School of Architecture Yearbook #01

Politecnico di Torino

School of Architecture Yearbook

#01

With the contribution of the Department of Architecture and Design Politecnico di Torino Edited by Michela Barosio

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BACHELOR PROGRAMME IN ARCHITECTURE > 1st Year – Architectural Design and Urban Planning Studio > 2nd Year – History and Design Studio / Architectural Construction Studio > 3rd Year – Interior Design Studio / Eco-Efficient Design Studio / Architectural and Structural Design Studio / Urban Design Studio / Restoration and Structural Design Studio

MASTER PROGRAMMES IN ARCHITECTURE > Architecture Construction City > Architecture for Sustainable Design > Architecture Heritage preservation and Enhancement

MASTER THESIS > Community and Shapes > Construction and Resilience > Heritage and Conversions > Space Mutations

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INTRODUCTION

by Matteo Robiglio

SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION at Politecnico di Torino

by Michela Barosio

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INTRODUCTION

Matteo Robiglio

Director of the School of Architecture

INTRODUCTION

A growing, open, interdisciplinary school of architecture The School of Architecture of the Politecnico di Torino is part of a global research university focused on design in all technical fields. Established in 1931 – but with a background that can be traced back to the Torino Academy of Arts, founded in 1678 – it is one of the oldest architecture schools of Italy.

After a 3-year-long broad Bachelor program in Architecture, whose scope is to provide a general understanding of architecture, building techniques, urban forms and societies, environmental challenges, and to develop solid drawing and design skills, students can join one of the three 2-year Master programs on Architecture Heritage preservation and Enhancement, Architecture for Sustainable Design or Architecture Construction City.

All programs are offered in Italian and English, except for Architecture Heritage preservation and Enhancement, in which students accede in Italian to one of the world’s richest heritage cultures.

The Schools offer and support international mobility from and to Europe and the World – with stronger links with China, the USA and Latin America, with growing opportunities in Africa – thanks to the Erasmus program, the double degree agreements and individual mobility grants.

Students are encouraged to explore courses and laboratory training offered by the Schools of Engineering, Design and Planning, building their unique learning path, thanks to a broad and rich educational offer.

Hands-on research by design and teamwork: the atelier at the core of architectural education Architecture is a practical knowledge that is expanded, enriched and transmitted by design. At the very core of teaching in the School of Architecture of the Politecnico di Torino is the intense learning experience of interdisciplinary design ateliers: professors and experts from different fields work together with students in imagining, designing and developing solutions to complex urban, social, economic and technical problems. Specific scientific fields start their formalization from the issues arising in the design process, constantly bridging theory and practice, history and innovation.

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Research and education in, for and by design: from bachelor to masters, phd and training Humanities, history, social sciences, economy, natural sciences, information and technology are the ingredients of a structurally interdisciplinary education, training and research in Architecture at the Politecnico di Torino, where future innovation is always linked and rooted in awareness and knowledge of the past. Research and education share a common design-oriented approach and are deeply connected at all levels, from bachelor to PhD, allowing students to accede to the most innovative research topics and experiences, while acquiring a deep and solid background based on history and theory.

Facts and figures 4.000 students (2.300 Bachelor, 1.600 Master, 100 PhD), 53% female, 47% male, 30% from outside of Piedmont, 15% from outside Italy.

140 full-time staff members + 56 part-time staff members + international visiting professors + invited lecturers and critics The School is based in the XVII century baroque Valentino Castle, where the Politecnico was founded in 1906, following the Royal Technical School for Engineers founded here in 1859. The School is recently expanded into the 1923 modernist Lingotto and would then soon grow to occupy the refurbished 1950 Torino Expo buildings by Pier Luigi Nervi and Riccardo Morandi – refurbished according to the project of Aimaro Isola and Rafael Moneo, winning team in 2016 international competition – merging modern and antique architectures in an unique campus along the Po river, immersed in the gorgeous greenery of the Valentino Park and facing the lively San Salvario neighbourhood.

Facilities and services include the "Roberto Gabetti" Architecture Library with 110.000 books (10.000 rare and/or antique), 15.000 dissertations, 2120 periodicals, the Maps archive, the Modelling & 3D lab, Computer lab, Building and measurements lab, Heritage Survey lab, Self-building lab, Building technology lab, Multimedia lab, Virtual reality lab – plus, study rooms, cafeteria, copy centre and exhibition hall.

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SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE

Politecnico di Torino

SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE Director Matteo Robiglio

NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL INCOMING

BACHELORS OF SCIENCE-ARCHITECTURE > Director Roberto Giordano 3 years

ADMISSION

ARCHITETTURA

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING Elective course 12 credits FINAL ESSAY (Portfolio) 3 credits

ITA

ARCHITECTURE

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING Elective course 12 credits FINAL ESSAY (Portfolio) 3 credits

ENG

YOUNG TALENT PROJECT

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MASTERS OF SCIENCE-ARCHITECTURE 2 years

SPECIALIZING MASTER ARCHITECTURE CONSTRUCTION CITY > Director Michele Bonino

1/2 years

THESIS 30 credits

POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL

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> Director Carla Bartolozzi

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING 10 credits THESIS 20 credits

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ADMISSION

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ARCHITECTURE SUSTAINABLE DESIGN

> Architetural and Landscape Heritage 2 years

PH.D. SCHOOL > Architetural and Landscape Heritage

ARCHITECTURE HERITAGE PRESERVATION ENHANCEMENT > Director Annalisa Dameri

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING 10 credits THESIS 20 credits

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> Architecture History and Project > Urban and Regional development 3 years

ALTA SCUOLA POLITECNICA

ARCHITECT

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

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BACHELOR PROGRAM Design Studios

21 > 1st Year 31 > 2nd Year 55 > 3rd Year

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Architectural Design and Urban Planning Studio A

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN AS RESTORATION OF AN URBAN SPACE TOWARDS THE CREATION OF AN “URBAN INTERIOR” Students / N. Allisiardi, A. Andorno, A. Aymonod Professors / Costantino Patestos, Federica Corrado

The area chosen for the design exercise is the block of Sant’Eligio in Turin.

Starting from the document of the Municipality we can trace the guidelines for the architectural project since “the plan identifies some areas to be transformed in the historic urban centre. In most cases, they are parts of unbuilt blocks or blocks damaged during the last war and never rebuilt; (…) The expected interventions on these areas should reintegrate and enhance the value of the urban fabric and the grid of blocks, restore the original building lines, the continuity of the street fronts, the prospective views and the internal complexity of the lots.

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The expected new buildings should refer to the features of the environmental context and to the elements that define its image (finishes, materials, rhythm and shape of the openings)”. The aim of the architectural intervention is the “environmental redefinition of the area through the creation of new open spaces and gardens”.

The presented project completes the urban void of the block of Sant’Eligio. The concept is that of restoring and repairing the block through a built volume, which from the outside, recalls the concept of a closed block, common to the architectural morphology of the area, and from the inside, refers to the comb-shaped composition type. A cross-cut on the plan interrupts the continuity of the volume.

The courtyard with its public crossings and paths guarantees complete permeability through the inside and the outside of the block.

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History and Design Studio F

URBAN ACUPUNCTURE IN DISMANTLED INDUSTRIAL AREAS Students / E. Picco, D. Raia, L. Selva, F. Sinatra Professors / Paola Gregory, Michela Comba

2nd Year / BACHELOR

With reference to the city of Turin and specifically to its northern sector, the course intends to retrace some highlights of the great urban transformation, in the passage from the industrial identity to the Fordist crisis, with the dismantling of important productive areas and the activation of urban regeneration and the policy of social integration.

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Through historical studies of economic, social, cultural, urban and architectural aspects, aimed at understanding the development of the town, the course investigates some of the prevalent and contemporary processes of urban transformation, which indicates – in Turin as in many cities affected by the post-industrial decline – a new concept of urbanity, no longer centered on the expansive development of the urban territory, but on the regeneration of what already exists.

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In this perspective, the course develops some projects of “urban acupuncture” within the residential social neighbourhoods as in the brownfield sites according to an integrated, trans-scaled approach and in relation to punctual and reticular processes of urban transformation.

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Architectural Construction Studio B

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN AS RESTORATION OF AN URBAN SPACE TOWARDS THE CREATION OF ECOSUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE Students / M. Reitsma, O. Strauss, P. Tarozzo Professors / Costantino Patestos, Davide Maria Giachino

2nd Year / BACHELOR

The area chosen for the design exercise is the block of Sant’Eligio in Turin. The area is distinguished by the historic building that hosts the Public Records and the garden that surrounds the General Registry Office building.

The expected new buildings should refer to the features of the environmental context and to the elements that define its image (finishes, materials, rhythm and shape of the openings). The aim of the architectural intervention is the “environmental redefinition of the area through the creation of new open spaces and gardens”.

From a building technology point of view, the topics that will be developed during the atelier belong to the contemporary sustainable school of thought: building systems with reduced environmental impact, dry construction systems, short distribution chain and environmentally friendly materials.

The projects have also been evaluated according to the sustainability evaluation protocols (ITACA Protocol). Innovative technologies within the engineered wood industry (Cross laminated Timber) have been used, integrated with green technologies such as the Green roof and the Vertical garden.

Great attention has been dedicated to the design of the functional layers of the building’s envelope, alternating the use of ventilated dry facades with low maintenance (Corten) and external wall insulation systems.

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Architectural Construction Studio D

HABITER LA VILLETTE Students / F. Elhadji, M. Fazari, F. Floris, F. Maffia Professors / Daniele Campobenedetto, Roberto Giordano

Habiter la Villette started from the attempt to face the demand of community living in Paris, in a context in which space is lacking, land price is growing and housing models are old.

The Studio focus was the design of cohousing buildings on eight different small areas spread in la Villette neighbourhood, a vibrant area enclosed between La Villette Park and the Ledoux Rotunda. Each group of students was asked to work on a single area and to deal with the urban, architectural and technological design of the new building as well as to explore existing

architecture in Paris from the same points of view.

Students firstly face the distribution project through on-site surveys, physical models, etc. Then the structural concept is added and integrated to the distribution to finally let the envelope design set the relationship between the interiors and the city.

The last few weeks are devoted to a competition in which the project is communicated through synthetic but comprehensive drawings, which are also reviewed by the students themselves and by external discussants.

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MASTER PROGRAM Design Studios

71 > Architecture Construction City 97 > Architecture for Sustainable Design 121 > Architecture Heritage preservation and Enhancement

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Architecture and Construction Systems A

URBAN REGENERATION OF THE "PUBLIC CITY: LE VALLETTE DISTRICT IN TURIN" Students / A. Lotti, M. Murat, L. Naso Professors / Paola Gregory, Maria Luisa Barelli

By relating to the great theme of the urban regeneration of the “public city", the workshop discussed one of the most important post-war reconstruction sites in Italy: the “Le Vallette” district in Turin, in the face of an ambitious project of self-sufficiency and habitat quality, has however, from the very beginning, taken for granted the absence of the great structure of services imagined for its centre, which over time have been replaced by the incoherent “pieces" placed illogically side by side.

A semantic and symbolic void addressed by the students' design experiments which, starting from the recognition of the most significant aspects of the settlement and the existing criticalities, worked on the regeneration of the central area through a new design of the open spaces, the redefinition of roads (vehicle and cycle-pedestrian), the recovery and/or demolition

of existing buildings (now under-utilized and in a state of degradation) and the construction of the new “Casa del Quartiere”, the focal point of the various design scenarios able to give a more complex identity back to the neighbourhood.

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Architecture and Urban Space B

COLLECTIVE URBAN SPACES FOR THE SCIENCE CITY IN CHENGDU Students / A. Lotti, C. Liu, L. Naso Professors / Michele Bonino, Giuseppe Cinà , Francesca Governa, Florence Graezer Bideau

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While a further 300 million Chinese will keep moving from the countryside to the city in the next 20 years, the Chinese model of ‘growth at all costs’ is revealing its weaknesses. How will it be possible to reconcile these two trends? Actually, the slowdown of the Chinese economy can be read as an opportunity: China is starting to reflect on its own model of modernity, improving its exploitation of existing physical and social resources, aiming at a more inclusive growth. We realized that a multidisciplinary Design Studio would be an interesting tool to explore this potential: we devoted its second edition to the case study of the Science City in Chengdu.

While a group of students from Tsinghua University were working on the broader

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scale of a 20 km2 masterplan, our students worked at a smaller scale, designing collective urban spaces focused on improving community life and the quality of place.

The reaction of the students (from some 20 different nationalities, including 6 Chinese students) basically showed two strategies: on one hand, the collective place as a big space/box, trying to challenge the non-human scale of urbanization without downsizing it, looking instead for a new vitality in hyper-density and aiming at conceptually transferring urban elements into architecture (the street, the market, etc.); on the other hand, many projects worked on a more ‘Western’ strategy, looking for the human dimension through the actual breakdown of urban spaces.

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Compatibility and Sustainability of Architectural Restoration A

THE CISTERCIAN ABBAYE OF S.M. DI STAFFARDA: RE-USE OF THE MILL AND MASTERPLAN DESIGN FOR SUSTAINABLE TOURISM PROMOTION Students / M. Bandolin, F. Imperiale, F. Natta Professors / Carla Bartolozzi, Maria Cristina Boido, Marco Roggero The Studio deals with disciplines that contribute to a sustainable restoration project oriented to re-use process with specific attention to innovative tools for building survey and project communication. Emerging issues in the field of conservation, building consolidation and regulatory compliance are tackled through a case study.

The project on the case study is focused on the design of new functions culturally, economically, socially and environmentally sustainable.

In 2016 the atelier established a collaboration with the Fondazione Ordine Mauriziano in Turin and with the Superintendence for Fine Arts and Landscape, focussing on the cistercian abbaye of Santa Maria di Staffarda, close to Cuneo. Among the main issues of the conservation and the valorization of the rural village of Staffarda, we focused on the re-use of the mill based on a masterplan aimed at cultural and sustainable tourism promotion.

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HBMI AN INNOVATIVE TOOL TO DESCRIBE AND COMMUNICATE BUILT HERITAGE Students / I. Candela, F.E. Capaldi, N. Capece, P. Chenuil Professors / Cesare Tocci, Paolo Piumatti, Filiberto Chiabrando

The multidisciplinary Studio addresses the integration of some disciplines that contribute to the realization of a sustainable, aimed-at-refunctioning, Restoration Project, with particular focus on the innovative techniques for survey and the communication of the project.

The Restoration unit aims at contributing to the formation of the student’s design experience in the field of built heritage. The analysis of the built environment and landscape transformations, read together with the historical evolution of the building chosen as a case study, defines the first cognitive phase, and is followed by the direct knowledge of the building itself, based on historical research, the survey of constructional techniques and structural apparatuses, the analysis of decay and disruption phenomena.

The New Technologies for the Survey and Drawing unit aims at providing students with advanced survey and representation techniques suitable to develop the restoration design. Data acquisition is carried on

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with digital 3D instruments (laser scanner and digital photogrammetry) and different representation techniques are experimented, specifically HBIM (Heritage Building Information Modeling) and other digital 3D

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modeling techniques, considering them as fundamental means not only to describe and comprehend reality, but also as key communication systems for educating towards the view of the built environment.

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Renovation of the Compact City B

LINKING THE NEW WITH THE EXISTING Students / A. Santi, V. Dutka, M. Jouannic Professors / Silvia Gron, Francesca De Filippi

Architecture Heritage preservation and Enhancement / MASTER

The Studio is composed of two disciplinary contributions: architectural and urban composition and architecture technology.

The project is developed at the architectural scale, though it is aimed at urban areas that are particularly fragile for social criticality or for being abandoned, where the intervention is not only aimed at the recovery of the existing buildings, but also for the enhancement of the context by introducing new activities. Linking the new with the existing is a way to interact within a transformation program. The theme addressed concerns areas in the Mirafiori Sud neighbourhood in Turin, and the interest has turned to parts of the abandoned industrial buildings of FIAT but also to the residential district of via Negarville where public buildings are no longer adequate regarding the cost of management and maintenance but also to the size of residential units designed for large families.

Today, these areas reveal an uncertain destiny.

The project has not only been an opportunity to explore the potential of social and economic development of the area but also a means of concretizing confrontation with the strategic stakeholders of the area (City, Community Foundation, TNE).

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UPGRADING KHAYELITSHA: ANALYSIS AND DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES IN A CAPE TOWN’S TOWNSHIP Enrico Bosia Supervisor / Matteo Robiglio Ass. supervisor / Michele Bonino

The objectives of the thesis are the analysis and possible development strategies in an informal settlement in the Khayelitsha Township. The research and analysis carried out during an internship with a local NGO called C.O.R.C was the basis for the next planning strategy. Field visits, community gatherings, photos and drawings have been fundamental to understanding and showing a complex and particular reality as a South African Township, otherwise difficult to understand. The design strategy wishes to show a different approach to slum upgrading, contrasting the process and concept of tabula rasa, making Township residents the main players in the development of informal settlement. The first goal of the design strategy is to make the site safer, working on improving the road network, making it the main tool for a quieter and healthier place. Several spots along the streets, visually linked to each other, are designed to create new public spaces and improve settlement security.

Thanks to the passive monitoring of the area, residents can unconsciously check others and make the place less dangerous.

The second objective is the design of a flexible housing unit, built according to the strategy of the progressive replacement of existing cabins, reusing local materials. By

providing an expandable unit, citizens are involved in the process of building and designing the settlement, becoming the protagonists of the evolution of the site.

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◄ Landscape Khayelitsha I. ► The Township of Khayelitsha in comparison with informal settlements in Cape Town. ▼ Site B in the Township of Khayelitsha.

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▲ Cabin with fence in UT Gardens. ► Two-storey cabin in UT Gardens. ▼ Landscape Khayelitsha II.

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▲ Housing unit of the project. ◥ Housing unit implemented by the community. ► Possible development of the design process. ▼ Design process aerial view.

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JUNTARQ: AIMING TO FIND A NEW WAY OF LIVING BRAZILIAN RURAL SETTLEMENTS Salvatore Cicero Federica Filippone Giulia Filippone Rachele Sipione Supervisors / Mauro Berta, Michele Bonino Ass. Supervisor / Marta Carla Bottero External Ass. Supervisors / Marcio Albuquerque Buson, Liza Maria De Andrade, Caio Frederico e Silva, Ivan Rezende do Valle (Faculdade de Arquitectura and Urbanism - Universidade de Brasília) ASP (Alta Scuola Politecnica) Supervisor / Federico Zanfi (Politecnico di Milano)

Agrarian Reform, housing deficit, the issue of subnormal agglomerations and the dramatic conditions in which the poor rural communities of the Federal District live are the most important and pressing issues in today's Brazil. The thesis analyses Brazilian rural settlements (both formal and informal), with the aim of formulating a new way of using and living in these spaces. The JuntARQ group has adopted a bottom-up approach applied to some peculiar cases in order to build a more comprehensive view of the issue for the specific case of the Federal District. The visits and interviews were the most useful tools for this survey, as they allowed a more careful observation and a more direct contact with the inhabitants and institutions involved. Some issues prevailed over others: the housing issue, due to the inefficiency of the rural MCMV program (Minha Casa Minha Vida) and the potential development of Brazilian rural areas. The latter inspired the final objectives of the JuntARQ project, which developed in two different directions and different study stages: the first territorial, the second architectural. On a territorial scale, the future evolution of settlements

has been theorized in a new type of space, the so-called Rural City, bringing together the factors of rural and urban life. From an architectural point of view, the proposed solution consists of a modular "neutral" dwelling model derived from all the independent variables identified during the visits and capable of adapting to the dependent variables for each particular case.

Awards: -- Application for Achirid 2017, Hunter Douglas Awards, CEPT University, Ahmedabad, India (Achirid is a two-year event that invites the schools of Architecture around the world to select the best thesis project in the last two years).

-- Young Talent Architecture Award 2016, EU Mie’s Award (YTAA is an annual event inviting Architecture Schools across Europe and selecting the best thesis projects in the last year).

-- Winners of the Scholarship provided by the Fondazione Franco and Marlisa Caligari for high interdisciplinary training, for carrying out field work in Brazil.

-- Meritorious thesis, Politecnico di Torino, Architecture Construction and City degree course February 2016.

Published in: -- Printed publication - Anais do III Colóquio Habitat and Cidadania - FAU / Universidade de Brasilia Analysis of PDA dos assentamentos rurais: o case of PW, em Planaltina DF. -- Online publication - Meritorious thesis - Politecnico di Torino - JuntARQ: aiming to find a new way of living Brazilian rural settlements.

-- Printed publication - ARQUI magazine n.4 - 1/2015 - FAU / Universidade de Brasilia - JuntARQ: um novo jeito de viver os assentamentos rurais.

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◤ The JuntARQ group during one of the collective activities carried out in rural settlements. ▲ First collective activity: "the dream" game. Dreams and desires for an ideal rural settlement. ◥ Second collective activity: "the waiter" game. What will be the home of your dreams?

▲ Comparison between urban, suburban and rural settlements in the Brazilian context. ◄ Evolution of housing units in rural settlements: camp, pre-settlement and settlement. ▼ Structure of JuntARQ visits: surveys, interviews, questionnaires, games, and party activities.

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â–˛ Typological analysis: layouts and axonometries of the most common types of housing among the surveyed. â–ź Suggested housing module, construction type in armoured mortar.

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▲ Typical day of one of the interviewed inhabitants: focus on the relationship between work and leisure. ▼ Transformations of areas close to rural settlements. Analysis of the invasion of urban apparatus over time.

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SU(PER)MISURA. THE SHOPPING MALL AS A CHALLENGE FOR THE REUSE OF LARGE SCALE: THE CASE OF THE PALAZZO DEL LAVORO IN TURIN Elisa Dellarossa Serena Rossi Supervisor / Valeria Minucciani Ass. Supervisor / Guido Montanari

SU(PER)MISURA faces the large scale of a building that has been in a state of degradation for too long: Palazzo del Lavoro of Pier Luigi Nervi, built in Turin on the occasion of the first centenary of the Unification of Italy. The project was developed in a period in which the Palazzo del Lavoro was at the centre of discussions involving both administration and citizenry: the transformation into a shopping mall proposed by the municipality has been challenged on several occasions. The thesis does not refuse a priori a change into a mall, but accepts the challenge of interpreting this architectural type alternatively. Starting from an “ecological" vision that identifies architecture as a product of man and therefore nature, one imagines a "parasitic" diffusion of volumes inside the building. The project is a continuation of city blocks in the building and increases the abundant “invasion" of green from the outside. An internal bicycle track, a museum dedicated to the history of the building, a commercial gallery along the perimeter of the palace that resembles the Turin arcades and numerous internal green spaces are just some of the features included, based on an analysis of existing businesses in the area and services required by the citizens. The palace thus becomes a point of reference for visitors,

even with opposing interests, recreating a more spontaneous environment, typical of the urban context: this represents a cultural and relational type of opportunity, especially for a portion of city of considerable size such as the one occupied by the building.

Awards: -- Special Urban Planning Award “ICU Laura Conti Ecologia" 2016. Issued by: Ecoistituto del Veneto Alex Langer, Fondazione ICU – Istituto Consumatori Utenti.

-- Thesis selected by the “Politecnico di Torino” to participate in the international competition “European Architectural Medals for the Best Diploma Projects" 2016.

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◄ Design model in PLA printed in 3D on scale 1: 200. ► Deriving the form and defining the "sizes" of the new volumes. ▼ The three phases of "parasitic invasion" inside the Palazzo del Lavoro.

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◄ Raised walkways allow you to vary the scale ratio between building and visitors. ◣ The winter garden, the direct continuation of Parco Italia '61 inside the building. ▼ An educational courtyard characterized by the presence of craft workshops.

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► Access to the museum's bookshop through a raised walkway ◢ A section of the museum walk dedicated to the memory of Italia '61.

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THE "FILZI" NAPOLEONIC BARRACKS OF PALMANOVA. RESTORATION AND REFUNCTIONING PROJECT Chiara Spagnut Supervisor / Paolo Mellano Ass. Supervisors / Annalisa Dameri, Monica Naretto

In the continuous process of transformation of the built, a very important issue is the recovery of entire military complexes abandoned after being decommissioned by the military property. In Friuli Venezia Giulia, this issue is extremely important: the most striking example is that of the fortress city of Palmanova, on whose territory there are extensive state-owned areas left to themselves for decades, where neglect is destroying a unique architectural heritage.

The "Filzi", Napoleonic barracks, built between 1811 and 1813 by Napoleon's men during the expansion of the third fortified wall, has so far been virtually unaltered.

The interest in it is remarkable: a design proposal for the refunctioning of the building has been developed, fulfilling the request of the municipal administration to allocate space to activities and functions in the tourist, cultural and social sphere.

Historical research has made it possible to investigate the events concerning the city of Palmanova, from the foundation of the fortress (1593) to the present.

The design part includes the analysis of the constructive typology of the architectural artefact, the metrical survey of the barracks and the mapping of the materials that make up the structure. The study

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of the conservation plan methodology has enabled the identification of the degradation pathologies that have affected the architectural consistency, laying the foundations for the restoration project.

Published in: -- Monica dal Mondo, Rooms, halls, museums: here is the idea for the Filzi barracks in Palmanova, Messaggero Veneto, August 24, 2015, p. 35.

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▲ Filzi Barracks, photo of the main perspective. ▼ Masterplan.

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Territorial section. ▲ Degradation mapping, north perspective. ◢ Mapping of materials, south perspective. ▼

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THE RECOVERY OF TERRAINES VAGUES IN URBAN FABRIC THROUGH ARCHITECTURE OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS: NORTE-SUR IS THE NEW SITE OF THE MUSEO DE LA SOLIDARIDAD SALVADOR ALLENDE Daniele Busi Supervisors / Paolo Mellano, Annalisa Dameri External Supervisors / Sebastian Gray Avins, Dino Bozzi (PUC - Pontificia Universidad CatĂłlica de Santiago de Chile) Ass. Supervisor / Cristian Larrain

The thesis starts with the analysis of an issue in the city of Santiago del Chile; the insertion of a motorway in the city centre and related problems: noise and atmospheric pollution, social segregation, deterioration of the surrounding neighbourhoods.

To solve the problem, the Municipality has a plan to cover this arterial road with a park without providing the insertion of any type of public buildings that would serve as catalysts able to activate the new intervention.

The thesis project seeks to fill this gap and provides a proposal for a public building: the new site of the Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende.

The MSSA was born during the Allende government because of the initiative of intellectuals as Carlo Levi who invited artists to donate works to the new Chilean government. In 1973, with the establishment of Pinochet’s dictatorship, the museum was closed and reopened its doors only when democracy was restored in the country.

The collection has over 1200 works of international artists including Matta, Calder, Picasso and has the most important collection of contemporary art throughout South America.

The current site however is in a peripheral neighbourhood inside a small building that can only exhibit 2% of the entire collection.

Hence the need to design a new space able not only to meet exhibition rand museum requirements but also to give new significance to this museum of the Capital within what is a search for identity and confrontation with recent history of the country.

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► The city of Santiago de Chile and the plan of the Norte Sur motorway. ▼ Masterplan and territorial section.

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▼ Internal view of the museum areas at level -13 m. ▼ ▼ External view of the building from the east side.

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▼ Internal view of the museum areas at level -13 m. ▼ ▼ External view of the building from the east side.

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BERLIN STAMP CITY? DECONSTRUCTION OF URBAN IMAGERY Chiara Iacovone Supervisors / Francesca Governa

The key topic of this thesis is: how the way of observing cities changes their perception. Therefore, it is a thesis on cities in general and specifically on Berlin.

Starting from the study of policies as construction tools of similar imagery from city to city, the next step was to deconstruct the representations that contribute to giving a city definition.

Re-reading the recent history of Berlin as various attempts to construct imageries means going to search for those political, economic and social choices that have, from time to time, moulded the city images to construct definitions.

The most tangible effects of these politics are the urban transformation and the use of certain design models that work to construct certain imagery.

During the field research, I understood how much the collected models were not actually static and absolute entities, but how much they can change and become something else in urban dynamics.

Therefore, the biggest problem that emerged from the research is precisely the way cities are studied, through exactly those mental images and constructions.

This research was a decoding and deconstruction exercise of urban codes, therefore, of preconstructed imageries. It was

an exercise of criticism towards economic policy systems and would be an implied proposal to get away from what is presented as normal, defined and consolidated and abandon ourselves to the pathological, to the minor and ordinary, in both interpretation and construction of cities.

Published in: -- A re-elaboration of the thesis written with professor Francesca Governa will be published as an article in the “Urban Design” magazine—a magazine of the Department of Architecture of the Tsinghua University of Beijing, entitled “Towards a new city? Urban strategy and design models in post-wall Berlin”.

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▼ Representation of the CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT, model-collage.

▲ Representation of the INFRASTRUCTURE, model-collage.

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▼ Representation of the CLUB, model-collage.

▲ Representation of the URBAN VEGETABLE GARDEN, model-collage.

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The Politecnico di Torino Yearbook #01 reports selected works of the design studios and the master thesis of its School of Architecture.

The School of Architecture of the Politecnico di Torino is growing, open, interdisciplinary school, part of a global research university focused on design in all technical fields.

Established in 1931 – but with a background that can be traced back to the Royal Technical School for Engineers founded in 1859 – it is one of the oldest architecture schools of Italy.

After a 3-year-long broad Bachelor program in Architecture, whose scope is to provide a general understanding of architecture, building techniques, urban forms and societies, environmental challenges, and to develop solid drawing and design skills, students can join one of the three 2-year Master programs on Heritage preservation and Enhancement, Sustainable Design or Construction City.

All programs are offered in Italian and English, except for Architecture Heritage preservation and Enhancement, in which students accede in Italian to one of the world’s richest heritage cultures.

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