Marcus Fortunato Rigon Portfolio by Marcus Fortunato Rigon

MARCUS FORTUNATO RIGON PORTFOLIO 2016

EDUCATION Xian-Jiaotong Liverpool University / Suzhou, Jiangsu China / 2013 -2016 Bachelor of Architecture/Engineering RIBA Part 1 (BEng) 2016 First Class (Honours) Bachelor of Architecture/Engineering Chinese Ministroy of Construction (BEng) 2016

Professional EXPERIENCE Adventurous Architecture

Architectural Intern / Shanghai, China / Winter 2015/2016. Xian Innovation Port Competition

CYTS Corporation

Architectural Intern /Shanghai, China / Summer 2015. Jinhu Tourism Development Xiamen Tourism Development

Marcus Fortunato Rigon marcusfortunatorigon1991@gmail.com

SURF

Research Assistant / Suzhou / Shanghai, China / Winter 2014. Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship 1933 Old Millfun Architectural Drawings and 3D modelling of exisiting building

SKILLS

2D Adobe Suite / Photoshop InDesign, Illustrator. AutoCAD Laser Cutting Sketching 3D Rhinoceros 3D V-ray for Rhino Grasshopper 3D Printing Maxwell - basic Model Making Metal Work

Sketchup CNC Routing Revit - basic Wood Working Foam Cutting

ACHIEVEMENTS & AWARDS

2010 REIQ - Licensed Real Estate Agent QLD (Sept 2010) 1st Prize - High Mobility City Competition

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE Webtyre.net

Operations & Customer Relations Manager / Melbourne / Victoria , Australia / 2010/2012 Online Customer Sales, Invoicing and delivery ( CRM) Stock Control and ordering Website maintenance and upgrades

Great Coast Realty Licensed Real Estate Agent / GoldCoast / Queensland, Australia / 2009 Cold calling Preperation of contracts Meetings with clients

Trueline Group

Warehouse & Logistics Supervisor / Brisbane / Queensland, Australia / 2008/2009. Material Purchases to meet building program Stock Control / purchasing Invoicing & Debtor collections Delivery of materials to site to meet build program

Trueline Group

Sales Consultant / Brisbane / Queensland, Australia / 2007/2008. Tele â&#x20AC;&#x201C;sales ( inbound) for Storage Systems Trade & Consumer Shows Stock Control / purchasing Invoicing & Debtor collections Contribution to marketing campaigns

LANGUAGES English Native. Conversational Chinese - Mandarin

PLANES

ANCHOR POINTS

VAULT

FABRICATION

Final Design

CURVES

LOFT

CONTOURS

FRABRICATION

ENVELOPE

Ø6" 600#

THE REDEMPTION

A new approach

intergrated

Open Source

MOVE

professional

OF UTOPIA

for mixed-use

spaces

Building System

Building

Record

experience

THE INDUSTRY OF

residential

Parametric

System

Mapping

DYSTOPIA

buildings in Old

pavillion

THE MACHINE &

Shanghai

NATURE

4th Year Studio Type : Mixed Use Location : Baoshan, Shanghai, China. June 2016

THE REDEMPTION OF UTOPIA THE INDUSTRY OF DYSTOPIA THE MACHINE & NATURE Project Brief For centuries Shanghai has been a city for which the openness to flows of people, trade and investment was of key importance. Consequently, the image of Shanghai has been created by travellers, and is encrusted with traces of people moving, drifting, running, and pausing for a break just before again succumbing to the flows. As such, Shanghai provides compelling historical scenery of passengers and migrants, entangled fates and fortunes, fuzzy routes and chaotic movements. Its fluctuating landscape with its fast growing population of modern nomads calls for new concepts for places of transition. If such spaces were able to record all travellers, all their thoughts, their hopes and dreams, and all scenes of people coming and going, what would they project? What are the stories that such spaces witness, and how could architecture reflect these stories? How could we address different but coexisting concepts of time -- fast time and slow time, waiting time, travelling time, flowing time, infinitely? This brief investigates possibilities for new concepts for places of transition.

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Functions A

1. Entrance, ticketing and locker area 2. Exit and girftshop 3. Elevator core 4. Emergency Slides 5. Changing Rooms and Decontamination Chamber 6. Water Sedement and Pollutant Seperation Chamber 7. Interactive Electrical Organism Cultivation Area 8. Microscope Bio-organism Experimental Zone 9. Seperation Zone 10. Chryo-chamber and Digital Pollution Filter 11. Air Pollutant Vacuum Chamber

Scale - 1:200

Ground Level

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Scale - 1:200

Level -1

10mm Corten Steel Cladding 1500mm Steel Lintel Beam

Prop Supports 400mm Insulation Batts

Aluminium Window Frame

200mm Steel Door

1000mm Castilated Steel Beam 50mm Ridgid Insulation Board Water Proof Membrane 5mm Corten Steel Finish

750mm Primary Steel Structural Support

1000mm Reinforced Concrete Wall

Ø6" 600#

4th Year Studio Type : Mixed Use Residential Location : Shanghai Old Town, Shanghai, China. Feb 2016

A new approach for mixed-use residential buildings in Old Shanghai Project Brief The old city of Shanghai is not a homogeneous urban fabric only comprised of traditional houses. The old Shanghai is already changing, following the needs of transformation experienced by the rest of the city in order to give answer to its modern aspirations. The issue then should not be focused on whether or not the old Shanghai should change or not, but on how this transformation should occur. For this brief you will propose a mixed-use building. The building itself has to be a statement on how the old village of Shanghai could change and evolve. Your project should propose an approach for transformation which gives answer to the modern demands for the city, yet at the same time rescues and retains spatial qualities which may be essential and unique to the old city of Shanghai. In other words, your project needs to preserve and potentiate by proposing something new.

FINAL DESIGN PROPOSAL The desired outcome of this project was to achieve something new that could embody aspects such as the characteristics and lifestyle found on the site. The site offers many different elements in which one can be inspired by. This project aims to explore the relationship between the public and private space, people watching and the extending and expanding spaces. It seeks to propose a new and different vision of what the future might be for this site. The current proposition proposes a short stay hotel which can be configured and expanded depending on the needs of the customer. In addition, this project proposes a multifunational community space, in which numerous different configurations can be achieved to adapt to the different needs and events that occur within this city that is always changing.

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The solid to void ratio of the structure is set to 50%, this is to counter any day light issues. Further more the ratio of private to public space is also set at a maximum of 40% private. However if the private space is not occupied, it is then removed from the structure and is replace with more public space.Therefore, there is potential for the structure to become 100% public space.

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DENSITY MODEL

VOID-SOLID ABSTRACTION

My Second Attempt at identifying where on the site had the largest amount of building density involved the creation of a model. This CNC routed model was produced using a 3D model of the site. By taking advantage of the CNC machines limitations I was able to produce a density model. The machine was using a drill piece of 5mm therefore this 1:500 model would have extrusions representing void spaces of 2.5metres and wider. As a result, many areas that were narrower then 2.5metres have been left as solid material on the model. Therefore, the top left quarter of the model is clearly representing the densest part of the site.

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CONCEPT MODEL 1 5250

This First Conceptual model embodies the previous abstract sketch. By representing this 3 dimensionally, one can understand the relationship between structure, solid volumes and void spaces. Basement

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Ground

Scale 1:200

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Second

Third

Forth

A:A

B:B

3rd Year Studio Type : Design and Building Typology Location : Suzhou Old Town, Jiangsu, China.

intergrated spaces This studio wants to explore the potential and meaning of integrated architectural spaces. From the macro level of urban scale to the micro level of living spaces the studio investigates how the idea of integration and inclusion could be translated into and supported through urban and architectural spaces whereby integration may span -but is not limited to - from demographic to functional, environmental, ethnical, social and certainly spatial integration. The housing project which is to develop is located in the north of old Suzhou. Different architectural types creating integrated urban and architectural spa es are explored during the studio. Understanding the project context through analysing the site, the environment and the housing situation in China and Suzhou students will develop a master plan reflecting their idea of integrated and inclusive spaces to conclude finally with a detailed exploration on an architectural scale what integration might mean on the level of individual living spaces and housing units. The project area is partitioned and assigned to individual students thus the students have to coordinate their individual proposals to develop a complete and integrated design for the whole project area.

4th Year Architectural Technology Type : Mixed Use Residential Location : Shanghai Old Town, Shanghai, China. Feb 2016

Open Source Building System â&#x20AC;&#x153;Architectural technology as a discipline and as a knowledge domain has evolved rapidly in the UK since the early 1990s, and in doing so it has started to (re)establish the synergy between building design, technology and community as we strive for a more sustainable and stimulating built environment. The role of the architectural technologist, both the official role promoted in the UK by the Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists (CIAT) and that adopted by others, such as architects, engineers and surveyors operating in the field, continues to evolve, shaped and reshaped by the time in which we live and the technologies to hand. The challenge for building designers is constantly to evaluate and question: why we build; what we build, how we build; and when we build. It is only through such soul searching that we are able to advance our understanding and create a more responsive built environment. In order to advance our understanding we need to consult a wide range of knowledge, which will be derived from research and reflection on practice.â&#x20AC;? (Emmitt, 2013) (Emmitt, 2013)

Design Strategy 1

The strategy that we employed was to first start with the input of the desired pavilion. These first input parameters allow the user to have full control of the input prior to the “Generation of Form” phase.

The second phase of the process would then consolidate all of the prior input data. Once all the data has enter into the generation stage it combines it all and produces a form relative to the desired input parameters.

The third stage on the design strategy is that of the “Form Output”, this output is a result of the users previous input. When the input changes, so does the output. So at this stage the output is displayed live and can be manipulated to reach the users desired aesthetic.

Once a decision has been made to proceed with a design output that pleases the user, the process then breaks down the users design into a series of lists. These lists comprise of components,joint, plans sections and elevations and all necessary instructions that will help in the construction process of the pavilion.

The major difficulty that we encountered during the final stage on of the design development was the development of the horizontal beam elements. The main challenges were realised when we attempted to extrude the curves produced by the intersection of generated planes and the lofted surface. We first attempted to produce these intersections by stacking vertically planes in the X-axis and Y-axis. This worked, however it wasn’t until we manipulated the oscillation of the Top Curve that we realised that we have a problem. The problem was that when one side on the structure had a lower roof level, which is generated by the Top Curve, the top most horizontal beam wouldn’t travel the whole length of the structure. The generated intersection curve that as being produced was in the form of a “U” shape, in relation to its plan elevation. This would therefore result in a very complicated curved beam, we initially first set out to remove curved beams from the definition when we encountered this problem in the “First Attempt”. Therefore to counter this problem we decide that the intersecting planes needed to be perpendicular to the exterior curvature of the structure. To achieve this we analyzed the curvature of the vertical beams and exported the perpendicular angles needed. These angles were then used to produce the extending intersecting planes that would result in the horizontal beam intersection traveling the whole length of the structure no matter what variable input may be.

3rd Structural Design Type : Runner Up - Bridge Competition Location : Suzhou Old Town, Jiangsu, China.

STRuctural design In the context of architectural designing, structural design describes the conception and articulation of building structures that integrate architectural qualities with structural requirements. This module provides students with an understanding of different types of structural systems and their potential to support and enhance given architectural intentions. In this module, structural design is approached primarily through visual means architecture students can easily relate to, focusing on the integration of structural and programmatic patterns, scales and proportions in structural layouts. Throughout this module, lectures are accompanied by applied structural design exercises during seminar classes. As part of these exercises, students will produce a series of structural design proposals addressing a variety of structural types and scales. In addition students will participate in a bridge design competition that requires students to design, build and test bridge models for their structural performance. Depending on availability, the module will include site visits as well as guest lectures / reviews by internal and external engineers and architects.

1st Year: Design Thinking & Articulation Type : Digital Media Feb 2013

MOVE // Record // Mapping

Professional EXPERIENCE Adventurous Architecture

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first

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CYTS Corporation

SURF