PORTFOLIO Fabio Bari
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SELECTED ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN WORKS
EXPERIENCE May 2023 July 2023
PAREDES PEDROSA ARQUITECTOS | Architectural Design Intern | Madrid, ES Contributed to multiple projects and competitions in all areas of the design process. Working mainly on Vectorworks and model making. I worked in a team in charge of two competitions, located in Torrevieja and Alicante.
June 2021 Present
OATB STUDIO | Junior assistant architect | Lecco, IT Generated and refined design solutions to client with the use of BIM, Adobe and 3D renderings. Presented project in the Lake Como’s area, including refurbishment of 18th century Villa Rosales and proposal for the new Ponte Lambro city center’s layout. Worked both in-person and remote during my exchanges.
January 2022 February 2022
DEMOGO | Architectural Design Intern | Treviso, IT Assisted Design Lead in the ideation and refinement phases for architectural competitions. Conceived and presented design solutions through 3D modeling, Adobe and rendering on a weekly basis. The main projects I worked on were “Isolario Sylva”, “Gibus new factory”, “ Students accomodations ex Cassa Mutui Artigiani Brindisi” and “Brixen sports and recreation park”.
July 2018 August 2018
MASSIMO BENETTON ARCH. | Architectural Design Intern | Treviso, IT Ideated a wide variety of design options through sketching and modelling. Envisioned and submitted solutions for “La Ghirada” new center’s golf club . Involvement in the representation process, from the first concept to the idea development and visualization.
July 2017 November 2017
STUDIO OFICINE | Graphic and Exhibition Design Intern | Conegliano, IT I worked on the temporary exhibition design: “Andy Warhol Superstar!”. Exposition of some of Warhol’s most iconic works. Collaborated in a team in charge of space layout, 3D visualization and advertising graphics. Coordinated with sellers (Ditre Italia, Laboratorio Olfattivo).
EDUCATION 2023
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid | Exchange semester MArch, Fundamentos de la Arquitectura | Madrid, ES
2022 Present
Alliance4Tech | Exchange program Part of the strategic alliance involving Politecnico di Milano, TU Berlin and Universidad Politécnica de Madrid aiming at the creation of a European Campus without borders for their students and faculties.
2022 Present
Politecnico di Milano MArch Design Architecture-Built Environment-Interiors | Milano, IT
2019 2022
Politecnico di Milano | 110 cum Laude/110 | Grades Average 29.53/30 BArch Design | Milano, IT
2021 2022
KEA - Københavns Erhvervsakademi | Exchange semester BArch Technology and Construction Management | Copenhagen, DK
2014 2019
LAST | 100/100 Art High school | Treviso, IT
HONORS & EXTRA
FABIO BARI fabiobari277@gmail.com +39 3276548594 @fb_arch Treviso, Italy 27.07.2000
2023 2023 2022 2020 2019
A4Tech International Workshop ““Wires, Waves, Data: Excavating Berlin’s Urban Media” | Berlin, DE Matrícula de Honor, awarded by ETSAM, Emilio Tuñón studio | Madrid, ES https://archive.dpa-etsam.com/projects/three-elements-for-embajadores A4Tech International Workshop “Thresholds as mediators”, Coordination Emilio Tuñón | Madrid, ES Best Freshmen Award - Sponsorship awarded by Politecnico di Milano, AUIC school | Milano, IT Angela dell’Anna Award – first prize graphic design competition.
VOLUNTEERING 2017-2021 2019 2019
AGESCI- educator | Treviso, IT Suoni di Marca Festival - porterage at an art and music festival | Treviso, IT Caritas International - managed the accomodation of homeless people and refugees | Treviso, IT
OTHER Languages: Italian (native language), English (C1), Spanish (B2). Software: Revit, Archicad, Vectorworks, Autocad, Sketchup, Rhinoceros, V-Ray, Grasshopper, Twinmotion. Adobe: Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Premiere. Design: Sketching, model making, 3D modelling, storytelling, arch. photography.
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CONTENTS May 2023
THREE ELEMENTS FOR EMBAJADORES - Tabacalera redevelopment - Madrid
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May 2023
COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN AND MANUFACTURE OF WOODEN STRUCTURE
p. 10
June 2022
MIMA - ARCHIVAL COMPLEX - Milan
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February 2023
CLIMBING GYM AND RESIDENTIAL BUILDING - Madrid
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February 2022
STUDENTS ACCOMMODATIONS EX CASSA MUTUA ARTIGIANI - Brindisi
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June 2021
ARCHEOLOGOS - FLOATING RESIDENTIAL BUILDING - Lake Iseo
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2017 - 2023
PHOTOGRAPHY
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TRES ELEMENTOS PARA EMBAJADORES Tabacalera redevelopment - Madrid Projecto 7 Professors: Emilio Tuñón, Ignacio García Pedrosa, Silvia Colmenares Individual project
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The intervention The project aimed to preserve the valuable historical layers of Madrid while adding to the city’s urban palimpsest. The research concept involves connecting three new interventions to existing urban areas, fostering a symbiotic relationship and integrating distinct buildings in Embajadores through a shared design language. Each building addresses a different problem and maintains a connection to its surroundings while preserving its distinctiveness.
What does the neighborhood need? The goal of the project is to intervene with small, punctual stitching up of the neighborhood, united by the same design language: the curve. Dpa ETASM Publication
Full project
Each of these buildings solves a different problem of Embajadores. The interventions are identifiable with a name, dialoguing with its surroundings but separate from them. The intention is integration with the existing, through strong urban connections. The new freedom of movement and space in the neighborhood is given by the pedestrian zone. The Tabacalera becomes an island in the middle of the neighborhood, totally walkable from the outside, adding pedestrian space available to people. The market is made with a light and transparent structure, permeable and welcoming, facing a busy street, with which it was difficult to talk. Part of the structure faces the Tabacalera, where a new tree-lined avenue is created, walkable and protected from the surrounding noise. The residence has a moderate language in keeping with the context, without trying to stand out, rather seeking mimesis with the pre-existing buildings. The rhythm of the facade echoes that of the neighboring blocks of houses.
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Multicultural market The intervention aims to cover part of the façade that overlooks the Embajadores roundabout, but not hide it completely. A pedestrian link separates the street from the Tabacalera. The first two levels of the Tabacalera will house the market, which connects with the new glazed extension. This facade extends the existing structure, with a new autonomous system. The extension is a light building with three levels, the first two on the market and the last on the terrace. There are sales points, services, changing rooms, a covered patio and stores.
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The residence The initial intention was to complete the residential block located behind the area. The pre-existing storage building was extruded to a height of five levels, establishing a coherent relationship with the neighboring buildings. The language used is sober and simple. The interior patio is the main light point and lightens the entire structure. The building is dedicated to the function of temporary residence, designed to accommodate homeless individuals. The present functions address the guests’ needs: lobby, communal cafeteria, facilities, offices, and changing rooms for staff, minimal residences.
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COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN AND MANUFACTURE OF WOODEN STRUCTURE ETSAMadrid Taller experimental II Professors: Almudena Majano Majano, Antonio José Lara Bocanegra, Antonio Luis Roig Vena Group: Fabio Bari, Silvia Larissa Lopes, Sofia Lukac Reco, Georg Pechtold
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The project In the Workshop, the design and fabrication of a full-scale wooden laminar structure were conducted, using parametric design tools and digital manufacturing techniques. A gradual approach was taken to address various challenges through the development of different prototypes at different scales. Design, fabrication, and assembly of various prototypes at different scales and large-scale, both for global and partial solutions. The basic tool used was grasshopper.
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MIMA, extension of “Cittadella degli Archivi di Milano” Extension of “Cittadella degli Archivi di Milano” - Milan FINAL DESIGN WORKSHOP Professors: Tommaso Brighenti, Branka Cuca, Nicola Petaccia Group: Fabio Bari, Beatrice Bergamin, Filippo Paganini
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The intervention The intent of the laboratory aimed at the reactualization and recontextualization of a specific typology, the archive, through the development of the new Archival Center of the Municipality of Milan proposing strategies and design ideas for a grand “Ideal Archive” as a place capable of structuring the knowledge and memory of the city of Milan, but also equipped with museum spaces, libraries, places for education, and researchers’ hospitality, in addition to the necessary facilities for document storage.
The content-container relationship in archival typology
The envelope is a distinctive characteristic of archival architecture. The need to preserve documentation requires a closed, unilluminated environment, which is reflected in the gesture of a container that conceals its content. One of the factors that characterizes the building-object is the unity of the container regardless of its content, in this case, the various public functions related to archiving and consultation. Robert Venturi defines the multifunctionality of containers as “a type of building with complex form and program, yet possessing strong unity.” Looking at the complex unity of Le Corbusier’s Chandigarh courthouse, one can observe the compact nature of a building that houses various functions within it. “...the Seagram Building by Mies and Johnson excludes functions other than offices except on the ground floor... and, through a uniform treatment of exterior surfaces, disguises the fact that there is a different type of space for technical volumes at the top. Yamasaki’s design for the World Trade Center in New York further simplifies the
form of this enormous object in an exaggerated manner.”1 Just as the skyscraper type, the expansion of the archival area, through the simplicity of the polygonal gesture, does not reveal the internal nature of the spaces. The envelope is characterized by a single reflective layer and the absence of openings. The internal space is revealed to the visitor only by entering through the two entrances at the ends of the base. In this regard, Nicolin speaks of the closure of the building: “...to hide the content, but also to organize it, in a variety of situations ranging from the universal container to the one designed for a specific element..., to disposable formulas, to the permanent container, to various layers to be removed before use.”2
¹ Venturi, R. Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, 1980, pp. 42 ² Nicolin, P. Elementi di architettura, 1999, pp. 60-61
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The reflective materiality that lightens an impermeable surface The cladding makes the building an object whose external form and image transcend the internal program, where the relationship between container and content can have various interpretations and meanings. The role of the envelope in this project is to animate the large vertical and horizontal surfaces. The metallic cladding reflects, in its forms, the light and colors of the urban surroundings, creating a perception of an external spatial dimension, despite the separation from the interior. The covered plaza generated by the cantilever towards the park, while being an attractive space, highlights the building’s impermeable character, resembling more of a generic shelter than an architectural one. The project consists of two overlapping volumes where the storage space is revealed. The mechanized archive traverses the entire height of the structure through a reinforced concrete core. The only openings in the facades are located on the short sides of the upper block, remaining imperceptible within the complex.
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The same approach to the theme is undertaken in the project for the new headquarters of the Archives of France by Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas, who emphasize the importance of the skin for the archival building, which becomes a treasure chest. “The facades of the monolith are coated with aluminum “skin” that runs throughout the volume. The “noble” sculptural building, with a basin in part lapped against it, reminds the idea of a precious object, a treasure chest, reflected in the water veil.”1
³ Fuksas architects. “National archives of France, Pierrefitte sur Seine.”
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Climbing gym and residential building New residential complex in Imperial, Madrid ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN STUDIO Professor: Giancarlo Floridi (Onsite Studio) Group: Fabio Bari, Riccardo Mollica, Filippo Paganini
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The intervention The project is located in the 19th-century Imperial neighborhood of Madrid, at a transitional point between the elevated city center of the historic district and the river. The project area occupies a plot that currently appears as a void with an unfinished and fenced-off block within it. The theme becomes precisely that of designing an intervention that capitalizes on the potential represented by the void and aims to complete the block. The solution provided is the creation of two buildings that, together with the existing structures, frame a public square.
Climbing gym and residential building Barrio Imperial The two buildings have a strong public character. The red brick residence houses a neighborhood library and a bar that overlooks the square and the inner courtyard, while the light-colored gymnasium opens up to a courtyard designed as an accessory environment, featuring outdoor climbing walls. The public square is an open element that encompasses various public functions within it. A gymnasium, a conference room, an exhibition space, a café, and a library create a new hub frequented at all hours. However, the project is also deeply connected to the personalities and atmosphere of the location. In fact, a significant portion of the volume is designated for temporary residences for workers from the adjacent Google campus. On both material and figurative levels, an effort is made to create a building capable of engaging with the context. The choice of materials and forms was made to integrate the building as harmoniously as possible into the diverse surroundings, playing with heights and rooflines that relate to the characteristic sloping terrain of Imperial.
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Students accommodations ex Cassa Mutua Artigiani
The intervention
Students accommodations - Brindisi
Competition announced by the Agency for the Right to University Education of the Puglia Region (ADISU) for the design of student residences in the university cities of Puglia. The objective is the redevelopment of the property located between via Nazario Sauro and via Federico II of Swabia, formerly Cassa Mutua Artigiani, which is currently in a state of complete abandonment. The proposed revitalization and conversion aim to provide services that support education, research, and cultural and recreational activities. This is intended to accommodate not only students but also faculty members and researchers.
INTERNSHIP Studio: DEMOGO Group: Fabio Bari, Davide Bertin, Simone Gobbo Visualization: Riccardo Di Vincenzo
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Conversion into a university student residence building, Brindisi.
The project aims to redevelop the former Cassa Mutua Artigiani with minimal external intervention, incorporating a metal crown on top of the building and reimagining the internal courtyard. The crown serves to enclose and unify the previous irregular roof, also acting as a handrail for the accessible rooftop.
events. I worked on the design phase, primarily on the rooftop solution, patio layout, placement of accommodations, and graphic representation, focusing on axonometric views, floor plans, layouts, and diagrams.
The internal courtyard is obtained by removing small buildings, creating a new square exclusively for residents’ use. The theme of curvature is thus utilized internally as well, with a bright public area overlooking the small green square. The rhythm of the internal facade changes, featuring irregular windowed corridors. The functional program includes a common area, a cafeteria, and a small conference space on the ground floor, while the upper floors house residences of various sizes. The rooftop accommodates a sports field, green space, and an area suitable for year-round
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Archeologos Floating residential building - lake Iseo Construction studio Professors: Oscar Bellini, Giovanni Cucini Group: Samuele Agrimi, Fabio Bari, Beatrice Bergamin
The intervention The theme of the construction workshop was to create a residential building located on the northern shore of Lake Iseo. Despite the primarily technological research nature of the course, aspects of building composition and design were addressed, taking into account the site’s nature, context, and the functions to be accommodated within the building. The technology employed is Cross Laminated Timber (CLT), which, due to its lightweight qualities, enables the platform to float.
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The use of the technological shielding element to define an intermediate space
The floating building features a sloping solution and employs a wooden cladding, reminiscent of the Neolithic pile dwellings by Lake Iseo. The exterior surface, realized with a lightweight Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) assembly, incorporates shielding elements that establish a filter between the building and its surroundings. These wooden technological components serve a dual purpose: the first is to screen light, and the second is to introduce intermediate spaces between the exterior and interior. The aim was to create an envelope that enables inhabiting the intermediate space. The research conducted by the Catalan firm Mateo Arquitectura, founded in Barcelona by architect Josep Luis Mateo, offers a reflection on the experimentation with materials in architecture, predominantly used as urban filters that reconsider the concept of surface and cladding. The definition of urban filters, developed by the Spanish studio, views the building’s surface as both the ultimate limit of space and a transitional element between the interior and exterior, much like a filter that enables controlled changes through diaphragms or solid surfaces.
This is a contemplation on the sunshade system, experimented with both as a sun filter and as a mediating filter, assuming different meanings.1 The detachment of the envelope from the building’s structure has led to a series of changes in the construction approach, but above all in the practice of conceiving architecture; the interplay between solid and void and the composition of the facade consequently fade away, and the envelope takes on a predominant and novel role in the relationship between the structure and the environment, both from a formal and communicative perspective.
¹ Mateo arquitectura. “ Residential building in Barcelona.” mateo-arquitectura.com
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The construction of space through the boundary
The lightweight envelope assumes a transitional function, acting as a filter. Filter areas are located on the sides of the building, layering the facade. Space is thus constructed through void, boundary, and light. The project is an expression of a constructive act, and its significance lies in its identity, as if it had always belonged to that place. The experimentation with material follows the logic of the design and is studied in the depth of its surface.
The lightness and visual permeability of the materials used as protective cladding ensure a direct visual relationship between the interior, exterior, and shielding.
The gaze can penetrate the subtle horizontal elements, but it’s not possible to fully distinguish the forms of the underlying parts. In this instance, the envelope becomes a tool to define a new dimension of the platform, creating a sheltered environment even outdoors. The use of a similar material for both the shielding and the building also leads to the loss of a clear distinction between the parts, making the filter environment an extension of the interior.
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Photography Milan, Copenhagen, Madrid Inspiration during my studies Know, think and express @fb_arch
Copenhill / Amager Bakke,
Maritime Youth House,
Bjarke Ingles Group Copenhagen, 2019
PLOT, Copenhagen, 2005
Closure: the container-object
Opening: the permeable container
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FABIO BARI fabiobari277@gmail.com +39 3276548594 @fb_arch Treviso, Italy