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Cluster International Workshop Expo 2015

(2012-2013)

Designing the units of the cluster of sea and islands for the Expo 2015, Milan

The workshop was within the cooperation between Politecnico di Milano and Expo 2015 for the didactic activity related to the Cluster International Workshop of Expo 2015, Feeding the planet Energy for life.

The aim was to define:

• the clusters layout
• the landscape design of the clusters
• the facade of the clusters units
• the project of the common exhibition spaces

Sea and Islands Food; "Rhythm of discovery "

Rhythm of discovery is a journey through which people are involved in experiencing islands through senses. The idea is ‘feeding the soul’, in line with the theme of the Expo, “feeding the planet”. It is explored and materialized through the sounds exploiting nature’s potential, and by involving the visitors in an intriguing experience with the landscape.
Floating objects, sounds, shadow and light seduce visitors into a path of exploring, immersing them in an exotic dimension. The journey is in three steps: discovering bamboo forest, celebration of the fountain, and the big drum.

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2009 Open Architecture Challenge:
Classroom

designing the classroom of the future
http://openarchitecturenetwork.org/competitions/challenge/200

Project area: Iran,Shiraz, 17shahrivar primary school

In this competition ,we were supposed to work with students and teachers to design the classroom of the future for a school of our choosing. Our design should address the unique challenges our school faces in trying to provide innovative, safe and sustainable learning spaces.

For our site we chose “17 Shahrivar” an elementary school facility in a high density urban area in Shiraz, Iran, with 20 classes of 40-42 students each.
In the design for our classroom we started by evaluating the current state of the classes & involving the faculty & the students to critically review their learning space.
Looking at their environment critically they had problems such as insufficient space, too tight, poor lighting, inflexibility, bad colors, no play area &….
In reimagining their classrooms the students wanted it to be colorful, playful, and unique .
In our design we tried to incorporate these wishes & views along with the requirements of Brain Based Learning which tries to see the environment as a valuable base of learning.
For our design we proposed a spacious classroom that fits the educational needs of its users. we tried to create a space of Divesity, complexity & flexibility which would promote involvement of the students to edit it to their own wishes at different times. A space that would be enthusiastic, exciting, would evoke curiosity be memorable & unique.
As a result of this process the we designed a space that consisted of 3 pods, the Book Pod, Note pod & the flex pod, the class furniture is fiberglass which makes them colorful & cleanly & light enough for kids to hold & move around.
These 3 zones in the classroom are fluid; they can change according to the needs of the class. For example the students can be seated in a conventional classroom style in front of the board, for classes & in the class breaks the 2 pods left will act as a retreat where the students can quickly come into to move around & relax & without wasting time get back in their original seats. Or for classes such as History, religion & … where teaching is more a sort of story telling the 3rd space, the flex pod can be used as an alternative seating where the students can sit on the steps. Or for group work classes the 1st & 2nd pod can merge together to create a spacious area where the kids can move their chares & tables themselves to sit in groups
Sustainability;

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Urban Transcript , city of Rome (competition 2011-2012)

project program:

creating an interactive and multidisciplinary narrative of the city of Rome through a combination of projects that read the city (projects that record, investigate,
represent, analyse, the context of the city) as well as projects that write the city (project proposals, to shape, to make, to reform, to intervene in the city)

Refrence: http://www.urbantranscripts.org/documents/UT2011_call_for_projects_pack.pdf

Beyond an imagery of the unchanged and unchangeable old town, the realities of the city of Rome finely weave themselves through an everlasting conflict between the remote past, the recent yesterday, and the present. An exploration of Rome as an emergent territory reveals a vibrant congregation of “incidental” urban products

Rome as a city of the unexpected contrasts in built forms and urban landscapes, a city continuously redefined by its citizens’ spontaneous appropriation of space, a city of the unpredictable play between people,space and time.

Urban transcript competition invited participants to explore the accident(al) in the city of Rome: the accident(al) which happens over time and transforms the 'essence' of the city that would otherwise remain unchanged, the accident(al) which adds surprise and complexity to our reality and challenges our understanding of the city, the accident(al) which generates the energy to recreate and reshape the city.

In line with the object of the project, the team’s concern was exploring Rome as a city in the first step and finally finding out any term or event which differs Rome from other cities.

As the brief already implicates, much like a human being, Rome is a feast of accidents, its presence is a result of all the existing and non-existing occurrences that through his long history he has inhabited ;
fields of games and experiments much like childhood memories and battle wounds and scars much like a soldier, contrasting life events.

He is alive and breathing and to this day it changes and lives with its citizens. “A man in motion” with its own personality passing through life, experiencing different events, recording diverse memories and developing to a hopefully delighted future. Rome in spite of all his disorders has a unified body full of contrast and complexity, order and disorder,tranquility and chaos, unity and plurality.

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