architecture portfolio - margherita davoli

CURRICULUM VITAE

PERSONAL INFORMATIONName Davoli Margherita

Address 3, Via F.lli Cervi, 42021, Bibbiano, RE, Italia

Phone Number 3332864155E-mail [email protected]

Nationality ItalianaDate of Birth 13-05-1989

PERSONAL EXPERIENCE

From January 2015 until nowAssistant Working as an assistant to Professor Elisa C. Cattaneo in her work

as thesis supervisor, actively helping and mentoring the students

From 16/3/2015 to 22/3/2015Assistant Assistant and lecturer in the “Athens” workshop by Professor Elisa

C. Cattaneo, assessing the Srinking Cities in Europe at Politecnico di Milano, as part of the international Athens program

May 2014Publication Written and published article on the subject of my bachelor thesis,

"Il Tempio Maggiore Israelitico di Reggio Emilia" on the scientific journal "Hevelius' webzine"

From April 2014 until nowCollaborator Active member of the cultural organization "Idee di Gomma" in

the town of Correggio, aimed at creating cultural moments in the community and hosting art exhibitions

From March 2013 until nowManager and Manager of the guests and logistic's sector at the annual charity

event called "25 Ore per la Pace", a sport event aimed at raising money and awareness for multiple causes.

From 1/11/2011 to 17/11/2011Designer and developer Design of the exhibition "Colora il tuo riccio" with professor D.

Crippa inside the Festival Segni d'infanzia, Mantova

From May 2011 to June 2011Collaborator Design and constructuction of "Mausoleo della Famiglia Sacchetti",

Ameno (NO) with Professor D. Crippa inside the Interior Design course at Politicnico di Milano, published on Domus

From November 2006 to June 2007Employee Worked as a babysitter

EDUCATION AND TRAINING2012-2014

Master degree Graduated in Architecture, faculty of Architettura e Società, Master degree in Architecture (course in English) at Politecnico di Milano, Milano Leonardo. Graduated with 105/110 points with a thesis in Landscape Architecture on the case of the Petite Ceinture in Paris

2008-2012Bachelor Degree Graduated in Science of Architecture, Faculty of Architettura e

Società, bachelor degree in Scienze dell'Architettura at Politecnico di Milano, polo territoriale di Mantova. Graduated with 102/110 points with a thesis in History of Architecture on Tempio Maggiore Israelitico di Reggio Emilia

2006-2007High School (junior year) Attended the junior year of high school at the Rober E. Lee High

School in Springfield, VA, as part of an international exchange program

Date 2002-2008High School Diploma from Liceo Classico at Liceo Statale Classico-Scientifico

Ariosto-Spallanzani of Reggio Emilia, graduated 90/100 points

PERSONAL SKILLMothertounge Italian

Other language English, awarded a B2 certificate.I partecipated in the 1 year long AFS- Intercultura exchange program in the United States

Computer skills Softwares:Autocad PhotoshopInDesignIllustratorBESTenergySketch-upV-ray for Sketch-upDialuxRhino 5 (basic skills)Pacchetto Office

Other skills In the school year of 2006/07 I partecipated in the AFS-Intercultura exchange program in Springfield, Virginia in the United States, where I lived for a year while attending Robert E. Lee High School.

I also volunteer for many years as an educator in the summer camps organized by the San Polo D'Enza municipality (RE), I volunteer for a year at a center for disabled people in Montecchio (RE), and I donate blood at the AVIS association.

Driving License Patente B

The mobility system inside the cities has always played an important role. Yet many of these infrastructures now lay abandoned inside their metropolis, where space cannot be wasted. Yet the citizens of the cities fully understand the value of land in a crowded environment, and their spontaneous uses reflects the needs that the city is not able to fulfill. Among all the infrastructures, one was chose for its physical and historical features: the Petite Ceinture in Paris. The thesis was develop in Paris with the opportunity to experience the Petite Ceinture first hand. The work was implemented by a series of meetings with Professor

Philippe Pumain and Professor Sebastien Marot, extremely important to understand the difficult time-space realtionship on the site. Following Landscape Urbanism as a model for contemporary urbanism, it became clear that the strategy for the Petite Ceinture must focus on the process rather than on the form, emphasizing not what is it, but what it could be. The space calls for an ever-changing asset, able to host spontaneous uses and to leave room to develop new functions. The relationships between elements and space are not fixed; on the contrary, they are left free, in a constant becoming process.

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PETITE CEINTUREMASTER THESIS

Master ThesisParis, FranceProfessors: Elisa C. Cattaneo2014

ABSTRACT

The mobility system inside the cities has always played an important role. Yet many of these infrastructures now lay abandoned inside their metropolis, where space cannot be wasted. Mapping all these cases around the world is possible to recognize a pattern: the citizens of the cities fully understand the value of land in a crowded environment and their spontaneous uses reflects the needs that the city is not able to fulfill.

Among all the infrastructures, one was chose for its physical and historical features: the Petite Ceinture in Paris. The thesis was develop in Paris with the opportunity to experience the Petite Ceinture first hand. The work was implemented by a series of meetings with Professor Philippe Pumain and Professor Sebastien Marot, extremely important to understand the difficult time-space situation inside the Petite Ceinture.The case of the Petite Ceinture presents many similar aspects to the ones found in landscape urbanism’s projects. Among all the possible answers to the architecture’s crisis of the last decades, landscape urbanism have emerged as a model for contemporary urbanism. The strategy for the Petite Ceinture then must focus on the process rather than on the form, emphasizing not what is it, but what it could be. On the physical level, this abandoned railroad is a unitary system, with specific borders that crosses the entire city of Paris, yet it is not easily recognizable due to its heterogeneity and the variety of its sections. In the many years of abandonment, the spontaneous uses, which are the unsatisfied citizens’ desires and needs, highlight this very particular situation, ruled by two different entities (Ville de Paris and S.N.C.F., the owner of the land) which are either in conflict or undecided. Through the history of this place, it is possible to see clearly how this evolving and complex nature, changing again and again, is embedded in the Petite Ceinture. Thus the Petite Ceinture becomes a space inside the city that represents the link between its past and its undefined future for the long-term desires of its citizens, which cannot be defined .Only the current desires can be defined and satisfy in this place now, yet it is necessary, due to nature of the Petite Ceinture, leave room for changes in the future. From this point of view, the abandoned tracks become an evolving workshop for the city to discover itself.The space calls for an ever-changing asset, able to host spontaneous uses and to leave room to develop new functions. The relationships between elements and space are not fixed; on the contrary, they are left free, in a constant becoming process. The layering of the space allows the city and its people to shape the Petite Ceinture while being able to satisfy their immediate needs. At the same time, the Petite Ceinture affects the city and its people: it provides a space to connect the past and the future of the city, a workshop in which develop and understand what the future needs of the population are. The layering system works in a way similar to the Petite Ceinture: a system at the same time unique and heterogeneous. The Petite Ceinture is a distinctive system inside Paris, yet it is not an imposed monument to mobility nor a limit to the city.

The projects consists of a new park, in which the relationship between people and space is regulated by time. The park is made by 4 different layer of light infrastructure characterized by punctual elements, designed to be reversible and possibly temporary, able to change along with the city and its desires. Through a series of accesses, pedestrians and bike users are able to reclaimed the space of the Petite Ceinture, where wild nature kept growing in the last 60 years. The focus is not on the material aspect of the elements, but on their potential.

The design studio II focused on the Afsluitdijk, the biggest dam in Europe. We were asked to act on the dam doing something that would create a new point of attraction and at the same time would not comprise the identity of the dam itself, considered now a monument. Our project started with the study of the landscape pattern, the discovery of a common rule on the soil and of a new rule on the water, of which the physical representation are floating platforms, able to host any kinds of events. The first step was to deeply analyze the dutch territory, understand why and how it was created and recognized a single rule

applied to the landscape: a grid made of an overlapping of layers. The starting point for our strategy was to recognize a different scheme on the sea from the one on the land. The new scheme is based on technology rather than on agriculture. We then design a series of moveable platform, able to move on the lake, the physical representation of this new scheme. The strategy is based on time and not on space. Based on the event happening the project will be change as well as their position.

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AFSLUITDIJK DIKEDESIGN STUDIO

Group ProjectFriesland, NetherlandsProfessors: E. Cattaneo, M. Vischioni, M. Visser2013-14

The last part of the studio was focused on the link between the platforms and the dam, which created an artificial island. The building below the existing dam was designed thinking more to a path, a link between the Jisselmeer and the Wadden see. The volumes are embedded inside the artificial hill that levels up the highway, this scheme creates a tunnel between two different areas. The building resembles a cave, the light comes from a skylight above and the sloping slabs widens toward the two exits.

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AFSLUITDIJK DIKEDESIGN STUDIO

Individual ProjectFriesland, NetherlandsProfessors: E. Cattaneo, M. Vischioni, M. Visser2013-14

The studio focused on Brindisi, a city in the South of Italy in which the rapid growth of the industrial sector came to a stop in the 90’, leaving huge industrial plants unused. The site chosed was the industrial sector of the city, in which also a national natural park is placed. We worked as a whole studio, each group of students with a piece of the project. My group and I took care of the research on SIN (siti di interesse nazionale) and organized the different phases of the project. One of the goal of the studio was to try to understand the possibilities of the industrial landscape in Italy, its characteristics and its possible future.

We deeply studied the history of the land, the causes of industrial crisis in the south of Italy, the possible reuses of the area, how to remediate the land and other example of SINs. The project was made by a series of intervention on the different elements in the ares, in which the industrial processes were integrated with the natural remediation. The strategy was based on time, the natural remediation of the soil could permit the population to see the area slowly change and still access the area. Grat emphasis was put on the industrial activities and landscape, transforming the remediation outcomes in something profiteable.

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BRIDISI INDUSTRIAL AREATOWN PLANNING STUDIO

Group Project, Brindisi, Puglia, ItalyProfessors: I. Inti, V. Pizzigoni, P. Tamburelli2012-13

Actions start on the boundaries of the area: the public soil is analysed and partially remediated by planting special types of trees and plants. Along the rivers new vegetation is planted. The green park is then set up and services like bikeways and pedestrian paths are provided inside, where educational courses can now be held. Above the Federico II's plant plastic balloons are set on the fields, creating events and producing energy at the same time. Also the first corn fields are planted, in order to grow raw material for the new bioplastic plant. Trees are planted along the conveyor belt creating a natural wall. After every result is achieved a special event is organized, made both to advertise the outcome and to attract people inside the area.

More soil is remediated inside the green park system, including also private territory. More trees are planted along the rivers, increasing their density. New paths, tree houses and bird-watching cabins help to shape and improve the green park, while new events are held there. New pedestrian path are built on the coastline with a series of events such as marathon or rowing races. The open air museum begins to offer workshops, classes and learning activities. Along the conveyor belt more trees help to create the natural wall. Corn fields keep supplying the bioplastic plant.

The park is completed with bioremediation and phytoremediation, at the end of the process a fish farming site is opened and a local products festival is organized. The last trees are planted for the natural wall, which is now completed, along with the lights set to emphasize its position. New fields of corn and sunflowers are created to generate even more material for the bioplastic production. The area is almost completely remediated, and the processes to completely reclaim the ground are set in action. The park is fully accessible and equipped and a new type of production is settled in the industrial area. People can now benefit from a series of services, from the park to the educational activities in the open air museum.

THIRD PHASE2023-2027

SECOND PHASE2018-2022

FIRST PHASE2013-2017

PHASES

4900TREES

INPUT OUTCOME

4150TREES

1800TREES

15 kmPEDESTRIAN PATHS



41BALLOONS

41BALLOONS

6BIRD WATCHING CABINS

50 haCORN

7ANIMAL SPECIES

170 haCORN

7000 kWENERGY

7000 kWENERGY

7000 kWENERGY

6400 tonsBIO-PLASTIC PRODUCED

4500 tonsBIO-PLASTIC PRODUCED

380 haREMEDIATED LAND

650 haREMEDIATED LAND

The design studio I focused on the Stadera neighbourhood in the south west part of Milano. We were asked to design a public market in an abondoded area, where an existing building was present. The market was supposed to house both the food market, a small restaurant, a multi-purpose space for the community. The project started from the decision of keeping the existing building, The market was placed in it, while the other function are housed by new constructions, linked together by the puncture flat roof.

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STADERA MARKET, MILANODESIGN STUDIO

Individual ProjectMilano, Lombardia, ItalyProfessors: B. Borasi, P. Citterio, M. Vischioni2013

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