Matteo Dossetto's book of contents

Matteo Dossetto

Book of contents

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Indesign

Autodesk Autocad

Autodesk Revit

Google Sketchup

V-ray for Sketchup

Grasshopper Rhino v.7

Q-gis

Microsoft suite

Matteo Dossetto

September 10th 1995

Turin, Italy

+39 3518659451

matteo.dos@live.it

IG: spzrp

Language

Italian (mother language) English (IELTS 6, 2018)

Valuable skills

Conceptual - Schematic design

Graphic presentation

Teamwork + Collaboration

Systematic problem solving

Listener - Desire to learn

Experienced skills

Inclined to bureaucracy

Habit of getting the result

Studio management

Remote work capable

Education

2015-2021 Politecnico di Torino

2020 Lawrence Technological University

Work

2018 (5 mth) Marco Carlotti Architetto (Internship)

2018 - 2020 Idea4 (freelance work)

2020 (3 mth) Blaarchitettura - now Balance Architettura (Internship+proposal)

2021 (Sept-present) MVarchitects (Intern, assistant, architect)

Valuable projects

2018 Accademia dello Sport (sport center) - Biella (IT)

2020 Bicocca Superlab (office building) - Milan (IT)

2021 - in progress Italvolt gigafactory (Pininfarina partnership) - Ivrea (IT)

2022 - in progress Palazzo Nuovo’s classrooms renovation - Turin (IT)

Tenders/Proposals

2022 - in progress Italdesign Giugiaro S.p.a - Moncalieri (IT) - Volkswagen Group (Lombardini22, MVarchitects, ACTA Studio, DSB Landscape)

2022 - in progress Mobility & Landscape Tender - Trecate (IT) - Kering Group (CE-A Studio Carlo Ezechieli, MVarchitects, TTA trasporti)

2022 Nuova Atelier Alexander McQueen - Novara (IT) - Kering Group (MVarchitects, FOR engineering)

2022 “Ristrutturazione immobile “Ex I.R.VE.” - Torino (IT) - Mepa UniTO (MVarchitects, Politecnica Srl)

Courses

2021 (in progress) : GoPillar - AUTODESK NAVISWORK

- Enscape for Revit

- AUTODESK REVIT MEP

- Structure AUTODESK REVIT

- Dynamo BIM for REVIT

- BIM with AUTODESK REVIT (work in progress course)

Certifications

Dream Flake V3.0 - Design Morphine (computational design)

Workshops

Adaptive reuse - Cittadella di Alessandria - PoliTO

Christmas Special Workshop Series - Futurly Space

My idea of architecture goes back long way to childhood, where I spent my entire days stacking a LEGO block behind the other to build the shapes of the buildings together, to form cities. I was even estranged from the rest of the world in order to finish what I had started. So I carry on my idea even now, trying to reach the form, the concept from which I started. I like to think that architecture is in between of two worlds, concrete and abstract, linked through the threads that are our ideas. Each of us is more or less inclined to connect their ideas to the abstract or concrete world, but an architect must know how to cloud their ideas in the abstract and than making concrete solutions in the real world. This is what I aim for every day and the reason I always try to innovate, researching and studying. Everything is in motion, the people flows and market rules shape our world and, consequently, architecture too. The sociality that a space can create is the greatest responsibility an architect must be able to live with. We must be aware that every line on a sheet will change people’s lives and that is why I try to give each work its own space, its own life. Cities made of spaces, spaces made of lines. Assuming the concept of reducing large problems into simple entities, every time I draw a new line I try to solve a particular problem in the picture. This is what I want to do in my life.

Index XS. Spot buildings:

• Sea colonization

• Shapes development

• The space of Culture

S. Restorations:

• Church & Baptistery

• Zipline station

M. Big buildings:

• Aurora’s hood residential

• Torre de Papel

• Cubic tower

L. Urban Landscape Design:

• Gran Courdoun

• Intermodal hub

XL. Scenarios:

• Post-car mobility

z. Certifications:

Mind as space in contrast, develop. Sketch from Kisho Kurokawa’s collection. Kisho Kurokawa, L’architettura metabolista

academic Projects catalogue

Year Designers

Nation-City-CODE

2016 Cicci Omar, Dossetto Matteo HUN-BUD- CD1-16

2016 Cicci Omar, Dossetto Matteo HUN-BUD- CD2-16

2018 Dossetto Matteo OCE-ATL- DOS-18

2018 Dossetto Matteo USA-BOS- DOS-18

2018 Dossetto Matteo ITA-TUR- DOS-18

2018 Arato Andrea, Di Nuzzo Francesca, Dossetto Matteo ITA-TUR-ADD-18

2018 Dossetto Matteo USA-NYC-DO1-18

2018 Dossetto Matteo USA-NYC-DO2-18

2019 Caiazzo Carla, Dossetto Matteo, Torre Gloria ITA-BIE- CDT-19

2019 Dossetto Matteo, Priotti Mattia, Torre Gloria ITA-TUR- DPT-19

2020 Beltramo Francesco, Dossetto Matteo, Frusciante Ilaria, Torre Gloria ITA-TUR- BDFT-20

2020 Dossetto Matteo USA-DET- DOS-21 ...

Sketches and cover images were taken from the work of Kisho Kurokawa, architect and visionary co-founder of the metabolist movement in Japanese architecture, which developed in the second post-war period.

Cover image: Kenzo Tange, plan for Tokyo

Dossetto Matteo OCE-ATL- DOS-18

Sea colonization Water-spin Center Oceanographic center for children

The idea behind this concept is to create a floating building that can accommodate school groups for educational trips, or as a cultural tourism destination for families. It develops over two floors, with other walkways that interconnect aquatic plant crops to keep the marine flora and fauna. The submerged floor forms a showcase on the aquatic world in which users can observe the oceanic fauna and at the same time visiting the museum. The water level, on the other hand, is a large platform that shapes itself as an atypical amphitheater for outdoor lessons, and a staircase as a chill area to enjoy sunny days relaxing. The real strength and expansion scenario of the model is the integration of teaching with human activities such as hydroponic cultivation, water filtering (salt in this case), for a future world where primary resources such as food & beverage are a problem. Not only for countries with arid climates but for the most part. Climate change has been going on for decades and it will be necessary to look forward in order to survive without damaging the ecosystem. Cultivation through submerged hydroponic crops allows the sea to be colonized in a sustainable way without depriving it of its resources. Fish crops, fruit and vegetables are just two of the possible uses of marine platforms like this one, and not too distant in future we could even live, without concrete, larger areas of our planet, enhancing future mobility.

Size: XS

Sketch from Kisho Kurokawa’s collection. Kisho Kurokawa, “L’architettura metabolista”. Pag. 110

Fig. 1 External vision with pathways.

Fig. 2 Oceanographic center’s section. People can observe the underwater from a unique point of view.

2016 Cicci, Dossetto HUN-BUD- CD1-16

Shapes development

Infopoint, Budapest (HUN)

Information center in the heart of Pest

Starting from simple shapes such as points, lines and surfaces, the volume idea has been broken up, distorted in different passages, until reaching this multiplicity of views. The evolutionary process of the project develops a genesis of creativity as the evolution of a cell until its maturity. Totally accessible, the interior of the structure with a light chimney gives the impression of being inside a living organism thanks to the oblique vertical walls. The sense of being in the bowels of the city also remains within the structure thanks to this trick. Fully accessible, its purpose is to make available to all tourist and non-tourist information as first approach to the city. Located in a central position and in one of the historic squares of the city, it becomes a point of reference for everyone for old-new contrast between the city and the installation.

Size: XS

Cell mitosis. Sketch from Kisho Kurokawa’s collection. Kisho Kurokawa, “L’architettura metabolista”.

Fig. 1 Ovest view.

Fig. 2 Plan

Fig. 3 South view

Dossetto Matteo USA-BOS- DOS-18

The space of Culture_Concept Library, Boston (Massachussetts, USA) University Library for MIT

The evolution of the university spaces also brings with it an important consumption of land. Thus, the ability to reinvent spaces by compartmentalization becomes fundamental, from being giant in the past to reduce them to a human size and more functional for educational activities. This is the target of this study space obtained inside an atrium, where the central area is occupied by the study wing, while the horseshoe around it is designed to be a dynamic library with a strong effect of geometries that intersect at the sight of the user. The shapes hardness in this concept wants to represent the solemnity and respect of the university institution (one of the most important in the world), but at the same time creating a welcoming space for the student who can find concentration inside and doing research outside. The library therefore becomes a filter space where those who are looking for documents do not go to disturb the concentration of students engaged in their studies, but at the same time is a place for meeting and exchanging ideas, no longer a place where religious silence reigns.

The cultural melting pot becomes university’s status symbol, demonstrating human beings co-build knowledge also connecting each other.

Size: XS

Ideograms, culture. Sketch from Kisho Kurokawa’s collection.

Interior view of the study space. Around, the library makes a horseshoe around the study room.

2019 Dossetto, Priotti, Torre ITA-TUR- DPT-19

10th century a.d Church & Baptistery’s recovery San Ponso, Turin (ITA)

Via Ferreri Noli, 2

The secular power of this building is recovered and offered to its territory as a land mark of the surrounding countryside. The San Ponso baptistery becomes a part of a historical culture and architecture path that connects the Baptisteries of all of Piedmont. The restoration consists of various interventions, from deterioration to structural damage, which allow the community to continue its use over time and restore light to the Baptistery. The innovative construction systems adopted for this intervention and built following the footsteps of the engineer Lorenzo Jurina, known for the innovative development of conservative restoration interventions through steel structures. The result is clearly visible on the roof by eliminating the pushing forces with a frame of wire reticular beams, the walls are returned to the zenith position and will no longer show serious damages, while the vaults are solved with a cross system of steel tie rods to bring the keystone back into place. The church is also transported to the present day through the new Second Vatican Council briefs, which changed the characteristics of the Tabernacle.

Size: S

Landmark. Sketch from Kisho Kurokawa’s collection. Kisho Kurokawa, “L’architettura metabolista”.

Fig. 1 Plan view. Baptistery & half church. San Ponso. Fig. 2 Baptistery section.

Fig. 1 Axonometric explode of the complex.

Fig. 2 tie rods for the vault solution.

Fig. 3 Reticular truss on the ancient roof.

Fig. 4 Perspective from cloud points.

2020 Beltramo, Dossetto, Frusciante, Torre ITA-TUR- BDFT-20

Zipline Station

Prali, Turin (ITA)

Gran Courdoun

The search for a constant element between the various points of an historical journey between mines and Alpine trade paths. The repetitive structural module gives emphasis and elegance to the structure that becomes a landmark of the area and solidarizes the mental imprint that the Gran Courdoun complex offers to the visitor. The departure station of the zipline with the redefined structural system allows the use of the internal space for rope jumping into the void. In the moments before the launch, the user finds himself in an alpine kaleidoscope created through a mirrored cover of the projection of the starting gate, which offers an impressive view of the surrounding valley just a moment before the adrenaline rush. The project becomes part of a major recovery plan on a historic talc route, consisting of cableways and simple railways (decauville), used between the 1800s and 1900s for the extraction and transport of raw materials. A huge abandoned alpine infrastructure that has a lot of history to preserve and enhance.

Size: S

Modular building. Sketch from Kisho Kurokawa’s collection.

Fig. 1 Technology section. The frame of portals are taken from the historical design reinterpreted in a modern key and expanding the usable volume by replacing beams.

Fig. 2 Zipline station, axonometric view.

2018 Arato, Di Nuzzo, Dossetto ITA-TUR-ADD-18

Aurora’s hood residential Aurora Headquarter, Turin (ITA)

Corso Giulio Cesare / Corso Brescia

From a vacant lot to a new attractive pole in the district, the area close to the riverfront on the Dora Riparia presented significant differences in height solved with a system of embankments and walkways and then redesigning the corner of the block with two residential blocks used for commercial and co-housing. The intervention starts from the scale of the neighborhood and aims to technologically solve the residential part, giving importance to the volume of the project, which is reflected in the rest of the city. The volume of the building becomes part of people’s imagination, creating poles of new sociality within the park. The commercial part has to attract people to an area of Turin left to itself in recent years, but that wants to redeem and get back to be remembered for its glimpses on the Dora river and the commercial streets in the neighborhood.

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Urban development. Drawing from Kisho Kurokawa’s collection. Kisho Kurokawa, “L’architettura metabolista”.

Fig. 1 Masterplan of waterfront and the residential park. Fig. 2 Axonometric detail collage.

2018 Dossetto Matteo USA-NYC-DO1-18

Torre de Papel_Concept New York City, NY (USA) Riverfront

The project, designed to be part of a recovery plan for the waterfront, materializes in an office tower with large rooms for exhibitions and conferences, as dynamic as the city in which it is located. Crossing the river by boat, every perspective changes the view of the façade that is layered like a paper stack, giving shape to green terraces and balconies where you can relax. The building identifies itself as a vertical park with large spaces on each floor giving breath to space. The evocative concept is reshaping the dynamism of DNA in a tower dominated by multiple perspectives. The project aims to act as an urban ehnance for sociality, there will be art and technology exhibitions, but above all a joy for the person. The user of the building will have the opportunity to observe the waterfront with a 270 ° wide visual and spatial breath, even around the building. The new viability will allow the tower to be viewed in the round, modifying its image according to different perspectives.

Size: M

City vision of the future. Sketch from Kisho Kurokawa’s collection. Kisho Kurokawa, “L’architettura metabolista”.

Fig. 1 Axonometriic view on waterfront.

Fig. 2 Terrace’s render.

Fig. 3 Interior collage.

2018 Dossetto Matteo USA-NYC-DO2-18

Cubic tower_Concept New York City, NY (USA)

DUMBO

The module strength and the engineering of itself prevail in the path to this project. The complex created starting from 3x3 basic modules, climbs on itself like a plant when it grows. Kisho Kurokawa had designed tubolar metal joints to form the rounded structure. Here, on the other hand, the cut is more precisely squared to give the possibility of creating larger rooms with more modules. Inside the building you can find conference and office rooms (lower floors) and residential rooms on the higher floors with some special “overhangs” to give a sense of airiness to a sought-after user. The “texturization” of the building is only on the facade, inside and outside you can find loggias, places of sociality within the residential part itself, as a new meeting place.

Size: M

Nakagin capsule tower. Section. Sketch from Kisho Kurokawa’s collection. Kisho Kurokawa, “L’architettura metabolista”.

Fig. 1 Axonometric illustration. Fig. 2 Rendered plan.

2020 Beltramo, Dossetto, Frusciante, Torre ITA-TUR- BDFT-20

Gran Courdoun

Prali, Piedmont (Italy)

Prali -

The project aims to recover and enhance a large light infrastructure such as talc ways in Germanasca Valley, famous for its mines. The route made up of cableways and Decauville (narrow gauge tracks) is reconverted to a more cultural and naturalistic use. The cableways become Ziplines which will have departure and arrival stations recovered from the old interchange stations, while the decauville have been rearranged and used as monorail rack. The route follows the footsteps of the ancient road, and becomes part of a naturalistic itinerary including lakes, paths, woods etc. The history of the route was almost lost during the Second World War due to the important issue of structure for transport using (weapons and resources), which documentation and design had been made to disappear. The historical importance of the complex for the population of the valley, is enhanced and even made known outside the circle. An experience that must be added and supported together with the Talc Museum a few kilometers downstream. Together they form a new historical-cultural itinerary suitable for families, educational visits, etc ...

Size: L

Soil study. Photo from Kisho Kurokawa’s collection. Kisho Kurokawa, “L’architettura metabolista”.

Fig. 1 Masterplan Gran Courdoun, restoration of ancient coal way.

Fig. 2 Zoom on stations

Fig. 3 Territorial section of the path

2019 Caiazzo, Dossetto, Torre ITA-BIE- CDT-19

Intermodal HUB Biella, Piedmont (Italy)

Biella

The thought behind the development of one of the hubs of the post-car Biella scenario is to interlace the fast flow networks with the medium-slow ones, such as trams, bike sharing, e-buses etc. Obviously the result will be a light train station with spaces designed for the development of other slow networks, which follow the mobilitation flow.. The biggest part is on urban development of the city after this intervention. How does it change?

The synergic development between infrastructures identifies new “vital” lymph for the city that keeps transforming, with residential interventions and work places all connected in some way to the mobility project. A governance is therefore defined, to manage structures and services, which starts from the development of a starting point and than extends to the network.

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Lecture key propaganda. Image from Kisho Kurokawa’s collection. Kisho Kurokawa, “L’architettura metabolista”.

.Overlapping of intermodal networks and nodes

3.HIGH SPEED link The backbones

1.LOW SPEED link on cycle/by feet

2.MEDIUM SPEED link Drive ways (e-bus/e-car)

Nord

Fig. 1 Axonometric scenario 2069.

Fig. 2 Plan HUB flows. Fig. 3 Mobility layering.

2019 Caiazzo, Dossetto, Torre ITA-BIE- CDT-19

Biella Post Car Biella, Piedmont (Italy) Biella

The scenario on this vision of the territory has been developed on Biella’s province in 50 years, where cars have been almost replaced by a set of solutions, from bike sharing to fast electric infrastructures such as light trains, passing through car pooling and new interchange hubs between tram lines with light trains and sharing services. The result is the grow of a HUBS network that regulate mobility throughout the territory. Arriving at one of these poles, it is possible to reach every Biella’s dial in a very short time by changing mobility gears. The large cost of the intervention is amortized by the fact that the importance of Biella, that is an intermediate pole between two much more populous cities such as Turin and Milan. Nowadays many people are tired of the city (especially the older population, especially families), and want to find a place that maintains the comforts of the city without being chaotic. The backbones define the new lines of urban development around which over time new interventions will develop on the large initial investment, trusting the development of other infrastructures, to define a network of fast and medium-slow transports.

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City-links. Sketch from Kisho Kurokawa’s collection. Kisho Kurokawa, “L’architettura metabolista”.

Fig. 1 Galaxy of actors in the project.

Fig. 2 Diagram.

Fig. 3 Global governance

Fig. 4 Plan scenario

Privato Terzo settore Pubblico

Strings of Life Detroit, Michigan (USA)

Circular Economy

Design is totally focused on energy recovering and its uses. From trash, divided by biomass, recycling and burnable garbage, the incinerator and the biomass plant will produce a huge amount of energy that will serve for the city but also for a vertical farm, that could produce about 1,000 tons/ year of fresh foods for Detroiters. The economy circle is closed by delivery network and the market in the food hub where people can buy km0 foods. Rider network, in particular, will exchange foods for trash that can be brought again to the facilities, developing other energy and restarting the circle. Design choices, remembering that the project is based on industrial reuse, aim to give back to the community two landmarks of the neighbourhood and, in general, of the city of Detroit. The food hub will be reduced to its structural skeleton, creating a green core inside a shining glass box where people will able to work, developing social network, do groceries. The incinerator, instead, will be dedicated on the ground floor to processing and burning trash. The roofs, instead, are designed to be a huge sports, cultural park. Many activities are developed inside from basketball fields to archery, but also bars, gym, and a very particular street art museum put on the roof (“I took the streets on the rooftop”), to testimony the street and hip hop soul of Detroit.

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Sketch from Kisho Kurokawa’s collection. Taken from pag. 110

PROFESSIONAL participation to valuable PROJECTS

Year Designers

2020 BALANCE ARCHITETTURA, Matteo Dossetto

2022 MVarchitects, Matteo Dossetto, Oday Hamad

2022 MVarchitects, Matteo Dossetto, Oday Hamad

2022 MVarchitects, Matteo Dossetto, Oday Hamad

Nation-City-CODE

ITA-MIL- BLA01

ITA-TUR- MV01

ITA-TUR- MV02

ITA-TUR- MV03

partnership

2020 BALANCE, Matteo Dossetto ITA-MIL- BLA01

SuperLAB Offices Viale Sarca 336, Milan

A new life for Breda Siderurgica steel factory

The intervention involves the redevelopment (LEED Gold Compliant) of a 6,500sqm office building located in the Bicocca district in Milan, nd hosts the former offices of the historical Breda Siderurgica S.p.a., a well-known Milan based steel factory.

A building with 3 floors above the ground within a basement which was already existing, and the proposal involves a retrofitting for both interior and exterior area.

It was decided to highlight the structural aspect of the concrete and steel, while leaving it exposed, even in the points where it is imprecise and imperfect, also the ones that are close to demolition, decision was conservating the souls of the building.

When a person enters the building from the middle of the sleeve, descend into the double-height entrance area where the reception is located in front of a 5-meter birch tree, where the two elevators in mirrored material and the waiting and meeting room are located. It might be the first building ever built to have a curtain wall with a transparent rubber exterior finish. The façade (currently being assembled) is made up of fixers and covers of the external decoration with transparent recycled silicone rubber. As for the interior spaces, leaving the internal structure exposed on each floor reacts with the space, the light, and the context.

Renderings by Davide Minervini, BALANCE Architettura.

Drawings by Davide Minervini, BALANCE.

Publication drawings by Matteo Dossetto.

Photos by Alberto Lessan, BALANCE ARCHITETTURA Partner.

2022 MVarchitects, Matteo Dossetto ITA-TUR- MV01

Italvolt GIGAFACTORY Scarmagno, Ivrea (Italy)

Preliminary and definitiva advice for Pininfarina Design

Contract architectural consultancy

https://www.italvolt.com/it/

The Italvolt project plans to start the production of lithium-ion batteries in the second half of 2024 and it expects to employ up to 3,000 employees, on a total area of one million square meters, to deliver a production capacity of 45 GWh.

The Gigafactory of Scarmagno and Romano Canavese will place Piedmont and Italy among the most important players of the green industrialization and sustainable mobility, making Italy one of the largest producers of batteries for electric vehicles in Europe.

Mega-roof holding structure repeats the «V-shape» concrete beams of existing buildings.

Professional contribution

3d modeling

Concept renderings

Canopy algorithmic computational design

Detail sections

Landscape constraint problem solving

Sketch by Marco Visconti, Architect. MVarchitects principal

300,000 SQ M

FACTORY

1,000,000 sq m area

4,5 gwh energy

4 mld euro

Landscape visualization by Pininfarina Architecture.

Landscape masterplan by LAND . Engineering layout by AI & Pininfarina Architecture.

Concept renderings by Matteo Dossetto, MVarchitects

MVarchitects, Matteo Dossetto ITA-TUR- MV02

Palazzo Nuovo Turin (Italy)

Preliminary and definitive architectural design for the restoration of three large classrooms.

Palazzo Nuovo’s large classrooms renovation is an important intervention and can become a true landmark for the city of Turin. Located in front of Mole Antonelliana, these brutalist volumes built in the 60’s needed to be moved to XXI century.

The large amount of solar energy suggested to install solar panels and a new facade made by personalized sunshades made up with aluminium profiles, computed by algorithm and following the dynamic trend of the existent facade, making it homogeneous. The interior, instead,

Category: Culture

Professional contribution

3d modeling

Facade algorithmic computational design

Conceptual renderings

Architectural design

Project drawings and board

Fire prevention (FOR Engineering)

Detail sections

Quotations and materials management

Facade conceptual renderings and computational design (algorithm on Grasshopper) by Matteo Dossetto. Project plan drawings by Matteo Dossetto.

Rendering by Oday Hamad, MVarchitects.

Rendering by Oday Hamad, MVarchitects.

Matteo Dossetto