Architecture Portfolio 2011

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small size architecture

Textile Structure DesignThe design of a small and easy to install textile structure to be used as a studying and reading spot.

urban scale architecture

Public Housing in MilanThe masterplanning and design for a large public housing project in the south west of Milan, along a road, a railway and a canal.

urban planning strategies

Working with a RE CompanyA workshop to study the behaviour of a real estate company and to propose plausible alternatives.

representation

History of BrivioTelling the history and the changements of the palace being studied and its sorroundings.

public building architecture

Cultural Center in Porta VoltaAn auditorium, a restaurant, a book shoop and a cafeteria to design and lay out over an area once occupied by the city walls.

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landscape architecture

Observatory for the Changing LandscapeThe assignment to design a landscape project without a given program turns out into an instrument to show a dystopia.

pavilion design

India Pavilion at ExpoIndian holidays become the means to show the great diversity of its society and its agriculture for the pavilion at Expo 2015.

landscape architecture

Lake Karla LabyrinthA labyrinth is the way to express the lost identity of this greek lake that had been drained in the 60’s before being re-flooded recently.

regional planning and small scale interventions

Eco-Archaeological Park of UrkeshAn elaborate work of programming, masterplanning and designing of small devices around an archaeological excavation.

curriculum

AboutEducation, skills, working experience and interests to present myself.

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FabrizioIntroini

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Textile Structure Design@ nowhere, for Architectural design studio, held by Matteo Poli, Alessandra Zanelli, Gianluca Lugli, in 2007

Within a standard course of architectural design there was this small workshop about textile structures. The request was for a covered surface of about 18sqm meant to be a reading spot. Plus it had to be easy to mount in different places. So the proposal had only the three poles stucked into the ground, while the rest of the structure is just layed down to the ground. The textile surface is hung to the three poles and attached to the three arches. The lateral surfaces are optional and easily removable. Prior to the final design it was necessary to define the shape of the textile surface using iron wire and soap bubbles.

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Public Housing in Milan@ Milan, for Bachelor thesis, supervised by Luisa Nava, in 2008

The idea for the bachelor thesis came from a design competition for a public housing project in Milan. It required 14700sqm of housing, 1450sqm of services and 23500sqm of public space on an area of 18600sqm. Plus it asked to face the features of the area. These features are the problematic sorroundings of the plot and the polarization of the street from a middel class north-east and a popular south-west. The sorroundings are: a busy street, a parish recreational center, apartment blocks, sports ground owned by the national railway service, a railway and the canal, a parking lot of the public transportation society. The aim was to charac-

terize the project starting from those borders, so there is a different approach towards each side. However the feature that orders the whole plot is the system infrastructure running from north-east to south-west: the street, the railway and the canal. As these are both strong elements and obstacles, the design presents a series of strips parallel to the infratructures that are crossed by a straight path. The strips make up the park and the secondary paths, plus they order the layout of the buildings.

Location

Population

Infrastructures

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Unveil a hidden order Lay a crossing path Create two poles Define an Area

canal railwaybuses

parking lotprivate

sports groundsapartment

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center via Giambellinoapartment

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Masterplan - 1:250

The courtyard works as a protection from the road

The trees are a visual filter towards the parking lot

The wall facing the railway invites to a lateral view

A hopefully temporal wall towards the sport fields

A playground that completes the one of the parish

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This course focused on the activity of the Real Estate companies. The aim was to analyze the way in which a given RE company works and to propose an alternative yet plausible behaviour. The chosen company was Phu My Hung, a joint venture formed by a taiwanese private developer and the vietnamese govern-ment. It had just completed a huge development in the southern part of Ho Chi Minh City, consisting of office highrises, malls, houses, luxury villas, etc. The future plan is to contnue on this kind of projects, but, given that the government is a shareholder of the joint venture, it should have

the burden to find a solution that meets the needs of all the people.Indeed, while the mid income house offer is redundant, there aren’t enough houses for the low incomes. However the tax on property that is going to be introduced would discourage to keep vacant houses and the companies will have to focus on another target. Another difficulty of the low income people is to survive. The majority of the city’s inhabit-ants have a low income and manage get enough money through temporary jobs, like porters, taxi bikers, gardeners, security guards and through a little commerce of agricultural

products or home made manufacts or repairings. It would be important for them to have better spaces where to work, separated from the house and more fit to meet the demand.As already said, the company intend to go on in its way in other areas of the city. This work proposes a different approach, focusing on the area between the colonial city center and Phu My Hung. It includes many living types, for each of them a brief analisys has been made that tries to find an investment opportunity that could satisfy both the company and the people.

Working with a RE Company@ Ho Chi Minh City, for Urban design studio, held by Giovanni La Varra, Luigi Zanfi, Roberta Cucca, in 2008

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Colonial city center

Area of analysis

Phu My Hung

humanresources

garbagecollectors

constructionworkers

taxibikers

porters

seasonalfood

clothesfreshproducts salaries

paymentssocialservices

entertainment

religion

smalltrading

fresh productsdailyservices

barbershop

repairs

foodshops

money

salaries

tradingopportunities

humanresources

securityagents

gardeners

constructionworkers

supplies

Government plan - the red areas will undergo a typical mixed use highrise developement; the green areas will be transformed into parks.

Land value - the areas in red are cheaper, like in the informal districts, the areas in green are more expansive and more desirable.

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This is where the middle class lives.The houses are in good conditions and the plot ratio is completely exploited, therefore there’s no opportunity for any developement.

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living and workingat the ground floor

mezzaninefor sleeping

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more floors to separateliving and working

courtyard used forworkshops or open spaces

Such a developement is seen with favour by the government, and could also have little revenues for a company. Despite the high number of current owners the number of buyers is potentially larger and there’s the possibility of government endowment.

present dwellers could have subsidiesto buy a house in the same place

ca.15m

wide roads withsidewalks and trees

This middle class houses are located between regular streets and have proper urbanization works. These areas have become expansive, plus there’s no need to intervene, that means non public endowment, so there’s no room for investments.

according to the plan ofthe government the portfacilities will be romovedmaking room for newprojects

the company would tryto maximiza the revenue

the government would tryto have services and socialhousing

The removal of the shipyard is a rare occasion for the company to build a very profitable development in a cheap and free area. For the government it is an occasion to discuss with the company and negotiate other less profitable yet needed projects.

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lots areca.5m wide

Averagely80 familiesin 70x70m

lack of light, airand open spaces

wider units to betterorganize the space

100 families (+20%)on the same soil withlarger floor surface

low class with familybased commercialactivities

mixed activities atthe ground floor

living at theupper floors

additionalcommerce space

stairs will servemore unitsone family

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duobled widthof the units 5m

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first floors forcommercial spaces

canals used tocarry goods

The houses along the canal house a lower middle class involved in commerce and small activities based in the house itself. The revenues from an investment her could be good. It is possible to raise the height and enlarge the commercial space. Again the government could endow the development and subsidize the current dwellers.

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Averagely60 familiesin 70x70mlack of light, air

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living and workingat the ground floor

mezzaninefor sleeping

commercial spacesat the ground floor

ca. 70 families (+16%)on the same soil withlarger floor surface;plus commercial spaces

the square rises thevalue of the houses

Scattered around the messy blocks and narrow lanes there are some public buildings like temples, markets, schools, etc. The population is the same of the sorroundings. The potential attractiveness of those buildings could make it profitable for a developer to intervene and build houses for the current dwellers and other buyers, making room for commercial space as well.

squares around thepublic building

the other blocksstand aside

these public buildings are tightlysurrounded by the blocks

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restrained potentialof the canal as aninfrastructure

unhealthyconditions

The dwellers of the demolishedhouses could find a new homein the new subsidized houses

canal used tocarry goods

exploit the commercialpotential of the canal

These shacks are illegaly built near canals, where the waste are unloaded due to the lack of any sewer system. The people living here are the poorest of the city. It is a public interest to eliminate this situation and find a better house for these people and meanwhile improve the commercial potential of the canals.

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Current situation - most of the houses serves also as workshops and shops, the streets ar narrow and the canals are blocked by slums. This is true for most of the area with few exceptions and is bad for the living conditions and the commerce possibilities.

Current trend - as it has been done in Phu My Hung, the companies would concentrate their projects in the more profitable districts, like the ex shipyard, building highrises, retail districts and shopping malls, leaving the rest unchanged.

40000 - 75000p/sqkm30000 - 40000p/sqkm<30000p/sqkm

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CURRENTLY URBANIZED

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The solution uses the economic advantages of a type of investment to carry on a less profitable yet need develop-ment. It is a plan wider than a single property, in which the city government dialogues with the private developer. All in all it creates new work spaces, new homes, new public spaces and new commercial spaces in order to make the small traders meet a wider demand, creates better living conditions without sacrifying the local habits. In detail, a project on the dismissed portyard is a very remunerative investment for the compnay that could be used in other necessary projects, giving people better living conditions and the possibility to buy work spaces or commerce spaces. By doing so the trading activity of the city is improved also in the lower level. The surplus of houses could, with a state aid, house the people now living in slums, that must be removed in order to make the canals accessible and be used to bring fresh products from the country to the city.It is a give and take between the government and the company, in which the government permits remunerative investments while requiring other projects that meet the people needs.

Alternative solution - the proposal tries to meet the needs of the developers with those of the people, increasing the population density where possible in order to have a cash return while improving the living, working and trading conditions.

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On a surface once occupied by the spanish walls of Milan, it was asked to design a cultural center. It was constituted of a park, an auditorium, a restau-rant, a cafeteria and a bookshop, plus a strip of national or regional pavilions, whose design was independent from this one.So, given that the plot would encompass a series of diverse cultural center and a common one, the design works on the idea of unity and diversity. The history, and its meaning, behind this very plot is also interesting. As it was one of the gates of the milanese walls it followed the evolutio of the walls itself. At first the walls

represented a defensive element against enemies, then the gate was used to collect tolls from the goods entering the city, due to the mercantilistic and protectionist economy of the period between XVIII and XIX century. Finally the walls lost all their functions with the free market and the open economy.At the end of this development the project wants to be an attractive spot that summarizes the ideas of unity and diversity into a single design.The plot is ideally enclosed by a wall that recalls the idea of unity. This wall is formed by the toll house, transformed into an info point and the buildings of the auditorium, the restaurant,

the cafeteria and the bookshop. These buildings are detached and the voids in between them are filled by bunches of trees that continue the wall. The design of the buildings is compelled by that of the general masterplan, so they are as much as possible long and narrow, placed along the border of the plot. Inside this ideal, unifying wall, one would feel the variety of the park and of the national pavilions. The park has a series of paths that link the different buildings of the cultural center and contains many elements that strengthen its meaning of diversity. These elements are concrete strips, grass surfaces, stone pavements, gravel, water

Cultural Center in Porta Volta@ Milan, for Architectural design studio, held by Cino Zucchi, Silvia Beretta, Beatrice Borasi, Paolo Citterio, Ivica Covic, Laura Quatela, Matteo Vischioni, Leonardo Zuccaro, in 2009

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pools, flower beds, benches and sprawled trees.To enhance the feeling of unity, the outer surface of the buildings are covered with green walls, made by modular elements that contain earth on which the plants grow. In this way there’s no solution of continuity from the trees to the buildings. Plus, the plants growing on the walls could be changed according to the seasons, in order to match the changing colours of the trees. So there can be paler colours in the winter, warmer colours in the autumn, brighter colours in the spring and greener colours in the summer.

IDENTITY

HISTORY

CULTURE

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Harmonious

Inward-looking

Illusion of the old walls

Meaningful

Neutral

Non-discriminating

Offering differentpoints of view

Old memories

Open

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Toll gate

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Protecting

Respectful

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Spanish walls

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EQUAL WALLUNITY DIVERSITY MUTUAL BENEFIT

WALL ACTIVITIES EQUAL SPACE

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auditorium

info point

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buildingstrees walls

short wallsmain path

secondary paths

concrete strips grass

stone pavement gravel

slopes waterflowers

treesbenches

restaurant

bookshop

cafeteria

pavilions

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Outer facade - Spring - 1:1000

Outer facade - Summer - 1:1000

Outer facade - Autumn - 1:1000

Outer facade - Winter - 1:1000

Inner facade - 1:1000

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Ivy

Algerian Ivy

Glacier Ivy

Black-eyed

Susan

Carolina Jasmine

Winter Jasmine

Apple Blossom

Snow-drift

Blue Passion-flower

Boston Ivy

Coral Honey-suckle

Climb-ing Fig

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Within the conservation class, it was required to focus on the history of the town where the class took place, Brivio, and the building under analisys, Palazzo Carozzi. It was the palace of a rich family, the Carozzi, that gained more importance with the construction of a silk factory. The shape of the riverfront and of the palace follows the economy of the history and the economy of the town. A nonexistent riverfront as the river was a border between two states. A riverfront with docks during the industri-alization. Today the riverfront is a busy road and the Carozzi family doesn’t own the palace anymore.

History of Brivio@ Brivio, province of Lecco, Italy, for Restoration studio, held by Antonella Saisi, Lorenzo Cantini, Laura Valsasnini, in 2009

Carozzi living rooms

Servants wing

Carozzi official palace

Passage between the palces

Dock

XVII century palace

Apartment building withcommercial activities atthe ground floor

Left-over of the passage

Parking lot

Road

Apartment building

Apartment building

- XIX century

- XX century

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Piazza Carozzi

Original Waterfront

Carozzi official palaceCarozzi living rooms

Piazza Carozzi

Dock

Waterfront enlargement

Carozzi official palace

Carozzi living rooms

Carozzi silk factorybuilt 1875

Castle

Castle

Ex Carozzi silk factory

New concrete bridge

Road

Piazza Carozzi

Apartment building

Apartment building

Castle

- Before 1859

- After 1859

- Today

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The assignment for the class was completely free and had to be inspired by the feelings of the place. It sure is a beautiful place: a small yet historic town on the bank of the river Adda that just befor crossing the town draws an bend which defines a wide grove of reeds, with gentle hills all around the valley. On the other hand the towns grow fast and chaotically, without a plan, risking to compromise this landscape. The general sensation is still that of a natural landscape, but villas and sheds are sprawled on the valley. What if this condition is pushed further? The will is to find a way to push this sensa-tion to the extreme. To do so a

plausible dystopia has been invented. It fallows the story of a municipality who can’t balance its budget and calls on construction permits and urbanization burdens. As this rush to the break even goes on, the city grows without an administration able to direct the growth. The population rises, as the traffic does. The costs for services goes the same path and the municipality is at the starting point. Meanwhile the town has grown dramati-cally, the landscape is compro-mised, the hydrogeological risk is high and the air polluted.The storyteller of this dystopia is what looks like a normal observatory. It is placed on a

high hill on the left side of the river that is ripid enough to permit a wide view of the whole valley. The observatroy is long and narrow and obliges the observer to walk straight. When he enters he sees the valley, but as he walks on, the glass turns into a screen that displays the montage of the dystopic landscape. Once the observer is in front of the screen, a trap door opens underneath his feet, revealing a window that faces the wild hillside under the observatory. There’s a succes-sion of feelings, from wonder to awareness to schock, that mean to strongly impress to visitor.Obviously, this story fits everywhere in the world.

Observatory for the Changing Landscape@ Brivio, province of Lecco, Italy; but potentially everywhere, for Landscape design studio, held by Matteo Aimini, in 2009

OBSERVATORY FOR THE CHANGING LANDSCAPEWill you be prepared when you will face the hard, cold truth?

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Today - reduced money transfers from the central government - reduced tax collecting capacity - dependance on bank loans - reduced

possibility of long term planning

2010/2015 - dependance on bank loans - relying upon urbanization burdens - increasing congestion - more traffic - increasing costs for

services and maintenance

2015/2020 - increasing population - new settlement areas inside the municipality - new industrial districts - services for the new areas needed - texes from construction rpojects - extraordinary costs

2020/2025 - the town expands - need to build new roads and enlarge the existing ones - rising costs for services - taxes from

construction - weaker landscape - geological risks

2025/2030 - the town still grows - natural areas are suffocated - poorer health conditions - increasing expenses - congestioned traffic -

brand new services are needed

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Wondering - the visitor thinks he’s about to approach an observatory where he would be able to gaze the river and the valley around it.

Awareness - as the visitor walks on, the window turns into a screen that displays the distopia of the valley. He is put in front of the dramatic consequences of its own actions.

Shock - while the visitor is in front of that terrifying scenario, a trap door opens underneath his feet, making him face the ripid cliff. He is now in front of the real, inhospitable nature.

Changement - when finally the visitor walks away, he’s expected to have undergone a changement due to the fright he just faced.

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The decision to design the pavilion of India for the Expo came by observing some maps showing the high amount of cereal production and the equally high amount of people starving in this country. The large population is not a sufficient answer, in fact India has reached grain self sufficiency. To understand this datas it was necessary to study the farming system, the agriculture policies, the ownership of the land, the dimension of the farms, the living conditions of the farmer and the most diffused crops. It came out that most of the land is owned by small farmers who own a farm that is averagely

slightly larger than 1ha. With this dimension the farmer meets several difficulties. It is hard to imrpove the technology and the quality of the instru-ments. It is hard to have a variety of products in order to face sudden price changes. It is hard to face the powerful middlemen who are able to impose the prices. It is hard to find a shortcut in the distribu-tion chain in order to sell at higher prices. However it can be noticed that these small farms have a higher diversity of crops and a higher crop yield.So it can be said that the fragmentation is a problem, but it is a potential resource as well. To represent this idea of

diversity it was necessary a means that would encompass some aspects of the indian inner diversity. This means was found in the holidays, since they are related with both the religion and the agriculture. The plot of 18x150m was treated as a series of calendar, one for each of the five most popular indian religions: Hinduism, Islam, Sikhism, Christianism and Buddhism. The calendar was divided according to the indian cropping seasons: Kharif, during the rainy season, Rabi, during the dry season, Zaid, the short warm and dry spring. Along the plot the crops related to the season are planted, every

India Pavilion at Expo@ Expo 2015, Milan, for Architectural design studio, held by Remo Dorigati, Giancarlo Floridi, Salvatore Porcaro, in 2010

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crop with a surface propor-tional to its importance in the diet. Between one season and the another there are squares which represent the harvesting, the exchange of products and the sowing for the following season. These are the periods when, or the places where, the holidays are concentrated. It is a fact that many religions (with the exception of Islam which follows a lunar calendar, but is too popular in India to be excluded) have their holidays during seasonal change or specific periods of the agricul-tural calendar.

Religious diversity

Agricultural diversity

Seasonal rithm

Holidays

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rammed earth walls with bamboo reinforcement, seeds pasted to the walls, wooden beams and earth cover, concrete foun dation and stone pavement.

handmade iron and gypsum frames for the walls and the covering, yellow fabric hanging from the covering, concrete foundation and stone pavement.

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Vai-sakhi / sikhism /

mid april. It celebrates the harvest of the rabi crops. It is an agricultural feast and the pavilion uses the first products of the harvest. These are the

fascines and the jute f a b r i c .

Buddha Jayanti / buddhism / april.

The birthday of Buddha means rebirth and regeneration as the spring begins. The water element and the colour white

represent the purity of the rebirth.

N a -vatri / hinduism

/ late september. As the monsoons end and the kharif

crops are harvested, this festival celebrates the victory of good over evil and prays for the rabi crops.

Tradition says to put a seed in a bunch of mud.

Easter / christian-ism / april. The most

important christian holiday celebrates the resurrection of Christ. Its elements are light and fire. Like Buddha Jayanti it concours with

the beginning of spring and the rebirth is both spiritual

and seasonal.

Vaisakhi Easter Buddha Jayanti Navatri Bakrid Diwali Lohri Vasant Panchami Holi

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Diwali / hindu-ism / mid november.

It is celebrated at the beginning of winter and the rabi crop. This holiday serves to face the incoming period of darkness

with lights. Candles are kept lit inside dark

rooms.

Bakrid / islam / varies. This holiday

remembers the episode of Abraham and Isac. Muslims celebrate it sacrifying a goat, a sheep or a cow. Like the biblical

episode it calls for peace and reconciliation.

Lohri / sikhism, hinduism / mid

January. This festivals is mainly celebrated in Punjab and nearbies states. People pray for a good rabi harvest while dancing

and chanting around a bonfire and throwing

food at it.

V a -sant Panchami /

hinduism / february. It is celebrated just after the mustard harvest and is dedicated to the avatar of Ganesh that represents knowledge.

Mustard and other yellow spices are used.

Holi / hinduism / March. It is the liveliest

holiday in India and celebrates the end of winter, the rabi harvest and the next kahrif seeding. People throw coloured powders

to each other in a very joyous atmosphere.

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Lake Karla is a lake drained in 1962 to gain agricultural land, however the saline soil never made possible a successful agriculture, so in recent years a project for the restoration of the lake has been carried out with the support of the European Union. So far 50 of the 180sqkm have been re-flooded. The project was a part of an international workshop on mediterranean sensitive areas. The program was up to each work group. Given that the groups were formed by seven students from different schools it required a hard group work to put everybody in accordance with the ideas.

However we menaged to find a satisfying idea. It was to build a labyrinth made of reeds and other plants inside the lake. As the lake was drained and lost its unique fishing culture, and as it was flooded again and the farmers had to change their occupation, it can be said that the lake can’t find its identity. So the labyrinth provides the experiance of losing yourself. There is a sequence of experi-ences as one approaches the lake. The starting point could be any of the towns west of the lake. As walking or biking eastwards, one first crosses the agricultural fields gained reclaimed from the former lake. Then one has to climb upe the

dam, from that position there’s a view down to the lake and the labyrinth. After going down to the shore, there are some small docks, each with a small boat docked to them. It will be used to sail into the labyrinth and getting lost. After finding the way out, one orients himself in the open width of the lake.The labyrinth is made with helophytes vegetation with phytodepuration capacities, like Phragmites Australis, Iris Pseudocorus, Scirpus Lacustris, Carex sp, Spargarlum Erectum, Typha Angustifolia, Juncus sp. The difference between the norhern and the southern parts follows the relative difference in the agricultural pattern.

Lake Karla Labyrinth@ Lake Karla, prefecture of Magnesia , Greece, for Changing landscapes workshop, Mediterranean sensitive areas design, supervised by Matteo Aimini, Javier Boned Purkiss, Robert de Paaw, Ozan Avci, Kostas Manolidis, Aspasia Kouzoupi, Spiros Papadopoulos, in 2011

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Lake Karla lost its identity

The labyrinth provides the experience to lose yourself

The labyrinth cleans the water

The labyrinth is lake Karla’s new identity

- Crossing the agricultural fields

- Looking at the labyrinth from above

- Getting lost inside the labyrinth

- Orienting yourself in the lake

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The idea behind this project is to use the archaeological excavation in Mozan as a starting point of an eco-archaeological park. Mozan is a village that lays in the same place of an ancient city, Urkesh, founded at the beginning of the fourth millennium AC. The city was abondoned at the end of the secon millennium and it became a tell. This geo-archaeological formation is caused by the layering of demolished building under the newer ones, then, as the city was abondoned, the formation takes the look of a natural hill, covered by earth and shaped by the elements.It is an eco-archaeological park

since it exploits the results and the attractivenessof the excava-tions in order to start a developing process that would affect the society, the economy and the landscape. The strategy is to propose a program and imagine a project as its avatar. The improvement of the socio-economic conditions passes through the diversifica-tion of the economy, the gathering of capitals for the improvement of the agricultural and craftsmanship techniques, the creation of a network of villages to enlarge the market areas, the attraction of tourism. The project works on a “urban” scale, inserting functions into the villeges in order to sparkle

diverse developments, and on a regional scale, spreading some devices for the perception of the landscape that ideally unite the whole region.All the proposals try to be light sensible to the landscape. The buildings inserted to the village are built according to the traditional techniques. They are put at the borders of the village and have a conventional inward facade, while the outward side ìs a slope that camouflages with the ground. The devices are arranged throughout the whole region and have different functions, but all of them ideally keep the region unite, creating a network of villages connected by the landscape.

Eco-Archaeological Park of Urkesh@ district of Al Qamishli, Syria, for Master thesis, supervised by Matteo Aimini, in 2011

Urkesh, ca. 2000AC Mozan, today

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diversified crops

agricultural depot

microcreditaccomodations

micromuseum

classrooms

public spaces

agricultural workshop

crafts workshop

local gastronomy

landscape monitoring

zoom

staring at the sky

virtual modelsof Urkesh

perception ofthe large spaces

panoramic spots

nightscape

horticulture and arboriculture

private enterprises and trading

tourism

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Functions inserted into the village

Devices for the perception of the landscape

Developments triggered in the villages

Village Countryside

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maintenanceof the park

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agricultural depot

microcredit accomodations

micromuseum

classrooms agricultural workshop

crafts workshoppublic spaces

Mozan - Masterplan - 1:2000

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- Construction of a new building

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zoom staring at the sky virtual modelsof Urkesh

Tell and village

Tell and village

Tell and village

Tell andvillage

Large spaces

Functions and Developments in Mozan and nearbies villages

The functions are public infrastructures built in the villages, while the developments are the expected consequences of the insertion of the fucntions, so they are result of private enterprise, So the accomodations and micromuseums could improve tourism, while increasing the custom-ers for the local products whose manufacturing methods could be improved by the presence of a crafts workshop and so on.

Telescopes that connect the village one to the other, both ideally and visually

A system of boxes that overlap the present sight of the tell with the reconstructed view of the ancient Urkesh

Oasis that offer shady repairs and put the night sky into a frame with a circle of trees

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perception ofthe large spaces

panoramic spotsnightscape

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Crops fabric

Villages

Tell and village

Taurus mountains

The Devices and the landscape keep the region unite

The villages of the region are averagely 2km far from thenext one and are sorrounded by cultivated fields. As Mozan and the nearby villages would make up a network, the connective tissue must be provided by the landscape, because of the distance from one village to another. So these devices, along with the landscape give unity to the region.

Lighting systems that make the villages and the tells visible from long distances

The trees hide the objects on the horizon to the observer, who loses all its reference points

Light, austere and martial looking towers that offer new points of view over the landscape

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AboutFabrizio Introini - [email protected]

Education- 2008/2011: Master degree in Architecture, Politecnico di Milano.

- 2004/2008: Bachelor degree in Environmental Architecture, Politecnico di Milano.

- 1999/2004: Diploma, High school specializing in science education “E. Alessandrini”, Vittuone, Italy.

Work Experience- 2010: LAND - landscape architecture design - 3 months - As an assistant designer I took part in several projects, like the exteriors of a musem’s proposal, the garden of a country mansion and a project for a competition that, starting form the strategic masterplan of a town close to Turin, tried to propose a metropolitan scale plan.

- 2009: arch. Laura Quatela - architectural design - 1 month - Within a team specifically made up for a competi-tion about a housing project, I fully participated in the design process from the developement of the idea to the layout of the competition panels.

- 2007: arch. Roberto Altini - architectural design - 3 months - I participated in the drawing of a few residential projects and of the renovation of a parish recreational center.

Languages- Italian native speaker.

- English C2 level - according to TOEFL.

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SoftwaresAutocad, Rhinoceros, Sketchup, 3DSMax, Ecotect, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, Acrobat, Office.

SkillsCompetent in the design process for both landscape and architecture. Having participated in some competitions or workshops that had short deadlines, I’m prepared to work at different rithms and under pressure, being able to focus on the solution or on the final result, without giving up precision. I attended a english language master degree in which many of the students were foreigners, so I developed a grasp in both everyday and technical english; further-more I had the opportunity to work and study with people from different countries and to experience different cultures and different kinds of approach to architecture. Since most of the works I’ve took part so far were group based, I grew a good team work attitude and organization ability, being naturally sociable as well.

InterestsMusic, from trip-hop to punk, from classical to dnb. Literature, especially the decades across XIX and XX century, plus other more recent writers like Hesse, Calvino or Ballard. As for architecture related literature I would list some classical such as Mumford, Schultz or Koolhaas. History books, of politics, society, economy, arts and the links between these aspects; recently I’ve been focusing on the age of enlightenment and on the rise of romanticism. Cinema, but here it is hard to pick out a few preferences. Then I may list travels, architecture blogs like bldgblog or cityofsound, running, skying and biking.

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Credits - Giovanni Forte, Michele Gemmi, Le Huy Binh, Hieu Tran Quang, Yibo Xu, Xanya Xu, Jelena Crnogorcic, Vera Djurdjevic, Caio Smolarek Dias, Luca Gobbetti, Beatrice Azzola, Martha Clifford, Aranzazu Caravantes Garcia, Lilia Mitsiou, Staurula Psomiadi, Maria Concepcion Ruiz Terradillos

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