ARCHITECT | ARCH. DIPL. AAM - USI
GIOVANNI LEONARDO CAVALCABO’
A selection of works
TABLE OF CONTENTS Table of contents
3
Curriculum Vitae
4
RICUCITURE - Student Housing + Public Garden in Mendrisio
6
Shops and arcades in the medieval Bern
18
A towerhouse in Rio de Janeiro
26
A warehouse for contemporary art in Venice
32
A small house for an architect in Barcelona
42
Atelier Mario Botta S/S Semester - AA 2014/2015
Atelier Valerio Olgiati A/W Semester - AA 2014/2015
Atelier Valerio Olgiati S/S Semester - AA 2013/2014
Atelier Marianne Burkhalter + Christian Sumi A/W Semester - AA 2013/2014
Atelier Esteban Bonell S/S Semester - AA 2010/2011
GIOVANNI LEONARDO CAVALCABO’ ARCHITECT | ARCH. DIPL. AAM - USI
born: 19 - 07 - 1989
Corso Giacomo Matteotti 31 26100 Cremona - ITALY g.cavalcabo@gmail.com 0039 338 20 66 759
I earned a Master’s degree in june 2015 in arch. Mario Botta’s atelier with the project ‘RICUCITURE - Student housing + Public Garden’. I am a dynamic and ambitious young architect who possesses the design and development flair needed to plan, coordinate and be involved in all phases of an architectural project. On top of all of this I have good communication skills and positive attitude, my attention to details and really good problem-solving skills ensure that every project I work on is done accurately and to the highest possible standard. Even if my naural tendency regards the humanistic aspects of a project above all, the study of fundamental architectural courses at the Accademia, such as architectural structure, mechanics and materials science, made me realize that architecture also emphasizes on the more essential functional and practical aspects of an object. I also believe that an architect must be a sociable and humanistic being; the architect performs a crucial role in modern societies by creating new environments, and for these reasons I strongly believe that architects should undertake full responsibility in affecting every individual’s life.
WORKING EXPERIENCES CCL Architetti Oct 2014 - Feb 2015
Junior Architect - Architecture and Urban Planning Piazza Besso 5, 6900 Lugano - SWITZERLAND www.ccl-architetti.ch
Studio Arkpabi May 2012 - Jul 2012
Intern - Architecture and Urban Planning Via Palestro 1, 26100 Cremona - ITALY www.arkpabi.it
HASSELL Studio Jan 2012 - Apr 2012
Intern - Architecture and Urban Planning 61 Little Collins St, Melbourne VIC 3000 - AUSTRALIA www.hassellstudio.com
NMBW Architecture Studio Sep 2011 - Dec 2011
Intern - Architecture and Urban Planning 2/70 Kerr St, Fitzroy VIC 3065 - AUSTRALIA www.nmbw.com.au
...................................................................................................................................
Accademia di Architettura Sep 2013 - Jan 2015
Assistant for exhibitions Largo Bernasconi 2, 6850 Mendrisio - SWITZERLAND www.arc.usi.ch
Bikinimilanomarittima Sep 2014 - ongoing
Graphic designer - Creative department Via Forte 17/1, 26013 Crema - ITALY www.bikinimilanomarittima.it
EDUCATION Accademia di Architettura, Mendrisio, SWITZERLAND Sep 2009 - Jun 2015
Diploma “Topics of architecture”, director arch. Valerio Olgiati Architectural design atelier / Diploma: arch. Mario Botta Essay: “Chaos and Complexity: the fractal dimension in the architectural work” Master of Architecture Design studios: arch. Valerio Olgiati (Msc2-Msc1) arch. Marianne Burkhalter + Christian Sumi (Msc1) Some projects were part of the exhibitions MAD at Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio and were published in the exhibitions’s catalogue. The Project ‘A Warehouse for Contemporary Art’ was part of the exhibition Gotthard landscape - the unexpected view in 2014. Bachelor of Architecture Design studios: arch. Matin Boesch (Bac3) arch. Esteban Bonell (Bac 2) arch. Bruno Keller (Bac 1) Some projects were part of the exhibitions MAD at Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio and were published in the exhibitions’s catalogue. The Project ‘Nuova vita a Valsolda’ was part of the exhibition held for the new opening of Sant. Anna Hospital in Como in 2013.
Delft University of Technology, Delft, THE NETHERLANDS Aug 2012 - Feb 2013
Bachelor of Architecture - scholarship Design studio: arch. Tom Avermaete
British Council May 2012
International English Language Testing System - IELTS Grade 7,5/9
Liceo Scientifico G. Aselli, Cremona, ITALY Sep 2003 - Jul 2008
Diploma di maturità di Liceo Scientifico
TECHNICAL COMPETENCES Computer skills
Autocad
ITALIAN
VectorWorks Photoshop Indesign
ENGLISH
Illustrator Microsoft Office Rhinoceros SketchUp
FRENCH
Maxwell Manual skills
Model Making Laser cutting
SPANISH
RICUCITURE - Student Housing + Public Garden in Mendrisio Atelier Mario Botta S/S Semester - AA 2014/2015 In this project the concrete has been interpreted as an almost sacred and tectonic material, pured in a rigid and unmovable grid which animates itself as soon as the program and the internal complexity are inserted. In addition to the generation of new fluxes within the city of Mendriso, sewing up neglected areas, and to its positioning in a synergetic spot becoming a filter among diverse traffic typologies, the new building appears as a big public garden beside the railway tracks filled with a dense and luxuriant vegetation surrounded by an inhabited wall where two-hundred students are allocated. The design of this introverted block is characterized by an accentuated horizontal stratification of the residential levels and by a series of vertical blades generating the basic space, the single room, here used as the generating unit of the project. The composition of these units, both in horizontal and vertical direction, with appropriate variations, translates itself in different residential units with various sections allowing the possibility of different lifestyles; the monotonous character of the structure overshadows itself and, although the use of standardized elements, the spatial configuration results articulated and complex. A certain anonymity emerges as a consequence, deriving from a variety in the appearance de-emphasizing the individual identity of each unit. On each floor a long and irregular corridor acts both as access to the dwellings and as an open-air community space, and each dwelling has a semi-private loggia freely accessible from the public corridor. The distribution of the loggias reveals the basic intention of introducing the most ‘exterior’ possible into the private zones, creating voids on the four external facades. This permeability and opacity effect, with levels and holes, reduces the massive visual impression bringing it back to the human scale.
ground floor plan
intermediate floor plan
cross section
longitudinal section
elevation
Shops and arcades in the medieval Bern Atelier Valerio Olgiati A/W Semester - AA 2014/2015 The fascination for this project comes from Bern arcades, a typical element that can be observed all around the city centre of the medieval city which became, thanks to its six kilometers of arcades, home of one of the longest shopping promenades in Europe. The first step was defining the tectonic element that, with its repetition, would have formed the building: starting from a bi-dimensional wall, and using both the positive and the negative part of an arc inscribed in it, I could define the facade and the strctural element which would have scanned the passageway. Due to the impossibility of continuing the horizontal linear system I decided to grow in height, creating a vertical tower with arcades on its four sides. The footprint of the building is a square and the plan is composed by two concentric ones: the outer square works as circulating system (the arcades), while the inner one is the core of the commercial area. In the ground floor plan is possible to notice an extension of the arcades connecting the building with the nearest ones; in the basement, only accessible from the people working in the shops are allocated the services and the storage area; the intermediate levels contain the shops and the top floor becomes a sort of covered piazza.
situation
top floor plan
intermediate floor plan
ground floor plan
elevation
A towerhouse in Rio de Janeiro Atelier Valerio Olgiati S/S Semester - AA 2013/2014 This family house rises a total of ten stories; each floor is dedicated to a single function and the structure gives the sensation that these functions are stacked one upon each other. The basic functions, the ones for the daily life are located in the bottom few floors where they are accessible to the occupants and where the majority of habitation will occur. The upper floors involve a journey; one is able to gradually escape the familiarity of the everyday while still circulating in the same house. The views of the surrounding landscape also transform as one climbs; from the field of tree trunks at ground level, to the city, around the intermediate floors, to ultimately arriving above the city line with views to the hill and the ocean. The column, motto of the semester, due to structural reasons, transforms itself and consequently transform the space around itself; it becomes thin and tight by ascending, in order to create different spaces, more open or more close, more extroverted or more introverted.
plans
section
detail 1:10
A warehouse for contemporary art in Venice Atelier Marianne Burkhalter + Christian Sumi A/W Semester - AA 2013/2014 This semester, starting from the analysis of the brazilian masters and focused on the theme ‘eccentric structures’ aimed to develop a new concept for a modern kunsthal in which it would be possible to store the art collections hosted at the Venice Biennale. The project consists in one big covered space containing three different paths intersecting one eachother throughout the entire building.
FLOOR PLAN
ground floor plan
TION A - A
ION A - A
longitudinal section
ILE
AG
FR
ILE
AG
FR
TION B - B ILE
AG
FR
ION B - B
cross section
ILE
AG
FR
B
- WEST ELEVATION
ION A - A
elevation
Eccentric: outside the norm, of the conventional usage, but also outside the centre, overdraw, overreached, stress loaded (from Greek ekkentros, ex out + kentron center). *adjective • 1(of a person or their behaviour) unconventional and slightly strange:he noted her eccentric appearance • 2 technical not placed centrally or not having its axis or other part placed centrally:a servo driving an eccentric cam • (of a circle) not centred on the same point as another • (of an orbit) not circular *noun • 1a person of unconventional and slightly strange views or behaviour:he’s seen as a local eccentric • 2a disc or wheel mounted eccentrically on a revolving shaft in order to transform rotation into backward-and-forward motion, e.g. a cam in an internal-combustion engine
detail
A small house for an architect in Barcelona Atelier Esteban Bonell S/S Semester - AA 2010/2011 The project for a house responded to a personalized plan in a location where the natural landscape was a determining factor; conceiving an exceptional environment in Barcelona’s countryside meant analyzing the relations between the interior space, so private and protected, and the external one, universal and open, with a careful evaluation of the space in-between and paying attention to the peculiar weather and light conditions.
plans
elevations
section
g.cavalcabo@gmail.com