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M A R CO G A ZZOLI ML A | PhD | BCSL A Intern
CONTENTS 0 - PROFILE
where I forged my critical spirit
where I embraced the complexity of reality
where I do research through design
PHD RESEARCH
1 - THESIS - garden des
MASTER’S DEGREE PR
2 - MASTER’S THES _Master’s Thesis, 201
COMPETITIONS
3 - DESIGN COMPE _Tokyo Urban Medita _Flormart Garden Sh _Europan 17, 2023 - u
where I’m building my technical skills
where my designer mind feeds
PROJECTS IN METRO V
4 - RESIDENTIAL DE _Hythe Ave, front yar _Various projects - w
PHOTOGRAPHY
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ROJECTS
SIS (urban and territorial planning, urban design)
17 - territorial planning, sustainable mobility strategies, cultural heritage enhancement
ETITIONS (garden design/small installations)
ation Cabins international competition, 2022 - garden design
how, 2015 - garden design
urban design, planning
VANCOUVER
ESIGN (garden design)
rd, Burnaby 2023 - garden design/residential, 200 sq. meters - w/ Alljobs Landscaping
w/ Alljobs Landscaping and Isidore Landscapes
HROUGH THE LENS
0 - PROFILE Marco Gazzoli - About me Landscape designer with a well-rounded skillset with advanced proficiency in drafting, graphic, BIM and GIS software. A keen interest for the public realm issues, site analysis, urban and territorial planning, participatory design and a belief that a landscape architect should serve the community as a whole, without bending to the interests of few.
Work Experience 2023-2024 2022-2023 2017-2021
Project Coordinator, Estimator and Designer - Isidore Landscapes., Richmond, BC. Landscape Designer - Alljobs Landscaping Corp., Burnaby, BC. Teaching Assistant - Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy.
Education 2017-2021 2014-2017 2011-2014 2006-2011
PhD in Architectural and Landscape Heritage at Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy and Kyoto, Japan. Master’s Degree in Landscape Architecture at Università degli Studi di Genova, Genoa, Italy. Bachelor’s Degree in Architecture at Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy. Diploma of Technical High School for Surveyors, Varese, Italy.
Training University of Guelph, ON, Canada – ‘Landscape Construction’ course, within the Landscape Design diploma curriculum – Dec 2022 Vectorworks University – ‘Vectorworks Core Associate Certification’ & ‘Professional Certification’_Oct 2023
Pubblications and Design Competitions Gazzoli Marco (2019), “Floral Landscapes on Display”, in Topos, vol.109, pp. 52-57 “Flormart Garden Show 2015”, Padova, Italy. Project title: “No Empty Space”. Finalist project “Tokyo Urban Meditation Cabins” Project “The perch around the corner”, 2022. Finalist Project
Profile of the Alps visible from Varese, the town where I grew up.
Skills Design softwares:
Illustrator
Photoshop
Autocad 2D
Hand sketch
Qgis
Rhino/SketchUp
Vectorworks
Lumion
Others:
Adobe InDesign
Microsoft Office
Procore
LMN estimator
Photography
“Il paesaggio riflette sempre la qualità di un ordinamento sociale. La società che non ha rispetto per la natura terrestre non ha nemmeno rispetto per la natura umana.” “Landscape always reflects the quality of a social order. The society that has no respect for terrestrial nature has no respect for human nature either.“ Pietro Porcinai Founding member of IFLA
1 - Ph.D. RESEARCH Ph.D. Thesis, 2017-2021 Title: “Modern garden design and national identity building: Italy and Japan, 1900 - 1960” Candidate: Marco Gazzoli; Supervisor: Prof. Bianca Maria Rinaldi The research focuses on investigating the ways in which the designers of modern Japanese and Italian gardes had developed compositional languages capable of expressing a specific regional identity. Almost thirty case studies were examined and classified according to the ways in which their design included and reinterpreted historical and traditional compositional models and elements.
FRAMEWORK
1900 Italy
Garden design and modernity
Japan
1960
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How to express cultural identity through landscape design? My research investigates the historical roots of this complex dilemma
Garden design and national identity
TOPICS
How was identity expressed through forms? h construction techniques and materials were modern but local?
2 - PHD RESEARCH
Case study examples:
Villa Maggia (1939-1940, Turin), by Pietro Porcinai (selection of my own drawings)
Reading For each case study, a compositional reading is carried out starting from archival material (plants drawings, sketches and photos), with the aim of identifying the elements of the vegetation, the built structures and the water features.
Vegetation
General layout
Built structures
Interpretation In this case, the designer conveyed a cultural message by shaping the landscape, pursuing regularity and geometry. The “architectural garden” was considered a synonym of the “Italian garden”. Vegetation was treated like a building material such as stone.
Vegetation as space limits
Regularity through geometrical compartments
Built structures as space limits
Murin-an (1897, Kyoto), by Ogawa Jihei VII (selection of my own drawings)
Reading
Interpretation The designer merged tradition and modernity recreating the structure of old daimyo gardens (kaiyūshiki teien or stroll gardens) enriching the design with innovative solutions. He chose and managed trees and brushes species resembling natural environments, getting rid of old symbolisms and abstractions.
General layout
System of paths
Different environments/spaces
Kagawa Prefecture office building (1956, Takamatsu), by Kenzo Tange (selection of my own drawings)
Reading
Interpretation The designer gave a modern reinterpretation of history creating two different sections of the gardens with distinctive traditional features. He designed a reference to karesansui gardens toward the building, with a rectangular pond and some ishigumi. At the same time he created a pond garden to the south with a traditional suhama (pebble beach).
General layout
Traditional element. new form: pond
Artificial hills and traditional suhama
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2 - MASTER’S THESIS Title: “Complex landscape systems: territorial enhancement of the area of Ostia and Portus”. Designers: Marco Gazzoli, Stefano Di Carlantonio. Supervisor: Bianca Maria Rinaldi, Fabio Palazzo. Topics: Territorial planning, sustainabile mobility strategies, cultural heritage enhancement The area of Ostia and Portus suffers from several problems resulting from a lack of planning. Infrastructures such as Fiumicino Airport, highways, archaeological parks, inhabited areas and particularly fertile agricultural areas coexist unsuccessfully within the same piece of land. This project brings together the potential of this territory through a network of soft mobility paths enriched by equipped public spaces.
Ostia Antica, Rome
Magna Mater Temple
Schola Traianea
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Capitolium
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Contrasting systems
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fragmentation of the landscape
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several identity and accessibility issues
solved by
A system of pedestrian and bicycle paths
4 - DESIGN WORKSHOPS AND THESIS_Master’s Thesis
(A) Between Portus archaeological site and the Tiber river
New entrance
Magazzini Severiani
Hexagonal Harbour of Trajan
Panoramic deck New entrance
Flow speed
Panoramic deck
(B) Between Ostia Antica town and the archaeological site
Current situation
Project
Parking Station
Heavily trafficked roads
View from the deck to the archeological site: wooden posts higlight the old walls track
New paths
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4 - DESIGN WORKSHOPS AND THESIS_Master’s Thesis
(C) Between Ostia Antica town urban fringe
Project Implementing equipped public spaces Implementing an infrastructure that supports the new system of equestrian and bicycle paths
(D) Between the Tiber river and Portus town Current situation Scenario 1
Regenerating the ecosystem
Scenario 2
Recovering old shipyards
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3 - DESIGN COMPETITIONS Tokyo Urban Meditation Cabins international competition, 2022 Project: The Perch Around the Corner (by Marco Gazzoli, Exthai Chhiv, Pietari Sulonen) Shortlisted project > https://architecturecompetitions.com/tokyocabins/
The urban meditation pavillon is a perch for a dweller. The pavillion attracts with its height and creates a small hub for socialization and meditation.
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Europan 17, 2023 Project: Le Stanze (Cantù, IT) Designers: Marco Gazzoli, Pietari Sulonen Our team re-envisioned the city’s peculiar system of urban voids—Le Stanze (the rooms) — to create a widespread open-air musem with a variety of exhibitions spaces.
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IL MERLETTO DI CANTU’ parte 1
repplica del “Divano Belladonna” di Franco Albini
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Flormart Garden Show international design competition, 2015 Project title: No Empty Space; Designers: Marco Gazzoli, Enrico Pomatto Project selected for the exhibition stage
No Empty Space is a project of a temporary installation aimed at demonstrating the remarkable possibilities that the technology of vertical green can offer. The concept is that, thanks to this technology, plants can settle in any condition.
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a-a’ section
Planting according to surfaces solar exposure plan
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Sun:
- Achillea millefolium - Leuchanteum vulgare - Linaria vulgaris - Bupthalmum salicifolium - Dianthus carthusianorum - Petrorhagia saxifraga - Galium verum - Pilosella officinarum - Hypericum perforatum - Tanacetum vulgare
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west el.
Shade:
Construction details south el.
- Convallaria japonica - Heucera ‘Electra’ - Heucera ‘Heucerella Gold Zebra’ - Ophiopogon planiscapus nigriscens
Sun/shade:
- Heucera ‘lime marmelade’ - Hosta fortunei - Heucera ‘Autumn leaves’ - Hedera helix
Sphere: Tubolar profiles with coconut fibers mattress
4 - PROJECTS IN METRO VANCOUVER Capitol Hill, Burnaby Client: Private Designer: Marco Gazzoli for Alljobs Landscaping Corp. Poject type: residential garden design Project area: 2400 sq. feet Status: Completed in spring 2023
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Photos, August 2023
1 - PROJECTS IN METRO VANCOUVER
Various projects in Vancouver, Burnaby and Coquitlam Client: Various Designer: Marco Gazzoli for Isidore Landscapes Inc.and Alljobs Landscaping Corp. Poject type: commercial and residential garden design
Shaughnessy, Vancouver - Budgeting phase
South Surrey - Completed in November 2023
Rogate, Coquitlam - Concept phase only
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Photos, November 2023
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Cinelease Warehouse, Production Way - Concept phase
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Parkside Manor, Metrotown - Budgeting phase Landscape recovery and maintenance plan
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5 - LANDSCAPE THROUGH THE LENS Ongoing project Title: Kamogawa Photographer: Marco Gazzoli The Kamo River, known as Kamogawa, is the main river crossing Kyoto’s city center. It is also the main urban park of Kyoto and it is one of the main spaces for spontaneous expression of Kyoto’s people. Photos: “Music”, “Timeless” (June 14, 2019, Kyoto)
Published project Title: Landscape consumerism Photographers: Marco Gazzoli, Pietari Sulonen Publication: “Floral landscapes on display”, in Topos, Vol.109 Japan’s flower parks play an ever greater role in transforming landscapes into a commodity of the tourism industry. With theirs focus on the “spectalurarization” of ornamental plants and their blossoms, these parks are designed to capture the imagination of ordinary passers-by seeking a brief aesthetic experience. Photos: “Group”, Marco Gazzoli (July 13, 2019); “Couple”, Pietari Sulonen (July 13, 2019)
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