Andrea Ligato architectural portfolio

ANDREA LIGATO Portfolio

ANDREA LIGATO - C.V. PERSONAL DATA Born_ Pesaro, Italy, 03/04/1992 Resident_ Via N. Tommaseo 2, 61122 Pesaro Mobile tel_ +39 3271146638 Email_ andrea.ligato.34@gmail.com EDUCATION 2015 - 2018_ MASTER OF SCIENCE DEGREE IN ARCHITECTURE at POLITECNICO DI MILANO graduation course in Architecture of Interiors.

Thesis: Cidade Boa Esperança, a masterplan for a self-managed project in the outskirts of São Paulo The dissertation starts from a real demand for a residential low cost project by a popular movement from the periphery of São Paulo, which is transformed and proposed as an expanded settlement strategy of urban proportions. The design is informed by an analysis of some case studies and the context of the São Paulo outskirts, as well as a study of the urban expansion of the city and of the Movements’ story, with their goals and claims and necessities.

2016 – 2018_ Bilateral Agreement Extra Ue Program at ASSOCIAÇÃO ESCOLA DA CIDADE (São Paulo) 2011 - 2015_ BACHELOR OF SCIENCE DEGREE IN ARCHITECTURE at POLITECNICO DI MILANO graduation course in Environmental Architecture.

Thesis: Juliaan Lampens, il paesaggio interno (Juliaan Lampens, the interior landscape) The thesis explores the work of the Flemish architect Juliaan Lampens, focusing on his approach to the interiors.

2006 - 2011_ LICEO SCIENTIFICO G. MARCONI (Pesaro) PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCES may 2017 march 2018_ collaboration with the COMISSÃO P. BOA ESPERANÇA and Movimento dos Trabalhadores Sem Terra Leste 1 for the design and development of a self-managed social housing project in the periphery of São Paulo. nov 2017 march 2018_ APIACÁS ARQUITETOS LTDA (São Paulo): intern, development of executive drawings and details.

2014, Fall semester_

LUIGI FERRARIO ARCHITETTURA (Milan): intern, development of architectural projects, executive drawings, field survey, participation at the contest “Cassina LC 50” for the temporary arrangement of the Cassina Shop in Milan.

OTHER EXPERIENCES 07 2016_ ARCHITECTURE VENICE BIENNALE 2016: participation at the Biennale with the project “The network and the Public Interior”, developed in the Architecture of Interiors Design Studio 1.

05 2016_

LANDSCAPE IN ART AND SCIENCE International workshop (Milan)

07 2014_

FESTIVAL STUDI APERTI, Ameno (IT): participation at the Festival with the design studio “Costruire naturale”

04,06 2014_ ATMOSPHERES 1000 HUMAN ENVIRONMENTS: participation at the collective exhibition organized by the Faculty of Architecture at Politecnico di Milano for the Milano Design Week 2014 and the Architecture Biennale of Venice 2014 TRAINING COURSES 2017, Spring semester_ Beginner course in Autodesk Revit FOREIGN LANGUAGES ENGLISH, PORTUGUESE COMPUTER SKILLS OPERATING SYSTEM_ Windows SOFTWARES_ Microsoft Office, AutoCAD, Skethup, Rhinoceros, Artlantis, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Revit, Archicad (beginner) PERSONAL INTERESTS During the last university’s years I developed a strong interest in residential architecture and anti-sprawl strategies, but those interest do not represent a limit to my desire of improving and to put in practice what I learned in the student’s years.

I have a great passion for music, photography, geography, art and team sports.

I have been part of a Boy Scout Association for several years, that really taught me how to be independent, how to work in team, it increased my problem-solving skills and my manual work ability, especially in woodworking.

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The title of this Dissertation Cidade Boa Esperança: a masterplan for a self-managed project in the outskirts of São Paulo, was born from the name of the neighbourhood in which the project is settled, Parque Boa Esperança, East region of São Paulo. The word Parque become Cidade, city, because a concrete demand for a self-managed residential project of low budget, by the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Sem Terra, is here expanded in a settlement strategy of urban proportions. Self-management means to provide an anti-capitalistic answer to the lack of adequate dwelling through the implementation of architectural projects which are entirely lead by the members of the social movement with the support of a group of technicians like architects, lawyers and sociologist and which is financed by public fund dedicated the social housing field. In the Dissertation the birth of the self-management proposal is analysed to understand the needs and claims of the social movements

CIDADE BOA ESPERANÇA a masterplan for a self-managed project in the outskirts of São Paulo Master thesis

involved; a selection of case studies of realized self-managed project is examined, to understand the process and how those claims have been materialized, and highlighting a disequilibrium towards the architectural aspect, disadvantaging a more urban approach, that led to physically and typologically isolated solution in respect to the context and the dwellers. A similar approach serve to study the area in which the project is settled, moving from a wide scale to the typical block that characterised the outskirts of São Paulo. The final masterplan propose a double typology of buildings, low rise terraced houses and towers, to combine the work of building companies and the future dwellers and to foster a sense of community among the latters. It provide a good amount of green public space to invite the meeting of the dwellers with the neighbours, and suggest a mixture of function to make the project a social attractor. The aim is to fulfil the Movement’s needs while fully integrating the new development in the city.

The project aims to create a new masterplan and a subsequent residential implantation in an abandoned area on the north-west outskirt of Milan. From the very beginning, the masterplan born with the intention of not to destroy the bigness and emptiness of the plot, but instead to enhance the central void and its possibilities. To do this the project expressed itself as an infrastructures that occupies the boundary of the plot but that can eventually expand and replicate itself outside of it; this infrastructure become the “hardware” for the central void, providing it with “softwares”, a series of objects, instruments and technical space to activate it.

LIVING INFRASTRUCTURE Andrea Ligato - Antonio Lento

The infrastructure, public in the first three level, hosts the residential project in the upper part, becoming a Living Infrastructure.

Each double height floor of the building is divided in a common level and a private level. In the first one the same mechanism of the public part is replicated, since it hosts rooms conceived as boxes, that contain items to “colonize” the space around doing a wide range of activities. In the latter, rooms of different dimension are available for activities that demand for a more private and isolated space, like living but also working or attends meetings…here again the possibilities are many.

MASTERPLAN

RESIDENTIAL PROJECT

The goal is to suggest a different way of living, matching the complexity of the current society through a sort of “programmatic not-choice�, a necessary condition to guarantee freedom and responsibility for those that are going to use the space. Both the interior and the exterior of the project are offered as a free field, a neutral field, available to be transformed and completed through its use and appropriation.

In order to reach this goals, a system of rails and elevators bringing functional and technical blocks is installed in the Infrastructure, serving both the public and private floors, according to the use of its inhabitants, that can control/order them using an app.

TECHNICAL SYSTEM Detail of the system that vertically distribute the technical elements of the building, together with the elevator that deliver the functional block in the interiors, both in the common and private level

COMMON LEVEL Detail of a functional box, containing the furniture to use the free space of the common level

COMMON LEVEL PLAN

PRIVATE LEVEL PLAN

The Bisceglie Metropolitana Milanese station is unique in its function as a Metro terminus and consequently as a main interchange.

This uniqueness is due to its location on the south-west periphery of the city of Milan, its transient nature of people and movement, its environmental nexus of urban, suburban and rural, its land use of residential and industrial, and its informality, crime. Its precinct is defined by a network of opposing thresholds. These social, sustainable, environmental and economical thresholds create edges for concflict. The thresholds present opportunities to evaluate the relationships between the complex issues affecting the station.

HUB.ITAT - BISCEGLIE M1

Andrea Ligato - Federico Merotto - Roberto Bonaiuti

Reinforcing certain edges and permeating others can achieve an integrated design that is informed and interpreted by the context and impressions of Bisceglie. The presence of thresholds has led to basic design choices: a place of passage but also a place to stay, so two places in one. On one hand the growth of the transport hub leads to a greater exchange of users, on the other hand to a peaceful oasis where it’s nice to stop and gather. The evolution of the project is strong in its extreme simplicity. First, the existing green court,located in the centre of the parking lot, has been doubled. After, it is connected directly to the mezzanine level.

A single big room is now created, a large courtyard that connects all means of transport and makes them flow together: metro, cars, buses and bicycles gain a point of contact in a single large court. The elements that visually connect the entire space are the vertical elements: pillars, trees and light columns link the gloomy and rational space of the underground with the more random and natural existing green court.

EXISTING SITUATION

DOUBLING THE COURT

CONNECTING THE COURT TO THE MEZZANINE CREATING A FOREST OF PILLARS AND TREES

The project is located in the Opera Prison, the biggest jail in Italy, and aims to improve the pavilion addressed to the meeting between the prisoners and theirs families. The work wants to analyse and discuss the theme of the prisoners’ rights, in this case the possibility for them to meet their families in appropriated spaces and for an appropriated amount of time, as well as spending intimates moments with their partners. The project is developed in two different but interlaced levels: first of all, the actual function is moved to an empty open area where the meeting rooms can be integrated with green spaces; then the existing pavilion is rearranged in order to host

FAMILY PAVILLION AT OPERA PRISON Andrea Ligato - Luca Guerini

the privates meetings. The existing rooms are expanded in order to host the mini-apartments, opened to the inner courtyard which is transformed in a collective garden. According to the dimension of the apartments, they will host a furniture block that join all the functions needed (some only addressed to the couple, others also addressed to their children), or they will be completed through a bedroom placed on the top of the building, suggesting an unexplored way of dealing with the existing buildings. While all the apartments face the inner garden, the private rooms on the rooftop turn their faces to the other side, in order to obtain the necessary privacy.

SKETCH FOR A PATIO HOUSE BY BERNARD RUDOFSKY MODIFIED AS THE CONCEPT OF THE PROJECT

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AXONOMETRIES OF THE FORNITURE BLOCKS INTERIOR VIEWS OF THE SOLUTION WITH THE ROOF EXTENSION

SECTIONED MODEL OF AN APARTMENT INTERIOR VIEWS OF THE SOLUTION WITH NO ROOF EXTENSION

The Mutirão dos Pobres Association is located in the north outskirt of Sao Paulo. It is an Association where kids of different ages from the neighbourhood can spend their afternoon doing homework or other recreational activities assisted by volunteers. The project, developed during the exchange program at Escola da Cidade, is in line with the Latin-American university habit of actively participate in the society. The demand was for a low-budget design to better benefit from the space of the association, which could have possibly been built.

ESPAÇO MUTIRÃO Andrea Ligato - Marc Peig Font

Espaço Mutirão is a space designed to host the meeting of the users and the neighbourhood, without imposing a specified function but rather giving the freedom and neutrality for multiple activities. It’s a stage, a place to having fun or for events. The design focused on a tensile structure covering borne by tripod pillars, and it was developed by test conducted with models at different scale, computation and 3D modelling. Since the project did not accepted predetermined solution, a detailed set of drawings was presented to better explain the design, with a look at the practicality and the possibility of a future realization.

MODEL 1_1:50 The model tests two similar hypothesis. In both case the pillar is conceived as an unique metal pole associated with a tie-rod system, so that the elements actively work together. In the first case the cloth bear the tension as the tie-rod does not connect the opposite pillars. In the second test the pillars are placed with an angle of 45 degrees and the tie-rods bear the whole tension connecting the pillars of both side. In both case a second group of tie-roads create bends in the cloth in order to provide canals for the rain water to flows down the covering.

MODEL 2_1:20 The second model test the forces applied to the structure. The scale and the arrangement of the model allow for a better comprehension of the structure itself, the cloth and the tie-rods, and its general behaviour, especially for the traction forces. Although the pillars and the tension system do not represent exactly the final design, they reasonably reproduce the stress on the structure.

MODEL 3_1:2 The model reproduces the solution designed to join the poles in order to obtain the tripod pillar. The metal plates were drawn in the proper scale, laser-cut and bent while wooden sticks are used as steal poles. This arrangement clearly prevented from welding the plates with the poles which are instead joined with bolts.

FIGURE FROM THE EXAM’S BOOK_exploded axonometry of the pillar’s joint

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FIGURE FROM THE EXAM’S BOOK_inventory of the pieces that form the joint

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chapas circulares em aço soldadas_espessura 1 mm

chapas em aço soldadas, roldana em ferro fundido

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ESPAÇO MUTIRÃOFOLHA AXONOMETRIA ISOMÉTRICA DO NÓ - 1:5 ELENCO PEÇAS - 1:10 10

ANDREA LIGATO andrea.ligato.34@gmail.com +39 3271146638