Massimiliano boselli_SCI-arc_Architecture_portfolio

MASSIMILIANO BOSELLI PORTFOLIO 2015_2016 PP

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Massmiliano Boselli Southern California Institute of Architecture Los Angeles, CA 2015-2016

B-Arch bosellimassimiliano@gmail.com (424)2130438

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CONTENT

1B DESIGN STUDIO............................................................... 2 _Formal analaysis of a historical precedent _Project: LACA _Binary conditions historical precedent

1A DESIGN STUDIO............................................................... 32 _Constructing seeing the ideal _Geometric manipulation 1 _Geometric manipulation 2

VISUAL STUDIES Fabrications and delineations.................................... 50 _Unit 1 _Hybrid Form _Unit 2

HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE.......................................... 68 _Gothic Period<Drawing> _Essay : “Ersatz or Inspired”

VISUAL RETHORICS.................................... ............................75

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1B DESIGN STUDIO Project 1 Instructor: John Southern Spring 2016

Formal analysis of a Historical precendent Construct the assigned plan through a series of carefully calibrated drawings (10) that allign its programmatic, structural and formal ordering system. Emphasis will be placed on conceptualizing the precedentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s formal organization through clearly measured and annotated regulating grids and lines.

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Building:nIKMZ BTU Cottbus Library, Brandemburguniversity of technology.

Architect(s) Herzog & Meuron Date:2001-2004 Location: Cottbus, Ger

The reading of the building is based on the hierarchy of three regulating system

1.The orthagonal grid define the po-

sition of the columns and determine in which axes the columns are going to move.

2.The

circular grid define the

panelization of the glass-skin that revolve around the building.

3.The

golden ratio define the orien-

tation and size of the circles that are responsible for shaping the bulding.

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Based on 1,2,3 the choice of the parent figure take form by an

alternance

of the different

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regulating system.

ABSTRACTION

Once the circles are defined the building is created on the extrusion of them.

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The process in which I started to percive the parent figure follow the same geometrical purpose of my precendent building.The only difference is that the extrusion develop in a perpendicular axes.Doing so the extrusion is percived by the section.

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A machine that generate iterations.

The geometry extracted by the analysis provide a center of the parent figure.

The center is foundamnetal to orient the primitive shape inside the â&#x20AC;&#x153;machineâ&#x20AC;?.

Each circle is the base of a cone that has the function of subtracting mass from the primitive figure.

The with edges and midpoints regulate the

cube

orientation of the cones.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;THE AMBIVALENT OBJECTâ&#x20AC;?

The machine not only permit to create different iterations, but also allows the manteinece of some geometric charachteristic of the parent figure. In fact, these pictures are showing how the figure can change his identity and at the same time reflecting the morphologic characteristic of the primite thought the shadow.

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The Choice and the translation to frame

Grid system (1), Top view

For this part of the assignment are created two different frames. In the case (1),the grid is generated by a pure translation of the existing orthagonal grid in the section. The different levels are connected by an alternance in one with the other, mantaining always the same proportion of the original .Scale: (1:1 - 1:2- 1:4 )

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Grid system (2), Top view

The second grid system is composed by the interaction of a circular grid and an orthagonal grid .In this way , the interior space abandons the unitary condition, generating two identity in the same form.

Stick Model,Grid system (2)

Vertical development.

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Project: LACA The first half of the semester and the three consecutive project were aimed to develop a certain set of skill and research that leads into the final project.

The LACA Center is a building aimed to archive and exibith architectural artifacts and works of local architects. A space for research and study, the archives are not accessible at all times. As for the public spaces, there are temporary exibithions in the different galleries as well as lectures in the lecture hall. In addition, programs such as a cafe and a book store are also avalable for the public(1). <DS101: 1B Design Studio>

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The Pattern

The shape that has been choose from the study of the iteration present interesting geometrical qualities.For example, by connecting a shape where re the 90 degrees edges is generated a module,composed by a pair. Multiplying and connecting following the same process is generated a pattern that potentially extend to .

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The figure ground diagram is obtained by a zoom-in of a region of the pattern.

The bounding box delineate the portion of pattern that more interested me.

Plan pattern

Section pattern

The area in consideraion provide the presence of four major shapes each of them represent a portion of the figure,this imply negative space in between.

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Frame , wood . Figure museumboard

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Figure Ground, Public and private space, Axonometric drawing

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Frame Fig.1

Frame Fig.3

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Frame Fig.2 Frame Fig.4

Each of the figure contribute to generate the core of the construction geometry, every shape brings one circle. The connection between the origin of the circles generate a parallelogram in which the intersection of the diagonals provide a point that serves in two different ways: 1.Divide the program in

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A(public), B(private) 2. Identify the area in which the circulation of the building is going to develop.

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FIGURE GROUND Experimenting different orientation and combinations of shapes applying the same relation between public and private spaces.

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Sectional study models,museumboard

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RELATION BETWEEN SECTION AND PLAN

The geometry existing in section rotate 90 degrees and by projection become part of the plan. Depending on the case the construction geometry operates in two different ways:

1- In the case of the section, the circles served in order to generate a space in between interior and ex-

terior. Adding mass to the pocheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

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plan

In the case of the the circles subtract mass from the floorslabs adjusting the shape of them.

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Sectional model, museum board

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Each emisphere reflect the existance of a primary shape. In the private space the shape is considered as an aoutnomus valume that spatially behave in a different way from the rest of the circulation. The space is designated to serve archive and storage areas including access from the office and every floor of the building.In the public space the figure express functionality for the exhibitions spaces bringing lights from the outside.

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Archive space, museum board.

idividual

The archive has been constructed as an component, as the floorslabs and lecture hall. The different parts are between each other. The final model has been constructed in this way percivieng each components as an aoutomuns form.

interlocked

3D print

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HISTORICAL PRECEDENT BUILDING BYNARY CONDITIONS

PLAN

SECTION

Open Closed

Fast Slow

Public Private

Eccentric Regular

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Southern California Institute ofA rchitecture Design Studio 1B | DS1011 | Spring 2016 Instructors: Henry, Kassis, Matatyaou, Southern

Precedent Research MassimilianoBoselli

2/16/2016

Precedent Building: IKMZ BTU Cottbus Library (Brandenburg University of technology) Architect(s): Herzog & Meuron Date: 2001-2004 Location: Cottbus, GER • •

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The final structure, according to the Architect Herzog would become a part of the city, trying to creat a new identity of the university.

The ameba shaped building seems to exist without a specific order nor rigor, but in reality the building is constrained and regulated by a very strict set of rules that are present in many aspect of the building including: o Perimeter of the shape o Division of the interior space o Facade o Rooms o Stairs and connection between floors The building is based on many contrast that provide a mysterious side of the building. In my opinion,the biggest contrast stands in the aggregation of circles. Both the external four circles and t internal ones seem to have an attraction towards a center point.

Another contrast is how the one’s perception of the building changes from different angles. The different points of view permit a complete different perception of the overall shape. For example, fro a long distance it is presented as a huge volume that reflects monumentality and importance. From a mid range the building acts as a representative of the physic contents of the library. From a close view the abstract pattern that is shown on the glass-skin is arranged to resemble the surrounding environment.

I based my reading on the particularity, and more specify the orthogonal grid. For example the grid presents some impurity in which the columns are moved from the point of contact between horizonta

-CF. Herzog & de Meuron IKZM BTU COTTBUS, 1994, 1999-2004 - Marc Auge’: Orte und Nicht-Orte, Voruberlengungen Zu Einer Ethnologie der Einsmkeit.

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Precedent Analysis Massimiliano Boselli

2/16/2016

Precedent Building: IKMZ BTU Cottbus Library (Brandenburg University of technology) Architect(s): Herzog & Meuron Date: 2001-2004 Location: Cottbus, GER •

What determines the position of the circles?

• The circles are arranged in correlation with the golden ratio, in which the spiral that intersect with the orthogonal grid shows the center points.

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What determines the position of the columns and why are some of them misplaced?

• The building is generated by two grids: one orthogonal and one circular. The cooperation -be tween them provide points of contact in which the columns are going to be moved.

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Does the building have a center?

• The shape of the building is obtained by the tangency of two sets of circles. The rectangle that inscribes these two set shows the center of the building.

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What establishes the position of the stairs inside the building?

• The connections between floors are circular an their position is determined by the tangency with the internal set of circles .

What are the proportion of the double skin that revolves around the building?

• The orthogonal grid and the double skin behave almost in the same way.The glass skin is divided into regular squares with the same proportion of the regular grid.

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The way in which in which I analyzed this building is the results of the cooperation and alternation of two e reflects the position of the columns, the other one specifies the chain of circles. grids. One The moment of interaction between this two grid is shown by how the position of the columns change in ord to follow the outline of the building.

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Southern California Institute of Architecture Design Studio 1B,Spring 2016 Instructors:Henry, Kassis, Matatyaou, Southern

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DS1011 :1B Design Studio

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Engagement Exercise 2

Panel DIscussion: Enviromental Issiues In Southern California Due Monday, March 21 st

1.Briefly describe the work of the four panelists.

All four panelists are interested in possible ways to revitalize and create a new future for the LA River and California. Each have their own focus as to which problem should be given most importance. The groups were Arid Lands (interested in water conservation), Mia Leher and Associates (interested in urban design development and public space), FOLAR (wanting a public park system that works with environmental sciences), and John Bohn (exploring graphical limitations and how to represent change in time and space in one image).

2. What are some of the methods the partecipants use to address critical environmental issues in Southern California ?

The president work done by the speakers all focuses on cite specific content, although it is tracked in different manners. FOLAR utilizes community outreach programs to simultaneously understand the surrounding communities and gain their interest in the river. John Bohn organizes his work through graphical maps and charts to compare scientific data visually. Leher focuses in on â&#x20AC;&#x153;hot spotsâ&#x20AC;? to create community spaces with hope that the rest of the river will fill out naturally. Arid Lands is working on pinpointing how to stop the progression of water deprivation through design potential that can be taken on at the individualâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s level.

3.How has the panel discussion impacted your thinking about the role of the architect as it pertains enviromental issues and the city?

The city and the environment are the basis of every project. What I understand are some issues that an architect can find leading up to his/her design process. The amount of factors that must be evaluated is equally directed to social responsibilities.

4.What questions do you have based on the discussion?

Why should we focus on a specific area if the river covers more than 50 miles?b. What are members of the community looking for? And is it in the future of the LA river?

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1A DESIGN STUDIO Project 1 Instructor: Mira Henry Fall 2015

MASS AND INTERIORITY _Constructing and seeing the ideal _Geometric manipulation 1 _Geometric manipulation 2 _Interiority _Apertures and Gorund

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CONSTRUCTING AND SEEING THE IDEAL

ISOMETRIC

Origin: _Cube _Tetrahedron Characteristic: _Alternance between tringles(8) and sqaures(6) _The combination between this two forms generate a third figure the hexagon `

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TOP VIEW

Each drawing allows me to identify the propriety of the cuboctahedron: _Isometric drawing- Isometric cube _Side view, show the athernance of figures _Top view correlation with geometry of the cube

SIDE VIEW

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GEOMETRIC MANIPULATION 1

Based on the concept of projecting points in space, in order to increase the complexive mass of the shape.By the hexagon existing in the cuboctahedron I decided to split the shape in two parts.The space in between the two half is going to increment and mutate, creating a new identity of the primitive shape. This specific way of transforming the solid allows me to mantain the propriety of the shape identified in the first part of the assigment.

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ISOMETRIC

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museumboard 18inx18in

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THE UNROLL

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TRANSFORMATION 1

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GEOMETRIC MANIPULATION 2 The word primitive comes from the word prime meaning,the highest state of perfection, or the foundamental ponint of departure.In this exercise, the form and the composition of the perfect figure is challenged in order to understand the object as reultant from rather than as a primary form.(2) (2)<DS101: 1B Design Studio>`

In this part of the project are going to be developed a series a tranformations in roder to obtain a resultant shape, that subsiquently is going to develop an interior mass, apertures,and a relation with the ground.

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TOP

museumboard 12inx12in

Different orientation and relation with the ground, study model, museum board

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INTERIORITY The Section.

Use of color to interpret depth

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These drawings are the result of different sections of my transormation.

A different section implies different spatial qualities. The colors are extracted by analyzing the work of Joseph Albers (Homage to the square).Each painting trough the relation and the interaction of colors offers the possibility to interpret the space in different ways.

In this part of the process the sections are used as a starting point to develop the interior space.

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FROM 2D TO 3D

From a bidimensional drawing the space start to react at the relationship of the colors generating a tridimensional understanding. The translation from 2D to 3D is represented with sectional Stick models.

stick model, wood,1/8in

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Sectional model, White museumboard, appication of color for interior space.

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museumboard 18inx18in. Long exposure picture with use of lighting .

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museumboard 18inx18in. Long exposure picture with use of lighting .

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GROUND AND APERTURES

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The sequence of surfaces that are revolving aroun the aperture are projected to the ground, giving a new form to the ground.

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PLAN

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Once the shape has developed the interior mass, and the aperture is ready to interact with the ground.

A cube 18â&#x20AC;?X18â&#x20AC;? will be considered the starting point for the ground challenge. In this part of the project I staterd to focus on the visual and aesthethic qualities that my final shape posses. The existance of a new identity is seen by one side of the object. Looking from the back from a same direction the object visually behave in different manners. In the case ,of the first picture the object show an integration with the ground manifesting one cohesive.

In the other picture there is a clear between mass and ground.

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VISUAL STUDIES

Fabrications and delineations Instructors: Dwayne Oyler, Emmet Zeifman Spring 2016 This course is an introduction to the foundamentals of geometry and visual representation. It focuses on translations between drawings and objects through various forms of projection. 1B visual studies course introduces students to techniques for the production of controlled curved geometry, exploring the properties of cones, cylinders and spheres, as well as various techniques of section and projection in relation to singly and doubly curved surfaces.

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UNIT ONE

Side

Isometric

Top

The first part of this project focuses on the understanding of a common object, that posses geometrical qualities. The object in consideratio is a traffic cone. Starting with mesurement, the cone is translated in orthagonal projections. Depending on the way in which it is sectioned, one can see its geometric properties.

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SECTIONS

Cerchio

Parabola

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Iperbole

Ellisse

INTERSECTIONS AND HYBRIDS

Based on these propriety the cone has been cutted at different height producing five different components.Each part has been rotated 180 degrees and reassemled in a way that the cone starts to invert the vertical development of mass, to horizontal.

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HYBRID FORM SECTIONS

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UNIT 2 After a series of cone parts lofted toghether are presented different tolls. This unit introduce the concept of boolean process between different masses.The identity of the cone is still understandable after the transformation. The process may involve multiple mirroring, addition,subtaction of the original conic form that is going be confined within a 12In.x 18â&#x20AC;?x1-12â&#x20AC;? thick tablet.

Multiple iterations are produced and experimented with the relation with the tablet. The use of rendering and a careful use of line drawings this form are represented. Subsequently the exercise will cover a part of model making.

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The first object become a singular module use five times to create a series of adding and subrtacting mass from the thick tablet,in order to create missunderstanding of the process used.

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HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE Spring 2016 Instructor:Michelle Paul

Reims Cathedral Drawing Overview: -Plan -Section

AutoCAD Blocks of Churches and Temples -page 1." Free AutoCAD Blocks of Churches and Temples -page 1. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 July . 2013

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The circles represent the core of the Geometry that generate the plan.

Half of the circle is divided in five equal parts.

The most internal determine the center of the Transept

By The intersection of the circles with the radii is obtainend the position of the columns

A series of horizontal lines are introduced in the plan, the intersection show the position of the columns

The outline is generated by the intersection of the most external circle with the radii

By dividing in half each arch is obtained the mesure of the five circles surrounding the altar.

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