vittoria umani

Università degli Studi di Trieste, Dipartimento di Ingegneria e Architettura, Alumna

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Vittoria Umani si Laurea in architettura presso l’università degli studi di Trieste con 110/110 e lode, con una tesi in collaborazione con l’università americana Southern Methodist University di Dallas dal titolo: Geography, Infrastructure, Landscape. From the University Crossing Trail Art Corridor to the Space of the American City. Dal 2020 al 2022 lavora come modellatrice 3D e collaboratrice alla gestione Sale Pubbliche presso PM team per Fincantieri. Dal 2022 intraprende il percorso da Dottoranda in Architettura presso l’Università degli Studi di Trieste.
Address: Rosolina, Veneto, Italy

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Geography, Infrastructure and Architecture: From the Immaterial Scenes of the Arts to the Physical Space of the American City

Athens Journal of Humanities & Arts, Mar 28, 2024

The aim of this paper is to propose a design answer to the United States issue of public space th... more The aim of this paper is to propose a design answer to the United States issue of public space through the use of art, using the city of Dallas as an example. A pragmatic way to interpret space is the grid. The first analysis are aimed toward one of the most ancient systems of formulating "urban" conglomerates, the roman grid. In the USA, it is the Continental Congress's Land Ordinance of 1785 to prescribe the usage of the Continental grid. Ideally the two grids have the same role, the significant difference is their scale. This grid can only be compared to a colossal scale, here space is subordinated to time. This mutation is in line with the urban development processes of the city of Dallas. This is why, the University Crossing Trail Public Improvement Distric, along with the Southern Methodist University of Dallas, have developed a collaboration to promote and regenerate an old trail of the city into an art corridor. Even if not constructed using the Jeffersonian grid, the apparent orderliness of its blocks accentuates the complete supremacy of circulation, while the shapes and turns of the infrastructure collaborate to a new idea of beauty within the landscape of the city. The proposed solution is to intervene with three different urban art projects that have been placed along the main and different types of infrastructures of the city. The intention is to invert the subordination of space that returns protagonist where the urban art projects have been inserted, without ever negating the principal condition of circulation and speed. Because this apparent contradiction requires a specific and cautious sensitivity, it is the responsibility of art and architecture to mediate between audacious locations, functional solutions and the world of visual representation.

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Forms of the Void: Gorizia and the Border that No Longer Exists

Athens Journal of Architecture, Apr 7, 2022

For almost 60 years, the city of Gorizia has been divided by the state border separating Italy an... more For almost 60 years, the city of Gorizia has been divided by the state border separating Italy and Slovenia, where on the other side, the twin city of Nova Gorica has developed. In the past, these two urban realities have not been communicating on the urban and architectonic levels, negating each other's existence, but are now a continuous entity and must find new ways to grow and develop together, even if they belong to two different nations. The University of Trieste, along with the Comune di Gorizia (Gorizia municipality), has developed a laboratory called the RRR lab, with the objective to redevelop and regenerate those urban spaces and buildings that have been put back in play after the fall of the border and the new urban geography that it has created. It is a landscape made up of areas and structures without use or significance, generated by the Dadaist collage of the two cities, that together were, at the time of the laboratory, candidates for the 2025 European Capital of Culture. Starting from this specific case, a more general theme of the research deals with the void. This aspect is easily recognizable in its architecture, where for the purpose of the quality of the work, the single parts that make up a building are not as important as the spaces that are indirectly determined by them. The void, then, can assume an architectonic quality and become the element on which to base the opening principle, "where there is nothing, everything is possible".

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The Role of Architecture in Overcoming Barriers: From Ronald Rael’s Teeter Totter over the US-Mexico Border to Lawrence Halprin’s Freeway Park Designed over the Seattle Freeway

Athens Journal of Architecture

In the last few years, more border walls have appeared in Europe than those present during the Co... more In the last few years, more border walls have appeared in Europe than those present during the Cold War. What is fundamentally wrong about these walls is how a simple line drawn on a map, able to change the perception of a territory and of its identity, does not follow any design principle. In places characterized by security infrastructure, such as borderwalls, the role of architecture is minimal and struggles to go beyond a surface level. The only possible contributions remain in terms of provocations as seen by the designs of architect Ronald Rael. The border walls are not the only contemporary built “walls” that form barriers with negative social implications. Expanding on the theme of infrastructure, differently from the previously mentioned type, connecting infrastructure, such as highways, freeways, parkways, is designed to unite two sides, two places. If this is true in one direction, in the other direction it is quite the opposite: two sides that used to be neighboring are ...

Forms of the Void: Gorizia and the Border that No Longer Exists

by vittoria umani and thomas bisiani

Athens Journal of Architecture, Apr 7, 2022

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Forms of the Void: Gorizia and the Border that No Longer Exists

by vittoria umani and thomas bisiani

Athens Journal of Architecture, Apr 7, 2022

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Forms of the Void: Gorizia and the Border that No Longer Exists

by thomas bisiani and vittoria umani

Athens Journal of Architecture, 2022

For almost 60 years, the city of Gorizia has been divided by the state border separating Italy an... more For almost 60 years, the city of Gorizia has been divided by the state border separating Italy and Slovenia, where on the other side, the twin city of Nova Gorica has developed. In the past, these two urban realities have not been communicating on the urban and architectonic levels, negating each other’s existence, but are now a continuous entity and must find new ways to grow and develop together, even if they belong to two different nations. The University of Trieste, along with the Comune di Gorizia (Gorizia municipality), has developed a laboratory called the RRR lab, with the objective to redevelop and regenerate those urban spaces and buildings that have been put back in play after the fall of the border and the new urban geography that it has created. It is a landscape made up of areas and structures without use or significance, generated by the Dadaist collage of the two cities, that together were, at the time of the laboratory, candidates for the 2025 European Capital of Culture. Starting from this specific case, a more general theme of the research deals with the void. This aspect is easily recognizable in its architecture, where for the purpose of the quality of the work, the single parts that make up a building are not as important as the spaces that are indirectly determined by them. The void, then, can assume an architectonic quality and become the element on which to base the opening principle, “where there is nothing, everything is possible”.

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Geography, Infrastructure and Architecture: From the Immaterial Scenes of the Arts to the Physical Space of the American City

Athens Journal of Humanities & Arts, Mar 28, 2024

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Forms of the Void: Gorizia and the Border that No Longer Exists

Athens Journal of Architecture, Apr 7, 2022

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The Role of Architecture in Overcoming Barriers: From Ronald Rael’s Teeter Totter over the US-Mexico Border to Lawrence Halprin’s Freeway Park Designed over the Seattle Freeway

Athens Journal of Architecture

Forms of the Void: Gorizia and the Border that No Longer Exists

by vittoria umani and thomas bisiani

Athens Journal of Architecture, Apr 7, 2022

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Forms of the Void: Gorizia and the Border that No Longer Exists

by vittoria umani and thomas bisiani

Athens Journal of Architecture, Apr 7, 2022

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Forms of the Void: Gorizia and the Border that No Longer Exists

by thomas bisiani and vittoria umani

Athens Journal of Architecture, 2022

For almost 60 years, the city of Gorizia has been divided by the state border separating Italy an... more For almost 60 years, the city of Gorizia has been divided by the state border separating Italy and Slovenia, where on the other side, the twin city of Nova Gorica has developed. In the past, these two urban realities have not been communicating on the urban and architectonic levels, negating each other’s existence, but are now a continuous entity and must find new ways to grow and develop together, even if they belong to two different nations. The University of Trieste, along with the Comune di Gorizia (Gorizia municipality), has developed a laboratory called the RRR lab, with the objective to redevelop and regenerate those urban spaces and buildings that have been put back in play after the fall of the border and the new urban geography that it has created. It is a landscape made up of areas and structures without use or significance, generated by the Dadaist collage of the two cities, that together were, at the time of the laboratory, candidates for the 2025 European Capital of Culture. Starting from this specific case, a more general theme of the research deals with the void. This aspect is easily recognizable in its architecture, where for the purpose of the quality of the work, the single parts that make up a building are not as important as the spaces that are indirectly determined by them. The void, then, can assume an architectonic quality and become the element on which to base the opening principle, “where there is nothing, everything is possible”.

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