PORTFOLIO ANDREA ALESSANDRI
ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO ANDREA ALESSANDRI SELECTED WORKS 2012-2017
PERSONAL DETAILS
ABOUT ME
D.O.B Nationality Place of birth Sex
I’m a graduate student in architecture at the University of Florence. I studied with Professors Andrea Ricci, Fabio Capanni, Fabrizio Rossi Prodi, Adolfo Natalini. I took an internship at the Florentine “Eutropia” studio, taking part in national design contests. What I love most about architecture is both its most artistic and compositional sphere (I’m particularly interested in the space qualities obtained from the relationship between space and light) and its more political and human sphere (the modification of space and cities in fact changes the relationships, rights and lifestyles of people). I am a hardworking and perfection-oriented person, who first and foremost enjoy listening and learning, willing to use my skills and acquire new ones.
INTERESTS politics philosophy arts architecture football
Andrea Alessandri andreaalessandri.92@gmail.com andreaal.92@libero.it +39 3475233501 Via Giovanni Pascoli 52/B Gambettola (FC), Italy
: 04 - 09 - 1992 : Italian : Cesena (FC), Italy : Male
EDUCATION
SKILLS
Università degli Studi di Firenze, Faculty of Architecture
Autodesk AutoCAD
Florence, Italy 2011 - 2017 Degree mark: 110/110 (with honors)
Autodesk Revit Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator
“Augusto Righi” Scientific High School
Adobe InDesign
Cesena (FC), Italy 2006 - 2011 Diploma mark: 100/100
Rhinoceros
Sketchup Pro Cinema 4D Studio VRay
LANGUAGES
Velux Ecotect Analysis Microsoft Office Suite
Italian
: Mother tongue
English
: Intermediate
Freehand drawing
French
: Intermediate
Physical model making
CONTENTS ARCHITECTURAL SELECTED WORKS 2012-2017 DIGITAL MANUFACTORING CENTER GAMBETTOLA (FC), ITALY GRADUATION, UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE
CUBE HOUSE
MARSEILLE, FRANCE COMPOSITION COURSE 1,UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE
A SCHOOL FOR SCANDICCI
SCANDICCI (FI), ITALY COMPOSITION COURSE 3, UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE
WELCOME TO FLORENCE
FLORENCE, ITALY COMPOSITION COURSE 4, UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE
L IS BETTER
FLORENCE, ITALY COMPOSITION COURSE 2,UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE
MILAN AFTER EXPO
MILAN, ITALY COMPOSITION COURSE 5, UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE
GALLERY-TOWER MILAN
MILAN, ITALY COMPOSITION COURSE 5, UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE
REDISCOVER BRUNELLESCHI
FLORENCE, ITALY RESTORATION COURSE 1,UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE
T(H)REE OF LIFE
FLORENCE, ITALY COMPOSITION COURSE 4, UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE
A WALL OF STARS
FLORENCE, ITALY INTERNATIONAL VELUX AWARD
DIGITAL MANUFACTORING CENTER TYPOLOGY: PUBLIC LOCATION:GAMBETTOLA (FC), ITALY GRADUATION, UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE
The project originates from the desire to revitalize the site of the former tobacco factory in the historic center of the small town of Gambettola, for years now in a state of degradation and abandonment, having ceased tobacco drying in the late 1970s. Functionally the intervention involves the creation of a center devoted to new work methodologies applied to manufacturing, with workshops, research spaces and shared work that is attractive for both new and digital companies in the field of digital manufactoring and for those who want to innovate; being also made up of a museum, auditorium, study halls and conferences, as well as a large green square connected to the main city course, it wants to be above all an open place for the community. For reasons of historical interest and especially for design choice, it was decided to intervene not by demolishing existing buildings constituting the former factory, except in targeted and circumscribed parts; the new building designed in fact establishes a dialogue that connects physically with these, creating a duality between the old and the new, between the material and the immaterial.
DEMOLITIONS
ELEVATION
MODELING
PROJECT
CURRENT STATUS VIEW
PICTURE: BUILDING OF VIALE CARDUCCI
CURRENT STATUS PLANIMETRY
PICTURE: DRYING CELLS
PERSPECTIVE SECTION
PICTURE
E: DRYING CELLS
PLANIMETRY >>
INDOOR VIEW: AUDITORIUM
PICTURE: DRYING CHAMBER
The ground floor plan, in which are indicated the entrances and the functions: the symbol of the factory, protected by the constraint of the superintendence, was destined to the museum area. In the other drying cells there were spaces for start-up, labs and administrative part, which as the services have been inserted as new boxed volumes within the existing volume. The new building, instead, is not just a simple linkage space for the upper floors but a real meeting place that can soon change into an auditorium or a place to study, read and relax.
GROUND FLOOR >>
INDOOR VIEW: DIDACTIC SPACE
PICTURE: SELECTION ROOM
In the first floor the museum area is reduced, as the drying cells are double height. Here, while on the lower floor were arranged showrooms, didactic classrooms were inserted. In the west building, on the new tread plan from the new structure we have spaces for coworking. Finally, the whole floor dedicated to didactics: from passive learning, such as the large classroom placed inside the central volume of the central space, to active learning, thanks to the introduction of didactic workshops and classrooms dedicated to increased reality.
FIRST FLOOR >>
INDOOR VIEW: CONFERENCE ROOM
PICTURE: DRYING CHAMBER
Finally, the second and last floor, the “software” functions’ floor: the services and relational spaces available to the whole center and community. It contains a well-equipped and modern bar-restaurant-café, study and meeting rooms, a large conference room, and, moving to the right we have the so-called Loft, a private and exclusive environment, designed to host important events and business moments.
SECOND FLOOR >>
OUTSIDE VIEW: THE NEW SQUARE
OUTSIDE VIEW: MUSEUM AND DIGITAL CENTER
A SCHOOL FOR SCANDICCI TYPOLOGY: PUBLIC LOCATION:SCANDICCI (FI), ITALY COMPOSITION COURSE 3, UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE
The idea is to create a complex that represents the center of the cultural, sports and social life of the municipality of Scandicci; therefore the project must be easily recognizable and identifiable from the outside, solution obtained both by the planimetric layout of the various buildings and by a material and altimeter differentiation of these. For the layout, it was decided to place the public buildings (gyms and library) and the building of the mechanical workshops on the street side (Via del Filarete), both to facilitate accessibility and because they are a sort of artificial filter between the road and the building that contains the two institutes. In general the project, developed according to a square grid, is made up of a series of rectangular plant buildings held together by the only square-shaped element, the portico, which takes on the shelter and connection functions. In conclusion there is a clear division of the spaces, public or private: a public place accessible from the road (in which the sloping walls of public buildings have been designed to direct and emphasize access), and a private square enclosed by quadriportal, reserved for students only.
SINGLE VOLUMES
UNION
SERIALITY
PROJECT
PLANIMETRY
OUTSIDE VIEW: PORT
TICO
GROUND FLOOR >>
INDOOR VIEW: ENTRANCE TO DRESSING ROOMS
OUTSIDE VIEW: PUBLIC BUILDINGS
FIRST FLOOR >>
INDOOR VIEW: AUDITORIUM
INDOOR VIEW: CORRIDOR
SECOND FLOOR >>
NORTH ELEVATION
SOUTH ELEVATION
EAST ELEVATION
WEST ELEVATION
SECTION A-A
SECTION B-B
SECTION D-D
SECTION C-C
WELCOME TO FLORENCE TYPOLOGY: HOSPITALITY LOCATION: FLORENCE, ITALY COMPOSITION COURSE 4, UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE
This project moves its reasons by interpreting two primary themes: human warmth and the relationship between green and built. Following these ideas we thought of a tower whose volumetry is shaped by external forces, as if it were the background to model our building; Moreover, always respecting the themes highlighted, the volume of the tower is dug, washed by the erosive force of nature that, like the rest of the masterplan, creeps and climbs on the building giving life to collective and welcoming places that offer spectacular views of the Florentine urban and rural landscape. From a functional point of view, the tower is divided over 12 floors above ground and 2 underground floors, used for parking and other services (laundry, local facilities) needed at the hotel; the ground floor coincides with the entrance floor (reception, waiting room and bar); the close-up contains the administrative part (office of the manager and employees) and two meeting rooms (which can be used by hotel guests); they follow 8 floors of rooms (where different cuts and room types alternate: single room, double bedroom, double suite); The tenth floor is a spa (complete with massage room and sauna) and the last floor is represented by the restaurant, with the view of the entire Florentine historical center.
VOLUME
DISTORTION
STEREOMETRY
PROJECT
PLANIMETRY
OUTSIDE VIEW >>
OUTSIDE VIEW
GROUND FLOOR
concrete slab structural wall
pillars structural staircase
structural wall
STRUCTURE >>
pillars
GRC is a composite cementitious material made of white or gray cement, siliceous inerts, reinforced with alkali-resistant zirconium glass fibers and added with acrylic polymers to give the product an adequate duration and durable waterproofness.
INDOOR VIEW: THE OUTSIDE ROOM
ELEVATIONS >>
1-3-11 FLOORS
MILAN AFTER EXPO TYPOLOGY: MASTERPLAN LOCATION: MILAN, ITALY COMPOSITION COURSE 5, UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE
The area of Cascina Merlata is the gateway to the city on the European side of the Sempione and as a hinge between the City of Milan and the municipalities of the first belt of the Milanese hinterland. The area, considered by the nineties strategic in the development of the northwestern quadrant of Milan and the process of transformation induced by the new exhibition center of Rho - Pero, is now affected by the prediction of the settlement of the Expo 2015 district in areas beyond the highway Milano-Torino. The space of the park supersedes and shapes the public space system proposed by the project. It is therefore proposed as a “continuous space system”, within and to the edges of which the residences are placed in a peculiar environment, landscape and urban environment, immersed in the squares and different areas of the park. The strategic location of the new neighborhood, the importance of urban relations it will develop, the importance of localization of projected buildings within the neighborhood that define the east side, proximity to the public park, the tertiary-recreational area and the walkway system that allows you to reach the Expo area as well as the presence in the immediate vicinity of a neighborhood service, such as the new school plexus, require the development of a system of high-profile spaces and architectures, both from the point of view formal view than from the relations that they will be able to generate with its context.
LINKS
GREEN
ELEVATION
PROJECT
MASTERPLAN
ALREADY BUILT: THE CLUSTER
ALREADY BUILT: THE CLUSTER
ENTRANCE
KINDERGARTEN
CAFE’
LIBRARY
AGGREGATION
TOY LIBRARY
GYM
RESIDENCE SERVICE
RESTAURANT
GROUND FLOOR PROPOSAL
MASTERPLAN VIEW
PROJECT BY FRANCESCO VALLETTA (TEAM MEMBER)
PROJECT BY ALESSANDRO GHIARA (TEAM MEMBER)
PROJECT BY IVA SKEJIC (TEAM MEMBER)
PROJECT BY SILVIA BALLONI (TEAM MEMBER)
GALLERY-TOWER MILAN TYPOLOGY: RESIDENTIAL LOCATION: MILAN, ITALY COMPOSITION COURSE 5, UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE
The project reflects the intentions expressed by the masterplan, that is to give rise to shields or barriers that divide the northeastern area, characterized by road tunnels and monumental cemetry. The building creates a continuity along the perimeter of Site R2, isolating the area within the site from traffic noise and connecting it directly to the park extending longitudinally in the Cascina Merlata area and representing the point of force of the entire masterplan. Volumetric continuity is interrupted by the gaps that affect both the gallery building and the tower, creating social spaces that overlook the park. The internal distribution of the different accommodation cuts (one-room, two-room, three-room, four-room) makes sure that each staircase serves two flat units in the ballroom building, while in the tower four units. Moreover, all the accommodations are designed to have the living area and loggia overlooking the park so you can enjoy the privileged view throughout the day.
VOLUME
MODELING
SERIALITY
PROJECT
OUTSIDE VIEW: NEW BUILDING AND PUBLIC SQUARE
GROUND FLOOR
SERVICES FOR RESIDENCE
SINGLE ROOM
SOCIAL SPACES
TWO ROOMS
LIBRARY
THREE ROOMS
CAFE’
FOUR ROOMS
UPPER FLOOR
SOCIAL SPACES
RESIDENCE
SERVICES
CROSSING
BENCH
GREEN SPACE
SECTIONS >>
FLAT x1
FLAT x2
FLAT x3
35mq
50mq
90mq
5%
45%
40%
FLAT x4
FLAT x2
125mq 10%
FLAT x2
FLAT x1
FLAT x4
OUTSIDE VIEW: THE TOWER >>
T(H)REE OF LIFE TYPOLOGY: MASTERPLAN LOCATION: FLORENCE, ITALY COMPOSITION COURSE 4, UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE
The project aims to reorganize the area of the former Caserta Perotti by creating a new residential, commercial and managerial pole within sustainability, capturing the opportunities that the strategic position (between the city and the countryside) offers, in the end to guide the processes of re-occupation of a new urban public space. The strength of the project is thus based on the permeability ratio, and at the same time in the mitigation capacity, merging multiple systems and hierarchies of public spaces. From the preliminary analysis of the context it is noticed that the surrounding urban area is marked by the presence of two different orthogonal meshes, the first urban and the second more rural and fragmented. The project merges these two grids: the urban mesh goes on in the project area defining the new system of the building, while the rural mesh enters the new fragment of the city not with orthogonality but with the closest form to the organic nature: the soft and sinuous curved line of the circle. We have ideally divided the project into three sectors: the first (top left) maintains the residential type at the court with the buildings on the highest road front, the second (bottom) in contact with a more morphologically fragmented textured has anch it is fragmented and open, while the third is made up of the green system that wants to connect the urban system to the rural system and, doing this, uses the form of a vigorous tree. Identity is the key to describing the various sectors, but this does not mean that they are autonomous and dreadful among themselves; Indeed, they are in dialogue with each other, starting from the accesses, connected by a long green corridor leading to the park, whose architectures are obtained not so much from the addition of matter to the vacuum but as to “lifting”, with a stereotomic process.
FRAMEWORK
LINKS
ANOMALY
MASTERPLAN
FLORENCE BLACK PLAN
MASTERPLAN
SECTIONS
MASTERPLAN VIEW
gallery tower line terraced
car park carriage path square park path main streams
public green semipublic
PUBLIC PLACES
VIEW OF THE PARK
business culture
offices SERVICES 35.175mq
RESIDENCE
street CAR PARK 46.800mq
underground
PROJECT AREA
squares
semi-public
park
GREEN AREA 239.986mq
BUSINESS PLACES
A WALL OF STARS TYPOLOGY: MEDITATIVE PLACE LOCATION: FLORENCE, ITALY INTERNATIONAL VELUX AWARD
The idea behind the project is to realize an architecture that is a metaphor of man’s existence: the path of a finite entity that with death reaches the dimension of infinity, the sense of peace and the reunion harmonious with nature. To transform the idea into a project we sud-divided the funerary chapel into three parts: - the entrance; - the passage area; - the room where the deceased is. All marked by net proportions, planed and up, as suggested by the perfect harmony above mentioned. In particular, the first zone appears as a narrow and dark space, where there is a strong sense of oppression caused by the funnel effect that the descending floor and ascending steps create. This contributes both to the compression of space and, through the staircase, to make the visitor understand that the path to peace is tedious and barren. Nonetheless, this sense of oppression is relieved by the vision of light (penetrating from the room where the deceased is), which serves as a guide and hope for a better state. The central area, on the other hand, represents a limbo, an intermediate place between mortal and immortal life, and it is a constant height space that leads to the place where the deceased is, the true fulcrum of the whole architecture. In fact, contrary to what lies in the entrance, here the inclination of the floor and the staircase contribute both to expanding the space and to focus attention on the tomb and the “stellar wall”. The point of convergence of the look is frontal, attracted by the light that penetrates from the holes in the back wall, which once symbolizes the celestial, a sort of empire, aimed at giving the necessary ascension tension to the sacred space. From this wall, excavated by deep pyramid-shaped and south-facing openings, comes the light that qualifies space and gives its building its spiritual dimension: in fact it is through the agreement of the point sources of light that is placed accent on the vital center of the building, the tomb.
SEPARATE VOLUMES
INTERSECTION
SUBTRACTION
PROJECT
VIEW - PLAN - SECTION
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