2008 2016
LEANDRO CRISTOFARO
portfolio.
CONTACTS: leandro.cristofaro@gmail.com leandro.cristofaro +44 (0)7459945138
CONTENTS.
.INTRO 0. CV - studies and carreer .SELECTED PROJECTS 1. DESIGN MUSEUM 2. H HOTEL rome 3. OTRICOLI - International Workshop 4. PALAZZO FIRENZE 5. ART GALLERY 6. LIBRARY & STUDY CENTRE
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0. CV - studies and career
LEANDRO CRISTOFARO
21路10路1989 italian nationality
studies.
date title of qualification awarded
name and type of organisation providing education and training
date title of qualification awarded
name and type of organisation providing education and training
october 2012 - october 2015 (ROME)
Architecture Master’s degree - Part II corso di Laurea Magistrale in Architettura - Progettazione Architettonica grade: 110/110 with honors Università degli Studi Roma Tre Rome, Italy
october 2008 - july 2012 (ROME)
Architecture Bachelor’s degree - Part I corso di Laurea Triennale in Scienze dell’Architettura grade: 103/110 Università degli Studi Roma Tre Rome, Italy
career.
date position covered employer
date position covered employer
date position covered employer date position covered employer
october 2015 - present (LONDON)
Architectural assistant (full time) McDowell+Benedetti, 34-35 Hatton Garden, London EC1N 8DX, 020 3475 7500
april 2014 - july 2014 (LONDON)
Architectural assistant (full time) McDowell+Benedetti, 34-35 Hatton Garden, London EC1N 8DX, 020 3475 7500
july 2012 - august 2013 (ROME)
Architectural assistant, CAD technichan (part time) MarcoRiettiArchitetto, via San Salvaltore in Campo 42, 00186 - Rome, Italy
march 2011 - july 2012 (ROME)
CAD technichan (part time) DIPSA - Dipartimento di Progettazione e studio dell'architettura (Roma Tre) Proff. M. Zampilli, F. Geremia, Piazza della Repubblica, 10 - 00185 Rome, Italy please contact me for full CV and further information
more.
date position covered in collaboration with
date position covered in collaboration with
softwares
open house roma - may 2013
Steward during the manifestation, receiving guests OHR – Associazione Culturale Open City Roma, Via Giacomo Peroni 452, 00131- Rome, Italy
roma3.0 - international workshop - november 2012
Architectural assistant, CAD technichan ABDR - prof. Paolo Desideri, Via delle Conce, 20, 00153 Rome, Italy liraatvisuals roma, Via Nicola Pellati 62, 00149 Rome, Italy University of Waterloo, Piazza di Sant'Apollonia, 3, Rome, Italy Temple University Rome, Lungo Tevere Arnaldo Da Brescia, 15, 00196 Rome, Italy UniversitĂ degli studi Roma Tre, Largo Giovanni Battista Marzi, 10, 00153 - Rome, Italy
AutoCAD Vectorworks CAD Rhinoceros 3D Studio Max V-Ray (Rhino) Photoshop InDesign Illustrator Office
selected projects.
photo: Pompei i - Roman Basilica, 2013
FOREWORD
In the following pages will be shown a selection of projects mostly realized during my studies. Projects will follow a descending chronological order, from the last one realized for the graduation to the first one, realized during my first year in the faculty of Architecture in Rome.
1. DESIGN MUSEUM graduation thesis
FUNCTIONAL PROGRAM Proposal for a DESIGN MUSEUM in Rome. SITE: Project area is in Rome. The site is caractherized by a triangular shaped plan, with an acute angle. The area is surrounded by another museum, and Viale Angelico, a long road connecting Foro Italico and Vatican City. DESCRIPTION: Solving the ‘angle issue’ in a smart way is the
essence of the proposal. This lead the project to develop as a building divided in two branches, with a full height core among them, working as an entrance and foyer for the museum, comprehending all the public activities (bookshop, coffee bar, conference hall, cloakroom). In the meantime the branches are supposed to operate indifferently. One is for permanent exhibition (free entry) and the other is for temporary exhibition.
Hall. Triple height space with rooflight above. The full height wall on the backgroungd shows the current temporary exhibition. The mass in the middle is cut by a stair leading the public to the two branches of the museum.
Day & Night. The ceramic lattice lets the sunlight enter during the day, while, after the sunset, it reveals all the volumes behind.
Side Elevation. The Elevation on Viale Angelico is characterized with a ceramic lattice facade. This choice gave a strong shape to the building with the aim to fit the the surrounding buldings in terms of alignment. In the meantime the lattice let the opportunity to design with more freedom the internal spaces, dedicated to temporary
Ground Floor. Ground Floor plan is organized with five main elements (all theactivities with public access). The remaining core in the middle is the hall of the museum, working as a covered public space. the real visit at the museum strarts from the stair carving the bottom volume. In this way the access at the hall is possible from each side of the building, solving the issue of a triangular plan.
First Floor. First Floor plan correspond with the beginning of the visit at the museum. Once left the stair visitors go on the right side for temporary exhibitions(access with ticket), and on the left for the permanent one (free access). Taking the lifts, two on each side, lead the visitors at the top floor, from where is possible to start a descending path, floor by floor.
Section. Section cutting through the permanent exhibition spaces. Natural light reaches all the floors, thanks to the large rooflight and to the well created repeating the same cavity for each floor.
Side Elevation. Night view.
Scale model. Those photos show the alignments with the surrounding buildings. (highlighted in cyan).
Side and Front Elevations. The internal side of the building, facing a public space along the riverside is characterized with a cinetic facade. Structure composed of alluminium ‘tissues’. The aim of this element is to canalise the wind, keeping the building, facing south and east on that side, refrigerated during the summer. The idea was also to realize something constantly changing, just like Design does.
2. H HOTEL rome
FUNCTIONAL PROGRAM Proposal for a 200 rooms hotel (four star superior) including services like spa, gym, 2 restaurants (one inner to the hotel and a public one), small parking (for about 40 cars and 3 coaches). Possibility to demolish existing structure (beginning of 1900), preserving the biggest gallery. WHERE: Project area is in Rome, the area is now property of AMA, a roman waste disposal society, while originally it was a bus garage, property of ATAC, society that still manages transport in Rome. The existing building is dated 1920s, the ground floor in that period was 4.00 metres lower, so the project area today is lowered than the street level.
DESCRIPTION: The project solves a lot of critical questions about the contest. The gap in height is solved creating a natural downhill, leading users or inhabitants in a public park. Another entrance is designed to the hall where is possible to reach the lower level by car, taxi, or coach. The design of the park was a goal of the project, donating a new green area in the district. The proposal is composed by two rotated L-shaped building, the left one is rotated because the long arm is the retained gallery, and, as requested by functional program, it will be a public restaurant. The hotel volume is composed of two mirrored arms. The hall is designed at ground and lower ground floor.
Standard Floor Plan.
Scale model.
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Business Suite.
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CREATO CON LA VERSIONE DIDATTICA DI UN PRODOTTO AUTODESK
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Standard Room. The design of the furnitures is the main feature of the rooms. A bespoke joinery assure confortable spaces in the room. The bed and the desk are designed as a single element. The headboard becomes a desk.
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Standard Room.
CREATO CON LA VERSIONE DIDATTICA DI UN PRODOTTO AUTODESK
CREATO CON LA VERSIONE DIDATTICA DI UN PRODOTTO AUTODESK
Corridors. Lighting design of the corridors was part of the project. Hidden LED strips bring out all the niches of the doors, giving a dinaminc rythm and shape to the whole space. LED RGB lamps, using a whole chromatic range, give also the opportunity to change the ambient.
3. OTRICOLI - international workshop
theatre - stage and ticketing
FUNCTIONAL PROGRAM: -Proposal for an open air theatre sitting on the ruins of the roman theatre; -Exhibition and event pavilion in the ancient amphitheater’s ruins; -Bus stop and parking, including cafè/small restaurant and toilets; -Pedestrian connections between the archaeological monuments; -Cafè/restaurant: 300 covered square meters + 1000 outdoor square meters.
WHERE: Otricoli, important italian archaeological site, (roman age). DESCRIPTION: Teamwork (about 15 people) for the definition of the project, then divided in small groups. Personal work focused on the final presentation (graphic design of logo, pdf, printings, and slides) and to the scale model. The final project tried to solve all the requests, some design solutions are shown in the next pages.
Scale model. Site characterized by a complex morphology. The model helped all the team during the design stage.
Paths. Pedestrian connections from the parking to the archeological monuments was the most important request of the functional program. As shown in those pictures, the proposal wants to keep the access to the area 24 hours a day, in particular with the aim to use the new theatre and amphitheatre at night during the summer.
Day.
Night.
4. PALAZZO FIRENZE
FUNCTIONAL PROGRAM Site visits and surveys, with the aim to draw the current plan of the palace, and to notice the state of degrdation of the pavimentation of the inner courtyard and all the ground floor spaces. Suggest projects of intervention to give back the original shape and spaces to the building, modified through the centuries. WHERE: Palazzo Firenze is in Rome, in the inner city, is a building of the first half of 16th century. DESCRIPTION: This work was an occasion to indagate restorative measures and a subject like architectural restoration, very important for each architect, especially for those who study in Italy, a country rich of historical architectonic patrimony. First our team worked to field surveys to produce good drawings, fitting the real measures to reproduce them in scale with drawings, after this, we worked to show the state of degradation, especially for the pavimentations, as requested. The study of all the texts, that gave us informations about all the phases of the palace trough the centuries, was very important, indeed this was the reason because some intervents was proposed, like the re-opening of the balcony on the top floor, which was closed during the past centuries.
existing flooring
Courtyard.
Courtyard.
Proposed reopened Balcony.
5. ART GALLERY
FUNCTIONAL PROGRAM -Art gallery for generical expositions (paintings, photos, etc.) bookshop and coffee bar. 1500 sqm -2 conference hall (one inner to the gallery, one with external entrance). 500 sqm -restaurant 400 sqm and shops 600 sqm -offices 250 sqm -technical locals 250 sqm WHERE: Project area is in Rome, in Piazza Albania, a square along Viale Aventino, a big street connecting Piramide Cestia’s district to the Roman Forum and Colosseum area. DESCRIPTION: The building designed is composed of three embedded objects, everyone is oriented to strategical direction, in terms of view, they work like big telescopes. One overlooks the park near the square, where was built the post office by Adalberto Libera on 1933. The second one follows the direction of the street that links
the square with Testaccio district. And the third, the biggest one, which contain the biggest part of the gallery, concentrates on a climb lined with trees, that arrives on the top of a hill, where was built the San Saba church. For this reason the shape designed is totally fit to the contest, the gallery has a specific structure because of that location. This combination of volumes rests on a base, designed to solve the natural declivity of the square toward the park. Trought this base the final project imagines a foyer organized by a double height space, allowing the entrance trough both the heigts, in fact on the north side the height of the ground is higher (like the height of the base), while in the south side is lower. For this reason the project could give two different public squares to the city, divided by the art gallery, which are connected anyway by a “hole” (visible by the physical model photos). As visible on the following photo, the way of visit was designed to have just one direction, a one-way path, from a starting point on the top floor, to the end on the lower floor, where the users come back to the foyer.
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Scale Models.
First Floor.
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double height space
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restaurant
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6. LIBRARY & STUDY CENTRE
FUNCTIONAL PROGRAM: Library Area info area internet area 50 sql reading room 600 sqm Didactic Area 3-4 lecture halls, 30/40 seats (1.6 sqm/p) 1 conference hall, 100 seats (1.5 mq/p) 4-5 lecture halls for seminaries,10 seats (2 mq/p) Food-Bar Area bar, bar counter e tables service areas (kitchen, storage, locker room) Offices 2 administration offices 1 surveillance office Toilets 1 group for each area (male and female gender) 1 group for workers Foyer corridors (about 15% of total surface)
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library and cafè facing the river.
(bottom) Elevation facing the river. Three elements control the scene, The library, a long parallelepiped, aligned with the river, mostly glazed, taking advantage of the north-easterly orientation. On the roof lies the cafè, a smaller light and glazed structure. On the right lops a cylinder, the conference hall, working as a hinge among the two arms of the whole L-shaped plan.
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Tiber river iron bridge
India theatre planimetry. WHERE: The project is located in Rome, along the Tiber’s embankment. As shown on the right of the planimetry, around the project area there are a lot elements, already built, that characterize the landscape, giving the opportunity to have suggestive views from our study area. This zone of Rome is not far from the inner city, and it’s near historical districts like Trastevere and Testaccio. DESCRIPTION: The project area pervades along the embankment of the river, so it extends mainly in one direction, which is the reason a L-shape in plan was chosen. Project area is also characterized by an altitude gap between the ground of the area and the level of the street, where the “ponte dell’industria”, the iron bridge, arrives. The gap is about 4 metres, as clear by the sections on the next pages, so the project expected to be organized on two levels. The lower level is the real core of the building, where all the library and study activities are designed, while in the upper level, which is at the same height of the street, has been designed the food-bar area, as required by the functional program. This choice represents the possibility to think two different ways to access to the building. A public entrance, near the street, to give
anyone the possibility to e join the bar and the roof terrace, for different activities(reading, walking, etc.), and from where is possible to benefit of all the suggestive views even if you’re not a library user, so in this way it mantained a public fruition to the area, and a new space for all the citizens especially for local inhabitants. A private entrance is also designed in the lower level, by another street that climb down the 4 metres gap, this way in is conceived for library users and students, who will use all the didactic areas requested by the functional program. Anyway an inner staircase gives the opprtunities to these users to go to the bar and to the roof terrace too. The roof terrace is characterized in the skyline by the arising of two shapes, a light glass box, where is designed the bar, and a elliptical cylinder-shaped object, where is designed the conference hall (100 seats), to respect the functional program request. This object works like an important juction between the two branches of the L-Shape building, and between the street and the total building. In the lower level, the presence of the conference hall divide the plan in two parts, the bigger one of the “L” along the river, where is designed the library, and the smaller, where all the the other didactic spaces are positioned.
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Ground Floor Plan.
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As shown in the plans and in the following sections, the proposal is characterized by two different entrances solving the issue of two different heights. One follows the aligment wih the main street and the iron bridge (shown in planimetry), and the other one follows the sloping street surrounding the site. The access from the street allows to reach the cafè, facing the river on the roof. The second access, quieter and more silent, lead the visitors to the study centre (conference hall, library, classrooms).
Access to the study centre.
Scale Model.
Section BB.
Section AA.
thanks.
leandro.cristofaro@gmail.com
last update: APRIL 2016