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2 The paternal role of the architect The architect is only the curator. It sanctifies and celebrates a phenomenon that precedes its involvement, it has complete authorship because it is his intervention that recognizes and makes possible the appreciation of the subject, but the subject is in itself authentic with or without an architect. It is this older authenticity, which originates from the events and social circumstances of the past, that gives weight to the subject.
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EDUCATION 2016 - 2022
+ University of Bologna - Architecture Master’s degree in architecture Experimental degree thesis in architectural composition and urban design, carried out with the collaboration of the illustrious Professor Gino Malacarne.
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+ GP Academy
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+ Canvas CGA
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+ Canvas CGA
2011 - 2016
Revit + Lumion Advanced level training for Autodesk Revit and Lumion 12, both in architecture and external and internal rendering. Rhinoceros 6 - Vray Advanced training in 3D architectural modeling and custom furniture through Rhinoceros 6 and rendering through Vray. Adobe Photoshop Advanced training in architectural visualization and post production, through Adobe Photoshop.
+ Technical Institute for Surveyors - G.Genga Technical school diploma for surveyors
EXPERIENCE + Atelier GL Freelance Collaboration with partner in carrying out works on commission of architecture and graphics.
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+ Competition | CENTRØ - A new Urban Centrality
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+ Competition | Mario Cucinella Architects - Real utopias
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+ SA Architecture
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+ Workshop | Archea - Redesigning the European Medium-Sized City
2020 - 2021
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Project designer - Graphic designer Project designer - Graphic designer Project designer - Renderer Internship at the SA Architecture studio in Milan. Within the studio I was included as a designer assistant along with other colleagues with more experience. Project designer - Graphic designer
+ Ki Life Wellness 3D Artist - Project designer Collaboration with the company Ki Life Wellness and Together as a designer and 3D graphic designer in the creation of wellness centers and illustrative retail brochures. Direct relationships with suppliers and customers.
+ Competition | House Sismaclima Project designer - Graphic designer
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PROJECTS FORMA URBIS
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DIPTYCH
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WALL
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6 Academic 2021 Professor: Gino Malacarne Team: Alessandro Gennari, Matteo Lorenzi Type: Urban project, residences Location: Padova, Italy
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A PROJECT FOR THE CITY OF PADUA ”This work is not the explanation of the analogous city also because we do not believe that there are explanations.” Aldo Rossi This thesis work stems from a dual will, the first specific of wanting to develop a project within a forgotten area of the city, and the second collective of wanting to offer a new public space in Padua. The following project, in addition to being an urban project focused on the residence, also has the objective of relating two parts of the city that are close but at the same time distant: the historic city and the suburbs. These two elements are separated by the Venetian walls which open in some places and allow the outskirts to enter the historic city. The area being close to the wall system acts as a mediator between the two opposite parts of Padua, thus revealing itself to be an important opportunity for the city itself. To date, design research is part of a current debate on the problem of housing for students and citizens, who are very unlikely to find a home that satisfies them.
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DIPTYCH OF RAVENNA The double portrait of the Dukes of Urbino is a diptych, oil on canvas (47x33 cm for canvas) with the portraits of the spouses Federico da Montefeltro and Battista Sforza, a work by Piero della Francesca dating back to around 1465-1472 and preserved in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. The project begins with a preliminary analysis carried out on the system of Ravenna squares, from which Largo Firenze emerges as an urban void, an unresolved gap in the city of Ravenna. The design idea is inspired by the diptych by Piero Della Francesca, in this picture husband and wife are represented, portrayed in different periods and only later side by side, as in marriage. Thus the music room will belong to a modern era, different from that of Carlo Aymonino’s congress center, but seeking a connection between the two urban characters. The foyer of the auditorium tries to evoke the imagination of a public square: it is defined by the walls that symbolize the facades of the houses in the Ravenna alleys, which if undertaken allow a constant view of the central place of living, that is the square. The space is characterized by the zenith light.
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PROJECT CONCEPT Largo Firenze square
The square “Largo Firenze” is empty, aseptic, devoid of character, but with enormous architectural and urban potential. From the urban point of view, the space is delimited by the church of San Francesco, a small school, some public buildings and the congress center, designed by Carlo Aymonino in the twentieth century. While, architecturally speaking, the project area is rich in history: the church dates back to the 9th century. and through its apse it becomes the architectural limit of Largo Firenze; one of the streets that extends from this space towards the historic center, provides a direct connection with the Dante Alighieri theater in Ravenna. The city is already rich in history, so the project decides to complete the cultural request in the musical field, through the great music room, which will be built on the side of the square, together with an appendix that defines the square on the street front, leaving however connection possible.
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Music Hall
The connections are the project matrix, research and study start from the connection with the congress center, from the possibility of having two buildings that can function as one. The character that the project imprints on this fragment of the city is defined as “Ravenna”, that is, it finds reference in the historic city.
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22 Academic 2018 Professor: Francesco Gulinello, Elena Mucelli Team: Alessandro Gennari, Matteo Lorenzi Type: Residential, office, commercial unit Location: Ravenna, Italy
A FRAGMENT OF THE CITY
The walls enclose and protect this area to preserve its integrity and prevent any contamination from the outside world.
The wall is one of the fundamental elements of architecture, the most basic form of a space divider. A single wall marks, interrupts, opposes and violently alters the site in which it is positioned.
Inside the wall, a curtain of residential buildings was built immersed in public and private areas.
The project proposes a long wall, a barrier that cuts urban traffic, an intervention designed to separate the life of a city from a forest, a symbol of nature and sustainability.
The large public area in front of the historic buildings acts as a filter for the houses. The idea of the sustainability center was to create harmony between nature and technology in an urban form.
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DENSE CITY
“Densities are too high or too low when they hinder urban diversity instead of favoring it: and this lack of functionality is itself the reason why that density is too high or too low.” Jane Jacobs
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PROJECT CONCEPT Ex barracks “Dante Alighieri”
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“Paradoxically and with enough acclaim, not a few architects are unable to resist transforming some “tissue cell” (by vocation, except for moments of rupture, invaluable opportunities for a reconstruction of anonymity) into a singular object, or pretext monument. But there can be no monument without a compact and repetitive fabric. Both are valid for the sense of proportions, the touchstone of architecture.” Alvaro Siza The historical imprint of the Dante Alighieri barracks is maintained through the two buildings placed to form an “L”, which remain as a historical trace of the presence of the military area, then destined for public use through the project. The rest of the area was populated by buildings of little historical value, built arbitrarily, according to specific war and military needs, so it was decided to demolish them to make room for the new residential buildings, which come to life inside the Wall, as of houses in line, immersed in the urban park and protected from the chaos of the city.
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The urban structure of the place has been redesigned, now the parking lots are underground, allowing a free space to carry out the collective functions of Quodin’s life, and to experience the urban space.
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TOWER Intership 2021 Studio: SA Architecture Team: Matteo Lorenzi Type: Private residences Location: Milano, Italy
“Architecture can be reduced to nothing but an unsolvable dialectic of necessity and freedom”. Francesco Dal Co The project intends to solve a problem that increasingly affects the first suburbs of large Italian cities, such as the city of Milan. The residual spaces that lie abandoned and unresolved, are now an opportunity to avoid the development of land consumption, proposing the technique of building on the built, as a solution to the problem. These initiatives also bring considerable advantages, often these areas are very close to the center and are large enough to allow for an increase in the city’s greenery. This project therefore revolutionizes this area throu-
gh the type of tower building, which has been cleared through customs for some time in the city of Milan, and makes it possible to build large quantities of apartments, minimizing the footprint of the building. In this specific case we are talking about thirteen floors in height, the maximum allowed in the area, of which the ground floor and the attic are for collective use for residents. This new sharing system, which arrived in recent years from the US model, allows residents to enjoy every comfort without leaving home. In this case, on the ground floor we find the hall and the gym, while the attic is an open one with deckchairs and spaces for common use. The project is completed by the inexorable presence of indigenous trees and vegetation, which complete the request for the city.
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CENTRØ Competition 2021 Team leader: Gino Malacarne, Antonio Esposito, Francesco Saverio Fera Team: V. Boulus, A. D’ovidio, A. Gennari, M. Lorenzi, A. Mariani, A. Muccioli, M. Scaruffi, M. Serra Type: School, Auditorium, Civic Center Location: Bologna, Italy
A NEW URBAN CENTRALITY “The traces on the paper remain to remind us of what has been explored and denied; attempts at errors give full meaning to the final solution “. Vittorio Gregotti The project intends to promote a reflection on the use of the spaces currently occupied by the Ex Stamoto military area and more generally on the issues relating to the design of the transformation areas on an urban and territorial scale. The Ex Stamoto is one of the many military areas, part of a huge state-owned architectural and landscape heritage, now abandoned or in the process of being de-
commissioned. Vast settlements hitherto closed and inaccessible will be able to be opened and returned to the city, to public use and to new urban roles within the contemporary city. Starting from the complexity of this area, the project therefore becomes an opportunity to address an important design theme both from an architectural point of view and from a strictly design point of view and the possibility of a comparison on the issues of redevelopment of a part of the city of Bologna. . It is a collective work carried out in a team, aimed at defining a design hypothesis that can trigger a process of defining shared urban regeneration models. The planned themes will be the school campus, the civic center, public spaces and greenery for the community.
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FØRØ 7 THE MACHINING PROCESS “Building in cities is a critical act that in some way re-establishes the reality on which one acts at the very moment in which it is modified by an architectural intervention. The quality of the relationship between the new and the existing is complex and cannot be reduced to adding something that was not there before to a system of artifacts that already constituted a certain neighborhood of the physical world “. Franco Purini
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This project for a large area in the northwest of Bologna, known as “Ex Mercato Navile”, is an urban project and as such its forms are inspired by the larger scale of the city. Thus, it is clear both from a theoretical and practical point of view, placing the shape of the city and its historical evolution at the very center of urban planning and inventive architecture. In other words, taking the architectural forms of the city and transfiguring them into as many forms of contemporary design.
As shown in the drawing produced by Ricardo Bofill in 1996 the project resumed the guidelines of the nineteenth-century fabric of the 1889 Masterplan, albeit with considerable variations. The shape of the city of Bologna was marked by an important network of canals of which only a small part remains visible today. The specificity of this waterway network consists of a series of channels modeled over time that could distribute water energy through the internal depths of an urban structure and consequently favor the development of an important water industry. In particular, facilitating the development of grain mills, water wheels for the treatment of hides and, above all, the construction of mills for spinning silk. Thanks to these urban machines, Bologna for centuries has been able to produce the best silk thread to use as a warp by weaving precious fabrics. Consequently, during the seventeenth century, Bologna came to its particular urban layout due to its silk industry, which is definitely consolidating its urban form as well as its image for the world.
With the large pool of water, the four cylindrical towers unfolded along the new canal and the long habitable bridge, the project proposes a suggestive image of three significant figures drawn from the urban history of the city. In particular, the urban figure of the long habitable bridge, equally conceived as an urban machine, allows the project area to be connected to the south-western part of the consolidated city by passing on the railway lines, the People Mover monorail and Via de ‘ Carracci. Therefore, if we consider the icastic force that the histo-
rical forms can suggest and unleash, even if already forgotten, hidden or concealed, as in the case of the Bolognese waterways, we can say that what is now piercing the fabric is not completely passing through the past. Not everything can disappear forever, because everything that vanishes before our eyes excites us in some way. And what excites us is stratified in the personal and collective consciousness as an experience of the psyche and begs not to be forgotten.
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lorenzimatteo@hotmail.it
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