nationality: italiandate of birth :11/06/1985

contacts:a.saramontanari@gmail.com

www.saramontanari.commobile: +39 3407955293

skype: saarinen851address: via Sannazaro 57

42123 Reggio Emilia (IT)

My idea of sustainability is a kind of approach:

necessary, coMplex and integrated,

with which satisfy environMental,

social, functional and

aesthetic needs in one architecture.

S A R A M O N T A N A R Ia r c h i t e c t

P O R T F O L I O 2 0 1 3

I‘m a young architect graduated in Architecture for Sustainability at the IUAV of Venice in the 2010.I‘ve been mainly involved in urban planning for international projects and in integrated projects focusing on sustainability and ecoefficiency of buidings and detail plans.

In 2012 I‘m winner of the silver medal at: INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR

SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE FASSA BORTOLO with my Degree Thesis

Project: The Childhood Unit - Urban microdecentralisation and architecture

for childhood.Jury president : Thomas Herzog

WORK EXPERIENCES

9/2011-present

Architect at the atélier Iotti+Pavarani architects of Reggio Emilia.

•Collaboration to the architectural develo-pement of “Urban Living Rooms”,a sustai-nable district masterplan in Riga (Latvia), winner of Europan 9.•Working plan and assistance to the management of building site operations of a parish centre “Regina Pacis” (RE).•Final design of a waterfront at Marinella di Selinunte (Sicily Italy).•Design and renovations of residential buildings.•Partecipation to different competitions (see timeline)

4/2011-8/2011Professional internship at atélier aponto of Lisbon (Portugal) within the comunita-ry project “Leonardo Da Vinci”.

•Collaboration to the architectural devo-lepement of a masterplan to be applied in different cities in Mozambique; research, design of a housing unit and a commercial centre.•Restoration of a traditional alentejan house.

2/2009-4/2009Travel-internship in Mali with the part-nership of IUAV of Venice and the Arch. Fabrizio Carola with the ONG N:EA.

•Collaboration to designing and building a training centre in Sèvarè (Mali); I did activi-ties in the building site in synergy with the local workers experimenting traditional adobe and raw earth.

10/2006-12/2006Internship at the atélier of Arch. Maria Cristina Costa in Reggio Emilia focusing on architectural preservation.

Team-work-oriented in particular with people with different education from mine.

Aptitude to adaptibilty and flexibility.

Good communciation and oragnisation skills especially with complex contents.

Passion for design: from architecture to urbanism, from interior design to graphics.

During my work experience I’ve been mo-reover involved in building site direction, working plan and economic feasibility.

MY SKILLS

ABOUT ME EDUCATION

2011_ On the 13th of January 2011 I got the Professional Abilitation at IUAV of Venice.

2007-2010_ Master Degree in Architecture for Sustainability (104/110) at the Faculty of Architecture of IUAV of Venice where I studied integrated architectural design, construction technology, HVAC systems and graphics.

2004-2007_ Sciences of Architecture Degree (104/110) at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Parma.

1999-2004_ Scientific High School graduation qualification (96/100) at Scientific High School A. Moro of Reggio emilia.

SOFTWARE & LANGUAGES

AUTOCAD ADOBE CREATIVE SUITE (CS5)

RHINOCEROS3DSTUDIO MAX

SKETCHUPECOTECT, JVAP

ARCHICAD

ITALIAN

ENGLISH (C1)

PORTUGUESE (B1)

FRENCH (A2)

SPANISH (A2)

CINEMA 4D

DESIGN BUILDER

MANDARIN CHINESE (A1)

2004

Scientific High School graduation

2007

Science of Architecture Degree at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Parma

2010

Master Degree in Architecture for Sustainability at the Faculty of Architecture of IUAV of Venice.

2011

Professional Abilitation

2008 2009

IUAV of VENICE /// Architecture for Sustainability

Altobello Campus

Mondello

Park of parks

The Childhood Unit

Internship at atélier aponto in Lisbon (PT) with Leonardo communitary project.Mali travel-internship

Masterplan for Mozambique

LISBON /// Atélier aponto

UL008 RIGA URBAN LIVING ROOMS

URBAN LIVING ROOMS investigates the possibility of a territorial size scale project with the intention to enhance, at their most, the opportunities offered by a similar area, in creating a high-quality, aboundantly equipped settlement, available to a large range of potential users and beneficiaries.The area extension, its nearness to the city centre make this place an exceptional site, from where to start a recoil in planning the expansion of the

city. This way the city becomes enriched in new highly-standardized residential areas, together with spaces,facilities and resources headed in the cultural and recreational activities both of the whole urban community, and of a large amount of tourists and

users of Lettish sectors of excellence.

URBAN LIVING ROOMS is principally meant to point out a strategic approach to the indicated subject, able to read the specific environmental condi-tions and economic dynamics, but at the same time the project wishes to prime a wide range of cultural, social and economic processes.

A similar approach aims to retrace, with a wide spectrum, the whole area in question and the nearest zones (which stands for the required flexibility of a long-term project), by means of environmental sustainability criteria, architectural sensitivity and multi-functional uses of the site, able to favour

social exchanges and a tuneful relationship with nature.Such a strongly characterized intervention of town planning, together with sustainable architecture, will enable the involved operators (inhabitants, the public administration, property developers and architects) to cooperate in a wide-ranging operation of urban marketing, stimulating interest at

both a national and international level.

In URBAN LIVING ROOMS the relationship between architecture and landscape is placed at the very centre of the project.

As a matter of fact, we reckon that the problem to solve is not exclusively a problem of town planning over an extensive area, but of landscape designing of the territory where natural and artificial elements will merge together, as commensurable mat-

ters, to originate a recognizable sign.That new landscape generates a strong identity from the intervention and the place

in question, so as to become the very landmark of the territory.

1 floor | comercial 6000 mq public car parks_80 typA <

2 floor | public services 21000 mq public car parks_120 typ B <

4 floor | residential 106000 mq n of dwellings_400 typ C < typA | 70 mq _ 20% < typB | 115 mq _ 50% < typC | 130 mq _ 30% <

private car parkis_400

The polygonal irregular matrix allows the required flexibility of a long-term project. It identifies different zones, that can follows different stages of construction.

The various “urban living rooms” could be constructed chronologically (one after the other) or completed zone by zone either according to demand in the real estate market (residential mix, accommodation types, provision of services …) or according

to the requirements of the Riga Municipality as they unfold over time.

URBAN LIVING ROOMS investigates a urban frame which arranges empties and fillings as a unique matter and which proceeds by landscape

fragments, rather than by isolated pieces, handling the matter as a fragmented, complex organism, which however remains a unique whole.The separation between urban fabric and park is blurred in our project

into a continuity where different categories intersect with and penetrate into each other, but never lose their identity. More than that, the border

of contact between natural and artificial elements is exploited to the full, so as to reach the maximum of visual pleasure.

As if it would reproduce the uncertainty of its subject matter, the project-seeks to create spaces with a well-defined identity, but without any

description, preferring to trace a condition of expectation and suspen-sion for a town still evolving.

1 floor | comercial 6000 mq public car parks_80 typA <

2 floor | public services 21000 mq public car parks_120 typ B <

4 floor | residential 106000 mq n of dwellings_400 typ C < typA | 70 mq _ 20% < typB | 115 mq _ 50% < typC | 130 mq _ 30% <

private car parkis_400

The polygonal irregular matrix allows the required flexibility of a long-term project. It identifies different zones, that can follows different stages of construction.

The various “urban living rooms” could be constructed chronologically (one after the other) or completed zone by zone either according to demand in the real estate market (residential mix, accommodation types, provision of services …) or according

to the requirements of the Riga Municipality as they unfold over time.

URBAN LIVING ROOMS investigates a urban frame which arranges empties and fillings as a unique matter and which proceeds by landscape

fragments, rather than by isolated pieces, handling the matter as a fragmented, complex organism, which however remains a unique whole.The separation between urban fabric and park is blurred in our project

into a continuity where different categories intersect with and penetrate into each other, but never lose their identity. More than that, the border

of contact between natural and artificial elements is exploited to the full, so as to reach the maximum of visual pleasure.

As if it would reproduce the uncertainty of its subject matter, the project-seeks to create spaces with a well-defined identity, but without any

description, preferring to trace a condition of expectation and suspen-sion for a town still evolving.

URBAN LIVINGROOMSDETAIL PLAN FOR A SUSTAINABLE DISTRICT MASTERPLAN IN RIGA (LATVIA) - PROJECT WINNER OF EUROPAN 9

URBAN LIVING ROOMS is principally meant to point out a strategic approach to the indicated subject, able to read the specific environmental conditionsand economic dynamics, but at the same time the project wishes to prime a wide range of cultural, social and economic processes.The project was guided by environmental sustainability criteria, architectural sensitivity and multi-functional uses of the site, able to favour social exchanges and a tuneful relationship with nature.

Collaboration with iotti + pavarani atélier

GREEN NET 2012URBAN REGENERATION AND CULTURAL CENTRE IN LANGHIRANO (PR-IT) -I PRIZE

The new cultural centre is the starting point of the general restoring and reconnection of public spaces in the urban area.The complexity of the open spaces create an interesting net-system that involves also a new waterfront toward the small river of the city.The cultural centre is an aggregation pole for the citizens and the local entrepreneurs

Collaboration with iotti + pavarani atélier

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PIANTA PIANO TERRA SC:1.200

FRONTE SU VIA ROMA SC:1.200

vista da via marconi / via roma

RODANO CITY HALLRODANO CITY HALL (MI - IT) - II PRIZE

The new Rodano City Hall is a modern interpretation of a court-building: it is integrated in a urban cotext rich of paths, open spaces and particular sightseens.The building is trying to assimilate this kind of spacial complexity and to become the „junction point“ of these spaces. The typical brick arcade is inteded to evocate the idea of monumentality and the bond with the local materials.

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PIANTA PIANO TERRA SC:1.200

FRONTE SU VIA ROMA SC:1.200

vista da via marconi / via roma

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PIANTA PRIMO PIANO SC:1.200

FRONTE SU VIA MATTEOTTI SC:1.200

la corte interna

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vista da corte ferrario

1L’abitato di Rodano presenta nella frazione di Lucino un addensamento dei volumi costruiti tra via Marconi, via Cavour e via Roma, una serie di edifici bassi a corte, tipologia di origine rurale, la cui concatenazione assume tuttavia qui un carattere quasi urbano. Si tratta di edifici a corte aperta, con passaggi, attraversamenti, portici, in cui al senso di introversione si associa dunque un’apertura verso gli spazi contigui. La giustapposizione di tali edifici produce così, in un ambito relativamente ristretto, una grande varietà e ricchezza di percorsi, spazi a piazza, visuali, scorci prospettici.

Il progetto per il nuovo Municipio si colloca a margine di tale sistema e cerca di assorbirne e interpretarne il carattere. Proprio la natura di “punto di confluenza” di scorci prospettici e di suggestioni materiali e formali articolate costituisce il sostrato su cui si forma il progetto per il nuovo edificio del Comune.

Esso nasce dalla ricerca di un punto di equilibrio tra opposti (leggerezza/massività, apertura/chiusura, dina-mismo/staticità) capace di un sereno ed efficace inserimento nel contesto, in grado di coniugare la necessità di una continuità del tessuto edilizio con quella di creare un punto di gravità nel nuovo spazio pubblico.L’edifico vuole essere assorbito dal contesto, senza sottomettersi ad esso, ed anzi riscattandolo.Il progetto rifiuta dunque la stereometria del monumento a favore di una volumetria più articolata, che quasi accoglie in sé le tensioni di impianto del abitato storico attraverso scelte materiali contemporanee e un lin-guaggio asciutto e generoso insieme, che non vuole “parlare” ma farsi sfondo attivo di un luogo vitale.Non dunque monumento, ma ambito di vita cittadina; e tuttavia nemmeno troppo domestico, ad assicurarne una capacità di farsi punto di riferimento.

IL SISTEMA DELLE CORTI

LA COMPRESENZA IN FASE DI CANTIEREPLANIMETRIA GENERALE SC:1.500

GLI SPAZI PUBBLICI - LE PERMEABILITA’

VIA ROMA

PIAZZA DI CORTE FERRARIO

PIAZZA 4 NOVEMBRE

CORTE DI CASA GOLA

CORTE DEL MUNICIPIO

VIA MATTEOTTI

VIA MARCONI

Collaboration with iotti + pavarani atélier

SAPPADA TURISTIC MASTERPLANSAPPADA WINTER SPORT TURISTIC CENTRE (BL - IT) - II PRIZE

The Project develops the idea of a masterplan that links together the landscape masterplan and an architectural one.The redesign of a huge turistic area is inteded to create an unitary image to this unique place, with a strategic approach that involves environmental sustainability, architectonic sensivity and social-economic-turistic developement in the full respect of nature.

Collaboration with iotti + pavarani atélier

shape step 1“box-shaped structure”

solidity

flexibility

step 2“minimum structure”

structural cell

module

12 m2,5 m

3,7 m

transport

time

dimension

structurecross-laminated timber X-LAM panels 162 mm

punctual supports

stiffening timber frame 600 x 162 mm

solidity

flexibility

THE CHILDHOOD UNIT URBAN DECENTRALISATION AND ARCHITECTURE FOR CHILDHOOD

thechildhoodunit

The Project is winner of the silver medal at: INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE FASSA BORTOLO with my Degree Thesis Project: The Childhood Unit - Urban microdecentralisation and architecture for childhood.Jury president : Thomas Herzog

plug-in module A

plug-in module B

6 m

5 m

2,5

m

2 m

structural cell

roofed and closed outdoor spaces (verandas)

roofed outdoor spaces (canopy)

open outdoor spaces

pedagogical unit

didactic cellindoor space

plug-inplaygrounds

outdoor spaces

playgroundsoutdoor spacxes

indoordidactic spaces

50 %

50 %

modularity

dimensioning

pedagogical unit

plug-in playgroundplug-in module A

plug-in module B

6 m

5 m

2,5

m

2 m

structural cell

roofed and closed outdoor spaces (verandas)

roofed outdoor spaces (canopy)

open outdoor spaces

modularity plug-in playground

2,5 m

12 m

++

+

The structure is composed by cross-laminated timber X-LAM panels (162 mm) joined with a screw connector system in order to guarantee the solidity in the construction step and also in the utilization step.

structural cell

diffuse school system modelDecentralization of school system

Subdivision in micro school-centresSchool network system

The plug-in is the necessary element to adapt and complete the system: it completes the functions that the structural cell and the indoor devices itself cannot satisfy.It increases the possibilities of variation and integration of the system in different context.Thus, the plug-in is necessary and complementary to the contextualiza-tion od the system.

plug-in

Indoor devices are intended to satisfy the requirement of the didactic spaces: flexibility, convertibility and interactability.The aim of these devices is to optimize indoor spaces.These spaces are designed to support active learning.

indoor devices

PARK OF PARKSMASTERPLAN IN DOSSON (TV - IT) PARK OF SCHOOLS

The Park of parks is an academic project :it is a school centre diffused in a green area that wants to involve all the characteristics of the local landscape, from the urban gardens to the vegetable gardens, till the lacustrine gardens.Inside this gardens the schools are designed to create an „open air“ school system that is is tucked away among the nature and the local landscape.

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