GIUSEPPE AVENIA
Luogo di Nascita Licata (AG)
Data di Nascita 11/06/1991
E-mail giuseppe.avenia@outlook.it Telefono +39 3270082251
Professione Architetto, Pianificatore, Project Manager
N° Matricola Ordine degli Architetti di Milano 22110
ESPERIENZE PROFESSIONALI
Architetto e Project Manager per interventi pubblici e privati
RECS Architects, Milano | 2021 - in corso
Architetto per committenze private
Libera professione, Lombardia e Sicilia | 2023 - in corso
Architetto e Pianificatore Socio-Urbano
“Studio Placemakers”, Olanda e Senegal | 2018 - 2021
Docente di Disegno e Storia dell’Arte
“I.S.A. Forma”, Palma di Montechiaro, Sicilia | 2020 - 2021
Architetto presso Studio Francesco Tarlato Cipolla
Licata, Sicilia | 2019 - 2021
Grafico per committenze private Licata, Sicilia | 2019 - 2021
Interior Designer per committenze private Berlino, Germania | 2016
Stage presso Provenzano Architetti Associati
Palermo, Sicilia | 2014 - 2015
FORMAZIONE
Laurea Magistrale in “Sustainable Architecture and Landscape Design” (ENG)
Politecnico di Milano, Piacenza | 2016-2018
Laurea Triennale in “Progettazione Architettonica” (ITA)
Politecnico di Milano, Milano | 2011-2014
Liceo Scientifico
Liceo V.Linares, Licata | 2005-2010
LINGUE
Italiano Madrelingua inglese Avanzato (IELTS C1)
Tedesco Elementare (SpracheSchule A2)
COMPETENZE DIGITALI E TECNICHE
Autocad 2D and 3D
Adobe Pack (Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign)
Sketchup + Enscape
Blumatica e Primus
Microsoft Office
Realizzazione Maquettes
COMPETENZE TRASVERSALI
• Eccellenti capacità comunicative, sia in inglese che in italiano, acquisite durante le diverse esperienze professionali e collaborazioni didattiche internazionali.
• Attitudine alla Leadership ottenuta durante le numerose esperienze di progetta zione in team.
• La mia propensione alla comunicazione, all’empatia ed alla mediazione mi permette di stabilire eccellenti relazioni umane e professionali con colleghi ed interlocutori.
• Ascolto ed osservo attentamente al fine di comprendere ed anticipare i bisogni dei miei inter locutori, assimilando eventuali spunti creativi ed idee costruttive. Mi viene infatti riconosciuta un’eccellente capacità espressiva, di ascolto ed analitica.
• Il mio elevato livello di attenzione per i dettagli e precisione mi permette sempre di garantire un’alta qualità in particolare delle attività di analisi, coordinamento e supervisione di tutti gli elementi caratterizzanti progetti anche ad elevata complessità.
WORKSHOPS
“Il sistema costruttivo in legno e paglia”
BAG (Paolo Robazza) + TODO + Guglielmino, Misterbianco | 11/2017
Villard 19: Alcamo Marina: Ricostruzione del Paesaggio Costiero.
Seminario itinerante | 2017-2018
“Mappare le serre: Spazio, Senso, Bioma”
C.U.B.E + Kilowatt APS, Bologna | 5/2017
Kaira Looro - Concorso Internazionale di Architettura
NPO “Balouo Salo - un ponte per la vita” | 9/2016
PUBBLICAZIONI E MOSTRE PERSONALI
CHEAP Street Poster Festival
Bologna | 2020
“People First in Architecture”
MiBACT + Farm Cultural Park, Favara | 2020
“La Socialità Del Dopo”
Fabbricare Fiducia_Architettura #63 for CityVision Magazine | 2020
ALTRE ESPERIENZE
Hospitality presso la Residenza d’arte e turistica “Groepsherberg De Twijfelaar”
Wittelte, Olanda | 2018
Volontario per la costruzione di una scuola con la tecnica del SuperAdobe
ONG “Let’s Build My School”, Thies, Senegal | 5/2017
Catering and Steward presso Imperial College e Wembley Stadium
Berkeley Scott Group, Londra, RU | 2015
Giuseppe Avenia, architetto, pianificatore socio-urbano, grafico ed insegnante di storia dell’arte.
Nato a Licata nel 1991, dopo la Laurea triennale in Progettazione Architettonica presso il Politecnico di Milano inizia a viaggiare per l’Europa lavorando come disegnatore tecnico tra Londra e Berlino.
Nel 2016 partecipa alla prima edizione del workshop “Kaira Looro” progettando in team un Centro di Recupero Pirogue a Boroya, in Senegal, utilizzando esclusivamente legno e stoffe locali. Nello stesso anno inizia il corso di Laurea Magistrale in Architettura Sostenibile sempre presso il Politecnico di Milano. (Link Workshop: http://www.kairalooro.com/workshop/workshop.html)
Nel 2017 prende parte al team dei costruttori volontari dell’ONG “Let’s Buld My School” per la costruzione di una scuola a Thies, in Senegal, interamente realizzata con la tecnica del Superadobe (Link Progetto: https://www.letsbuildmyschool.org/keurracine)
Lo stesso anno partecipa al workshop “Il sistema costruttivo in legno e paglia” promosso e coordinato dalla Cooperativa Guglielmino, da Paolo Robazza (Studio BAG) e da Marco Terranova (TODO).
Nel 2018, dopo aver concluso la Laurea Magistrale, inizia a collaborare come progettista e pianificatore socio-urbano con “Studioplacemakers” una realtà olandese che opera in Senegal investigando pratiche di placemaking ed architettura partecipata, con un focus specifico sugli spazi pubblici e sul loro processo di (ri)appropriazione da parte di abitanti-costruttori.
(Link Studio: https://www.studioplacemakers.org/)
Nel 2019 si trasferisce temporaneamente in Senegal per l’avvio del cantiere del suo primo progetto, ovvero un parco sportivo interamente autocostruito e realizzato con materiali di recupero come pneumatici, vecchi pali della luce e parti di macchine.
Nel 2020 il progetto viene inoltre selezionato in occasione della mostra “People first in Architecture” promossa dal Mibact e da Luigi Prestinenza Puglisi presso la Cultural Farm di Favara. (Link Video Progetto: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikZXLsoEW9M)
Nel 2019 è tornato in Sicilia per continuare il lavoro di ricerca iniziato in Senegal, ovvero indagare e sviluppare analisi urbane e possibili pratiche progettuali riguardanti gli spazi pubblici nella sua città natale in Sicilia: Licata. Qui, oltre a lavorare come architetto e grafico per committenze private, si dedica all’insegnamento della storia dell’arte presso Scuole Medie ed Istituti Superiori.
Dal 2021 collabora con lo studio internazionale RECS Architects con il ruolo di project manager per interventi privati e pubblici ed architetto-interior designer per interventi residenziali e commerciali.
Nel 2020, in occasione dell’iniziativa “Fabbricare Fiducia”, viene selezionata dalla rivista “CityVision” una sua riflessione, scritta durante il 1° Lockdown ed intitolata “La socialità del Dopo”, riguardo le possibili conseguenze della Pandemia sul modo di vivere e percepire la città, i suoi spazi e le sue criticità da parte degli abitanti [Fabbricare Fiducia_Architettura #63_Article_Cityvision]
Appassionato inoltre di Collages e di narrazioni-visive nel 2020 viene selezionato un suo collage in occasione del CHEAP Festival di Bologna.
BIO ENG
Giuseppe Avenia, architect, socio-urban planner, graphic designer, and art history teacher.
Born in Licata in 1991, he graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Architectural Design from the Politecnico di Milano and began traveling across Europe, working as a technical draftsman in London and Berlin.
In 2016, he participated in the first edition of the “Kaira Looro” workshop, designing a Pirogue Recovery Center in Boroya, Senegal, in a team, using exclusively local wood and fabrics. In the same year, he began a Master’s Degree in Sustainable Architecture, also at the Politecnico di Milano.
(Link Workshop: http://www.kairalooro.com/workshop/workshop.html)
In 2017, he joined the volunteer builders team of the NGO “Let’s Build My School” to construct a school in Thies, Senegal, entirely built with the Superadobe technique.
(Project Link: https://www.letsbuildmyschool.org/keurracine)
That same year, he participated in the workshop “The Construction System in Wood and Straw” promoted and coordinated by Cooperativa Guglielmino, Paolo Robazza (Studio BAG), and Marco Terranova (TODO).
In 2018, after completing his Master’s Degree, he began collaborating as a designer and socio-urban planner with “Studioplacemakers,” a Dutch organization operating in Senegal. Their work explores placemaking practices and participatory architecture, focusing on public spaces and their (re)appropriation by resident-builders.
(Link Studio: https://www.studioplacemakers.org/)
In 2019, he temporarily moved to Senegal to start construction on his first project: a self-built sports park made entirely from recycled materials, such as tires, old lamp posts, and car parts.
In 2020, the project was selected for the exhibition “People First in Architecture,” promoted by Mibact and Luigi Prestinenza Puglisi at the Cultural Farm in Favara.
(Link Project Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikZXLsoEW9M)
In 2019, he returned to Sicily to continue the research he started in Senegal, focusing on urban analyses and potential design practices for public spaces in his hometown of Licata. There, in addition to working as architect and graphic designer for private clients, he teached art history at middle and high schools.
Since 2021, he collaborates with the international studio RECS Architects, serving as a project manager for private and public projects and as an architect-interior designer for residential and commercial interventions.
In 2020, as part of the “Fabbricare Fiducia” initiative, his reflection titled “La socialità del Dopo” (“Post-Sociality”), written during the first lockdown, was selected by the magazine CityVision. The essay examined the potential impacts of the pandemic on how people experience and perceive urban spaces and their challenges.
(Fabbricare Fiducia_Architettura #63_Article_CityVision)
Passionate about collages and visual narratives, in 2020, one of his collages was selected for the CHEAP Festival in Bologna.
PARTICIPATORY ARCHITECTURE
Placemaking in Senegal
Project for a Sport-Play Park at the beach of Yene Kao village
Collaborators: Hans Goslinga (Dutch), Aziz Thiome (Senegalese), Alex Bredgaard (Danish)
The beach is one of the primary public spaces in Senegal, serving as a hub for community activity. It is regularly used by people of all ages for daily sports training, including football, wrestling, taekwondo, and basketball.
Following an in-depth analysis and discussions with local inhabitants, it was decided to enhance a section of the beach by equipping it with sports and recreational infrastructure. This initiative aimed to support training activities, foster greater social cohesion, and further enrich the beach as a shared public space.
The project, part of the Studio Placemakers network, focused on the development and self-construction of a Play and Sport Park on the beach of Yene Kao, a village located south of Dakar. It employed exclusively recycled materials for its construction, including car tires for the tribune structure and repurposed items such as old light poles and machine parts for the sport and play equipment.
In addition to the design of the Sport Park (developed collaboratively with the community), the project included two other key components: The mapping of the potential social infrastructure, both active and passive, that could be involved in the project; the definition of the self-building phases and participatory processes required for the park’s realization.
Yene Region (La Petite Côte) and Villages Identification
Pedestrian and Vehicular Accesses
Site Level of Accessibility
Surrounding
Building Typologies
NOTE: The Object abacus has been used also as voting tool for the community. We used the voting process also to map both
Old Cartires Structure
Laterite Cartires Light Filling
Concrete Tribune Coating
Tribune Structure
Colored Concrete Coating
Tribune Prototyping
Oxide Pigments Tribune coating’s color
Objects Prototyping
Old Phone Poles Objects Structure Chains Soft Connections
Old Cartires Usable Elements
Old Car Parts Hard Connection
1_Fixed Tires
5_Bars
9_Weight Lift
2_Play Atelier
6_Tires Walk B
Wall 3_Tires Walk A
+ Stair 4_Swing 8_Jump Walk
Fixed
ASC BOPPA (Yene Todd)
ASC MBELENGUI (Yene Lelà)
Taekwondo Basket
Notes about Cultural and Sport Associations [ASC]
They includes all the local football teams and players and also the people who makes general training. In Yene, each associations represents all the people born in one of the 7 villages (or built clusters) who make sport or cultural activities.
Association = Village
ASC XAYANE (Yene Guedj)
ASC ETENNE (Yene Kao)
ASC GARAYE (Nditakh)
ASC SADIA (Niangal)
ASC LUNGASS (Kell)
ASC DAMELS (Toubab Dialaw)
PREPARATION
MOBILIZATION
- Logistic setting up
- Authorization
- Sport objects design - Voting organizzation
VOTING
ACTIVATION
- Volunteers work group organizzation
- Preparation project materials and storage spaces (adjacent houses and spaces)
- Project tasks and work shedule
CLEANING UP THE BEACH
I PHASE (TRIBUNE)
- Excavation
- Storage and transport of cartires and building materials
- Tribune structure implementation
TRIBUNE COATING
1° RESPONSABILIZZATION
- Responsable groups for tribune space management and maintanance
- Cultural and sport indipendent collectives for events and activities organizzation
OBJECTS IMPLEMENTATION
2° RESPONSABILIZZATION
- Responsable groups for objects management and maintanance
- Organizzation of sport groups training time
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- Proposal a possible “training co groups (Ex. Men and Women)
NATIONAL FINANCING REQUEST
SPORT PARK DEVELOPMENT AND EXSTENSION
- Implementation additional tribunes, sport areas and objects
- Proposal for a new sport park in Kelle (Parc sportif Yene Sud)
Work Group per week shedule
Tuesday 17:00 - 19:00 Monday 16:00 - 18:00
Wednesday 16:00 - 19:00
Thursday 16:00 - 18:00
Friday 17:00 - 18:00
Saturday 13:00 - 19:00
Self-Building Phase: Cartires placement and filling and Social Infrastructure individuation and mobilitation (Below)
Work Group per tasks
1-2 Weeks
Cleaning up the beach [All volunteers + tutor]
2-3 Weeks
Excavation + Material storage [Mostly male support + tutor]
3-4 Weeks
Tribune Implementation [2 Mixed turnovering groups]
3-4 Weeks
Objects Implementation [Only technical team]
Aziz
Peppe
URBAN DESIGN
“Rur-Ban Loop”
A new Rural and Urban Infrastructure within Piacenza hinterland
Collaborators: Sravya Lutukurthi (India), Frida Rueda (Mexico), Yasemin Silahtaroğlu (Turkey)
The project aims to develop a new settlement-infrastructure on the outskirts of Piacenza, with the goal of addressing the challenges of depopulation and abandonment while capitalizing on the area’s vast agricultural and productive potential.
After conducting a thorough urban analysis, our team decided to focus on a “contradiction” arising from two opposing development trends in adjacent settlements: Sarmato, which faces depopulation due to a lack of services, and Rottofreno, which is expanding due to its primarily productive character.
The proposal, therefore, focuses on creating a connection between these two areas. This infrastructure will link the region’s significant agricultural resources with its growing production and technological potential, while also creating an attractive center for future inhabitants.
The strategy is centered around establishing a service system that includes a Research Center for Agriculture, a University Campus, and an energy hub powered by biomass and solar energy. The plan also envisions a Km0 Bio-Market featuring local products, alongside the development of a new residential neighborhood that will be completely self-sufficient in terms of both energy and food.
Area’s Population Analysis
Source: ISTAT data
BUILT SCAPE TRENDS New RurBan Settlement Project
1: University Campus (Sarmato)
2: Bio Market
3: Tidone Creek
4: Rurban Dwelling (Rottofreno)
ARCHITECTURE DESIGN
“Atmo-Cube”
A new Art and Design Center at the Ex-Scalo of Porta Genova
The project involves the creation of a new museum and exhibition center at the Ex-Scalo of Porta Genova, which is currently in a state of neglect. From an urban perspective, this intervention acts as a new transitional space between the Navigli System and the Tortona-Porta Genova district, a hub of Milanese design and art.
The proposal aims for a radical urban, morphological, and functional redefinition of the area, transforming it from a former railway yard into a “museum dock,” with a focus on both Milanese and international art and design.
To accommodate various needs while ensuring high flexibility, three types of exhibition spaces have been proposed:
• A Central Tower that will house all permanent exhibitions, meeting spaces, and at its core, the “Milanese Design Room.”
• Floating Room-Spaces situated along the canals and docks, dedicated to temporary exhibitions.
• Suspended Room-Spaces positioned above the district’s buildings and courtyards, intended for musical, artistic, and cultural events.
The transformation of the Ex-Scalo Area would create a new public space, featuring a redesigned Darsena with floating exhibition spaces, a new public square, and a network of green pathways linking the Tortona district to Baden-Powell Park.
1_Central Tower
Permanent Exhibitions
2_Floating Rooms
Temporary Exhibitions
3_Suspended Rooms
Event-Spaces
Porta Genova Urban Cluster System
Design Axonometric View
Exploded Axonometric View Tower’s Distribution System and Spaces
Perspective Section Tower’s Central Room
SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE
“Kaira Looro” Workshop
Desigh for Small Port and Pirogue Production Center
Collaborators: Emanuel Falappa (Ita), Leila Meroue (Lebanese), Francesco Scuderi (Ita)
The project focuses on the traditional economies of the Casamance region, specifically the Valley of Tanaf.
Our team’s focus was the development of a small port that is scalable and replicable, also incorporating a space for the production of pirogues, the local boats.
The project bridges traditional and contemporary building techniques. A study of social ties and local construction methods—particularly in relation to local port structures and boatbuilding practices—served as the key guiding principles for the design.
The result is a flexible system that can easily be expanded based on local resources and functional needs. Taking into account the community’s customs and knowledge, we chose wood as the primary material for the structure, ensuring it could be easily replaced and self-built by the local community.
For all building materials, we developed a logistical abacus that considers both the material properties and their transport from the source locations.
Functional Scenario (Workshop design topics) and Port System Definition
Plans and Render View from the Riverside
Shading Panel 2° Layer
Shading Panel 1° Layer
Main Structure
Platform + Pier
Cladding
Palm Faves_ Cover and Cladding Panels
Recycled Plastic Bottles_ Ropes
Clay, Sand and Laterite_ Foundation
Pterocarpus Wood_ Structure
PUBLIC ART INSTALLATION
“The Labyrinth”
Proposal for a Spatial Installation for “Images Gibellina 2021”
Collaborators: Aurora Alma Bartiromo (Italy)
The installation consists of a steel cable structure designed to support various fabrics, transforming the square into a “temporary exhibition labyrinth.” The shape and spaces of the labyrinth are defined by key elements of the square, including the “door-openings,” palm trees, and the pavement pattern.
The steel structure is composed of two parts: a Primary Structure that connects the square’s main physical elements, namely the doors and palm trees, and a Secondary Structure, which is linked to the Primary Structure. The Secondary Structure serves as support for the fabric walls and any potential light fixtures. The design of the Secondary Structure follows, in a discontinuous and interrupted manner, the regular alignment of the square’s longitudinal pavement lines.
Together, the fixed steel framework and the hanging fabrics create a labyrinth, with the walls formed by the connections between the “doors and palms” and the regular patterns of the pavement.
To ensure the “fabric walls” remain as still as possible, they are anchored at the top to the “wire-wire” node and weighted at the bottom with sandbags, securing the lower part of the walls to the ground. The labyrinth will consist of a series of pathways, each approximately 1.40 meters wide (the square’s pavement side), and rooms formed by the extension of these paths.
Project Area Views
1_Doors-Palm Trees connections Primary Structure
2_Pavement Tracing Secondary Structure
3_Overlap Labyrinth’ Shape Drawing
“Il Tesoro”
Tenditori [1 x cavo]
Morsetto Serrafilo [1 ogni 2 nodi “cavo-cavo”]
Nodo Porta [2 x Porta]
5
Sand Bag [Passo variabile]
Gancio Stoffa [1 x nodo “cavo-cavo”]
Nodo Palma [Almeno 1 x Palma]
Fabrics
URBAN PUBLIC PROPOSAL
“War(M)map”
Proposal for Public Warm Re-Lighting of Licata Old town
in 2020 Italy began a necessary renewal of public lighting by replacing outdated halogen lamps with new LED technology. This shift aims to provide more sustainable lighting, significant energy savings for public administrations, and undeniable improvements in the quality of urban lighting.
While I fully support such a renewal, particularly the installation of new, efficient WHITE LEDs in suburban areas and parts of the city where public lighting has often been insufficient or absent, I also believe that the historic center of the city requires a different approach and strategy. In fact, I argue that in historic centers, “public lighting” is not merely about “a light bulb that illuminates, better or worse,” but rather serves as one of the key elements that characterize and define every historic center. From the most remote villages to UNESCO-protected squares, each center holds an undeniable dignity that must be preserved. Specifically, I believe that the “warmth” (cultural, social, and visual) that characterizes the historic centers of Sicily and Southern Italy represents an aesthetic, historical, and emotional value that must be safeguarded at all costs.
Altering this balance by replacing all warm lighting with cold lights results in the disfigurement of these centers, diminishing their characteristic atmosphere. In this context, the proposal aims to define a warm lighting standard that not only uses light as a tool for urban differentiation, visually highlighting the historic center from the rest of the city, but also enhances both the tangible and intangible heritage. The use of warm light will serve as a guideline to help orient visitors and inhabitants as they navigate the historic center, highlighting its unique elements.
Old Town Street View during the relighting process
“Warm City” Atmosphere (historical lighting)
Analysis of Licatas Old Town
“Cold City” Atmosphere (Current Lighting)
NARRATIVE ARCHITECTURE
“The Room”
Visual proposal for collective imagination tool about public spaces
“The ability to imagine is the first tool of change.”
“The Room” is a visual initiative born during the first pandemic lockdown, and it serves two distinct but complementary purposes:
The first goal was to transform the closure (physical, emotional, and social) imposed by the lockdown into a moment of constructive lightheartedness, allowing us to experience our city (in my case, Licata in Sicily) not passively, but through our own creativity and imagination.
The second goal, while catalyzed by the lockdown period, is independent of it. It involves the creation of a universal tool for collective imagination, allowing everyone to generate possible urban ideas and public proposals for their city and its spaces.
Personally, I am convinced that in many depressed contexts, such as parts of Sicily (including Licata), a deep-seated inability to “imagine something different”— regardless of whether it is realistic or not—is often one of the root causes of the constant degradation and passivity that self-perpetuates in these places, among their inhabitants, and within their spaces.
This participatory narrative tool, besides being an open-source resource for the city and relevant administrations, also serves as an engaging didactic exercise that I propose to my students, whom I consider among the most essential inhabitants of critically challenged urban contexts.
Sequences of the 4 phases of “The Room” urban tool
0_LA STANZA
Se durante la quarantena casa tua avesse avuto una stanza in più, cosa ci avresti messo e/o fatto?
2_STANZA URBANA
(Esempio il Chiostro di S.Francesco)
Uno spazio pubblico è come una stanza di casa nostra , ma aperta a tutti...
1_CONTENUTO
Io ad esempio ci avrei messo una spiaggia, un bar, una gelateria e delle mongolfiere...
3_RIDISEGNO STANZA
Basta immaginarlo come un disegno vuoto da riempire...
4_RIEMPIMENTO STANZA 5_SVILUPPO GRAFICO
...e riempirlo con ciò che si vorrebbe vedere e/o fare al suo interno!!!
Ogni proposta-schizzo potrà essere sviluppata graficamente in infiniti modi
e la redistribuzione dei contenuti e immagini in qualsiasi forma, non autorizzata dall’autore.
Phase 1: Public Space Identification
Phase 2: Public Space Stylization
Phase 3: Inhabitants’ Content Proposal
Phase 4: Graphic Development
autorizzata dall’autore.
TECHNICAL RESEARCH
“Kindergarten Keur Racine, Senegal”
Construction a new school space with superadobe technique
The project involved building two classrooms and one office, expanding the school to include three levels for toddlers: the small section “The Architects Class,” the medium section “The Engineers,” and the large section “The Artists.” Each level accommodates 20 children, with two teachers per class.
Bassirou Mbacké High School, located in Quartier Dixieme, Thiès, was originally built in 1967 when the local community donated privately owned land to support the educational infrastructure of their village. The high school consisted of 9 classrooms built from concrete but was in critical need of expansion.
In response, LBMS proposed the construction of two additional classrooms to accommodate up to 62 more students.
FOUNDATIONS: The school’s foundations consist of two layers of tires, staggered and filled with compacted clay and sand, providing a stable base for the structure.
WALLS: The walls are constructed using sandbags filled with locally sourced materials. This mix offers natural thermal insulation, keeping the classrooms cool.
COATING: The walls are wrapped in a metal mesh that holds the sandbag structure together. This mesh also provides the necessary support for three layers of exterior coating.
ROOF: The roof is elevated above the walls, leaving a significant gap to allow for natural ventilation and light to enter the classrooms.
1_ Dig the foundations up to 1m deep
2_ Place the plastic sheet at the bottom of the hole.
3_ Fill each tire with laterite and pack without leaving air gap
5_ Fill the bags with 7 buckets of laterite dough and fold it.
8_ Insert a metal rod through the bags on both window sides
10_ Finish the walls with reinforced concrete formwork
3_ Fill each tire with laterite and pack without leaving air gap
4_ Wrap the sheets above the tires cover with earth
6_ Placing the filled bags by layering them like bricks
9_ Cover the bags walls with a net and fill the holes with stones
11_ Cover with 3 layers of a mixture of earth, sand and 8% cement or cow dung
7_ Place the wooden frames for door and window openings
BIODESIGN
These pages showcase part of the experimental work initiated in Senegal, focusing on the use of natural pigments derived from local iron oxides. The left page illustrates the study phase, in which I identified the different color outcomes of the pigments based on their percentage in relation to the weight of the lime mixture. The right page features an ashtray created using the cob technique, finished with a pigment-based paint.
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COLLAGES
“Sociotopia”
Selected for CHEAP Festival 2020
“cHILLING”