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Ready to build?
atelier mobile#4_stura is starting tomorrow to highlight the river park along the Stura river.
On this blog you will be able to follow it step by step

Analysis of site

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Seven days to start atelier mobile#4.
Our design and building site can be clearly seen by the space, so our architecture will be seen as well! (images from www.bing.com/maps/)

atelier mobile#4 Schedule

Monday 24 August
Cuneo, Casa del Fiume
9:30am_Participants meeting
10am_Parco Fluviale Gesso e Stura presentation 
Vignolo, Centrale Fernando Olivero
11am_Site visit with Chiara Devoti (Politecnico di Torino), Andrea Fulcheri (Consorzio irriguo), Jan-B Zwiejski (Université Laval, Québec, Canada) and the Park staff 
Cuneo, Casa del Fiume
2pm_atelier mobile presentation
Building box presentation by the students team
Historical maps survey and discussion
5pm_Discussion on the site features and first brainstorming on the project

Tuesday 25 August
Cuneo, Casa del Fiume
9am_Design session
Vignolo, Centrale Fernando Olivero
Possible second site visit and design check

Wednesday 26 August
Vignolo, Centrale Fernando Olivero
9am_Building session
Meeting with the carpenter
Critical discussion with Jan-B Zwiejski

Thursday 27 August
Vignolo, Centrale Fernando Olivero
9am_Building session

Friday 28 August
Vignolo, Centrale Fernando Olivero
9am_Building session

Saturday 29 August
Vignolo, Centrale Fernando Olivero
9am_Building session ending
Late afternoon_Building opening

Teamwork 15_Foundations Points Definition

Choice of the part of the site that is going to host the new info and resting point.
The northern edge with the walnut and the apple tree is the only place giving shadow all the day long.
Placement of the foundations grid (modules 120x120 cm) on that edge, relating it to the two trees.
At the beginning of the workshop week  little wells will be dug on the foundations points, then  plastic tubes (diameter 20 cm) will be placed to contain the soil. During the design session the participants will decide which foundations point to use according to their design choices.

First visit to the hydroelectric plant with Andrea Fulcheri, architect of the Consorzio Irriguo, the society managing the water caption and the irrigation canals system.

Building Site: Centrale Idroelettrica Fernando Olivero

The staff of the Parco Fluviale Gesso e Stura in agreement with the Municipality of Vignolo decided to propose a new site for atelier mobile#4_Stura.
The place is an elongated field extending from the northern side of the Centrale Idroelettrica Fernando Olivero, an hydroelectrical plant dating from the 1920s.
The site is bordered by a canal, a pair of trees (a walnut and an apple tree) and a wide open field looking southeastwards to the Stura river, the Bisalta peaks and the Alps.
It gives the chanche to host panels describing the canal system and the Centrale activities related to the area past and present configurations.

The Centrale Idroelettrica Fernando Olivero

The Centrale Idroelettrica Fernando Olivero and our site on its right

Building site: the walnut at its Northern edge

The building site

Southeastward view from the building site

Building site: the canal along its Western border

Plants along the Centrale back elevation

Teamwork 14_The building box

The building box was finally defined, its elements are now under cut in the sawmill to be ready for theatelier mobile week.
The building box contains a series elements to build junctions, frames and horizontal plans, rails to fill the frames and foundation poles.

1_junctions

marine plywood

280 plates 24x36 cm, thickness 15 mm, with two inner cuts

to build

70 junctions using four plates each

2_frames

chestnut wood

80 planks 9x93 cm, thickness 2 cm

80 planks 9x97 cm, thickness 2 cm

to build

40 frames type A using 4 planks, final dimension 106x102 cm

40 planks 9x97 cm, thickness 2 cm

40 planks 9x197 cm, thickness 2 cm
to build

20 frames type B made using 4 planks, final dimension 106x206 cm

3_rails

larch wood

150 rails 3x3 cm, length 400 cm

4_foundation posts

wood treated in autoclave

24 posts 8x8 cm, length 130 cm

The system is based on an orthogonal grid of 120x120 cm. It allows various configurations, among which it will be designed and detailed our small architecture.

Junction in marine plywood

Frame type B, axonometric

Frame: example of rails insertion

General framework of the building grid