A R C H I T E C T U R E
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CONTENTS This portfolio does not only include a sequence of projects and experiences, but it exposes a concise and programmatic personal evolution throughout the years: technical, design and interpretive skills
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RESUME
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COMPETITIONS
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PROFESSIONAL WORK
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INTERIOR DESIGN
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CONTACT
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RESUME Taron Mussoni Architect [MArch] 95 The Vale W3 7RG London, UK 23.03.1988 Rimini, Italy
ARB Registered Architect RIBA Chartered Member CNAPPC Registered Architect
EDUCATION
PROF2008 - 2014
University of Bologna ‒ School of Engineering and Architecture Bachelor and Master of Architecture
PROF2002 - 2007
A. Einstein Scientific High School Scientific High School Diploma
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE July 2019 - Aug 2020
DOS Architects, London, United Kingdom ¦ Architect ¦ Full-time details and technical design, design process, 3D modeling, planning application
Feb. 2018 - Jun 2019
SHSP Architekten, Berlin, Germany ¦ Architect ¦ Full-time details and technical design, design process, visual effects and 3D graphic, phisical model Significant project: Eisenfabrik Franz Weeren, Berlin, Germany [p. 98] Cubo_urban solution, Berlin, Germany [p. 104] Alte Post Bad Freienwalde, Bad Freienwalde, Germany [p. 108]
Feb. - Oct. 2017
Sou Fujimoto Architects, Tokyo, Japan ¦ Junior Architect ¦ Full-time design process, architectural competition, urban planning, phisical model, rendering and visual effects Significant project: Village/Stepping Garden, Tokyo, Japan [p. 80] Ishinomaki New Cultural Center, Ishinomaki, Japan [p. 86] Tainan Hostel Restarted, Tainan, Taiwan [p. 92]
Jun 2016-Jan 2017
Sep 2014-May 2016
Jun-July 2014 Jun 2013-Mar 2014
Feb 2011-2012-2013
GZ&A Engineering Office, Rimini, Italy ¦ Architect ¦ Full-time freelance architect, architectural design, architectural competition, assistance in construction site Significant project: Acqua Arena & Multifunctional Complex, Rimini, Italy [p. 74] Prati Architecture Office, Cesena, Italy ¦ Junior Architect/Designer ¦ Full-time architectural design, urban planning, interior design, architectural competition, rendering and visual effects Significant project: White Shadows, Rome, Italy [p. 70] - Line&Volume, Cesena, Italy [p. 72] José Paulo Dos Santos Arquitecto, Porto, Portugal ¦ Intern ¦ Part-time thesis preparation, architectura design, planning, rendering and visual effects Arata Isozaki & Associates, Barcelona, Spain ¦ Intern ¦ Full-time design process, architectural competition, urban planning, rendering and visual effects, phisical model Significant project: Distrito 38, Barcelona, Spain [p. 56] National Museum of Egyptian Civilization, Il Cairo, Egypt [p. 60] ed frgfdgferdfiiiiiiiii iiGrand Egyptian Museum Square and Entrance, Il Cairo, Egypt [p. 64] University of Bologna ‒ School of Engineering and Architecture, Cesena, Italy ¦ Tutor ¦ Periodically 3D CG, rendering, visual effect, parametric modeling, IT assistance
SCHOLARSHIP AND AWARDS 2013 2008-2013
Erasmus Placement Programme three months abroad work experience University Student Scholarship provided by Regional Company of Emilia Romagna
PUBLICATIONS 2017
Green is not enough! OPEN! Studi aperti Article, Author, 26.05.2017, 2 pp.
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Spunta un altro progetto di lungomare La Voce, Co-author, 22.05.2016, p. N°1
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Rimini. A new waterfront. Requalification of the waterfront and proposal for a multifunctional center Master Thesis, Author, 2015, 309 pp.
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AIAE 2013. Arata Isozaki & Asociados Espana Annual pubblication, Co-author, 2013, 96 pp.
PUBLISHED WORK / EXHIBITIONS 2017
Archibrain#2 ¦ Exhibition OPEN! Studi aperti ¦ Exhibition
2016 2013 2012
Il lungomare che vogliamo! ¦ Exhibition Ex Asilo Santarelli: idee per un possibile restauro ¦ Exhibition Qui C entro ‒ Polo Sud ¦ Design Competition/Published Work SAIE Selection ¦ Student Competition/Published Work
COMPETITIONS 2017
Museum of the Ancient Nile ¦ Design Competition
2016
Caffè Culturale ¦ Design Competition
2014
Arch20 Students Week 4 ¦ Student Competition
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Armstrong Green Buildings Award ¦ Student Competition IS ARCH Awards 3rd Edition ¦ Student Competition Architetture residenziali per la sostenibilità ¦ Ideas Competititon
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ArchMedium BAAR ¦ Student Competition IS ARCH Awards 1st Edition ¦ Student Competition
SKILLS technical
languages
Windows OS Mac OS Microsoft Office AutoCAD LT/3D ArchiCAD Revit Sketchup Vectorworks Italian English German Spanish
Allplan Bim Rhino T-Spline VisualARQ 3ds Max Grasshopper Cinema 4D V-Ray
Photoshop Illustrator Indesign KeyShot After Effects Physical modelling Freehand sketching 3D printing
mother tongue fluent speaking and writing with proficiency moderate speaking and writing elementary speaking
social
Pragmatism, adaptability and multidisciplinary approach: skill to grow and mature together with relational and professional environment. Willingness and passion in the continuous search of new opportunities for a personal and mutual growth within multicultural and evolving workgroups, ready to evolve along with job opportunities and interpersonal situations.
organisation
Initiative, proactivity and professional flexibility: predisposition for work process management, accurate and punctual results in terms of time and organization. Skill to plan the design process with groups of several people, able to assign and coordinate different tasks. Easily adaptable and with an extremely high degree of efficiency in problem solving matters.
artistic
Excellent ability to freehand drawing and sketching technique. High accuracy and technique in the construction of physical models of various kinds (sailing ships, cars, architectural models, etc.). Deep interest in the visual arts, cinema, installations for theater sets and performances, design of furnitures and daily life objects. nmn uhgjn hnb hlkmikpoiuytredwest-
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Passion and excellent mnemonic skills for graphic/visual elements, music and cinematography. Travelling as the unique way to learn and understand the world and the real nature of architecture!kjyiigb ert ryg jyhkyjhgvrtfgfvdrfgfvcrdffvrdfgvgfhbvgfcggrthbtgjhnbv dffvcdcfvcv
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COMPETITIONS Selected concepts and design ideas aimed at architectural competitions
L.E.G.O. Complex touristic complex ¦ Jesolo ¦ Italy ¦ 2011 Herbarium Building natural science complex ¦ Cesena ¦ Italy ¦ 2012 Bologna New Opera Center residential housing, music center, new opera house ¦ Bologna ¦ Italy ¦ 2013 AFPG Mode university ¦ Cesena ¦ Italy ¦ 2013 MIGA Soccer Training Center sport center ¦ Buenos Aires ¦ Argentina ¦ 2013
MTR Forlì Museum 20th century building restoration ¦ Forlì ¦ Italy ¦ 2013 RELC 50 House renovation housing ¦ Rimini ¦ Italy ¦ 2014 Marina Center waterfront, cultural and multifunctional center ¦ Rimini ¦ Italy ¦ 2015 AFPG Space university ¦ Cesena ¦ Italy ¦ 2016 Museum of the Ancient Nile museum ¦ Edfu-Nile River ¦ Egypt ¦ 2017
L.E.G.O. Complex Type_university project (2nd year) Location_Jesolo, Italy Program_touristic complex Year_2011 Size_8 000 m2
Description The project was created from the objective of reorganizing some lots in front of the beach of the city of Jesolo. In fact the area is located within the masterplan drawn by the architect and urban planner Kenzo Tange in 1998 when he had been commissioned to realize the plan. The design program involves the construction of a touristic complex within which to provide different types of services. The compositional idea starts with the subdivision of the lot in three different areas: one for development in height, where to build a hotel, a part for merely tourist development, consisting of one and two bedrooms typology, and finally a last part for the construction of cottages to be able to rent out throughout the year. These aims will materialize with even an
altimetrical design of the ground, so to get an area exploitation of different levels. The main purpose was to allow the crossing of the whole area creating a continuous series of architectural views going gradually to open more and more once you get closer to the beach area. A system of visual cones that open gradually to the wonderful landscape of Jesolo s beach. The main concept design was creating a composition based on the concept of the shanghai game, thereby taking advantage of vertical development of the area. It is also characterized the area with the use of primary colors of another kind of game, that is Lego and its modular schemes, where the realization of a scale model has been fundamental to the evolution of the project.
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The funny use of two completely different games with each other, together with the common objective of achieving a youthful space, for tourists and for a totally different exploitation instead a common urbanization, all these factors have pushed the design with more force in a direction where the game, the shapes, the colors and the functions could intertwining reciprocally.
Herbarium Building Type_university project (3rd year) Location_Cesena, Italy Program_natural science complex Year_2012 Size_12 500 m2
Description The project area is a long, narrow limit zone that runs along the railway line Bologna-Ancona, so the nature of the place, the possibility of not being able to build more than two floors above ground, and the aim of creating a collection and plant studies center, were the three important challenges to be confronted with. So the concept is born from the desire to have a unifying element, which the storehouse, in an elevated position so as to fulfill the same time, function of connector between the parties and an architectural element of impact from the point of view of formal approach. The different orientation of the volumes on the ground floor takes the role of granting a different solar radiation to the different rooms of the ground floor. In addition to
this element creates a discontinuity in perfect composition with the volume above as the aesthetic contrast, in terms of size, and especially in terms of relative orientation, achieving in an optimal way the objective of the design concept. In this way the plan appears as a clear composition of elements off-axis between them. The concept in fact on which is based the whole composition is the presence of two different compositional vocabularies: a discontinuous ground floor, punctual and made up of several blocks in different positions. The first floor takes the relationship with the straightness of the railroad and the near train site, stretching for the entire lot, going to support all blocks and by joining them.
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It 'is clear that as the metal frame of the ground floor with primary colors is in stark contrast with the first floor material. Where it was chosen to use a double skin along which to grow climbing plants, just to accentuate what is contained inside the building. Space, form, function and material constantly linked together in every part of project.
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2- Main ground floor structure consists of steel box-section beam 3- Double skin consisting of panels of perforated stainless steel plate fixed to the substructure by means of spacers, layer of humus for vegetative growth of ivy, waterproof membrane, OSB, thermal insulation 50 mm, main structure consists of IPE beams, thermal insulation 120 mm, acoustic insulation 40 mm, 120 mm thermal insulation, vapor barrier, finishing resin 4- Resin flooring, acoustic insulation, screed systems, corrugated sheet, first floor main structure formed by beams IPE lightened by drilling cylindrical, truss as a connecting joint between the structure of the first floor and that of the ground floor, main structure of the ground floor consists of box-section beam, ceiling fixed by steel profiles, resin finish STRUCTURAL SYSTEM Ground floor main structure Ground floor secondary structure Joint element between the two 1st floor main structure ST
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Bologna New Opera Center Type_university project (4th year) Location_Bologna, Italy Program_residential housing, music center, new opera house Year_2013 Size_130 000 m2
Description This important project for the city of Bologna is part of a very specific geographical and historical context. It is in fact an area belonging to a antique military barracks in the early 800'. The issues addressed in addition to the main auditorium design were numerous: the theme of the restoration, the re-use of existing buildings, the empty urban space problem, the reconnection of a neighborhood to the rest of the city, studied and deepened themes during the process. Regarding the real project the study started from the theme of the towers. Bologna is in fact one of the most characteristic italian cities, where since the Middle Ages the most powerful lords of the city manifested their strength by building the tallest towers. This fact pushed the design
in a very interesting direction and then the idea of minerals and their gemmation, fused to the concept of the towers, has given rise to a series of compositional proposals of different type. The aim became therefore to hold an artificial hill of architectural sculptures, prisms and solid, which all together go to form not only the Auditorium and its main spaces but also an entire campus dedicated exclusively to music. The fascinating part of the design was the constant crossing of the border between architecture and function, space and art, between social and aesthetic. A very careful and deep path on architectural research topics of new forms of living and build the architecture in order to achieve a perfect coexistence between form and function.
MIGA Soccer Training Center Type_student competition Location_Buenos Aires, Argentina Program_sport center Year_2012 Size_100 000 m2
Description The project is developed from a basic concept: the game of soccer. The goal: o goal in a broad sense as the main objective of the game of soccer. It represents the objective achieved in an excellent way by the people in the Argentina to export as a person and as a team, their personality all over the world, especially as a personal achievement of one of the nations most prosperous of all South America. Analysing the development of the city of Buenos Aires, considered the Paris of the South, I wanted to recreate that quadrangular mesh so precise and compact, matrix of its expansion, using it as a unifying element and cover at the same time. An unifying element for the city that becomes a factor of union and fusion of territory and of a sport so important that represents the country so well.
This quadrangular mesh becomes at the same time a net, net that collects and in this case it combines the magic of what the journalist and chronicler Luis Omar Tapia likes to call "deporte más hermoso del mundo," (the most beautiful game in the world) represented in the concept by a sphere (pelota) that enclose inside the auditorium of the complex. The main theme addressed was to describe a space completely public that can be enjoyed by the entire city as previously it was a place of meeting and the links between population, not only for sports. The project has searched a solution that would represent the best compositional traditions of Argentina s architecture respecting maximum clarity in the relationship between space, structure and shell maintaining a dialogue with the rest of Julio A. Roca Park.
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The complex is has a structure as a campus, creating different areas where to place the different activities related primarily to the allocation of the new Soccer Training Center. At the same time it offers multi-functional services so that it can give birth to a real pool of assets that can holds not only the sport but many other events for the people of Buenos Aires. The theme of vitality was integrated by creating places completely flexible and modifiable depending on the size and importance of all kinds of events, from concerts, dance classes, schools for children up to debates and sporting events.
The attention to the topography of the site has resulted in a reinterpretation of the concept of pampas and green prairies of Argentina that are an essential feature. Feature in fact reproposed so as to avoid overground buildings and recreating a new kind of hilly system in which visitors can walk and experience in the best way this huge lawn from which it emerges only the spherical building of the auditorium. In addition, this green expanse is cut only by paths covered with a white finish to bring to mind the lines of the playing fields.
RELC 50 House Type_student competition Location_Rimini, Italy Program_renovation housing Year_2012 Size_215 m2
Description The project is born from the necessity to link four basic principles: economy of construction, energy requalification, new function spaces and the use of a current compositional language near traditional materials. It began with the analysis of the problems of the current situation. The building, built in the mid-50s, has a strong thermal dispersion, as well as serious and manifest examples of obsolescence as the hydraulic system, electrical, heating facilities not to mention problems of penetration of rainwater due to coverage now in decay. There are also requalification s motivations because on the ground floor there was a single housing unit and a garage and on the first floor also a single unit. The internal partitions of the ground floor were completely reused simply by dividing the unit in two parts,
creating two little apartments of approximately 50 mq; for the coverage it was decided to make the attic space habitable working on a complete revision of the roof. The floor space was made in such a way as to make the unit at first floor living area and using the plan created as a sleeping area of the house. In addition this was also changed the garage on the ground floor, transforming it into a little apartments of about 40 mq. Doing this it has changed from two apartments to four apartments in total, so that you can make use of the ground floor rooms such as keeping a tourist rental saw the seaside in which you are located. In the project of restructuring it has decided not to affect the structure of the original building, thus providing a significant cost savings.
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The main idea of the customer concerned a main objective: the cost. The higher costs are identified in the replacement of the roofs, in the insulation and in the installation of the new facilities, which at first will be definitely a substantial economic cost, but over time will be revealed an excellent investment for consumption for comfort housing. On this basis it was choose to leave the structure of the preexistence completely unchanged because the N-E wall was structurally supporting. Instead the wall that delimits the aisles adjacent to the wall confined is composed by three pillars positioned more precisely two at the ends of the building and one centrally.
Marina Center Type_master thesis Location_Rimini, Italy Program_waterfront, cultural and multifunctional center Year_2015 Size_650 000 m2
Description The project for the waterfront of Rimini and its new skyline is undoubtedly the biggest design challenge matured in last years. The first approach to the project is obviously born of a mere pragmatic need for order, control and development, from which was born the new waterfront design and the cultural and polyfunctional center. The building has four main functions: a large covered square and multipurpose space, a performing arts center including two auditorium, a shopping gallery and two museum structures. The simple concept of multipurpose building has been broke up by the desire to create four different containers, where in the next stage they worked between them, on the one hand through compenetration of the volumes and
the other with the use of a curve element in plan that it joins them from the ground floor to the last floor. I explored so the conceptualization idea of two different architectural forms, that curve and the geometric, which are intended to chase themselves throughout the entire project until to the point of merging in a formal balance of two worlds. The main idea was therefore to have a public shopping gallery that connected both internally and externally these functions, a public section, an auditorium, a museum and a multipurpose space. The four large blocks have slowly begun their process of composition adapting, contracting and stretching in the most appropriate way to resolve issues as: functional, conceptual, geometric and structural.
The constant tension between the different balance components and the composition process is the true power of the architectonic study for the project.
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The huge cantilevers and sharp edges of the four main blocks make, despite the rigidity and strong geometry of the form, an elevation from the undeniable dynamism and vitality characteristics.
The architectural impact in the realization of piers and the new system of platforms, which from one side requires a minimal impact on the seabed and the other solves a problem of management of functions in a sinuous and appealing way.
The movement as the true actor of the whole design, the movement that is perceived, the tensional forces of the structures, the asymmetric impulse, are the elements that characterize the strong formalism expressed by this building and the entire project of the waterfront.
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Museum of the Ancient Nile Type_design competition Location_Edfu-Nile River, Egypt Program_museum Year_2017 Size_2 500 m2
Description The Museum of the Ancient Nile has been a great opportunity to express my own amazing interest in the culture and history of the fascinating country of Egypt. The river course and the riverbed shape suggest the building layout form. At the same time, the track marked out by the water, from the source to the mouth, translates into a route which leads visitors in the museum As the river, during his course, transports nature and the history of millenniums, the museum path accompanies people through Egyptian civilization and culture. The hieroglyph that represents the Nile river in ancient Egypt acts as basis for developing all the exterior facades. The blue waves, often painted in tombs decorations as well. are reproposed in the project using a regenerated stone coating covered by
thin metal foils that give a glazed and translucent effect to the entire bulding. In Egypt, life on earth developed in different and separated places from life after death; the first was located on earth, the second under the earth. Towns and temples were entirely built aboveground, while tombs and pyramids had their centre in a underground world. In fact life and death were both celebrated as fundamental life moments, they were essential phases of human existence. Thus, as functional organisation, the museum spaces are treated in different ways, according to the subject they talk about. Thus, where life and civilization development are shown to the tourists, the exhibition will be lighter and clearer, instead where death and tombs are the main characters, they will be darker and more spiritual.
The choice of project location has been made on a little island between Kom-Ombo and Edfu cities, a strategical and well located area. The decision was based on these criteria: RIVER WIDTH, in that section the Nile is quite tight, so it allows the island to be more visible ans easly reachable by tourists and travelers; CONNECTION, thanks to the new bride under construction close to the site, which will cross the river in East-West way, the island will be easily linked to the most significant transport routes of the region; BACKGROUND DEVELOPMENT, this new cultural target allows the rebirth of many existing towns and villages and the growth of furure new areas; CENTRAL POSITON, the site is located in the middle of Luxor-Aswan path, which can gain another important touristic and cultural call along the Nile.
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PROFESSIONAL WORK Selected projects and works realized during the work experience hgjkjhnyjhgghjnbghh
Distrito 38 office complex extension ¦ Barcelona ¦ Spain ¦ 2013 CityLife offices and residential ¦ Milano ¦ Italy ¦ 2013 National Museum of Egyptian Civilization interior exhibition ¦ Il Cairo ¦ Egypt ¦ 2013 Grand Egyptian Museum Square museum square and entrance ¦ Il Cairo ¦ Egypt ¦ 2013 Shanghai Zendai Himalayas Art Center art museum, hotel, commercial, offices ¦ Shanghai ¦ China ¦ 2013 Plaça Gaudì requalification urban requalification ¦ Barcelona ¦ Spain ¦ 2014
What makes us human artistic and cultural entertainment ¦ Cesena ¦ Italy ¦ 2014 White Shadows individual house ¦ Rome ¦ Italy ¦ 2015 Homemade Simplicity interior design ¦ Rimini ¦ Italy ¦ 2015 Line&Volume volumetric integration ¦ Cesena ¦ Italy ¦ 2016 Pertini Building office and residential complex ¦ Cesena ¦ Italy ¦ 2016 Acqua Arena & Multifunctional Complex directional center/swimming pool ¦ Rimini ¦ Italy ¦ 2016
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Regeneration 8.5 food & beverage ¦ Rimini ¦ Italy ¦ 2016 Village/Stepping Garden renovation and extension ¦ Tokyo ¦ Japan ¦ 2017 House of Hungarian Music cultural center ¦ Budapest ¦ Hungary ¦ 2017 Ishinomaki New Cultural Center theater and cultural center ¦ Ishinomaki ¦ Japan ¦ 2017 Tainan Hostel Restarted hotel renovation ¦ Tainan ¦ Taiwan ¦ 2017 Greek House villa competition ¦ Kea Island ¦ Greece ¦ 2017
Pankstraße 87-88 residential housing ¦ Berlin ¦ Germany ¦ 2018 Eisenfabrik Franz Weeren housing and renovation ¦ Berlin ¦ Germany ¦ 2018 Cubo_urban solution capsule hotel ¦ Berlin ¦ Germany ¦ 2018 Gürtelstrasse 36 residential housing ¦ Berlin ¦ Germany ¦ 2018 Hindenburgdamm 1 housing and renovation ¦ Berlin ¦ Germany ¦ 2018 Alte Post Bad Freienwalde library ¦ Bad Freienwalde ¦ Germany ¦ 2018
Distrito 38 Type_completed Location_Barcelona, Spain Program_office complex extension Year_2013 Size_70 000 m2
Description DISTRITO 38 is an office-park project of 70,000 square meters developed on a 35,000 square meter lot, which is to be built in three phases according to a master plan produced in collaboration with FOA. The area can be found at the feett of Montjuïc hill, to the west of Barcelona, in a zone crowed of office projects currently under development, thus converting the area into an important tertiary centre located close to the airport and the harbour. There are so many types of office spaces at present, and since the final use and necessities of these offices are still unknown, it was chosen an open system that allows for posterior reorganisation according to new and developing requirements. In fact the site faces a representative part of the Paseo de Zona Franca.
Using this as a reference point, a 7.5 x 7.5 meter grid defined by a structural mesh has been deployed, thus form here also the parking area, the six planned buildings will be developed as well as. Building 1 has been conceived as a parallelepiped, measuring 46.5 meters height, and featuring a central core that will be perimetrically subtracted from the volume of the previous block. This subtraction game leads to better location adaptation, a hierarchy in the different facades, and easier adaptability in the creation of office settings, ideal in this highly fluctuating market. The office floors are available in two distinctive types: the L and the C shape, and the interior of each may be organised into and sold as one, two or three units. orderly placed so as to facilitate the circulation and
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National Museum of Egyptian Civilization Type_proposal Location_Il Cairo, Egypt Program_interior exhibition Year_2013 Size_26 000 m2
Description The NMEC will be fundamentally a museum of scientific diffusion, thus the scientific-didactic role constitutes the main preoccupation of the project and the most important objective of its exhibition structure. There are three basic principals that have guided us in the organization of the exhibition contents and structure: Beyond objects, the story behind each piece; Dynamism, to give a dynamic character to the exhibition structure; Free Flux for free viewers. The general idea of the overall exhibition design consists in diversifying each exhibition area, so that visitors clearly identify the theme of the exhibition content. This philosophy has been the design base of all the four areas of this first phase. The Core Exhibition Space plays the role of a lobby, a large
buildings lobby which also houses quite representative objects. In addition to its position as a main hall this area functions as a distributor to the following areas Royal Mummy Gallery, Mummy Museum, Thematic Gallery or Top Panorama. The organization of the objects follows careful and intensive studies based on indications and scenarios delivered by the Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt. The display of this exhibition flows in a chronological line, with a counterclockwise direction following the path of Arabic writing. The Core Exhibition Space is designed with ample space and abundant zenithal lighting and clear white marble perimeter walls, in order to achieve a space qualified to represent and symbolically characterize a country as Egypt.
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The Nile Gallery that is one of the six modules, which form the Thematic Gallery. This is a virtual theatre as a whole, with exception for the display case and diorama areas integrated with the architecture. It is quite a large room, with a perfectly controlled luminance level, for the best presentation of projections. The area of display cases and dioramas is located under the mezzanine in order to achieve the perfect conditions of no lighting invasion or noise excess. frogfffm the representative large-scale objects the Core presents modulated series of display cases carefully and orderly placed so as to facilitate the circula-
Grand Egyptian Museum Square Type_proposal Location_Il Cairo, Egypt Program_museum square and entrance Year_2013 Size_30 000 m2
Description The proposal for the square and the entrance to the new Egyptian museum in Il Cairo was a real important opportunity to enter into a planning process so significant and international level in the world of work. In fact it was during the work experience at the studio Arata Isosaki Associated in Barcelona, during which I was able to produce a further project proposal in addition to the three already present in the study. The competition for the design of the new Egyptian Museum in Il Cairo was won by an Irish study and then outfitting and realization of of the atrium and the entrance was the subject of the design as part of Isozaki s Office. The aim was to give importance and principalities to the main building, without creating an entrance that primarily not overshadow the importance of the museum building and at the same time the possibility to sew up the
the compositional characteristics of the winner project. So I moved in this direction, where the simplicity of the forms, the use of geometries closely related at the geographical and cultural context of the country and the solemnity of the spaces could blend together in the architecture of the site. The large triangle identifies the central part, which divides the entrance to the left from the exit to the right. In this way visitors will never go to converge to the same path so as not to create disorder. Within this triangle it has been inserted the solar boat and its museum portion together with an area destined to shopping. Finally at the exit of the museum was located a park, always with the same geometry and compositional characteristics. This green and rest area is optimal when it reserves the possibility of a short stop at the end of a long visit.
Heneghan Peng Architecture won the Grand Egyptian Museum architecture competition in January 2002 presenting a site specific museum with an intriguing façade. It is necessary to understand the building in order to approach the exhibition design review. We have fully revised the documentation provided for the competition, and noticed that this project has developed and changed since its origins.
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Shanghai Zendai Himalayas Art Center Type_completed Location_Shanghai, China Program_art museum, hotel, commercial, offices Year_2013 Size_140 000 m2
Description The Shanghai Zendai Himalaya Art Center is located in the Shanghai district of Pudong. The total area of the complex is 155 000 m2. The program consists of five main functions: hotel, offices, museum, commercial and public square. To meet the challenge of incorporating all these activities in a single building, the design concept is based on the creation of a rational architectural composition, giving prominence to each of the parties, and allowing a strong interconnection both horizontally and vertically. The largest volume of this complex is the Hotel. With 100m high, is located at the northern part of the complex to prevent its shadow projected onto the adjacent residential area in the west. Between these two large volumes, the Art Center forms
the core of the complex. The whole is divided into two parts by a horizontal platform. In south block, the offices are above this platform, and the shops below. In the central block, the public indoor garden is at level of the platform, while the museum and the public square are below. Therefore, this represents a three-dimensional central zone public space, on several levels. Finally, the volume of the north, the guest rooms are grouped above and other facilities, including the multipurpose room, the banquet hall and conference room, in the down part, all linked to the great convention center. This north block is a cube of side 60 meters, it will become a milestone with views all around and specifically in the direction of public housing landscape. the representative large-scale objects the Core presents modulated series of
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White Shadows Type_proposal Location_Rome, Italy Program_individual house Year_2015 Size_250 m2
Description The project is included in a site on the suburb of the Roman hills. Initially, this was only a renovation while in the course of work it was decided a complete demolition and reconstruction on the same site. The compositional idea is born thanks to some edifying limits to be respected and other aesthetic impositions to have to deal with. Hence the idea of maintaining the shape of the rural house with an arcade and symmetrical arrangement and only then act on the aesthetic part. Thus, by subtracting and adding volumes, using sects and a formal approach to the functional matter, I came to the definitive concept. It is a dual residential home with totally symmetrical interior and exterior dimensions, with the same quantity and number of arcades. As parity of all these similarities is really evident as the
differentiation of the main prospect highlights could show the face of a totally different intervention and absolutely with no traditional elements. The use of local materials and white plasters within the Mediterranean context in which it is located makes the whole procedure integrated in its context and at the same time innovative and with a strong character. It is emphasized the use of high-performance technologies and systems, both in terms of consumption and in terms of the use of environmentally and eco-friendly resources. In addition, the building is the result of a carefully designed architectural composition that blends into a coherent study of the Mediterranean typology of residence. In that way the house is totally linked to the territory where this building is designed.
Line&Volume Type_proposal Location_Cesena, Italy Program_extension Year_2016 Size_70 m2
Description The project deals with a delicate but at the same time important issue: the expansion of some existing rooms of a well-identifiable family unit within the urban context. The primary requirement was the desire to build a veranda, a kind of winter garden, to extend the living room and kitchen of the main apartment. It was a very delicate intervention since it was necessary to incorporate a cantilever volumetry right into the main prospect on the roadside. Consequently any addition or modification of volumes to an existing one would undoubtedly result as something posterior and different. At this point we chose to propose a completely different volume from the main style using a simple and functional aesthetic and structural solution. A structural steel with a "question mark" shape so as to
remain separate from the original structure to respect the anti-seismic rules and at the same time to enhance its importance as a formal element of the whole composition. Doing so, the volume that came out satisfied the functional need of the interior arrangement and emphasized the main face with a new element. This element becomes so the main part of the whole building, giving an unparalleled image of contemporaneity to the entire house. It is therefore an intervention that stands between ancient and modern, between reconstruction and new construction. This so difficult relationship between the parties created an interesting study and an original approach in the architectural matter, producing a diplomatic solution with at the same time a strong expressive character.
Pertini Building Type_under construction Location_Cesena, Italy Program_office and residential complex Year_2016 Size_300 m2
Description The project currently executing is a renovation of a building in the historic center of a small town in the countryside near Cesena. The conceptual idea comes from the objective of merging graphic essentiality and architectural essentiality. In fact, to make the first sketches and drafts the thought was to restart from simplicity of the graphic representation of an axonometric view of this building. To get to its design it has made a total formal simplification of its parts, comparing the original historic building with modern design and the rational historic essentialism in architecture. Once terminated this formal exploration and arrived to a completeness as regards its design and function, it was born the idea of leaving intact the aesthetic results.
The simplicity of the representation on paper of the project so coincided perfectly with the idea of concreteness that was sought. The identification of realized project, real, and the project on paper, seemed to really bring together the formal rationalism and functionalism of modern architecture to a purely aesthetic stylization of its representation itself. Thus avoiding any kind of invasive procedure on the existent building it has opted for the integration of volumes such as the balconies where only the iron railings were previously present. Simplification of shapes and volumes, combined with the use of black aluminum profiles to further emphasize the lines and its parts, creating an aesthetic effect of a simple architectural representation on paper.
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Acqua Arena & Multifunctional Complex Type_under construction Location_Rimini, Italy Program_directional center, residential housing, swimming pool, shopping mall Year_2016 Size_9 000 m2
Description The project is part of redevelopment of the historical Fiera di Rimini and the Palacongressi program. It consists in the realization of a supermarket of about 4.5000 square meters of which 2,500 used to sales area, a shopping mall of 270 square meters and other commercial activities per square meter 500 with overlying 2 directional floors used as offices for about 1,400 sq.m. In the basement are provided parking for about 10,000 square meters and it is planned the construction of a bus parking for the convention center. The project includes a modern structure that opens to the city through dialogue with the surrounding space. The general shape has a curvilinear form. On one side of the supermarket it will be developed on one level with
a usable area of approximately 4,500 square meters. The pedestrian accessibility is ensured on both sides of the shopping mall galleries. The basement car park will be accessed inside a dedicated road. Acqua Arena instead will include an area dedicated to swimming pools and other areas dedicated to collateral activities including fitness and wellness areas for body care and gymnastic and sportive activities. Three pools for swim activity: the main one, for the public, the swimming schools and for professional and amateur, 25 meters long and with ten lanes, effectively doubling the water space than the capacity of the municipal swimming pool Rimini. A project that meets needs and desires of an area which wants to respect the environment and the urban life.
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The commercial and directional building (1) integrates into the green system, through dunes and green walls systems, reinterpreting the concept of insertion in the place. The facades are covered with a translucent glass panels system which during night they light thanks to a sophisticated LED lighting system. The project provides homogeneous forms in particular also natural context in which it is inserted, in relation with the large green area in front of it. The volume of Acqua Arena (2) is represented by an elementary dome shape that allows to distribute all the spaces, usable by the users, on the ground floor, reaching the maximum height only in the central part and thus obtaining a shape that harmonizes with the surrounding ground and with the green. On the east and south facades are placed windows of the pools and dining rooms and children's place, where they can enjoy the good location for panoramic views and direct contact with the park and its trails.
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Village/Stepping Garden Type_competition Location_Tokyo, Japan Program_renovation and extension Year_2017 Size_3 000 m2
Description Village as institute is about creating a friendly and engaging environment for the dissemination of French culture in Tokyo. By entering into a central garden surrounded by terraces and paths through the village like landscape, it invites everyone into the space and provides them with many possible ways of using the space, whether simply relaxing and enjoying, or engaging and learning. Instead of one large building to house all of the programs, we have chosen to break down the size of the building into smaller clusters and create a village like place, reminiscent of Tokyo s scale, where people feel relaxed and at home. As people wander through the institute, they encounter clusters of classrooms and other public programs.
Between these they will find both wide open terraces and comfortably small spaces framed by the more structured spaces surrounding them, where they can wait for class or simply just enjoy their surroundings. The garden expands from the central area onto the terraces, creating layers of gardens throughout the entire institute. The combination of the afore mentioned qualities creates a level of intimacy through varied experiences in small scale spaces that form a larger public place as a whole. It becomes not just a place people will come to in order to deliberately learn about French culture, but a place where people will come to regardless of intention simply to enjoy, exploring the cultural experiences that it surrounds them with.
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Ishinomaki New Cultural Center Type_in progress Location_Ishinomaki, Japan Program_theater and cultural center Year_2017 Size_13 000 m2
Description On March 11 of 2011 in the East Japan there has been a terrible Tsunami, which inevitably hit the city of Ishinomaki, severely devastating the city and its activities. This project comes from the city's desire to realize a contest for the construction of a new cultural center in order to give new life social impetus to the growth of the city. A symbol for a new town which inherited the history of Ishinomaki. The landscape of the early Showa Era where composed by a triangular roof buildings line along the old Kitakami River. This is a historical landscape symbolizing the development of Ishinomaki-shi. To succeeding to obtain this symbolic landscape of the city, we aimed to realize a symbol where people can feel free to attend, because is really closer to the citizens.
It will be a new open facilities complex, focused on hall and art museum functions, by partially opening up programs that are normally treated as backyards, such as dressing room and storage room. Opening each program towards the shared lobby, it will be able to appeal to a great part of people courious to attend his spaces. Developing different activities towards the shared lobby, we will bring various encounters and discoveries. Becoming a place where the people will be able to feel free to connect with the history and cultural activities of Ishinomaki, it will be widely opened to citizens bustle. The main objective is to become a core area of the region as a base for future cultural activities in Ishinomaki City.
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Tainan Hostel Restarted Type_in progress Location_Tainan, Taiwan Program_hotel renovation Year_2017 Size_3 400 m2
Description The feeling in Taiwan's town is that the space of various shops and eating and drinking establishments is very open to the urban space and sometimes stretches to the sidewalks and street trees are also planted in the streets. Cause to that it is a very busy and rich street space. Thus the aim is to capture the richness of Taiwan's street space three-dimensionally into this site as well. As the building gets out in the city, this hotel will crowd into the architecture. It is as if the street of Taiwan became three-dimensional, and staying in it as it is. The architecture objective is to make it an entirely new place like an urban space in Taiwan that is open and busy, fused with city and architecture, nature and artificiality. The architect conceived that the concept of
a big tree was very wonderful and deep as well. If you stereoscopicize the city of Taiwan, it will be like a big tree where various creatures may inhabit. The project for the renovation of a Youth Hostel in Tainan has been extremely interesting. The reason was the fact that a part of the existing bulding already had a fixed, but totally empty, frame structure. So the main goal of the architect has been literally to fill in this already existing structure with a complex system of three-dimensional staircases. In the end the architectural result has been a sort of oniric and labyrinthine environment, where stairs, people, floors and spaces may be involved in a unique singular element inside the existing building, creating a completely new idea of hotel concept.
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The main goal of the architect has been to fill in literally this already existing structure with a complex system of three -dimensional staircases. In the end the architectural result has been a sort of oniric and labyrinthine environment, where stairs, people, floors and spaces may be involved in a unique singular element inside the existing building, creating a completely new idea of hotel concept. fhfhrfthg
Eisenfabrik Franz Weeren Type_under construction Location_Berlin, Germany Program_housing and renovation Year_2018 Size_3 600 m2
Description The challenge for this design is to transport the partially heritage-protected existing building of the ironworks, stone witnesses of a past economic boom in Neukölln, into a fast-paced and convertible century without destroying the charm of these artisanal and industrial-looking halls of the former bell foundry. A change that Neukölln was already able to experience over one hundred years ago, while a rural Rixdorf suburb of Berlin became the fastest growing district in Berlin. Today's change in Neukölln is characterized by a renewed increase in the population and the increased demand for housing. The increasing attractiveness of Berlin in national and international comparison undoubtedly contributes decisively to the real estate
market. On the one hand, the monument is being respectfully transported to its new use by the construction and conversion. On the other hand, the ensemble receives a new building as a structural extension which emphasizes the historical scale of the memorial. Another special design task in the conversion of the Eisenfabrik in Wohnhauser was to design the enormous building depth for future lounges in such a way that the supposedly "atypical" creates a quality. With the help of atriums and skylights, daylight is brought into the living spaces. In conclusion, this project is a sort of bridge between past and contemporary, between factory and residential housing, between architecture and historic surroundings.
The challenge for this design is to transport the partially heritage-protected existing building of the ironworks, stone witnesses of a past economic boom in Neukölln, into a fast-paced and convertible century without destroying the charm of these artisanal and industrial-looking halls of the former bell foundry.
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Cubo_urban solution Type_proposal Location_Berlin, Germany Program_capsule hotel Year_2018 Size_500 m2
Description The project stems from a client's bet on a very strategic area for the city: between the central bus station and the city fair of Berlin (Messedamm.) This area is located exactly besides the bus departure station for all parts of Germany and the adjacent S-Bahn stop. Consequently this area is crossed daily by thousands of people who could not only be attracted by evenctually new activities in the building but also by the possibility of overnight accommodation that it offers. In fact, the rents and hotels in Berlin during the presence of special events are not only too expensive but lacking in number of available accommodation. To resolve this fundamental problems so, the building is able to be built on a modular structure perfectly adaptable to every need and size.
In this way it may offer the opportunity for tourists to stay in this capsule hotel-type for one night or more, just to sleep. This tipology trends towards which the largest cities in the world are turning precisely to meet the lack of an adequate number of lodgings organized on the least possible surface. The modular structure is made of metal and its fast and easy assembly can without any doubt solve the future problem for organizing events that attract thousands of people only for a very short amount of time, thus facilitating the use and the offer that every kind of city would like to have. With regard to the facade, it was decided to use thin plastic membranes to lighten the loads and facilitate the procedure of assembly.
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Alte Post Bad Freienwalde Type_in progress Location_Bad Freienwalde, Germany Program_library Year_2018 Size_2 800 m2
Description The landmarked former post office building stands as a strong solitary building at the eastern entrance of the old town center and since its formation forms a counterbalance to the closed structure of the historic city center. It is to be rebuilt and extended as a building hybrid to library and archive as well as to different nursing, social and residential facilities. The design contrasts a new solitaire with the old one and connects it with a glass clasp as an entrance. In our view, the solitary character should persist, which requires a gap between the buildings. It should take into account the exposed location on the eastern entrance gate to the city center and last but not least something visible should be created. Thus, at this extremely important
place of Bad Freienwalde creates a concise goal situation, a kind of landmark over which the city can define itself. The location of the new building makes it an eye-catcher from every visual axis of the city. The second new solitaire, with its distinctive character and the powerful expression it takes in form and material, can hold its own alongside the existing building. In the new building, the archive is planned - in angular, monolithic character - as a "safe" or vault of Bad Freienwalde, the treasures of the city protects. An exciting contrast is the transparent connecting building with a curved facade, which houses the reception and function room, and the curved glass facade forms a perceptible space between the street and the building as a forecourt.
The landmarked former post office building stands as a strong solitary building at the eastern entrance of the old town center and since its formation forms a counterbalance to the closed structure of the historic city center. It is to be rebuilt and extended as a building hybrid to library and archive as well as to different nursing, social and residential facilities.
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Assinie Resort Type_under construction Location_Assinie, Ivory Coast Program_hotel/resort Year_2019 Size_5 400 m2
Description The vision for this project is to create a private and exclusive resort which celebrates the natural beauty of Assinie: Assinie beachfront resort. This resort will be located in Assinie, an idillic tropical hideaway located just 85 kilometers from Abidjan international airport. The resort will feature 19 spacious 1 bedroom villas located around a stunning landscaped courtyard evocative of the great pleasure gardens of Pompeii. The hotel s layout flows around a central courtyard that provides light and air to the interior and also creates a focal point for all the guest rooms to gravitate around. the courtyard also separates public and private areas of the hotel and provides a luscious tropical paradise for the hotel guests to relax and disconnect from the hassle
and bustle. With several food and beverage outlets serving delicious, locally inspired dishes, water sports including sailing and surfing, spa with a yoga pavilion and a weekly activity schedule taking you on out-of-the-ordinary experiences, there will be something for everyone at Assini beach resort. Project of compositional inspiration with references from Arab and North African culture, merged with an architectural minimalism of pure and elementary forms. The composition molds itself with the surrounding environment and enriches it at the same time. The architecture of a resort that finally captures the architectural essentiality and functionality of a tourist facility surrounded by nature. trhytrtye5t6yryy5yy5y5
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King Square Gardens Building Type_in progress Location_London, United Kingdom Program_mixed-use complex Year_2019 Size_700 m2
Description The outline of our proposal was to improve the existing morphology of Kings square by increasing the current building from 2 to 4 storeys so that the composition of the square would become more coherent and with similar height buildings on its 4 sides. The architecture proposed for the new building was to have an articulated modern façade towards the square whist using a simple palette of London stock brickwork and glazing for the façade materials. The apartament block has a entirely brick facade punctured with windows and balconies. All the balconies in the corners are recessed to offer more privacy. Full height windows are used throughout the scheme to maximise daylight and all of the windows have juliet balconies. In order to reduce
the scale and massing and therefore avoid any detrimental visual effect to the neighbouring St. Clements church we are now proposing a 2 storey building in its entirety which will contain a small 7 storey portion facing Central street. All potential overlooking and loss of light issues to the neighbouring buildings on the Square have been mitigated. The internal floor layout has been re-configured to allow for dual aspect apartments on every floor whilst also providing independent cores for the residential and commercial uses. The proposed elevational treatment is based on a modern glass façade which envelops the 2 lower storeys sitting beneath the 5 storey residential block which willhave a facing brickwork façade. ygujftyht
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Takhar Mews Type_in progress Location_London, United Kingdom Program_residential extension Year_2020 Size_200 m2
Description The proposed development includes a roof extension and complete refurbishment of the single dwelling located at number 9 Takhar mews. The proposal also includes a separation of the existing single dwelling into 2 separate dwellings comprising a 3 bedroom apartment on the ground floor and a 1 bedroom apartment split over ground and first floors. Finally the proposal also includes the insertion of a new window facing the parking bays adjacent to Wayford street. The main tasks to comply the client request were: improve the confusing internal layout, realize two different flats, find a better position for the main entrance, realize a direct connection with the outside space, reduce wasted space, add one bedroom apartment. In order to do that
the direction of the choices was to achieve and obtain the following results: improved internal layout, two different flats, improved main entrance position, direct connection between entrance and living area, less wasted space, one extra bedroom, additioonal storage space. In the end, the architectural composition was completed with an extension over the roof. Realizing the additional apartment and remodeling the existing cover. Two different volumes have been established which protrude from the main shape of the roof. These new shapes, covered in glass, have allowed sunlight to reach even those spaces that initially would have been impossible to reach. In that way the character of a traditional extension turns into a modern architecture.
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