Architecture Portfolio - Davide Guida

Portfolio Selected works 2018-2022

DAVIDE GUIDA

EDUCATION

Davide Guida 17/10/1995

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

JULY 2022

SEMPTEMBER 2021 - JULY 2022

Passing the state exam and qualification for the profes-

Work at Atelier(s) Alfonso Femia, Milan

Milan

sion of architect

+39 3317551692

Institute: Politecnico di Bari

davide.guida.95@gmail.com

Grade: 33/55

Architectural design support: •

Technical-economic feasibility project of a lower secondary school in Settimo Torinese (TO)

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Building renovation project of a residential building in Milan

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Zecca in Rome

ABOUT ME

JULY 2021

I am a young and curious architect focused on the current dynamics of architecture and so-

Master degree at Politecnico di Milano

ciety. I strongly believe in the transformative capabilities of architecture and urban landscape

Supervisor: Andrea Gritti

and I am passionate about research and experimentation and theoretical design. During my academic and professional career, I have deepened the great theme of architectural reuse with particular attention to interior architecture and its relationship with the external space, experi-

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regeneration of the Biumo Inferiore district in Varese

OCTOBER - DECEMBER 2020

Thesis: “The Jungle Museum. Project for the architectural

Curricular internship in Fòndaco Studio, Milan

it was written and set”.

Architectural design support: •

final design for an office building in Milan;

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executive project for a private home with site visit in Milan;

Grade: 110L/110

Italian (mother tongue) English (fluent)

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DIGITAL SKILLS

Movie Music Literature Contemporary art Photography Graphic design

preliminary design of an apartment in Bologna.

Autocad Photoshop Illustrator

INTERESTS

Technical - economic feasibility project for urban

Co - Supervisor: Federico Deambrosis

transposition of Upton Sinclair’s novel in the places where

menting the approaches to face the complex challenges of the present.

LANGUAGES

Executive project for the exhibition of Museo della

Indesign Sketchup Rhino Revit

SEPTEMBER 2018

JANUARY - FEBRUARY 2019

Bachelor degree in “Architectural design” at Politecnico

Professional internship at A.O.U.M.M., Milan

di Milano Supervisor: Prof. Arnaldo Arnaldi Thesis: “The Architecture of Bunker; The Strength and the Need for Reuse”.

Grade: 104/110

Architectural design support: •

executive project of JRC European Commision in Ispra (VA);

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Concept design for a pavilion of a pharmaceutical company;

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feasibility study and analysis for the reconversion of some lighthouses on the Sardinian coast for hotel use.

Archicad 3DS Max/VRay Premiere M. Office QGis

JULY 2014

DECEMBER 2018

High school diploma at I.T.C.L. Marco Polo

“Inspiration Hostel 2018” competition

Bari

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Grade: 82/100

Project of an atelier - refuge for artists in Hong Kong.

Projects

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CLUSTER

04

RECONCRETE

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN STUDIO

INTERIOR DESIGN STUDIO

YEAR 2019

YEAR 2018

02

05

SILENT TRACES

LIQUID CITY

ARCHITECTURAL THEMATIC STUDIO

INTERIOR DESIGN STUDIO

YEAR 2020

YEAR 2019

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06

THE JUNGLE MUSEUM

MEKHANÉ

MASTER THESIS PROJECT

SCENOGRAPHY DESIGN STUDIO

YEAR 2021

YEAR 2020

Cluster ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN STUDIO WORKING GROUP: Davide Guida, Tommaso Gatti PROFESSORS: Antonio Carvalho Da Silva Ferreira, Ivica Covic LOCATION: Lambrate Railway Yard, Milan YEARS: 2019

The project takes place in a very important area for the city of Milan: the former Lambrate railway yard, a particular context in which elements of the consolidated city and the industrial periphery of the twentieth century are mixed. Within this context, the spatial value of the area was recognized, given by the principle of aggregation of the existing buildings in “clusters”, a value which, however, does not emerge also due to the poor quality of the open space and the buildings themselves. The project therefore acts in continuity with the existing cluster but at the same time creates spatial interference with the new buildings with the aim of obtaining a porous and organic urban design, which by fragmenting the open space gives it back the value it deserves. They respond to a series of spatial needs of the neighbourhood, first of all the housing one, to which the attention of the project has turned the most.

Curtyard view

Public space view

SOUTH HOUSING

Longitudinal section

Ground floor plan

Elevation

First floor plan

Shared space view

NORTH HOUSING

Longitudinal section

Ground floor plan

Elevation

First floor plan

Sharing space view

DUPLEX TYPOLOGIES

Double duplex section

Ground Floor double duplex

Single duplex section

First floor double duplex

Ground floor single duplex

First floor single duplex

Silent Traces ARCHITECTURAL THEMATIC STUDIO WORKING GROUP: Davide Guida, Eleonora Stringa, Giulia Prayer Galetti PROFESSORS: Guido Morpurgo, Annalisa De Curtis LOCATION: Walicòw, Varsavia YEAR: 2020

The project is set in a context of fundamental historical and social importance: the former Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw, a place that was the scene of clashes and violence during the Second World War that cannot be forgotten; yet today this area is undergoing a massive transformation, taking on the appearance of a financial district that is the son of capitalist logic, often indifferent to the events that have gone through it. The project therefore seeks to highlight this fracture between today’s city and the “disappeared” city, through a unitary design that slowly reveals the bowels of destroyed Warsaw, materializing in a memorial-exhibition itinerary that involves the outside and continues to the inside the complex of pre-existing buildings and the new building, inside which there is also the library of human rights.

First floor plan

Third floor plan

Cross section

Detail of the exhibition path

East elevation

South elevation

Perspective section

Libraries

Exhibition gallery

Exhibition and view of the city

The Jungle Museum

The thesis project starts from an initial reflection on the great theme of food and industry that manages its production as one of the most important emergencies of our time. To tackle the problem, we analysed the case of the Union Stockyards in Chicago, the largest industrial district of meat processing in the world. The industrial district was the victim of a scandal due

MASTER THESIS

to the publication of a novel entitled “The Jungle” written by the journalist Upton Sinclair in

WORKING GROUP: Davide Guida

1906, in which he denounced the difficult conditions of industrial workers as well as the un-

PROFESSORS: Andrea Gritti, Federico Deambrosis

healthy processing of the food produced. The novel, described the descending parable of the

LOCATION: Chicago, Illinois

protagonist Jurgis Rudkus, a Lithuanian immigrant worker in the industries, victim of a corrupt

YEAR: 2021

and ruthless system that will leave him on the margins of society for the duration of the story.

The novel is more current than ever, since the meat processing sector is still one of the most controversial today, especially in the United States. Hence the need to give a new voice to the novel and to the industrial area of the ​​ Stockyards, and to do so through a museum, designed inside the unique building remained witness of the events told. The museum retraces the stages of the protagonist and the novel and the industrial history of Chicago, with the aim of making the visitor more aware of the contemporary debate and the importance of food for the society of the future.

FRAMEWORK AREA - BUILDING

“BO PACKING” BUILDING

WEST ELEVATION

EAST ELEVATION

NORTH ELEVATION

SOUTH ELEVATION

The Jungle Museum

1. LITHUAN FOREST

THE ROLE OF FOOD IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF CITIES

I.

THE HOG BUTCHER OF THE WORLD : THE PRODUCTION MACHINE OF CHICAGO

II.

THE MEAT INDUSTRY IN THE USA: A NEW PRODUCTION MODEL

III.

2. ELLIS ISLAND, NEW YORK

3. CHICAGO

4. STOCKYARDS

THE UNION STOCKYARDS E PACKINGTOWN : BETWEEN INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL UNREST

IV.

PRESENT AND FUTURE SCENARIOS: THE NEW FRONTIERS OF THE MEAT INDUSTRY

VII.

AFTER SINCLAIR : TRENDS AND CHANGES IN AN INDUSTRIAL SECTOR

VI.

5. PACKINGTOWN

6.

ABYSS

THE JUNGLE DI UPTON SINCLAIR: THE EXPOSING OF AN UNHEALTHY SOCIETY

V.

SEVENTH FLOOR ROOFTOP FIRST ACT: Lithuan forest - Summer 1899

I. The role of food in the development of cities THESIS

2000 a.C. - 1750 CAP 1

THE JUNGLE

CAP 1

FIFTH FLOOR

SIXTH FLOOR SECOND ACT: Arrival at Ellis Island, New York

II. The Hog Butcher of the World : the production machine of Chicago THESIS

1750 - 1880 CAP 2

THE JUNGLE

CAP 2

THIRD FLOOR III. The meat industry in the USA: a new production model

FOURTH FLOOR THIRD ACT: Arrival at Chicago

THESIS

1850 - 1880 CAP 3

THE JUNGLE

FIRST FLOOR CAP 3-4

IV. The Union Stockyards e Packingtown : between industrial development and social unrest THESIS

SECOND FLOOR FOURTH ACT: Union stockyards: The illusion of the dream

1880 - 1906 CAP 4

UNDERGROUND FLOOR

THE JUNGLE

CAP 5-10

V. The Jungle di Upton Sinclair: the exposing of an unhealthy society THESIS

1906

GROUND FLOOR FIFTH ACT: Packingtown: the discovery of the truth THE JUNGLE

CAP 5

UNDERGROUND FLOOR (SECOND BUILDING) VI. After Sinclair : Trends and changes in an industrial sector

CAP 11-26

THESIS

1907 - 1971

UNDERGROUND FLOOR SIXTH ACT: Descent into the abyss THE JUNGLE

CAP 6

GROUND FLOOR (SECOND BUILDING) VII. Present and future scenarios: the new frontiers of the meat industry THESIS

CAP 27 - 31

1972 - ?

CAP 7

First act | Lithuan forest

Fourth act | Stockyards

Second act | Ellis Island, New York

Fifth act | Packingtown

Third act | Chicago

Sixth act | Abyss/Hope

Re_Concrete

ogo: Via Antegnati, quartiere Vigentino, Milano

ofessori: Arnaldo Arnaldi, Luca Basso Peressut

The project intervenes on a building in a state of neglect within the south-western suburb of the city of Milan, a context between the consolidated city and the rural area.T he idea of ​​the intervention was to hypothesize a reuse of the reinforced concrete skeleton of the building through

no accademico: 2017 - 2018

a project that started from the inside and that used the material aspect as a central element of

INTERIOR DESIGN STUDIO

the transformation: the building becomes an exhibition - sensorial path that tells and illustrates

WORKING GROUP: Davide Guida, Alessandro Gatta

the phases of disposal and recycling of this material through hematic rooms. The aim of the

project is to remove the visitor from the common imagination of this material, which has always ogetto interviene su un fabbricato in stato di abbandonobeen all’interno della periferia and sud building - ovest abandonment, to reveal its more architectural aspects linked to speculation PROFESSORS: Arnaldo Arnaldi

RE_CONCRETE LOCATION: Via Antegnati, Milano YEARS: 2018

such ase its sensoriality, città di Milano, un contesto a cavallo tra la città consolidata l’area rurale. but also its weakness: the building will in fact undergo a process of disintegration and dismantling of all its parts over time, like a large constantly evolving construca dell’intervento è stata quella di ipotizzare un riuso dello scheletro in cemento armato tion site. Eventually the action of the vegetation will take over the concrete building, returning it edificio attraverso un progetto che partisse dall’interno e che utilizzasse l’aspetto materico ere Vigentino, Milano definitively to the community. eLuca elemento centrale della trasformazione: l’edificio diventa un percorso espositvo Basso Peressut

oriale che racconta e illustra le fasi di dismissione e riciclo di questo materiale attraverso 018

renti sale tematiche.

biettivo del progetto è quello di allontanare il visitatore dall’immaginario comune di questo

icato in stato di abbandono all’interno della periferia sud - ovest

eriale, da sempre legato alla speculazione e all’abbandono edilizio, per rivelarne gli aspetti più a cavallo tra la città consolidata e l’area rurale.

itettonici come la sua sensorialità, ma anche la sua debolezza: la costruzione infatti subirà

a di ipotizzare un riuso dello scheletro in cemento armato

corso tempo un processo di disgregazione e di smantellamento di tutte le sue parti, o che del partisse dall’interno e che utilizzasse l’aspetto materico

asformazione: diventa un percorso espositvo -Alla e un grandel’edificio cantiere in continua evoluzione.

fine l’azione della vegetazione prenderà il

a le fasi di dismissione e riciclo di questo materiale attraverso

avvento sul manufatto in cemento restituendolo definitivamente alla comunità.

o di allontanare il visitatore dall’immaginario comune di questo t speculazione e all’abbandono edilizio, per rivelarne gli aspetti più

Exhibition Plan

Section path

Cutting Taglio | fronte

TaglioCutting | dall’alto

Fragmentation

Modelling

Frantumazione

Modellazione

Liquid city

The project starts from a reflection on the structure of the urban space of contemporary cities, built around the theories of the modern movement that have adopted the urban grid as a regulatory element for the development of cities. However, a structure

INTERIOR DESIGN STUDIO 2 WORKING GROUP: Davide Guida, Paoloandrea Paganotto PROFESSOR: Pierluigi Salvadeo LOCATION: Imaginary YEAR: 2019

that no longer holds up to the profound mutations of the contemporary city, more complex and organic than the “rationalist” one of the twentieth century. Furthermore, technological innovations and the advent of the digital society have changed the way cities are lived: today we always live between the reality of physical space and the abstractness of digital space, two connected but still deeply separate worlds. But what would happen if the digital space became an integral and supportive part of the physical one? And so the “Liquid City” tries to ironically overcome the rigid subdivision of “public-private” space, of “open-closed” space but also of “real-virtual”. The city therefore becomes a liquid, heterogeneous, hybrid place, the space is fragmented and flexible and therefore capable of withstanding the sudden changes of our time. In the liquid city, the real urban engine is represented by the digital world of social media and digital platforms that become a physical space capable of establishing real relationships and no longer just virtual and superficial.

Mekhanè (The Bacchantes) SCENOGRAPHY DESIGN STUDIO WORKING GROUP: Davide Guida, Irene Barcarolo PROFESSOR: Pierluigi Salvadeo LOCATION: Greek Theatre of Syracuse, Sicily YEAR: 2020

The project is a scenography of the famous Greek tragedy “The Bacchantes” by Euripides, set in the historical scenario of the Greek theatre of Syracuse. To face this project, he started from the main theme of the tragedy: the dualism between divine and human, between spiritual and material, visible and invisible, opposing dimensions that have characterized human life since the dawn of time. In this scenography divine and human are held together by the “Mechanè”, the continuously moving theatrical machine already used in ancient Greek theatre, which by rotating and translating defines different spatial settings. The movement of the machine is therefore not only made visible, but governs the movements of the actors and the entire course of the scene, just as the divine decides and governs the actions of humans.

The movement of the Mechanè also adapts to the flow of real time of the show, which ends at sunset with the “Deus ex Machina”, the most important moment of the representation (as well as of the entire Greek theatre) in which the god reveals his identity by claiming the actions committed.

STAGE MOVEMENTS

PROLOGUE Arrival of the god in Thebes / monologue

2. Dionysus and Pentheus, the capture

1. Dialogue between Cadmus and Tiresias

3. Liberation of Dionysus

4. Earthquake, revelation of God

6. The death of Penteus

5. The camouflage

7. Deus ex machina

Artworks

ANTICORPO | Inspiration Hostel 2018 Competition

Blinded Medusa | 2019

Land(e)scape | 2019

Inner Cycles | 2019

C++ lady | 2019

davide.guida.95@gmail.com

+39 3317551692