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A creative design portfolio that manifests my vision of architecture
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Graduate Work
Digital Fabrication Projects
Work Experience
2 - 14
15 - 18
19 - 22
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Ilaria [email protected]
Tailoring: techniques for retrofitting architectureThis project will attempt to identify similarities between the field of architecture and the practice of tailoring through an in-depth analysis of existing garment techniques that can be re-envisioned to generate new architectural spaces. The tailoring techniques explored include pleating, tucking, darting, and ruffling, which are chosen for their ability to turn a flat piece of fabric into a volumetric object.
This thesis will achieve its purpose by reinterpreting the current architecture of the “City National Bank” tower, a standard modernist office building in Downtown Los Angeles, in an effort to re-dressing the façades and interior spaces of the building through a process of customization of architectural volumes based off the spatial intricacy of previously studied techniques.
Thesis ProjectInstructor: Daniel Rabin
Jan-May 2012
Thesis Project
Intervention
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Ecological Porosity
Seismic events are responsible for altering the earth’s crust in the same way as other natural forces such as wind and water affect planet earth by erod-ing surfaces in different landscapes.
This project is developed through a land forming strategy that responds to a complex ecosystem that is manipulated and highly influenced by such environmental conditions.
The building structure is meant to incorporate the concept of a seismic design by creating external and internal moments where the light and shadow effects, generated by the layered skin, play a major role in emphasizing these shifting volumes.
ARCH 691_Studio Instructor: David Freeland
Aug-Dec 2011
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ARCH 691_Studio
Site Analysis - Plans
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Light Well (China)
Light and water are significant elements of Chinese culture since they are often seen as life-giving forces, affecting construction as well as dimension and having a major impact on social, spiritual and architectural spheres.After analyzing such long-established mode of envi-sioning architecture, one can assume that both the courtyard and the water well are among some of the most recognized trademarks of Chinese culture and social structure; the primary role of both sunlight and water, acting upon these traditional compo-nents of Chinese design, is to create and facilitate a smooth and sequential transition between daily activities and a more private family reality as time progresses in the day.
The main purpose of the architect operating in this kind of environment is to generate a tridimensional vision of the intimate relationship between the natural elements of light and water and human life in this particular region of China. By using a multitude of light effects and materials tiled together with the sound of water, the building recreates a series of surroundings that enhance the user and tourism experience as well as enrich local communities and the lives of those who interact with these elements on a daily basis.
China Study AbroadInstructor: Norman Millar Nick Roberts
June-July 2011
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China Study AbroadPre-study in site Hong Cun village, China
Team Project: Eric Endres
China Study Abroad
Plans
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Syntactic Ornamentation
Digital Fabrication
WUHO Gallery Exhibition
May 2011
The recent reinscription of the place of ornament within architectural practices has reformulated the existing hierarchies between form, function, structure and material. These reinterpretation have exposed but a profound shift in the role of the Ornament, by which ornamental motifs are no longer merely decorative or geometrical but implicate the formal, material and structural forces by virtue of their specific deployment within the architectural artifact, as well as the technologies involved in their fabrication. For architecture, new potentials arise out of this new synthetic relationship between ornament, form and material.
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This analysis of heterogeneous space will attempt to generate variations of a three-dimensional space that reacts to the existing field conditions.The main purpose is to create three different aggre-gations that demonstrate variations of the interior/exterior relationship, and diverse geometries that respond to multiple light effects.
Folded light
Digital Fabrication
ARCH 691_Studio
Sept 2011
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Abraham’s Family House,ZPZ Partners, Palm Beach (FL)
Internship
ZPZ Partners, Italy
Oct-Dec 2010
The main concept behind this proposal is to generate a family house shaped around a central living area, like the “piazza” in the ancient roman houses.The drawing of a plan can be read as the abstraction of an idea: it can represent a sociological programme or a way of living, representing and supporting priorities of uses and values.The client vision of a family recreation house with work spaces, fitness, and meeting areas, can be envisioned in a place where all activities are independent but in relation one to each other; a central green area (host-ing pools and lounge zone) can be the element that separates all the diverse activities but, at the same time, putting them in relation according to users’desire: the right distance to be close.
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Internship
ZPZ Partners, Italy
Courtyard view
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