portfolio balan gavril adrian
2017-July 2020
name surname birth e-mail
2019-feb 2020
Gavril Adrian Balan
Architecture Construction and City Thesis: Vertical New Space
Politecnico di Torino Torino, Italy Visiting student researcher
Master thesis program CUHK (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Hong Kong
10 March 1994 Torino (Italy) balan.gavril@gmail.com
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languages
Italian native speaker Romanian native speaker English ielts B2 French B2
oct 2019
Master Degree
2018-2019
Erasmus+
2013-2017
Bachelor Degree
master degree program
University of Liège Liège, Belgium Architecture
Politecnico di Torino Torino, Italy
education
AA Visiting School Milano - resilient skin code
AA (Architectural Association School of Architecture ) Tutors: Anat Stern, Ilaria Di Carlo, Francesca Silvi,
Mattia Santi, Arantza Vilas
july 2019
IAAC Global Summer School IAAC (Istitut for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia) Barcelona
apr 2019-june 2019
Revit Course AUTODESK Authorized Traning Center Torino
apr 2018-june 2018
Grasshopper Workshop - Arturo Tedeschi plug it - Basic Level ecological patterns - Advanced Level form finding strategies - Advanced Level
june 2017-
Selinunte Summer School After Earthquakes
MVRDV - Frans De Witte, Andrea Anselmo IOTTI+PAVARANI ARCHITETTI - Paolo Iotti MC A | Mario Cucinella
2018-2019
IF Polito
july 2019
PLASTIC MONUMENT YAC (young architects competitions)
june 2019
RWANDA CHAPEL YAC (young architects competitions)
apr 2019 june 2012-sept 2012
PACE PAVILION KAIRA LOORO Competition
MAYA RHINOCEROS
INNOVATIVE SCHOOLS by: Italian education ministry group with: F:L Architetti
GRASSHOPPER AUTOCAD REVIT 3DS MAX V - RAY SKETCHUP PHOTOSHOP ILLUSTRATOR INDESIGN PREMIER PRO
nov 2015-july 2019
Architetto Giovanni Pierro external collaborator Torino
apr 2017-aug 2017
Gruppo Thema Progetti Internship Torino
dic 2015-nov 2016
F : L Architetti Internship Torino
june 2012-sept 2012
Fornace Mosso Paolo internship Santena (To)
july 2018
F:L Architetti Di Robilant Manfredo
KooZA/rch project: Flows’ House
koozarch.com/interviews/flows-house
2019
Parametric Architecture project: AA Visiting School Milan parametric-architecture.com/resilient-skin-code-architectral-association-visiting-school-milan/
World Architecture project: AA Visiting School Milan
https://worldarchitecture.org/article-links/efzgg/aa-visiting-school-s-resilient-skin-code-explores-relationship-b etween-architecture-and-fashion.html
Platform project: AA Visiting School Milan https://www.platformarchitecture.it/it/aa-visiting-school-milan-2019/
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lmg@flarchitetti.com manfredo.dirobilant@polito.it
Dipartimento di Architettura e Design Viale Mattioli 39 10125 Torino
MANFREDO DI ROBILANT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
PARTNER
POLITECNICO DI TORINO
DAR-ARCHITETTURA
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN
WWW. DAR-ARCHITETTURA.COM
November 11th, 2019
Dear Sir or Madam, With this letter I wish to recommend Gavril Balan for admission to your office. Gavril would make great contributions to any desk he would be assigned. Gavril is a sharp and insightful architectural mind and a great example of a new generation of enthusiastic, committed and consciously global-oriented Italian students of architecture. I got to know Gavril well since I am the co-supervisor of his master-degree dissertation, and we have been meeting and discussing about his work biweekly throughout the semester. Gavril was one of the best students in my architectural design studio at the Turin Polytechnic University in 2018, when he transformed the assigned brief, a hostel in the Venice area, into a meta-project prompted by a dystopian pre-vision of climate change. The final installation through which he rendered the idea deeply fascinated the jury. Gavril already has a recognizable profile and specific interests in the architectural field. With two fellow students he has been interviewed on KooZA/rch in 2018 about their Flows’ House, a brilliant interpretation of Hadidian themes, drawn from the Maxxi Museum in Rome. Gavril is particularly skilled in experimenting on 1:1 scale 3d models and shapes, as shown by his works of 2019 at the Global Summer School of the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, and at the School of Architecture of the University of Liège, Belgium. In this latter, Gavril widened his horizons through a semester as Erasmus+ student. Gavril’s master-degree dissertation has a theoretical approach, it looks at the urban scale, and it works on the hi-rise architectural typology. Gavril’s goal is to investigate how high-rises could be connected in order to densify their programs and to provide new public spaces for Hong Kong. The dissertation is conducted in Hong Kong, with the co-supervision of Thomas Chung, Associate Professor at the School of Architecture of The Chinese University of Hong Kong Shatin, New Territories. I am sure that Gavril’s hard-working attitude, curious and energetic character will make him an effective contributor to the office, in which he will thrive. Let me know if there is any other information I can provide. Best regards,
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October 03, 2019 Torino
Dear Sir/Madame, During this year we had the pleasure to work with Gavril Balan and we are proud to write a recommendation for him. Gavril is creative person with great curiosity and enthusiasm and established himself as someone able to work responsively. He possesses a good understanding of design and architecture and has shown the ability to relate his experience in both the conceptual and technical aspects of the profession. In the results of his work, Gavril showed great attention to the shapes and the functions of the city and an important consciousness about the questions and the issues of architectural design and composition, so that he was one of the best interns in our Studio. Gavril is an enthusiastic person who works well within a team and I know he will take advantage of every challenge offered and continue to grow while making positive contributions to the projects. If there is any need for further information please do not hesitate to contact me. With the warmest regards,
Luca Maria Gandini Architect, Flarchitetti
F:L architetti Corso Re Umberto 10 10121 Torino - Italy flarchitetti.com lmg@flarchitetti.com +393351039467
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Vertical new space MASTER DEGREE THESIS - PROF. Manfredo di Robilant, Thomas Chung programs: Rhino, Grasshopper, Illustrator, Gis, InDesign, Phostoshop year: July 2020 Verticality as man’s conquest, elevation to heaven that finds its materialization in the skyscraper. A continuous fight against gravity, which has pushed the man to build taller and taller buildings, experimenting new technologies to satisfy this need for verticality: power, defense, or the divine, many reasons have led to the birth of this architectural typology. The research work starts with the study of the Skyscraper as an architectural and urban element. Analyzing it both in its intrinsic aspect as a city within the city, and in relation to the urban fabric where verticality meets its horizontal dimension, and it is when the tower building meets the city that we begin to talk about the vertical city. One of the paradigms of the city’s height development is Hong Kong, chosen because its aspiration to heaven is not due to a demonstration of power and conquest, but it
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represents the only solution for growth in a metropolis where horizontal expansion is not possible. This territorial limitation has made the Asian capital an open-air laboratory on verticality, where the concept of the skyscraper has evolved from a simple tower to a complex urban element up to the birth of megastructures. Through research in the field, the merits and defects of this typological evolution have been outlined, finally identifying the relationship between person, skyscraper and vertical city, wherein an extreme capitalization of available space has not been preserved public space, which is instead created spontaneously by the inhabitants. The final result of the research is a metaproject resulting from the analysis carried out, where we see an opening of the skyscraper towards the city, going to accelerate the process already underway of verticalization by incorporating public space in its vertical growth.
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flows’ house COMPOSITION - PROF. SUBHASH MUKERJEE programs: Rhino, Illustrator, Photoshop, AutoCad team: Belfiore Valeria, Brao Rebecca year: January 2018
“Flows’s House” is not a simple apartment building but it is originated from the idea in which movement, flows, sinuous lines and connection coexist with context; and it’s from the relationship with the context that it is started to develop the project. In fact, through the study of the flows and dynamisms that are generate in the area, it is like the structure was born from the continuous movement of people and vehicles. The set of these flows are derived from the interaction with the context and they start from the existing building and then deform and close in the new structure, giving strength to the building and strong dynamism. The residence consists of four volumes that intertwine and intersect with the existing building, in order to have different heights and elements of contrast
between full and empty spaces; inside the fulcrum is concentrated in the stairwells, which are also made up of an interweaving of floor, which, thanks to the use of different materials and colors, create suggestive atmospheres for those who pass through them. It was chosen to simplify the facade in order to give more importance to the intervention. As for the existing building, it was deciding to maintain a sense of continuity, through a less invasive method, with the use of ventilated facades that improve the building from both an aesthetic and technological way. The intervention involves the use of HPL panels that allows to have a second skin for the building, through a neutral color. With this operation, the classic block of Turin is intensified, opened and crossed by the city.
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arcadia COMPOSITION - PROF. MANFREDO DI ROBILANT programs: rhino + grasshopper, illustrator, photoshop, autocad team: Aprile-Ximenes Umberto, Ferrari Daniele year: June 2018 Doomsday is not so far. Despite the numerous alarms launched by scientific community, the egoism of the man is prevaricating at the expense of Mother Nature. Global warming, pollution, climatic change, deforestations, excessive exploitation of the resources, are well known to all civilized countries. However, they keep on ignoring, mostly worrying about capitalization rather than environmental sustainability. While prospectuses concerning our future keep on worsening, the greatest part of the humanity seems to move backwards. This tendency is becoming irreversible. We don’t trust anymore in mankind, and newspapers daily confirm our pessimism. But when the day of the judgment will arrive, we will be ready. Looking for a more resilient future of the city, we create a new plan zero through a forest of pillars, leaving the ground floor space free for a wild and uncontaminated vegetation, increasing the permeable surface of the soil.
This space is a open plot, permeable to the people, that allows the connection between the city and the new zone of expansion, considering the future rehabilitation of the various factories of the industrial zone. This “plateau” allows at the same time a new vision of two conflicting but connected places.This connection is pronounced by the new bike path that connects itself to the preexisting one to facilitate the light viability among the North-East zone and the station. The fundamental role of two elements is evident in the project, referable to the firstborn ahistorical essence of architecture: the pillar and the surface. In particular, the pillar, over the structural role, becomes the artery of renewable energies and traditional equipments. In other words, it becomes a “smart” pillar. With this project, we want to show that a renewable future is possible, and this is only a fragment of a wider urban planning to a bigger scale, preparring ourselves to the worst.
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abacus of modules
double couple 2 double beedrooms short term lease
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double room 1 double beedrooms short term lease
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student rest
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hashtag DESIGN - PROF. ALOYS BEGUIN & LUC MABILLE programs: rhino + grasshopper, illustrator, photoshop, autocad team: Barbieri Maddalena, Le Gallo Alexis year: January 2019 Hashtag celebrates simplicity and works like an infinitely expandable Metabolist system. All its connections are visibles; the boards assemble, the keys stabilize them and the resulting graphic game forges the identity of the shelf. The L, T and X pieces are used to extend the shelf in any direction according to the needs of an increasingly sought after modularity in our societies. It is easy to mount and survives each movement to be reassembled in the next place without any means of external fastening. Hashtag also established a relation to the simplicity of its homogeneity. All the pieces are made of multiplex birch wood and ensure consistency
in the simplicity that the shelf promotes, while playing on the singularity of the material that is the differentiated appearance of the slice and the surface of the board. The shelf offers a standard depth of 35cm allowing us to display books, vinyl, clothes, plants and other objects of daily life thus deploying horizontally or vertically. Hashtag , thanks to the combinations offered, is also like an alternative to separating walls fragmenting our living spaces into small rooms. In a way, this “screen” modifies the space, divides it and conditions it, allowing objects to be placed on both sides of the unit. “ Hashtag is therefore an ode to composition, combination and expansion.
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TWO OTHERS SHELFS IN THE BISTROT -LE CANARD SAUVAGE - BXL
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iaac_gss TUTORS: ALDO SOLLAZZO, RODRIGO AGUIRRE, RICARDO MAYOR year: July 2019
Cities are a dynamic combination of digital and physical infrastructures, shaping the urban landscape. Water, energy, and mobility infrastructures play a crucial role in the economic, social and environmental evolution of our habitats. Enhancing these, in terms of performance and resilience, is critical in order to adapt to the 21st century’s extreme urban context. In addition, a sustainable and efficient infrastructure development is a key component to connect and integrate cities to better serve their citizens.
Understanding these factors is very important in determining how infrastructure can contribute positively to the community and the environment it is intended to serve. Technology and innovation can provide a new perspective to face these emerging needs, proposing novel strategies for the development of new hybrid infrastructure. The digitization of our built environments allow to introduce local solutions, configuring productive and interactive public spaces towards performative urban infrastructure.
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net YAC - plastic competition programs: rhino + grasshopper, illustrator, photoshop, autocad, v-ray team: Alessia Rapetti year: August 2019 The main idea is to create an organic construction, made with reused materials in which the active participation of people helps in structuring the installation. Simple scaffolding poles are covered by a fishing net.
On the net,people are invited to launch empty plastic bottles. As time goes by and the plastic content increases, the net increases weight and begins to fall, increasing the amount and causing a feeling of suffocation.
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if STUDENT TEAM year: 2018-2019
The Student Team IF was born starting from that questions, when questions became hypothesis and hypothesis became space. In the Politecnico di Torino we are students who follow theories, those are like direct glances to the future by past authors and scientists. That is useful for us, but they solve problems in a short future. We have to be awared about the results of our design products, we should be awared about the effects that our project will have inhundred years.
IF wants to be a new way of thinking. Different realities meeting themselves in order to create a collective vision, to experiment, immagine and change urban landscapes. IF is where the students of Politecnico can share their knowledge, their experiences, in order to look forward to the future. The objective is to immagine visions of a city that has not already been thought. We want to get in touch withstudents coming from other Universities will allow us to share our vision. We want to spread the network outside the country.
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WORKS
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SOLEDORO programs: 3DS MAX + V-RAY, photoshop, autocad team: F:L architetti year: May 2016
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SCHOOL GUGLIELMO MARCONI programs: 3DS MAX + V-RAY, photoshop, autocad team: F:L architetti year: Nov 2016
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R.A.I. Building entrance programs: 3DS MAX + V-RAY, photoshop, autocad team: F:L architetti year: Nov 2016
PRIVATE HOUSE
programs: 3DS MAX + V-RAY, photoshop, autocad,
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UBUDEHE programs: Rhino+ grasshopper, 3DS MAX + V-RAY, photoshop, autocad team: Luigi Borghetti, Carmine Greco year: June 2019
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RIBBON programs: rhino, autocad, hand modelling team: Simon Dejalle, Romain Defrang year: Jan 2019
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cromia @gavril94 Nowadays, social networks play a significant role in our lives. The profile of any social network is more and more a business card giving (potentially) the possibility to every person on this planet to see part of our life. My passion for photography has allowed me to accumulate thousands of photos over the years, and almost naturally the idea was born to start looking
for a chromatic connection between these photos that belong to different situations, places and circumstances. I decided to show these photos through my instagram profile @gavril94, almost as if it were a personal photographic project.
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contact balan.gavril@gmail.com +39 342 1478213 2019
