DANILO CHIESA | architectural portfolio
DANILO CHIESA Architect
Selected Works 2014/2016
[re]Cornigliano Infrastructure
Swedish Neighbourhood Internship
BrĂťle ce que tu as adorĂŠ Master Thesis
Raising from the dust Cultural
Captivity Master Plan
| TABLE OF CONTENTS | CV + COVER LETTER SELECTED WORKS Personal
Captivity Masterplan Raising from the dust Cultural [RE]Cornigliano Public Space
Internship
Swedish Neighbourhood Residential
Thesis
Brûle ce que tu as aimé
CURRICULUM VITAE
Chiesa Danilo |Architect |
Via Cavour 3 Vignole Borbera, 15060, Italy 23.10.1988 Italian Email | danilo.chiesa1988@gmail.com Website | www.danilochiesa.com Phone | (+39) 348 9242942 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// EDUCATIONAL 2016
Licensed Architect Ordine degli Architetti di Genova |Genoa, Italy
2007 / 2014
Master of Architecture (M.Arch.) University of Genoa, Polytechnic School, Architecture |Genoa, Italy 110/110 with honors Brûle ce que tu as adoré Prof. Arch. Giovanni Galli
Thesis Title Thesis’ Supervisor PROFESSIONAL 2016
Kjellgren Kaminsky Architecture| Göteborg, Sweden Intern Architect Website | www.kjellgrenkaminsky.se
Job Description
SÖDRA VÄRTAN - WINNING PROPOSAL Multifamily housing in Stockholm. Part of design team. NORDIC BUILDING CITIES _ SEGE PARK Analysis of the site development of the urban proposal, 3d model and presentation drawings. OCEANHAMMEN _ BUILDING PERMIT STAGE Development of plans and facades for multifamily building RIDDERSVIK Multifamily house in Stockholm. Part of Design Team. TOLLERED Small scale housing, Lerum. Part of design team
2015
2013 - 2014
Male Architekten | Berlin, Germany Intern Architect Website | www.malearc.de Neostudio | Genoa, Italy Collaborator Website | www.neostudio.info
RESEARCH | WORKSHOP Sep 2014
Europan 12 Workshop | Pavia: An adaptable City Campus? Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture | Pavia, Italy Website
Oct 2013
Border Line | Redevelopment of INA Forte Quezzi district University of Genoa, Polytechnic School, Architecture | Genoa, Italy Website
2012 - 2013
Riciclab_Recycle-Based Project Workshop University of Genoa, Polytechnic School, Architecture | Genoa, Italy Website
FORMATION AND DISTINCTIONS 2013 - 2014
Student - Tutor University of Genoa, Polytechnic School, Architecture |Genoa, Italy
Jan/Jul 2013
AVO | Hospital Volunteer Galliera Hospital, Cardiology Ward | Genoa, Italy
2012
National Dwelling Census | Collaborator Municipality of Vignole Borbera, Italy
SOFTWARE SKILLS AutoCAD 2d - 3d Rhinoceros Microstation SketchUp Adobe Illustrator Adobe Photoshop Adobe Indesign V-ray for 3dsmax/SketchUP Basic (Practicing)
Revit ArchiCAD 3dsmax 3d Vectorworks
LANGUAGE Italian
Mother Tongue
English
Highly proficient in spoken and written
German
Basic knowledge “ My passion for the field of architecture goes far beyond an academic and professional scope. I love studying the avant-garde of the past and keep myself updated on the design of the current reality. I seriously make a point of getting through every kind of challenge with passion and determination. “
DANILO CHIESA ARCHITECT
| danilo.chiesa1988@gmail.com | www.danilochiesa.com | (+39) 348 9242942
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16.10.09
I am a Licensed Architect (M.Arch.) from the Polytechnic School in Genoa. Within the last years I have carried out various job experiences in different European countries (Germany, Sweden and Italy). I have recently carried out an internship in Gรถteborg with Kjellgren Kaminsky Architecture. This experience gave me the opportunities to analyze thorougly the residential subject matter and to develop a profound interest in smart living and sustainable lifestyle in urban environments, as well as allow me to keep up with many aspect of the swedish residential regulation and a different working method. Overall, this professional path has been strenghtening my self confidence at work and, as well as putting me in touch with different cultures, demonstrated my ability to excel in the tasks set and achieve my goals successfully. In addition to this, throughout my university career, other professional experiences gave my communicational, graphic and technical skills the chance to improve still further. One of the things I enjoy particularly in architecture is the relationship between scientific and humanistic themes. What truly affects me is that the design of a building should be conceived taking into account the theoretical, functional and technical characteristic as well as respectfully relating to the context. What excites me is being constantly challenged while resolving problems, being given more responsabilities or being able to work at many levels, from spatial issues to structural details.
Danilo Chiesa
CONTACT REFERENCE //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
JOAKIM KAMINSKY Kjellgren Kaminsky Architecture AB | Sweden Co founder, Architect SAR/MSA +46 31 761 20 01 joakim@kjellgrenkaminsky.se
RICCARDO MISELLI Neostudio Architetti Associati | Italy Co. Founder, Architect M.ARCH +39 010 5702692 riccardomiselli@gmail.com
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We embrace a fire made of sheer terror, living in the burrows of a lost life. With no sight, no identity, no feelings, we try to relieve the burden of a shattered heart that no longer loves. We live in caves that no longer remember our name, walking aimlessly through the dark intestine of a city that devours us. We are but atoms of consciousness, lost in an unkown and baffling urban hypertext.
WHERE ARE WE?
“The street conducts the flâneur into a vanished time. For him, every street is precipitous.” Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project
| PROJECTS |
MASTERPLAN
cAPTIVITY ////////////////////////////////////// LOCATION: Gjacova (KO) YEAR: 2015 TEAM: Ambra Andreotti, Walter Larteri, Anna Orlando, Luca Truscello
Founded under the Ottoman rule, Gjacova has always been a center of flourishing trade and continuous political, economic and social changes; an active and flexible town. Interpreting the competition brief with this project we are to develop an enhancement to the historic city not only with the pragmatical restoration of the site and buildings facing the Krena River, but also, and perchance mostly, of the way to use it, trade on it and live it. In order to deploy its potential, Gjacova demands a functional and logistic as well as a social adaptability which might implement the existing without compromising the landscape. ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// CAPTIVITY is our Manifest, we assert that resilience is the greatest value to work with, in order to achieve economical, urban, architectural and social upgrade. We get involved in it, we play with it, we draw some transient and slight margins in order to let things happen in between them, this is our strategy, this is what we do. /////////////////////
///////////////////// A matter of relationship The Krean River runs through the very city center but remains an unused and unattractive space. Such an element could be the meeting point and core of the whole city and a civic sensation as well. ////////////////////////////// Here, two main aspects are considered for which our project offers solutions. First, it actually divides the historic part from the modernist city center, instead of using it as a connector. Second, we offer functionality and bring the possibility of various activities to the river banks that it currently lacks. This way we use it as a link to the rest of the city center. The designing process is brought about following some stages of the possible impact that is going to occur. ////////// The canal is a connecting element rather than a dividing line. The project’s central idea is of using the canal as the main source of development for the town. ///////////////////// We find a new mobility along the canal rather than through it, to upgrade new relationship schemes among the parts of the area.Through a system of barge modules we produce a “physical boundary” through a complexity of functions that enriches staying “along the canal”. The sewing up of the two river banks includes two lanes, pedestrian and cycling, bordering the canal. ///////////////////////////////////////////////
////// From singularity to the whole
Spread over the whole area, the proposed structure varies in its nature and form according to the different places, configuring each time in different ways the irregular resilience city spaces. However, in this complexity, a base module has been adopted, made of a simple frame structure, that takes the shape basing itself on the function that concerns it. The module is conceived to be both a standalone and grouped structure and its portal bracings are the chance for some tents to be placed and bounded. Steel material aims to respect the current city-making and to achieve the most flexible solution. ///////// 3,24m
windbracing
final layout tents
compost bin
stand_type2
cafè-pub
field layout
stand_type3
stand_type4
stand_type5
stand_type6
table
wheels expo 2story wheels expo
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existing bridge covering
is our Maniphest, we assert that resilience is the greatest value to work with, in order to achieve ECONOMICAL, U R B A N , ARCHITECTURAL and SOCIAL upgrade. existing buildings upgrading
onal barge
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new winding staircase connection
KOMPLEMENTARY we stick into it, we play with it, we draw some transient and slight margins in order to let things happen in between them, this is our strategy, this is what we do.
kiosk
The reinforcement embraces different layers //
An essential character of this project is to increase the agricultural and industrial development and the citizen awareness about them, using the existing. Agriculture has to be enhanced on different levels: public by encouraging urban vegetable gardens, semipublic with two Farmville on the sides of the canal and private by enhancing domestic vegetable gardens. //////////////// Another trade push is the industries’ expo and showroom: craftworks and craftmanships are not relegated to handicraft solution, but also to a more common and mass-produced one, they are part of a bigger system. //////////////////////////
Divided realities
Grabbing the river
Bridging the boundaries
Living the boundaries
CULTURAL - PUBLIC SPACE
rAISING FROM THE DUST////////////////// LOCATION: Bologna (BO) YEAR: 2016 TEAM: Walter Larteri, Alessandra Milazzi
Recently, from the Tate Modern to Prada Foundation, all industrial architectures have become valuable opportunities for the urban regeneration of vast urban areas. They are transforming into modern centres able to meet the needs and variations of a rapidly changing society. DISMECO owns an abandoned building, which consists of 5.000 sqm referable to Pierluigi Nervi belonging to the area of the former Paper factory of Marzabotto. In this facility DISMECO aims at designing its own didactic centre to become the most acknowledged international reference in research, training and development of sustainable disciplines. /////////////////////////////////////////////////
SMART GRID
SHOWCASE
FLEXIBLE SPACE
SHOWCASE
PUBLIC + WORKSPACE
IN/OUT
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BIOENERGY
STARTUPS
CONNECTIVITY
///////////////////////////// //Smart Building
The project’s key initiatives are the development and operation of an eco-friendly and automated smart building and a smart polygeneration microgrid. We have conceived the building as an Institute for Renewable Energy, a place to conduct applied research in the field of advanced energy system, including the employment of sustainable energy source. These activities would include research projects at national and international level and direct collaborations with industrialists, leading in many cases to the development of innovative products and to the assessment of technological innovations. The new institute employs dynamic energetic simulation tools, as well as assessing biodiversity models.////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// The Institute aims to provide further support in the elaboration of complex energetic system both for individual energy systems or buildings and at the level of urban and regional districts. /////////////////////////////////
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Section
Ground Floor
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The attempt was to bring up the industrial archeology topic: since the nature is able to reclaim what has been taken away in all those contemporary ruins within our cities, in this case the nature becomes itself a remarkable asset in the design of the building. The long promenade is the access element which run across the entire building. It aims to link the multifarious functions of the building through several axes. A conference room, showcases, a restaurant, and a coffee shop will serve the ground floor for the visitor/tourist/user. ////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ///////// The first and second floors of the building accomodate the educational area, laboratories and start ups. The structure is equipped with laboratories for theory and all the necessary equipment for the physical and mechanical development of new equipment, burners for biomass, for measurement, cloakrooms, etc ... establishing itself as a School of Renewable Energy. The last floor of the building is occupied by residences, both for the winter students and summer guests, thus working all year round. ////////////////////////////////////
Front View
Promenade View
PUBLIC SPACE
[re]CORNIGLIANO ////////////////////////////// LOCATION: Genoa (IT) YEAR: 2014 TEAM: NEOSTUDIO
The main goal of the competition is to acquire a preliminary concept which gives back a proper identity to Cornigliano district and that confers it a significant connotation, developing the concept of the road, not only as a space for transit, but as a meeting place and a way to rediscover the district, which offers new attractions and provides innovative services to the citizens. Via Cornigliano, afterall, is an important part of the city’s identity, not only in terms of distribution, but mainly because it distingueshes different identities in th history of the city. The project aims to reclaim all of the forgotten memories of a representative part of Genoa. ///////////////////////////////
The redevelopment project for Via Cornigliano aims to find some parts of the natural, architectural, social features of the district that are partly still visible and that make up the history of this area. The goal is to revalue the traces of the past of these places in order to offer a new urban center based on a new sense of quality and overall atmosphere. We propose the inclusion of a catalyst - the linear park set up as a real system of urban relationships that wind along Via Cornigliano through a series of poles (green markers, kunsthalle in the open, urban lounges) involving the excellence present along the boundary such as urban nodes (the squares and gardens of the villas) and the architectural (historic villas and public buildings) and ensuring a high identity and figuration to the renewed urban scene. /////////////////////// The park is characterized by a serial, modular and flexible design system that aims to give a unifying and distinct character in order to mend the gap that currently exists between the north and the south as well as promote the free use of both longitudinal and transverse spaces. These will be amplified by the overall design and the choice of materials designed to be used: a unifying material - the grit of concrete - on which alternate green carpets and stone inserts host the different pieces of furniture (chairs, sculptures , the fountains, columns conferring waste, ...). ////////// The green project is the principal structuring component of the proposal. The new vegetation is linked with the surrounding green areas (the gardens of the numerous villas and the hilly landscape of Coronata), and configures via Cornigliano as a ecological connection axis with the surrounding urban body.////////////////////////
INTERNSHIP
sWEDISH NEIGHBORHOOD ////////////////// LOCATION: Gรถteborg YEAR: 2016 OFFICE: Kjellgren Kaminsky Architecture
Within these few pages I would like to sum up my 8 months experience as a Intern at Kjellgren Kaminsky Architecture in Goteborg. ///////////////////////////////// These experience gave me the opportunities to analyze thorougly the residential subject matter and to develop a profound interest in smart living and sustainable lifestyle in urban environments, as well as allow me to keep up with many aspect of the swedish residential regulation and a different working method. /////////////////////////////////////// Some project are not visible to abide by the confidentiality agreements.///////////////////
SÖDRA VÄRTAN
Winning proposal Location : Stockholm
The project focuses on the development of a lotment of the new area Södra Värtan, Stockholm. /////////////////// The design comply with the energy requirements, providing innovative solutions for active ground floor and social sustainability. ///////////////// The different outward stylistic language seeks to provide variations and dynamism on the facade, while the top floors and ground floor show connection at different levels, outlining green boulevards and avenues which tend to tie up the system as a whole.
RIDDERSVIK Markanvisningstävling Location : Stockholm
The City of Stockholm is planning to build 350-400 homes in Riddersvik /Hässelby Villastad. //////////////// Our aims to propose a new residential district in Riddersvik, led us to conceive it as new city hub which fosters new ways of social interactions through the neighborhood. ////////////////////// This project shows multifarious modules and types of dwelling (4 and 3 storey apartment blocks, rowh villas), according to different social and economical needs, which are thoughtfully blend altogether to shape, refine and strenghten the quality of the urban fabric. //////////////
SEGE PARK Second phase Location : MalmĂś
The Sege Park competition emphasises affordability and concepts for shared spaces and resources, combined with the ambition of limiting CO2-emissions to two tons per person per year by 2025. ////////////////////////// The apartments solutions comply with the programme’s demand for 20% less area per person and the environmental program focuses on the creation of a habitat for lesser spotted woodpeckers as umbrella species, as well as define open farming fields at micro scale, to sustain with low investments. /////////////////////////
I TIDEN
Markanvisningstävling Location : Tollered
The project propose the development of a new resiential area in Tollered with 80 new apartments to allocate. /////// The location and layout is as similar as possible for the different housing types. This is because the area really should be experienced as a whole, regardless of tenure.////////////////////////////// The steep terrain conditions are the basis of housings placement, minimizing unnecessary damage to the environment and gathering all the living units around semi-public zones, creating, as much as possible spaces for social interactions through the neighbourhood. //////////
“This, dear Phaedrus, is the most important point: no geometry without the world. Without it, figures are accidents, and neither make manifest nor serve the power of the mind.” Paul Valéry, Eupalinos
| THESIS |
bRÛLE CE QUE TU AS AIMÉ //////////////// MASTER THESIS YEAR: 2015 Relator: Prof. Arch. Giovanni Galli
What have Cubism and Surrealism left us? How have Pablo Picasso and André Breton changed and yet enhanced the perception of the whole living experience? The matter under discussion is not about already consumed, although still contemporary, relationships among art and architecture. Apart from that, that which is in the middle of our argument is the human being. Cubism and Surrealism always depict us living and losing our balance within an unkown urban and chaotic field. ////////////////////////////// What i’m about to introduce in my portfolio are just four of the conclusive boards of my theoretical thesis. The aim of them is to introduce the city of Genoa as Piranesi did for Rome. A collage of different urban experiences that might either stand close to or travel far away from what the city of Genoa is, but, despite that, attempt to reach the pure insights of these two artistic expressions. /////////////////////////////////////////////
The human body is no longer the symmetric and harmonious Vitruvian Man, but it becomes an “exploded� image, namely a body which can always be redesigned: incomplete, modified, open to otherness of nature and technology, until it is inhabited by technology. A man who has to grasp the sense to design a fifth dimension. ///////////////////////////////////////////
The human body becomes an “exploded” image, a body which can always be redesigned///////////////////////////// The element characterizing the contemporary world is that we are extending and our body,, within cities and homes, starts to become a mystery even to ourselves. But in the absence of reference points it is the only available tool for rearranging our own perception. This is not to imagine, through the architecture, new rigid structures in which we might live, but to go through a system of object, light, images, sounds or words to adapt our sensibilities. We have to get over the Renaissence perspective. In some way we have to break it down. ///////// The reality, drawn by perspective technique, according to Pavel Florenskij, is but a theatrical representation of what is perceived. In this sense the insights brought by Cubism and Surrealism tried to trigger an infantilization of the image, not seen as a regression but as the most pure and clear awarness of the world. ////////////////////////////// A journey through the unconsious. ///////// The contemporary city stimulates comparisons with the typical features of schizophrenia: everyone tends to relate to the different reality through a “transfer process”, in which
/////////////////////////////////////////////// CLOSE YOUR EYES ////////////////// the perception of the architectural object and of the design process will culminate in an inconsistency between subject and object, with a disjunction, quoting Bernard Tschumi, among the collected fragments. /////////////////////////////////// In this, the dynamic man is found floating in a different time dimension. Time becomes the variable with which the contemporary subject tries to shape the observation of reality, precisely to dissociate it. Knowing and fully understanding it would mean for architecture to know the different spatial patterns, to appreciate any kind of tactile visual value of its materials and to evaluate how they would react within the environment over the years. //////////////////////////////////// Contemporaneity would tend , therefore, through movement, to redefine organized structures and cease to interpret them like linear systems, but as places of experimentation of a matter which is subject to evolutional processes. /////////// Through this point of view, the role of Cubism and Surrealism, after all, does not seem this anachronistic.////////////////////
The contemporary city stimulates comparisons with the typical features of schizophrenia /////////////////////////////
///////////////////////////////////////////////// LOOK FOREWARD //////////////////////////////////////////////////////
///////////////////////////////////////////////////// GENOA WHISPERS: /////////////////////////////////////////////////
///////////////////////////////// “BURN WHAT YOU HAVE WORSHIPPED” ///////////////////////////////////////
///////////////////////////////// “WORSHIP WHAT YOU HAVE HITHERTO BURNED” ///////////////////////
DANILO CHIESA
danilo.chiesa1988@gmail.com www.danilochiesa.com (+39) 348 9242942