PORTFOLIO _NATALIA GIACOMINO

ARCHITECTURE

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCES

Thesis_Water MuseumPage 4

AMNIOSYA TEAM COMPETITIONS

INDIVIDUAL COMPETITIONS

INDEX

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The House of WarPage 28

The House of OxymoronsPage 30

P h e l a n Page 27

Lab V _LibraryPage 12

MuseographiePage 17

S t a d i u m Page 19

Exhibition PavilionPage 21

Enflatable PavilionPage 25

S k y s c r a p e rPage 23

_THESIS : THE HOUSE OF WATER FOR ABU DHABI_

announced by Icarch Gallery of Los Angeles.

Supervisor : Prof.Marino Moretti Prof.Giacomo TempestaArch.Samuele Sordi

Master degree in ArchitectureUniversity Of Florence Magistral Architecture

C o m p e t i t i o n

W A T E R IS

architecture that to express the power of water in the context (spatial and temporal) of the arabe world

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_ Studied Area :-The Macro Analyzed Like Urban Micro-Synthesis And Site Zoning-

C o n t e t u a l i z a t i o n

_Detection Of Internal Connections To Three Areas_Overlap Of Internal Connections To Three Areas

_Selection Of Optimal Lines For Areas

saadiyat is natural island that is part of abu dhabi,in the uae,covering 27 square miles and will be completed in 2020.it is divided into seven dis-tricts : the marina discritct, the cultural district,villas and apartaments,hotels, the reserve and lagoons. the chosen place is in the mid-dle of the island,the real cen-tral ring and the only part still not designed, between the mari-na and the district of culture .the guggheneim designed by frank ghery,the louvre de-signed by jean nouvel, the art centre designed by zaha hadid and the maritime museum de-signed by tadao ando will be built in the cultural district.the masterplan of the island-has been conceived as a set of drawings to reduce the im-pact of the island habitat. the principles of waste hi-erarchy has been used for the management of waste(reduce,reuse,recycle,recover).saadiyat island means : is-land of happiness. It is far 500 meters from the coast of abu dhabi and it will be-come the cultural center of the country,according to the governement of abu dhabi.

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C o n c e p t

All forms of water _Sketch of a Plan

_Planimetry5

_South Elevation

_Cutaway View

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From one volume, t h r e e s i z e s are gen-erated.the sim-ulat ion of water creates a smooth t r a n -s i t i o n .

The Mu-s e u m Itinerar-ies Are T h r e e and Ver-t i c a l ly D e v e l -o p e d .

Facilities Are In the Cen-tral Volume, That Is the main aerea; Fotography exh ib it ions are In The Lowest and The Research aerea Is In The Interme-diate Volume.

_Internal View

_External View

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Water is a resource that has being studied for a long time as a potential of sustainable en-ergy, as element of well-being. Indeed, there are a lot of scientists and artists that have done of this ele-ment their reason of life and work. The result of the final project is the idea of a stone that is broken and has been smoothed thanks to the pow-er of water. Ide-ally, the water created a passage through the rock, smoothing it with its persistence of its constant flow. I simulated the power of wa-ter with a jet that sweeps away all it finds in its pas-sage. The shape of the three volumes came out here. One volume creates the others; each one is different from the other one.

_Second Floor Plan

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The three volumes are subdivided in the follow-ing way: one for instal-lations, one dedicated to photography and the last one to technologi-cal research. The final result is a sort of Can-yon: three rocks that skim themselves. Among them a dialectic confron-tation exists : a radi-cal, immediate and con-tinuous confrontation that highlights different forms and heights. Ev-ery single element has a peculiar strong iden-tity, and the passage through the different el-ements creates gradual shades and perspectives. The visit of the museum was studied in order to give from any point you arrive the idea of contin-uous flow. The sense of the visit is up to the visi-tor: thematic or multidis-ciplinary. There is conti-nuity between the spaces of the museum and the open spaces through ex-ternal connections that link the three volumes that gives the impression of a change in visual re-lations between the in-terior and the external.

_Sections

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_West Elevation

_Internal View

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The covering of the volumes is in stone. The main structure is a steel mesh and the main plot is in steel beam HEB 500 that follows with a distance of 3-5m, ac-cording to the shape of the volume. The ex-ternal shell is a double skin of stone that cov-ers the struc-ture. The panel-ing of stone is a geometrical disposition of stone that re-minds the hex-agonal Arabian

_Structural Concept

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The thickness of the stone is reduced to the minimum in or-der to shrink the heaviness of the panels that measure 1,2 mm. This simple form allows us create hexagonal compo-sitions. Some stones have been removed to create crack/fissures. The triangulate tesseras/dominos create a play of full and empty spaces between external and interior that becomes spectacular with the nocturnal illumination. The construction: when the assembling of the steel structure and panels of stone is finished, the empty spaces are filled up with polystyrene forms. Afterwards, the structure is sprinkled with rough cement to confer continuity to the stone and hide the flights/escapes. After that, the polystyrene will be replaced by glass.

shapes. In order to maintain the geometri-cal order, I chose to use a triangular shape for the three volumes.

_External View

University Teacher : Ulisse Tramonti

_LAB OF ARCHITECTURAL PLANNING SPECIALISTIC

_Internal View

_Nocturnal View

_LIBRARY OF ARCHITECTURE

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_ C o n c e p t +

C o n t e s t u a l i z a t i o n _

_Top View

Place Analysis Breaking Up Division Of Square And Line

Promenade

Refereces

Lines Derived From The Wall Of The Panoptic

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Second Floor

Elevation Est

NAME:BIRTH DATE:

ADDRESS:NATIONALITY:

Perspective Plans And Ramps

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View From Above Without Coverage

External View

Internal View

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Concept of Bearing Structural

The Outer Shell Is made of both Tem-pered and opaque Glass, The Structure Is Made Of Steel Pillars.The Cover Glass Is Char-acterized By Draining Wa-ter Collect-ed by pillars.

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M u s e o g r a p h y

Advanced Techniques Of Representation

Prof. Sergio Di Tondo

Students : Natalia Giacomino Lucia Lunghi

Internal View

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Internal View

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Laboratory Technology Design And Environmental

Professors: Marco Masera Gianfranco Cellai

Students : Natalia Giacomino Lucia Lunghi Caterina Morabito

Requalification of Stadium Artemio Franchi

Plan

Perspective

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Efte Sail

Top View

P e r s p e c t i v e

Wind Diagram

The Roof Is Covered With Marquee Etfe Sheets And Covers Three Sides Of The Stadium Designed By Pier Luigi Nervi.The Cover Is Supported By Two Large Reticular Arches.The Sheets In Efte Are Attached To Tubes That Surround The Two Arches. Every-thing Rests On Underlying Steel Pillars.It Is A System Of Collecting Rainwa-ter That Reuses It For The Irrigation Of Fields And Air Conditioning Systems.Thanks To The Slopes Of The Sails, The Water Is Conveyed To The Tubulars.Tanks And Filters Are Located Under The Soil.The Coverage Exploits The Natural Ventila-tion : Cold Air Enters From The Bottom And Goes Out Warm, To Create Air Circulation.

Covering

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Lab. of Structural Planning

Prof. Giacomo Tempesta

Exhibition Pavilion

Students : Natalia Giacomino Lucia Lunghi

Concept

Entrance View

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_ C o n c e p t

“Exh i b i t i o n Hall Of Art” of : Architec-ture, Sculp-ture, Fashion, Design, Paint-ing. A Tangle Of Disciplines Creates A Sin-gle Univer-sal Element Symbol ical -ly Enclosed In A Ball Where These I n t e r l a c e s Mingle With Each Others.

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2012 SKYSCRAPER COMPETITION_JanuaryE-VOLO

S k y s c r a p e r 2 0 1 2

Evolo Competition

A m n i o s y aT e a m :

MArino MorettiMarco CarratelliNatalia GiacominoLucia Lunghi Elvira PerfettoLorenzo PianigianLeonardo Pilati

S y m b i o n t _ S k y s c r a p e r

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Nocturnal view

View from Nearby Skyscraper

C o n c e p t

An Organism living in a state of symbiosis.The Mycelium is the threadlike hypha which absorbs the nourishing elements. The Symbiont skyscraper undertakes an equitable exchange with the other buildings,with favourable conditions for the entire area.This creates a win-win situation : The Symbiont Skyscraper absorbs the waste of other buildings(e.g. wastewater,paper,organic wastewater,paper,organic waste etc)it transforms them in usable goods and then it gives wastewater,paper,organic waste etc.),it transforms them in usable goods and then it gives them back by way of food products,green areas and open-air spaces. Waste goes across the piping and is stored in warehouses where it is purified of microbial populations,this is the case of herbal purification of water which,once filtered,are redistributed.to reduce imports and environmental pollution,we decided to adopt a symbiotic solution. The project has been designed as a local market system for agricultural products. The local market has at least four benefits: environmental advantages,economic benefits for producers,economic benefits for consumers and qualita-tive aspects. It offers a market without sales people that uses biological techniques for the cultivation of products and the possibility to sell them locally. But it also represents a social space that is used by the people for their pleasure. The Symbiont Skyscraper will house it,always keeping its morphology and genealogy.

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Second Prize http://www.cityvision-competition.com/pfff/results/Publicated in :CityVision magazine /May 2012 AREA 121/competition result

A m n i o s y aT e a m :

MArino MorettiMarco CarratelliNatalia GiacominoLucia Lunghi Elvira PerfettoLorenzo PianigianLeonardo Pilati

_CITIVISION_ INDIPENDENT ARCHITECTURE STUFF

PFFF INFLATABLE ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION

INFLATABLE SCULPTURE PAVILION

External View Agrigento

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PFF pavilion: The idea came up from a study on the main functions as-sociated with research for a dynamic organ-ism. The structure de-veloped across a regu-lar shape, a rectangle that from a transver-sal deformation ideal-ly gives back a paral-lelogram. This form is self-organized and is altered in a two-dimen-sional or three-dimen-sional way, following a symmetrical order. The project generated is both complex and fluid, it’s a continu-ous element that re-fers formally to bone structure. This struc-ture is pivotal point of the whole project, par-tially characterized by “skins” stretched out between the differ-ent forms, determining the spaces and hier-archy of its functions

Main Elevation S e c t i o n

Unrolled Panels For Cutting

View From Above

Ground Plan Internal View_Florence

Venice_Corderie Dell’Arsenale

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Cristalplant design contest

Floor Lamp high 2m

_ P h e l a n _

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Icarch Gallery of Los AngelesProject of Distinctionhttp://www.icarch.us/war/natalia_giacomino

path where man can see how the war changes.the thought of Heraclitus and turned his words into architec-ture. three simple elements of depar-ture: three parallelepipeds that dur-ing the race change, evolve and deform. the thought of Heraclitus: “War is the father and king of all: some he has made gods, and some men; some slaves and some free, “ “ harmony be-tween these forces, war, fight, Lord of all things, because everything in the world is the result of opposite forc-es”, “opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony”. Thus, there is a succession in the re-ality of the opposites, for which an opposite may not prevail on the oth-er eternally but must leave the step to the other “,” to the succession of the opposites, each opposite must give the path to another one according to a certain order, each opposite even turns into the other “,” Each of these opposed elements tend to move to, to join and to draw the other one”. “On the one hand, the creation of the world is a lack, on the other hand, it is opposition, in the succession of the of the unity, for this dynamic suc-cession things become just one thing.

_THE HOUSE OF WAR_

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Icarch Gallery of Los AngelesProject of Distinctionhttp://www.icarch.us/war/natalia_giacomino

There is a unity even more profound in the succession of the posites there is the fullness of a construc-tive attraction”. “Opposition tends to solve its consistency in the con-stitution of the unity, for this dy-namic succession things become just one thing. There is a unity even more profound in the succession of the opposites: the world is composed of opposites that melt into a unity”. It is for this reason that these three elements can look like: two men fight-ing (two points and one is the result), or two nations in war (the first ele-ment symbolizing the stronger na-tion and the other one the weaker, the third element is destruction). I believe that the thought of Heracli-tus is right and I would have liked to make a path of experience, observa-tion, of people achieving awareness, a variable path where each element also changes into three simple elements, which are in relation between them according to a deflection, a shift, a distance or a closeness. These ele-ments are elliptical paths that cross each other as well as changing.

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Icarch Gallery of Los Angeleswith this project I can partecipate in all icarch’s competitionshttp://www.icarch.us/oxymorons/natalia_giacomino

_the house of oxymorons_

Starting point is Ordered Khaos.Kahos is a greek word meaning “ mouth wide open”,it refers to a huge chasm before the creation of the world.there is a route that could give the idea of a chasm where eight spaces represent contradictory elements : Youthful senility_irrationa rational-ity_unpredictable routine_orderly cha-os_imaginative reality_sweet cruelty_turbolent serenity_complex simplicityArchitecture is by definition firm but op-posed it to a sense of instability,thus the house of oxymorons as a strong duality in which others to develop.

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Icarch Gallery of Los Angeleswith this project I can partecipate in all icarch’s competitionshttp://www.icarch.us/oxymorons/natalia_giacomino

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