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MAIKOL MAZZOTTI Architecture Portfolio
What is architecture? “I believe Architecture is a human experience. I like to think that an architect is a three-dimensional actor. Architecture is how we discover the world: we are our body in a space and we discover the world through our sense and making connection with others people. It is inspire and be inspired for create a space that pass emotions to people. Architecture is craftsmanship and to do a hand made piece. It is approach every kind of new project with passion, from the smallest finishes to the largest overall shape. Architecture is everywhere”.
Selected Project Architectural design + Archeology International Urban Design Workshop Architectural design + Lanscape Restoration and structural consolidation Executive techical details
Selected work done - interior design
Architectural design + Archeology
Porta Schiavonia in Forlì: a museum - multifunctional civic hall on the Via Emilia The Via Emilia was one of the most extraordinary achievements of Roman engineering: a large single directional axis of almost 250 km, built from Piacenza to Rimini in 187 BC and on which the life of the whole Emilia Romagna region has been based for centuries. The urban centers that were on the itinerary were built at an average distance from each other of about 30 km, corresponding to an army day’s march. The Via Emilia is, from its first ancient stone, a contemporary road, perennially current and updated. His stainless modernity probably lies in this soul, which over the centuries have been approached by other landscapes and other ways of communication. The Via Emilia therefore as a primary monument, to be valued, to be observed, to be remembered.
The original path of Via Emilia from Placentia to Ariminum (roman name cities in Latin)
The path of Via Emilia today through the city of Forlì
Roman paving of Via Emilia discovered in Bologna
The path of Via Emilia today through Porta Schiavonia in Forlì
The path of Via Emilia discovered in Forlì - project
Porta Schiavonia is located along the Via Emilia at the northern entrance of the city of Forlì, it is the last of the four remaining city gates and has come down to the present day through subsequent demolitions and reconstructions. In 1743 it was rebuilt in its current configuration and dedicated to the Cardinal of Forlì Camillo Merlini Paulucci who, on his return from Poland, had favored the accession to the throne of Augustus III. Starting from a first phase of large-scale research on the route of the Via Emilia, I focused on the city of Forlì and in particular on the monument-ruin of Porta Schiavonia. Analyzing in this way historical maps and evolutionary configurations that have followed one another, I have come to imagine a complex that formally represents and allows an authentic historical reading. Porta Schiavonia in Forlì - current situation
Front view of Porta Schiavonia in Forlì - 1903
Front view of Porta Schiavonia in Forlì - 1927
Back view of Porta Schiavonia in Forlì - 1930
Back view of Porta Schiavonia in Forlì - 1944
Project for the Museum of Porta Schiavonia in Forlì
Monument of Porta Schiavonia in Forlì
Porta Schiavonia in Forlì - current situation
Excavation of the ditch and rediscovery of roman paving of Via Emilia
Creation of a roof for the fortress and reconstruction of the entrance hall as it was before its demolition Project for the Museum of Porta Schiavonia in Forlì
The idea behind the project is to create a sort of attractive pole that acts as a lung for the neighborhood and for the city itself. In addition to this, the hypothesis of rediscovery of the historic paving of the Via Emilia is certainly an important act, which reaffirms and affirms the origins of the city. The design proposal therefore seeks to propose a complex that allows the monumental device to be experienced through the various eras, placing itself as a workshop at the service of training, hosting permanent and temporary exhibitions. Through a reconstruction intervention in the original shapes and dimensions of the entrance hall (the part demolished behind Porta Schiavonia), I wanted to propose a composition that would take up an authentic morphology, but declined in contemporary functions and materiality.
Creating a museum itinerary that allows visitors to experience the monument on the different historical time
Project for the Museum of Porta Schiavonia in Forlì
The ruin becomes a museum: a multifunctional space for the city that can host different types of exhibitions
Plan - current situation
Ground floor plan - project
Second floor plan (level +6,00 m) - project
Roof plan - project
Underground floor plan (level -2,70 m) - project
Space as a museum exhibition
Space as an event gallery
North elevation
View from the second floor of the gallery
Section D-D
The underground Roman museum
Space as a museum exhibition
Section B-B
Space as a conference room
The proposed idea is aimed at creating a multifunctional space for the city: a workshop for culture’s training, or a museum that can host contemporary exhibitions and at the same time can speaks about itself, from recently modern times up to the early ones of foundation of the Roman colony of Forum Livii.
Current situation
Project
Current situation
Project
Perspective section along the Via Emilia - project
International Urban Design Workshop Urban FaÇade: Istanbul Waterfront The city is a mirror of the complexity of modern life. The result is a city environment where instability is the only constant. The reaction of half a century of urban space-making have left us with a diffuse urban structure; a city pieced together from heterogeneous elements that when combined create a homogenous aesthetic. This amorphous city appears abstract, disordered, confused and illogical, therefore this abstraction act to diffuse meaningful relationships for those that live in a city and inevitably leads us to feeling of loss and a yearning for a better place, for an idealized urban environment. These are our starting points for an urban investigation. Localization of the project area
View of Beyoğlu District - Istanbul
A city is an organism made of “fabrics”. Social, economic, cultural and environmental fabrics, energy and information networks: the very functioning of an urban structure depends on their interaction. The more such fabrics are interrelated and efficient, the more the organism will be dynamic, versatile and capable of meeting the demands and aspirations of its citizens. While it is unnecessary and perhaps impossible to try and understand the form of such fabrics, it is possible and necessary to understand the logic of their relations. The modes of interaction between fabrics in fact express how citizens inhabit their city, express how citizens transform the city through their daily actions. Understanding such logic or, better still, understanding the logical basis of such relations and discerning their role in the definition of urban fabrics is one of the main objectives of urban morphology. Urban morphology is therefore the platform where all networks that make up global society naturally find their place: information, energy, environmental, functional networks, which find in urban fabrics their necessary economic, social and cultural plug-ins. Fabrics that morphology can ‘read’ and plan in order to respond effectively to the needs of contemporary cities. But fabrics tend to “polarize” in specific locations of urban areas, and “become active” through routes, generating hierarchical systems which are unstable in as much as they are dynamic and constantly changing. Therefore, polarities, routes and fabrics are key concepts on which the city has been founded and transformed for thousands of years: morphology relies on them to read urban phenomena. But above all, it is on such concepts that a design methdology can be established for the construction of the smart, sustainable, livable city of the XXI century. (from M.M. - “Why Urban Morfology?”)
Morphological analysis map
Functional analysis map
Environmental analysis
Environmental analysis - albedo values
Masterplan
Floor plans
Bird view of neighborhood’s project
Waterfront elevation
Courtyard view - render 1
Longitudinal cross section
Courtyard view - render 2
Model 3D printed
Waterfront - render 3
Architectural Design + Landscapes Tourist and gastronomic enhancement A recent urban settlement has grown on a hill next to the historic center. The residential area rises upwards to a crossroads where three residential properties in the highest and most dominant position have been abandoned by a bankruptcy. This suggested a reflection on the future of these buildings and on the possible configuration and function too. The possibility is envisaged that this unfinished nucleus can host a cooking school, a restaurant and an accommodation facility: the choice of functions is obviously coordinated to create a high-level welcome and hospitality nucleus enhanced by the presence of highly qualified teaching. The involvement of ALMA, the International School of Italian Cuisine, which has given the dimensional and organizational indications for the spaces within its competence and has shown interest in activating seasonal thematic courses, stimulates the proposal to create a culinary training center on Porcini Mushrooms and on the undergrowth products, with the obvious effects of promotion and enhancement of the context. The proposal design has a large hall with steps for extracathedra demonstration lessons that follows the slope of the hill becomes an opportunity to connect the architectural episodes adapted to the new functions and provide them with an outdoor space for events. The new structure then becomes an oriented urban terrace on the roof, reachable by going up to the hill. From the top of the new building is in fact possible to see the Taro’s valley which rises towards the Castle of Compiano on one side and the bell tower on the other. With these backgrounds it will be possible to organize convivial moments and outdoor shows in an extraordinary observatory overlooking artistic and natural landscapes that are among the most significant in the entire context. Cardboard model scale 1:500
Cardboard model scale 1:200
Render - Landscape view
Project presentation to the municipality
Render - the recovered building from the internal campus square
Restoration and structural consolidation Caseificio Spalletti - San Donnino in Reggio Emilia, Italy It was originally designed by the architect Cesare Costa in 1853, but the construction started on the 1856. Since 1860 to 1920 this cheese factory was used for production of Parmigiano Reggiano; from 1920 it is used as family house, where incongruous changes have been made. It is today a renowned local restaurant. The building stands in an evident state of material and structural decay; in addition, the seismic events that affected the area in 2012 further worsened the state of conservation. It is located in a quiet area immersed in the Reggio Emilia countryside, for this reason the proposal is to expand the facilities already provided for the existing restaurant with using the now unused upper and back part as a bed and breakfast. Considering the most important interventions which are essential for a structural and antiseismic consolidation of the cheesefactory, all the proposal solution are driven by five principles: - Minimum intervention; - Specificity of the solution - object uniqueness; - Adaptability and maintainability over time; - Compositional potential; - Recognition of the intervention.
Historical photos
Original drawing from Italia Agricola 1877
detail
BUILDING CHRONOLICAL PHASES
aerial view
main elevation
octagonal room - internal view
current situation - study loads on beams and structural weaknesses
roof above the octagonal room
project proposal - stiffness increase with inox tie rod
Executive techinal details Redrawing Villa Savoye through BIM software The purpose is for develop the ability to communicate the architecture through the use of existing tools of the digital representation - of BIM, in particular Archicad - and to realize drawings “expressive” in the visual communication of an idea design, but also “exhaustive” for the return of dimensional information, formal and techniques necessary for the realization of the architecture.
Ground floor plan
Longitual and cross section
Wall section detail sheet
Ground floor structural plan
Ground floor electrical system
Selected work done - interior design Projects developed for Harrods Ltd, London (UK) The following are some of the projects developed at the IPS, the interior planning service of the furniture studio in Harrods (London). This service offers to customers assistance with furnishing alongside the sales in showrooms, including site survey with property measurements, suggestion with computer presentations, quotation, final sales and installation.
Nottingh Hill, London - interior design maisonette The property comprises of two floors. The ground floor offer an inviting living room benefits from wooden floors, feature large windows create a warm environment with natural light. Separate fitted kitchen and ample additional storage. The first floor includes three bedrooms,contemporary family bathroom and an additional one for guests. The client wanted to refurbish the property completely.
INTERIOR DESIGNER - PROJECT MANGER • CONCEPT DESIGN AND SPACE LAYOUT • FINISHES & FURNITURE SELECTION • LIAISE WITH SUPPLIERS STATUS - COMPLETED BUDGET £ 150.000
INITIAL STAGE
INITIAL STAGE PHOTOS
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2
ground floor
view 1
view 2
view 3
view 4
3
4
first floor
Proposal design
kitchen
Kitchen - render
Master bedroom - render
living
bedroom 1
Bedroom 1 - render
Installation’s photos
Study room - render
study room
master bedroom
Kensington, London - planning and furnishing luxury apartment The property comprises of two floors. The ground floor offer an inviting living room benefits from wooden floors, feature large windows create a warm environment with natural light. Separate fitted kitchen and ample additional storage. The lower ground floor includes three bedrooms, master bedroom with private bathroom and an additional one for other rooms. As the property was completely new the client wanted to refurbish all with the same style. INTERIOR PLANNER - PROJECT MANGER • CONCEPT DESIGN AND SPACE LAYOUT • FINISHES & FURNITURE SELECTION STATUS - COMPLETED BUDGET £ 90.000
INITIAL STAGE PHOTOS
INITIAL STAGE
1 3
2
ground floor
view 1
view 2
lower ground floor
view 3
view 4
4
Proposal design
Dining
Bedroom 1
Installation’s photos
Living
Bedroom 2
Bedroom 3
Highbury and Islington, London - kitchen design The client wanted to change the kitchen with new one. The final design came through various site visit, meetings with clients, plumbers and installations team to manage the whole project from beginning to end.
INTERIOR DESIGNER - PROJECT MANGER • CONCEPT DESIGN AND SPACE LAYOUT • FINISHES & FURNITURE SELECTION • LIAISE WITH SUPPLIERS STATUS - COMPLETED BUDGET £ 50.000
LAGO KITCHEN - WHITE GLASS FINISHES
GROUND FLOOR - INITIAL STAGE
view 1
view 2
view storage unit
view storage unit
KITCHEN - PROPOSAL DESIGN
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View from the top - Render
Render 1
matt glass
polish glass
Render 2
Installation’s photos
Render 3
white quartz top
Maikol Mazzotti born in Cesena (Italy) in 1989. In 2012 he graduated in Building Engineering at the University of Bologna. During the last year of university he starts a collaboration with an architectural engineering associated studio in Rimini, where he meets all the knowledge studied with the practice of construction. Driven by his passion for architecture, design and photography after his graduation he travels around Europe and falls in love with London. In 2014 he spends three months in New York, making new experience and improving english skills. Back in Italy he starts an internship with interior designer Daniela Nori in Santarcangelo di Romagna, where he works in local interior architecture projects. In 2015 he moves to London, where he is hired from Harrods Interiors, works with international client in different projects of furniture: from the glamour classic residence through the contemporary design of a new kitchens. In 2017 he moves back to his home town Rimini, where he works as interior designer for Lago. In 2018 he moves to Barcelona, working and studing spanish. Although he already works in the business, he feels that he need to enhance his deep knowledge so the same year he start a Master degree in Architecture. In 2021 he graduated with honors in Architecture at University of Parma in Italy.
MAIKOL MAZZOTTI Architecture Portfolio
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