1st Edition ASA 2021-2022
The Master Classes developed projects in different processes ranging from design to actual construction, linking the social approach to ecological construction and digital production at all levels.
Team
| Paolo Cascone and Maddalena Laddaga | |
|---|---|
| in collaboration with ACTS - A Chance Through Sports (Andrea di Franco) and Labora Politecnico |
3 - 11.9.2021
In just eight days, twenty students from the Master's degree courses in Architecture at the Milan Polytechnic, directed with great skill and passion by architects Paolo Cascone and Maddalena Laddaga (CODESIGNLAB and University of Westminster), designed and built a wooden structure in the courtyard of Building 3 of the Leonardo Campus: an actual 1:1 scale prototype that will later be disassembled and reassembled as a small outdoor gym for the inmates of the Bollate prison.
The first Master Class of the Advanced School of Architecture (ASA, director Pierre-Alain Croset), an excellence program for 20 students of the Master's Degrees in Architecture, began on Friday 3 September. Under the direction of Paolo Cascone and Maddalena Laddaga (CODESIGNLAB and University of Westminster), the students are designing and building a 1: 1 scale prototype that will be assembled in the courtyard of building 3 of the Leonardo Campus. Thanks to the collaboration with the ACTS (A Chance Through Sport) project directed by Prof. Andrea Di Franco (DASTU), this prototype is designed to be disassembled and reassembled in the future as a small outdoor gym for inmates of the Bollate prison.
The Master Class uses the advanced digital manufacturing resources of the LABORA (AUIC School) and MaBa.SAPERLab (ABC Department) Laboratories of the Politecnico di Milano, developing a parametric approach that will allow to adapt the future structure to the requests expressed by the representatives of the inmates, in interaction with students and teachers. The primary structure, made up of a wooden carpentry, follows a parametric logic to define the various spatial qualities and the internal circulation in relation to the courtyard in which the structure itself will be located. The secondary structure with wooden panels fulfills the dual role of sheltering from the summer sun and winter rains.
The prototype will be inaugurated on Saturday 11 September at 11:00 in the courtyard of building 3 (Piazzale Leonardo da Vinci), with the presence of representatives of the inmates.
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Paolo Cascone
Born in Italy and grew up between West Indies and East Africa, started his research between urban ecologies, digital fabrication and self-construction during his master at the AA School in London and continued it while accomplishing a PhD in environmental engineering in Rome. Paolo has been lecturing widely and his work has been published on international design magazines. He is the scientific director of the African Fabbers School and is currently senior lecturer in architecture and environmental design at the University of Westminster in London.
Maddalena Laddaga
Graduated in architecture at the Bari Polytechnic University, she has developed research projects in India and worked in architectural firms between Rome and Berlin. In the recent years, she has developed applied researches in the field of digital fabrication related to architecture. Maddalena is co-director of the CODESIGNLAB since 2020 and she is currently research associate at the University of Westminster in London.
Thanks to:
- Prof. Ingrid Paoletti, arch. Saverio Spadafora (MaBa.SAPERLab, ABC Department)
- Prof. Cecilia Bolognesi, arch. Renato Aiminio (LaborA Model Laboratory, AUIC School)
- Prof. Andrea Di Franco, arch. Marianna Frangipane, arch. Gianfranco Orsenigo (Progetto ACTS Polisocial, DAStU)
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me and us in space
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