My last trip it was in Paris, for the Paris Photo festival...
It's so difficult to find something new/interesting to say about Paris when everybody around you is already taking pictures or seeing those of famous photographers. It's almost embarassing.

So I didn't try to do nothing new or different.
This is Paris. Just consider these a "memo" of that.
[PP_Pics of Paris]

ps. I'm always so worried every time I have to go there -actually, I go the least I can- because people from Paris are always so hostile... I cannot loosen up that!   :(

Gone with the bricks...

Yes, I'm doing also this kind of stuff -at the moment- but for a very good reason.
As soon as possible, I'll create a kind of gallery with... variations on this theme, obviously in a perfect "Bea Style".

Soon available (well, soon after: my thesis, more serious 3D images, my ASP degree, my... )

Thermal Complex, back again

 The view of the main bar, from the "water" level

The entrance from the plaza

Four elements containing kind of... Jacuzzi?!

(outside water NOT CONNECTED with the inside one!)

Have a break on the water...

Entering the thermal complex.

Texas people specially welcoming

Here we are, in the heart of this: water everithing, up and down.

Sauna relax zone

The panoramic stairs

Static system - Aestetical research

The main pool - down

The mega-pool - up!

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Yesterday it was the great day of the exam, and this is our project.

It's a thermal complex in Milan, though to be a new attractive pole for the Porta Nuova area, dealing with the ancient Navigli System actually covered by the steets (but until 1930 completely opened).

We did well, in the end, after a long work together.

Special Thanks, as usual, to my friends and mates in this work:

Maria Cristina Diano

Silvia Giabbanelli

Sara Rizzetti

 

 

above: schemes of the urban strategy

under: views of the projects

[3D model by S. Giabbanelli; Renderization by B. Spolidoro; Photoshop corrections by S. Rizzetti ]

 The public snack-bar, at the urban level

 Detail of the West facade, showing the public snack-bar from outside

 The Reception at the entrance

 The upper swimming-pool on the roof, with a transparent fundal, in the solarium area.

 View of the inner pool, at the urban level. 

The "ceiling" of this hall is the outside pool, with transparent fundal

 Central prospective of the inner pool and the structural system of portals in concrete, covered with Ardesia stone.

 Fronts of the building

 The urban level +122,5 m slm

The first level +127,5 slm

The second level +133,5

 

Sections

Enlarging of the swimming-pools

 

Technology of the upper swimming-pool

Perspective section of the pools system.

NYC High Line

I promised and now.. here we are, guys!

This is maybe the most interesting project I've seen in NYC, and even if it's not that new, I present it to youfrom a turistic point of view, but with the eye of the architect. Then, since I'm also fond of photography, I've tried to take the best pictures I could, to share with you something not boring.
Ok ok a lot of words...now the stuff:
  [click, click, click here!]

Just keep in mind, even if you are not interested in this kind of things (I mean: architectures, landscape design, bla bla bla...) that NYC is not only Hot Dogs and Shopping...

Enjoy!

Pictures from the US

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bea_spoli/sets/72157627682504136/

Finally here they are!! After my trip to the USA from Aug. 17th untill Sept. 6th/7th... tadaaaa! A selection of the pics is here presented. But wait because there is still something in my magic box... just wait for what's coming next.. ;)

MILANO - what's next?

Here another "mistery" to be solved before the end of September...

What if Milan could have a new thermal building, just close to Garibaldi Station?
What if four students are working on it since 2009?
What if we are really curious to know if our Professor DO really appreciate our ideas??

Let's see... Que serà, serà...

Serio River Fluvial Park

This is the main configuratione: a long fluvial park with a central path going north-south, with three main spot areas.
The project fronts the impact of a new motorway (Bre.Be.Mi) on a rural area in the Pianura Padana, along the Serio River.



Schemes showing the features of the land


The table of the floodable area, with details, views (by S. Gatti) and the botanical aspect.


The schematic section of the different levels of the floodable area


Details of the boundaries of the floodable area.


Table of the birdwatching area, along the river, with special platform made of gabions and concrete (views by S. Gatti).


Table of the southest part, with entrance and fish club small building (views by S. Gatti).




Last table of the exam, showing the crossing of the peatonal path and the motorway Bre.Be.Mi (work in progress) and some technical drawings of the lighting system.
The main idea is to close an area just under the motorway bridge and left the nature growing spontaneously, according G. Clement theories.


GROUP WORK BY

OLGA ANDRIYEVSKA
STEFANO GATTI
BEATRICE SPOLIDORO

In the meanwhile...

I'm waiting for tomorrow...
so many things done for the exam, so much to do then... going crazy, can't wait for the next trip...
..this was my last in Spain, october 2010.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bea_spoli/5887488995/in/set-72157626959754673

Project for the Serio river (BG)

This is a piece of our project of landscape architecture.
The final exam will be on the 26th of July, and after that day I'll publish all the project...
but until that Tuesday... no comment ;-)