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STATEGIC PRODUCT DESIGN TU DELFT POLITECNICO DI MILANO INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF PARIS F. SEVERI, MILAN
CLETUT, MILAN TEMPOHOUSING, AMSTERDAM
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Module in model maing and safe use of Work in OSX, Windows and Unix Acrylic, Oil and watercolour 2012 Intern at CLETUT STUDIO in Milan for a period of 6 months where I followed two diffrerent projects belonging to the CITY LIFE expansion (HADID + LIBESKIND).
2010 partecipant at ART EXPOSITION in place de Vaoge with ISParis. (4 painting sold )
2007-2009 I have done 150+ hours of voluntary work for my CAS IB program helping out on charity events as well as giving math tutorials. CAS coordinator at the International School of Paris mfoucher@isparis.edu
July 2012 I have succesfully designed the Logo for a new alcoholic company CEIBALICORES, Ecuador.
June- August 2012 I have designed and built an enlargment consistig of 1 extra room and 2 bathrooms to an existiong beach house in Olon, Ecuador.
2011 Pulsar party Milan, I have been in charge of all the graphics of the event, I designed flyers aswell as interior decoration, lighting and overall distribution.
Optional module in MATERIALS FOR ARCHITECTURE.
2006 - 2007 Liceo Scientifico F. Severi (Itaian scientific High School) in Milan, Italy
Classes in Physics, Mathematics, Science, Italian, Latin, English, IT, Philosophy, History
2007 - 2010 INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE International School of Paris, awarded 76%.
2010 - 2014 Bachelor in Architectural sciences thought in English at Politecnico di Milano
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ski freeride and snowbording Skiing: athlet at ski club val d’ Ayas since the age of 5. Viedos on VIMEO
photography Winner of JE VEUX ETRE PHOTOGRAPHE course and competition in PARIS ( 2011)
March 2013 Architecture as a bottom up approach, Athens programme at TU DELFT, Netherlands
Sailing: 2011 2nd classified in the F18 catamaran Italian nationals, winner of the youth H16
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Painting oil/ acrylic/ watercolors “individuals in the urban environment” Exposition in Place de Vouge, Paris.
TRAVELLING (China, Vietnam, USA, south America, Mexico, North Africa, Europe)
DONANA, SPAIN
Economics/Politics (currently reading Landes, Russel etc...)
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September, 2013- current Working at Tempohousing, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
November 2012 DONANA OUT OF THE CITY workshop in collaboration with Sevilla university.
(admission rejected for personal reasons)
(Ecellent knowledge of Adobe Creative suite 6)
Good knowledge and ability to work in ITALIAN, Good knowledge of RHINOCEROUS 3d modeling software. FRENCH and ENGLISH (IELTS CERTIFICATE). Good oral knowledge of Spanish.
May 2013 Accepted at Master of sciences at Tu Delft. 2010 Accepted at Bachelor in urban planning and architecture at UCL.
Good knowledge of CAD softwers such as AUTOCAD, ARCHICAD, PHOOSHOP, ILLUSTARTOR
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July 2013 Designed and rendered stage for Telecom event.
March, 2013 Worked for designing and arranging the exposition of Rachel Libeskind, Atiilio Terragni and Paolo Ciabattini in foro Bonaparte, Milan
Good knowledge of Maxwell studio render software.
Golfing 20 hp. Member of Golf de Saint Cloud, Gol Nationale de France.
Windsurf and kitesurf: trips to Mauritius (2006), Cabo Verde (2011) and Canary islands (2009- 2010)
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The idea was to gradually blend the city and the sorrounding eco system while setting an example for future developments. A call for a new public life/space which valued the true image of the site and recalled its very values. SAND- OCEAN and DUNES were the forces to clash together in an innovative design. I started learning from the sand, the textures, the shapes and the colors trying to somehow find an order, a rule to design with these site resources. Matalascagnas is a powerful site where man and nature are put face to face. As our above analysis shows we interpreted the forces acting at the boundaries of this particula site.The sand, the dunes and the overall landscape already suggested the guidelines for a design. In this boards is shown my personal understnding and brainstorming that led to the final design. Many scattered ideas of one specific purpose.
The professor, Michele Moreno, pushed our boundries to a very abstract world. Contineoulsy referring to Peter Eisenman approach used in the City of Culture of Galicia we were introduced to the concept of Folding the ground to create and carve new architectural features which would be the result of processing the site morphology. We were incentived to produce very symbolic images, a MORPHEMA in which to squeze all the conceptual work, in a way that could be instantaneously percived. We spent ten days understanding these sites, walking around, hearing the noises and feeling the air. Throught time I started getting very involved as I could really feel the site.
Not an academical understanding of a site, I started creating contact with all the elements and I felt very inspired in finding a solution. I sketched hundreds of designs, images which were trying to bound the practical and the phylosophical, the urge and the need.
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THE INTENSIVE WORKSHOP RESULTED IN AN UNLIMITED NUMBER OF IDEAS AND DESIGNS FOR WHICH WE SPLIT THE GROUP TO BE ABLE TO FOLLOW AND EXPLORE MORE THAN ONE PATHS. BEING THE FIRST TIME WE WERE GOING THROUGHT THIS PROCESS WE FOUND OURSELVES OFTEN MISTAKEN, BLINDED AND UNABLE TO SEE CLEAR. IT WAS TRULY AN INTENSIVE EXPERIENCE TO SEE HOW FLIPPING A FEW RULES AND CHANGING THE DESIGN PROCESS WOULD BRING MANY STUDENTS IN THE COMPLETE DARKNESS AND INABILITY TO PROGRESS. DESIGNING THIS WAY, FOLDING AND LAYERING, RESULTED VEY HARD WHEN IT CAME TO UNDERSTANDING THE SPACES AND THEIR POTENTIAL. ANY 2D DRAWING WOULD MISS LEAD THE ENTIRE PROCESS AND DRIVE US AWAY FROM THE REAL GOAL OF THE COURSE. THE PRECONCEPTIONS WE HAD ACCUMOLATED IN THE PREVIOUS ARCHITECTURAL EXPERIENCES WOULD CONFUSE AND RATIONALIZE THIS BEAUTIFUL RESEARCH WE HAD DONE.
. INITIALLY, THE NEED FOR A LONG PUBLIC SPACE THAT WOULD STRETCH AND REACH EVERYWHERE IN THE CITY WAS MERGED WITH THE NEED TO REVITILEZE THE DUNE PARK WHICH HAD BENN SUFFERING BECAUSE OF THE PRESENCE OF THE BUILT ENIRONMENT. MY FIRTS PROPOSAL WAS A RIVER OF SAND RUNNING THROUGHT THE CITY, AN EVER CHANGING PUBLIC SPACE DESIGNED AND MANTAINED BY NATURE. THE STRONG WINDS, IN FACT, WOULD GRADUALLY MOVE THE DUNES TOWARDS THE CITY WHERE THE PUBLIC SPACE WOULD CHANNEL IT ALL THE WAY THROUGHT TO REACH THE OTHER BOUDRY OF THE MATALASCAGNAS WHERE DUNES HAD ALREADY SETTLED WITH VEGETATION. THIS DESIGN WAS SUBJECTED TO RATIONALIZATION AND WILLINGNESS FOR SOMETHING BIG WHICH I PERSONALLY DID NOT SHARE. THE FINAL RESULT IS NOT ENOUGH TO SHOW WHAT THE WHOLE PROCESS LEFT US INSIDE, BUT IT IS ENOUGH TO SHOW WE HAVE LEARNED ANOTHER LANGUAGE, ANOTHER WAY OF HEARING A SITE, TO EXPRESS A FEELING.
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WITH NO EXCEPTION, WE STARTED THIS PROJECT WITH MUL- TIPLE QUESTIONS AND EXCITING IDEAS. WE ASKED OUR- SELVES WHETHER SOME THINGS WERE POSSIBLE OR NOT, IF SOME OTHER THINGS HAD ALREADY BEEN DESIGNED; MORE IMPORTANTLY, HOW TO ACCOMPLISH NEW ARCHITECTURE, NEW SOLUTIONS TO TODAY’S COMPLICATED ECONOMICAL, ENVIRONMENTAL, AND SOCIAL SITUATION. THE FOLLOWING PAGES WILL EXPLAIN OUR DISCOVERY THROUGH A PLETHORA OF PROJECTS, IDEAS, AND CONCEPTS. NATURALLY, AS ARCHITECTS, WITH THE ACQUIRED KNOWLEDGE WE SEEK TO FIND SOLUTIONS AND ANSWERS AND PORTRAY THESE IN THE SHAPE OF PROJECTS. INBOX BUILDING SYSTEM TAKES SHAPE AND CONSTANTLY GOES FOR THE APPLICATION OF CURRENT TECHNOLOGIES FOR INNOVATIVE BUILDINGS.
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EARLY VISIONS AS OF TODAY’S WORLD, THE YEAR 2013 HAS ITS DAYS PASSING THROUGH A HIGH NUMBER OF TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENTS, GLOBALIZATION HAPPENINGS, ECONOMICAL EVENTS, AND MUCH MORE. ALL OF THESE ARE EXPONENTIALLY INCREMENTING. AS YOUNG ARCHITECTS WE FACE OUR TIME’S SITUATION HOPING TO APPLY ALL WHAT WE HAVE LEARNED. WE ARE SEARCHING FOR WAYS TO ENVISION AND SUCCESSFULLY CREATE ARCHI- TECTURE THAT CAN WITHSTAND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE, AID RAPID POPULATION GROWTH, BLOOM IN A GLOBALIZED ECONOMY, AND FINALLY, PROVIDE THE BASIC FUNCTIONS OF A BUILDING, SHELTER, COMFORT; A HOME. EVERYTHING STARTED FROM OUR PERSONAL EXPERIENCES, FROM OUR EVERYDAY LIFE IN WHICH WE AS ARCHITECTS REALIZED A MISMATCH BETWEEN THE WORLD WE LIVE IN AND THE ARCHITECTURE THAT THE MODERN WORLD IS DEVELOPING. LIVING AS DIFFERENT USERS AT DIFFERENT TIMES WE FELT THE NEEDS FOR MODERN LIVING. WE KICKED OFF WITH THE IDEA OF MAKING A HOUSE, WHICH COULD SIMPLY BE SOLD AS ALL OTHER PRODUCTS, FLEXIBLE IN USE, TECHNOLOGICAL AND INNOVATIVE. IN THE 21ST CENTURY PEOPLE ARE NOT THE SAME AS THEY WERE IN THE 20TH AND 19TH CENTURIES. THEREFORE, OPTIMISTIC IDEAS WERE THROWN OUT, AND THEN SEVERAL QUESTIONS. THAT BROUGHT US TO THE EARLY STAGES OF THE PROJECT. OUR VISION AT THIS POINT IS A BUILDING THAT CAN BE ADAPTED FOR THE NEEDS OF ANY KIND OF DWELLER, THAT CAN SIT TALL IN A DENSE, HIGH-RISE URBAN CONTEXT OR STRETCH WIDE ALONG A HILL WITHIN A MIDDLE-RISE CITY OF A DEVELOPING COUNTRY. THERE ARE LIVING MODULES DESIGNED FOR SMALL AND BIG FAMILIES, WHICH ARE INSERTED INTO A GRID-LIKE STRUCTURE THAT COMPILES THEM. THESE MODULES ARE SPACED OUT SO THAT THERE IS NATURE, AIR AND LIGHT REACHING EVERY LEVEL OF IT. THE CENTRAL IDEA OF THIS BUILDING HAS BEEN KEPT IN THE WHOLE DEVELOPMENT.WE COLLECTED IDEAS THAT HAVE A LOT OF POTENTIAL. TO CREATE THE BUILDING IT WAS A MATTER OF PUTTING EVERYTHING TOGETHER, FINDING WHAT EXISTED ALREADY AND WHAT COULD BE DEVELOPED REGARDING TECHNICALITIES IN ORDER TO PUT IT ALL INTO A PERFECT SYSTEM. WE WERE SURE THAT MANY THINGS SIMILAR AND RELEVANT TO OUR THOUGHTS HAD BEEN ALREADY STUDIED AND DISCUSSED SO THAT SIGNALED US TO THE BOOKS, EARLIER THESES, AND THE PRODUCT OF PREVIOUS BRIGHT MINDS IN ARCHITECTURE. WE QUICKLY DISCOVERED THAT WE HAD JUST ENTERED A SIDE OF ARCHITECTURE THAT HAD BEEN DEEPLY STUDIED FOR YEARS.
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SINCE THEFLEXIBILITY INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION ING THE AND THE MODUTHE BUILDING INDUSTRY HAS STRONGLY LARITY OF SISTEMA 1. THE X-DEVICE SHIFTED TOWARDS MORE STANDARDIZED ALLOWS MINIMALA USAGE AS IT IS ARCHITECTURE AND THE CRYSTAL PALACE BASED ON A SQUARE METER MODULE
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BY JOSEPH PAXTON CAN ILLUSTRATE THIS EASILY. THIS IS A GREAT EXAMPLE IN WHICH, FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY THE ENTIRE WALKING WORLD ADMIRED A BUILDING MADE BY PLATFORMS MULTIPLE PREFABRICATED METAL COMPONENTS TO BE ASSEMBLED. AT ITS TIME IN 1851, THE CRYSTAL PALACE MADE HISTORY BECAUSE IT REALLY PUSHED THE CURRENT TECHNOLOGIES OF GLASS AND IRON. WE OFTEN FOUND OURSELVES X-DEVICE ASKING HOW WOULD THE MODERN CRYSTAL PALACE BE? IF ALL THE LATEST TECHNOLOGIES AND PRINCIPLES WERE APPLIED TO A BUILDING, HOW WOULD IT BE?. THERE IS GREAT NUMBER OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES, WHICH ARE STILL NOT APPLIED OR APPLICABLE TO BUILDINGS BECAUSE OF THE PROHIBITING HIGH COSTS. CARS ARE A GOOD EXAMPLE TO SHOW THE DISCREPANCY, THEY ARE HIGH-TECHNOLOGY SPACE THE UNITS CAPSULES LIKE NO HOME IN THE ENTIRE WORLD. AUTOMOBILES HAVE ERGONOMIC FURNITURE TO KEEP PEOPLE SEATED, AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEMS FOR THERMAL COMFORT, AN ENVELOPE THAT KEEPS ITS DRIVER DRY AND SECURE. LE CORBUSIER THE BEAMS NOTED THIS ASPECTS ALMOST A HUNDRED YEARS AGO, [CITE TOWARDS A NEW ARCHITECTURE.] EVEN TODAY THERE IS CONSTANT SEARCH FOR BETTER LOOKING, ECOLOGICALLY EFFICIENT AUTOMOBILES. PUSHED BY THIS FEELING THAT NEW TECHNOLOGIES ALLOW EVERYTHING TO BE DONE WE PERCEIVED NO LIMIT TO IMAGINATION AND WE EXPLORED ALL DIFFERENT POSSIBIL- ITIES BEFORE COMING TO THE FINAL SOLUTION REGARDING ARCHITECTURE THAT IS ABLE TO BE FURTHER DEVELOPED FOR BETTER AND MORE EFFI- CIENT APPLICATIONS. MANY PROJECTS HAD BEEN DONE WITH THESE SCOPES AND EVEN MORE STAYED ON PAPER, ARCHIGRAM, SUPERSTUDIO [CITE.] AND MANY OTHERS HAD PREVIOUSLY FELT THIS WAY. HOWEVER THEY NEVER REALLY ACHIEVED IT AS TECHNICAL AND FEASIBLE AS WE SEEK TO REACH. IN FACT, IN TRYING TO CREATE THIS IMAGE FOR A NEW ARCHITECTURE WE APPRECIATE THE HANDCRAFT INPUT INTO AN INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION LINE LIKE RENZO PIANO’S GERBERETTES IN THE CENTRE POMPIDOU [CITE.].
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From our smaller perspective we sought to find a functional, basic and comfortable inhabitable unit. This minimizing approach is not new and since the past centuries there has been numerous attempts to find this small but efficient living box. The ever changing global situation of today regarding what a couple or a single person require for living well brings new complications to this task, therefore it shall need to be reevaluated and redefined. Ultimately, by the multiplication of these modular boxes we can achieve a functional cluster, habitable organism. We have defined our living unit, somewhat a box-shaped assembly, which provides one or two dwellers with their basic and more common necessities. Not only with space and furnishings we offer this efficient box; they are thought- fully equipped with a series of elements that ecologically, economically, and aesthetically shaped it. Additional pro- gress in the design of this modular unit leads to adapting it to multiple users and functions raging from office space, student residences, and commercial activities. The unit is structurally composed together by a rectangular prism composed fully by two kinds of IPE I Beams. To that almost wireframe structure there are insulating, heating, and sealing layers placed both in the ceiling/roof and floor slab. The vertical envelope is the key actor in the unit, these are attached to the main structure and act as a curtain wall for that matter. Although there are two modular panels available for each owner to choose from and seal their unit, there are virtually endless combinations to be achieved in the resulting facade. On the one hand, there’s a solid high-performance panel meant to be walls of private, isolated, or technical internal spaces. On the other hand, there is versatile panel consisting of an internal layer of sliding glass and an external layer of louvered parallel elements (insert graphic reference). The latter panel will lead towards disorder among order and repetition. The louvered system that is part of the panel can be manually or digitally positioned into infinite configurations. This way it is pos- sible to control and personalize the exterior composition of each unit, and depending on the dweller, it can allow or block sunlight, let in or block air flow through, bring privacy into the unit, and much more. Aesthetically, there will be an interesting flow happening with the continuous effect of this panel within all the units of the building. It is as if the same element is positioned in its current place for functional reasons, but the owner is controlling the final output. The final product of the building system is ever adapting to the dwellers’ needs and providing to its built surrounding with its alternating faces. The modular panels have standardized measures and that way the process of construction, transportation and attachment becomes more efficient (insert graphic reference). These measurements allow the assembly and customi- zation of the property to a slightly higher level. Boxes could be put together to create bigger living units by duplicat- ing the floor area. What once was considered a basic living unit, can now become more spacious with an addition of an extra box. Trying to bring down any constraint that could potentially block growth and further positive develop- ment of our building system, any unit could be always joined to a new unit. As long as the space is available in any direction, with the addition of beams into nearby pillars, the new add-on piece can be attached easily.
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MODULARITY INTEGRATED DESIGN+MANUFACTURING ECONOMIC PRINCIPLES FOR INCREASED EFFICENCIES MAN TO DWELLING RELATION
NEW RELATION WITH GROUND NEW RELATION BETWEEN HOUSEHOLD AND DWELLING POSSIBLE NEW URBAN PATTERNS FOR MORE EFFICENT CITY COMMUTATION LOWER MATERIAL USE AND ABSENCE OF BUILDING ENVELOPE
INCREASED FLEXIBILITY AND OCCUPANCY EFFICENCIES
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These images here where the bearing pillars of my thesis work. These are morphemas espressing a new ideal architecture. Trying to quit my preconceptions and coming up with really new solutions, trying to enstore a relation between a living space and a human being. A new image of purty due to technologies and not to shapes, due to the awe that modern people feel foor them. A clean efficent building LEGO that can be flexible and aesthetically pleasing while dramatically reducing the material use and watse in the contruction process. A building system that can allow new economic principles and interactions to take place even in the Building market. This building system would be layered from a harbur structure which serves all the living units with water, swage and energy, a module based living unit which may be combine with other and finally a one square meter path way to reach the building services. This would wind up in a tree like structure which hosts more than it occuyes, which expands space in all dimension intsead of a linear planar occupacy.
BUILDING TECHNOLOGY STUDIO 2012/2013 SOCIAL HOUSING MILANO, VIA CENNI SUSTAINABILITY MASTERPLAN
LOUVERED SKIN SYSTEM
PRE CASTED CONCRETE SERVICING
3 SOLAR CHIMNEYS WITH DIRECT VENTILATION TO ALL APARTMENTS
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AS THIS PROJECT IS TARGETING SOCIAL HOUSING WE DESIGNED A SINGLE CORE REINFORCED CONRETE STRUCTURAL GRID OF 11 FLOORS.
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THIS FLOOR PLAN IS THE RESULT OF A LONG HEURISTIC PHASE THAT EVOLVED AROUND THE CONCEPT OF EXTRUDING SOME OPEN SPACE INSIDE THE BUILDING ENVELOPE WHERE TO CREATE A MICROCLIMATE ENJOYABLE ALL YEAR AROUND.
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THERE ARE 3 VERTICAL LOUVERED HALLWAYS THAT FUCNTION AS SOLAR CHIMNEY AND DISTRIBUTE VENTILATION TO ALL APARTMENTS.
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WE WERE TO COME UP WITH INNOVATIVE TECHNICAL SOLUTIONS FOR THE WALL PACKAGE AND ALL OTHER BUILDING COMPONENTS SO THAT THEY WOULD COMPLY WITH TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS AND BUILDING REQUIREMENTS.
Tempohousing internship. Scared by the over regulated and slow processes of traditional architectural design, In September 2013 I decided to have a taste of something strongly related to architectural design but which would give me the tools to make practical experience. I am by no means affascinated by modular prfabricated structures more than architectural craft works but I cannot avoid being attracted by their economical and ecological advantages. The first thing that struck me was the awareness of having crossed the line between architecture, construction and real estate. It captsized my schemes and perspectives, I assisted at the process that eventually needs to hire an architect to deliver a product which needs to satisfy specific requirements. I was finally able to focus the big construction industry picture and make all the pieces and charatcers fall in their right place. I was impressed to understand how architects only really focus on a specific kind of projects for a very specific slice of the population while a majority of constructions projects that involve a much greater slice of the population are only dveloped from a business and techical perspective. It is striking because this means that most buildings we see and we use have simply not had a proper design team and were only generated as an form of investment. Finally I felt reworded of my decision as for the first time I felt this industry needed my professional figure to deliver better products.
Through time I also started to become familiar with the numbers and to understand the benefits of our products. A shift in the company Ownership allowed great moments of creative stratigic thinking followed by very technical work sessions. I was teamed up with the main engeneer and together we worked at solutions that could allow changes in our business model. I liked very much this workflow that would emerge from a meeting, develop on our monitors and end up in a prototype. A careful eye would keep us in line with very tight budget constraints and spice up the creativity in problem solving. I started liking the working process where a business advantage was taken into a prototype from which possibilities were drown. Standardized personalization was my idea of creating a system based on the container (the most standardized volume ) that could still be personalizable to the very user needs. I thought to use the business advantage of containers to be able to deliver affordable design in these industries and thus impact the big chunk of low quality contruction to really make a difference. Through my 4 months at tempohousing I had the chance to experience all the different faces of the construction process and draw important conclusion on which to motivate my future choices. Also, I reconed the importance of the architect’s role that fo so long seemd vague.
INCREASED TECHNICAL COMPONENT
TANGIBILITY OF DESIGN PROCESS AVAILABILITY OF PROJECTS INTEGRATED DESIGN ABSENCE OF DESIGN TEAM MULIDISCIPLINARY INVOLVMENT
GREEN DESIGN CONCEPT
SUSTAINABLE ECONOMICAL BUSINESS
CREATIVE ENVIRONMENT NOT NECESSARILY BOUND TO ARCHITECTURE PRODUCTS ENTERPRENOURSHIP
ENHANCED POSSIBILITY FOR PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE SPEEDY FINANCIAL/DESIGN/CONSTRUCTION PROCESS
INDUSTRY PIONEER WITH TECHNICAL KNOW HOW
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After having developed inBOX as a building system in response to modern living patterns I developed a passion for prefabricated modular structures. In my Thesis I had rejected containers as they are not well suited for living but only for transport and their standard sizes just weren’t optimal to start a standardized, customizable living system. A few months later however I started working at Tempohousing in Amsterdam, a firm that is well known for being the pioneer of ISO shipping containers modular structures. Working inside Tempohousing allowed me to understand to the full potential the advantages of building using containers and thus develop some vey particular and innovative designs. From a very conceptual beginning in which I develop some prototypes to explain my ideas I worked detailing and finilizing something that would look more feasible. I broke down my designs to obtain the very same number of components of their previous projects and have an economically valid proposal. The idea that fascinated me was this bottom up approach from which I would take an economically sustainable business and fit it into better architecture. Also, this way of desining allowed me to feel the importance of architecture in designing something not for a luxurious small percentage of users but for the needy mass of the most troubled users. I felt that need for architecture for the first time in my life and I was happy to try to creativly explore new solutions to actually improve living conditions of the final users.
Doutch architecture suddenly stroke me for its infinite appreciation of practical design. The exposed facade beams for lifting heavy objects, the container scale of the long slim and tall lots encouraged me to persue my designs in a sensible way to the historic context. This image shows my very first ideas to propose a typical amsterdam canal house entirely done with containers.
CONTAINITIVITY THIS BUILDING PROPOSAL DEVELOPED FOR A TERRAIN IN THE NEW UNIVERSITY CAMPUS OF UVA IN AMSTERDAM. THE INITIAL PROGRAM FOR THIS PROJECT WAS SET TO BE THE NEW BUILDING FOR TEMPOHOUSING OFFICES. TO BETTER MARKETIZE THE IMAGE OF TEMPOHOUSING I DESIGNED THE OFFICES TO ALSO BE A SHOW ROOM OF THEIR PRODUCTS.
AS A SHOW ROOM I RECALLED THE CONCEPT OF MY THESIS PROJECT AND THUS I DESIGNED A HARBOUR STRUCTURE THAT COULD EASILY WELCOME CONTAINER OF DIRRERENT SIZES AND IN DIFFERENT LAYOUT. THE HARBOUR STRUCTURE IS A STRONG STEEL COMBINATION OF A REPETED CROSS SECTION OF PILLARS AND BEAMS SCREWED TOGETHER IN ORDER TO ALLOW EASY REMOVAL.
EACH CONTAINER IS SET TO WELCOME A DIFFERENT FUNCTION IN A MIXUTURE OF COMMERCIAL AND RESIDENTIAL. - 2 40FT CONTAINERS TO HOST TEMPOHOUSING OFFICES - 1/2 STUDENT ROOMS -1/2 SINGLE PROFESSIONAL ROOM - 1 BAR/SHOP/ARTGALLERY
A FACILITAED ADDITION AND REMOVAL OF CONTAINERS CAN ALLOW THE FUNCTIONS TO BE QUICKLY CHANGED, SOLD ABROAD OR LEASED.
A NETWRORK OF HARBOUR STRUCTURES COULD LEAD TO A SERIES OF BUILDINGS WITH INTERCHANGING ACTIVITIES.
THIS BUILDING OFFERS MANY ECONOMICAL BENEFITS: -INCREASED VISIBILITY -PROFITABLE SHOWROOM - EXTREME FLEXIBILITY
THE STRUCTURE WAS DESIGNED AROUND THE CON LAYOUT. VERTICAL BRACINGS FOR INSTANCE ARE A STAIRCASE IS A THIN STEEL SHEETING THAT ORIGINA SOLUTIONS WITH AESTHETICAL REQUIREMENTS HA DESIGNED WITH ROOF OR ELEMENTS THAT RECALL FEATURES IT CAN BE CHANGED REMEBREING THE FI DISADVANTAGE OF THIS LAY OUT HOWEVER STAND ES WHICH ON THE OTHER HAND ALLOWS IT TO STIL IT IS FORESEENABLE THAT THIS KIND OF BUILDING C TRAVELLING ART GALLERIES, TRAVELLING ATHLETS A OF RESOUCRES USED AS IT’D MADE SURE THAT THE INCREASINGLY MORE, THE OWNER OF THE BUILDING BUILDING” AS IT MAY ALWAYS BE EASILY ADJUSTED IF A NETWORK OF HA THIS ABILITY TO ALW THE BUILDING IS REA THIS SYSTEM COULD MACHINES THAT CAN BUILDING ARE AVAIL
NTAINER, THE SIZE, THE CONFIGURATION AND THE STRUCTURAL ALSO USED TO SECURE THE CONTAINER TO THE STRUCTURE. THE ALLY COMES IN TWO PIECES. THE EFFORT TO CONCILIATE THESE AS PROVEN SOME SUCCESS. THE HARBOUR STRUCTURE MAY BE AND FIT THE LOCAL STYLE. ACCORDING TO DIFFERENT CLIMATE IXED SIZES OF OTHER ELEMENTS BASED ON CONTAINERS. THE MAIN DS IN THE LITTLE USE OF THE CONTAINER FOR STRUCTUAL PURPOSLL BE A PERSUE ITS SHIPPING NATURE. COULD FIT VERY SPECIFIC REQUIREMNETS OF YOUNG BUSINESS, AND MANY MORE. FURTHERLY, IT WOULD CUT DOWN THE AMOUNT ERE IS NO USELESS SPACE/FUNCTION UNEFFICENTLY EMPLOYED. G COULD BENEFIT FROM AN ENSURED OCCUPANCY OF “THE D TO FIT THE AVAILABLE DEMAND. ARBOUR STRUCTURES WAS PUT IN PLACE IN DIFFERENT PLACES WAYS EFFICENTLY ENSURE RENT COULD BE LARGELY INCREASED. ALIZABLE AND THERE ARE AND WITH A WELL THOUGHT LOGISTIC D REALLY BE PUT IN PLACE. N REACH AND PLACE A CONTAINER EVERYWEHRE WITHIN THIS LABLE ON THE MARKET.
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THE IDEA IS THAT THE MODULES ONCE DEPARTED FROM THE HARBOUR BUILDING CAN COVER A SERIES OF DIFFERENT FUNCTIONS AS ART GALLERIES, COMPANY STANDS, HOLLIDAY HOME AND SO ON. ONCE THIS TEMPORARY FUCNTION IS FINISHED, THE MODULE IS RETURNED TO THE MAIN HARBOUR.
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SINGLE 30 M2 APARTMENTS TARGETING STUDENTS AND YOUNG PROFESSIONALS.
CAN WE BUILD BETTER AND AFFPRDABLE WITHOUT SACRIFING QUALITY AND COMFORT?
REPET SYSTEM WITH PREFABRICATED STRUCTURAL STEEL ELEMENTS.
CAN AN INTEGRATED DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING APPROACH OFFER TRUE STREAMLINE EFFICENCY?
PROPER USE OF STACKED CONTAINERS TO AVOID FOUNDATIONS.
CAN DESIGN BE BOTH STANDARDIZED AND CUSTOMIZABLE?
USE OF THE CONTAINER DOORS FOR STRUCTURAL PURPOSE. ELEMENTARY STRUCTURAL LAY OUT WITH BUILDING COMPONENTS HANGED FORM THE BASIC STEEL TRILITIC ELEMENT. ABSENCE OF BUILDING ENVELOPE ALLOWS GOOD RELATION BETWEEN INTERIORS AND OPEN SPACES DAY TO DAY CONSTRUCTION TIME AND SET UP.
EASY REMOVAL OF CONTAINERS ALLOWS FUNCTIONS TO BE QUICKLY CHANGED.
CAN SMALL BE EXPANSIVE?
REVIEW PREVIOUS TEMPOHOUSING PROJECTS TO DESIGN CREATIVELY BUT IN LINE WITH THE COMPANY STANDARDS.
WHAT IS REQUIRED FOR TODAY’S HOME? RE THINK THE MAJOR COMPONENTS THAT MAY HAVE A RAMERKABLE IMPACT ON THE FINAL PRODUCT.
DOES LESS HAVE TO BE A BORE?
FULLY UNDERSTAND AND IDENTIFY A TARGET USER IN ORDER TO ADRESS THE RIGHT DESIGN PROBLEMS.
MAKE AN EVALUATION WITH WEIGTHED CRITERIAS TO ASSES THE IMPORTANCE OF THE DIFFERENT BUILDING COMPONENTS, THEIR IMPACT ON AESTHETICS AND ON COSTS. IDENTIFY THOSE DESIGN VARIABLES THAT WITH A LOW IMPACT ON COSTS MAY REALLY CHANGE THE WHOLE IMAGE OF THE BUILDING SUCH AS CONTAINER COLOR, STRUCTURE COLOR, ELEMENTS CROSS SECTIONS, BUILDING ORIENTATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONSIDERATIONS. DESIGN TRYING TO KEEP THE MAJOR BUSINESS ADVANTAGE IN MIND AND ENSURING COHERENCE IN THE SYSTEM. SIMPLE AND CLEAN LAYOUT THAT MAY BE REPLICATED TO FURTHERLY CUT DOWN UNIT COSTS.
PROVE THAT APPLIED DESIGN MAY HELP MAKE A BETTER USE OF AVAILABLE RESOURCES TO DELIVER HIGHER QUALITY WITHOUT COMPROMISING COSTS.
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This proposal is seeking a very stansardized system to deliver a cheap and economically sustainable smart product. As the container itself is one of the most standardized objects of the world, I designed a standardized system that could fit to transofrm stacked containers into nice apartment buildings. To make this design more interesting I broke down the number of components to try match the low complexity of the previois projects and aslo optimize the construction process. In any container based project, it should be took in consideration that all the building components have to fit inside a container to be transportable.
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NEW DESIGN APPROACH CLOSELY LINKED WITH A WHOLE NEW BUSINESS PLAN. INCRESED AWEARNESS OF STRENGHTS AND WEAKNESSES OF CONTAINERS AS A BUILDING SYSTEM. CONSIDER NEW TARGET USERS WHICH ARE LESS PRICE ELASTIC AND ARE WILLING TO PAY MORE TO EXPERIENCE A SMART LIVING INFRASTRUCTURE. DESING TO ACHIEVE CONTAINER SUITED SOLUTIONS WHERE THE BUILDING SYSTEM BASED ON CONTAINER IS THE BEST AVAILABLE OPTION. INVERT THE BUILDING AND COMMISSIONING PROCESS TO FOCUS ON CONTAINER SUITABLE PROJECTS. SWITCH AWAY FROM A DEMAND PULLED INDUSTRY TO A SUPPLY PUSHED BUSINESS. DELIVER HIGH QUALITY SOLUTIONS BY COMMERCIALIZING THE ICONIC IMAGE OF THE CONTAINER.
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To furtherly promote container architecture i tried highlighting their strenghts and weaknesses and thus I designed this building in order to show what the real advantage of container buildings really is. This is an uncoventional building whose shape would surely differ from the one of the most “cheap construction”. However, if using containers there is no drammatic cost increase involved because of this shape: actually there should be no change at all . This is an example building where the use of containers has short and long term advantages compared to other building systems.
CAN WE BUILD BETTER AND AFFPRDABLE WITHOUT SACRIFING QUALITY AND COMFORT?
CAN AN INTEGRATED DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING APPROACH OFFER TRUE STREAMLINE EFFICENCY?
CAN DESIGN BE BOTH STANDARDIZED AND CUSTOMIZABLE? CAN SMALL BE EXPANSIVE?
badly shaped lots that put limits to possible construction 7 FLOORS “CHEAP SKY SCRAPER” ASSEMBLED WITH 45 FT ISO CONTAINERS REGULARLY STACKED ON CORNER CASTINGS CONTAINER INTEGRITY CONSERVED TO THE MAXIMUM HIGH QUALITY RESULT OBTAINED FROM LOW QUALITY MATERIAL IMPUT AND COMPREHENSIVE DESIGN.
WHAT IS REQUIRED FOR TODAY’S HOME?
DOES LESS HAVE TO BE A BORE?
HIGH ADDED VALUE AND POSSIBILITY OF GREATER PROFITS.
INTEGRATED DESIGN APPROACH
INCREASED THERMAL MASS
COMPOST PRIMARY HEATING
ACTIVE INSULATION TECHNOLOGY
INCREASED THERMAL MASS
SOLAR CHIMNEY AND INCREASED VENTILATION
HEAT TRANSFER PERFORMED THROUGH THE CORTEN STEEL OF CONTAINERS SO TO AVOID SUPPLEMENTARY WIRING
PASSIVE SOLAR DESIGN
SOLAR CHIMNEY
EARTH SHELTERING
INCREASED THERMAL MASS
84 CUBIC METERS
WORMER STEEL STRUCTURE MITIGATES FRESH AIR AVOIDING EXCESSIVE WALL INSULATION
84 CUBIC METERS
This project is a container based eco Home. The structure is basically composed of four containers not stacked together but spacing out to define the entire volume of the house. The technical feature of this sloping garden has a great impact on its aesthetics. The absence of the parapet is willing to suggest a new vision for which the home has become integrated part of the landscape from which it acquires the needed energy.
SOLAR CHIMNEY
WINTER HEAT GAIN
SUMMER HEAT CONTROLL
A sloping garden is designed on the northern side of the building. The volubile thermal mass of the containers is in this way increased and stabilized to make the building more efficent. Roughly 100 cube meteres of ground are used to increase the thermal mass and guarantee a pre cooling/heating passive action. On the contrary the southern facing facade is fully open to allow a maximum of sunlight to penetrate inside each room. structural wood or aluminium panneling is furtherly used to complete the side facades. The mid lower panel can fucntion as an access to the house althought the interiors are very flexible and haven’t been the subject of this design. To make the concept even more sustainable a COMPOST HEATING system could replace the simple ground filling. The decomposition action of bacterias present in most organic waste can in fact reach considerable temperatures of 60°C or more. With the layout designed, 100 cube meters of active compost would be in direct contact with the steel from the containers allowing the heat to penetrate everywhere in the house. Also, by running a specific lenghts of any normal plastic water pipe good amounts of pre heated water can also result.
STANDARDIZED PERSONALIZATION. IN LINE WITH THE IDEAS BEHIND MY WORK AT TEMPOHOUSING I EXPLORED NEW WAYS OF BRINGING THE DESIGN TO AREAS WHERE IT IS ABSENT NOW. BECAUSE OF THE INCREASING INTEREST ON 3D PRINTING AND NEW CNC MACHINES PRODUCTION TECHNIQUES I UNDERSTOOD THEY COULD BE THE RIGHT TOOL FOR MY QUEST. THANKS TO THE FACILITIES OFFERED BY THE WAAG SOCIETY FABLAB IN AMSTERDAM I MANAGED TO DESIGN AND SUDDENLY PRODUCE MY FIRST PRODUCT. BEING A DESIGNER I WAS AMAZED BY THE POSSIBILITIES OFFERED BY THIS PROCESS WHICH COULD TURN IDES INTO FINAL PRODCUTS IN A MATTER OF HOURS. FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE I SAW MY DRAWINGS TAKING SHAPE OUTSIDE A MINITOR SCREEN AND THUS I REALIZED THE HUGE POTENTIAL THIS PRODUCTION MEANS HAD ONTO CRAFTMANSHIP. ALSO, THE LEVEL OF PRECISION OF THIS MANUFACTURING PROCESS ALLOWED ME TO DESIGN FURNITURE THAT COULD BE PUT TOGETHER WITHOUT SCREWS AND BOLTS. THE PRODUCT WAS TO BE A MODULAR LIBRARY DESIGNED TO ALLOW A SERIES OF 25 DIFFERENT CONFIGURATIONS. BY DOING SO, I COULD GUARANTEE A MODULAR PERSONALIZABLE PRODUCT TO ALLOW FREEDOM OF CUSTOMIZATION TO THE CUSTOMER NEEDS WITHOUT MAJOR PRICE FLUCTUATIONS. SINCE THIS EXPERIENCE I WORKED A LOT TO UNDERSTAND HOW AND IF THIS FACILITY COULD LEAD TO A SUSTAINABLE MANUFACTURING PROCESS FOR DESIGNERS AND FABPEOLPE.
TO TAKE THINGS A STEP FURTHER I KEPT AIMING AT A PRODUCT WICH RESPONDED TO THE VERY PRESENT NEEDS. LOW FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC COSTS TOGETHER WITH A CLEAN, SMART AND PERSONALIZED DESIGN WAS TO ME THE ANSWER TO AN OVER GLOBALIZED MARKET. TO HAVE NO MATERIAL WASTE AND TO INCREASE ITS FUNCTIONALITY I EMPLOYED ALSO THE LEFT OVERS TO IMPLEMENT THE DESIGN. BY DOING SO I CREATED A SMART SELF STORAGE SO THAT THE LIBRARY COULD BE WISELY STORED WHEN NOT USED. FROM HERE THE IDEA OF A “FUNCTIONAL PAINTING” WAS BORN IN MY HEAD AND A WHOLE NEW APPROACH TO SAVE SPACING FURNITURE.
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CEIBALICORES MAIN LOGO DURING MY STAY IN ECUADOR I OFFERED MY SELF TO DESIGN THE LOGO OF AN UPCOMING LIQUOR COMPANY. I ASKED THE TENTH PER CENT OF WHAT THEY HAD BEEN ASKED BY A PROFESSIONAL COMPANY , A VERY GOOD PAY FOR THE LITTLE TIME IT TOOK ME. LOS CEIBOS IT’S A KIND OF TREE THAT IS OFTEN FOUND IN ECUADOR, ITS BEAUTY CHANGES A LOT BETWEEN SUMMER AND WINTER. IN SUMMER WHEN IT FLOWERS IT IS A BEAUTIFUL FRIENDLY REDDISH TREE. ON THE OTHER HAND, IN WINTER IT LOSES ALL ITS LEAFS AND ONLY IT’IS SPIKES ARE LEFT WHICH COVER UP THE WOLE CHUNK. IN GUAYAQUIL, ECUADOR, ITS NAME HAS BEEN TO A PART OF THE CITY. DURING MY STAY IN ECUADOR WE WERE APPROACHED BY TWO YOUNG ADULTS NEEDING A LOGO FOR A NEW ALCHOOL COMPANY. THE ECUADOR WE WERE APPROACHED BY TWO YOUNG ADULTS DURING MY STAY IN ECUADOR I OFFERED MY SELF TO DESIGN COMPANY WAS TO BE CALLED CEIBA AND AS THEY WANTED NEEDING A THE LOGO FOR A NEW ALCHOOL COMPANY. THE THE LOGO OF AN UPCOMING LIQUOR COMPANY. I ASKED SOMETHING THAT WOULD RAPRESENT GUAYAQUIL I SUDDENLY COMPANY WAS TO BE CALLED CEIBA AND AS THEY WANTED TENTH PER CENT OF WHAT THEY HAD BEEN ASKED BY A TOOK INSPIRATION OFF THE TREE. SOMETHING THAT WOULD RAPRESENT GUAYAQUIL I SUDDENLY PROFESSIONAL COMPANY , A VERY GOOD PAY FOR THE LITTLE TIME IT TOOK ME. TOOK INSPIRATION OFF THE TREE.
DURING MY STAYDURING IN MY STAY IN ECUADOR I OFFERED MY SELF TO DESIGN ECUADOR I DESIGNED THE LOGO OF AN UPCOMING LIQUOR COMPANY. I ASKED THE TENTH OF PER CENT OF WHAT THEY HAD BEEN ASKED BY A THE OFFICIAL LOGO COMPANY , A VERY GOOD PAY FOR THE LITTLE CEIBALICORES, APROFESSIONAL NEW TIME IT TOOK ME. EMERGING LIQUOR LOS CEIBOS IT’S A KIND OF TREE THAT IS OFTEN FOUND IN ECUADOR,HAS ITS BEAUTY CHANGES A LOT BETWEEN SUMMER AND COMPANY. THE LOGO WINTER. IN SUMMER WHEN IT FLOWERS IT IS A BEAUTIFUL BEEN WIDELY USED IN FRIENDLY REDDISH TREE. ON THE OTHER HAND, IN WINTER IT THEIR MARKETING CAPALOSES ALL ITS LEAFS AND ONLY IT’IS SPIKES ARE LEFT WHICH COVER UP THE WOLE CHUNK. IN GUAYAQUIL, ECUADOR, ITS IN ON T SHIRTS AND BAR NAME HAS BEEN TO A PART OF THE CITY. DURING MY STAY IN STANDS.
CEIBALICORES WAS WILLING TO PRODUCE A SET OF DIFFERENT TASTES THAT VARIED FROM BUBBLEGUM TO PINAPPLE AND THUS, I DESIGNED A SET OF DIFFERENT COMPOSITIONS VARYING IN COLOR.
LOS CEIBOS IT’S A KIND OF TREE THAT IS OFTEN FOUND IN ECUADOR, ITS BEAUTY CHANGES A LOT BETWEEN SUMMER AND WINTER. IN SUMMER WHEN IT FLOWERS IT IS A BEAUTIFUL FRIENDLY REDDISH TREE. ON THE OTHER HAND, IN WINTER IT LOSES ALL ITS LEAFS AND ONLY IT’IS SPIKES ARE LEFT WHICH COVER UP THE WOLE CHUNK. IN GUAYAQUIL, ECUADOR, ITS NAME HAS BEEN TO A PART OF THE CITY. DURING MY STAY IN ECUADOR WE WERE APPROACHED BY TWO YOUNG ADULTS NEEDING A LOGO FOR A NEW ALCHOOL COMPANY. THE COMPANY WAS TO BE CALLED CEIBA AND AS THEY WANTED SOMETHING THAT WOULD RAPRESENT GUAYAQUIL I SUDDENLY TOOK INSPIRATION OFF THE TREE.
CEIBA - LOGO
CEIBA - LOGO
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