GIANLUCA TARABORRELLI’S PORTFOLIO
ME
gianluca taraborrelli
Interior & Furniture Designer
WHEN I BECOME INSIDE OF THE
WAS A CHILD, MY BIGGEST WONDER WAS THAT MY DRAWINGS COULD TRUE. FOR ME DRAWING HAS ALWAYS BEEN A WAY TO EXPRESS WHAT’S MY MIND AND MY HEART; A REAL WEAPON TO GIVE VOICE TO MY VISION WORLD AND MY INTERPRETATION OF EVERYTHING’S AROUND ME.
I’M GIANLUCA AND I’M ITALIAN. I WAS BORN ON APRIL, 26TH 1989. I HAVE A SCIENTIFIC HIGH-SCHOOL DIPLOME AND I STUDIED INTERIOR DESIGN AT THE DESIGN SCHOOL OF POLITECNIC OF MILAN. I AM EXTROVERT, SMART AND EASYGOING, WITH MANY INTERESTS, SUCH AS DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE OF COURSE, PHOTOGRAPHY, FASHION, SPORT... TO IMPROVE MY SKILLS, IN 2014, I APPLIED FOR A SIX MONTHS ERASMUS PERIOD, STUDYING FOR ONE SEMESTER AT THE LAHTI UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCE, IN FINLAND. I STUDIED FURNITURE DESIGN WORKING WITH WOOD, METAL, CERAMIC... COLOURS, SHAPES AND NATURE IN FINLAND HAD BEEN MY MAIN SOURCE OF INSPIRATION, HELPING ME TO REACH MY OWN STYLE. I’M A DREAMER AND I LIKE TO SET MY MIND FREE AND THINK ABOUT THE MOST DIFFERENT THINGS, AND SO IS MY DESIGN. I LOVE GETTING INSPIRED BY THE THINGS OF THE WORLD AND NATURE, BEING FASCINATED BY COLOURS, GEOMETRY AND SHADOWS. I CONSIDER MYSELF AS A KIND OF MINIMALIST WITH AN IRONIC AND SURREALIST MIND.
MY SKILLS
LANGUAGES ITALIAN Native language EGLISH Comprehension: Speaking: Reading: FRENCH
SKILLS
Compreension: Speaking: Reading:
CAD 2D DRAWINGS: HAND DRAWINGS: MODEL BUILDING & PROTOTIPING: 3D MODELING: RENDERING: GRAPHICS: TEAM WORKING:
COMPUTER SKILLS Windows System: Mac System: Adobe Illustrator: Adobe Photoshop: Adobe Indesign Rhinoceros: Maxwell Render for Rhino: V-Ray for Rhino: Keyshot: Autocad:
MY PROJECTS
E.G.G. T.Y.T _ TAKE YOUR TIME D.DROP MAE GEAD LAHTI JHON 3SU3 FLU APPE BECCO MOI YING YANG .OBJ
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E.G.G.
CONCEPT HOTEL ROOM SYSTEM & RESTAURANT
Class: METAPTOJECT WORKSHOP _ 2010/11 Theachers: G, Simonelli, G. Rizzi Team Work: Gianluca Taraborrelli, Mariangela Varalli, Chiara Valsecchi, Valentina Villa
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the Project
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Cross-section
Elevation
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plan _ first floor _ bedroom
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Plan _ Ground Floor _ entrance+living+bathroom
E.G.G. comes from a deap research about the theme of excess and exclusiveness. It is the concept for an atomic-structured hotel made of 3\5 rooms and a little restaurant, that can be put into the wilde nature, for an amazing and exclusive experiences. A kind of cell to be setted in the most different parts of the world. The interiors are designed like a little city loft: a big and confortable bathroom, a livingroom, and a bedroom upstairs, where the guests can relax and stear at the nature allround. All the interiors are decorated and designed basing on the typical colours palettes and the textures of the choosen location.
Australian reef SPRING
maroccan desert SUMMER
Canadian hood AUTUMN
finnish forest WINTER
4 different landscapes + 4 different part of the word + 4 different mood and color pallettes 11
Ground floor prospective view
Rendered view _ ground floor _ bathroom 12
Rendered view _ Ground floor _ bathroom
Rendered views of the restaurant: the big table and the panoramic kitchen
The E.G.G.’s restaurant is designed to ‘disappear’ in the environment. The place is simple and minimalistic: a unic big room, furnished by panoramic kitchen and a big 10 places-table where guests, can stay together, contrasting with the solitary atmosphere of the rooms, as they are part of a big family. The guests are surrounded by the ‘in-coming‘ nature, thanks to the big windows.
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5 setted Cross-section of the restaurant
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TYT
‘take your time’,project for urban spaces
BACHELOR PROJECT Class: FINAL MASTERCLASS 2011\12 Theachers: Giovanna Piccinno My own project
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the Project
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Concept: shape and space creating
TAKE YOUR TIME is a project that deals with the theme of living and moving into urban spaces, creating new behaviours and giving new possibilities to slow down peoples’s everyday “busy running“. Cutty Sark Museum (Greenwich, London) gave me the inspiration to create the characteristic shape of this project: a “V“ shaped modular solid, that is declined to create two kind of benches ans the structure of a temporary pavilion named COVER. The porject aims to answer the different needs of Greenwich square quartier. the “V“ shape is able to change the normal streams of people, mixing obstacles with a new bench system. the triagular shape is ORIGAMI inspired and remind us about traveling and discovering, like a paper plane or waves coming out from the asphalt pavement for Cutty Sark sailer.
Maquette pict: woman sitting on the bench 17
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The whole project setted in greenwich cutty sark square
the smaller Bench and different behaviours 18
The bigger bench and behaviours
MAquette pict: The bigger bench and
behaviours 19
Maquette pict: the smaller bench and behaviours
Left and right views
Back view
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Front view
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top view
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Mid cross-section (AA’) of he pavilion
COVER is the name of my Bachelor Degree project. It consists in the design of a temporary Pavilion for a temporary bookshop, to be placed in front of the new Cutty Sark Museum in london. It deals with the idea of a macroscopical ORIGAMI-shaped structure, reminding a very big paper plane; a 40 meters long roof-cover containing the space for the bookshop, a LANDMARK for the city in wich people can stop and have a rest from their everyday life.
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Rendered view of the project
To give a texture to the very big shape of the bookstore roof-cover I designed a modular panel system based on the parallelogram shape. The modules are able, if combined, to create holes and tridimensional texture , giving movement and shadows to the white facades of the roof. Schematic View of the holes in Cover’s roof pannels 22
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technical details of COVER’s texture and paper model
COVER is a place where to take a little break from people ‘fast trucks‘: every part is designed to talk about confort, with sitting system and natural light effects, and invite people to stay and pass across the structure. Under COVER’s right wing people can stay and rest: there they can find a multi-postural wooden sitting system, that gives the user many possibilites. Multipostural sitting system under COVER’s right wing: plans and views 23
Rendered View: the project and its landscape
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D.DROP
WATER KIOSKS FOR THE CITY OF MILAN
Class: Final Workshop 2013\14 Theachers: I. Migliore, Servetto, P. Bosoni Team Work: Gianluca Taraborrelli, Mariangela Varalli, Elena Ornaghi
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the Project
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42 %
0-15 YEARS
20-60 YEARS
30 % OVER 60
HOMOGENEOUS DISTRIBUTION ALL OVER THE TERRITORY
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Research SOUNDING DATA: 50 people from the quarter under analisys
QUARTIERE (303) SE R
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YES ALWAYS NO (Smartphones & Tablets)
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EVERYDAY LIFE
INFORMATION
SCENARIO
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MILAN Crysis of the system + Primary NEED
City Landmark
DRINKING JECT THEM E PRO
WATER
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN PRICES
The 21,2% of ItalianS preferes TAP Water because of economical reasons
PRICE GAP MATERIALS, INSTRUMENT AND BUILDING PHASES
DISTRICT 303 Gorini quarter
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ITALIAN PEOPLE prefere TAP water for economical reason
Sparkling Water Still Water Heavy Sparkling Water
TAP Water Buy Water
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CITY OF WATER _ Suburban Reavers _ City fountains _ Whater houses
WATER: element VS product
Milan WATER is one of the purest in Italy and maybe also in Europe, nevertheless Milan people don’t really appreciate it and prefere buying water at the supermarket, wasting their money and a really big resource. After a long and very deep research about milan and theme of WATER we created a service making the most of the capillarity of milan city newspaper kiosks and milan super pure TAP WATER, including a sponsor brand as Keep Cup and involving people into cool brand new habits.
EFFERVESCENT FRUIT, COFFEE AND SWEETS FLAVOURS FOR WATER
SPONSOR BRAND AND PRODUCTS DISTRUBUTER
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REDESIGNING THE KIOSK ARCHITECTURE MILAN PURE TAP WATER
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Front, back and side views of D.Drop
D,DROP’s name and shape come fron the conceptual geometrical abstraction of a drop of water. The plan is circular; The structure is made of wooden curved stiks covered both outside 0 and inside by a Barrisol skin that gives D.DROP and organic and fluid aspect. The interior is really simple.A’ The pieces of furniture are made A by a steel structure covered in SKINWOOD, floor is made in EPDM, creating a urban mood, as the outside floor continues Ninside the structure.
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AA’ cross section: interior furniture and materials 29
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Gray EPM Flooring pannel
Barrisol ‘Metallic’ Outside and inside skin D.drop plan and materials
D.DROP PIECES OF FURNITURE
1_Cash register desk, front and side view and songitudinal section
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2_‘DROPS‘ wall Modular container (front and side view)
3_Skin Wood polyfonal Seatting System, with water dispen,
1_BUY
THE
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BETWEEN S,M,L, THEN CHOSE YOUR KIND OF GLASS.
2_CHOSE FROM 1 TO 3 OF YOUR FAVOURITE ‘DROPS’ AND PUT IT INTO YOUR GLASS.
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3_FILL YOUR GLASS WITH MILAN TAP WATER: CHOSE BETWEEN: SPARCLING, COLD AND HOT WATER.
Schematic prospective view of the project and service phases 31
Conceptual Maquette of the project
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MAE
modern art exposition pavilion
Class: EXPOSITION DESIGN WORKSHOP_ 2013 Theachers: Nico Vetura Team Work: Gianluca Taraborrelli, Mariangela Varalli, Jennifer Zeni
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symbolic prospective view of the project
elevation 3 _ Front view _ Entrance
Cross section (BB’)
Elevation 2
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Elevation 1
Plan
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MAE is a Minimalistic concrete pavillion for modern and contemporary art exposition. The architecture aims to create deep and strong emotions into the visitor, who moves into the space observing the art collection pieces hiding behind every corner. It is great sensorial experience for the user who is put inside infinite game of light and shadows, reflections and silence; water follows him quite everywhere and gives life to the concrete walls.
Cross section (AA’); below 3D view of the pavilion
A dinamic architecture that plays with volumes and shapes, open and closed spaces and blades of light.
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The red color of cast-iron gives strength to the main point of the pavillion: the entrance, the waterfall-fountain a nd the sculpture metaphisical square in the back scultural garden.
The Sculpture Garden, the Cast iron TOTEMS and the Pool
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The full-concrete structures highlights the shapes of the architecture and its spaces, designed by natural and artificial lights. Water is an element that devides and unifies, it guides the visitors thouought the pavillion. The concrete walls texture underlines orizzontal nature of the architecture. Cast-iron creates with its colour some kind of landmarks, focusing the eyes of the observer on the main points. Artificial lights reproduces quite the same effects of natural light.
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On the right the Pool anc the cast iron fountain 36
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4 Different views of the pavilion and interior view of the bookshoop
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7 Different Corridor views and light effects 37
8 View on the Pool and walking path from inside and Marble bench
Cartboard model: study of natural light and shadows 38
Cartnoard model: concrete bench detail and naural light / pool corridor and scolptural fountain
TOP VIEW OF THE ROOF AND SCULPTURE GARDEN 39
THE SCULPTURE GARDEN ; CARTBOARD MODEL TOP VIEW OF THE NINE TOTEMS SYSTEM
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GEAD
contemporary art&design gallery, lahti(fi)
MASTER DEGREE FINAL PROJECT Class: MASTER DEGREE INTERIOR DESIGN Theachers: Nico Ventura My own project
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Symbolic Gallery space prospective
ACTUAL APPEARENCE
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Actual appearence of the main longitudinal section of the station
Actual appearence of the main ground floor of the station 42
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Main streeams of People Main Architecture Connections
Construction phases of the Gallery starting from the analysis of the connections between the different architecture levels and the main streams of people, creating new connections and new spaces. It wants to exalt the external functionalist aspect of the architecture, projected in 1939 by Kaarlo Kononen, and transform the interiors in a metaphisical and modernist style white-cube gallery for contemporary art and design, by using sculptural and monolithic elements and a deep research about minimalism and geometrical shapes.
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STATE OF THE PROJECT GEAD LAHTI: main floor plan 44
GEAD LAHTI is the project for the rifunctionalization of lahti (FI) bus station architecture and its surrounding as a contemporary art and design gallery.
Main Cross-section_the entrance space
Main cross-section of the gallery; the entrance space
I decided to preserve the original aspect of the entrance space, transforming it into a passing space, connecting together the two different parts of the city of Lahti. I created more doors and connected together different spaces and volumes of the architecture and added a white painted iron stair, with an installative and conceptual aspect and a brass sinuous handrail, inspired by Alvar Aalto’s projectr, to linking together the step Floor with the terrace. I preserved the original lighting system from 1939.
Rendered view: the entrance space. the original lamps and the new steel and iron stair
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birch wood
brass 46
polished concrete
Glass
rough concrete the main floor of the gallery and main materials
The composition of the interiors creates a fluid space with a fluid usability: the visitor can explore every corner, coming in straight relationship with shapes, elements and the inner volumes of the architecture. All the rooms are designed to reflect a sense of solemnity and stearnnes; the double-hight spaces give the interiors rhythm and dynamicity. The bar/bookshop space creates the occasion for citizens to find a new meeting point, always being surrounded by art and culture. Maquette pict: the exhibition area; Below Symbolic Prospective of the exhibition Area 47
Symbolic Prospective of the exhibition Area
full prospective view of the exposition gallery space 48
the spaces in the exposition gallery area are designed around the main element: the ramp, that merges toghether functionality and aesthetics: it is designed to permit expositions, and its shape divides the all area into differents spaces, connecting together different levels and rooms, creating a landmark element inside the gallery. the archetypical triangular shape of the section of the ramp is here emphatized by the white concrete triangular septum holding the side of the ramp. Rendered view of the ramp and the access to the outer space
The exposition gallery space, side view 49
rendered view of the second exposition room
prospective full view of the circular ramp and bookshop + bar area 50
Also the bar/bookshop area is designed starting from a central and unic solid and sculptural elements. The rounded shape of this part of the architecture suggested me the creation of a big white circular ramp, the big white curve embrasses the columns and creates fluid flows for the users. MATERIALS, INSTRUMENT AND BUILDING PHASES
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Front and side views of the concrete circular ramp
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rendered view of the bookstore space and the circular ramp
Prospective view of the garden project 52
To complete the design of my project i wanted to approach also the design for the station parking area transforming it into a new park/square for the city of Lahti. I created green areas and water ponds, potitioned trees and sitting systems and caractherized the space thanks to geometrical shapes and natural elements, always trying to exalt and give importance to the gallery architecture. Top view of the whole garden project and architecture
night rendered view of the architecture: the clock tower and the rink on ice 53
The clock tower top is the absoltire landmark of the project: i decided to give it more importance placing a lighing cube on its top, transforming it into a sort of lighthouse. The gallery architecture is now surrounded by a water pool that during the cold finnish winter can be used as a rink on ice The garden project_ green areas and paths in winter
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JOHN
dimensions-thinking pictures series
Class: INTERIOR DESIGN WORKSHOP _ 2012\13 Theachers: S. Jung, G. Vogliazzo My own Project
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cross-section
Elevation _ front
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Elevation _ side
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top views
3d sketch visualization of the architectural maquette
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JOHH is a 1:200 scale, blue-painted puppet, put into a 1:200 paper maquette, realized by hands cutting 1000 sheets of blank A5 format paper, creating a space resembling a huge mysterious cave. JOHN one day decided to explore that cave but he got lost, and this is a pictures series describing JOHN’s adventures, dealing with macrophotography and the change of scale of an object, depending from the point of spectator or photograper’s view.
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John getting lost into
the cave
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John getting lost into
the cave (night time)
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John getting lost into
the cave (night time)
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3SU3
MODULAR \ RECICLED \ EXPERIMENTAL STOOL
Class: EXPPERIMENTAL WORKSHOP _ 2014 Theachers: Wesa Damski My own project
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3SU3 top material detail
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MATERIALS, INSTRUMENT AND BUILDING PHASES
3SU3 is an experimental wooden and modular stool obtained by assembling together four pine wooden, square-sectioned poles coming from an old railway fence. Every pole has a 10x10 centimeters squared section, and one pointed sharp extremity. I decided to assemble and screw together nine different pieces to crearte a massive and solid-wooden stool, using four pointed parts as legs. I also decided to remove the original red colour quite everywhere but in the bottom part, creating a particular red cross shape. The top, had been polished to be smooth and nice to touch.
side view
top view
Bottom view 63
the Project
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FLU desk lamp
Class: MJS_ 2O14 Theachers: Heikki Ruoho My own project
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Flu lamp: detail of the metal white painted sheet
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concept sketches
230 mm
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dimensions and views
real aluminium prototype _ front view and details 68
Flu lamp details and light-on view
FLU is an experiment for a lampshade, taking inspiration from nature and insect world. It aims to represent lightness and geometry of a wing of an insect as a butterfly, trying to reduce and abstract those aspects into minimal terms. It is designed by cutting, bending and folding a sheet of aluminium as it is an ORIGAMI creation. FLU is a desk lamp, that creates atmosphere with shapes of light and shadows on the wall not disturbin the user: the folded shapes hide perfectly the lamp bulb catching all the direct lights.
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Flu lamp prototypes on a wooden shelf
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APPE MULTIFUCTIONAL HANGER
Class: PRODUCT DEVELOPEMENT PROCESS _ 2014 Theachers: Wesa Damski My own project
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real scale, yellow painted metal prototype
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boxes
APPE is a project inspired by the perfection of nature. It borrows the semplicity of the hyve simple hexagonal shape to create a minimal and smart piece of furniture with a graphical and artistical soul. It is an organizer and a hanger, and gives you the possibility to decorate a space with a very simple and colourful object. Yellow is the colour of concentration but also of happyness and what is better than some honey to make your house smyle.
APPE’s six components
Details reveal APPE’s semplicity and functionality. It is realized in five different yellow metal components that permit the user to combine more than one hanger together personalizing his own space, with different combinations, adapting to every kind of spaces; the wooden hexagonal boxes can also be combined very easily just changing their position on the hanger: the hexagon is a “magical” shape that is able to build together fastastic geomeztries with great strength.
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Render _ detail of APPE’s boxes system 74
Detail _ metal root and hanging system (real scale prototype)
front view (real scale prototype) 75
Detail _ metal root and hanging system (real scale prototype)
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BECCO ceramic cups
Class: CERAMIC WORKSHOP _ 2014 Theachers: Kimmo Kukkonen My own project
Pictures by Marta Wods
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the Project _ composition
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BECCO is the project of a family of cups, my interpretation of a couple of ceramic objects to contain hot and cold beverage and for a long or short drinks, like tea, coffee and hot chocolate but also cold milk and so on. The concept deals with the idea of sharing and the possibility to make your friend taste your drink, and project of a cup without handles; I hate handles! BECCO creates new habits for the users who has the possibility to use them however they want. The cups can be stucked up as they have all the same bottom shape. three of the little one are high as a big one.
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a) holding B) pouring\sharing C) being confident with your nose
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Big Mug and three little coffee cups 80
Three little cups are as tall as a big one
The spout of the big cup can be used as a handle itself but also to pour liquids into other containers and cups. Its shape was designed to permit people not to get their nose touched and dirt with liquids and coffee or chocolate foam. this detail gives the cup an interesting and enigmatic shape, and a funny habit and aspect to the face of the user, when other people see this. Thanks to its geomatrical and cilindrical shape the cup can be stucked up in many different ways, depending from the user preferences
The BECCO family 81
Coffee cup and spout: two different colours
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MOI
modular, five-pieces, wooden coffee table
Class: Cross Cultural _ 2014 Theachers: Mikko Lakkonen My Own Project
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the Project
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a) table top B) central cylinder-joint C) legs 84
MOI is the concept of a little wooden coffee table made out of white birch solid wood. It is designed in five separated parts that combine together without any kind of screwing or glue. the three legs cylindrical and rounded shape gives MOI a zoomorphic aspect; the central joint reveals the importance of the wooden connection, elevatng its strenght and function, transforming it into a archetypical aestethic detail of the project. the wooden table top holes in its bottom part insertion of the three with the joints, this strong and resistent.
render: the coffee table with cups on the top
presents three that permit the legs; together make the table
Render: two different version of the project 85
the Project: real scale, solid wood prototype
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YINGYANG ROCKING STOOLS FAMILY
Competition Proposal RIVA 1920 _ 3rd Cedar Wooden Stool Competition My Own Project
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the Project: yingyang
stool duo
YingYoung is the couple of cedar wooden stools i designed in the occasion of Riva 1920’s 3rd Cedar wood competition. The project aims to create a solid wooden object, Characterized by a monolithic appearence, that follows people’s habits and takes inspiration from rocking chairs curves that permit the stool to swing.
rocking system of the two stools and rendered view 88
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Dimensions and views of the project
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Front view of the stool Duo 89
Top view of the stools
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.OBJ pictures series
Class: CONTEMPORARY INTERIORS _ 2014\15 Theachers: F. Irace My own Project
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fifteen picture series previews
Every object is made in a certain material and has a certain colour. Sometimes we just use our objects without even paying attention to what we are holding or looking at. This project aims to open people mind giving a sort of key of interpretation to object world’s details. the ‘ingredients‘ are: the objects, backgrounds in different colours, and human body parts... Then Just open your eyes and try to see the meaning beyond!
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The Nutcracker Trittico on shocking-Pink Background
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BECCO’s cups trittico (model Roberta mantegazza)
.OBJ is a collection of pictures analizing theme of ordinary-life objects. We use to consider them as simple objects with just function but any signification; reflecting about their shape and colours Here background colours, the use of human body and different point of view give a deeper interpretation to the pictures that aim to elevate the sense of ordinary objects. Pure colours backgrounds isolate and elevate the sense of objectgiving you a new point of view; a particular camera shot is able to focus your attention on different aspects of the object, underlining its shapes and parts. Including human body inside the shot, the objects completely changes their meaning, resembling something different, new and unusual.
Most significative Picture of white trittico 94
two pictures from the red Funnel trittico, on magenta background 95
zCork trittico, with orange background