Architecture Portfolio

Gianluca Zavatarelli 2017/2022

House in Tinos Faneromeni, Tinos, Greece

Politecnico di Milano

MSc2 - Interior Design Studio - team work with Gaultier Arnould tutors: prof. Manolo De Giorgi, prof. Stamatina Kousidi

The object of study stems from a network of historical villages on Tinos which emerge as historically, architecturally, and culturally stratified areas of permeable boundaries between domestic and public spheres, and share common characteristics and fragilities, with other regions in the Mediterranean basin. Tinos forms part of the insular Mediterranean region, an area elusive in its definition and multilayered in its history, and features an unusually large number of historical settlements, at their majority mountainous, unspoiled by mass tourism and consumption demands, phenomena that characterize neighbouring insular places, severely affecting their natural and built landscape.

The architecture of Tinos is typical of the Aegean vernacular, influenced by the microenvironment and its historical background: the climate, the soil and the building materials, the occupation of the inhabitants, the manners and the customs,are the factors that contributed to the traditional architecture of the island.

This project deals with some main topics vernacular architecture, climate and topography, marble quarries, traditional craftmanship, cubic volumes without ornaments, walls as performative spaces, flat roofs.

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Super and Hyper

Parque Lineal del Manzanares, Madrid

Politecnico di Milano

BSc5 - Design Studio III - individual work tutors: prof. Jesùs Donaire, prof. Maria F. Di Gennaro

February 2020

final jury: arch. Alberto Calderoni, arch. Luis Martìnez Santa-Marìa

The project is located in the outskirts of Madrid, in a large area between the M30 motorway, the Rio Manzanares and the Caja Magica, a sport complex designed in 2009 by Dominique Perrault.

The riverfront of the city is renovating quickly in the last ten years and a linear park now extends alongside the river.

To further push the trasformation of this area, the studio investigates the possibility for a public/private hybrid structure as a vertical landmark for the reborn neighbourhood. The tower is conceived as an high density hybrid building that can host a large number of situations and activities, mostly related to sport, collaborating with the Caja Magica complex.

The main idea for the composition of the building is to have a series of modular “boxes” that can host different functions.

The ground floor has a public vocation, in continuity with the linear park alongside the Rio Manzanares. The dimensions of the reticular structures, which compose each level of the building, variate according to the function hosted inside: tennis and basketball courts, sport spaces and classrooms at the lower levels, different public functions such as restaurants, museums and libraries in the middle and private residences in the upper part of the building.

Tower House Natural Park of Portofino

Designing a small house in the Natural Park of Portofino, specifically in a site situated on a slope and near an existing path at the very end of the park system, we had to deal with two main aspects: the wild natural context of the site and a dimensional limitation given at the beginning of the work, maximum 35 m2 of covered area.

So we decided to work on the tower house typology in order to obtain a panoramic view towards the sea and to increase the floor area without increasing the covered area in which the building is standing.

The work has developed studying the evolution of this typology in the history of architecture, analyzing ancient and contemporary examples.

Ancient towers were usually divided in three parts just like columns, while, researching some contemporary residential towers, we understood that they are monolythic blocks with no variations from the bottom to the top.

Referring to defensive towers of the norman architecture with thick and massive walls, we designed a stereotomic architecture by “digging” the walls.

The inside is divided in two main spaces: one around the border and one in the center, respectively service space and served space. The first one contains stairs, furniture and toilets, while the second contains the home spaces where life takes place.

Politecnico di Milano BSc3 - Design Studio II - team work with Lorenza Teseo and Jiaqi Wang tutors: prof. Massimiliano Roca, prof. Immacolata Forino, prof. Francesco Lo Monte February 2019

Castello di Rapallo metà del XVI secolo Rapallo Torre Saracena di Levante Torre medievale XIII secolo Leivi Castello di Chiavari metà del XII secolo Chiavari Torre di Champorcher XI secolo Champorcher, Valle d’Aosta Torre de la Plantaz XII secolo Gressan, Valle d’Aosta Torre dei Doria Tower Restoration Castillo-Miras 2013 (restauro) Huercal Overa, Spagna Torre Borraco 1560/1570 Manduria, Puglia Casa Bianchi Mario Botta 1971/1973 Riva San Vitale, Svizzera Villa Garbald Miller & Maranta Mountain Cabin Marte Marte Architects 2011 Tower House Benjamin Waechter 2013 Portland, Stati Uniti Periscope Tower Oopea Architects 2016 Seinajoki, Finalandia SCALA 1:50000 STRATEGIA PROGETTUALE «Il castello scozzese. Muri molto, molto spessi. Poche aperture per il nemico. Aperto all’interno ai suoi occupanti. Un luogo per leggere, un luogo per cucire [...]. Luoghi per il letto, per la scala [...]. Luce solare. Una fiaba.» Louis I. Kahn - 1973 Annullamento della tripartizione Architettura stereotomica: una colonna scavata Il muro scavato come contenitore Le tecniche di Louis Kahn: raddoppiamento del muro e il risvolto del muro Volume intero interrotto da spazio diaframma Muro dentro muro Collage materico dello spazio diaframma e di accesso «Il castello Architettura stereotomica: una colonna scavata Il muro scavato come contenitore Le tecniche di Louis Kahn: raddoppiamento del muro e il risvolto del muro Affacci principali Muro dentro muro Torre di Punta Pagana seconda metà del XVI secolo San Michele di Pagana Castello di Chiavari metà del XII secolo Chiavari Torre di Champorcher XI secolo Champorcher, Valle d’Aosta Torre de la Plantaz XII secolo Gressan, Valle d’Aosta Torre dei Doria Tower Restoration Castillo-Miras 2013 (restauro) Huercal Overa, Spagna Torre del Borgo CN10 Architetti 2015 (restauro) Villa, Lombardia Torre Borraco 1560/1570 Manduria, Puglia Casa Bianchi Mario Botta 1971/1973 Riva San Vitale, Svizzera Villa Garbald Miller & Maranta Mountain Cabin Marte Marte Architects 2011 Tower House Benjamin Waechter 2013 Portland, Stati Uniti Periscope Tower Oopea Architects 2016 Seinajoki, Finalandia POLITECNICO DI MILANO ARCHITETTURA URBANISTICA INGEGNERIA DELLE COSTRUZIONI LABORATORIO DI PROGETTAZIONE ARCHITETTONICA II a.a. 2018/19 collaboratori: STRATEGIA PROGETTUALE 03 SCALA 1:100 «Il castello scozzese. Muri molto, molto spessi. Poche aperture per il nemico. Aperto all’interno ai suoi occupanti. Un luogo per leggere, un luogo per cucire [...]. Luoghi per il letto, per la scala [...]. Luce solare. Una fiaba.» Louis I. Kahn - 1973 Annullamento della tripartizione Architettura stereotomica: una colonna scavata Il muro scavato come contenitore Le tecniche di Louis Kahn: raddoppiamento del muro e il risvolto del muro Volume intero interrotto da spazio diaframma Muro dentro muro Collage materico dello spazio diaframma e di accesso STRATEGIA PROGETTUALE «Il castello scozzese. Muri molto, molto spessi. Poche aperture per Un luogo per leggere, un luogo per cucire [...]. Luoghi per Annullamento della tripartizione Architettura stereotomica: una colonna scavata Il muro scavato come contenitore Le tecniche di Louis Kahn: raddoppiamento del muro e il risvolto del muro Affacci principali Volume intero interrotto da spazio diaframma Muro dentro muro 13 taxonomy of towers formal concepts plan concept

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technical room

bathroom

bedroom

kitchen

entrance+living room

studio

terrace

roof

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- bedroom

- kitchen

- entrance + living room

- studio

1 - floor construction (hallway)

80mm impregnated cement and sand screed with underfloor heating

20mm expanded polystyrene sound-insulation

260mm reinforced concrete

30mm aerogel thermal insulation

2x15mm drywall panel

2 - exterior wall construction

250mm reinforced concrete vapour barrier

2x60mm extruded polystyrene thermal insulation

2x15mm drywall panel

3 - interior wall construction

10mm wood cladding panel

80mm thermal and sound-insulation

10mm wood cladding panel

4 - roof construction

100mm levelling screed 3% bitumen felt

2x80mm high density thermal insulation vapour barrier

260mm reinforced concrete

30mm aerogel thermal insulaton

2x15mm drywall panel

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Colonne di San Lorenzo, Milan

This project for an Archaeological Museum in Milan is situated in a narrow area right in front of the Colonne di San Lorenzo, alonside Corso di Porta Ticinese, a significant street of the city.

As first step, we started investigating the historical characteristics of the city of Milan, such as the main tracks and some recurring systems, and studying different approches towards historic heritage during the reconstruction of Milan after the second World War.

The building of the Museum aims to reconstitute the characteristic system of the “terraggio”, partially cancelled by the reckless buildings of the late twentieth century.

Moreover, the shape of the buildings which compose the project has been dictated both by the form of the site and by the morphology of the adjacent building standing on narrow and deep sites, according to the typical “lotto gotico”.

The irregular profile of the three indipendent buildings is interrupted by a fourth square element, located in the center of the site, which represents the melting pot of the project and, on a functional point of view, the main entrance and the connection between the other elements.

Politecnico di Milano BSc4 - Design Studio II - team work with Lorenza Teseo and Jiaqi Wang tutors: prof. Massimiliano Roca, prof. Immacolata Forino, prof. Francesco Lo Monte

June 2019

Roman track Medieval track Spanish track

Corso di Porta Ticinese

terraggio terraggio street historical analysis alzaia naviglio

1 - entrance hall 2 - book shop 3 - coat check 4 - ticket office 5 - cafè

1 - roof construction bitumen felt

250mm high density thermal insulation

165mm levelling screed 3%

400mm bidirectional concrete floor with u-boot beton 100mm false ceiling with gypsum board panels

2 - exterior wall construction

3mm corten steel panels

80mm rock wool thermal insulation 60mm prefabricated sandwich panel

240mm rock wool thermal insulation

vapour barrier

10mm OSB panel

80mm insulated technical false wall

3 - floor construction

230mm floating floor with fan-coil 50mm sound insulation

400mm bidirectional concrete floor with u-boot beton

100mm false ceiling with gypsum board panels

DELLE COSTRUZIONI ARCHITETTONICA II FOTOGRAFIE DEL MODELLO 14 ARCHITETTURA E LUOGO Progetto per un museo archeologico Milano | Corso di Porta Ticinese Andrea Fradegrada Flavio Vida Sandra Maglio Giovanni Munafò Simone Natoli Paola Renda Roberta D'Agrosa collaboratori: LORENZA TESEO 901624 JIAQI WANG 900835 GIANLUCA ZAVATARELLI 900957 MODELLO 1:100 DELLE COSTRUZIONI ARCHITETTONICA II FOTOGRAFIE DEL MODELLO 14 ARCHITETTURA E LUOGO Andrea Fradegrada collaboratori: MODELLO 1:100 DELLE COSTRUZIONI FOTOGRAFIE DEL MODELLO 14 MODELLO 1:100 21

Take a seat

Politecnico di Milano

BSc6 - Photography for Architecture - individual work tutor: prof. Giovanni Hänninen

Before the Covid-19 spread we were used to be part of a busy and chaotic environment, strongly influenced by our contemporary lifestyle.

During this difficult and complex long period of lockdown, we had to adjust our needs and to adapt our habits because, in order to stay safe, we have been forced to stay home.

Life during quarantine has been really challenging because almost nobody had ever experencied isolation before and we had to deal with unusual conditions.

First of all an unprecedented mental and physical perception of the flowing of time, sometimes stretched and sometimes shortened, it’s currently only dictated by our actions and movements while everything around us seems to be absolutely motionless.

Moreover, before the pandemic, since we were allowed to spend most of the time outside, we were used to exploit the home space in a very conventional and let’s say rigid way: every room had more or less its specific function and most of the activities were well divided inside the house. Nowadays, instead, the use of space has become more fluid and unconventional because for example we have mixed activities and spaces, bouncing all day from one seat to another.

This sequence of photos wants to convey the slowness of time, the seamless repetition of the daily routine, our ethereal and uncertain state of mind, hopeful waiting for better days.

In the meanwhile, take a seat and assist to the new normal.

June 2020