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DATASCAPE OF AN ISLAND

Santa Maria Island, Sardinia (Architecture of interiors design studio)

Milan, Lombardy, Italy

(Architectural design studio)

DATASCAPE OF AN ISLAND

Isola di Santa Maria, Sardegna, Italia

(Architecture of interiors design studio)

july 2021

We have seen changes on our planet over the past ten years that have never occurred in centuries. Today, the sea level is rising by almost half a centimetre per year. In the last ten years the record of the hottest temperatures has been beaten eighteen times. 2020 is the hottest year since 1880, the year in which the temperature records began.

Air pollution is the fourth global risk factor for mortality. More than 87% of the population live in areas that do not respect the WHO values. The frequency of catastrophic events with increasingly serious consequences has increased by 50%.

The island of Santa Maria, for its conformation and conditions will be the most affected by these changes. In particular, its altitude and the delicate landscape that offers wide biodiversity to the Sardinian islands are aspects of its fragility to climate change. By the middle of the century, with the sea level one meter higher, it would lose connections to nearby islands.

The lighthouse, in its privileged position, is thus transformed into a reliquary of the heritage of the unique landscape of this island. A data center inhabited by two new lighthouse keepers, two researchers who will deal with the collection of data on climate, flora and fauna. This task will be facilitated by the presence of totems located in strategic points on the Island. All the information collected is aimed at recreating a new digital Santa Maria Island, an alter-ego that will preserve its landscape. Outside, the lighthouse maintains its function as an “informer” projecting in real time the data collected from totems, thanks to a metal net on which are placed micro Leds.

totem + their augmented reality version

MILANO URBAN + FARM LAB

Milano, Lombardia, Italia

(Architectural design studio)

february 2021

The project is developed in the north-east area of Milan. It seeks to act as a ‘hinge’ between two large public parks, Parco Nord and Parco Lambro. The main objective is to unite two areas that are currently disconnected not only from each other, but also from the city itself. The main function is vertical farming, but within the building are preset public floors that can be used by the population of the neighbourhood and beyond; a library, classrooms, creative workshops. The function of a city market has also been maintained on the ground floor, and a park has been added with areas for both resting and sports activities. The project covers a total of fifteen floors in which there is also a server area and seed banks to study and experiment with new types of seeds to implement the vertical farm’s agricultural activities.

The founding idea of the project was to give the community of this neighbourhood new spaces for culture and meeting, adding missing activities such as the library and a public park and combining them with the intention of having a vertical farm in the middle of the city.

Obbiettivo: articolare il collegamento tra l’ambito di progetto e il parco Lambro, tramite la riattivazione di una cerniera urbana.

Obbiettivo: corridoio ecologico attraverso le infrastrutture sanitarie che permetta di estenderne le loro funzioni.

prof. Filippo Orsini, Maria Chiara Pastore con Benedetta Lydia Cremaschi,Filippo Oppimitti

Farming Padova: un posto dove stare. Students: Nicolò Caterina, Carlotta Oliosi, Francesco Gervasoni

Sezione Longitudinale Scala 1:200 section

split axonometry

FANTASTIC INSTITUTIONS

BASE, Milano, Italia

Fuorisalone

june 2022

“We live in a World based on exploitation, selfishness and hate. We imposed our needs on all living entities on Earth, but we lost our spirit of adaptation. Will we learn the importance of re-connecting to others, to feel and understand everyone’s emotions? To empathize with different human beings and species in a more pure and honest way?”

There was a World where digital had taken over reality, where people were used to going from chats on phones, to video meetings on computers, to note-taking on tablets. Education had been reduced to mere transmission of information, culture to online performances, sociality to digital cocktails and relationships to “I love you” texts. Humans had lost the ability to write, to socialize, to use words to describe their emotions.

This miscommunication, compounded by increasing air and noise pollution, caused a loss of the ability to speak properly. People became used to all kinds of disasters and misfortunes, and this led to an inability to empathize with others. They had reached the peak of World evolution, just to stop using their brains and solely entrust machines. It was an insult to their intelligence.

However, after millennia without a real evolution of human beings, some of them began to work with technology and biology in order to adapt to new conditions. This created HUM, a hyper-evolved hybrid human.

“H”, the Multisensorial Communication Institute, is aimed at guaranteeing that everyone has an advanced level of emotional capacity and that every hum is following the evolutionary process. Every year the institution tests the population to check their mental and emotional state.

In this new society, at this exact moment, spoken words are not required anymore. We connect to other species through our brains and our touch. It is our necessity, not our will.

THEY WILL DESIGN was an exhibition hosted at BASE Milano Exhibition Design curated by Parasite 2.0 Collaboration with Salone del mobile Milano

WASTE MATTERS

Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italia

Fuorisalone

april 2023

On the occasion of the 2023 Design Week we wanted to ask ourselves, as future architects, what could be a way to re-use the materials we usually waste in these kind of events.

How to think of a truly sustainable and useful architecture using objects that would be thrown away immediately after the exhibition.

This led to a collaboration with Rise.int, a non-profit social enterprise organisation that supports and connects aspiring entrepreneurs from vulnerable communities in low-income sub-Saharan African countries with essential resources they would not otherwise have access to.

The issues caused by the economy of the country are the topic of the project. Create multifunctional spaces for the children to be fostered during the working hours of the mothers or create new enterprises such as beekeeping and producing honey from the agave plant are some of the solutions that we in collaboration with Rise found here.

For the daycare we developed modular wooden panels to create multiple configurations, and ath the same time tried to find a way to insulate the space, because of the climate conditions of Lesotho. Through some experimentation with different materials, we arrived at the production of four different types of thermal insulators composed of cardboard, vegetable cardboard, project boards and newspaper sheets.

All products were collected and recycled from scraps found within the polytechnic.

EXHIBITION MATERIALS EXHIBITION

OUR CITIES ARE CLEAN, until you watch close enough

Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italia

Jeremy William Till + Mould

january 2023

The world we live in today is the result of years of individualism and indifference. Life rhythms and the increasing demand of an ever-growing society are torturing our planet and the effects are tangible, even just by walking around the city of Milan. Despite the city seems to be clean and perfectly organized, pollution is an evident effect of consumerism.

Furthermore, the system is often avoiding the problem at the global scale. The clean wall of hypocrisy built around the effective gravity of the situations is the rhetoric adopted by politics and society to create a common belief that a city is functional when it is modern enough to grow, produce, spend, expand. However, the rhythms of the globalized societies are at the root of the problem. An urgency to act is required, to change our way of living and thinking about a good society as a fast-moving one.

The key is being revolutionary, by not just changing our habits to a more sustainable ones but also to make the production side more sustainable and greener. The challenge is to establish the “year of care”, rather than the “year of growth”.

The product applied has to be used in its pure state, without diluting, in order to obtain the deepest result.

Shake the product prior to use and carry out preliminary tests on a small portion of the surface before use. Apply the product by brushing on the support to be treated for about 300 g/m² (variable depending on the type and porosity of the substrate). Then brush again for a secong hand. A third maybe. Even a fourth might be good. Then leave to work for about 30-60 minutes. Avoid letting the product dry completely on the support. Once the time required to ensure that the active ingredients have performed their cleaning action has passed, remove the product from the support with a 150 bar pressure washer. The task should be carried out when the temperature of the supports is between 5°C and 30°C. In case of rain, or very high temperatures (above 35°C), a proper infrastructure will allow the protection of the working area and the control of its temperatures, in order to perform the cleaning.

After heavy rain, the method must be repeted straight after, in order to avoid damages due to deposits in rainwater that might ruin the urban skin. Protective masks are not necessary when outdoor, you

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