Attilio Michele de Palma Architectural Portfolio
title: Living in roji Alleys:
Smallness, Sharing & Public Space
tutors: Kengo Kuma | Jinnai Hidenobu | Lorena Alessio developed: Kengo Kuma Lab (Tokyo) - Politecnico di Torino note: Selected as Honor Thesis @ Politecnico di Torino
THESIS: title: Drawing Lab. professors: A. Marotta year: 2011 title: Design Studio professors: A. De Rossi | U. J. Rivolin | L. Bruno | year: 2011
Attilio Michele de Palma Roma 04 | 04 |1992 CONTACT: attilio.depalma@gmail.com +39 348 4744412 Via Belfiore 34 Torino LANGUAGES: Mother Language: Italian | Portuguese Other Lenguages: English | Spanish USED SOFTWARES: Photoshop | Illustrator | Indesign Autocad | Vray | SketchUp | Revit | Office Pack
PERSONAL INFORMATION:
BARCHELOR: Università di Torino Disciplines for Art Music and Performing Arts 2010 - 2011 BARCHELOR: Politecnico di Torino Interfacoltà di Architettura Degree 97/110 2011 - 2014 MASTER DEGREE: Politecnico di Torino Master Degree “ Costruction City ” Degree 107/110 2014 - 2016
EDUCATION:
title: Design and History of Architecture professors: P. A. Croset | E. Piccoli year: 2012 title: Build on the Built professors: M. Ortalli | G. Cavaglià year: 2012 title: Architectural and Structural Design professors: R. Apostolo | W. Ceretto year: 2013 title: Architectural and Structural Form professors: G. Durbiano | W. Ceretto year: 2014 title: Architecture and Urban Economies professors: I. M. Lami | S. P. Corgniati | M. Robiglio year: 2015
UNIVERSITY STUDIOS:
title: Art - Architecture
International Workshop @ Castello di Rivoli
involved subjects: PoliTo - Castello di Rivoli year: 2015 title: Piano a Ronchamp
Workshop Polito
professors: P. A. Croset (PoliTo) year: 2014 title: TTT - Water and Shadow
International Workshop @ Taiwan
involved universities: PoliTo | Feng Chia University | Tokyo University professors: Kengo Kuma ( T.U. ) | L. Alessio ( Polito)
Ko. Nakamura ( T.U. ) | Matyas Gutai ( FCU )
year: 2015 title: involved universities: professors: year:
The character of the places International Workshop @ Tokyo | Torino PoliTo | Keio University L. Alessio | H. Kobayashi 2015
title: TTT - 2nd Ediition
International Workshop @ Tokyo
involved universities: PoliTo | Feng Chia University | Tokyo University professors: Kengo Kuma ( T.U. ) | L. Alessio ( Polito)
Ko. Nakamura ( T.U. ) | Matyas Gutai ( FCU )
year: 2015
WORKSHOP:
title: Tokyo Music Center typology: International competition for students and
architects
year: 2015
title: CMR - Carpineto Mountain Refuge typology: International Competition for student and
architects year: 2015
title: Tokyo Pop Lab result: Winner 1st prize typology: International Competition for student and
architects
year: 2015
COMPETITIONS:
name: director: role: year:
Studio Bladidea Hermann Kohlloffel Support designer and graphics 2015
name: director: role: year:
AlessioStudio Lorena Alessio Support designer and graphics 2016
WORKING EXPERIENCE:
Tokyo Pop Lab
International Competition for student and architects 1st prize [BeeBreeders] 2015 WORK GROUP Andrea Longo Attilio Michele de Palma Enrico Nicli
Statement:
Define the pop culture in a globally unique language is very difficult. Too different are the characters that the term pop takes in different geographical areas. The word itself can be articulated in various ways, in reference to visual art, rather than to popular culture, it can be understood like a social basis of a civilization rather than a musical culture of broad sharing and diffusion. The term pop has often a negative sense, linked to lower social communicative form, as to diminish the value that instead the large scale communication has had and will always have within the cultural development of society. The question is how to find a global language that can best describe the heterogeneous meaning contained in the word Pop. We can not restrict it to a form, but rather to try to identify the features that can somehow be universally recognized. Identify and turn into architectural meanings of the word pop was the process that led us to define the strategy and the project outcome.
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Pop culture has widely opened the door to mass production and the possibility of a large -scale spread an object rather than a work. For us the serial was converted into two blocks that can accommodate within itself the main functions required by the brief.
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workshop Forum enlightenment. Through posters it workshop Forum café spread office messages in communicate and café office society. Our building will then be able to change its skin in order to communicate from time to time always different messages. A large cube covered with sheeting is designed to be used as a large poster.
Mass Culture:
the pop is common to mass culture. The culture of a people understood as the handing down of knowledge errors experiences and successes, that make the company alive and evolving. Mass culture has therefore been associated with the construction of the library containing the knowledge of the people.
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Thesis | 2015 title: Living
in roji Alleys: Smallness, Sharing & Public Space
tutors: Kengo Kuma | Jinnai Hidenobu | Lorena Alessio developed: Kengo Kuma Lab (Tokyo) - Politecnico di Torino note: Selected as Honor Thesis @ Politecnico di Torino
Before starting my experience as an internship student at the Kengo Kuma Lab at The University of Tokyo, I had participated in the 2nd edition of the TTT workshop. This was an international workshop that involved the 3 different universities, the Polytechnic of Turin, the Feng Chia university of Taichung (Taiwan) and the University of Tokyo. The theme concerned with the design of a pavilion inside an old urban system of narrow roads called roji. what I did not expect was to discover another face of the Tokyo city that I was used to know.This was not made of the super-crowded roads of Shibuya, there were no neon-light advertisings on the skyscrapers of Shinjuku, which were all so different in details, but looked so similar. Here, just some blocks away from the major street, I could find a human-scale city, a smaller Tokyo, where a slower urban and social environment was apparently still alive. This became a turning point of my experience and from that moment on I decided to shift there the studies of my thesis, to focus my efforts on understanding this little fragment of the city, how they have survived on the redevelopments of the city, and how they could be a further alternative to the big scale Tokyo.
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PUBLIC SPACE in the built frame |open space
Centered position to encourage comunity use
Comunity building positioned in continuity with the existing frame
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The position of the open public space allows to locate function thath can be shared by all
SMALLNESS remodelling nagaya’s typology
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Position of the complex in continuity with the original nagaya’s frame.
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Layering the spaces
The spaceslegend are fragmented in different level and different grade of 7. 1. engawa/wooden deck separation 2.between them can be genkan/entrance 3. living achieved by the room sliding doors that 4. w.c. can unify the inside 5. single room and outside 6. spaces. 6. studio 7. bath ENTRANCE legend ALWAYS FRONT THE STREET 8. balcony 9. double room the path to reach the different engawa/wooden deck units 1. are designed to mantain 2. genkan/entrance all the3.accesses living room fronting the roji legend 6.
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the position of the plot allows visibility for the administration while have te possibility to share service with the comunity housing
the concept is to let the roji get inside the building. This allows to connect the public open space to the inside spacese, meanwhile obtaining a common area for the hosts
fragmentation is done in continuity of the upper housing block
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A light covering, is provided as to create a microclimate in the non-heated common spaces. This structure is similar to the green house structure; is made of a light steel structure in which many singular polycarbonate panels are stuck, those can be partially removed on summer season to avoid over heating or closed in winter to create a buffer climate from the outside one.
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The share house building has a total of two stories in which are distributed a conglomerate different elements in which their different shapes are the result of their different functions. As a result the building does not look as a monolithic objectt, rather it should be confused as a complex of single different houses.
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Designing From The Outside
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