PORTFOLIO
PROFILE
Livia Giani
NAME DATE OF BIRTH
11-06-1994 Female
SEX NATIONALITY
Italian
EDUCATION
Scientific High School Diploma
Liceo Scientifico R. Donatelli,
Terni (TR) Italy
score: 100 cum laude ( 2008-2013 ) Bachelor’s degree in
Architectural Sciences Politecnico di Milano, Milan (MI) Italy
score: 110 cum laude ( 2013-2016 )
Master degree in Architecture
DOMICILE Via Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1 20124 Milano MI RESIDENCE Via Mentana 54 05100 Terni TR
Politecnico di Milano, Milan (MI) Italy
( 2016-on going )
ERASMUS+ at École
National Supérieure
d’Architecture Paris Malaquais Paris, France
( summer semester 2017 )
LANGUAGES
SKILLS & CAPABILITIES
ITALIAN mothertongue ENGLISH indipendent/proficient user Trinity GESE B2 TOEIC score970/990 UNDERSTANDING
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FRENCH intermediate user DELF A1 erasmus in Paris UNDERSTANDING
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EXPERIENCES 2017
ERASMUS in Paris at ENSA Paris-Malaquais URBANPROMO GIOVANI 2017 competion (honorable mention) Walicow Project SPOLIA International Seminar and exhibition - Polin Museum and Warsaw University of Technology
2016
ATMOSPHERES Design competition (honorable mention) Intership @ Consalez Rossi Architetti Associati - Milano Workshop BIM - I caratteri della metodologia di lavoro per la progettazione - prof. Utica - POLITECNICO DI MILANO
2015
Volunteer for Expo Milano 2015 BEST BADC Design competition (2nd place)
2012
Stage at Scuola Superiore Mediatori Linguistici - Pisa
Proficient in: Adobe Illustrator Adobe Photoshop Autodesk Autocad Skilled in: Microsoft Office Adobe Premiere Adobe InDesign Maquettes Trained in: Team work Time management Creative working Problem solving Public relations HOBBIES & INTERESTS
Photography (film & digital) Music Reading Travelling Movies Design Typography Literature Exhibitions Video Making Illustration Art CONTACTS
personal
liviagiani@gmail.com accademic livia.giani@mail.polimi.it 3484528257
DESIGN STUDIO 2
Downtown playground Part of RIFORMARE MILANO (Reform Milan) research project, started with a collaboration with Politecnico di Milano and Milan Municipality, challenging the redevelopment of empty or abandoned spaces in the urban fabric of Milan. LOCATION: Milano Certosa (outskirts of Milan) TASK: design a school complex (kindergarten, elementary and middle school) PROJECT: an innovative, green and people oriented school complex, also seen as community center, with the aim of revitalizing a post-industrial suburb of Milan.
Elementary School.
One of the walls of the gym at the lower floor can be opened towards the garden.
Soft forniture is installed in the common area of the 1st floor, overlooking with glass walls the maple tree on the courtyard beneath.
A vegetable garden is placed in front of the school for kids to use
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Trapezoidal desks allow different arrangements.
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The main space of the middle school is a large double height floor that combines the functions of hall, library, cafeteria and multi-purpose space for meetings.
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Kindergartern.
The kindergarten is an open-space school, without walls beetwen classrooms. This feature brings higher brightness and airiness in the school and creates a much more stimulating and dynamic environment.
pop-up Preparatory project for Design Studio 2 (Downtown Playground). TASK: design a space for you as a child. PROJECT: a cardboard toy-bookshelf that you can open to reveal a “secret space” to play in.
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a small project for a fast paced design competion organized by BEST - POLIMI. TASK: design in 8 hours a kitchen for the future. PROJECT: a home-base basic modular kitchen, highly custmizable and easy to self-build (based on the WikiHouse model), wich provides an infinite range of uses and opportunities. RESULT: 2nd place
“It is easier to ship recipes than cakes and biscuits� John Maynard Keynes
HOW DOES IT WORK?
search your kitchen
WikiHouse is an open source building system. Many designers, collaborating to make it simple for everyone to design, print and assemble beautiful, low-energy homes, customised to their needs.
print your pieces
download it
and build it!
Thanks to its ductility WIKITCHEN can be easily and fast installed in many different situations.
GramoGramo-ph�ne A small project for ATMOSPHERES, a design competition held for in in prevision of the 2016 A small project ATMOSPHERES, a design Design week. held in in prevision of the 2016 competition Design week. TASK: design something to improve the experience of something the Città to Studi campus. TASK: design improve the expe experience of the Città Studi campus. PROJECT: an object/seat that allows to reproduce music in a passive enhancing PROJECT: an object/seat that way, allows to reresocialization the campus. produce music inside in a passive way, enhancing socialization inside the campus. RESULT: honorable mention RESULT: still waiting. This project was part of the “campuscontrocampus” exhibition at Spazio Mostre Guido Nardi @Politecnico di Milano, part of the XXI Triennale and the 2016 Milano Design Week LINK
LOCATION: the object can be placed averywhere in the CittĂ Studi campus area.
In the campus it is not uncommon to spot many people listening to music, each one alone, with their own headphones.
A tool that amplifies sounds creates the chance to listen and also share the music.
GRAMO-PHONE CREATES A SHARED MUSICAL EXPERIENCE
Just insert your smartphone in the holder inside the cone...
... the holder, a passive sound board, increases the intensity of the sound...
... which in turn will be amplified by the cone....
...without electricity!
GramoGramo-ph�ne is a chair designed to play music . Through a passive sound board, it amplifies the music coming from electronic devices such as smartphones and tablets - devices that we all posses and usually use on our own -
Gramo-ph�ne -ph�ne instead encourages socialization creating a chance to share your music.
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DULVER the dulver’s shell, lightweight and durable
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BUILDING & TECHNOLOGY STUDIO
abitare ciTT ciTTA studi The course’s aim was to produce a full design project from the conceptual to the executive phase, with a focus on construction detail. TASK: design a student/researcher accomodation located in the Città Studi campus in Milan. TIPOLOGY: central corridor. PROJECT SCALE: from 1:200 to 1:10 detail. PROJECT: a concrete and steel residential building with 3 types of modular flats designed to host students and researchers with family.
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SITE: CittĂ Studi campus, the university district of Milan. The building is located right next to the Faculty of Architecture.
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DESIGN STUDIO 3
why not reform? TASK: design a civic center for the slum made of an open air theatre, a square, 5 classrooms and 5 workshops. PROJECT: dealing with a really difficult situation, the project’s goal is to establish a strong relation to the context with the creation of a system of self-production. LOCATION: Mathare slum - Nairobi - Kenya.
The project’s aim is to introduce a system of selfproduction that, with a starting monetary input, will be able to self sustain the rest of the construction.
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tessuti realizzati dal riciclo di sacchetti textiles created di plastica
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bottiglie riempite di spazzatura usate garbage filled come mattoni
plastic bottles
If the people living in the slum take part in the construction process (building, recycling, producing), they will most certainly have an overall better perception of the project, and they will also be encouraged to take good care of it.
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TASK: rethink dierent parts of the town and landscape of Levanto (SP) PROJECT: landscape renovation of the town access/suburbs coming from the A1 highway, renovation of the Agricoltural Cooperative and two permanent installation along the hiking path towards Casa Lovara and Monterosso. LOCATION: Levanto (SP) in Liguria, part of the landscape relavant area of Cinque Terre.
The project involved dierent parts of the town and landscape of Levanto.
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degustazione / vendita / produzione / nutrire la comunitĂ
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camminare / sostare / conoscere il territorio
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Stanza a reazione poetica contemplare / riflettere / nutrire lo spirito
Basing on the identity of the town Of Levanto, rooted to its agricoltural vocation, the theme for the project is the research of a way to feed the soul, the body and the experience of both visitors and local communities.
This translated in the project with the main idea of the Hortus Conclusus, the medieval garden surrounded by walls, in which the monks grew officinal plants and dedicated themselves to meditation. The theme of ENCLOSURE is way to exlpore the theme and translate it into the project
Looking at the wide scale this trnslated in the creation of a cyclopedonal path connecting the town to the countryside. This path is crossed by different “rooms” of vegetation and 3 main resting points: one welcoming the visitors, one allowing them to rest and one to greet them at the beginning of the city.
The project of the Agricoltural Cooperative “Agricoltori Vallata di Levanto� is developed around a central garden, following the main theme of the Hortus Conclusus, with new buildings that complete the existing ones.
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Along the path in the wood which leads to Casa Lovara, the poetic reaction room is placed right on a spring, collecting its waters and composing a space to rest and meditate in the nature
La casa dell’acqua si ricollega all’idea fondamentale del giardino dell’eden, quadripartito e con una fonte di acqua al centro, simbolo della giovinezza. A questo schema si aggiunge una cisterna, che raccoglie sia l’acqua proveniente dal rigagnolo incanalato dalla struttura che l’acqua piovana. La cisterna inoltre presenta una serie di
Quando piena la casa dell’acqua funziona come una cisterna e fornisce acqua a Casa Lovara.
Svuotandosi la casa dell’acqua rivela al suo interno un sistema di scale che le per permettono di diventare un teatro /luogo per piccole performance.
The Waterhouse is composed by 2 parts: a fountain which also collects water from a creek and a storage area, whihc allows, when empty, space for small happenings and concerts.
URBAN PLANNING STUDIO
TASK: following a deep and accurate analysis of the city and the suburbs of Milan, design a new sustainable and inclusive neighborhood in a peripheric area of the city PROJECT: a mixed-use neighborhood which challenges the redevelopment of the neglected area of public housing of Quartiere Omero, based on the MANIFESTO FOR THE ACCESSIBLE CITY developed trough the analysis of Milan. LOCATION: Quartiere Omero, 4th municipality of Milan. The analysis of Milan were presented at the municipality of Milan and published online in various local and national papers LINK LINK LINK LINK The project won an honorable mention at the URBANPROMO GIOVANI international competition LINK
MANIFESTO FOR THE ACCESIBLE CITY A city is a cellular system that organizes itself like an organic tissue. The tissue works only trough the cooperation of its components. A city is accessible whet it let’s everyone take part to the urban funcitoning. Urban functioning is the synergy of possibilities of the city. Synergy happens when the urban elements work together like an organic tissue. Urban tissue is a cluster of dierent cells in a complex system with broad and widespread functioning as interaction of single urban activities.
Planimetric/volumetric view of the project The new accesible neighborhood relies on aggregation places, eďŹƒcient connections, green areas and community services.
The projects creates a link between the existing social housing (quartiere Omero) and the countryside (Parco Agricolo sud), implementing mixed-use residences and services.
View of the inner court with public and private use.
Accesibility is partecipation to urban life.
DESIGN STUDIO @ ENSA PARIS MALAQUAIS
RE|connecter RE |connecter TASK: after a sociological study of the city of Dieppe in Normandy, deďŹ ne the reasons of its decline and propose strategies for an urban renewal. PROJECT: regeneration of an important yet neglected area of the town, which connects the city center, the railway station, the harbour and the new expansion area. The collective work of the studio was presented at the municipality of Dieppe following a week of work in situ and was printed by LOCATION: Dieppe, Normandie, France.
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The projects is the regeneration of a neglected but important area of the town taht has the possibility to become an important public space for the city of Dieppe.
DESIGN STUDIO 5 TASK: reflect on the significance and impact on the city of the ruins of the former ghetto of Warsaw and propose a way to integrate them in the modern city PROJECT: Dialoging with the material of the former roofs, a monumental lead covering box is lowered over the ruin in order to frame and filter its perception. The project on Walicow 14 represents both an act of removal (verdrängung) and protection on an open wound of the city. LOCATION: Wola district, Warsaw The project is part of the Walicow Project and seminar LINK a collaboration between the Polytechnic of Milan and the Polytechnic of Warsaw and was exhibited at the Polin Museum and at the Faculty of Architecture (WAPW) in Warsaw
perspective plan | scale 1:400
BUILDING & CONSTRUCTION STUDIO 2
WIRE FRAME MUSEUM TASK: design a masterplan for temporary uses of the ex-railway yard of Porta Romana, including a museum which must be designed considering the construction elements, calculating the stability and the energetic requirement and sustenaibility PROJECT: a temporary museum made of scaolding pipes, which can be easily dismantled and reassmbled elsewhere. The project is connected to other landmarks (existing and future) by a system of suspended paths, also made of scaolding. LOCATION: Ex-railway yard of Porta Romana, Milan.
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Masterplan of the project area. All building share the same construction technic and are connected by a system of paths and a bridge that crosses the railway.
1:100 plan and cross-section of the museum.
1:50 plan and cross-section of the museum. 1:5 details.