Portfolio Sara Cacciati 2019

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19 10 1992 Biella (Italy) sara.cacciati@gmail.com +39 347 94 50 938

Education 2014 - 2019 Pavia

Sept 2018- July 2019 Shanghai

University of Pavia | M.Sc. Building Engineering and Architecture.

Master Degree in Building Engineering and Architecture.

Thesis Topic: MF(HD) - Design strategy for a Multifunctional Building in High-Density surrounding.

Supervisors: Prof. Luca Trabattoni, Prof. Tiziano Cattaneo.

Grade: 110/110 cum laude

Tongji University | M.Arch. in Architecture and Urban Planning Master Degree in Architecture and Urban Planning.

Experiences Aug - Oct 2019 Shanghai

Oct 2018 - Jun 2019 Shanghai

Semester 2018 Pavia

2015- 2017 Biella

SUSAS Shanghai Urban Art Season 2019 | Exhibition Designer

Designer of a pavilion for SUSAS 2019: the project for the exhibition A geographical Space of Encounter involved designing temporary structures, choosing materials and curating graphics and layout for the panels.

D&I College of Design and Innovation | Researcher

Researcher in Environmental Futures Lab on Mapping the Belt and Road.

Work on the mapping of 22 cities using QGIS software and coordinating layout and graphics for the publication (Illustrator, Pd, In). The research Mapping BRI has been selected for SUSAS 2019.

University of Pavia | Teacher Assistant

Teacher Assistant for the course Architectural Composition I helded by Prof. Luigi Trentin. Task: individual and collective reviews of the students projects.

Cacciati Fed | External Collaborator

Helped to create a standardized library of constructive details, assisted with the production of construction drawings, followed the construction documentation of some small and medium-scale projects.

Extra Sept 2017

Guanajuato Mexico

April 2017 Piacenza

Award Winner | Architecture Competition

Special Mention in recognition for the project proposal for Yuriria Lagoon as chosen by the competition jury of Design for Sustainable Tourism, a competition organized by Tecnolรณgico de Monterrey Institute in collaboration with UN.

Workshop | Building Commun(c)ities

Participation in seminar Building Commun(c)ities. The project lasted one month and consisted of a series of urban furniture with ludic purposes and the aim of activating key-spots of Piacenza center.

Languages and Professional Skills Italian Native speaker English Advanced (C1) Chinese Elementary2 (HSK2) Architectural Representation Constructive Details 3D Modeling Graphic Layout

AutoCAD Illustrator Photoshop Indesign Rhino

SketchUp V-Ray Lumion QGIS Office

2019 | Master Thesis Project | MFHD Multi-functional Monster in High Density

MFHD Shanghai | China

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As a response to the multitude of large scale works, which manifest many issues like lack of space, uncontrolled environmental impact, and quality of life, MFHD is an urban tool with a healthier, safer, and more sustainable impact on the city.

Taking High-Density surrounding as a consolidated precondition, this research work underlines a design strategy that could be a valid approach used to solve problems induced by this specific urban context.

One possible solution is the Multi-functional Building: a complex system of coexistence of spaces and functions, an architectural object in which are considered all the issues that affect also the large scale, as functional heterogeneity, environmental sustainability, and human being liveability.

The final design came out as the expression of the k-concepts defined during the research work.

Analysis of the surrounding: urban voids, connections and landscape | scale 1:10.000

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Spatial quantification and Proportional overlay

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Alignment with the Bund ‘wall’

+115 m + 89 m

Cut following the existing grid

Managing the height

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Porosity and diversity of the volumes

Towers orientation

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Subdivision of the groundfloor

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Siteplan and Environmental Section | Scale 1:500

The design of the Masterplan focus on the will to act in respect of the context and, simultaneously, support the chosen key-concepts.

For this reason, the building is introduced into the urban skyline by following the existing guidelines: it reports its heights with the surrounding and it safeguards the rigid line drawn the Bund’s buildings.

At the same time, the groundlevel expresses as much as possible the theme of the spatial comunication through the permeability sought in the many entrances and openings that aim to make the building’s footprint totally crossable and to create the right filter between the tourist front and the most intimate residential area behind.

The retreat and rotation, then, in the Masterplan of the residential tower allows the building to be crossed by the look of those coming from the Bund ‘walls’ to the Inner City; meanwhile, coming from the south, the building seems to be the continuation of urban land through a game of levels that guides the visitor to climb the highest degree of denseness of the district.

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Subdivision of the Groundfloor | Plans 1:500

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Redevelopment of the urban soil | Functions

1 Residential parking 4 levels 2 Upper public route linked to the Huangpu promenade by the bridge.

3 Restaurant 4 Library and multimedia 5 Laboratories 6 Laundry (Lilong’s residents)

Promenade level. +4.30 m

7 E-bike Parking 8 Hall Tower 1 and Access to Laboratories area 9 Hall Library and multimedia 10 Hall Tower 2 and access to the Leisure Block 11 Lounge bar

Street level. +0.00 m

12 Commercial Spaces 13 Market 14 Underground Public Route 15 Storage 16 Access to the underground parking 17 Sunken Plaza

Underground level -3.70 m

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Residential tower floor plan | Scale 1:100

MFHD View of the complex

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MFHD Drawings

Waterfront faรงade and longitudinal section | Scale 1:500

View of the linking bridges from the cultural center

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Residential tower floor plan

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Plan | Perspective section with constructive detail | Scale 1:50

Constructive Detail Vertical Closure system Stratigraphy: 1| Filling Panel in Gypsum concrete Thickness 22cm

2 | Closed Cell Thermal Insulating Panel Thickness 12cm

3 | Ultinate Finish Plaster (lime mortar) coat Thickness 2cm

Interfloor Slab Stratigraphy: Raised floor system 4 | Polished concrete Plates.

Thickness 3 cm

5 | Void of 7cm due to the usage of adjustable aluminium supports.This Interspace is available for eletrical system or availabre for hydraulic system (if with apropriate noise absorptiomaterials).

6 | Fall Screed with welded mesh on currugated aluminium sheets.

Thickness fall screed 8cm; thickness Aluminium currugated sheet 3 mm.

7 | Ceiling system hooked to the structural part of the slab (25 cm of space in order to set the Air conditioning ducts system).

Thickness of the plasterboard panels 2 cm

Overhung head part of the slab and loggia system: 8 | A system of aluminium profiles close the head part of the slab, supported by Ipe 30 steel beams.

9 | The collunade system is 90 cm constant repetition of a vertical concrete elements that holds the structural system togheter and works as a second skin of structural brise-soleil.

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2017 | Architecture Competition | Save Yuriria Lagoon

Save Yuriria Lagoon Guanajuato | Mexico

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Yuriria Lagoon is considered the first post-Columbian hydraulic work built throughout America, besides being an international importance wetland because it is a habitat of several species of migrating birds. Nowadays the lagoon is infested to 40% of its volume by the aquatic hyacinth: a highly invasive free-floating perennial aquatic plant. Save Yuriria is not only design but it is also a program that aims to promote the tourism of the site with a wider vision that considers its society and its environment as a whole. The project is a floating promenade that runs along the shores of the Lagoon, and that consists of collection and water purification vessels. It is the outcome of an extensive study of the behavior of the species of the hyacinth, which if collected in confined spaces retains its weed tendency.

The feasibility of the project lies in the fact that the wooden walkway is designed as a modular system, and therefore as a succession of phases for increased tourism, and therefore of gain for the territory.

Environmental Analysis and Concept

Water cruches and bounces + The use of the waves lines as axes = Architecture as a Landscape

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Urban Settlement Water Hyacinth Layer Water

Landscape of Yuriria

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Environmental Section | Scale 1:200

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Views of the promenade and the hyacinth vassels

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2018 | Academic Project | Residential complex in Milano

Residential in Milano Porta Genova, Milano | Italy

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Currently, Scalo of Porta Genova is an impenetrable barrier for the surrounding districts: a wall of about three meters height surrounds the area constituting a visual and physical barrier to the city users.

The barrier allowed the two districts to develop a different identity over time, both in terms of functions and architectural language. The project consists of a series of three volumes that host a library, the old train station adapted to the municipal needs, and two residential buildings with a permeable ground floor connecting the street with the park.

The volumes came out to the intention of stress the shape of the existing railways. Thus, an offset of the curve leads to obtaining the three main blocks that want to fit the consolidated Milanese urban soil.

The residential unit consists of 3 types of apartments: a studio flat and a majority of duplex apartments.

Siteplan | Scale 1:2000

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Groundfloor plan Scale 1:500

Faรงade | Scale 1:200

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Residential unit floor plan and sections

Residential floor plan | Scale 1:200

Sections BB’ and AA’ | Scale 1:200

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Residential Duplex | Plans and Sections | Scale 1:100

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2017 | Academic Project | Inter (action)

Inter (action) Pavia | Italy

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Inter(action) comes out from the enhance to force the relationship between Pavia city and Naviglio canal, historical and cultural heritage.

The main problem was the height gap of 1.50 meters between the pedestrian path, that runs along the canal, and the project area, which is now inaccessible and fenced off by a 2 meters wall.

Here, then, the priority of creating a platform that was a filter between the city center and the new cultural center.

The functions were designed to give life to the site, strengthing its appeal, and to be a service for the surrounding residents: a library equipped with media, labs, coworking spaces, a kindergarten, a rowing gym that was the pretext of pressing on the interaction with the water, and a separated volume that hosts a conference hall and faces the community side.

Siteplan | Scale 1:500

Achieve BackOffice

Library and Multimedia

Rowing Gym The Hall

NAVIGLIO PAVESE

Gazebo Coffee

Wood Stands

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Façade and Sections | Scale 1:200

Façade of the Library onto the park (cc’)

Cultural Center | Sections aa’ and bb’

Hall | Section and Entrance Façade

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Cultural Center floor plans | Scale 1:200

Floor Plan +4.50 m

Floor Plan +6.30 m

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3. Roofing System

1. Roof ridge cover System a. Shaped metal sheet: impermeable layers of steel encasement. b. Breathable fleece fabric c. ALKORPLAN membrane waterproof surface

2. Duct for ventilation:

air-conditioning and heating installations hidden in the false ceiling.

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a. Primary beams IPE 400 b. Plastedboard false ceiling 2 cm thick c. Secondary beams IPE 200 d. Insulated fretted metal sheet 2 mm thick e. Levelling mortar bed 10 cm thick f. Mineral fiber insulation panel 12 cm thick g. Natural Ventilation (in heading 4)

Cultural Center | Perspective View | Detailed Section and Plan | Scale 1:50

Constructive Detail | Scale 1:20 4. Vertical closure system a. Double gypsumfiber infill panel plastered and painted.

10 cm total thick VENTILATED WALL SISTEM: b. Metal frame for anchoring and support of the brackets. c. Steel brackets (C-profile). d. Wood fiber insulation panel 15 cm thick (double) e. 5 cm thick Interstice of ventilation f. External cladding corten panels 1 cm thick (dim. 1.40m x1.85 m).

5. Drainage System of the patio floor a. Outdoor flooring in stone slab. b. Layer of sandy coarsely ground to ensure the first drainage, levelling and support the floor. c. Substrate of coarse-grained soil. d. Drainage pipe under the central groove. e. Second substrate of sandy-clayey compact soil.

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2018-2019 | Research and Exhibition| Mapping the Belt and Road Initiative

Mapping BRI D&I | Shanghai

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Principal Investigator Tiziano Cattaneo Curator Ni Minqing Design Sara Cacciati Research Team Environmental Futures Lab

What effect

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“Shared Heritage�?

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At the beginning of my year of study in Shanghai, I had the opportunity to do a research internship at the Environmental Futures Lab of the College of Design and Innovation.

The work was carried out by alternating data collection, reworked in graphics, to the mapping of the 22 main cities involved in the Belt and Road initiative, using software such as SCP (QGIS plugin) and satellite images.

The research, which began in September 2018 together with a team of international students, allowed me to acquire new strong skills for environmental and landscape analysis.

Finally, I engaged in the layout of the material collected, making a summary booklet. Thanks to this result, the research was selected to be exhibited at the Shanghai Urban Art Season 2019.

R e s e a r c h | E x h i b i t i on

A GEOGRAPHICAL SPACE OF

ENCOUNTER Mapping the landscape of the Belt and Road Initiative

Rotterdam Port 35% Blue Corridor motorway Trieste (IT) - Grece (N/A)

Road connection with Batuma Port

Marseille Vado Port Port 49%

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Piraeus Port 5% Bayport in Haifa (concession) Gwadar Deep Sea Port Duqm Port Oman (in construction) Expansion of Colombo Port (completed 2013) Hambantota Port

480 km SGR Railway Nairobi-Mombasa (completed)

From 13-10 to 11-30 2019

Siem Reap Angkor Int. Airport (N/A) Kuantan Port (shared) Singapore Infrastructure Sapphire Corporation (2017) Jakarta-Bandung high speed railway. (ongoing)

2018-2019 | Research The common way to look at BRI and furthermore the literature of the BRI generally extends across economic, socio-cultural, political and strategic aspects, financing, operational implementation and developmental impact considering the BRI as configured around a series of inter-locking trade and investment corridors.

Regardless the fact that BRI seems has no clear geographical boundaries, many projects have already been built and many others are under construction and/or under negotiation. It means that the BRI already has impact and values on the physical geography that should be understood and even more mapped.

This research report constructing the narratives through new means of seeing, studying and understanding these complex connections between the urban environment and the world through data from satellites and

from social networks. The new technology allows visualization of unexpected views of the variety of landscapes and urban areas in their larger environment of the cities involved in the routes of BRI: from East China through land connection via Central and Western Asia, between China and Europe, and sea links through South East Asia to Africa and Europe. The BRI, in fact, refers to the combination of the “Silk Road Economic Belt” (six major land corridors across the Eurasian continent) and the “21st Century Maritime Silk Road” (a network of maritime trade routes connecting Asia with Africa and Europe).

Cities are vulnerable to many things, but they are also extremely productive places, full of ideas, innovation and culture.

We hope that the images provided in this research report, of BRI urban landscapes of extremely different forms, offer a new vision to see a path forward.

MAPPING BY COLORS SAMPLING | FROM XI’AN TO DUISBURG

MAPPING BY COLORS SAMPLING | FROM ROTTERDAM TO FUZHOU

SUBDIVISION OF THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT FROM THE LANDSCAPE CASE EXAMPLE OF DUSHANBE

Water | 水

Urban Agglomeration | 城市群

Landform | 地貌

Landscape | 景观

SAMPLING THE COLORS OF BRI

Color selection

Exhibition at SUSAS 2019 | Design and Realization

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1. INTRODUCTION and DATA

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2. SILK ROAD MAPS

IN/OUT

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3. FOCUS ON FOUR CASES

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Photos taken by me during the Opening of the Exhibition in Oct 13th