Portfolio 2020 - Gaia Delepine (Politecnico di Milano M.Arch)

Gaïa Delépine A selection of works

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House of Sound Building in the hidden lines Troisième Lieu Bubenec CASA 22 Rocca di Arquata del Tronto Of Cows and Men : Thesis

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Gaïa Delépine Via Astolfo 10, Milan, Italy + 352 661 289 970 gaia.delepine@gmail.com Born June 15th, 1999, FRANCE Marital Status: Single

EDUCATION (expected) 2019-2021 Master in Architecture and Urbran Design Merite based scholarship year 1 Politecnico di Milano

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2020 - Architectural Intern - Abad architetti - Competition, design, graphic design and international communication

2020 - Graphic Designer - European Parliament - Memorial book for the European Parliament - Graphic image, illustrations, book design

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2016-2019 Bachelor in Architecture Honorable mention Architectural Institute in Prague

2014-2016 Baccalaureate in Arts and Sciences Honorable mention Ecole Européenne LuxembourgII

PUBLICATIONS 09 MAI 1970 Parlement Européen, 2020

Since 2018 - Transcriptor - Université de Lorraine - SOL and academic climate research contract - e-TAC research contract

Since 2015 - Independent Translator - Mondo Linguae - Translation of articles and scientific communications (french-english)

2017-2018 - Artistic Direction - Prague Film School - Short film “Claire Is...” from November 2017 to May 2018 - Pre-production, set design and graphic identity

PERSONAL EXPERIENCE 2018-2019 - Student Senate - ARCHIP - Communication et graphic identity

2018 - Landscape Design Berlin - Workshop, 8th-11th November Troisième lieu Bubenec (Goro award winner) Yearbook 2018-2019, ARCHIP

CASA 22 (GoRo award finalist project) Yearbook 2017-2018, ARCHIP

T(h)ree (GoRo award finalist project)

- Field observation, measurements and technical drawings

2018 - MMcité Workshop- Workshop, 3rd-4th November - Design and production of wooden urban furniture

2018 - Porto Academy - Workshop, 20th-27th July - Studio Manuel Cervantes (CC Architects), team work - Design, production of drawings, presentation

2017 - CityMakers II - Workshop, 1st-3rd December - Competition in teams, collaboration with IPR Praha and CAMP - Design, time and budget management, communication, presentation

Yearbook 2016-2017, ARCHIP

SKILLS

Softwares AutoCAD, Sketchup, Rhinoceros, Grasshopper, ArchiCAD Adobe Suite

Languages French (native), Italian (bilingual), English (C2), Spanish (B2), German (A2)

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Year: 2020 Location: Milano, IT Type: Mixed use Area: 70 m2

House of Sound

The house of sound is a building that hosts a music school with a kindergarten on the top floor. The urban intervention transforms an empty and gated space into a public park, with paths converging towards a covered space where entrances are located. The combination of these functions is part of a research dealing with the interaction between spaces of intergenerational expression and educational spaces for children, and their integration in An academic project the urban landscape.

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Each floor is organized around a common space: the amphitheatre on lower floors, a skylight lit lobby on the music school floor and a playspace in the kindergarten. In addition to stairs, a ramp circulates around the facade of the building, following the structural concrete walls.

The system consists of deep beam walls on a 3,5x3,5m grid connected to horizontal waffle slabs. To ensure the stability of the building and accomodate the functions, the walls of the first floor are rotated perpedincularily to the lower and upper floors.

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Year: 2018 Location: Prague, CZ Type: Mixed-use Area: 3500 m2

Building in the hidden lines

New ways of living call for new designs, adapted designs. By redefining the public space through the stepping back of the front facade, inviting users behind the scene of the site, and redirecting the car traffic to adjacent streets, the public parterre becomes an extension of the neighbouring plaza with two groundfloors of commercial activity in an area lacking active infrastructure. The residential plan was developed after a study on living typologies, for singles, families and co-living, in An academic project one floor apartments and duplexes.

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Apartment typologies; 30sqm studio (1/2 people), 60sqm duplex (2/3 people), 90sqm duplex (4/5 people)

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To address the surrounding verticality within the design, the longitudinal axis is framed by two towers. Inside, the apartments are connected the the vertical circulation through bridges, once every 2 floors, on the street facade, covered by a metal mesh. Massive stone walls bear the load of the building and reduce the need for additional rendered surfaces. Floors are made of hard wood, a sustainability choice possible due to the narrow foot print of the building.

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Year: 2019 Location: Prague, CZ Type: Leisure Area: 50 000 m2

Troisième Lieu Bubenec

As an answer to the competition launched by the municipality of Prague 6 to refurbish the unused Bubenec train station, the project proposes a cultural renewal based on the sharing of knowledge in the digital age. A multi-media library dedicated to the general public coupled with an audiovisual center, directed to professionals encourages a cultural mixture within the neighbourhood. In An academic project its center, the station becomes a GoRo Award Winner hearth for the community.

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The design was firstly developed into a master plan aiming at re-connecting the severed site to its surrounding park and neighbourhoods, in an architectural promenade formed by two longitudinal volumes meeting a third crossing motion. The architectural design then emerged from the structural grid of the station. The new constructions consist of a glulam column and beam system enveloped by brick masonry. The walls, treated as porous on their lower portion underlook the exterior through an circumambient lattice wall.

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Year: 2018 Location: Prague, CZ Type: Mixed-use Area: 2200 m2

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This intervention comes as the last puzzle piece of a block, previously unefficiently used as car-park.

Economical and socio-cultural sustainability were prioritized in the project. Both ground and 1st floor are dedicated to commercial use, and a link is proposed between the ownership of the bakery and rent for one of the flats encouraging small scale business.

A strong definition of spaces allows a fully public ground floor, and semi-public loggias at each residential floor connected to the An academic project covered staircase, leading to the GoRo Award Finalist apartments.

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The building is divided into three subparts (commercial block, residential block, vertical communication shaft) each following the same scheme : they are built around a technical core to counter shear forces, surrounded by the partitioned rooms / apartments.

The inner function of the building is reflected on the facade through window rhythm. It is cladded in honed ceramic tiles, a material from the Czech Republic, integrating a breathing facade system.

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Year: 2019 Location: Arquata, IT Type: Cultural Area: 250 m2

Rocca di Arquata del Tronto

The project develops in a 13th century castle located on top of a hill in the Marches region close and its town of Arquata del Tronto, damaged by recent earthquakes.

The surrounding landscape has been adapted in an effort to improve accessibility while respecting the fragile nature. The architectural and urban interventions balance between the securing of the structure and providing new perspectives within the spaces for the people to explore, both during An academic project and after the reconstruction.

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PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

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Buildings Covered in Textile Buildings Reinforced by Scaffolding

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Buildings protected in textile Heavily damaged buildings Buildings reinforced with scaffholdings

The urban reconstruction from earthquakes damages is divided into three major phases: first, building protection through a textile covering, second, the use of scaffolding structures serving both their structural function and including the possibility of an accessibility to the public and finally, when the town is reconstructed and inhabited. The urban reconstruction cumulates in a promenade reaching the Rocca, immersed in the forest. The walkable surface is obtained by the reuse of fallen Arquata buildings’ stone in order to obtain a new concrete.

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While preserving the qualities of spaces, the project provides a new kind of experience through the space with the introduction of a ramp allowing people to observe the castle at different heights. The roof, of poor construction and lighting quality is replaced. The battlements are rebuilt using the fallen stones of the town of Arquata, referring to available documentation. The circular tower is however re-interpreted and simplified using the same materials, rebuilt from its foundation.

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Of Cows and Men: Thesis 35

Year: Ongoing From considering the influence of Location: Digital international events as a powerful Type: Research tool to gather multiple researchers from various background into writing a common narrative, focusing specifically on the case of “Countryside, the future” exhibited in the Guggenheim museum, two questions will be addressed: firstly, defining the current countryside, and the understanding of the rapid development it has witnessed in the past 30 years. Secondly, what is the role of the architect in this An academic project environment.

A case study on one of Switzerland’s metropolitan areas will follow, to address a third question: is the opposition city/countryside as urbanized/non-urbanized still relevant to this day? What is their relationship? The analysis will be based on a combination of the “New territories” approach applied by Paola Viganò and Bernado Secchi, and ETH Basel Studio’s research.

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+ 352 661 289 970 gaia.delepine@gmail.com