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Antonello Prezioso Storkower Straße 80 10409 Berlin

+49 177 7207373 an.prezioso94@gmail.com anp@raumlabor-berlin.de

Born in Bari (BA) Italy

15.01.1994

EDUCATION

10.2018 - 01.2023

TU Berlin: Master Architektur

09.2012 - 02.2016

Politecnico of Milan: Bachelor in Architectural Sciences

WORK EXPERIENCE

02.2023 - current Collaboration with Olaf Holzapfel

Freelancer work

10.2020 - current raumlaborberlin Internship + Freelancer work

07 - 10.2022

Apartment Project Berlin

Freelancer work

04.2019- 06.2022

Fachgebiet gte TU Berlin

Tutor

09.2015 - 02.2016

RPA rivapirovano_architetti

Internship

COMPETITION AND WORKSHOP

Italian English German Spanish

LANGUAGES native fluent fluent basic knowledge

SKILLS

AutoCAD Rhino

SketchUp

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe InDesign

Adobe Premiere

Office

12.2022

Ideenwerkstatt und Reallabor - Willy-Brandt-Platz in Essen | 2nd prize

03.2020

AAA architetticercasi 2019 - Habitat | Participation in competition

07.2019

Offener städtebaulicher IdeenwettbewerbInnenstadt Lychen | Participation in competition

02.2018

Evolo 2018 Skyscraper | Participation in competition

23.02 - 06.03.2015

MIAW - Milan International Architectural design Workshop with Carlos Arroyo

CONTENT

A different cultural space to commemorate death, master thesis 2023

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Reuse of urban space, professional work 2022

MEHR DEMOKRATIE WAGEN

Competition for Willy-Brandt-Platz Essen, professional work 2022

NEUSTART KULTUR GLOBE TEATHER BERLIN

Cultural installation in Charlottenburg Berlin, professional work 2020

URBANITÄT IN BEARBEITUNG

Exhibition set-up in Kunstverehein Ludwigshafen am Rhein, professional work 2020

INNENSTADT LYCHEN

Urban Design Competition, 2019

CONCERT HALL ALTE MÜNZE

Conversion of existing factory - Alte Münze Berlin, 2020

RE:WATCHTOWER

RYE FIELD

A different cultural space to commemorate death in stateowned cemetery Reinickendorf Berlin. Master thesis work, with prof. Jörg Stollmann and prof. Dr. Stephanie Herold

Cemeteries nowadays are seen as mono-functional areas on the edge of the city with the sole purpose of containing the dead. The will of the project is to subvert this condition and make places for commemorating death spaces with a social, collective and interactive character. A space that can be considered an urban common. The research question that guided the entire work is: how rituals of death commemoration or burial can shape spaces for the celebration of life enabling new forms of social and cultural assembly, so that the place itself becomes a common? Through analysis and research of different funeral rituals, death commemoration rituals and burial modes, a design idea for a new ritual was developed. Given the social relevance of the topic, also to test the validity of the idea, interviews were conducted with experts in the field and ordinary people were subjected to a questionnaire. The project proposes as a new cemetery space a rye field, around which a new ritual of death commemoration related to the growth and processing stages of rye is developed. In this way the cyclical dimension of the secularized ritual is re-established.

The field becomes a place that people care for and in which they recognize their collective identity, which they define by taking part in the new ritual. Berlin was chosen as a project and research area because a process of functional transformation of cemeteries is taking place. The project seeks to demonstrate how a death commemoration ritual with a collective character can develop a strong sense of community and at the same time help overcome grief. Similarly, the cemetery is made a place for meeting, collaboration and sociability, where the celebration of life is given the same importance as the commemoration of death, demonstrating how cemeteries can also become places for qualitative urban redevelopment in the city.

the aia functioning as performative stage surrounded by the field

the rye milling ritual

Reerdigung chapels and sacred enclosure where to perform more intimate rituals

celebration hall during the collective commemoration ritual

HOLY TEMPLE OF SIEGEN

Reuse of the elevated high-way in Siegen for cultural events, with raumlaborberlin

The Hüttentalstraße (abbrev. HTS) is a city highway that was built in the 1970’s and has had a decisive influence on the surrounding cityscape. Due to its topographical location, the HTS was built on massive, concrete stilts and extends over the entire city area. A large part of Siegen’s population lives in the immediate vicinity of the HTS. With „Holy Temple of Siegen“ raumlaborberlin dedicated themselves to the redesign of a portion of land under the HTS, between the train station, the shopping center and the street, and creating an installation that adapts to the architectural environment: Twelve construction supports were placed between the ground and the underside of the bridge and wrapped with self-dyed fabrics painted in different colors. These newly constructed columns imitate the ground plan of an ancient temple and stand out in contrast to the brutalist structure of the HTS.

At night, the combined lighting creates a special atmosphere. Small tables and stools made of lacquered bamboo provide seating and invite visitors to linger. During events, the corresponding bar is used. The fabrics are originally from another exhibition “Resist! Die Kunst des Widerstands“ Rautenstrauch Joest Museum in Köln. The material is sewn and hand died giving life and texture to the fabric that illuminates when the lights from behind shines through. Throughout the summer there will be different events such as: films, sound installations, lectures and exhibitions.

“worshippers” enjoying a beer within the temple

context and intervention

diagram of reused material

evening view of the lighted columns of the temple

MEHR DEMOKRATIE WAGEN

Workshop and reactivation of Willy-Brandt-Platz in Essen Urban Design Competition, with raumlaborberlin

The city of Essen is asking for a temporary intervention and program able to re-activate the Willy-Brandt-Platz from a more social and collaborative perspective. The proposal interepretes this necessity throught the production of ideas/ obejects and their communication/display within the square itself. The forms of exchange and expression manifest at the beginning of the laboratory in 3 structural elements. To each elements a form of communication is assigned. The central place during the laboratory is the PARLAMENT: a circular pavilion, which allows the gathering of up to 40 people sitting in circle. In other words, the parlament is the nucleus for the topics and programs to be developed, where ideas for the productions and actions on the square are taken. The DISPLAY is the carrier for the communication into the urban society. Consisting of a heavy-duty shelf of approximately 8m height and 10m length, it displays the upcoming activities coming from the discussion results. It can moreover be used as an exhibition shelf for the material collections and the created “products”. In form and shape it offers space for textual messages as well as for three-dimensional objects. The third structural element on the square consists in the CONSTRUCTION HUT. The construction hut is the place for the common material experimentation and production. Here prototypes of the ideas emerging from the democratic discussion in the parlament can be serially converted. Exchange takes place here through the transfer of knowledge and skills in a handicraft cooperation. The transformations of collected materials into designed objects and prototypes is in turn made tangible in the ongoing process.

visualisation “Garden of Delights” showing possible ideas and space organisation for program and activities

site plan with intervention

workshop and program scenario

scenario activation of Willy-Brandt-Platz

NEUSTART KULTUR GLOBE THEATER BERLIN

Cultural installation Charlottenburg Berlin, with raumlaborberlin

The octagonal wood pavilion wants to formally resemble the worldwide famous Globe theater in London. However, the pavilion is not only a space where to play and perform, it is also a space of encounter, an occasion for people to gather and discuss.

It is located in Berlin in Sömmeringstraße close to the Spree and its unusual form and color do not go unnoticed in the urban context. The pavilion stands thanks to a structure of wooden beams on which rests a roof of sixteen steel arms that are held together with three metal rings in the center. The plywood cladding, left in its natural color, creates a warm and cozy atmosphere inside, which is further emphasized by the light that penetrates through the thin impermeable white foil covering the roof. The outside is istead dark to create a strong contrast with the indoor area and it also gives a more “alien” and mysterious appearance to the design object itself. This uncommon aesthetic attracts people who always approach the entrance of the plot wondering what is going on within the octagon. Contrary to the traditional way of conceiving theaters and due to spatial restraints, the backstage occupies a central and visible area of the plot. One side is facing the theater while the other is facing a public open space where people can gather before and after the show. These conditions generated the necessity of designing a space that would at the same time offer a hidden and protected room where the actors can change their costumes, as well as thinking of a sculptural object that could attract visitors and let them gravitate around it. The result is an unexpected design that catches the eye because of its form and skin. It is a wood pavilion in which wood beams creating a sequence of triangular shape frames establish the structure. For the inner space the empty areas left by the beams are filled with reused plywood panels. The entire indoor space has been afterwards painted blue to level the differences in textures of the surfaces out. The outside skin is a patchwork of reused marquises cut and sewed together in order to fit with the irregular shape of the pavilion.

Together the octagon and backstage work a bit like satellites to which visitors and passers-by are attracted. Their shape and appearance contribute, even if only to a small extent, to bring people closer to the world of theater and culture.

interior of the octagonal pavilion

space of interaction between the two pavilions

the octagonal pavilion from the outside

“deus ex machina” intervening and placing the roof on the pavilion

behind the scenes of the covering cloak for the backstage

view of the backstage from the teather stalls

the interior of the backstage

the backstage with its covering cloak

URBANITÄT IN BEARBEITUNG

Exhibition set-up inKunstverehein Ludwigshafen am Rhein, with raumlaborberlin

Urbanität in Bearbeitung is an exhibition reflecting on urban development and urban elements. The exhibition at Kunstverein Ludwigshafen am Rhein hosted the work of 5 artists about the topic of urbanity and TU Berlin student projects of the course Obsolete Typologies.

The main exhibition hall is organised around three objects: a tribune, an Hochstraße and a translucent box. The three installations recreate an urban landscape around which the disposition of the art pieces and the students´projects is organised. The intersection of the Hochstraße and the other volumes becomes the meeting point for citizens and visitors of the exhibition to discuss the future urban development of the city of Ludwigshafen, as well as the occasion to propose more critical development of the city.

The spatial configuration of the pavilions resembles urban elements of Ludwigshafen which had a radical development in the 60´and 70´ embodying the visionary ideas of the time. The Hochstraße is the dominant element of the exhibition hall, as well as it is in Ludwigshafen, and it is an intention of showing the spatial potential of rethinking and reusing the space underneath this existing infrastructure for more social interventions.

Katja von Puttkamer Stephan Backes Sandra Köstler

Obsolete Typology I

Obsolete Typology II

Knut Eckstein Ina Weber exhibition space organisation

the space underneath the hochstraße

perspective section showing the video box, the hochstraße and the tribune

exhibition space plan

view of the exhibition hall

INNENSTADT LYCHEN

Reactivation of Lychen town centre Urban Design Competition

The town of Lychen, about a hundred kilometres from Berlin, is an old medieval town built on a hill surrounded by lakes. Due to the idyllic natural landscape, the town developed its economy on tourism. With a steadily decreasing population, Lychen today struggles to remain attractive to locals, while crowds of tourists flock to the outskirts of the town during the summer months. The project aims to increase the attractiveness of Lychen’s town centre for both locals and tourists. The centre contains a significant architectural heritage that is to be upgraded as local symbols and cultural sites: the church, which stands as a religious symbol, the town hall as a political symbol and finally the Mülhe as an economic symbol. These landmarks, representative of Lychen’s history and urban identity, became an anchor point for us to create a continuous central public space that connects them. Its continuity is ensured by the fact that the difference in height within it fades into a single strip. The strip accommodates different and progressive layers. The first is the landmark, while the second and third are the existing building (the cottage, the commercial building, the tourist office and the cinema) and the natural elements (the water, the topography and the green spaces). The fourth layer consists of a pedestrian spine that connects the Mulhouse to the church and extends across the entire strip. The fifth layer contains specific objects that function in their respective pockets: Stalls, marquee, kiosks, water table. Finally, architectural interventions form the sixth layer.

Mühle Town hall Church

site plan with intervention

01.06 Kindertags Party

03.06 Frühstück Marktplatz

08.06 Flohmarkt

21.06 Musik Fest

diagram of activities + events’ scenarios

context model highlighting the intervention

landscape section with intervention

CONCERT HALL ALTE MÜNZE

Conversion of existing factory - Alte Münze Berlin, with prof. Bettina Kraus

The Alte Münze (Old Mint) at Molkenmarkt 1-3 is an ensemble of buildings in Berlin Mitte and a former minting area built around 1936.

Until the early 1990s, it was the seat of the GDR’s state mint. Today, the site is home to numerous users from the fields of culture and art and is used as a venue for events. For the former production building, the head building in the inner courtyard with three large brick chimneys, an extension was to be built that could serve as a centre for improvised and experimental music. The design proposal aims to complement the listed area with a new building that enriches the complex in terms of urban planning and architecture. An extension, a mirroring of the cubature of the existing building is planned so that the addition blends harmoniously into the surroundings and the existing buildings. The core that forms between the new and existing building will be filled by the new concert hall and a roof terrace above it. The upper floors of the new building contain rehearsal and work rooms. The structure of the new building is based on a grid that is oriented towards the existing building. The façade design is intended to clearly distinguish the new building from the existing building and to create a contrast between the historic sandstone façade and the reflective, light-coloured Eternit façade of the new building. The window openings take up the rhythm of the existing façade. The roof is based on the hipped roof of the production building, but exceeds it in height in order to distinguish itself vertically from its neighbour.

view of the concert hall

ground floor plan

concept model “mirroring the existing”

functional organisation

section AA

section BB

1. Wände

Eternit-Wellplatten Hinterlüftung 20 mm

Unterkonstruktion Aluminium Profile Feuchtigkeitssperre Wärmedämmung zweilagig 160 mm

Verkleidung Betonplatten 40 mm

Akustikpaneele Stahlprofil mit Brandschutzanstrich

2. Gaubenfenster

Stahlblechverkleidung Unterkonstruktion Aluminium Profile Wärmedämmung 120 mm

3. Dach

Eternit-Wellplatten Hinterlüftung 20 mm

Unterkonstruktion Aluminium Profile Feuchtigkeitssperre Wärmedämmung 220 mm

OSB Platten Beton Beschichtung

view of extension attaching to the existing

constructive detail facade

RE:WATCHTOWER

Restitution Watchtower is a temporary itinerant pavilion with the aim of bringing people closer to sensitive cultural, historical and social issues. It displays art objects of museum collections that are going to be returned to their original country of provenance.

The pavilion is conceived as a thematic extension of the museum in order to offer new historical insights and perspective of interpretation behind an art object. In doing so, it aims to subvert the traditional conception of Museum from “owner” of the art pieces to “custodian” of them.

For this reason the pavilion is a light multi-storeys modular reticular structure made of aluminium that works as a landmark. The tower lays on a platform which is at the same time the foundations of the pavilion and the gathering point for people. The main facade of the pavilion is occupied by a large billboard-screen displaying art objects and messages about ethnographic collections. The pavilion is a re-interpretation of the typology of watchtower craving not to control the museum but rather to guard its art collection.

To empower this idea, the tower opens itself to the public though movable elements of the facade encouraging interaction between people, the art pieces and the building itself. At the ground floor the external walls of the pavilion are filled with modular furniture that can be used for workshops and cultural events taking place at the pavilion. An indoor space exposes more in detail the history of the art pieces and colonisation. The upper floors are accessible thanks to a stairs platform that also works as a sort of amphitheater.

Cultural pavilion in Museum complex in Dahlem Berlin, with prof. Ralf Pasel

watchtower typology reinterpretation of watchtower

the tower functioning and gathering people

section and ground floor plan

open tower functioning as cultural gathering landmark

closed tower functioning as billboard

view of the tower with the museum complex in Dahlem

THANKS FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION

an.prezioso94@gmail.com

anp@raumlabor-berlin.de