GIOMBATTISTA AREDDIA __portfolio
2010
2011
Master’s degree in architecture _ University of Florence
2012
2014
2015
2016
Stage Regione Toscana _ Florence Freelance architect _ Florence
education
Postgraduate Master’s degree at Iaac _ Barcelona
professional experiences
work at DNA Barcelona & Partners _ Barcelona Assistant at IaaC Global Summer School-The Next City _ Barcelona Structure from wood and nex materials lifelong learning course at UPC _ Barcelona
Internship at Studio architetto Belcastro _ Florence
YAD - Yassin Areddia Design Co - founder _Barcelona_Florence_Beirut
Green Design lifelong learning course at Qualitas _ Florence Sustainable design in Architecture lifelong learning course at Qualitas _ Florence
Competitions
2013
Assistant at Building System Design, Unifi _ Florence Tutor at MMXXLAB, Unifi _ Florence Tutor at Environmental responsive envilopes , Unifi _ Florence
2017
skills parametric design
visualization 3D modeling timber design
sustainable design
CGI
building physics digital fabbrication
SHELL MYCELIUM [degradation movement manifesto]
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Pavilion The Dutch Warehouse Fort Kochi, Kerala - India 80 m2 2016 Built Kochi-Muziris Foundation Giombattista Areddia, Asif Rahman Junaid Mohamad Yassin Concept design Construction drawings Site work direction
www.degradationmovement.org The Shell Mycelium partecipates as a Collateral event at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2016. The Shell Pavilion is a pavilion made of spores and the wooden structure forms the growing ground. The mycelium eats it, merges with it, transforms it and grows through it. This pavilion will be a building, which, after it is born, will grows along with its visitors, and dies, once its purpose is fulfilled. The only remains left behind are the experiences felt under it.
MYCELIUM Mycelium is the vegetative part of a fungus or fungus-like bacterial colony, consisting of a mass of branching, thread-like hyphae. The mass of hyphae is sometimes called shiro. Fungal colonies composed of mycelium are found in and on soil and many other substrates.
JOINTS
WOODEN FRAME
PLYWOOD PANELS
BAR PAU
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Interior design Barcelona - Spain 50 m2 2017 in construction B. Nadir Giombattista Areddia Mohamad Yassin Concept design, CGI Production Presentation Tecnical drawings
The projects consists in the restyling of an existing bar. The strict time available lead to a simple refurbishment of the cafè, where the led “edison” style lamps characterize the designed elements. The customers seatings are increased by adding a continuos board and well dimensioned tables. The elected furniture give an industrial touch to the bar, which perfectly fits with the existent white painted bricks.
LORENZO TEDESCO PHOTO
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Interior design Vittoria (RG) - Italy 70 m2 2017 in progress Quasar -LorenzeTedesco Giombattista Areddia Concept design, Construction drawings CGI Production Presentation
The client was looking for a look change to increase the studio visibility from the street, to reorganize internal distribution in order to create an indipendent photo studio from client and post production areas. The project is a low budget one, the space are divided by trated and coloured cheap boards, which give the space an avant-garde environment. The area is dividing into reception area, post-production area and photo studio, each one indipendents.
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Mixed functions Building Chiye - Lebanon 4900 m2 2016 in construction R. Kanj Giombattista Areddia Mohamad Yassin Facade design Construction drawings CGI production Presentation
Chiyah city is located between Beirut, South Metn, ant the mountain due to the international roads and boulevards in its region. The project designed is a eleven floors building for a mixed use, in total 40 apartments, 10 stores and a basement for car parking. In the ground floor are located the 10 stores and two halls which bring to the appartaments. The facade concept is a pixels explosion which starts from the corner where the wooden panels dissolve into concrete finishing at both side, in order to emphasize its position.
location: Chiyeah, Lebanon type: facade proposal status: under construction year: 2016
Bungalow Cafè
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Hospitality design North Lebanon 100 m2 2016 in progress private Giombattista Areddia Mohamad Yassin Concept design CGI production Presentation
The Bungalow Cafè is a seasonal hospitality facilities working as a cafè and a restaurant. The particularity of the site leads the design concept, the side with relates with the street is opaque in order to emphasize the sea relationship on the opposite side, the transparent one, which helps to create a peaceful and relaxing sensation for the customers. The cafè and restaurant area is covered by a lightweight canopy made by steel and wood, this particular shape create a soft landmark well merged with the rocks and sand environment.
DIAGRAMATICAL SECTION Light Weight Canopy Carmin Roofing
Resto-Seating
+4.95m
Nargile Sea View
Car Drop Outdoor Seating
+3.45m
kitchen
+0.00m
+0.00m
SEA Main Street
Casa 8x8
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Private House Acate (RG) - Sicily 165 m2 2015 in construction private Giombattista Areddia Domenico Garilli Mohamad Yassin Role: Concept design CGI production Construction Permit documentation Cost: 110.000 â‚Ź The house is located in the Sicily down south, Acate in the State of Ragusa. The project consists on the demolition of an existing garage in order to create a three level residence. Only the main facade can provide light to the building this is the reason why the openings where emphisized to provide the maximum amount of light possible, with particular brise soleils panels designed to control it. In the ground floor there is a garage and the lobby which brings to the double volume high open-space, the core of the house, framed by the double windows and charcterized by the wooden brise soleils, with a central staircase which hosts a parametric library that brings to the night zone.
bagno
Ground floor
ripostiglio
soggiorno
garage
1th floor
bagno1.75 barbacue
N
cucina lobby
soggiorno sala di pranzo sottoscala libreria
balcone
2nd floor
bagno
camera da letto
biblioteca
N
1.20
bagno
void
studio
camera da letto
balcone
Villa Ramal
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Holiday House Byblos - Lebanon 600 m2 2015 in construction M. Tammal Giombattista Areddia Mohamad Yassin Facade design CGI production Construction drawings 800.000 â‚Ź
The deisgn consist in the reinterpretation of traditional lebanes houses: Pointed arches are Islamic inspiration and were used often in many Islamic dynasties and its used in the house as an empathizing element that is shown from the main access and on the pool side facade Arabic patterns are a huge collection of patterns that varriate within the location of the aritifact . This pattern is taken from Byblos , one of the oldest cities on the shores of the midditerranian sea of lebanon The pitched roof is a restriction in the neighborhood and is an inspiration from the typical leba- nese house , that is characterized by the red colored pitch roof protecting the ceiling and giving an aestetical touch from above The water element is an important figure in the medditerranian culture . Not only because it refers to the sea , but also because water was found next to many houses in the arab world to colden the hot breeze, so for that it was added in the villa The stone should be used on most of the parts of the Villa . For this , being a restiction and a must it is introduced. Moreover , the use of the beije stone was to create a harmony woth the brown color of the grid and pattern and the white color of the paint
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Facade design Beirut - Lebanon 2015 in construction Dr. R. Kanj Giombattista Areddia Mohamad Yassin Facade design CGI production Construction drawings
In the prosperous and competitive Beirut real estate market the aim of the project is to design an attractive facade in order to speed the appartaments sell up of the building already in progress. The target is to avoid the appearance of the traditional residential building in Beirut, for that reason the only key elements that allow these reinterpretation are the bowindows and the flower garden terraces. The final design creates a dynamic facade playing with these elements through the use of two different finishings in order to break the monotony of the floors repetition.
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Holiday House Chiye - Lebanon 2015 in progress Dr. R. Kanj Giombattista Areddia Mohamad Yassin Facade design CGI production
The facade design is developed as a building makeup . To avoid the typical look of the residential building existing in that area a weaved grid create a dynamic facade that can easy became a reference point for the area. The use of colored glasses in the grid helps to give a different appearance during the day and at the same time create different expiriences of the same building.
SGBL building
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Facade design Beirut - Lebanon 2015 proposal deisgn SGBL Giombattista Areddia Mohamad Yassin Facade design CGI production Construction drawings
The SGBL building host the SGBL bank offices in the ground floor, while the upper floors are addressed for apartaments. The design wanna show the contrast between the residential and the commercial use of the building, The light glazed ground floor carry the appartaments, covered with a soft explosion of alucobond perforated panels panels which cover the facades of the building, free on the four sides, in order to create a landmark for the area.
work @ DNA-Barcelona architects
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Stage Barcelona 2014/2015
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Concept design CGI production Construction drawings Parametric design Building physics analysis
DNA BARCELONA is a studio of Architecture, Planning, Landscape, Interiors, and Design, that develops projects with a high calibre of innovation within a global strategy of internationalization. The office is currently involved in a large number of projects throughout Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East. for institutional, healthcare, educational, residential, commercial and other singular projects. During the working experience I participated in the design of various building typologies: - Hospital facilities, Cancer Center - University and related auditorium - Luxury villas - Hotels -Residential high towers -Public spaces The role inside the office: - concept design development - wind,solar,daylight, shadows analysis -parametric design -visualization -3d modeling
Final Thesis - “Breathing Panel” RSIII : Digital Matter & Itelligent Costruction Master in Advanced Architecture @ Iaac [Institute of advanced architecture of catalonia]
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Education Barcelona 2013/2014 Apostolos Marios Mouzakopoulos,
Dimitrios Aidonis, Giombattista Areddia Automated ventilation systems are usually complex building features. Moving elements require motors that add cost, weight and energy consumption to the construction, while they are often significant in size, reducing the structure’s visual delicacy. Smart materials are here to change this paradigm and open the path towards a new architecture. The breathing panel is a low cost, lightweight, durable and efficient modular ventilation panel. It uses a shape memory alloy wire to create an opening equal to 35% of the panel’s total area. Our research gave us the oportunity to experiment using a responsive material. By studying its behavior as well as its advantages and limitations we drew conclusion on how it could be used in architecture. After a thorough multi-directional experimentation phase, we focused on an application that is of essential architectural meaning. The use of muscle wire as an actuator of an opening-closing ventilation panel mechanism demonstrated the capacity of “smart materials” to serve as real-scale building elements. A system like that has a series of advantages: First, it consists of modular lightweight components. There are no motors or mechanis-ms involved, which means that the structure is significantly lighter and visually delicate. The actuating mechanism itself is more reliable than a conventional equivalent. Muscle wire does not rely on mechanical or electical parts. I relies on its own chemical composition. It is autonomous and can be actuated practically infinite times. Maintenance cost is therefor minimal. The overall construction cost is also low. Less weight and absence of sophisticated mechanisms means easy, low cost construction and assembly.
Globule
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Pavillion Salamanca - Spain 20 - 40 m2 2014 competition Giombattista Areddia Mohamad Yassin Renata Lotto Luis Leon Concept design CGI production Technical drawings Presentation
Globule is an interactive pavilion, made by transparent pvc and sensors. Thanks to its particular shape trough a compressed air system connected to the pavilion and sensors connected to arduino which locate the people passing by, the pavilion is able to change its size depending on the number and reactions of the visitors. The compressed air system inflate and deflate air into the pavilion in order to change the expirience felt under it.
MASTER’S DEGREE THESIS Cross-laminated timber panels structure: a nursing home in Castellina in Chiantnti
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RSA Castellina in Chianti - Italy 2800 m2 2012
The project consists on the design of a residence and nursing home for elderly. The structure is located on a hill facing the wonderful Chianti hills, this is the key reason of the longitudinal development of the building. The nursing home is divided into three levels, each one with a different level of care needs about the customers. At the ground floor there are the independent residences and the common area, a key element here is the central winter garden where all the internal distribution run around. The upper floors are dedicated for people who need constant help by the taking care team and in the last floor there is the sector for dementia people. The structure is cross - laminated one, the thesis was to explore the construction phases of these kind of structures.The project consists on the design of a residence and nursing home for elderly. The structure is located on a hill facing the wonderful Chianti hills, this is the key reason of the longitudinal development of the building. The nursing home is divided into three levels, each one with a different level of care needs about the customers. At the ground floor there are the independent residences and the common area, a key element here is the central winter garden where all the internal distribution run around. The upper floors are dedicated for people who need constant help by the taking care team and in the last floor there is the sector for dementia people. The structure is cross - laminated one, the thesis was to esplore the construction phases of these kinf od structures.
work@ REGIONE TOSCANA - Real Estate & Logistic department -
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Stage
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Villa Basilewsky. Viale Filippo Strozzi. Firenze -Italy
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2012/2013
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Site relief 2d drawings preliminary stage definitive stage
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6.800.00 â‚Ź
Villa Basilewsky is located in Florence, it was the residence of the Russian aristocrat Aleksandr Bazilevskij and his wife Ol’ga Nikolaevna. After their death the villa became an hospital and maintained this function until the 2006. Regione Toscana acquired the property in 2008. In the 2011 they started the project to renovate the building and to change the Villa destination from hospital to offices, Regione Toscana provided about 6.800.000 Euro for Villa Basilewsky renovation, The project is still in progress. During the internship I partecipated to the preliminary, final and detailed design phases, including the complete relief of the building.
Holocaust memorial stone
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Monument Piazza delle Murate - Firenze 2010 built Comune di Firenze Arch. M.Pittalis Camilla Bernstein Giulia Squeo Serena Cambi Facade design Concept design Construction
The monument is located at Le Murate square, Here, during the WWII, the Fascist soldiers gathered all the Florentine Jews togheter to deport them at the Auschwitz internment camp. The monument is made with broken sculptures found during the renovation of the complex “ExCarcere Le Murate�. As a stone represent a soul, these small sculptures represent Shoa victims deported from Florence. The monument looks like broken, these are the Florentine who never come back in his town from Auschwitz. The triangles were used in the nazi internment camp to identify the prisoners. The jews were identified with a yellow triangle.
VISUALIZATION WORK
COMPETITION: [RIO DE JANEIRO] Symbolic World Cup Structure team: Giombattista Areddia, Federico Ciavarella role: concept, 3d modelling, drawing, post production, presentation
The Brazilian society represents one of the best model that embodies the World Cup spirit’s. It is a society where the racial and cultural mixture is its union secret’s. The Brazilian diversity as a world heritage. This spirit is expressed by the project trough a dissonant shapes clash that becames an encounter with the results of their union. The squared pavillions face with the curved one, all together enveloped in a path. The project concept and sustainability is mainly reached by the use of bamboo structures. The pavillion wants to promote the bamboo use, to show its architectural and structural properties. Bamboo is a natural, renewable, low cost (extensively diffused in the country), a valid and economic alternative for social housing emergencies.
COMPETITION: [CASABLANCA] Sustainable Market Square team: Giombattista Areddia, Marco Raggioli, Nina Songohri role: concept, 3d modelling, drawing, post production, presentation
formal market
unformal market ground floor the MARKET
NIGHT Art Exhibition Zone Concert Hall Zone Theatre Zone
trivium market 1st floor the CAFè
2nd floor the lounge area
DAY Meat Zone_85mq Fish &Sea Food Zone_100mq Fruit and Vegetables Zone_120mq Spice Zone_50mq Flowers Zone_35mq
1.Newspaper Quosk_20mq 2.Information Area_20mq 3.Restrooms_100mq 4.Water POints 5.Refuse Collection Area
The innovation is the progress of the tradition, the project finds out from the cultural heritage of the city its nature , read in a new vision of Casablanca, where people from all the world converge. The entrances are situated in the three corners of the square to be accessible from the most important directions. The covered area is mainly divided into two part: - the market place, a flexible space; -the three stores building , the relax area. The shape of the building is in contrast with the market place,like a ship oriented to the sea, straned among the desert dunes
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UNDER THE CARPET [CASABLANCA] Sustainable Market Square team: Giombattista Areddia, Rodolfo Parolin, Sebastian Alvarado role: concept, 3d modelling
CONCEPT “Under the Carpet” is a garden that brings surrealism to the discussion of today’s garden. It represents the gesture of trimming the garden´s soil and pulling it up the see “what’s going on under”. It’s a metaphor for today´s holistic garden, based on the understanding of nature itself, more than just (re)shaping it. This garden reflects on the complexity and importance of one of the major components of the Earth's ecosystem: SOIL. A curved structural grid serves to hold pots with different plants including colorful flowers, eatable, fruit and aromatic plants. The bottom of the pots form a mycelium surface that provides eatable mushrooms. The pots are interconnected with an electronic interactive system: when a plant is touched the ones that interact with it will glow and light up so the visitors experience the hidden relations within plants. There are removable pots that the visitors take home to continue the experience. “Under the Carpet” brings together biology, technology, and the information society, creating a range of sensory, emotional and intellectual experiences through an unusual physical setting that invites exchange and reflection.
SOIL
STRUCTURE Earth soil is the habitat for the organisms that recycle the nutrients, being the largest superficial carbon reservoir. It filters and purifies the water, provides nutrients for plants, and the food we need. It´s the surface where live occurs. The more complex a soil is, the more biomass and diversity it will sustain. Earth soil is the habitat for the organisms that recycle the nutrients, being the largest superficial carbon reservoir. It filters and purifies the water, provides nutrients for plants, and the food we need. It´s the surface where live occurs. The more complex a soil is, the more biomass and diversity it will sustain.
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The curved surface is achieved by a grid of interlocked treated wood beans. The grid spaces are filled with permanent pots that are interconnected with an electronic interactive system.