Portfolio. Leonardo Bin

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Curriculum vitae resumee

SOFTWARES

AutoCAD

Rhinoceros+V-Ray

Grasshopper

Adobe InDesign

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Premiere

LANGUAGES

Italian (native speaker)

English C1 (IELTS 7.0)

Spanish (basic)

Chinese (basic)

HOBBIES & INTERESTS

3D printing

Wood work

Hand drawing

Robotics

EDUCATION

2020-2023

South East University, Nanjing, China

2019-2023

Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

2021-2022

IaaC - 3DPA, Barcelona, Spain

2018

Bauclassroom, Treviso, Italy

2015-2018

IUAV University, Venice, Italy

2010-2015

High school, Conegliano, Italy

Master degree at South East University, Nanjing

Master degree at Politecnico di Milano, Milan - 110 cum Laude

Postgraduate program in 3D Printing Architecture at IaaC

Architectural Visualization Workshop

Bachelor’s degree at IUAV, Venice - 110/110

High school degree at Liceo scientifico G. Marconi

WORK AND EXPERIENCES

2023-on going

D+R archittettura, Conegliano, Italy

2022

IaaC, Barcelona, Spain

2020

DesignMorphine, Barcelona, Spain

2019

D+R archittettura, Conegliano, Italy

2018-2019

Studio RAP, Rotterdam, Netherlands

2018

APA Studio, London, UK

Architect at D+R architettura - current occupation

Internship at IaaC - six months traineeship

Robotic Inform workshop with DesignMorphine - three days workshop

Internship at D+R architettura - six months traineeship

Internship at Studio RAP - four months traineeship

Internship at Ashton Porter architects - four months traineeship

arch. Leonardo Bin

03. 3D PRINTED CHAIR

Individual project Design Morphine workshop 2020

04. HYPERLOOP CAMPUS

Team project YAC competition 2021

Master thesis project

Individual project

PoliMi, IaaC and Southeast university

2022-2023

Designer(s):

Leonardo Bin

Supervisors:

prof. Valentina Sumini (PoliMi)

prof. Bao Li (Southeast University)

TULOU 3D

My thesis project arises from the combination of a deep attraction towards Chinese vernacular architecture and a personal interest in the world of 3D printing in architecture.

The result is the reinterpretation of a typical Chinese vernacular building, the Tulou, through the use of a new technology: earth 3D printing. In addition to this, aiming to add a further challenge to the project, a delicate social issue that has been afflicting Chinese society for several years, the plague of left-behind children, was addressed. The new Tulou proposed by this project, in addition to revolutionising its ancient reference both in formal, spatial and dimensional terms, will also have a new function. From a macro-house designed to host and protect entire villages, it will become a co-living space thought to host the left-behind children of rural Chinese villages and the elderly who will be able to take care of them in a healthy and safe place.

Watch the video here!

SITE LOCATION

The Fujian Tulous are traditional vernacular architectures built in southern Fujian province between XIII and XX century. The etymology of the word (Tù «earth» and Lóu «multi-storey house»), gives us a hint about what essentially a Tulou is. With the term “Tulou”, indeed we can typically refer to collective dwellings built with rammed earth and wood.

Although the mass urbanization of the last 30 years has progressively pushed people towards major urban centres, emptying the small rural villages spread in the Chinese countryside, more than 3000 Tulous have nevertheless survived and, exactly as in the past centuries, many people still live and work inside them. The main victims of this phenomenon are children, who are very often left behind by their own parents, forced to seek better fortune in the city but unable to take their children with them for economic reasons.

CONSTRUCTION PROCESS

Xiamen

Zhangzhou

Longyan

Shuyang

Site location

BASEMENT CONSTRUCTION GROUND FLOOR 3D PRINTING SLAB STRUCTURE CONSTRUCTION

FIRST FLOOR 3D PRINTING

ROOF STRUCTURE CONSRUCTION FINISHING

LEGEND:

01. Earth 3D printed wall

02. Light mortar 10mm

03. Brick support base 20mm

04. Stone foundation footing

05. Water barrier 2mm

06. Polystyrene panel

07. Lean concrete sub-foundation 150mm

08. Terrain

10. Draining gravel

11. Bed of sand 20mm

12. Rough cut stone tiles

13. Wood profile 110x50mm

14. Wooden flooring slats 16x100mm

15. Double OSB panel 12+12mm

16. Cork thermo-acoustic insulation 110mm

17. Lightweight concrete screed 50mm

18. Concrete substrate with welded mesh 120mm

19. Crawl space with Igloo 450x450mm

20. Lean concrete base 100mm

21. Wood profile 100x50mm

22. Wood profile 150x50mm

23. Wooden finishing slats 12x100mm

24. Plaster ceiling finishing 15mm

25. Wood profile 20x20mm

26. Tiny OSB panel 12mm

27. Roof wooden truss 150x150mm

28. OSB board 12mm

29. Wood profile 100x100mm

30. Sewage plants

31. Wood profile 220x60mm

32. Wood pillar 200x150mm

33. Steel hot-rolled L profile 140x140mm

34. Secondary wood beam 200x100mm

35. Primary wood beam 300x150mm

36. Wooden tablet hosting the primary beam 40mm

37. Steel hot-rolled T profile 100x100mm

38. Wooden ceiling slats 24x150mm

39. Steel hot-rolled T profile 130x130mm

40. Wooden beam supporting the stair step 150x150mm

41. Wooden secondary beam of the stair step 50x50mm

42. Step’s wooden slats 30x100mm

43. Steel hot-rolled L profile 80x80mm

44. Steel plate connecting the primary beams 300x250mm

45. Rain water drainage channel 250x220mm

46. Concrete substrate 260mm

47. Terrain holder element

48. Courtyard terrain

49. Double glass panel 10+10mm

50. Fixing dowel with stud

PROTOTYPING

PROTOTYPE A_01: FLAT OPENING PROTOTYPE A_02: BENT OPENING

The deformation of the wall happens whitin the wall axis, generating a ‘‘curtain shaped’’ opening.

Printer used: ABB IRB 1100

Scale of the prototype: 1:10

Print time: about 6.00h

Here the wall deforms iteself ouside its axis, bending over it towards the inside or the axis and orienting the opening as needed.

Printer used: ABB IRB 1100

Scale of the prototype: 1:20

Print time: about 4.00h

PROTOTYPE A_03: TWISTING WALL PROTOTYPE B_02: TRUSS CONNECTION

The openings of this prototipe are generated by a gradual transition from a certain orientation of the wall (rotated) to another (alligned).

Printer used: ABB IRB 1100

Scale of the prototype: 1:20

Print time: about 4.00h

This prototype is the terminal portion of the wall of the building used to support the roof trusses. It deforms and opens both inwards and outwards to support the truss elements.

Printer used: KUKA KR 470-2 PA

Scale of the prototype: 1:2

Print time: about 3.5h

TOVA

IaaC 3DPA program Team project (realized)

IaaC 2022

Designer(s):

Adel Alatassi, Aslinur Taskin, Charles Musyoki, Deena El-Mahdy, Eugene Marais, Hendrik Benz, Juliana Rodriguez Torres, Leonardo Bin, Mariam Arwa, Al-Hachami, Marwa Abdelrahim, Mehdi Harrak, Michelle Bezik, Michelle Antonietta Isoldi Campinho, Mouad Laalou, Nareh, Khaloian Sarnaghi, Nawaal Saksouk, Orestis Pavlidis and Seni Boni Dara.

Supervisors:

TOVA 3D is the first building made with earth and a 3D printer in Spain, a project born from the ongoing research conducted by IAAC Postgraduate program 3DPA to find new ways of facing the social and environmental challenges of the future through advanced construction technologies, such as 3D printing, sustainable materials and computational design.

www.xelplus.com

Edouard Cabay, Alexandre Dubor, Ashkan Foroughi, Eduardo Chamorro Martin, Francesco Polvi, Bruno Ganem Coutinho, Marielena Papandreou and David Skaroupka.

https://shorturl.at/gBJP2 Tulou3D video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17K4KwTJtC8&t=2s Tova video

The construction has been carried out at the Valldaura Labs facilities, on the outskirts of Barcelona. It is a prototype that represents the bridge between the past — vernacular earthen architecture — and the future — large scale 3D printing technology — which will not only serve to change the architecture of the future, but will also be very useful when facing the current climate and housing crisis across the globe. It is the first building of this type in Spain and stands out for being one of the most sustainable and environmentally friendly construction forms that can be applied today.

https://iaac.net/project/3dpa-prototype-2022/ Tova article https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DitE_e3VDMk

More info here! Watch the video here!

THE DESIGN

The design of the building takes into account the climatic conditions of the Mediterranean: the volume is compact to protect from the cold in winter, but expandable during the other three seasons of the year, allowing the use of the immediate outdoor surroundings. The walls are made up of a network of cavities that contain airflow and allow great insulation to prevent heat loss in winter and protect from solar radiation in summer.

It is a near-zero emissions project: its shell and the use of an entirely local material allow the reduction of waste, making it a pioneering example of low-carbon building, given that current construction methods are responsible for 36 % of CO2 emissions.

The possible applications of this construction model are endless; from homes, to public spaces, interiors and exteriors. In combination with other construction systems, it can accommodate complex and innovative buildings that would reduce the environmental impact that construction currently entails.

THE PROCESS

01_CRANE ASSEMBLATION

The 3D printer used for the construction of the prototype, the Crane WASP, is a modular system made of three steel trusses (expandible) joint together on the top. One of the axis bears the extruder, a horizontal arm with a maximum radius of 3 meters.

DRY MIX: WET MIX:

EARTH - 85%

CLAY - 15%

FIBERS - 0.1%

03_MATERIAL PREPARATION

The main material used for the construction of the prototype is local earth, which was sourced within a 50 meter radius from the site. The earth was therefore sifted using a a rolling machine able to remove all the impurities such as stones and branches.

WATER - 16%

ENZIMES - 0.03%

04_MATERIAL MIXTURE

05_PRINTING

Once the material is ready, it is pushed to the extruder through the WASP pump and therefore 3D printed. The average production was within 10-12 layers per day, with a layer height of 2 cm, making it possible to complete the print in about four weeks.

06_WALLS WATERPROOFING

With the walls fully printed and sufficiently dried, the external the surface has been made waterproof using a coating mado of raw extracted materials such as aloe and egg whites, in order to protect the building from the rain water.

08_FINISHING

The finishing works include: the ceiling realization, the insulation of the building, the wooden wall of the Eastern faced (fabricated on site), the electrical system of the lighting and the floor realization, made of a mixture of earth, sand, water and straw.

07_WOOD STRUCTURE

The wood structure of the roof is totally integrated in the 3D printed wall, which means that the loads of the roof are transfered by the structure to the structural earthen walls. The structure, fabricated on site, could be assembled only once the walls were dry.

PLYWOOD ROOF

WOODEN TRUSS KEY

PLYWOOD CEILING FOLDAWAY

LOAD BEARING WEST WALL

3D PRINTED LIGHT-FILTRATION SOUTH WALL

PRINTING PROCESS LAYERS PER DAY

VENTILATION SYSTEM

ENTRY FACADE

3D PRINTED EAST WALL

ROOF TRUSS-WALL DETAIL

3D PRINTED VENTILATION CAVITY

PRINTING RADIUS: 3m

GABION FOUNDATION

GEOPOLYMER BEAM

FLOOR SYSTEM

CASTED GEOPOLYMERS FOUNDATION BASE

GEOPOLYMERS SUBSTRATE

BENCH

Design Morphine workshop

Individual project

Design Morphine

2020

Designer(s):

Leonardo Bin

Supervisors:

Kunaljit Chadha, Eduardo

Chamorro Martin

3D PRINTED CHAIR

In recent times industrial robots have been adapted to the architectural world and the design environment in now open to completely new possibilities, both involving the architectural aesthetic output, but also different design approaches, new ways of thinking to the project and more possibilities of using materials.

The workshop ‘‘Robotic Inform’’, promoted by Design Morphine, had the objective to open our mind on these new themes and to give us a very first contact to the numerically informed design through the computation. The use of digital and robotic computation indeed, gives us the possibility to explore innovative geometric languages, a functional integration and new and smart design methodologies able to exploit in the best way these technologies. The workshop gave us the possibilitiy to digitally design and produce our personal 3D printed chair through a generative algorithm able to create the organic profile of the chair.

GENERATIVE ALGORITHM

THE PROCESS:

BORDER DEFINITION

DESIGN_01

DESIGN_02

DESIGN_03

RANDOM FORCES ARE APPLIED

SECTION DEFINITION

FINAL RESULT

CHOSEN DESIGN

After the three days workshop, one prototypes was printed in scale 1:2 using a robotic arm. Once the 3D model was finished, the G-CODE was exported, sent to the robot that was previously set up properly. Two colours have been used: the first and the last three layers are coloured in blue, meanwhile the central body of the chair is in transparent-white, a design choice made to highlight the curvy layout created by the generative algorithm. The final result was incredibly resistant: even if it was half-dimensioned (scale 1:2), it was possible to sit without breaking it, highlighting the great potentialities of this technology applied on the design world.

Printer used: KUKA KR 470-2 PA

Print time: about 50 min.

Total amount of layers: 148

Scale: 1:2

Material used: Plastic (PLA)

YAC competition Team project 2021

Designer(s): Leonardo Bin, Mattia Grigolato, Natalia Estevez, Lorena Rodriguez

Competition jury: Ben van Berkel, Winy Maas, Kazuyo Sejima, Hasan Çalışlar, Nicola Scaranaro, Paolo Cresci, Fedele Canosa, Linna Choi and Chad Oppenheim.

HYPERLOOP CAMPUS

Las Vegas represents in the collective imagination a mirage, a living oasis in one of the most desolate and in some ways most inhospitable places on the planet. Cold and quiet during the day, alive and frantic at night. The Hyperloop Desert Campus will give form and solidity to the mirage itself and will bring to life that same hallucination, so familiar to those who venture into the Mojave Desert.

Like every revolutionary idea, the construction of the Hyperloop has been welcomed with great interest and enthusiasm, for this reason the task of this architecture will be to nourish in the user that sense of astonishment and wonder, of challenge to what is conventionally recognized as impossible. What is the Hyperloop, if not the attempt to challenge one of the fundamental laws of physics, the gravitational law, through electromagnetic gravitation? In the same way, the Campus will result to float between the dunes, forming under it an underworld where the greatest inventions of science will be implemented.

OFFICES

RELAX AND FITNESS AREA

FLEXIBLE DISCUSSION OFFICES

HABITABLE STAIR SPACE CAFE

MUSEUM

MUSEUM CORE -FUTURE OF TRANSPORTATION

MUSEUM ENTRANCE TRANSPORTATION HISTORY

HALL RECEPTION

GRID STRUCTURE

WALKABLE PATH

GYM

GYM POOL

APARTMENTS

WATER ABSORTION GREEN HOUSE

TWO APARTMENTS PER FLOOR

RELAX AREA

LABORATORY

HYPERLOOP TUBE

RESTAURANT ARENA

CHILL AREA

TRAINING CENTER

Flexible laboratory 10 - rooms

Center for model training

TECHNOLOGICAL UNDERGROUND

HYDROPONICS GREEN MOUNTAINS

ACCESS BRIDGE

UNDERGROUND PARKING

MIRAGE

As well as Las Vegas, the Desert Campus has a dual nature. On the surface, the roof of the building camouflages itself with the dunes of the desert and is surrounded by Xeriscaping, but under the veil of water you will come across a real temple of science.

Holograms take the place of physical models, digital floors allow the reconfigurability of the space, interactive glass installed on movable partitions walls replace blackboards and water becomes an architectural element itself. Moreover, under the building, the hydroponic farm contributes to the self sufficiency of the Campus. The layer of water that covers it, will form a closed cycle: used minimally for the hydroponic farm, the energy produced by its fall will be transformed into electricity. This strategy will also allow the energy sustenance of the Campus community, which lives in earth 3D printed houses, built from the soil obtained from the excavation.

MIRRAGE EFFECT ON SITE

COMPOSITION

COMMON

RESTAURANT/ARENA (DOWNSTAIRS)

CHILL

TRAINING

WORKERS VISITORS

PUBLIC PARKING HOUSES STAIRS LANDSCAPE STAIRS STAFF PARKING MAIN ENTRANCE ELEVATORS - SERVICES

MUSEUM OFFICES ARENA APARTMENTS GYM

TRAINING CENTER CHILL AREA RESTAURANT LABORATORIES

STRUCTURAL GRID GLASS ROOF BIPV

EARTH 3D PRINTED HOUSES

COMMON TERRACE

DOUBLE BEDROOM APARTMENT

CENTRAL CORE

SINGLE BEDROOM APARTMENT

COMMON TERRACE

APARTMENTS

COMMON GREENHOUSE ENTRANCE/BASEMENT

WATER COLLECTION

CENTRAL CORE

APARTMENTS

Once the escavation process is over, the crane 3D printer can be installed at the center of the building site. The printer radius is 6 m.

The eath that was previously escavated is now used for the 3D print of the load bearing walls of the staff’s houses.

Once the 3D print is completed, the printer can be easily disassembled and moved to the next printing site.

The finishing works include the slab construction, the central staircaise, the doors, windows and forniture installation.