ANDREA URAS
C U R R IC U LU M V I TA E architecture and graphic design
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PERSONAL INFORMATION name ANDREA URAS date of birthday May 19th 1984 nationality Italian address Via Antonio Pigafetta, 63 - 10129 Turin - Italy phone +39 011 4150688 mobile +39 339 2829014 e-mail uras.andrea@gmail.com
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WORK EXPERIENCE 2010 | today company AG Service s.a.s. where Via Alfonso Lorenzini, 10 - 10093 Collegno (TO) - Italy description Occupational safety, HACCP, Engineering, Graphic designer position Employed
july 2012 | may 2013 company Studio Inarco - RPBW (Renzo Piano Building Workshop) where Via Giovanni Botero, 17 - 10122 Turin - Italy description Intesa Sanpaolo tower office building position Internship
sept 2008 | feb 2009 company Massimiliano Fuksas Architetto where Piazza del Monte di PietĂ , 30 - 00186 Rome - Italy description Working on different projects position Internship
sept 2005 | july 2007 company Politecnico di Torino where Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 - 10129 Turin - Italy description LARTU (Laboratory of territorial and urban research) position Scholarship
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EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND june 2012 | june 2013 what Specializing Master’s degree 2° Level name Master in Design and construction of high-rise buildings university Politecnico di Torino where Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 - 10129 Turin - Italy
sept 2009 | dec 2011 what Master’s degree in Architecture thesis - vote Mocca Museum New York - 108/110 university Politecnico di Torino - II Department of Architecture where Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 - 10129 Turin - Italy
jan 2011 | june 2011 what University exchange program university Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) where 110 Eighth Street - 12180 Troy (NY) - USA
sept 2004 | jan 2010 what Bachelor’s degree in Architecture thesis - vote Turin Skyscraper: a new vision of the city - 97/110 university Politecnico di Torino - II Department of Architecture where Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 - 10129 Turin - Italy
sept 1998 | june 2004 what Scientific high school diploma school Scientific high school “Max Planck” where Via Asinari di Bernezzo, 34 - 10146 Turin - Italy
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CERTIFICATIONS may 2012 what Cerfificate of Health & Safety Manager company API Formazione Scrl where Via Pianezza, 123 - 10151 Turin - Italy
oct 2007 what Cerfificate of IELS (International English Language Testing System) company Examination Unit British Council where Via Manzoni, 38 - 20212 Milan - Italy
dec 2007 what Cerfificate of 3D Studio Max company IED ( International Higher Educational Network in Desig) where Via San Quintino,39 - 10121 Turin - Italy
COMPETITION july 2011 what ACADIA/FLATCUT Design + Fabrication Competition position 1st prize of Lighting Design category whit Luninescent Limacon
COMPUTER SKILLS Photoshop | Illustrator | InDesign | AutoCAD | Rhinoceros Microsoft Office (word, excel, power point) | Macintosh System
LANGUAGES italian Native speaker english Speak | Read | Write french Basic knowledge 5
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ANDREA URAS P O R T F O L I O
architecture and graphic design
PORTFOLIO
CONTENTS UNI | urban intervention Dorafront - Turin
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UNI | workshop Designing On the Edge - Turin
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UNI | urban project 5x5 social housing - Turin
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UNI | project New art high school - Turin
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UNI | master’s degree thesis Mocca Museum - NYC
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RPI | competition Luminescent Limacon
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EGA | master’s degree 2° level thesis The functionality
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WKS | works selection Fuksas
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WKS | works selection Graphic design
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UNI | URBAN INTERVENTION DORAFRONT - TURIN The project Dorafront develops long the waterfront of the river Dora in Turin. This area, an ex-industrial pole, it has never been exploited in spite of his strategic position. The project is organized through the insertion of individual modules or small aggregates positioned in a timely manner to originate, from a single matrix, different forms and different functions. STUDY OF THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN BOXES
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C | DORAFRONT | bus station . Aggregated boxes + shingle
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B | units/ateliers. Aggregation of boxes and their composition
C | bus station . Aggregated boxes + shingle
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aggregation
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UNI | WORKSHOP DESIGNING ON THE EDGE - TURIN The workshop “Design on the edge� was a month-long workshop in collaboration with the Politecnico di Torino and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) for the parametric design with the program Generative Components. The workshop involved the design of a new connection between two areas of Turin, Lingotto and the ex-MOI (general markets), cut from the railway and the design of a new cultural center. To join the two areas cut off by the railway was designed a footbridge green; this walkway is thus transformed into a new public park. Its shape is the union of the points of interest found in the surrounding areas; with Generative Components was obtained a form with empty and full and allow the view of the railway. The same design system has been used to find the shape of the new cultural center. As regards the roof of the building, always with GC, it was created a component able to open and close based on the amount of sunlight present during the day.
Panning shot | ex -MOI and Olympic walkway passes
Generative Components masterplan diagrams
Diagrams project + masterplan
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A | form development project
B | GC diagrams
C | GC component
Render project
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UNI | URBAN PROJECT 5X5 SOCIAL HOUSING - TURIN The project 5x5 is a project of urban requalification; it is the design of a new residential district in the west of the city of Turin, specifically in the area now occupied by Alenia Space. The project area is very wide, so for the first thing we studied the masterplan; the concept of the masterplan incorporates the circular system divided by the rays but revised in a modern key. The new district is a district not accessible by cars with the exception of emergency vehicles and trams and buses. Private cars of the residents are left in the box in the underground parking. To facilitate travel in the district has also been designed a walkway, 6 meters tall, which connects all the residential blocks and allows the entrance to the owners.In addition, in the neighborhood, we find public parks, sports centers, shops and other services for residents. The concept of housing is a 5 cubic meters by 5; the union of these cubes generates amuses housing types with different sizes, and also of the duplex. Designed all housing types are merged in order to create two residential blocks. The combination of these blocks generates the new district social housing.
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Sketch
Masterplan concept
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100 m2 Family | Office Duplex
Block A volume: 18900 m3
75 m2 Couple | Office Family | Duplex
50 m2 Couple | Office Duplex
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Block B volume: 19350 m3
Masterplan | no scale
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PROJECT
Level 1 + Level 4 | no scale
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Module A Social Housing Student
Module B Social Housing Student
Module C Social Housing Student
Module D Social Housing
Module E Social Housing
Render
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UNI | PROJECT NEW ART HIGH SCHOOL - TURIN The New Art hight chool is born in a peripheral urban context, morphologically messy, located near the Colletta’s park, in the north of Turin. The project is evolved from a matrix with a rectangular base, arranged along the axis of optimal east-west, which performs a rotational movement around an imaginary central pivot, following the trajectory solar, and the result is the formation of multi-volume, as a result of a careful study of shadows, moving both horizontally and vertically. The entrance of light from the east and west inside the building, is regulated through the use of vertical slats adjustable in PVC. Instead north and south of the building there are fixed elements which support the structure of roller blinds shielding made of PVC. In relation to energy savings, the project involves the installation of photovoltaic modules for the production of electricity and hot water and solar panels for hot water.
Project area | no scale CONCEPT
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Step 1
Step 2
Step 3
classroom
Step 4
studio toilet
Exhibition space library
dining hall
auditorium
gym
Step 5 | Functional diagram project
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Ecotec analysis
Masterplan | no scale
Ground level | no scale
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Level 1 | no scale
Sections | no scale
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Technical detail + Render | no scale
Render
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UNI | MASTER’S DEGREE THESIS MOCCA MUSEUM - NYC The project of the master’s degree thesis is the competition for the new museum of comics in New York City. The new Mocca museum should be designed in a lot of 1000 m square, now used as a parking, in the Lower East Side; this district is an area in constant transformation both social and architectural. The new museum should contain areas for exhibitions, offices, classrooms, a conference room and a bar. There are three concepts that inspired the project: the layout of the pages of comic books, the cells and their union and finally the structure of the wings of the dragonfly. Using a parametric program and a scrip the concept of metaballs became, after some changes, in the final form of the building. For the structure of the glass parts was used Voronoi tessellation of which is very similar to that of the wings of the dragonfly. The final project is a building that, unlike the buildings in New York, goes for only two levels in height and grows downward: in fact has the entrance to -3 meters from street level.
LOWER EAST SIDE
Project area diagram | photo project area
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PROJECT DIAGRAM Cafè 186 m2
Reception 93 m2
Library / Retail 372 m2 Class 93 m2
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Support 186 m2
Class 93 m2
Workshop 93 m2
Galleries 929 m2
Relax area & Kitchen Staff 279 m2
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Computer Lab 279 m2 Staff offices 140 m2
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Storage 279 m2
Conference room 94 m2
Class 93 m2
Library 140 m2 Theatre 232 m2
Lecture Hall 232 m2
WC
CONCEPT GRID
New York grid
Comic grid
CONCEPT METABALLS
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CONCEPT SHELL - VORONOY
CONCEPT SHELL + VORONOY
MORPHOLOGICAL VARIATIONS A | FUNCTION COORDINATES
B | PROCESS OF AGGLUTINATION
C | REBUILD OF CURVES
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Pt 02 Pt 02
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example: variation 1
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D | LAYERS OF PROJECT
PROCESS OF VOLUMETRIC FORM FINDING
phase 1
phase 2
phase 3
phase 4
PROCESS OF SHELL FIND FORM FINDING
phase 1
phase 2
phase 3
phase 4
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Ground level | no scale
Level 1 | no scale
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+3,00 m
0,00 m
-3,00 m
Section AA’ | no scale
Render project
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RPI | COMPETITION LUMINESCENT LIMACON The starting point of the project was the painting by the Flemish painter Cornelis de Vos (1584-1651), the painter portrays a Dutch man of the 17th century with the classic large white lace collar. The large fold of the lace, creating a play of light and shapes that are always variables, served as inspiration to make our “Luminescent Limacon” a lamp always variable in form and light diffusion. The use of parametric programs and a script for the design of the lamp design facilitated the achievement of the desired object. The global geometry of the “Luminescent Limaçon” is defined by basic mathematical equation “Limacon Curve”. The form created, called “roulette curves”, bends at variable speeds to create a form with similar profiles between them, which, when combined, create a volume. The length and size of the folds change in order to create a geometry similar to the “Dutch Ruff” in form and light diffusion. All individual folds that make up the lamp are drawn on a flat material and then cut out. Each piece is different in size and shape, each piece is unique and contains instructions for assembly. To obtain the light scattering has been used as material the 3Form Ecoresin semitransparent: this, depending on the type of color of the bulb used, cold or hot, generates a different type of light diffused in the environment. Finally, to make the structure more stable and to the attack of the lamp, all the pieces have been joined together with the metal cables.
Dutch ruff - CORNELIS DE VOS (Flemish baroque painter, 1584-1651)
Global polar equation: LIMACON [ r = b + 2a cos() ]
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Surface domain : DEVELOPABLE RUFFLE MATRIX
A |degree of overlap b/n alternating surfacess B | angle of roll C | intersection slot opening (material thickness) D | width of intersection slot E | location and number of wire frame apertures F | length of tab G | location of tab connection
Unroll parameters
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Automated urrolling of developable ruffle surface
Assembly tectonic for developable ruffle: NON-TOXIC | 3FORM VARIA ECORESIN (1/16 GAUGE)
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Dimensions: 30” x 36” Developable Surfaces: - 3FORM - VARIA ECORESIN - TRANSLUCENT - 1/16 GAUGE Wire Frame: - AIRCRAFT SUSPENSION - CABLE - SILVER FINISH Lamping: - 1 X 120V - 100W MEDIUM BASE E27
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EGA | MASTER’S DEGREE 2° LEVEL THESIS THE FUNCTIONALITY This thesis is the final report of the internship of the master “Buildings of great height (EGA). The theme of the internship is the study of the functionality of the project of the skyscraper Intesa SanPaolo in Turin of the architect Renzo Piano. The thesis is developed starting from a historical research on the functionality of several tall buildings, from their birth until the present day, taking some examples located in different countries around the world. Since the vertical and horizontal connections are an integral part of the functionality of a building, especially the tall ones, I have dedicated a part of the thesis to the elevators and escalators and how they have replaced over time the use of the staircases. To understand better the evolution of the functionality of the skyscraper Intesa SanPaolo I have decided to take four cases and to study their vertical connections, their functionality and the their relationship with the context. Accordingly, as it is noticed in the following sketches, the theme of the master has been examined departing from the competition project reaching the executive project underlining the aspects of transformation of the building and its functionality in the various planning phases.
Project area
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Photos | building site + moke up lift
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Zen garden President office Winter garden
Emergency stairs | south 2 Emergency stairs
Freight elevator Meeting rooms Offices Lifts
Emergency stairs parking south
Emergency stairs parking north
Stairs and lifts levels B2-B1-P0 Auditorium Shuttle parking
Escalators
Bank and training classrooms
Lobby
Parking
Schematic vertical flows elevators and stairs+ Ground level | Competition project | no scale
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Garden Exhibition hall Restaurant
Management offices Emergency stairs | south Winter garden
2 Emergency stairs
Freight elevator
Lifts
Offices
Parking lift Levels B1-P0 Emergency stairs Lifts level B1-P0
Training classrooms
Emergency stairs Levels B6-P0
Freight elevator north
Auditorium
Shuttle parking
Escalators
Gym Nursery school
Cafè
Birch garden
Workplace canteen
Lobby
Hall VIP
Parking
Schematic vertical flows elevators and stairs+ Ground level | Preliminary project | no scale
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Terrace and garden Exhibition hall Restaurant
Management offices 2 Emergency stairs
Emergency stairs | south
Winter garden Freight elevator Lifts Offices
Parking lift Levels B4-B1 Emergency stairs Lifts level B1-P0 Emergency stairs Levels B6-P0
Training classrooms Freight elevator | north
Auditorium Shuttle parking
Escalators
Cafè
Gym Birch Nursery school garden
Workplace canteen
Lobby
Hall VIP
Parking
Schematic vertical flows elevators and stairs+ Ground level | Final project | no scale
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Terrace and garden Exhibition hall Restaurant
Management offices
Emergency stairs | south 2 Emergency stairs
Winter garden Freight elevator Offices
Lifts
Parking lift Levels B4-B1 Emergency stairs Lifts level B1-P0 Emergency stairs Levels B6-P0
Training classrooms
Freight elevator | north
Auditorium Shuttle parking
Escalators
Cafè
Gym Nursery school
Birch garden
Workplace canteen
Lobby
Hall VIP
Parking
Schematic vertical flows elevators and stairs+ Ground level | Executive project | no scale
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WKS | WORKS SELECTION FUKSAS While at university I did an internship of six months in the studio of the Architect Massimiliano Fuksas in Rome. In those months I have worked on several projects going from competitions, up to the executive projects, and this has given me the opportunity to touch real and big project. This work experience has broadened my knowledge and has greatly improved my ability to work in a team. Here are some pictures of two of the projects on which I worked during the internship; the design of the skyscraper of the Regione Piemonte in Turin and the executive project of Montecatini Thermal Bath.
Regione Piemonte | Level 0 and nursery school | no scale
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Regione Piemonte | Masterplan | no scale
Regione Piemonte | Model building
Regione Piemonte | Interior rendering
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Montecatini Thermal Bath | Section, reference and materials | no scale
Montecatini Thermal Bath | Detail | no scale
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Montecatini Thermal Bath | Level 0 | no scale
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WKS | WORKS SELECTION GRAPHIC DESIGN I often work As a graphic designer for companies, lawyers, associations and others; I design logos, brochures, flyers, business cards and catalogs. Below there are some works done in the last period.
Catalogue 2013 and 2014 | 560 pages of catalogs for promotional products company
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Brochure | Regione Piemonte e Associazione Elec-to
Brochure for a law firm
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Uras Andrea | uras.andrea@gmail.com | +39 3392829014