Architecture, Urbanistic & Design
POR T F O L I O
Alberto Canton alberto_canton@libero.it
Portfolio of Alberto Canton
This portfolio collects the projects that have mainly identified my educational path inside and outside the academic context.
alberto_canton@libero.it
CONTENTS
Suzhou: Learning from Venice Urban planning | Urbanistic Venezia, Italy - Suzhou, China 45.442810 N, 12.220297 E
Defrag Urban planning | Urbanistic Marghera, Italy 45.442810 N, 12.220297 E
+1,01m s.l.m. Climate changes | Architecture Delta del Po, Italy 44.95 N, 12.416667 E
Life Goes On Triple connection | Architecture Al Mazzeh, Siria 33.499273 N, 36.242886 E
Fingermark Vertical museum | Architecture Ponti sul Mincio, Italy 45.244680 N, 10.41996 E
Connection Comprehensive school | Architecture Mel, Italy 46.061508 N, 12.083439 E
Link(r)ing Pedestrian walkway | Architecture Porto Marghera, Italy 45.492026 N, 12.475710 E
Terra Comune Free cross-border zone | Urbanistic Lille, France 50.701999 N, 3.195992 E
Resew Nature trail | Urbanistic Cavallino - Treporti, Italy 45.492026 N, 12.475710 E
Competitions & Design Competitions and logo design | Design
SUZHOU: Learning from Venice Master’s Thesis Concept : Linear park Period : 2019/2020, 6 month Tipology : Urban planning Urbanist. : P. Viganò DIALOGUE BETWEEN CITIES: Venice and Suzhou The thesis was conceived on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the twining agreement between the cities of Venice and Suzhou. It is a research project that seeks to highlight the close relationship between these two cities, which can be seen in their construction, in the way they relate to the surrounding area, and in their being cities of water. Suzhou is a city that fits into a rational geometric system of man-made water lines, a crossroads, like Venice, of the most flourishing commercial traffic along the Grand Canal of the same name, which connects the city of Beijing with Ningbo. A city which, thanks to its incredible similarity to Venice, Marco Polo himself, during one of his many journeys, renamed Venice of the East. A close relationship that probably emerged from that episode and which strengthens their bond even more today. But can the ancient centre of Suzhou still be considered a city of water? How has it evolved over time? What relationship does it have with the dense network of canals that surround it?
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What is its attitude towards the use of the machine? What are the different urban patterns that have overlapped over time? The research sets out to analyse and question these points, trying to ask questions, then recreating suggestions with which to then relate. It is from these that the design scenario will be born. An imagery of a future city capable of evolving by learning from its past and its relationship with its twin, Venice. A project that aims to recreate Suzhou’s ancient spaces, to rediscover water lines and canals that have disappeared over time. A scenario in which car use is to be drastically reduced, replacing it with more sustainable means of transport. The project aims to redevelop the entire old town centre, starting with its symbolic elements, the gardens, which attract millions of tourists every year. A grid of functions that identifies the gardens in its generating lines, making them the cardinal elements, and overlapped with the old town centre may be the seed of future redevelopment for the entire city, a city that claims a glorious past but is now the victim, of strong urban development that has drastically changed its forms, distorting its identity.
Water analysis: Flows, Bridges and Closures
Mobility analysis
Entry to the ancient city has always, since its foundation, been filtered and regulated through large water gates. Gates which had both the role of controlling access by water from outside and, especially in more recent times, played the important role of regulating water levels during the various seasons.
Suzhou is one of the major logistics centres in Jiangsu Province, also located along an important transport corridor between Shanghai and Nanjing. Two main roads cross the city center from north to south and from east to west, with six lanes of vehicular traffic and a cross-section of approximately 50 metres.
Urban patterns
Functions
The current architectural language does not express local social relations, collective memory and aesthetic achievements. Therefore, the identity of Chinese cities is facing a great challenge of survival alongside rapid development.
The layout of the urban pattern also reflects the gradual evolution of the old city centre of Suzhou. On the north, most of the residential buildings have a ground floor with a public activity. Traces of a distant past but a destination for millions of tourists each year.
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WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF THE ANCIENT CENTER OF SUZHOU WERE REORGANISED WITHOUT THE DOMINANCE OF THE PRIVATE CAR, BRINGING BACK THE ANCIENT WATER WAYS AND ENHANCING THE ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE?
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SUZHOU SCENARIO: A new identity for the ancient city centre The Green ring is the filter element that manages access to the city and contains within it a series of leisure functions for citizens as well as the remains of the historic walls that surrounded the ancient centre of Suzhou. Together with the access bridges, this system also includes the system of external water locks and the four large navigation watergates that allow the ancient city centre to permeate by boat in all seasons. The garden system represents the element of naturalistic connection and transport based on the original system of roads and canals determined by the strategies of the scenario. A series of axes based on the main heritage elements of the old town, in particular the gardens. A system that therefore aims to enhance and requalify all that historical and cultural heritage which, for centuries, has been a symbol of the old town centre of Suzhou. The daily system represents the transport connection element that allow citizens to reach all parts of the city, all the typical places of daily life. A series of axes whose points of arrival are hospitals, schools, universities, commercial areas or more generally all those functions serving the city. A system that therefore aims to enhance the secondary routes used by the citizens, also and above all upgrading those contemporary urban fabrics, today dominated by empty spaces without direction or end.
1. GREEN RING
Along the border of old city centre the scenario imagine a green loop that repair from the smokes of Suzhou district and allow to access in the old town from canals, using a sistem of water locks A new pedestrian street and private water views between contemporary neighbourhoods will characterise the scenario.
2. GARDEN SYSTEM
The old relationship between the Heritage elements and the ancient city centre (a) has been overturned, the new contemporary building overrides the historic elements (b). The future scenario imagine new rules for reduce the high of the next buildings, bringing back the ancient skyline of citycentre
3. DAILY SYSTEM - ALTERNATIVE TRASPORT AXES
In the old town, some buildings without an historical value will be demolished for estabilishing the ancient relashionship with canals, creating new public spaces New transports HUB along green axes allow to across Suzhou with different transports systems like boat, bus, metro and cars
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DEFRAG Concept : Linear park Period : 2017/2018, 6 month Tipology : Urban planning Defragmentation, in computer science, is the operation aimed at compacting elements into non-contiguous data in order to recover memory space. In the same way, in the context of Marghera, the memory of a collective space has been occupied over time by an industrial force that has seized the place, molding it and modifying it almost irreversibly. A defrag operation is therefore necessary to identify the space that the industrial reality can occupy in Marghera to return the subtractions to the community. This operation is based on the identification of the problem that lies in the presence of the imposing industrial plate that hinders the permeability both to water and to the water itself. The intervention takes the form of the erosion of this plate to crumble and defrag it by acting on the weak parts ready to be taken away which it presents and leaves uncovered. The weak spaces are composed of deposits, parking lots, abandoned areas mainly located close to the fences that until now have been an insurmountable limit.
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Atelier sustainability Arch : M. Vanore, M.Aimini, S. Nocera, M.C. Tosi
Concept axonometric view 11
Defrag
Green hinge
Fingers
Loop
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Urban planning
Partial abaco of the existing
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EA4
RESPECT
REUSE
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SUPPORT
Road industry
Storage area
Petrochemical building
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Tank
Storage area
Building inside the park
Ex enel
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INDIFFERENCE
RESPECT
Technical room
Industrial building
Conveyor belt
Electric truss
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Port industry RISPETTO
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+1,01m s.l.m. Concept : Resilience Period : 2018/2019, 6 month Tipology : Climate changes
Atelier sustainability Arch : B. Albrecht, M. Condotta, M. Scarpa
About a year ago the average atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide reached and above 400 parts per million. A not reassuring fact, which confirms an ever-increasing global warming. In recent decades this has led to an increase in global temperature of about 2 ° C. At first glance they seem few, but in reality they are causing and will cause the continuous melting of the ice at the poles and most likely will lead to a rise in water. However, this is not the only cause of sea level rise. The morphology of the Italian territory must also be considered. A territory, especially in these places, subject to isostasy and vertical tectonic movements that lead the land to lower more and more over time. According to some data from the IPCC of 2013, the sea level in these areas will rise by about +1.01 meters by 2100, completely submerging the coastal and lagoon areas. The project proposes, as a starting point, the progressive reduction and consequent shutdown of most water pumps.
This will lead to the creation of a new economy that is no longer established on land but in water, fish farming and shellfish farming. This not only leads to economic savings in the entire area due to the switching off of the dewatering pumps but also to a very high gain thanks to a new form of economy, certainly much more profitable than agriculture, although less extensive. Only in the areas of large cities will they remain in operation thus allowing to protect most of the population. During the gradual shutdown of the dewatering pumps in the external areas, planting of plant species is planned around the future wetlands, which on one hand will serve to keep the natural ecosystem alive and on the other will constitute one of the future sources of sustainable energy on which they will merge the new settlement realities.
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+1,01m s.l.m. The forecast of the future scenario foresees a radical change in the morphology and the reading of the territory. For the past two centuries, the great dewatering systems have succeeded in removing the territory from the sea, but they have constituted a great economic expense. The future increase in water, however, places on the table a very complex scenario which could nevertheless be an opportunity for the study, economic and tourist development of an area that will probably gradually disappear. Current state
Idrovore on 50%
-1.48 mt
-0.50 mt
Idrovore off
Scenario 2100
0.00 mt
+ 1.01 mt
Territorial framework
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e b g + 18 mt + 6 mt + 9 mt
d + 6 mt
c + 6 mt
+ 3 mt
+ 12 mt
Climate changes
What will happen to all the coastal territories? What will happen to the lands below sea level? What will happen to the people who live in these places? How will the inhabitants of Polesine once again be able to adapt with extreme resilience and win the “battle” with nature? These are just some questions that can however already offer numerous design ideas for the area. Cà Cappello is a small fraction of the municipality of Porto Viro. It is very particular due to the presence of a small church dating back as far as 1550 and a built-up system that mostly develops near the embankment.
The project consists of an essential, slender element, a walkway that allows connection with the embankment and that develops branching out between the old walls of the brick buildings. Among these the main function is the establishment of diffused hotel rooms, able to offer tourists a unique experience in contact with nature, immersed in it. However, some buildings will also survive, usable by the inhabitants of the place, able to be a solid leader for the local economy and the management of the future scenario, completely dominated by water. 17
LIFE GOES UP Concept : Triple connection Period : 2016/2017, 3 weeks Tipology : Public
Workshop Arch : VMX Architecture
The theme of the project stems from the desire to focus the attention of global architectural culture in Syrian cities and fully reaffirm the country’s belonging to the cultural heritage of humanity and the global responsibility for its reconstruction. At the heart of the approach to a project of this type is the role of the community, of users, in order to facilitate interaction between people and thus contributing to the creation of healthy communities that actively attract their surroundings. The project is born for a specific site as an inseparable act from civil life and from the society in which it manifests itself. The projected work wants to become part of a set of coded habits and gestures but at the same time it also wants to appear as an exception with respect to the context, an unique element. A simple connection between three different points is broken down into different levels able to create a new public space, a connecting space called “slowline” and a last defined “fastline” that connects mosque, houses and commercial activities.
View of the city 18
Axonometric view
Fastline + 8,00 m
Slowline + 4,00 m
Playground + 0,00 m
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Fingermark
FINGERMARK Concept : Architectural redevelopment Period : 2017/2018, 2 weeks Tipology : Municipal project Competition Association : Azienda A2A Coord. by Arch. : G. Zandonella The chimney rises on the border line between two regions, Lombardia and Veneto, and is located on a waterway that has geologically connected Lake Garda to the Pò river; a sign visible from a far, capable of attracting attention, a sign that perhaps, among the many, it is distinguished by one of its main characteristics, verticality. And it is from here that our idea starts: being able to create a new point of interest while maintaining its intrinsic characteristics, its qualities, its identity. The inside of the chimney is characterized by two large chimneys that we have decided to keep, arranging and adapting them to become the internal symbol of architecture. But to whom do you dedicate this important work? This new place of reference of the territory? The answer lies, perhaps, in the name of one of the most illustrious historical inhabitants of the place, Dante, known above all for a great work written to him, the Divine Comedy.
“...Nel ciel che più de la sua luce prende fu’ io, e vidi cose che ridire né sa né può chi di là sù discende...” Divina Commedia, Paradiso, Canto I vv. 4-6
“...Ma come d’animal divegna fante, non vedi tu ancor: quest’è quel punto, che più savio di te fé già errante...” Divina Commedia, Purgatorio, Canto XXV vv. 4-6
Territorial framework Schematic & Conceptual sections 20
Municipal project
Actual
Integration
Discovery
Perception
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CONNECTION Concept : Comprehensive school Period : 2016/2017, 1 year Tipology : Educational Laboratory Arch. : : A. Ferlenga The territory of the municipality of Mel rises above a small promontory, marked by a stream to the south, and from the bed of the Piave river to the north, which delimit it and create its shape. The project area is located just below the small town, in a place between the city and nature, a disconnected place, of “barrier” and passage. The idea of the project comes from the term “connection”. A connection that does not only refer to the material, spatial environment, but also flows into the philosophical and abstract one. The concept starts from this, from the desire to not have a classic school, but to have a minimal unity, a set of spaces in close connection, inseparable and necessary for each other, necessary for the our idea of “school”, of “multi-purpose nucleus”. But it is not just this internal spatial connection that wants to characterize the school. There is also the desire to create a link with the outside, with the landscape, with the dynamics taking place in the surroundings.
Project axonometry 22
1. Area analysis
2. Elements of the area
3. Fusion of the elements 4. Relationship with territory
5. Creation of the form
6. Form processing
7. Functional spaces
8. Study of light
External view of the comprehensive institute
View of the library atrium
Interior view of the gym 23
Connection
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Project plan
Territorial Section 24
Educational
Axonometric exploded view 25
LINK(R) ING Concept : Pedestrian walkway and urban system Period : 2015/2016, 3 weeks Tipology : Public
Workshop Arch : G.F.C. Architecture
The project aims at the realization of an element of such magnitude that the local area of Porto Marghera, which is still in a marshy state, is revived locally. Marghera is predominantly known as an industrial area and is known for the many environmental disputes arising from the pollution produced by these industries. The area in which we are working is in the second arm of the port-industrial area and resides in a complete state of abandonment. The concept starts from the desire to develop a relationship of symbiotic dependence with the existing structures in order to release the latent potential of the context in which the intervention is inserted. The architecture we have found wants to be attractive to tourists and residents, but it also wants to be a place of refreshment / relaxation for all those who work in neighboring industries and become a new symbol of local rebirth. The search for minimal intervention has led us to an essential form, a circle inscribed in an ellipse.
The circular progression of the intervention establishes a more intimate connection with the two shores and allows visitors to focus on two opposite and complementary views: the industrial area towards the outside and nature towards the inside. The height, in the intersection of the two forms, generates functional interior spaces for catering activities and services, while the external spaces take on the function of ramps and walkways through which it is possible to walk the entire structure. The will is to create an experiential path through which to observe the environment and stimulate a deeper awareness of the surrounding area. The presence of a single path favors the interaction between visitors. The architecture wants to be a minimal architecture, a walk that is born in a territory that has never been explored up until now, able to offer a new point of view on the past and a new future perspective for the Porto Marghera area.
External view of the landscape element 26
Project axonometry
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Link(r)ing
The project idea started following the characteristic shape of the circular cisterns present in large numbers around the area of intervention; with a single gesture we wanted to create a form that could perform different functions within the swamp. The experience through space has been the starting point for the development of architecture in order to explore the area; hence the idea of a double height able to satisfy the need for other functions such as refreshment and communication. Due to the desire to develop a symbiotic relationship between architecture and the landscape, the choice of a single material such as wood seemed the most targeted to give uniformity to the architecture, maintain the naturalness of the area and protect it from further cementations. The lamellar wood slats that characterize the work in all its circumference are the supporting element of the sections with different heights; at the same time, these slats perform other functions such as sunscreens to protect from direct and seat-parapet lighting in the overhead walkway. It is possible to walk the structure in all its heights but only by stopping can one perceive the external space otherwise obscured by the blades.
1. Search for form
2. Search for space
3. Floor permeability
4. Visual permeability
5. Program analysis
6. Landscape integration
North elevation
East elevation
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Pubblic
Photo of the model
West elevation
South elevation
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TERRA COMUNE Concept : Urban study Period : 2016/2017, 2 weeks Tipology : Urban planning Summerschool Association : Eurométropole Coord. : Studio 017 Paola Viganò A cross-border free zone for 2050 Founded in 2008, the Eurométropole is the first European group for territorial cooperation (Lille-Kortrijk-Tournai); it includes 147 municipalities, covers 3550 km2 and has 2.1 million inhabitants. The body’s ambition is to erase cultural, political and administrative boundaries to make this diversity a good. The Espace Bleu is a territorial vision that aims to respond to climate challenges and centers on innovative actions related to water in all its dimensions: waterways, capillary (all the smallest branches that propagate in the area) and the aquifers. The 017 Paola Viganò study was called upon to carry out in-depth studies on the three different themes and to devise concrete projects for a new development of the area. Down : Masterplan with identification of the industries in use and abandoned
Area / aquifer on which the project is based and centrality of the area in the European context
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The analysis reported here was carried out in Lille, the third stage of study of the workshop and concerns the issue of aquifers; theme that also incorporates rainwater and surface water. The analysis of the area starts from a need for a common “revolution” between France and Belgium regarding the current situation of the aquifer. The problems concerning the groundwater derive from the morphology of the impermeable soil which does not allow a natural infiltration of surface waters and from the widespread industrial activity that pollutes the water capillaries and uncontrolledly draws water from the water table. The area under study has become of interest because, as mentioned above, the morphology of its terrain which can be simplified into three different layers: 1) the first layer is the surface layer, a layer composed of permeable soil of about 5m that comes into contact with the meteoric water and lets it flow out; 2) the second layer is a clayey, compact and therefore impermeable layer. This band is a characteristic element of the area and the cause of all the problems related to the Blue Space. The problems arising from this clayey element are multiple; among the main ones there is the impossibility of recharge of the aquifer due to the impossibility of infiltration and the accumulation of water that derives along the roads during the intense and usual precipitations. 3) the third layer is the aquifer, an accumulation element and an exhaustible source of water for the state of France and for the state of Belgium (with division between Flanders and Wallonia). Expert studies have established the amount of water that is annually subtracted from the aquifer, namely, 62 million m3 used for housing supplies (a figure regulated by national laws), 60 million m3 used for industries (unregulated figure by national laws) and finally 10 million m3 that are lost during the journey. Perennially used, the aquifer is able to recharge itself through the meteoric waters only downstream, an area without the clay layer. The project starts from a first step in the political field for the creation of a free zone able to give stability to an area also divided into three different political factions. The second step is subdivided into two intervention modalities regarding the condition of the industrial activity or a sustainable upgrade for the areas in use and a redevelopment for the abandoned areas. The last step of this utopia stems from the desire to redevelop the railway network so as to create a “green corridor” capable of giving life to a supranational loop.
Coal and wells
Use of cemented-green soil
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RESEW Concept : Cycle and pedestrian nature trail Period : 2016/2017, 6 month Tipology : Urban planning Urbanist. : P. Viganò Cavallino. A borderland, a barrier, a last strip of land that encloses and separates, to the east, the Venetian Lagoon from the Adriatic Sea. An annexed territory, inside, near the metropolitan city of Venice, but at the same time far away, and in some respects, even too far. A land full of features and peculiarities that make it fascinating and unique; a territory that nevertheless remains on the horizon, a backdrop to the city of Venice. A bipolar territory, we would dare to say, influenced by dynamics at various scales, dynamics whose ends are sometimes radically opposed.
Project masterplan
Our analysis starts from this, from the will of understand the ultimate principles that characterize it and make it in some ways fascinating and ambitious as a goal and, for others, extremely marginalized and, almost, unattainable. This “composition” of places, features, movements splits into our paper in six main themes: Zero scenario, Agriculture, Tourism, Lagoon Ecosystem, Large infrastructures and Roads. Six ways of “breaking down” the territory of Cavallino, six themes that, with different “eyes”, analyze it and “look at” it in its aspects and its peculiarities, trying to revitalize it, harmonize it and integrate it in the lagoon context, with the ambition to make him abandon that marginal role that, in part, pervades him. Six apparently different themes, opposites, that will go instead to integrate, to work and act together. In particular, the Zero Scenario will tell the future scenarios, utopian and otherwise, that will affect the Cavallino Peninsula.
Agriculture and Tourism, on the other hand, will seek to expand the places most frequented by tourism, opening the horizons towards territories and structures now not very frequented and thoroughly experienced. Large infrastructures and ecosystems in the lagoon will face the problem of the different scenarios of the North-West coast of Cavallino, trying to re-evaluate them, fix them and, in certain respects, requalify them. The theme of viability will have a fundamental role; not only will it think of making the territory of Cavallino less marginal, but it will also become a theme and instrument capable of enclosing the other scenarios of horizontal metropolis in a single project. Enclosed by the waters of the Adriatic Sea and the waters of the lagoon, the Cavallino coast extends for about fifteen kilometers, presenting a scenario of great landscape importance.
Scheme of the cycle and pedestrian path
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View of the lagoon casone
View of the cycle and pedestrian path
1. Cycle and pedestrian path 2. Relationship with existing
3. Belvedere
4. Casoni lagoonas
The walkway in some stretches is isolated from the road integrating with the secondary routes and paths in beaten earth, offering reasons for exploration and discovery within the natural park.
In some places the path separates from the main line, offering smaller, more private places where the lagoon landscape can be contemplated.
The lagoon huts, typical local architecture, are revisited in a modern way in different solutions and inserted into the territory, offering new places to meet, sell and rent for the catwalk.
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In some cases, due to the territory that is not always regular, the gangway is integrated into the existing road, offering a safe space for cyclists and pedestrians who travel along the route.
Urban planning
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B-B 1
C-C 1
Plan of the project area 0
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A territory with only one access route by land, which forces one-way traffic almost unthinkable to the present day. A place with a single main central road from which some secondary roads branch off. A city that, in our view of things, is developing, for the most part, the area to the east of the peninsula, a place dedicated to mass tourism, leaving aside the other strip of coast, overlooking the lagoon. This was the first impression perceived on arrival in the peninsula. It then emerged as it walked along the coast from Punta Sabbioni to the Treporti vaporetto terminal. A coast that is divided into various scenarios, which brings with it different horizons and limits, an area of great landscape interest that is not fully exploited.
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On the one hand, rightly so, also because creating settlements in those specific places would destroy and ruin those fascinating features that have characterized the peninsula for centuries. A lack of valorisation of the area, through, for example, pedestrian and bicycle paths, redevelopment of structures in the area, the door in the background. It makes it decay compared to a part of the coast based on the valorisation of the currency, we would dare to say, and not of the landscape. A part of the coast that is, from year to year, taken away because of the new building, a place that bases its sense of existence mainly on tourism and not on the landscape in which it is inserted.
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TURRIS SALUS Association : Evolo Year : 2021 Typology : Competition Finalist project
+ Air pollution
Tempratures and dryness
Healty environment
HOMO - URBE Looking forward to 2050, The ideology of designing our built environments will change rapidly by climate change and technological innovations. New design ideas related to the health of humans, society, and cities deserve more experiments. Healthiness, “Salus”, or well-being, is widely discussing at the broader urban planning level. The consciousness of how an individual’s health can enhance via the city’s equity is heatedly debated. However, such concepts are still not holistically reviewed and fully transferred as an architectural discipline. Therefore, it is time for architecture, the skyscraper, in particular, to further experiment on it. Our project aims to refine citizen’s health and environment. We focus on the two essential scales of health, the human and the city, in a vertical dimension.
City issues
Natural and artificial filter
Water treatment
Against the poor air quality in the cities and the homogeneity of the modern climate; with a futuristic vision of hospitals and emergency vehicles, the “Tower of Health” wants to be a hospital of the future. It is a hospital for “Homo” (human), a hospital for “Urbe” (city) and a place of retreat for people away from the pollution and temperatures of the city itself. The tower will improve such conditions and offer a clean and safe place where citizens can spend their time and far from the loud vehicle traffic noise. Our experiment redefines a health-related spatial organization. We claim that the health of man and the city can arise spontaneously from architecture as a response to the individual and collective problems of the contemporary city.
Classical propotrion a. b.
c. d.
Tematic subdivision
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Competition a. Scientific center
b. Hospital
c. Oasis
d. Water collection
+130 m
+ 290 m
+ 255 m + 70 m
b. Hospital
d. Water collection and phytodepuration
The re-invented hospital, in conceived in a direct iteraction between technology developments and nature; the hospital of the future will act remotely for treat each patient individually into his module.
On the top of the towers, a multi-levels system of water harvesting and phytodepuration, concludes the tower. The systems are basins with variable depth depending on the macrophytes used and on the level of treatment realized.
+ 60 m + 255 m
+0m
+ 200 m
a. Scientific center
c. Oasi
Podium and Heart of the tower, the research centre is an environment that incorporates research and cutting-edge technology in the fields of medicine and the environment and makes it available to the tower and the city.
The project reconstructs a land within its interior space, a natural design, but contained within the interior. An intermediate spaces as a new landscape, neither entirely internal not entirely external, more natural yet totally artificial.
EPHEMERA from greek ephèmeros “of a single day” Association : Demanio Marittimo Year : 2020 Typology : Competition 3rd place
Along a thin sunny line between land and sea extends equal and perfect the volume of the city. A large and monumental solid that celebrates the tenth anniversary of the construction. A place, however, in which the buildings create empty spaces, ephemeral, unexpected. Empty spaces, however, dynamic, in continuous evocation, crossed and retraced, spaces with the important role of being themselves to determine the buildings around, spaces that change into transitory volumes declaring the monumentality. The installation is made up of meshes of electrowelded wire mesh arranged in simple modules, capable of evoking the ideal concept of construction. The walls of each element are covered with opaque but air-permeable material, rigid but at the same time soft. The central square is conceived as a doubled hemicycle, a place that allows to exhibit and perform, determining in the nothingness, in the emptiness, an endless possibility of actions, relationships, exchanges.
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Competition 18:00
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HUB Association : Yac Year : 2018 Typology : Competition Finalist project Architecture aims to relate people to each other, inside a public or private environment, inside a home or a shop, in the workplace. The vision of this project, from our point of view, begins precisely from how such a strong identity as the Centergross relates with the people in its context. Visitors, customers, workers, entrepreneurs, live the same building of the ‘70s in different ways, moving from a public to a private space, from a store to an atelier, from an office to a school. The veil between these relationships takes the shape of a colored fabric, just like those that people deal with inside this complex. This old building, with its crumpled clothes, needs to establish itself with new light within the European panorama. The new image must be a connection between the parts, a division of spaces, a refracting movement of the light, a product derived from the material that is produced every day at the Centergross. The public and private space blend with the shadow of this fabric, the limit vanishes like the folds of a newly worn shirt. As a fashion show, workers and visitors walk along the same walkway, which connects the entire building, without architectural barriers, without barriers between people. Because of the memory of these places is very important, the new building will not be arrogant, it will not soar high in the sky like a skyscraper; instead it will be elegant and humble, like its pre-exstence and at the same level as its neighbors. What changes is his clothes, but certainly not his values.
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Graphic design Competition
Architecture aims to relate people to each other, inside a public or private environment, inside a home or a shop, in the workplace. The vision of this project, from our point of view, begins precisely from how such a strong identity as the Centergross relates with the people in its context. Visitors, customers, workers, entrepreneurs, live the same building of the ‘70s in different ways, moving from a public to a private space, from a store to an atelier, from an office to a school. The veil between these relationships takes the shape of a colored fabric, just like those that people deal with inside this complex. This old building, with its crumpled clothes, needs to establish itself with new light within the European panorama. The new image must be a connection between the parts, a division of spaces, a refracting movement of the light, a product derived from the material that is produced every day at the Centergross. The public and private space blend with the shadow of this fabric, the limit vanishes like the folds of a newly worn shirt. As a fashion show, workers and visitors walk along the same walkway, which connects the entire building, without architectural barriers, without barriers between people. Because of the memory of these places is very important, the new building will not be arrogant, it will not soar high in the sky like a skyscraper; instead it will be elegant and humble, like its pre-exstence and at the same level as its neighbors. What changes is his clothes, but certainly not his values.
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recycling approach
RWANDA CHAPEL Association : Yac Year : 2019 Typology : Competition Among the Rwandan highlands, a few kilometres north from Rukomo, there is a small plateau. It houses a mona- stery of Poor Clares and a small chapel, capable of being a reference point for the entire community of the area. A place characterized and marked by an unlimited series of tree trunks that stand out, imposing, high, fragmenting the horizon. The idea of the project stems from the desire to frame an area, a place, a space capable of hosting community spi- ritual events, but also opportunities for meeting, exchan- ging words and spreading the “Word of God” among the branches of this forest. . This takes the form of a thin straw covering, typical of the place, easily available. An element that finds a hole in its top so that it can channel the light and create a large in- ternal beam that reverberates on a small mirror of water, conceptually symbol of God (light) as the “Father of life” (water). Below this cover, we wanted to create a geometry that was born from the earth and contained in itself all the neces- sary and boundary elements to the chapel. It also takes the form of a hollowed-out wall of raw earth that emerges from the ground, recalling its very nature, which, as if fortifying precious stones and soil fertility, thus determines a place of relationship between assem- bly and celebrant, prosthesis in an active effort of communion with the divine, held in a single embrace, symbol of the “Goodness of God”.
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Ordinary and Celebration days use
Equipped wall
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MY DOMUS COVER Association : Domus Year : 2016 Tipology : Graphic Design To celebrate the publication of the thousandth issue of the magazine Domus organized a contest for the creation of its own cover. My idea comes from the desire to reinterpret a monument of Italian architecture created by Marcello Piacentini, the palace of Italian Civilization also called the square Colosseum. This cover became part of the selection of the best covers, published on the domusweb website and on the issue published on newsstands at December 2016.
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GRAPHIC DESIGN Association : DesignCrowd 99Designs Year : 2016/2018 Typology : Graphic Design
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IMPROVING
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IMPROVING LIVES
ROCKABIS
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1. Dhd logistic llc
2. Dorigo wine & beer
3. Rockabis
Logo & identity design job Competition Finalist 2016
Logo & identity design job Competition Winner 2016
Logo design job 2017
7. Fabio Alberto Sala
8. Dedalo Cinquesensi
9. St. John church
Logo & identity design job 2016
Logo & identity design job Competition Finalist 2020
Logo Design job 2017
Fabio Alberto Sala FAI LAVORARE I TUOI SOLDI
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COROWA CLEANING www.corowacleaning.com.au | 0260331009
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4. Corowa Cleaning Service 5. Fefe smoking device
6. Moca
Logo & identity design job 2017
Logo & identity design job Competition Finalist 2018
Logo design job Competition decision in progress 2020
10. Temporary google logo
11. Data Stripes
12. U-mag
Logo Design job 2018
Logo & identity design job Competition Finalist 2018
Logo Design job 2018
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2021 Portfolio of Alberto Canton