Giacomo Pimpini Design portfolio 2021
Curriculum Vitae DETAILS born: 1999 - Bergamo (IT) Based in: Eindhoven (NL) / Venice (IT) giacomopimpini@gmail.com
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EDUCATION 2018 - June 21 Eindhoven University of Technology, BSc Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences 2016 - 18 United World College of India, IB Diploma PROJECTS 2018 - 2020 Chairman of Technology for Global Development (university organisation) TOOLS Archicad, Autocad Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign Premiere Pro, Audition Microsoft Office
LANGUAGES Italian - Native English - Fluent Portuguese - Intermediate Spanish - Beginner German - Beginner
Living / Working How to create a space that challenges the usual segregation between living and working and between households?
2021 - 3rd Year Bachelor Research
The typological research is inspired by the work of the studio Dogma (Brussels). Its objectives are: 1. Break the line between domestic and working spaces. --> To break the duality between domestic (non-retributed) and non-domestic (retributed) labour. 2. Cooperative housing. One does not own a unit, but rather a share of a cooperative. --> To bypass real estate exploitation and achieve collective living. 3. The room, rather than the apartment, as the domestic unit. --> To ensure that every individual has a completely private room, which is a necessary tool for emancipation, as explained by V. Woolf.
Concept
This system is applied for a multi-household, collective space for living and working in Eindhoven (NL). The North side is dedicated to working and the South side to living. The central space is the heart of the building, where activities overlap and collective functions and interactions occur.
Materialisation
The building reveals in the structure its double nature. The cross-section shows the two symmetrical portal frames. Timber for the residential and steel for the working functions. The two frames almost meet at the centre, creating an unresolved tectonic tension. The North façade is a complex composition of levels of transparency given by translucent polycarbonate, U-glass panels and glass openings, which expose to the the city the physical work of the workshops.
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GF plan North elevation
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Cloister on the water How can the historical presence of monasteries and the physical presence of water confer identity and quality to the architectural design? 2021 - Bachelor thesis, work in progress
Urban design
The re-development of an industrial site on the bassin of Maastricht (NL) develops from the characterising presence of water and the pre-existence of monasteries throughout the centuries. The new neighbourhood is dedicated to the learning and performance of music.
Open-air theatre
Research
The element of water confers two qualities. Firstly, its sensorial qualities bring a distincitve identity to the neighbourhood: its glims, shadows and reflections and the intimacy of water touching our skin. Secondly, the river, the canals and the bassin are a network that promotes musical exchange across Europe. Instead, the historical presence of monasteries provides: 1) the typological example of the cloister and 2) a strong spatial structure based on linear axiality and strict division of functions.
Two linear and perpendicular intersecting axes are formed so as to create a central quadrilateral space. Water permeates the district and connects all functions to each other, to the city, and to the European network. An open-air theatre for performance on the water is built with a repetitive spatial frame which takes the monastic cell as its unit.
The conservatory
Work in progress is the development in detailed scale of the conservatory, which is located at the intersection of the urban axes. Instead of enclosing the space as a conventional cloister, the volume of the conservatory is dnamically shifted.
Dynamic axiality
Proposed plan highliting: axes, conservatory and pre-existing monasteries
Unit: monastic cell
Open-air theatre
Vertical urban tissue How can urban towers enrich city structures?
2020 - 2nd-year Bachelor This project concerns the design of an urban tower in the Diamant district of Antwerp (BE). Concept The main focus is an attempt to expand the urban tissue vertically. Urban tissues are predominantly studied horizontally, and notoriously associated with twodimensional Nolli maps. This tower expands the city’s structure vertically by distributing residential, commercial and public functions in height. This is achieved through the vertical stacking and connection of horizontal urban textures, which effectively become neighbourhoods. Application The tower is composed of a public plinth above which are stacked four identical moduli. Each 5-storied modulus is a mixedfunction neighbourhood.
The standard high-rise distribution of constraining corridors is replaced by rich spaces that bring “life between buildings”. Several diversified semi-private spaces mediate between the private apartments and the public square with its commercial activities. The triple-height publicly-accesible squares promote interaction as the hearts of each modulus. Moreover, they pierce the volume of the tower, reducing its visual weight. Materialisation The division between public and (semi) private domains is reflected in the double skin of the building. The outer skin of ceramic tiles covers the exterior façades and the public squares, while the interior skin clads the interior semi-public spaces and the private loggias carved out of the façade.
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Strijp-4 Redevelopment of an industrial site
2020 - 3rd-year Bachelor With Anna Maguire and Marijn Wichering This urban and architectural intervention is a proposal for the 4th phase redevelopment of the industrial area of Strijp-S, Eindhoven (NL). Vision The plan proposes: the redevelopment of an industrial building into a hub for flexible working; the new construction of dwellings for starters; all integrated in a rich public space which is the heart of the redevelopment. The three principles that guide the design are: 1) Liveliness, increased through the active use of plinths and mixed functions 2) Flexibility, which edheres to Strijp-S vision of a constantly evolving identity 3) Hard & Soft architectural expression
Urban scale The central square becomes an urban highlight, due to to its soft expression which juxtaposes the industrial harshness and gives space for a human scale. Its colours indicate functions and direct routing, integrating the square with its surroundings. Architecture Young urban professionals come to inhabit to heart of the neighbourhood, in a complex that promotes their interaction through shared spaces. The mid-rise tower and its long base form a residential which defines the space of the public square. The rigid expression of the tower resonates with the industrial heritage. The gridded façade cladded with light plaster and timber planks creates a strong rhythm and depth in the elevation.
Overview urban plan
Residential: longitudinal section
Central square
Residential: West elevation
Residential: combination drawing façade
Fragmented Berlin: historical analysis Model
How is fragmentation manifested in the context of the WWII destruction and reconstruction of Berlin? 1940
2021 - 2nd-year Bachelor With Luca Carstanjen and Irvi Çela While traditional research exposes the socio-political characteristics of the city, it is analytical drawing and modelmaking that give insight into its spatial characteristics. Topography, spatial order, building structure, infrastructure and architectural expression are analysed in order to comprehend the evolution of the urban fabric. Theoretical model O.M. Ungers, in “The city within the city”, provides a model for understanding cities as ‘Archipelagos” of fragmentation and continuity. Berlin is an Archipelago of urban tissues, with elements of continuity that withstand the most destructive forces and elements of fragmentation even in its most unified historical moments.
Architecture of fragmentation Zooming in from the urban scale, also architecture provides expression of fragmentation and continuity. a. The Reichstag A metaphor of the history of Berlin. Firstly, the bombs and the physical humilation by soldiers as indelible scars. Then, Christo’s cloths in 1995, which transform the building into a tool to discuss the destiny of Berlin’s reconstruction. FInally, the reconstruction of the dome as a symbol of transparency and democracy. b. Haus am Checkpoint Charlie, P. Eisenman A building which embodies in its architecture the latent, unresolved tension between present and past. c. Schutzenstrasse, A. Rossi The Analogous City as an appeal for continuity of form, where physical, imaginary and memory elements should form the basis for architecture.
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Schutzenstrasse block
Cleaved Watch here: https://youtu.be/rr2tJVS8NTk
2018 - Final diploma project In the role of Director and Editor With Antoine Durbigny and Emma Vrieswijk An experimental drama which, through a dance, tells the story of a relationship which is both wonderful and overwhelmingly toxic. As the lovers cleave apart and cleave to each other, their memories and emotions emerge and explode in their choreography.
Giacomo Pimpini Design portfolio 2021