Paola Bracchi CV and Portfolio

CV and PORTFOLIO

Ph. D. Architect Paola Bracchi

E-mail: paola.bracchi.83@gmail.com

cell. +39 339 7027996

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personal data

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education and scientific qualifications

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research and teaching interest

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research | academic activity

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teaching activity

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professional activity | competition

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pubblications

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workshop | exibitions | conferences

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portfolio

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personal data and skills Paola Bracchi Date of birth: 01| 06| 1983 Place of Birth: Calcinate (Bg) Italy Nationality: Italian Permanent adress: Via San Giuliano 4/D, 24060 Telgate (BG) Italy Phone: +39 035 831089 Mobile: +39 3397027996 E-mail: paola.bracchi.83@gmail.com Personal skills Mother Language: Italian Other Languages: English, Good | speaking, writing, reading, listening Spanish, Excellent | speaking, writing, reading, listenign Comunication skills: Good written and verbal communication skill, Very good in public speacking to groups and classes. Excelent in preparing and exposing presentation that show strategic and projectual processes and theoretical concepts. Synthetic skill: use of diagrams to explain ideas.

Organizational-managerial skills: Combine patience and determination, able to take decisions and to face stress condition and limited time. Very good organization of work whether indipendent or in team. Enjoy working as team member, but also able to manage a group: division of task, supervision of the work and respect of deadline. Easily understand and solve technical problems Computer skills: Adobe suite skill, Microsoft office suite, Autocad, Archicad, Artlantis, 3D Studio Max Other skills: Dinamicity, Perseverance, Method. Able to motivate people to the goal both in workshops and team work. Artistic skills as making sketches, plastic models with different materials, good in painting.

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education | scientific qualification February 2010 | March 2013

Ph.D. | Architectural and Urban Design XXV Cycle | Politecnico of Milan Department of Architecture and Urban Studies D.A.S.T.U. Thesis: “Building demolition. Interrupted design and discontinuity within the process of urban settlement regeneration” Evaluation: Honors

July 2008

Master Degree | Architecture and Urban Design| Politecnico of Milan School of Architecture and Society | Milano Leonardo Campus Master Thesis: “Sevilla, Guadalquivir’s margin regeneration: new inhabited intervals” Evaluation: 110/110 with Honors

October 2005 July 2006 September 2005

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other qualifications June 2010 September 2009 Jenuary 2009 October December 2007 6

July 2005

Partecipation to the Socrate Erasmus Program.

First year of Master in Architecture at the: Escuela Superior de Arquitectura de Sevilla E.T.S.A.S. Spain Bachelor Degree | Science of Architecture | Politecnico of Milan School of Architecture and Society | Milano Leonardo Campus Thesis: “Contemporary Museums between image and content” Evaluation: 105/110 Hig school Degree | School of Art | Liceo Artistico Vincenzo Foppa | Brescia Evaluation: 100|100 with Honorable Mention Academic English Course | British Councile Milan for Politecnico of Milano Evaluation: Good pass, Level B2.1 Registration at Albo degli Architetti, Pianificatori, Paesaggisti e Conservatori della Provincia di Bergamo at the nr. 2618 National Qualifying Examination as Architect | Class 4S obtained from the Politecnico di Milano, 2008 Session II Participation Certificate | 3DStudio Max course Politecnico of Milan, Informatic services TOEFL Test Certificate | Computer based test

research and teaching interest “Virtue of Necessity� in density and shrinking situation Informality | Spontaneity Boundaries area | Favelas | Slums | Suburbia Squatting | Occupation | Reuse Urban skeletons Radical Reuse | Cradle to Cradle | Embodied Energy De-construction | Demolition Vacant spaces | Urban agriculture | Urban Farms Productive and Energetical Landscapes Limited resource | Limited possibility bring population to invent every day how use and transform each modest resource Can the processes that are spontaneously developed in necessity conditions be read and interpreted as a multiple scales system of interrelated actions, in order to power up a series of transformations strategies for critical urban areas?

Can the most Critical and Weak areas become the Strongest place for XXI century change?

Can these areas become the most Ecological | Susteinable | Innovative Adaptative | Flexible | Evolutive | Open systems?

From Project to Process studying a series of Weak but Structured Intermediate Realities

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research | academic activity Starting from 2010 - beginning of the Ph.D. - I’ve participate to several academic researches and activityes.

Academic activity

2011 - 2013

October - November 2011

research activity

December 2010

February – July 2010 November 2010 – July 2011 8

Coordination and Organization of several International initiatives of Politecnico of Milan (also with the participation of foreign University) as Workshop, Conferences, Symposium and Exposition.

In particular: Organization of the International Summer School “OC Open City from Landscape to exterior Design” the initiave reached its fourth edition; I organise it from the second one. All the information about at the following link http://www. intschool.polimi.it/index13h.html Graphic project of the exposition “Memorie Politecniche. Frammenti dagli archivi” Exposition wanted by the Rector of the University in occasion of the Politecnico 150° Anniversary.

Participation to different researches projects of the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies D.A.S.T.U. of Politecnico of Milan.

In particular: Winner of a Temporary Research Fellow for participate to a PRIN-MIUR research (Ministerial Scientific Research Program of Relevant National Interest).

Research title: Theories and technics , description and interpretation’s methods of marginal urban fabrics” Person in charge: prof. Ilaria Valente.

PRIN 2008: “Regeneration of marginal fabrics. Methodes, tools and strategy for new sustainable living form” National Coordinator: prof. Gianfranco Neri | University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria | Faculty of Architecture Projects developed: “Multiscalar Interception. A methodology for delivering quality to the isolated city neighborhoods” Case study: Quartiere San Siro – Milan.

Project by: Paola Bracchi | Narges Golkar “Urban Regeneration Strategies: Open spaces, Infrastructures, Architectures.

Rome | case study: Tor Bella Monaca” Project by PH.D students of XXV - XXIV Cycle.

teaching activity A.A. 2013 | 2014

Assistant Professor Ist semester Integration of: Environmental Architecture and Sustainable Design (ICAR 15) to the Course: Multi -Scale Architecture and Urban Design Studio 3 Head professor: Roberto Spagnolo | Ordinary professor in Architecture Politecnico of Milan

A.A. 2009 | 2013

Starting from the Academic year 2009 – 2010 I’ve a continued participation to the teaching activity as tutor or head tutor in several courses of Architectural and Urban Design, Theory of architecture and Internationals Workshops of the Politecnico of Milan.

In particular: Tutor | Courses of Architecture and Urban Design Studio | Master Degree in Architecture | Politecnico of Milan | Academic years from 2009 | 2010 till now prof. Guya Bertelli – Ordinary professor in Architecture Tutor | Courses of Theory of Architecture | Architecture of open spaces and soil design | Bachelor Degree in Architecture | Politecnico of Milan Academic years from 2011 |2012 till now prof. Giangiacomo D’Ardia – Visiting professor of Politecnico of Milan, Ordinary professor of University of Chieti and Pescara Tutor | Course of Theory of Architecture | Morphology and Typology for the living space innovations | Master Degree in Architecture | Politecnico of Milan Academic year 2011 |2012 prof. Sergio Crotti – professor Emeritus of Politecnico of Milan prof. Guya Bertelli – Ordinary professor in Architecture Head Tutor | Workshop | International Summer School OC-Open CIty, from landscape to exterior design | Politecnico of Milan | Territorial Pole of Piacenza from II edition 2011 till now

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profesional activity | competitions professional activity In progress

Interior Architecture Dental Office in Rovato (bs) Italy

In progress

Architecture Private Double Family House, Cenate Sopra (bg) Italy Preliminary Project for real estate agency Arch. Paola Bracchi | Geom. Luca Pagani

2010

Landscape Architecture Urban Park in Carobbio degli Angeli (bg) Italy Preliminary Project for the Municipality Recover of a quarry as Urban Park. Determination of new point of view on the ancient castle, new pedestrian and bicycle connections Ing. Giuseppe Vigani | Arch. Paola Bracchi

2009

Architecture Officie Building - Bergamo Italy Preliminary project | Restoration and extension of office building Arch. Paola Bracchi Interior Architecture House B&B Interior design project | Realisation of parts of the project Arch. Paola Bracchi Architecture

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Private House, Calcinate (bg) Italy Preliminary Project | Restoration and recovery of a social house. Recovery of the attic as new part of the house.

Arch. Paola Bracchi

profesional activity | competitions October - February 2010

Office Collaboration Office of Architecture Arch. Andrea Bellocchio Bergamo, Via Borgo Palazzo n. 10, 24125 Role: Preliminary, Definitive and Executive design. Realization of plastic Models, virtual 3d models, Render. Responsible of project presentations and graphics design

October 2008 - July 2009

Office Collaboration DiArchitetturaStudio | Office of Architecture | Arch. Bernardo Percassi Bergamo, Via Corridoni 2 Role: Preliminary, Definitive and Executive design. Realization of plastic Models, virtual 3d models, Render. Metric survey of architecture. Responsible of project presentations and graphics design

September 2007 September 2008

Office Collaboration 3M03 | Office of Architecture | Arch. Juan Carlos Dall’Asta - Arch. Germano Rovetta Brescia, Via Trento n. 75 Role: Preliminary, Definitive and Executive design. Realization of plastic Models, virtual 3d models, Render. Metric survey of architecture.

Competitions Jenuary 2012

“Culburb. Cultural acupuncture treatment for suburb” project for the city of Bratislava (Rusovce) and Budapest (Délegyháza) project group: Paola Bracchi, Giulia Setti, Lara Valtorta, Fabio Zinna

November 2012

Ideas Competition: Valorization of the Wall’s Park - Piacenza Team leader: Arch. Emilia Corradi project group: Arch. Grazia Manuela Dicembrino, Arch. Claudia Fornaro consulting team: Prof. Arch. Giangiacomo D’Ardia, Arch. Paola Bracchi, Dott. Arch.

Giulia Setti, Nazareno Lamonaca

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profesional activity | competitions February - November 2011

Invited competition – AUFO “The BELLUM BRIDGE CITY Project Project of a city of one million inhabitant. A bridge between Sicily and Tunisy, along the bridge ten cities.

City projected: “Mediterranide” Coordinators: arch. Juan Carlos Dall’Asta, arch. Paola Bracchi, arch. Giulia Setti project group: arch. Germano Rovetta, arch. Felipe Barrera Castellani, arch. Daniele Galas, arch. Carlo Lunelli, arch. Fabio Zinna

February - November 2011

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Call for projects: “Urban Transcript. Rome the accidental city” Titolo: “Accidental Campo Marzio: Layers, Fragments, Figures” Selected Project. Exibition in Roma 17-18 December 2011 Project group : Paola Bracchi, Carlo Lunelli, Giulia Setti, Lara Valtorta, Fabio Zinna

July 2009

Ideas Competition Project of Pavillon outside the mediav wall of Cologno al Serio (Bg) Italy Project group: Arch. Bernardo Percassi (team leader), arch. Paola Bracchi, dott.Silvia Maria Rossi I Prize | Realized

June 2009

Invited Competition Eco - Sustainable Housing Curno (Bg) Italy Project group: Arch. Bernardo Percassi (team leader), arch. Paola Bracchi, dott. Silvia Maria Rossi

September 2008

Ideas Competition New School Complex | Vignola (Re) Italy Team Leader: Arch. Germano Rovetta project group: Arch. Juan Carlos Dall’Asta, Arch. Paola Bracchi, Arch. Derek Piemonti, Arch. Gionata Rizzolini

pubblications 2012

Contribution in book “OC Open City, International Summer School, from landscape to exterior design. Living the street. Landscape and public space in the place of metropolitan infrastructure” Edited by : Guya Bertelli, Michele Roda Maggioli Editore, Segrate (Mi), agosto 2012 ISBN 978-88-387-6i48-5 Titolo of the article: “Build up in the built up spaces” Contribution in book “The street in the contemporary architectural project. OC Summer School discussions – Piacenza 2011 – Comparison of cultural views. DVD n.2” Edited by: Michele Roda Maggioli Editore, Segrate (Mi), agosto 2012 ISBN 88-387-6189-2 EAN 978-88-387-6189-8 Critical essay: “Time and memory as tools”

REVIEWS “Ri-leggere Tor Bella Monaca. Mappare le Aree sensibili al mutamento: criticità urbane come potenzialità rigenerative” Articolo related to the research project MIUR-PRIN 2008 Review: Territorio, Rivista trimestrale del Dipartimento di Architettura e Pianificazione del Politecnico di Milano, n. 63 Franco Angeli, Monza.

Publication of the project “Mediterranide”, on L’Arca International, rivista internazionale di architettura, design, comunicazione visiva, n. 109, pag 99

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pubblications 2011

Contribution in book “OC Open City, International Summer School, from landscape to exterior design. Between the city and the river. Architecture of the Urban Relation” Edited by:Guya Bertelli, Michele Roda, Maggioli Editore, Segrate (Mi), giugno 2011 ISBN 978-88387-6037-3 Title of the article:“Piacenza in five keywords: Form, Void, Trace, Limit, Node”, p.p. 210-221 Project “OC Open City, International Summer School, from landscape to exterior design. Between the city and the river. Architecture of the Urban Relation” Edited by: Guya Bertelli, Michele Roda Maggioli Editore, Segrate (Mi), giugno 2011 ISBN 978-88387-6037-3 Project: “OPEN LANDSCAPE :inclusion of changeable sequences” nella sezione: Projects, Focus Area 3, Group 3C, p.p. 338-347 Project “Trame urbane e connessioni architettoniche. Progetti strategie e ricerche per la città contemporanea” A cura di: Cassandra Cozza Maggioli Editore, Segrate (Mi), Luglio 2011 ISBN: 8838760098 Project: “Finestra su Bergamo. Risalire Città Alta”, p.p. 106-110 Winner project of Bergamo Architecture prize 2010 Contribution in book “Urban Sections. A new skyline for Barcelona” Edited by : Guya Bertelli, Juan Carlos Dall’Asta Maggioli Editore, Segrate (Mi) Dicembre 2011 ISBN: 8838760829 Title of the article “Re-Densification. Nodes-intersections” p.p. 163-166

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pubblications REVIEWS “Dall’ibridazione tipologica dello spazio pubblico alle fruizioni urbane ibride” on Territorio, Rivista trimestrale del Dipartimento di Architettura e Pianificazione del Politecnico di Milano, n.56, Franco Angeli, Monza ”Interpretazione dei tessuti marginali e rigenerazione urbana. Margine Ovest di Milano”. project published “Multiscalar Interseption. A methodology for delivering quality to the isolated city neighborhoods” Case study: Quartiere San Siro. Demolizione/Ricostruzione e rifunzionalizzazione”, on Territorio, Rivista trimestrale del Dipartimento di Architettura e Pianificazione del Politecnico di Milano, n. 59 Franco Angeli, Monza. to be published Poster presentation: “Figures and strategies for the city’s transformation” in the conference proceeding of Cities in transformation research and design EAAE/ARCC 2012 “Building demolition. Interrupted design and discontinuity within the process of urban settlement regeneration” A Raview and Update of Ph.D. Thesis

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workshops | exibitions | conferences workshops September 2010

Workshop Partecipation O.C. - ‘OPEN CITY’ FROM LANDSCAPE TO EXTERIOR DESIGN International Summer School I Edition 6-23 September 2010 Politecnico of Milan | Territorial Pole of Piacenza Project: Open landscape. inclusion of changeable sequence

July 2010

Workshop Partecipation International Workshop | Premio Bergamo di Architettura Bergamo 5-17 July Trame Urbane e connessioni architettoniche | Urban weave and arcitectural connections. Project, strategies and research for contemporary city.

Politecnico of Milan | School of Architecture and Society Winning Project Title: Finestra su Bergamo. Risalire Città Alta | A view on Bergamo. Up to Città Alta.

exibitions July 2013

Exibition | Politecnico of Milan | Campus Leonardo “RIGENERARE MILANO OVEST - un percorso di ricerca tramite sperimentazioni progettuali” | West Milan Regeneration - a research path through experimental design” The exibition collect the work done by the Scientific Researc Unit of Politecnico of Milan coordinate by Ilaria Valente, related to the research Miur-Prin 2008: “Rigeneration of marginal fabrics. Methosd, tools and strategy for new sustainable living form” Project presented to exibition: “Multiscalar Interception. A methodology for delivering quality to the isolated city neighborhoods” Case study: Quartiere San Siro – project by Paola Bracchi e Narges Golkar

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workshops | exibitions | conferences July 2012

Exibition: Poster presentation | Bovisa Campus | Politecnico of Milan Cities in transformation research and design EAAE/ARCC 2012 Paper selected for Poster presentation | Section: “Knowledge of the City for Urban Transformation” Title: Figures and strategies for the city’s transformation

June 2011

Exibition: Fiera EIRE – sction: Social Housing Exibition Exibition of the work done during the Design Studio 3 of Ph.D. in Architectural and Urban Design and related to the the research Miur-Prin 2008: “Rigeneration of marginal fabrics. Methosd, tools and strategy for new sustainable living form” Title of the research work presented: “Urban Regeneration Strategies: Open spaces, Infrastructures, Architectures.

Rome | Tor Bella Monaca case studies”

June 2007

Exibition: Slow Innovation | Leonardo Campus | Politecnico of Milan Exibition organised by ICALabS - Slow innovation Strategies for Art and Culture Director: Alberto Pizzati | Politecnico of Milan Project: Indeterminopoli a game about indetermination project group: Paola Bracchi, Michele Broglia, Giovan Battista Buzzetti, Damiano Carminati, Ugo Cerri,Cristina Colonneti.

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PORTFOLIO

Ph. D. Architect Paola Bracchi

E-mail: paola.bracchi.83@gmail.com

cell. +39 339 7027996

EDUCATION

education Master Thesis: “Sevilla, Guadalquivir’s margin regeneration: new inhabited intervals”

Master Degree Architecture and Urban Design Politecnico of Milan School of Architecture and Society Milan Master Thesis: “Sevilla, Guadalquivir’s margin regeneration: new inhabited intervals” Evaluation: 110/110 wit Laude Supervisr: prof. Guya Bertelli Assistant supervisors: prof. Juan Carlos Dall’Asta prof. Germano Rovetta

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education Master Thesis: “Sevilla, Guadalquivir’s margin regeneration: new inhabited intervals” SOCIAL HOUSING

In this page. zoom of the social housing for students: concept, plan and main section In the next page. Reuse of the naval pavillon: concept, plan, section and view 24

RE-USE NAVAL PAVILLON PLAN | SECTION | VIEWS

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education 2005_2006 Taller de Proyectos 4, House|Atelier

TALLER DE PROJECTO 4 Project of a House|Atelier Re-use of a house of Heliopolis neighborhood (1932) for new contemporary uses Escuela Tecnica Superior de Arquitectura de Sevilla ETSAS prof. Antonio Csmpos Alcaide

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Groundfloor and facades In the next page.

First and secon floor

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education Design Studio 3, New Kunsthalle in Milan

Design Studio 3 New Kunsthalle in Milan Politecnico of Milan School of Architecture and Society prof. Cino Zucchi

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Masterplan and Groundfloor In the next page. basement floor and main sections 28

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education Construction Studio 3

Construction Studio 3 Atelier Pavillon Project and detailed design of a little atelier’s pavillon Politecnico of Milan School of Architecture and Society prof. Emilio Faroldi

In this page. Masterplan and groundfloor.

In the next page. Facades and construction details 30

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Research

Research Ph.D. Thesis: “Building demolition. Interrupted design and discontinuity within the process of urban settlement regeneration” Ph.D. Thesis Ph.D. in Architectural and Urban Design XXV Cycle Politecnico of Milan Department of Architecture and Urban Studies D.A.S.T.U. Thesis: “Building demolition.

Interrupted design and discontinuity within the process of urban settlement regeneration”

Politecnico di Milano Facoltà di Architettrura e Società Dipartimento di Architettura e Studi Urbani - DAStU Dottorato di Ricerca in Progettazione Architettonica ed Urbana - DrPAU XXV Ciclo

Paola Bracchi

COSTRUIRE LA DEMOLIZIONE disegni interrotti e discontinuità urbane nei processi di rigenerazione insediativa

Relatore: prof. Guya Bertelli, Politecnico di Milano Co-relatore: prof. Alessandra Criconia, Università La Sapienza, Roma Controrelatore: prof. Giangiacomo D’Ardia, Politecnico di milano Coordinatore del DrPAU: prof. Pierfranco Galliani

Milano, 2013

Abstract Why speak of demolition today?

Why take on a theme apparently opposite to architectural and urban design?

By relating the concept of demolition to the concept of construction, demolition becomes a new pragmatic tool that operates within the design process.

Demolition is seen as the essential stage of the architectural and urban transformation of the contemporary city, in which affects entire portions of the city, whether they are well established or newly formed.

This discussion is intended to demonstrate that contrary to conventional wisdom, demolition is not solely synonymous with destruction, end of a building’s life span, or its environment. Instead it is an integral part of the transformative design process that exerts a more ‘refined violence’ in which one breaks ties to make way for the new. It is conscious and planned demolition, which opens an existing area to regeneration.

The research aims for the conceptual and operational relocation of the demolition within the processes of architectural and urban transformation.

These initial observations will be further explored and extended in the research: If the concepts of construction and conservation have been stripped of their existing meaning - that make the place habitable and at the same time building the future through a renewal of past and present - and are no longer able to define the existing city as they presently do, can the concept of demolition become a form of treatment that is able to regenerate the city and the country? Can the idea of “regenerated” be seen through a lens of demolition regarding the built environment?

If so, what forms become associate with demolition?

Such care should, on one hand, allow the transformation of new urban tissues to be created out of often outdated and inadequate uninhabitable ones. On the other hand, it should re-establish the relationship between demolition and conservation on the pre-existing and historical ruins (even simultaneously).

Could the construction intervention trigger a transformative path backwards, from small to large scale?

The thesis searches to answer these questions by following a path focused on the relocation of the theoretical and practical roles of the demolition of the transformative process.

The first part of the thesis focuses to investigate the relationship between demolition and construction, drawing demolition back into the discussion as part of the design process.

In the second part, the research aims to show how demolition is part of the transformative process underlying architecture.

This section highlights the idea of assets from a dynamic point of view.

Finally the third and last part, will arise as an apparatus for operating research, to verify the initial assumptions. This is supported by a taxonomy of demolition terms to clarify the modes of relationships between demolition and existing obsolescence in a manner that instill the regenerative process.

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Research Project : Urban Regeneration Strategies: Open spaces, Infrastructures, Architectures. Rome | case study: Tor Bella Monaca Research Project Ph.D. in Architectural and Urban Design | XXV Cycle Design Studio 3 PRIN 2008

Coordinator: prof. Ilaria Valente prof. Guya Bertelli prof. Roberto Spagnolo

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Project by: Paola Bracchi | Noheir Elgendy |Elena Fontanella | Carlo Lunelli Narges Golkar Debora Magri Sharooz Vagabzadeh Manesh Roy Nash | Vitaliano Tosoni [XXV cycle DrPAU] Davide Ferrari | [XXIV cycle DrPAU] Francesca Galdangelo Egle Mariani | Elisa Merletti Elena Scattolini [Master Degree in Architecture Politecnico of Milan]

mappa delle aree sensibili al mutamento

Title: “Urban Regeneration Strategies: Open spaces, Infrastructures, Architectures.

Rome | case study: Tor Bella Monaca�

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Research Project : Urban Regeneration Strategies: Open spaces, Infrastructures, Architectures. Rome | Tor Bella Monaca case studies Research Project Ph.D. in Architectural and Urban Design | XXV Cycle Design Studio 3 PRIN 2008

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In this page. Strategic goals diagrams: from enclosure to permeability from division to connection from separation to relation In the next page. Architectonic strategy: stratification, densification, rarefaction.

Green paths system: connection between fragmented open spaces

obiettivi strategi

Title: “Urban Regeneration Strategies: Open spaces, Infrastructures, Architectures.

Rome | case study: Tor Bella Monaca�

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strategie di rigenerazione strategie di rigenerazione strategie di rigenerazione

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Research Project : Multiscalar Interception. A methodology for delivering quality to the isolated city neighborhoods” Case study: Quartiere San Siro - Milan Research Project Urban and Architectural project Ph.D. Architectural and Urban Design XXV Cycle Design Studio 1 PRIN 2008 Title: “Multiscalar Interception. A methodology for delivering quality to the isolated city neighborhoods” Case study: Quartiere San Siro - Milan Project by: Paola Bracchi | Narges Golkar Coordinator: prof. Ilaria Valente

In this page: Masterplan and strategic actions: demolition, replacing, re-function In the next page: layering of the intervention at the different levels reference section sketches

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demolition

replacing

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Research Project: Puerto De La Cruz Barranco Regeneration | Tenerife | Spain Research Project Workshop Organization International Summer School Waterscape Architecture I Edition: 9-11 Maggio 2012, Politecnico of Milan | Territorial Pole of Piacenza Workshop part of the internationalization project of the Network of Excellence for the internationalization of education in the field of Architecture “REA – Rete di Eccellenza per la internazionalizzazione della formazione nel campo dell’Architettura” Cooperation between: University of Pavia, University of Brescia, Poltiecnico of Milan

In this page: Initiative’s Manifesto In the next page: Strategic Masperplan diagram and photomontage of the intervention 42

SYNTHESIS

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Research Reading and interpretation of Piacenza city | Form | Limit | Void | Trace | Node Interpretation of Piacenza Urban Fabric Ph.D. Architectural and Urban Design XXV Cycle Course of: “Theory and Techniques Description and interpretation of the architectonic, urban and environmental forms�

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Research Poster presentation : Figures and strategies for the city’s transformation Poster Presentation Cities in transformation research and design EAAE/ARCC 2012 Paper selected for Poster presentation | Section: “Knowledge of the City for Urban Transformation” Title: Figures and strategies for the city’s transformation

figures and strategies for the city’s transformation

The city evolution is not a metamorphic flux, but it occur through the alternation between phases of stability and instability. The transition from one phase to another bring with it previous arrangement inside the new configuration, without any repetition. The contemporary cities seem forgot it and live always in the same moment, but they cannot be only present because their identity and essence are part of a process that is written in the soil, in the geography and in the urban archeology like a “dig in the cultural thickness of the built spaces, like a sediment of memories”. The soil is not a addition of different historical phases, but a complex stratification made by sedimentation and interaction between all the signs, the cuts and the passages of phase that remain impressed in the urban territories’ pages.

The proliferation of signs make difficult understand which are the ones that are part of city’s DNA, filter the signs through some fundamental figure is necessary first for untwist the tangle of signs and then reach the morphogenetic essence. The concept of sign has inside it space and time in unstable balance between the destructive aspect of the ruin and the projective aspect of the trace.

Gedorg Simmel in his essay “De Ruine” says that the architecture is the only art in which is possible reach an equilibrium between “soul’s wills and natural wills”, the ruins seem to be a nature revenges, that push down the human wills of elevation. In the ruin the nature transform the architecture in material for a new form, so it can be used as an active principle, because is a structural part in the process of transformation.

Also the recognition of traces is fundamental in the understanding process of multiplicity of signs. If the richness of the cities come from their differences, so in the experimentation of contradiction as integration, we can say that what allow the interaction between the fragments is the trace, like a deep sign.

When we are called to make some intervention inside the city, both historical and contemporary, is important to read and interprets it with those figures, that are also closely related with the concept of memory. When urban and architectural projects are related with the built up spaces, those kind of reading of the urban text allowed us to think about strategies of transformation of the city. Strategies that can work trough addition, demolition or substitution of the existence. Thanks to the process of knowledge make before and during the project, that kind of actions are not destructive of the past and of the present, but transformative because linked to the city’s DNA chain.

The aim of the paper will be, starting from this reflections about the relation with the history, study in deep some strategies either through design experiences that from theoretical point of view.

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Research Exposition : Memorie Politecniche. Frammenti dagli archivi Exposition “Memorie Politecniche.

Frammenti dagli archivi” Graphic project and research Rectory of Politecnico of Milan Coordinator: Guya Bertelli, Sara Protasoni, Edoardo Rovida Politecnico of Milan, Campus Bovisa, 21-25 Novembre 2011.

Exibition in occasion of Politecnico 150° Anniversary

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teaching activity

2012 | 2013 Teaching activity Workshop : OC-Open CIty, from landscape to exterior design “Nature in the City” Project 1 Rediscover Water Role: Head Tutor | Blu Cone International Summer School IVth edition 2013 OC-Open CIty, from landscape to exterior design “Nature in the City” What does it means Nature?

In which way and form nature can go back into the city and transform the urban area?

Head Tutors: Paola Bracchi Filippo Orsini Giulia Setti Tutors: Helena Gentili Dario Giordanelli Alessandro Leanti La Rosa

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Students: Riccardo Bartali Alessandra Barzoi Andrea Biancardi Liyuan Chen Selma Cimino Michela Colombo Elisa Dellarossa Khalil Galai Sara Ghiraldini Claudia Maranzana Martino Pezzolla

2012 | 2013 Teaching activity Workshop : OC-Open CIty, from landscape to exterior design “Nature in the City�

Project 1 Rediscover Water

strategy

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normal level of water

the flood

plastic models of the levels

museum - collage

masterplan

museum sections

museum level -11m

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2012 | 2013 Teaching activity Workshop : OC-Open CIty, from landscape to exterior design “Nature in the City” Project 2. Infrastructuring nature | a productive landscape Role: Head Tutor | Blu Cone International Summer School IVth edition 2013 OC-Open CIty, from landscape to exterior design “Nature in the City” What does it means Nature?

In which way and form nature can go back into the city and transform the urban area?

Head Tutors: Paola Bracchi Roy Emiliano Nash Filippo Orsini Giulia Setti Tutors: Helena Gentili Dario Giordanelli Alessandro Leanti La Rosa

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Students: Nousha Amini Enrico Bertolazzi Alessandro Betta Francesco Cassinari Angelo Cò Filippo Corbellini Chiara Fraticelli Mafi Merinaz Chiara Sala Paolo Segarini

open space system agriculture linear park

build system diffused museum technology elements path system

new water system higway-acqueduct energetic water

2012 | 2013 Teaching activity Workshop : OC-Open CIty, from landscape to exterior design “Nature in the City�

Project 2. Infrastructuring nature | a productive landscape

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Masterplan

energetic functions

Masterplan - flood situation

masterplan

museum sections

museum

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2011| 2012 Teaching activity Workshop : OC-Open CIty, from landscape to exterior design “Dwellind the wall” Project 1: Draping Biodiversity Role: Head Tutor Archeological park

International Summer School IIIrd edition 2012 OC-Open CIty, from landscape to exterior design “Dwelling the wall” New Archeological park along the traces of the ancient city wall Students: Zarrin Bahrampour Valeria Di Vicino Camilla Fasoli Francesca Pagliaro Veronica Pagni Elisa Riviera Katharina Alessia Tosetto

Strategy diadrams

Politecnico of Milan Territorial Pole of Piacenza Head Tutors: Paola Bracchi - Pasquale Mei Millad Farahanina Tutors: Giovanni Carli - Mauro Marinelli Ruchi Varma - Maria Elena Soriero Alisia Tognon - Fabio Zinna 58

Main transversal section

Vegetable Garden

Masterplan

Agricultural fields

Technological park

Wall’s park

Photomontage

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2010| 2011 Teaching activity Workshop : OC-Open CIty, from landscape to exterior design “Living the street” Project 1: Close Ranges toward the river Role: Tutor International Summer School IInd edition 2011 OC-Open CIty, from landscape to exterior design “Living the street” New projects for the city starting from the Highway future disused Re-use of disused infrastructure Politecnico of Milan Territorial Pole of Piacenza Head Tutors: Juan carlos Dall’Asta - Sebastien Le Dortz Tutors: Paola bracchi - Marina Di Iorio Mauro Marinelli

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2010| 2011 Teaching activity Workshop : OC-Open CIty, from landscape to exterior design “Living the street” Project 2: Living the border Role: Tutor International Summer School IInd edition 2011 OC-Open CIty, from landscape to exterior design “Living the street” New projects for the city starting from the Highway future disused Re-use of disused infrastructure Politecnico of Milan Territorial Pole of Piacenza Head Tutors: Juan carlos Dall’Asta - Sebastien Le Dortz Tutors: Paola bracchi - Marina Di Iorio Mauro Marinelli Students: Pietro Ambrosini Florian Beyer Bianca Galeazzi Huanwei Ke Alexander Krol Mario Lehmann Marco Merigo Miguel Montero Yuanjie Shen Yi Wang 62

strategy

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workshop | Exibition

Workshop A view on Bergamo. Up to CittĂ Alta

International Workshop Premio Bergamo di Architettura Bergamo 5-17 July Urban weave and arcitectural connections. Project, strategies and research for contemporary city Ph.D School in Architecture and Urban Design Politecnico of Milan A view on Bergamo.

Up to CittĂ Alta.

Winning Project

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Workshop A view on Bergamo. Up to CittĂ Alta

International Workshop Premio Bergamo di Architettura Bergamo 5-17 July Urban weave and arcitectural connections. Project, strategies and research for contemporary city Ph.D School in Architecture and Urban Design Politecnico of Milan A view on Bergamo.

Up to CittĂ Alta.

Winning Project

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Workshop Open landscape. Inclusion of changeable sequences Workshop Partecipation O.C. - ‘OPEN CITY’ FROM LANDSCAPE TO EXTERIOR DESIGN International Summer School I Edition 6-23 September 2010 Politecnico of Milan Territorial Pole of Piacenza Project: Open landscape. inclusion of changeable sequence Students: Paola Bracchi, Mattia Fornara, Dario Giordanelli, Oliver Klemz, Paolo Nordi, Giulia Pasinelli Alvaro Prada Leon,Gionata Rizzolini Silvia Siracusano, Priscila Storti Castro, Pei Wu, Fan Zhang

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Exibition Indeterminopoli. A game about indetermination Slow Innovation Exibition Leonardo Campus Politecnico of Milan Indeterminopoli.

A game about indetermination project group: Paola Bracchi, Michele Broglia, Giovan Battista Buzzetti, Damiano Carminati, Ugo Cerri,Cristina Colonneti

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professional activity | Competition

Professional activity Private Double Family House Architecture Private Double Familty House Cenate Sopra (bg) Italy In Progress Preliminary Project for Real estate agency Arch. Paola Bracchi Geom. Luca Pagani

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Professional activity Office Building - Bergamo - Italy Architecture Office Building 2009 Preliminary Project Restoration and extension of office building Arch. Paola Bracchi

In this page.

New office area at the Ist floor In the next page.

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PROFILO a C h120 cm

TRAVE HEA 140

SERRAMENTO SCORREVOLE METALLICO h. 2,65 m PILASTRO IN ACCIAIO HEA 140 2,64

TRAVETTI HEA 120

TRAVE HEA 140

MONTANTE METALLICO SP. 15-20 mm

2,67

TRAVETTI LIGNEI PER PENDENZE

INTERCAPEDINE 2,5 cm

ISOLAMENTO SP. 12 cm

COPERTURA IN ZINCO

CONTROSOFFITTO

PROFILATO a L 120x120x10 mm PER AGGANCIO MONTANTE

FRANGISOLE LIGNEI. SEZIONE RETTANGOLARE 10x2,5 cm

PARAPETTO IN MAGLIA METALLICA FORATA

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Professional activity House B&B - Catelli Calepio (Bg) - Italy Interior Architecture INGRESSO

House B&B 2009 DIVANETTO INGRESSO/LETTURA

INGRESSO

Interior design project Realisation of parts of the project

PIA NO FO RT E

GRIGLIATO IN LEGNO

TAVOLINO SVUOTA TASCHE

CAMERETTA

LIB RE RIA 16

5,3

130,0

CAMERA MATRIMONIALE 90,0

89,9 25,0

107,9

In this page.

Plan of the house and rendering of the living room In the next page.

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80,0

105,8

150,0

243,0

84,0 45,0

91,2

BLOCCO FRIGO/FORNO

120 150

61,0

CARRELLI DISPENSA

120 150

160,2

60,0

BANCONE ALTO

AREA PC/STUDIO

220,0

BAGNO

80 150

LAVANDERIA

90 150

DOCCIA

60,0

SOGGIORNO PARETE VETRATA CON GRIGLIATO IN LEGNO SU SOGGIORNO

MOBILE TV

75,6

Arch. Paola Bracchi

60,0

30,0

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Professional activity | collaboration Restoration of privat villa in Sebino Lake - Lovere (bg) - Italy Architecture Restoration of privat villa in Sebino Lake 2009

CAMINO

BAGNO

ANTIBAGNO

LOCALE CALDAIA

CUCINA

LIVING

INGRESSO

Role: Design of new conformation 3d model and rendering Plastic model

BOX-AUTO

Collaboration with Di Architettura Studio Arch. Bernardo Percassi

In this page.

Main plan of the house In the next page.

Rendering of of the outside and inside

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Professional activity Urban Park - Carobbio degli Angeli - Italy

Landscape Architecture Urban Park in Carobbio degli Angeli (bg) Italy 2010 Preliminary Project for the municipality Recover of a quarry as Urban Park. Determination of new point of view on the ancient castle, new pedestrian and bicycle connections Ing. Giuseppe Vigani Arch. Paola Bracchi

Masterplan of the intervention and selection of tree species

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Competition Invited competition – AUFO “The BELLUM BRIDGE CITY Project Mediterranide 2011 Invited competition – AUFO “The BELLUM BRIDGE CITY Project Project of a city of one million inhabitant. A bridge between Sicily and Tunisy, along the bridge ten cities.

City projected: “Mediterranide” Coordinator: arch. Juan Carlos Dall’Asta, arch. Paola Bracchi arch. Giulia Setti project group: arch. Germano Rovetta, arch.

Felipe Barrera Castellani, arch.

Paola Bracchi, arch. Daniele Galas, arch. Carlo Lunelli, arch.

Giulia Setti, arch. Fabio Zinna

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Competition Ideas competition: Valorization of the Wall’s Park - Piacenza 2012 Ideas Competition: Valorization of the Wall’s Park - Piacenza Competition promoted by Piacenza municipality Team leader: Arch. Emilia Corradi Project group: Arch. Grazia Manuela Dicembrino, Arch. Claudia Fornaro Consulting team: Prof. Arch. Giangiacomo D’Ardia, Arch. Paola Bracchi, Dott. Arch.

Giulia Setti, Nazareno Lamonaca

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Competition Call for project:: “Urban Transcript. Rome the accidental city” Project title: “Accidental Campo Marzio: Layers, Fragments, Figures” 2011 Call for projects: Urban Transcript. Rome the accidental city Project title: Accidental Campo Marzio: Layers, Fragments, Figures Selected Project. Exibition in Roma 17-18 December 2011 Project group : Paola Bracchi, Carlo Lunelli, Giulia Setti, Lara Valtorta, Fabio Zinna

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Competition Call for project:: Culburb. Cultural acupuncture treatment for suburb 2012 Call for projects: Culburb. Cultural acupuncture treatment for suburb project for the city of Bratislava: Rusovce suburb project for the city of Budapest Délegyháza suburb project group: Paola Bracchi, Giulia Setti, Lara Valtorta, Fabio Zinna

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project for Délegyháza - Budapest

project for Rusovce - Bratislava

Competition Invited Competition : Eco - Sustainable Housing - Curno (Bg) - Italy 2009 Invited Competition: Eco - Sustainable Housing Curno (Bg) Italy Team Leader: Arch. Bernardo Percassi project group: arch. Paola Bracchi, dott.Silvia Maria Rossi

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Competition Ideas competition: Project of Pavillon outside the mediav wall Cologno al Serio (Bg) Italy 2009 Ideas Competition: Project of Pavillon outside the mediav wall of Cologno al Serio (Bg) Italy Team Leader: Arch. Bernardo Percassi project group: arch. Paola Bracchi, dott.Silvia Maria Rossi I Prize | Realized

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Competition Ideas Competition : New School Complex | Vignola (Re) Italy 2008 Ideas Competition: New School Complex | Vignola (Re) Italy Team Leader: Arch. Germano Rovetta Project group: Arch. Juan Carlos Dall’Asta, Arch. Paola Bracchi, Arch. Derek Piemonti, Arch. Gionata Rizzolini

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