ALESSANDRO MENINI
ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO
CV ALESSANDRO MENINI t. e. p. p.
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+39 3408143271 alessandro.menini89@gmail.com via pacini 22, 20131 milan (mi), italy via biancardin 8/c, 37012 bussolengo (vr), italy
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EDUCATION 1 Diploma from Scientific High School Liceo Scientifico Statale Primo Levi, Verona, Italy 3
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Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Architecture
Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
ETS TOEIC – Score 940 / 990
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Test of English for International Communication
Master of Science (MSc) in Architecture
Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
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5 EXPERIENCE
2012
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5 Owner and Graphic designer Woosh Clothing, Verona, Italy
6 Intern architect AAPA Architetti Associati Pasini Ágoston, Verona, Italy
A creative role in a small and young fashion brand I cofounded with some friends. It was exciting to work on new tee designs and to manage the communication, creating the logo, the website layout and the collection catalogues.
A great experience in a multidisciplinary and inspiring practice. I was involved in the project development for a house in Gruenwald, Germany and a refurbishment in Verona, Italy, making technical drawings, models and renderings.
7 Beta tester Indexhibit CMS (Content Management System)
8 Architect Associazione AGILE, Verona, Italy
Indexhibit is a renowned user friendly tool to build and manage creative and minimalist websites. I took part in the small development team as a beta tester, providing ideas and suggestions and translating the CMS into Italian.
I’ve been involved in a young multidisciplinary non-profit organisation that focuses its attention into recovering unused urban spaces within the city of Verona by making participated projects and strategies and organizing public exhibitions and workshops.
Architecture
Graphics
Video / Photo
CSS
HTML
Adobe Lightroom
Adobe Premiere
Adobe InDesign
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Photoshop
Kerkythea
SketchUp
Rhinoceros
Vectorworks
Autocad
SKILLS
Web
COMPETITIONS
Architecture competition, participation – February 2011
Logo competition, 1st prize – May 2012
“VHOM – Vienna House of Music”, Vienna, Austria
“MEETmeTONIGHT”, Milan, Italy
Participation in the ArchMedium international architecture student competition to design a building for music into the Viennese Stadtpark enthusiastically competing with more than 400 proposals coming from 30 different countries.
Selected as the winner among 750 participants in the logo competition for a cultural and scientific event held in Milan promoted by the municipality and the most important universities and institutions as part of the Europe-wide Researcher’s Night.
WORKSHOPS
Architecture workshop – September 2012
Public meeting – September 2012
“Le giornate del riuso temporaneo”, Milan, Italy
“Mazzini Futura”, Verona, Italy
A five-day architecture workshop focused on the adaptive reuse of unused public spaces in the city of Milan. It was interesting to design a temporary project in a team with motivated students and international architects.
Within a week of cultural events and workshops, I organized a stimulating two-day public meeting with local citizens to develop possible ideas and strategies for the unused empty shops in the historical city centre of a small town near Verona.
EXHIBITIONS AND PUBLICATIONS
Architecture exhibition – September / November 2012
Publication – September 2010
“On the Road”, Milan / Monza, Italy
“The road to shape design”, Prof. Eng. Domenico D’Uva
The refurbishment project of a dismissed 50s dismissed Agip petrol station in Milan, developed during the Architectural Design Studio in 2012, was showed at the double architecture exhibition promoted by the multinational Italian petrol company Eni and Politecnico di Milano.
The analysis work of the Toyo Ito’s Meiso No Mori roof surface developed during the Parametric CAD 3D Drawing course was published in “The road to shape design” paper written by the Prof. Eng. Domenico D’Uva.
LANGUAGES Italian: native / English: advanced / Spanish: beginner
INTERESTS Photography / Graphic and Web Design / Mountain biking / Travelling
SELECTION OF PROJECTS
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A reflection on contemporary habitat
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[ST]AZIONE URBANA
A laboratory of ideas for the city of Milan
2012
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NEW GEOGRAPHIES OF A LAUNDRY
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A social housing complex in a marginal place
MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY An hostel at the Weissenhof Estate
2011
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BETWEEN CITY AND COUNTRYSIDE
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Vienna House of Music
PLOT 26 HOUSE
A waterfront house at Borneo Sporenburg
MEISO NO MORI FUNERAL HALL Formal analysis of Toyo Ito’s roof surface
2010
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VHOM
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KUNSTHALLE PAMPLONA
A contemporary art museum in Pamplona residential
public
parametric
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NEW GEOGRAPHIES OF A LAUNDRY
A reflection on contemporary habitat University project year: 2013 location: / professors: Prof. Arch. Pierluigi Salvadeo, Arch. Davide Colaci collaborator: Marco Mazzola
09 An imaginary architectural exhibition on the theme “the room� and a 70x70cm white cube as spatial context. These were the premises of this experimental project that, among the undefined range of contemporary rooms, focuses its attention on the laundry. Nowadays lifestyles and habits have been changed from the past, relegating the laundry to a narrow and boring room. Freeing the mind from preconceptions, the project imagines a different scenario, made of a spread geography of devices. They combine architectural features, laundry activities and everyday habits, making possible extra-ordinary spatial expe-
riences. The exhibition display is composed of three parts hanged on a wooden exhibitor: panels with technical drawings, booklets of suggestion images and a magic-box with peepholes to watch into and discover the laundry devices.
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Brico
A flat piece of wood can be a window-light regulator and a studiolo table
Jukebox
An ordinary wooden box can be an hidden washing machine and a sound amplifier
Lumière
An hanging steel ring can be a clothes rack and an home cinematograph
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Secret garden
S端skind
Alley
A squared ceramic tray can be an open air shower and a breathing home garden
An extruded see-through spiral can be an introvert repository and a perfume diffuser
An ordinate sequence of wires can be a drying rack and an undefined Venetian alley
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[ST]AZIONE URBANA
A laboratory of ideas for the city of Milan University project year: 2012 location: Milan, Italy professors: Prof. Arch. Gennaro Postiglione, Arch. Lorenzo Bini collaborator: Marco Mazzola book: http://issuu.com/alessandromenini/docs/stazione_urbana video: http://vimeo.com/48917921
13 In Milan there is an outstanding Agip petrol station designed and built at the beginning of the 50s to answer both the needs of the car and its driver’s. Now it’s deplorably dismissed. The aim of the refurbishment project is to give back the citizens a piece of their history, converting it into a place of coworking in which developing new entrepreneurial and participated actions for the city of Milan. The spaces of the station have been redefined through the addition of wooden elements that host the necessary facilities and generate informal conditions
of coworking. The importance given to citizens’ active participation has led to imagine the replacement of the existing skylight with a new volume, suspended between the inside and the outside, conceived as a privileged forum for debates. This work was showed at the “On the Road” architecture exhibition, promoted by the multinational Italian petrol company Eni and Politecnico di Milano. 2012, 09, 08-09 – 50s Agip petrol station, Milan, Italy 2012, 11, 24-25 – Autodromo Nazionale, Monza, Italy
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Reactivation
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Milan
Milan Municipality
Citizens
Terms
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Limited period
Young people
Financial support Workplace “Advisors� Permanent management Process synoptic map
Entrance hall view
Co-working space view
Temporary management
Coworkers
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Exploded axonometric
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BETWEEN CITY AND COUNTRYSIDE
A social housing complex in a marginal place University project year: 2012 location: Milan, Italy professors: Prof. Arch. Marco Lucchini, Arch. Luigi De Ambrogi collaborator: Marco Mazzola
At the borders of the city of Milan there is an invisible margin between the built environment and the beginning of Rural Park South. It’s in this delicate urban area that the project of a new social housing complex takes place. Taking as an initial reference the rural courtyard typology, the building then breaks in four points to ensure the accesses and differentiates its height fading from the city to the countryside. This allows to have a building made of four blocks, with an inner open space and a privileged side looking towards the green environment.
17 A fixed structural unit enables the creation of some different dwelling typologies for different kind of users. The single, the couple, the family and the quite new SoHo have each different needs and spaces. The combination of the dwellings around the stairwells creates some independent modules, that are arranged according to the program needs and that are overlaid to create the height differentiation.
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MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY
An hostel at the Weissenhof Estate Bachelor’s degree project year: 2011 location: Stuttgart, Germany professor: Prof. Arch. Andrea Di Franco collaborator: Marco Mazzola book: http://issuu.com/alessandromenini/docs/modern_and_ contemporary
It was 1927 when the most important architects of the Modernism were invited to design one or more residential buildings in the experimental Weissenhof Estate in Stuttgart. After the damages of the WWII bombing, the house near to the one designed by Le Corbusier was destroyed, making the plot void again. A new hostel project places here, between the modern and the contemporary. Nowadays there is a lack of public space inside the housing estate, so the public nature of the hostel project would give back a new place for sociality, culture and events. The plot stands on a ground slope
21 with a 4 meters altitude gap, which became the key concept of the project. An horizontal volume links together the two levels and then bends vertically as a result of a program variation. The horizontal part is basically made of two public areas, one exterior that relates with the estate and one interior for the hostel facilities. The vertical part hosts the rooms and opens to the north through a wooden facade, like a big window viewing the estate and the entire city of Stuttgart.
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Reception Laundry Kitchen Dining / lounge space Cafe Library Internet point Room
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VHOM
Vienna House Of Music Competition / University project year: 2011 location: Vienna, Austria professors: Prof. Arch. Vincenza Lima, Arch. Andrea De Matteis collaborators: Alberto Mariotti, Marco Mazzola
25 The VHOM area is located in the northern part of Stadtpark, which is actually part of a cultural context with many historical concert halls and schools for traditional formations along the Ringstrasse. The project competition program asked for a building that can meet the very complex scenario of contemporary classical music. A deep initial analysis showed that contemporary classical music has some clear features: it makes extensive use of experimentation, it’s influenced by the computer world, it’s often played in small ensembles and it has a more close and informal relation with the public. All these reasons led to
a reworking and structuring of the program. The part of the building at park level becomes a public, light and bright plate in relation with the Perfomance Studios and teaching spaces that formally define the existing height difference between the park level and that of the promenade along the Wienflusse canal. The two levels are then connected with each other by an open air auditorium and an underground floor that offers additional ways of approaching music: here are the recreational and study areas, the multimedia library, the rehearsal rooms and the recording rooms.
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Stadtpark
Performance studios
Music school
Public space
Music facilites
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PLOT 26 HOUSE
A waterfront house at Borneo Sporenburg University project year: 2010 location: Amsterdam, Netherlands professor: Prof. Arch. Oscar Eugenio Bellini collaborators: Marco Mazzola, Matteo Mariani
The Borneo Sporenburg area is a former harbour area at the east of the city of Amsterdam. West 8 Architects won the competition to redesign the entire area converting it in a housing district. The 60 terraced houses on Borneo Sporenburg refer to the Amsterdam canal houses and they have precise given measures: an height of 9.50 meters, a width of 6.35 meters and a depth of 16 meters. The project is located at plot 26, which is a head plot that borders with a public square. The position gave the opportunity to develop the main idea of the house for four creative: an unique architectural elements
29 that covers and shapes at the same time the roof, the facade and the public square. Referring to the interiors, the house facilities are moved on the blind side in order to leave the lit part as an empty open space looking towards the square. The house program is simple and definite, at the ground floor there is the working area, at the first floor the day living area and at the second floor the more intimate night area. The three levels area connected to each other through double height spaces.
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Bathroom Box Studio Library Living room Kitchen Bedroom
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MEISO NO MORI FUNERAL HALL
Formal analysis of Toyo Ito’s roof surface University project year: 2010 location: Kakamigahara, Japan professor: Prof. Eng. Domenico D’Uva collaborator: Gerardo Semprebon
33 Designed by Toyo Ito in collaboration with structural engineer Mutsuro Sasaki, the building seeks to dematerialize all sense of formal structure by “floating” over the landscape a 20 centimetres thick vast undulating shell in which to shelter the ceremonial functions of the crematorium. And though the roof appears free in form, it was realized through rigorous structural analysis. A complex parametric algorithm was used to modify the initial shape imagined by Toyo Ito for the main roof, in order to generate the optimal structural shape with the smallest possible bending stress and the
minimum of strain energy and deformation. The formal analysis on relevant sections shows the variations of first and second derivate. When f’(x)=0 there is an horizontal tangent inflection point and so a point of maximum or minimum. When f’’(x)=0 there is an oblique tangent inflection point and so a changing of concavity. The functional and structural analysis shows how their features reflect on each other, so the functional constraint of the crematoria is reflected on the structural pattern and on the entire shape of the building.
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KUNSTHALLE PAMPLONA
A contemporary art museum in Pamplona University project year: 2010 location: Pamplona, Spain professors: Prof. Arch. Franco Tagliabue, Arch. Nina Bassoli collaborator: Marco Mazzola
Pamplona is the capital city of Navarre, in the north-east of Spain. The project for a new contemporary art museum is located in an emblematic place, the square where starts the San FermĂn running of the bulls, at the entrance of the historical city centre, with a privileged view to the underlying modern city over the city walls. The project takes note of its delicate position with a courtyard building that relates with the surrounding context. The four wings adapt their shape to embrace the visitor inside the contemporary art museum, opening only in the west part, where there is the main
37 street towards the historical city centre. The roof has two different levels with a vertical skylight between them in order to provide a natural and neutral light to the exhibition spaces. The lower floor contains the museum facilities and a temporary exhibition space that could also communicate to the exterior with a large window, according to the needs of the artists. The first floor is entirely designed to contain temporary and permanent wide exhibition spaces.
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Entrance hall Temporary exhibition space Bookshop Cafe Reception Auditorium Storage Office Classroom Atelier
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ALESSANDRO MENINI t. e.
+39 3408143271 alessandro.menini89@gmail.com
June 2013