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ALESSANDROMENINI
ARCHITECTUREPORTFOLIO
1 Diploma from Scientific High SchoolLiceo Scientifico Statale Primo Levi, Verona, Italy
2 Bachelor of Science (BSc) in ArchitecturePolitecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
3 ETS TOEIC – Score 940 / 990Test of English for International Communication
4 Master of Science (MSc) in ArchitecturePolitecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
5 Owner and Graphic designerWoosh Clothing, Verona, Italy
6 Intern architectAAPA Architetti Associati Pasini Ágoston, Verona, Italy
7 Beta testerIndexhibit CMS (Content Management System)
8 ArchitectAssociazione AGILE, Verona, Italy
A creative role in a small and young fashion brand I cofounded with some friends. It was exciting to work on new tee designs and to ma-nage the communication, creating the logo, the website layout and the collection catalogues.
A great experience in a multidisciplinary and inspiring practice. I was involved in the project development for a house in Gruenwald, Germany and a refurbishment in Verona, Italy, making technical drawings, mo-dels and renderings.
Indexhibit is a renowned user friendly tool to build and manage creative and minimalist websites. I took part in the small development team as a beta tester, providing ideas and suggestions and translating the CMS into Italian.
I’ve been involved in a young multidisciplinary non-profit organisation that focuses its attention into recovering unused urban spaces within the city of Verona by making participated projects and strategies and organizing public exhibitions and workshops.
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EXPERIENCE
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CV
ALESSANDRO MENINI
Architecture competition, participation – February 2011
“VHOM – Vienna House of Music”, Vienna, Austria
Architecture workshop – September 2012
“Le giornate del riuso temporaneo”, Milan, Italy
Architecture exhibition – September / November 2012
“On the Road”, Milan / Monza, Italy
Italian: native / English: advanced / Spanish: beginner Photography / Graphic and Web Design / Mountain biking / Travelling
Logo competition, 1st prize – May 2012
“MEETmeTONIGHT”, Milan, Italy
Public meeting – September 2012
“Mazzini Futura”, Verona, Italy
Publication – September 2010
“The road to shape design”, Prof. Eng. Domenico D’Uva
Participation in the ArchMedium international architecture student competition to design a building for music into the Viennese Stadtpark enthusiastically competing with more than 400 proposals coming from 30 different countries.
A five-day architecture workshop focused on the adaptive reuse of unu-sed public spaces in the city of Milan. It was interesting to design a temporary project in a team with motivated students and international architects.
The refurbishment project of a dismissed 50s dismissed Agip petrol station in Milan, developed during the Architectural Design Studio in 2012, was showed at the double architecture exhibition promoted by the multinational Italian petrol company Eni and Politecnico di Milano.
Selected as the winner among 750 participants in the logo competition for a cultural and scientific event held in Milan promoted by the muni-cipality and the most important universities and institutions as part of the Europe-wide Researcher’s Night.
Within a week of cultural events and workshops, I organized a stimu-lating two-day public meeting with local citizens to develop possible ideas and strategies for the unused empty shops in the historical city centre of a small town near Verona.
The analysis work of the Toyo Ito’s Meiso No Mori roof surface deve-loped during the Parametric CAD 3D Drawing course was published in “The road to shape design” paper written by the Prof. Eng. Domenico D’Uva.
EXHIBITIONS AND PUBLICATIONS
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NEW GEOGRAPHIES OF A LAUNDRY
[ST]AZIONE URBANA
BETWEEN CITY AND COUNTRYSIDE
MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY
VHOM
PLOT 26 HOUSE
MEISO NO MORI FUNERAL HALL
KUNSTHALLE PAMPLONA
A reflection on contemporary habitat
A laboratory of ideas for the city of Milan
A social housing complex in a marginal place
An hostel at the Weissenhof Estate
Vienna House of Music
A waterfront house at Borneo Sporenburg
Formal analysis of Toyo Ito’s roof surface
A contemporary art museum in Pamplona
residential public parametric
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NEW GEOGRAPHIES OF A LAUNDRY
A reflection on contemporary habitat
year: 2013
University project
location: /
professors: Prof. Arch. Pierluigi Salvadeo, Arch. Davide Colaci
collaborator: Marco Mazzola
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An imaginary architectural exhibition on the theme “the room” and a 70x70cm white cube as spatial con-text. These were the premises of this experimental project that, among the undefined range of contem-porary rooms, focuses its attention on the laundry.Nowadays lifestyles and habits have been changed from the past, relegating the laundry to a narrow and boring room. Freeing the mind from preconceptions, the project imagines a different scenario, made of a spread geography of devices. They combine archi-tectural features, laundry activities and everyday habits, making possible extra-ordinary spatial expe-
riences.The exhibition display is composed of three parts hanged on a wooden exhibitor: panels with techni-cal drawings, booklets of suggestion images and a magic-box with peepholes to watch into and discover the laundry devices.
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Brico A flat piece of wood can be a window-light regulator and a studiolo table
An ordinary wooden box can be an hidden washing machine and a sound amplifier
An hanging steel ring can be a clothes rack and an home cinematograph
Jukebox
Lumière
A squared ceramic tray can be an open air shower and a breathing home garden
An extruded see-through spiral can be an introvert repository and a perfume diffuser
An ordinate sequence of wires can be a drying rack and an undefined Venetian alley
Secret garden
Süskind
Alley
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Brico A flat piece of wood can be a window-light regulator and a studiolo table
An ordinary wooden box can be an hidden washing machine and a sound amplifier
An hanging steel ring can be a clothes rack and an home cinematograph
Jukebox
Lumière
A squared ceramic tray can be an open air shower and a breathing home garden
An extruded see-through spiral can be an introvert repository and a perfume diffuser
An ordinate sequence of wires can be a drying rack and an undefined Venetian alley
Secret garden
Süskind
Alley
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[ST]AZIONEURBANA
A laboratory of ideas for the city of Milan
year: 2012
University project
location: Milan, Italy
professors: Prof. Arch. Gennaro Postiglione, Arch. Lorenzo Bini
collaborator: Marco Mazzola
book: http://issuu.com/alessandromenini/docs/stazione_urbana
video: http://vimeo.com/48917921
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In Milan there is an outstanding Agip petrol station designed and built at the beginning of the 50s to an-swer both the needs of the car and its driver’s. Now it’s deplorably dismissed.The aim of the refurbishment project is to give back the citizens a piece of their history, converting it into a place of coworking in which developing new entrepreneurial and participated actions for the city of Milan.The spaces of the station have been redefined throu-gh the addition of wooden elements that host the necessary facilities and generate informal conditions
of coworking.The importance given to citizens’ active participation has led to imagine the replacement of the existing skylight with a new volume, suspended between the inside and the outside, conceived as a privileged fo-rum for debates.
This work was showed at the “On the Road” archi-tecture exhibition, promoted by the multinational Italian petrol company Eni and Politecnico di Milano.
2012, 09, 08-09 – 50s Agip petrol station, Milan, Italy2012, 11, 24-25 – Autodromo Nazionale, Monza, Italy
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Aim
Idea
Project
ReactivationMilan
Citizens
Participation
ENI
Milan Municipality
Area Competition
Limited period
Terms
Financial support
Workplace
“Advisors”
Resources
Temporary management
Young people
Participants
CoworkersPermanent management
Process synoptic map
Entrance hall view
Co-working space view
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Lounge
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1F Plan Exploded axonometric
7 Management office
8 Archive / Library
9 Conference room
1 Covered plaza
2 Reception
3 Kitchen
4 Meeting rooms
5 Lounge space
6 Co-working space
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Aim
Idea
Project
ReactivationMilan
Citizens
Participation
ENI
Milan Municipality
Area Competition
Limited period
Terms
Financial support
Workplace
“Advisors”
Resources
Temporary management
Young people
Participants
CoworkersPermanent management
Process synoptic map
Entrance hall view
Co-working space view
N0 5m
N0 5m
Lounge
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0F Plan
1F Plan Exploded axonometric
7 Management office
8 Archive / Library
9 Conference room
1 Covered plaza
2 Reception
3 Kitchen
4 Meeting rooms
5 Lounge space
6 Co-working space
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BETWEEN CITY AND COUNTRYSIDE
A social housing complex in a marginal place
year: 2012
University project
location: Milan, Italy
professors: Prof. Arch. Marco Lucchini, Arch. Luigi De Ambrogi
collaborator: Marco Mazzola
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At the borders of the city of Milan there is an invisible margin between the built environment and the begin-ning of Rural Park South. It’s in this delicate urban area that the project of a new social housing complex takes place.Taking as an initial reference the rural courtyard typo-logy, the building then breaks in four points to ensu-re the accesses and differentiates its height fading from the city to the countryside. This allows to have a building made of four blocks, with an inner open space and a privileged side looking towards the green environment.
A fixed structural unit enables the creation of some different dwelling typologies for different kind of users. The single, the couple, the family and the quite new SoHo have each different needs and spaces. The combination of the dwellings around the stairwells creates some independent modules, that are arran-ged according to the program needs and that are overlaid to create the height differentiation.
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Concept
S Elevation in urban context
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Dwellings
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SoHoF 95 mqSoHoD 140 mq
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Concept
S Elevation in urban context
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Dwellings
Facade detail
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SoHoF 95 mqSoHoD 140 mq
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MODERN ANDCONTEMPORARY
An hostel at the Weissenhof Estate
year: 2011
Bachelor’s degree project
location: Stuttgart, Germany
professor: Prof. Arch. Andrea Di Franco
collaborator: Marco Mazzola
book: http://issuu.com/alessandromenini/docs/modern_and_contemporary
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It was 1927 when the most important architects of the Modernism were invited to design one or more residential buildings in the experimental Weissenhof Estate in Stuttgart. After the damages of the WWII bombing, the house near to the one designed by Le Corbusier was destroyed, making the plot void again. A new hostel project places here, between the modern and the contemporary.Nowadays there is a lack of public space inside the housing estate, so the public nature of the hostel project would give back a new place for sociality, cul-ture and events. The plot stands on a ground slope
with a 4 meters altitude gap, which became the key concept of the project. An horizontal volume links to-gether the two levels and then bends vertically as a result of a program variation.The horizontal part is basically made of two public areas, one exterior that relates with the estate and one interior for the hostel facilities. The vertical part hosts the rooms and opens to the north through a wooden facade, like a big window viewing the estate and the entire city of Stuttgart.
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6 Internet point
6 Room
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VHOMVienna House Of Music
year: 2011
Competition / University project
location: Vienna, Austria
professors: Prof. Arch. Vincenza Lima, Arch. Andrea De Matteis
collaborators: Alberto Mariotti, Marco Mazzola
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The VHOM area is located in the northern part of Sta-dtpark, which is actually part of a cultural context with many historical concert halls and schools for traditional formations along the Ringstrasse.The project competition program asked for a building that can meet the very complex scenario of contem-porary classical music. A deep initial analysis showed that contemporary classical music has some clear fe-atures: it makes extensive use of experimentation, it’s influenced by the computer world, it’s often played in small ensembles and it has a more close and infor-mal relation with the public. All these reasons led to
a reworking and structuring of the program.The part of the building at park level becomes a pu-blic, light and bright plate in relation with the Perfo-mance Studios and teaching spaces that formally de-fine the existing height difference between the park level and that of the promenade along the Wienflusse canal.The two levels are then connected with each other by an open air auditorium and an underground floor that offers additional ways of approaching music: here are the recreational and study areas, the multimedia li-brary, the rehearsal rooms and the recording rooms.
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Vienna
Performance studios
Public space Music facilites
Music school
Stadtpark
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4 Studio 1 - Live Music
3 Shop
2 Cafe
1 Reception
5 Studio 2 - Dance
6 Classical auditorium
8 Open air auditorium
7 Multipurpose classroom
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Vienna
Performance studios
Public space Music facilites
Music school
Stadtpark
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3 Shop
2 Cafe
1 Reception
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PLOT 26HOUSE
A waterfront house at Borneo Sporenburg
year: 2010
University project
location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
professor: Prof. Arch. Oscar Eugenio Bellini
collaborators: Marco Mazzola, Matteo Mariani
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The Borneo Sporenburg area is a former harbour area at the east of the city of Amsterdam. West 8 Archi-tects won the competition to redesign the entire area converting it in a housing district. The 60 terraced houses on Borneo Sporenburg refer to the Amsterdam canal houses and they have precise given measures: an height of 9.50 meters, a width of 6.35 meters and a depth of 16 meters.The project is located at plot 26, which is a head plot that borders with a public square. The position gave the opportunity to develop the main idea of the house for four creative: an unique architectural elements
that covers and shapes at the same time the roof, the facade and the public square. Referring to the interiors, the house facilities are moved on the blind side in order to leave the lit part as an empty open space looking towards the square. The house program is simple and definite, at the ground floor there is the working area, at the first floor the day living area and at the second floor the more intimate night area. The three levels area connected to each other through double height spaces.
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Concept
Waterfront elevation
Site plan
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3 Studio
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7 Bedroom
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Waterfront elevation
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MEISO NO MORI FUNERAL HALL
Formal analysis of Toyo Ito’s roof surface
year: 2010
University project
location: Kakamigahara, Japan
professor: Prof. Eng. Domenico D’Uva
collaborator: Gerardo Semprebon
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Designed by Toyo Ito in collaboration with structu-ral engineer Mutsuro Sasaki, the building seeks to dematerialize all sense of formal structure by “flo-ating” over the landscape a 20 centimetres thick vast undulating shell in which to shelter the ceremonial functions of the crematorium. And though the roof appears free in form, it was realized through rigorous structural analysis.A complex parametric algorithm was used to modify the initial shape imagined by Toyo Ito for the main roof, in order to generate the optimal structural sha-pe with the smallest possible bending stress and the
minimum of strain energy and deformation.The formal analysis on relevant sections shows the variations of first and second derivate. When f’(x)=0 there is an horizontal tangent inflection point and so a point of maximum or minimum. When f’’(x)=0 there is an oblique tangent inflection point and so a changing of concavity. The functional and structural analysis shows how their features reflect on each other, so the functional constraint of the crematoria is reflected on the structural pattern and on the entire shape of the building.
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pillar
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Roof plan
Wireframe roof surface
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KUNSTHALLEPAMPLONA
A contemporary art museum in Pamplona
year: 2010
University project
location: Pamplona, Spain
professors: Prof. Arch. Franco Tagliabue, Arch. Nina Bassoli
collaborator: Marco Mazzola
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Pamplona is the capital city of Navarre, in the nor-th-east of Spain. The project for a new contemporary art museum is located in an emblematic place, the square where starts the San Fermín running of the bulls, at the entrance of the historical city centre, with a privileged view to the underlying modern city over the city walls.The project takes note of its delicate position with a courtyard building that relates with the surrounding context. The four wings adapt their shape to embra-ce the visitor inside the contemporary art museum, opening only in the west part, where there is the main
street towards the historical city centre. The roof has two different levels with a vertical skylight between them in order to provide a natural and neutral light to the exhibition spaces. The lower floor contains the museum facilities and a temporary exhibition space that could also communicate to the exterior with a large window, according to the needs of the artists. The first floor is entirely designed to contain tempo-rary and permanent wide exhibition spaces.
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