name // Michele Armando profession // Architect born // 25_02_1986 nationality // Italian address // Via Amerigo Vespucci, 66 Torino (Italy) Jianguo Lu, 395 Shanghai (China) tel // +39 - 3392732724 +86 - 15800613805 @ // michelearmando@hotmail.it note //
contents achronologicalselectionofprojectsandjobexperiences
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funicular house
Barcelona, Spain
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The project is located in Barcelona (Spain) and simulates the need to create an apartment for the caretaker of a cable car and for her disabled son. This challenge has led to ingenious solutions regarding the interior, such as the creation of a bedroom/lift for the child, in order to make accessible all the rooms of the house.
restoration as an opportunity for local development Verona, Italy
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The renovation project of the Nogarole Rocca’s castle was part of my last year thesis. After a long and complex social, economic, historical and architectural investigation I obtained a project which not only reveal the beauty and the importance of this historical building, but also give it back to the community. The castle become for the second time in history the most important building of the area, by creating space for services (as a library, a museum, a kindergarten, town hall offices....) and apartments.
transformation of a mansion into a lawyers’ office Torino, Italy
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The project aims to transform an elegant building from the beginning of the 20th century into an efficient contemporary office building, performing radical and pragmatic interventions and optimizing the use of space. At the same time, it tries to respect the existing rooms and preserve their charm, without being intimidated by their stiff classicism. The project looks for discretion and neutrality while inserting all the many necessary new elements, like the new staircase in perforated metal, that connects seven different levels illuminating them with a big skylight or like the new library, suspended in the heart of the building.
facade renovation for an historical building Torino, Italy
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This residential building of the XVIII century was one of the last old buildings in the Turin city centre to verte in really bad conditions. Studio MARC asked me to make an historical research about the building and an accurate survey. Thanks to this meticulous work we were able to return the building to its original splendor.
professor assistant for the workshop Piccola Cava Agrigento, Italy
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In this workshop I was one of the assistants of the Professor Architect Marco Navarra. The workshop took place in the Valley of the Temples in Agrigento, with the students of architecture of the University of Syracuse, and the aim was to create a space for concerts in an abandoned area of the park. My role was to guide the students during the design, to help them during the realization of their ideas and creating the graphic book with the results of the process, for the official publication.
On/Off
Caltagirone, Italy
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The project involves the study and the realization of a cabinet that could also act as a divider between two different spaces. In this way we created an hybrid between the door of a closet and a normal door that, through its various movements, redistributes the space around him.
full contact H Favara, Italy
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For the opening of the FARM CULTURAL PARK art center, we were asked to create a vegetable garden near the main kitchen. In this occasion we designed a suspended garden, which not only serve as a pantry with fresh products, but creates also new synergies between the actors who lives this space. The few centimeters between the walls and the garden forces people to the contact and the dialogue: a full contact, as the name of the work.
professor assistant workshop W.A.V.E. 2012 Venice, Italy
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During this prestigious workshop organized by the University of Venice, I was the professor assistant of the Architect Marco Navarra. The proposed theme in our project’s unity was the recovery of an abandoned factory and the transformation in student dormitory. The special feature of this course was to design through the sole use of sections and without plans. My role in this case was to give lectures about the recovery of abandoned industries, helping students in the realization of the works until the final exam.
Bodø City Hall
Bodø, Norway
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The competition requires the design of the new city hall of the city of Bodø. The team I belonged to was responsible for the design of the internal distribution and the final presentation. One of the most important concepts related to the project was the opening to the public, both physical and visual, that requires this huge and sperimental use of glass.
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Kontor Til bodo domkirke og park
forbindelser mellom etasjene
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delte mellomliggende områder trippel høyde plass
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Passasje til rådhuset
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Innendørs Park
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Komfortabel samlingssted i atriet Mekanisk Utstyr
til sentrum og vannkanten
Kantine Kontor
Solparken
Bodø domkirke
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GARDEN OFFICE
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A museum in the woods
Chateau La Coste, France
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The project involves the construction of several outdoor “rooms�, designed to accommodate artworks as part of the artistic route of Chateau La Coste. My role was to provide technical drawings and photomontages to be presented to the customer.
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apartment renovation
Torino, Italy
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The project involves the renovation of an apartment in the historic center of Turin. The client requires the creation of two bedrooms for the children and a new redistribution of the rooms, with the inclusion of some contemporary architecture element, as the kitchen passerby which looks like a blue block breaking the typical distribution and materials of a historic home.
12 apartments Building
Torino, Italy
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The 12 apartments building located in Via Messina (Turin) was the longest and most complex project that i followed as a collaborator of an architectural firm. In this case, in addition to the design of the building in all its parts and the control at the construction site of the process, I had to follow the interior design of the 12 apartments too, helping every customer about the materials, distribution, lighting and furnitures choosing.
Blue Monday
Torino, Italy
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Blue Monday was the first project followed entirely by myself. The flat suffer an obsolete state, dark and with a considerable waste of space. By demolishing some parts of the original structure, I created a new entrance directly connected to the living room and the kitchen, allowing an open space which is a lot brighter and cosier. The bathroom acquired additional space as well. The new arrangement is also highlighted by the floor and petrol blue walls, whose colour makes its way through the oak parquet.
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Proposta Progettuale Scala 1:5
Due di due
Alba, Italy
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For this apartment the clients keep going expressing different and conflicting needs. Starting from this fight, the project shows this duality through materials and spaces, trying to join and separate the rooms of the house, through the use of transparent and semitransparent materials and sliding doors.
Lamps Italy
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Nantong Hao River Architecture and Landscape Design
Nantong, China
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The basic concept of this project was about inserting architecture in a really strong natural environment, in the most respectful way as possible. I decided to take as reference the surrounding natural system, in particular from the waves of the river, the branches of the trees and the birds from the sky. In this way we obtained a light architecture, well mixed with the environment, with at the same time a strong personality, made to attract and astound tourists and citizens.
Thank you.