The master thesis is the concluding experience of six years career in university. One year research project in the heart of Berlin where both urban and architecture project aim to fill the gaps left on the urban pattern during the Second world war and the Socialist regime. For this project has been used the method of the critical reconstruction whose purpouse is to aquire historical notions and use those for the realisation of an atypical urban center able to face contemporary needs\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
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community hub
Community village is an high rise building which mixes together different functions and uses. In other words, the project aim to create an autonomous organism, an island in the city. The functions in the building are hierarchically organised from the more public at the bottom to the more private on the top. In depth, from the ground floor to the fifth the three horizontal volumes intersect each other and contains shopping mall, kindergarten, gym and house-workshops. While the main volume, from the sixth floor follows eleven floors of office and co-working space and seven floor of housing. Concluding, on the top, the last two floors contains panoramic restaurant and bar\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
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verticalvillage
Vertical Village is an architectural and urban project derived from thoughts, considerations and analysis on a diverse culture, almost unknown in the Occidental world. The Chinese culture is two thousand years older than the modern european world. It was unindustrialised and based on strong fundamentals. People lived in absolute harmony with the nature for centuries until the beginning of the Communist dictatorship, that turned paradise into hell. Sickness by money addiction A population based on agriculture, that was turned into a one of slaves to make few people billionaires. A population where the possibility to express oneself and get together was denied. Today the population in urbanised lands is mostly living in high rise buildings looking like apiaries where the living conditions are below the survival threshold. Those reasons and keywords addressed me on a primitive architectural design devoid of formal decisions. However, my decisions were mainly based on social implications. The two main consequences i drew were shaping the whole design on two levels - a large and a small scale. As a Masterplan’s guideline on the urban scale, the project is an attempt to rediscover the nature and healing from the repercussion of the sick environment.While On the smallest scale, social implications are the reasons to include different public spaces in the high rise buildings trying to indirectly give back the teared freedom of aggregation\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
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As a pure stylistic exercise the ribbed structure is the exploration of codes and programming languages. The pure digital side of Architecture. I got interested in this field when four years ago I had to delete a whole 3D model and redesign it just a bit different because the result was not what I expected. Although the parametric approach is a completely different design approach, the process itself is still pure composition, based on traditional rules. Thus developing drawings or 3D models with this new technique, merely used as a tool, it is not compromising our imaginary. Traditionally, our hand is always led by our imagination. Our mental process is translated by a pencil into lines on a paper sheet. Though it can be extremely useful to fix rules and parameters in a digital way for the design process. Not to replace our imagination but to support it. We can reach a variety of results and even change rules during the whole process. A wide array of models leads to the one solution, fitting our needs the best. Sometimes, what we see in our mind might be blurry. Maybe we reach the result just after several adjustment. It can be tremendously useful to avoid hours of deleting or editing. Different parameters can generate outright models useful to see and understand clearly what was the blurry image in our mind.\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
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beyond the wall
After three years of different projects and different exercises on various fields, I felt for the first time able to walk on my own legs. The name -beyond the wall- is a meaning of both - the site and the main peculiarity of the building. First the site, chosen to place the building following the perimeter of the medieval city wall. Secondly, the peculiarity of the building, as a compositional reason reflecting the site: The main elevation is conceived as a blank and pure surface highlighting the near underestimated and forgotten building heritage. While the concept is mainly focused on the living experience. The essence of the whole design are units on two levels with private gardens. The design, a complex of apartments detached from the ground, is an attempt to keep the contact with the nature on multiple floors\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
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stairs in taormina
The first approach with Architecture, as an exercise, is the understanding of proportions and physical space through measurement and representation. The workshop consisted in redrawing stairs in Taormina which\ are the predominant element in the landscape. The morphological structure of the settlement Taormina at the feet of the Etna volcano contains buildings climbing the cliff to provide the best panorama. In one of the oldest neighbourhoods the stairs from the main road allow to reach the overhead square in front of the church. The measurement had been possible thanks to the application of different techniques and tools such as representations through axonometry, elevations and photo rendering. All of these, fineally have been used to provide a detailed analysis and study on primitive construction techniques.\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
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This portfolio exhibits projects conceived in five years studying in different universities. A journey through Reggio Calabria, Turin, Beijing, Istanbul and Berlin. From the beginning to the end, each project represents singular experiences. I believe, each experience has been crucial in shaping myself as an Architect.
Flavio Mancuso.