PORTFOLIO
NEW HEADQUARTER MUTTI – PARMA
NORD Architects
TEAM: Morten Rask Gregersen, Mads Knak-Nielsen, Andrea Braekkan, Roberta Cassi, Barbara Fernandes, Mariapaola Michelotto, Jan Park Sorensen, Christina Tantcheva
Following recent years success, and subsequent growth and expansion, has seen the Mutti factory grow exponentially. Generally, this growth has put the production first and sometimes left the workers and the history/legacy behind.
With the contest “Radici e Futuro” Mutti has created an opportunity for itself to change this, and once again show a progressive path towards a sustainable future for the company.
We believe that a successful planning of Mutti requires an evolutionary approach to urban development. Every component in the coming development should understand the factory, its spirit, resources, life and people – both physically, spatially and economically.
The future Mutti HQ, that this project is proposing holds a variety of architectural typologies. Buildings of old and new working together to frame one idea, one product and one passion. Some link to the history of the factory and the brand while others point towards the future of Mutti.
INTERGENERATIONAL NEIGHBOURHOOD COLDRERIO
NORD Architects
TEAM: Morten Rask Gregersen, Andrea Braekkan, Roberta Cassi, Barbara Fernandes, Mariapaola Michelotto, Jan Park Sorensen, Christina Tantcheva
The inter-generational neighbourhood creates a sense of community diversity and mixing generations. It aims to connect people of different ages in order to create an urban environment and local character, inviting and engaging, which may be part of the whole community. The house is equipped with different services visible and open to the outside, in order to give life to a friendly and flexible place from outgoing character that invites the outside world to enter. It is also important that the house functions both in small and in large scale. In the first case you want to create a situation of well-being in everyday life for the inhabitants and for the employees. In the second it aspires to a feeling of community that stresses the importance of the involvement of the local community within the house. general idea is to achieve a holistic and innovative project, which will in a new and different inspire future generations through a building that weaves nursing home, residential and urban open spaces, creating an engaging community that involves people different ages.
TRAVELING EXHIBITION “VIETATO NON TOCCARE”
BDGS Associati
TEAM: Cristina Ajroldi, Roberta Cassi
It’s inevitable to meet Bruno Munari when he plans to devote himself to children, to their way of knowing , to their curiosity .
One wonders how he got to be so in the hearts and minds of people. Apparently, it was not the type to impress, spoke softly, smiled and planned, wrote, “ was “ art and design, sculptures and inventions, books, children’s, basically playing! Meaning the game as he called it “ … a very serious thing . “
That’s what Bruno Munari has done for children who MUBA has dedicated an exhibition . Like all MUBA exhibitions, it doesn’t propose things to see, but experiences to do .
“ Vietato non toccare “ is a journey of discovery and experimentation, to see, touch, feel and then to tell and composing these observations in small books , true treasures.
ECO-MUSEUM CALUSCO D’ADDA
POLITECNICO DI MILANO
Students: Roberta Cassi, Laura Margherini, Sonia Tosetti
Professor: Prof. Roberto Spagnolo
The project is situated within the Adda Nord Park, a weak area from the landscape point of view, subject to historical presences like the nineteenth-century bridge and modern alterations like Italcementi tower.
The project starts from the study of the site form, reinterpreting the existing tracks, with the aim to enhance and integrate them into the new eco-museum .
The project involves the construction of a central body that raises directly from the ground level and features a small guest house that overlooks the river Adda through a natural terrace. To the right of this a library and a conference room on the left. A basement level museum, with a window overlooking on the Adda river.
TEMPORARY HORSE SHELTER
POLITECNICO DI MILANO
Students: A. Barlocco, Roberta Cassi, F. Grillo, S. Tosetti, O. Vitacca
Professor: Prof. Giacomo Borella
The project is a collaboration between different agencies Politecnico di Milano, the House of Charity and the Prison of Bollate.
It therefore intends to undertake a stable that is managed by the prisoners. The site on which insists the project is located in the vicinity of the prison, at Cascina Triulza.
The project counts 5 boxes for the housing of horses with its paddocks, a building used as a tack and feed room, a shed for washing horses, a building used as a reception and offices, a canopy or pergola for organizing parties and events, a riding school for the training of horses and a paddock where the horses are left to pasture. Goal is to give life to a project designed for the self-construction with simple technologies and building materials. The paddock is in fact designed to use the tires as building material, filled in their interior with soil or concrete and reinforced with metal vertical elements.