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TAAVI
ANTONIAZZI
Hej!
I am an ambitious Architecture and Engineering student with German and Finnish roots, studying at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden. The unique programme combines technical approaches with aesthetics and design in a creative and reflective way so I was able to increase my genuine interest in fine arts and strengthen my konwledge in engineering sciences. During my first three years of studies, I gained significant skills and experiences that I now want to put further into practice during an internship in architecture.
With a family background in both architecture and engineering I realized that combining the two worlds is my goal for the future: I want to contribute to tackling urgent problems like global warming, social injustice and struggling democracies by building sustainable both socially and environmentally while designing beautiful, material efficient structures. To me, a deepened interplay of architecture and engineering can be a first step towards a better world.
EDUCATION //2021
EXPERIENCE
LANGUAGES
Architecture and Engineering Gothenburg, Sweden
//2021
//2018
one year Pre-University Course Helsingborg, Sweden
//2020
Office replanning for Husqvarna Gothenburg, Sweden
//2017
Maritime Engineering studies Kiel, Germany
//2016
Internship Elementary school Reinbek, Germany
//2015
Millitary service Ekenäs, Finland
//2014
Internship Carpentry Reinbek, Germany
//2014
Tutor for first year students Gothenburg, Sweden
German
Native speaker
Swedish
Native speaker
English
Fluent
HOBBIES
High School Reinbek, Germany
Piano
Movies
Outdoor life
Running
Traveling
Photography
SKILLS SOFTWARE
MANUAL Hand drawing
Photography
Writing
Carpentry
Model making
3D Printing/Lasercutting
Rhinoceros 3D
Adobe InDesign
AutoCAD
Grasshopper
Adobe Photoshop
Revit
SketchUp
V-Ray
MS Office
BATH AT TORSLANDAKRYSSET Building & Structure, fall 2019
LILLHAGSPARKEN Building & Climate, spring 2020
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OTHER PROJECTS
MAJNABBE Town & Country Planning, fall 2020
SAUNA WALK Space & Man, fall 2018
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LIST OF CONTENT
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SAUNA WALK Space & Man, fall 2018
The Sauna Walk Space & Man, fall 2019 The first design task at Chalmers was a sauna on a peninsula at Delsjön in Gotheburg. The facilities should be publicly bookable for smaller groups up to six persons. Changing rooms, showers and toilets were part of the requirment.
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Wooden model of the sauna above: walk over the peninsula below: floor plan of the sauna
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The sauna design was very simple as the focus was on the walk trough the forest and connection to nature. As I am a very passionate sauna enthusiast myself, I tried to impliment the beauty of nature that I value most in a good sauna bath. The model shows how the black sauna blends into the pine forest.
Self build Sauna near Turku
During summer break the following year, I build a similar sauna in real life at our family’s summer cottage in southern Finland. Akin to the university project it is located in the forest with a view over the stunning Turku archipelago. A wooden staircase leads from the sauna directly to a jetty.
Staircase leading from the jetty to the sauna
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BATH AT TORSLANDAKRYSSET Building & Structure, fall 2019
Bath at Torslandakrysset Building & Structure, fall 2019 The course Building & Structure was an introduction to fromfinding for larger structures such as a roof for a bath with two swimming pools. The task included a more complex floor plan of a multi purpose bath and the intresting challenge of calculating and designing a wooden structure for indoor swimming pools. As the site is located near Gothenburgs first airport in an industrial area a lot of the buildings surrounding it are shaped in a rahter rough style.
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The first hand approach to this project was to find a volume that fits the two swimming pools that were required and at the same time blends in in the industrial environmet.
Sketches of structure and building volume
A site model and numerous sketches by hand and in Rhino where part of the form finding process. The result is the structure made in the laser cutter supported by small wires.
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Model of the site and roof structure
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In the two story bath the swimming pools are located on the second floor. A shed roof made out of truss beams supports the roof and spans over the two pools. Wires take care of the horizontal forces the enormous roof places on the walls.
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first floor: Café and office
second floor: pool area
Fasaden är klädd i valsad p som går vinkelrät mot sågtä dernas långa sida vid taket. Mötet mellan de höga vägg och taket består av en öve hängande plåt som är böjd i n dre ändan för att leda bort va tnet från plåtenvid övergång av väggen till taket. Samtid släpps in luft under plåten.
A detailed rendering of the façade shows how the welled sheet material meets the roof. The detail of the roof-wall connection shows the insulation as well as how the beams are included in the structure. Part of the submission was also a calculation of a beam. The interior beams that support the second floor are 450 by 190 millimeters.
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LILLHAGSPARKEN Building & Climate, spring 2020
Lillhagsparken Building & Climate, spring 2020 The townhouse project at Lillhagsparken was an introduction to residential architecture. In a plot of land outside the city of Gothenburg, three different sizes of townhouses were to be planned. Due to the Covid-restrictions, the group project had to be done online so that each of the three group members focused on one house size, my part was in planning the 80 square meter town house.
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Building volumes on site model
Alternative site layout
The course began with lectures around residential architecture, sketching and essay writing. The first thing we did as a group was to build a simple site model to find the perfect position for the building volumes adjusted to the unregular site. A moodboard created to sketch common ideas in the group was with us during the whole process. In the end, the concept came down to four key points we implemented in our design which are:
Moodboard made in the beginning
Brightness, Equality, Nature and Flexibility.
plot of land
secluded from street
community yard
green space
dynamic placement
sun exposure
A distinct conceptual diagram of the thought process shows how we set up the site to make the community area as vital and versatile as possible. The key concepts we defined in the beginning are distingushable in every individual house as well as in the whole community..
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Facades of the smallest size of the town houses located along the road follow the descending hill
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Entrance level First floor
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The smallest of the townhouses is only 80 squaremeters and has a double height room going from the entrance all the way through the building to create a feeling of a bigger space inside the living room and to give room for the staircase. For energy saving and to illuminate the interior, the roofs are following the hill like stairs while facing south as seen on the previos page. B-B
A render of the exterior shows Lillhagsparken from the north west corner of the site. The interior perspective displays the living room in the 80 square meter apartment.
above: interior render in 80 sqm house below: exterior seen from north west
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION
Part of the project was to write an energy consumption report which showed that the townhouses would class as low-energy-buildings. A construction detail from bottom to top was also required. The smaller diagrams below illustrate how natural light fills the small townhouse and how sightlines cut trough the building. PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION
Sun study
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION
Sightlines through building
Wall detail
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MAJNABBE Town & Country Planning, fall 2020
Majnabbe Town & Country Planning, fall 2020 For over 70 years the small harbour of Majnabbe near the city center is the port to Germany for tourists and commercial transport. As the city grows, the terminal is moved and a new residential and office district are set to take its place.
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To get an idea of urban planning, I did a lot of research which came down to these four key points I developed the new area of Majnabbe around. The social and environmental aspects of city planning in particual were very important for my proposal as the program was not very specific about detailed drawings.
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make residents connect to the roots of the site, highlight existing culture
S u s t a i n a b i l i t y inculde old, existing buildings in the new desgin to save resources and create new green spaces
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a city that encourages its inhabitants and visitors to have a healthy lifestyle
As my student apartment is very close to the site (even visible on this map) and I used to live in Kiel, the city to which the ferry is nowadays going from Majnabbe, I had a lot of personal relation to the site. The coast line that leads from the city center to the Älvborgbridge is today interrupted by the harbour. As I love to take long walks or run in this area, I decided to stretch the coastline along Majnabbe to make it accessible for everyone. Much green space is included in the area and a generous bicycle lane makes the trip to the city center easier.
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Two handdrawn perspectives give an impression of how the life in new Majabbe is going to look like. A healthy and socially sustainable environment for both residents and visitors is the goal of the measures taken in the design process. The long tradition of the harbour will not be forgotten as the view of the beautiful Gothenburg river opens up between the buildings and along the docks.
1: Perspective over the harbour
2: Street through Majnabbe
The graphic to the left shows a diagram of how the trafic flows through Majnabbe on the main street. The seperation of busses, cars, pedestrians and cyclists combined with a speed limit makes the area safer and less noisy.
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OTHER PROJECTS
Other Projects In other courses I learned a lot of software including Adobe Photoshop and Indesign, Grasshopper as Plug-in to Rhino, AutoCAD and Revit. But even some carpentry was part of the education such as a bridge construction challenge and workshop experience for wood modeling, lasercutting and 3D-printing.
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Chalmers Structual Design Challenge Chalmers Structual Desgin Challenge is a competition held annually where groups of students build bridges with only two supports over a 13 meter wide pool on Chalmers Campus. My groups proposal was a DaVinci bridge that unfortuatly broke before the finals due to material deficiency.
break point
Digital Tools The gridshell was programmed in the Rhino Plug-In Grasshopper. The pavillion borrows its form from nature as it is shaped like an egg and has therefore optimized stability from all horizontal angels.
Eggshell gridshell
Essays I started to enjoy writing essays as part of many architecture courses. This one is a critical analysis of 19th century London and the Crystal Palace. Crystal Palace still is one of the most famous buildings of the British Empire even though there were already signs of its decline while it was built. My critical analysis focused on the great inequality of the 19th century London where even children worked for minimum wages on the site and workers revolted due to bad working conditions - some even died. At the same time Crystal Palace was a huge factor for financial success that ultimatly benefited even the people in the slums in central London. As the essay was part of the course Architecture and History of Technology, a structual analysis of the magnificent building is also part of it. The steal- and glass colossus was built using completly new techniques of mass producing parts and assembling them on site which allowed the unconventional architect, Joseph Paxton, to move the building to Sydenham Hill after the world exhibiton, for which it was originally build for, ended.
Crystal Palace Rationalisms underverk
Taavi Antoniazzi
Arkitektur ochTeknik Historia AT2
Photography Even before but especially as the pandemic went on I started going out and taking photos with different cameras to improve my analytic view on architecture and to be able to spend time with friends outdoors.
I look forward to meeting you! I am happy to tell you more about my education as well as my views on architecture and engineering.
SCHOOL
Chalmers University of Technology
PROGRAMME
Architecture & Engineering
PHONE
+46 (0) 79 34 11 892 +49 (0) 163 757 83 47
taavi.antoniazzi@gmail.com
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