Portfolio 2019

Riccardo La Malfa

Portfolio Projects’ map @ https://drive.google.com/open?id=1aPjd6UW2cAP90KOxKZYR_1ATNBMx6hh7&usp=sharing

Languages Native Speaker

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Born and grown in Sicily, I like to swim in the sea, listen music, chatting with friends and playing music. I am a friendly and curious person who would like to learn as much as possible about architecture overall the world. My tasks for the future are getting a PhD and opening my own architecture studio. I am used to play sports like basketball (which i played for 5 years), ping-pong (1 year) and volleyball (for 7 years as a setter, with a captain role for 4 of them).

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Experiences & Studies 2016 - 2019

Master degree in Architecture for the Susatainable Design at Politecnico di Torino

2018

Internship at Studio Element

2018

Erasmus+ Program in Grenoble, France

2017

Participation to the international workshop “Sommerakademie Venedig” (in collaboration with Technische Universitat Dortmund, IUAV, Technical University of Eindhoven, Potsdam School of Architecture)

2017

Participation to the international workshop “Cultural Heritage in Context: Digital technologies for the Humanities - Digital Nubia (in collabotarion with UCLA)

2017

First prize in the competition “Premio studio Città di Savigliano – Antonino Olmo edizione 2016”

2012 - 2016 2012

Programs

Bachelor degree in Architecture at Politecnico di Torino Diploma at Liceo Scientifico A. Meucci, Milazzo (ME)

Main Projects

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Guggenheim Museum, Helsinki, Finland

10 Porta Nuova Railway Station’s urban redevelopment, Turin 19 Restoration of San Giuliano church, Savigliano, Italy 23 Floating pavilion, Venice, Italy 28 Urban redevelopment of Campus Einaudi’s surroundings, Turin 33 A new road system for Milazzo...

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Guggenheim Museum, Helsinki, Finland The project is inspired by an unnamed painting made by Nicolaj Suetin, which will be used in order to define both the horizonthal and the vertical parts of the building.

The structured is formed by a long parallelepiped merged with a steel and glass cube in the middle. In order to preserve the building to the potential exondations of the river, it is hence superevated from the ground level with a concrete basement and linked to the outside area thanks to ramps and stairs which allows the entrance to the building to both people and vehicles .

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The entrance to the museum is located in the central cube (in which are placed also restaurant, bookshop and a cafeteria), from the whom the visitor can procede to the visit of the museum between lifts or escalators.

The exhibition area is located in both building’s sides and connected with paths. The central block il reserved to visitor’s relax: the area will contain thridimensinal pieces of art, chairs and a second restaurant in order to pause the visiting path when necessary). At the end of the path the visitor will be back again in the main hall in the bookshop area.

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Porta Nuova Railway Station’s urban redevelopment, Turin The aim is to rethink the entire railway station (with a burying of the railway line, which will create a new 405.915 sqm. area), which nowadays separates the two districts San Salvario and Crocetta. The entire area is divided in 5 sectors and in each of them there will be created new buildings (in yellow), meanwhile the central inner area will become a park which will reconnect the above mentioned districts. The project will continue with a more deep study of the building in the north-west sector.

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The structure represents a mix between old and new: 5 new modular paralleleiped-shaped buildings will be placed behind the industrial’s historic facade with some semi-private areas between modules with bike parkings and small gardens. The modules will be built with a combination of materials: wood, steel and glass. Looking for a greater sustainability the modules will be built following the LEED’s guidelines regarding thermal, acoustics and local materials.

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Via Negarville’s urban redevelopment, Turin After FIAT factory’s dismission, the entire neighborhood became a “ghost-area” inhabitated just by some old factorys workers’s families. A series of 10 floors’ residential buildings (mostly abandoned) at the north separates the area from the city, like an impenetrable wall.

Inside there are a university and a sport center at east and a huge mass of sheds (mostly abandoned) at south. A street separates it from the other residential buildings at west.

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In order to redevelop the area the university seems a good starting point: by enlarging it, in fact, it will be possible to create a new urban system with a greater flow of young people, which will lead to new necessities of services (thus new working opportunities). In order to enlarge the university three abandoned sheds will be renovated and will now include a library, new rooms and the offices. Those three will be the main point for the district, from the whom it will be possible to renovate the entire district (starting by adding new services in the old sheds).

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Restoration of San Giuliano church, Savigliano, Italy Ths is project started with a series of in loco surveys, in order to better understand building’s conditions nowadays and to make all the necessary drawings. They were made using drones (for roofs and belltower), LIDAR and geometric survey, succeeding in creating a point cloud which was used in order to create the church’s Bim model. Then all main decays were identified and tracked on plans and prospects. Then all the different decays were analyzed and “healed”.

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In order to promote the two-naves-churches tradition in Piedmont, it has been projected a new bike pilgrimate path that start from Villadossola and reach Roccaforte of Mondovi, passing through all the two-naves piemotese churches such as Savigliano.

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Floating pavilion, Venice, Italy The request was to project a floating building in Fondamenta Nove, Venice.

In this area the city meets with the sea, so after a path in the city, wind and waves in this place will give you a mixture of new sensations. we took inspiration from the colour and the shapes of the buildings (on the right of the foto on below) and the fluidity of the natural component of that place: so we decided that a very long and red parallelepiped form made by steel pillars and curtains coloured with various tones of red was the perfect solution for this project. The ground floor is empty in order to allow people to see the monumental cemetery situated at the very bottom of the view.

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The next step was the composition of the small floating neighborhood, which will be placed in Canal Grande, by choosing 7 between 14 projects made in the Summer School and merging them together. The results has to be placed in Canal Grande, between San Marco Square and San Giorgio Maggiore’s Church. Using the longitudinal side of our pavillion, we created an entrance to the floating area with an Information Point. after it, a series of paths through the water will conduce the visitor inside the channel through the “town”.

The result is an area introduced by our building, in which going through a linear path you will arive in the central library/square. Then you will be free to visit many different buildings situated around you, or decide to keep going straight in order to reach the contemplation area. Thanks to the pilotis plan the exhibition area will still mantain the historic relationship between San Marco square and San Giorgio Maggiore Church, which defined for many centuries the relationship between the two main islands in Venice.

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Urban redevelopment of Campus Einaudi’s surroundings, Turin The University Campus, designed by Norman Foster, is placed in an ex-industrial area in front of the river Dora Riparia. The particular shape of the building is subsequent to its lot and it’s particulary prominent thanks to the strong contrast between the usual Turin’s buildings and itself.

Its main task was to create a classic American-style Campus (generally opened to the outside) inside Turin. In order to achieve that, some openings were placed in each side of the building, which were closed immediately after its opening for security reasons.

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The project’s aim was to redefine the relationship between the Campus and the surrounding spaces.

One of the main tasks was to reduce the acoustic level in the area (due to the high traffic level) with a padding area between the river and the main street obtained with massive objects and with Lungo Dora’s conversion from street to bike path.

Then were placed new services, other bycicle paths in the area, a silence room and a new study room with river view.

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Main areas

Bus lines

Bicycle paths

Important areas not reached by the pubblic transports

Abandoned public buildings

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A new road system for Milazzo...

The project, which is a component of a series of projects made at various scales in the town, consists in the old pubblic transportation’s improvement (which at the moment consists in 5 bus lines with few users and even less passages per day... Maybe because it was not updated according to new user’s needs?).

The aim is creating a new way to think about pubblic transportation, more economic and sustainable.

It is important considering also the amount of turists which each summer came to the city (and make its population double) and their favourite places: the dock, the castle and the town’s beaches (which, as you can se in the image on left, are quite a lot!).

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NEW STOPS

CONNECTIONS WITH THE CITY CENTER

INTERCHANGE LINE

BYCICLE PATH

A NEW PUBLIC MOBILITY

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The new service will be based on bus’ prenotation, which once reached the preset minimum amount of users, will start its ride. In this way it will be possible to decrease strongly the exopenses dued to empty busses and obtaining at the same time new datas about users’ routines in order to update the alread existing bus lines. All new lines will have the same terminal and a linear path in common. They will futhermore use most of the already existing bus stops and 12 new ones, in order to give to all users a compete service, updated to all the new people’s necessities.

They will be paired with a “Project zero” for a new bike mobility, which will be linked in the future to the other cities’ ones (already planned by nearby towns).

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... With Fiumarella’s urban redevelopment...

The small district is located in Milazzo’s periphery and it is separated to toher districts by the highway. There are few services: a bar, a small food store and a little church. Thus all inhabitants have to use the car in order to reach the city center several times per day. Futhermore there is a problem with water collection and all green areas, mostly abandoned, drown in water during heavy rain days. Socialization between inhabitants is limited only in the bar and in a small square situated across the main crossroad.

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The new public transportation service will arrive on this area too (both busses and bycicle path will ensure a link from and to the city center for all the inhabitants.

The crossroad, where are located the small square, the bar and all the other services, will be conquered by pedestrians with a bigger mix-used square for bycicles, cars and pedestrians. Two bike paths will increase pedestrians’ security by creating a separation from only pedestrian area and mixed-use one. Blocks of porphyry will be used as flooring for all the new interventions.

A new park will give more spaces and services to all inhabitants: a playgroung for kids, a skateboard track and a basketball field for teenagers (with some seats and water games in the center for the hot summer days) and a public vegetable garden and a covered area for a small market for adults and senior citizen.

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Il m anto s tradale diventa un percorso c iclo-pedonale i n asfalto d renante, a lleviando cosĂŹ i problemi di allagamento della zona.

L’area viene pavimentata con un unico materiale e rialzata dal normal livello del manto ne c romatica scandisce le aree carrabili da quelle pedonali e ciclabili.

Il campo da gioco e le giostre compongono i nuovi servizi per i bambini.

Primo piano

Piano terra Ingresso

Ingresso

CAS Casa del quartiere Misto

Alto utilizzo del CAS

Primo piano

Piano terra Ingresso

Ingresso

CAS Casa del quartiere Misto

Basso utilizzo del CAS

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... Starting a new era of hospitality for refugees!

On the north of Fiumarella (see preview project) is located a pubblic building which was previously used first as an elementary school and lafter by the Civil Protection (nowadays it is unused since years). Despite various decays on the outside areas, inside the building time has stopped to 2007, with no signs of deteriorations. This will allow us to think a two-step intervention: first a renovation, in which (thanks to the overall good state of the building) there will be economically fixed all building’s decays and will be created a dynamic use of interiors with an hospotality center for refugees and a “neighborhood house” (almost all the new rooms’ use will be defined day be day according to the hospitality center’s needs. The second step consists in a superelevation, in order to maximize this new building’s opportunities (this will lead to double the indoor spaces). For all those interventions (starting from Milazzo up to this one) will be used EU funds, in order to achieve an economically sustainable project, which may be replicated (with all precautions which may vary case by case) overall Europe.

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