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Tania Buffagni tania.buffagni@gmail.com Firenze: +39 3922766491 13.11.1994

educational background

Objective: Seeking a position as a Junior Architect 2017-2019

Faculty of Architecture | University of Florence, Italy

2013-2017

Faculty of Architecture | University of Florence, Italy

2008-2013

High School “Wiligelmo� | Modena, Italy

work experience January-June 2017 skills

Master in Architectural Design

Bachelor of Architecture, graduation with honor Mathematics and Phisics address

SpaceStudio | Florence Intern Architecture

AutoCAD | Rhinoceros | SketchUp | Adobe Photoshop InDesign Premiere Illustrator | Maya Autodesk | Cinema 4D | Microsoft Office | Hand drafting and modeling | Digital Fabrication

languages English

Speak fluently and read/write with high proficiency

Italian

Native language

French

Basic knowledge

Spanish

Basic knowledge

Seed City, an infrastructure for biodiversity Norway

Svalbard Global Seed Vault

The aim of the project is to promote a new sensitization and a clear response in front of the increasing loss of biodiversity in the last years due to pollution, wars and one-species cultivation.

The site is directly connected to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a building that can keep 4.500.000 seeds at the same time, located on a Norwegian island at 1200 km from the North Pole.

To each infrastructure is assigned a different continent, in which are get grown the typical seeds of that area of the world.

All these structures are connected to each other through a passage where are located the research areas and the passages to arrive at the Seed Vault.

204 m

70 m

Seeds Export

The way of coltivation adopted is the traditional one, but with an improvement: The Farmbot Genesis.

This machine, taking advantage of the 3D print technology, is capable of many actions, like weeding, manuring, seeding, irrigating, data acquirement and they can all be monitored by smartphone.

Detail 1 (expoloded view)

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Structural Framework

Detail 2 Primary Structure Glulam wood beam Steel Tubular beam 400mm dia, 30mm th

“T shaped” steel beam 400x400mm, 60mm th

Steel Tubular beam 200mm dia, 20mm th

Steel tie beam 50mm dia

Secondary Structure Steel Rectangular Beam 300x300mm, 20mm th

Steel-I Beam 300 Steel-I Beam 260

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Vinegar Pavilion Milan

The project is based on the post EXPO masterplan, that was expected to host a lot of new pavilions about different products of the italian manifacture (the masterplan site now has changed due to economic problems of the realisation).

The proposal is the “Aceto Balsamico DOP” consortium’s pavilion (Balsamic Vinegar of Modena).

The concept of the project is based both on the fluidity of the vinegar and the stiffness of its container. The union of this two completely different elements provides various shapes, depending on the point of view adopted.

Conceptual Development

Post EXPO Masterplan, Milan

Covering Structural Framework

Primary Frame

Steel rectangular Beam 300x200mm

Secondary Frame

Steel Rectangular Beam 100x50mm

Plan level 0

1. Info Point 2. Vinewgar Selling Area 3. Exposition 4. Toilet 5. Bar 6. Restaurant 7. Warehouse 8. Kitchen 9. Tasting Area and Vinegar Ageing 10. Technical Room

Plan level -1

A-A’ Section

B-B’ Section

Spedale of Sant’Antonio Lastra a Signa (Fi)

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Point density: Resolution:

159 points/cm² 7.92 mm/pix

Point density:

159 points/cm²

The Spedale of Sant’Antonio in Lastra a Signa is an old hospital, built at the beginning of the XIII century and there are records that guarantee the belonging of the project to Filippo Brunelleschi.

The building is situated in the core of Lastra a Signa, inside the city walls and it has three fronts. The northern front is on street Dante Alighieri and his portico had the duty to protect ill people waiting outside from weathering. The eastern front faces Piazza Garibaldi and it doesn’t have any particular relevance from an architectural point of view. The southern front still faces Piazza Garibaldi and it shows two big doublearched windows.

The building now is scarcely used at the ground floor and unused at the upper levels, due to a not efficient restoration project performed in the 80s.

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Fig. 4. Reconstructed digital elevation model.

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Point density:

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The aim of the project is to bring back life into the building, making it become an active part of the entire community of Lastra a Signa.

The new functions are such which involve human interactive and have the potential to make the Old Hospital building a hub of cultural activity during any season.

The entire project is based on a sentence of the Burra Charter (2013):

The Project Librar

Temporary Exhibition

“Changing as much as necessary but as little as possible.”

Co-Working Space

Permanent Exhibition Ground Floor

Administration

Library Cafè

Restroom

Conference Space

Staircase

The project at the same time is Compatible, it respects the Authenticity of the building, it has Distinguishable and Reversible additions and it presents just the Minimal Intervention feasible.

The staircase however contrasts with the Minimal Intervention principle, but it is a necessary object to create an attracrive and a modern element to let the building live again.

First Floor

Permanent Exhibition

Co-Working Space

Conference Space

Library Cafè

Front Elevation from Orthophoto

including dimensions and level heights in meters

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Ground Floor

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Temporary Exhibition

Library

Administration

Front Elevation from Orthophoto

including dimensions and level heights in meters

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First Floor

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Detail of the Staircase

Exploded View Legend:

Weathering Steel I-Beam 300 (COR-TEN)_1 Weathering Steel Rectangular Beam 180x130mm (COR-TEN)_2 Weathering Steel Rectangular Beam 300x150mm (COR-TEN)_3 Weathering Steel “L shaped” 240x80mm (COR-TEN)_4 Weathering Steel “L shaped” 440x60mm (COR-TEN)_5 Weathering Steel Rectangular Beam 80x60mm (COR-TEN)_6 Steel panel th. 20mm (COR-TEN)_7 Legend: Steel clamp system_8 Steel clamp system_9 Weathering Steel Rectangular Beam 300x150mm (COR-TEN)_1 Weathering Steel Rectangular Beam 180x130mm (COR-TEN)_2 Stratified tempered glass - 10/10mm_10 Steel clamp - th. 20mm_3 Steel platepanel - th. 20mm_4- th. 30mm_11 Wood Steel panel th. 20mm (COR-TEN)_5 Steel platepanel - th. 20mm_6w Steel - th. 20mm_12 Threaded steel rod Ø 30mm_7 Steel panel - th. 20mm (COR-TEN)_13 Threaded steel rod Ø 30mm_14 scale 1:70 7

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Longitudinal Section scale 1:70

Cross Section

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Urban Acupuncture Florence

The Florence that we usually know is just a very little part of the Florence that really exists (and like this many other historical cities).

What we intended to do in this course was to discover a lot of this spaces and with a project, try to give back life into them. Of course this is not a new topic: the way of revitalizing abandoned spaces improving people’s quality of life was born in New York in 1967 and the product was called “Pocket Park” (because of the three sides closed plan).

The objective is to act punctually to revitalize all the city, as acupuntural doctor does on an ill body.

Piazza de’ Donati

Via del Canto alla Quarconia

Piazza delle Pallottole

Example of a project: “Voice devices to make people walk through Piazza San Benedetto”

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Plan

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At the end of this path we decided to create something to show our research and that we could disassembled and reassembled in another place, as a symble of a revitalizing structure: it’s an object where you can protect yourself from sun (the six big pieces of the Florence map are positioned in a specific way to create curtains) or you can sit and have a break from the chaotic turistic flow.