P O RT FOLIO Alberto Zotti
P O RT FOLIO Alberto Zotti
CV Alberto Zotti
Venice, IT +39 349 82 41 451 alb.ztt@gmail.com
PROFILE Pragmatic yet creative and curious. Over the years I have worked with studies of different natures, looking for a holistic approach to the profession that now ranges from architecture to product and graphic design.
EDUCATION M. Arch., IUAV University of Venice • Master’s Thesis: A School in the Woods • Final Grade: 110/110 Laude
B. Arch., IUAV University of Venice • Final Grade: 110/110
EXPERIENCE Studio Pastor Architetti Associati, Venice IT / 2012-2018 Architect The studio I grew in. Involved in development and realization of several residential and renovation project. Coordinated the development of several competitions. Improved the digital drawing method due to give more clarity and efficacy to technical drawings. Collaborated on the publication of the book TRACCE (Traces) by arch. Valeriano Pastor. Studio BARNUM, Venice-Milan IT / 2017-2018 Intern Managed the development of a competition and coordinated a team of three. Collaborated to preliminary design for a residential project in Costa Rica creating drawings and 3D models. ARX Portugal, Lisbon PT / 2016 Post-graduate Intern Assisted project architects in the development of residential projects with drawings and architectural models. Collaborated in the drafting of executive drawings. Organized a database of image and information for updating the website. Cristiano Gasparetto Architetto, Venice IT 2015 / 2016 Assistant Architect Prepared the executive drawing of an interior renovation project in Venice. Collaborated to the preliminary design of the extension of a retail building. Collaborated to the development of a competition through the realization of diagram and renders. Global Art Center Foundation, Venice IT 2013 Exhibition Manager “CULTURE, MIND, BECOMING”, Collateral event at 55th Venice Biennale, Collaborated in the setting and management at the exhibition coordinating a team of eight people.
PROFICIENCY AutoCAD, Rhinoceros 5 (V-Ray), Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, AfterEffects, Premiere, Lightroom, SketchUp, Revit.
LANGUAGE Italian (native), English, Portuguese
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Academic works
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08 A school in the woods 12 IUAV Club House 16 Holiday House
Competitions
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22 Pulpit Rock Church 26 M.E.S.H. 28 Bivouac Fanton’s Brothers 32 Lido in the Foreground
Professional collaborations
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36 Vinicio’s Elm 38 Unetzer’s Showroom 42 Dairy Store’s Extension 46 Others Collaborations
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ACADEMIC WORKS
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Academic Works
A SCHOOL IN THE WOODS
Academic Work / Master’s Thesis Tutor: prof. arch. Mauro Galantino year: 2016 location: Bologna, Italy
A large number of military bases are scattered across the metropolitan area of Bologna. The local administration often took care of the recovery of such areas each time the army was ceding them to the municipality. The Prati di Caprara area, a wood used for military training until a few decades ago, rises in the west of the old town, adjoining the working-class neighborhoods of Santa Viola and Saffi. The project caters to the Bologna City’s proposal to recover such area creating an urban wood open to citizens, building a school in it to face the population increase on the two neighborhoods. The leading idea of such project follows the current issue raised by the Italian Ministry of Education: the search for a new type of school, capable of accompanying the changes in pedagogical methods. Schools have to train students culturally, but they also have to teach them the basis of social coexistence. In the building there are therefore school environments side by side with areas destined to the urban community, creating different kinds of relationship between the latter and the students.
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Academic Works
THE CLEARING To make way for the school, a preexisting clearing in the wood is widened. Such location is suitable for creating a protected and quiet environment, which is perfect to pursue the goal of such school: the creation of supervised relationships between school and city populations.
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1. Elementary School 2. Middle School 3. Hall/AgorĂ 4. Main Entrance 5. Canteen 6. Gym 7. Senior centre 8. Clinic and family counseling
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AGORÀ Despite the elongated shape of the building due to the space needed by the sequence of classrooms, the cornerstone is the school’s outer square. On this multilevel Agora, the entrances to the main facilities of the center cross their paths. In the middle of everything, there is the big tree around which the community gathers.
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IUAV CLUB HOUSE
Academic Workshop / W.A.Ve. 2013, Venice Tutor: prof. arch. Francesco Venezia Team: Gabriele Brunettini, Nicola Fortunati year: 2012 location: Venice, Italy
The area carries on its back the memory of an important project of expansion of the main building of the IUAV University, as the result of an international competition, never realized. This place is marked by fate failure, waiting for compensation. The extraordinary light of the facing Giudecca Canal, in which the area lives, was the most influential element for the design strategy. Furthermore, the fringe condition, strongly felt in this place, was a reason for the implementation of the accessory ideas aroused by the surrounding environment. The proposed theme – a clubhouse – far from being a mere opportunity for a summer workshop, plays the role of an urgent necessity, after considering the current community life-style and leisure that take place indoors and outdoors the main building. The intention is to bring this place to life in the changing light of the canal, through the melancholy of its fringe condition.
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SPINAL CORD This project taught an important lesson, which I tried to carry on each of my following projects. The origin of this project is the search for a spine, an element which gives a direction to the building and from which everything originates.
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The project has been selected to be exhibited in the 13th Architecture Biennale of Venice, inside the exhibition 40.000 hours. The collection of models exhibited, all built by students from architecture schools across the world, was both a tribute to their work and a depiction of the extraordinary labour undertaken in those situations. The title of the exhibition is a rough guess at the amount of hours taken to produce the models and the presentation is intended to evoke a natural resource, a groundswell of imaginative proposition by young architects. The intention was to foreground the power and potential of a collective effort.
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HOLIDAY HOUSE
Academic Work / Composition Tutor: prof. arch. Mauro Galantino year: 2010 location: Vieste, Italy
Usually, the first exercise of our university career is the project of a family house or a villa. As seen from different points of view, this could be the easiest or the hardest approach to Architecture, due to the importance of the function of this type of building. Even if the outcome may seem naïve most of the time, I appreciate the lack of a precise formal research and a better care of the empathetic aspect of the space. That’s what I love about this project, and I always look back on it to judge my path since the beginning. What I was asked to design was a little villa in the National Park of Gargano, Puglia. The house is intended as a vacation house, like a shelter from everyday life. The interior is designed to have two distinct groups of rooms. The first one, the day area, is composed by the living room, the kitchen, the studio, and a little patio carved in the rocks. The second group of rooms is intended for the intimacy of the night and you can find the bathroom, the bedroom, and a viewpoint to admire the landscape at sunset.
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FALLING OF VOLUMES The house is located on a slope, therefore the interior pathways and the levels are staggered to harmonize with the incline of the soil. The volumes, however, stand out from the ground, searching for a mimetic dialogue with the dominant element of the landscape: the sea stacks.
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SQUARES The rooms of the house are hierarchically differentiated, according to the role they take in the house. To create this hierarchy, each room originates from a square that intersects with the others creating more complex environments. Their origin, however, it’s underlined thanks to the minimal internal height differences. 0
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COMPETITIONS
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Competitions
MELENCOLIA III
Competition / AWR 2017 - Pulpit Rock Church Leading : prof. arch. Valeriano Pastor year: 2017 location: Preikestolen, Norway
The flat clifftop of Preikestolen is a natural event: an intense and mysterious rock formation that brings the arcane and mysterious into our experience of of nature itself. The competition invited to respond to the urge to find religious expression for the emotion evoked by the place, but the emotion could take us elsewhere. The proposal was to build a structure protruding from the rock-face behind the Preikestolen ‘plateau’ with most of the structure built into the rock. The structure has a complex geometry inspired by Albrecht Dürer’s engraving Melancolia I, which shows the artist’s tormented search for a manifest form capable of changing the perspective of anyone seeking to find their role in the world. In the engraving, we see this represented by an octahedron next to a figure of a man – artist – angel, which stands out from the other allegorical objects. We have laid out the interior of this ‘prism’ like that of a religious space, or rather we have re-appropriated the original sacred form of the theatre, originally used for the performance of ‘mystery plays’.
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Competitions
THE PRISM This octahedron has an equilateral triangle at its base and another at the top joined by six identical irregular pentagons, three of which are attached to the base and the other three to the top. It is difficult to master the internal spatiality of this prism: it has neither vertical walls nor right angles, and each floor, terrace or level is dictated by sections that cut and measure the oblique surfaces with Cartesian lines.
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The challenging design problems reflect the complexity of the cliff itself – 600 metres above average sea level and characterized by oblique shapes, from the inwardly leaning lower part to the clifftop jutting over the fjord. The body of the octahedral structure is made from the same stone as the site; it is camouflaged by its material, but revealed by its geometry.
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INTERIORS The tidal movements of the fjord 600 metres below and the sea currents (maelstrom) provide clean energy. The machines that convert this into electrical energy are those that regulate the microclimate of the interior. The energy produced can also be used to power a greenhouse, or better, a winter garden. In fact, this usage is an integral part of the interior space. The entrance level consists of a steel grid that allows visitors to walk above a system of flowerbeds without trampling on them. The level dedicated to ceremonies has the same structure. Each of the six pentagonal sides can be vertical gardens; at 17 metres above the entrance level, is a suspended floor where visitors can relax and enjoy refreshments, among plants, shrubs and fruit trees. The entire building is illuminated by a glass pane, a few metres wide, that rises from the bottom to the top of the structure, following the complex profile of the building. The shiny effect of the glass continues on the side and the top of the cliff by the application of a transparent, glossy varnish to the rock. This will indicate the easiest path (albeit longer and more winding) to reach the summit of the Preikestolen. plan 10,8ft
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MEDELLIN EXPERIMENTAL SOCIAL HOUSING
Competition / Archmedium - MESH Leading : Alberto Zotti year: 2014 location: Medellin, Colombia
In 1991, Medellin was considered to be the most violent city in the world and one of the five most corrupt cities of Colombia in the year 2003. Society was marked by violence and a strong sense of inequality. In the past years, Medellin has carried out social integration policies with the purpose of reducing violence and forming an inclusive city. The project is part of a proposal to regenerate the city through a new mix of building and function in the historic downtown area. The aim is to implement a new residential use by reformulating space in a way that includes housing and enables the inhabitants to work from home and to reinvent their business. The interrelationship among residents and both their neighbours and external visitors is the main principle of the proposal. Every unit has one view on the outside and one on the internal arcade. The different types of accommodation are continuously mixed in the floor-plans, to allow the contact between the various elements that compose our society: families, singles, young, and old people.
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THE MODULE The project is developed by the repetition and disposition of a square module. Its use allows residents to adjust and adapt themselves to the spaces in an easier way.
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FANTON BROTHERS BIVOUAC
Competition / Fanton Brothers Brothers Leading : arch. Cristiano Gasparetto year: 2015 location: Auronzo di Cadore, Italy
The Marmarole mountain pass (Veneto Region, eastern Italian Alps), was identified as the perfect place for the reconstruction of the Fanton Brother Bivouac: it is characterized by its strategic position in the heart of the network of paths crossing the Marmarole mountain group. The mountain pass is on a rocky outcrop emerging from gravel and stones which characterize the surrounding area. The slope faces south and the chosen location enables to enjoy a double view on the villages of Auronzo di Cadore and Borca di Cadore. This particular condition was the starting point to design a bivouac that not only was an adequate shelter, but also a place that would keep intact the emotion of such double view. The particular meteorological conditions of the place, the snow and strong irregular winds, have then prescribed the structural choices of the bivouac. The roofing, two-faced as well, offers at least one pitch in one direction, for the disposal of the snow following the dominant wind at that time.
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TILTED TRAPEZOID The longitudinal axis is tilted at 35° with the laying of two trapezoidal pitches. This choice enabled the inner volume, though little, to result spacious and to open itself with two floor to ceiling windows on the opposite horizons.
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INTERIORS The entrance at the intersection of the slopes allows to give the interior a strong spatial expansion. The volume thus created guarantees “airiness� and brightness to an otherwise small space.
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LIDO IN THE FOREGROUND
Participatory Process / Lido in Primo Piano Leading : arch. Cristiano Gasparetto year: 2014 location: Lido di Venezia, Italy
‘Lido in primo piano’ was a participatory process that actively involved citizens and associations of the Lido in defining the Recovery Plan for the redevelopment of the Palazzo del Cinema area and the Lido Venice Casinò. The initiative took place through a listening desk, a web space, public meetings and workshops, to bring out expectations and concerns, to gather knowledge and proposals and to discuss lines of the future development of this part of the island. This project is a response to the request made by the citizens of the Lido during the participatory process. It proposes the integration of a low-profile building which can be used throught the year. In concordance with the existing slope of the terrain and the depth of the ‘hole’, the building faces backwards (towards the lagoon) and is covered with a green roof that rises from pavement level on the seafront road. A cable-stayed walkway, anchored to the lift tower, spas the slightly lowered road to reach the seafront terrace.
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THE MEADOW The large green roof is one of the peculiar characteristics of the project, from an environmental point of view. It constitutes a thermal flywheel to protect the building and improves the hygrothermal balance of the surroundings, maintaining a good natural humidity of the air.
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PROFESSIONAL COLLABORATIONS
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Professional Collaborations
VINICIO’S ELM
Interior / Product Design Leading: arch. Valeriano Pastor year: 2018 location: Venice, Italy
A display case, developed with Prof. Valeriano Pastor, is one of the latest pieces of furniture designed for Studio Pastor. Prof. Valeriano Pastor was gifted with a sketch of the work “Olmo” (“Elm”) by Venetian artist Vinicio Vianello, and the best way to display such colorful piece was to be conceived. The Studio has a double view, one on a courtyard and the other one on a canal. The illumination in the room changes continuously. A display case that is simply hung on the wall would not do justice to the beauty of the piece of art, except for a few moments of the day and of the year. To solve such issue, a system was designed to adjust the orientation and the position of the work, at will and at anytime. The light steel framework has two different pivot points on the horizontal axle. To give more lightness to this system and to keep the focus on the artwork, both the plexiglas protection sheets and the work itself were hung to a single shaft, thanks to a particular fastening system that supports them together, yet separately.
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CRAFTMANSHIP It was possible to continue the collaboration with the blacksmiths shop Officina Zanon, helping us to develop the supporting structure step-by-step thanks to their several decades of experience.
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UNĂœTZER’s showroom
Interior / Renovation Leading: arch. Criastiano Gasparetto year: 2015-on going location: Venice
The client, a shoe manufacturer of German origins, commissioned Archt. Cristiano Gasparetto to create his own house and showroom in Venice. This small five-storey building rises in the unique context of Campo Santa Margherita, one of the most famous and characteristic place of the city. As is often the case in Venice, the interior spaces have been deeply modified over the years to be fit for the purpose that the building had to serve each time. In particular, the vertical connection was completely compromised. Therefore, on the renovation project, it was necessary to pay special attention to the reconstruction of the staircase, which we chose to transform into the pivotal point of the house. Thanks to its new connotation, the staircase is not only a vertical linking element between the floors, but it also assumes other specific roles depending on the situation, may it be a fence or an exhibition element. The conditions and the irregular heights enabled their personalization, which allowed us to make them unique and recognizable in their every element.
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LOCATION The building occupies a prominent position in the context of Campo Santa Margherita. From the windows facing south it is possible to see the square in its entirety. This represents a unique case.
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SHIFTING As the particular connotation of the plan, the staircase is not perfectly superimposable. We managed to propose a sense of rotation for the part dedicated to the showroom and a different one for residential environments. This made it possible to avoid the sense of disorientation and promiscuity.
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OFFICINA ZANON A local blacksmiths-shop took care of the staircase manufacturing. It was the first opportunity for me to work in close contact with Officina Zanon, the same workshop that used to collaborate with Carlo Scarpa.
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DAIRY STORE EXTENSION
Commercial / Exthension Leading: arch. Criastiano Gasparetto year: 2015-2017 location: Barbarano Vicentino, Italy
South from Vicenza, at the foot of venetian Alps, The Berici Hills, place of pastoralism and agriculture since time immemorial, stand out for their particular beauty. In the ‘20s the partnership between some of the breeders in the area gave life to the Ponte di Barbarano Dairy cooperative. In the late ‘90s, thanks to the breeders’ investments, the dairy was renovated and expanded. Archt. Cristiano Gasparetto was called to create the store where the breeders’ products could be sold directly. Recently, thanks to subsidies from the European Community, the dairy had the opportunity to expand further and the architect was called to extend his own previous work. Such new extension enlarges the sales area, with special focus on the space destined to the workers. A whole new span is dedicated to them. In order to maintain the truss structure from the previous area, a very peculiar framework was designed to avoid the overloading of the existing structure and to take up a minimal amount of space on the floor.
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LANDMARK The client turned to Archt. Cristiano Gasparetto in order to have a building that, as already done on the previous design, although engaging with the landscape architecture, would be distinguishable from it and become a landmark for the Dairy Cooperative.
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STRUCTURE The client turned to Archt. Cristiano Gasparetto in order to have a building that, as already done on the previous design, although engaging with the landscape architecture, would be distinguishable from it and become a landmark
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OTHER COLLABORATIONS
Palazzo Contarini-Polignac Type: Residential / Renovation Leading: Arch. Barbara Pastor year: 2017-on going location: Venice, Italy
For a few years now, Studio Pastor has been appointed as proto (the venetian traditional master architect that coordinates and supervises the works) of Palazzo Contarini-Polignac Dal Zaffo, located along the Canal Grande. The palace, as many others in the city, has centuries of dynamic architectural history. The Studio Pastor was called for many renovation and conservation interventions of the palace. As requested by the Polignac Family, in-depth historical research was carried out, to restore the Palazzo’s own identity that was getting lost over time.
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Country House Type: Residential / Renovation Leading: Arch. Barbara Pastor year: 2018-on going location: Mirano (Venice), Italy
Until a few decades ago, farming was the main activity in the Venetian hinterland. More recently, the conversion towards an industrialized area caused the loss of much of the architectural heritage. This small house, located along one the many canals that flows into the Venetian Lagoon, is one of the last surviving farm laborers’ house of the place. The clients requested to adapt the house to the needs of a modern family, by widening it, yet preserving its traditional character.
Primo BrusĂ Type: Residential / Renovation Leading: Arch. Barbara Pastor year: 2019 location: Venice, Italy
This house, situated in Calle Primo BrusĂ , an alley in one of the most ancient areas of Venice, has very peculiar features. The little domestic environment, obtained from an antique portico, overlooks a private courtyard. The client, who usually lives in the house during summertime, requested to study and readjust the very small interior. This new design aimed at housing up to 4 people, yet on a well-organized and comfortable space. The new design paid particular attention to the interrelationship between the interior and the courtyard, as the latter, in summer, becomes an integral part with the inner spaces.
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