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Arch. Martina Massari
selected works 2009 | 2014
c o n t e n t s
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curriculum vitae
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Martina Massari
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Personal information
Date of birth: 18-03-1988
Adress[es]: via Ugo La Malfa 26, 47030 San Mauro Pascoli, (FC)
via Savonarola 27/a 44100 Ferrara (FE)
Nationality: Italian
E-mail: massmartina@gmail.com
Telephone: +39 338 5298061
Education and training
26/06/2014
Architect’s registration Board
13/01/2014
Licensed architect
Working experience
20-5-2013 | present
Indipendent contractor Studio Canapè - Cantieri
Aperti Via Fondobanchetto 22 (FE)
- 2nd prize for ideas competition “Riordino urbanistico e riconversione funzionale del Comparto dell’Ospedale degli Infermi” (Biella).
Working group: Canapè cantieri aperti - Arch. Sergio Fortini, Arch. Elisa Uccellatori (FE) Uteco - Arch. Francesco Vazzano, Dott. Arch. Anna
Luciani (FE) Arch. Roberto Melai (GE)
- international competition “Vlora Waterfront competition” Working
group: Arch. Elisa Uccellatori, Dott. Arch. Vittorino Belpoliti
- urban design project “Museo diffuso del paesaggio rurale” di Jolanda di Savoia. Working group: dott. Arch. Francesco Alberti, dott. Agr.
Gloria Minarelli, Arch. Sergio Fortini
- collaboration in the process for the masterplan of the Comacchio
PSC (currently underway)
- graphic assistance to urban and architectural project
27/04/2014–10/05/2014
05/05/2013–16/05/2013
22/03/2013
Draftsman at Amga Energia Servizi s.r.l
Amga Energia s.r.l., San Mauro Pascoli (FC) (Italia)
Graphic assistance
CAD designer
Master Degree in Architecture with final grade “110 e
lode” (First class honours)
Urban planning, architectural design, technical drawing, history of
architecture and restoration,
tecniques of restoration, urban design, landscape design, administrative law.
Final thesis work: “Re-thinking Europe’s gate: project of urban and
territorial regeneration for the island
of Lampedusa.” with Professor Francesca Leder , link:
http://issuu.com/martinamassari/docs/tesi_lampedusa_ceno_
massari/1
2/05/2012 – 12/5/2012
Lifelong Learning Programme Erasmus Intensive
Programme TESS1-Territorial Empowerment and
Social Sustainability Francesca Leder, University of Ferrara,
department of Architecture, via della Ghiara, 36, Ferrara
TESS1 explores ways of combining spatial structures and social relations.
09/2010 – 06/2011
ERASMUS programme
Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona UNIVERSITAT
POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA BARCELONATECH, Av. Diagonal, 649-651,
08028 Barcelona (Spain)
Urban and architectural design, environmental planning, anthropology, landscape planning. Intensive course of Spanish language.
Course of Catalan language.
Academic Tutor for Erasmus Intensive Programme
TESS 2 Francesca Leder, University of Ferrara, department of Archi-
tecture, via della Ghiara, 36, Ferrara
Activities of teaching support, management and organization of the
workshop
2007 | 2013
Università degli studi di Bologna - Facoltà di architettura di Cesena
Professor for Erasmus Intensive Programme TESS 3
Francesca Leder, University of Ferrara, department of Architecture, via
della Ghiara, 36, Ferrara
Preparation of educational content of the workshop
Collegial seminars: presentations of research work carried out through the year
inscription at Ordine degli architetti, pianificatori, paesaggisti e conservatori della provincia di Forlì-Cesena with the number 1358.
2002 – 2007
High school diploma with final grade 96/100
Liceo Scientifico “Marie Curie” Via Giuseppe Mazzini, 1, Savignano Sul
Rubicone (FC) (Italy)
15/05/2014–16/05/2014
04/04/2014
1-12-2013
Conferences, awards and publications
Personal skills and competences
XVII National Conference Italian Society Urbanism
Italian: mother tongue
Inglese: level C1
Spagnolo: level C2
SIU - Società Italiana Urbanisti, Milano (Italia)
Atelier 11: “progettare green cities”. Coordinators: Maurizio Carta, Ester
Zazzero. Discussant: Carlo Gasparrini.
Presentation of the paper “Un’opportunità per Lampedusa. Studio di
un quartiere eco-turistico per la riattivazione dell’isola.
“Ferrara school of architecture” diploma
Unitown - Università degli studi di Ferrara - Comune di Ferrara
Diploma of excellence and international value of the academic curriculum and thesis. Inclusion in the university network of European
universitary excellence “Unitown”.
Publication: “Heritage Preservation through Local
Community Action” synthesis report of the work of the 2nd year
of Intensive Programme. Text editing and graphic layout.
link: http://issuu.com/giovanna.ceno/docs/heritage_preservation_
through_local
17/06/2013–19/06/2013
27/09/2012 – 10/10/2012
Good organizational skills gained during the two years of collaboration in educational and laboratory activities of the workshop TESS in
Vicenza. Good management skills of multilingual working groups.
Technical skills and competences
Research team “Tracce Urbane”, Rome (Italy) Participation as auditor
at the conference on the processes of re-appropriation of the city,
practices, places and imaginary.
7th Bienal de Paisaje
Computer skills and competences
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya - ETSAB - UPC Master arquitectura del paisatge Barcelona, Barcelona (Spain) Exposiciòn Internacional de Proyectos de Paisaje de Escuelas de Arquitectura y Paysaje. Participation with the works produced during the workshop TESS.
IELTS Certification (International English Language
Testing System) - Academic module - level 7.5
First Certificate in English (FCE) - livello B2
University of Cambridge – ESOL Examinations, Rimini (Italy)
1-12-2013
Organisational skills and competences
Conference “Tracce Urbane - 4”
British Council examinations. European level C1.
2006
Excellent communication skills and team work, gained through the
experience of studying abroad and established during the workshop
activities carried out; opening to interdisciplinary and horizontal work
experience.
Good knowledge and inclination for urban planning
Great expertise in post-production of images
Good expertise in urban planning
Good knowledge in competitions of architecture and urban planning
Mastery in architectural and structural design
Good expertise in the layout, and graphics in the care of publications
in architecture / urban planning
Certifications
21/09/2013
Social skills and competences
European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL) Patente
Europea del Computer
AICA-Associazione Italiana per l’Informatica ed il Calcolo Automatico
MS Windows 7
Apple Mac OS X
Autodesk Autocad 2D - 3D
Google SketchUP
Nemetschek Allplan
Maxon Cinema4D
Suite Adobe Creative ( Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign )
Suite iWork
Suite Microsoft Office ( Word, Excel, Power Point) e OpenOffice
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master thesis | Ripensare la porta d’Europa
progetto di rigenerazione urbana e
territoriale per l’isola di Lampedusa
territorial regeneration | environmental sustainability | urban design
Ferrara 2013 | Tutors: prof. Francesca Leder, Arch. Sergio Fortini
Moving from the awareness that Italy’s most significant heritage lies
in its diversities and specific local uniqueness, that today are undergoing so many pressures unconceivable only 50 years ago, our thesis wants to develop a project for the urban and territorial renovation
with the aim of managing today’s situation offering a new scenario
in which a new balance between tradition and innovation may prevail. The rebirth of small areas, especially if minor or far-away, can
occur only if we consider an overall arrangement. A suitable strategy
centered on the correct reuse of the existing building heritage and
on the urban requalification and valorization of public spaces must
develop within a frame of binding together the existing and its physical
and space elements with the cultural, historical and local traditions.
Ages and events intertwine and shape places, form layers of different
shapes which today remain just as feeble marks, hiding new answers
and opportunities but in original structure. The remains of a complex
past, the “wounds” of the land and of the souls, the elements that
haven’t disappeared yet, must form the starting point in the research
of new planning solutions for a transformation at local level, for ordinary places, as well as at world level, in a globalised scenario in which
endemic self-sustainability seems now to be left out.
The Island of Lampedusa, an isolated and extremely fragile territory,
is an extraordinary case-study where the theme of local development
requires to be adapted to an extra-ordinary reality being at the same
time field of experimentation for a model project which aspires to be
repeated in other contexts.
The project can only be realized with the juxtaposition of the two scales, regional and local levels. Only by controlling the two levels and
their interactions we allow the island to become truly autonomous,
chasing the autonomy and stability guaranteed by its social fabric and
its economic and relational system.
While demonstrating, in due time, the approach and the model proposed by the thesis lead to the accomplishment of self-sustainabilityit
may be stated the repeatability of the model. The project has to evolve
with the application of the “invariants of transformation” that are the
basis of every local regeneration project, including the construction
of multi-functional spaces which entrust the role of “urban magnet”,
the attention to landscape aspects and environmental factors and
especially the integration of punctual elements, the urban and the
territorial context.
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Erasmus Intensive Programme TESS
Being a space becoming a place
territorial empowerment | social sustainability | participation
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In the most recent years, considerations about economic
and social development have become urgent questions
both for design and planning practice.TESS aims to introduce the students to a different design approach based
on the need of providing individuals and communities
the basic skills for understanding the physical implication of urban policies, considering this approach crucial
for citizen empowerment in the planning process of postindustrial cities and territories. TESS 1/2012 was focused
on the idea of the importance of physical space as an
agent of social innovation: Being a space, becoming a place wish to represent not just a city beautification design
slogan, but as first goal the key to urban regeneration and
to the collective civic action. The proposed training project
is a collaboration of three schools of architecture (Ferrara,
Barcelona and Lisbon) coordinated by a team of teachers
who are working on issues related to the management of
the processes of urban transformation.
A comparative analysis of different European experiences
is set as the main educational objective of this Intensive
Programme which aims to provide participating students
the opportunity to explore some important aspects of urban policies in Europe, in particular the practice of planning and design developed in the context local Italy, Spain
and Portugal are characterized by a fruitful collaboration
between public administrations and citizens.
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Vicenza 2012 | Professori: Francesca Leder, Silvano
Custoza, Giulio Verdini, Carles Llop, Graca Moreira,
Pedro Rodriguez
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Design Competition | Ludoteca per disabili
Milano Porta Nuova
design for disabilities | cohesion spaces | urban grafting
Ferrara 2014 | Canapè - Cantieri Aperti, Arch. Sergio Fortini (FE), Arch.Elisa Uccellatori
This project develops a new piece of the park “the library of the trees” in a coherent way with the context: a building
accessible, secure and free of architectural barriers, which functions as a device for children to discover the world
through play and exploration. The building follows an endogenous logic, that allows the spatiality of the interior
of generating external environments always different although belonging to a unique system. The volume of the
project is a single body, transparent on the ground floor and more massive on the first floor. This is intended to
reflect the two types of users: children, who should have free access (physical and visual) in all areas, in security;
parents, who may want a more intimate setting in which to share their experiences and get help and advice.
Interior space | classrooms
The design concept is that of a central core of services and vertical connections from which is dynamically
developing a crown of classrooms, with windows to the garden, in perfect continuity with each other and with the
outside world.
The outdoor areas are a natural continuation of those covered: visual continuity between inside and outside that
goes with it, feeds the perception of a complex and rich space which seems bigger.
The outdoor area
Designed as a sort of outdoor classroom, the outside is a natural continuation of the park in front of it and implements the educational purpose through the division into different areas, five of which are related to the senses.
The area includes tactile elements or carved in relief and a sandpit. The auditory area was instead designed with
tubs of different heights: the water, going from one tank to another and between different types of green, develops
special sounds that attract the interest and curiosity of children.
Design Competition | A new centrality
for Taglio di Po
urban design | environmental sustainability | heritage preservation
Ferrara 2014 | Arch. Michele Giordani, Arch. Riccardo Rubini,
CITER: Prof. Romeo Farinella
The present town of Taglio di Po sees the partition of its public space
in three recognizable areas each reflecting a singular centrality, with
their different characteristics: Piazza IV Novembre is perceived as an
amorphous space, without clear boundaries and rarely practiced by
pedestrians (except for market days) since colonized almost entirely
from a parking lot; Piazza Venezia which has trees and parking spaces,
a waiting place well-defined in its own and finally the churchyard suffering of separation from the rest of the areas by the busy road in front
of it. Each area work in itself, but remains untied from the others, depriving the value of a central public space with great potential. The project
strategy aims to unify the value and physical continuity of these spaces
with a simple approach, but at the same time generating areas rich
in social features and new meanings: a unique, distinguishable main
route winds, from the churchyard to the town square, through each area,
giving rise to other signs that redefine surfaces, connect flows, redesigns road layouts. This creates a single coherent system, within which
each centrality develops its own particular role within the urban fabric:
a centrality for the town (‘listone’ in porphyry from Piazza IV Novembre to
the churchyard), a service for territory (parking IV Novembre), a centrality
for the environment (the large green area in Piazza Venezia). Within the
system, the sense of autonomy of each urban area allows the realization of a project in phases.
LA FLESSIBILITA’ DELLO SPAZIO
il recupero della pavimen
il mercato settimanale
accessibilità/pedonalizzaizone/ev
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la piazza-giardino
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International Competition | V for Vlorë
Valorisation. Vision. Viability.
urban
design
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landscape
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Ferrara 2014 | Canapè - Cantieri Aperti, Arch. Elisa Uccellatori, Arch. Vittorino Belpoliti, Arch. Anna Luciani
Working on VLORA the goal is to propose a new vision for
the whole Albanian coast, embracing the ongoing plan of
the Government to demolish every building on the west side
of the panoramic road that runs along the coastline. Giving
the waterfront back to the public domain will increase the
potential of Albania’s shoreline and maximize its touristic
appeal.
Shore for Albanians, shore for tourists. Several and diversified
uses of the coast will be suggested by an in-depth project to
give new functionality to different areas. The new vision of the
coastline can act as a promoter for inland areas.
The road meets the water in Vlorë, creating an interesting
mixture of speed and visibility. Taking advantage of these
interweaving aspects it’s possible to create a synapse and
use the natural stage the city offers to promote the territory
and suggest a stop where it used to be mostly transit.
We invite the people to stop and enjoy the area or to take a
panoramic detour. To do so we will insert HUBS in the network of roads and paths to function as LANDMARKS visible
and recognizable, being always different but containing a
common range of functions. HUBS are meant to pace the
journey along the coast, being repeated in locations where
the paths cross and the landscape invites for further discovery. HUBS will be highly VISIBLE and recognizable. HUBS will
work as a node for infrastructures; they can be used as pit
stops and crossings at the same time. HUBS are places to
change mean of transportation.
the entertainment barge
moves through construction-sites to
attend and control the building process
it hosts concerts
parties and artistic exibitions
it is self-standing or it can dock to
targeted equipped areas along
the shoreline
Design Competition | Quello che non ho
Urban regeneration of the Ospedale degli Infermi Biella | 2nd prize
urban refurbishment | public spaces | territorial transformations
Ferrara 2013 | Canapè - Sergio Fortini (FE),
Studio Architetto Melai (GE), Arch.Anna Luciani, Arch.Francesco Vazzano
An area of nearly
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three acres within a city of about
forty-five thousand inhabitants can not be a trivial
area. Size, location, nature of the expectations
compared with the current historical period, the
redevelopment of the “Ospedale degli Infermi”
requires a number of considerations not granted
on the socio-economic landscape of Biella, and
what is a priority compared to a purely architectural project, a strategy approach that defines the
redevelopment strategy for time, functions, operational phases. In the proposed work, the strategy
aims to build the conditions for a deployment of
the area within the existing urban fabric, transforming it in enclave in the neighborhood. The goal
of this transformation will not only coincide with
the actual future redevelopment of existing volumes, but should work in centrifugal terms on
the axis and polarity outside the area, giving them
back new meaning. This is exactly the meaning
of the operation that we are going to propose: an
urban regeneration project that aims at reconfer
the macro-area of the hospital a set of new meanings such as to respond to the expectations of
a variety of social and human fabric disoriented
by the crisis. The answers for the near future wich
Biella, today, does not have. The question plotted
from our proposal resides in the research, on one
side, of a weighted balance between voids and
built spaces in order to form a framework of high
urban quality; on the other, a system of multiform
and interacting functions able to reactivate economic and social dynamics of vital importance
and still dormant.
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academic project | Progetto di restauro del Battistero degli Ariani (RA)
metric survey | conservative restoration | small scale design
Laboratorio di restauro
Ferrara 2011 | Professor: Arch. Serena Ciliani, Arch. Annalisa Conforti
The analisys of the degradation was carried out on the masonry with reused
bricks of different dimensions whether they are on portions in which the restorations was carried out recently or in the past. In particular, on the west
front, can be seen the different stages of reconstruction took place after 1954,
dissimilar compared to the original brick fachade.
Inside of the apses there is a thin layer of biological patina and in some cases
a lack of mortar joints, due to modifications of the artifact not performed in
a workmanlike manner, any disruption resulting from cracks or structural
damage or to use of unsuitable sand or mortar.
In the southern apse, in the central part of the curtain wall, there are several
bricks affected by efflorescence, due to humidity of the atmosphere that can
condense on the walls, but also by the use of a not suitable mortar, combined with the temperature swing between inside and outside, which may have
led to its disintegration and the surface deposit of salts.
The part of the vaulted South niche is characterized by the disintegration of
the mortar joints and powdery surface deposits, which is likely caused by a
lack of maintenance, deposition of dust pollution, changes in the level of
humidity inside and due to the passage of the visitors, as well as the presence of rising damp in the masonry. It has been hypothesized a conservative
restoration of the masonry, by the removal of harmful sediments, cleaning,
until the consolidation with coatings and resins.
academic project | L’H Cosme Toda
urban transformation | social housing | context integration
Habitatge i ciutat | Residence and city
Barcelona 2010 | Professor: Joan Pascual
The parcel in question is located in Hospitalet de Llobregat, in the district of Barcelona, and
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hosts a disused factory
named “Cosme Toda”, designed by the architect Puig i Gairalt, exponent of modernist industrial. The approach to the
analysis of the site has started from the in-depth analysis
of the densities which characterize mainly the left side of
the parcel. Most of the residential Catalans neighborhoods
have the form of “manzanas”, quadrangular blocks overlooking the street frontage with an interior patio, often narrow,
dark and with little living conditions. In respect of the continuity of the urban fabric, it was decided in first place to use
as embryonic forms of the two main buildings, two squares,
each placed adjacent to a separate side of the parcel. At the
heart rests on the factory, which for its historical importance
it is chosen to maintain and emphasize altering the volume
of the newly constructed buildings, so that coming from the
main streets emerge the side and the roof of the building.
Penetrating inside the district the historical artifact will reveal in its entirety.
academic project | Poble Sec
urban sustainability | housing | context integration
Habitatge i ciutat | Residence and city
Barcelona 2011 | Professor: Joan Pascual
The complex fits into the heart of the district of Poble Sec, old
“barrio” of Barcelona, ​​which creeps in between the majestic
mountain of Montjuic and the busy street Parallel. The project
is placed exactly at the point of confluence between the two
realities of Poble Sec, forcing a dialogue and leaving to assume a functional type of proposal in line with the diversified
demand, but that finds a point of contact in the natural identity of the district. The parcel is divided in two by the Passeig
de l’Exposició, a slow road, which is included in order to create
a service and housing settlement wich dialogues through the
volumes, materials and strategic openings to the landscape
behind and user flows. The accommodations in duplex allow
a varied and unusual facade, leaving the possibility of entering into the volume with real cuts on the ground floor, leaving
the pedestrian within the architectures, which by massive and
monumental become ethereal and porous.
Arch. Martina Massari
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