PORTFOLIO CARLO MARIA D’AMICO Selected Works
CARLO MARIA D’AMICO Architect Environmental consultant Program & Design coordinator Graphic designer
/ C O N TA C T S Bologna, Italy +39 3403724718 carlo.maria.damico@gmail.com
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/ABOUT ME I am an architect specialized in sustainable design, technology and innovation solutions within the architectural field. I graduated at Polytechnic of Turin with a research study about architectural restoration and heritage valorization of a historical wine cellar situated in an UNESCO area. After my graduation I decided to investigate the issue of sustainability in terms of design strategies aimed to optimize environmental, energetic and social behaviours in urban environment. I attended the post-graduate master course ‘School of Sustainability’ in 2017/18, where I was able to improve my skills in parametric design, green energy design strategies and smart technologies for the built environment. During the SOS program I had the opportunity to work on the design of the SmarTown installation at Fuori Salone in Milan 2018 and I developed a project in Dubai for the “Future living in the UAE”. I am currently Program Coordinator at SOS, where I am constantly involved in architectural competitions and international workshops in which the school is active participant, such as IGEBC, a Chinese competition to design a sustainable building office where we achieved the first prize. During the last experience as Program Coordinator in SOS I developed new significant expertise in team project management and work optimization, problem solving, communication and external relation, as well as gaining ability in the concept and construction design phase.
For more informations about my experience, have look at my cv and portofolio.
/WORK EXPERIENCE SOS - SCHOOL OF SUSTAINABILITY by Mario Cucinella Architect, Program Coordinator
Bologna, Italy 09.2018 - Current
In SOS I am constantly involved in architectural commission, competitions and workshops in the capacity of coordinator and manager of design activities and external relations of the school.
MARIO CUCINELLA ARCHITECTS Environmental consultant
Bologna, Italy 12.2017 - 01.2018
Mario Cucinella Architects asked for a consultancy on the environmental performance of Hotel Parking building in Milan. I worked as an environmental consultant, designing a more performing envelope, improving the daylight and thermal comfort and reducing the whole consumptions.
ARS ET URBS Architect
Fiuggi, Italy 01.2014 - 09.2018
In Ars et Urbs I had the opportunity to complete my training as an architect, since I followed the whole design process from the concept to the construction site. At the same time I fostered my skills about urban regeneration as well as my sustainable approach to architecture.
CHIRA ASSOCIATI Architect
Torino, Italy 10.2016 - 03.2017
The experience within Chira Associati taught me to manage very complex projects. I dealt with the architectural and plant survey of large existing buildings such as hospitals and schools.
MULTIMEDIA LAB POLITECNICO DI TORINO 3D Modeling
Torino, Italy 11.2015 - 09.2016
Multimedia lab of architecture deals with 3D modeling, rendering and video, as well as teaching students about rendering and 3D modeling software. I worked on the historical reconstruction of buildings, improving my skills about modeling and rendering.
WORKSHOP 7, STUDIO VALLE Internship
Roma, Italy 07.2013 - 09.2013
Participation in international competitions where I developed several skills: to develop design options in collaboration with the design team; to work up concept for the projects; to design and edit drawings and models; to boost the communication of the project through impressive graphic works.
/ E D U C AT I O N SOS - SCHOOL OF SUSTAINABILITY Post-Degree Academy in sustainable field
Bologna, Italy 10.2017 - 07.2018
SOS is a creative architecture academy born in close collaboration with Mario Cucinella Architects (MCA), where training is inspired by the active projects and expertise in a professional practice setting. A training opportunity distinguished by its main focus on the application of sustainable architecture, from urban to product scale, from developing to advanced communities.
POLITECNICO DI TORINO Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Architecture
Torino, Italy 11.2010 - 07.2016
/WORKSHOPS INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP PO-CA Empowering Resilience in Mediterranean Cities; Marne la Vallée and SOS
Bologna, Italy
AA ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION OF LONDON Environmental design exchange between SOS and AA
Bologna, Italy
03.2019
06.2018
INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP FOR DESIGN “Building y(our) future”
Sharjah, UAE
FUORI SALONE DESIGN WEEK “Building y(our) future”
Milano, Italy
05.2018
04.2018
/ I N S TA L L AT I O N S MATERIATTIVA “Fuori Salone Installation” in Brera district by SOS and MCA
Milano, Italy 01.2019 - 04.2019
POLLUTION 2018 - REFLEACTION Installation in piazza S. Stefano within CERSAIE expo by SOS and MCA
Bologna, Italy
SMARTOWN “Fuori Salone Installation” in botanical garden of Brera by SOS and MCA
Milano, Italy
05.2018 - 06.2018
02.2018 - 03.2018
/COMPETITIONS KAIRA LOORO “Peace Pavilion” in memory of the innocent victims of war in Africa, Freelance
Sedhiou, Senegal
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Changzhou, China
IGEBC International sustainable building design competition, SOS YAC INTERNATIONAL “Castle resort”, Roccamandolfi’s Castle, Freelance
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12.2018 - 01.2019
Roccamandolfi, Italy
FASSABARTOLO INTERNATIONAL “Domus restauro e conservazione”, Ars et Urbs Studio
11.2016 - 03.2017
Ferrara, Italy 05.2015
/SKILLS Flexibility Attitude, Hard Working, Innovative Thinking, Systematic Approach, Integrated Vision, Result Oriented, Team Working, Team Management / S O F T WA R E S K I L L S Autocad, Revit, Rhinoceros, Grassohopper + plugins Ladybug & Honeybee; Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, 3DS Max + plugin V-ray & Corona; Lumion, Flow Design, Sketchup
/SELECTED WORKS
PEACE PAVILION
MATERIATTIVA
MOOD Prototype for an office building
POLLUTION 2018 - REFLEACTION
FUTURE LIVING IN THE UAE
SMARTOWN
UNESCO WINE CELLAR
/Peace Pavilion Program International Competition, Pavilion Location SĂŠdhiou, Casamance, Senegal, Africa Client Kaira Looro Project team Freelance Kaira Looro Peace Pavilion aims at diffusing awareness about the numerous wars afflicting the African continent inviting to reflection. Preserving memory is essential to ensure that history is not repeated. Since reflection is the starting point to consolidate collective memory, the pavilion is intended to bring knowledge and to foster meditation, so that people can understand the real value of peace. The building is designed to inspire meditation and to communicate a deep feeling of peace through an essential and highly symbolic architectural language. The key element of the composition is the central path, which represents the inner walk inside memory that everyone of us shall follow, emphasised by the cut on the roof. Every element strongly marks the tension of the space towards the goal (meditation) symbolised by a tree, to which the perspective converges. The use of resources and building techniques is inspired by vernacular architecture. Building materials are locally sourced.and easy to work and assemble.
/Pavilion concept
THREE MAIN FUCTIONAL ZONES
A WALK DOWN MEMORY
THREE VOLUMES, THREE CHARACTERS
WELCOME TO WATER
The project area is divided into three parts which correspond to three main functions: exhibition, awareness, contemplation.
The wire that links the parts of the whole is the path that is also an inner walk inside memory, from knowledge to deep reflection.
The three volumes take shape from their characters. The exhibition area open and permeable to view; the awareness area enveloped and concentrated; the contemplation area symbolically centred on the tree.
The concave roof splits along the middle axis of the building. The central cut receives water and takes it to the pool in the contemplation area, marking at the same time the importance of the main central path.
/Perspective Section
/External View
/ M AT E R I AT T I VA Program Location Client Project team Role
Built
Exhibition Event, Products Installation Brera Design District, Milano, Italy Iris Ceramica Group School of Sustainability, Mario Cucinella Architects Project Assistant
MateriAttiva will offer the public an evocative multi-senso-rial experience in a space evoking a new pact between humans and nature; a process of discovery of the latest new frontiers in ceramics, viewed no longer as an inert substance for covering spa-ces but as an active architectural element capable of improving the quality of the space where it is used. Revolutionary ACTIVE Clean Air & An-tibacterial Ceramic technology is in the public eye once again in Milan, beco-ming a privileged vehicle conveying a message of social responsibility in the face of climate change.
/Installation Photos
/MOOD Prototype for an office building Program Location Client Project team Role
1st Prize
Contest, Office Prototype, Enviromental Strategy Changzhou, Jiangsu, China China Building Materials Academy School of Sustainability Project Coordinator & Design Assistant
“Promoting Green Building at the Age of Quality�: This is the purpose of the 1st lnternational Sustainable Building Design Competition promoted by China Building Materials Academy ln China, the development of green and sustainab le buildings is increasingly focused on the living environment, and improving empathetic relationships between man and nature in modern and digitai worlds. The proposal will also respond to the need for resilience in the tumultuous climates of the future. lt has been driven by an accurate analysis of climate trends, and is based on deep research into innovative and sustainable building materials, the local cultura! environment, and the future of the workplace.
/Concept & Office fuctions
Modularity
/Context Plan
Permeability
Climate strategy - winter Climate strategy - summer
Green areas
/MOOD External View
MC A Render
/Pollution 2018 - RefleAction Program Location Client Project team Role
Built
Exhibition event, temporary pavilion Piazza Santo Stefano, Bologna, Italy Iris Ceramica Group School of Sustainability, Mario Cucinella Architects Concept Design
In 1972 in Piazza Santo Stefano was staged an exhibition called Pollution. With Pollution the historic piazza of Bologna was paved with ceramic tiles and 23 artists interpreted their vision of a mutant nature. “Pollution� was also the name of the tile made by Iris Ceramica, reproducing a photographed piece of earth, ten thousand specimens were laid on the whole surface of the square. the work starts from the complaint that characterized the first edition of Pollution, synthesized in the 5 pillars, to get to one search for new tools that allow responsible use, shared urban space, where to re-build the link between man and nature. The idea proposal, RefleAction, wants to be a narrative path between ecology, art and urban space that takes form in the same place that previously hosted it: piazza Santo Stefano Bologna.
/Concept
COMPLAINT
AWARENESS
ACTION
DENUNCIA
CONSAPEVOLEZZA
AZIONE
LA NATURA È SUBORDINATA ALL’UOMO
RIFLESSIONE
LA NATURA RIPRENDE I SUOI SPAZI
ADJUSTABLE
/Plan
SECTIONAL
MODULAR
FLEXIBLE
/Structural Detail
Modular structural system
Trees pots position
Wood structure
External layer in Dibond
/Model
/Photo
/Future living in the UAE Program Location Client Project team
Housing, commercial and pubblic spaces Al Safa, Dubai, UAE Cimolai - Rimond Mario Cucinella Architects, School of Sustainability, Arup
The aim is to develop a pilot project that addresses sustainability at all scales of design, from masterplanning throughout the building process to architectural output, and re-establishes the lost connections between culture and technology. Designing homes for the new generations of Emirati implies to find more subtle although profound ways to embed the legacy of local culture than to mimic vernacular architecture, and to connect contemporary lifestyles with the long lasting values embedded in the societal and cultural patterns that were produced over the centuries as an effect of climate.
/Masterplan Concept
Context contamination
Structural axis
Service/Amenity belt
Urban centrality
/Masterplan
URBAN SECTION
Barahaat
Semi - Publics spaces
Souk
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50 m
VERTICAL PRIVACY GRADIENT
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DENSITY
PRIVACY
Urban tile
Vertical connections
Urban gradients
Freespace activation
/Barahaat View
URBAN SECTION
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Privacy gradient
HORIZONTAL PRIVACY GRADIENT
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/Building Scale Concept
Courtyard Privacy
Expansion
Unit
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PRIVATE
PUBLIC
Space Zoning
H o r i zo n t a l A g g r e g a t i o n Ve r t i c a l A g g r e g a t i o n
Comfort
/P B lUaInL DTy I NpG olo Sg C iAeLsE C O N C E P T
RESIDENTIAL UNIT - GROUND FLOOR
RESIDENTIAL UNIT - FIRST FLOOR
/ Axonometric Detail
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80mm concrete slab, prefabricated with glulam ribs attached via shear studs, forming a composite unit
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160mm x 220mm glued laminated timber ribs, working in composite action with the slab above
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shear stud - 150mm coach screws screwed into top of glulam rib. 50mm of screw protruding into slab
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800mm long, 40mm diameter x 5mm thick steel CHS prefabricated into glulam column
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160mm square glued laminated timber columns. Secured to inside face of CLT elements of wall panel
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200mm cellulose natural fibre insulation, sandwiched between CLT panels
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50mm CLT panels either side of insulation provide boarding to support facade frame and openings
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steel rods pass through the holes in the glulam column elements and are hidden by timber caps
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baseplate for the upper floor columns integrated a vertical connection into base, passing through slab
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base plates to be grouted into pockets in the precast ground beams below - allows flexibility of positioning
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lightweight alloy framing elements attached to CLT panels support facade panel, maintaining 100mm air space for ventilation of the facade
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base plates to be grouted into pockets in the precast ground beams below - allows flexibility of positioning
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/ BIU nn I LeDrI N V iGe w SCALE CONCEPT
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/Energy District Diagram
DISTRICT
CLUSTER
PLOT
SINGLE UNIT
LIGHTING
CENTRAL STORAGE
PVS
LOCAL STORAGE
ELECTRIC TRANSPORTATION BIO GAS GENERATOR
LIGHTING
WI-FI
PVS
ELECTRICITY
ELECTRIC TRANSPORTATION
CLEANING
ELECTRIC TRANSPORTATION
WASTE COLLECTOR
WASTE
CLEANING
IRRIGATION
BIO DIGESTER PURIFICATION FILTRATION
TOILET
GREY WATER STORAGE
MOISTURE COLLECTION
CHILLER
IRRIGATION
GREY WATER
DESALINATED BY DEWA SOLAR THERMAL
COOLING
ICE STORAGE HOT WATER
COLD WATER
DOMESTIC WATER
Electricity Network
Photovoltaic
Electricity
Energy Storage
Waste
Bio-digester
Recycle
Waste Water
Hot Water
Hot Water Tank
Solar Thermal
Domestic Hot Water
Cooling
ICE Storage
AC
Solar Thermal
Fog Catcher
Solar Thermal
Water
Domestic hot water
Li - Ion Battery Water Pump Purifier Waste Collector
Water Storage
Waste Water
/ Environmental Strategy
1 Electricity collection through PVs 2 Electricity local storage
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3 Electricity central storage 4 Drinkable water provided by DEWA 5 Collection and reusage of waste water
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6 During the day the sun heats up the Solar Thermal
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7 The hot water is collected and reused for domestic use
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8 The ICE Storage supplies the cooling system
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9 Mechanical cooled room with radiant ceiling
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10 Waste collection and transformation of organic waste into bio gas
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11 Contrelled microclimate inside the courtyard
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12 Shading system protect from solar radiation
1 Use of local storage 2 Drinkable water provided by DEWA
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3 Collection and reusage of waste water 4 During the night the heat is reliesed to the night sky and the water insiede the Solar Thermal cools down
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5 The cold water is collected and cooled down by the chiller
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6 The chiller works with the electricity provided bt the electricity energy central 7 The 0°C water is kept inside the ICE Storage
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8 Mechanical cooled room with radiant ceiling
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9 Waste collection and transformation of organic waste into bio gas
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10 Contrelled microclimate inside the courtyard 11 Heat released on the night sky
/ S m a r To w n program location client project team Role
Built Exhibition event, temporary installation Milan, Italy ENI Gas e Luce, Hive Mario Cucinella Architects, School of Sustainability Concept Design, Preliminary and Detailed Design
Our interaction with energy is evolving thanks to the more conscious use we make of it and thepossibilities offered by an increasingly efficient and innovative connectivity, with positive effects both onus and on the environment around us. The intangible beauty of energy is staged in the Brera Botanical Garden by Eni Gas and Luce, in partnership with Hive. The installation, which is part of the House in Motion event 2018 promoted by Interni magazine for FuoriSalone in Milan, interprets the Brera Botanical Garden as a smart city where history coexists with the most advanced urban models. Visitors are encouraged to immerse themselves in a scenography populated by small units - all to be explored - that stand out against the skyline of an imaginary city, becoming the protagonists of an interactive space where the new Smart Home continually dialogues with the urban context.
/Concept
BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE
BOTANIC GARDEN
SMART GRID
/Installation Elements
MILAN SKYLINE
BOTANIC GARDEN
MILAN CITYMAP
URBAN-STAGE
BOTANIC GARDEN
URBAN LANDSCAPE
/Photos
/UNESCO Wine cellar program location client
Redevelopment, refurbishment Incisa Scapaccino, Asti, Italy Tenuta Olim Bauda
My thesis is focused on a historical complex situated in a border zone of UNESCO. The complex is composed by different buildings whose the main is an historical house of the 17th century. The aim of my research is wine cellar’s redevelopment whitout affecting the old buildings and adding in the complex the new wine cellar. The intervention consisted on the strengthened of the pre-existent structure and integration with a new wood structure that supports the walkable roof. Furthemore, the intention is adding new areas such as barricade basement floor, the roof-garden used for events,open-air museum and walkable roof used as view point. On technological level it has been provided an internal coat and passive shading system.
/Existing situation & Histor y line
/ Current and Future
/External View