A R C H I T E C T U R E

PORTFOLIO Greta Morano

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Habiter à la Villette - Paris

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apartment

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The sector of La Villee is located between two L

historical roads that connected B

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Paris with Flanders and Ger-
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of XX century the fluvial infra- B

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structures of this area where Students B
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dismied, this portion of Paris became the place in apartment T
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APARTMENTS
The initial purpose of this project was to create
private spaces
something, a place, where people could meet and L T B

spend some time together, but also a building that Airbnb B B

had to include appartments. apartment

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The biggest questions were: how could we

create something that has to be at the same Duplex

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time public
public, common and private
private? And, how

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could we encourage people to connectconnect?

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LIBRARY ROOM
common spaces

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Library
simply: “using STAIRS
STAIRS“

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The disposition of the spaces was designed with

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the public space at the first level, then the com-

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mon spaces with the Airbnb flat and at the end C
the private apartments. The visitors or the lod- Show room
gers had to walk throw all the building to re- T
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ach their apartments, and by this way, they public spaces
had to walk across all the common space. Games’ room
Cinema
About the distribution the vertical element is the
one that connects every part of this building. W
The form of the building, the disposition of the
spaces and the study of the facade were deter-
From the street the building shows up as an ele- T
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mined by the natural elements.
ment modular and lively, with big glass elements Coffee bar

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The sun took a big part in this project and the

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at the firts floors and as we get taller, they became Kitchen form of the building is instructed by the solar
smaller and smaller. The modulo is given by the E arch. In the same way also the principal facade
rectangle of the stone panels. Those are basalt pa- is designed to receive a large amount of light.
nels of volcanic origin but of easy production. COLD WINDS
The rooms instead were arranged studying the
HOT WINDS winds’ path, in order to facilitate the natural
SOLAR RADIATION ventilation.

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 WHAT COMES AROUND?
P R E S E R V E

FUTURE
the type of building
the e m p lo y e d m a te r i a l s
Keep intact and enhance mediaval original buildings such as the ipotized services
and the new structures
CASTLE, CANONICA AND CHURCH MUST BE DESIGNED
by taking present that

J O I N

Limit the driveability, turning the

CENTRAL AREA IN A PEDESTRIAN SPACE
MODAL SPLIT
website, demographic density
AND OTHER ASPECTS
Develop a cooperation can be subjected to
b e tw ee n the fa r m s VARIATIONS DURING YEARS

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INCREASING PUBLIC SERVICES

PUBLIC SERVICES
as schools, post offices, libraries, commerical zones and sport facilities
in order to allow
INTERACTIVE ACTIVITIES connect the
for kindergarten and near industrial areas
with new roads
primary schools or extending the existings
taking advantage of the thinking to a
JUNCTION POINT
AGRICULTURAL SOIL FOR PUBLIC TRANSPORTS

MEETING

SPRAWL
E X P A N D
the residential area
to allow to the create some places
NEW INHABITORS T H A T A L L O W
to take up residence meeting and comparison
in the area between new and old inhabitants
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 Fix and reuse - Barge
The request was to design an urban project, saving
the medieval buildings and maintaining the exi-
stent city. It was necessary to create a new residen- PROJECT
tial district, in order to let to the new inhabitants to live in
that city. It was important to develop places in which new
and old inhabitants could meet and get to know beer.

The best way to describe the project was a manifesto

manifesto, so we
could underline the most important aspects.

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This project was based on two points:
on the first side the widespread ho-
tels, on the second one on the urban
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acupunture.

It asked us to speak about the widespread hotel

that allows the visitors to live every aspect of a
place, as a resident does.
It gains much more fortune the more cities or
villages are welcoming and allow meeting and
sharing between the traveler and the inhabitants.

On the other side the urban acupunture makes

possible to improve selements acting only on
part of them. In this way it is possible to have
a positive development of the whole village, as
it happens in medicine for man, but also in this
case the desire for improvement is needed. The
project was focused on parts of the buildings
that needed maintenance, because they showed

CONCEPTS
The urban acupunture
a visible decay state. The new structures were co-
establishes the reuse of old
lorful and bright, so easily visible, but the colors
GROUND FLOOR PLAN and unused buildings by
were different, based on the different activity that
way of additions, subtractions and substitutions.
every building hosted.
Combinations, grafts, envelope recovery
The red one was tought as a restaurant.
and elevations are other ways to modi-
fy a urban centre, working only on part of it.

FIRST FLOOR PLAN

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A window on the city - Turin

 SOLAR RADIATION

The area is next to Dora river and to a important

street of the city. It had periods of use Common spaces
CONCEPTS
PROJECT
and decay, but now is occupied by bul-
dings with a low level of maintenance.

The most important part of this project was its

sustainable fundamentals. Every particular and
every idea were thoght with a big aention on their
“eco-friendly
eco-friendly side
side”.

The volume seizes the rules defined by the Turin PRECIPITATIONS

town plan and there aren’t building taller than the
ones already built. The most interesting side of the NATURAL VENTILATION cold winds
site was the one on the river, for this reason all the north-east
buildings overlook to this direction.

Another important phase was the one where we

studied the metereological elements.
The energy needed by the building had to derive (in
a big part) from the sun
sun. For that reason we plan-
recycling of rainwater
ned to put solar panels on roofs and, for example,
the lampposts of the park were thought with the
ability to obtain energy from itselves.
In addition to the energy was also important let to hot winds
the major amount of lights to enter in the apart- south-west
SOLAR ENERGY
ments, for this motive the facades have been di- more windows
rected to the solar arch. less windows
Directions and speeds of winds were studied too. So
the hot winds are conveyed to the buildings and
at the same time rows of trees brake part of them.
On the other side there are the tallest buildings that
stop the cold winds. Those are only a lile part of NOISE
our suistanable components.
solar panels
The name “window
window on the city”
city was born because
while we were designed the internal arrangement,
we decided to to place the common spaces in the
last floor/roof, in order to let to every person to
exploit the view toward the city. It is easily visible private There are other common
the Mole Antonelliana and the hill in the back- spaces at the first floor,
common like the reception or the
ground.
public laundry, because were
more easily reachable.

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Render from the outside space of the commercial area.

Render of the view from the big windows of the last floor.

Render of the outer space of the library.

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Bee smart - Turin
bee | creative

CONCEPTS
start a space to fuel your passions

bee | togheter

bee | welcome a space to converse

bee | thoughtless
a space to get some informations

a space to chill
bee | amused

a space to amuse your kids bee | smart

It’s all about a modulo
modulo.
The hexagonal shape and the six triangles that compose it are the focus of the project. The request was to create something
flexible and modular
modular, temporary but simple
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simple. This was our answer to that question and we had 10 hours to design our proposal. The base
material was a baton of wood (dimension 6x6cm), at least every element structure had to be made of those batons, then they could be joined
with other materials: we used sheets of metal and glass. Those temporary structures didn’t need fundations and so didn’t alter the terrain in
which they were inserted.
We chosen to put a bee in the logo because of the shape and also because bees are smart so as our project, that could be used in different ways.
In those pictures is displayed how we were visualizing our project. In the backgroung is visible one of the courtyards where we had to insert
our structures. We placed the bike parking, the hammocks and the pic-nic table.

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 USED PROGRAMS:

Illustrator

Photoshop

Sketch up

Autocad

Lumion (rendering)

To create the layout I used Indesign.

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