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Birth date: 13/05/1995 Birth place: Muro Leccese Nationality: Italian
2019 Competition ‘Ricrea’ - Lecce Theme: Landscape and furniture design inside a sport facilities park Result: 1st prize winner and built project.
EDUCATION
2017- 2019: Master degree programme ‘Architettura per il progetto Sostenibile’ at Faculty of Architecture, Turin, Polytechnic of Turin, Italy. Graduated with 110 cum Laude 2018 Master degree exchange programme ‘‘Erasmus+’’ One semester at Faculty of Architecture, Cracow, Politechnika Krakowska im. Tadeusza Kościuszki, Poland. 2014-2017 Bachelor Degree programme ‘‘Architecture’’ at Faculty of Architecture, Turin, Polytechnic of Turin, Italy.
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LANGUAGE SKILLS Italian: Native language English: Advanced (C1) Spanish: Elementary (A2)
Workshop ‘Sustainable Tourism’ - Motovun Theme: Design Strategies to PROFESSIONAL enhance local identity EXPERIENCE Result: selected project for 2019 Publication Intern, TGA Tomas Ghisellini Architetti, Lecce, Italy 2017 Collaboration for winning Competition competition and architectural ‘Kaira Looro Cultural Centre’ design. Workshop 2017 ‘RE_Waterfront’ - Goteborg Theme:Experimental urban Teaching Assistant redevelopment of the Polytechnic of Turin Storia dell’architettura waterfront of Goteborg. Result: selected project for moderna prof. Edoardo Piccoli pubblication. (ISBN 978-88-917-8193-2, pag. 2017 304-309) Intern, G*AA, Turin, Italy Collaboration for Workshop architectural design of ‘Scale Up!’ - Napoli Partner workshop between residential buildings and redePolythechnic of Turin and velopment design in Turin. Federico II University of Naples Theme: the compositive role of 2016 Teaching Assistant the staircase. Polythechnic of Turin Atelier di Composizione e Sto2015 ria B Wokshop and Competition prof. Michela Barosio, prof. ‘Riberi6’ - Turin Partner workshop between Laura Guardamagna Polytechnic of Turin and architecture firm G*AA CONTACTS Result: selected project for Email pubblication. albertomanziarchitetto@gmail.com (ISBN 978-88-85629-16-5, pag. Phone 52, 60-61) +39 389 15 13 648 Instagram @iamalbertomanzi.arch
APERTURE Facade Renovation Muro Leccese (Italy) Private Work 2020
Sometimes small changes deliver an huge impact on bigger things. Details can make the difference between good and average works. In this case, e v e r y t h i n g started with a simple windowrenovation, but, pointing the eyes
on the wall building facade, the aim of the design was to deal bigger impacts with lesser interventions. Enveloping limestone slabs, lights, shadows and shapes here are the main actors of the whole design process.
TERRA Urban regeneration Muro Leccese (Italy) Master Thesis Polythechnic of Turin 2019
The human being tends to materialize his existence by assigning meanings to the objects that surround him, regardless of their nature. Objects of everyday life (“things�) define a belonging to a gender, a society or a network. Even more, when an action is also linked to them, they become an integral part of the culture to which they belong and this is not only an inert process, but also an active one, because actions around them define spatial and cultural drifts. In the globalized modernity, objects are influenced by immaterial externalities (cultural flows, capital flows, people flows). In this way, it becomes more complex to trace the cultural background, as the physical stratification no longer proceeds at the same pace as the social one, making it
impossible to attribute to an object its semantic belonging to the culture of its owner. In built environments, the translation of this meaning shifts into tracing the belonging of a place to a cultural setting through objects, misprints, obliterations and additions. So, how can we add a layer, knowing that the current culture is more linked to immaterial aspects rather than material ones, more connected to flows than places? Considering this introduction, the aim of the thesis is to explore and reconstruct the meaning attributable to the material culture of a place, initially in theoretical terms and subsequently aimedat design applications, in this case identifiable in the historical centre called Terra – of Muro Leccese.
MEET AND (GR)EAT Landscape and Architectural Design Lecce (Italy) Ricrea Competition First Prize Winner in collaboration with Tomas Ghisellini Architetti 2019
The aim of the competition was to regenerate the inner area of the biggest park in Lecce involving a selfconstruction process into a sustainable recycling economy. The park shows a strong sport vocation, highlighted by the presence of football fields, swimming pools and atheltics paths. On the other hand, the core of the park is now completely isolated from the rest of the park because of fences, barriers and tresholds. For this reason the design idea focus on the refurbishment of this area as a ricreative hub for the whole park., using the self construction system as a tool for the social interaction of the intervention. The structure of the concept is based on the pure grid scheme, upon which the whole Apulian landscape is structured in its
olive oil cultivar. The whole project is made in self-construction with waste wood supplied by the cnh industrial industry, and for this reason the constrction technologies are based on simple concepts. the nodes of the grid are made up of composite pillars, the connection and aggregation of which in a cluster generates three different functional areas: the entrance pavilion, the playground and the bar point. All the horizontal connection are designed in order to guarantee an easy and fast building process, reducing the amount of connections and steel elements. The rest of the grid is dispersed, generating smaller areas, interspersed with the presence of cactus-shaped installations, which represent a must in the Salento landscape: the prickly pear.
URBAN HETEROTOPY Landscape and Architectural Design Zamosc (Poland) Faculty of Architecture Cracow University of Technology 2019
The aim of this research project is to identify within the fallacity of human thought, specifically the one related to the decoding, the description and the re-elaboration of historical urban fabrics (and therefore complex and stratified), the possibility of new design criteria . The process of inspection, observation and mapping is then performed critically in order to identify all the biases, systemic errors committed during the phase of simplification of the reality that inevitably occurs to facilitate understanding. The city of Zamosc presents itself as a perfect experimentation ground, as a masterful example of the desire to reach the so-called ideal city, theorized during the Italian Renaissance by Francesco Di Giorgio Martini and applied
in this case by Alberto Morando. The phenomenological approach is therefore intended as the first approach to understanding, subsequently mediated and rationalized by the scientific and analytical procedure. The results of the mapping process are therefore not answers to specific questions, but are instead questions born from the expected answers and sometimes not obtained. The project itself presents itself as an open question in that it synthesizes all the mechanisms of simplification and exclusion within a heterotopia, materialized in the space of the baths, among the first and deepest heterotopias provided by history, in which the intimate and public authorities loosen their thresholds to intercept in one place.
STONED Architectural Design Cracow (Poland) Faculty of Architecture Cracow University of Technology 2019
The project presents itself with the challenge of creating a residential building in a unique context within the urban panorama of Krakow: the area corresponds to the last empty lot remaining throughout the historical center of the city, moreover exactly positioned at the foot of the wawel castle. These marginal conditions underline the uniqueness of the opportunity but also a profound need to establish a dialogue with the history, the stratifications and the surrounding historical urban fabric. For this reason, at the base of the design criteria there are two fundamental elements: materiality and proportion. The faรงades of the building are made of local limestone (the same used to make the wawel barbacana
base). The building then appears as a block of stone punctuated by small openings that recall the defensive embrasures of the castle, alternating with deep grooves that characterize open loggias towards the castle. The faรงades facing the internal courtyard present a more ephemeral dialogue between the interior and exterior, with continuous faรงades vertically scanned by brick partitions, another element of material dialogue with the surrounding context. The exposure of the lot to the south east also allows you to have a correct supply of light to each of the luxurious apartments, in particular the two penthouses that open to the castle through large terraces masked by the same brick partitions.
HUMAN LANDSCAPES Landscape and Architectural Design Piekary (Poland) Faculty of Architecture Cracow University of Technology 2019
Within university curricula it is very common to focus on urban design in high-density settings such as cities. In this case, on the other hand, the aim of the course is to develop a paessagistic, urban and therefore architectural project in a context defined as “periurban”. At the base of the project idea there is the clash between man and nature, artificial and natural. The spatial translation of these contrasts generates, in the central area of the village, a new landscape that links two vast green areas, specifically a nature park and an equipped park, with a new public space with a strongly artificial, material connotation. The clash between these two realities is still accentuated by a third axial element that visually connects the system to the
abbey that lies beyond the river. The design of the public space is crowned by the introduction of a multipurpose brewery, which combines leisure with a new productive impulse in the heart of the new city center. The architectural scale is tackled taking into account the theme of the contrast that develops through two opposite facades: the one facing the square is totally open, making sure that the public space is ‘’ climbing ‘’ on it until the terrace becomes its own above. The rear façade, on the other hand, is silent, massive, impassive. The interior spaces are characterized by alcoves that welcome and emphasize the fermentation silos of the beer, making the production become the only true furniture.
SCALEUP! Architectural Design Napoli Workshop Polythechnic of Turin Università Federico II di Napoli 2017
The workshop aims to investigate the role of the staircase in the architectural composition. The process start with the analysis of a selected napolitan palace, in whiche the staircases, especially the local ‘‘wing stairs’’ played a phenomenal role, both in term of formal choices and social derives. The study of this ancient tipology can be transferred in a design speculation in which some criteria are already given -in this design was the theme of lightness-. The think-tank process allowed to estrange from the site-specific approach, using the case study only as a thinking device, and then develop an innovative compositive idea. In this case the theme of lightness is enhanced by the strong contrast
between heavy masses and emptiness. The whole staircase overstates the theme of balance, leaving the transitional space as it is, just space. The interaction between slabs create a dialogue during the path, referring the act of climbing the stair to a chain of events. The upper part of the staircase is designed as a heavy mute element, the arrival point that hide something. A perforated metal envelope creates a double-face experience. It is a mute object from outside but allows the light to come inside, creating changing shadowing effect. The theme of contrast is achieved also using semitrasparent veils, that create a complex perceptive experience of transparency, lights, feelings.
KAIRA LOORO Architectural Design Seidhiou - Senegal Competition 2018
The intervention area represents a breeding ground of centuries-old cultures, rich in rituals and experiences coming from father to son, and telling stories about Africa. Cultures here are mixing together in harmony, within an environment full of experiences. Globalization effects are reflecting today on communities, putting ancient rituals and the preservation of cultural identities down the risk. The town of Sedhiou, one amongst the less well fixed, has no places to let its own community spread its culture and habits, where to have the chance for everyone to relate and express themselves through arts those art the region is rich in. The planning of a Cultural Center for
the city of Sedhiou aims to renovate the idenitity of the area, trying to reach the goal of creating a location where local cultures may have the chance to be told, passed on and preserved. This challenge sees the planning of an architectural structure as witness of the peaceful relation occurring among local ethnic groups and promoting, at the same time, preservation of local habits. The choice of using local materials is directly related with the necessity of a low-cost building that
AGRICULTURA Restoration and Architectural Design Stupinigi Faculty of Architecture Polythechnic of Turin 2018
The task of the studio was the general redevelopment of the countryhouses system around the Palazzina di Caccia of Stupinigi, one of the highest example of royal residences around Turin. The project was developed starting from a general aim to bring back informal functions and habits related to the original program of the area, creating a functional system instead of standalone elements. For this reason the theme of agriculture, still practiced in the area, is conceived as a cultural attractive point, especially for children. Focusing on the architectural and restoration design, the choice of Podere San Giovanni, an old formal countryhouse -designed by Juvarra- is strictly related to the main masterplan to enhance the social
values of the design. The restoration process deal with the reversibiliy of the intervention. The rearrangement of the internal spaces creates new functions and relationship the surrounding buildings: On the ground floor a bio bistrot performs a didactic role on the awarness about food’s spinneret, but works also as a leisure hub for the whole area, using km0 and bio products. In the upper floor a new administration office is placed in order to estabilish a management for events and enterprises. On the same floor a co-working studio is designed to allow new startups related to the world of agriculture to have a place to develop new projects in an evocative place.
COiNFLUENCE Urban Design Project Confluence - Lyon Faculty of Architecture Polythechnic of Turin 2018
The image shows a collage made by different painting through the history. -The Allegory of Good and Bad Government, Ambrogio Lorenzetti, 1339. Construed as being “designed to remind the Nine magistrates of just how much was at stake as they made their decisions”. The paining is used as background of the whole collage. -The Last Supper, Leonardo Da Vinci,1490. The Table is the physical object that mantain the whole scene. -The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, Francisco Goya, 1799. Goya imagines himself asleep amidst his drawing tools, his reason dulled by slumber and bedeviled by creatures that prowl in the dark. The work includes owls that may be
symbols of folly and bats symbolizing ignorance. It’s used here as a partecipant of the imaginary town assembly. -Freedom of Speech, Norman Rockwell, 1941. Freedom of Speech depicts a scene of a local town meeting in which Jim Edgerton, the lone dissenter to the town selectmen’s announced plans to build a new school, was accorded the floor as a matter of protocol. Also in this collage is used to represent a dissenter. -The Jury Room, Norman Rockwell, 1959. Shows a woman holding firm while being pressured by the 11 male members of the jury. In 1959, three states didn’t permit women to be jurors and other states limited women’s participation in juries.
EMPORIUM NATURAE Urban and Architectural Design Frihamnen - Goteborg Faculty of Architecture Polythechnic of Turin 2017
The design is conceived considering how the housing sector in Sweden is dealing a crysis caused by the extremely high price of housing. In this case, paying attention to the city suggestive actors, a partnership between Gothemburg Botanical Garden, the Municipality and future users of this area is settled as a statement. The result of this joint activity is EMPORIUM, from the Greek term Empòrion, a portual place of exchange of goods and relationships and NATURAE, beacuse different species of vegetation play one of the main roles in the functional and spatial design, with masses and voids that affects the light, the circulation and the feelings. The structure concept is based on hanging masses to the primary structure, thanks to upper truss
beams that work both as a connection between structural elements and as a first definition of spaces and modules. The whole building is conceived as a modular dry assembled raw infrastructure, to improve construction processes, controlling costs and time, while enhancing the industrial heritage of Frihamnen. For this reasons all the housing units on the east and west sides of the central green space take into account two milestones: the first one is the assembling approach achieved with raw building materials: housing units are thought all over the dimensions of a single room module: a 6m long, 3 m wide and 3 m high steel frame, that can be combined in double, triple and quadruple units. The envelope is expressed by
three possible types of unitized polycarbonate panels: the transparent one, the translucid one and the opaque one. The idea of giving all the users a ‘’free’’ incremental space is the second key point. The concept is a space that may change its use due to their living habits, in order to allow them to be emotionally and practically involved in their own way to feel at home, enhancing the time factor made by changes and trasformations that affects all our life cycle. Spatially concieved as an empty duplex module, attached to each housing unit, this space is functionally designed as a greenhouse that can also help building performances.
