GIOVANNI SAPUTO portfolio
SELECTED PROJECTS 2013 | 2016
CONTENTS Curriculum Vitae Urbs In Silva Flexible And Metabolic Axis Brouwerij ‘T Ij Workshop Woodie Zeeburgereiland Apartments Theaters Of Democracy White Store Shoah Memorial Cultural Center Helsinki Guggenheim Museum Wine Culture Center Linking The Limit XML Motivation Letter
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Giovanni Saputo sptgnn@gmail.com Germany: +49 162 1580385 06 | 05 | 1989 Italian educational background Erasmus+ Program 2016 2017 Bauhaus Universität Weimar, Germany Exchange Program 2013 2014 Academie Van Bouwkunst Amsterdam, NL Bachelor Degree 2009 2012 S.U.N. “Luigi Vanvitelli” Aversa, IT relator Corrado Di Domenico Highschool Diploma 2004 2008 Liceo Scientifico “A. Diaz” Caserta, IT scholarship and work 2012
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work experience May - Jul 2016 Jan – Jun 2014 Jan – Dec 2013 Feb – Apr 2012 March - May 2011
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Workin’ON 4 4areeX4comuni sul litorale domizio Tutors Simone Capra [sTARTT] e Nicola Russi [laboratoriopermanente] Workin’ON 3 Demalling Caserta: workshop di progettazione architettonica incentrato sulla questione del recupero dei centri commerciali falliti. Tutor Subhash Mukerjee [studiomarc] Workin’ON 2 Sul percorso dei Regi Lagni Tutor Stefano Pujatti [elasticospa]
Corvino+Multari, Napoli – internship XML, Amsterdam – internship Sossio De Vita, Naples – internship Marasma studio, Caserta – internship Beniamino Servino, Caserta – internship
Aracne Editrice: La Grande Dimensione In Architettura – Il Centro Direzionale Di Napoli A cura di Giovanni Multari Il Decumano: Asse Urbano_densità e spazio pubblico, pp. 84-87
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skills Autodesk AutoCAD Google Sketchup Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Adobe InDesign Interstudio Artlantis QGis Microsoft Office technical model making hand-drafting woodworking lasercutting architecture collages
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Nuova Stazione Zoologica Antonio Dorhn in Napoli TEAM: Giovanni Multari, Vincenzo Corvino, Michele Natale, Giovanni Saputo, Isidoro Pennitti finalist project Kindergarten San Giorgio In Brunico TEAM: Sossio De Vita, Giovanni Saputo, Donato Santoli, Manuel Gegenhuber finalist project Guggenheum Museum In Helsinki TEAM: Sossio De Vita, Stefano Lanzetta, Giovanni Saputo applying project Wine Culture Center in Valpollicella TEAM: Sossio De Vita, Giovanni Saputo, Federico Giacomarra applying project Memorial Cultural Center in Auschwitz TEAM: Giovanni Saputo, Giuseppe Parisi applying project Pozziello Evoluzione Legno in Napoli TEAM: Sossio De Vita, Giovanni Saputo, Eleonora Volpe, Luca Serafino, Fulvio Narciso 2° prize Riqualificazione Di Piazza Fermi E Piazza Marconi TEAM: Giuseppe Mascolo, Giovanni Saputo, Salvatore Scandurra, Antonio Balsamo applying project Europan 11 in Graz TEAM: Giuseppe Mascolo, Giovanni Saputo, Maurizio Barbato, Nicola Perrotta applying project
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URBS IN SILVA | MILANO EXPO 2015 REHABILITATION Personal project What’s the future of the expo area now that the pavilions will be dismantled? Hence the interesting debate on the legacy, understood as material and immaterial heritage. The future that will be intended for the expo area is definitely an opportunity for urban regeneration of an area which could gradually no longer be considered a peripheral area negatively. The material legacy that we leave the site is represented by the Italian Pavilion , the tree of life, the Open Air Theatre and Cascina Triulza farthest heritage, prior to the event of Expo 2015. About future of Expo has already begun to discuss before it was built, but today it seems certain the hypothesis that in this area it will relocate the University of Milan, now “widespread” in the historical center of the city, with campus residences, auditoriums and sports activities, which Assolombarda will be born there the new Silicon Valley, an innovative EURAU 2016 – European Symposium on Research in Architecture and Urban Design: In Between Scales center for computer science and that will make a large international research center about big data, nutrition, food and sustainability. The paper intends to present the results of a project work carried out within the course of Laboratory of the course of Science in Architecture Urban Design at the University of Naples Federico II, starting from the project for Expo area, he has had the opportunity to address many of the themes from the Call of EURAU 2016: in particular, within a complex project both functionally and morphologically, connections, on the one side, between what is public, what it is collective and what is private within a new “piece” of the city and, on the other side, the relationship between built space and unbuilt space that, in a hypothesis of city open to nature, the construction becomes an element of the urban design. TUTOR: Federica Visconti, Renato Capozzi
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FLEXIBLE AND METABOLIC AXIS | CDN NAPOLI Personal project 70 mt wide by 800 long and defined on its sides by the porticoes of the “piastra” buildings, the green axis is the main element of the buisness district street network. the space, due to its over-dimensionsioning and some visual obstacles, causes disorientation in the visitors. A new “box-building” made of glass is inserted in the central area of the axis, eliminating the pedestrian level. the aim is to introduce new functions through a densification of the axis, in order to guarantee a better urban dynamism.
TUTOR: Giovanni Multari
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BROUWERIJ ‘T IJ WORKSHOP | AMSTERDAM - NL Personal project
The Brouwerij ‘t Ij is a small beer factory, situated in the old public bath-house “Funen”, next to the windmill De Gooyer. Opened in 1985 by the musiscian Kaspar Peterson, the brewery offers a selection of seasonal and special beers. Their production is located in an other warehouse, just few meters from the windmill. The headboard of this warehouse is the plot assigned for this project. Standing within the boundaries of a 20mX5mX8m box, the design provides the realization of a Brouwerij ’t Ij Experience, mainly focusing on the quality of the space and the natural light to give more importance to the beer selection. Since the area presents a lack of activities for the people who lives and work there, the aim of this project is to combine an intimate feeling and a working space to house a community of real beer lovers, who can have the opportunity to learn, brew and share their own beers. The building is divided in two levels. In the first level the customers can walk on a little slope through several panels that explain the different beers and their receptie. After that they can choose their favourite beer and try to brew it on the second floor, where a workshop space is located. Using a repetition of wooden beams that blend the entire wooden structure the building is partly visible from the street, despite where the stucco walls close the building in a chess-like rhytm on both two levels.
TUTOR: Tom Franzen
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WOODIE | MULTIUSE WOODEN PIC-NIC TABLE Personal Prject
Woodie is a new way to conveive a pic-nic table. Differently from the traditional pic-nic table, Woodie allows you to eat, rest, seat and play at the same time. A monolitic squared volume (2mX2m) is divided in 10 playwood panels (1,5mX1,5m), which are cuttet and put upon each other due to generate the different conformations. By the alternation of the panels, separated from each other through rest material pieces, you can see through it the enviroment around you. Woodie seems to be apparently unregular: this stimulates users’imaginations and choose to use Woodie always in different ways.
TUTOR: Paolo Giardiello
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ZEEBURGEREILAND APARTMENTS BUILDING | AMSTERDAM - THE NETHERLANDS Realized Project
The building is part of Amsterdam’s housing expansion to the eastern docklands. The floor to ceiling glass facade offers the residents a panoramic view of the water landscape of the Amsterdam IJ.
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THEATERS OF DEMOCRACY | XIV VENICE BIENNALE | ITALY Realized Project
In the Summer of 2014, XML was invited to contribute to the main exhibition of the 14th International Venice Architecture Biennale in the section Monditalia. In the contribution ‘Theatres of democracy’, XML brings together its ongoing research into spaces of political congregation with an analysis of the typology of the semi-circular Greek theatre as an architectural device for democracy. Even though today’s representative democracies face different forms of crisis, many houses of parliament still draw upon an ancient architecture. The dominant model for spaces of political congregation remains the semi-circular typology of the Greek theatre, as preserved in Siracusa’s Teatro Greco in Sicily. By exploring citizenship as a form of spectatorship, the XML installation in the Corderie of the Arsenale contrasts the inclusive architecture of Teatro Greco and the feeling of exclusion that many associate with today’s mediated politics. On one side of a wall, visitors can look through a series of peepholes into today’s halls of parliaments. The other side of the wall presents a wallpaper with a genealogy of the semi-circle that shows how the semi-circle has travelled to modern times - whereas the semi-circle as a symbol of democracy persisted, the reality of democracy has changed significantly. Between 2010 and 2014, XML has visited and documented spaces of political congregation across the world. Part of that research is presented in the installation that contrasts the interiors of contemporary parliaments with an analysis of the history of the semi-circle: from the inclusive space of the open air Greek theatre to contemporary parliaments built as television studios. How did the meaning of the semi-circle change from an architecture of collectivity, to a mere symbolic architecture that leaves the task of shaping politics to media? And how can our spaces of political congregation be modernized while taking the genealogy of the semi-circle fully into account?
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VITAMIN WHITE STORE | REDLIGHT DISTRICT - AMSTERDAM -NL Realized project
In the heart of Amsterdam’s Red Light District, XML designed a store saturated in white light. The Red Light District in Amsterdam is currently transforming from an area dominated by the sex industry to a more programmatically diverse neighbourhood. The store is located in the heart of this district and is part of this gradual transformation. XML’s challenge was to come up with a design that could attract people that pass by and yet communicate to be something completely different than its neighbours. We decided to play with the idea of light, as it is already the most important aesthetic feature of the area in the evening. Core element in the White Store interior is a 9 meter translucent bar containing 28 tube lights that creates a glowing white light amidst the red lights in the area. The element refers to the idea of a reception counter, familiar from pharmacies. A mirror at the end of the shop extends the length of the bar element and visually doubles the small space of the 17th century Amsterdam souterrain in which the store is located. Behind the bar, staff dressed in white lab coats offers visitors information about the health benefits of the vitamin drink. The products for sale are displayed on long shelves of folded metal with integrated lighting.
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MEMORIAL CULTURAL CENTER | AUSCHWITZ - POLAND Applying project
I Nazisti realizzarono diversi campi di sterminio in Polonia, il paese con la più grande popolazione ebraica. Questi furono progettati con l’obiettivo di creare un’ efficiente macchina per l’omicidio di massa. Nonostante tutto sia finito, Auschwitz-Oswiecim, una cittadina con meno di 40.000 abitanti, si porta dietro le impronte indelebili della più lucida manifestazione della programmazione della morte. Ricordare è un dovere che dobbiamo ai morti e ai vivi. Come? Raccontare l’ Olocausto ad Auschwitz non è come farlo in un‘ altra città. Più che di un mero memoriale è forte il bisogno di uno spazio ove favorire la convivialità, l’ aggregazione e la cooperazione tra gli individui, fare sport, cercare di raccontare quel che è stato attraverso la musica, la scultura, la pittura, la lettura o qualsiasi altra arte visiva. Fissati gli obiettivi e scelte quelle che potevano essere le attività ritenute indispensabili a tal fine, in un contesto urbano fortemente legato ai luoghi della tortura, diverse unità funzionali sono protette da un involucro monumentale a pianta quadrata. Il quadrato si oppone al cerchio, elemento ricorrente sia all’ interno che all’ esterno. Il primo simboleggia la Terra, l‘ altro il Cielo. L’ andamento a zig-zag verticale dell‘ involucro, una delle forme più elementari e primitive di decorazione esprime l’idea del legame fra i due. L’ edificio, posizionato quasi a filo della strada adiacente al margine ad est del parco, tra le alberature esistenti, consta di tre livelli fuori terra e di uno interrato atto ad ospitare la funzione di parcheggio. Ciascun livello, dalla quota di ingresso, è stato pensato come un grande spazio versatile alle diverse esigenze dei fruitori, libero da inutili costrizioni. In contrapposizione all’ involucro, gli interni abbattono, così, ideologicamente, la cultura dell‘ omologazione nazista. Le uniche partizioni, perlopiù strutturali, sono quelle necessarie a delimitare l’ auditorium, la palestra a doppia altezza e le aree dei servizi, dei locali tecnici e delle connessioni verticali. TEAM: Giovanni Saputo, Giuseppe Parisi
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GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM | HELSINKI - FINLAND Applying project
A museum is often a spiral, and The Guggenheim Foundation knows it very well; a spiral, although the building might not have the shape of a spiral. The originality of the shape proposed in this project is to be searched in its urban genesis. It’s not the internal flow of the visitors to inspire the shape, but the two urban connections combined together with the museographic path. The way connecting Tähtitorninvuoren and Observatoriebergets park with the port; and the path to the “Belvedere” roof- along with the growing up development of the exhibitions spaces. Curving the surface is an attitude that the Finnish are quite used to. In the naval culture as well as in design, the use of wood and glass have been the basics of the fluid sensibility. The project of the new museum combines the fluid nature of the curve with the centric and punctual definition of a circle, through and around. The project displays its aims for the realization of the new Guggenheim museum, and also reflects upon the shape of the relationships that a new urban emblem should contribute to reinforce. The designed image corresponds to a place open to participation, where the overlapped layers and the circularity of the progression stratify different possible uses. “Going through” is the principal theme, even into the ambient, and the rooms are galleries. Gallery after gallery, the project proposes itself as art path and urban life flow. As in the “Distracted Perception” by Walter Benjamin, the city and art works are on the same level. You can see artworks while you stroll in the city, while you meet the surrounding world, as if you were not in an enclosed place, but in continuity with the exterior.
TEAM: Sossio De Vita, Stefano Lanzetta, Giovanni Saputo
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WINE CULTURE CENTER | VALPOLICELLA - NEGRAR - ITALY
Apllying project What is the meaning of creating a building extention of a wine factory? What are the cultural aims for a wine company? This new building could rapresent a new cultural hub for wine production, where users are not only workers, technicians, administration staff, oenologist, clients, but also wine lovers. The existing building is the starting point of the design process. It is the history, the heritage. It is the object to be discovered and valorized. It is not important that it appears as an industrial building. This new needs generate an architectural form that connects internal and external flows, enhancing visual permeability in order to show the production process without loosing efficiency. The existing building becomes a big window where customers can see through and learn about the process. The main entrance runs from south to north: a wide ramp as a real cultural itinerary signed on the opposite side by the big void of the hall, which acts as functional joint between cultural and working areas. This dual system is enpowered by the ramps connecting the different levels and the nearby vineyard. The system is enclosed by several wooden beams that avoid the direct sunlight on one hand and refers to the vineyard structure on the other. The openings on the wooden panels behind the beams allows the natural ventilation of the storehouse. The choice of this material and the modular system guarantee ecosostenibility and flexibility of the internal spaces, as it happens in the fruitstorehouse. The resulting building is iconic and functional at the same time.
TEAM: Sossio De Vita, Giovanni Saputo, Federico Giacomarra
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LINKING THE LIMIT | EUROPAN 11 | GRAZ - AUSTRIA Apllying project
In the course of years Graz has developed out of phase, divided into some recognizable parts, even if unrelated: the old town built around an outcrop morphology; the South- Eastern area with a predominant urban sprawl made of repetition of houses, small sheds, remaining green areas; the South-West area where one can nd large residential ensemble, small houses and industrial-commercial containers; the South area where new polarities insist, as the UPC Arena and the entrance to the city by freeway. The strategic area is compressed at the center of these systems: more or less messy and uneven elements thicken along the dual-axis, formed by Conrad-von-HĂśtzendorf-StraĂ&#x;e and by railway track, which is a limit but also a magnet along which elements gather. The axis as limit to undermine and recon gure the strategical area becomes the theme of the project. The tooling-up of this linear element reinforces the connection between the old town and the South entrance of the city, while offering the opportunity to outline a new urban front in areas which runs through and touches, incorporating the existing elements. The branches of the axis insert in the areas that currently separates, penetrating the urban ne-grained, recording and balancing the different rhythms and speeds of use, bringing into play the individual elements that compose them. The axis sets out a new order and balance, trying to interweave the different scales, including the current obsolete and uderused buildings of the area, branching off and reconnecting the unrelated areas and elements, highlighting new strategic areas to improve and to react. A new urban element able to give a new face and identity, starting from the discover of the hidden and plural identities of the area.
TEAM: Giuseppe Mascolo, Maurizio Barbato, Giovanni Saputo
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Amsterdam, June 25 2014
To whom it may concern: We are writing in support of Giovanni Saputo’s application for a position in your program. We have known Giovanni as intern in our office XML Architecture Research Urbanism, based in Amsterdam. From the start of his internship, Giovanni proved to be a motivated intern. He took own initiatives and showed his original approach on the assignments we gave him. We were impressed by his enthusiasm for understanding architecture within a broader cultural and socio-political context. As an intern in our office XML in Amsterdam, Giovanni showed that he knows how to work and act in a professional setting, and worked with us on several design and research projects. Giovanni assisted on the design for a shop interior and a housing project with 28 apartments in Amsterdam and the contribution of our office to the section Monditalia in the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale. During his time with us, Giovanni has proven to be an independent worker that is able and willing to develop his talent and skills. If you require any additional information, or wish to otherwise speak to us about Giovanni Saputo, please do not hesitate to contact us. Sincerely,
Max Cohen de Lara partner
David Mulder partner
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