Portfolio - Paolo Turconi

Portfolio

Paolo Turconi

Architect

Fatehpur Sikri, India

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Projects index Rhizome (university, Thesis)

> pag. 3

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Matching vaults (university)

> pag. 13

Amhedabad, India

Rublyovo Archangelskoye

> pag. 19

Moscow, Russia

Urban Block, Ekaterinburg

> pag. 26

Ekaterinburg, Russia

Ijburg Island > pag. 30 Amsterdam, Netherlands

Maria-Hilf Höfe und Gärten > pag. 37 Mönchengladbach, Germany

University for Pemba

> pag. 42

Pemba, Mozambique

Exibitions > pag. 46 Painting > pag. 47 Photography > pag. 48

All the sketches and drawings * presented in this portfolio are made by me.

If made by others, they will be cited.

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Rhizome

(university, thesis)

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

These are clustered together and can rotate, mirror and attach to each other creating a hierarchical sequence of community spaces.

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Rhizome Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (university, master thesis) In the last decade, the Ethiopian Government has been promoting policies and projects to tackle the housing shortage in Ethiopia in general and Addis Ababa in particular. On the one hand, the government’s programme provided a great number of new housing units, but on the other hand the design of the new housing projects did not take into consideration the social and spatial patterns of the lower income section of the population.

This brought us to a clear research question, focused on a specific neighbourhood in Addis Ababa: How can the different socio-spatial layers that characterize the fabric of the neighbourhood, be reinterpreted into a low-rise project able to reach the same density of the Condominium blocks?

The project is composed by three fundamental elements: two unit blocks and the circulation system. These are clustered together and can rotate, mirror and attach to each other creating a hierarchical sequence of community spaces.

As every cluster is independent, the entire project can be built in phases allowing the scheme to integrate organically within the surroundings. Further, the design can be built with two different construction methods (rammed earth and concrete) that offer more affordable solutions than those currently used in the governmental housing programme.

Project by: Paolo Turconi

Arianna Fornasiero

St. George church, window

Project publications

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Design principle Households | 11-19 People | 40-70

Households | 10 -14 People | 40-50

Incremental apartment block

private open space apartment block

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Cluster of compounds

Inner street and clusters of compounds

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One cluster of compounds

Cluster of compounds space

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One dwelling in the compound

Compound space

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Render by: Arianna Fornasiero Clusters of compounds - 10 years after construction

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Rammed earth solution

vs.

standard Condominium block Cost:

Cost:

150 â‚Ź /m2

90 â‚Ź /m2

Time: 11 months

Time: 8.5 months

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Concrete solution

vs.

standard Condominium block Cost:

Cost:

145 â‚Ź /m

150 â‚Ź /m2

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Time: 8 months Time: 8.5 months

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Render by: Arianna Fornasiero Ten years since the project started

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Matching vaults

(university)

Amhedabad, India

The masterplan approach aims in giving the tenants the opportunity to gather in smaller communities.

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Matching vaults Amhedabad, India (university, thesis) The project in Ahmedabad in India challenged us to face the theme of affordable housing production.

We were asked to conceive a design solution able to host the population of the so called Hollywood Slum.

The main purpose of the project was to design low-income units able to host the existing population in the Hollywood slum in Ahmedabad, as well as adding middle-class apartments in order to improve the economic value of the site.

The masterplan aims in giving the tenants the opportunity to gather in smaller communities, taking advantage from the design of the unit and their aggregation.

Indeed, the design start from the typical row-house which enables to create diversity within the plot creating a direct relationship between the dwelling and the street. The concept stands for the will to define the entire project from a stripe. In this case thr services stripe and the stairs stripe constitutes the hard core of each unit, serving two apartments at the same time.

Each module is 2 .5mx10m with a 2m wide mezzanine. In section, the typical dwellings shift along the mezzanine, giving space for terraces.

The brick load bearing structure becomes part of the design itself defining the final aspect of the project.

Project by: Paolo Turconi

Arianna Fornasiero

Hawa Mahal, Jodhpur

Pol Housing, design principle

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Design principle

Structural plan

Service stripes

Isometric axonometry of the staircase block

Aggregation typologies

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Street sections and typologies

View of the redeveloped Hollywood slum

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Typical floorplan

View of the vaulted interior

Streetscape elevation

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Roofing involves the same technique of the typical apartment flooring.

Pieces of porcelain cover the exterior, reflecting the solar radiation in order to improve the inner climate.

Two types of reinforced concrete beams have been used. They both give anchorage to the vaults.

The section of the beams hosts grooves to allow the vault to maintain the same grade of curvature.

The walls of the apartments are made by Fly ash bricks, produced with pulverized coal.

Load bearing walls alternatively host the staircase and the main services of the apartments.

Detail section and elevation

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Rublyovo Archangelskoye Moscow, Russia

The design took advantage of the immense opportunity given by a city of new foundation to create diversity, instead of using the same typology all over the masterplan.

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Rublyovo Archangelskoye Moscow, Russia Mecanoo was invited to take part to the competition for the design of the new city of Rublyovo-Arkhangelskoe locaed in the West of Moscow.

The participants were asked to propose an innovative design that would have gived a unique look to the city, implementing technological innovations, Smart City principles and modern environmental approaches.

The design of each block as well as the the main city infrastructure were already been designed by a consortium of firms back in 2013. Our freedom was then limited by borders to respect and density standards.

Therefore, the project aimed to contast the pre-established and old fashioned radial city structure through the creation of interconnected smart neighbouhoods.

Each neighbourhood would be characterised by a specific building typology which creates a variety of interesting athmospheres, all connected by both fast and slow movement infrastructures.

The design takes advantage of the immense opportunity given by a city of new foundation to create diversity, instead of using the same typology in every zone of the city.

Finally, landscape is esigned with the purpose of stitching together every zone, from the most dense one to the low and southern neighbourhood of the new city immersed in nature.

Project by (core team): Paolo Turconi,

Polina Strukova

Dick van Gameren

Arianna Fornasiero

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Neighbourhood typologies

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Design principle: Differentiate neighbourhoods

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7 Neighbourhood typologies

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Landscape masterplan

Mobility masterplan

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Museum

Fifth level

First level

Roof

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School

First level

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Riverfront

Render by: Fernando Silva View of the River Front of the new city

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Urban Block Collection Ekaterinburg, Russia

The top layer aims to solve the inevitable distance fom the groundfloor. Cuts and setbacks create terraces which would not only encourage encounter.

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Urban Block Collection

Set back in the last floors

Ekaterinburg, Russia

The aim o the competition was to design a facade language able to enhance the living quality of the inhabitants in the new developments carried out by the copany Brusnika. It was allowed to intervene both on the facade envelope and on the volume itself.

The concept is quite simple: dividing the buildings in three main layers in order to enhance each of them with different iterventions.

Cut in the last floors

The plint was set back to create arcades and to give a sheleter to the inhabitants in correspondence to the entrances.

The middle layer was kept virtually two-dimensional playing with various opening types in the Villa or with bay windows in the tower and Block.

The top layer aims to solve the inevitable distance fom the groundfloor. In all typologies, cuts and setbacks create terraces which would not only encourage encounter, but also provide an outdoor space to the tenants of the top floors.

The character of each type is enhanced by the use of material and colour.

A limited palette of warm earth tones, all achieved in pigmented fibre cement panelling, is combined with lighter toned panels. As a third element, aluminum panels with bronze colours are used to clad the protruding bay windows and other smaller elements of the facades.

Project by: Paolo Turconi

Dick van Gameren

Polina Strukova

Alessandro Luporino

Elisa Gallazzi

Balconies on the inner facade

Covered passage

Covered entrance

Can we find domesticity in highrises?

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Perimeter block 01.DESIGN PRINCIPLES/ concept

Typical plan of Block S1

Renders by: Omega Render

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Urban villa

Typical plan of Urban villa

Renders by: Omega Render

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Ijburg Island Amsterdam, Netherlands

References came mainly from the mews of London, streets of Brooklyn and Amsterdam. All of them were studied and drawn in order to grasp their essence.

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Ijburg Island Amsterdam, Netherlands

Netherlands will have to build a million new homes before 2030. The construction of the Ijburg Island on the East of Amsterdam city centre is part of this ambitious plan.

The island is currently under construction, and the first bildings will start to rise in about one year from now.

Since the beginning of my working experience I partecipated to the research and currently to the design of one city block under the supervision of Dick van Gameren.

The municipality set the measures for the streets and the main guidelines to follow.

Therefore, the research focused on providing a range of streetscapes as well as of typologies aimed to create variety and life quality to the new Ijburg citizens.

References came mainly from the mews of London, streets of Brooklyn and Amsterdam.

All of them were studied and drawn in order to grasp their essence and, then, to coniugate it in the Dutch capital.

The second design stage focuses on a block in the North of the Ijburg Island. Four sectors are at our disposal to proposed adeguated typologies that could in future be beneficial to many other blocks on the island. Each sector has to respect standards of density.

Then, the typologies adapt both to that and to the surroudings and always create an interesting streetscape as well as community spaces in the inner part of the block.

Project by: Paolo Turconi

Dick van Gameren

various (Arianna Fornasiero

Luuk van der Elzen,

Ron van Logchem, Rohan Varma)

Iliffe Yard, London

Holland Mews, London

Sketch by: Dick van Gameren

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Amsterdam “the Netherlands will need a million new homes by 2030�

New Island Pampusbuurt Density: 250-300 inhabitants/ ha

Street section (as suggested by the municipality) 32

Research, Amsterdam example Amsterdam London USA Amsterdam, Lomanstraat

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Design

Axonometric view of the design proposal

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33 apartments

Apartment 1 2 floors

Apartment 3 2 floors

Apartment 2 2 floors

Apartment 4 2 floors

GFA: 115 m2

GFA: 115 m2

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40 apartments

Apartment 1 1 floor GFA: 95 m2

Apartment 2 1 floor GFA: 100 m2

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Maria-Hilf Höfe und Gärten Mönchengladbach, Germany

Our idea was to accept the discontinuity of the city and simply design our masterplan as a clever continuation of the existing fabric.

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Maria-Hilf Höfe und Gärten Mönchengladbach, Germany

I remember this as one of the most compelling, interesting and intense designs.

Mecanoo was invited by the municipality of Mönchengladbach, in Germany, to be part of an “on-site” competition for the redevelopment of a cenral area of the city.

The site is currently mostly disusend, with an exception for an old hospital building which occupies the north part. The city fabric is disrupted both by its orography and by the discontinuous post-war recostructions.

Therefore, the idea was to accept the discontinuity of the city and simply propose a masterplan as a clever continuation of the existing fabric.

The South side would connect with the old city structure, made by tiny houses slightly similar to the typical Dutch canal houses.

The North side is designed to oversee the rest of the materplan and the old city from the top of the hill. The hospital would be redeveloped to host dwellings and the new part would create a series of connected courtyards of various dimensions.

Beautiful view lines would be offered by the changes of height in the site, one of the peculiarity of Mönchengladbach.

Project by: Paolo Turconi

Dick van Gameren

Sorin Bompa

Pieter Hoen

East side of the site

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Project developement

The context filtrates in the project site

existing vs. new

existing new 39

Residential typologies

One-family house

Two-family house

Corner typology

Normal typology: flexible program

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Visualisations

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Section A-A

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Sketches by D.van Gameren

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University for Pemba Pemba, Mozambique (university, bachelor thesis) Pemba, that now hosts around 200’000 inhabitants, will reach a peak of 500’000 within the next twenty years. This rapid growth makes a thoughtfull urbanistic planification more than necessary.

Part of the plan is the construction of new public buildings, able to absorb the arrival of new city inhabitants.

The assignment was to design a new University, situated in the North sde of the city, close to the sea.

The building divides in two main blocks in order to define a passage open to all citizens.

The passage will lead both students and inhabitants towards classrooms as well as public functions, as library, auditorium and an amphitheatre.

Since the elevated number of students (10’000), On the groundfloor on both sides of the passage spaces for commercial activities will be provided, in order to create working opportunities also for the inhabitants of the nearby neighbourhoods.

Brick is the main construction material that composes the university. Thick walls prevent the heat to penetrate the building and tilted wooden roofs facilitate the exit of warm air.

Windows were desgned with the aim to stop sun rays, using deep wooden frames or thanks to the tilted direction of the openings (i.e. classrooms).

Project by: Paolo Turconi

Simone Corberi

Iana na Yeon Kim

Giulia Reginato

Peninsula of Pemba, research

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Auditorium, restaurants, bar

Art gallery for Students

Open arena, amphitheatre

Commercial activities

Library

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Library

Courtyard

Typical section

Typical plan, classrooms, commercial activities, library

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West elevation, main facade

Main facade detail, elevation and sction

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Exibitions La Biennale, Thesis project

Exibition fot TU Delft

Finalists for Young Talent Architecture Award 2018 (YTAA)

Palazzo Mora, Venice

Palazzo Michiel, Venice

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Painting

20-10-2018

15-04-2019

08-05-2018

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Photography

Ethiopia, 2016

Novosibirsk, 2019

Ekaterinburg, 2019

Indonesia, 2017

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Thank you

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