ALESSANDRO MENINI
ALESSANDRO MENINI architect +39 3408143271 hello@alessandromenini.it www.alessandromenini.it
2008
Politecnico di Milano BA in Architecture Milan, Italy
2009
2010
AAPA Intern Architect Verona, Italy
2011
Politecnico di Milano MA in Architecture
Temporary reuse days
Milan, Italy
Workshop
2012
Milan, Italy On the road Exhibition
2013
Milan, Italy LETH & GORI Intern Architect Copenhagen, Denmark
2014
Design Resistente
2015
Rabatto
Exhibition
Architect
Milan, Italy
Verona, Italy
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Languages Italian: native
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English: professional
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Spanish: limited
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Danish: elementary
SELECTION OF PROJECTS
MI4345
piccolo teatro urbano
roof house
this is not a laundry room
urban station
Weissenhof hostel
MI4345 year: 2015 location: Milan, Italy program: temporary installation team: Alessandro Menini, Marco Mazzola collaborators: Gennaro Postiglione status: completed
European cities and landscapes are dotted with traces of 20th century conflicts. In some cases the signs are still evident; in others, the passing of the time has cancelled the visible signs, but not the memory. On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of Italy’s Liberation Day, a multidisciplinary group of architects and historians designed the geo-tagged website www.mi4345.it to collect the most relevant historical places of Milan during World War II. In addition, during Milan Design Week 2015, they used laser-cut cardboard stencils and chalk spray paint to mark the city with a topography of temporary QR codes linking the tangible and intangible traces with the digital content. After 70 years, the invisible memories of buildings, streets and squares have been recalled for a few days. http://alessandromenini.it/mi4345
map of memory
QR code
Piccolo Teatro Urbano year: 2015 location: Milan, Italy program: public square team: Alessandro Menini, Marco Mazzola collaborators: Gennaro Postiglione status: master’s thesis project
In 1947 Giorgio Strehler and Paolo Grassi established the first public Italian theatre in the former Fascist headquarter of Milan. Today the Piccolo Teatro manages three venues and it is considered one of the symbols of the Milanese cultural rebirth after World War II. The master’s degree thesis researches possible ways architecture can deal with a difficult heritage, making the history interfere with the place and its everyday life. The proposal links the experimental Teatro Studio and Marco Zanuso’s Piccolo Teatro Strehler with a project that is both a public square and a new urban open-air theatre. Seventy-five metal poles, arranged on the ground, contain stories of people’s lives during the war years. Together they define different stages and serve as street furniture and technical support for performances and cultural events. http://alessandromenini.it/piccolo-teatro-urbano
Teatro Studio
Teatro Studio
Teatro Strehler
Teatro Strehler
urban devices
stages
LUCE
FONOTRASMETTITORE
MACCHINA SCENICA
a lamppost to provide the
a trumpet to listen to
a stage machinery to provide
square with diffuse light
the underground sounds
sound and spot light
PERISCOPIO
RAMPICANTE
FONTANA
an optical device to let peek
a climbing plant to clean
a drinking fountain to
into the square from below
the air from pollution
provide fresh water
roof house year: 2014 location: Fredensborg, Denmark program: house architects: LETH & GORI collaborator: Alessandro Menini status: completed
Realization of the architectural model of the project Roof House by danish architects LETH & GORI using plywood and grey cardboard. Roof House is a project that completely transforms an existing villa beautifully situated on a large site filled with trees in Fredensborg, Denmark by adding a series of roof buildings. In this way the project adds a new bedroom and a workspace as well as skylights and sleeping platforms for all the children’s bedrooms. In addition the project includes redesign of the facade making it more energy efficient and adding new and larger openings. The roof construction and skylights is wrapped in asphalt roll roofing. http://alessandromenini.it/roof-house
unfolding the roof
scale model
this is not a laundry room year: 2013 location: Milan, Italy program: exhibition team: Alessandro Menini, Marco Mazzola professors: Pierluigi Salvadeo, Davide Colaci status: academic project
In a rapidly urbanizing world, lifestyles and habits are changing from the past, causing people to live in smaller and more fluid spaces. The traditional home is becoming a combination of flexible rooms with multi-functional furniture. One of the consequences of this process is the fragmentation of the laundry room in a series of actions spread in the entire house. The exhibition proposal reflects on this theme and imagines a set of six new devices combining architectural features, laundry activities and everyday habits in order to make possible extra-ordinary spatial experiences. A 70x70cm white cardboard cube is hanged on a wooden frame and contains an overlapping system of optical devices with peepholes in which people can peek into to discover the laundry devices inserted into an evocative scenario. http://alessandromenini.it/this-is-not-a-laundry-room
LUMIĂˆRE
GIARDINO SEGRETO
a suspended steel ring can be a clothes
a squared ceramic tray can be an open
rack and a home cinematograph
air shower and a breathing home garden
BRICO
JUKEBOX
a flat piece of wood can be a window-light
an ordinary wooden box can be an hidden
regulator and a studiolo table
washing machine and a sound amplifier
SĂœSKIND
CALLE
an extruded see-through spiral can be an
an ordinate sequence of wires can be a
introvert repository and a perfume diffuser
drying rack and an undefined Venetian calle
urban station year: 2012 location: Milan, Italy program: adaptive reuse team: Alessandro Menini, Marco Mazzola professors: Gennaro Postiglione, Lorenzo Bini status: academic project
At the beginning of the 1950s the architect Mario Bacciocchi designed and built in Milan a futuristic petrol station resembling a spacecraft for the Italian petrol company Eni. After thirty years of use the building was dismissed. The aim of the adaptive reuse project is to convert it into a coworking space through the addition of wooden devices hosting the necessary facilities and generating different types of working environments. The existing skylight is replaced with a new volume, suspended between the inside and the outside, conceived as a privileged meeting room. The work was displayed at “On the Road� architecture exhibition, promoted by the multinational Italian petrol company Eni and Politecnico di Milano. http://alessandromenini.it/urban-station
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kitchen
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offices
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relax
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coworking
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management
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library
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Weissenhof hostel year: 2011 location: Stuttgart, Germany program: hostel team: Alessandro Menini, Marco Mazzola professor: Andrea Di Franco status: bachelor’s thesis project
In 1927, Mies van der Rohe invited the most important architects of the Modernism to design one or more residential buildings in the experimental Weissenhof Estate in Stuttgart. Later, the World War II bombings destroyed some buildings, including the one just beside the House 14-15 designed by Le Corbusier, making its plot void again. The 4-meter gap becomes the key concept of the proposal for a new hostel. A horizontal volume connects the two levels: on the top a public square relates with the estate, inside the building a public space contains the hostel facilities. The volume then bends vertically as a result of a program variation, hosting the rooms and opening to the north through a wooden facade resulting as a big window overlooking the city of Stuttgart. http://alessandromenini.it/weissenhof-hostel
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ALESSANDRO MENINI architect +39 3408143271 hello@alessandromenini.it www.alessandromenini.it