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Interaction Torino
The project aims at an initiative to increase the interaction & collaboration on & around the site through its functions, to make it more lively, more safe & more approachable.
Urban design

Turin, Italy

43,452 sq m.

Revit I Photoshop I Sketch-up

Masterplan design I Student housing design
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Concept evolution for site plan

MPOLITECNICO DI TORINO
Laurea Magistrale in Architettura per il Progetto Sostenibile
Atelier E / the architectural sustainable design

prof. Fabio Favoino, prof. Carlo Micono / Building Physics
prof. Mario Grosso/ Environmental Technological Design
prof. Alberto Daviso di Charvensod / Architectural and Urban Design

Gauri Mankeekar I Hassan Hijazi I Mahoud Elsayed I Zhu Xiaoxiao I Feng Jiayin

Site visit considerations
Personas ?
Students, researchers, pedestrians,
transit-visitors & pets.
It would be nice to have ?
A transition space that collaborates people across different fields
Traces ?
Strong axes and bridge connectivity in the vicinity for other projects.
1. Identifying the existing road network as the axis & placemaking the plaza centrally for balanced planning.
4. Juxtaposing of built forms and green spaces alternatively to give an interesting journey to the transition space.
2. Providing greenery along the identified axis to accentuate and enhance the site from its surroundings.
5. Tweaking straight lines to direct the facades and overlook the central plaza and also enhance focus through the transition space.
3. Inducing collaboration through various activities & functions to make the project sticky & attract people from different fields.
6. Using enhanced perspective lines to accentuate direction of movement & introverted character for the plaza facing facades.
Zoning diagram
Roots & opportunity hub
Student & education hub
Landscape
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The activities have been mapped according to the urban micro-climatic matrix & site context.
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Pet park
Torino historical experience
Open-air seating
Interactive Plaza
Underground Parking
Torino opportunity & culture experience
Torino international culinary experience
Central sunken plaza
Bicycle path
Torino student experience
Jogging track
Torino educational experience
Underpass connection

Masterplan
Focus : Students & internal comfort
- Housing need for high student immigrant population
- Favourable site location
- Doubly loaded corridor planning for proper ventilation & light
- Individual balconies
Building axonometry
Modules of typology
Architectural board
Sustainability board

1. Impermeable building plan that does not allow ventilation of either air or light to the corridor.

4. Evolution of façade from flat-folding to offer self shading during summers, views & ventilation all year round.

2. Permeable building plan that allows air, light & cross ventilation.

5. Double height punctures created due to stacking of floor plans used of cross ventilation and light penetration.

3. Permeable building plan with tweaked facades ro enhance air, light & cross ventilation.

6. Balcony areas for individual rooms that are also effective as horizontal projections for sun shading & buffer spaces.

Vertical circulation core
Shared living room
Single room
Double room
Triple room
Gym
Administration
Single room
Double room
Tripple room
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Ground floor plan for student housing
East facade elevation
South facade elevation
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Double membrane to dampen the effect of the harsh South sun.
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Solar energy for building use & site.
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Overhang projections to tackle direct sun glare.
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Double glazed fully openable window with external wooden shutter & internal vertical operable blinds for shading the East & the West facades.
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Punctures for natural ventilation & green terraces to ensure shading in summer and heat gain in winter.
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Folding façade to induce shading as against flat façade.
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