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DAMIANO BOLDRINIarchitecture portfolio

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Curriculum Vitae

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name: Damianosurname: Boldrinidate of birth: June 21st 1990address: Via Gerolamo Speroni 14/8 Recco (Genova)postal Code: 16036country: Italyphone: +39 338 3350304email: damiano_boldrini@outlook.comskype: damiano_boldrini

<Education>

2015 Master’s Degree (with honors) in Architecture, at Scuola Politecnica di Genova2009 Graduation at Liceo Scientifico Nicoloso Da Recco

<Work Experiences>

2014 Studio Roberto Melai Architetto, Genova 150h drawing activities Prof. Arch. Christiano Lepratti, DSA, Scuola Politecnica di Genova 200h drawing activities

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first language: Italianother languages: English level B1 - Entry Level Certificate in English (ESOL) - Preliminary English Test

<Software>

AutoCADGoogle SketchUpOffice SuiteAdobe Suite (PS, AI, Id)VrayScribus

<Other skills>

Hand drawing (pencil, pen, ink)Handmade modellingEditorial Graphic

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Index

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4 Architectural Design Workshop #2 Redevelopment of an urban void: the project of a student campus at Castelletto, Genua10 Architecture Building Workshop University Residence in Piazza delle Erbe in Genua16 Architectural Drawing course The Drawing of the City: the 19th Century renovation. Galleria Mazzini, Via Roma, Via XXV Aprile20 Architectural Design Workshop #3 Brescia. The Subway26 Architectural Design Workshop #4 Rome-Venice: the persistence of memory32 City Planning Workshop Recycle Genova. “Voice the Void”38 Technological and Environmental Design Workshop Redevelopment of the former urban market area in Corso Sardegna, Genua. “ReticoLAB”46 Contemporary design culture Villa Shodhan. The assembly50 Final Exam/Thesis pt.1 The fireplace hall. Proposal for a new visitor centre in the Beigua Natural Park.60 Final Exam/Thesis pt.2 One Hundred Plans

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66 Studio Roberto Melai architetto Design competition for a youth civic center in Grenoble70 Prof. Arch. Christiano Lepratti, DSA, Scuola Politecnica di Genova About (D)urban. Transformation of a Downtown

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74 Foudation Wilmotte Priw W 2014. The Tower of London 80 AWR Comptetitions Copenhagen Modern Library86 STaRT for talents Pompeii, save the history!92 AWR Comptetitions New York City Farm Tower

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100 penci drawings

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Architectural Design Workshop #2Redevelopment of an urban void:the project of a student campus at Castelletto, Genua

Year 2011

Theme Student Campus

Location Castelletto quarter, Genua, Italy

With Paolo Boero, Stefano C

Task To design a student campus from scratch, settled in the 19th century residential neighbourhood Casteletto, in the hills of Genua, alongside the 17th century Albergo dei Poveri (Hospice for the Poor), working out a programme (residential, spaces for study activities, sports, leisure facilities, ect), drawing a general masterplan with all build-ings’ footprint and size, and developing the design to a chosen building of the programme defining its spatial and formal aspetcs.

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Architectural Building WorkshopUniversity Residence in Piazza delle Erbe in Genua

Year 2011

Theme Student Residence

Location Piazza delle Erbe, Genua, Italy

With Carlo Cavagnaro, Barbara Ivaldi, Matteo Previtera

Task To design a group of student residences (50-70 students) starting from a given structural frame system, settled in Piazza delle Erbe in the medie-val old town of Genua.The design must focus not only on the composi-tional and spatial qualities, but also on the practial aspect of construction (structures, details, facade technologies, materials, ect), with a basic ap-proach to sustainable and environmental design (sun exposition, general climate conditions, ect).

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Architectural Drawing courseThe Drawing of the City: the 19th Century renovation. Galleria Mazzini, Via Roma, Via XXV Aprile

Year 2011

Theme Architectural Drawing

Location Via XXV Aprile, Genua, Italy

With Agnese Baracco, Alice Bottardi, Giulia Braschi

Task To draw plans, elevations and section of a given building located in the 19th century street Via XXV Aprile.To learn about expressive, cultural and hystorical values of architecture, and his compositional and formal aspects through traditional achitectural survey.To focus on global aspects of the building (align-ments of windows, proportional systems, meas-urements, materials, colors, ect) and on details such as moldings, its parts and proportions.

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Architectural Design Workshop #3Brescia. The Subway

Year 2012

Theme Almost free (chosen Housing)

Location San Polo, Brescia, Italy

With Stefano Bertuccelli, Francesca Cervellini

Task To design whatever the PGT (Piano per il Gov-erno del Territorio, the urban development plan of Brescia) allows to design in the district of San Polo, in the south-east of the city, near one of the upcoming new subway stations, respecting limits of builded surfaces and kind of activities allowed.The city is made up of buildings; every new build-ing adds a piece of city or changes it a bit: to de-sign architecture means to think about and to choose how these changes will occur, considering the city as a whole.

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Architectural Design Workshop #4Rome-Venice: the persistence of memory

Year 2013

Theme Free (chosen archives and exhibition spaces)

Location Piazza Montecitorio, Rome, Italy

With Paolo Boero, Stefano Cicarelli

Task To carry out a programme and design a building that suits particular sites of hystorical dense cit-ies (Rome and Venice) in which there has been important international competitions in the past but (for different reasons) nothing has done until now. To study those projects, theirs strenghts and weaknesses and design a building to fill this small voids, reflecting on urban shapes, alignments, typologies, corner views, relationships with both masterpieces of architecture and the everyday ar-chitecture of the city in general.

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City Planning WorkshopRecycle Genova. Voice the Void

Year 2013

Theme Free

Location Val Polcevera, Genua, Italy

With Paolo Boero, Stefano Cicarelli

Task To learn about the context (main streets, trans-portation, principal activities, qualities, lacks and to carry out a programme of urban renewal not with traditional tools (big investments or new big buildings ) but with a recycle approach (use what there is, just use it different). To image how this programme will develop in time and space, and find the best way to tell it.

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Technological and Environmental Design WorkshopRedevelopment of the former urban market area in Corso Sardegna, Genua. ReticoLAB

Year 2014

Theme Free (chosen residential+work+retail spaces)

Location Corso Sardegna, Genua, Italy

With Andrea Chiabrera, Stefano Cicarelli, Attilio Delucchi

Task To organize a plausible programme made up of different acitivities (residential, commercial, ect), assigning surfaces, quantities and locations according to the rules of the PUC (Piano Urban-istico Comunale, the urban development plan of Genua) and according to a sustainable and envi-ronmental approach.To draw plans, elevations and sections of all spaces and concentrate on a particular building: to study in deep its structural diagram, to size structural elements and joints, to define facade technologies in all its parts. To carry out a certification of en-ergy performance referring to Protocollo ITACA, counting heat flows, energy and resources con-sumptions and the strategies to reduce them, the use of renewable resources, ect.

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Contemporary design cultureVilla Shodhan. The assembly

Year 2014

Theme Story telling & illustrations

Location Villa Shodhan, Ahmedabad, India

With Stefano Cicarelli

Task To write and illustrate a short story set in a Le Corbusier building or project, to show how ar-chitects can design rooms and spaces, but not the way we live them.The story is set in Villa Shodhan in India in our days and focuses on the contrasts of his inhabit-ants during an assembly to decide if they want or not an elevator.

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Final Exam/Thesis pt.1The fireplace hall. Proposal for a new vistor centre in the Beigua Natural Park.

Year 2015

Theme Visitor Centre with residential spaces

Location Valle Gargassa, Rossiglione, Italy

With Paolo Boero

Task To make a project of a visitor centre with res-idential and exposition spaces, with particu-lar care about different aspects and themes of architecture: spatial system, relationship with the landscape, light, inner atmosphere, details and materials.

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Final Exam/Thesis pt.2One Hundred Plans

Year 2015

Theme Research on architectural variations

Location Valle Gargassa, Rossiglione, Italy

Task This is a collection of one hundred drawings made during the summer of 2015 on A4 paper sheets with a blue ink pen. This exercise is a preliminary study of the context, carried out as a set of projects which explore space and its possibilites and afterwards becomes an auton-omous work.It is a colletctor of forms and atmospheres, in which different themes and archetypical topics of architecture are dealt with: monumentality, geometry, typology, signs overlap, relationship between inner and outer space, the passage, the wall depht, the sequence of spaces, the fragment. These themes are developed by an-alogic processes with a set of basic operations and changes.The result is a sequence of variations in which there are references, more or less direct, about architectures of the past, and in which the abundance of the graphic signs reflects the po-tential complexity of architecture, regardless its phisical realization.

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Studio Roberto Melai architettoDesign competition for a youth civic center in Grenoble[drawings only]

Year 2014

Theme Architectural drawings for competition

Location Rue de l’Arlequin, Grenoble, France

With Andrea Zanaboni

Task To draw plans and sections of the project of a youth civic center in Grenoble for a competition.The project is a two-storey building with shops facing the street and public and welcoming spaces in the backyard on the ground floor; music and artistic rooms and leisure spaces on the upper floor.

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Prof. Arch. Christiano Lepratti, DSA, GenoaAbout (D)urban. Transformation of a Downtown[drawings only]

Year 2014

Theme Architectural & urban drawings

Location Morrison Street, Durban, South Africa

Task To draw axonometries of the beerhall building and a part of the city of Durban to support the exhibition in Genua at Scuola Politecnica fot the final exam of the Design Workshop 2 course and the exhibition in Durban at the beerhall building for the UIA Durban 2014 events

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Foudation WilmottePriw W 2014. The Tower of London

Year 2014

Theme Mixed use building

Location Tower of London, London, United Kingdom

Task The competition involves the design of a new cul-tural center next to the Tower of London, with particular regard to the preservation of the pano-ramic views and a focus on the relationships be-tween old and new, past and present.The funcional programmes contemplates exhibi-tion areas and multipurpose halls for temporary and stable shows, two auditoria, shops, library, of-fices, cafè and a restaurant.

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AWR ComptetitionsCopenhagen Modern Library

Year 2014

Theme Modern Library

Location Larsen Plads, Copenhagen, Denmark

Task The competition involves the design of a modern library in Larsen Plads, in Copenhagen.The new library should meet the following re-quirements.• responds to the challenges posed by the unique location and positions itself consistently in rela-tion to its environment• high architectural quality• a form and language that reflects the functions which includes• high-quality functional and technically and spa-tially flexible framework for cutting-edge and ad-aptable library operations• eco-efficientThe funcional program consists in: reception, lockers room, library, reading area, multimedia area, children area, cafè.

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STaRT for talentsPompeii, save the history!

Year 2014

Theme Museum

Location Pompeii excavation site, Pompeii, Italy

Task The competition involves the design of a museum at the edge of the exacation site in Pompeii, with a particular care about the hystorical importance of the site and with a funcional programme able to improve interest in the protection of the ruins.The funcional program consists in: reception, res-taurant & cafè, gym & swimmin pool, exhibition halls for temporary and stable collections and show, art and music workshops

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AWR CompetitionNew York City Farm Tower

Year 2015

Theme Farm Tower

Location New York City 10th avenue

Task The competition involves the design of a vertical farm with a residential use and the related reor-ganization of the environment. The funcional pro-gram is made up of: library, market, restaurant, gym, private offices, administrative offices, retail shops, warehouse, apartments, vegetable gardens, farm with byres, hydroponic cultivation laborato-ries, orchard.

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Architectural Capriccipencil on bamboo paper

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