Giovanni Gabai's Architecture Portfolio

GIOVANNI GABAI PORTFOLIOUNIVERSITÀ IUAV DI VENEZIA 2006-2010PROFESSIONAL EX PERIENCES 2010-2015

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WITH DESIGNLAB (BMW)_2013-2015

• IHKA (Intergriertes Heizung und Klima Anlage\Integrated Heating and Climate Control): Interface and 3D design, for restiling and

rapid prototyping

• ZBE (Zentral Bedienelemente\Central Control): Interface and 3D design, for restiling and rapid prototyping

• CID (Central Interaction Display): Interface design

• GWS (Gangwahlschalter\Gear Selector Switch): Interface design

• Kombi (Instrument Cluster): Interface design

• HUD (Head Up Display): Interface design

• Fensterheberschalter (Window Switch): 3D design for rapid prototyping

• Cockpit: conceptual sketches

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE_2010-2012

3D STUDY FOR A FENCE OF A GARAGE AND AUTO-DEALERp.4

CLINIC IN BURKINA FASOp.5

3D STUDY FOR AN INTERIORS PROJECTp.6

FOYER “TEATRO NUOVO GIOVANNI DA UDINE”_competion, with QRZ Studio (Rocco Repezza, Francesco Qualizza)p.7

AGROPOLITANA_for Professor Viviana Ferrario, GIS elaboration for a research of agro-urban territory in Veneto regionp.8

ALGUDNEI_for Patchwork Studiarchitettura, video montage for a museum of the Ladin Community in Dosoledo (Belluno)p.9

REQUALIFICATION OF A PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE_San Nicolò di Comelico (Belluno)for Patchwork Studiarchitettura_detailed designp.10

FIENILE MARTINI_Comelico Superiore (Belluno), for Patchwork Studiarchitettura _3D modeling and photomontagep.11

FIENILE DOCI_Candide (Belluno), for Patchwork Studiarchitettura (architecture studio)_3D modeling and renderingp.12

Biennale, Mostra del cinema (surroundings, Palagalileo, forepart)_Venezia (Italy), for Patchwork Studiarchitettura_3D modeling and renderingp.15

ARCHIVIO LUCCINI_Padova (Italy,) For Giulia Moschini Architect_3D modeling and animationp.19

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3D STUDY FOR A FENCE OF A GARAGE AND AUTO-DEALER

Animations (left) and bird’s eye view“Net” type

“Blades” type

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This clinic, a project of Francis Keré Architecture studio, it’s a building of 500 sm, with two consulting rooms, a dental office, two guarding rooms, a recep-tion, a chemist, two patient rooms, a maternity ward and external toilets.Between and in the ward: green courtyards and parking lots outside. I assisted the whole building process, from the cave of stones and earth, the production of bricks and concreet-windows on site, till the laying of roofs and beans. All the coordinations and the buys have been made on behalf of the Grünhelme NGO.

View from South-East Retain of the concreet-forms

View from North-West Before the laying of a roof

Above: evolution of the worksite from june to oktober. Below: placement of a concreet-window.

CLINIC IN BURKINA FASO

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Nocturnal view of the lobby and other rooms (left).

3D STUDY FOR AN INTERIORS PROJECT

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CONCORSO TEATRO NUOVO GIOVANNI DA UDINE - GERVASONIQRZ - ARCH. ROCCO REPEZZA

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schema pavimentazione iridescente 1:500 schema proiezione tubi iridescenti 1:500

elemento di pavimentazione 1:2 composizioni modulari dei pannelli espositivi e schema distributivo

piano primo

piano terra

piano secondo

piano terzo

CONCORSO TEATRO NUOVO GIOVANNI DA UDINE - GERVASONIQRZ - ARCH. ROCCO REPEZZA 2

vista spazio Fantonivista ingresso

vista foyer

Otto 126Sweet 41Afra Floor

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In Out 101Log SMLDrink Floor Standing 7

pannelli modulari 220x110

bookshop spazio Fantoni

arredo ed elementi di progetto

pavimentazione iridescente

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vista foyer


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COMPETITION (FOYER)Our Prpject for the new foyer of the new theatre in Udine “Giovanni da Udine”. Use of tubular plastic semi-opaq ue elements hanging from the roof of the foyer, creating an artificial cavern and generating a filter for natural and artifi-cial light. This effect it’s created by the study of the section in both the direc-tions (longitudinal and short section). The others element that we suggested for the bookshop and the Fantoni room, intended for lectures and exhibitions\ installations, are a composi-tion of modular curved elements, also used in the rest of the building as simple panels.The choose of the furniture is a selec-tion from the sponsoring company catalogue.

Schema for the new paving

Elements of the project External paving Lectures room

Foyer with bookshop, furniture, panels

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AGROPOLITANAThis research, made by the Professor Viviana Ferrario, deals with the growth of a new agro-urban reality in the middle of the Veneto region, as a usual phenomenon of the italian province.I realized the visualization and the calculation of four possible scenarios of this urbanized territory.

On the left: “Feeding the city” scenario, a projection of an economy based on local agricolture.

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Superfici:“filamenti” (CCS Veneto, 2007): 456,35 HASAU (CCS Veneto, 2007): 1843,65 HALavorata (fotointerpretazione, 2007): 1362 HA

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Altre colture permanenti

Barbabietola in aree irrigue

Cereali in aree irrigue Foraggere in aree irrigue

Frutteti

Mais in aree irrigue

Orticole in pieno campo in aree irrigue Orticole in serra o sottoplastica in arre irrigue

Sistemi colturali e particellari complessi

Soia in aree irrigue Soia in aree irrigue

Tabacco in aree irrigue

Terreni arabili in aree irrigue

Vigneti

Allevamenti intensivi esistenti

Allevamenti (PAT TrebaselegheRelazione agronomica, dati 2000)

1256 HA

BOVINI: 12 503

SUINI: 18 375da 0-9 capi: 56 aziendea 5000-9999 capi: 1 aziende

da 0-9 capi: 110 azieendea 1000-1999 capi: 1 aziende

Abitanti:15.250

Stato attualeFeeding the City

Dati area

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2,3 %13 %3,5 % Frutteti e vigneti: 48 HA

Cereali: 177 HAForaggio: 32 HA

Mais: 936 HA

Soia: 37 HA

Lavorata (fotointerpretazione, 2007): 1362 HA

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Foraggere in aree irrigue Foraggere in aree irrigue Mais in aree irrigue Mais in aree irrigue Terreni arabili in aree irrigue

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Ortaggi: 99,27 KgFrutta: 75, 62 KgCereali: 933,27 Kg

Carne bovina: 10 kg Cereali: 622,18 KgCarne suina: 16 kg Foraggio: 1,82 KgCarne avicola: 9 kg Mais: 5,95 KgLatte: 288 kg Soia: 1,5 Kg Uova: 75 kg

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6,17 %4,6 % Ortaggi: 63 HA

Frutteti e vigneti: 84 HA

Cereali: 308 HA

Foraggio: 454 HA

Mais: 405 HA

Soia: 49 HA

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Allevamenti ridimensionati

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VIDEO EDITING (ALGUDNEI)

Realization of four short videos, dealing with the history of the planning for the reconstruction of burn villages in the Alpine Comelico valleys (Belluno Province), during X IX and X X centuries.The montages rapresent documents, pictures and schemas of this phase of urban planning in the alpine territory.

From the left: the corner of video instal-lations in the “Algudnei’s Museum”, located in Do-soledo (BL), and some of the material used for the videos:a napoleonic map of Dosoledo and a list of object, lost in a burn in 1890.

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EXECUTIVE DRAFTS (PATH REQUALIFICATION)The village, San Nicolò di Comelico, is located in the Belluno Province. The pertinence of the church needed a renovation of the public spaces along the road. Below: detailed design.

Current situation Project

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3D MODELING AND RENDERING (FIENILE MARTINI)Renderization and photomontage of each version of the project: extention and requalification of a barn in ome-lico, in the Belluno Prpvince’s Prealps.

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This small building, a tipical “tabiè” on the Alps in Veneto, will become a restaurant with an hotel in the penthouse. I built and renderized the 3D model of the building.

Below: restaurant and rooms renders.

3D MODELING AND RENDERING (FIENILE DOCI)

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3D models for the presentation of the rivaluation of the external and internal spaces of Palazzo del Cinema, Palag-alileo and forepart, (Lido di Venezia), for the Biennale Foundation.

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External spaces of “Palazzo del Cin-ema”;

Palagalileo’s inside render;

Forepart’s inside render.

3D MODELING AND RENDERING (MOSTRA DEL CINEMA)

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PALAGALILEO

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FOREPART

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3D VIEWS (ARCHIVIO LUCCINI)

1_Principal archive 2_Second archive

4_Consultation room3 ffice

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The project consists of the restauration of the lowest part of an ancient building in the middle of Padua.This rooms will host a cultural centre:a library and an historical archive.

I realized the basical 3D models of the inner spaces and a short animation for the presentation to the public.

MASTER (Landscape architecture)DE-GROWTH SCENARIOS_MA_2010_Thesis_Professor Paola Viganòp.21

ERROR OF DIGITALSCAPE_MA_2009_S.S._MSA Münster (DE)_Design workshop_Professor Kazu Blumfeld Hanadap.27

EXPOSITION PAVILLION_MA_2009_1st Semester_Landscape workshop_Professor Juan Manuel Palerm Salazarp.31

LAGOON PARK_MA_2008_1st Semester_Landscape workshop_Professor Manuel Ruisanchez Capelastegui p.36 with Quentin Georgelin, Jean-Louic Nédelec, Ludovico Tiberio

SCALO MOTTA_MA_2008_2nd Semester_Landscape workshop_Professor Paolo Cecconp.40 with Michele Bertani, Ludovico Tiberio

BACHELOR (Sciences of architecture)HIGH DENSITY_BA_2006_Summer intensive workshop_duration: 2 weeks_Professor Donatella Fiorettip.44 with Francesco Di Palma, Francesco Tonizzo and Filippo Zampese

LIVING SCENARIOS_BA_2006_1st semester_Urban design workshop_Professor Paola Viganò. p.48 with Matteo Carli and Giulio Mari

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DE-GROWTH SCENARIOSReading the theories of Serge Latouche, the Professor of Economics who critici e scientificly the religion of infinite economical development, pushed me to try the application of those “8 rules” on a tipical italian suburbia. Mestre became the ugly face of Ven-ice during the last fourty years. This situation, generated by the “economi-cal boom” of the sixties, produced a heavy problem of sustainabilty and use of the soil, the agricoltural one in particular.First of all I tried to demonstrate that all the sustainability actual politics on this territory are unsufficient to compensate the consume of soil and resources.Then, with the introduction of the 8rs directly on concrete cases of abandoned functions, overstimated infrasructures, malls...in short: all that comes from/supports the economic model of growth, I previewd an alterna-tive scenario.These Rs are:

-revaluate;-recontestualizing;-restructure;-relocalizing;-redistribute;-reduce;-reuse;-recycling.

On the right: from the 8Rs to the energy sources, passing trough the actual city-model.

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Stripe chosen for the project.This “fringe area” , at the limit of the core of the city, contains a mix of local agricolture, extensive agricolture, highways and smaller roads, railways and water canals. The southern part of the town was made up in the 20s for chemical and iron industry and is nowadays q uite completely abandoned.The northern suburbia its mutat-ing reall fast, thanks to new malls, and an ever more clogged road system (on the right of the map: the viabiity condition of the stripe and the conseq uent fragmentation and consumption of soil).

Next page: objects of study, fond fond along the stripe:

1_an abandoned four-stourey building;2_abandoned level crossing;3,4,5 abandoned mechanical officines6_Scenic laboratory;7_”Prix” discount and “Auchan” mall.

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Combination of the extreme and theoric de-growth purposes (8Rs) with some practical strategies of sustainability (from the left to the right/up-down):

-reuse;-cooperation of neighborhood;-energetic autosussistance;-increase of walkable ground;-increase of cycling;-increase of green space;-alternative methods of densification-structured woods;-vegetable gardens.

8Rs Strategies

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Two exemples of 8Rs + strategies applications:

-in this page: a punctual one: a mechanical officine becomes a kindergarden;

-in the next page: the territorial application brings to a possible scenario with walkable/cyclable paths, vegetable gardens, alternative densification and structured woods

8Rs Strategies

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ERROR OF DIGITALSCAPEOnce found a basical pattern, with digital tecnology is possible to leave the project growing with his own rules. It’s not easy to trust anytime the “ma-chine”, our brain refuse to cooperate with it.

So the first instinctive operation is tring to find a rule on wich base all our men-tal construction, made jet of expecta-tion on the project and of a superficial knoledge of the location. In this case: a q uartier in the middle of Berlin, a place with a hybrid nature, due to his recent history, offered a lot of spatial interpre-tations. This uncertain relationship between the straight project-area and the surroundings has been an imput to find the criteria of a new entity s profile

n the bac ground: tryng to find a corelation between poroject-area and surrounding buildings

Right: transposition of the tracks in 3D

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THE RULE:

My idea was to design a new landscape in the middle of the town, with his paths and his mountains. I’ve proceeded from the general sections to the curves (1) and than to the surfaces (2). The circulation inside he building his totally free from barriers and it’s possible wal ing through all the three floors img left bottom), without the use of the elevators and stairs. All the external facade is transparent, as the walls of the internal functions.The “bottles” allow the light to pass all trough the building, that contains also half-closed spaces as gardens and courtyards.All the elements are regulated by a grid of 10x10 metres, that is the maximum penetration of light in the ambient, and held together by a “forest” of pillars (3).

Right and below: transversal and longitudinal sections

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ight: view of the library from the second floor and of the facade from south-west.

Below: walkable roof towards north-west

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EXPOSITION PAVILLION IN SOUTHERN LAGOONThe students were free to choose the location of this project, that consists of a vertical element and a horizontal one.

s first element designed a green artificial island, that stands in front of an old austrian powder magazine, the island that I chose. The second element that Idesigned is a “solar tower”, a light structure that sustains a big PV panel.All the power of the pavillion and the island’s lightning comes from the tower.

The main building is underground for a half of his volume and has two ac-cesses: from the north on the water, and from the south, connected with the paths that are all over the island.

Just as the powder magazine was designed, it’s impossible to see the park and the paths from the outside, so the same from the island to the surrounding lagoon. Who arrives with the boat to the new island sees just another old wreck saved from the tide.

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From the left:

Plan of the Pavillion’s island and solar tower;

lans of ground- and first floor

D-D section.

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Stairs along the south wall

View on the lagoon

Projection wall

Access from the park

F-F section

G-G section

View of the island from south-east

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MATERIALS:

Walls: concrete and cor-ten skin.

Paths and rest areas: Iroko wood (used in nautical industry, high salinity and water resistent).

Banks’ coating: grit of lightweight rock, mixed and aggregate with Klinker and Portland concrete.

Composition of the external wall.

Detailed section of the roof and the front glass.

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1_distribution schema of autochthonous plants on the park;

2_section of an embank-ment;

3_view of the park from south-west

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LAGOON PARKThe location of this project is “Sacca San Mattia”, in the Murano island, Venice Lagoon.

Murano is a productive island, our workgroup focused on this concept, particularly on the mechanical, dinamic processe that modifies the relation between us and the territory. Here the soil changes everytime, because of antropic and natural in-tervention. The new functions, called “Ground Factory”, that we put in this territory, move trough the ground, building, destroing, modeling it. The park is in a constant transformation condition.

Above and on the right: the storyboard and the model ex-plain the relation function-landscape, made up by the movement of the container-carts.

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Below: necessary phases for the realization of the project: remotion of soil, change of the existing vegetation, addiction of functions

Right: axonometric detail of the transportation sistem and list of the moving-functions on it.

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RefugeX 5

FountainX 10

WCx5

Depotx3

Sittingx3

Tablex5

Garden1x20

Treesx60

Vegetable gardenx60

ar fficemodulex5ACTV ticketsmodulex3WI-FI Zonex5

Transport x5

Exposition x20

Exposition x5

Concert rooms x4

Directionx8

Basketball field x2

RockClimbingx2

Playgroundx8

Skate parkx5

252 modules

140 vegetation modules

112 service modules

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Access canal fromVenice and Airport

Acceptance Access from MuranoSport area

UnloadingGreenhouse

Docking

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The area called “Scalo Motta” in Treviso is an abandoned railway deposit, a concrete platform with machinery and buildings not too far from the historical core of the town.The surrounding is quite totally a housing quartier, with three or five-storey buildings. As all the rest of the area, the call is crossed by canals, used in the past to trans-port wares.

In red: the walls and the railway pertinence

In black: the water

In green: urban vegetation

SCALO MOTTA

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Our approach has been to privilege the railway, and to develope all the surrounding park starting from a big, linear building, that articulates itself in functions (indicated at the bigin-ning of the course), distributed along the thin railway in the middle. Therefore the construction of the landscape comes out from the expansion of this mega-structure in different appendages over- and underground:

1_a railway station;2_a housing complex;3_a laboratory;4_a library;5_a swimming pool;6_a restaurant;7_a new stadium with a sport centre.

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Views of masterplan, sideview, building functions

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5_swimming pool

6_restaurant

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B-B section

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C-C section

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HIGH DENSITY

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HIGH DENSITYDuring the summer intensiveworkshop we focused on thenorthern edge of the lagoon, propos-ing a high density-building project for each workroup.

The best project in this first phase-was taken as the master plan blue-print template for every other group in the secondphase.

The workshop ended with a more detailed presentation ofour co-housing apartment withrelative storyboard.

Project location: Campalto, Venice.

OUR PROPOSAL

Optimization of orientation and perception

Compenetration of land, water, light trough the building

A space for social use, with a total accessibility from both sides

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OUR BUILDING IS A “BLADE” THAT CONTAINS 25 BIG APARTMENTS OF ONE, TWO OR THREE FLOORS

5th floor

4th floor

3th floor

2th floor

1st floor

199 m2 263,5 m2 201,6 m2 194 m2 266 m2

132 m2 196 m2 201,6 m2 199 m2 133 m2

199 m2 201,6 m2 134,4 m2 269 m2 263,5 m2

258 m2 201,6 m2 199 m2 129 m2 266 m2

263,5 m2 269 m2 196 m2 263,5 m2 196,3 m2

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Dj’ s house

Programmer’s house

Cook’s house

Common rooms

Final masterplan

Our volume

Study sketches

South and north facades

Sections: pertinences

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LIVING SCENARIOS

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LIVING SCENARIOSFirst phase:analysis of some high-densityprojects:Park Hill (Jack Lynn and IvorSmith, 1957-61, Sheffield, UK) on the left and below (3D simulation);Constant Nieuwenhuys’s NewBabylon on the right (1959-74).

Second phase: the study ofhousing projects builted in thesuburbia of Venice bitween the‘50s and the ‘80s.

Third phase: the proposition ofdifferent densification scenariosalong fast roads, slow roadscanals and in the “empty” agricoltural space.

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extension 52 ha

inhabitants 10.340

density 200ab/ha

extension 26,6 ha

inhabitants 5.000

density 200ab/ha

extension 20 ha

inhabitants 4.800

density 240ab/ha

BUILDING OF HOUSING QUARTIERS AND GROWTH OF SPRAWL PARALLEL TO ROADS

SAN MARCO_50s LAGUNA_70s PERTINI_80s

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Cultivated field

Builted space

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Cultivated field

Builted space

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AbandonedfieldBuilted space

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The “empty space” scenario: a light and temporary occupation of the soil with episodes and alternative transportation ways

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Services

Parking

Distribution

Circulation

Tipology: TOWER Apartment “A”, 210 m2 Apartment “B”, 260 m2 Apartment “C”, 210 m2 Assembly and positioning

The “fast roads-high density” scenario: a housing solution that guarantee the same comfort of a existing quartiers without the invasion of fields

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