Lorenzo Fante | Architecture Portfolio 2020

Lorenzo Fante

architecture portfolio Selected works 2017-2020

contents about curriculum vitae academical works: tsukuda. living with water walking on the traces taking shape transitional morphologies framing landscapes building intimacy beyond the university dorm research: the other rooms

This portfolio includes selected works, individual and in team, from the years 2017-2020.

I am a young architect, having obtained my master degree in September 2019, after exchange and research experiences at UniversitĂŠ Libre de Bruxelles and The University of Tokyo.

I am currently especially, but not only, interested in looking at the project with a transcalar approach, from the urban to the smaller one of detail and material scale, and to the urban role of industry, production and infrastructures in the city.

I consider myself a passionate, motivated and adaptable person, used to working in groups, mainly international ones.

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contact Lorenzo Fante

date of birth: 26/02/1995 email: lorenzo.fante995@gmail.com phone: +39 334 877 2715 Linkedin: Lorenzo Fante Instagram: thischarmingloz

curriculum vitae

professional experiences Nov. 2019 - Mar. 2020

Junior architect, Deamicisarchitetti NTT Data offices / Rome, Naples, Milan / concept design, detail design, furniture design Milan, Italy Mar. 2017-Jul. 2017

Intern, Negozio Blu Architetti Associati Green Pea / Torino / technical and executive drawings Torino, Italy Jul. 2016-Mar. 2017

Freelance collaborator, surveyor Elisabetta Pollono.

Biella, Italy Mar. 2016

Assistant for Labics studio, ArchMarathon 2016.

Milan, Italy June-Oct. 2013

Intern and independent collaborator, UNIDEE 2013, Fondazione Pistoletto Biella, Italy

education Sept. 2020

Architectural license Sept. 2017_ Sept. 2019

Master Degree “Architecture, Construction, City�, 110 cum laude and merits Politecnico di Torino Oct. 2014-Jul. 2017

Bachelor Degree in Architecture, Politecnico di Torino July 2014

High school degree Liceo Classico G. e Q. Sella, Biella

skills Autodesk Suite: Autocad, Revit, 3dsMax Adobe Suite: Indesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Premiere, After Effects 3d modelling and rendering: Sketchup, Rhino, Vray Light calculations: Dialux Others: Office Suite, Microsoft Project Drawing, sketching, modelling

workshops and exchanges September 2019

Summer School “Revisiting the Flemish Modern Project: Social Housing” with KU Leuven, Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Chile, Polytechnische Universitat Wien Gent, Belgium

languages Italian: Mothertongue English: Fluent (C1 Level First Certification) French: Medium (B2 certification)

mentions and publications

March 2019-June 2019

Thesis research, The University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan

Edo-Tokyo, Challenging the Urban Fabric.

Hosei University Research Center for Edo-Tokyo Studies, August 2019

September 2018_ January 2019

Exchange Student for the Erasmus+ Program, Université Libre de Bruxelles

Finalist Project YAC Kid’s Factory competition, January 2019

Bruxelles, Belgium July 2018

Joint workshop “Challenging the Urban Fabric: Rethinking Urban Interfaces in Tokyo” with Hosei University and SCI-Arc Tokyo, Japan October 2017

Workshop “Occasioni di dialogo” Turin, Italy September 2017

Summer School “Beyond The University Dorm” with Hosei University

Occasioni di Dialogo. Progetto di Recupero Urbano a Vinovo: La Piccola Casa della Divina Provvidenza.

Cristina Coscia, Silvia Gron, Emanuele Morezzi, WriteUp Site, September 2018

Milan, 10.02.2020

REFERENCE LETTER

The undersigned Giacomo De Amicis, as the owner of the studio deamicisarchitetti, located in via Pietrasanta 12, Milan, attests that Lorenzo Fante has collaborated at his studio for three months from November 2019.

During the several weeks of work Lorenzo has actively participated in the executive project of redefinition of the office spaces of an important Japanese multinational with offices in Italy and around the world.

Lorenzo was responsible for the composition of the layouts of the Milan, Rome and Naples offices, devoting himself to the coordination between the architectural project and the specialist designs of the systems and furniture.

The three months of experience at deamicisarchitetti have allowed Lorenzo to confront himself with several aspects of the normal professional practice. Lorenzo has been able to demonstrate adaptability and diversified work skills by giving a true support for the activity of the study, and has proven to have a great capacity for learning and interest in architecture.

As far as I have been able to see in recent months Lorenzo has proven to be a conscientious person of great responsibility and seriousness.

arch. Giacomo De Amicis I authorize the processing of data in accordance with Legislative Decree no. 196 of 2003 and subsequent amendments.

tsukuda. living with water a scenario for Tokyo’s dense neighbourhoods Master Thesis | 2019 advisors: Alessandro Mazzotta, Claudia Cassatella (Politecnico di Torino) Akiko Iida (The University of Tokyo) The water-sensitive approach, which sees runoff and wastewater not as a problem for the urban environment, but as a environmental and social resource, is gaining strength in the Western practice.

Stormwater management strategies have now become also a formal opportunity: the blue-green infrastructures. How to integrate them in a completely different setting, the Japanese one, still reliant on grey and centralized infrastructures?

The project explores the possibilities of these strategies in the neighbourhood of Tsukuda, Tokyo, characterized by traditional dense housing and small alleys. To this purpose, a multi-scale approach was adopted: first research and study, then elaboration of a large scale masterplan for Tsukuda and another neighbourhood, Kugayama, in order to experiment the possibilities of different urban morphologies, for which several scenarios were envisioned.

Lastly, an architectural project was developed for the area of Tsukuda-3 chome. The Water Purification Plant becomes a new centrality for the neighbourhood, with the addition of a wing with social and educational purposes; the open space, at the moment underused, becomes formally and functionally defined by watersensitive technologies: a series of small scale interventions in the dense residential blocks adapts in dimension and uses to the domestic life and informal uses of the nagayas of Tsukuda.

Areas with some flood risk Areas at high flood risk High density residential

Central Role of Water Reclamation Center

Connection And Barrier Removal

Education And Information

A System of Small Scale Infrastructures

Open Space Requalification

Gradual Building Renewal

the public space: this is our place The infrastructural complex of the Water Reclamation Center becomes a centrality for Tsukuda, with the addiction of a community center and the architectural, material and functional definition of the square, via the use of watersensitive infrastructures.

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the alleys: domestic mosaics The variety of uses of the traditional alleys, a real extension of the house in the Japanese tradition, is reflected in the smal scale infrastructures, adapted to each property and open to the gradual building renewal of the buildings.

walking on the traces a post-industrial promenade on the Ourthe river Atelier TATTOO, Université Libre de Bruxelles 2018 -2019 professors: Ines Camacho, Hubert Lionnez Sitôt qu’on le touche, il résonne The site, les Carrières de Montfort, once one of Belgium’s biggest stone extraction quarries, is out of activity since 1972, and has since been reclaimed by nature, leading to a booming biodiversity and to the institution of the area as Valuable Natural Patrimony in 1991.

The nearby village, Poulseur, is one of the villages of the Ourthe valley, Wallonie: once popular tourist destinations, the towns of the area have been slowly forgotten in the last decades, and are currently trying to become hosts of a different, slower tourism, based on landscape, nature and well being.

With a series of small architectural installations, the project, a river promenade along the preexisting mining path, aims to enable the visitors to read the landscape in its layers: the surrounding hills, the variety of vegetation, the traces of the industrial past, the presence of water, which acts as a border and as a driving feature of the promenade. Each small building is located in a significative point of the path: a small viewpoint pavilion at its beginning; a suspended bridge, which touches the pillars of the previous, demolished one; an observation deck in one of the old rock discharge stairs; a floating pavilion for sunbathing and get in contact with the water.

The interventions, meant to be light and minimal, try to connect subtly with the surrounding elements, through small adding gestures.

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taking shape a centre for childhood in an abandoned factory Yac Competition, Finalist Project 2018

What is to do with the industrial heritage today, especially the mid-century, less aesthetically characterized one?

What spaces can a child use and how can they be rethought?

The project for Laveno Mombello, near Varese, Lombardy, tries to tackle this questions, by inserting new volumes and new uses in the existing buildings, which were previously a ceramic factory. To each volume its use: every shape and every morphology corresponds to a function.

In this way, the camping becomes a small village of coloured houses disposed on a grid; the main functions of the “children’s factory” are located in the core of the factory, with sport fields, play music and music rooms, inner gardens and sensory paths.

The schools, required by the brief, take place in the eloganted, multistory building on the left. The huge surface of the central area, which once hosted the sheds of the surrounding buildings, is now a “free space”, a large area, with different heights and installations, for playing and discovering.

Colour is fondamental in the proposed scheme. The primary shapes, which host laboratories, music spaces, workshops and classes are also identified by primary colours; the laboratories, on the roof of the schools, are simple cylindrical volumes, each with its own shade of colour.

The children and adults can freely move into and between this shapes, freely arranged into the previously rigid grid, allowing the maximum of flexibility.

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media, play, lessons

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BOUNDARIES

historical buildings historical buildings plug-in LANDMARKS AND AXES

offices and student residences public buildings cohousing and workshops housing typology 1 (2 families, 1 shop) housing typology 2 (2 families, 2 shops)

WALL AND RIVERFRONT

housing typology 3 (1 family, 1 shop) agricultural production and distribution green areas

transitional morphologies between old and new in Pukou, Nanjing Design Unit “Architecture and Urban Economics” 2018 professors: Marco Trisciuoglio, Patrizia Lombardi, Luigi Buzzacchi

The design unit focused on the current problems whic are being faced by the traditional Chinese settlements. To one part, replacement with a much denser, modernist-like urban fabric, devoid of individuality and urban quality; to the other, the substituition of vernacular architecture with modern replicas, meant to attract wealthy residents and tourists in a nostalgic simulation of the past. The aim was to find a third way to approach these issues, between conservation and contemporary architecture, by the use of reinterpreted traditional typologies.

The intervention, set in Pukou, near Nanjing, relies on the use of the existing streets, the main public space in Chinese culture, as backbones on which to establish the internal fabric and relationships of the built area. Boundaries where another key aspect in the project. Pukou is surrounded on three sides by highways, and from the other by a small river. The approach was of opening and contact with the river, by a long, commercialresidential waterfront ; and from defense and closure from the highly trafficked highways, by using a “wall”: a traditional element in ancient Chinese cities, in the project it is intended as a defense from the noise and the chaos of the arteries, enclosing the residential, pedestrian inner part. Eight different building typologies, all variations on the courtyard house model, were elaborated, with different formal elements and functions.

framing landscapes a cultural centre for Atalaia Magra Site Cultural Centre Competition 2018

Enclosing views and spaces.

The project for the medieval tower of Atalaia Magra follows a subtle approach to the themes of the landscape and of the existing building. The leading idea is to add value to what is already present by small, recognisable interventions on the visible elements -the tower, the hill, the path- and to excavate into the ground in order to obtain new spaces to observe and experience Atalaia Magra.

A new outdoor path, which leads to the top of the hill, has been added in order to gain a more comfortable access to the tower.

The interventions on the tower itself are limited to the external stairs and to new walls on the ruined parts, in order to frame the views of the landscape and to enhance the safety for the visitors.

The cultural centre, composed by a succession of open and closed spaces, is visible from outside as a simple succession of terraces, a common feature in agricultural hilly landscapes, with a warm, light brown colour, as the one of the local soil and dry grass.

The visitor can “disappear� under the hill, circling around the tower while getting to learn about its history and looking at it from new and unexpected ways, multiplicating the possibilites of the experience, from the inner courtyard and the skylights, which enable the illumination of the circular path.

On two of the four corners, terraced viewpoints have been added, in order to offer other windows to the hilly and tranquil landscape of Alentejo.

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building intimacy redesigning L.I. Kahn’s dominican motherhouse Design Studio “Architecture and Structural Forms” 2017-2018 professors: Michela Barosio, Francesco Tondolo The project originates from the analysis and the following redesign of a monastery designed in its first phases, but never built, by Louis E. Kahn in the second half of the Sixties.

From the rigid and complex sequence in the original plans, we decided to go through a process of semplification of the architectural spaces, while mantaining the strong link between aesthetics and costructive elements which was one of the core points of Kahn’s design.

Topography and environment surrounding the monastery become a driving feature of the redesign. The dormitory, from an orthogonal building, becomes an irregular one, separated by the central buildings by a change in height, which permits both separation and privacy for the nuns’ cells, which all look to the forest outside of the complex, and an intimate, quiet atmosphere in the central core.

This central core hosts the more “public” functions of the monastery, such as the entrance and office building, the library and school, the common refectory with its kitchens, and the church, hearth of the monastery. The morphology and openings of the buildings change following their destinations: secluded and with a sequence of small spaces in the dormitory, open and full of light in the public buildings. site: Media, Pennsylvania, USA team: Lorenzo Fante, Jobsan Gonzalez

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terraces, student and tourist rooms, coworking space

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gym and student services reception public square and inner courtyard

beyond the university dorm a new kind of student residence Summer School - September 2017 professors: Lorena Alessio, Makoto Watanabe, Enrico Moncalvo, Haruka Kuryu An innovative kind of university dorm in the city centre of Turin, in Piazzale Amelia Piccinini, a block which suffered the consequences of lack of a unitary project and vision.

Given the city council rules and of the special context, we started from the analysis of axes and connections, choosing a regular courtyard typology, which we then proceeded to extrude, twist and modify. The result was an evolution and a crossing of the traditional typologies of the courtyard house and of the “casa a ballatoio”, one of the most common typologies of the historical Turin. In fact, while mantaining a inner larger courtyard, we also introduced an internal void, which permits the passage of air and light and a lively social interaction at the same time, while mantaining a protected environment for the students.

The rooms themselves, divided in four main typologies, are organized following “Mukōsangenryōdonari” a Japanese principle which states that a good neighbourhood is composed by six neighbouring homes.

Following this principle, we chose to have a common room every six rooms, and bigger common spaces (two per floor) in order to accomodate the different layers of social connections of the building.

The residence is not only limited to students: the rooms at occurence can be rented to temporary residents and tourists, opening the structure to a variety of users. team: Lorenzo Fante, Keito Kubota, Sofia Sakr Nassef

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the other rooms production as a resource for the contemporary city Personal research 2020-ongoing

Turin is struggling since the Eighties with the loss of one of its defining elements of the XXth century, FIAT’s car industry and its connected productive ecosystem, which made it a true company town unlike other Italian industrial cities.

A series of interventions and large-scale events, such as the moving of the railway tracks underground, the Olympics, the construction of a metro line, the requalification of historical buildings have all contributed to a change in the perception of Turin from a grey, decaying industrial center to an interesting and lively cultural destination.

While this transformation has been successful for the city center, several of the semi-periferal areas are still suffering an identity crisis, given the loss of their small-scale productive uses; the urban renewal projects of the last years often try to transform and functionally assimilate them to the center, the “living room� and turistic beacon of the city.

The proposal is intended to go in a different direction, bringing back production and manufacturing in the city, especially in their contemporary, more dimensionally contained and sustainable forms. This new forms of industry can lead to an hybrid, functionally and aesthetically contemporary type of block and image of the city, much more than a half-forgotten, lesser version of the central neighbourhoods.

THE MIXED BLOCKS AS A HYBRID TIPOLOGY

Via Bologna

Via Chambéry

Via Monterosa

Via Oleggio

Via Bologna/2

Via Piero Capponi

Via Chambéry/2

Via Gradisca

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Via Piero Cossa

Via Noasca

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1960 The City of Production

HOUSING STORAGE OFFICES

WORKSHOP COMMERCIAL

PRODUCTION WORKSHOP MECHANICS OFFICES TEXTILES

Small and largescale industrial WORKSHOP and productive activities coexist in COMMERCIAL HOUSING the same blocks and neighbourhoods with housing; growing and spacially fixed population.

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2020 The City of Tourism

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The industry has moved from the city, leaving large areas HOUSING VACANT unused. The centre has been requalified, WORKSHOP while the outer and semi-central areas COMMERCIAL continue to decline.

Shrinking and HOUSING relatively mobile population.

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2040 The City of Making

HOUSING STUDENT HOUSING CIVIC CENTRE COMMERCIAL

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Small-scale productive activities are mixed HYDROPONICS with the housing HOUSING fabric.

Rather than ASSEMBLAGE becoming similar WORKSHOP to the historical HYDROGEN ROBOTICS DISTRIBUTION city, the outer ATELIERS HOUSING neighbourhoods have CLINIC distinct functional and architectural identities.

Stable to growing, HOUSING mobile population.