GIOVANNI SAPUTO Portfolio
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+ Giovanni Saputo Ink on watercolor paper
I - ACADEMIC PROJECTS
Bauhaus Campus Extension Weimar p. 10
Lighthouse Art Hostel Syracuse p. 18
Casa Gin Caserta p. 24
Flying Peristilium Hercolaneum p. 26
Space Dimensioning Relation Weimar p. 30
Buisness District Naples p. 32
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II - PROFESIONAL PROJECTS
What is a contemporary Borgo? Senago p. 38
New Urban and Expo Center Veliko Tarnovo p. 40
Zeeburg Amsterdam p. 42
Theaters of Democracy Venice p. 44
White Store Amsterdam p. 46
Guggenheim Museum Helsinki p. 48
CONTACTS T: (+39) 392 19 73 410 E: sptgnn@gmail.com www.linkedin.com/in/giovannisaputo
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GIOVANNI SAPUTO
B: T: E: A:
06.05.1989 (+39) 392 19 73 410 sptgnn@gmail.com via privata Luigi Sala 3, 20143 Milano, IT www.linkedin.com/in/giovannisaputo
EDUCATION
WORK EXPERIENCE
09.2018 - 01.2019
AM4 Software and Training Center MasterKeen Revit BIM Specialist Master
10.2014 - 12.2017
Università Degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II” MAPA Master - 110/110 cum laude
09.2016 - 03.2017
Bauhaus Universitat Weimar Master Programme Erasmus+
08.2013 - 07.2014
Academie Van Baukunst AHK Master Programme Exchange Programme
10.2008 - 12.2012
Università degli Studi della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli” Science of Architecture and Engineering Bachelor - 98/110
09.2004 - 07.2008
QuinziiTernaArchitecture Milan, IT collaborator
05.2016 - 07.2016
corvino+multari Naples, IT collaborator
01.2014 - 07.2014
XML Amsterdam, NL internship
09.2014 - 05.2016
Sossio De Vita Naples, IT collaborator
02.2012 - 04.2012
MarasmaStudio Caserta, IT collaborator
03.2011 - 06.2011
Beniamino Servino Caserta, IT internship
Liceo Scientifico “A. Diaz” Caserta Scientific High School Diploma - 82/100
CERTIFICATIONS
SKILLS
09.2018
Autodesk Revit Architecture Autodesk Certified Professional
09.2018
Autodesk Revit MEP Autodesk Certified Professional
09.2018
01.2018 - 07.2018
Autodesk Revit 2019 Autodesk AutoCAD 2018 Adobe CC (Ps, Ai, Id) Rhinoceros 3D Cinema4D + Vray Autodesk Dynamo
Autodesk Revit Structure Autodesk Certified Professional
Autodesk Navisworks Autodesk Recap Model Making Hand Drawing
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PERSONAL COMPETITION
WORKSHOP
2017
Neapolis, living as a student Instaura Shortlisted
2017
Space Dimensioning Relations Go Hasegawa - Horizonte Weimar, DE
2015
Lighthouse Sea Hotel Syracuse YAC Applied Project
2016
Riqualificazione Castel Volturno Carlo Grispello (GRAAL) Napoli, IT
2014
Auschwitz Memorial Center STaRT for talents
2012
4areeX4comuni Simone Capra (sTARTT) Nicola Russi(laboratoriopermanente) Caserta, IT
2011
Demalling Subhash Mukerjee (studiomarc) Caserta, IT
2010
Sul Percorso Dei Regi Lagni Stefano Pujatti (elasticospa)
Applied Project
Caserta, IT
PUBLICATIONS 10.2015
02.2018
LANGUAGES La Grande Dimensione In Architettura - Il centro direzionale di Napoli a cura di G. Multari Aracne Editrice Il Decumano: Asse Urbano densitĂ e spazio pubblico pp. 84-87
Italian English Spanish German
Bauhaus Campus Weimar Beta Architecture http://www.beta-architecture.com/ bauhaus-campus-etension-giovanni-saputo-donato-santoli/ 7
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I ACADEMIC PROJECTS
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BAUHAUS CAMPUS EXTENSION WEIMAR
Location: Weimar, Thuringen, Germany
Programme: Ateliers, Workshops, Administration, Museum
Collaboration: Donato Santoli
Supervisors: G. Multari, K.H. Schmitz architekt
Type: Master Thesis
Dimension: 3952 m²
The research of this project mainly focuses on the north area extension of the Bauhaus Campus in Weimar, in which the replacement of some temporary buildings belonging the Industrial Design Department was provided with the design of new ateliers, workshops, a student museum and the Archiv Der Moderne, which collects the most important Bauhaus historical heritage. A new entrance from the city is provided by connecting the campus with the two adjacent parks. According to the extension in the south area of the Campus, some pavillions have been placed inside the plot, strictly connected to the surrounding green spaces.
The morfology of the pavillions as well as the architectural character are very pure and essential in sense of respect towards Henry Van De Velde’s historical building, which should rappresent the image of the Bauhaus forever and ever. The administration pavillion is placed in continuity with the facade on Amalienstrasse, the ateliers faces the exhisting ones in the back of the L building through a new public plaza, the exhibition rooms close the campus from the residential building on the east side and finally the entrance of the museum is placed in front of the main building, with the aim to give back the epicenter to the main square. (More on https://issuu.com/pigbubble/docs/master_thesis)
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View on Amalienstasse
Axonometric view
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Groundfloor
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View of the new court
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First Floor
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View of the Ateliers
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View of the Museum entrance
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View of the exhibition rooms
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LIGHTHOUSE ART HOSTEL SYRACUSE
Location: Syracuse, Italy
Programme: Exhibition, Workshop, Hostel, Pools
Collaboration: Viviana Ginolfi
Material: Concrete
Type: Competition Proposal
Dimension: 2420 m²
The lighthouse is a Borbonic construction from the XIX century and it is located on a wild rocky ground, characterized by a tart vegetation, deep seabeds with submerged caves, plenty of very important evidences from different ancient ages. By the time the lighthouse and the two other buildings has been subjected to a process of abandonment and a progressive process of degradation started, commonly as numerous other buildings on the coastline. This project wants to be the occasion to promote the socio-cultural importance and the identity of the Lighthouse, since an important landmark on the coast as well as the proof of the Two Sicily Reign promotion, during which they built this genre of buildings.
The three separeted buildings of the complex are now connected inside a big plate, which turn into the sea and make the accessibility easier. Beyond the rehabilitation of the existing buildings two more ones are added on the extremity of the plate, generating a inner court and giving value to the three existing artifacts. Finally the court contains the unalterated natural aspect which becomes protagonist. Infact by using the rock new big pools are added.
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The Lighthouse
Design Process
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Axonometry
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Collages
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Groundfloor
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Detail Section
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CASA GIN
Location: Caserta, Italy
Programme: Apartment Renovation
Photos: Viviana Ginolfi
Material: Rovere Wood
Type: Personal Project
Dimension: 140 mq
The renovation of this apartment provides a simple gesture by separating the living and the sleeping area by a 10 meters fitted wall. This wall is made out of Rovere Wood painted in white for the enclosed compartments, leaving the open boxes with its natural essence. As a museum installation the owners’ objects are shown as an exhibition installation, enforced by the different boxes trapped into the wall.
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FLOATING PERISTILIUM OVER THE DOMUS HORTI
Location: Herculaneum, Italy
Programme: Compluvium, Contemplation Room, Kiosk
Collaboration: Grazia Marotti
Supervisor: Gianluigi De Martino
Type: Personal Project
Dimension: 330 m²
The Domus Horti is located in a nodal position inside the Archeological Site of Hecrulaneum in Naples. In his essay the archeologist Amedeo Maiuri describes all the different phases that this Domus has passed. Initially it was a Patrician Domus, proved by the presence of the truncated brick columns on the back of the adjacent Big Portal Domus, which surely belong to the Porticus of an aristocratic garden. Later it turned ino a Sannitic Domus , loosing the traces of its noble decorum and returned into the area of its primitive cluster.
This spaces were again subdivided in smaller parts and the garden, enclosed by wall as a Hortus, became part of the Domus Horti. A half brick column is the trace of one of the phases of the Porticus construction and its with the adjacent spaces. Since the Porticus is nowadays lost the project aims to offer again a Compluvium, on the traces of its history. The visitors can have a time for metitation inside the garden and finally a protection spot from the hot sun during the excursion.
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Herculaneum Archeological Site
479 a.C.
89 a.C.
The Domus Horti
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62 a.C.
Section and Elevation
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View of the Compluvium
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SPACE DIMENSIONING RELATION
Location: Undetermined
Programme: Japanese Culture Room, Zen Garden
Supervisor: Go Hasegawa
Material: Concrete
Type: Workshop
Dimension: 100 m²
The topic of the workshop was to select one work of Go Hasegawa, analyse and interpret the building. It was essential not to copy and simulate it, rather to design and re-think a new type based on ideas, ambiguity and concepts behind the reference. Location and function is undetermined. The project I choose to interpret was Komae House in Tokyo. It was built on a plot where only 50% could have been built by the neighbourhood urban regulation, reason why the house is placed underground. The rooms take sunlight through long windows placed in the upper part of the walls, which is the maximum space that the building could emerge from the groundfloor. By following these few concepts I used them into a public space: a Japanese Culture Room under a Zen Garden.
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Perspective Section
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A FLEXIBLE AND METABOLIC AXIS
Location: Naples, Italy
Programme: Mixed Public Use
Collaboration: Grazia Marotti
Supervisor: Giovanni Multari
Type: Personal Project
Dimension: 56000 m²
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.
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Axonometric view of the area
State of the Art
Cut the main axis
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Introduce the glass volume
Inside
Groundfloor
Level -1
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View of the new Entrance
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II PROFESSIONAL PROJECTS
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SENAGO, WHAT IS A CONTEMPORARY BORGO?
Location: Senago, Milan
Programme: New Residential Settlement
Author: Quinzii Terna Architecture
Phase: Definitive design phase in progress.
Client: CCL_Consorzio Cooperative Lavoratori
Dimension: 2000 m²
Few kilometres from the centre of Milan, we are designing a new neighbour of 25 dwellings, where the individuality of each home emerges strongly to create a sum of peculiar characters, as it happens in the historical part of the town, that faces the new intervention.
Research Booklet: Morphological and Typological Study of Borgo Senaghino (https://issuu.com/diegoterna/docs/20180315_qta_presentazione_tipologi)
The inhabitants can individuate easily their houses and access directly from the public area, within a small shared complex, which resembles the proportions, the views and the intimate relationships of the ancient, existing, village (Borgo Senaghino). A big common garden becomes the point of attraction of the new community, enriching the urban surrounding and defining a powerful connection with the inhabited spaces.
All the material is Š QTA
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NEW URBAN CENTER AND EXPO CENTER
Location: Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria
Programme: A multiple stage for events
Author: Quinzii Terna Architecture
Phase: International One Stage Competition
Client: Veliko Tarnovo Municipality
Dimension: 2000 m²
The New Urban Centre of Veliko Tarnovo acts as a fundamental knot in a territorial network, where the movements of the persons interact with the amazing topography of the landscape. As an ancient settlement, the two main Boulevards that structure the area are the stages of an incredible series of events, walks, meetings, shows. They define an easy way of moving between the ancient and the modern parts of the city, exploiting ecological forms of movements (innovative electric vehicles and traditional media, such as bicycles). Encouraging visitors and city users to leave the cars within the main Transport Centre, the area is an enjoyable space of freedom, where people wander around 5 main zones, characterized by main functions (commerce; hotels; administrative and logistic; residential; education and sports), but fluidly interconnect one to each other. The general layout of the street network enlarges the public space and the green at its maximum size. All the material is Š QTA
The Exposition Centre emerges from the natural topography of the site as an essential part of the urban landscape. The Veliko Tarnovo landscape creates here an ideal connection between past and future, linking the ancient city directly inside the new building: the large Hall, indeed, seeks for an urban participation, permitting a reciprocal view between interior and exterior. Floating over the ground, as the volume of the administration, the Hall gives shape to a new form of public space: as a sort of huge, rich and refined urban furniture, it lays under a green walkable roof, a virtual trampoline toward the surrounding city. A pleated glass facade closes the inner space, creating a rich complexity, that can adapt the interiors to multiple kinds of use. It is a small city itself, a relaxing spot placed within flying volumes, integrated in the external landscape, gardens and open-air arenas. 40
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ZEEBURG
Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Programme: Apartment Building
Author: XML
Materials: Concrete, Metal Panels, Bricks
Client: Volker Wessels Vastgoed
Dimension: 3000 m²
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.
All the material is © XML
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THEATERS OF DEMOCRACY
Location: Venice, Italy
Programme: Installation
Author: XML
Materials: Wood, Plaster
Client: La Biennale Di Venezia
Dimension: 10 m²
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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WHITE STORE
Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Programme: Interior
Author: XML
Materials: Aluminium Frame, Polycarbonate, Resin, Mirror
Client: HIC
Dimension: 50 m²
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.
All the material is © XML
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GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM HELSINKI
Location: Helsinki, Finland
Programme: Contemporary Art Museum
Author: Sossio De Vita
Materials: Steel, Wood, Microconcrete, ETFE
Client: The Guggenheim Foundation
Dimension: 1852 m²
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.
All the material is © Sossio De Vita
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III DESIGN AND DRAWINGS
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SMALL TABLES AND LIGHT ON A ROCK
Location: Milan Design Week 2018
Programme: Furniture prototypes
Author: Quinzii Terna Architecture
Material: Markina Black Marble, Steel Frame, Valsassina Stone
Client: FlĂĽnerie Milano
Photos: Daniele Iodice
What once was the plane of a dresser; some marbles, discarded in a quarry because broken unpredictably; electric elements of lamps no longer working: can something be done? Small linear metal structures re-read their use, supporting new usages without erasing their shape. Something reminiscent of the mountain, in the simple relationship with matter, in the way one has to make the best of what is available to respond to necessity and surpassing of limits. Small tables and light on a Rock are simple objects that will never be identical, only the process will be the same, the shape will be random. The Design Week, in addition to a showcase of finished products, can be a moment to present a work in progress, an experiment, perhaps still unripe, but already shareable in its development. We propose a reflection on the production process of furniture, on the moment in which the unique and artisanal product becomes an element to be produced in series, always equal to itself, with all the flaws eliminated in the long process of study and research. All the material is Š QTA
Is it possible to propose unique objects by standardizing only the process? Can this concept be combined with the ecological idea of regenerating objects? Small tables and light on a rock are partial objects, unique numbers of an unfinished process (or, maybe, finished). Small tables and light on a rock are objects to be used inside and outside, trying to reduce the limit between these two spaces.
More: https://www.designboom.com/design/small-tables-light-rock-collection-qta-milan-design-week-04-20-2018/ 52
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KETZA DOOM EP
Listen: www.themechanicalman.bandcamp.com
Programme: Artwork Direction
Author: The Mechanical Man
Material: Ink on Watercolor Paper
Client: Denied Area Records
Photos: Alfredo Buonanno
Art Direction of the new EP “Ketza Doom - The Mechanical Man” produced by Denied Area Records. This is a set of six handmade drawings which are included inside each of the unlimited series white tapes. The mystic story behind the drawings rapresents an adventure between a jungle and a cyclopic atztek temple, monument of an advanced civilization, both symbolic and architectural, in which the character discover a world made by natural scenarios and rituals.
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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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GIOVANNI SAPUTO T: (+39) 392 19 73 410 E: sptgnn@gmail.com www.linkedin.com/in/giovannisaputo
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