ENRICO CAPANNI
ENRICO CAPANNI PORTFOLIO
ENRICO CAPANNI S T U D E N T, D E S I G N E R & I M A G E - M A K E R
REFERENCE Born in Barga (Lucca), Italy 34, via Nebbiana, Barga (LU) Italy e-mail capannienrico18@gmail.com Phone + 039 3460475425 Instagram Account @_a__r__c_ (anonymous.render.co)
EDUCATION 2009 - 2014 _ High School A. Passaglia, Lucca, Architecture class 2014 - current _ Florence University, School of Architecture
LANGUAGES Italian : Native language English : B2 level Portuguese : B1 level French : Colloquial
SKILLS OS: Mac OS X / Windows Drafting: Autocad, Qgis, hand drawing Rendering: Cinema 4D, Vray 3.04, Corona Renderer Graphics: Adobe CC (Photoshop, Lightroom, InDesign)
EXPERIENCE May - june 2017
September 2017 - On going
Collaborations with Arch. Gianluca Macchini Interior Design, Architecture and furnishing (Studio Macchini, Montecatini, FI) Collaborations with Arch. Leandro Martinelli Studio Martinelli, Viareggio (LU), Italy s Collaboration and Designer
SELECTED WORKS 2016 / 2019
Theese projects and images are chosen to highlight the different graphic approaches in Architecture & visualizing. My personal idea is that atmosphere plays a fondamental role in images indeed the goal is to broadcast an emotion. Today, Beauty needs to be comunicated: Architectural visualization is the most impressive way to reach this objective.
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THE RING
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MEMORY ARCHETYPE
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REPETITION ACT
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CHAPTER IV
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LIKE A WALL
proposal for a contemporary theatre Mantova (MN), Italy
Proposal for the renovation of a chapel Vicopisano (PI), Italy
competition entry _ REUSE ITALY _ Ripafratta (PI), Italy _ honorable mention _
competition entry _ ARKXSITE Chapel _ Pessegueiro Island, Porto Covo, Portugal.
proposal for the extenction of a kindergarten Vicopisano (PI), Italy
THE
RING
Proposal for a contemporary theatre in Mantova (MN), Italy | 2019 |
The Horizon. The first things you notice are Palazzo Ducale and Mantova’s roofs which design the skyline of the city. Then, the water. The Mincio river, backbone of the ancient settlement and natural fortification, embraces the urban centre becoming a permanent and spontaneous sign which divides the City from the countryside. On one side you can find history, men and their creations; on the other side silence, purity, the essence of a place out of time. What is needed in a place which already have everything? Nothing more than watching. The project indeed is born to allow watching the flow of time articulated by the flowing River. A built space arises from the earth and opens up like a ring, resting on the natural shore’s slope. Then this pure form is broken and a fragment is detached from it and is arranged parallel to the shore so as to never make us lose the horizon. Like an ancient theater, the project unites two moments: cavea and scene, spaces that change direction with respect to the fracture, giving those who want to look at, always a new perception. This gesture becomes a void that is reflected in the river’s waters like an imperceptible line, moved by the current. Look, nothing more, protected by a silent fence that guards the secret of theater.
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MEMORY ARCHETYPE Unbuilt Project for a church renovation in Vicopisano (PI), Italy | 2017 |
Identity image and visual-geographic reference, these are the two values that are attributed to the church of St. Giovanni in Castellare. From this, a project that goes on on a binary route that is simultaneously able to take charge of the symbol that the community attributed to the building that used to be there before and to maintain the connection with the territory. The theme of memory is treated on the compositional plane by maintaining the cabin model and the rectangular diagram, in order to evoke the archetypical language that guarantees the universal recognizability of this church. The square and the triangle create a volume that is meant to work with natural indirect light, with its ordered ratios. In its complex, it shows itself as a solid dug from the volume of the previous church that opens up on a hall where the different incline of the inner and external slope build a thickness interrupted only behind the altar, flooded by natural light. Instead, the facade presents a circular opening over the entrance that alludes to a rose window, but since it’s buffered, it diverts the light in two symmetrical side recesses where there are the confessional and the holy water font. For what concerns the original collocation, even though it maintains the orientation and the same axis, the church has receded some metres to allow the organisation of a space that is made to host various open-air activities. The entrance to the area is moved to North behind the volume, in order to form a scenographic hallway between the church and the rocks, so that it evokes a visual cone towards the landscape and the sky lead to the white cross that is located there. In this way a sort of “open-air room� is formed, arranged on two levels: the church parvis and a little raised terrace of two steps from where we can enjoy the view. The route that brings to the summit from the valley is easily seen in the use of the material that follows an itinerary from the rough to the refined. The basement and the staircase of the entry are made with rough concrete obtained from inert local materials; from this the steps of the visitors meet the rungs and then the floor, created with verrucano slab, that penetrate from the outside into the church, which raises into the light, thanks to the white and smooth plaster.
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REPETITION ACT competition entry _ REUSE ITALY _ ripafratta (PI), Italy _ HONORABLE MENTION | | 2019 | Team: Enrico Capanni Arianna Giulianelli Roberto Miglionico Andrea Pintus
The intervention intends to restore the monumentality of the ruin, recreating the foundation act of the Castle, namely the creation of the surrounding wall. It becomes the base, on top of which stands the construction. It looks monolithic from the outside and houses several functions inside. It is the representation of the comparison between ancient and new, and the relationship between landscape and ruins. This approach is completely different from the one adopted inside the Rocca, where the ruins become a fence. The new dry building cover what was already there, though it never touches it. The external block houses the restaurant, the conference hall and the services that need more space. It is separated from the surrounding walls by the promenade running around the Castle. The inner space is devoted to the discovery of the site and the surrounding environment. It is made up of three parts: the first one is a construction covering the archeological remains like a shell; the second is a system of cantilevered paths, which offer the visitors different points of view and lead to the last one, the extension of the Mastio tower. It houses the “camera obscura�, an alternative point of view, in which the landscape projects itself inside the room.
CHAPTER
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competition entry _ ARKXSITE Chapel _ Pessegueiro Island, Porto Covo, Portugal | 2019 | Team: Enrico Capanni Davide Ferrera Diego Bernabini
THE IDEA While we were observing and studying the Pesseguiero Island in its wholeness, we detected that each one of its pre-existences have specific character. The intervention site appears to our eyes as a book, whom chapters are nothing but the depiction of its pre-existences. All of this allows the visitor to look at the overall historical background. Our reasoning leads to a search of measure that want to confer a unique identity of the place to the project, without interfere with the past. In fact, tree different realities had influenced the past of Pesseguiero Island: 1. The Salina, the most ancient remain, which has left just the traces of its roman proportions; 2. The seventeenth-century fort called “Sant’Alberto”, an historic ruin - that has never been finished - encourages specific ideas, through its character and strategic position; 3. Finally but not less important, the “old quarry”, a natural and extremely evocative place, which relates to the Genius Loci with its forms and proportions. Due to these considerations, we decided to make a simple but direct addition: a new level based on the island pre-existences, which will not develop on them; instead, it will establish a continuity: a temple who wait to become itself a ruin. CHAPTER IV The generating module of this proposal is a block of the Old Quarry that with its measures allows to articulate a specific rhythm and find a close relationship with the natural landscape. The project inspires to classical architecture, therefore it is closely symmetrical in planimetry and elevation. Its position is the result of the proximity with the Ocean and its axis is orthogonal to the one of forte Santo Alberto. Walking by the coast, it is possible to sight the artefact which seems a far temple that dominates Passagueiro Island: it is the only leftover completed construction nowadays among the existent ruins. The visitor can find three moments among the path that characterise the building: the first is inspired by the Old Quarry and it identifies the threshold , a claustrophobic pronaos which acts as a filter with the main space. Due to the size of this filter, no more than one person can go through it at a time. Once inside the cell the space expands and it leads the light enter by a zenithal void, which is obtained by subtracting the leading module. In conclusion, on the perspective backdrop there are two slits which illuminate the walls with indirect light, as to invite the viewer to cross them making the ocean rediscover by a contemplative perspective. The identity of this proposal is emphasized by the use of Portuguese materials, such as the quarry stone. The complex results as a block outlined by simple geometric forms, which recalls the ancient and draws inspiration from it, playing the role of reflective space.
LIKE A WALL Proposal for the extenction of the kindergarten in Vicopisano (PI), Italy | 2018
In the north of the inhabited old town of Vicopisano, between the well-defined urban centre and the open country, there is the uneven site that is the object of this intervention. This space presents itself as a group of disconnected areas, separated by a road and enclosed by a narrow zone between a canal and the Brunelleschi’s walls that enclose the town. Therefore the key words are “reorganize” and “promote” what already exists in the area, by also taking the chance of working on the enlargement of the kindergarten that overlooks this space. The natural consequence of these considerations is the overall urban scale vision of the construction that finds its historical and compositional reference in the town. The project provides for the realization of a paved square placed above slightly staggered levels in front of the building that currently host the kindergarten, while rebuilding the lost churchyard of the adjacent church.Moving on to the narrow and long park under the walls, the project foresees simple and linear ways marked under the walls, connecting the new ARCI office to the ancient entrance door. In this case, the presence of open and clean spaces is preferred, in order to enhance the historic sites and make them available. A central gradine is created to be able to use the walls as a backdrop for screenings. Descending from the stairway, we can focus on the school; The project wants to give more space to the internal areas, by demolishing the inter floor slab while leaving the external part of the building as it is.Going beyond the previous artifact, the expansion is made up by a new volume on two levels, placed orthogonally to the previous one into the rear space, in order to create a big sheltered courtyard between the school and the church. Here everything is thought as part of a full and void system that has to make the natural light work. For what concerns the compositional level, the example of the walled city reflect itself with a building developed lengthwise along a sturdy wall which holds the volumes that host the different functions, the historic fabric of Vicopisano. This inhabited wall is more than a simple divider: working in excavation in its own thickness, it contains the vertical connection elements, such as stairways, elevators and various recesses that host some seats within themselves. Through these openings, the light diffusely penetrates from the top, creating a suggestive oxymoron in which the excavated part is brighter than the full one. The choice of making this characteristic element using fair-face concrete made of local inserts makes the surface vibrating and not ordinary, by strengthening its appearance. Another expedient to create this result is the realization of the distribution space between the wall and the counterposed volumes.The internal facet of the volumes is sloped towards the wall without touching it, besides the load-bering structure where beams host the casing into their extrados hiding it from the observer’s eyes. The remaining split let a light cascade in, that wash the rough internal partition of the inhabited wall by counterposing to the classroom volumes. Plastered with a warm peach color, the simple volumes are thought in a double height in order to make big light well that can diffusely brighten up to the distribution space.In the ground floor classrooms, an horizontal void posed at a child height creates a funny connection with the outside, in order to lighten the blocks by detaching them from the floor. On the first floor a light raised walkways system guarantee the connection between the wall and the volumes where the canteen and the teachers’ rooms are; here a 2 meters per 2 meters window finds its place in the thickness of the wall defining a suggestive seat. The external pavement is hosted into the distribution space, changing weft only into the children play rooms.In this way the gradual origin of this project is remarked: starting from a very wide urban scale, it narrows into a more minimal and intimate unity.
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Lobby
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Courtyard
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Perspective Section 1
Perspective Section 2
Toys Room
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First Floor Plan
Axonometry and program_
Stair View
Gangway
First Floor distribution
Canteen
_Collaboration with Davide Ferrera_
VISUALS & WORKS
| Declinazioni Romantiche | Museum of Light | 2017 | Main View
_Visualization for Arch. Elisa Catola_ | Chocolate museum | Torino (IT) | 2019 |
Close up
_Visualization for Arch. Elisa Catola_ | Chocolate museum | Torino (IT) | 2019 |
Interior Design
_Visualization for Arch. Elisa Catola_ | Chocolate museum | Torino (IT) | 2019 |
Interior Design
_Ucommissioned Visualization_ | Utopic Library | Paris (Fr) | 2018 |
Interior Design
_Ucommissioned Visualization_ | Thermal baths | Taormina (It) | 2018 | Interior Design
_Ucommissioned Visualization_ | Uncoventional Impluvium | Paestum (It) | 2018 |
Interior & Exterior Design
_Ucommissioned Visualization_ | Water Temple | 2019 |
Interior Design
_Ucommissioned Visualization_ | Theatre Void | 2019 |
Exterior View
_Ucommissioned Visualization_ | Cisternae Romanae | 2019 | Main view
_Ucommissioned Visualization_ | Time Museum | Berlin | (Ge) | 2017 | Interior Design
_Visual for Studio Martinelli_ | A house on the hill | Barga (LU) | 2019 |
Axonometry
_Visual for Studio Martinelli_ | A house on the hill | Barga (LU) | 2019 | Close up
_Visualization for Studio Martinelli_ | House Renovation | Pietrasanta (It) | 2018 |
Interior Design
_Visualization for Studio Martinelli_ | Flat Renovation | Lucca (It) | 2018 |
Interior Design
_Visualisation for Arch. Marco Sala_ | Swiming pool | SPA | Project in Roatan, Honduras 2017 |
Interior View
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