giulia celentano architectural portfolio 2007-2013

Giulia Celentanoarchitect/researcher

collection of architectural projects 2007-2013

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giulia celentano21/09/1988 milan

Formation:sep2006-sep2009 Politecnico di MilanoBachelor in Civil Architecture: Construction Architecture. score: 110/110

sep2009-jul2010 Universidade Lusiada do Lisboa (PT) Erasmus exchange program

sep2009-dec2011 Politecnico di Milano Master degree in Civil Architecture, Science of Architecture thesis project: a sustainable living proposal for the former industrial area “Atena”, Vercelli supervisor: Arch. Emilia Costa (sustainable technologies exp score 110/110

march2011 EcoWeek Thessaloniki (GR) partecipating in sustainable architecture workshop held in Thessaloniki (GR) March2011 collaborating with the design studio 157+173 designers.

march2012 Natural Building Construction Workshop,

Granara Ecovillage (Parma) attending a natural building practical workshop involving straw bales + timeber frame construction and clay construction, including natural plasters

may2012 Rammed Earth Workshop, Aljezur (PT)

Varzea Viva Ecovillage, arq. Henrqiue Schreck attending a rammed earth building theorical and practical w.orkshop on rammed earth + natural plaster construction

nov2012 AK0 Earth Construction Workshop, Rome attending an earth building theorical and practical workshop concerning different construction techniques

mar2013 adobe (clay bricks) technique workshop Adobe for Women ngo San Juan Mixtepec (Mexico) with BeRoots architects

(Oaxaca, MEXico)

jan 2014-ongoing Designing Resilient Schools course Open Online Academy, New York

languages knowledge:mother tongue: Italianothers: English (excellent: toefl test score 106/120) Portuguese (good: settled in Lisbon for one year) Spanish (good: Enforex language school, Barcelona) French (fair)

works and architectural office collaborations

Jul2013-on going ETH Zurich - Chair of Architecture of A. Brillembourg and H. Klumpner , Zurich, CH Researcher and designer for informal settlements and slum upgrade. Main focus: shack prototype research+project for the South African slum of Khayelitsha, in collaboration with Ikhalayami ngo, Shacks/Dwellings International NGO phase 1: research (urban scale --> technology)phase 2: prototype construction in Glarus, CH during ETH Summerschoolphase 3: research + project upgrade + on field construction in Cape Town, South Africaphase 4 (february 2014): SLUM lab Publication (ETH Zurich + Columbia university) + exhibition in Zurich

Mar2012 - now Liveinslums ngo (Italy+Kenya+Egypt) (Liveinslums is an ngo settled in Milan, operating with research and projects on informal settlements and critical areas in the Third and Fourth World.) Development and project of the new Why Not Academy Junior School in Mathare slum - Nairobi (Kenya) based on sustainabilty principles and natural materials (clay) Vegetable garden exposition for EXPO2015 net @ Palazzo delle Stelline, Milan Research on six favelas in San Paolo city for the international exposition San Paolo Calling.

- Apr-Jun2013 Liveinslums ngo - EGYpt Microjardin horticultural project in the informal area of the necropolis The City Of The Dead, El Cairo.

- Sep-Oct2012 Liveinslums ngo - KEnya Nairobi (Mathare slum, Kenya) slum street school construction (clay and wood) Project previusly developed in Italy. Construction lead in collaboration with a local team and involving the local community.

Jan-Mar2013 C.A.S.A. GUAtemala Central America Sustainable Architecture - Cerro la Granadilla Ruaral area construction of a training practical school (wood, rammed earth, bambù) Project previusly developed by AK0 + Mezzosangue Lab Architectural Office, Italy.

2011-2012 Politecnico di Milano – Architectural Department assistent professor at Master course of Urban Planning and Contemporary Project

2011 Laboratorio Permanente Urban scale project for a sustainable development of Dublin west side., in collaboration with the Royal Instituteif Architects of Ireland. In print publication on Irish national scale.

2011 BEMaa architetti associati Europan 11 in Clermont Ferrand: proposal of the developement of Clermont into a “Ecoville”. Particular assignment on the project for developing the sustainable aspects on different scales.

2011 EcoWeek Milan member of the organizing team of the sustainable architecture workshop EcoWeek held in Milan in Sept2011. Tutor of one of the groups (as Laboratorio Permanente architectural office collaborator)

2011 Politecnico di Milano organizer of photography course in Politecnico di Milano Univeristy, promoted by StudentiBovisa 2008

2010 studio Macchi Cassia urban scale project for a regional istitution (Infrastrutture Lombarde) Privileggio-Secchi architettura

2009 BEMaa architetti associati photographer for Salone del Mobile presentation of the design series WoodyWoody

2008 Privileggio-Secchi architetti urban scale competition for a new settlement on the artificial island of Koivusaarii (Finland)

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SOUTH AFRICA CHAPTEREmpower Shack Prototype

LOCATION: khayelitscha Slum, Cape Town

CONTEXT: Urban informal settlement -slum-

N° INHABITANTANTS: 410.000

PROJECT BY: ETH University, ZurichChair of Arch and Urban Design Brillembourg and KlumpnerProject manager: Scott LloydResearch coordinator: Giulia CelentanoResearch /design team: Daniel Hudson, Mirko Gatti, Nicole Reamey, Ilaria Riscassi

PROJECT SCHEDULE: July 2013-on going

The Empowershack Prototype is meant to support the urban relocation process taking place in the informal settlement of Khayelitsha.In partnership with the local ngo Ikhalayami, the re-search team is working on a double storey solution suit-able for a low cost, low tech , fireproof, dry construction for an enlarged family (6-8 dwellers).The unit is meant to be modular so to be expanded in time over an incremental process.The units should rearrange the urban layout according to a clustering setting, increasing safety and communal social life.

Prototype#1 sep2013 _ Glarus (CH)Prototype#2 dec2013 _ Khayelitscha , Cape Town (South Africa)

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water tankcustomized recycled cladding

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prefab and disassemblableSIP modular panels

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WOODEN POLESdim: 50x245weight: 2kgsuse: foundationsn° of pieces:140cost per piece: /recycled/recyclable: Y

TIMBER BEAMSdim:14x8x220weight: 2kgsuse: floor supportn° of pieces:140cost per piece: 6540recycled/recyclable: Y

PALLET BOARDSdim: 50x245weight: 2kgsuse: floor supportn° of pieces:140cost per piece: /recycled: Y

OSB BOARDSdim: weight: use: floor finishingn° of pieces: 8cost per piece: /recycled: Y

**** STEELdim: weight: use: steel framing systemn° of pieces: cost per piece: /recycled: N




ASSEMBLABLE STEEL STAIRdim: weight per piece:use: shared infrastructuren° of pieces:cost per piece: /recycled: N (prefabricated)


WATER TANKdim:14x8x220weight: 2kgsrainwater collected from the roofcost per piece: infratructure shared by2 shacks



SANITATION UNITwet system/dry system?(community tank recollection 1/week)2 toilets/core (1/shack)

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SELF DETERMINED SHACK#1

SELF DETERMINED SHACK#2

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MAGBOARDSdim:14x8x220weight: 2kgsuse: floor supportn° of pieces:140cost per piece: 6540recycled/recyclable: N

SANITATION UNITjacuzzi/massage shower/thermal bath/pediluvium/

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WATER TANKdim:14x8x220weight: 2kgsuse: floor supportn° of pieces:140cost per piece: 6540recycled/recyclable: Y

CORRUGATED SHEETdim:14x8x220weight: pretty heavyuse: floor supportn° of pieces:140cost per piece: 6540recycled/recyclable: Y

COLD ROLLED STEELdim:14x8x220weight: pretty heavyuse: floor supportn° of pieces:140cost per piece: 6540recycled/recyclable: Y

OSB BOARDSdim:14x8x220weight: 2kgsuse: floor supportn° of pieces:140cost per piece: 6540recycled/recyclable: Y

SHACK 1 CORE SHACK 2

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MAGBOARDSdim:14x8x220weight: 2kgsuse: floor supportn° of pieces:140cost per piece: 6540recycled/recyclable: N

SANITATION UNITjacuzzi/massage shower/thermal bath/pediluvium/

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WATER TANKdim:14x8x220weight: 2kgsuse: floor supportn° of pieces:140cost per piece: 6540recycled/recyclable: Y

CORRUGATED SHEETdim:14x8x220weight: pretty heavyuse: floor supportn° of pieces:140cost per piece: 6540recycled/recyclable: Y

COLD ROLLED STEELdim:14x8x220weight: pretty heavyuse: floor supportn° of pieces:140cost per piece: 6540recycled/recyclable: Y

OSB BOARDSdim:14x8x220weight: 2kgsuse: floor supportn° of pieces:140cost per piece: 6540recycled/recyclable: Y

SHACK 1 CORE SHACK 2

STEP BY STEP 12H CONSTRUCTION SEQUENCEThe prototype is meant to be-self build-low tech-flood safe-insulated-fire resistant-low cost-fast buildable (1day max)-dismantable-remountable-low-tech

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celflex

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timber frame

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precast concrete deck

polycarbonate sheet

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tecbeam acaffolding pallet acaffolding

steel scaffolding deck

steel spike

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rhinoboards rockwool

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to be continued!follow our researchhttp://u-tt.arch.ethz.ch/http://www.u-tt.com/ www.empowershack.com

publication: SLUM lab (ETH zurich+ Columbia university NY)http://slumlab.org/

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KENYA CHAPTERWhy Not Academy Street School

LOCATION: Mathare Slum, Nairobi

CONTEXT: Urban informal settlement -slum-


PROJECT BY: Liveinslums NGO(Gaetano Berni, Luca Astorri, Francesco Segre, Marialuisa Daglia. Collaborator: Giulia Celentano)www.liveinslums.org

PROJECT SCHEDULE: July - October 2012

architecture + design + agricolture + social studies

ARCH+DESIGN -timber frame structure -clay+bambu wall -wood + recycled ironsheet roof -low cost / no waste school forniture -sustainable approachAGR -requalification of Mathare River riverbank facing the school -developement of an above-land in bags vegetable garden (feeding students+creating microcredit activity)SOC -open building site: involving kids + -use of low-tech + poor material for long lasting building families -involvement - knowledge - sense of belonging

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previous conditions:old school + 2011project (vegetable garden + kitchen)

July-Aug:veg garden improvement+ new school basement/vertical structure

Aug-Sept:veg garden improvement+ new school structure + walls

sept-octnew school plastering + design forniture production

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GUATEMALA CHAPTER Escola das Obras (practical training school)

LOCATION: Cerro la Granadilla, San Raymundo

CONTEXT: Rural village

N° INHABITANTANTS: 600

PROJECT BY: AK0 +Mezzosangue Lab Architecture office (Italy)(Stefan Pollak, Sandro Sarcineto, Laura Di Virgilio, Sara Parlato, Federico Fillo, Cristiana Graziani. Technical assistance: Giulia Celentano)

PROJECT SCHEDULE: Dec - March 2013 (+ dec - march 2014 yet to come)

ARCHITECTURAL PROJECT: -single span timber structure -quincha wall (bambù+clay) -bambù window shelters -rammed earth load bearing kitchen -natural plaster -wood + recycled ironsheet roof -0km materials: bambù grown on field, rammed earth” from foundations digging

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EGYPT CHAPTER Microjardin Project

LOCATION: Al Qarafa-The City of the Dead, El Cairo

CONTEXT: Urban necropolis


Development of an horticultural project in the informal settlement of the necropolis of The CIty of The Dead, aiming to improve horticultural knowledge of the inhabitants, feeding conditions and knowledge and involve young generation in communitary works.2 main paths:-formation center (for growing + teaching thoughout workshops)-family-operator close contact work

PROJECT BY: Liveinslums NGO in partnership with Municipality of Milan, Agronomy University of El Cairo(on field team: Andrea Giro, Veronica Vecchi, Giulia Celentano, Amanda Marquez, Tommaso Sacconi, Carmen Manocchia)

PROJECT SCHEDULE: sep 2012 - dec 2013horticulture + design + social project

HORT -developing self constructed box horts -improving feeding conditions -creating microcredit acitivity -overcoming the bad sandy soil problem -avoiding water waste

DESIGN -low cost hort boxes design solution -Do It Yourself solution -construction of a wooden birdhouse prototipe for familiar feeding useSOCIAL -creating knowledge -developing communication between families -gives chances for microeconomy activity -actively involves a ghost community

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PILOTSUSTAINABLE LIVING: REQUALIFICATION OF AN INDUSTRIAL AREA_ VERCELLI

THESIS PROJECTin teamwork with: Mariapia Bettiol, Giorgia Cilli, Margherita Locatelli, Emanu-

ele Romani

Settled in a strategic point, at the intersection between artificial and natural infrastructures and crossed by the Cervetto creek, the project area contains great potentials.The aim is to settle a complex of sustainable living.The localization becomes a great chance for declining the pas-sage from the city to the countryside. At first the intervention as-sumes value for the whole city, becoming central knot of a urban and environmental wide riqualification system. A slow mobility urban project has been developed, with a public space and river riqualification, enriched by botanic studies (self-mantaining and local lawn varieties) and able to structure a new net for the city.In the area we create a compact settlement with commercial ground on the main axe, structuring the corner facing the intersec-tion with the beltway. On the contrary, inside we can find a lower and natural architecture, linked to the agricoltural environment and strongly characterized by the presence of the creek and of its riverbanks (a linear park and urban vegetable gardens). An existing farmhouse is included in the project. In order to character-ize the area in all the sustainable aspects, functional and social mixité become necessary. The housing settlement (traditional, temporary and collective) is acompanied by commercial, a mul-tifunctional space (a 0km green market linked to the vegetable riverbank gardens), a co-work building, an eco-swimming pool, a kindergarden and a vegetable glasshouse. Each of the buildings has been developed within a specific technological choice: a dry wood system for the market, clay for kindergarden and eco-swimmingpool, prefabricated wood panels and rice hunk added concrete for the traditional housing, up to the timber frame wood structure and straw bale walls system for the co-housing.. The proj-ect earns high energetic efficiency and the decrese of coasts of builiding, maintenance and use, thanks to natural, local and waste materials.Private spaces for bike parking and recycled trash are provided to the buildings. Therefore, co-housing promotes common living partecipation, offering a reuse craft laboratory, a bike fixing ga-rage, a loundry, a wide common space, a small gymnasium and a glasshouse, managed by the inhabitants.The majority of the building are aligned on the heliocentric axe and most of them are provided with photovotaic and termic solar panels. In this way the environmental impact of the project is de-creased as well as the economic investment.

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wildflower meadow:

promote a self-regulated environment native species of plants and animals.throughout the seasons and the yearsself-regulated processesincrease the diversity and natural balance provides a shelterno need for mantainance and for energy to be wasted high dynamics throughout the seasons

parks and public gardens

mitigate the ranges of the weather conditionsdecrease the level of air pollutiondecrease the noisemprovement and purification of soil conditionsshelter for a wide range of bio-diversityincrease the urban landscape involve sensibility to the seasons featuresperma-culture principles for reducing the waste of energy due for the mantainance of the parks

riverside and flood plain areas:

promotion of a set regulated habitathot spot of biological diversityconnecting corridor for migrant species. shelter in case of events. restocking of species. protection from the human settlementsopportunity to observe

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urban scale project

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housing 0km green market kindergarden coworking - temporary housing eco swimmingpool and wellness laboratories vegetables glasshouse vegetables gardens park

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housing 1:50 section (prefab. wood system)

RESIDENTIAL BUILDING X LAM WALL COMPOSITION

eco plasterrice hulk insultarion boardx lam wood paneleco plaster

Thermal transmittance: 0,22 K un Wh °C mq

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KINDERGARDEN CLAY WALL COMPOSITION

clay plasternatural cane hanging layerwood support curbclay wall (pisé technique)natural clay layer to increase energetic performance

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kindergarden 1:50 section (clay technology)

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COHOUSING STRAW - STEKO WALL COMPOSITION

STEKO MODULAR WOOD BRICKS WALLwooden vertical boardsupporting wooden structureventilated cavityrice hulk insulation boardsteko blockearth plaster

Thermal transmittance: 0,18 K in Wh °C mq

STRAW BALES WALLeco plasterhanging gridwind stop paper layerstraw balehanging grideco plaster

Thermal transmittance: 0,13 K in Wh °C mq

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30 mm10 mm10 mm450 mm10 mm20 mm

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cohousing 1:50 section (wood timber frame + straw bales technology)

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MULTIFUNCTIONAL BUILDING DRY WOOD WALL COMPOSITION

wood lath external layerhanging lining wood structureclay plasterhanging netcork fiber natural insulating layerhardwood panelwood fiber insulationglulam timber

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polifunctional building 1:50 section (dry wood

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local materials supplies:

CLAY

earth supplied on the building site, enriched with clay and aggregates to well performe for an efficient earth build-ing technology (adobe, clay plaster, bricks)highly ecological tehnologieseasily recyclable and dismiss-able after building use

RICE HARVESTING

involve economical and ecologi-cal systemsrice husk for insultating board and for bricks building processrice straw as a building materialrice pelletrs to produce energy and heating the building

AGGREGATES AND GRAVELSobtained demolishing exist-ing buildings, not valuable of requalificationaggregate base gravel laid sown as the lowest layer for the paved areas

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wooden frameworks and boards supplied obtained in local woodinvolves local economydifferent declinations:prefab panels, frameworks structuresit allows dry construiction

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MULTIPLIED CENTRALITIESEUROPAN 10: GRAZ

in teamwork with: Alessandro Benetti, Mirko Gatti, Simone Zanni

Puntigam is a suburban area, located just a few minutes outside Graz still strongly exploited for both industrial and farming production. Due to the natural expansion of the city, the area is currently emerging as one of the most interesting areas of development. The current per-ception that one gets of Puntigam is of a chaotic mix of farming landscape, factories and small suburban prop-erties. Although, proximity to the river side, the presence of a dismissed rail track (heritage of an industrial past) hs been considered as a backbone-facility for a possi-ble new urban design, we can imagine a dense amount of residential and commercial clusters to be spread across the area in order to challenge the role of Graz itself as an attractive pole. The land is strongly signed from the ancient water draining system, whose traces determine a subcession of voids. The major ones are agricultural fields, the minors are antropized leftovers.Our goal is to estabilish a new set of centralities (radial and orthogonal) able to challenge a development and users flux. The small voids perfectly fits to this aim, work-ing as plugs for the whole web.The green surface that has been preserved by this cap-illary re-urbanization can now be reorganized on the base of its ecological potential, with the aim of exploit-ing its enormous environmental value. The main goal of this second phase is to reduce the ecological footprint of the future inhabitants by the dispose of most of the emissions produced by the new settlements develop-ment.

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Structuring element: stationOverlayering radial flux + station center New high level pathsFunctions: public space, commercial

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WEST SIDE STRATEGYSynecdoche in Dublin: a part for the whole

developed with: LaboratorioPermanente Architectural Office (Arch. Nicola Russi,

Arch. Angelica Sylos Labini), Alessandro Benetti, SImone Zanni

The European Forum for architectural policies in as-sociation with the Royal Institute of Architects in Ire-land selected LaboratorioPermanente for Converging Territories, a pilot project promoting cultural exchange ithrough the European Community nations. The study concerns a urbanistic strategy for Dublin city development, dramatically affected by economic crysis.The city council requires densification, reuse of the big amount of abandoned buildings and lots and an activa-tion of the general economy.The proposal moves from the idea of mantaing the typi-cal Dubliner cityscape and taste, interveening with a process of filling the voids when needed and projecting them when necessary.The strategy is applied on a specific case (Cork Street) located in West Dublin, area where more the potentials of the city are underrated. The final outcome of the process is appliable to all the main streets of the city.The aim is not just working with architectural volums to gain the required density, but to always project the buildings in relationship with the free space of the lot. That’s why the research offers different typologies and proposals, always satisfying the imrpovement both of build volume and of empty ground space. These ones are studied in the way to work in continuity with the street surface, so able to gain characteristics of quality able to support public life.The improvement of the medium height of the new build-ings is located in the backyard of the lot, so not to close the streetscape but mantaining a free sky sight and a traditional street front.

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LOT 1: urban void

LOT 2: small housing fabric

LOT 3: big industrial fabric

LOT 4: mixed fabric

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TOPOTYPOEUROPAN 11:CLERMONT FERRAND

developed with: BEMaa architectural office

The aim of the Europan 11 in the site is the urban re-definition of a strategical area that will work as a core point for the city, involved in different transformation processes. The TGV line will connect it fastly to Paris and Lion and it will become one of the knots of the national net of ecoville.The request is about social housing settlement, a park and a urban structure able to absorb the railway pres-ence. The choice is to consider Clermont in its whole po-tentials, from the local ones up to the national ones. Enriched by amazing landscapes (considering volcanoes and natural parks) and wide natural variety, the area perfectly fits to a sustainable approach, extendable to all the project scales. Working on different subjects and scales of research, the project is developed not simply according to its architectonical subjects, but carries on a sustanable role of ecological corridor and spot of a natural pedestrian system. The park, developed by folowing principles of permaculture, is the linking subjects to the different architecture involved in the process.Sustainability is approached not only concerning an environmental and energetic aspect, but also as a possible keypoint for introducing a sustainable sociality, involving common places, coworking, shared structures and promoting relationships able to infrastructure space and give strenght to the proposed mixité..

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leftover spacesnew life given from wind seed transportationappearence of wild natural elementssingolar special episodes in the cityscapebotanic plan for protecting species

playground y0-99city as an experimental fieldarchitectural ideas meet people relationshipsexchange placeimmagination

evolving spacesopen air marketsconnection places

different housing proposalstraditional (tower, side S)free plan (tower, side N)communitarian lifestyle (longitudinal fabrics)

working place as a sharing occasionaccorded to crative usersworking cells + shared facilities

facilities in accordance with the needsjoining fragility creating strenght

goal: 100% own energyeco materials 0km collectablesrainy water use natural ventilationrecyclingnatural light

WILDERNESS

LEISURE

PUBLIC SPACE

HOUSING

CO-WORKING

OLDER PEOPLE

SCHOOLS

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extinguishing botanic species

biofilters (phytoremediation) trees wildflower meadow

biological fight

shockproofrubber

wood basalt

lavic stone gravel limestone

WILDERNESS

LEISURE

PUBLIC SPACE

HOUSING

CO-WORKING

OLDER PEOPLE

SCHOOLS

allium

zantedeschia

leygousia

cotonaster pinus s.

turgenia l.

quercus

medicago o.

biscutella

cantaurea

leucanthemum silaene v.

adalia b.convolvus

heliantuus fraxinus

glaucium c.

miscanthus

viola b. opuntia h.

onobrychis

anacamptis

briza m.

chrysopa o.

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CHAPITOCIRCUS SCHOOL PROJECT FOR THE CITY OF

LISBON

The new Chapito Circus school is projected in a com-plex site, actually ocupied by a city market. The urban void obtained by the demolition of the market building actually highlight a triangular hole, suffering big differ-ences in level of the angles., as often happens in the Portugues capital city.This morphological limit has been used as a device and pushed to the edge. The Chapito School projects wants in fact not just to be an introverted funcion, but a dynamic actiity interacting with the city. The relation-ship between inner user and urban passer-by is the firm point of the project. The two buildings proposed for the school and housing of the students, create an occasion for the city. Their roofs become urban terraces and open air theaters, in direct communication with the Tejo river located on the South. The public space at the core of the area, on the other hand, is doubled and interacts actively with the traianing jym at the underground level of the circus school, flexible in its space and able to be completely opened on the new square. Commercial ac-tivities are settled underground (that means on the new square level) the housing, both for serving the residence and to activate the public space.The Southern corner of the area (that is naturally at a lower level) is the favored acces to the area. The sug-gestion for the materials of the public space comes from the city itself. Just a few meters higher than the rooftops infact a urban wood is strongly present in the cityscape. It actually belongs to a green ray, including the Sao Jorge Castle and heading down to the river. The new square partecipates in it with a massive vertical garden, partecipating with the city to the new stage scenery.

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subjectos projectuaisautonomia dos subjectos projectuaiscooperação entre os subjectoscriação dum subjecto maior de referecia a escada da cidade

subjectos projectuaisautonomia dos subjectos projectuaiscooperação entre os subjectoscriação dum subjecto maior de referecia a escada da cidade

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-4m

-5m-4m

-4m

-4m

-4m

0m

-5m

0m

limitations encourage

creativity

“limitations encourage creativity”

N

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structuring wall


attaching layer

perennial plants


steel cages

hanging layer

irrigating system

inox steel cable

metallic standstandoff bracket type

perennial creeper

clay

drainage plumb

handrail

rolling curtain

concrete

fabric

double glass window

concretewaterproof layer

gradient layer

pvc box

cement

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structuring wall


attaching layer

perennial plants


steel cages

hanging layer

irrigating system

green cityscape

view from the S corner urban theatre transition jym-square materials

urban hole intervention architectural stage setgreen scenery cityscape

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STARGATEURBAN INTERVENTION ON ROMAN RUINES THEATER

LISBON

The project consists in the assignment of urban quality to the ancient roman theater ruines, settled in the fascinat-ing neighbourhood of Alfama.The approach to the project has been both at a wide scale up to a detailed one. The site is in fact in a key position, thanks to the Alfama hill that generates sug-gestive visual points toward the river Tejo.Actually the roman theater ruines are abandoned un-der a steel roof, facing, but not relationing anyhow, with the roman ruines museum. The urban approach sets the project at a core point of a green net invading Alfama (and actually fisically invading every void in the nearby), considering it as a part of the green ray the start from the SAo Jorge Hill, goes through the Castel, down to the Cathedral (including ruines too) and arrives down to the river. The green ray is overlayered to a ruin ray. The architectural approach allows both to include the ruines experience into a everyday walking path (based on the ancient trace) and to connec the ruines with the actual museum, plus the extention of the museum in an abandoned, reprojected, biulding, facing directly with the ruine at an underground level.The path that goes from the city, to the ruins up to the roof of the thater for reaching an amazing “miradouro”, typical element of the city of Lisbon, behaves as a stargate for the user, that naturally will cross different worlds and eras, experiencing personally the ruines. and enjoying the green roof, directing the eyes sight down toward the green ray landscape.

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ruinespresent barrier on project site

ruines traces

definition of the acces from the city new paths net

reuse of existing abandoned building

current urban fluxes

present roman ruines museum ruines traces intersection

new paths viewpoints urban paths + ruines ray

N

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-1.5m

-1.5m

+1.2m

+1.2m

PERCURSO URBANO


planta -1



N



leitura urbana

N

-1.5m

+1.5m

+1.2m

+1.2m

0m

planta nìvel 1N 1:200

planta +1

hybrid path city + ruins + architecture + landscape

undergroun plan

city level plan

+6m plan N

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ruinesdistributive and panoramic walkruines path museum space

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MUSSELTEMPORARY HOUSING AND PUBLIC SPACE: MILAN

in teamwork with: Giorgia Cilli, Margherita Locatelli

The project acts as a morphological intervention aiming to define and arranging the urban void delimited by Via Giotto, Via del Burchiello and Via Pagano. The project deals with the pre-existing facing buildings both for continuity and for contrapposition.The alignment on Via del Burchiello in fact allows to redefine the ancient fabric trace by redrowing the study area through a contemporary project, clearly in contrapposition -formal and volumetrical- with the pre-existing city The project asks for being crossed, perceived, used and walked by the city user. The starting act of rising and sinking the ground, slowly enriched by integrating public functions. These both work as public space activators and, in the meantime, strenghten the urban intervention. The soil along Via del Burchiello slowly rises from the ground, while, just a few meters on the South, the wide flexible void retires into the subway entrance. Under the new level projected soill, two buildings have been projected. The first one, stone composed, consists in a double heights exposition gallery with inclined ceil-ing. The second one is actually the simple glassed en-closure of a public space area. the commercial spaces so obtained are in fact light and permeable (both to light and to users paths).The first and second floor, entirely covered by a cortain skin, host temporary housing and a bar.The permeability theme has been followed in the study on the single housing proposals.

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groun floor plan

S prospect

roof plan

N

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transversal section study

MORE PROJECTS COMING SOON

my projectual “wish to do”list:

_following my passion toword the informal settlements, both on the research side as on the projectual and practical one_developing technological and compositive research on sustainable architecture_developing natural building projects (straw bales system, clay,..)_mastering knowledge concerning botanic subjects involved with architecture (from green roofs to vertical gardens)_investigating permaculture, horticulture and how to combine them with an architectural project able to play the role of a pro-positive social actor

about me:- co-founder and team member of Big Mamas Team Mongol Rally 2012, a 4 ladies team part of the Mongol Rally Charity Race all the way from Milan (Italy) to Ulaan Batar (Mongolia) raising money for Save The Children and the local orphanage The Lotus Children Center. The team - Nomad 4x4 off-road volunteer association traveller: active in North Africa, bringing support and “touch” to local communities. - co-founder and member since 2007 of Jubilant Gospel Girls Aps, volunteering association involved in fundraising for ONGs and

social events promotion through musical performances.-sports: Agonistic (past): tennis, ski. Amateur: surf, capoeira, snow-boarding-passions: backpack travel, photography (last update: ethical pho-tography course 2011 with Enrico Mascheroni from Photographers Without Borders), music (playing -somehow- piano and guitar, sing-ing); succulent plants and cactus

thank you for your attention

to contact me:

giulia celentano

[email protected]

skp: peyo701tel: +39 338 88 27 985

giulia celentano architectural portfolio 2007-2013

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