Samuele Sciarretta portfolio
2014-2020
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Curriculum Vitae BEAVER Enclave / Exclave Architecture of Things Solar Boat Museum L3 Adaptive reuse In Illo Tempore The Path to the Nest of Spiders Work experience
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* drawings produced by the author
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Curriculum Vitae
Work experience
05.201907.2019
Andreas Martin-Löf Arkitekter Stockholm, Sweden Internship as junior architect
03-07.17 01-03.20
FL architetti Turin, Italy Internship as junior architect
03.201707.2017
Architecture central library Turin, Italy Librarian and archivist
Education 02.201802.2020
Double degree programme of excellence Milan, Italy Alta Scuola Politecnica (ASP)
10.201712.2019
Master of Science in “architecture of the sustainability design” Turin, Italy Politecnico di Torino
08.201807.2019
Erasmus programme Stockholm, Sweden Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
03.201803.2019
Master in “architecture and museum design for archeology” Rome, Italy Accademia Adrianea di architettura e archeologia
09.201407.2017
Bachelor of Science in “architecture” Turin, Italy Politecnico di Torino
09.201007.2015
High school degree in scientific studies Biella, Italy Istituto d’Istruzione Superiore Quintino Sella
Awards 04.2019
Samuele Sciarretta 30.11.1995, Biella - Italy +39 3334483797 samuele.sciarretta@gmail.com
Digital skills Autocad Autodesk Recap Rhinoceros Grasshopper 3ds Max Sketch Up Illustrator Indesign Photoshop After Effects Language skills Italian, native English, fluent (C1)
Pubblications BEAVER second place NASA BIG Idea Challenge 2019 - NASA
BEAVER AIAA website
09.2017
25_65 honourable mention Neapolis, Living as a Student - THE PLAN
25_65 THE PLAN n.103, december 2017 pp. 97-100
08.2017
L3 first prize Piranesi Prix de Rome - Accademia Adrianea
U of View ArchAlp n.10, december 2015 pp. 25-28
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2019-4059
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BEAVER Mars
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - ASP, a.y. 2018/19 Second place, NASA BIG Idea Challenge 2019, group project Self-sufficient greenhouse module
As global interest in deep space exploration rises, new mission architectures and new dwelling solutions must be sought for to accomplish longer and safer permanence in space. Less dependency from Earth supplies, better psychological and physical conditions for the astronauts, higher safety and lower energy and resources consumption are the main requirements for such missions, and must be matched and experimented from the very beginning of human deep space exploration. To address this same need for higher feasibility and sustainability, the project proposes a novel design for a greenhouse module that can supply 100% of the food required for a crew of four astronauts on an extended mission to Mars, while also providing physical and mental health benefits for the crew members. The module accomplishes this by maximizing space and minimizing mass with a novel spiral system within an inflatable, cylindrical shell designed to protect astronauts from harmful radiation. Crops, which supply the food for the crew, grow in modular hydroponic trays that descend from the top floor of the module along six spiral tracks.
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*Greenhouse module and Mars Ice Home
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*Water and crops movement diagram
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Top floor of the module
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Enclave / Exclave Berlin, Germany
Accademia Adrianea, 2018 Workshop of the Museumsinsel, group project Refurbishment of the Bauakademie
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 students 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 feelings 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 building in itself, and making people think about the meaning of this kind of preservations and restorations, that create most of the time just sculptures more than architectures.
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*Situation plan
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*Neue Bauakademie, plan *Neue Bauakademie, section
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*View from the bottom of the Neue Bauakademie
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Architecture of things Stockholm, Sweden
Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), a.y. 2018/19 Academic group project Automated warehouse
Picking, packing, sorting, storing and retrieving are processes that demand more and more architectural space. Architectures of things are spaces that temporarily hold, sort and store stuff. Where things are displaced, gathered, stacked, grown and further distributed. An automated grocery warehouse linked to processes of searching and ordering online is one of those architectures. In an architecture where humans and machines coexist and work together, lot of attention was given to the design process, mediating between the abstract and concrete, the physical and the digital, adopting an approach where technological processes are drivers for design development. From the physical visualization of a stock the design methods involved different tools and techniques: foam models, 3D virtual models, 3D-scanning, analysis of meshes and NURBS surfaces, CNC milling, stencils, 3D-printing. The final output of these steps were additional models superimposed on the site and translated into a building with a program. All these exercises have been done using simple concept words for stocks: linearity, symmetry, expansion, interaction, interlocking, growth, and focusing on the relation between the physical and virtual interface and context.
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Situation plan, foam model, 1:200
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*Superimposed plans according to the circulation systems
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3D-printed tile’s matrix for the façade study
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Solar Boat Museum Cairo, Egypt
Accademia Adrianea, 2018 Workshop of the Pyramids, group project Museum expansion
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 structure, 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. The new volume is 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.
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*Night Boat Museum under the Pyramid of Cheops
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L3
Villa Adriana, Italy 2017 First prize, Piranesi Prix de Rome competition, group project New thermal baths in historical context
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.
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*Situation plan (original drawing by Charles-Louis Boussois, 1913)
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Adaptive reuse Turin, Italy
Politecnico di Torino, a.y. 2017/18 Academic individual project Library in a former cooler tower
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.
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*Situation plan
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*Addition of the new structure in the existing one
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In Illo tempore Athens, Greece
Accademia Adrianea, 2019 Workshop of the Acropolis, group project Redevelopment and enhancement of the Acropolis plateau
The sacrality of the Acropolis has been lost during the centuries. Almost nothing that is visible today is a correct reproduction of the original scheme and planimetry of this area. The project aim consists in the attempt to recreate the sacred atmosphere that the Acropolis originally had. Having in mind that idea, the original staircase that access the area is emphasized and elevate the visitors to the sacred surface of the mountains, where we decided to cover the entire Acropolis surface with olive trees, the most sacred plant of all, creating a background from which the ruins can stand out. At the Partenon’s centre, a monolithic mirrored structure is placed, where the visitors can admire the beauties that surround them. The structure of the old museum is excavated to show all the historical layers that otherwise wouldn’t be visible, at the same time creating a museum path along statues and busts discovered in the area. The path ends in a majestic void where the naked structure of the Acropolis is visible. An open-air elevator finally makes possible the return journey to the bottom of the Acropolis, using an already existing cave as exit.
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*Situation plan, Acropolis plateau
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*Acropolis’ layers and panoramic elevator *Cross-section
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The Path to the Nest of Spiders Sanremo, Italy
Politecnico di Torino, a.y. 2014/15 Academic group project Masterplan for housing densification
Situated on a hill outside the city of Sanremo, the project consists in the design 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.
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Situation plan (Carta Tecnica Comunale, 1:2000)
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*Project plan
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*Typical floor plan (200mq), 1:200
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FL architetti Turin, Italy 01.2020-03.2020 Internship as junior architect Renovation of the RAI Auditorium in Naples
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