Architecture Portfolio Selected Projects
Alfredo Barba
Name | Alfredo Barba Date of Birth | February 10, 1989 Address | via Leonardo da Vinci, 46 - Saronno (Milan area) - Italy Mobile | +39 3898034745 E-Mail | alfredo.barba.ab@gmail.com
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Education
Jan 2018 - Ongoing Assistant Professor Politecnico di Milano, first year class in Architectural Design Feb 2017 Licensed Architect Ordine degli Architetti, Pianificatori, Paesaggisti e Conservatori della Provincia di Varese
Master in Preservation Reuse Design of Historical Architecture (PRD ha) Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Progettazione dell’Architettura e Dipartimento di Architettura e Studi Urbani Oct 2012 - Jun 2013 Specializing
Master’s Degree in Building Architecture Politecnico di Milano, Scuola di Architettura Civile; 110/110 Oct 2011 - Apr 2015
Oct 2010 - May 2011
Specializing Master in Virtual Design Architecture (ViDA)
Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Progettazione dell’Architettura
Bachelor’s Degree in Building Architecture Politecnico di Milano, Scuola di Architettura Civile; 108/110 Oct 2008 - Sep 2011
High School Diploma Liceo Scientifico Statale G.B. Grassi, Saronno (Milan area) Sep 2003 - Jul 2008
Design Skills
Vectorworks
AutoCAD
Revit
ArchiCAD
Rhinoceros
Sketch Up
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Indesign
Adobe Lightroom
Cinema 4D + Vray
Microsoft Office
Portfolio | Curriculum Vitae
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Professional Experiences
PRR Architetti Freelance Architect, 3D Modeler and Visualizer Sep 2018 - Ongoing
PCA, Paolo Citterio Architetti Freelance Architect, 3D Modeler and Visualizer Feb 2018 - Aug 2018
BEMaa, Bruno Egger Mazzoleni architetti associati Freelance Architect and 3D Modeler Aug 2017 - Jan 2018
B22 Freelance Architect, Model Maker and 3D Modeler Apr 2017 - Jul 2017
CZA, Cino Zucchi Architetti Architect and 3D Modeler Dec 2015 - Apr 2017
ETO, Architectural Office Designer and Illustrator Sep 2015 - Nov 2015
May 2015 - Jun 2015 Politecnico di Milano Collaboration with Professor Luca Sgambi, with tasks of plant design supporting Professor Antonio Cammi, for the exhibition “Uncle Scrooge and the secrets of the Deposit”
Politecnico di Milano Support activitity to the Internship Office within 150 hours of tutoring Oct 2014 - Feb 2015
StudioWok Collaborator with the role of designer and illustrator for both competitions of Apr 2014 - Jun 2014
Piazza Roma and Piazza Volta in Como
StudioWok and B22 Collaborator with the role of designer and illustrator for the “Europan 12” in Apr 2013 - June 2013
the city of Kuopio, Finland
Studio Ingegneria-Architettura Galli Architect, Internship Feb 2013 - Mar 2013
Language Skills
Italian
English
Table of Contents
8 | The Light Chapel | Architecture 14 | San Rocco’s Vineyard | Landscape 18 | Market-Plaza | Architecture 22 | A Fortress beside the River | Urbanism 26 | Seven Beautiful Orchards | Urbanism 32 | A Green Cloud | Architecture 38 | New York, New York | Architecture 42 | A “Potential” Plaza | Landscape
The Light Chapel Porto Covo, Portugal | “Site chapel� - ARKxSITE competitions
Thinking about a Chapel in the middle of this little island, not very far from the Portuguese coast, probably means thinking about a reference point which could be visible from the whole landscape. As it happens with the coastline of Portugal, the Lighthouses are one of the traditional landmarks: they represent the light that marks the Ocean with the dark or in case of low visibility. For this reason, the founding idea of this project is the analogy between the light of the lighthouse, which is the guide for the seafarers, and the Divine Light, symbol of Jesus Christ and reference point for the Christians who are visiting the Chapel. The choice of a circular shape for the Chapel is given by both the need of being different from the Fort and its military past, and the reference of the typical 360° movement of the lighthouses. The project is willing to organize the spaces just using circular elements: from the external wooden path, which runs around the Fort, whose geometric center is exactly within it, to the altar, which is the main element of the chapel and that is accessible from all around, passing through the perimetrical walls that mark the access and define, by using a single element, the inner chapel and the entrance, which is the filter that outlines the inside from the outside.
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Plan and section of the project
Portfolio | The Light Chapel
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Internal view of the chapel
Market-Plaza Bolzano, Italy | Design Competition for Piazza Walther Cino Zucchi Architetti
The informal nature of the large courtyard is preserved and emphasized by a series of limited operations on its horizontal surface, that, together with the two new entries to the underground shopping complex placed on the opposite sides of the court, emphasize its element of gardensquare and, at the same time, its pedestrian connection with the square and the alley of the Parish/Pfarrgasse. The access to the restaurant of the upper floor is made through an independent hall, which is accessed from the existing passage in the middle of the body on the square. The horizontal profile of the new body of the restaurant and the one on the cusp of the addition to offices form together a simple background, which interacts well with the existing oval pavilion on the terrace and the rooftop of the commercial basis, and that consolidates the urban profile, acting a “critical reading�, sensitive and specific at the same time. The mixtilinear profile of the roofs of the new additions is revealed only to the inside of the court, adapting to his more varied landscape and to the distant view of the mountains. The simplicity of the proposed materials, revisited in a contemporary way of patterns and colors entirely belonging to Tradition, aims to tie together the parts with each other and with the context without ever falling in direct stylistic imitation.
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Plan and cross section of the project
Portfolio | Market-Plaza
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View form Vicolo della Parrocchia
San Rocco’s Vineyard Vicobarone, Italy | Conceptual Design of Piazza San Rocco Paolo Citterio Architetti
Wine is not a joke, for the citizens of Vicobarone. This tiny town located in Val Tidone, a small valley in southeast Piacenza, is part of a system of cities and towns that is one of the most important in Italy for the production of different types of grapes and wines. It was thus unavoidable for this project to have “Wine” as one of its central themes. However, this new plaza was born from the necessity of people living here to have a city center where it can be possible to plan different activities during the year, and solving, at the same time, the problem of having a public parking in the city center. This project gives to Vicobarone a Plateau made up of stones inside, which are neatly settled several iron bars holed on their upper surface. These elements call back the arrangement of the various types of wines on the near fields of the valley, and this allowed as well to give a dimension to this public space. This “empty” plaza proposes itself as a flexible and multi-purpose space, suitable for music festivals and open air cinema, for a little temporary market or as a meeting point for the citizens of the town.
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Pianta 20 1:200
Pendenza 3% Ingresso Villa Sforza-Fogliani Piazza San Rocco
Pendenza 0,5%
Strada Provinciale n°27
Pendenza 7%
Negozio
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Pendenza 10% Pesa
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Via Strada nuova
Negozio
Negozio Strada Provinciale n°27 Chiesa San Rocco Via Ca Dallara
Negozio
PCA | PAOLO CITTERIO ARCHITETTI
Plan of the project
Sezioni 1:200 Sezioni 1:200
Sezione AA' Sezione AA'
Section AA’
Sezione BB' Sezione BB'
Section BB’
PCA | PAOLO CITTERIO ARCHITETTI PCA | PAOLO CITTERIO ARCHITETTI
Portfolio | San Rocco’s Vineyard
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View from Via Strada Nuova
A Fortress beside the River Mantova, Italy | Strategic and Conceptual Design for “Forte di Pietole” Paolo Citterio Architetti
The main target of the recovering of this site is to provide a new historical and cultural rampart for the city of Mantua. This fortress, built at the beginning of the XIX century by the French army in order to protect the city, has been considered by the local administration as an occasion to have a site for cultural events of large flow. Overall, the entire project is very ambitious for both the dimensions of the fort and also for its physical conditions of degrade, especially due to infesting vegetation. For this reason the strategy adopted is a step-by-step plan. First of all it was important to open the fort to people, giving a parking to cars and buses and designing a bridge which links people to the entrance of the fort. The second step consists in the refurbishment of the “Poterna” and the square in front of it. In this way there is a first place that can be used for small cultural events, waiting for the further steps, which consist in further recoverings of other parts of this site.
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Plan of the project
Portfolio | A fortress beside the River
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View from the entrance of the fort
Seven Beautiful Orchards Milano, Italy | Strategic and Conceptual Design of the railway yards Cino Zucchi Architetti
«Broli» (orchards) is the name we have given to the new parks and gardens we imagine on the railway areas that will be dismissed in the forthcoming years.We chose this term to connote a natural space with a primary character, simple and strong but open to many different uses; a space within the urban structure that reveals its «productive origin», in a way pre-romantic. «Seven Beautiful Orchards», seven new welcoming spaces for the city-region. Their design cannot be justified only as a result of mere quantitative parameters; it has to be «beautiful» not to waste the unique opportunity Milan has, the one of interpreting its future vocations, and to establish a connection between the intimate nature of the quarters and the extended metropolitan territory. The reformed areas of the rail yards will be able to establish new links between the extended metropolis and the actual urban scale of the sites, where they are located. They will give life to open places to the city, bringing into it a great environmental quality, new services and a new friendly atmosphere for the quarters, reconnecting separate parts of the city with each other. They will also become the point of collection and amplification of a series of relationships between the compact city and the dense network of paths across the existing agricultural land, remaining contiguous to the expansions of the metropolis.
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Forma Urbis Mediolani: 1) Public spaces, parks and agricultural green 2) The structure of the blocks and of the great quarters 3) The railway network and the rail yards 4) Buildings and urban textures
Portfolio | Seven Beautiful Orchards
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Plan of Scalo Farini
Plan of Lambrate
Plan of Porta Romana
A Green Cloud Torino, Italy | Detail and Final Design of Lavazza Headquarter Cino Zucchi Architetti
The heart of the design concept is a large new tree-lined plaza in the middle of the block that will link the historic building of the old ENEL power station with the new Lavazza headquarters. The complex will be shaped like a large “cloud” linking the various fronts and industrial buildings that have been preserved and converted for new functions, giving the city a green esplanade and opening an unusual point of access to the banks of the River Dora. The enormous existing block will be restructured and opened towards the city. Lavazza’s new headquarters engage with the existing city with great sensitivity: the heights of the buildings and the quality of the façades have been studied carefully in relation to the surrounding structures, the quality of the open spaces and solar exposure. The outcome is a project that alludes to Turin’s historic architecture but takes a contemporary approach, paying attention to current technologies and the values of endurance and respect for the environment.
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View from Via Bologna
Portfolio | A Green Cloud
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Facade Pattern
New York, New York New York, U.S.A. | Master’s Thesis Project on the new campus of Columbia University Prof. Emilio Battisti - Prof. Francesca Battisti
The dissertation has as its object of study the installation of the new campus of Columbia University in Harlem, a university center for teaching and interdisciplinary research where academic activities are integrated with commercial services and cultural programs in science, humanities and arts, open to the community in the neighborhood of Manhattanville. Located in one of the few areas where the urban fabric has a strong relationship with the Hudson, the campus poses itself as a trait d’union between the city and the river, with a gradual decomposition and a volumetric fragmentation of the buildings from the Broadway to the river, opening the facilities to the waterfront in order to accommodate a system of open spaces. The project focused on the development of the architectural themes regarding the Faculty of Political Science, School of International Public Affairs. It is proposed as a place of exchange and encounter between different humanistic and scientific disciplines and multiple research, teaching and outreach activities. The different “souls” of the school are reflected in the volumes that comprise the building, interconnected through spaces for meeting and debate.
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Ground floor of the new Campus
Portfolio | New York, New York
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Scheme of the construction process of the new Campus
Section and Plan of the SIPA Building
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Visual relationships with the context: 1)The Hudson river 2) The green core of the Campus 3) The urban plaza
Portfolio | New York, New York
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Section detail
A “Potential� Plaza Como, Italy | Design Competition for Piazza Volta StudioWok
The competition area is inserted within the tissue of the center of Como, characterized by the presence of different exercises and recreational options, many of which consider the road as a natural and necessary continuation of their activities, especially during the evening. The conditions of the competition foresee a redevelopment of the access routes for vehicles (via Rubini and Via Garibaldi) to Piazza Volta and its subsequent completion of the latter, given that, previously, the area directed towards Piazza Cavour had already been subjected to intervention. To make this, the project resorted to a few ingenious devices that characterize the space without constraining the uses, giving flexibility, quality and identity. All of this was projected while trying to get the best result with the least financial commitment, so that the remaining resources are used for the activation of public spaces: events, collaborative projects, management and promotion.
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Plan of the project
Portfolio | A “Potential” Plaza
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Flexible uses of the Urban Catalyst
Perspective section of the Urban Catalyst
Alfredo Barba +39 3898034745 alfredo.barba.ab@gmail.com