PORTFOLIO

University IUAV of Venice Faculty of Architecture

BSc Architecture

Session of September 2013

Tanja Balasso

CONTENT

18 “Porto Marghera 3 x 6”: new scenario for Venice’s docklands2013, University IUAV of Venice + University Diego Portales (Chile) Lecture: Mathias Klotz (Chile)

14 Bortolin Sparkling Winery2012, EXiT Architetti Associati

32 Resew the medieval village: a project of ninteen housing units in Lucignano2012, University IUAV of VeniceLecture: Benno Albrecht

28 IUAV Club House2012, University IUAV of VeniceLecture: Francesco Venezia

24 Green Urban Market2013, University IUAV of VeniceLecture: Angelo Villa

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“The Renaissance of Civita”2011, University IUAV of VeniceLectures: Giancarlo Carnevale / Esther Giani / Marina Montuori / Eugenio Vassallo

“Unexpected Parma: the space of shame”2011, University IUAV of VeniceLecture: Renato Rizzi

6 Urban research project “Un paese di primule e caserme” 2013, Corde Architetti

- International competition for the redesign of the riverside of Bressanone (South Tirol)2014, MAARCH architecture.landscape.urban design.

Work Projects

University Projects

“UN PAESE DI PRIMULE E CASERME”urban research project

This multidisciplinary research has been focused on mili-tarized dismission phenomenon in eastern italian region Friuli Venezia Giulia. The first phase of this research expected to map, classify and analize the dismissed military site. On the left it is possible to see how the military site have increased from the 1866 (Treaty of Vienna) to the Cold War throught the First and the Second World War. The Friuli is today one of the most militarized massive area in Europe.In the second phase we designed a potential scenarios of reconversion.The research has defined three scenarios of reconver-sion closely connected between them:The touristic scenario is try to reactivete each sites in order to stimulate also the ambient and the landscape aspects of this region.The energetic scenario try to considered each site as a renewable source, a sort of energetic and sustanaible platform for the near cities.The housing scenario is focused to the reconversion of each sites could be provide more solutions to the cur-rent problem of houses.

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TOURISTIC SCENARIO

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ENERGETIC SCENARIO

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HOUSING SCENARIO

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BORTOLIN SPARKLING WINERY / VALDOBBIADENEdesign contest of expansion and renovation

The main focus of the contest provided an expansion and renovation project of the current historical winery, inserting a new spaces for the welcome customers, a tasting room and a wine shop, offices and finished pro-ducts warehouses.

The EXiT’s projectThe new building has been thought in four main bodies that hosting different functions. The intent was to frag-menting a volume that potentially would take conside-rable dimensions and not suitable for an environment dens but jagged.The west facade is the less permeable than others be-cause it overlooks on productive and logistic zone while the east facade, completely glassed, overlooks on a bir-ches garden. The volumes defines two spatial conditions of Valdob-biadene territory’s peculiarity: the horizontality needed to level out a significant condition of hilly orography.The larch wood panels and the scanning slats are derived from a fundamental design choice: to guarantee a volu-me changeability of colors that no other material has. In this way every facade will assume different colors with the passing of the years, from red to grey, warm colors in the sunny facade and cold colors in the shadow sides.

Woodpaper final model. Instead the models’s stu-dio have been realized in polystyrene contoured with Styrocut model machine.

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PORTO MARGHERA - 4 x 3new scenarios for Venice’s docklands

This workshop proposed the new vision construction for Porto Marghera. This vision can be understood like a hybrid landscape, in which coexist the heritage of the old industry, the landscape and the new city with houses, offices, public spaces and parks. Territories of boundari-es and borders that combine themself drastically in the possibilities of contemporary architecture and urban planning.The workshop was divided in three part: analysis, ma-sterplan and detonating projects and it was represented by a short movie shown on the exhibition.After the first phase of analysis, each group worked about one of four masterplan: financial city, city of en-tertainment, sustainable city, and city of made in Italy. The financial proposals of our city is to be understood, therefore, as a kind of audio-visual manifesto that can inspire and expand the disciplinary boundaries with as many utopian proposals instead of possible answers.The heart of this utopic city is a large park like Central Park in NY in which are placed the most representative buildings of the architecture star system; surrounding the park there are thirteen towers connected to each other by three level of mobility: water ferry, skytrain and pedestrian promenade.

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GREEN URBAN MARKET hypothesis for the reconversion

of an abandoned warehouse

Green Urban Market is the experimental and detailed pursuance for a possible reconversion of the industrial warehouse of the high-intencity of Camposampiero.The project set to 100% recycling, expected to regain possession of the whole existing structure maintaining intact the structural conformation (roof, slab, beams and columns) and to insert 60 used shipping containers insi-de, stacked on three levels, arranged in order to create four courtyards.Each container is repainted according to a range of fluo-rescent colors while one of the two laterals sides were removed to allow the incorporation with a other contai-ner and in the end they are equipped with a stained glass window towards the outside and a frame with inside sli-ding walls windows with the aim of facilitate access.The container forms a double modular composition which measures 4.8 x 12 m.Each module can accommodate inside one of the six peculiar functions of the project: fresh shop, fresh take away, lunch room, fresh bar, bio bistrot, School of tradi-tional cuisine and recipes and seed germs & shop.The existing structure, therefore, is complemented by the same containers witch give rise to the facades of the project while the coverage is freed from the coverage so that it is able to illuminate the four courtyards and the central corridor.The market backside has been re-used to hold the hall, wc services, two elevators and the stairs for the 1st floor which there is the logistics office.

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ex cotton mill “Olcese”now faculty IUAV of Architecture

romanic bell tower of the church “San Nicolò dei Mendicoli”

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IUAV CLUB HOUSE

The area is the same of the several extension project of Faculty of Architecture “Santa Marta” (EMBT, 1998). The project, result of international design competition, unfortunately has not been realized yet.Is therefore an area which wait for a recompense.

The project ideaOur design choice has been influenced by the amazing light emitted by the Giudecca Canal in which this area is located.The strongly edge condition has been the motive of the whole project of IUAV Club House. Designed volume floats on the ground thank to seven bafes. The building result introvert to the courtyard while it open and seems to gain momentum to “San Giorgio Maggiore” church from its stained glass in which there is a living/library room.

ex warehouses “Ligabue”now Faculty IUAV of Design

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ex refrigerated warehousesdemolished on 2005

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ground floor

from the entry: - guidance office and coor-dination of activities with deposit; - living room with small li-brary and reading area;- restaurant cafè;- student guesthouse: four bedroom with relatives ser-vices and small spaces for study and living;

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RESEW THE MEDIEVAL VILLAGE OF LUCIGNANOproject of ninteen housing units

Lucignano is an Etruscan settlement village and later has become one of the first roman castrum settlement re-mained intact over the centuries. It arise in the heart of Valdichiana, between Arezzo and Siena, in Tuscany.The peculiarity of Lucignano is its elliptical plant because the route that every alley form seems a kind of helical. The village is an outdoor example of late medieval urba-nism which makes a kind of open-space museum visited every year by tourists.The laboratory consisted to analyze the principle settle-ment, to study the placement strategy of our project and in the end design from one to forty maximum housing units subdivided in 45/80/95 sqm.I chose to insert my project in an urban void due a Se-cond World War landslide, which unfortunately had caused the destruction of one urban ring. For “ring” I intend the habitats conformation due to the hilly oro-graphy: Lucignano is made by three urban rings located in three different levels; the first sketch that I had made (left-high)showed the two lowest houses rings while in the highest ring, that I called “religious ring”, a group of churches are concentrated with also the Municipally. So the project is located between the 3rd and the 2nd ring with a level jump of 3,5 m. The nineteen houses. Every house is narrow and deep and occupy both rings thus having a dual facing both west and east, while the side elevations are closed from other units.A different wall texture and a color graduation of the brick of my new building has tried to create an harmony with the ancient brick of the village.Gothic and medieval units but reinterpreted in a modern view in their interiors in which we have tried to give a generous space with double-high permeated by a warm and plentiful light thanks to the window which screen the entire west elevation.

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The reconstruction of the 2nd urban ring by a photomontage.As you can see, the project is coherent at the elliptic settlement.On the left: the project’s plan which is possible note the 19 hou-sing units.Below: a picture of Lucignano that highlights by a dotted line the landslide part of urban ring.

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At the top: constraction section with the over-turning facade and a portion of the plant with all functional layers and relative thicknesses.On the left: west and east facade, model pic and transverse section.

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Civita rise up in so-called “Gulliets Valley”: the cause of its isolament is the progressive and unrestrainable valley erosion, which has given rise at the typical gulliets form. The valley is principally formed by tuff and lava material, both erosion predisposed.

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“THE RENAISSANCE OF CIVITA”Clues and materials for a project

Civita is an unusual, isolated place, almost out of time and out of common spaces. A small village recumbent on a rocky outcrop, where it is possible to arrive only across a long and run-down reinforced bridge. This iso-lated condition has preserved the the settlement from any contamination; at the moment it is populated by se-ven person but it has also become an artists and intellec-tual “buen retiro” (place of inspiration). The University IUAV of Venice, together with the local administration, started a research project on September 2011 about this valuable urban structure, so the Muni-cipality proposed a cycle of workshop for analyze and describe its urban and architectural features.The workshop, which I took part ,was experimental and it has laid the foundation for some conservation thesis.We worked through the re-write of observed events with a lot of sketch, drawings, reliefs and photographs in order to formulate, at the end of experience, a kind of architectural atlas of this place.

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1st step identification of urban filled (dark) and void (light)

2nd step identificationof five urban cluster

Civita’s Atlas: urban clusters, square, brick-textures As a pioneer group like us, our mansion was to disclose photographically the five urban clusters, the squares and the textures of the brick-facade; a sequences of interventions where Civita has been analyzed, redesigned and rethought with a precise method, almost clinic, so that its story was clear as possible for the people that will come there hereafter.The most spontaneous consideration were made during a walk through the alleys, seated on the church, steps or sipping a good glass of wine, where have emerged the first differences in appro-ach to the same questions by the various parties involved. After finishing our workshop we retur-ned to Venice with a lot of pics and materials but materially speaking in drawings term, we could have been produced more even if probably it would have failed the human side like the outdoor lessons on stone processing, the reliefs and the directly observations on the artefacts.At the moment, two mates of our team are doing our MA-thesis about the conservation of Civita and they are using our materials as a start point for the research...so I am happy to have done my small part even for them!

Our work team it has been busy on five urban clusters. The goal was to phographer in a sequential way to get at the end a global view of them, a kind of radiographs of all manufacted and them we have assigned for each photo-rilief one cone of visions on the main keymap.

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Duomo Vecchio square: angular views, sky attacks, ground attacks and panoramic.Below: sketch and travel notes.

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Sketch and travel no-tes of textures.

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Points clouds: digital restitution of some Civita’s buildings

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The iconografic landscape:cities, castles and fortifications in the Parma’s territory of XIV sec.

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UNEXPECTED PARMATHE SPACE OF SHAMEproject of Renato Rizzi

The project borned of the Festival of Architecture for the city of Parma, was focused on the urban regeneration that begins right by look redesign, one of the most big urgencies of our time.In this sense the project lead on all of the images, iconic and geography-historic figures of Parma and its territory; from the corrugated emilian Appenin to the idrographic signatures from roman centuriation grid to the walled city to the exceptional monuments like the Baptistery or the Pilotta Palace, through narrative of great aesthetic appeal.The laboratory consisted to build gypsum models throu-gh the study of images which we collected during our laboratory.

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The Emilia Via between Appennin and Plain of the

Territorial model surroundings of the city of Parma

The urban landscape of historical density

The underground architecture

The development of Parma since the longobard period to the present day.(sources: Palatina Library of Parma, State Archive of Par-ma)

The exhibition entitled “Parma Inattesa” and inaugurated at the Pilotta Palace, Parma.For the realization of models, were used about 20 tons of gypsum!

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