programme:

Remodelling of the National Arts Museum,

Location:

Av. Tomás Giribaldi 2283, Parque Rodó.

Montevideo Uruguay.

To this day, there is still not one single museum in Uruguay that was originally built to fulfill this purpose. This singularity will be the starting point from where to imagine an architectural reactivation of the MNAV (Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales).

This seeks to explore the contrast, the friction between addition and preexistence. A holistic transformation is here proposed, which includes an architectural remodeling regarding formal aspects of the museum and a programmatic renovation in order to improve the museum`s already existing potential of attraction; its ability to gather human and urban energies around it.

After analyzing the current situation, some factors stand out as being both problems and opportunities to exploit. The first one is the lack of visibility experienced from the point of view of a passing citizen: the museum`s grounds are below street level in respect to Giribaldi, and its front façade is set back from Herrera y Reisig. The second one regards its formal appreciation: the latter visually illustrates the process of remodeling which inhibits a coherent formal lecture.

The operation proposed grants the building the visibility and formal cohesion that it presently lacks, while it maintains the presence of the preexistent in a quasi-archeological way, exploiting it as support and characterization of the new resulting space.

The largest substitution operation is placed towards the front façade, where a programmatic core is inserted that contains general public range facilities such as an auditory, a library, workshops, a gift shop and a restaurant. This programmatic core is articulated with the central atrium space of the museum in a way that it allows open but clear wandering routes, being able to function joint or independently, holding activities even after the museum`s open for public hours.

The enclosure, when seen from the outside, transforms the sight of the museum into an icon; once on the inside, it becomes a filter that blurs the exterior information and turns it into an aesthetic experience; a screen where lights and shadows are casted, a living background that provides indirect lightning, vital for the public engagement in the appreciation of artworks.

01. Study model exploring the idea of overlaying preexistences and additions, creating a new synthesis that draws charachter out of the contrast between the two,

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Rooftop plan

Plan level 1

Section B-B

Section C-C

Plan level 2

West facade

South facade

Section A-A

Plan level 3

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Black: existing structure Red: Added structure

The facade filters exterior information creating ideal athmosphere and lighting conditions for the contemplation of art.

Exterior perspective

Interior perspective

APPENDIX: ILLUSTRATIONS

Appendix: Illustrations A summary of a personal interest in graphic production.

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APPENDIX: ILLUSTRATIONS

All the pictures belong to a short illustrated story titled “Entro a tu misterio”

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