supervisors: Alessio Erioli , Ulisse Tramonti
candidate: Tommaso Casucci
The project is a proposal for the new library of the school of architecture, in Florence.
It is part of a renovation plan of a large area used until recent times as convent and later penitentiary.
Pre-existing spaces are converted in archive, the new addition provide study halls, meeting area, an auditorium and exhibition spaces in a continuous varying experience.
The project explore the emergent qualities derived from surfaces modulation in an intensive fields, aiming to equilibrium states of program, structure and function through morphodynamical processes.
At a global scale the system explore how the modulation of isosurfaces, based on intensive field from site analysis data, can achieve highly differentiated spaces and performative structures.
The research uses a generative methodology to test multiple solutions based on the same process from which was selected the one that represent the best compromise between structural performance, program and connections.
At finer scale, surfaces porosity is based on triply periodic minimal surfaces structures to define a performative interface of bioclimatic regulation where irradiation values on the surface are used to module light perception in the interior spaces of the library.
you can find a presentation of the thesis (in Italian) on Issuu.
