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hi! I’m Angelo Michele Pagano, a young passionate italian architect. I’ve tried to express myself throught this portfolio, to let you get to know me better, and value my skills with my works.
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angelo michele pagano MA Architecture graduated at Politecnico di Milano, with the thesis on Modular Advanced Prefabrication, developed both on the design and economic issue. During my university years I’d been living in several cities, studying abroad in UEM - Universidad Europea de Madrid in 2012 and Islington College in London in 2013. I’m actually looking for a position in a Architecture Studio.
publications 09.2015
Living in The Air // MA Degree Thesis Politecnico di Milano, Italy
angelo michele pagano
04.2015
born 26.05.1990 Viale Abruzzi 89 Milano, MI 20131 Italy
Scalable Modular Architecture // A Dynamic Housing for A Changing Society // Jamko Edizioni, Italy
03.2015
Xi’An Harbour // Conceptive Plan for Science and Technolgy Harbour // TCA Think Thank Edizioni, Italy
angelomichelepagano@gmail.com +393394257248
languages Italian - Mothertongue English - Advanced C1 Spanish - Advance C1
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Autocad, Revit, C4D Adobe Illustrator, After Effect, Premiere, Photoshop, Indesign Sketchup, Power Point, World, Excell
working experiences 01.2016 current
Internship // CZA Cino Zucchi Architetti // Milano, Italy Museum Exhibition Design for the XXI Triennale of Milano, 2016
06.2015 current
Associate //FineTODesign - Architecture and Design Blog //www. finetodesign.com
04.2015 06.2015
Internship // A.M.Progetti // Milano, Italy Scalable Modular Architecture Design
02.2015 03.2015
Internship //D.I.A.P. //Politecnico di Milano, Italy Urban and Architecture Design
education 10.2013 09.2015
MA Architecture //Master Degree, Politecnico di Milano - 110/110 cum Laude // Milano, Italy
08.2012 04.2013
Islington Centre for English // Course of English Language, IELTS // London, United Kingdom
09.2011 07.2012
BA Arquitectura y Arte // Erasmus Programme, Universidad Europea de Madrid // Madrid, Spain
10.2009 09.2012
BA Architettura Ambientale // Bachelor Degree, Politecnico di Milano - 108/110 // Milano, Italy
09.2004 Liceo Scientifico Lorenzo Mossa // Liceo Scientifico 06.2009 100/100 // Olbia, Italy
museum of modern art 06 2015 // Second Master’s Year, School Project // Professors Stephan Vieths, Niccolò Riva, Matteo Aimini. Design studio. Set in the city center of Berlin, nearby the museum’s island, the project is a museum for modern arts as well as the requalification of the overlooking park. The outcome is a new monolithic landmark in Berlin.
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2014 // First Master’s Year, School Project // Professors Cino Zucchi, Paola Sturla, Matilde Cassani Design studio. The Project is focused on the refunctioning of a Parking Lot in the city center of Milano. The final outcome is a Hostel with a multiporpouse center, open to the public and able to host differents events.
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2014 // First Master’s Year, School Project // Professors Stefano Boeri, Maria Paola Pastore, Matilde Cassani Urban planning studio. The area is located in the outskirt of Milano and the proposal is based on the designing of a open market where people can shop, grocery, harve and live.
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2015 // Master’s Thesis // Supervisor Joseph di Pasquale Based on a previous investigation and the pubblication CASA MIA (still on publishing - January 2016) wich was another part of the thesis, the project is focused on a proposal of a new way of living: a movable yet fixed housing where people can customize according their needs and move elsewhere.
xi’an harbour 2015 // Invited Competition in Xi’An China//Department of Architecture and Urban Studies //A.Balducci, R.Dorigati, P.Salvadeo, A.M.Longo, P.Rizzardi, Angelo M.Pagano, H.Zhang, M.Huba, M.Piras, E.Quattrina, C.W.Chung, A.Zhang, G.Semprebon Conceptual plan for a university harbour in the city of Xi’An in China.
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mam monbijou art museum Berlin//Architecture Design Studio 2//Pagano Angelo, Piras Matteo// Prof. S. Vieths, N.Riva, M.Aimini
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morphology The texture of Berlin is quite defined and orthogonal in the southern part of the river Spree, while the northern has its texture more articulated yet less designed. Facilities such as parks and public buildings complete themeselves but, at the same time, it seems that green areas are set quite far from the visitor’s city. In the schemes (left to right, up to bottom) are highlited those elements that break the city’s texture, then the parks, which are more prominent in the north, the neighborhood’s texture and the public buildings. The plot, as it is easy to notice, has the potentiality to enclose a park within the Museum area.
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The empty site is located in front of a park and it is characterized by the presence of an old red brick building that is protected from demoliton
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The park will be delimited in its borders by a heigh containing wall on the riverside and by a little dense forest on the road side
The museum will fill up the plot, defining the surrouinding blocks. The MAM adapts its shape to the pedestrian paths that connect the park
Through openings and new volumes the project gets more complicated and enfasize the internal layout on the exterior
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masterplan Situated on the bank side of the Spree River, next to the Museum Island and facing the Bode Museum, the MAM Museum had both to compete and complete with significant landmarks of Berlin. The articolation of its shape has been thought as a long-stripe-landmarks, a sort of horizontal skyscraper that aquire its imposigness completing the surroundings, as a caesura of the built, and a new opening to the overlooking park. A walking-through path defines different-in-use areas, where people can find their conviviality or their eremitism. In doing so, a expanse of gramineae enclose little meditation-circles while an informal gatheringoriented bankside assure a more dynamic stay.
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terrace The Terrace represent the most open-to-everyone space in the museum. A roof garden bar takes place on the south of the museum, where to enjoy the beautiful view over the city while a fancy restaurant is host inside of the XVII century building. An artists’ residence complete the multilevelled environement.
gallery A series of linear yet modular exihibition rooms permit a various use of the space. While a long facing-the-park gallery runs all through the eastern side, on the opposite side the showrooms allows multiple configurations. The space is mold according to request, simply opening or closing the various halls, or creating alternative routes.
ground floor The ground floor is split in half by the walkway to separate the flow of visitors from that one of the students of the Art Acadamy that can, in this way, reach the working spaces, the library or the study halls without interfere with the visitors of the museum, or even, of the theater. A linear opening through the east links the museum to the park.
bankside Prospicient to the bankside, a by-river bar lets visitors get in touch with the students, or reach the terrace dircetly, without entering in the hall. This makes the museum completely indipendet from the overnight events, A series of small shops take places on the riverside, to entice people to get to the river and chill outside.
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exihibition floor The exihibition floor is the core of the museum. It has been designed in order to allow multiple configuration, and every detail of its rooms have been carefully thought to create a perfect environement for various kind of expositions. It doesn’t matter if the exposition will require walls to hang pieces of art, curtains to create a more intimate space, or as well a open space for bigger collector’s piece. All the installations have been placed on the cieling, which hosts, as well, the light shafts, to better control the lighting. A natural light is instead offered in the eastern gallery, 200 meters long walkway which faces the park and let people always orientate.
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urban grafting intervention Milano//Architecture Design Studio 2//Pagano Angelo, Metaji Endri// Prof. C.Zucchi, P.Sturla, M.Cassani
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urban location The proxemity of the project area to via Torino advances consideraion concerning the connection of it with one of the main street in Milan centre. Thus, the initial idea of the concept is to insert a hostel that can be an urban centre strictly connected with via Torino, pying attention to the perception of the buiding from a street view, especially via Valpetrosa. In addition to this, the hostel itself should be an architectural filter that relates via Torino with the internal and residential tissue of the area. Hence, it should provide a certain communication between via Valpetrosa and via Zecca Vecchia. The new building, moreover, has also the duty to enclose and, somehow, complete the tissue to the south of the project area. But it also toys with two maintened volumes of the pre-existing construction, creating specific urban spaces thanks to the different inclinations of the ex industrial buildings - perpendicular to each other - and the hostel.
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The plot area have been used for years as parking lot. The proposal mantein just two of the five car’s hangar, that will be converted in public function as a restaurant,in the northern part, and a multipurpose center which takes place oriented north to south, for better light control.
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The Hostel is oriented facing the near via Torino. Leaning on itself, a small plaza was generated: in there the fluxes of the hostel, the club and the multipurpose are condensed and cohexists creating a friendly and yet very alive environement.
The groundfloor of the plaza is designed taking into account the main axes of the projects: parallel to the hostel’s shape and direct from via Torino, a sort of path-guide to draw visitors. The upper parts of the hostel protract itself elevating over the prospicient fabric.
The facade is designed as to create a in-between place, where to study or to get in touch with the city. From the rooms, visitors can lie down reading, conversate with roomates or just relax. Gathering spaces are placed on the corners of the hostel.
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masterplan MIlano is a touristic city, and every year more and more visitors came to appreciate its inner beauty and enjoy the events and fair it offers. Despite this, accomodate in Milan is very expensive, mostly because Italy doesn’t have the Hostel’s culture. The aim of the project is to design cheap accomodation for visitors that want to stay within the city center and enjoy the milanese’s nightlife. Articulated in three different buildings, the Hostel’s shape is designed as to enclose a small plaza and to be visible from via Torino, a very lively street. In fact, the Hostel itself tends to complete the texture of the area, as to be part of the environement and to compete with the more residential vocation of the area. The multipurpose pavillion and the restaurant, instead, follow the surroundings. Those different orientations generate the ground’s pattern, creating a ununsual ground for activities and meetings.
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public functions Despite the fact that a Hostel is ment to be a open-to-public building, once the room or the bed has been booked, it is strictly personal for the rented period. The other functions, instead, are thought to be always open to whomever wants to join the atmosphere. On the ground flor, we can find the reception A, the cocktail bar C, the restaurant D, the bike shop G, where to rent and fix your bicycle, and the multiporpouse center E while the breakfast room is the only ambient in this floor reserved for the hostel’s guests.
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dormitory The first and the second floor are quite similar. Both are organized around a central corridor. The floors offers not just rooms or bathrooms, as in most of the hostels, but also small meeting areas placed on the extremity of the building, to face the outside while reading or conversating with guests. also, in order to create a more friendly space, around the stairs sofas are placed, so people can find always a place to seat and get in touch with others.
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dynamic facade The facade express the nature of a building. The concept behind this facade is a controlled yet dynamic extroversion as to highlight the propensity of the building to communicate with the exterior. In doing so, the staggered rythm create a sort of pattern that will be completed by the users, where they decide to occupy the space or leaving it empty. Outstanding windows run on the facade, creating movement and breaking the rigid orthogonality of the concrete pannels.
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GOURMET LANE CLOSED MARKET Milano//Town Planning Studio//Pagano Angelo M.// Prof. S.Boeri, M.C.Pastore, M.Cassani
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pioltello Pioltello is a little town 20 kilometers far from Milano. It is surrounded by agricoltural fields and cascine, a vernacular typology of farms. Some of them are still productive and already practice a sort of market within the neighborhood. But it is not enough, the revenues allow those to survive but not to expand or ensure a future for the local production. Most of the time, market trend’s lead those reality to be bought by mass distribuition, to maximize profits at the expense of the quality. The proposal i came up with tends to create a center where everybody can rent a stall and sell its own products as well as help people get in touch with the producers, discovering who produces what and learning a little bit of the traditions. But it won’t be enough for such a big investments if the revenues wouldn’t come from some others activity. This is the reason of a Gourmet Lane, a city within the city where to buy, to discover, to learn and to taste. The project’s aim is not just to collect products, but to offer a real experience among the taste of italian cousine: restaurants, open kitchen, cooking classes, open kitchen gardens, harving classes and housing have been united in a unique city, a sort of theme park where to have fun while enjoy the nature, breathing fresh air conversating with farmers. This is Gourmet Lane: the sum of products, production, learning and living by the nature, fifteen minutes far from Milano, but twenty kilometers far from the stress and the pollution. A place to stay, or a crossing point. Definitely a worthwhile experience.
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gourmet lane The Gourmet Lane is the proposal for a food oriented community. Our site, located next to Pioltello, is strategically positioned as a node for a number of food-production and agricoltural cascine; the proposal seeks to link all of these in one unique space so that the resources of the area area promoted and enjoyed not only by locals but also by anyone who takes pleasure from good italian food. We propose a “One Unique Path� that links the whole district. With such element, we force the users to discover all of what the space has to offer. The Unique Path intends to promote unity, equilibrium and marketing. Furthermore, the Gourmet Lane will be fi lled with markets, bringing more life to it. Here, we challenge the traditional idea of market and street and combine it into one. The Gourmet Lane is the synthesis of the italian tradition for food-obsession and public life. Here, both elements meet and redefi ne concepts, creating an innovative way of living. 38
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ground floor The Ground Floor represents the core of the closed market. This typology of market is designed to guarantee the functioning of Gourmet Lane even during the cold season, while snowing or raining. Producers can sell their products throughout the year. Single products, such as fruits, vegetables and packed goods find their best collocation in the center, because they don’t need special places to be stored, while more decayable products, can be sold on the sides, where there are refrigerating rooms.
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first floor This floor is more suitable to the consumption of the products, it means that people can buy and taste straight away what they’ve bought, as well as try new products sold by the stalls. Public tables and different seats are placed nearby the little restaurants, to let people have a quick break or a small lunch while enjoying the day. Even if the ammount of wastes produced is not as much as on the ground floor, different and hidden passages have been designed in order to avoid unpleasant mixing in the fluxes between visitors and attendants. Secondary accesses allow wastes to be gathered in the floor but stored elsewhere while waiting for them to be collected.
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second floor The last floor hosts a restaurant and a cocktail bar on the exterior terrace. The access to the restaurant is possible even during the night because it’s independent from the one of the market. Two different entrances allow people to reach either the restaurant or the terrace first. A little lobby welcomes the restaurant’s customers, while a beautiful overview of the whole Gourmet Lane charms the cocktail bar’s visitors. The restaurant is organized over two main rooms, one inside and another under the pergola, and a little privée with direct access from the kitchen, to coddle small groups of people.
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new way of living The last 50 years have changed radically the society, differentiating not only the typological offer as such, but also the habits of the individual and, consequently, its needs. The house, and in a wider view “the way of living�, has dramatically changed in order to adapt to the new requirements. We have gone from a society in which people settled for generations to a sedentarynomadism. Or rather, more frequently people need to move, change city, country, continent, for the most varied reasons and, above all, for short periods. It is obvious that it is not suitable anymore to invest time and money in a property when you are not sure of the effective usage time. The consequence is the increasing propensity to lease, so to disengage itfrom bureaucracy and defend the increasingly necessity of freedom. Becomes anachronistic thinking of buying a building plot to construct, over time, their homes, changing the layout as needed. And more than an anachronism, it is economically unsustainable, because the city, which went to expanding fast pace, have less and less building areas, whose prices are prohibitive. The possibilities then become essentially two: buy land in areas of peripherals or suburban, or buy/ rent a building unit ineffective to change according to our needs. The trend over the last 30 years seems to have pursued both, perhaps with a greater propensity to life in the city, more comfortable for the number of services offered. Why not however think of a type of housing that allows both the customization in time, that a different displacement?
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the system The system is given by the repetition of four 4 elements, for each floor, and consists of a central core that provides structural stability and acts as a vertical connection, four slabs designed to accommodate the various housing modules or services, four structural walls and four pillars. To create the tower, the various elements are superimposed and, in their repetition, generate its the typology. Prefabrication is the key point of the system as it allows a quicker and easier site management, minimizing possible errors and optimizing the timing of realization. Willing to put users’ needs at the center of the design concept, a number of services were included in the hub, such as kindergartens, green open spaces, supermarkets, a gym, several cafes and a restaurant on the rooftop, to enjoy the view of the city from a point of view certainly unique. Living in the Air is a system designed to maximize the feeling of privacy and suspension, so the floors that host the modules have been kept to a minimum structural. When the living module is inserted it seems to float in the air.
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the module Living in the Air is a response to the need to feel free to move, change, modify habits to adapt to the new, while maintaining a fixed point in the changing path of life: our home. Abstracting, then, the house from the massification of the apartment and allowing easier modification, the user can feel free to change and move. The unit therefore consists of a series of standard modules for size (3m x 9m, for a surface of 27 sqm) combinable from a minimum of two to a maximum of five. The optimization of space, the custom finishes and the interior layout can vary according to different types, thus satisfying the needs of everyone. The structural part of the module is composed of “cages� structure or a series of three compounds cubes 3x3, compounds that form the soul-bearing of the unit. Technological choices and systems have allowed to maximize the interstitial spaces of the slabs and side walls, offering large windows and reduced masonry packages, without sacrificing comfort and acoustic. The possibility of expansion is a key part of the project i: through an interlocking mechanism can attach multiple modules to expand the space of the apartment, to annex rooms has never been so easy: the addition, prefabricated and delivered ready to use, once fixed to the supporting structure, are put in connection with the adjacent rooms simply by removing the intermediate panels without compromising its comfort nor its safety.
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The system crane-bogie consists of two double beams, which allow the fixing to the main structure and secondly the sliding of the module. The use of four steel cables balances the weight and permits the control of the height elevation to the floor level.
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Once the module has reached the floor level, two supporting beams are automatically extracted and prolonged until the slab between the floors. An automated twist-lock ensure their fastening to the mother structure, allowing the further step.
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The fastening of the primary beams to the main structure allows the sliding of the bogie-carrymodule. The bogie runs inside the double beam through a tilted system. Throughout the duration of the operation, the tightness of the module is supplied by four twist locks.
The module is already in place. It is then fasten to the final twist lock docked to the main beams of the mother structure and, only secondarily, unlocked from the twist lock of the bogie. The entire operation is automated by a hydraulic system, which allows, to unhook the main beams
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layout A modular system, which is standards and prefabricated, does not necessarily mean it cannot be customizable. Conversely, the high technology at the base, allows to obtain different customizable solutions since all based on a modular grid. Living in the Air focuses on the needs of its concept and the changes a whole life entails.
It is here represented the case of an apartment designed for a single or a couple, composed of a large living room, a kitchen, a spacious bedroom, and of course, to services. This, of course, is only one of several options available.
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At the previous layout is added a third module: this allows you to expand the living area and to have a wider terrace. The solution shown is designed for a couple or a single that enjoy his living room frequently and likes to invite friends.
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The configuration in question involves the annexation of a habitation module bedroom. It is designed for the needs of a couple with a child, as well as for whomever wants a guest’s bedroom completely independent.
The apartment of 135 sqm is the maximum extension of the system is presented as a five room house with three bedrooms and two bathrooms, several terraces, kitchen and a double living room. Designed for the needs of a family with several children.
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The solution highlights the possibility of dividing an apartment of 135sqm in two apartments, of 54 and 81 square meters, by simply adding components MyWall for separate the rooms and create two distinct and completely independent properties.
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LIVING IN THE AIR
customize-it! Customization is a focal point in the Living in the Air system. Once the needs and volumetric distribution are defined, we proceed to the choice of the construction’s materials, which inevitably characterize the end result of the entire apartment. It was elected the Laminam for the exterior coating, as very durable and uniform. Also the vastness of colors of the panels have lead to identify the project’s tone, soft but decided colors, that define the appearance of the tower in its entirety. Choosing the external finishing make easier to recognize its own apartment, even from the street. We believe it helps people to bond more with the house and feel it “cosy” and “personal”. We don’t want people to feel stuck in an anonymous box, we want users to feel proud and satisfied with their choise. Whatever your decision, Living in the Air is a system designed to meet the needs and demands of all. The level of customization as a whole, is therefore very versatile.
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conceptual plan Located in Xi’An, China, the project covers an area of 3.250.000 square meters, and aims to generate a new artificial landscape that organizes a technological draining system underground and a town on the higher parts. In the center of the locality, a large public mall holding the principal representative buildings, links the main access point (the underground station) with the river. A system of parallel canals is used to collect rainwater and wastewater, and also contribute to its purification. The major functions are organized between these channels and the wings that result from them serve for basements. the proximity between the different functions, the extensive internal distribution of driveways and pedestrian paths, and the rational organization of access, suggests a model of –short trips and small distances– city, that reduces commuting time, pollution and noise. the project aims to differentiate and simplify the roadway hierarchy based on the principle of rapid accessibility, urban comfort and livability.
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The zooms aim to better understand the layering of the project, as well as the public spaces which are designed by the building, a sort of multi small Italian-style piazza all around, to let people gather and live the city.
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