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Michela Bonomo

14th October 1989

Italian

402 Hackeny Road, E27Ap

[email protected]

07776468685

Diploma student atArchitectural Association School ( London.UK)

RIBA PART 1( 2.1 Hons) atLondon metropolitan University - The Cass ( London, Uk)

First Year atPolitecnico di Milano Architecture School(Milan , IT)

High School Diploma in Humanities Studies atLiceo Classico Giovanni Berchet(Milan, It)

Italian ( mothertounge)

English

Spanish

French

Sept 2014-Current

2010-2013 :

2009-2010:

2004-2009:

Professional Experience

Workshop/Competitions

Exhibition and Publications

Current

Jun-Sept 2014

Feb-Jun 2014

Sept-Jan 2013

Winter 2015

Summer 2012

2014-2015

2013

Freelance Architecture research Assistant forLorenza Baroncellihttp://www.lorenzabaroncelli.com/

OYO- Open Y Officehttp://oyo.is/New Yorkstraat 2P, 9000Gent ( BE)

Label Architecture Officehttp://www.labelarchitecture.be/Rue D'Andenne 1, 1000Bruxelles (Be)

Scandurra Studio Architetturahttp://www.scandurrastudio.com/Via Legnano 28, 20121Milano ( IT)

120 HOURS Students Competitionwith Alexandra Butterworth and Kate Finning

Grimm City- An architectural Fairytalewith Pascal Bronner and Thomas Hiller

AA Diploma 14

Familiar HorrorTutors: Pier Vittorio Aureli and Maria Sheherazade Giudici

Grimm Ciity: An architectural Fairytalewith Fleafolly ArchitectsBook Launhc and Exhibition at The Design Museum TankLondon (Uk)

Fourth Year

Architectural Association School

Diploma 14

Pier Vittorio Aureli &Maria Sheherazade Giudici

Fourt Year : Diploma 14Students and Young Professionals HousingIn Belgrade.Tutor : Pier Vittorio AureliMaria Sherazhade Giudici

Trake is a social housing project for 4600 students and young professionals located in Belgrade. By looking at a precarious subject, the project responds to the present condition of an entire generation, the so-called "war babies". Mindful of the failure of the Yugoslavia Dream they find themselves stuck, today, in an economic and social condition of both proximity and isolation towards Europe. Trake is an attempt to formulate a new architectural language against the traditional housing typology of the family apartment. Located in the heart of the city of Belgrade, on the Sava riverbank , the project addresses the scale of room, block and street and has to be understood as both an urban strategy as well as an interior architecture experiment.

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The organisation of the blocks, at a larger scale, follows an apparent rigid structure deducted from the subdivision of the site in strips of equal width of 32m. By considering the urban project, as both constituted of built and un-built the urban strategy is the result of the interrelation of layers or layout of plantations, sport facilities, path and routes, trees and greenery. The coexistence of these different systems throughout the site and scans the activities taking place in the different strips. The construction of the built environment follows a logic of phases, where the completion generates a regular rhythm between landscape and architecture.

1. Siteplan of Intervention on Sava Riverbank2.Ladscape and Urban Strategy Layout

From left ot right: Strips Layout, Existing Building,Greenery,Sports,Routes,Trees

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The built strips are not continuous, but rather stop in proximity to the existing buildings.Therefore the blocks follow a modular logic, where the maximum length is related to the density : a maximum of 400 people per building, where the maximum module dimensions are 32 x 100m.The strips are not autonomous objects, but rather complementary realities broken by underground passageways and larger paths,allowing for a continuous procession. In the equal spacing of the soft and the rigid strips happens the dialogue between a moment of social engagement and another one of intellectual contemplation.

Different commercial activities take place at the edges of the strips facing the gardens, whereas public facilities (laundrette, bicycle storages) theatres gyms and auditorium occupy the central space of the ground floor. Trake is an urban strategy prototype , able to adapt to any type of sites along the river. No individual rooms face the quay but rather indoor shared areas and open landscapes. The street acquires a different connotation and it is replaced by the river: a contemporary urban connection between Belgrade and other urban conditions.

3.0 Degree Axonometry showing Ladscape and Architecture Strategy4.Different Ladscape Conditions

5. Groundfloor Plan with Shops and Shared Facilities ( lCafes, Bicicles Storage, Laundry)

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6.View of Facade and Soft Green Ladscape7.View of Facade and Sport Field

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This dualism perpetuates at the level of the block. The walls, resembling theatrical wings, gradually become thinner and thinner from the first to the last floors. The extension of a room experienced at the lower levels, is restricted at the upper floors, where only single’s cells dominate the environment.The upper floorscells could potentially be rented only as workspaces. In its entirety, the block embodies the contrast between formal and informal, by providing multiple spatial configuration in the inside, and a generic and severe façade to the outside. The procession of the interior, from a more public space to a private oneboth in plan and section, continues outside, where the boundaries between built and unbuilt are hard to trace.

8.Plan of the Block from first to Fifth Floor

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9.-10. Walls Procession ,Long Section trhough First and Second Floor

The design of the room is deducted from a new interpretation of the table. Liberated by its role as the multipurpose point for the traditional Serbian family, the table becomes the place for the emancipation and resistance of the "self".The room as the study of 1.8 m x 2.7 m becomes the central point from which the rest of the apartment is deducted and hierarchically organised. The architecture of the room follows a new logic, where series of thick walls equally distanced (2.6m) define the space , following a gradient from the private study to a the public shared space. The architecture eliminates the partition wall as the actor of social division, and rather allows furnitures and flexible panels to determine the size of a room. Other than the table, which is fixed and cast in situ as the rest of the load bearing walls, the furniture are modular pieces. They can serve different uses depending on their position in between the walls. The minimum dimension of a room for a single person is 24 meter square, but the high flexibility permits the expansion of the single cell into a larger room for 2 to 3 people (expanding up to 80 meter square).

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11.Perspective Plan Showing tipical Room

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12-13- Desk Views

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In doing so, Trakes challenges the traditional approach to architecture by promoting a space which asks for a continuous compromise between being alone and being together.

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15-16. Interior Section perspective / Outside Perspective View

120 HOURS Competition

with Kate Finning and Alex Butterworth

Band Aid

Sustainability is not synonymous with ecology. There are no virgin ecosystems, and there are no unoccupied territories. Sustainability is a question of socioeconomics, geopolitics and cultural practice – it is a struggle to reconcile capitalist expansion with environmental exploitation.

There is an urgency to imagine architecture can address, in pragmatic ways, the gross social inequality, spatial injustice and unbalanced power relations that now increasingly typify the new global order. We understood the brief as a question of social sustainability, and asked: what is really at stake?

Norway is marked by two problematic social conditions: an extremely high rate of homelessness per capita, and the worst hard drug addiction in the EU (primarily heroine). Our proposal is for a pavilion with a double life: medical tent during the festival, and health clinic (with a particular focus

on the homeless and addicts) during the rest of the year. In this case, the “iconic” nature of the structure concerns its socially sustainable dimension, not its form. Our proposal is an elegant but inexpensive building – steel frame, polycar-bonate facade and a fi ne grill cladding.

In Memory

The act of preservation promises to pass memories, values and morals

from one generation to the next (preservation: to keep). While this

once took the form of stories or legends, the contemporary practice of

preservation relies in the most part on objects to evoke a memory or

historic event. These objects are carefully selected, curated and

preserved by individuals or societies, presenting a subjective view of

the past. This project exists within this subjectivity but instead requires

history itself to be part of the act of preservation. Much like the process

of fossilisation and the formation of coal, the passing of time doesn’t

destruct, but can preserves. As a result we can challenge the

subjective nature of contemporary preservation by not dictating that

particular buildings or man-made structures be kept on Pyramiden.

Indeed the historical significance at Pyramiden seems not one of

primarily social, cultural, nor architectural significance, but rather one

of the site itself. The landscape has seen settlers come and go as

industries on the island rise and fall, but has itself remained largely

unchanged since the Ice Age. Climate change threatens the landscape

like never before. We propose that from the time the project begins it

acts to preserve an awareness of the landscape. Brass cylinders,

chosen for their robust and non-corrosive materiality are to be

installed in the sea near the settlement of Pyramiden. As the wind

passes over them, their hum will be heard from the shore. With

incisions made through the cylinders to allow for water ingress, as the

sea level rises due to climate change, the level of the water in the pipes

will be higher; therefore the pitch of the sound will rise too. An act of

preservation that does not attempt to freeze time, but instead uses the

passage of time as an integral part of its very creation.

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120 Hours Student Competition“ In Memory”with Kate Finning and Alexandra Butterworth

The act of preservation promises to pass memories, values and morals from one generation to the next (preservation: to keep). While this once took the form of stories or legends, the contemporary practice of preservation relies in the most part on objects to evoke a memory or historic event. These objects are carefully selected, curated and preserved by individuals or societies, presenting a subjective view of the past. This project exists within this subjectivity but instead requires history itself to be part of the act of preservation. Much like the process of fossilisation and the formation of coal, the passing of time doesn’t destruct, but can preserves.

Band Aid

Sustainability is not synonymous with ecology. There are no virgin ecosystems, and there are no unoccupied territories. Sustainability is a question of socioeconomics, geopolitics and cultural practice – it is a struggle to reconcile capitalist expansion with environmental exploitation.

There is an urgency to imagine architecture can address, in pragmatic ways, the gross social inequality, spatial injustice and unbalanced power relations that now increasingly typify the new global order. We understood the brief as a question of social sustainability, and asked: what is really at stake?

Norway is marked by two problematic social conditions: an extremely high rate of homelessness per capita, and the worst hard drug addiction in the EU (primarily heroine). Our proposal is for a pavilion with a double life: medical tent during the festival, and health clinic (with a particular focus

on the homeless and addicts) during the rest of the year. In this case, the “iconic” nature of the structure concerns its socially sustainable dimension, not its form. Our proposal is an elegant but inexpensive building – steel frame, polycar-bonate facade and a fi ne grill cladding.

In Memory

The act of preservation promises to pass memories, values and morals

from one generation to the next (preservation: to keep). While this

once took the form of stories or legends, the contemporary practice of

preservation relies in the most part on objects to evoke a memory or

historic event. These objects are carefully selected, curated and

preserved by individuals or societies, presenting a subjective view of

the past. This project exists within this subjectivity but instead requires

history itself to be part of the act of preservation. Much like the process

of fossilisation and the formation of coal, the passing of time doesn’t

destruct, but can preserves. As a result we can challenge the

subjective nature of contemporary preservation by not dictating that

particular buildings or man-made structures be kept on Pyramiden.

Indeed the historical significance at Pyramiden seems not one of

primarily social, cultural, nor architectural significance, but rather one

of the site itself. The landscape has seen settlers come and go as

industries on the island rise and fall, but has itself remained largely

unchanged since the Ice Age. Climate change threatens the landscape

like never before. We propose that from the time the project begins it

acts to preserve an awareness of the landscape. Brass cylinders,

chosen for their robust and non-corrosive materiality are to be

installed in the sea near the settlement of Pyramiden. As the wind

passes over them, their hum will be heard from the shore. With

incisions made through the cylinders to allow for water ingress, as the

sea level rises due to climate change, the level of the water in the pipes

will be higher; therefore the pitch of the sound will rise too. An act of

preservation that does not attempt to freeze time, but instead uses the

passage of time as an integral part of its very creation.

Team 1139

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As a result we can challenge the subjective nature of contemporary preservation by not dictating that particular buildings or man-made structures be kept on Pyramiden. Indeed the historical significance at Pyramiden seems not one of primarily social, cultural, nor architectural significance, but rather one of the site itself. The landscape has seen settlers come and go as industries on the island rise and fall, but has itself remained largely unchanged since the Ice Age. Climate change threatens the landscape like never before. We propose that from the time the project begins it acts to preserve an awareness of the landscape.

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Brass cylinders, chosen for their robust and non-corrosive materiality are to be installed in the sea near the settlement of Pyramiden. As the wind passes over them, their hum will be heard from the shore. With incisions made through the cylinders to allow for water ingress, as the sea level rises due to climate change, the level of the water in the pipes will be higher; therefore the pitch of the sound will rise too. An act of preservation that does not attempt to freeze time, but instead uses the passage of time as an integral part of its very creation.

1.In Memory Brass Flutes on Site2.Brass flutes Scheme

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Year Out

Scandurra Studio Architettura

Milan (IT)

Professional Experience: Scandurra StudioCascin Merlata School Competition.(Rho, Italy)

The site is located in the north-west area of the city of Milan of Rho-Pero and is connected to the new infrastructural system designed for the Expo of 2015.The site given for the competition counts 13.760 mq, a rectangular shape with the main axis of orientation north-west/south-east. The site is in proximity of the jewish cementery and therefore the 125 metres radius around the sacred area has to be preserve from any construction.Within the site is located an old water furnace which can be included within the intervention.The new school complex has to host a primary school with the capacity of 200 alumni distributed over 8 classrooms of 25children; an elementary school for 375 alumni distributed over 15 classsroom of 25 children each and a secondary school counting 225 alumni distributed over 9 classrooms of 25 children each.

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21. General Short section showing pizza, grocery, cafe and wine area22.Long Section showing all the area department bars

22.Technical file showing gondola case from 1:20 to 1:1scale23, technical file showing Pizza area desk from 1:20 oto 1:1 scale

The Structure of the school has been designed by the inpsoration of the main elements studied in primary and secondary school. The pitagoric table and the alpabeth characterized by the variation within a rigid structure helped creating the main scheme of the scholl which follow the courtyard structure of the typical italian Cascina , quite common in this rural environment.The development of the courses is refelcted also in the design of the landscape, which changes for each course of studies and is inprred by elementary and primitive shape. The result is a building enclosed within a fence-type of structure which present varirty in its inside distribution of the courts and classrooms.

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1. Siteplan of School in Cascina Merlata2-8 Diagrams Showing construction of the Plan

9-10 Ground Floor and First Floor plan of the school11-12 View of the School

The school count the elementary, the secondary and the high school departements, which are positioned in a hyerarhchical ordre wihich follow the theme of growth.Two gym are available for the high school department which face the old water funrace, now turned into a public square, when the scholl is closed.Toghether with the architectural design, the landscape design is thogutb with the same care.A variety of plants symbolize the different stages of life . from the childhood to the adult age.The primary school gardens are characterized by the presence of aromatic plants , labyrith, and interactive green structure to stimulate the kids imagination; in elementary school the curiosity of the scholars is stimulated by gardens populated of different plants, to identify species and origin.The garden space turns into sports sace and dynamic activity for the alumni of the high schol’s alumni.

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Year Out

Label Architecture Office

Bruxelles ( BE)

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Perspective cavalière du complexe sportif

Professional Experience: Label ArchitectureLoverval Sports Center Extension (Charleroi- Belgium)

The Extension of the Sport Center include the design of a new buidling, which is the project in which I have been involved to since I have started in Label. the aim is to create a landmark which can be seen accessing the hill by car , and an intervention on the existing within a resonable budget.The buidling is a monolitich element which is cut by different axis which are parallel to the diposition of the tennis courts.The gentle slope of the hill is used to create the underground level with the main entrance from the parking area, with the idea of partially hiding the buidling with the vegetation and discovering it slowly by getting to the higher levels.

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Vue de la façade principale du complexe sportif


During the time at Label architecture I have also produced a model in 1:200 sclae togheter tih the other assisant.Due to the delay in signing the final contract , the project is still underging the final design phase, therefore the physical model is essential in helping finding the best design solution.

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8. First Floor plan9. Ground floor plan

9. Atmospheric view of the outside10.11. Pictures of model 1:200

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Vue de la façade principale du complexe sportif


During the time at Label architecture I have also produced a model in 1:200 sclae togheter tih the other assisant.Due to the delay in signing the final contract , the project is still underging the final design phase, therefore the physical model is essential in helping finding the best design solution.

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8. First Floor plan9. Ground floor plan

9. Atmospheric view of the outside10.11. Pictures of model 1:200

1. general Axonometric2. Diagrams showing construction of the Plan

3. Main view Front

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Centre Culturel D’Anderlecht25 AxonométrieCentre Culturel D’Anderlecht26 Axonométrie

Centre Culturel D’Anderlecht27 Axonométrie

Centre Culturel D’Anderlecht28 Plans

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Professional Experience: Label ArchitectureCompetition for Anderlecht Cultural Center(Bruxelles- Belgium)

The project is a good exercise for understanding the ration between the design project and the available budget .For the low budget offered by the coucil the interventions can be of two types: rebuildng a new smaller center in fron of it or renovating the exhisting.Considering it a symbol for the communy Label decides to intervene on the exhisting increasing the space of the perfomance rooms, spaces for artistic workshops and rethinking the whole circulation. A terrace and an exterior garden is designd at the entrance facing the sqare in fron of the building.

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3.Ground Floor, First Floor and Second floor plan4.Axonometric of the three floors

5.Front Facade atmospheric view6.Back entrance atmospheric view

7.Front Elevation8.Long Section9.Short Section

10. interior View of the Performance Room12. Interior view of the Entrance and Cafeteria

13. Interior view of the Main entrance

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Centre Culturel D’Anderlecht34 Vue sur la salle de spectacle

Centre Culturel D’Anderlecht33 Vue sur le foyer

Centre Culturel D’Anderlecht32 Vue sur l’espace d’accueil

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Centre Culturel D’Anderlecht34 Vue sur la salle de spectacle

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1.Plan of Ground to Second Floor of existing Cultural centre with 2. Axonometric Showing extension on the original structure

3. Images showing extension to the original Structure

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Third Year

London Metropolitan University

Studio 9

Fran Balaam & Micheal Corr

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QUESTIONNAIRE CANNING TOWNBUSINESS 1 QUESTIONNAIRE CANNING TOWN

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Some interviews has been made in the industrial site facing Silverton way site in order to get an idea of the type of people and businesses in the area as well as to help developing a strategy for the housing proposal.

INTERVIEWS

Year Three.Newham New Homes

The main project of the last year of the Bachelor deals with the theme of social Housing in the Area of Canning Town-South east area of London.Silverton way site, a long and narrow strip of land in between of the railway and the juction to the A4 highway, has been assigned for a new masterplan.The area of Canning Twon, in the borough of Newham is currently undergoing signifi cant regeneration.‘The Programme includes the building of up to 10,000 new homes, creation of thousands of new jobs and two improved town centres. This £3.7 billion project aims to transform the area physically, socially and economically.Within the framework of this gentrifi cation, my project aims to create a pleasant place to live for families and young couples by creating a hub of housing, new commercial facilities and green space.Being at the junction of a vital infrastructural system the intervention also provides a new cycling route which crosses the site and link it to the Southern Ecological Reservoir of the River Lee.

1.SitePlan showing site and Bow Creek 2. Long Section3. Short Section of site opposite SilvertonWay/ interviews of local businesses.

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BUILDING SITESITE 18.000SQMELECTRIC POWER STATION OVER THE RAILWAY

SIGNS TEMPORARY BOARD RETAINING THE SITE BUILDING SITE

POWER STATION : ONLY BUILDING SURVIVED FROM THE DEMOLITION

1. Car Wash, 1 Caxton Street E161jl2. Moss Electrical 4 Caxton Street E161jl3.Ltd Autos 6 Caxton Street E161jl4. Peacock Gym 9 Caxton Street E161jl


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ELEVATION WAREHOUSE SITE 1:500

Matteo BlandfordLondon MetropolitanUniversity

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SITEPLAN OF NEWHAM-CANNING TOWN

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Some interviews has been made in the industrial site facing Silverton way site in order to get an idea of the type of people and businesses in the area as well as to help developing a strategy for the housing proposal.

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The main project of the last year of the Bachelor deals with the theme of social Housing in the Area of Canning Town-South east area of London.Silverton way site, a long and narrow strip of land in between of the railway and the juction to the A4 highway, has been assigned for a new masterplan.The area of Canning Twon, in the borough of Newham is currently undergoing signifi cant regeneration.‘The Programme includes the building of up to 10,000 new homes, creation of thousands of new jobs and two improved town centres. This £3.7 billion project aims to transform the area physically, socially and economically.Within the framework of this gentrifi cation, my project aims to create a pleasant place to live for families and young couples by creating a hub of housing, new commercial facilities and green space.Being at the junction of a vital infrastructural system the intervention also provides a new cycling route which crosses the site and link it to the Southern Ecological Reservoir of the River Lee.


ELECTRIC POWER

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TEMPORARY BOARD

RETAINING SITE

BUILDING SITESITE 18.000SQMELECTRIC POWER STATION OVER THE RAILWAY

SIGNS TEMPORARY BOARD RETAINING THE SITE BUILDING SITE

POWER STATION : ONLY BUILDING SURVIVED FROM THE DEMOLITION

1. Car Wash, 1 Caxton Street E161jl2. Moss Electrical 4 Caxton Street E161jl3.Ltd Autos 6 Caxton Street E161jl4. Peacock Gym 9 Caxton Street E161jl


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ELEVATION WAREHOUSE SITE 1:500

Matteo BlandfordLondon MetropolitanUniversity

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SITEPLAN OF NEWHAM-CANNING TOWN

THE RIVER

THE CREEK-ECOLOGICAL PARK

GREEN AREAS AND PARKS

RAILWAY AND STAION OF CANNING TOWN

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Third Year : Studio 9Newham New Home- Social HousingTutor :Micheal CorrFran Balaam

The main project of the last year of the Bachelor deals with the theme of social Housing in the Area of Canning Town-South east area of London.Silverton way site, a long and narrow strip of land in between of the railway and the juction to the A4 highway, has been assigned for a new masterplan.The area of Canning Twon, in the borough of Newham is currently undergoing significant regeneration.‘The Programme includes the building of up to 10,000 new homes, creation of thousands of new jobs and two improved town centres. This £3.7 billion project aims to transform the area physically, socially and economically.Within the framework of this gentrification, my project aims to create a pleasant place to live for families and young couples by creating a hub of housing, new commercial facilities and green space.Being at the junction of a vital infrastructural system the intervention also provides a new cycling route which crosses the site and link it to the Southern Ecological Reservoir of the River Lee.


THE RIVER LEA ECOLOGICAL RESERVE

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ANIMALS PLANTS TREES

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1. River Lea Ecological Park indicating the three different areas:- northen zone : It extends from the southern edge of Ware, in Hertfordshire, southwards as

valley, and on the eastern side of the valley as far south as the edge of Chingford.- central zone: This zone is dominated by the large and medium sized elevated reservoirs

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-southern zone: The southern zone stretches for approximately 4.5km south-eastwards

and Walthamstow, to Hackney Wick and the more isolated areas of the Regional Park at Stratford and Three Mills. This southern tip of the Regional Park is linked to the River Thames via the linear extension of Limehouse Cut.

2. Southern area: bow creek ecological park3. Flora and Fauna of the park.



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Gravel from the railway creating pedestrian pavement

Saxifrage plant from the creek

Landscape extending on site creating a public park


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NORTHEN AREA :

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1. River Lea Ecological Park indicating the three different areas:- northen zone : It extends from the southern edge of Ware, in Hertfordshire, southwards as

valley, and on the eastern side of the valley as far south as the edge of Chingford.- central zone: This zone is dominated by the large and medium sized elevated reservoirs

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-southern zone: The southern zone stretches for approximately 4.5km south-eastwards

and Walthamstow, to Hackney Wick and the more isolated areas of the Regional Park at Stratford and Three Mills. This southern tip of the Regional Park is linked to the River Thames via the linear extension of Limehouse Cut.

2. Southern area: bow creek ecological park3. Flora and Fauna of the park.



KEY STRATEGYC MAP

Gravel from the railway creating pedestrian pavement

Saxifrage plant from the creek

Landscape extending on site creating a public park


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The proximity of the site to the Ecological Reservoir represents a signifi cant potential to inform the new settlement. The Hosuing project is connected both visually and phisically with the Bow creek.Bridges crossing over the Overground railway are the beginning of a initial zooning of the general masterplan, highlighting the main access and routes.The identifi cation of different fl ora and fauna from the bow creek is an important step to start thinking of a new green area which will provide free public space for the neighbourhood, lacking of trees and parks.

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4. Sketch of landscape Strategy;5. Main Fauna and Flora of Reservoir.6. Southern Part of Bow Creek Reservoir7. Strategic Landscape Plan8. Collage


The proximity of the site to the Ecological Reservoir represents a signifi cant potential to inform the new settlement. The Hosuing project is connected both visually and phisically with the Bow creek.Bridges crossing over the Overground railway are the beginning of a initial zooning of the general masterplan, highlighting the main access and routes.The identifi cation of different fl ora and fauna from the bow creek is an important step to start thinking of a new green area which will provide free public space for the neighbourhood, lacking of trees and parks.

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The proximity of the site to the Ecological Reservoir represents a significant potential to inform the new settlement. The Hosuing project is connected both visually and phisically with the Bow creek.Bridges crossing over the Overground railway are the beginning of a initial zooning of the general masterplan, highlighting the main access and routes.The identification of different flora and fauna from the bow creek is an important step to start thinking of a new green area which will provide free public space for the neighbourhood, lacking of trees and parks.



BUILDING STRATEGY

1. Diagram showing the different way to treat the infrastructural barriers.2. Building layout respecting the original street layout.3. Retaining wall concept following the example of Byker Wall.4.Byker Wall , Newcastle upon Tyne, England, Uk.

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The defi niton of the masterplan is determined by different factors: the original routes structure crossing the site before the construction of Seilverton Way, the proximity to the Bow creek and the need of a signifi cant green space, but most of all the relation with the two infrastructural system sandwiching the site. A consideration on the sound trasmission is vital to understand how to treat the two different boudaries.The four carriage lane has got a tremendous sound impact on the site, compared to the almost- silent Overground railway.The need of protecting visually and acousticaly the site helps designing a wall linear and only interrupted to let the original routes continuing over the Highway.The conformation of the masterplan is therefore characterized by two tipologies, one within the highest wall- building and the other, lower, within the depth of the site.A hortus conclusus rises behind the wall, and shows itself to the street in glimpes , everytime an access cuts the linearity of the building.This green space hosts the fl ora of the Bow Creek and invite people to discover what’ s ove the River.

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9. Scheme of Acoustic Boundaries10. Sketch of Interior Niches11.Final Masterplan12. Wall Niches 13. Perspective Short Section Tipology 214. Perspective Long Section T. 1-215. Perspective Short Section Tipology 116. SIte Model + intervention 1:250


BUILDING STRATEGY

1. Diagram showing the different way to treat the infrastructural barriers.2. Building layout respecting the original street layout.3. Retaining wall concept following the example of Byker Wall.4.Byker Wall , Newcastle upon Tyne, England, Uk.

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The definiton of the masterplan is determined by different factors: the original routes structure crossing the site before the construction of Seilverton Way, the proximity to the Bow creek and the need of a significant green space, but most of all the relation with the two infrastructural system sandwiching the site. A consideration on the sound trasmission is vital to understand how to treat the two different boudaries.The four carriage lane has got a tremendous sound impact on the site, compared to the almost- silent Overground railway.The need of protecting visually and acousticaly the site helps designing a wall linear and only interrupted to let the original routes continuing over the Highway.The conformation of the masterplan is therefore characterized by two tipologies, one within the highest wall- building and the other, lower, within the depth of the site.A hortus conclusus rises behind the wall, and shows itself to the street in glimpes , everytime an access cuts the linearity of the building.This green space hosts the flora of the Bow Creek and invite people to discover what’ s ove the River.


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The thickness of the outside wall is carved to create unique interior spaces in a form of niches.Due to acoustic issues the thicknesses of the walls of the apartments of the highiest building decrese the more they get closer to the garden space.Details and materials help defining the inteririors and the layout of rooms and living spaces.At the ground level of the first typology open spaces are offered for commercial use, transforming the highway into an High Street.A new hub from which will benefit the entire area allowing people to work close to their homes.The second tipology of housing follows the Victorian house tipology with double access, providing a good place for living.

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The siedlungen tipology finds here a coherent position even if represents a controversial way of making contemporary architecture.Nowadays the theme of density expresses itself in the form of the skyscraper to accomodate thousands of people.This intervention aims to be more sensibile of the existing site by accepting the isolation of Silverton Way, highlithing it but carving within the wall spaces for commercial exchange. Like a castle my “ homes between a highway and a railway” offers a hidden garden and a safe place to live within the complex city of London.



The siedlungen tipology finds here a coherent position even if represents a controversial way of making contemporary architecture.Nowadays the theme of density expresses itself in the form of the skyscraper to accomodate thousands of people.This intervention aims to be more sensibile of the existing site by accepting the isolation of Silverton Way, highlithing it but carving within the wall spaces for commercial exchange. Like a castle my “ homes between a highway and a railway” offers a hidden garden and a safe place to live within the complex city of London.

Workshop

London Metropolitan University

Grimm City - an architectural fairytalePascal Bronner &

Thomas Hiller

Workshop :Grimm City- an architectural fairytale with Fleafolly Architects(Durbheim- Germany)

2012 marked the 200th anniversary of the first publication of the Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales.To celebrate this occasion FleaFollyArchitects( tutors Pascal Bronner and thomas Hillier) over the space of 5 weeks, ran a small summer atelier on the outskirts of the Black Forest in Germany. Six students from the London Metropolitan University and I have been choosen to plan and built the ‘Grimm City’ a miniature Cityscape based on the imaginations of the Brothers Grimm.The city has to reflect the world in 200 years time, if human won’t follow the moral of the brother’s Grimm tales: a world of anger and greed.

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1.Grimm City-from Below2.Grimm City from above3.The Ink Factory from The Twelve Factory4.The market Stalls from The Little Peasant5.The Pub from Brothers and Sisters6.Michela working

7. The Timber Factory from Frau Trude

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The design process is definitely the most interesting side of the whole workshop. Each student was asked to comb through 10 classic stories, seeking out major characters and overarching themes that could somehow be turned into characters in Grimm City.In this way each students designes ten characters which will trnslate into major institutions of the Grimm City.The intricately detailed wooden model (which measures 10 feet long and 3 feet wide), is an architectural interpretation of more than 50 Brothers Grimm fairy tales.Each character has been sketched and modelled in paper first, and crafted by hand with the finest wood of the black forest.The resulting city is set in a dystopian environment where greed and megalomania are rampant. But book-to-building translations aren’t literal In fact, the characters and story lines are abstracted to the point that they’re barely recognizable.

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The Twelve Brothers

Frau Trude

Brothers and Sisters

Clever Hans

The Godfather

The Loose and the Flea

Rumpelstiltskin

The Singing Bones

The Frog King

Our Lady’s Child

The Six swans

The Seven Ravens

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The Six swans

The Seven Ravens

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The little PeasantThe thief and His Master

Cat and Mouse in Partnership

The Two Brothers

Hans and Luck

The Golden Goose

The Old man and his Grandson

The good Bargain

Faithful Jhon

The Girl without Hands

The Golden Bird

Sleeping Beauty


The resultan city, represents the interaction between each buildings/characters and a capillar infrastructural system. The manifesto of the city reflects this connection and sounds as a prediction on human near future. Grimm city workshop is an essential exercise to experiment different approach to design but most of all to realise the complex structure of a cityscape entirely artificial and thought with the top down principle, which, I imagine, in its consequences it is not far from any other predesigned city.

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The Twelve Brothers

Frau Trude

Brothers and Sisters

Clever Hans

The Godfather

The Loose and the Flea

Rumpelstiltskin

The Singing Bones

The Frog King

Our Lady’s Child

The Six swans

The Seven Ravens

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The Six swans

The Seven Ravens

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The little PeasantThe thief and His Master

Cat and Mouse in Partnership

The Two Brothers

Hans and Luck

The Golden Goose

The Old man and his Grandson

The good Bargain

Faithful Jhon

The Girl without Hands

The Golden Bird

Sleeping Beauty




8.What’s left of the world- Memory of Grimm City9. Plan of Grimm City and Tales selected.10.Top View of Grimm City11.Grimm city in the Tank of the Design Museum12.Grimm City on a German Newspaper13.Designers of Grimm City14.Grimm City Book

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Grimm City - WorkshopAn architectural Fairytale

Grimm City Book has been sold in the AA bookshop, London Metropolitan University and Greenwich University; it has been also the subject of many publications of famous website:

-www.britishcouncil.co.uk-www.wired-design.com-www.thecass.com-www.itsnicethat.com-www.thedesignmuseum.com

Grimm City has been exhibited at the Design Museum Tank 8/11/2013-09/12/2013

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