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Enrico Sacchi
Enrico Sacchi 01 August 1990 - Milan, Italy address: 48, rue Madame 75006 Paris France e-mail: en.ma.sacchi@gmail.com skype: enrico.m.sacchi telephone: +33(0)768035335
Curriculum Vitae
Education 2015 2012 2009 2007-8
Master of Science in Architecture at Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, CH Bachelor of Science in Architecture at Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, CH Diploma in humanities studies at Liceo Classico G. Berchet, Milan, Italy Intercultural exchange at Myers Park High School, Charlotte, NC, U.S.A.
Bachelor 2009 Atelier Riccardo Blumer and Mario Botta, Cage: boundary and connection 2010 Atelier Riccardo Blumer and Mario Botta, Sculpture and Exhibitor 2010 Atelier Marc Collomb, Housing in Milan, Italy 2011 Atelier Marc Collomb, a drummer and his house, Rome, Italy 2012 Atelier Francesco Venezia, The cave of Tiberio: an exposition space, Sperlonga, Italy 2013 Atelier Francis Kerè, Social housing in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso Master 2013 Atelier Jan de Vylder, 7 houses: same program - different contexts, Belgium 2014 Atelier Aires Mateus, Living Marrakech: a library and a square, Morocco 2014 Atelier Eric Lapierre, Space of fiction: the Bible on the Via Appia, Rome, Italy 2015 Diploma Mario Botta, The new train station of Mendrisio, Switzerland Jury: Valerio Olgiati, Aurelio Galfetti, François Charbonnet, Kersten Geers, Tom Schoper 2013-15 treasurer of OSA - Academy Student Organization www.osa-mendrisio.ch
Workshops 2014
Building Reality, the construction of a research center in Burkina Faso. 6 weeks in Gando with Francis Kerè Relevant Work Experience
2015 2011 2008
collaboration with Studio Albori for Chicago Architecture Biennal 9 months internship at Kuehn Malvezzi Architects, Berlin, Germany collaboration with Studio Albori for Venice Architecture Biennal
Softwares
Vectorworks Autocad Adobe Photoshop Adobe InDesign Adobe Illustrator Microsoft Office SketchUp
Languages
spoken Italian
written
mother tongue
English
excellent
excellent
French
good
good
German
fair
poor
Spanish
fair
fair
some projects
Diploma Mario Botta New train station of Mendrisio, CH Jury Valerio Olgiati (Diploma Director) - Aurelio Galfetti - Franรงois Charbonnet - Kersten Geers - Tom Schoper Every project reflects five fundamental conditions: site, size, type, function and material. Such conditions may vary and produce a wide range of combinations. When one of them is assigned, the others vary within a specific set of possibilities until they all react on each other and give form to an idea.
model - 1:100 - treated MDF
Mendrisio is a town separated in two by the crossing of one of the main European train axis. The main road, the station, the post office and the bus station are now located at the south side, while the north one, between the railways and the highway, is still industrial. The new SUPSI building, that will bring another university in town, will rise in this second context. The project for the new station aims to establish a relation between the two sides. The idea is to force this punctual separation to reconnect the town. At a bigger scale, the traffic of the main road is split in two one-way directions, one on each side of the railway. The public functions will be then split on the two sides. The last step is to connect them through a bridge and a passerelle: the first one guarantees access to the train level while the second one is a straight connection through the railway barrier.
aerial view - collage
1 : 200
piano -1, prospetti
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floorplan - parking level
1 : 200
piano 0, sezioni
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floorplan - train level
north - south sections
the trains - the square
the passerelle - the bus station
“The student demonstrated concreteness in facing the project, even if in the first part of the semester he had some difficulties in choosing the composition and in turning his idea into something more urban and real. He has been available to the various changes proposed by the professor and he progressively improved in the evolution of the project, sometimes with decisive choices that brought good results. The didactic path of the graduate it was always correct and constructive. In the final part of the semester he increased the technical and compositive aspect, showing a good knowledge of the discipline in all of its aspects.� Mario Botta
Atelier Jan De Vylder The project for a house in a forest becomes a way for sperimenting with concrete. It’s a fortress, a retreat, of which one façade is poured in the ground and then lifted. The element of the stair becomes the support that holds it in place. forest house - collage
entrance floor - ground floor - cross section
atmospheric section
Anne Holtrop, Batara (four walls) - construction and after
like a folding chair moving around a joint
work in progress
model - 1:33 - concrete poured in earth
the void
the retreat
Atelier Aires Mateus Living Marrakech: a covered square and a library for the Medina
Marrakech’s Medina
positive and negative - concrete and pigments
Marrakech’s Medina - 1:1000 - pigmented concrete
The project fills an urban void in the most central part of the Medina. An unused plot just beside Ben Youssef mosque is open to the city traffic. Here, rising one floor above the street level, a new library is born: a space of knowledge and learning. Underneath it a covered square is generated: space of trade, space of shadow, space of rest. The intellectual knowledge arise from tradition and everyday life.
between the mosque and the street - sketch of the first idea
model - 1:200 - painted foam
the square in its context - the library
light and shadow in traditional architecture
model - 1:33 - burned concrete
Atelier Eric Lapierre space of fiction - anytime anywhere architecture - via Appia revisited
Piero della Francesca, Announciation, 1470
Each student was challenged to reinterpret one scene of the Bible in the scenographic context of via Appia Antica in Rome. I was assigned to study the episode of the Announciation, the moment when Gabriel visits Virgin Mary to inform her that she will conceive the son of God. The most intriguing aspect of the Announciation is that the act of conception, common to all human beings and animals, is deprived by the physical, sexual act and it’s through this absence that the episode exits normality and reaches the myth. The project tries to evoke the importance of this absence: a very simple house finds its place in a pasolinian roman outskirt, at the crossing between a trainway and the old Appia road. This proximity leads to an exception: one of the corners seems to be cut away by the trainway, and is therefore treated differently. It is through this absence that a very simple house exits normality.
Still from Pasolini’s Mamma Roma, 1962
ground floor
first floor
exterior view - collage
model - 1:10 - mixed technique
Atelier KĂŠrĂŠ social housing in Ouagadougou
informal settlement and water tank
Ouagadougou, the main center of Burkina Faso, is rapidly growing: attracted by the economical possibilities that a city offers, many inhabitants move here from the country. Anyhow, the settlements grow in areas that are not covered by any infrastructure and informality, typical of the village structure, clashes against the attempt of a westernized planification. The aim of the project is to imagine a prototype of social housing in the peripherical areas of the city, related to the habits and the needs of a different society. Beside the necessity of densification, different aspects had to been considered: the use of local material and local building tecniques, the storage of water, the relationships within the community, the importance of a small scale economy and the use of streets as public space.
Walter Mittelholzer, bird’s eye view over Ouagadougou, 1932
the street as public space
Ouaga 2000 - the dream of Burkina Faso
type module
construction layers
the street as public space
enfilade - inner courtyards
fabrics, Burkina Faso
Atelier Kéré Building reality workshop Experiencing a different society through the planning and construction of a research center in Gando, Burkina Faso, home of Francis Kéré. 25 students and 1 village. Tradition. Collaboration. Community.
traditional compound
new Gando’s research center
with Studio Albori Venice Biennal 2008 - tamed ecomonster
the concrete skeleton
The project by Aldo Rossi and Gianni Braghieri for San Cristoforo train station in Milan was never completed: its concrete skeleton can still be seen in the outskirts of the city. The project imagines a new use of this existing structure: by addying different modules the dead skeleton returns to life in the form of a new settlement. While the ground level hosts shops and facilities, the upper ones become a new village in the city.
the original project by Aldo Rossi and Gianni Braghieri, 1983
proposed floorplan
old and new - sections
old and new - model - 1:100 - wood and cardboard
the tamed ecomonster
Moving into a new house, how to make two rooms out of one? A system that works only by pressure was developed - to avoid perforations. Using mostly existing materials it was possible to build a nest of 6 m2 where to feel comfortable.
a room with two windows a wall two rooms with one window
on the other hand...
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