Luca Lagorio | Architecture Portfolio | 2021 by Luca Lagorio

Luca Lagorio Portfolio

about me selected works 1 | Unveiling the Monumentality of Protection 2 | Wilderness 3 | CJ Live City 4 | TTT

Hello everyone! I’m Luca. I’m 25, Leo and an Italian Architect.

Luca Lagorio Italian 04 | 08 | 1995 Oranienburger Straße 45 BERLIN 10117, GERMANY luca.lagorio@hotmail.com 0039 347 1913625

Curiosity, contamination, artistry, passion, ambition: these are the predominant aspects of my personality, which summarize my daily approach to architecture. “Ideally architecture is not about fixing activities, fluxes or programs, or worse, about solving spatial problems. On the contrary, it is about opening up possibilities: the potential of a site, the hidden opportunity of a particular situation in time, of a programmatic conflict. It is about dealing with uncertainty, about enabling different and unforeseen scenarios.”

My approach to the architect's professionalism has always been decidedly multidisciplinary, the union of contaminations from different worlds: art, sociology, geography, economy, literature, cinema, innovation, management, communication, craftsmanship, design, photography, history. During my studies, driven by a perpetual curiosity and desire to learn, I have lived and studied in Munich, London, Turin, Milan, Tokyo, Taipei, Buenos Aires, experimenting with different cultures, approaches and influences.

// Xaveer De Geyter

languages | Italian | English | Spanish

native C2 C1

| German | French | Japanese

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education 2020

Licensed Architect | Ordine degli Architetti di Genova

2020

Spring Seminar: The Architectural Imagination | Harvard University Graduate School of Design

2019

Master Degree in Architecture and Construction, 110/110 cum laudae, mention and honors | Politecnico di Milano

2019

Master Degree in Architecture: Restoration, Heritage and Urban Design, 110/110 cum laudae, mention and honors | Politecnico di Torino

2019

Master Thesis:“OFFICEMOTION: a disruptive psychological methodology to design work spaces” | with Herman Miller | Technische Universität Delft

2018/19

E+/EU Erasmus Program | Joint Degree Program | The Imperial University of Tokyo, Kengo Kuma Laboratory

2018/20

Enrollment “Alta Scuola Politecnica” | College of Excellence, Double Degree Programm | Politecnico di Torino - Politecnico di Milano

2014/17

Bachelor in Architecture Science | Politecnico di Torino

2014

Trilingual (English, German, Italian) Scientific High School Diploma | LSS Gian Domenico Cassini, Genova

2020/-

Topotek1 | Berlin | Project Architect, Project Leader

2020

U67 | Aarhus | Junior Architect

2020

Kengo Kuma and Associates | Tokyo/Taichung | Researcher

2019

Milano Design Week “Fuorisalone 2019” | Milan | Manager of the Exposition “Tsumi Kibako” with AIDA ATELIER and Manager of the Lectures “PechaKucha”

2019

Tokyo Biennale 2019 | Tokyo | Manager of the Lectures “PechaKucha”

2018/19

Aida Atelier | Tokyo | Architecture and Visualisation Intern

2013/19

Domino Spazio Creativo | Torino | Design and Architecture Magazine co-foundation

2017/18

Politecnico di Torino | Teaching Assistant “Atelier of Design Composition” with prof NICOLA RUSSI

2016/18

Politecnico di Torino | Teaching Assistant “Restoration: history and techniques” with prof EMANUELE MOREZZI

2016/17

Reinerio Archietti | Torino | Architecture Intern

2012/14

Teatro Stabile di Genova | Genova | Scenography and Direction Intern

2010/17

FAI | Genova | Touristic Guide

2010/17

Amnesty International | Genova | Regional Group Foundation

professional

workshops 2020

“TTT: Dynamic and Flexible Prototype Construction” | 甲大學 | Taiwan | Summer School | with The Imperial University of Tokyo, ETSAM, TU Berlin, Politecnico di Milano, Politecnico di Torino

2019

“TRANS-USE: Conservation and Preservation of Industrial Heritage” | Tsinghua University | Beijing | Summer School | with Technion: Israel Institute of Technology, Politecnico di Torino

2019

“The Fourth Industrial Revolution: promises and pitfalls in blending new and traditional approaches in manufacturing and service sectors” | Milan | Spring School | with IKEA and GOOGLE Arts and Culture

2019

“Dynamics of Innovation: Honeymoon” | Lausanne | Winter School | with THALES ALENIA SPACE

2018/19 “Reconstruction of the Japanes Villages after Natural Disasters” | The Imperial University of Tokyo, Hiroshima University | Tokyo, Hiroshima 2018

“Design Methods and Processes” | Milan | Winter School | with TESLA, inc.

2017

“Earthquake in central Italy 2016. From knowledge to reconstruction” | Hosei University, School of Planning and Architecture Delhi, Politecnico di Torino | Torino

Selected as Italian Ambassador for the “Young Talent Architecture Award: Best Architecute Master Thesis” | with Biennale di Venezia and Fundació Mies van der Rohe

Unveiling the Monumentality of Protection The Japanese Infrastructural Network as an Urban Device Master Thesis | relator: Nicola Russi (Laboratorio Permanente) correlator: Matteo Poli, Federico Coricelli research contributions: Kengo Kuma, Hidenobu Jinnai In Japanese culture there is an extremely contradictory dichotomous relationship between man and nature. While this is a matter of veneration, spectacularization, even mythicization, on the other hand Japanese society has always tried to control, harness and anthropicize the natural element. In this context, the greatest imposition on the landscape is the protective infrastructure, designed in order to defend the Japanese territory from the destructive force of nature, tsunamis, typhoons, earthquakes, landslides, floods, volcanoes that continuously threaten its safety. A vast and widespread infrastructure network aimed at protecting cities has created an involuntary contemporary Japanese landscape, a continuous monument. This same imposing approach on the territory and on urban space has inspired the metabolist brutality, crucial in the development of contemporary Japanese architecture, through which the centrality of infrastructure is exacerbated. Art and photography have admired its monumental scale, its role as the protagonist of a territory increasingly marked by anthropic action, but freezing the landscape and the city in an image, taking a conceptual distance from it. This thesis aims, instead, to recognize, describe and investigate the architectural value and potential of this infrastructural system as an urban device. The infrastructure is seen as an activating and engaging element of urban dynamics, in continuum with the city's soil, as a support matrix for practices and collective uses, stimulated by the inclusion of micro architectural devices, pet architectures, unvealing a potential heritage. A historical, cultural and architectural analysis can reveal the monumentality of objects born for safety but potential in the world of hedonism, if this same potentiality were recognized to them.

TheThe Production Production of Territory of Territory

NatureNature is the place is the of place recognition of recognition of certain of certain dogmas, dogmas, of a series of a series of values, of values, elements, elements, perceptions, perceptions, sounds, sounds, images, images, details,details, they are they theare container the container of memories, of memories, connotaconnotations oftions a community of a community sense sense in the broadest in the broadest sense sense of the term. of theNature term. Nature is as opposed is as opposed to "non-places", to "non-places", in which in which there is there the is total theannulment total annulment of identity of identity and spatial and spatial and and humanhuman particularities, particularities, as to an as ultra-exceptional to an ultra-exceptional connotative connotative carat often carat of often archiof architectural tectural places.places. The Japanese The Japanese landscape, landscape, strongly strongly engineered, engineered, artificialized, artificialized, dense dense with constructions, with constructions, needs needs to be to contextualized, be contextualized, the result the result of a connection of a connection in the in the controlcontrol of the natural of the natural element element deriving deriving from Japanese from Japanese culture. culture. Engineering Engineering contrasts contrasts with architecture with architecture in its approach in its approach to the tolandscape, the landscape, infra- infrastructure structure and the and very thedynamics very dynamics of urban of urban planning planning in cities. in cities. The setThe of these set of networthese networks generates ks generates an artificial an artificial production production of the territory, of the territory, which which affirmsaffirms the infrastructural the infrastructural systemsystem as a protagonist as a protagonist of the Japanese of the Japanese landscape, landscape, prevailing prevailing both atboth a dimensioat a dimensional and nal conceptual and conceptual level on level the on points the points it holdsit together. holds together. This implies This implies that the that urban the urban fabric fabric is collateral is collateral to the to presence the presence of the of infrastructure the infrastructure network, network, developing developing at its at its edgesedges or at the or intersection at the intersection nodes nodes of the system of the system mesh. mesh.

There There is, however, is, however, a hybrid a hybrid between between infrastructure, infrastructure, architecture architecture and public and public space.space. The massive The massive presence presence of communication of communication infrastructures infrastructures within within the urban the urban fabric,fabric, in in fact, has fact, ledhas to the led creation to the creation of hybrid of hybrid elements, elements, often for often collective for collective use, through use, through plug plug in structures in structures that coexist that coexist and collaborate and collaborate with the with infrastructure the infrastructure network, network, activating activating it. it. The space The space of the infrastructure of the infrastructure is a generator is a generator of spontaneous of spontaneous practices practices in a context in a context of absence of absence of public of public space.space. After aAfter vastaanalysis vast analysis of different of different case studies case studies of hybrid of hybrid forms forms of cityscape, of cityscape, I’ve I’ve chosenchosen three typologies three typologies of infrastructures of infrastructures to investigate to investigate a possible a possible activating activating starte-startegical approach: gical approach: the retaining the retaining wall, the wall, tsunami the tsunami wall and wallthe and reclaiming the reclaiming land. The land. The three of three themofare them different are different as a matter as a matter of space of space development, development, location location and morphoand morphology, in logy, order in order to analyze to analyze different different applications applications of architecture of architecture and public and public space space upon them. upon them.

#1 Retaining Wall c

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retaining wall average composition 1. sidewalk + horizontal concrete platform, in order to create a separation between the road and the wall, 2. inclined wall, on average height around 1,5 - 2 m, 3. inner part of the wall, inclined reinforced concrete surface, retaining the mountain and creating an embankment, 4. reating wall frames, made by a reinforced concrete grid, with variable section and height, 5. embankment, variable depth, usually the proportion is around half of the lenght of the wall average scale proportions 8 < a < 14 c = b/2 activating process

reaching the top an outside staircase system hung on the inclined facade allows to reach the top of the wall, through different platforms as belvedere spots

lifted plaza the embankment on the top of the retaining wall is designed as a lifted plaza, in order to activate also the horizontal surface for either private or public uses, as an urban garden, a place for events, restaurants, or simply a belvedere spot

unveiling the infrastructure through the unveiling of the infrastructure potentiality with the urban device, the space is connected with the urban area and the public surfaces of the city

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infrastructure as an urban device

A _ staircase

B _ stairs and elevated garden on top

C _ stairs and elevated plaza with attractions on top

infrastructure as a barrier

infrastructure as a potentiality

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perspective section 1. compacted fill material, 2. draining bituminous conglomerate, 20 cm, 3. open bituminous conglomerate, for binder and basis, 5 cm, 4. close bituminous conglomerate, 5 cm, 5. sidewalk, 6. retaining wall, reinforced concrete, 0,5 - 1 m x 8,5 m, 7. perforated drainage pipe, 8. small drainage material, 9. wide drainage material, 10. drainage channel, 11. protective surface, 12. retaining wall grid, 13. steel stairs, 14. highway, 15. local road, 16. sea, 17. village, 18. embankment.

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+ 1,6 m

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technological detail stairs

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200 cm

steel bolting plate steel steps 18 cm flat steel stringer 15 cm

steel handrail D 2,7 cm grilled landings U-shaped beam UPE 15x10x3 cm steel bolting system + anchor plate

L-shaped angles 12x7x2 cm

retaining wall, reinforced concrete, 0,5 - 1 m x 8,5 m

protective surface small drainage material

compacted fill material perforated drainage pipe concrete

embankment

#2 Tsunami Wall

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tsunami wall average composition 1. sidewalk and / or road, in order to create a separation between the urban fabric and the wall, 2. urban fabric, 3. tsunami wall, on one side straight and on the other inclined reinforced concrete surface, 4. reclaiming land, variable depth, usually the proportion is around three times the lenght of the wall, 5. sea. average scale proportions 8 < b < 15 c = 2b/5 activating process

reaching the top an outside staircase system hung on the facade allows to reach the top of the wall, through different platforms as belvedere spots

lifted pavilion the surface on the top of the tsunami wall is occupied by an urban device, surrounded by a terrace, in order to activate also the horizontal surface for either private or public uses

unveiling the infrastructure through the unveiling of the infrastructure potentiality with the urban device, the space is connected with the urban area and the public surfaces of the city

A _ staircase

B _ stairs and pavilion

C _ stairs and pavilion with anelevated terrace on top

D _ infrastructural wall

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1. geotextile reinforcement, 2. secondary armour, 3. primary armour, 4. breaking waves wall, 5. sea, 6. filter rocks, 7. asfalt m and basis, 8. membrane sami, 9. draining bituminous conglomerate, 10. fill material, 11. industrial buildings, 12. sea, 13. t reinforced concrete, 3 - 10 m x 8,5 m, 14. reinforced concrete foundation, 15. steel stairs, 16. activating urban device: caps m, 17. terrace, 18. road, 6,5 m.

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mix for binder tsunami wall, sule, 3 x 3 x 4

technological detail bar / bookshop

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200 cm

laminated wood sheeting 2,7 cm laminated glued timber 11,5 cm laminated wood sheeting 2,7 cm impregnated and glued to laminated glued timber 8,8 cm

double glazing: float glass 0,6 cm + cavity 1 cm + laminated safety glass 0,8 mm wood shelf 26 cm B’

laminated wood sheeting 2,7 cm bar counter 280 x 30 x 100 cm varnished insulation 9,5 cm between softwood bearers 5,9/9,8 cm and laminated glued timber 8,8 cm silicone joint laminated wood sheeting 2,7 cm B

opening in laminated glued timber for I - beamfilled in-situ with 1,2 cm laminated board with isolation, painted;joints sealed with mastic galvanized steel I - beam 30 cm deep felt bedding 1 cm section A - A’

steel handrail D 2,7 cm steel steps 18 cm flat steel stringer 15 cm reinforced concrete tsunami wall double glazing: float glass 0,6 cm + cavity 1 cm + laminated safety glass 0,8 mm bar counter 180 x 60 x 100 cm

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laminated wood sheeting 2,7 cm impregnated and glued to laminated glued timber 8,8 cm bar counter 280 x 30 x 100 cm steel stool h:80 cm

terrace

plan B - B’

Demetra Educating Inclusivity A City within the City Europan16 | Living City project awarded as Shortlisted Finalist Klagenfurt | Austria | 2021 During a historical moment that has experienced dramatical environmental transformations and lack of economical certainty and stability, our priorities are changing. Climate and biodiversity conditions of cities are in danger but yet the most important values to offer to citizens. The traditional highly consuming city has to be left for a “living city”, “smart city”, a new disruptive model of urbanity, able to target those contemporary needs. Klagenfurt, thanks to its scale and location, has the potential to be an example for this goal. The location of the E16 Competition Site, being in front of the main railway station and on the limit of the historical city centre, is definitely crucial and strategical. As the new potential urban door of Klagenfurt, the project site program will propose a diverse organisation of function able to create a 24/7 base use of the all area, to attract citizens appertaining to various age ranges and to trigger the attention of locals but also of people from the surrounding areas. The functions will be heterogeneous, with a specific focus on housing, co-living and social housing, combined with offices, services and commercial activities, educational/research centres and public buildings, such as a museum, a market, art ateliers and galleries, a cinema, sport fields and leisure facilities, that will create a new community hub.

Phytodepuration pools provide a natural resource and solution for the remediation of grey waters

The presence of public greenhouses within the site allows to intensify both the productive drive and also the circular economy approach of the project

Slow mobility enhancement: pedestrian paths and bike lanes are the only means of transportation inside the site, linked to the contextual network

Contemporary transposition of die Klagenfurt Höfe, refering to the prominent historical typology, creating a bridge between old and new

The Klagenfurt historical center lots grids is translated into the grid of the secondary connections in the project site

The habitat of pollinating insects such as bees or bumblebees is secured by the right choice of planting. These in return contribute to productivity by pollinating the surrounding green areas and greenhouses.

Inspired by the japanese activity of forest-bathing, a regional biodiversity is developed that, depending on the flowering phase, ensures an annual presence of nature and thus contributes to mental and physical health.

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20m

BALTIC KLAGENFURT VIENNA

WORKING GRAZ

Come to discover Klagenfurt!

SYNERGIES

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BOLOGNA

ADRIATIC

LEARNING

VENICE

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B A LT I C / A D R I AT I C

ROUTE

LIVING

E D U C AT I N G

INCLUSIVITY

LOCAL PRODUCTION

SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT

MARKET

AGRICULTURE

ARTISANSHIP MAKERS

WORKSHOP

C I R C U L A R

E C O N O M Y MEDIATORS

GREEN SPACES

CIRCULAR ECONOMY RESEARCH CENTERS

CITIZENS

TRAFFIC ARCHITECTS

URBAN PLANNERS

ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY URBAN LANDSCAPE

REVERSIBILITY

KLAGENFURT SMART DISTRICTS

INTERACTION WITH NATURE

RIGENERATION NATIVE SPECIES RENATURALISATION

COMMUNITY LEGACY

ANIMAL HABITATS

B I O D I V E R S I T Y

HISTORICAL CITY CENTER

PEDESTRIAN MOBILITY

IDENTITARY KNOW-HOW

ATTRACTIVE CONNECTIONS SHOPPING MALLS ADMINISTRATIVE DISTRICT TRAIN STATION

NEW USERS BIKE MOBILITY

LIVEABLE

C O N N E C T I V I T Y

CJ Live City A New Rhythm of Landscapes Invitation Competition with MVRDV and TOPOTEK1 Seoul | South Korea | 2020 The project for a new neighbourhood expansion in the city of Seoul, is based on the concept of flexibility of the urban space. The proposed composition scheme, in fact, taking as a base the rigid and schematic contextual urban fabric grid, reverses the formal and structural roles of figure and soil and those between buildings and open spaces. A heterogeneous alternation of voids is the result of a careful repertory of conditions, habitats, fragments, programs, existing infrastructural corridors and new uses. The propose pattern aims to redefine new relationship between man and urban landscape. Nature, with its rhythms and necessities, becomes an infrastructural matrix capable of gathering different spaces and programs together, becoming the scenario of contemporary living practices. All the activities that need sharing, exchange, take place outdoor. The new compositive scheme that occupies the natural portions between the dense urban settlements is formed by a grammar of plant dowels of different aesthetics and densities: threshold-spaces, expanses of holm oaks, orchards, grass lawns, rocks gardens. This organisation generates and evolution from gardens to playground, from forests to plazas. The identification of a pattern, that is a system of spatially defined rules, allows to analyze with critical consciousness all the elements that converge in the elaboration of design strategy. This design process generates an isotropic landscape. The isotropy of the territories, as theorised by Secchi and Viganò, is deeply linked to the condition of transcalarity oaf places. The compositional pattern read on different levels, acquires various formal characteristics, partially abandoning its regularity and resonates with the existing elements of the places.

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TTT Reticular Structures Prototype Construction Research Summer School with Kengo Kuma and Associates and The Imperial University of Tokyo, ETSAM, TU Berlin, Politecnico di Milano, Politecnico di Torino Taichung | Taiwan | 2019 This Research Summer School was focused on the study, analysis and realisation of dynamic and flexible reticular structures prototypes as a correlation between private and public space. The prototype was to be placed in a space in order to change the perception of the space itself by people and to create unforeseeable scenarios. The chosen location was the Fengjia Night Market in the city of Taichung, the biggest in the all Taiwan, in order to analyse as well how the structure could have been supportive for the functions of the commercial and restorative activities. The small pavilion has the aim to be easily constructed, to be able to evolve through out time and to absolve different and various functions in the same time. The development of different reticulate structures, prototypes and maquette, has allowed me to define and design the "pet architectures" for my master thesis, the first project of this same portfolio. Physically and empirically working on the construction of small pavilions is really crucial, I think, in the understanding of the spacial qualities these small pieces of architecture have to obtain and guarantee.