ALBERTO LOTTI
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Hi everyone! I’m Alberto. I’m 24, Aries and an italian Architecture Student.
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“I’m from Tuscany... and you know... the Italian language is a “literary version” of Tuscan. It became the language of culture for all the people of Italy thanks to the prestige of the masterpieces of Dante Alighieri, Petrarch, Giovanni Boccaccio and Niccolò Machiavelli.It would later become the official language of all the Italian states and of the Kingdom of Italy, when it was formed.”
2007-2012
Scientific High School, Piombino, Italy
2012-2015
Architecture| Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy
2014 E+/EU Erasmus Program, ETSAV-Universitat + Assistant Professor for 2nd Year Design Unit at Architecture bachelor Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Politecnico di Torino, prof. LUCA REINERIO
2015 Master in Architecture Costruction and City (I year) +Assistant Professor for 2nd Year Design Unit at Architecture bachelor Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy
Politecnico di Torino, prof. SILVIA GRON
2016 +International Workshop “TTT” in Tokyo (10 students) Master in Architecture Costruction and City (I year) Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy
with prof. KENGO KUMA, KO NAKAMURA
+Workshop “Habiter le Panier” in Marseille (15 students) with prof. SILVIA GRON
+Cinema-Architecture LAB and organization of the National meating, “Buildings of the late Twentieth century at risk in italian contest” prof. GENTUCCA CANELLA
2017 +Assistant Professor for 1rst Year Design Unit at Master ACC at
Master in Architecture Costruction and City (II year) Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy
Politecnico di Torino, prof. PAOLA GREGORY
+Feasibility Study in Piombino (Livorno, Italy) for a Beach Resort geom. ANTONINO GAMBERONI
+Collaboration for a Feasibility Study in Turin for “Le Vallette” area. DAD - Politecnico di Torino, arch. MANUEL RAMELLO arch. PAOLA GREGORY
2018
+ Organization of “Human project” workshop/research project Visual Merchandising course NABA-Nuova accademia di Belle arti, Milan, Italy
Politecnico di Torino, prof. GIOVANNI DURBIANO prof. LEONARDO CAFFO
e d u c a t i o n CV e x p e r i e n c e
Chapter 0
The Giraffe Arturo: Jep! What are you doing here? Jep: Arturo, what are YOU doing here? Arturo: I am trying my magic show. This is the number of tomorrow evening.
“The disappearance of the giraffe”
Jep: Do you really make a giraffe disappear? Arturo: Of course that I am going to make disappear a giraffe. Jep: Well then, Arturo, why do you not make me disappear? Arturo: Well... ...according to you, if someone really could make someone disappear, would I still stay here, at my age, doing this stupid things? It’s just a trick, Jep. It’s just a trick.
Chapter 1
Bridging
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Many countries that for a long time have been strongly influenced by the western culture, in urbanism and in social contest, are rediscovering the importance of their traditional cultures. Traditional notions, concepts, methods are increasingly used to solve nowadays situations and issues. In many case this traditional way are successful, and this suggest the opportunity to develop the research in this direction of the Provincialization. In our project we have imagined a viaduct in the heart of a new Science City, in the periphery of Chengdu, Sichuan Province (China). Many viaducts and pedestrian overpasses in Asian cities are purely functional elements, but due to the big scale of the structure of the underpass which was built for vehicle under the lake of the city, we found an opportunity to create a unique and FANTASTIC public space in the heart of the new city.
+ concept
+ view from the airplane
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+ DIVISARE, ARCHITETTURA ITALIANA HOMEPAGE + KooZA/rch HOMEPAGE
+undergournd gardens +market place
+cyrcus
+ Axonometric Planimetry of the bridge. + When thinking of these gigantic won complexes in china, they are generally
rendere through hyper realistic images – what is your take on this means of representation?
“Once Pierre-Alain Croset, during the bachelor, said that the render “is a kind of representation which has the capacity to better represent a fake reality ”. Personally I do really appreciate the results of a good render elaboration and i really believe that who can make good digital work has impressive skills. Sincerely I don’t believe that this kind of representation is always the best to be use. Luckily, until now, nobody never forced me, or my mate, in the use of a particular method of drawing and this let us free to experiment.
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+tea house #1 floor
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And so we did. When we started to think about which kind of representation could have been the better one to represent the project we realised that we did not need a realistic graphic. The plans, perspective and axo views explain the relationship between the spaces, sometimes absent in some realistic views, and the people who live them. No cold semi-trasparent silhouettes but hundreds of red, green, blu and who knows spots live the scenes.� from KooZA/rch interview, 2016
*Illustration of the silhouettes by Lucy Davey and Geoff McFetridge.
+ double perspective section
+ ... let’s step back for a moment...THE MASTERPLAN.
At the begining of the degign unit, we started creating a unique masterplan of the new Science City.
+parametric grid
+housing pixels
+road system and services
Water and mountain are important for Chinese towns, so that in our project it is aimed to use these two symbols. The masterplan’s aim is to use potential area around the lake for creating a livable, urban and smart environment for the inhabitants. The project has a three dimensional masterplan providing integrated transport network and opportunities for multiple types of public spaces by using shape of mountains. The curvilinear forms of mountains create public spaces in different levels while surrounding the lake. By this way, it gains new qualities in means of integrating the zones different than the ongoing project.
+function pixels
+public space pixels +Housing
+Functions
First class housing Second class housing University housing
Research Technology Business/Trade/Industry Public Buildings Retail/Commercial
+Roads and Services Public Transportation New third axis
+diagrams
First Level network Second Level network
Education G.S.
General Services Medical Center
+Public Spaces Public Spaces Green Areas
+ masterplan of the new Science City
+ views of the City
Chapter 2
Los arbores
Chapter 3
TriMESH
+ Many neighborhoods of
public housing, built in Italy in the 50’s - 60’s of the twentieth century, are elements of great historical and architectural value, which must objects of an active protection. It must be implemented a critical analysis of values in the redevelopment and urban regeneration processes of these cases. And the district “Le Vallette” in Turin, whose analysis and re-interpretation has been the subject of the Project Unit, needs an action of regeneration that, based on recognition of the most significant aspects and values of the settlement and these critical issues, was able to identify some possible actions, in a relational and systemic perspective. The project is based on a re-setting of open spaces, the recovery of some existing buildings and the construction of a new “Casa di Quartiere” (distict’s house), a type of typical multifunctional center of the city of Turin.
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There are a lot of green areas in the district.They are connected by a visual game, imaginary lines. The project starts from the ones that are the intangible elements, linked to the morphological and landscape aspects of the place. The views are reported on the plane and connected together through a linear triangulations game that leads to the design of a network. After
a work-in stitching the points where they were not well-connected to each other, especially in the central zone, a second triangulation drawing is superimposed on the previous one, by operating a stratification of layers and allowing the formation of a mesh, a grazing the ground surface.Exploiting the shape of the land, the groud’s mesh is not divided only through a planimetric drawing,but also in height, implementing a transition from the ground to the architectural drawing.The ground lines are divided into a complex coverage to below which is the aspiration of the home district. The multiporpouse center is structured as small independent pavilions that can be accessed through a large hall where a in-out staircase, used as a space for study and reading, leads to the multipurpose hall, a place used to host events of all kinds.
The park follows the irregular movement of the trian-
gles, where a game of different hights creates intimate spaces for children, readinging and socializing.The mesh includes also a new open-air covered marketplace, trying to create a continuity layer between the old market “Le Verbene”,unused, and the close squared, used as marketplace just one day for week.Triangulation attacks also another building, in the perspective to improve the energy efficiency of it, working only on the facade. Large glazed elements are screened through a game of triangles that guarantees the dimming of solar radiation, but allowing the view towards the Eugenio Montale square.
center +Service “Edificio dei Servizi”, c + “Edificio dei80 Servizi”, postal services: m2
These 80 m2 are for an a existence building.
comunal center offices
+ planimetry
+“Casa di Quartiere�, multipurpose center
addiction to an
+ axonometric view
+ west front
+ Section
through the courtyard
+ South front
+ Trasversal Section
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+ Technologic section and front of “Casa di Quartiere�, scale 1:20 0
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Chapter 4
Super SUPER Panier
WORKSHOP IN MARSILLE\TURIN Habiter le Panier (Living the Panier)
Tackling the theme of inhabiting the Panier brought us since the very beginning to face the multitude of different equilibria regulating such a complex yet fascinating space. Our gaze was immediately caught by the role of public life in this ancient neighborhood, marked by the fast succession of narrow alleys and wide squares. Analyzing its borders together with the type of delimitations of this neighborhood, we have studied how the rest of the city relates back to it....
island
archipelago
flood
In such a pivotal step, we compared the Panier to an island and the rest of the city to a great liquid mass, which in some parts is filtered by physical limits, while in others it enters with no control diluting places and altering spaces. Carrying on this method of analysis, we reached the conclusion that the Panier is not a mere island, yet a greater archipelago formed by many islands, unbound amongst themselves. The mission of our project became then that of creating a way to connect all these islands, building a new network of mobility which could include new public spaces. Taking in consideration that the phenomenon of gentrification is leading wealthier classes to inhabit the highest floors of buildings, we have hypothesized the birth of a new public space, accessible to all, on the rooftops of the Panier. Our references – namely the Venetian phenomenon of the altane (terraces), mixed with the most radical theories by Yona Friedman e di SUPERSTUDIO – led us to build a sort of village above the village. We considered the presence of many abandoned buildings as potential for building upwards, pivotal in connecting the two public strata: that at the sea-level and that on the rooftops. Interestingly, this doubling of the public ground could bring back to the inhabitants the view on the sea, that through the centuries drifted away, almost becoming out of reach. After having hypothesized this new scenario for the whole neighborhood, we focused on a quadrant, looking for a way to develop our theme of the “SUPER PUBLIC SPACE” on a restricted scale. Our attention was then grasped by a block of apartments with a completely neglected internal courtyard. Our project consisted not only in creating a link with the rooftop and the eventual extension to the rest of the over-elevated network, but also in injecting life back to every floor of this building by realizing a cohousing, alternating common spaces to private ones. hut
shallow
trace
Chapter 6
Plug in Forest
PLUG-IN FOREST
T. T. T.
INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP IN TOKYO with
Kengo Kuma, Ko Nakamura, University of Tokyo Lorena Alessio, Politecnico di Torino Eddie Koao, Matyas Gutai, Feng Chia University
The traditional and historic roads in Tokyo, the “roji” creates a sense of community between the residents. In many case, the difference in scale and spatial organization of the new building in Tokyo disrupts the intimate human scale of the roji. Our project provides a plug-in parasite structure that acts as a social/visual connection to establish a dialogue between the residents of the traditional houses and the modern housing developments. Preserve and extend the social concept of the roji to draw people’s attention and revitalize the idea of the roji in the context of today’s modern city planning. This was an other attempt to design the Provincialization; in this case we tried to use an “architectinic sculpture” in which the people could feel their own strenght, in order to stop and hang the new building in the iper-modern city of Tokyo, in a PROVINCIALIZA(C)TION.
stage1
in the Roji
from outside
PLUG-IN SYSTEM
+ In biology/ecology, parasitism is a non-mutual relationship between spe-
cies, where one species, the parasite, benefits at the expense of the other, the host. Traditionally parasite (in biological usage) referred primarily to organisms visible to the naked eye, or macroparasites (such as helminths). Parasites can be microparasites, which are typically smaller, such as protozoa, viruses, and bacteria. Unlike predators, parasites typically do not kill their host, are generally much smaller than their host, and will often live in or on their host for an extended period. Both are special cases of consumer-resource interactions. Parasites show a high degree of specialization, and reproduce at a faster rate than their hosts. Classic examples of parasitism include interactions between vertebrate hosts and tapeworms, flukes, the Plasmodium species, and fleas. Parasitoidy is an evolutionary strategy within parasitism in which the parasite generally kills its host. Parasites reduce host biological fitness by general or specialized pathology, such as parasitic castration and impairment of secondary sex characteristics, to the modification of host behavior. Parasites increase their own fitness by exploiting hosts for resources necessary for their survival, such as food, water, heat, habitat, and transmission. Although parasitism applies unambiguously to many cases, it is part of a continuum of types of interactions between species, rather than an exclusive category. In many cases, it is difficult to demonstrate harm to the host. In
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It’s just a trick. It’s just a trick.