ALESSANDRO MINTRONE
ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO
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Biography
ALESSANDRO MINTRONE
# Bologna, Italy
Alessandro Mintrone is a computational designer, architect and engineer. He deeply delieves in the open and free flowing circulation of knowledge. In his work he explores artificial cognition, simulation, machinic fabrication, algorithmic design and tries to investigate the porous zone of human and non-human collaboration.
Education
Work experience
Combined Master Degree: Archititecture and Building Engineering
Workshop Leader, ACADIA 2020: Costructing Cognition
Scuola Open Source: XYZ 2020
Workshop Leader, eCAADe 2020: Cognitive Assemblages
2014 - 2020 Full Marks with Honors, University of Bologna, topics: Architecture + AI + Prefabrication Supervisor: Alessio Erioli PhD Sept 2020 Research and co-design, art installation design DigitalFUTURES: Material Hyper-specification Jun 2020 CITA, Copenhagen - Advanced workshop in Machine Learning and Digital Fabrication Scuola Open Source: XYZ 2019
Jul 2019 Research and co-design, art installation design Advanced Photography Course
Gen 2017 - Mar 2017 Spazio Labò, photographic project development IAH Workshop
Aug 2016 Archistart, international design workshop
Oct 2020 North American computational design conference, topics: Architecture + AI
Sept 2020 TU Berlin - International computational design conference, topics: Architecture + AI Studio Tutor, University of Bologna
Oct 2019 - Dec 2019 Architectural Design Studio 3 - Rhino & Grassopper tutoring, minor reviews Architectural Design Intern, Open Project
Sept 2019 - Dec 2019 Architecture & Engineering firm - Preliminary and parametric design, drawings and layouts Contributor, Il Giornale dell’Architettura 2018 Online architecture journal
EdArchiBo, Contributor & Editor Oct 2017 - Jul 2020 University architecture publication
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Prizes & Exibitions DigitalFUTURES Young: Intelligence
Jun 2020 International conference on Architecture Computational design and AI
Personal
Italian: Mother tongue
Grasshopper // Scripting in C# and Python // Custom components development // State-of-art knowledge of: Topology optimization Structural simulation Environmental simulation Machine learning Machine Learning // Keras // Tensorflow + Tensorboard // Unity ML-Agents
This is not Architecture
Sept 2019 Exibition + publication, University of Bologna Solo Photography Exibition
Unity 3D C# programming
May 2018 Ex Periences, Ex Forno MAMbo, Bologna
Arduino C++ development
Media
Design
IAH Workshop: Honourable mention
Aug 2016 International workshop design competition
Team worker // Extensive experience working with both small a big teams, both self-organized and hierarchical. // Frequent leadership or oganizer roles Resolute Dedicated Able improviser Passionate
Computational
Languages
English: C1 level IELTS Certificate awarded on March 2019 - Score: 7.5 / 9.0 Overal
Rhinoceros [+ Scripting] Unity 3D AutoCAD Enscape Sketchup V-Ray Quixel Megascan Photography // Landscape, architectural, street Adobe Indesign Adobe Photoshop Adobe Lightroom Adobe Illustrator Adobe Premiere Pro Adobe Audition Ableton Live Office
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TABLE OF
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Cognitive Assemblages Architectural design studio 3
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Inside Out Professional Work
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Living Coral Architectural design studio 3
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Hackitecture Architectural technology studio 2
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Ca’ Venier Architectural design studio 2
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Acciaio Structural design studio
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Porta Nuova Building restoration studio
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Photography
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Cognitive Master thesis project Type University Project Designer A. Mintrone Supervisor A. Erioli
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8 | Cognitive
Cognitive assemblages | Design vision
Extending designer’s intelligence with artificial cognition
1. Large scale assemblage 2. Assembly sequence
This research explores the consequences of a paradigm shift that emerges when artificial cognition is embedded into the design process, neither confined to a passive tool, nor aimed to parrot human thinking. Leveraging on Reinforcement Learning an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) is trained to perform local decisions assembling discrete elements that build up a complex spatial organization at the architectural scale.
Tileset
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Machine Learning | Analysis parametersrs
Reinforcement Learning When using Reinforcement Learning the neural network gains experience interacting and transforming the environment, this process gives place to a feedback-loop between actions and rewards coming from the environment which will then change the actions of the agent itself.
ANALYZED PARAMETERS
1. Density. 1 - |desiredDensity - currentDensity|
2. Grandient. 1 - fieldValue
3. Orientation allignedTiles / totalTiles
4. Structural Connectivity 1 - tilesUnderThreshold / totalTiles
5. Spatial Connectivity 1 - tilesUnderThreshold / totalTiles
6. Planar Connectivity 1 - tilesUnderThreshold / totalTiles
10 | Cognitive
Training Results
Target value
Analysis parameters
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Tileset | Connectivity 1. Example of tridimensional tileset. Showing connectivity logic and tiles geometry.
Complete tileset
Horizontal connectiity rules
Vertical connectiity rules
12 | Cognitive
Axonometric views
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14 | Cognitive
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16 | Cognitive
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Inside Open Project Type Professional Work, Published Designers A. Mintrone, M. Michelini E. De Fabris, L. Nanni Location 2019 - Italy
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20 | Inside Out
Inside Out | Design vision
Can factories inhabit our cities?
1. Front view 2. Moving factories from suburbs to the city center
Urban sprawl affects contemporary territories globally. The suburbs are radically characterized by industrialized scenarios, consisting of huge warehouses and logistic yards that occupy large portions of the territory. The factory becomes a research hub and a laboratory where technology is at the service of man; it is no longer an alienating place, but a highly qualified and qualifying place, it is no longer a scary object, to be kept on the edge of the city, but an expression of a new way of working. The elimination of logistic yards and the implementation of vertical warehouses mean that the building can be more compact. In this case the production could be integrated, why not, with spaces dedicated to offices in a metropolitan context.
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Imagining worksplaces in the age of automation We started designing, which branches in the three directions of the x, y and z planes according to the needs of the localised function. The modular composition building allows you to add and remove modules based on production requirements. The factory has a smaller footprint on the ground and develops vertically. It opens up to the possibility of becoming a landmark itself, a mix of headquarters, opera-
tional space and product showcase. The peripheral industrial areas replaced by parks would give prestige to areas that today are anything but places of value and the integration between the various functions, part of daily life, would allow a more homogeneous growth than what we define today the widespread city.
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Factory in PRESENT the suburbs
Offices
Big parking areas
Production
The factory will be replaced by vegetation
truck logistics
Warehouse
Extension
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construction
Factory in the city
Factory in FUTURE the city
drone logistics
public transportations
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Offices
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In the city centre it will be easier to use the
Production
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final model
possibility of expansion
final model
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three directions
construction
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Living Architectural design studio 3 Type University Project Designers A. Mintrone, F. Montoschi, F. Russo Location 2019 - Miami, FL
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26 | Living Coral
Living Coral | Project brief
Reef research center & coral nursery
1. Interior view, research center 2. Masterplan, relationship between context and building
The environmental emergency of coral death pushes us to investigate this almost unknown class of animals, to safeguard its existence and to steal its secrets. A dual system of closely interrelated spaces houses a two-level center that is not limited to research, but spreads knowledge about corals by inserting itself into Miami's public life and a modular artificial reef, adaptable and expandable to any other place where it is needed, which allows the study and repopulation of corals. Two systems that connect the human space to the underwater one, recognizing and enhancing their irreducible complexity. Looking for a possible coexistence in which both systems learn from each other.
Inquadramento 1:1000
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.Field’s intensity
.Voxelization
.Module’s density
.Field lines
.First Principal directions
.Second Principal direction
.Final aggregation
.3 Artificial reef morphogenesis. The reef is designed to have a porous structure, characterized by irregularities and different densities, this is needed in order to receive the complexity of underwater life. The generated field is interpreted changing directions and densities of the discrete modules.
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ARTIFICIAL, MODULAR REEF
1. External view, relation with the sea and space continuity 2. Underground view, research center interior, coral nursery reachable by both scientists and tourists
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1. Phisical model, details and longitudinal section
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2. Mereology, parts whole relationship and connections
modulo: tipo 2 faccia C
attacchi diagonali
modulo: tipo 3 faccia C
attacco diagonale modulo: tipo 2 faccia C
modulo: tipo 1 faccia C faccia A
shell superiore
pavimento
shell inferiore
collegamenti strutturali
modulo: tipo 2 faccia A
modulo: tipo 1 faccia A
attacco a terra e muri perimetrali
modulo: tipo 3 faccia C
attacco diaonale
modulo: tipo 2 faccia A
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Ca’ Architectural design studio 2 Type University Project Designers A. Mintrone, M. Lambertini F. Montoschi, F. Russo Location 2018 - Venezia, IT
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Ca’ Venier | Project Brief 34 | Ca’ Venier
Addition to the Peggy Guggheneim Museum in Venice The project stems from the assumption that light is the first material that constitutes a museum, it is necessary that all the exhibition spaces receive a uniform but not generic and flat light, that natural light enters and enriches the experience of vision, but also that its intensity is controlled and does not risk to damage the works. The garden is intended as the fulcrum around which the project developed, as a discourse open to the construction of Ca' Venier and never concluded.
1. Peggy Guggheneim, mecenat and cellector 2. Exterior view, garden visualization
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A. Ground floor plan, relationship with the city
B. First floor plan, relationship with the city
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1. Water facing elevation, relationship with the city
2. Garden facing elevatin, relationship with the city
3. Longitudinal section, natural light systemy
4. Short section, old building and volumetric addition
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Hack Architectural tecnology studio Type University Project Designers A. Mintrone, F. Montoschi, F. Russo, D. Tassinari Location 2017 - Athens, GR
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Hackitecture | Project brief
Green renovation The project was born with the intention of carrying out an energy retrofit on a modern building located in Greece. The use of sustainable materials and technologies, combined with attention to energy saving, not only bring the building into the present, but also foreshadow a possible future.
SEZIONE B-B
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Sustainable modularity The supporting structure and the infill panels are made of X-LAM. The project was born with the intention of carrying out an energy retrofit on a modern building located in Greece. The use of sustainable materials and technologies, combined with the attention to energy saving brings not only the building into the present, but also foreshadow a possible future development.
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1. Structural addition, seismic performances 2. Exterior view, entire building visualizaion
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Sistema costruttivo 1. Doppio strato di guaina idrorepellente,tavolato in legno 30mm,strato di pendenza in listelli di legno,fibra di legno ad alta densità 22 mm,pannello isolante in fibra di legno 200mm,tavolato in legno 30mm, travetti in legno lamellare 240x100 mm 2. Pavimentazione in parquet 15mm, pannelli in gessofibra 15mm, impianto di riscaldamento a pavimento 80mm, pannelo isolante in fibra di legno ad alta densità 22mm, pannello isolante in fibra di legno 60mm, massetto alleggerito per impianti in argilla granulare espansa 100 mm,guaina idrorepellente, x-lam 180mm, intercapedine d'aria 200 mm, doppio strato di isolante in lana di roccia 200mm. 3. Pavimentazione in legno 20mm, sottostruttura in pannelli di okumè 15mm, listelli in legno, x-lam 160mm, islante fonoassorbente 10mm, isolante in fibra di legno 120mm, controsoffitto in pannelli di gessofibra 20mm 4. Pannello in gessofibra 10mm, isolante fonoassorbente 10mm, pannello in gessofibra 10mm, pannello isolante in fibra di legno 100mm, x-lam 160mm. 5. intonaco calce e gesso 20mm, doppio strto in laterizio forato 120x120x240mm,pannello isolante in lana di roccia 140mm, intonaco calce e gesso 20mm. 6. Pavimentazione esterna con lastre in gres porcellanato 600x1200x20 mm, massetto di posa 80mm, solaio in calcestruzzo armato 150mm 7. guaina idrorepellente, fondazione trave rovescia 280x500mm, guaina idrorepellente 8. pannello in gessofibra 20mm,pannello isolante lana di roccia 70mm, x-lam 90mm, pannello isolante in fibra di legno 100mm , pannello isolante in fibra di legno ad alta densità 22mm,profili tubolari in alluminio 100x40mm, finitura estena in alluminio bianco 5mm
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Structural design studio Type University Project Designers A. Mintrone Location 2018 - Bologna, IT
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Structural details Two projects are assigned. The first involves the structural design of an industrial warehouse in steel, after having designed and verified the truss, pillars and foundations, the structural construction nodes are created. This process is repeated for another, reinforced concrete, structure.
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ACCIAIO
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Porta Buildings restoration studio Type University Project Designers A. Mintrone, F. Montoschi, F. Russo Location 2019 - Bologna, IT
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PortaNuova | Project brief
History & heritage The city doors took the the name of torresotti, once they reached the final configuration of tall crenellated towers, with a few narrow openings in reason for their defensive function. Selenite, a local stone, was widely used in the construction of the torresotti both in the archivolts and in the the arches, in the uprights or at the base of the torresotti, and sometimes for details such as the seat of the hinges of double-leaf doors. In Porta Nova tower, in particular, they are still well preserved above the shutters inside the arch that faces piazza Malpigli, the protruding cylindrical seats in selenite on which the wooden door’s hinges rotated, those city doors were closed in the evening when the bridge, also made of wood, which crossed the pit was withdrawn within the city
G. Rovesi, Le mura perdute. Storia e immagini dell’ultima cerchia fortificata di Bologna, Grafis Edizioni, Bologna 1986
G. Rovesi, Le mura perdute. Storia e immagini dell’ultima cerchia fortificata di Bologna, Grafis Edizioni, Bologna 1986
G. Rovesi, Le mura perdute. Storia e immagini dell’ultima cerchia fortificata di Bologna, Grafis Edizioni, Bologna 1986
G. Gresleri, Guida di Architettura Bologna, Allemandi & Co 2004
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G. Gresleri, Guida di Architettura Bologna, Allemandi & Co 2004
G. Gresleri, Guida di Architettura Bologna, Allemandi & Co 2004
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CONTACT Bologna, Italy +39 3492976342 alessandro.mintrone@hotmail.com