Alessandro Madami Portfolio 2012
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About me & Porfolio
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About me
PERSONAL DETAILS
EDUCATION
SKILLS
Name
2010/2012
Languages
Alessandro Madami
Specialization/ Master degree in Product English:Fluent in written and spoken English (ETS Toefl design at Politecnico of Milan score: 70) Spanish basic. 2007/2010
Adress Via Tartini N째28 20158 Milano,(MI)
Software
Nationality
Graduated at the Architecture University of Florence in Industrial design. Degree mark: 105/110.
Italian
2001/2007
Vray
Date of birth
High school :Professional diploma as tour operator
Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Adobe Indesign
10.01.1984
Rhinoceros
Untill 1994 Autocad. E-mail Alessandro.madami@gmail.com Telephone (+39) 349-1460672
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Until 1994 attending KG and primary classes at international English language schools in Saudi Arabia and Hong Kong.
“Designing a product is designing a relationship.� Steve Rogers 5
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Portfolio
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Index
_Product Design
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_Interior Design
_Visual design
0.1 Eco-Sound-Trash
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1.1 kiTchen
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0.2 Bamboo
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1.2 Switch
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0.3 Concentrica
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0.4 Cavalletta
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PRODUCT DESIGN
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0.1
Year
2010
Material
Alluminium sheet
EcoSound-Trash
Processing
Laser cut
Recycle Bin Team project.
With
University of Florence
Description ECOSOUNDTRASH is a system of modular stack containers designed to provide separate waste collection. The modules emit a series of birds chirping, each time one is introducing waste through the collar, by means of a self-powered solar device concealed inside the containers. Each individual module has also been designed to be be utilized as a seat or a table.
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Inquisitiveness This project was initially thought to be realized in plastic by injection molding in order to have a smoother shape, but after due consideration to the production cost involved, it was finally decided to create it in alluminium sheet.
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ECOSOUNDTRASH.
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Multifuntional Product Eco Sound Trash has been designed in such a shape in order that it may be turned into a stool or a coffee table, according to needs. Being a trash bin for dry waste like paper, plastic and aluminium there are no problems with odors and hygiene. The EST has on its top a lid covered with alcantara material to be as comfortable as possible when used as a seat (fig. A ). On the side of the bin there is an handhold to facilitate the lifting of the lid / seat.(fig.B ) The three branches, that are all at the same height and are designed to withstand a certain weight, can be used as a stand for a plexigas top when transforming the EST into a coffee table.(fig.C)
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0.2
Year
2011
Material
Polymethacrylate
House Lamp
Processing
Laser cut
Team Project.
With
Politecnico of Milano
Course
Sviluppo prodotto
Bamboo
Description Bamboo is a lamp designed starting from a 3mm thick sheet of PMMA 384x790. How one can easily imagine our source of inspiration was the bamboo plant. Featuring fascinating properties, this plant is composed of cylindrical surfaces alternating with structural nodes. The same pattern was intended to recur in our project where the nodes are represented by the dishes that are so shaped as to hold in tension the entire area of coverage.
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Our goal from the beginning was to design a lamp consisting of few parts and is therefore easy to assemble but still with an impact “important” on the environment. This was the choice that immediately led us to avoid techniques such as slicing or other methods of structuring “conventional” that surely would have taken a lot of material, so we would penalize the size of the final result. For this reason we have chosen to bend the material. A choice that has quickly turned into a design challenge because we had very few certainties about the possibility of ending the plate without heating.
Following tests, corrections and calculations were able to get the desired result. We have removed by laser cutting the material in the bending zone so to facilitate the material to bend. And ‘really interesting as a material such as PMMA is able to bend by 180 ° without the use of heat sources. It is even more fascinating as the tension created by the plate bending contributes structurally fixed bearing in the joints and nodes. Yes, as fascinating as the bamboo.
Sizing The tracking we see is what allows our plate bending 180 °. We tested the dimensionally on a prototype of which we see an enlargement
Cutting geometry.
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BAMBOO
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0.3 Concentrica kitchen scale
Team Project.
Year
2011
Material
Wood Harmonic steel
Processing
Laser cut
With
Politecnico of Milano
Course
Sviluppo Prodotto
Description Concentric is a simple kitchen scale. Few pieces, some snap and you’re done. It is in fact a scale that due to its geometry want to simply repeat those complex mechanisms that normally reside in the household scales. The heart of the Project is the plate made of harmonic steel shaped by laser. The coupling between the cutting geometry and elasticity of the material causes to the center of the shaped plate to go down if loaded and lathes if downloaded just like a spring.
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_Harmonic steel after laser cut
Geometry
We made different cutting tests with regard to the plate. The geometry that we eventually selected (blue), is the one that best meets our needs. Since there is no mathematical formula to calculate the forces acting on that plan, we had decideded to proceed by empirical tests. The calibration that we have achieved was just satisfactory and we are confident that by a series of additional tests we will be able to get the optimal result.
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Assembly
1 CASE (wood version) turning, milling (steel version) laser cutting, bending, welding.
2 CAP Thermoforming - ABS 3 mm pressure fixing
3 GUIDE injection molding - ABS 3 mm
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4 INDICATOR laser cutting and bending stainless steel 1mm fixed by bending the ring around the guide
5 HARMONIC STEEL Laser cutting - steel wire 0.3 mm is fixed with four screws
6 CONTAINER Thermoforming - ABS 3 mm
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CONCENTRICA
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0.4 Grasshopper Bookshelf.
Team Project.
Year
2011
Material
Wood Steel rod
Processing
Bending rod
With
Politecnico of Milano
Corso
Product Development
Description The starting point of this project, as often happens, was a common technology: the bending of a tube / rod of metal. Fascinating and simple technology that allows you to create complex geometry products in time and at low costs. According to this logic we thought about the module. The module is often something complex that, thanks to his characteristic, offers a variety of combinations. After a brief search of what the market was offering, we decided that our challenge was to create a modular library. We believe that the library is an object that, before any other requirements, has to be adaptable to the needs of users. These were the guidelines that have given birth to Grasshopper, i.e. an extensible library in height and width thanks to one single module.
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Details The product has been designed so as to be totally screwless. The stands are supported at the base above the pins and remain in position by gravity. The shelves fit into “channels� created by rods, which span the axis linking him. Each part of the shelves can be used. The modules have dimensions studied adequately to allow the insertion of a variety of objects inside.
Geometry The geometry of the module has been designed to favor the stackability, thereby reducing the overall dimensions even during transport. The flaring of the modules also serves to concentrate load inward avoiding ups and unwanted as a support for books.
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GRASSHOPPER
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INTERIOR DESIGN
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1.1 kiTchen Compact kitchen Team Project.
Year
2009
Material
Wood Steel rod
Processing
Bending rod
With
Politecnico di Milano. Effeti cucine.
Course
Product Development
Description The brief of the progect was to design a kitchen that could fit in a not very big spaces maintening all the function of a normal sized kitchen. So we then started our brainstorming and resarch on what already existed. Thinking about our kitchen concept adhering to the brief, we decided first of all to ensure that the kitchen area and the lounge room should somehow interact with each other, so we started from the fact that the kitchen should be off grid. Hence our first proposal at the conceptual level is the one below.
Concept The design concept is a small kitchen with incorporated a dining table and a sink latch made of silicone material. It is a kitchen studied for single people, young couple or a worker, i.e. people that don’t cook often, but when they want have got everything essential to do it.
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kiTchen. From concept we then passed to the actual project and focused on details in terms of form and function. Being a kitchen which stands at the center of the room,it is designed to ensure that the kitchen could be seen only at times of use and may disappear soon after; so the decision was to make a cock up and down with a concrete top that can cover the entire area( cook-top-sink-support area.)
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Perspective
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Render
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1.2 Switch
Compact table-food store Team Project.
Year
2009
Material
Wood Steel
Processing With
Università di architettura Firenze. Effeti cucine.
Course
Product Development
Description “Switch” is a food-store that can switched just by an hand into different forms to interact with your house.
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Switch
Concept Front
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Perspective
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VISUAL DESIGN
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2.1 Graphics my own pleasure.
Individual project.
Indaco name written with a 3d modeling program.
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2008
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