samuele sciarretta architectural porfolio
2014-2018
samuele sciarretta samuele.sciarretta@gmail.com Via Don Cabrio 24, 13900 (BI) Biella, Italy +39 333 44 83797
The world is such a wonderful complicated system of things that caught my attention since I was a kid, always being fascinated by what I don’t know. Being “ignorant” about what surrounds me gives me the possibility to discover new aspects and meanings, without bothering me to feel the most stupid in the room. Feeling never satisfied keeps alive my desire for knowledge, reaching achievements and tasks with the same enthusiasm that I had when I was a kid.
Cv work experiences march 2017 - july 2017
FL architects Turin, Italy internship as junior architect
march 2017 - june 2017
Architecture department Central Library Turin, Italy library service
education august 2018 - current
Erasmus programme in “Architecture” Stockholm, Sweden KTH Royal Istitute of Technology, Stockholm
march 2018 - current
Master of Science in “Architecture and Museum Design for Archeology – Innovative Design and Management of Archaeological Heritage” Rome, Italy Accademia Adrianea di architettura e archeologia, Rome
february 2018 - current
october 2017 - current
ASP - Alta Scuola Politecnica Turin-Milan, Italy double degree, Turin and Milan Polytechnic Master of Science in “architecture of the sustainability design” Turin, Italy department of Architecture and Design, Turin Polytechnic
september 2014 - july 2017
Bachelor of Science in Architecture Turin, Italy department of Architecture and Design, Turin Polytechnic
september 2015 - september 2017
“Young Talent” project Turin, Italy department of Architecture and Design, Turin Polytechnic
september 2015 - september 2017
High School Degree in scientific studies Biella, Italy Istituto d’Istruzione Superiore Quintino Sella
personal skills languages
software
italian english french
native fluent elementary
Autodesk (Autocad 2D/3D, Revit, 3ds max, Recap), Sketch Up, Adobe (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, After Effects, Lightroom), Rhino, Grasshopper
award and acknowledgement award
25_65 honourable mention Neapolis, Living as a Student - Instaura, THE PLAN september 2017 L3 first prize Piranesi Prix de Rome - Accademia Adrianea di Architettura august 2017
pubblication
“Neapolis, Living as a Student” THE PLAN n.109, december 2017 pp 24-48 “la qualità dei paesaggi alpini” ArchAlp n10, december 2015 - Istituto di Architettura Montana IAM pp 24-48
other informations certifications
Bachelor of Science in Architecture 109/110 IELTS Academic test 7.0
Index
academic project 01.
“the path to the nest of the spiders”
02.
living at 20°
03.
u of view
04.
adaptive reuse
05.
San Giovanni Battista personal project
06.
L3
07.
25_65
08.
Enclave / Exclave
09.
Solar Boat Museum
The path to the nest of spiders Sanremo, Italy, a.y. 2014/15 academic group project Prof. C. Ravagnati, M. Sorbo - B.Arch. Polito
Situated on a hill outside the city of Sanremo, the project consists in the creation of a new neighborhood. An architectural grid helped to simplify the geometry of the hill’s shape, becoming the principle thanks to which the houses are designed. Developed on layers at different heights, the connection between them is organized with underground roads (connected directly with the basement of each house) and pedestrian paths above them. To leave the natural landscape and shape of the hill as visible as possible, the houses follow its inclination staying mostly hidden underground, with light and air provided by elegant cuts in the surface. Every house has a different and unique view on the Sanremo harbor, not strongly imposing itself in the mostly untouched natural context, but instead leaving the possibility for people to walk in its paths and feel the sensation that are not present complex undergrounded infrastructures and structures.
Living at 20° Poirino (Turin), Italy, a.y. 2016/17 academic individual project Prof. V. Minucciani, A. Pellegrino - B.Arch. Polito
A small renovation of a flat in the center of Turin becomes the possibility to rethink spaces according to the problems and the issues of the family. A 20 degrees rotation of the old plan and structure create new unexpected spaces, giving the sensation to live in a labyrinth and enjoying them as you were in a game. How the light hits these inclined surfaces was surprising, so it was really important try to expand it also in the heart of the apartment. In fact, from the entrance, a generous corridor is connected with the big windows of the double-height living room, emphasized more by the reflection of the concrete floor. On the opposite side of the plan, the master bedroom is closed to the other spaces, creating a little suite in total privacy with the rest of the house. The staircase in the middle of the apartment, that follows the inclined orientation with a shape that is always different, becomes an element with several architectural qualities, connecting the first floor where the rooms of the two daughters take place with a multitude of different rooms, all of them well interlocked in the composing structural grid.
U of view Ollomont (Aosta), Italy, a.y. 2016/17 academic group project Prof. P. Mellano, M. Crotti - “Young Talent” project
While the village where the project is located is today famous for the sports and activities that you can do in the winter (thanks to his position in the Italian Alps), in the nineteen century it was mostly renowned for its intense mineral extraction. The site is, in fact, the square where the old industrial buildings were placed, and the project wants to reconnect this space with the old main entrance on the other side of the river. A simple shape crosses the natural cut made by the water, allowing people to experience the same sensation felt by the miners: this is realized with high lateral walls without openings, leaving the possibility to people to look only at the old entrance. The same ‘U’ shaped structure is used in the secondary entrances of the mine, located on the way of some famous mountain paths. In this occasion more simplified and just with the purpose of highlighting them, giving information about their importance for the local community.
Adaptive reuse Turin, Italy, a.y. 2017/18 academic individual project Prof. M. Robiglio, D. Giachino, V. Lo Verso- MSc APS
With its past of industrial city for excellence, Turin is now facing the problem of how to manage an enormous number of buildings that were related to these activities. If most of them could be easily transformed and renovated for completely different use, thanks to their strong structural aspects that can go through several transformations and changes, the building involved in the project is unique in its kind: it is an old cooler tower for the industrial processed water, with a dense internal three-dimensional grid, no openings for most of its surface and with four extraordinary cylindric openings on the roof. The renovation designed for this building wants to be a contradiction: a library completely not related to the old structure (but instead by imposing its own) covered with glass to reach every possible light. The idea of an activity that normally is one of the most light-needed makes think about how the ‘new life’ of these buildings could become completely unexpected, and how the possibilities to work with them are almost infinite, and finally how lucky Turin is to have this wide heritage.
San Giovanni Battista Poirino (Turin), Italy, a.y. 2017/18 academic group project Prof. F. Novelli, C. Bonfanti - MSc APS
The church of San Giovanni Battista in located in the town of Poirino, thirty minutes away from Turin. Along with Madonna dell’Ala, Santa Croce and Santo Spirito, it is one of the oldest churches in the area. Even if today the church is still used and consecrated, its convent and cloister are abandoned. This was a good occasion for one of the biggest companies in the area to move there its representative spaces, having the privilege to welcome clients and investors in a special environment. The project concept was to try to keep the structure as it was as possible, instead of working on the already little rooms with punctual interventions. The link between the two different levels of the building is made with a sculptural staircase, with shapes and materials in contrast with the traditional look of the building. The staircase is visible from everywhere, and it is the occasion to show the importance of the company and its presence in the building. In parallel with this idea, a public project allows people to live the space of the convent, until that time close to them, and finally taking again these spaces to the city and its inhabitants.
L3 Villa Adriana (Rome), Italy, 2017 group project first prize
Villa Adriana is one of the most complex systems and environments in all the world. Constructed on axes between buildings visually connected, its drawing has been made at different times and with different purposes, giving us today a real masterpiece of landscape architecture. Working today on its surface means obligatory to relate to its geometry, so designing thermal pavilions has been evident the importance to relate directly to the old thermal baths of Adriano. Softly grounded between the olive trees, and involving them in the geometries of the plan, the building doesn’t want to overlook the ruins but instead wants to become a part of the overall drawing, adding one layer to the existing ones. The development of the plan follows the ancient Roman baths structure with different typology of pools and including an exhibition of artefacts and statues directly founded in the villa, helping the customers to feel the completely full experience of living in an endless majestic landscape.
25_65 Naples, Italy, 2017 group project honourable mentions
The complexity of Neapolis, the old Roman part of Naples, is tangible in its really thin streets and spaces. Working on a site in the middle of this situation means to try to investigate these aspects designing something that could seem to be there from always, but at the same time not wasting the opportunity to create something unique and extremely modern. The theme was the creation of accommodations for students, and the basic concept behind it was to follow a more ‘social solution’ (absolutely in line with what you can feel walking in the historical center), which means to have several confused and not orthogonal internal streets, with different agglomeration of single studio-apartment developed around staircases and common patios in line with the condominium of the old town. The structure of street is not on the ground floor, thus giving the sensation to walk in a different and specific habitat, but experiencing the same feelings of Naples and know to be part of it.
Enclave / Exclave Berlin, Germany, a.y. 2017/18 academic group project Prof. P. F. Caliari, A. Schwartz - MSc AAaa
Berlin’s main cultural buildings are all located on the Museum Island in the middle of the city. A huge renovation in the last years involved most of them, trying to expand even more their importance through new collections and exhibitions. One building, the Bauakademie by Karl F. Schinkel, will be reconstructed from its ruins, trying to give back to the city one of the most important and unique pieces. It was a place where (architecture) student could live, experiment, try materials and techniques, learn, living 24 hours per day in the building. Our proposal, starting from the fact that this kind of experiences and fillings are not anymore reproducible in this context, wants to change the function and create a museum of the building, in particular a museum of its own, a place without a function apart from showing the bounding in itself, and making people think about the meaning of this kind of preservations and restorations, that create most of the time just sculpture more than architectures.
Solar Boat Museum Cairo, Egypy, a.y. 2018/19 academic group project Prof. M. Hsählof, F. Leoni - MSc AAaa
The project is developed above the Giza Plateau, one of the most complicated and fascinating landscapes around the World. Working on the Minissi’s Solar Boat Museum and its exhibition means wondering about its purpose and validity today. The project wants to keep the old structure, considered without no doubts a landmark, designing next to it a new space for the possible exhibition of the second boat found in the area. The new mass has a strong shape and a defined form, which helps to perceive the whole structure less an ‘alien’ than before, trying not to replicate or hide the existing museum but instead emphasizing it. Starting from the strengths and the weaknesses of the old part, from which was notable the exhibition path but at the same time less understandable the shape choice, the project works on these points, at the same time giving a completely new feeling of the museum: not a light and shiny space as the one for the solar boat but instead a dark atmosphere for the night boat, not a 360 degrees circulation around the item but a straight zenithally perception of it.
samuele.sciarretta@gmail.com +39 333 44 83797 via Don Cabrio 24, Biella 13900 (BI), Italy