architecture portfolio GIOVANNI GIBERTINI 2013 - 2020
architecture portfolio
G I O VA N N I G I B E R T I N I 2013 - 2020
PORTFOLIO This portfolio contains my master degree thesis, a selection of my university projects, some competitions and the result of my first internships. I graduated in 2019 with a thesis on urban planning about the regeneration of a central neighbourhood in the metropolis of São Paulo in Brazil. Thanks to the faculty of Ferrara, in which I studied for 4 years, I acquired good skills in the field of restauration, thanks to the faculty of Porto and to following experiences I had the opportunity to further explore the theme of project design. Hence my choice of developing a thesis in urban planning, to investigate another phase of the project in Architecture, to study the social dynamics unleashed in a urban agglomeration and how architecture influences and is influenced by them. The ethic of architecture and the belief it can improve the life of everyone it’s what made me choose to pursue the path to learn this craft six years ago.
CURRICULUM VITAE PERSONAL DATA
WORK EXPERIENCE
Giovanni Gibertini italian Architect born in Modena, the 26/04/1994
2019.09 - 2020.04 Internship at Iosa Ghini Associati Bologna, Italy 2019.05-2019.08 Internship at MASSlab Porto, Portugal
Via Archirola 79, Modena, Italy 2018.03-2018.04 Internship at Instituto Pedra San Paolo, Brazil
+39 059301911 +39 3209066608 giovannigibertini@gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/giovanni-gibertini-2122b5121/
FORMAZIONE
LANGUAGES Italian English Portoguese
mother tongue
Revit, Cinema 4D, SketchUp
2013-2019 UniversitĂ degli studi di Ferrara, Italy Master Degree Thesis on urban planning with the final resul of 110|110 L 2015-2016 University of Architecture of Porto, Erasmus+ Portugal
PROGRAMS Illustrator, Rhinoceros + Vray, Indesign, Photoshop, Autocad
2016.08-2016.07 Internship at CartieriA+ Modena, Italy
advanced level basic level
2014.12 Workshop Historic City Centers Workshop Jodhpur, India 2008-2013 Liceo scientifico A. Tassoni, High school diploma Modena
SELECTION OF WORKS
UNIVERSITY São Paulo, Brazil CENTRAL SUBURS
Porto, Portugal CENTRO NÁUTICO
Ferrara, Italy RESTAURO DI PALAZZO TASSONI
Projecto IV
Laboratorio di restauro dei monumenti.
Professors: Romeo Farinella, Elena Dorato, Luca Rossato, Benjamim Saviani
Professor: Graça Correia
Professors: Luca Rocchi, Manlio Montuori, Fabio Bevilacqua.
2018-2019
2015
2016
Rigeneration of an urban identity Thesis
COMPETITIONS AND WORKSHOP Porto, Portugal QUARTEL MONTE PEDRAL
Monsanto, Portugal SITE SANCTUARY
Porto, Portugal BARRACA DA QUEIMA
Jodhpur, India MANAK STREET
1° price - with MASSlab office
Arkxsite - architecture competitions
Concurso AEFAUP
Historic city centers workshop
published on archdaily: h t t p s : / / w w w. a r c h d a i l y. c o m . b r / br/926175/mass-lab-vence-concurso-para-masterplan-e-conjunto-habitacional-no-porto
published on Afasia archzine: https://afasiaarchzine.com/2020/04/bocchini-ballestrazzi-gibertini/
2019
2016
DRAWINGS Selections of drawings, sketches and paintings 2015-2018
Professors: Minakshi Jain, Marcello Balzani, Federica Maietti
2015
2014
U N I V E R S I T Y
São Paulo, Brasil
CENTRAL SUBURBS Regeneration of an urban identity
Master thesis in Architecture Professors: Romeo Farinella, Elena Dorato, Luca Rossato, Benjamim Saviani Colleague: Michele Millosevich 2018–2019
The problem of the suburbs and their recovery has become a topic dear to the metropolis of the whole world. The condition of morphological and functional marginality, congestion due to unplanned growth and extreme degradation of some areas are characteristics common to more and more metropolises. That of the suburbs is a theme that is changing and assumes various identities even within the city itself. Sao Paulo is not excluded from these phenomena.
Despite the centrality condition, the historic center is affected by a process of peripheralization. Here we found a corner of the city, the historic district of Bixiga, central but functionally peripheral, which historically remained excluded from urban evolution. This characteristic is the reason why the neighborhood is today in a state of widespread degradation, but it is also what made it peculiar. How to recover this central periphery and bring it back to being an active component for the city and how to insert it again in the
socio-economic dynamics, enhancing and respecting its unique identifying characteristics, is the question that our thesis has chosen to address.The project proposes a physical and social connection that reconnects the neighborhood to the polarities that surround it by revisiting an axis that has the multiple function of infrastructure and aggregation space. A proposal for multi-level services, which safeguards the identity of a neighborhood that is currently in crisis but that bears an important witness to the past of a disappearing city.
MACROREGIONS OF SÃO PAULO MUNICIPALITY
DECENTRALISATION OF WEALTH
PROGRAMAS DE INTERVENÇÃO URBANA
SÃO PAULO MUNICIPALITY “CENTRO EXPANDIDO” BELA VISTA DISTRICT - theme of the thesis HISTORIC CITY CENTER
Historic city center
DISTRICT RECONNECTION
CREATION OF PUBLIC SPACES
CONVERSION OF EMPTY BUILDINGS IN SOCIAL HOUSING UNITS
Bairro Liberdade
AXONOMETRY OF THE PUBBLIC SPACES ALONG RUA BARBOSA
Auditorium
Exibition Hall
Garden
Amministration | Distribution
Refurnishment Library
AXONOMETRY OF INTERVENTIONS ON VILA ITORORÃ’
PUBLIC SPACES ALONG RUA BARBOSA
NEW SPACES IN VILA ITORORÃ’
U N I V E R S I T Y
Porto, Portugal
CENTRO NÁUTICO
Projecto IV Professor: Graça Correia 2015
EXTERIOR FAÇADE
The project for the rowing center is located next to the Freixo bridge, in the neighborhood of Campanha in Porto. The quite complex functional program included, beyond the boathouse area and the training areas, one auditorium and a museal area, the accommodations and the canteen for the members of the center and an administrative area. The strategy was to create a single volume passing under the road and completely facing the river Douro. In fact the building opens up towards it thanks to a long glazed
façade, protected by the sun from an equally long concrete beam, and it reaches it through a gentle and wide ramp, which can also be used as a public space. On the opposite side, towards the street, the building appears instead as two distinct blocks of cement.
EXPLODED AXONOMETRY
U N I V E R S I T Y
Ferrara, Italy
RESTORATION OF PALAZZO TASSONI
Laboratorio di restauro dei monumenti. Professors: L. Rocchi, M. Montuori, F. Bevilacqua. Colleagues: Giulia Gorgoroni, Michele Millosevich. 2016
EXTERIOR FAÇADE
The project involves the restoration of the building that belonged to the ancient family of the Counts Tassoni, which is today part of the University of Architecture. The building was sold to the Province in the mid-nineteenth century, that used it for over a century as a mental hospital. Following the closure of the hospital, the Palazzo decayed until it was purchased by the University, which restored just a part of the entire complex. A first phase of our work consisted in analysing the actual state of the external fronts
and the indoors. This led us study the traditional architecture of Ferrara, in particular the study of the typical wooden floors, the use of the singular composite beams and their decoration of the 18th century. From the analysis of the state of degradation of the various parts of the building, we questioned ourselves about the modalities of their restoration. In the case of the ceiling, the beams and the wooden planks were consolidated and cleaned, and the gaps in the decorations were reinstated, chromatically highlighting the intervention.
The architectural project seeks for an integration of this wing with the spaces of the faculty, adding study rooms, a bar and a library, and guaranteeing and facilitating internal circulation. The project involves the addition of a staircase to the library at the meeting point between the Palazzo Tassoni and the other parts of the University. This new volume is covered by a showy marble coating to make it the landmark of the enterprise.
VIEW OF THE CEILING - current situation
CEILING - axonometric view
restoration proposal
STAIRCASE - faรงade
section
view from the courtyard
C O M P E T I T I O N S
Porto, Portogallo
QUARTEL MONTE PEDRAL Ideas competition | 1° price with MASSlab office 2019 pubblicato su archdaily: https://www.archdaily.com.br/br/926175/mass-lab-vence-concurso-para-masterplan-e-conjunto-habitacional-no-porto
The idea competition for the dismissed barrack in Monte Pedral, Porto, required a proposal for the construction of 50.000 mq of price-controlled residences, student residences and commercial refurnishment, on a plot of 25.000 mq, keeping the main wing of the existing building, today considered as an heritage. Our proposal started analizing the typologies of public space in Porto and then designing this kind of spaces as the key part in the drawing of the masterplan. We proceeded making a toolkit, a catalougue of residential typologies and shared spaces required to compose the residential blocks part of the masterplan. Thanks to this tool every single block was highly costumizable by the necessities and the carateristics of the future users and the request of the investors.
Monsanto, Portugal
SITE SANCTUARY Arkxsite - architecture competitions Colleagues: David Ballestrazzi, Mattia Bocchini 2016 published on Afasia archzine: https://afasiaarchzine.com/2020/04/bocchini-ballestrazzi-gibertini/
Wandering the cobblestone avenues, a visitor may eventually find himself climbing the path to the castle, heading to the remains of a walled fortress on the hilltop. Passing through its third gate and breaking free from its enclosed courtyards, the traveller may take the way to the ruins of st. Michael’s chapel. Along this path, he may cross a sanctuary. Two architectures fail to impose their presence: they bow to nature and they shily reveal to the traveller’s curiosity. Such as a good rest during a pleasant trip, the sanctuary is intended as the right place for contemplation it has, therefore, no architectural authority over its context. It is designed to meditate. On the left, the first architecture hides the history of monsanto and, on the right, the other one, built on the ruins of st. John’s chapel, hides the inner sanctum that represents the physical and metaphorical space for self-reflection. The dualism between collective and individual memory of this place is a tool through which the sanctuary interrogates visitor’s perception. The path then continues towards the village, passing through two granitic rocks bordering the sacral area. The body of the chapel is erected on the ruin’s stones in 60 cm thick layers of rammed concrete, whereas the sacred space in the upper floor is built in a smoother concrete, through the use of white cement, whereas the path is thought to be coated with a layer of poured lead.
C O M P E T I T I O N S
Porto, Portugal
BARRACA DA QUEIMA Concurso AEFAUP Colleagues: Giulio Marchetti, Thibaud Herent 2015
The competition required the design of the stand of the faculty of architecture for the Queima, the University fair. To a metal structure imposed by the competition notice we added a coating in corrugated sheets, recycled from one of the many abandoned buildings in the city. The sober exterior of the kiosk was contradicted by a cut in the paneling that showed gilded sheets, obtained by the use of isothermal blankets, illuminated by internal headlights, capable of making the barrack an attractor in the fair.
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Jodhopur, India
MANAK STREET Historic city centers workshop Professors: Minakshi Jain, Marcello Balzani, Federica Maietti Colleagues: Irene Ginesi, Rahul Dagli, Sai Netra Ramesh 2014
The area my group was asked to study was the Manak street, a way that lies between two chowks (squares): Amar and Manak chowks. Contrary to its nearby areas, this street is used more by the locals and presents very few shop for tourists. The ground floors of the buildings in the street are mainly shops, while the upper floors are used as residents. The street was developed during a period of 80-90 years and the first building is an old haveli, dated back to over 200 years old. If once all the buildings in the street were residential, later, due to the development of the area, the street started to be used for the transport of goods and items becoming in the end a wholesale bangle market, although still having some amount of residential structures.
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Selection of drawings made during the drawing class at the University of Porto, during the brazilian trip and during my years of study in Ferrara.
SPACES - Pen sketches
Pencil drawings
Various tecniques
OBJECTS - ink and charcoal
HUMAN FIGURE - penci and ink
G I O VA N N I G I B E R T I N I giovannigiber tini@gmail.com 2013 - 2020